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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Billy Halliburton to discuss the latest updates on Iran, the ceasefire between Iran and the United States, and the latest from Pakistan and their defense minister. Plus, a discussion about aliens and UFOs.
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Today is Friday podcast, and it is it was a very fun show, especially with the insiders.
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But let me give you the let me give you the to go version here with the latest updates on Iran, the ceasefire and and kind of a continuation from yesterday.
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Really, you trust the prime minister of Pakistan?
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Let me give you the latest news from Pakistan and their defense minister, their Pete Hagseth.
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We've just been talking about going to space and everything else.
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And there is something weird that is happening.
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I mean, I think it's all misdirection myself, but I believe in aliens.
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I mean, I believe, I mean, what, again, as Carl Sagan said, if we're alone in this universe, what an enormous waste of space, but it's almost like, it's almost like they're going to announce something, you know, that's what it feels like.
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So Billy's the host of, uh, investigating the supernatural, uh, miracle, uh, miracles.
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Um, and, uh, I wanted to bring him on because he's been talking in, in this documentary.
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He has, uh, Hugh Ross, Lee Strobel, John Burke.
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They're all people who've been on this show talking about these things, but he's, he's
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honed them in and, uh, and, and really put together a, a really remarkable series here,
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a documentary and i want to play a clip from it when he sat up at the foot of the bed was this
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eight foot luminous angel that's when it began to realize there's a connection between demons
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don't we see in the ufo phenomena and on the last beat of my heart my spirit left my body
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is there a spiritual war going on around us are angels and demons real let's investigate
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In all ancient cultures, people believe in a spiritual wrong.
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And I was struck that all throughout history, the vast majority of cultures not only believed in evil spirits, but believed in possessions.
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For most of the world, the question isn't, is there a spiritual world?
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The question is, which spirit is the most powerful?
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But to say you believe in angels, demons, is oftentimes to expose you to ridicule, like you sound like somebody from the Middle Ages.
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Many scientists just write it all off saying, this is just people's imaginations, they're hallucinating, they're having dreams, none of this is real.
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And within a matter of minutes, a bomb went off.
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All of a sudden we hear this guttural sounding voice come out of her in the back.
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your mumbo-jumbo prayers will fail just like they always do and the one from the driver's
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side reached over and put his hands right in the middle of a flat spot and the one from the
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patch side did the same thing my heart started supernaturally no cpr no medicine what i uncovered
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changes everything um billy alowell is joining us now billy how are you i'm doing well how are you
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that's good to have you on good to have you on my friend um so it's it's it seems wonky
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uh they're not wonky it seems i don't know religious hickey i guess to talk about angels
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and demons but i absolutely believe them and i i i think most people believe in angels and demons
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in some form or another. What did you find that surprised you?
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Yeah, you know, I found a lot that surprised me. And let me tell you, we actually have new data
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that we're going to be putting out and I'll share it here first. We actually asked Americans what
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they believe on all these things. And the majority of the country, more than 50 percent, believe in
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angels, believe in demons, believe in all of these things. And it's interesting. What has
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surprised me the most is how mainstream this topic is, because it does feel wonky. It does
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feel difficult to talk about. And I think a lot of people have had experiences, which we also gauge
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in this research, you know, asking people, have they been spiritually attacked before? What does
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that look like? How do they respond to it? And, you know, so for me, the big surprise is, hey,
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you know what? We feel like we can't talk about this stuff, but most of us are intrigued and
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actually believe in it. And, you know, it's really crazy. I learned this as an alcoholic.
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when you try to hide because you think it's just you you um you miss so much uh connection
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and you miss solutions everywhere i mean i hid my alcoholism as most alcoholics do forever
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and when i when i came out and said publicly i'm an alcoholic i really thought it would be a
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shameful thing and the opposite happened people started to connect with me and saying hey i've
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got this problem. You know, I did these things and I'm really struggling with this. And you,
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you start to find strength in that. And I think that's why we are discouraged from talking about
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these things because we would find strength in the things that we believe we would find, um,
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new understandings if we were just open and talking about them.
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Absolutely. And, you know, I've, I've always loved how you've shared your journey, you know,
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publicly in that way because it helps so many people. And I think that's the same thing here
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because, I mean, think about this. There are people, and I can talk about some of the other
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things that really shocked me. I mean, the biggest thing is that there's a lot of evidence for angels
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and demons and obviously miracles. And if people want to check this out, they can go to cbn.com
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slash supernatural. But I'll tell you, you know, I went into all these stories thinking I'm going
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to uncover something that will tell me it's not true. There's got to be some other explanation,
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not because I don't believe in angels and demons. I'm a Christian. I believe in the Bible.
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But, you know, look, we can make claims all day long that we've had interactions with angels or demons or that we've been afflicted.
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I want evidence. And so I was shocked by the staggering amount of evidence that is there.
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But to your point, and we can dig into some of that, you know, I think that there's a real force that pushes us not to talk about it.
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Because here's the other thing. There's because of that evidence, it almost becomes apologetics.
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It almost becomes this tool. If you can prove that God is still moving, that miracles happen,
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that angels and demons are active, then that means there's a God. And that was shocking to me because
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I had never thought of these topics as being something that could close that loop and actually
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help bring people to faith. And one quick thing, and you know this story, I'm not going to name
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the people because people got very upset about it, but there was a prominent politician's son
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who was having a conversation with an apologist, and they're on the phone, and this guy's 19 years
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old, and the apologist is trying to get him to believe in Christianity, and he was throwing
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everything at this kid, right? Like, hey, this is the evidence for God, and none of it was really
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working until he said to this kid, hey, did you know that there are Muslims in the Middle East
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who wake up after having dreams of Jesus, he appears to them, and they become Christians,
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and like a light bulb went off for this kid, and I realized when I heard that story, for young
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people right now, this evidence, actually, this supernatural evidence, is the thing that could
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bring them over the line into faith because they've been so lied to for so long, so forced
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into this weird secular worldview that when you see something crazy that has evidence,
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I have to tell you, I think people feel it, at least I feel it more universally than I've
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I was speaking to a big group of people in Washington.
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um and you know somebody asked me uh about glenn how are so many of our friends so many people now
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on this path of such darkness of you know uh of anti-semitism and that's different than
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disagreeing with israel um but it's it's gotten some really dark and i said i i'm gonna say
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something maybe it's unpopular but i'm gonna tell you um i think god showed up after charlie
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was was killed and he used that and we saw miracles all over the world people finding god
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and going to church for the first time and everything else and for every action there is
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an equal and opposite reaction and i said i think what the darkness and the fog that people are in
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right now is evil it's from satan and it's we're watching good and evil angels and demons duke it
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out all around us right now, and we're just feeling the after effects. That battle is happening all
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around us right now, and if we're not aware of it, we could end up being on the wrong side
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really quickly. What do you think about that? I love what you just said. So these projects,
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Investigating the Supernatural, Angels and Demons in particular, has totally transformed my faith
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and the way I see things, because what you just said, it's Ephesians 6. And for those who don't
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know that, if you don't know the Bible, you don't know that, Ephesians 6, the Apostle Paul is
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talking about how we all think that we're in a battle between each other. It's Democrats versus
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Republicans. It's me versus you. It's everybody's fighting, and it's a flesh battle, right? We
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assume that's what's going on, but what's actually happening, and that doesn't mean we shouldn't get
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engaged in those arguments and have meaningful discussion. That's not the point. What's really
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happening is that there's a spiritual battle, good versus evil. We can't see it with our human
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eyes, but it's pouring over into the world in which we are living. And so when you see Charlie
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get assassinated, when you see these horrific things happen, even atheists will turn on their
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TV and say, that was evil. And so the question is, well, where does that evil come from, right?
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We know that what Ephesians 6 says is that that battle is going to impact us. And so I actually
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don't think, and I was pretty convicted of this after working on this film, that we can really
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understand fully what is happening in the world around us and in our individual lives if we don't
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understand that battle. And I will tell you, because back, you know, in 2012, when I started
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working for you at The Blaze and you would talk about all these things, I mean, you were ahead of
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everybody on a lot of these issues that we're experiencing right now. You know, I wasn't fully
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understanding what this battle meant and I get it now. And I think we've got to hone in on that
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because if we want to, if we have any hope of navigating and not ending up, because right now
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you and I both know there are people who are falling on the wrong side of a lot of these
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things. And I'm not going to name them, but they're out there and they're impacting a lot
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of people right now. And so we need to make sure people understand this. And this film really is
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a quest to do that. Not just in our, again, in our individual lives, because evil can affect us,
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but also in our politics and in our culture. So tell me, by the way, you can find the film at
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cbn.com slash supernatural um billy tell me how um aliens are are fitting into this
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i mean here's the thing you know how this is you're working on a film and this is well over
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a year ago we're having these conversations you know we're talking about angels and demons what
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are we going to do about aliens because this is a big at the time obviously disclosure was
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becoming a big conversation i had no idea we'd release this film in the middle of
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this massive conversation about aliens. What is happening right now? And look, there's a debate,
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and I'm not going to tell people what to think. There are people, even in Christian circles,
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and this film is for everybody, not just Christians, but who believe that aliens are
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very real and that they exist and that God created them. But there are also people like
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Hugh Ross, as you know, who would take a different view on this. They would take the view that it's
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not that people aren't seeing or experiencing aliens and UFOs. It's that the nature of what
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they are might not be what we think. And Hugh's position, and he was in the film, obviously,
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as you saw in the clip you shared, is that these are actually interdimensional demonic entities
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that are appearing to people. And he has a whole slew of thoughts about why that is the case. And
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I will tell you, they're compelling. Not everybody agrees with them. They are compelling. But here's
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the deal on the alien thing. About 10 years ago, a lot of us would have laughed at this, right?
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The fact that we would even be talking about it or having presidents and former presidents talk
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about it, we would think that was semi-ridiculous. And yet here we are, and I would encourage people
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not to laugh this off because a lot of Christians on the issue of evil have done a very bad job of
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addressing it because it feels weird, so we don't want to talk about it. And we've allowed secular
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culture to talk about evil more than churches are. That's why every Halloween you've got
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The Conjuring and all these movies coming out, Hollywood's owning this issue. We don't want the
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same thing to happen with aliens because this is not going away people are going to want answers
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and just like you said it feels like something big is about to drop and so what are you what is
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your response going to be to that and so the film you know dives into that you know from a perspective
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it's obviously hugh giving his perspective but i would encourage people figure out what you think
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on this issue because it's it's not going anywhere hey billy can i have you on again next week i want
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i want to have you on just about the alien thing because i have some thoughts on this and i would
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like to explore it with you a bit billy hollowell again the um uh the the film the documentary is
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investigating the supernatural miracles um and uh you can find it at cbn.com slash supernatural
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billy has been a longtime uh friend and co-worker and i have an awful lot of respect for him and i'm
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Hopefully I can squeeze you back in next week because I,
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I think you're right about exploring the supernatural and aliens.
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but I've never seen anything like this in my life before.
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I think we've seen a lot of crazy stuff happen.
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we're going to see crazy crazy things in our lifetime billy thank you so much we'll talk next
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week thank you appreciate it this is the best of the glenbeck program
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okay i want to bring jason and ricky in uh because i just want to have a couple of conversations
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just make sure that i'm i'm i'm getting these stories right because again two hours of sleep
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And I just want to make sure. So the prime minister of Pakistan is the guy who's doing
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the negotiations between us and Iran. And yesterday, as I said, when people said,
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no, Israel and Lebanon, that was included in a ceasefire. Our president said, no, it wasn't.
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i told you yesterday i don't believe benjamin netanyahu because they're operating on their own
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thing okay but i do believe the president and if i have to choose between what did the president say
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and what did the prime minister of pakistan say who i challenge you right now give me the name
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of the prime minister of pakistan you can't you trust somebody you can't even you don't even know
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his name and you trust him more and i said you know i think it's i think it's as an american
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we should trust our side first with full understanding they could be lying to us but
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it'll come out well it came out it came out um the defense minister of pakistan so this is you
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know our pete hay their pete hegseth imagine if you know donald trump was doing negotiations
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While peace talks are underway in Islamabad, genocide is being committed in Lebanon.
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I hope and pray people who created this cancerous state on Palestinian land can get rid of the
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European Jews that will burn in hell. Wow. Now he's fair. He seems like an honest broker, doesn't
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he? Congratulations for anybody who said, I side with Pakistan. I believe they have the best
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intentions. Do you, do you this for anybody who is believing Pakistan? I just want you to know
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what most of those people say. Well, I don't necessarily agree with that. You don't really
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because I'll bet you believe in some of that. Um, and more importantly, um,
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show me your friends and i will show you your future you are standing in a room with a lot
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of people that believe that kind of stuff and by the way that's not just clearly i mean you look
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up anti-semitism in any dictionary and i think that's the passage that's the definition of
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anti-Semitism. But more importantly, in this case, if you're standing with these guys and you choose
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to believe these guys over the president of the United States, it's just absolutely
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anti-American. It's anti-American. You don't have to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu. I told you
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yesterday, just said it a minute ago, they're on a different path. They're doing what they think.
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They think that they are going to be wiped out by the 12ers, the Shia 12ers in Iran.
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That's the way I would read it if I lived over in the Middle East.
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But you don't have to agree because, you know, you're next, but you're not first.
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So you can, you have the time and the privilege to say, well, they're not coming after us.
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you don't have to side with them but israel is evil and a curse for humanity uh bloodletting
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continues unbated i hope and pray the people who created this cancerous state on palestinian land
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get rid of all european jews they burn in hell wow wow jason uh any perspective on this well
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Well, yes. I mean, I just looked up in one of our copies, we have an encyclopedia Britannica here in the control room, and it actually says under the heading of neutral arbiter of peace that you must use words like burn in hell when talking to some part of the negotiation.
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One of the people at your negotiating table that is sitting there, it's required for you to be neutral to say that person is evil and a curse on humanity.
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Also, don't question the fact that, you know, these are the neutral arbiters of peace,
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and they also basically housed one of the worst terrorists to ever live, Osama bin Laden,
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You know, I think that's also in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Ricky, can you please talk this madman down from the tree?
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I wish I could, but I'm actually getting a little blackpilled about the negotiation process now.
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Like, I really trust Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, but my word, how are you supposed to negotiate with people who have this ideology?
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The lunatic that puts his enemies, his enemy reporters into blenders, maybe, but not Qatar, not Qatar.
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I think that we can go back to your Valkyrie statement, Glenn.
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While the prime minister of Pakistan is copying and pasting what looks like from chat GPT,
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random parts of the agreement and putting it out on X. I don't even know if he knows who he's
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getting this from in the Iranian regime. If he's getting it from an IRGC commander, if he's getting
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it from part of the political class, I don't think he even knows. But I do think there's a lot of
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turmoil going back and forth within Iran, within the negotiators, and everyone is fighting at the
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moment. Everyone's concentrating on this huge publicity game that the Iranians are playing
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with releasing an older version of the 10-point plan.
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I think all of this is specifically about inner turmoil within Iran,
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creating it, stoking it, and sitting back and watching it
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as they get closer towards these negotiations led by J.D. Vance.
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I have to tell you, I find this actually kind of refreshing
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because everyone is revealing who they really are.
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I mean, I like it when people talk, you know, everybody's like, they should shut up.
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We now know who our main negotiator, our neutral party is.
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So when they say something, I mean, unless you just hate America so much, I mean, honestly,
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what has the government done to gain your trust not a lot but what has donald trump done to gain
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your trust right now people are are jumping off this because he promised us no wars he did not
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promise you that what moron promises any country no wars i'm sorry beside woodrow wilson and then
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get us into a war what moron does that that's not even reasonable as a president united states it's
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not reasonable to say we're not going to have war okay what he was saying is no more of these
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never-ending wars so we're in this now for 30 days is that never-ending i mean this don't get
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me wrong this could go horribly i am not i am not on the bandwagon of going yay we gotta go in and
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kill everybody in Iran. I'm not for that. I'm not for that. We're in this now. What do you say
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we give the benefit of the doubt to the guy who I think has earned our trust? He's earned our
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trust. Tell me somebody who is, as a president, who has done a better job at military operations,
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done better than this guy. I don't even know if I'd put FDR in that category.
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It's been stunning what this guy has done. So relax. Monday, I'm going to share something.
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I'll put something up on the chalkboard. What if we back up a little bit more and thought
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even of a bigger picture? I'm going to share this with you on Monday because I'm thinking
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you know there could be this could be a disaster this could be an absolute disaster but is that
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a reason to freak out as i was thinking about this yesterday i was on a plane going up to
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washington yesterday which by the way russ vote i love you russ vote is uh he's the guy he was
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he was the architect of project 2025 um and everything that happened in the first hundred
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days he's he's the guy and he's hated for it and i love him for it and because of the war and
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everything else uh he was supposed to have somebody speak at you know one of his big
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conferences yesterday a big big big cabinet member yeah who shall remain nameless shall
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remain nameless and then i don't think they announced in advance that he wasn't coming
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and that i was coming in his stead and so they introduced me and they were just like
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oh great guys that is not true that's glenn okay that's feigning humility the room loved it
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uh but i had a chance to go up there and uh and and talk and i gotta tell you these guys get it
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so i'm on the plane from from that experience last night and i'm thinking all right if things
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go really, really horribly. Is there a way to take that and make it into lemonade? And I think,
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I think there is, I think it's actually, I mean, it's not what's happening, but I think when you
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hear it on Monday, somebody might want to call the president and say, Hey, have you thought about
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this? Because it doesn't have to go horribly to do this as well. I mean, it's, it's one of those,
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you know uh one rock and two birds or whatever it is one stone and two whatever that saying is
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it's friday i'm tired okay back off you've had four good shows for me how many good shows have
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you done today america right okay um so i'm gonna give you that on uh monday but we we just
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we have to know who our friends are you're listening to the best of glenn beck need a
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little more check out the full show podcasts anywhere you download podcasts well hello bridget
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hello my friend so good to see you how are you it's good to see you great yeah it's been a minute
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i'm great i know it's been too long you you have gone through one of the greatest uh i don't know
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i don't want to say transformations because you you were great even when you were a hussy slut you
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were great and but to watch you it's like metamorphosis i mean you you have just you've
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just become just such a well-rounded really cool person thank you my husband was just standing here
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listening he's like don't you talk about my wife that way i have a husband now defends my honor i
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know yeah i know and a daughter but yeah it's crazy yeah and you i mean you're sitting you're
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sitting on a set with aprons behind you uh that's not you five years ago i did always love to cook
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but yes i have become quite domesticate i was always weirdly more domestic than people would
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expect me to be to be for being a hussy slut so people would be like you can cook but i always
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loved cooking but now i'm baking which i feel like is domestic a different level now you're
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now you're june cleaver um what was first of all before we get into your your latest article
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for people who don't know what was the big change because you were i mean you were on the left did
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you ever hate me i don't feel like i think i just thought you were silly i don't think i ever hated
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you i remember i'm sure that john stewart covered you and made fun of you so i think that i probably
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just laughed at you i don't even in this crazy media i don't have very much hatred in my heart
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in general so i i think that i i generally tend to lean on mockery as my way of coping and i also
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think that i i don't it's very hard not to it's very hard to hate somebody that you don't know
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although we all probably do this now with algorithms and being online but i don't i
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generally try not to and and honestly i think being in recovery as i'm very open about i i
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always have to go back and you know there's this expression um put down the microscope and pick up
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the mirror and so whenever i'm hyper focusing on someone or hating somebody it's like what is this
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saying about me yeah you know it's a it's amazing i was giving a speech last night in dc and
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somebody brought up you know all the stuff that's happening with podcasters and i said i am not
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going to i'll comment on i'll comment on facts but i'm not going to talk about personalities
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all i say on this is i am so tired and i think the american people are too i am so tired of
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getting a list from somebody it's seemingly every day of who i have to hate now who i have to declare
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is my mortal enemy because if i'm not i'm a traitor to somebody and it's like i i can't
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take any more of it it's just so stupid is something going on in podcasting glenn
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i don't know i i don't know i don't either i haven't noticed anything strange going on
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yeah or the president mentioning anything like that yesterday wow oh do you know how angry it
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makes me being a comedian just to reference since you reference this the everybody who's listening
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it's the the the true social post where you went on a tirade against podcasters and i'm telling you
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it's unfair that he's the funniest president we'll ever have do you know how hard it is to be
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a comedian and know you're never gonna write anything that funny it is i mean he might be
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the funniest person on earth he is if you miss his sense of humor you you've missed a great time
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if you think he's serious about everything you've missed a great time i i think he has the best
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comedic timing of any non-comedian i've ever seen i mean he is he's brilliantly funny
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and it's something that I missed so I this is again something where I have to ask myself
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what has changed in me because when I for I've been thinking a lot about this in fact I probably
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should write about it but when I first when he first came on the scene as a politician I could
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not handle the sound of his voice I just couldn't listen to it and slowly over the years I realized
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I was missing a lot of hilarity that that people saw that I didn't see and now he just kind of
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makes me laugh you know he'll make you roll your eyes and go oh geez you're gonna say that all
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right but I don't know we've been dealing with this guy for 10 years I know I you know um Ronald
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Reagan when I was a kid Ronald Reagan was president and he would make you he'd make you
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laugh like ha ha that's funny donald trump can make you belly laugh i mean absolutely belly laugh
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it is so funny so funny i was reading that post in the green room dying laughing it was like oh
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yeah and we were just how how can this how can this be i must be in a simulation
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um you wrote an article and this is what i wanted to talk to you about you wrote an article
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i don't care if young people like me and you shouldn't either can you can you take us through
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this yes i mean to to your point it was a little bit of me looking around at podcasting and
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podcasters and seeing this kind of trend of chasing what i see as younger opinions now i
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understand this your livelihood depends on views and it is an attention economy and the the older
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people are going to age out and there's a giant number of young people who are radicalized by
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these algorithms and it's easy to understand why this would happen but it also came across as that
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meme where it was like how do you do fellow kids you know these these older hosts where they're
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like look how based and cool i am like see i'm saying those crazy things that kids are all about
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and i don't know it just came across as as embarrassing to me and i realized it was very
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gen x of me to say i don't care but it did feel and saying you know like get off it's a very
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almost older like get off my lawn yeah it yeah it does i get why people reacted strongly to it and
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and they're gonna tell me that i'm gonna be irrelevant and you know they they make comparisons
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whatever six seven six seven listen but i i also hate this idea that popularity equals right
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there's been a lot of people historically who have been extremely popular who have also been
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there's a lot of things that have been very popular
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I understand it from if you're young I can understand that
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but from somebody who's older it seems like you should know
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better. But you know what, Bridget? I think you're an alcoholic. I'm an alcoholic. We're
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covering both of us. And that puts you in a different place. I'm not sure if I hadn't have
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gone through the hell that I went through in my 30s that I would have the same perspective that
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I have now. I know what's important and what's not. And this business really screws with your
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head oh yeah and you know especially if you've ever been at the top where some of these podcasters
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you know when they were in tv they were at the very top leaving that alone screws with your head
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and then going into the world of podcasting that screws with your head again and then if you do
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well and then you start to see things slip or you notice that things are changing if you really
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don't if if you have if you don't know exactly who you are and you're not willing to go I don't
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really care if anybody listens I could leave tomorrow and I'd be fine I don't know if you
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can make it yeah you see any validity to that oh totally I mean it goes back to a couple things
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that you said I really do try and ground myself in those recovery principles all the time one of
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I have friends and family members on all sides of the aisles.
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makes it very easy to kind of divide and conquer people and we have outside forces who are
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influencing this from other countries now there's also a lot of truth and the idea that and this was
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really embedded in this piece I never I've never peaked so I have literally built what I made
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like truly I'm still an independent creator I've never had a machine behind me I've never had
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silicon valley money i've never had a network i can't imagine what it would be like to be john
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stewart or to be you even somebody who is on fox listen listen to the way she said that
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john stewart or you even me no but you like your intro to this show which is new i believe
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reminded me there was a time when you were on all these magazine covers and that's got to be crazy
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i've never experienced that and then to have that it's like being it reminds me a little bit of
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being a woman and then you kind of enter into a later time in your life and you're like oh
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that was my peak i'm on the other side of it now how do i how do i grapple with this and this is
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something that all women kind of have to grapple with is all right i'm not everybody has to you
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know everybody ron reagan said ron reagan said there is everybody has a time and if you don't
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change if you know who you if you know who you are and you stay rooted in your principles it's
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like there's this you're just sliding along a timeline and all of a sudden you your time comes
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and you just slot in and then that time passes and you just pop back out and somebody else is
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popping back in yeah you just you just have to know who you are and stay the same the whole time
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and just know that was my time it's not my time now and you know whatever whatever yeah it hasn't
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changed me or diminished me that's just my time was then yeah or now and i'm coming whatever
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and I think too that's that is something I guess one of the things that happened to me when you
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asked me what happened to you Bridget over the past 10 years and a lot of people will say that
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in a negative way so some of it has nothing to do with me like a lot of people will say what
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happened to you and it's like a good thing the thing I hear the most from people probably more
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than anything is what happened to you in a negative way but one of the things that did
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happened to me is that I didn't really know what my values were. I remember Ben Shapiro saying
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very early when I came into the space and he was talking about values and
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Jordan Peterson and I was like, values, what are those? What a strange concept. And it put me back
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into this kind of first principle thinking. I didn't even really know or remember what that
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was i i had strayed so far from even contemplating or thinking about any of those things in addiction
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and just hustling to try and survive as a waitress and make ends meet i didn't i didn't have the more
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i was in this space the more i said what are the hills i will die on what do i believe what is
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great about this country america that we should all be celebrating right now it's our 250th
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birthday it is a miracle a miracle that this experiment exists i having and having a kid
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really really activated that in me in ways that not i didn't have before because i want things
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to be better for her i want to pass this down i don't want it to all go away because we were
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idiots you know and and didn't and took things for granted and we're basically like trust fund
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babies of litter of liberty and that's really what we are we're just trust fund kids of liberty and
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freedom that people have died for whining on podcasts and i want to build stuff
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america if you know you haven't heard british bridget before and now you know why i just love
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We've got to get together, get our families together.
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