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On this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, Glenn talks about the banking crisis, the latest whistleblower who says that former Vice President Joe Biden was taking money from a foreign government while he was in office, and how to deal with a swarming swarm of bees.
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there's some very important parts of today's program sure we talk about the banking crisis
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and something that you will not hear anywhere else um we break down the latest whistleblower
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right that says joe biden was taking money from a foreign entity foreign it seems like foreign
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government uh while he was vice president that's kind of important according to a whistleblower
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and you know the left never will listen to a whistle well it's not just a whistleblower it's
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it's several it's several whistleblowers and it's it's also uh we also talk a little bit about the
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the uh the document that came out that said the cia was running inside the united states uh black ops
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uh that that might have played a role a little bit uh there on september 11th but nobody's talking
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about that but they only have 11 witnesses uh former cia chief and uh a senator
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but that just came out nobody's talking about it but i think the most important comes from
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the washington post today and that is bees uh what do you do if you're being stalked
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by a i don't know gaggle a swarm a swarm of bees what do you do well one thing we know is
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the bees know yeah the bees always bees know and that's how they get you every time every time so
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oh hello steve mr beck how are you oh my gosh big day big day it is a big day yes why another bank
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could collapse well yeah but that's not reasonable that's a normal day yeah uh no but i'm a spectator
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in this i'm interested to see how this banking thing works out yeah me too there's a couple big
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banks uh potentially uh yeah down by 50 60 percent 60 percent back west yeah that'll be interesting to
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see it'll be you know it i'm i'm i'm gonna be fascinated to see how does the fed how does the
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fed do this you know how they're gonna work this out what is the ending gonna be you know who knows
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don't know we'll know soon yeah we'll know soon and i'm not worried about it i'm just an observer
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just an observer yes disinterested disconnected yes observer so i'm an observer on something else i'm
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i'm i'm really fascinated to see uh how all of the corruption stuff around the bidens and throughout
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our government works out in the end do the american people actually stand up and go hey okay enough is
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enough uh do they care uh do they care does anything happen or do they all get away with it
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i can't wait for the ending yeah i was gonna say these are rhetorical questions right because i don't
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want i don't want to be sad enough to answer them yeah because it doesn't seem like it doesn't seem
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like but i will tell you there is there is a point coming that we either completely are just
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absorbed absorbed into this corrupt system or americans begin to stand up and say enough is
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enough you know it was 1854 or 56 where uh you know a senator stood up in the well of the senate by
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himself and they were talking about slavery and he said you people are hypocrites you are hypocrites
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the two parties then were the whigs and the democrats and he said you guys talk a good game yeah we're gonna
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work on that one when you're back at home you're not doing anything neither of you guys neither party
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is serious about solving any problems and meanwhile the south is sleeping with the whore of slavery that got
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almost beaten to death in the well of the senate now you think that's bad this is worse not only was
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he almost beaten to death the guy who beat him to death was a congressman he used his cane to do it
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beat him in the head sumner was never the same and no one stopped him no one on the senate floor
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no you know no the color guard didn't show nobody showed up to pull that guy off of him then he was
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never prosecuted he was never questioned he was never uh uh arrested ever instead the democrats came
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back into session and they had made chains with his little with a little mock cane on it and they wore it
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outside of their clothes basically saying you wanted you you want some of this you bring this up and
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we'll do it to you okay that was the end that day marked the end of the status quo it's there's going
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to be an event somebody's going to stand up and say enough enough i don't know what it is but it's
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coming it's coming because it's too honestly i i was i was reading the news today you got to get the
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email newsletter today it's like oh my gosh it's just crazy get the get the email newsletter glennbeck.com
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it's free but i'm going through all of that and i'm looking and reading all the stories and at some
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point this morning i i actually stopped and went okay i i can get the idea of the normalcy bias
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i can get the idea that everybody's been pushed into a corner but i really don't understand
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anybody and maybe it's that there's no honest people anyone who is honestly looking at things
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i don't know how you don't get how bad the situation is because it's everywhere you know
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we're gonna get into this later epstein you know when epstein died it was kind of a joke
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i was clinton's kind of a joke and we thought maybe you know somebody that was involved in the
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sex ring you know offed him and there were a lot of powerful people i don't believe that anymore well
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i didn't really believe it then i was like there's a shot but i don't know i didn't know now oh i don't
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believe he was killed by the clintons he was killed by government operatives everybody but that guy was
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a spy that guy was in the intelligence community you may need to boil down this case a little bit
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more in depth later because i i believe the official uh designation was suicide still yeah i'm just
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telling you i'm just telling you when you look at what's going on all everywhere where they are
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glorifying pedophilia they don't care about the kids on the border it's just evil running rampant
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and i think he was a i thought i think he was doing you know honeypot stuff and working for the
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government and there's been speculation on that all the time but everything seems to connect did
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you see that the epstein bank j i think it's jp morgan we'll get into this later the judge just ruled
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there's enough evidence there for this to go to court the the charge is they knew that uh epstein's
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funds were coming from this kind of stuff and payoffs were being made now i don't know if they
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can prove that in court but the judge they wanted it thrown out and the judge said no there's enough
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here the executives are going to have to testify right right jamie diamond right okay so now let me
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go back to the whistleblower whistleblower stories i love the whistleblower now the new one
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i mean i'd like to hear it's like a chorus of whistles i'd like to hear them all blow at once
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uh the whistleblower is alleging that the fbi and justice department are in possession of a document
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that describes a criminal scheme involving then vice president joe biden and a foreign national
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relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions this coming from grassley's
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office grassley is not a bomb thrower grassley i mean he's too old i don't think he could pick up
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and lift and throw the bomb um but he's not a bomb thrower also it comes from the committee chairperson
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james comer these guys it's it's not the same as uh i don't know you know if you took marjorie green
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this is not the same as that these two have credibility now they say the document includes
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a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose the
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document and fbi generated fd 1023 form if there's anybody who knows what that is that was put in this
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story i bet for a reason um allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for
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policy decisions they issued a subpoena yesterday following legally protected disclosures to grassley's
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office they wrote we believe the fbi possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very
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serious and detailed allegations implicating the current president of the united states what we don't know
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is what if anything the fbi has done to verify these claims or investigate further the fbi's recent
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history of botching politically charged investigations demands close congressional oversight so what you need
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to know on this is this this could be a charge that they had they investigated it went nowhere because
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it was an empty charge it really nothing was really there however the whistleblower has seen this document
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and is led or leading people to believe yeah they didn't do anything they buried this
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with their recent burials that they're doing just even on hunter biden why has that guy not been charged
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why has he not been charged for any crime any crime and they're saying well we're gonna get him on a
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couple of tax things tax things how about drugs how about drugs i mean even if it's even if it's not true
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which it absolutely is the paperwork is in all of the money being laundered going to the family
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there's nothing after what four years of knowing all of this stuff there's nothing no action
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this and i think biden is too smart to do this uh at one point he had all of his faculties
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uh i can't imagine that he was like oh you want that policy well let me look at the menu here that one's
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14.99 uh now you want a policy on uh on climate change i can get you into something there for you
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know 800 bucks that ain't gonna i can't believe he was that stupid he glenn they literally left a
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laptop at a computer repair shop his heroin son i know but i had that say i think i said the same thing
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on the air the day that hunter biden story came out there's no way he's that stupid he left his
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laptop at a computer repair shop that can't possibly be true and then guess what it was
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so i don't know it doesn't seem like they're very good at covering their tracks i will say that that
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does not seem to be of all the things that the bidens do well and there's so many of them this one
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doesn't seem to be one of them the idea that they can actually commit crimes and then cover them
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yeah well they don't really even have to cover them they they just think they can get away with
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it which again leads me back to things like epstein nobody's investigating these things
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nobody's investigating them i mean do you trust the investigations of the fbi the justice department
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do you trust our nsa our cia our cia is spying on us our cia thinks we are the problem we are the
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enemy they're doing everything to protect the government not the people if they're involved
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in anything like with a jeffrey epstein do you think they're going to expose that no no way no way
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and anybody who helps them i mean look at the media how do you possibly explain the media not
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uh reporting that gee all of our sources have been lying to us all of our sources you know national
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security uh source uh source deep in the intelligence community told us that's what they've been saying
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for six years all their sources are national intelligence sources okay cia it's nsa and they've
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been feeding them incorrect information over and over and over again and now we know that it was
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intentional it was planned you could have said well cia they're always wrong no no now we know these
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things were planned plotted and executed and we have the goods on it why is the press still not
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talking about it because they have been co-opted by our national security apparatus they are just an
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arm of that apparatus and if you don't think that happens then you've got to go back and read our own
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history this is what the church commission found back in the 70s they had co-opted the media and we were
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supposed to have oversight but the oversight isn't they classify everything now so even congress members
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they can't get the documents how many times did did uh the white house file a subpoena for documents
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from the justice department or from cia nope can't turn it up you know we don't yeah we can't get those
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we can't get those to you uh in the darkness in the darkness is where all of this corrupt stuff
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happens and there is no one shining the light on it thank god for the internet thank god for people
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who have brains and are thinking and are still willing to question this is the best of the glenbeck
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program i heard an interview with peter teal uh this morning uh on honestly with barry weiss and uh
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he said um the republicans are the party of the stupid and uh democrats are the party of evil
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uh and yeah it's an optimistic picture of our country yeah i know well i mean he's talking about
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the parties themselves and and i think that's generally good i don't think he's talking about the
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people uh of the country that identify with those two parties i think we have so much in common but we
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have just been duped by so many different things did you know that uh open the books has uh revealed
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that 76 of the 102 rank and file regulatory agencies social security agency environmental protection
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veterans affairs health and human services the fda uh the um farm people i can't remember what they're
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i mean all of these things have gunned up i asked you a few minutes ago are they making you safer
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or less safe are they having you rely on a failing system or on yourself because i'd bet on you
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every time there are now more federal agents with arrest and firearm authority than there are u.s marines
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the irs purchased 35.2 million dollars worth of guns ammunition and other tactical gear and then they
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really picked it up after 2020 they've spent another 10 million dollars just in the last couple of years
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why why why does the why does the farm people why they worried about cows what are they worried about
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and if you have a problem like that you call out the national guard
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why do all of these agencies have all these guns well we can't answer that question because no one
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is doing any journalism anymore they are part of the system their job is to be antagonistic
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toward the government that's their main job they're supposed to be skeptical they represent
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you but they have flipped this they're supposed to take on the pentagon and the cia and big tech and
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you don't trust anyone that might have an agenda that is hostile to you but now they're practically on the payroll
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so you don't trust the media anymore do you trust the cia
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by the way tucker carlson was always critical of cia always critical of the war pentagon just came out
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i've never seen the pentagon comment on a commentator never they did did you know let me ask you this
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have you heard about the document that is a sworn declaration of a 9-11 investigator with the office of military commissions
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part of the department of defense military commissions defense organization the document dated july 20th
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2021 and it first appeared on a washington post journalist sub stack not in the washington post it was in
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jeff stein's spy talk now before i tell you if that if you have you heard about it before i tell you what
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it is when was the last time you heard any update on anything regarding 9-11
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i haven't i haven't even thought about it right you know years nothing decade maybe
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have you heard about this recently discovered sworn declaration anywhere now maybe there's nothing to
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report here okay well what is it it's just the allegation from multiple fbi agents that the cia was
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running an illegal domestic spy agency inside the united states that's bad enough the declaration
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states that the saudis were being used as intermediaries to recruit al-qaeda operatives
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the one of the guys an intelligence officer officer an employee of the saudi government
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was quote directed to attempt to recruit two of the 9-11 hijackers at the saudi consulate in los angeles
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the declaration by multiple officers alleges the cia knew the two hijackers were inside the united states
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and they were trying to recruit them through an illegal domestic espionage operation and they were
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trying to hide everything from the fbi this information just came out why isn't that all over
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the media the cia was running illegal operations that accidentally led to the worst tragedy on
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american soil seems kind of newsworthy where's the curiosity is it a problem of sourcing maybe they
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didn't have good sources let me tell you what they have swearing behind this document 11 x fbi agents
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two x cia agents a cnn investigative journalist former deputy of national security advisor richard clark
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and former senator bob graham but just those guys just those guys why doesn't anybody care i'll tell you why
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they don't care because how many times have you heard in the last six years according to our sources
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at the nsa according to a cia official that doesn't want to be named according to our intelligence
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community this is what's happening they have been infiltrated and they are bought and sold
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why is this allowed to stand because we're distracted we're not paying attention and you
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think you don't have any power did you hear randy weingarten when she came out a couple of days ago
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i was there i was advocating for the reopening of schools no you weren't the teachers union
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that was the biggest obstacle we couldn't open because of the teachers union
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so you get away with this yes mainstream media yes i think elon musk may end up being the most
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important freedom of speech guy that has lived in a long time it was twitter users that took the
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claim made by politifact about the teachers union um you know advocating for schools and covid
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he's added something called community notes it's a good feature it's a great feature i think it was
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actually added before he started but now it's actually being utilized the way it should be
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where they will correct people on the left too right right and they're adding you have to add sources
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and then it has to be verified and is this true well it's been verified and it's been twitter
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users not twitter users you have a memory you remember these things you have to stand up and share them
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and you have to support the people who are doing it did you see 36 percent of americans would watch
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tucker carlson online 36 but just took a poll 36 percent of americans would watch him online
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a lot of speculation according to i think this is news max about where carlson's next move might be
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although a lot could depend on his contract status with fox and how soon he can negotiate his release
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from the network odds maker bovada you know that bovada bovada uh has glenn beck's online network
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blaze tv as the three to two favorite in landing carlson news max is next at five to two
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um you know but sometimes the underdog wins i'm just saying tucker come to jamaica anyway but you're
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the favorite why are you want the underdog to win no i know sometimes the underdog wins oh i see okay so
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i'm not i'm not counting any chicken until it's in my left no i'm not counting a chicken until it's on
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my plate and i got a fork in it anyway um there are truth tellers and there are people that are
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trying to do it i am i'm not asking you to join the blaze against anybody else if you could afford
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to join the blaze and you know you go to daily wire and you do that if you can only afford one and
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you think you get better value at daily wire do that but i ask you i think what we are offering here
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is really really important and we need you it's because of twitter that that was debunked
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and doesn't stand it is the people and we need to be able to be in touch with each other
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so if you haven't joined us please join us will you join us at blaze tv.com slash glenn use the promo
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code glenn and you're gonna save and today is a great day to do it uh today uh we have reopening premiere
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uh reopening is the first offering from blaze tv of this fantastic fantastic uh i don't know
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what you would call them mockumentary troupe or or a comedy troupe these guys made a mockumentary
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about a small town theater trying to live up to the standards to open up their you know their local
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play stage uh in a small town and live up to all of the things and it is hysterical absolutely hysterical
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we have a couple of the guys on here with us in just a minute to talk about it but that premieres
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tonight blaze tv the best of the glenn beck program reopening is a mockumentary about
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reopening a small theater in a small town uh at the end of covid now we next week we are at the
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official end of covid uh the 15 days only lasted like 1500 days um but it was close it had a one and a
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five in it so we're good um the things that we went through are insane just insane and they have
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taken all of the most insane things that all of us went through and made a mockumentary and here's
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a couple of clips from it so legend has it that there are ghosts in our theater any person that has come
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to see a show and then leaves and then dies becomes a ghost now they can always listen to your feet
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my name is roger bastion i wear many hats i am a theater director okay everyone listen up today's
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gonna be a big day i am a theater owner this would be very off-putting for an audience member they may
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feel that they're in a crack house i'm a crowd pleaser why are the cameras here they are filming a
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documentary well it's a huge hollywood film and they're going to be watching us reopen the theater
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you just said documentary don't start with me today okay we're gonna clean up we're gonna disinfect
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the most accurate form of coronavirus testing is anal swab anal swab like your anal area or anal
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what goes what goes what goes in the anal oh my god what time is it roger it's 11 32 a.m guess what
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you've won the lottery no i'm kidding you've won something better a role in my show yes it might be
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off-putting and scare an audience if they think that you're scared my line's coming up the water's moving
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oh my gosh you will laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh uh kelsey cook uh is one of the stars she plays uh
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penny and chris gara is uh the i i think you're the director you're the co-writer co-director co-director
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actor owner yeah the theater editor you're hysterical just hysterical so i'm a huge fan i mean it it uh
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there's there's really two movies that i judge people on if you don't like the princess bride and
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that's a pretty low hurdle if you don't like the princess bride we cannot be friends if you don't
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like uh christopher guest films we'll never be good friends okay no um this just screams christopher
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guest yeah they do it all improv how do you do this um same thing i mean we wrote a very strong
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outline scene by scene we wrote uh very detailed character descriptions because characters are most
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important and do they develop them on their own and then come to the table with a character no we
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set who the characters were and then film them for an hour and a half each interviewing them and let
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them develop before we even started shooting oh wow okay and then those characters when they all came
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together they had this long history of who they were and how they interact with people so and then they
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also changed as we went along sometimes it was availability sometimes it was just relationships
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changed because of the stories that we just improv'd on the spot um my character penny we had a really
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hard time figuring out her story and i actually did not like her at first i was really bored with her
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and we all co-wrote it with math matthew coppin and um we uh we just had a hard time figuring her out
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and how she was going to come out we we had an idea of what she wanted to do at the end but couldn't
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figure it out and um through the six months it took us to make this film um and actors availability is
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changing she had her shining moment and it just all came together the uh there was one who was on
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skype the whole time yeah uh representing that person that just doesn't want to come in i would
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imagine was that real or not yeah we had many uh hurdles to overcome based on on people's uh comfort
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level at the time because we were all different and we didn't know what we were doing we were
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figuring it out as we went and so we accommodated everybody based on their comfort levels and that
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was a real thing that we all encountered zoom right and the struggles with zoom every piece where
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the zoom pops out and it cuts out is real it actually was live and the timing was just incredible
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it was just perfect it's just perfect it was the one take we're like because it's like because it's
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it's real yeah i mean everything you did we all met people like this we all uh went through things
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like this and and then you just took it to the next level when at what point because i think we were
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before it was all politicized yes we were all alike and i give everybody the benefit of the doubt uh
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except for fauci at the very beginning the very beginning i think everybody was just we didn't
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know what was coming everybody was just doing their best at what point did you look at each other and go
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okay okay this is just a comedy show you know what it's interesting when it started out there's a line
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in the film that just says we're just trying to figure it out the cdc guy says this but in the beginning
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stages like vaccines hadn't come out yet nothing really i mean we were just literally on set going
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okay let's make this work we want to create right we want to perform so bad we've been sitting at home
00:34:45.820
this this can't happen we need to let an outlet right i think halfway through the the project right
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is when it started to get more crazy this is a little ridiculous and again though every shoot day
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we were very careful we're like okay how do we do a mockumentary and not mock
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coat people dying yes right yeah so oh i think you did a great job yeah it was oh when the inspector
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the anal swab thing is i mean i watched it then i said honey you gotta come and see this and she sat
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down she watched it and then my son walked in and i'm like you gotta watch this the whole family
00:35:25.180
watched this yeah it's all that's fine the whole family and i don't know very many films where you can get
00:35:32.220
the teenagers and the parents sitting down and all laughing at the same we've said too you know
00:35:39.260
when the kids go to sleep we watch our movies during the day the kids watch their movies right
00:35:43.580
and i hate that i do i want that to come back where when we watch a kid's movie with our kids and they
00:35:49.020
laugh and they see us laugh they they watch us yes and then it becomes this then they want to talk
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about the film afterwards and we want to bring that back where families can watch films together
00:35:59.100
it is such a missing and it has gotten worse and worse and worse to where you know it's so gratuitous
00:36:06.140
at times it's like it's not necessary why do you do that i think comedy is is therapy too comedy
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oh yeah comedy is from the beginning we wanted to do comedy but we we say we do comedy with heart
00:36:18.540
we want it to show hope and joy in the middle of something that was so chaotic and so unsure we
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didn't know what we were doing but we found hope i think that is the secret to ricky gervais
00:36:31.180
every single thing he does um i know what was the one where he played the handicap guy in the
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it's all uh uh kexton or something extra no no he played a handicap guy in a nursing home
00:36:46.380
uh and you're watching it and and it's parts of it are just completely outrageous and it's so funny
00:36:55.420
but over the whole arc of the show it just screams heart and it ties up at the end where you're like
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oh my gosh that's sweet right and that doesn't happen very often no well let's let's not be let's
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laugh at stuff but then if you get to enjoy the character's experience in it and then you get to kind
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of peek in on what their life is like then you there's heart in that there's hope in that yeah
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right yeah like we're not and it's really laughing at the insanity right yes but of the even the
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wheelchair thing right but then you get to know he is you're like oh this guy is a sweet guy yeah
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it's really uh especially now this i think would make anybody laugh even not fauci but pretty much
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everybody else would laugh at this it's not political it's just the funny look at what we
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and i think we can laugh now yeah and i think we what we say is it just holds a mirror up to what
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was happening it's just literally i remember being you know up at night scrolling social media and
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seeing the anal swab thing happening and just literally telling did you guys know who knew about
00:38:02.540
that i found it on the news and i said we're literally putting it who on the staff when you
00:38:08.220
were shooting that we didn't we didn't tell them until we didn't tell them until right before we
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shot it just did it because well i wanted to get real real if you watch the other camera angle
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right yeah it's just them going oh they're so they're just holding back and their reaction to it
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if that was all just spontaneous reaction yeah what ain't what par anal what i mean it was just so
00:38:34.060
so good it's a beauty too of just how talented those performers are how many times do you have to
00:38:39.420
reshoot because you break each other up oh man i mean there is so much footage there's there's there's
00:38:45.500
an eight hour movie lots of bloopers to share there's tons of extra scenes too we we had to do maybe two
00:38:51.900
two to three takes and yeah we would break sometimes but we just told people like never
00:38:57.100
never go oh shoot i messed up no just stop and pull it back together and keep going so we can
00:39:02.860
somehow cut around it otherwise that just would have been i mean we were always breaking up even our
00:39:07.980
the co-director and dp who was filming he had a mask on because we were required to at the time
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and uh i did air quotes and um he said i'm glad i had a mask on because then they couldn't see me
00:39:17.260
laughing for eight hours a day oh my gosh i mean i don't know how you kept a straight face it's it's
00:39:22.700
just great and that just kept rolling it uh it premieres tonight and i have to say i i don't know
00:39:28.460
your political stance i don't want to know your political stance i'd like to go back to an era where
00:39:34.060
nobody knows anybody's political stance and even if we disagree with each other we still like each
00:39:39.020
other yes i know in today's world it if you don't know this yet you will it comes at a price to even
00:39:47.340
be on my program yeah in your business uh and i thank you for being brave enough to and again i
00:39:53.580
don't know your political stance at all thank you for being brave enough to try to bring comedy back
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on in a way that everybody can laugh well i we we want to bridge the gap we do like why does it have
00:40:07.260
to be a left wing or right wing or political film why can't we just all laugh when we did a cast and
00:40:12.940
crew screening we had tons of people come and i'm gonna say we were in hollywood so 98 were probably
00:40:18.860
democrats watching the film they came out and loved it there was no were you mocking were you
00:40:25.740
doing this there's none of that they just said wow i got to laugh yeah and just a crazy time
00:40:30.780
actually thanked us they said thank you for giving us permission to laugh right and i i will tell
00:40:34.940
you i think conservatives will watch that and they will walk out and you would expect them to go
00:40:41.820
right you gave it to them because i mean everything that was crazy you guys pointed out was crazy but
00:40:50.220
it's not political right it's just that's crazy and let's get back to that yeah where we can watch a
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comedy and not think what's the agenda right yeah no we laughed and loved comedy it's everything now
00:41:04.060
and i think that's very american it's what very american just to to be able to create something
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from nothing and for everyone to enjoy it yeah and you know what uh the reason why comedy does so
00:41:17.260
well here in america i think or has in the past is because dictators hate comedy comedy changes the world
00:41:27.580
lenny bruce changed everything there's a reason these people are arrested uh in times when they're
00:41:35.420
somebody's got a choke hold on them yeah comedy is important so our society can move forward
00:41:43.500
i i get messages all the time i do a lot of social media and tick tocks and all that stuff and
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i get messages all the time saying hey i was in the hospital watched a video and i haven't laughed or
00:41:52.700
i lost a son and i i'm i haven't laughed in a year and i watched the video and i just thought
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this is what comedy is for right yeah it's it's it's because at no point did i think
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of anybody that had been lost or you know anybody in my family or somebody else's family that we know
00:42:09.980
that lost a loved one it doesn't go there at all and we we made sure of that yeah every shoot day we
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would say we would do a scene and go was this joyful or were we just being negative even attacking
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characters we were very we rode the line i hate a character in the film yeah which you'll see his
00:42:25.820
name is bryce and i hate him but even through that we're like there has to be a redeeming moment
00:42:31.340
that's where i just hate to hate so great so great thank you sincerely for being here and i can't wait
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for the audience to see it premieres tonight on blaze tv um if you don't have a subscription
00:42:44.220
this is worth the price of admission uh this if especially if you like mockumentaries this is
00:42:51.260
really very funny uh kelsey chris thank you so much thank you appreciate it