The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Kimberly Hermann & Chad Robichaux ｜ 8⧸31⧸23

00:00:00.000 There is a ton on today's podcast that's really important.

00:00:03.820 I think the end of the podcast is probably one of the more important things that we've

00:00:07.140 talked about, and that is what's happening in Ukraine and Russia.

00:00:10.540 This is, I mean, this is like, you know, a week in October, right before they could have

00:00:20.760 blown each other up.

00:00:21.800 And everybody in America and Russia, apparently, and around the world are going, huh?

00:00:26.040 Yeah, I hear they've got something on a boat they're sending over to Cuba.

00:00:31.000 Huh.

00:00:31.760 I hope it's cocktails.

00:00:34.360 Oh, my gosh.

00:00:36.000 It's not cocktails.

00:00:36.880 It's out of control.

00:00:39.200 Out of control.

00:00:40.120 And we pose a couple of theories and tell you about the accounting error that apparently

00:00:46.860 doesn't ever work out in our country's favor.

00:00:50.060 It's, you know, it's not fun.

00:00:51.620 Also, we talk about Hawaii, and we have an idea at Mercury One, and we really need your

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00:01:14.840 The suicide rate is going up.

00:01:16.800 This and also the latest on Biden and Trump and everything else on today's podcast.

00:01:23.220 Here it is.

00:01:30.320 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:37.520 I want to talk to you here about something that Billy Graham told me about five years

00:01:44.120 before he died.

00:01:45.000 We became friends at the end of his life, and I so admired him.

00:01:53.340 And at one point, I said, Billy, where are the people that are going to step up?

00:02:00.280 Where's the next George Washington, Abraham Lincoln?

00:02:03.140 Where's the next Billy Graham?

00:02:05.020 And he smiled and he said, God is tired of people like me getting credit for his work.

00:02:11.920 He said, it's not going to work this way, this time.

00:02:16.300 He said, this time, people who are just regular people are going to do something that they may

00:02:26.180 think is small and insignificant.

00:02:28.680 And they may not even understand it, but they feel compelled that they're supposed to do this one thing.

00:02:36.940 And they'll argue in their own head, say, that doesn't make any sense.

00:02:40.120 Why would I do that?

00:02:41.900 That's not going to change anything.

00:02:43.400 And he said, and if everybody who hears what they're supposed to do and does just that, nothing more, nothing less, just that, and remains faithful,

00:02:57.160 he said, the lights will come on and you'll see a mosaic that God is working and everyone on earth will know.

00:03:04.400 Only the God of Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob could have done it. 0.99

00:03:08.360 That's what he told me.

00:03:09.320 It has lasted with me and I'm seeing that come to fruition right now.

00:03:16.320 Oliver Anthony was a guy who was at the end just a few weeks ago.

00:03:24.380 He was at the end sitting in his truck, weeping, completely broken.

00:03:30.480 Now he's on Joe Rogan.

00:03:35.520 He was on Joe Rogan and he's talking to Joe about the scriptures and Joe is listening.

00:03:45.080 And so are millions of Americans.

00:03:47.920 I think what Oliver Anthony just did is what our preachers are failing to do.

00:03:54.120 Our preachers, it's all gobbledygook.

00:03:59.120 Gobbledygook, it doesn't feel real to so many Americans.

00:04:04.240 But listen to this, Oliver Anthony on Joe Rogan.

00:04:09.220 I kind of had this breakdown moment and decided that I was going to let whatever ego I had go.

00:04:14.960 At this point, I knew I didn't have much left in for me anyway and I wanted to serve whatever purpose it was that I was here to serve.

00:04:22.560 It's like you get this just overwhelming feeling in you.

00:04:26.020 I was just crying like a baby.

00:04:28.400 Just this very warm feeling throughout me.

00:04:31.040 And that really hasn't gone away since.

00:04:34.920 Like I'm not the guy that can play in front of 12,000 people on guitar.

00:04:40.340 I would be like, I mean, I had never played a paid gig.

00:04:43.720 When we played the show at the farm market where Jamie Johnson showed up, that was my first paid gig.

00:04:48.760 Like I'm not a guy to go out and play live shows.

00:04:51.060 But I can tell you I was so like, I was just so at peace being up there.

00:04:56.280 Like it just felt like that's where I was supposed to be.

00:04:58.740 And with all of this, it has been like there's no way that Chris from six months ago could handle what's gone on the last two weeks.

00:05:05.060 But I feel just so empowered from all of it.

00:05:07.480 And I don't know.

00:05:09.900 I'm telling you, like, again, I'm not anybody special.

00:05:13.640 And I'm certainly not here to preach to anybody, but just from coming from somebody who was just really just in a really just up place.

00:05:20.780 Like and I use that word like with discretion.

00:05:24.140 But in this case, it describes like where I was like that guy found a lot of peace, like from this book and from looking at things in a different way.

00:05:33.280 Yeah, looking at things through the.

00:05:35.640 Well, yeah, and I think for me, it was like I had been in, you know, I'd been in church growing up and I had been I'd been exposed to all that.

00:05:42.600 But I'd found a lot of a lot of theatrics and a lot of politics in church and in religion when I was younger.

00:05:50.680 And so it just immediately turned me off to it.

00:05:52.600 So if you can take us to like what was like the day you picked it up?

00:05:57.340 What what was the feeling that you had?

00:05:59.760 Like what caused you to act?

00:06:01.480 What what was it like when you did it?

00:06:04.160 Yeah, I mean, I'd been reading it here and there off and on.

00:06:07.060 And I had for like off and on for a long time, like because I again, I was introduced to it as a kid, but it was really just like I remember I went to the I went to the ER for everything that was going on.

00:06:22.880 I mean, I thought I was seriously going to die.

00:06:24.440 Like I was having shooting pains up under my jaw, down in my wrist and my leg, like just cardiovascular 101 symptoms.

00:06:34.160 Of course, I'm 31.

00:06:35.060 I had been like I could run four miles without stopping.

00:06:38.680 No problems.

00:06:39.220 Like I knew my heart was strong, but I just freaking out.

00:06:42.820 Yeah, but I went and did that.

00:06:44.080 And I remember being in the truck after that, just like and I just yeah, I just had a breakdown moment.

00:06:49.940 I was just just crying and was just just I just felt hopeless, like like almost the way a child feels hopeless when they, you know, like you can't find your parent or something like a like a four year old that can't find his parents or something.

00:07:04.760 I was just like just didn't have anything left in me.

00:07:07.800 And OK, stop.

00:07:10.020 Listen to what he's doing here.

00:07:11.320 This is a guy just weeks ago was feeling just like that just weeks ago that that's in itself a miracle.

00:07:22.660 He's a guy who has screwed up everything in his life.

00:07:27.440 He said up until he was about 30 and then things went awry.

00:07:31.540 It was the exact opposite.

00:07:32.960 I was just crazy bad until I was about 30.

00:07:36.160 And then I tried to clean up my life.

00:07:38.120 And all he's doing now is he's sitting in the truck and he's completely broken.

00:07:48.280 How many of us can relate to this?

00:07:50.980 You're out of answers.

00:07:53.080 Now, listen.

00:07:55.660 I don't know.

00:07:56.400 I just I just decided like right then and there.

00:07:59.600 I was like, I know I can't do this anymore.

00:08:01.460 And but I know I know that I can.

00:08:04.040 I know there's things that I need to do.

00:08:06.660 And I just I was just just told God I was like, just let me do it.

00:08:10.780 Like and I'll give all the up.

00:08:12.320 I'll give up the weed and I'll quit getting drunk and I'll quit.

00:08:15.540 I'll quit being so angry about things.

00:08:17.540 And I'll just like I'll just call it good.

00:08:21.000 Whatever I've done up from from up until I was 30 or whatever, 31.

00:08:26.000 Like I will just call that good and I'll start over again.

00:08:28.420 And then I'll make him the focus and not me.

00:08:32.160 And I just tried to tried to let my let my ego and everything that I was just let that

00:08:39.420 go and just focus on because because obviously, like it's not just me.

00:08:44.140 I've seen it with even other people I know and I see it with celebrities and everything.

00:08:47.880 But I don't know.

00:08:48.500 I just feel like we're in such a weird place right now in the world.

00:08:52.480 Stop for a second.

00:08:53.620 What is he doing?

00:08:55.700 What's he doing right here?

00:08:57.120 This is the first step of Alcoholics Anonymous.

00:09:02.160 First step.

00:09:03.920 I give up.

00:09:05.600 I can't do it.

00:09:07.240 I completely give up.

00:09:08.960 God, I give it all to you.

00:09:10.560 I'll just we'll just call it start fresh.

00:09:14.480 That is without him knowing it.

00:09:16.620 That is the first step.

00:09:18.960 You cannot heal yourself until you get there.

00:09:23.020 This is the problem with our nation.

00:09:28.060 You can't fix it until we get there.

00:09:33.620 Lord, I give up.

00:09:35.080 I give up.

00:09:35.680 We've tried everything.

00:09:36.960 We've tried everything.

00:09:38.460 Everything we do seems to make it worse.

00:09:41.640 We've tried this.

00:09:44.820 We've tried this.

00:09:45.800 The only thing we haven't tried is humbling ourselves.

00:09:51.600 See, this is this is why humility is so important, because without humility, you can't get to where he is, which is completely broken.

00:10:03.180 And luckily for me as an alcoholic and unfortunately for my mom, who was an alcoholic, my mother's bottom was death.

00:10:16.100 She didn't have a place that was bad enough to break her until death.

00:10:21.800 I'm grateful that that wasn't my bottom line.

00:10:27.060 And I've wondered for a long time, is that the bottom line for our country?

00:10:33.020 Is our country.

00:10:36.760 Are we so arrogant?

00:10:40.540 That. 0.99

00:10:41.980 We'll let it die before we say, OK, I give up. 0.96

00:10:45.680 I give up.

00:10:46.620 I just I just want peace in my life.

00:10:49.420 I just I want to be a decent person.

00:10:52.800 We want to be a good country, but we obviously don't know how to do it.

00:10:58.360 Now, listen to what he's about to do.

00:11:01.880 The next step.

00:11:03.660 Listen to this.

00:11:05.520 I feel like God's working through inadvertently through certain people to get to get his point across.

00:11:11.720 He is.

00:11:12.340 So take me to what what you did.

00:11:15.660 Did you start reading the Bible?

00:11:17.140 Like, what did you do?

00:11:18.080 I just changed my perspective.

00:11:23.100 You change.

00:11:24.100 I quit worrying about me and I started worrying about what what it is that I'm supposed to do.

00:11:28.720 You know, like it talks in the Bible about about being a servant and, you know, giving up, I guess, my desire and my will and whatever it is that I that I want to do.

00:11:39.320 Like, I don't know the best way to describe it, but it's about it's about trying to use what I have as a tool versus doing what I can in the moment to give what give myself whatever satisfaction that it is.

00:11:53.520 I'm trying to get, you know, it's about letting trying to let go of your ego, I guess, in a way.

00:11:57.880 And I mean, people people pursue that mentality without faith.

00:12:05.980 I mean, it's the idea of there being something bigger than you.

00:12:08.500 But I think inherently all human beings idolize something like it talks in the Bible about false idols.

00:12:14.980 We all have false idols, like whether it's our phone or it's a celebrity or it's something we do or it's our addiction to food or drugs or whatever.

00:12:23.840 But, like, it's very difficult for a human to be the biggest thing on their hierarchy.

00:12:28.640 There's always something above us.

00:12:30.000 Right.

00:12:30.200 Because we're always in pursuit of something bigger than whatever it is in that moment. 0.98

00:12:33.720 And I think for me, it was just about taking everything else, all the distractions and all the other things in my life away and just ensuring that at least and look, I'm we're all we're all we all sin and we all do stupid things. 0.95

00:12:47.520 Like, we're all just people.

00:12:48.700 Nobody's special or righteous.

00:12:50.160 People sometimes act like they're special and righteous, but we're all just the same thing.

00:12:53.480 Like, but it's just about trying to make that make that my idol, make make make God and the concept of what it is that he wants done on this earth.

00:13:03.720 My idol versus anything else.

00:13:05.760 Stop.

00:13:07.400 He's just completed the first two steps.

00:13:12.320 Step one, admit you're powerless over alcohol or whatever else it is and that your lives are unmanageable.

00:13:21.760 That's the first thing you have to do.

00:13:23.440 My life is completely out of control.

00:13:25.720 I've tried everything.

00:13:27.020 I'm broken.

00:13:28.300 I'm crying in my truck.

00:13:31.460 I can't do it.

00:13:33.060 I'm powerless over this.

00:13:34.580 I can't stop it.

00:13:36.840 Second step.

00:13:39.820 We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

00:13:47.180 He's saying there is a God.

00:13:50.220 There is a God.

00:13:51.880 And and I've I've followed other gods and all of these other gods are false.

00:13:56.660 They've only played into my problem because they feed my ego and what I want.

00:14:03.180 And only thing only thing that is above humans. 0.89

00:14:08.060 Is God.

00:14:09.140 And so I am powerless over my problem and my life is is out of control and only a power greater than me can restore us to stand to sanity.

00:14:23.580 First two steps.

00:14:27.140 Okay so the third step let's see if he makes it like we all serves we all serve some master whether we realize it or not so why not let it be the master that is above all.

00:14:39.360 And so when you made this transformation in your mind did you then start reading scripture like regularly like what did you start doing.

00:14:47.360 Yeah.

00:14:47.680 Well it was different.

00:14:48.360 Well it was what really I guess it's like now I don't read it.

00:14:51.460 I don't read it because I feel like I should read it to be a better person.

00:14:55.140 It's like now I try to read it for the guidance within it and I'm still in the infancy stages of a lot of this like I've read a lot of Psalms Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and Luke and there's other good books but just trying to I don't know like trying to restructure I guess on a granular level like I guess the neural pathways in my brain that have certain habits and certain ways of thought like I've tried to retrain that.

00:15:19.600 You know like there's there's things it says like and I'll be very brief with this I promise but like one thing ironically it's Proverbs 420 which I thought you would like so if there's anything better.

00:15:33.860 Stop just a second before we get to that.

00:15:36.880 He just completed the third step.

00:15:40.020 Okay first step we're powerless our lives are out of control and I have no power to stop it.

00:15:46.240 Second there is a power greater than me.

00:15:50.400 There is a God how a God of your understanding a power greater than me that will restore me to sanity.

00:15:57.860 Third step I will turn my will and my life over the care of God as I understand him.

00:16:06.520 The first thing he said when we went back to this clip is we all serve a master.

00:16:15.100 I just decided to serve the master the God and now I'm reading scriptures so I get to learn his will what he wants me to do.

00:16:28.960 Third step made a decision to turn over our lives and our will over to the care of God as we understand him.

00:16:35.620 Third step I'm telling you God is working miracles this is why I've said you want to save the country it's anyone who understands the 12 steps of AA it will get you there we need to do this as a nation.

00:16:53.300 But the fourth step is the really tough one.

00:16:57.640 Do we have time to go on to the here's I think he said it was Psalms 420 list Proverbs 420.

00:17:05.580 My son pay attention to what I say turn your ear to my words do not let them out of your sight keep them within your heart.

00:17:12.520 For they are life to those who find them and health the one's whole body above all else guard your heart for everything you do flows from it keep your mouth free from perversity keep corrupt talk far from your lips let your eyes look straight ahead fix your gaze directly before you give careful thought to the past for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways.

00:17:34.140 Do not turn to the right or the left keep your foot from evil but that's pretty big yeah it is perfect Joe Rogan wow that's profound so listen to what he just said this I think that this is the the proverb that he would bring up tells you everything you need to know about him and politics.

00:17:59.140 He has done everything he could to distance himself from the right and the left mainly from the right because those were the ones running to him with open arms going you're one of us.

00:18:12.460 He's I believe being used by God and you're not going to make any inroads if you're Glenn Beck and your name is so associated with the right or you know you're Michael Moore and you're so associated with the left whatever it's not going to happen.

00:18:27.920 He's fixing his eyes on God not turning to the right or the left and he will fulfill whatever it is he's supposed to fulfill and he'll be shocked by it as he already is shocked by it God works quickly when we are willing.

00:18:46.900 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:51.180 All right we're going to Kimberly Herman now she is the Southeastern Legal Foundation General Counsel. 0.86

00:18:57.580 She is part of the the legal group that filed the lawsuit to get Joe Biden's pseudonym emails.

00:19:06.000 Now if you're taking this from the very beginning I'm going to ask her to tell us what the pseudonym emails and how common those are etc etc.

00:19:15.560 Hi Kimberly how are you I'm doing great thanks for having me on you bet okay so we heard about Joe Biden using a pseudonym in fact several pseudonyms when he was the vice president and we got this because of some of the emails on Hunter Biden's laptop correct.

00:19:34.380 That's correct. We first learned about these in the summer of 2021 when Hunter Biden's laptop was exposed and authenticated and John Solomon New York Post Daily Mail you lots of people covered these.

00:19:50.680 And we were really interested in them because why would a vice president need to use an alias email address and forward government information to his son and his son's business partners.

00:20:01.960 And so we started asking the National Archives for the records all the way back in 2021.

00:20:07.260 So and they just released them so they're quick.

00:20:10.900 They have actually still not released them.

00:20:14.020 When we filed that initial request they came back and said whoa whoa we can't release any of Joe Biden's vice president records till 2022 come back then.

00:20:24.280 So we waited we came back then and we've been waiting for 14 months.

00:20:29.760 They have acknowledged that about 5,400 of these potentially exist.

00:20:34.020 Wow where what story was I reading today or maybe a couple of days ago that I thought a thousand existed and 800 had just been released.

00:20:43.980 None of them have been released and there's 5,400 of them.

00:20:48.220 Yeah.

00:20:48.500 So none of these alias ones have been released.

00:20:51.700 I believe that our friends over I believe in America First Legal have also submitted some FOIA requests and that they have been getting some some emails.

00:21:01.220 Okay.

00:21:01.560 In fact they're not necessarily the pseudonym emails.

00:21:04.040 Okay.

00:21:04.580 Okay.

00:21:05.040 He didn't always use the pseudonym.

00:21:07.140 He just used it sometimes.

00:21:08.480 Do you know how common it is for a president or vice president to have pseudonym emails?

00:21:16.280 I mean other others have come out where they've said you know we know about how well we obviously know about how like what Hillary Clinton's secret server.

00:21:24.960 That was an entire server.

00:21:26.620 There have been other stories out there that past presidents have used them you know use them.

00:21:33.560 I don't think that you should be using them.

00:21:35.680 I think that there's legal massive legal implications but whether you use them or not these emails are still government records.

00:21:42.340 It was he was still the vice president talking about government information and forwarding that on to people.

00:21:49.340 That makes it a government record.

00:21:51.280 It makes it subject to the Freedom of Information Act which means that anyone in the public can request that these records get released.

00:21:59.020 Now we don't know what's in the pseudonym emails.

00:22:04.640 We're hearing now that we are seeing things from the White House coming out from the White House that Joe Biden was involved with his son's firm.

00:22:18.220 They were getting invitations to things they were actually in communication on you know state dinners etc etc and played a role in those which I think is extremely uncommon I would imagine.

00:22:31.980 But the pseudonym you think that these are even more damning possibly because yeah I mean why else would you use a pseudonym right.

00:22:44.040 And so we've been we've been sending FOIA requests and trying to release as many documents to the public as we can about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and Burisma and the other things that happened in Ukraine for oh my gosh three four years now.

00:23:01.540 And we've seen in a lot of those records with official email addresses that those meetings happened we put them out on our website John Solomon's put them out he's done a lot of those FOIA requests that we've litigated and so those are damning enough.

00:23:18.400 Why else would you use a pseudonym if you're not doing something nefarious now maybe they'll come out and we will all learn that there's nothing important in them.

00:23:26.500 Maybe they were personal communications 5400 of the laptop.

00:23:30.320 I highly highly doubt it right yeah I mean I highly doubt it I can't speculate to what's in them until we see them but something just doesn't doesn't quite smell right.

00:23:42.100 Right and we know that because of another email right we got the pseudonym we found out that the that he was emailing and pseudonym because of the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:23:53.720 We saw the was a Robin L Peters or something like that Robert L Peters and do we know that he did communicate with the head of Ukraine under a pseudonym.

00:24:09.200 He was doing some official business in Ukraine we think he was reaching out to the president or somebody like that right I am sorry I have not followed this story.

00:24:19.800 Yeah there there are some indications to that and there are various emails out there floating around we at FLF have not personally authenticated any of them but there are stories out there and there are emails that we've seen out there where there are these types of communications happening.

00:24:37.140 And you know through the other FOIA work that we've done over the last several years we have seen evidence of those meetings we have exposed very key records.

00:24:47.380 One of them was a memo that came out just a few weeks ago where you're they're talking about setting up these meetings and so there's really no question that Hunter Biden and Devin Archer and his other business partners were getting access to top State Department officials to talk about their business dealings.

00:25:07.860 What influence what influence it had on that I'll leave that to the congressional investigations and we'll leave that to the people who can actually do something about that right our goal here is to just really try to help restore some level of government integrity either we have a FOIA or we don't produce the records how unusual is this to be blocked with a FOIA like this for something that is emails.

00:25:34.120 Honestly I wish I could say that it's unusual it has taken us seven years to get records from some government agencies in the past this is a fundamental problem that we have in our country right we have those that are elected into office and they preach transparency and they say we're going to show you everything and then it's just stonewall stonewall stonewall stonewall stonewall by all of the federal agencies and so this is a massive problem what is it that they have to hide we're still litigating

00:26:03.940 lawsuits that we had against the DOJ and the FBI to try to uncover what was actually happening with Russiagate right here we are all these years later you know we won't stop until we can expose the truth because the only way that we'll have a republic the only way that we can rebuild this republic is by truth and transparency.

00:26:24.820 So how is it that I mean we can change this how do we change this we just have to try to change the culture and we have to let we have to let the federal government know we as Americans have to let them know that we are not going away we know that we have the right to these records and we will ask for them and we will continue to ask for them fortunately we have the courts and so now we've had a turn to the courts it's time intensive it's resource intensive it means that you know we have to continue to wait but there are

00:26:54.820 there is a way to get resolution and fortunately we have a judiciary a strong federal judiciary thank you president trump that we can then turn to.

00:27:05.600 So they now have if I'm not mistaken the national archives and records has 30 days from here to respond.

00:27:15.100 Yes yep they've got 30 days from when they are served the complaint to respond you know we're really hopeful that they'll just come to the table and then they'll come to us and say we know we kept putting you off we're going to review the records we're going to produce them and that we don't have to continue to litigate it in court.

00:27:32.460 If they really fight hard in court to not turn these records over in a timely manner that is a signal in and of itself in my opinion that there's definitely something in them that somebody does not want some of the American public.

00:27:47.560 So it would be illegal for the white house to interfere with the archives and records right I mean you can't have phone calls going back and forth from you know the the Biden white house saying they'll keep these they're supposed to just judge it coldly and and release what they have to release and if there is a national secret in there then they can classify it.

00:28:11.060 But there should be no no political play in anything like this should there there there really shouldn't be I mean there are some exceptions for classified information yes and you know Joe Biden could then determine that he would declassify them potentially and so there's obviously a process for that as you mentioned but there should not be communications going back and forth you know one thing that will be very interesting after all of this is to FOIA any

00:28:40.620 communications about our communications about our FOIA that's something that's always really interesting to do because sometimes those communications do happen and again we we just have to continue to fight to expose all of this because hopefully one day politicians will wake up and say you know what they need business I really need to be transparent now.

00:29:01.660 This is an organization if you don't know the southeastern legal foundation you should it is slf liberty.org if you are somebody who has resources and you're tired of all of this put your money where people are actually doing things to expose the truth and then putting those in the hands of people who can enforce the truth and clean up all the bad things.

00:29:30.720 Uh and that is exactly what southeastern legal foundation does uh go to s f sorry slf liberty.org that's slf liberty.org general counsel kimberly herman kimberly thank you for everything that you're doing god bless you thank you you're back you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program we welcome to the uh program a man whose name i have a hard time pronouncing it's jip

00:30:00.560 decker decker jp decker jp decker is uh the mercury one executive director he was a senior producer on this program for a long time then he stabbed me in the back and went to work for fox i told him not to but he did and he was successful there but then he comes crawling

00:30:17.640 then he comes crawling back and i said okay i love people charity go be the executive director i did come back i mean let's make that i came back you did i did come back i don't remember the crawling part uh but uh jp you were just in uh maui uh and we were talking about this on last night's show and you told me and it's it's it's

00:30:47.640 there's a story in the new york times today about how you know white people have just done hawaii so badly and same with puerto rico and you know it's all from the i don't know the christian missionary i mean it's just so convoluted and and i know that some people uh in hawaii and some people in in in other places that are far away states think that we don't think of them as americans

00:31:17.040 and you you were telling me uh that you had a hard time at the beginning because people just would look at you and go oh you're from the mainland and then that was a problem yeah oh yeah anytime in anywhere that i went to the first thing they thought i was going to bring wads of cash and buy them out i mean and they said oh we've already had many people come in non-profits everyone say oh yeah as long as you put your logos up somewhere uh and make sure you tell people that we're the ones helping

00:31:47.040 you we will help you and i always would tell them there's no cameras a couple people we didn't film until after we talked to them for a long time um but i said you know that we don't have cameras we're not here for that i'm here to ask how you're doing and how i can help as a non-profit make lahaina lahaina again and that would disarm them and help them to know that i'm not in it for gain i'm in it to help right and what we do at mercury one is

00:32:13.760 we'll go into these disaster situations when we're in florida now right yeah we are so um we go into these disaster situations and we assess i mean first thing we do is we go to our our go-to partners that are always you know first in and we say what do you need and we give them the supplies or whatever it is they need

00:32:33.220 then we go in and we find the locals that are actually doing something that they they can do best more than anybody else uh and we are not there we never are there to get our pictures taken or hand them a giant check or anything we don't have

00:32:54.380 we don't have a pr firm that no is for mercury one because we don't do that it's truly about helping and enabling people to help themselves yep and when we went in we we helped you know provide food water you know and this was through our partners electricity yeah and wi-fi but now there's a bigger problem and that's what we're focused on now which is the mental health crisis that's happening there and it hasn't it hasn't shown itself yet but it will soon you you know

00:33:24.140 just what happened with covid how sketchy all of our families are right now because of of mental illness or or or or depression or things that our country and our world is going through a fundamental transformation to quote barack obama um and it is transforming us as people and we're not we're not aware that we are so disconnected from reality

00:33:53.440 and now add knowing that your family burned to death in the house and you're a survivor they didn't survive there's a lot of survivors remorse going on with a lot of the people that i spoke with i mean glenn all of us have been through some kind of traumatic experience

00:34:09.940 not like that not like that and that's what a lot of the survivors were telling me they even said i don't know how to help my brothers or my sisters or my family or my friends that were there

00:34:20.920 and that's that's that is a problem and that's why they feel left that's why they feel left alone because they're so focused on helping each other and all the outside groups are saying well we'll give you this money we'll give you this and but they're not helping with the mental side of things they haven't even processed what they've been through and it's been almost a month

00:34:40.740 so you told me so you told me this last night live on the on the show and i just had this feeling that okay that's that's what we should do

00:34:48.900 um and so what i want to ask is if you are a doctor you're somebody who you deal in ptsd

00:35:00.340 uh emdr um any kind of trauma and that's your deal would you be willing to volunteer

00:35:10.440 uh to be a part of our team we'd like as many as possible to go over and and help them with mental

00:35:18.460 health we don't all we want them to see is people from the mainland that just love them and don't want 1.00

00:35:26.740 anything from them we just came because we love you and you're part of us not only the human family but the

00:35:34.540 american family and i i think i'm getting goosebumps when i say this i i think we can make a real

00:35:40.560 difference um in just the love quotient um uh to take this this tragedy and turn it into a an opportunity

00:35:49.000 to heal much more than just lahaina yeah there there is there was a moment quite a few moments when

00:35:54.960 the question that i would ask anyone that i was with was how are you doing and that's all that mattered

00:36:00.000 and they just would cry and tell me their story and their pain that they're going through and then

00:36:04.900 they would tell me about the suicides that have happened already and that they they don't want

00:36:08.760 anyone else to die you know it's amazing i remember on 9-11 i remember we went out that night we were in

00:36:20.200 uh tampa and i think you were probably there stew oh yeah we were together that night and that night we

00:36:25.460 went to outback outback steakhouse one of the weirdest dinners of all time ever it was so weird

00:36:32.400 and i remember we got into the parking lot and somebody was there and one of us just said to

00:36:38.500 that person like they were our old friends but we didn't know them and we said how you doing and we

00:36:46.600 sat and they may have cried i don't remember because it happened so often but we just saw each other

00:36:54.540 truly as brothers and sisters and we were all going through something yeah and it's uh it's really

00:37:01.000 important and they're they're not i mean can you imagine processing this and where am i going to have

00:37:08.600 my next meal where am i gonna where am i gonna sleep what about my clothing i don't have any documents

00:37:16.320 left i don't have any pictures of my family i've got nothing can you imagine just processing that

00:37:24.100 let alone what you probably saw and you know 10 10 years ago um where i'm from more oklahoma was

00:37:33.240 destroyed my my home my family were safe but everything was gone and within 12 hours you said

00:37:38.820 jp let's go and we went with one of our partners and mercury one and to see that firsthand it still

00:37:45.540 affects me and i wasn't even there to see my town destroyed but you know these these people are

00:37:52.840 seeing something i've never seen when i was there driving through it the first time sean foster who

00:37:58.080 was with me we were driving through we were shocked it it is it is gone it's ashes it's really i've never

00:38:05.640 experienced anything like this except for um when joe biden's no um except for the um the yellowstone

00:38:15.500 fires and i drove through right after the yellowstone fire and when when something has been made into

00:38:23.520 ash uh it is the power of fire is overwhelming and that was just you know trees and god forbid some

00:38:33.640 animals this is man man yeah yeah and these kids have seen things that no one should ever see

00:38:42.940 okay so we are looking for um doctors that are trained ptsd counseling emr emdr uh pastors

00:38:52.240 that have dealt in trauma we would love you to join our team um we'll set you up and and and get you

00:39:01.920 there if you would just do a few days and it's not a vacation right no um but uh uh please contact us

00:39:10.240 you can reach out to the email address is communications at mercury one o ne dot org

00:39:17.560 that's communications at mercury one dot org i know we do we have chad on i haven't talked to chad about

00:39:25.220 this have you i i ended i just got off the phone before i came in here so chad robichaud is uh just

00:39:30.700 fantastic he's with mighty oaks he helped uh or we helped him in uh afghanistan and and other places and

00:39:39.100 this is kind of what they do with people uh who are experiencing ptsd from being in battle overseas

00:39:47.220 chad hey glenn uh we're gonna find other ways to meet up but glad to be on i know every time we

00:39:55.060 see each other it's because there's something horrible that has happened uh yeah that's right

00:40:00.700 um so did jp get a chance to really explain this to you on what we want to do we want to send if

00:40:09.460 your team can spare anybody i know you're all over the world and still in afghanistan uh if if you can

00:40:16.960 spare anybody that really can help on the spiritual healing needs and the uh you know the uh the trauma

00:40:25.620 needs yeah you know jp and i talked and uh and i went right to our when this first kicked off you

00:40:32.920 know we my heart was right away like hey we have to get people out there and help and then you always

00:40:37.080 have the concern you know am i going to be in the way am i really need it uh you know you only clutter

00:40:42.280 the but but after talking to jp and talking to other people in the ground there there's a massive need

00:40:47.380 for people to come in uh volunteers to come in and just be with people pray with people uh help

00:40:53.080 give people some uh some insights on you know how to move forward and so you know mighty oaks has

00:40:58.000 done that all over the world we do that for our troops here and and uh we've done that in partnership

00:41:02.040 with with you and afghanistan and in ukraine i have teams still working afghanistan and ukraine right

00:41:06.960 now but as we assess this we we uh we certainly have the bandwidth to do it with something we're

00:41:12.000 willing to take on and feel obligated to take on uh this is our country and our fellow people and

00:41:16.620 uh our fellow countrymen and and uh you know hawaii is not some far off land it's

00:41:21.600 no it's ours and uh we want we want to we want to go and help chad yes uh tell jp that we're in

00:41:27.660 okay um let me ask you can can you give us something out of all the tragedy that you're

00:41:34.320 involved in all over the world give me something today that i can chew on all day and go wow that

00:41:40.260 is really good to know give me something good i mean i mean i think through the tragedy uh around

00:41:49.000 the world especially i think what i've seen it most is in ukraine where you're seeing people that

00:41:52.840 literally lost everything just like the people in hawaii um you see people at their you know most

00:41:57.760 vulnerable time and in their weakest moment uh find a hope that they never found before find strength

00:42:02.440 and resiliency they never found before and the way they find that is through community i think in um

00:42:07.100 in most cases people in america especially but all over the world we're getting busy lives and we

00:42:12.380 we live our independent lives and we we kind of don't wave at our neighbors and and uh when crisis

00:42:17.940 happens i guess people come together and lock arms and uh and it's actually a beautiful thing i was in a

00:42:23.500 place called kharkiv ukraine in a in a bunker with 300 people and uh and most of them had lost family

00:42:30.160 members they lost their homes they lost their everything and uh and i woke up in the morning and they

00:42:34.840 asked them to come down come out from the bunker and to be with them in this large open area they

00:42:39.020 had they had 300 people in there all singing praise and worship uh and these aren't people that normally

00:42:47.560 would you know church attenders or whatever they're just worshiping god people that lost everything and

00:42:51.500 it just like took me back like how could these people be it really just convicted me because i'm like

00:42:57.020 how could these people be so joyous right now in such a the hardest moment of their life and they lost

00:43:01.900 family members and everything and it's just people coming together uh finding hope and locking arms

00:43:06.900 and supporting each other and being there for each other and you know i think in those moments and i

00:43:10.900 know you're asking for volunteers and some people may be thinking like how do i even help what do i say

00:43:15.080 and i was in that moment in ukraine i'm like they wanted me to get up and talking like what do i say

00:43:19.660 and the only thing i could say in that moment was i don't know what you're going through no one's

00:43:23.800 ever attacked besides 9-11 but no one's ever i never had to fight for my home and my family

00:43:28.260 um but all i can say is that we we care people care and we're here i'm right here i came here

00:43:35.160 to be with you from america to kharkiv and i'm here with you right now because to show you if

00:43:39.760 anything else that people care and uh you know if volunteers go out there sometimes you don't have

00:43:44.560 to have all the answers but you can just sit in front of someone and say i came here because i care

00:43:47.920 about you you're not alone in this i might not understand what you're going through but i'm here

00:43:52.620 with you and sometimes that's enough chad thank you

00:43:57.120 you

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