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00:00:13.720 richer than you think was james comey sending a coded message for somebody to assassinate

00:00:18.800 president trump or was he just remembering our darkest day yeah the second option doesn't seem

00:00:25.040 too likely we talk about james comey and what really needs to happen also history for all

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00:02:50.760 james call me in 86 47 here in just a second um if you don't know what that is wait until you hear

00:02:57.420 this oh my god this guy is a dope uh but anyway we have another episode of uh glenn and stew super

00:03:06.340 babies um i you know i think we've been taking this baby filter i don't know if you if you haven't seen

00:03:14.820 the baby filter thing that is going around i absolutely love it i could i could i could actually

00:03:21.480 watch this show all day long if we were babies i think we were better if we look like babies uh quite

00:03:27.240 honestly um show is clearly better it's clear infants yeah right um and everything sounds so

00:03:34.680 innocent now we were doing a bit a couple of days ago about uh this who was it that that was in

00:03:42.700 trouble or you remember the name of the guy oh uh brandon uh brandon miller okay and so he's he

00:03:49.620 he sends a text to some one of his friends and i don't know what it means stew doesn't really

00:03:54.920 know what it means and we're we're talking about it and uh and then he explained it to me and it was

00:04:01.040 good and it was informative but it takes on a whole new feeling if we're we're babies talking about it

00:04:08.800 now if you if you are watching uh the blaze uh or you're watching us on uh you know roku or wherever

00:04:16.440 you're watching us you'll enjoy this if it's radio it's just going to sound like a radio bit but go to

00:04:20.780 my instagram page and you'll see the babies but here's what we talked about now as babies so this

00:04:26.940 is a nba player brandon miller uh he got a text from his friend this night the night in question

00:04:32.480 uh-huh and he was texted this i need my joint rl just got da fakin and i was interested what how

00:04:44.720 would you interpret that particular defense just got my joint no i need my joint i need my joint rl

00:04:53.960 just got da fakin ralph lauren somebody is selling fake ralph lauren clothing he needs to get to his

00:05:08.140 joint his house because he has some way to prove that that person is doing wrong you think it's a

00:05:13.600 copyright inflection i think it's a copyright a very large okay it's a very powerful company that

00:05:19.860 should be doing it themselves but here's this hero going and saying i got to get to my house

00:05:23.900 i've got to get the things that will help ralph lauren with this copyright infringement

00:05:29.640 wow that's how i read it thank you see i would have never never received that you haven't done this

00:05:35.100 for almost 50 years that's true yeah that's true now i don't think brandon was from uh mount vernon

00:05:40.500 so there may be a bit of a dialect difference okay sure here sure um apparently what he was saying

00:05:46.080 was he needed his gun which was his joint okay okay rl real life real life needed a gun in real

00:05:56.960 life it wasn't a fake gun or a video game even though finger guns are very dangerous no yes

00:06:02.260 you know as you're watching this you know what makes this so amazing and so i mean it's it's wild

00:06:10.060 that ai can do this now but what makes this so incredible is the eyes when you're looking in a

00:06:17.660 baby's eyes it's so innocent it's sincere it's sincere in everything and they're honestly trying

00:06:25.460 so when we're doing sarcasm you know it's ralph lauren but you look at it as a baby the baby's eyes

00:06:33.000 are so sincere it's and you know what you you miss it's it's something i i for the very first time i i'm

00:06:42.620 like that's what that's what christ means about come to me as a child we've lost the innocence we've lost

00:06:51.120 the you know no no baby is sarcastic this is just this i'm lord do not listen to this because i'm

00:06:59.500 condemning myself right now but babies aren't sarcastic you know they just they're just not

00:07:07.560 they're honest they're innocent and they're actually trying to figure things out and i think that's what

00:07:12.800 we lose as people we start to go oh i know exactly i know exactly what they're saying i know who they

00:07:20.140 are i know what this means and it's the cynicism that stops us or the arrogance that stops us from

00:07:29.040 looking and saying what else could this be what is this really who are they really saying you know

00:07:35.520 because we've gone through life and we're like that's not happening nope they weren't trying to

00:07:40.480 they weren't trying to help ralph lauren out it's fascinating it's fascinating now maybe we maybe we as

00:07:47.700 babies can figure out um uh 86 47 now i don't know stew if you saw the james comey tweets yes i did

00:07:58.700 yeah well i mean and when you say his tweets i mean he took a picture of a shell formation that i

00:08:04.680 found on a beach he was just walking by just walking by and just walking by and he was like

00:08:08.760 shells in the sand unbelievable i mean i mean i'm sorry but i'm not a baby with my little innocent

00:08:17.280 eyes oh there's no i wish i was uh there's no way that that's that he just stumbled across that he was

00:08:25.560 like oh this is a cool seashell formation i don't really know what it means but i know it's political

00:08:32.520 of something so i'm gonna put it up on instagram well yeah that's obviously not true i mean i guess

00:08:36.640 that's what he said well he kind of played it off that way i mean he said oh look what i found like

00:08:42.620 either he did it himself which the most likely no but but he came back i don't have can somebody find

00:08:48.180 the uh response because he came back later and reposted on it said here i just found that yeah i posted

00:08:54.180 earlier a picture of uh some shells i saw today on the beach walk which i just assumed was a political

00:09:03.060 message i didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence it never occurred to me

00:09:09.920 but i oppose violence of any kind so i took the post out so he's saying i just stumbled across this

00:09:15.780 i took a picture of it i mean right maybe it was a natural formation i mean he knows somebody did it

00:09:23.280 but i i knew it had to have some political meaning right do you post something that you know has some

00:09:30.160 political meaning meaning without saying does anybody know what this means i mean even if you

00:09:35.300 post it and say that it's a very bad idea particularly if you happen to be the uh former 0.70

00:09:40.160 head of the fbi fbi so he doesn't know what 86 means so we should set that up uh you know if i can i can

00:09:50.240 walk you through this glenn as a former proud veteran of chilies right uh where 86 means like when you

00:09:58.140 don't want cheese on the burger that normally comes with cheese you're like the burger 86 cheese

00:10:04.540 right meaning you kill the cheese off the burger now also it could mean remove the cheese right like

00:10:10.840 i i mean it wasn't i don't know that it's it has several it has several always violent it has several

00:10:15.660 meanings it might be 86 the cheese which means get rid of the cheese yeah okay but it also um has

00:10:23.280 uh roots uh roots back during the bootleg time now i've heard this story i look for it i couldn't

00:10:30.220 find it anywhere but i heard this story from somebody who was you know uh you know kind of a

00:10:35.080 wandering historian of new york and i don't remember what place it is but it had uh it was a bootleg club

00:10:42.480 and during prohibition and it was on a block and the basement went the entire city block okay

00:10:48.960 and so it was bootlegs and gambling underneath and the cops only knew about the front entrance

00:10:58.100 and so they would say 86 it's the cops which may which meant the address on the other side was 86

00:11:06.220 so it meant use that door get out use that door don't go through the front door 86 that's the cops

00:11:13.460 oh okay so i meant get out um when the soda jerks uh and that takes on a whole different

00:11:19.880 meaning today doesn't it soda jerks used to be the people in the drugstores that would pull the

00:11:25.280 the fountain uh down and they would you know the soda fountains yeah yeah and it would be called a

00:11:30.060 soda jerk and they had their own lingual they had shoot one draw one uh they had shoot one in red

00:11:38.200 you should know this if you're going up to a soda jerk you'd say shoot one in red what does that mean

00:11:42.620 i don't know uh it means give me the coke but i want cherry coke shoot one in red okay so they

00:11:50.420 would pull the soda and they'd pour cherry soda in it or cherry flavor into it again so um echo was a

00:11:58.600 repeat order and 86 meant we're all out of it okay okay so it's get out vacate we're all out or kill

00:12:10.660 the cheese right okay so those are the meanings but if i'm on the beach and i say and i see 86 47

00:12:19.300 and i'm the former fbi director i'm like what does i know what 47 means what does 86 mean 47 of course

00:12:28.260 meaning trump 47 president of the united states of course it does now adding on to this you're not

00:12:34.060 only the fbi director former uh you're of course an opponent of the the president it's been pretty

00:12:39.660 clear over the years also um i don't know if anyone noticed this the that president has almost

00:12:44.620 been killed multiple times recently right right like so there's an added thing where you're going

00:12:50.400 to be really careful around this particular person who took a bullet on stage and almost got killed

00:12:55.120 at his golf club right i mean look how look how delicate we are today and you know the left used to

00:13:02.840 be so on the kennedys with robert f kennedy robert f kennedy i mean i don't know if there's you know

00:13:10.800 uh somebody out trying to kill him i just assume because he's a kennedy all kennedys somebody's out

00:13:15.360 there to kill them does seem that way it does seem that way but um you would never say 86 rfk you'd never 0.88

00:13:23.040 you just because we're decent people but when it comes to donald trump and i'll bet you now

00:13:30.580 with rfk too it wouldn't be bad to say 86 rfk in some circles they'd be fine with killing them 0.98

00:13:37.500 well first of all yes that's probably true in some circles i mean there's an entire hamass wing of the

00:13:43.460 party so i mean american american you know uh leftist circles yeah they don't care ends justify the means

00:13:51.540 they're awful people awful i will say it's possible um that he didn't mean that in that way

00:13:58.320 i mean i know it could mean get out of yeah get out of 47 i want him out i want him out of office

00:14:02.620 right yep um i'm sure that will be his defense and one of the other things that is the new uh left-wing

00:14:07.940 pastime hang on i can't as you're talking i just can't not i can't look at you now because i'm only

00:14:12.660 seeing you as a baby i have very innocent eyes i know you do um the uh you just want to gobble your

00:14:19.120 cheeks up uh that's why i'm eating more to get those cheeks nice and plump um the uh the new

00:14:26.500 left-wing pastime on twitter today and on social media is to search for all of the conservatives

00:14:33.640 that did tweet 86 46 at some point during the biden presidency and there were they weren't

00:14:40.800 the former fbi director that's a very fair point okay i mean i don't know that's why i think all

00:14:47.080 seen 86 47 i've never seen that i mean 46 i haven't seen it either but apparently people did post it

00:14:54.060 okay during that who are they i mean look we all have the crazy person that lives on our street we've

00:15:00.140 always had that growing up you always had oh he's crazy jim down the street don't kids stay away from 0.75

00:15:05.700 crazy jim we all had the neighbor who was like you know what and i'll tell you what else is happening

00:15:10.400 right now that nobody knows and you're like oh okay i mean you know there there are some

00:15:15.120 conservative influencers that just didn't like biden that tweeted it not meaning that wanting

00:15:20.140 him dead but wanting him probably removed from office uh all that being said none of them as you

00:15:26.800 pointed out were uh people who were the former fbi director number one none of them also uh were

00:15:35.120 uh talking about a president that had almost been assassinated multiple times recently right

00:15:39.540 right so i mean those two areas i think are a massive distinction particularly the first one i

00:15:45.780 mean even if you know the the uh if someone had tried to assassinate god forbid we would hope that

00:15:52.760 they never do uh of joe biden uh when he was in office uh and you tweeted that after i mean it would

00:15:58.720 be insensitive and probably a really bad idea and a waste of time but again i mean you're just almost

00:16:03.680 redundant yeah i mean he's almost i mean he's almost there yeah he is yeah he's not his health

00:16:10.880 isn't particularly strong as you as you note um however uh beyond that being the director of the fbi

00:16:18.460 means that you are constantly processing a stream of threats against yes the executive yes and the fact

00:16:26.540 that you would be in there and think that that was appropriate knowing obviously what 86 could mean it

00:16:31.440 doesn't necessarily mean that right but it could mean that honestly when i saw it when i saw it i

00:16:36.940 didn't think he was saying kill him i thought he was saying get him out yeah get him out because

00:16:41.100 that's what 86 means to me at least get out get out yeah so it's impeach him cancel him whatever

00:16:47.280 um however um you know again when you're the fbi former fbi director you have a little more

00:16:54.260 responsibility it's massively irresponsible massively and he should just come out and apologize for it

00:16:59.260 and not say i randomly saw these shells they washed up on the beach like that i guess i don't know who

00:17:05.460 did it and i thought it might be political so i posted it nobody believes that yeah another thing is

00:17:12.120 if you're the former fbi director maybe never post anything on social media i don't know do something

00:17:17.780 that's supposed to be important what what i just don't even understand people with this nonsense

00:17:22.780 so uh you know how many days as of yesterday you know how many days it's been since 9 11

00:17:29.460 i did see this and everyone's talking 8 647 86 47 i'm just saying that's what he was saying that's what

00:17:39.920 he oh that's what he was saying i know there's a political message somewhere in there yeah it was

00:17:45.920 it yet what are the odds that yesterday was 86 47 when he posts that i mean the odds are 100 it was

00:17:52.480 that many days to a day right i mean what does 9 11 have to do with this well he was in the fbi and

00:18:00.720 he just was like it's a political message is that really remember we got to remember 9 11 but we got

00:18:06.020 to remember it cryptically in clamshells is he really gonna argue that no no i don't think so uh one

00:18:12.600 interesting uh thing about this now glenn is okay so you don't know what we're talking about james

00:18:15.780 comey sure posted a picture in uh in shells on a beach 86 47 which means 86 the president you can

00:18:23.860 gangsters would say that means kill him uh you know if you're a soda jerk from the 1940s that means

00:18:30.400 you know hold it back cancel that order okay so 86 47 47 being the president um i have some news for

00:18:38.920 you glenn okay it's sad it's tragic oh no james comey has 86ed his instagram account no no now you

00:18:48.220 would think that james comey would have not had one right isn't that quite obviously the right move for

00:18:55.480 a former fbi director yes never post anything yes certainly if you're gonna have one it should be

00:19:00.620 private you know what i mean like you're maybe you want to post your family pictures to your family

00:19:05.300 okay of course you know i don't know why people enjoy doing that frankly uh i'm i'm still in you

00:19:11.140 know i don't know 1990 or something on that one unlike my wife certainly uh but i don't know i like

00:19:17.360 the collaboration i like people when they respond back and they you know i i i like some of the

00:19:23.720 business where it's very important and i have to do it so it's but like i i don't know that i would

00:19:29.200 necessarily have a i wouldn't do it if i wasn't in this job i would do it me i would do it my family

00:19:34.620 maybe like a personal account like yeah like you're posting things like i i like i you know

00:19:38.340 i'll you know like i take pictures and i send i typically will just like send them to my wife if 0.56

00:19:43.660 i think they're a good picture of the kid it's like you know but i mean you could easily just as

00:19:46.840 well do that i guess on a social media account that's private but this is again it's attention

00:19:50.780 seeking and if you know we're in a business where we need people to listen to the show want people to

00:19:55.900 listen to the show want people to be interested in what we do it's part of our business if you're the

00:19:59.860 former fbi director unless you think of yourself as a celebrity that writes big books and then i

00:20:07.620 guess you do need an instagram no he doesn't look at himself like that at all you'd think there'd be

00:20:13.400 no need for that as a former fbi director but again he sees himself as an msnbc personality

00:20:18.860 which is just pathetic like i you know he is he really is pathetic and now he has no instagram 0.94

00:20:26.400 pretty smart that's the first smart thing he's done in a long time a little late on that one

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00:20:40.840 night and i went oh honey honey wherever you want to go in the world and vacation we're going to be

00:20:48.680 able to afford it there's not gonna be a lot of uh people go you know like after uh trump won in the

00:20:55.540 first time he's like ah we're not gonna go after hillary that is not gonna be his vibe no no and it

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00:22:26.500 all right so apparently

00:22:30.420 apparently there's this uh football team uh big football team and this guy named bill burgess

00:22:41.060 was a coach and a player there for a long time uh i i don't know i know rick from rick and bubba

00:22:48.800 previously with rick and bubba uh is here and this this is his dad so try to try to just say okay i i you

00:22:55.820 know let's just pretend we know who his dad is rick welcome to the program oh my goodness hearing you

00:23:01.720 to talk about football is agonizing what are you talking about him i guess he knows that he's just

00:23:06.900 been drugged and dragged into this thing with me yeah i will tell you if i was going to ask about a

00:23:12.220 team i'm going to ask stew over you glenn i would so am i going to stew though if i have other options

00:23:18.980 no you're not uh okay welcome uh tell me tell me about your dad so you guys are so kind uh to have

00:23:28.760 me on of course you know we um as you said spent 31 years doing the rick and bubba show and now

00:23:33.560 this year started the rick burgess show we're five months in as you said got the new podcast on blaze

00:23:38.360 tv still working with you guys so this has been something that i have been thinking about for a

00:23:43.740 while about writing a book about my dad an iconic figure um and it's not just a football book or

00:23:51.840 anything like that it's really about the men and i know you guys have talked about it so many times

00:23:56.120 they're a dying breed uh and we desperately need them back so in order to mold the next generation 1.00

00:24:03.620 we need to be able to look to the the model and and dad was an incredible leader influencer wonderful

00:24:11.100 father you know isn't that a nice change of pace for a man to actually say his mother his father was

00:24:15.880 great um and uh but he was one of a kind a true original you know how we throw around that phrase a lot

00:24:22.000 hey they broke the mold on that one and then you're thinking did they really in this case i can

00:24:27.200 tell you especially to you the two of you have never met him there is no one on this planet that

00:24:32.980 i've ever met quite like bill burgess and you know he was so humble that i knew i couldn't do the book

00:24:39.180 until it was the right time and unfortunately he passed away um in december of 2023 battled alzheimer's

00:24:47.400 in the final years of his life and when he passed i said you know what now's the time to give him

00:24:53.500 you know the recognition that he would have never wanted uh but deserved and try to use him to help

00:24:59.760 influence not just men you know my wife read it because she comes across like this is a dude book

00:25:04.980 and it certainly is beneficial for men and you know that i have a real heart for men's ministry and

00:25:09.680 you guys have been kind enough to let me talk about that in the past but this is actually a book for

00:25:14.180 anyone i remember my wife read it and i came home and she's a real writer so i was nervous about her

00:25:19.360 assessment um and she said you know what i knew you're dead for 30 years but after reading this

00:25:24.820 book i understand you better uh and i also well i was taught two things by your dad in this book that

00:25:31.400 i need to apply to my life today so um it's got a lot of comedy in it it's got a lot of seriousness

00:25:37.820 in it you know you'll laugh you'll cry you've heard that before uh i always say this if my dad

00:25:42.460 was coaching football today he would be put in jail uh so if anybody doesn't know who his dad was

00:25:49.380 american football uh coach he was head coach at jacksonville state university i believe also

00:25:54.940 played for auburn uh correct yeah and in the hall of fame uh so uh so tell me what what do you get

00:26:04.080 what do we learn from your father that we should know well you think about the title i could tell you

00:26:11.340 and stew both had a reaction to the title and i knew that would be the case uh it really is an

00:26:16.480 intriguing and provocative title men don't run in the rain i can't tell you how many people like man

00:26:20.780 as soon as i saw that i was like what and and i open up the book uh telling you about me being a kid

00:26:26.620 and i kept i kept noticing that anytime it would rain that if my dad was outside he would never

00:26:35.000 change his walk he would walk in the rain never scurrying never you know never frantic and and i

00:26:43.000 was little so i never questioned him about it well i got about 13 14 years old and i was at school

00:26:49.180 because he was also coached high school football before he coached college and it's where i went to

00:26:54.400 school a lot of you may not know this but i'm actually an oxford graduate i'm not trying to get

00:26:59.020 all arrogant of course that's oxford high school but um but so um it's true it's absolutely true

00:27:06.680 so um it's in between atlanta and birmingham if you're ever in the deep south where i grew up is

00:27:11.580 where you stop and go to the bathroom if you're going to either one of those cities right so um so

00:27:15.960 anyway we um i was outside waiting to ride home with him because i wasn't old enough to drive yet

00:27:21.740 but i was already playing junior high football and he was athletic director and head coach of the

00:27:25.640 varsity so he comes out well one of those you know classic alabama thunderstorms in the heat

00:27:31.380 of summer start well i go to run to his truck and he takes his forearm and he stops me and i looked

00:27:39.360 at him he said men don't run in the rain and at the time i was like what he said men we don't run

00:27:46.180 in the rain we walk to the truck and i started thinking what in the world did he mean by that but

00:27:51.840 over time i understood it wasn't about you know don't look stupid or whatever it was like

00:27:59.100 men should be steady men should be fearless and if you're going to be frantic about the rain

00:28:06.500 what about in life when you face something that truly is difficult how will you ever he was already

00:28:12.980 looking ahead how are you ever going to stand in and and have a headship and leadership in your

00:28:18.440 family how are you going to deal with difficulties when they come your way if you think rain is

00:28:23.440 difficult and my dad's perfect vision of a man and his family is that in the pouring rain his wife would

00:28:30.060 be put in the car dry his kids would be put in the back seat dry and then he would sit at the steering

00:28:35.620 wheel soaking wet um you know i in in looking through this i i i don't know if i taught my kids

00:28:44.400 anything that profound uh at all um but your dad your dad said so many things uh to you that

00:28:52.180 um are so important you know one of the things that he said on and just remaining humble is nobody

00:29:00.300 cares what you did last year and here's a guy who you know no they care about what you did last year

00:29:06.380 you're in the hall of fame right yeah he his humility was incredible and and you know he also since he

00:29:14.180 coached such a team sport he he was infuriated about individual awards we literally had to tell

00:29:19.540 him dad you're accepting this award on behalf of all the coaches all the teams he's like no no

00:29:24.380 individual wins a football game no individual has a successful football program and he always had

00:29:32.240 that attitude but what he meant by that was you know and he taught me that lesson he said you can't

00:29:38.040 spend the rest of your life continually tell stories about what you did last year what are you going to do

00:29:42.500 this year to make it count and you can't drag last year you know he taught me that lesson as you you

00:29:47.840 guys may have seen in the book because i started on varsity as a sophomore which he that drove him

00:29:52.920 crazy but my position coach actually gave me that and so when i came back the next year as a junior i

00:29:59.020 thought well i'm a starter and i wasn't even doing anything i don't think it was that big a deal

00:30:03.560 uh but he stopped practice day one he said hey get out get out get on the sideline let's get

00:30:08.360 somebody in here wants to play and i was over going what's he even talking about and i'm over

00:30:12.260 there getting a drink of water or whatever and he walks over and he says hey let me just tell you

00:30:15.320 about this nobody cares what you did last year it has it has no impact on what we're doing preparing

00:30:20.880 this team and i thought okay he's teaching a football lesson but he's teaching much more than that

00:30:26.080 we all know the men and women that keep telling that same story about what they did 25 years ago but

00:30:32.260 what have you done today so did your dad uh i mean you know kids generally don't take that stuff

00:30:42.120 well when you're saying it to them you know what i mean they're like you know they they out my dad is

00:30:47.800 so frustrating um did you take it that way or or did you understand the lessons when he was

00:30:54.920 giving them and was he just a hard ass all the time or no no he really wasn't you know every player 0.72

00:31:01.100 that ever played for him will tell you this he was hard but he was fair and it was that fair side

00:31:06.320 that bought that what you're thinking about why would you didn't know there were days you got

00:31:11.320 frustrated with him of course but but did i understand the depth of the lessons when they

00:31:16.080 were coming yeah not all of them but let me tell you why i was willing to listen and he was a great

00:31:21.780 leader and this is the biggest part and you just said it please do not picture my dad being the

00:31:26.100 great santini it was nothing like that he was hard he was no nonsense it was his way or no way if he

00:31:35.620 was in leadership but he also would come home and leave all of that at the office at home he had a

00:31:42.800 gregarious laugh that would fill up an entire house he never took us out in the yard so we're

00:31:48.960 gonna run through some drills today boys nothing like that when i told him i wanted to play football

00:31:54.200 he said why when i was you know in a little league he said if you want to play because you want to

00:31:58.640 don't play because you think i want you to and uh he didn't coach us in little league uh he didn't

00:32:03.880 take us out in the yard like i said to make us run when he came home he was dad and he was fun

00:32:09.480 and he he was uh uh also really our mom was probably more of the heavy in the house now look when dad was 0.60

00:32:17.480 called in that was the end of the foolishness okay uh but mom kind of handled the daily outbreaks 1.00

00:32:23.060 dad was only brought in for the uh for the heavy stuff and i think the thing that i could say

00:32:28.120 that that i love the most about him is that we always felt safe why do you think this is important

00:32:34.940 now i think i think we're missing this i think there is um you know my mother is a powerful woman

00:32:42.000 um she she she's still alive today and and she certainly was not inferior to him in any way

00:32:49.680 but our house had structure um and the man was the head of the house and had a headship and a

00:32:56.700 leadership and the mom his total equal they were equal but they were beautifully distinct yeah and

00:33:03.200 that's how god made the family and we're turning that upside down and we're taking men like my dad

00:33:08.940 and instead of celebrating them we're actually criticizing them and calling that toxic masculinity

00:33:14.820 when it's not now there is a form of toxic masculinity no doubt about that but men like my

00:33:20.920 dad that's not it and we're letting that being lumped in because he was a leader because he was an

00:33:28.160 influencer because he believed you needed to be tough because he believed you needed to stand in

00:33:32.880 the gap because he believed you needed to be steady but he believed you didn't need to make excuses

00:33:37.140 he believed you quit you didn't worry about things like rain that would take you off the main goal of

00:33:42.020 where you're going he was actually invaluable and there was a time when men like him just blended

00:33:48.760 into society they weren't even considered to be a big deal right but we're losing them and we got

00:33:53.180 to turn that around what i mean how much would your father stick out now oh like i said if he was

00:34:00.700 coaching they would want to put him in jail um i can't you know and you see these the thing that's

00:34:06.580 missed especially these young males they crave a man like my dad and we have males that think that

00:34:12.960 they should be babied and spoiled and given whatever they want and that's the way to you know that's

00:34:18.660 not that's no way to lead i'll tell you there are men everywhere we go can you imagine this glenn

00:34:23.440 and stew i can be going through an airport and somebody will see my kids and they'll see me and they'll

00:34:29.860 say are you bill burgess's son and are these his grandchildren and when i say yes i can't tell you the

00:34:35.320 number of times with tears in their eyes they'll say your daddy saved my life your daddy was the

00:34:39.980 daddy i didn't have if it wasn't for your daddy i'd be in jail and we're missing those guys

00:34:46.100 you know it's amazing because i have always found women who just have self-confidence they know who

00:34:54.320 they are they're comfortable in their own skin um and they just they just walk differently i find

00:34:59.960 those women to be incredibly attractive and beautiful um and and you know you you see all 0.96

00:35:07.340 these men who are becoming becoming almost women uh in their attitude i i can't imagine women find 0.98

00:35:15.900 that attractive they find a man who knows who he is you know and and and knows the role of a man

00:35:21.880 i would imagine that women feel the same way about that's what's attractive is a man who's a man

00:35:28.460 and not not not boastful not coming in and you know let me show you how it's not none of that just

00:35:35.760 a quiet humble man well i will tell you you're exactly right and i and we see this a lot doing

00:35:42.860 the men's ministry and i my mom will tell you this i'm married to the kind of woman you're talking about

00:35:47.360 i'm sure you guys are too yeah we are but but here's the thing what we're exhausting them

00:35:53.460 because we're making them do our job and their job and and that's what's missing when we went out

00:35:59.760 and started reaching the discipling men with themanchurch.com which you guys have been kind

00:36:03.620 enough to let me talk about and when we finally get men to take the proper role in the home

00:36:09.020 the biggest fans of all this are women to your point glenn they're saying i never wanted to have

00:36:14.860 headship in the home i never wanted to usurp my husband i knew we were equal i'm confident in myself

00:36:21.980 i wanted to do my job but i wanted him to do his i didn't want to do my job and his i'm not trying

00:36:28.580 to you know be some woman who is under like say undermining my husband my husband won't do it and 1.00

00:36:34.420 i've been stuck with it and we're frustrating women so yes when they see a man that takes his 1.00

00:36:39.080 proper place you better believe it's attractive uh the uh the name of the book is men don't run in

00:36:44.620 the rain is by rick burgess you're streaming the best of glenn beck to hear more of this interview

00:36:49.640 and others download the full show podcasts wherever you get podcasts welcome to the glenn beck program

00:36:55.440 uh let's uh let me introduce you to somebody justin kite he is uh with prager you kids he's the

00:37:04.280 creative director for prager you kids um and uh i was with him uh i don't know monday i think

00:37:11.780 justin was it monday that we were together it was monday it was monday um and it was the first time

00:37:18.080 that we had met uh and you are a you're a history teacher you taught history you you're really really

00:37:25.460 good at it um and would you just share what you shared with me about halfway through the day

00:37:31.180 about your history with me uh yeah most definitely first of all thanks uh thanks glenn for having me on

00:37:38.980 sure um well i was i was a i was a u.s history teacher and also world history teacher at the high

00:37:48.220 school level at big public schools in texas and um at the at the height of of of glenn beck with um

00:37:59.300 the fox news yeah um that was kind of the the height of of my um i would say i mean

00:38:08.580 i was kind of uh go ahead say hating me i'm with you i'm still with you i think i was a propaganda 0.56

00:38:17.480 artist and i didn't even know it and um and you know you were kind of my you were you were kind of

00:38:23.900 my foil and um and my number one enemy and so um when it was when it was time to uh to get on the

00:38:33.960 plane and go meet glenn beck and the glenn beck show um it was it was a very surreal experience

00:38:39.220 for me right because you have changed what woke you up um you know having a front row seat to it

00:38:47.460 and i didn't have a a like like one big moment it was kind of like spidey senses that started um

00:38:58.060 really in about 2011 um because i had gone through my teacher training in 2008 and just within the

00:39:06.140 three years um things really started to shift fast and i was and i was in the types of schools

00:39:13.680 where we had a lot of outside experts coming in to try to like you know save the world and and

00:39:21.800 and fix the system and as early as 2011 they were bringing in these pilot programs from fancy

00:39:31.060 universities that had us talking about stuff uh in the classroom that even me being at that time a

00:39:40.560 very liberal liberal you had a proponent of uh everything against what you were saying

00:39:46.720 it didn't feel right and and so it's like and my unique experience there which relates to kind of

00:39:56.340 what we're going to talk about today i hope is that you know i'm a white guy and i'm in front of

00:40:04.060 classrooms primarily of hispanic and black children and i'm teaching u.s history and i'm i'm kind of being

00:40:15.180 nudged nudged is a nice way to put it to to to preach victimhood and it just didn't feel it didn't feel

00:40:26.460 right and i i i didn't do it and and i framed my history lessons as a story of america as a story

00:40:38.820 of survival america as a story of achievement um and that included everybody in this country regardless

00:40:46.040 of ethnicity or skin color well it was great to work with you on monday we're um i was cutting some

00:40:52.100 stuff that uh that i and uh prager you are working on uh for history and you were at the museum uh and

00:41:00.380 you were just you were a great partner to work with keeping me honest keeping it right on track

00:41:04.340 you're a great partner um but you gave me as a gift one of your books and there are now seven

00:41:10.040 books in the series they're trailblazers of america i had not heard of this kid series but i i've been

00:41:16.040 reading it is it's fantastic tell everybody what it is yeah thank you so much um it's it's a um it's a

00:41:24.560 seven part bio series and you know the intro music that you had for me was perfect with that western

00:41:29.880 twang um because that's kind of the vibe of our of our trailblazer series and we have it's you can

00:41:37.940 buy them individually um seven stories or you can get them in a full compilation um but it's from

00:41:45.920 daniel boone all the way to bass reeves with six other stories in between that kind of chronologically

00:41:53.940 tell the story of america's growth and expansion westward and so from boone to davy crockett to

00:42:06.820 lewis and clark to johnny appleseed to john c fremont to john sutter and then bass reeves we're able to

00:42:15.220 kind of take our readers on a trip that geographically covers the country um but then also

00:42:24.720 chronologically covers the country and does so in a way that is pretty exciting yeah and i mean i think

00:42:32.200 i hugged you when you said bass reeves was in the book um because bass reeves i mean some people say

00:42:38.080 it's this is all just legend nobody knows and i i don't think it's true but uh somebody some people

00:42:43.840 say that bass reeves is uh the uh the inspiration for the lone ranger um uh and when i found bass

00:42:52.940 reeves uh because i was doing you know i was painting a painting of the lone ranger and uh i wanted to

00:42:59.640 learn more about and i saw this name bass reeves is possible and i started looking it up and i'm like

00:43:04.020 how did i know oh this guy this guy is fantastic and he was a u.s marshal and tell his story a little

00:43:10.260 bit well so he was born into slavery and he was um he was owned by a well-to-do family

00:43:19.520 in east texas and when um when the civil war broke out he was uh he he was brought along

00:43:29.020 with um with the the the young men of that family and interesting of his upbringing which is so condemning

00:43:37.620 of the institution of slavery is that his like the the family that owned him permitted him um to use 0.68

00:43:46.180 firearms but they didn't permit him to learn how to read which says a lot about the importance of

00:43:51.680 education it sure does but in that childhood where he was brought up with guns he became an expert

00:43:59.120 marksman and um always having a an american spirit inside of him i would say that when given the

00:44:09.260 opportunity to break free from slavery he did so and did so on the way to fighting in the civil war

00:44:16.020 and then he escaped into um the you know the bandit lands of the indian territory

00:44:22.360 and while he was there we don't i mean he was literally off the grid and so his time in the

00:44:30.720 indian territory is legendary but he must have picked up or at least intensified his skills because

00:44:36.500 when the civil war ended and he then you know and slavery was abolished and he was allowed to

00:44:43.500 permitted to join join american society he did so as a u.s marshal and racked up

00:44:52.360 statistics that were just like unheard of yeah he was the guy who always got his man always got

00:44:59.920 no matter how long it would take if he was on your trail you were going to jail or die and we're

00:45:06.140 talking like hundreds of dudes that he went after and was successful in getting and an incredible man

00:45:12.000 of integrity one of the people that he actually had to bring to justice was his own son thank you for

00:45:16.920 and and so um you know we at prager u kids aim to teach what isn't being taught and you know you

00:45:28.000 said you didn't know that much about bass streams i didn't even know who the guy was

00:45:30.940 yeah and i'm a u.s history teacher and so one of the cool things about this series is kind of uncovering

00:45:38.840 those old gems that um has kind of been forgotten about and it's i mean if you're in california uh

00:45:45.480 the sixth story is john sutter uh who was the owner of a mill where gold was discovered uh i believe in

00:45:52.640 california and this guy um you know when you learn about the the the rush to california you see the kind

00:46:02.580 of american that we now say just doesn't exist the the you know now we're like oh i don't know that

00:46:08.440 seems really hard if you want to be an american you know you you should read john sutter um because

00:46:15.440 it's optimistic and yet stubborn and it's just we're going to get it we're going to do what we know we

00:46:23.480 can do correct oh most definitely and and we we strategically picked john sutter because we wanted

00:46:30.980 to have an immigrant tale um as part of the series and he was born in switzerland and made his way

00:46:38.860 to america as a young man and our our our theme of our john sutter book is pretty much failure

00:46:46.600 because that guy dreamed big and fell on his face over and over again but had the gumption and had

00:46:54.600 again that american spirit to get up and try again so the name of the book and i if you

00:47:00.880 have kids you have grandkids you know homeschoolers you need to get trailblazers of america trailblazers

00:47:09.520 of america it's from uh prager you and justin kite is the author of it he's the guy i'm talking to

00:47:15.680 do you can you only get it at prager you or where can you get it so you can you can go to our website

00:47:21.780 but then if like that links you to amazon so you can go directly to amazon and get it as well

00:47:27.120 and um i agree with everything you said about about getting it for the kids but even if you don't

00:47:33.600 have kids don't make the heck of a coffee a heck of a coffee table book too yeah most most americans

00:47:38.860 don't know these stories i know these stories that's why i'm saying it for kids but i shouldn't

00:47:42.320 have said that most americans do not know these stories and they need to they need to because you'll

00:47:48.440 be able to it just it helps you frame where we are what is true what we're capable of and where

00:47:57.920 we need to go most definitely sir uh it's uh it was great to meet you justin and thank you for

00:48:04.080 sharing with me uh your uh uh your glenn hating years i had them too so don't worry about it you're

00:48:11.140 not alone from from foe to friend sir yeah that's right thank you justin i appreciate it justin kite

00:48:16.540 uh it is prageru.com also you can get it uh online at amazon.com trailblazers of america

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