Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Missy Robertson & Carol Roth ｜ 3⧸16⧸23
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On today's show, we take the economic situation one step forward, we also talk about what Texas is doing on the border, and what Florida is doing with 18 other states to stop ESG. We also have Missy Robertson on who is telling an incredible story that she actually told on the Robertson's podcast that is on the Blaze, Unashamed. She was at a library with Kirk Cameron and OReilly Gaines and the library staff freaked out on them.
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Today's podcast, we take the economic situation one step forward.
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We also talk to you about what Texas is doing on the border and what Florida is now doing
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We also have Missy Robertson on, who is telling this incredible story that she actually told
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on the Robertson's podcast that's on the blaze, Unashamed.
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She was at a library with Kirk Cameron and O'Reilly Gaines, and the library staff freaked
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out on them, and it's, you know, more woke-ism, which, by the way, I start the podcast defining
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and an amazing woman talking about waking up and courage.
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You don't want to miss a second of today's podcast.
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American Giant would like to thank you for doing business with them.
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They started advertising with us in October of last year.
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I met with the company founder, Bayard Winthrop, and I told him about you and how you believe
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in American workers and American manufacturing.
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And he got to know you, and he started to advertise, did a few advertising things, and said the business
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And I've never had a client say, I want to do advertising, but I just, I want to do two
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One, I don't really want to sell them anything.
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I just want to say thank you for those that bought something.
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And then I want to remind people that we have to bring manufacturing back.
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And I'm like, okay, but you probably should sell some clothing as well.
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This guy is driven on his mission that we are better than we are behaving right now.
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And our country is not going to be able to come back unless we start using the resources
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Cottons grown in America, milled in America, cut and sewn here in America, assembled in
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Learn more about it at American-Giant.com slash Glenn.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Last night I did a program on the economy and I'm hoping that I'm not right on a couple
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Steve Forbes was watching the first 20 minutes and I said, so Steve, what did I get wrong?
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And then he started to spook me because he was like, well, no, you got the basics right
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But there is something that I said last night that I am still not sure I understand completely.
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I asked Carol Roth to look into it the way I understand it, the way it has been presented
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to me shows real, a real problem with, with the Fed and the Fed is so secretive.
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You know, you can't get, you can't get anything for five years.
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You can't see what they're doing for five years.
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So I'm not sure what all of this means, but Carol has looked into it and I've got a couple
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We have an update on the UCC bill that is going through your state house right now.
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Gosh, I can, I know I throw stuff at you and you're like, oh, the UCC bill.
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I know that this is stuff that I would never have talked to you about before because it's
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It defines digital money and that's a, a cryptocurrency from the central bank, not any other cryptocurrency.
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Carol Roth, who is the author of a new book called you will own nothing.
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It has been pushed back for a release date of July 11th.
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Yours, we, they make nice bookends comes out July 4th.
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If you want to get Carol's book, you can go to carolroth.com forward slash Glenn and learn
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all about the, the projects he has as well that will help you protect your wealth in the
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face of forces working to take away your economic freedom.
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Will you, Carol, can we start, can we start with that?
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What, what, what should people be doing right now?
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Because I'm starting to get the feeling this may not be over.
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I mean, I think on a personal basis, you want to be doubling down and diversifying your portfolio
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because there's forces coming at us, as you said, from everywhere.
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Talk to me about somebody who's never paid attention to their 401k.
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Well, I mean, obviously this is not financial advice and anything that you do should be based
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If you have one based on your own objectives and risk tolerance, that's the caveat because
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otherwise the government's going to come after Glenn and I for giving out financial advice.
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But I think that if you have all of your eggs in one basket, you're 100% exposed to stock
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or maybe, you know, you've never trusted the market.
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So you have all of your money sitting in the mattress.
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You want to make sure that you have things in different form factors.
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Certainly, if you have a home or if you have the opportunity to buy some land, that's a great
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If you have the opportunity to diversify with some physical metals, not, you know, an ETF,
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but physical metals, gold, silver, et cetera, that's a good thing.
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Having some exposure to less risky bonds, although less risky these days means, you know, all
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And making sure that you have, you know, kind of the basics, you know, prepped to be able
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to get through a difficult period is a good thing.
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So it's really important that you have that level of diversification because, A, we don't
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know, you know, where the issue is going to come from first.
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And I think that's the most important thing is that, you know, we see the trajectory that's
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happening, but we don't know if this is something that's going to happen within six months or
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if this takes, you know, a full 10 or 15 years to undo itself.
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But there are all kinds of things that can happen in the meantime.
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So you want to make sure that you have both the opportunity for capital appreciation, especially
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since they are decreasing the purchasing power of your dollar and you want to make sure that
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you're keeping pace with inflation and not losing out, but also focusing on capital
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preservations, form factors that you can control in terms of your wealth so that, you know, you're
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not SOL, so to speak, you know, dependent on the situation.
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That's the best thing you can do right now is really diversify.
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They had to run to their central bank to get $54 million or billion dollars.
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And then I haven't heard boo about Deutsche Bank, which is always, I mean, in good times,
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And then there's also First Republic, too, that's, you know, in the mix today.
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So there's all different, all kinds of fun afoot in the global banking system.
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And, you know, to be fair, Credit Suisse has been just a mess for a long time.
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I think their 2022 fiscal report showed that they lost something on the order equivalent
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So this is not a bank that's known for being particularly well run.
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They've gotten caught up in all kinds of scandals and messes.
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I don't know if you remember, I think it was 2021, there was a hedge fund, Bill Wang's hedge
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And there were all different kinds of big banks that were involved.
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And oh, by the way, the smart banks all got out of that really early and had almost no
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And one of the banks that was left holding the bag was Credit Suisse.
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I think that their exposure that they said at the time was up to something like $5.5 billion.
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So this is a bank that's had all kinds of issues.
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We didn't have these problems when I was growing up.
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It did the when the banks were allowed to become stockbrokers at the same time they're
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Shouldn't we separate these banks from stock houses or, I mean, investment houses?
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So this actually happened while I was an investment banker.
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I worked for a really great investment bank that once this key provision of Glass-Steagall
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that separated investment banks from the banking system was repealed in the Clinton years,
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And we got gobbled up first by Nations Bank, and then they merged with Bank of America.
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So I went through this, you know, kind of on a real-time basis.
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So I think there's sort of two different aspects to it.
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We know that more consolidation creates more systemic risk.
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If you have things spread out, they may happen more frequently, but they're smaller in nature.
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When you consolidate things together, then that creates too big to fail in a real situation.
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You know, so I think that that's kind of the issue.
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And then the other one is just the financialization of everything.
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If you think about what's happened over the last decades, you know, with derivative products
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and more risks and the, you know, the finance on top of finance, the system has really become
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very bastardized and has gotten away from kind of the core of what it was meant to do.
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And if you look at the United States in terms of, you know, our GDP, what is our biggest industry?
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21% of our GDP is financial services, including insurance.
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So, you know, there's been a good side to that, but there's also obviously been a lot of problems.
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So, Carl Icahn said, what, yesterday, day before, and there's a few people that are saying this,
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that the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank is really the moment that we are no longer a free market,
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I mean, the moment that we stopped being a capitalist system was back, you know, on Black
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Monday when the Fed stepped in and decided that they were going to be able to support the
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And that accelerated, you know, with abandon during the Great Recession financial crisis.
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I mean, up until that point, we never had the Fed interfere in the markets, you know,
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It wasn't when, as I said, when I was growing up as a now recovering investment banker, but
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back at the time, like, we never paid attention to what the Fed did.
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It was like a mechanism of, you know, of the markets.
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Now, you know, that's the God center of the market.
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Are we letting a handful of people play God with the economy?
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And they're not doing a very good job, by the way.
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So the idea that these people who have benefited from nearly 15 years of low interest rate policy
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and easy money that has transferred money from Main Street to Wall Street now think that,
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you know, somebody getting their payroll and not having that blown up is the end of capitalism
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is really, really, you know, kind of distasteful.
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Let me just, I want to touch on the Fed thing, the question that I had, but
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I think it's so geeky that really, is it something to worry about?
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Is it anything to worry about what I shared with you on the Fed?
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So, I mean, I think it's just derivative of the fact that the Fed has become something to worry about.
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Their role has grown into something, you know, it's kind of like Dr. Frankenstein,
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And the powers that they have, you know, are just completely screwing up
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and creating all these ripple effects that clearly either they can't see or they want to have happen.
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And either way, the outcome is not great for the average American.
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Okay, I want to switch and talk about the Uniform Commercial Code.
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And I have talked to legislators all over the country,
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and they say they have never seen coordinated pushback, even on ESG like this.
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Because they said there is just massive power and money behind this, trying to convince everybody,
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Are you up on it enough to be able to talk about it?
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In terms of, and I'm not a lawyer, I don't even play one on Glenn Beck's program.
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But what I do know is in order for us to have a central bank digital currency,
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So the more things that we have that start to change the definition of what money is
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and put that on a path to be stuck in the back of some bill
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and for nobody to know that this has happened is a really scary thing.
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And while, as I said, I cannot interpret the legal language
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because I don't have that expertise to say, would that count?
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And it's blocking the way for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.
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It will not be considered money, only the central bank digital currency.
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And I don't know if you saw last night's show with Steve Forbes,
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but he was, I mean, very animated on cryptocurrency from the federal government.
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He's, he agreed with what you and I talked about yesterday, end of freedom, full stop.
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And let's also talk about, first of all, love Steve Forbes, long time good friend.
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But here's the interesting thing is that a digital currency from the Fed
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actually isn't a cryptocurrency because a cryptocurrency's key property is decentralization
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and a digital dollar is full centralization, the full taking of your freedom.
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Let's just confuse everybody and let them think, oh, this is a crypto.
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The whole reason and purpose that people are into crypto is because they do not trust government
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fiat currency and they want to have that decentralization.
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The digital dollar is, even though it may live on a blockchain, it may use some of the
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And it means the government will have absolute control of everything that you do because they
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And if they control your money, they control you.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Would you lose hope if I said, what if Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump can't save us?
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If you lose hope after hearing those words, your hope is misplaced.
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We at the last minute when all seems lost, we finally get it and go, oh, and we pull together.
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Now, they've done everything they can to make sure that we we don't stay together.
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But I have a sneaking suspicion that coalition that they have built is falling apart.
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A letter to mainstream straddler live not by half lies by Margaret Anna Alice.
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You don't want to be called a conspiracy theorist.
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You don't want to be tarred as an anti-vaxxer, a science denier, far right wing extremist.
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You have your reputation to protect your credibility, your grant funding.
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And the philanthropists, the tyrants, the big liars, the enablers continue to profit, continue to conspire, continue to torture, continue to slaughter.
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They'll tell you right to your face what they're doing.
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But if you then turn around and quote them, you're the crazy one.
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If you ask why a child, a teen, an athlete, other healthy adults suddenly had a heart attack or got turbo cancer or died, you are the truly disgusting one.
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If you provide scientific evidence that a warp speed experimental injection being peddled by a trillion dollar industry in collusion with governments, federal agencies, the media and big tech might be dangerous.
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You, not the corporations raking in billions, are the grifter.
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If you ask what's causing the sudden deaths and injuries that began surging in 2021 in hopes of preventing future such tragedies, you're just morally reprehensible.
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You point out that maybe we should think twice about pushing a product, you know, estimated to have killed 13 million human beings and counting.
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Well, you're the major killing force globally and guilty of undermining public confidence.
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If you call genocide, genocide, you're the enemy, the misinformation spreader, the anti-Semite.
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If you dare point out never again is already happening, you get inquisitioned, even though the Holocaust survivors and their relatives agree with you.
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You know you're living in a world of lies when the mob is more enraged at the whistleblowers revealing the deceptions, corruption and murder than they are at the lying liars,
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the corrupt corruptors, the corrupt corruptors, the murdering murderers themselves.
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Snowden said, when exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you're being ruled by criminals.
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Once you start calling, once they start calling you those hideous names, you realize they're nothing more than magicians smoke.
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You gradually start to give fewer and fewer craps about things.
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You know you've hit zero when you feel the exhilarating liberation that comes from shouting the unfettered truth.
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That's the words can never hurt you stage and you become untouchable and you start collecting libels like purple hearts.
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And the more scars you can count, the more evidence of your efficacy, your threat to the hegemony.
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That's when you can truly live and by truth, not by lies.
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If enough of us stand up and do that, we can hold the perpetrators accountable and we can find justice.
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Once you're living in alignment with your values, you'll feel the deepest joy fathomable.
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And when COVID criminals have been found guilty, when the spells dissolve, the people will gradually awaken from their coma and recognize you for the hero you are.
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Most will be too ashamed to admit that they were conned, to realize they shielded fascist tyrants and attacked those trying to rescue them.
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Few find that courageous humility within themselves to acknowledge their complicity in totalitarianism.
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And so they will swathe themselves in soothing denial and lash out to anyone who tries to puncture it.
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But you will keep trying anyway, because that is what truth-tellers do.
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Your words will remain like candles lighting the path for future truth-droppers.
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I read that a couple of weeks ago, and I said to my staff, I need to talk to this woman.
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Her name is Margaret Anna Alice, and she's on the program with us now.
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Thank you so much for that enthusiastic greeting.
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You know, I saw a bio of you and who you admire and look up to as heroes, and there are many of the same people that I look up to.
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And Stolas Nietzsche, and this just screams Stolas Nietzsche to me.
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Well, that was quite an honor when I heard you say that.
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Well, actually, it's been almost two years since I started it.
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And I just, I started it with a piece called A Primer for the Propagandized, Fear is the Mind Killer.
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And I had, you know, from the beginning of the COVID scandemic or whatever you want to call it,
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it was quite obvious that the propaganda was being used to psychologically manipulate people,
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you know, create a state of fear and panic so people would obey and essentially following Biderman's chart of coercion,
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And so, I was initially attempting to sort of wake people up to this fact by reaching out through,
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you know, online, local communities, next door, things like that.
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And I eventually found that the censorship was so extreme, it was basically impossible to share any references.
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You know, as soon as I'd post a comment, if I had a link in there to substantiating evidence,
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And so, I had, somebody had posted something at Nextdoor that basically said, you know,
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these masks are not about health, they're about fear and obedience and obedience training, essentially.
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And so, I wrote a pretty lengthy comment in response to that.
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And by the time I was getting ready to post it, that post had been disappeared.
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And so, I read it to my husband and he said, you know, you should submit that to Off Guardian.
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And so, I thought, okay, well, I need a place to house it.
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And I'd been thinking about creating a substack anyway.
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So, just in an afternoon, just threw together a substack, published that piece,
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submitted it to Off Guardian, and kind of forgot about it for a couple of weeks.
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And then Kit Knightley got back to me and said that they would love to publish it.
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And then that sort of kicked off my publishing career in a way.
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You're obviously extraordinarily bright and well-read.
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You obviously know philosophy and history really, really well.
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Well, from my readership, you know, very enthusiastic, extremely appreciative.
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One of the things you probably notice that I do a lot is essentially,
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I provide substantiating evidence for practically every word.
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And that way, if anybody questions it or wants to explore more on their own,
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I've created basically all these rabbit holes that people can go down.
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Some people find it irritating, which I understand.
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You know, I have to tell you, you know, the letter to the mainstream straddler that I just read.
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It has a lot of things I had to cut out for time.
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But it has a lot of things like Wampeter that I had never heard before.
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And so, I was only annoyed because your one article took up about an hour of my time
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before I realized, wait a minute, I've got a life.
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Well, when I started my sub-stack, my mission I articulated as I want to awaken the sleeping
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before tyranny, well, actually, I should say unmasked totalitarianism and awaken the sleeping
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And that's still, you know, part of my goal, part of my mission.
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But what I've found is in my many attempts to awaken the sleeping, it is quite an arduous
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And so, you know, I launched my letter series with a piece called Letter to a Covidian.
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And, you know, I'm basically trying to confront the people with their hypocrisy, their discrimination,
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the fact that they allowed themselves to be manipulated into becoming hateful, fearful
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And, you know, it is difficult when people are sort of in a state of fear, they're panicked,
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and they're just clinging to these easy solutions and safety.
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And Laura Dodsworth wrote a great book called A State of Fear that documents the psychological
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manipulation techniques that were used specifically in the UK.
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But anyway, so part of my mission has evolved in that I am reaching so many fellow dissidents
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And so, really, it's been about nurturing this really rich community of brave, brilliant,
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And so, it's been very gratifying in that sense as well.
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May I ask you, because the global reach, when I have spoken to people from different countries,
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and I look at who's listening to my broadcasts, and I'll find them everywhere that you would
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And it kind of gives me hope, because I believe it's, this is not an American problem.
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This is why there are demonstrations all over the world, because people know it's the elite
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You mentioned if your hope is in Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis, your hope is in the wrong place.
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And one of my recurring themes is that it is we the people against they.
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And so, that's one of the reasons I wrote, I have a Profiles in Courage series, and I did
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a piece on the Canadian trucker protests, who, of course, they were vilified in the media,
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But I spent, you know, a great deal of time just listening to the stories of the people
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over there, just kind of playing live streams in the background.
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And there was just this upflowing of joy and emotional connection with one another.
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And you see when ordinary people get together in a spirit of peaceful love and clients, that is where
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I was going to say to you a minute ago, when you were talking about, you know, you're trying
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to get people out of the darkness and how they just are unwilling to go, fear and hatred
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And they cannot be disabled with more fear or hatred.
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And that's hard to convince people who keep feeling like a stick in the head or a stick
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And you kind of have some righteous indignation.
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And I will say, in arguing with COVIDians, it has been a test of my patience.
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Maintain my composure and be compassionate toward them.
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And I do a rolling interview series called Dissident Dialogues.
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And I call them rolling because as I work through the questions, I publish them one at a time
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And then when it's completed, I make it available to the public.
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But right now, I'm engaged in one with Meredith Miller, who is a holistic coach.
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And I have found her insights into the psyche of what is occurring absolutely fascinating.
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And I've been studying this, been writing about it for three years.
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And of course, I've been studying these topics for many more years before this.
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But she articulates it in such a way that really helped me understand it from the perspective
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of these victims of this psychological manipulation.
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So, for example, you know, she sees them as victims of narcissistic, emotional, psychological
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And she calls it a psycho-neuro-spiritual state of captivity.
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And so, if you think of them as being like abused partners in a, you know, an unhealthy
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relationship, and they have Stockholm Syndrome, they are defending their captors.
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And so, anyone who tries to get them rescued from that situation before they are ready, they're
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And so, Meredith basically said they have to be the ones who make, they have to have this
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moment, this epiphany, this moment of disruptive truth that helps them break through and recognize
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that they're being abused, and that those of us who are outside trying to wrest them from that abuse.
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Once they wake up, and, you know, she said, my sub stack is extremely valuable for people when they are
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awakening, because they're thirsty for that truth and that evidence to support their newfound
00:32:40.760
Margaret, I would love to continue our conversation.
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I'm going to become a paid subscriber of your sub stack.
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I think you're amazing, and I hope you don't mind.
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So, I was writing a story today about Duck Dynasty star Missy Robertson, and she was out with Kirk Cameron.
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They were doing a book event at a library in Tennessee, Hendersonville, which doesn't sound like a huge
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metropolis, but they were doing it at the public library, and they had real problems.
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I mean, the thing almost didn't happen, and as I'm reading this story, I thought, I got to call Missy and just ask her
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The latest is Because You're My Family, and she was out with Kirk Cameron.
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So, you know, if you're watching your podcast or your show on Blaze TV or on YouTube, you
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Actually, when I came home from that trip, I told my husband, Jace, who's one of the talent
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on Unashamed, with Phil and Jace Robertson on Blaze TV, I said, can I be on your podcast
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They want me to be on there, and I'm either too busy or uninterested to be on there with
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But so when I said, I need to talk about something on the podcast, it kind of shocked him, and
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he just said yes immediately, which was really funny.
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I said, you don't even know what I want to talk about.
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But what had happened was literally the day before, and I was in Tennessee with my children.
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Most of my children and both of my grandbabies live in the Nashville area, and I was spending
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And Brave Books reached out to me and said, hey, you know, Kirk's going to be on his library
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tour in Hendersonville, which is not too far from where my children are.
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Kind of wish I thought of that, to do a library tour.
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So that morning, I was not privy to a lot of the pushback that had been going on.
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So I kind of walked in a little deer in the headlights, I think, to use a southern term.
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But that morning was actually really cold, and it had been warm and beautiful all week.
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That morning was like 41 degrees, raining and freezing.
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And when I got there almost two hours before it opened, there was already a line formed
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So I thought, okay, I can't really believe that they're coming out for this little library
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Even my children backed out at the last minute because our babies are little.
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So as the morning went on, the lines got longer, and Braves wanted to do some little promos
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about our books inside this beautiful, I'm going to state this, this beautiful, multi-level,
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beautiful, gorgeous library with tons of windows inside was like, just really massive for a
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And so the depth of the library behind us was just such a great, beautiful place to do some
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And was just kind of snuck up on when I realized that people started making noise in the closed
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And I realized over the next few minutes that it was being done on purpose to distract from
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what we were trying to do is make these videos, just promoting, just promoting these books.
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And these books, what's so silly is these books are about unconditional love of family,
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forgiveness, the fruits of the spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness,
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These are kind of ironic when you think about some of the things that we're trying to push.
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They said that we're trying to push on children and their families.
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So let me ask you, why didn't you just ask the librarian to do what all librarians do and
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But again, like I said before, I wasn't really sure what was going on.
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And I, you know, being in reality TV, we're not on sets anywhere.
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And so I thought, you know, maybe people, we're in their environment.
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We're trying to do something, you know, so can we ask them nicely to, you know, be quiet?
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Like, shh, I think Kirk said, it's a library, shh, you know, like, ha ha.
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And we realized there was a moment where I thought something is wrong when one of the
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brave team asked the director who was coming kind of out into the open.
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And he said, hey, can you ask your staff to hold it down?
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Like, I start thinking about, are we doing something we're not supposed to do?
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So, and brave, just look, the brave team just looked at me and was like, we're fine.
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So, did they, the lady behind the, this is what you said on Unashamed, the lady at the
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front desk of the library said, we're just trying to look for things to deal with our
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Yes, that's, that was, I think, the actual moment where it confirmed in my mind.
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And really, look, I'm like, am I, I'm just sitting there thinking that everyone, we're
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So, this was really hard for me to wrap my brain around, that someone was trying to thwart
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And so, when she said that, after Riley, you know, Riley Gaines was also there reading for
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She said, I grew up five minutes from this library.
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So, I started to think about what would happen if, you know, our little West Monroe Library,
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West Monroe, Louisiana Library, if some of the people were acting like that against someone
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that I had invited, or was invited to my hometown library, I would be embarrassed.
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And I think, you know, she took it upon herself to kind of march over there and say, look, we're
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Can you not turn off the music that you're blaring?
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And she said that she didn't think she had the authority to make that decision to turn
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So, I mean, nothing is probably going to happen to these people.
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I don't know if you fired a, you know, or filed a complaint.
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But this actually started with the brave book people because they wanted to turn Kirk down.
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They are so sweet, the ones that we were reading, especially that day, to all of these
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And I'm so proud of this book and for Kirk's book because they're biblical values without,
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you know, basically shoving verses down children's throats is what I think some of the quotes
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And it's a partnership that the authors have with brave books.
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And so, and like my book is about unconditional love and forgiveness of family.
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And I loved when I talk about it to speak about how the Father in heaven and Jesus who created
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That there is nothing in the world that we will ever do to make him stop loving us.
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There are consequences to our behavior, but he will never stop loving us.
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And it mirrors with our own children and parenting.
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Isn't it amazing, Missy, how the world is so upside down that that is considered evil indoctrination?
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And I don't get angry a lot because I feel like the older I get and the more my relationship
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with my creator grows, the more I love him and appreciate his sacrifice for me.
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And the more I understand why he loves me so much, especially now that I have grandbabies.
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I have two generations of children behind me that I love unconditionally and would do anything
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And I want everyone to experience that relationship like I have with him.
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And so now, you know, there have been consequences to that library and to their staff's behavior.
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I got a text from Kirk last night, actually, telling me that the library director was fired.
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And so I don't have a lot of confirmation of that.
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I told Jace, my husband last night, I said, when I told him, he said, good.
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And I thought, I mean, it is good, but we don't wish ill on anyone.
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I feel like they do on us, but we really don't wish ill on anyone.
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But we have to stand up for what they are trying to do with our children and our grandchildren.
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And now I've got two brand new grandbabies that my children are having to make decisions
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on where to put them in school, if they're even going to go to a school.
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It's a very difficult situation for them, and I do not envy them.
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We're going to support them 100% in whatever decision they make, but they're really taking
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And I'm afraid that if we don't, we're going to lose a lot of our children.
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Oh, we already have, unfortunately, because we didn't speak up.
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And, you know, you said, you know, the stronger I am with the Lord, you've just experienced
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And I'll tell you, the stronger I become in the Lord, I find myself in those situations
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You just, you're like, what kind of suffering did you go through or are you going through?
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You know, that's what led me to want to talk about this.
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We have a place there close to my kids, and my son Cole was there, and he's my peacemaking,
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And he was like, Mom, you need to talk about this.
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Yeah, there's a, you know, people think that if you're loving and you're following in the
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footsteps of Christ that you're just never going to, you know, say anything.
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It's standing firm in the truth with compassion to other people, but that doesn't mean you
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You cannot live your life quiet, especially in this world.
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If you are not an enemy of evil, then you're really nothing.
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You know, and Riley, Riley was amazing what she did.
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She was like, this is not happening, and walked over there and was not unkind at all, but very
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I started videoing with my own phone, because I thought, is this really, this is happening.
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This is what I've been seeing on the news happening from coast to coast, but not here in the middle,
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This is not happening in our little hometowns, but it is.
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And we, we so appreciate Unashamed, uh, and, and all of your work.