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Glenn Beck explains why seeing the world may not be so good for you, and why you should stay home. Also, a new data breach, and Stephen Crowder's apology tour. And a story about a man who feels guilty about traveling the world with his family.
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Hey, podcasters, it's Glenn Beck, Stuber here, and we're here with our podcast, which is why you're here, and it's a good one.
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For Tuesday, we had the sad story of a man's struggle to travel.
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Now, he's a travel guide guy, but he feels very guilty, very guilty of traveling the world with his family.
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Can you imagine living this guy's life? The tortured existence.
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Hell. Also, Camilla's wink that she gave to the press yesterday behind the back of Donald Trump and the Washington Post.
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What does it mean? I think I know, and we'll talk about that.
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Also, we have Stephen Crowder's apology tour, a little bit on that, and Venezuela and the U.S.
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Yes, Venezuela has collapsed in a spectacular fashion, but did you know that in some places in America, it's worse than in Venezuela?
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Well, we get to all that and so much more here on the podcast.
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And we talked a little bit about Stephen Crowder's apology for the just horrible things he's done to people over the years.
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You have to watch on YouTube if you haven't seen it.
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You also get Stephen Crowder's show all the time, all the back episodes and everything, on blazetv.com slash Glenn.
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You should do that because people are being targeted. Stephen's being targeted right now on YouTube.
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And these venues are going away for conservatives, but not the Blaze.
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So blazetv.com slash Glenn. Promo code Glenn. Here's the podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Home Title Lock says there has been a new breach of 900 million homeowners files, but it's only 900 million.
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It's only, you know, like three times the population of the United States.
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If seeing the world helps ruin it, shouldn't we stay home?
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To a lot of people who like to travel, these are morally bewildering times.
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Something that seemed like pure escape and adventure has become a double-edged, harmful epitome of selfish consumption.
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Going someplace far away, we now know, is the biggest single action a private citizen can take to worsen climate change.
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One seat on a flight from New York to Los Angeles effectively adds months' worth of human-generated carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
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how much is that one vacation really hurting anyone or anything?
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But it turns out that there are ways to quantify your impact on the planet, at least roughly.
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In 2016, two climatologists published a paper in the prestigious Journal of Science showing a direct relationship between carbon emissions and the melting of the Arctic Icy.
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A square feet of Arctic summer sea ice cover that one passenger's share of emission melts on a 2,500-mile flight.
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Each additional metric ton of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent,
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your share of the emissions on a cross-country flight one way from New York to Los Angeles,
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shrinks the summer sea ice cover by three square meters.
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flew from New York to Miami for what seemed like a,
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But the online carbon calculator tells me that our seats generated
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the equivalent of 2.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
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Throw in another quarter ton for the 600 miles of driving we squeezed in,
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and a heated pool at the funky trailer park Airbnb,
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and the bill comes up to be about 90 square feet of Arctic ice.
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I pictured myself standing on a pickup truck-sized sheet of ice
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as it broke apart and plunged me into frigid waters.
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the average American causes his or her greenhouse gas emissions
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to create serious suffering and or deaths of two future people.
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going for that Sunday drive has the expected effect of ruining someone's afternoon.
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Multiply that joyride by a three-person Florida vacation,
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Something to ponder while soaking up the UV-drenched rays
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I'd like to be able to tell you that knowing what I've learned
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we're going to Greece with a stopover in Paris.
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enough to melt a small apartment-sized piece of the Arctic.
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we canceled a vacation to come home and watch our dog die.
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he's torturing himself over whether he's going to go travel somewhere
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they're going to buy enough offsets to capture the annual methane emissions
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and you kind of screw it into the back end of a cow.
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you just pull it out quickly and put the cap on.
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So I'm selling those at the Standing Rock Ranch.
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where we will capture all of that methane gas for you
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I wonder what 3,000 people flying from America.
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they go into that in the article that if you think a cruise is better than the
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They do calculate it for big cruise ships in there.
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I think I want to say it's three or four times as much.
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there's a difference between a plane and a ship.
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If you would like to help increase our carbon footprint,
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but then we're going to fire those engines up and we're going to sail to
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every great story of ancient world had just sailing into Greece,
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And then as if that's not a big enough carbon footprint,
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we're going to Jerusalem where we'll be meeting Bill O'Reilly and we're
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And we're going to head to a big outdoor theater.
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So your hot air will go directly into the atmosphere.
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Bill's carbon footprint of just him talking is enormous.
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they have a description in there about how these cruise ships decided to put
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scrubbers on the ends of their scrubbing bubbles.
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And they make everything better with the exhaust.
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And then now they found out that those are also creating problems
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And environmentalists are banning those all around the world,
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I didn't see it coming because they asked for these things and then they
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And of course they're reckoning the Kennedy's view of the sound.
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It was because paper bags were killing all the trees.
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somebody I know went to Shake Shack last night.
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But somebody I know went to Shake Shack last night and noticed that on
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And this person who is just evil thought to himself,
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why wouldn't you just take plastic straws and just write that on the
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If it doesn't come check with me in a hundred years.
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Because I will fix that problem in about a century.
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if we have the ability to have compostable plastic,
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The devil's just creation because it's just to,
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It's like you're frustrated with the paper straw.
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But it helps you back to the cave where you won't have any electricity at
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I went out to breakfast with my kids this weekend.
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you ever go to like a gelato shop and they always have the wooden
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like wood that like holds onto your lips and tongue as you take it
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They don't do the things that forks are supposed to do.
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this travel guy who's going to go to that place and write about it and
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the wonderful rustic nature of the wooden silverware.
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And then these people are going to continue to do it.
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do you know how many forests it takes to make this wooden silverware?
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it's you're like a hamster and you just keep going around in a wheel.
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She just turned around from the pool of reporters and just winked at them.
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I'm surprised that Harry was there because those people,
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he has said on record that people are a virus and that he wishes that he could come
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His quote about it being humans are a virus and he wanted to,
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he wanted to come back and end the virus or something like that.
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They're really nuts on the global warming thing,
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you see what sacrifices this woman has made in her life.
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you just end up hating them all except for her.
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the temptation to do that must have at times been extraordinary.
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Maybe she likes him and the rest of the family doesn't,
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person because she's been through a lot and she's what?
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And how long do they put up with a monarchy that just costs them money and doesn't really do anything?
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that transition seems like it would have been difficult to convince the king and queen of,
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Cause I don't understand their parliamentary system either.
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There's no way to tell what's going on over there.
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Why don't you just leave the ballots in the boxes?
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It's still a hell of a lot better than everywhere else.
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Well, we are in the middle of impeachment proceedings,
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No, but I mean, there are processes to make that shorter,
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obviously, but still, I mean, it doesn't happen, right?
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There's almost always a peaceful transition where, you know.
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He never steps down because people disagree with him on things.
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And I feel like it's one of those things where America has led the world
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out of, you know, tyranny, basically, in most cases.
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But, I mean, he's done a good job at basically leading the world out of
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tyranny, and then everyone gets past that level where they get rid of the
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worst stuff, and then they look at us, and they're like,
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Yeah, let's do the Britain thing because that's probably better.
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Do you guys remember Revolutionary War, British Empire, like,
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Like, we are, it's not, we didn't copyright it.
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When a vote comes up, you vote how you believe.
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You may have to go to some sort of a coalition government at some point.
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If anybody stops this nonsense of, it's only two parties, then change one of the parties, please.
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Everybody who likes the two-party system, can you just get into one party?
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And then we'll have another party that believes in freedom.
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Because right now we've got a two-party system, and they pretty much believe the same thing.
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One's just like, this one will kill you in ten minutes, and this one will take about five years.
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Okay, well, I guess I want to take the five-year one.
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I would just like to see everybody who's for, you know, the death of the republic.
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Let's have something that's like, hey, we want to live.
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We think there's some fundamental principles here that maybe we should go back to.
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I think we should just go back to this idea where the new elections thing is interesting,
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and we just instead schedule them for like every 60 minutes.
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So just every 60 minutes, a thing goes off on your phone, you vote for a new president.
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And we'll just keep constantly rotating these people in and out, because it seems like that's about as effective.
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We'll try a socialist for a while, and then he'll have to step down.
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Imagine the damage Bernie Sanders could do in 60 seconds.
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Well, Bernie could blow this whole thing up in 60 seconds.
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Did you see the show we did last night on Bernie?
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You just wanted to know if you just have known about it?
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It was part two of the Bernie Sanders expose on Who's on His Team.
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You're not paying for your subscription, are you?
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Oh, I probably paid more than anyone else for their damn subscription.
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So anyway, but last night we covered who the radicals are.
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By the way, I think we know now who the leader or one of the founding members of Occupy Wall Street is.
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Because, you know, she's just as, he has on his campaign roster all these people who have zero experience.
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But some of them have experience in, you know, coalitions and bringing people together to riot in the streets.
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But then there's this one woman who is, she's just a Fordham University sociology professor.
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She's done a couple of interviews and it's completely leaderless.
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But she explained exactly how all of it worked and the hand signals and everything else.
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It was almost like it was something like of her design.
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And then she, around 2010, went over for a big conference on the American Awakening at the University of Tehran.
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And she spoke as a spokesperson for Occupy Wall Street and talked about how bad America is and how important the Occupy Wall Street thing was.
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I mean, that's who's consulting with Bernie Sanders.
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Stephen Crowder, who is on the Blaze TV, and I have been a fan of Stephen's for, I don't know how long.
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We gave him, didn't we give him one of his first real big breaks, Stu?
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Yeah, he was at, I don't remember, I don't know.
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It was like the Minolta Theater in New York City.
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He did like a, he was there for that first event we did.
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You may not have, I think you knew, the FBI tried to shut that show down because we had death threats
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and they believed somebody in the audience had a gun and was going to kill me.
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And so they came and I said, I'm not shutting the show down.
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And they're like, Mr. Beck, we don't know who this is.
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And I said, but they very well may not be in the audience too, right?
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And I said, you're going to be able to tell who's in my audience and who is not, who's
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So anyway, I'll never forget, Stephen, we were having to delay the show because they
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were, I was getting a bulletproof vest on and being briefed by the FBI right before we
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And so we called Stephen in and said, hey, Stephen, you may have to stall for a few minutes.
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And he went, he looked at me in the bulletproof vest and went, what's going on?
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And I said, don't worry, they're not here to kill you.
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And I think that was, that was the first time, at least, I think that we had him do something
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And now he's on Blaze TV and he is, he's taken, he has taken the internet by storm.
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Uh, and it's because he's politically incorrect, but he's not a hater.
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If there's anything about Stephen, if you know him, he doesn't hate anybody.
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Um, or if he does, he hates them for good reasons, not for race reasons or anything else.
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You know, people sometimes can make you hate them.
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Um, but, uh, he has been in this argument now with this, this Vox reporter who identifies
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And, uh, so he, he has been doing, you know, uh, these, um, these anti-Steven Crowder things
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and Steven has responded with anti-gay wonk things and he has been mercilessly, um, uh,
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going after him in a comedic form to debunk what he's saying.
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Well, the gay wonk, who is actually not just with Vox, it's NBC universal, uh, wrote to
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We've had several coworkers reach out to, uh, YouTube and say, Hey, you know, we're getting
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He receives a personal email from, uh, YouTube saying, thank you so much for alerting.
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And in, in Steven Crowder's, uh, well, it's the reason why we like Steven Crowder.
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I, along with everyone here at Ladder with Crowder, I'm not above recognizing my mistakes
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So I'd like to take this opportunity to formally apologize to all parties involved.
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Firstly, my heartfelt apologies to practicing socialists offended by the Che Guevara socialism
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I know that we should fight bad ideas with good ideas and respectfully debate the merits,
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virtues, and shortcomings of socialism, as opposed to merely mocking it with a hysterical
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t-shirt available at ladderwithcreddershop.com.
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And my dear friend and esteemed colleague, Ben Shapiro, I sincerely apologize for implying
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And while I swear I meant greedy in a good way, I see now how it might have been misconstrued.
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I'd like to formally apologize to Vice President Joe Biden for stating that he is, quote,
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the kind of guy who would have his bachelor party hosted at a Chuck E. Cheese.
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To my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, I would like to apologize for the insinuation that
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his billable hours exceed those actually worked, as well as accusing him of covering hopper
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and dry rub in preparation for a Mongolian fusion barbecue.
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He went on and on, and there's much that we can't actually air, but you can see Ladder
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with Crowder on Blaze TV at blazetv.com slash Glenn, and use the promo code Glenn and save
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By the way, if you missed last night's show, in fact, we're going to have to do a recap
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If you missed last night's show on Joe Biden, you've got to go back and see it and share
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When I said on Fox that we're going to face a time where the socialists, the anarchists,
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the communists, and the Islamists will work together to destroy Israel,
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I said at the time, they're not going to be working together like calling each other
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up and working in the same office, just a different cubicle, but they are going to see
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that their purposes match, and they will coordinate without talking to each other.
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Well, I had to apologize myself last night, because I was wrong.
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They are working together, and they're all working together in the same office.
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And I showed you the people that are running Bernie Sanders' campaign, and strangely, none
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None of them really like Swedish socialism, which isn't socialism.
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That's a capitalist system that has a big social network.
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I think you're mistaken because Bernie Sanders' campaign released a video yesterday that
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described that what they want is not collectivization of government holding of the means of production.
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We're going to take a break, and then we'll come back, and we'll just kind of share with
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you some of the people on the Bernie Sanders campaign, the campaign manager, the person
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that does the grassroots outreach, the people who are writing the speeches and the messaging.
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And it's strange that that would be the messaging coming from these people, because we showed
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you last night on television, that's nothing, nothing like what they believe.
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Hey, it's Glenn, and I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day
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with or start your morning with, and that is the news and why it matters.
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If you like this show, you're going to love the news and why it matters.
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It's a bunch of us that all get together at the end of the day and just talk about the
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Look for it now wherever you download your favorite podcasts.
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There's a disturbing story about a couple in Idaho, a family that had to take their HOA
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to court over being discriminated against because of their faith.
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And the jury awarded them compensation and everything else.
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And the judge came back and overturned everything.
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And I don't know the last time that a judge came in and overturned the jury on a verdict.
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He is the deputy general counsel for First Liberty, and he is fighting this case for this family.
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First of all, Jeremy, tell me about what happened to the family.
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Yeah, well, Jeremy and Christy Morris had this celebration every year.
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They're one of these people that really like to decorate and celebrate Christmas, right?
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Think Clark Griswold, and you're pretty close to Jeremy Morris, right?
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And when I say decorated his house, I mean like every inch of the exterior has a light on it somewhere,
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And when people would stop by, they would invite them onto the driveway.
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And they would invite them to make a donation for children that were either homeless or were ill.
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And they actually ended up raising a lot of money for this.
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And then when they did, they alerted their HOA that they had read their covenants and said,
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it looks like we can just keep on doing this, want you to know we're going to go ahead and do that.
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And instead of just saying, no, you're not allowed to have any lights on the walls,
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they wrote back, and I'm going to quote from it.
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It says, this is from the president of the HOA.
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She says, I'm somewhat hesitant in bringing this up, the fact that some of our residents are non-Christians
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or of another faith, and I don't want to even think of the problems that that could bring up.
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And so they went on for years of litigation over this issue.
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The jury found in his favor, in Jeremy and Christie's favor, and said this was clear religious discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.
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But then a few months later, the judge was convinced to overturn and throw out that entire jury decision.
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And so we're appealing the case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals because no one should be punished for trying to spread a little Christmas cheer
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and raise money for abused or neglected children at Christmastime.
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And the reason for that is that when the judge gives the facts over to the jury, number one, don't forget our judicial system,
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our system of justice is based upon trial by jury.
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And so we respect the decisions of juries because that's what our system depends upon.
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But when the judge gives that over to the trier of fact, this case being the jury,
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unless there's like clearly erroneous or some significant problem that has arisen here,
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that they just simply could not arrive to a reasonable decision on things,
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the judge should leave that trier of facts decision completely alone and not remove it.
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Now, what we know is that in a motion before this hearing or before the trial went to take place,
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the judge looked at the arguments of both sides and says, look, this can clearly go to a jury.
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He says that just that letter itself from the HOA is enough for a reasonable jury to make a decision in favor of Mr.
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But then several months later, when he removed it from the jury, he said something completely different from that position.
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And that just is simply inconsistent for one thing, but I think it's very dangerous to our system of law.
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But we're going to bring this case entirely to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and ask them to look at this.
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Because, look, the jury recognized that there was a clear religious hostility by this HOA against their family.
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There was no good reason for a judge to overrule them.
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And that's the fact that he recognized in the motion leading up to the trial.
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So the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the most overturned in the country.
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We're not expecting the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to actually do anything right here, are we?
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Number one, don't forget that, thankfully, President Trump has been doing a lot of good work,
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and a lot of the work on judges has taken place in the Ninth Circuit.
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So you never know what panel of judges you're going to receive up there at the Ninth Circuit.
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But at the very least, I think regardless of what you may think about the Ninth Circuit, and much of that could be true,
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but at the very least, I think there's still a respect for the jury system in our country here, even in the Ninth Circuit,
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And when the judge himself recognizes that a reasonable jury could find a reasonable decision to support Mr. and Mrs. Morris...
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I mean, there's at least that obvious consistency there that I think even the Ninth Circuit can pay attention to
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and recognize that there was religious hostility at play here,
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and the jury should have been left alone to make that decision.
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Can you tell me, it seems very concerning on the surface.
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Well, I think the biggest problem that I see with the Equality Act right now
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is that there has been an active effort to ensure that there would be no accommodation for religious belief, behavior, or organizations within it.
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In other words, everyone would have to comply with it all, regardless of your religious convictions or your scruples that you may have.
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Whatever that may be, there's no way to exempt yourself from its requirements.
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And so this is a way to kind of get back at the decision that the Supreme Court made a year or two ago in the Masterpiece Cake Shop decision,
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where there was really clear hostility by the government.
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I mean, they compared Jack Phillips to Nazis, for goodness sakes, in that decision.
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But they're trying now, it seems, to force individuals to abide by an ideology that their religious beliefs simply don't support.
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And what the left and progressives find so difficult to imagine and conceive of is that people would actually have a moral disagreement.
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And here's the frightening thing, and that that would be okay, right?
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I mean, our system of government is set up, our system of free speech and religious liberty is set upon a premise to say,
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we're going to disagree with one another, and that's okay.
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We're going to provide the space for you and I to have differences of opinion and to express those loudly and, if necessary, strongly with one another,
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This Equality Act seems to go completely counter to that idea, and I hope it dies in the Senate like it's projected to do.
00:42:17.080
Jeremy, are you concerned that you are on the other side of Taylor Swift on this particular argument?
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Well, look, all I want to be is a wrecking ball to this particular act itself.
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And if I'm against Taylor Swift, I guess, aside from the, what, 15 to 18 demographic, I'm doing okay.
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I talked to a federal judge recently, and he's one of the good guys.
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And I said, so Donald Trump's making some real impact in the lower courts.
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And he said, yes, he said, but we are really, we're in trouble.
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He said, I get stuff across my bench all the time where the judge had no rhyme, reason,
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certainly nothing constitutional, not even law.
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And he said, that's starting to take a foothold in our judicial system.
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Well, look, you remember a couple years back, there was a big debate about outcomes-based education in this country,
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kind of teaching to the test and trying to develop certain outcomes, not only just educationally,
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but socially through that program, well, I think we're seeing the same basic thing arising now within the judicial system.
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In fact, I heard just recently someone give an interview that is in favor of packing the Supreme Court of the United States
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that we're not getting the right outcomes from the Supreme Court.
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Well, maybe you're getting the right outcomes that you just simply disagree with.
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But they're the right ones under the Constitution.
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And so, you know, we used to be a nation of laws, not of men, as it was famously said years ago.
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But what I'm thankful for is despite the many vacancies that we have had and currently have in the judicial system throughout the country,
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Senator McConnell and others and the president has to be commended that they are working through to get the right people there.
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There's a lot to be countering to here, given the last administration's appointment and confirmations there.
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But I think there's a there's a process that is developing itself that is going in the correct direction.
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So I I'm I'm I'm looking at all of these things and seeing how the courts are are there's some good movement and some bad movement.
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And I was talking to Mike Lee and asked him about what we what we know happened on Obamacare and John Roberts.
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And I think there's a case for impeachment on John Roberts because John Roberts is making that into a political body.
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It's not it's not a body that horse trades, is it?
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Well, there is at least there's all the talk about we don't know what happens behind those closed doors.
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And I suppose at some level, speaking colloquially, we may think that there is there is discussions and trying to convince each other.
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And look, we know that from the history of the Supreme Court, that people are writing dissents to try to move things in a direction that later on become part of the majority opinion.
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But that's different than horse trading, isn't it?
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Well, perhaps. And I'll let others speculate about what should happen to the chief and to the rest of the Supreme Court up there.
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What I know is that we've got enough cases either before the Supreme Court or below it to make good impacts on the law.
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I mean, right now we're waiting for a case to come down from the Supreme Court to protect a hundred year old veterans memorial.
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Number one, that shouldn't even be at the court.
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That should be a no brainer that just because a memorial happens to share the same shape as the gravestones of Europe for the men who died in World War I, a cross shaped veterans memorial, that's perfectly acceptable to be on public property.
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And yet we've got to go through the entire judicial system to get a final declaration to say it's OK for gold star mothers to erect a veterans memorial and honor their sons in the shape of a cross.
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Those cases I'm more concerned about that we have activist lawyers that are trying to reshape how we look at the Constitution and especially the establishment clause to the point where we're getting absolutely silly over these things where where you can't pass out a candy cane in fifth grade at Christmas time because someone might think of that piece of peppermint and sugar in the shape of a shepherd's crook would violate the establishment clause.
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If we're that scared of our own shadow, do we really have the religious liberty and the freedom of religion that the founding fathers wanted us to have in this country?
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Jeremy Dice, he is from First Liberty. You can follow First Liberty at firstliberty.org. You can get involved and help them fight.
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I don't think you guys don't charge your clients, do you?
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That's right. No, if we get the privilege of representing individuals in this country that have suffered a wrong, we don't think they should have to pay an attorney. So we're glad to be able to defend them for free.
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They did great work there. And also, you should know that Jeremy Dice is the nation's preeminent expert on Ernest Goes to Camp, which we learned the other day on News and Why It Matters.
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So if you ever have a, you know, if there's a lawsuit you want to reference from Ernest Goes to Camp in it, you should definitely go Jeremy's way.
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Absolutely. And don't forget, Ernest Day is coming up at Montgomery Bell State Park in Tennessee here in just a few short weeks, so there's still time for you to get out there and check it out.
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Jeremy Dice, thank you so much from firstliberty.org.
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He really brought that up in an argument and in a real case, Ernest Goes to Camp.
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And he made his extended analogy about how it proved his point. It was amazing.
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And then he's like, now, there's about five Ernest movies that are really good.
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And then he goes through, he lists five, and he's like, now there's about 14 others.
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I mean, this one, this one, this one, this one, those were terrible.
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But the core three or four are really excellent movies.