Glenn and Stu weigh in on the UFC weigh-in, Tulsi Gabbard announces she's leaving the Democratic Party, John Solomon reveals the government is trying to censor all of his tweets, and more!
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00:17:03.040So, yeah, just over 20 years ago, I heard about this group of these teenagers in Nazi Germany who ran a resistance group who stood up to Hitler.
00:17:10.920And I found out that the last surviving member of that group lived about an hour away from me.
00:17:15.920So, we literally just opened the phone book and found his name.
00:17:20.100Called him up and said, hey, you know, would you share your story with us?
00:17:22.820And he was like, yeah, sure, come on up.
00:17:24.760So, I went up and met this man named Carl Heinz Schnibber who was at that point in his late 70s, sat down, heard his story, and was just blown away.
00:17:33.500So, tell me, this story is about a guy named Helmuth Hubner, right?
00:17:47.480At the time, he was like on the Nazi party fast track.
00:17:50.680He was working at City Hall in Hamburg.
00:17:52.940He was a member of the Hitler Youth, kind of just buying into everything that Goebbels was saying on the radio.
00:17:58.320And then his brother, his older brother who was serving in the German army in France, smuggled home a shortwave radio.
00:18:05.280And Helmuth started secretly listening to that, which was a capital offense at the time.
00:18:09.560In fact, I showed you in my office, I have what I like to call Facebook of the olden days, a radio that would not pick up any signal from any station other than the approved Nazi stations.
00:18:26.100And that's all you could buy and have.
00:18:53.960I just had a psychology professor on with me from Europe.
00:18:59.660And he wrote The Psychology of Totalitarianism.
00:19:05.400And he said, and I can't remember, do you remember, Sarah?
00:19:09.240He said 10 or 20 percent of the population is not susceptible to what's going on right now.
00:19:17.120You know, this mass hypnosis all over the world that is happening.
00:19:21.340He, Helmuth must have been one of those kind of people that just all of a sudden, he knew it wasn't right once he was allowed to hear the truth.
00:19:51.000And he started typing up these anti-Hitler leaflets.
00:19:54.760At first, he started out even have like a little, on these little kind of quarter-sized red sheets that he would just kind of put these really concise anti-Hitler messages.
00:20:23.100Now, he was 16, so there must have been some, you know, a little bit of I'm immortal, maybe a little bit to that.
00:20:28.840But he was a really bright kid as well, and he knew it.
00:20:31.240And I love even from this example where it says the people's seducer, if you read that in German, it's the folks were führer.
00:20:38.640So, he adds this little prefix of V-E-R at the front of the word führer.
00:20:42.440So, instead of saying the people's leader, it says the people's seducer, just this really clever little play on words who I saw that Dietrich Bonhoeffer made those same references years earlier.
00:20:55.180So, there's some evidence that Helmut was even pulling from Bonhoeffer.
00:20:59.220We know that he was weaving together other band authors like Shakespeare and Schiller and Heinrich Mann and these, and just kind of weaving them together in these, starting with these little quarter-sized sheets.
00:21:10.260But eventually, at a certain point, that wasn't enough.
00:21:12.600So, he went to the full-size sheet, no margins, just cramming as many words as he possibly could onto these leaflets.
00:21:21.980So, wow, a new year has begun, a year in which Hitler has set all of his last hopes into the struggle, which is fact, it's already hopelessly lost.
00:21:33.8001942, the year of decision, will decide decisively, we are told.
00:21:39.420It will show until now deeds still triumph over words, even when these words, one is tempted to say these dictionaries full of words,
00:21:48.740spring from the mouth of a certain hair, Dr. Joseph Goebbels.
00:21:53.780So, this guy, he was not, this kid was not just writing this by himself.
00:22:51.840In fact, that was really an exception.
00:22:54.120You know, most of the other branches of this church throughout Germany, as far as we know, none of the others put that kind of a sign on the door.
00:23:00.020It's interesting that this bishop that they had, though, he was, I've met with his sons, you know, and they talk about, you know, he was really a good man.
00:24:57.620They were convinced that it was a university professor that was writing these, some sort of communist university professor they were trying to track down.
00:25:04.640And so for a year, they were relentlessly pursuing them.
00:25:08.200And one Gestapo agent in particular, Agent Müsner was his name.
00:25:12.520And he was just obsessed with finding out who was doing this.
00:25:15.400And so really that whole time that Helmut and his friends were putting these out, the agent is trying to track them down.
00:26:28.140And the three of them were also tortured and interrogated and held.
00:26:33.020And then on August 11th of 1942, so 80 years ago, this past August, they stood in the highest court in Nazi Germany, Hitler appointed judge.
00:26:43.240And it was, you know, it was a kangaroo court, of course.
00:26:46.020You know, they had Nazi appointed attorneys to represent them and that kind of a thing.
00:26:51.520But the really, for me, the most powerful part, and this will be the climax of our four-part series, is when this now 17-year-old Helmut Huebner stands up and decides he can see if they were going to go after Carl, his older friend who had turned 18.
00:27:53.280And something that's really important to me is just minutes after that.
00:27:56.180And Carl tells about how they were all moved into this little cell in kind of the last few minutes together as Helmut, who was telling them, please, you know, don't forget what we did.
00:28:06.420His last two words to his two best friends were, remember me.
00:28:10.860And I think that word remember is so important.
00:28:13.860They spent – his two friends spent the rest of their lives trying to tell this story, you know, and giving an example of what it means to – what it meant then to stand up.
00:28:21.760The movie's never been made about this.
00:28:23.160No, there have been – I made a documentary for PBS 20 years ago.
00:28:27.440And it's while I was doing that that I just realized, you know, this is a story that changes people who hear it.
00:28:32.820And it needs to reach a much broader audience, which is –
00:28:38.860You know, our generation, my generation, the X-Gen, Gen Xers and Boomers and that kind of thing, we're going to be drawn to this kind of story for teenagers to see kids their own age that are standing up for what is right.
00:28:51.840You know, Carl told me they were, you know, in their church, they were raised singing that old traditional Christian hymn, Do What Is Right, Let The Consequence Follow.
00:29:17.700It's interesting because I know that he had told the story before, but when he was telling it to me, it was as if he was telling it for the first time.
00:29:28.580We had the incredible experience of taking Carl with us back to Germany to go into the chamber where his friend was executed, was actually beheaded by guillotine at the age of 17.
00:29:40.040It's now a national memorial in Berlin.
00:29:42.900And Carl walked in there and then just started weeping and talking to his friend and telling us, this is where it happened.
00:29:57.520So what point are you at for producing this?
00:30:02.060Yeah, so we partnered with Angel Studios who brought us The Chosen, an amazing series, and we've partnered with them and we're in the process now of crowdfunding.
00:30:17.880They've kind of turned the traditional model of raising money for and distributing independent film and series on its head where traditionally,
00:30:29.200you know, the Hollywood version is kind of, let's make it first.
00:30:32.500We'll spend our millions making it and then spend millions more hoping that we can build an audience for it.
00:30:39.400Let's build an audience first, make sure that we have an audience.
00:30:42.300And once we know that, then we'll make it.
00:30:44.460Then we already have our audience in place.
00:30:46.180And so that's where we're at now is we're with Angel Studios.
00:30:48.780We're just, we're opening it up so people can actually go to our landing page, to our website at angel.com slash truth and show their interest.
00:30:58.960They can back the project, you know, and I don't, you're not crowdfunding yet, but it's coming in the future.
00:31:04.780But you, anybody, if you are interested in this, I think this is a really important story to tell.
00:31:43.520Most people don't even didn't know before the Tom Cruise movie.
00:31:46.740Most people in America didn't know who he was.
00:31:48.380He's a national hero in, uh, in Germany and he was executed.
00:31:53.600Um, we need to learn these, these stories about the Bonhoeffers and the, uh, the humaners and, uh, and the von Stauffenbergs, uh, go to angel.com slash truth, angel.com slash truth, and find out more about this, uh, truth and convictions TV series.
00:32:15.020Um, and hopefully we will see it soon.
00:33:15.520Uh, I, uh, there was a story that came out today that I, I found, uh, fascinating, uh, and that is Tulsi Gabbard.
00:33:23.360I can no longer remain in today's democratic party.
00:33:25.680Uh, it is now under the complete control of elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly, uh, cowardly wokeness who divide us by radicalizing every issue.
00:33:35.800Stoke anti-white racism actively worked to undermine our God-given freedoms.
00:33:40.100Um, I wanted to talk to Tulsi because, uh, um, I know her.
00:33:46.440I think we have the big things in common, the, you know, bill of rights constitution.
00:33:53.100Hey, I, I think America's made some really bad things.
00:34:38.500So, um, first of all, let me just introduce it.
00:34:41.700It's a host of the Tulsi Gabbard show.
00:34:43.980Uh, and you can find out more about her at Tulsi dot substack.com.
00:34:50.040So Tulsi, why leave the Democrats and why now?
00:34:57.660Glenn, you know, you and I have had a lot of great conversations and so many of those conversations often I find have been centered around freedom.
00:35:07.060As you mentioned, the bill of rights, these fundamental principles, our country was founded on the things that are most important that, that really bind us all together as Americans.
00:35:17.480And when it comes right down to it, today's Democratic Party does not believe in freedom.
00:35:26.340Uh, and because they don't believe in freedom and because they are, uh, you know, the party is led by fanatical ideologues.
00:35:34.620They're actively trying to undermine those God-given rights that we have that are enshrined in our Constitution.
00:35:43.600They are, they are actively seeking to undermine our freedom of speech.
00:35:48.360They want to control what we say and what we think.
00:35:52.280Uh, they are attacking our religious liberty.
00:35:55.600Uh, they cannot handle it when people dare to speak out or even question, question the things that they are trying to, uh, impose on us as a society.
00:36:08.200Uh, and the way that they, they, uh, you know, they foment fear, you see this cancel woke culture, uh, they try to silence anyone who dares to disagree or anyone who dares to expose the insecurity, uh, their insecurity and the weakness in their argument and narrative.
00:36:24.120And, uh, for a whole host of reasons, and you can go and, you know, uh, read my statement on Substack or listen to, to, you know, I, I spoke about this in detail, um, on the Tulsi Gabbard show, but it really all comes down to, uh, freedom.
00:36:40.340And I, I can, I can no longer be associated with today's Democratic Party that is so actively anti-freedom.
00:36:48.560Tulsi, you know, you and I have talked many times and I really respect you, but I have to ask, uh, a couple of questions and I want you to know, these are honest questions.
00:36:58.100I'm not trying to do anything, but really understand a couple of things.
00:37:01.560First of all, um, address the cynics that would say you're only doing this now because you want the publicity for your podcast or, you know, Substack.
00:37:11.360Uh, you, I'm, I'm laughing a little bit as you're asking that Glenn, because, uh, every time I've made a decision that, uh, got, got some attention, uh, but was maybe politically not expedient or the popular thing to do.
00:37:35.660That's never been the motivation that I've had.
00:37:38.500Uh, I have done my best and continue to do my best, uh, to make decisions, whether it be about policy or other things, uh, based on, on what's right.
00:37:50.220And, uh, this was not a decision that I made lightly or quickly, but it's one that I knew, uh, had to be done.
00:37:57.820Um, this is, this is the part that, um, that I'm really interested in because I think there are people that are leaving, um, the parties, both parties, um, because they think they're both about bull crap.
00:38:14.240Um, there are people like Bill Maher that are really, uh, speaking out against this democratic mob.
00:38:22.340Um, and he, people will say, I think he's turning conservative.