The Glenn Beck Program - November 08, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Ken Paxton & Stephen Kent ｜ 11⧸8⧸21


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

168.46474

Word Count

7,105

Sentence Count

572

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

Glenn Beck and Pat Gray discuss the disappearance of a diary belonging to former Vice President Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden, and the ongoing investigation by the FBI into what happened to it. They also discuss whether or not the FBI should even be looking into the matter at all.


Transcript

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00:00:50.780 Where did I put that baby? Oh, I remember I gave it to the U.S. government to hold. I'm sure it's
00:01:01.760 going to be fine. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. My name is Glenn Beck. Stu Bergeer is my executive
00:01:08.800 producer. And joining me now is my best friend from all these many years, Pat Gray. Hello, Pat.
00:01:14.460 Hello, Glenn. I'm so excited to be here today. Are you? I am. I am. It's hard to know what to start
00:01:22.340 with. It is. I mean, I did find her diary underneath the tree. And I started reading about me. But you
00:01:31.360 found out it wasn't you. But then it wasn't me. In this case, it is him. So that's going to be
00:01:37.760 interesting to follow. Well, nobody will cover it. Yeah, nobody will cover it. Nobody. Nobody will cover
00:01:42.260 it. It's incredible. The the work that Project Veritas does. And sometimes it's pretty staggering,
00:01:49.180 pretty stunning. Oh, yeah. Revelations like this one. And then no, nobody picks it up. Nobody
00:01:54.520 picks it up. If if Project Veritas were on the left, they won Pulitzer every year. Oh, yeah. Every
00:02:02.440 year. And they well, in this case, though, they didn't even run the story. They didn't run the
00:02:06.940 story. So they couldn't get credit for it. They now the accusation. And it's not a clear
00:02:12.240 accusation by mainstream media. But the accusation is that before they turned it over to law
00:02:18.900 enforcement, they leaked it to another conservative site that did. You mean like BuzzFeed? Oh,
00:02:25.180 no, wait. No, that's not conservatives. No, that would be totally OK if it was if it was
00:02:29.820 BuzzFeed. Yeah. Now, they don't specifically say that, but that's the tone of the reporting.
00:02:34.540 OK, but the why? Why is the FBI involved in finding a diary? Yeah. If you're if your
00:02:41.820 daughter's diary is missing, I don't think the FBI isn't even about anybody. Anybody that
00:02:47.620 I know doesn't say, did you call the FBI? My daughter loses her stuff all the time. Can
00:02:52.120 I call the FBI? I mean, what's in there other than really damning stuff? Yeah, I mean, I guess
00:03:00.580 the I guess in theory you could say, right, it was right before an election and it was
00:03:05.480 a, you know, someone trying to manipulate a federal election. Is that their justification
00:03:09.340 for this? I mean, I don't I don't see what the it's a stretch. What is it now? What is
00:03:15.440 it now? I mean, they're trying to affect a federal election. Really? Like that hasn't
00:03:22.520 that hasn't been done. I mean, that's that you want to talk about the pot calling the kettle
00:03:28.660 black. Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah. I'm not saying these are good arguments. I'm trying to come
00:03:32.220 up with some justification as to how this could even be related to the FBI. I mean, like,
00:03:37.440 you know, someone steals something, even if again, that's not what we believe happened.
00:03:42.020 It was in theory left behind in a room that she was in. And it does sort of confirm the
00:03:46.880 existence of the diary. It sure does. Ashley Biden's diary, doesn't it? You're not sending
00:03:52.300 the FBI in if it has there's no validity to the story. Right. That doesn't necessarily
00:03:58.120 confirm the contents of it. No, of course not. No, but it does lead you to believe that
00:04:02.920 those that content is probably accurate. Yeah. If it's filled with recipes, I don't think
00:04:08.800 the FBI is going after all the White House isn't going for anything. Unless the recipes
00:04:13.040 are delicious. Yeah, it's true. Maybe they stole the colonel's secret recipe. So here's what
00:04:17.820 Jonathan Turley said over the weekend. What was the context for the diary's loss? Did Ashley
00:04:24.300 Biden leave her diary in a room or was it stolen to what is the alleged federal crime? And what
00:04:31.380 is the precedent for a major federal investigation over the alleged theft of a diary? What precautions
00:04:39.060 were taken by the Biden administration in light of the claimed media status of the targeted
00:04:44.120 individuals? Why was there a delay in this action being taken if the alleged theft occurred a year
00:04:50.100 ago? Has this been under investigation for a year? And did the White House request the intervention
00:04:55.960 of the FBI? Listen to what he says. Regardless of how one feels about Project Veritas, there should be
00:05:02.300 calls from media outlets for some answers on these basic questions. Likewise, Congress should be seeking
00:05:07.920 answers as part of its oversight responsibility. Neither one of those will happen. Neither one of those
00:05:13.900 will happen. This is a grand abuse of power. And it just shows again where the FBI stands. And this is
00:05:25.100 this is them, so you know, going after journalists that didn't publish the story and gave the diary,
00:05:34.320 they say, to law enforcement. It also kind of gives you an idea maybe of why Ashley Biden is sort of
00:05:43.880 the forgotten, the ignored, the hidden Biden. Nobody, he never talks about her. You ever hear about it? I
00:05:49.900 couldn't have picked her out of a lineup before the story broke. I have no idea what she looks like.
00:05:55.020 And you never hear from her. You never hear him talk of her. It's always Bo and Hunter that he speaks of.
00:06:02.140 Entries in the diary include the author revealing she believes she was sexually molested as a child
00:06:07.340 and shared, quote, probably not appropriate showers with my dad.
00:06:14.920 Some of the detail, the author's
00:06:18.280 drug use, the crumbling marriage with multiple affairs,
00:06:22.300 along with entries showing the family fears of a potential scandal due to her brother's new home.
00:06:28.780 And those show a deep resentment for her father
00:06:32.560 due to his money, control and emotional manipulation.
00:06:37.420 Can you imagine if that was Trump?
00:06:40.100 I mean, that's what they say the Trump children were.
00:06:45.040 Oh, these they're just in it for the money and they're just being manipulated and he's manipulating them
00:06:51.780 and they're all manipulating everything.
00:06:53.580 That's exactly what's going on here.
00:06:56.700 And you have it in the writings of Hunter Biden.
00:06:59.800 And now we're not supposed to believe a diary that came out a year ago
00:07:04.160 that the federal government is now breaking down doors in the middle of the night to gather anything about the diary.
00:07:14.600 Wow.
00:07:16.260 I mean, again, this is the failed state.
00:07:20.460 This is the action of a failed state.
00:07:23.100 This is a banana republic.
00:07:24.900 Did you hear about flying the 70 planes into Florida in the middle of the night?
00:07:30.720 I don't think so.
00:07:31.380 Yeah.
00:07:32.080 It was found out this weekend that Biden has been flying 70,
00:07:37.840 70 planes full of people from the border into Florida without any authorities in Florida being let known that it was happening.
00:07:48.180 They're just dumping these people into Florida.
00:07:51.660 Wow.
00:07:53.100 I mean, are they paying them the $450,000 each as well?
00:08:00.360 I hope so.
00:08:01.320 I do, too.
00:08:02.020 I hope they got a nice place.
00:08:03.000 Can we play that again?
00:08:03.960 If you if you if you happen to be watching us, take a minute and really watch his face, because it's worse when you see it than when you hear it.
00:08:12.540 Yeah, this is a very unstable moment.
00:08:15.860 Watch this.
00:08:16.700 You said last week that this report about migrant families at the border getting payments was garbage.
00:08:23.860 No, I didn't say that.
00:08:25.500 Let's get it straight.
00:08:26.540 You said everybody coming across the border gets $500,000, $450,000.
00:08:32.060 So the number was what you had a problem with.
00:08:33.440 The number was what you had a problem with.
00:08:34.340 Watch this.
00:08:34.980 Okay.
00:08:35.420 Now, here's the thing.
00:08:36.300 Sure.
00:08:36.920 If, in fact, because of the outrageous behavior of the last administration, you coming across the border, whether it was legal or illegal, and you lost your child, you lost your child.
00:08:48.900 He's gone.
00:08:49.480 You deserve some kind of compensation, no matter what the circumstances.
00:08:54.400 What that will be, I have no idea.
00:08:56.480 That is a terrifying clip.
00:08:58.180 Yeah.
00:08:58.640 He goes zero to homicidal in one second.
00:09:01.840 Yes.
00:09:03.160 It's disturbing.
00:09:04.280 It's really disturbing.
00:09:06.180 Really disturbing.
00:09:06.960 I don't know if he's off his medication or if there's a medication with a side effect that makes you a little bit unstable.
00:09:13.060 Because that's what it seems like.
00:09:14.460 Yeah, it does.
00:09:14.860 I mean, it seems like either you are not in control of your emotions or you're on some medicine that does the same thing.
00:09:23.720 Yeah.
00:09:24.040 Makes you really irritable.
00:09:25.660 How unsightly is that for the president of the United States to show that kind of anger, that kind of emotion, just for no apparent reason?
00:09:36.080 Lost your child.
00:09:37.680 Lost your child.
00:09:39.560 Wow.
00:09:40.200 And I don't think it's because of no reason, right?
00:09:43.220 He's pissed off.
00:09:44.380 He got caught.
00:09:45.460 Yeah.
00:09:45.640 It's not pissed off about the child being lost.
00:09:47.620 That's not anger because he's upset.
00:09:49.360 Oh, gosh.
00:09:49.860 These children were lost.
00:09:51.240 He's pissed off because he was embarrassed.
00:09:54.200 He came out and he tried to deny it and then got caught.
00:09:57.120 His own administration had to admit that they were doing this.
00:10:00.920 And now he's down to, well, it wasn't $450,000.
00:10:03.360 It was $449,500.
00:10:04.860 Can I make you offer a third explanation for this?
00:10:09.020 Yes.
00:10:09.140 I think that they all buy into this crap.
00:10:13.540 I think he absolutely buys into all of this.
00:10:17.320 And he sees he no one around him.
00:10:21.020 He's not exposed to anyone in his life that is disagreeing with what they're saying.
00:10:27.840 And so they're all sitting in a room and nobody says, what about the kids that were separated for from Obama or the ones that you have separated now?
00:10:39.400 Or what about the reason they were separated was because they couldn't prove that that was their parent or a relative?
00:10:49.220 Yes.
00:10:49.500 And so they were held until a relative could show up and the relative took them.
00:10:55.600 But we did.
00:10:56.500 We were trying to protect the child because it might have been a sex trafficker.
00:11:01.840 OK, nobody is saying that to them.
00:11:04.720 And so they're sitting in a room and they get more and more angry because everybody's pouring fuel on exactly the same fire.
00:11:14.560 Nobody's there saying, well, wait a minute.
00:11:16.820 Hold it just a second.
00:11:17.540 That doesn't make any sense.
00:11:18.600 Because they're all just saying and they lost their child.
00:11:22.140 There are people around him that know that's bullcrap.
00:11:25.600 Why deny it initially then?
00:11:27.660 If you're if you're I think he thought he could get away with the number thing.
00:11:31.020 I think you were right.
00:11:32.200 I think you were right.
00:11:33.320 It's amazing.
00:11:33.780 He just thought because I mean, why hide it if you're that viscerally?
00:11:37.720 You know, in favor of these people getting paid because I think I think just realizes the politics of it.
00:11:43.340 Basically, I think he well, I don't know.
00:11:46.460 I don't know.
00:11:46.920 Maybe I was going to say, I think he knows the situation that they're in, but I don't think so.
00:11:51.380 I mean, look at what they've done in the last week.
00:11:54.620 They had they had the election six days ago and got their heads handed to them.
00:12:01.860 And in those days since then, they have passed the mandate.
00:12:08.380 They have speed ahead, full speed ahead.
00:12:11.640 They've done this.
00:12:12.920 They've passed the not the reconciliation bill, but the infrastructure bill.
00:12:17.140 They just passed it over the weekend.
00:12:19.020 And they're going to pass the other one, too.
00:12:21.080 Do you think so?
00:12:21.740 I do.
00:12:22.520 Yeah.
00:12:22.760 I think they will.
00:12:24.440 They can't.
00:12:25.240 The House is out this week, but I'll bet you next week they're right back on it.
00:12:28.780 Bet they do.
00:12:30.900 If I'm telling you, you should call your congressman and tell them if they if they vote for any spending bill, infrastructure, anything.
00:12:44.200 If they vote for any of these bills, you have a very long memory and you will work to overturn their seat and give it to somebody who will stand against this.
00:12:59.540 I think this is a really dangerous place for the the republic to be in.
00:13:06.240 And I don't mean I don't mean violence.
00:13:08.280 I just mean they have completely detached.
00:13:11.640 You know, they have the the federal court put a stay on the mandate.
00:13:18.500 I'll bet you they don't care.
00:13:20.480 I bet you they just keep going.
00:13:22.180 Yeah, that's my guess, too.
00:13:23.900 I mean, what law restrains these people?
00:13:28.080 It doesn't seem like there's a law that will restrain them.
00:13:31.800 And I think given, you know, four hundred thousand dollars to people who came across our border.
00:13:37.340 Listen to what he just said.
00:13:39.500 If you came over the border and you lost your child, you get a payout.
00:13:45.800 One hundred thousand, two hundred and fifty.
00:13:47.460 You know what two hundred and fifty thousand means to somebody who is living in poverty in Mexico or Guatemala changes their life, changes their life.
00:13:57.080 You're not going to file.
00:13:58.940 Of course you are.
00:13:59.940 You're not going to come for the lottery.
00:14:02.280 You bet you win.
00:14:03.580 Listen, this is a nightmare, a nightmare.
00:14:07.640 And think about it with the shoe on the other foot.
00:14:09.320 Americans sneaking into Mexico or Guatemala and then demanding a payment once you're caught and you've been inconvenienced at the border.
00:14:18.040 Unbelievable.
00:14:18.700 Now I want to be made a rich person.
00:14:20.200 I want a million dollars for my family, which is the payout that you could get for per family.
00:14:24.540 It's it's it's unthinkable.
00:14:27.320 It is.
00:14:27.700 We are approaching some sort of a line where the American people are going to stand.
00:14:32.600 I think Republican, independent and some Democrat are going to start standing up and going, nope, no more.
00:14:41.740 No more.
00:14:42.860 I mean, the Bubba effect is not going to happen just in one community.
00:14:47.080 I think the Bubba effect is going to happen in in a lot of this country, a lot of this country where people will just stand up and say, I'm not going to comply.
00:14:57.700 I won't do it.
00:14:58.600 I won't do it.
00:14:59.400 You're out of control.
00:15:00.460 You're giving people who come across our border money and you're not you're not helping any of us.
00:15:05.340 You're putting me out of business.
00:15:07.420 No, thank you.
00:15:08.380 I want no part of it.
00:15:09.720 So I am trying to eat healthier and I am.
00:15:12.660 But the thing is, I don't like healthy food.
00:15:15.840 I don't like any of it.
00:15:17.400 You've heard of a fat suit, right?
00:15:18.940 I mean, there's got to be.
00:15:20.120 When are we getting a skinny suit?
00:15:21.540 Something that will make me look skinny because I just want treats all the time.
00:15:26.060 I grew up in a bakery for the love of Pete.
00:15:28.460 The bad news is no skinny suit is coming.
00:15:30.560 You actually have to do the work, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:32.660 That's why I am eating Bilt Bars.
00:15:34.860 It satisfies my sweet tooth, but it's a protein bar, but not like, you know, that's like eating stuff at the bottom of my chalkboard.
00:15:42.300 Usually this is 100 percent real chocolate.
00:15:44.920 It's low carb, low sugar.
00:15:47.140 If I'm eating a protein bar as a treat, come on, you've got to know it's good.
00:15:51.220 And I am.
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00:16:09.400 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
00:16:17.540 So, as we told you last week, there were several states that took action against this mandate.
00:16:34.260 The rule applies to just 84.2 million workers and another 1.9 private sector, according to OSHA.
00:16:45.240 But we had Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah.
00:16:50.100 The AGs got together, and they put together a legal brief and filed it against the Biden administration, and it won over the weekend.
00:17:01.740 There is a stay on this order, and Ken Paxton is here to tell us all about it.
00:17:06.100 Hi, Ken.
00:17:07.260 Good morning, Glenn.
00:17:08.440 Hope you're doing well.
00:17:09.220 Thank you very much.
00:17:10.000 Ken is the attorney general for the great state of Texas.
00:17:12.960 Tell me what happened.
00:17:13.820 So, as you said, it was a pretty well-organized deal.
00:17:18.800 It's not just those five states you mentioned, but there are other states suing as well.
00:17:22.560 We've obviously been talking about this since the day that Joe Biden told us that he was going to do it.
00:17:27.920 And it's odd that he told us he was going to do it, because a few months earlier, he said it would never happen,
00:17:32.720 and the federal government did not have the authority to do it.
00:17:35.660 He was right to...
00:17:36.820 Oh, shoot.
00:17:38.040 You're breaking up.
00:17:38.500 ...arguing that he doesn't have the right to do it.
00:17:41.420 Okay.
00:17:41.680 And they know, because there's just no place for this in the Constitution,
00:17:48.000 unless you start to twist the idea that OSHA has complete control over everything in the workforce, right?
00:17:57.300 That's correct.
00:17:58.180 And not only do they not have the authority, but the president doesn't have the constitutional authority to give them that authority.
00:18:03.280 I'm not even sure Congress would have the authority to do it, but clearly, OSHA has not been given that authority by Congress.
00:18:09.400 So they say they have control of everything in a workplace that makes people unsafe.
00:18:14.900 I mean, OSHA's directive is so broad that you could say that they have the legal authority, couldn't you?
00:18:25.400 I actually, no.
00:18:26.680 I think they've been given authority over, like, substances, consinogens, toxic materials,
00:18:33.360 but they've never been given authority to deal with communicable diseases.
00:18:37.560 That's the CDC, and even the CDC doesn't have the authority to mandate vaccines.
00:18:41.360 As a matter of fact, this has happened in the past.
00:18:43.460 They were asked to implement, at some point in our history, a vaccine mandate,
00:18:49.500 and they said it was better to do voluntary, not mandatory.
00:18:55.360 So we have the CDC also making a ruling that, you know, don't worry about it,
00:19:02.960 don't worry about paying, you know, for your monthly rent or your mortgages.
00:19:08.840 And the Supreme, I think it was the Supreme Court, or was it a federal court, that said,
00:19:13.300 no, you don't have the authority to do that.
00:19:16.820 But the Biden administration is still doing it.
00:19:21.180 Correct?
00:19:23.140 Did we lose him?
00:19:25.380 Oh, there you are.
00:19:26.320 Ken, are you there?
00:19:27.100 Hey.
00:19:27.520 Yeah, I'm here, sorry, but, yeah.
00:19:28.980 You remember, it was the Supreme Court that stopped that from staying in place,
00:19:34.260 another illegal implementation by the Biden administration.
00:19:39.260 So they've just continued to do it.
00:19:42.200 What gives you any feeling that they're going to listen to the,
00:19:45.640 I think it was the Fifth Circuit Court this weekend,
00:19:47.860 that said this is federal overreach,
00:19:51.240 it has grave constitutional consequences, I think is what the judge said.
00:19:57.360 What makes you think they're going to stop?
00:19:59.000 Well, look, if we get a ruling, it's one thing for them to not follow federal immigration law
00:20:06.540 and not proactively do what they're doing.
00:20:10.120 But if we have a stay and ultimately a victory,
00:20:14.160 then I think Americans will just say, look, the court has ruled.
00:20:16.780 The president can't force me.
00:20:18.800 He never had the authority to force me.
00:20:20.900 And now a court has ruled, a federal court has ruled that he doesn't have that authority.
00:20:24.860 I think it'll give the American people some security and some confidence
00:20:30.140 that they can ignore this and not worry about it.
00:20:33.640 We are increasingly looking like a failed banana republic.
00:20:39.260 We have an administration that is knowingly twisting knobs and turning levers right now.
00:20:49.160 And they know they can't get things through Congress,
00:20:53.720 so they're just doing things through like OSHA and the CDC.
00:20:58.860 And they seem to be ignoring things.
00:21:01.560 The FBI is off the rails.
00:21:06.040 And it's just the states now that stand in the way.
00:21:11.260 Are you convinced we have enough states and enough momentum to be able to stop this?
00:21:23.060 You know, I think you and I have talked about this before.
00:21:25.960 I know we have.
00:21:26.900 I see something really good happening among the states.
00:21:30.120 It seemed like when Joe Biden was first elected,
00:21:32.940 it was Texas and a few other states out fighting this.
00:21:35.640 This mandate has motivated almost every Republican state,
00:21:41.000 which is half the country, to do something about it, to fight back.
00:21:44.700 And that's really the key to our survival.
00:21:46.520 It's got to be Texas and the rest of the country saying,
00:21:50.020 no, we're not going to put up with this,
00:21:51.480 because if we let it go, we really will be a banana republic.
00:21:54.860 We really will have no control over our elected officials.
00:21:59.100 And we'll have an out-of-control president
00:22:01.340 who just dictates to us what he wants us to do.
00:22:05.640 Let me change the subject just a bit.
00:22:10.000 There's a couple of other stories that have come up,
00:22:12.400 and I'd just like your read on this.
00:22:14.660 The FBI raided Project Veritas the writers of some of the news
00:22:21.380 that comes out of Project Veritas.
00:22:23.720 You can like them or hate them, but they are doing journalism.
00:22:27.900 You may not like it, but that's what they're doing.
00:22:30.060 Over a year ago, there was a missing Biden diary from his daughter.
00:22:36.800 And in it, she claims that she was a sexual assault victim
00:22:45.760 from somebody in her family.
00:22:47.920 She talks about having to take showers with her father.
00:22:51.160 Then they go into the money stuff that sounds very much like Hunter Biden.
00:22:55.940 Project Veritas never printed these stories.
00:22:58.660 It was leaked to another outlet that did do the stories.
00:23:05.300 They instead turned that diary over to police
00:23:07.880 because they couldn't verify that it was hers,
00:23:10.500 and they just wanted to get it to the hands of the police.
00:23:13.900 The FBI, a year later, broke down the doors on Saturday morning
00:23:19.880 of Project Veritas writers
00:23:21.880 and were searching for anything related to that diary.
00:23:25.580 Now, I don't know what federal crime someone is committing
00:23:30.800 with a diary, even if I called you, Ken, and said,
00:23:37.720 hey, my daughter left her diary someplace and somebody took it.
00:23:43.160 Are you going to get the state troopers out
00:23:45.320 to look for my daughter's diary?
00:23:47.920 Absolutely not.
00:23:48.920 This is the Biden administration using law enforcement,
00:23:51.700 the FBI included, to do their bidding, to do their political bidding.
00:23:55.400 And it's creating a real lack of credibility
00:23:58.420 with federal law enforcement when you see things just like this.
00:24:02.100 You see the FBI being used to investigate parents
00:24:04.400 who dare to speak out at public school meetings.
00:24:08.280 So this is, and we certainly saw this during the Trump administration,
00:24:11.180 but now the Biden administration is perfecting this
00:24:13.800 and using law enforcement to punish people
00:24:16.860 and to go after people that they don't agree with.
00:24:19.820 And I think this is another example.
00:24:21.360 I know Eric O'Keefe.
00:24:22.200 He's an amazing guy.
00:24:23.300 He's done some amazing things.
00:24:25.140 And what they're doing here is very reminiscent
00:24:29.040 of what would happen in Germany to you back in the 30s
00:24:31.920 and what happened in Russia and China.
00:24:34.700 It is terrifying.
00:24:36.820 Are our states going to stand against it?
00:24:40.420 When it gets, I mean, when you're breaking down
00:24:42.580 the doors of writers over a diary
00:24:45.600 that is in question,
00:24:49.260 I mean, the assault on the First Amendment
00:24:52.020 and a free press is pretty obvious.
00:24:54.500 Are our states going to stand?
00:24:57.580 You know what?
00:24:58.360 I sure hope so.
00:24:59.380 We were standing up to the Biden administration now,
00:25:01.600 but, you know, I think there's a lot of fear,
00:25:03.220 even among Republicans.
00:25:04.040 Like, if I stand up, they'll come after me.
00:25:05.840 And that's the reality of where we are at now.
00:25:08.640 So I think the truth is, if we don't stand up now,
00:25:11.860 we will see our freedoms eroded.
00:25:13.740 We'll see law enforcement used for political purposes
00:25:16.040 more and more, which they're already doing.
00:25:18.320 And look, if they're willing to investigate parents
00:25:20.560 and they're willing to do things like this,
00:25:22.760 we can't know where they'll stop.
00:25:24.960 And so if we don't think, if we don't stop them now,
00:25:27.800 if we don't speak out now,
00:25:29.480 if all Americans don't speak out now,
00:25:31.260 we're going to pay the price with more and more of this,
00:25:33.640 and it's going to get worse.
00:25:35.440 Can I ask you one more question?
00:25:36.740 I don't know if you've been following the Rittenhouse.
00:25:38.640 I don't know if you've been following the Rittenhouse trial at all.
00:25:41.580 But the prosecution,
00:25:44.220 the prosecution brought a couple of people up.
00:25:48.620 Let's go to, can we play Sot One real quick for him?
00:25:54.380 The media's response to Youngkin's victory is literally...
00:25:58.480 Not that, please.
00:25:59.380 Sot One of Rittenhouse.
00:26:00.460 When I turned around,
00:26:02.480 Rosenbaum was right there in front of my face,
00:26:05.220 yelling and screaming.
00:26:06.360 And I would say,
00:26:09.300 dude, back up.
00:26:10.480 Just chill.
00:26:12.020 I don't know what your problem is.
00:26:13.340 And he goes, you know what?
00:26:14.420 If I catch any of you guys alone tonight,
00:26:15.800 I'm going to f***ing kill you.
00:26:17.800 And he said that to you?
00:26:19.060 Correct.
00:26:20.000 Did he say that to the defendant as well?
00:26:21.820 The defendant was there.
00:26:23.560 So, yes.
00:26:24.180 Another person,
00:26:26.740 play Sot Three, please.
00:26:28.380 Another person for the prosecution said this.
00:26:32.440 I kind of caught up to them.
00:26:34.200 I was running a bit faster.
00:26:36.000 And so,
00:26:36.900 at the time,
00:26:38.060 initially,
00:26:38.400 I was probably 30 feet back
00:26:39.820 when the first,
00:26:40.780 when everybody first started running.
00:26:42.180 But then,
00:26:43.000 by the time I arrived in the lot,
00:26:44.720 I was 15 feet.
00:26:45.720 And you continued to be behind Mr. Rosenbaum
00:26:50.400 at the time that the defendant shot and killed him.
00:26:53.200 Correct?
00:26:54.420 I did alter my trajectory a little bit
00:26:57.340 when I saw Mr. Rittenhouse turn around
00:27:00.500 and saw Mr. Rosenbaum
00:27:01.880 lunging for the front portion of the rifle.
00:27:05.660 Lunging for the rifle.
00:27:07.760 How did this case make this
00:27:10.320 into a courtroom
00:27:11.740 when that's the prosecution's witnesses?
00:27:15.760 You know, again,
00:27:16.900 it's shocking.
00:27:17.840 The abuse right now
00:27:19.040 with law enforcement,
00:27:21.760 with the Department of Justice,
00:27:23.740 with just law enforcement in general
00:27:26.060 by the Biden administration,
00:27:28.100 and other elected officials
00:27:29.840 is scary.
00:27:30.820 And it's scary
00:27:31.400 even in my state
00:27:32.580 where local officials
00:27:34.380 use politics
00:27:35.460 more than the law.
00:27:36.460 So the rule of law
00:27:37.460 is becoming a thing of the past.
00:27:39.400 And that's why I think it's so critical
00:27:41.220 that we cannot let anything pass,
00:27:43.860 whether it's the FBI investigating parents
00:27:45.700 or the FBI investigating
00:27:47.140 Eric O'Keefe
00:27:48.180 and Project Veritas.
00:27:49.280 If we're not speaking out now,
00:27:50.980 I'm telling you,
00:27:51.700 I think it could be too late
00:27:53.020 down the road.
00:27:54.900 Thank you very much.
00:27:55.440 Anything that the people can do
00:27:56.700 to help our AGs?
00:28:00.000 I would say
00:28:00.940 don't be afraid
00:28:02.280 to speak out at work.
00:28:04.060 Don't be afraid
00:28:04.700 to speak out in your community.
00:28:06.140 We all need to speak out now.
00:28:08.280 It's not a time to be timid.
00:28:10.300 Again, it'll be too late
00:28:11.580 if we're not willing
00:28:12.360 to stand up now.
00:28:14.140 Thank you so much.
00:28:15.260 Ken Paxton,
00:28:16.080 the Attorney General
00:28:16.820 of the great state of Texas.
00:28:18.280 This is the best
00:28:21.280 of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:28:31.500 I want you to know,
00:28:32.820 you might be getting up today
00:28:33.860 and you might be thinking,
00:28:34.900 what the hell have I done
00:28:35.680 with my life?
00:28:37.520 I mean,
00:28:38.680 I don't really have a future.
00:28:41.960 I want you to feel better
00:28:42.760 because I'm going to introduce you
00:28:43.480 to Stephen Kent.
00:28:47.240 He is a guy
00:28:48.760 who has focused,
00:28:50.240 I believe,
00:28:50.600 his entire life
00:28:51.640 on Star Wars
00:28:52.440 and,
00:28:53.540 I mean,
00:28:54.500 knows it,
00:28:55.880 knows everything about it.
00:28:57.640 Everything about it.
00:28:58.620 And he has been able
00:29:00.100 to eke out a career.
00:29:02.480 A pretty good one.
00:29:03.460 A good one.
00:29:03.960 Seems to be doing really well.
00:29:04.680 A good one.
00:29:05.440 The American dream is alive.
00:29:06.840 Yeah.
00:29:08.020 You really have.
00:29:09.340 I mean,
00:29:09.780 you've taken this
00:29:10.880 and you've taken
00:29:11.600 the Star Wars mythology
00:29:14.180 and,
00:29:15.060 and all of the imagery
00:29:17.980 and you can so easily
00:29:19.940 learn lessons from today
00:29:23.220 and politics
00:29:24.660 and everything else
00:29:25.520 from Star Wars.
00:29:26.960 Now you have a new book,
00:29:27.820 How the Force Can Fix the World.
00:29:30.280 Oh, yeah.
00:29:30.720 We thought the,
00:29:31.900 it should be
00:29:32.140 How the Force Could Fix America
00:29:33.500 and then I went into
00:29:34.420 one of those editorial meetings
00:29:35.660 with your publisher
00:29:36.300 and they're like,
00:29:36.760 but what about the world?
00:29:38.000 Guys, I think this is,
00:29:40.520 this is shooting
00:29:41.240 a little bit too big
00:29:42.260 right out of the gate,
00:29:43.240 but yeah, you know,
00:29:44.560 everything that we face,
00:29:45.840 I think particularly
00:29:46.780 like in the West
00:29:47.540 and American society
00:29:48.600 that we see breaking
00:29:49.800 where there be
00:29:50.640 sort of democratic norms,
00:29:52.800 enmity towards our neighbors,
00:29:54.440 political polarization,
00:29:55.300 these are trends
00:29:56.380 happening all across the world.
00:29:57.500 Okay, so let's take,
00:29:59.300 did you see the,
00:30:01.900 did you see the woman,
00:30:03.100 I think it was on CNN,
00:30:05.300 who said,
00:30:07.080 these,
00:30:08.440 these women in Virginia,
00:30:10.440 they're just disgusting
00:30:12.220 and stupid.
00:30:13.900 I'd like to know
00:30:14.920 how can I connect with them?
00:30:17.800 And I think
00:30:18.800 by not saying
00:30:20.000 the first part
00:30:20.800 of that question
00:30:21.640 is probably the answer.
00:30:23.960 Yeah, something like that.
00:30:25.220 I was actually looking
00:30:26.240 at that this morning
00:30:27.160 and it's one of those
00:30:28.260 case and points
00:30:29.220 for how when you watch
00:30:30.980 a lot of Star Wars,
00:30:32.080 you see a lot
00:30:32.760 of weird connections
00:30:33.620 that I think other people
00:30:34.960 would not otherwise see.
00:30:36.360 This woman,
00:30:37.540 Amy Siskind,
00:30:39.740 she said,
00:30:40.460 I join others
00:30:41.380 in being dismayed
00:30:42.540 and disgusted
00:30:43.200 by these women.
00:30:44.100 She's talking about
00:30:44.800 Virginia voters.
00:30:47.260 I don't know how to reach
00:30:48.380 non-college educated
00:30:49.900 white women.
00:30:51.000 The women I can connect
00:30:52.060 with and influence
00:30:52.840 are college educated
00:30:54.100 white women.
00:30:54.720 I'm open to suggestions,
00:30:56.220 she says.
00:30:57.720 Well, I'm glad.
00:30:59.180 You know,
00:30:59.500 the book,
00:31:00.260 chapter one,
00:31:01.020 deals with
00:31:01.780 Star Wars
00:31:02.420 and the virtue of humility,
00:31:03.560 which is this thing
00:31:04.400 which I think is
00:31:05.120 hard to find
00:31:06.440 in today's culture,
00:31:07.560 whether it be like
00:31:08.220 Facebook serving us up
00:31:09.400 exactly what we want
00:31:10.420 to see all the time,
00:31:11.440 Twitter echo chambers
00:31:12.600 and us talking to
00:31:13.560 only our own people.
00:31:15.340 But then,
00:31:15.840 I was actually thinking,
00:31:16.620 so what's the Star Wars
00:31:17.380 analogy here?
00:31:18.200 And it actually is
00:31:19.040 Star Wars episode one,
00:31:20.760 The Phantom Menace.
00:31:21.900 Everyone's favorite movie.
00:31:23.360 Yeah.
00:31:23.480 Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:31:24.880 Well received.
00:31:25.760 No, I mean,
00:31:26.120 so there's this great story
00:31:27.500 in there
00:31:27.940 where the planet
00:31:29.920 has been invaded.
00:31:30.500 May I guess?
00:31:31.820 No, please.
00:31:34.060 That woman should have
00:31:35.100 never been created.
00:31:36.840 Is that the lesson?
00:31:37.900 That's the lesson I get
00:31:38.820 from episode one.
00:31:39.980 Ah, yes.
00:31:40.960 Yeah, yeah.
00:31:41.580 Is that it?
00:31:42.000 That's the kind of enmity
00:31:43.100 we're trying to wipe away
00:31:44.800 from our society.
00:31:45.720 Okay, all right, okay.
00:31:46.360 No, it's all about
00:31:48.020 the Gungans, right?
00:31:49.360 So the Gungans,
00:31:50.340 these incredibly annoying
00:31:51.580 fish hybrids
00:31:52.680 that live on the planet
00:31:53.540 of Naboo.
00:31:54.440 How does Queen Amidala
00:31:56.240 in that movie
00:31:57.180 repel the Trade Federation
00:31:59.000 who have invaded
00:32:00.100 that planet
00:32:00.780 in that movie?
00:32:02.140 She doesn't go
00:32:02.780 to the Gungans
00:32:03.480 and say,
00:32:04.080 I know y'all are fish,
00:32:05.740 I know you're kind of disgusting
00:32:06.880 and you smell bad,
00:32:07.980 but we've all been invaded
00:32:09.440 by these droid armies.
00:32:10.680 I really would like your help
00:32:12.020 if you can find time
00:32:13.400 from being uncivil scolds.
00:32:15.240 That's not what she does.
00:32:16.660 The woman takes a knee
00:32:18.320 and says,
00:32:19.200 we beg of your help.
00:32:21.000 We respect you
00:32:22.040 and the mutual greatness
00:32:23.160 of our societies.
00:32:24.520 We need you in this moment.
00:32:25.840 That's not a direct quote.
00:32:27.440 But wait,
00:32:27.700 didn't they give birth
00:32:30.480 to Jar Jar Binks?
00:32:31.700 They did.
00:32:32.380 They did.
00:32:33.180 Someone who it's easy
00:32:34.260 to hold contempt for.
00:32:36.260 Again,
00:32:36.380 the one thing
00:32:37.700 that you learn,
00:32:38.660 don't make this episode.
00:32:41.460 The subtext
00:32:42.180 of the movie
00:32:42.820 matters a whole lot.
00:32:44.240 There's this interesting line
00:32:45.540 when she goes
00:32:46.340 to the Gungans
00:32:46.920 for help
00:32:47.440 to get this thing
00:32:48.180 in this moment.
00:32:49.280 Boss Nass,
00:32:49.860 the guy who heads up
00:32:50.500 the Gungans,
00:32:51.480 I'm not going to say
00:32:52.180 in Gungans speak,
00:32:53.280 but in the King's English here,
00:32:54.840 he says,
00:32:55.560 you said no thinking
00:32:56.260 you greater than the Gungans?
00:32:57.820 I like this.
00:32:58.720 Maybe we can be friends.
00:33:00.380 He only hated the Naboo
00:33:02.120 and Queen Amidala
00:33:03.140 because he thought
00:33:04.000 the Naboo thought
00:33:04.720 they were better than them.
00:33:06.160 And that was why
00:33:06.760 he was willing
00:33:07.220 to let them die
00:33:08.280 in that movie
00:33:09.100 and be ruled
00:33:10.000 by the droids
00:33:10.740 until she expressed
00:33:12.120 that no,
00:33:12.880 we don't think
00:33:13.480 we're greater than you.
00:33:14.800 We need your help.
00:33:16.260 There's a lesson
00:33:17.240 to be learned
00:33:18.140 in that for all of us
00:33:19.560 when how we are trying
00:33:20.500 to relate to people
00:33:21.480 who we want to join us
00:33:22.860 in coalition and politics.
00:33:24.560 It's all about contempt.
00:33:26.100 Do you remember
00:33:26.600 Anderson Cooper
00:33:28.420 after the January 6th riot?
00:33:31.120 You know,
00:33:31.260 whatever you want to call it.
00:33:32.480 When he mentioned
00:33:34.080 that all the people
00:33:34.940 involved in the
00:33:35.580 Capitol storming event
00:33:36.540 were going to be going back
00:33:37.600 to Olive Garden
00:33:38.580 and the Holiday Inn
00:33:39.700 with this sort of sneer,
00:33:41.980 you know,
00:33:42.220 like,
00:33:42.520 oh man,
00:33:42.980 these normal people
00:33:43.880 going to Olive Garden,
00:33:44.980 the greatest restaurant
00:33:45.900 in America
00:33:46.440 with a white tablecloth
00:33:48.220 that normal people
00:33:49.340 go to
00:33:50.000 to feel like
00:33:51.120 they're having
00:33:51.520 a nice dinner
00:33:52.260 with their families
00:33:53.180 and feel good
00:33:53.860 about themselves.
00:33:55.120 I spent the majority
00:33:56.000 of my 20s
00:33:56.720 going to that restaurant
00:33:57.640 because I barely
00:33:58.420 had any money
00:33:59.080 in my bank account
00:33:59.980 and I wanted to take
00:34:01.060 my daughter and my wife
00:34:01.920 to a nice place
00:34:02.620 where someone took
00:34:03.220 our order
00:34:03.620 in a white tablecloth meal.
00:34:05.380 Olive Garden
00:34:05.720 was that place.
00:34:06.620 Yeah,
00:34:06.840 I used to go to Olive Garden
00:34:07.720 all the time
00:34:08.120 until I married an Italian.
00:34:09.620 Right.
00:34:09.920 Now she won't even
00:34:10.780 let me look at one.
00:34:11.460 I still ask to go
00:34:12.080 every Father's Day
00:34:12.920 because I want
00:34:13.860 the infinite breadsticks.
00:34:14.940 So can I go back
00:34:15.820 to something you said?
00:34:16.640 What was that quote
00:34:17.320 that you said
00:34:18.080 in the King's English?
00:34:19.200 Could you give that again?
00:34:19.820 Yeah,
00:34:20.400 I mean,
00:34:20.660 so Boss Nass says to them,
00:34:22.780 you said no thinking
00:34:23.600 you said greater
00:34:24.300 than the Gungans?
00:34:25.560 We said like this.
00:34:26.960 Maybe we can be friends.
00:34:28.380 So my question is,
00:34:30.360 did anyone think
00:34:32.460 you would have
00:34:33.060 a success in life?
00:34:34.320 You memorized that.
00:34:37.800 I mean,
00:34:38.980 there's got to be
00:34:40.040 somebody in your life
00:34:41.040 that went,
00:34:42.380 son,
00:34:43.100 son.
00:34:43.740 There's something
00:34:44.540 wrong with me.
00:34:45.340 I remember when I first
00:34:48.300 started the Beltway Banthas
00:34:49.740 podcast,
00:34:50.540 which you,
00:34:51.120 both of you
00:34:51.800 have been a guest on.
00:34:52.940 And it's great.
00:34:54.060 It is really good.
00:34:55.020 I'm giving you a hard time.
00:34:56.000 You're complicit
00:34:56.740 in what has happened
00:34:57.760 to me.
00:34:58.920 But I remember,
00:34:59.720 I remember my dad
00:35:00.620 gave me a pat
00:35:01.500 on the shoulder
00:35:01.960 over dinner.
00:35:02.500 He was like,
00:35:02.760 son,
00:35:03.420 don't let this
00:35:03.940 become a distraction.
00:35:06.500 Five years,
00:35:08.080 five years later,
00:35:08.840 it's all I do.
00:35:10.460 So here we are.
00:35:11.780 Good for you.
00:35:13.660 Sorry,
00:35:14.060 dad.
00:35:14.680 Sorry,
00:35:15.060 dad.
00:35:16.160 So I think of the one quote
00:35:21.480 that I remember from,
00:35:22.840 I don't know,
00:35:23.440 episode one of the first three.
00:35:26.280 This is the way a republic ends
00:35:29.300 or this is the way freedom dies.
00:35:31.140 Something like that.
00:35:32.180 With thunderous applause.
00:35:33.740 Correct.
00:35:34.020 I think of that
00:35:34.960 all the time.
00:35:37.560 What,
00:35:38.280 what,
00:35:39.640 what do you look at
00:35:40.940 and say,
00:35:41.980 this is,
00:35:44.460 this is the Star Wars
00:35:46.440 story happening
00:35:48.040 right now?
00:35:49.800 Yeah.
00:35:50.160 So,
00:35:50.440 I mean,
00:35:50.620 it has to be popular consent
00:35:52.380 for things that take away
00:35:54.000 your freedoms.
00:35:54.500 I think my
00:35:56.040 sort of waking up moment
00:35:57.560 as a political person
00:35:58.600 was,
00:35:58.940 of course,
00:35:59.240 the post 9-11 era,
00:36:01.000 the Patriot Act
00:36:01.920 and,
00:36:02.640 you know,
00:36:02.720 the government being willing
00:36:03.800 to just take everything
00:36:05.060 that can get
00:36:05.800 with the popular consent
00:36:06.880 of the people
00:36:07.340 who want to be safe.
00:36:08.380 We all understand that
00:36:09.840 and we're all looking
00:36:10.740 at the pandemic
00:36:11.400 very much the same way.
00:36:13.000 This is never going to end.
00:36:14.420 They're going to take,
00:36:15.220 take,
00:36:15.500 take as long as
00:36:16.420 there are people saying,
00:36:17.440 please keep us safe.
00:36:18.580 We never want to be
00:36:19.400 in harm's way.
00:36:20.500 That's real
00:36:21.300 and I love that line a lot
00:36:23.560 but one thing
00:36:24.280 that I also go to
00:36:25.300 is in episode two,
00:36:27.500 Padme and Anakin
00:36:28.280 are having their little date
00:36:29.420 in the field on Naboo.
00:36:30.620 It's an awful scene.
00:36:31.920 Like,
00:36:32.020 it's horrible.
00:36:32.720 It's really fast forwarded
00:36:34.440 through that.
00:36:34.840 It's really like
00:36:35.560 one of the worst acted scenes
00:36:37.240 in the movie
00:36:37.520 but it's really important
00:36:38.960 and for this reason,
00:36:40.380 Anakin and Padme
00:36:41.100 are talking about politics
00:36:42.940 and how it should work
00:36:43.800 and she says,
00:36:44.340 what kind of system
00:36:44.980 would you like?
00:36:45.680 And Anakin says,
00:36:46.520 I want a system
00:36:47.260 where the politicians
00:36:48.080 sit down and discuss
00:36:49.120 what's in the best interest
00:36:50.060 of the people
00:36:50.680 and then they do it
00:36:51.860 and she says,
00:36:52.440 well,
00:36:52.560 that's how,
00:36:53.180 what we already do
00:36:53.900 but the trouble is
00:36:54.640 people don't agree.
00:36:56.340 He says,
00:36:56.720 well,
00:36:56.820 they should be made to.
00:36:57.960 Who's going to make them?
00:36:58.880 You?
00:36:59.680 Not me.
00:37:00.240 Someone wise.
00:37:00.900 Right there
00:37:02.380 is the totalitarian instinct
00:37:04.660 that a lot of us have.
00:37:06.880 A lot of us have
00:37:07.920 little dormant
00:37:08.700 totalitarian tendencies
00:37:10.040 that we say no to
00:37:11.760 because we believe
00:37:13.020 in liberty.
00:37:13.880 We believe in it
00:37:14.640 despite the things
00:37:15.780 that we want to control.
00:37:17.300 So,
00:37:17.500 can you tell me,
00:37:18.260 and this is an honest question,
00:37:19.340 by the way,
00:37:19.680 that's a hundred times more
00:37:21.080 than I took out of that scene.
00:37:22.540 Just what you just said.
00:37:23.900 I think it's the most important one.
00:37:26.380 I remember,
00:37:28.160 once you said it,
00:37:29.240 I remembered that too.
00:37:30.380 I blocked it from my memory
00:37:31.460 because all of those
00:37:32.200 are so bad.
00:37:34.640 You know,
00:37:35.560 this is an honest question.
00:37:37.700 Yeah.
00:37:38.060 How can the people
00:37:39.460 who are writing
00:37:40.480 and filming
00:37:42.040 these damn things
00:37:43.340 not
00:37:44.540 understand
00:37:46.320 the point?
00:37:48.420 Because they always think
00:37:49.740 it's about the other people
00:37:51.580 out there
00:37:52.340 who don't see the world
00:37:53.500 they do.
00:37:54.040 They're always looking
00:37:54.900 at their movies
00:37:55.560 and going,
00:37:56.080 yeah,
00:37:56.260 we love freedom,
00:37:57.340 but those other people don't.
00:37:59.460 We have a special knack
00:38:01.760 for putting masks
00:38:02.780 on people
00:38:03.500 that we don't
00:38:04.380 see the world
00:38:05.380 the same as
00:38:06.120 or who we don't agree with
00:38:07.280 and cartoonizing
00:38:08.780 their points of view.
00:38:10.720 And in Star Wars,
00:38:11.720 you see this
00:38:12.460 in every single movie.
00:38:14.620 Bad guys
00:38:15.300 wearing masks
00:38:16.200 and then heroes
00:38:17.360 who have the task
00:38:18.620 of trying to see past them
00:38:20.000 and know that
00:38:20.540 there is a person
00:38:21.420 under there,
00:38:22.480 whether it be
00:38:22.960 cute boy Kylo Ren
00:38:24.320 or Darth Vader.
00:38:25.680 Like,
00:38:25.900 it is the call
00:38:26.800 of heroes
00:38:27.400 to try to rise
00:38:28.480 to the occasion
00:38:29.080 on that,
00:38:29.980 unmask people
00:38:30.880 and treat them
00:38:31.640 like people.
00:38:33.060 So,
00:38:33.720 what I got from that
00:38:34.940 is
00:38:35.500 that Fauci
00:38:37.040 is a Sith Lord.
00:38:40.380 It's hard.
00:38:41.480 It is hard
00:38:42.420 not to.
00:38:43.940 Yeah.
00:38:44.120 It is hard not to.
00:38:45.160 And it's kind of
00:38:46.040 one of those things
00:38:46.700 it's just like
00:38:47.400 when the guy
00:38:48.220 is given
00:38:48.640 sort of the mandate
00:38:49.920 to rule,
00:38:51.100 keep everybody safe
00:38:52.160 and you just see
00:38:53.420 no inkling
00:38:55.280 of a possibility
00:38:56.540 that this guy
00:38:57.140 is going to let it go.
00:38:58.280 Like,
00:38:58.460 it's going to be
00:38:58.940 the forever pandemic.
00:39:00.320 It's endemic.
00:39:01.540 And what does that mean
00:39:02.660 for the public health
00:39:03.420 establishment
00:39:04.020 that they're always
00:39:04.840 going to be around?
00:39:05.520 You saw what they did
00:39:06.220 last year
00:39:06.720 where they got rid
00:39:07.560 of eviction moratoriums?
00:39:09.340 The CDC
00:39:10.120 getting involved
00:39:10.980 in housing?
00:39:12.000 It's incredibly egregious
00:39:13.700 and we cannot
00:39:15.040 just like sit back
00:39:16.180 and applaud
00:39:16.860 that they're going
00:39:17.400 to do this.
00:39:18.180 Nobody elected them
00:39:19.200 to do anything
00:39:19.960 like that.
00:39:21.080 They're giving away
00:39:22.060 our freedoms
00:39:22.640 step by step.
00:39:24.140 Eventually,
00:39:24.460 we're going to have
00:39:25.080 to accept reasonable
00:39:26.160 risk and get back
00:39:27.160 to life.
00:39:29.780 The name of the book
00:39:30.960 is How the Force
00:39:32.780 Can Fix the World.
00:39:35.480 There is one thing
00:39:37.140 that I've always
00:39:37.860 appreciated from you
00:39:39.280 is...
00:39:39.980 Only one?
00:39:41.800 Don't push me.
00:39:43.560 No.
00:39:44.040 The fact that
00:39:46.380 you can take
00:39:47.640 lessons from
00:39:49.360 popular culture
00:39:50.460 because
00:39:50.960 Stu and I were
00:39:52.120 talking about this
00:39:52.660 earlier today.
00:39:54.160 Everything is gone.
00:39:55.980 If it wasn't for
00:39:57.080 podcasts
00:39:58.360 and honestly
00:39:59.640 talk radio
00:40:00.440 and up to a point
00:40:01.740 Fox News,
00:40:03.180 this country
00:40:03.780 would be over
00:40:04.440 because there would
00:40:05.620 be no opposition
00:40:07.140 to any of it.
00:40:08.380 There'd be no opposition
00:40:09.440 in the mainstream.
00:40:11.440 But we've lost
00:40:12.520 our churches,
00:40:13.420 we've lost
00:40:13.860 our schools,
00:40:14.600 we've lost
00:40:15.660 many of our
00:40:16.260 organizations,
00:40:17.120 the Boy Scouts
00:40:17.900 are doing,
00:40:18.860 you know,
00:40:19.140 there's a,
00:40:19.660 for equity
00:40:21.580 and justice,
00:40:22.740 there's now a patch
00:40:23.820 for it.
00:40:24.480 So we've lost
00:40:25.520 everything.
00:40:26.520 But there are
00:40:27.760 a few stories
00:40:28.740 that still teach
00:40:30.040 truth.
00:40:31.380 And Star Wars
00:40:32.500 is one of them.
00:40:33.340 It's four generations
00:40:34.640 of truth in that story,
00:40:35.940 just the longing
00:40:36.740 for freedom
00:40:37.520 and the tension
00:40:38.700 between wanting
00:40:39.540 order
00:40:40.040 and then wanting
00:40:41.200 to breathe free.
00:40:42.420 That's what this story
00:40:43.280 has always been.
00:40:43.880 And it's something
00:40:44.420 that I'm encouraged
00:40:45.220 by because even
00:40:46.620 when we know
00:40:47.520 that like the left
00:40:48.420 wing, right,
00:40:49.100 medals in popular
00:40:50.240 culture,
00:40:50.660 they medal in Star Wars
00:40:52.000 too,
00:40:52.280 just like they medal
00:40:52.880 in everything.
00:40:53.780 The message has still
00:40:54.800 kind of always
00:40:55.620 been the same,
00:40:56.560 which is that if you
00:40:57.380 give away too much,
00:40:58.340 you're never going
00:40:58.960 to live free.
00:40:59.800 And there's going
00:41:00.440 to be people
00:41:01.080 who rise together
00:41:02.020 to stop it.
00:41:03.000 And I think some
00:41:03.640 of the details,
00:41:04.400 we get really too
00:41:05.140 hung up on those.
00:41:06.280 And Star Wars
00:41:07.480 is this story
00:41:08.700 that as everything
00:41:09.880 that we share
00:41:10.880 together starts
00:41:12.180 to crumble around us,
00:41:13.260 I'm not suggesting
00:41:14.040 we replace the Bible.
00:41:15.800 But if you come
00:41:17.080 at somebody
00:41:17.880 with like Bible
00:41:19.120 verses first thing,
00:41:20.380 they're not going
00:41:21.080 to be listening
00:41:21.580 to you if they're
00:41:22.340 not a person
00:41:23.180 of faith.
00:41:23.800 But why don't
00:41:24.620 you talk to them
00:41:25.500 about the idea?
00:41:26.680 I think this is a
00:41:27.680 perfect script.
00:41:28.780 I mean,
00:41:29.060 this teaches the
00:41:30.460 scriptures,
00:41:31.040 just not in script.
00:41:32.460 This is the message.
00:41:34.800 Yoda could be Jesus.
00:41:37.280 I mean,
00:41:37.600 in many ways,
00:41:39.140 he teaches exactly
00:41:40.380 the same things.
00:41:41.680 And that chapter
00:41:42.440 I told you about
00:41:43.100 with like humility
00:41:43.840 and just taking a knee
00:41:44.960 before someone
00:41:45.580 that you need their help.
00:41:46.720 Yeah.
00:41:46.920 The whole chapter
00:41:47.520 ties the phantom
00:41:48.300 menace to Matthew 18.
00:41:50.420 The idea that we need
00:41:51.560 to be as children
00:41:52.420 if we are to be
00:41:53.360 true followers of Christ.
00:41:55.020 And that requires us
00:41:56.840 to be humble
00:41:57.580 and know that we need
00:41:58.640 help from others.
00:42:00.100 The name of the book
00:42:00.660 is How the Force
00:42:01.680 Can Fix the World
00:42:02.500 by Stephen Kent.
00:42:03.360 It's available everywhere.
00:42:04.900 We have Stephen Kent
00:42:05.920 in How the Force
00:42:07.180 Can Fix the World.
00:42:08.060 I'd love to have you back.
00:42:09.040 You're really
00:42:09.640 a fascinating guy.