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00:00:15.880 Today I started the show with things are getting better.

00:00:18.720 There are actual stats that are coming out that show

00:00:21.240 the fundamentals are changing and it's really good.

00:00:25.500 But so many people are not feeling it.

00:00:27.480 So I started the show with, here's what's really going on.

00:00:31.540 And then I explain, it's like cancer and we're in chemo.

00:00:35.700 And we talked to the audience about it.

00:00:37.480 It's a fascinating conversation.

00:00:39.420 Also, Kirk and Cruelness and Riley Barnes and Riley Beasley.

00:00:43.820 They were two people that were on campus last week.

00:00:47.260 And the university was about to expel them or investigate them for doxing.

00:00:52.440 No, no, no.

00:00:52.920 All they did was post a picture of a really ghoulish girl holding a Kirkiversary cake that she brought to them.

00:01:01.300 They asked, can we take your picture? 1.00

00:01:03.300 And then the only thing was, what's wrong with women? 1.00

00:01:06.900 What's wrong with people on university campuses? 1.00

00:01:10.080 That caused all the trouble.

00:01:11.800 Happy ending on that story on today's podcast.

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00:02:20.060 I want to talk to you about the health of us as a culture.

00:02:30.480 You know that two-thirds of Americans do not socialize at all during an average day.

00:02:42.300 Let me say that again.

00:02:44.920 Two-thirds of Americans do not socialize at all on an average day.

00:02:53.460 Only 30% of Americans overall engaged in communicating on an average day in 2025, down from 38%.

00:03:03.160 The average time spent socializing dropped from 41 minutes to 35 minutes per day in the same period,

00:03:10.180 almost mirroring the amount of rise in times playing video games or using social media.

00:03:18.400 They say most of this can be traced back to the impacts of COVID-19,

00:03:24.220 especially with kids, because they were in lockdown, and it did such damage to them.

00:03:29.520 And now they don't know. They don't know how to socialize.

00:03:32.700 when you can't see people you can't talk to people this is why we this is why we're so

00:03:42.680 apt to hate people that are saying something that we don't necessarily like or not even

00:03:48.760 listening to what they're fully saying because they're not people anymore

00:03:53.420 they're just stats they're just a person online it's not a real person you don't have to look

00:04:01.940 people in the eye to do it.

00:04:06.860 And I don't think

00:04:07.900 this is getting better.

00:04:10.520 But it needs to.

00:04:13.100 Because we have

00:04:13.960 no culture. You can't fight all this politics

00:04:16.060 stuff

00:04:16.400 and expect to have a country

00:04:19.640 if we don't have a good culture.

00:04:24.220 Let me take you back last week. A flyer

00:04:26.040 went up at NYU.

00:04:28.000 It was a lookalike contest.

00:04:29.740 10 o'clock at night, in the park, $5 prize.

00:04:31.940 bring your own bottle. Georgetown had one too. South Carolina called theirs

00:04:35.820 Kirkiversary. They put up $50. Rochester

00:04:40.100 had a cash price and a trophy. Lincoln, Nebraska, somebody

00:04:43.900 taped pictures of a dead man to bus stops with the words on them that I'm not

00:04:47.980 going to read to you. And almost all of it was anonymous.

00:04:53.580 You know, posted on apps, built so

00:04:55.780 nobody has to sign anything. Every university said

00:04:59.920 no student group was behind it.

00:05:02.160 I believe them.

00:05:04.740 Some of this may be just a dozen kids

00:05:06.600 who found this cruel joke

00:05:07.960 plus a screenshot buys you a day of attention.

00:05:14.140 But I can't tell you that America

00:05:15.860 doesn't celebrate murder.

00:05:17.680 Because we do.

00:05:22.020 At least a good portion of it seems to be.

00:05:27.040 Not that long ago,

00:05:28.280 things like this

00:05:31.320 you kept to yourself

00:05:32.780 if you had dark 0.66

00:05:34.060 you just 0.77

00:05:34.900 because you knew

00:05:36.480 the whole society

00:05:37.500 would turn on you

00:05:38.500 shame on you

00:05:41.140 man shot in the back

00:05:44.560 in a Manhattan sidewalk

00:05:45.680 within a week

00:05:46.440 his killer has a fan club

00:05:48.620 a fan club

00:05:50.200 we went from safe

00:05:53.720 legal and rare

00:05:54.500 to shouting it

00:05:55.520 from a stage

00:05:56.440 and rare was really the word that mattered there

00:06:00.000 because rare meant something was lost

00:06:01.780 did you see now where was it

00:06:03.800 what state is it

00:06:04.800 I want to say it's California

00:06:05.900 but I don't think it was

00:06:07.220 one of the states just said

00:06:09.180 that you can be

00:06:12.800 kind of pregnant 1.00

00:06:16.080 women can be 1.00

00:06:17.920 kind of pregnant 1.00

00:06:19.660 nope

00:06:21.700 nope I don't think there's a halfway point on that 0.99

00:06:23.880 But if you're only kind of pregnant, that means that's not a human being. 0.98

00:06:31.720 So we devalue life again. 0.86

00:06:33.600 We're already doing it on social media.

00:06:44.060 You know, grown-ups take and they hold two truths, two things at the same time.

00:06:53.880 that don't necessarily agree with each other.

00:07:02.660 But that's expensive. That's hard.

00:07:05.100 Celebration is cheap.

00:07:07.140 And that's the whole trade today.

00:07:10.800 I don't think we got meaner.

00:07:12.600 I think we got tired of paying.

00:07:14.640 let me take you back to that flyer though

00:07:24.460 you know the person who ever printed those flyers

00:07:27.120 is going to be 40 someday

00:07:28.740 and he or she is going to have a kid

00:07:31.480 and the kid's going to ask him what he did in college

00:07:33.440 and there is no version of that sentence

00:07:36.560 that comes out right

00:07:37.520 oh I printed up flyers celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk

00:07:40.940 he's going to have a friend

00:07:43.840 get sick, a brother

00:07:45.640 get divorced

00:07:46.360 and he will have spent his

00:07:49.700 20s training an organ

00:07:51.920 inside of himself

00:07:53.540 the one that feels a little lift

00:07:55.700 when somebody else goes down

00:07:57.440 and that organ

00:08:01.280 doesn't check your list first

00:08:03.960 it fires whoever

00:08:05.720 is in front of it

00:08:06.560 it will automatically eventually

00:08:09.720 fire at people he loves

00:08:11.060 and he won't understand why

00:08:12.840 He won't understand why he is the way he is, why he feels these things or doesn't feel certain things.

00:08:24.760 A crowd that assembles around contempt and vitriol can only talk about one thing.

00:08:34.440 It has no second subject.

00:08:36.560 And when it runs out of enemies, it starts looking around inside the circle.

00:08:40.760 everybody in that park at 10 o'clock

00:08:43.860 they know that

00:08:45.360 somewhere underneath they know that

00:08:46.900 so why are they laughing so loud

00:08:51.500 you don't end up

00:08:54.360 at the good part of your life

00:08:56.180 from there

00:08:56.740 you end up alone in a room

00:08:58.960 at an age where

00:09:01.120 that's harder to fix

00:09:02.700 and a lot of people you can no longer call

00:09:06.060 there was this guy

00:09:10.080 in, oh, I don't know, 1820s, I think.

00:09:15.820 He was a theological student.

00:09:19.180 His name is Carl Sand.

00:09:21.540 And he knocked on a door of a house in Mannheim.

00:09:25.500 Inside it was a playwright,

00:09:26.900 and it was the most popular playwright in Germany at the time.

00:09:29.320 You better check all these facts,

00:09:30.920 because I'm just trying to remember off the top of my head.

00:09:34.940 But the man who had the door was a student.

00:09:36.920 and that student was leading a movement

00:09:40.500 against this playwright

00:09:41.560 and he decided that that playwright was a traitor

00:09:45.080 and so when he came to the door 0.97

00:09:47.340 Sand stabbed him in the chest

00:09:49.240 and as he was dying

00:09:51.040 the accounts say

00:09:53.000 this little boy, four years old

00:09:55.860 came into the room

00:09:57.240 and he looked at Sand

00:10:01.300 and Sand went out in the street

00:10:05.680 and turned the knife on himself

00:10:06.860 he didn't die they nursed him back into health so they could

00:10:11.440 try him a year later they took him out to a meadow outside the city and executed him he was 24 years

00:10:16.240 old now here's the weird part the crowd came forward and soaked their handkerchiefs in his

00:10:26.120 blood they broke up pieces of the scaffold and carried them home the executioner took the timbers

00:10:33.840 out into his vineyard, and he built a little garden hut out of the timbers

00:10:38.200 and the scaffolding of the noose, of the gallows.

00:10:47.540 And he would go out there in secret and sit inside of it.

00:10:53.920 They actually gave that meadow a name.

00:10:56.760 It was called the Meadow of His Ascension.

00:11:00.200 They didn't just forgive this guy.

00:11:01.700 They canonized him because he got a traitor.

00:11:05.220 So what happened?

00:11:06.740 Because this is where the lesson is.

00:11:07.920 That's why this is the only reason why you learn history.

00:11:09.920 Not for that part of the story, for this part of the story.

00:11:12.220 So here's what happened.

00:11:13.280 The government of the German states met at this little spa town and answered.

00:11:20.280 They dissolved all of the student societies.

00:11:23.020 They put official watchers inside the universities to sit in on all of the lectures.

00:11:27.840 They blacklisted professors.

00:11:29.620 They censored the presses.

00:11:31.260 The lid that stayed clamped down on German liberty, it stayed there for 30 years.

00:11:38.860 One man decided a writer was a category instead of a man.

00:11:43.920 And then a whole generation decided that young man was a saint.

00:11:49.300 And what did they get in the end?

00:11:50.900 What did they actually purchase?

00:11:55.500 What they purchased was the excuse that took everybody's liberty away, including theirs.

00:12:01.260 the people who cheered at the meadow spent the rest of their lives in a country with a government

00:12:07.840 agent in the back of their classroom because of what they did and it doesn't come all at once

00:12:14.240 it never does it comes in order and you can watch it climb so let me show you the order

00:12:20.000 of how this happens to society and you tell me where we are on the ladder

00:12:24.800 so what happens what happens what is the ladder that gets you to a society that just

00:12:30.880 completely breaks down. First, the anonymous stops being anonymous. Somebody puts a real

00:12:36.300 name on it. And then it moves off the dead man and onto his wife and his children.

00:12:46.320 Think of Charlie Kirk. Then institutions stop condemning it and they start explaining it.

00:12:53.360 then ordinary people who aren't radicals at all start using the phrase

00:13:00.380 that really gives the whole thing away and that is look i don't condone it but

00:13:05.780 where are we so far on this ladder

00:13:09.300 then it widens off the famous man on the stage onto the kid that's walking to class with the

00:13:18.340 wrong sticker on his laptop. Now that person is a traitor. Are we on this ladder anywhere? 0.52

00:13:26.440 Have we stopped yet? We still, you with me? And here's the last one. This is the one that

00:13:33.520 ends countries. The joke stops coming after the killing and starts coming before the killing.

00:13:41.940 you know i first wrote this list down i thought of it kind of as a forecast

00:13:50.220 then i held it against you know the last 12 months um

00:13:54.680 please call me if you think i'm wrong it looks like pattern is being completed right now

00:14:00.740 the widow was mocked done permission phase is everywhere he said things too so done flyers on

00:14:11.480 the bus you know they're aimed not just at the famous man they're aimed now at whoever had to

00:14:22.520 walk past them on the way of nine o'clock class and that's widening you're a kirk supporter you're

00:14:28.440 in tp usa no no now you're the enemy not just him now you are and last week a lecturer at a

00:14:35.120 california university on his own account his own name no app hiding him commented under campus

00:14:40.920 Group's announcement of an upcoming event for a man who is still alive. He wrote that someone

00:14:47.020 could do the funniest thing just before Kirkiversary. He didn't say the word, but he

00:14:53.360 didn't have to. That's the craft of it all. Deniable enough to keep your job clear enough so everybody

00:14:59.720 reads it and they understand. Scheduled room, a date, a living man, and a joke about what might

00:15:06.060 happened to him. That's the last rung of the ladder. How many jokes have you heard about

00:15:10.860 people killing people like Charlie or Trump or me, a friend of yours?

00:15:23.580 One of them hasn't fallen. The institutions still condemn it. NYU, Maine, Nebraska, Georgetown,

00:15:29.160 South Carolina, Tennessee, UNC Charlotte, every one of them has said this is wrong. It's wrong.

00:15:35.960 It's wrong.

00:15:36.360 It's nothing.

00:15:36.940 It's nothing.

00:15:39.020 That's the last wall standing.

00:15:41.440 And I don't think that's much of a wall because I think most of these universities are saying it because they have to.

00:15:51.060 So anyway, what happens after all that?

00:15:54.700 Only two roads leave here.

00:15:56.220 The first is a mirror, and somebody keeps a ledger, and the other one keeps one back.

00:16:07.920 And after that, nobody is arguing about anything anymore.

00:16:13.500 They're just settling scores, and there's no exit from that.

00:16:18.420 It doesn't end when somebody wins.

00:16:20.700 It ends when everybody is too exhausted to go on, and decades later, they didn't get anything.

00:16:26.220 The second one is Mannheim.

00:16:28.600 Something terrible finally happens and the people with the pens write the answer and the watchers in the classroom and the list and the license and the permission slips.

00:16:37.500 Oh, and you'll be oh so popular.

00:16:49.360 At some point, at some point, we have to find a way to come together.

00:16:56.220 Because honestly, what is the end of this?

00:17:02.240 You've heard the story of Rwanda. 0.97

00:17:09.160 Neighbors turned on neighbors, killed neighbors.

00:17:13.020 Guys and people who had babysitted in the neighbor's house, helped raise the kids in the community,

00:17:20.700 went in because they got so whipped up

00:17:23.860 and they killed the neighbors and their kids.

00:17:28.700 They were friends a short time before. 0.98

00:17:31.540 Killed them.

00:17:33.220 And when the war was over, 0.98

00:17:35.700 the people who had family members that killed

00:17:39.180 wanted to kill the others.

00:17:40.940 And they could have. 0.90

00:17:42.740 But they didn't.

00:17:46.900 A very wise leader in town said,

00:17:48.900 There's a tree in every town square, if you will.

00:17:53.320 I want everybody to gather in that town.

00:17:55.820 And I want all the people who did all these things to confess.

00:18:00.300 And if you're sincere, I want you to forgive them.

00:18:08.800 You can't forgive everybody.

00:18:10.280 Some of them have to pay a price.

00:18:11.980 But some that weren't the worst of the worst, if they're sincere, forgive them.

00:18:17.580 Help them back up.

00:18:18.340 They put the country back together as best they could.

00:18:23.340 Before it gets to the slaughter of people, we really need to look at our culture and what we're doing in our culture and then ask ourselves, what's the end game here?

00:18:34.200 Honestly, what is the end game? 0.97

00:18:36.580 Because one side is already talking about tribunals.

00:18:40.220 One is already saying that there's going to be trials for anybody who was supporting Donald Trump.

00:18:46.120 What?

00:18:48.340 We don't do that.

00:18:53.240 I mean, you know, they're taking on the Kennedy Center now.

00:18:56.140 Do we have that?

00:18:57.280 Listen to this politician talking about what's happening at the Kennedy Center.

00:19:00.820 It needs to be redone.

00:19:03.540 But they don't want Donald Trump to do it.

00:19:05.220 Listen to this.

00:19:05.840 This is a congressman.

00:19:06.580 The president's proclivity, his inclination in this administration is towards violence.

00:19:13.140 You've seen the violence on the buildings of the East Wing.

00:19:17.520 It was a very much a historical figure and institution, the building, had so much history.

00:19:25.920 Same thing that's happened with the reflecting pool.

00:19:29.780 Violence on buildings.

00:19:32.380 The president of the United States, this particular one, happens to be a builder.

00:19:36.060 That's what he does.

00:19:38.120 And so he is taking things down and rebuilding them.

00:19:41.520 He wants to rebuild the Kennedy Center.

00:19:44.380 That whole press conference was because they will not stand for the violence on buildings.

00:19:49.120 Watch your rhetoric, sir.

00:19:51.800 Watch your rhetoric.

00:19:53.320 The violence on buildings?

00:19:55.120 No, he wants to remodel it.

00:19:57.120 He wants to fix it.

00:19:58.540 That's one thing this guy is good at.

00:20:00.360 He's built his whole life around building.

00:20:04.480 Others are tearing down.

00:20:06.320 Which side are you on?

00:20:08.260 Building up or tearing down?

00:20:10.180 I'm for building up.

00:20:12.540 But pick a side.

00:20:13.880 pick a side and then try to be a peacemaker because we are going to have to come back

00:20:19.940 together this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening

00:20:24.360 welcome to the glenn beck program

00:20:28.040 so i want to bring in a couple of a couple of people uh that um

00:20:35.920 that i mean i just can't you know i was talking about how we we you know we we have to start

00:20:41.660 listening to each other being decent to each other and i was in utah last week for charlie

00:20:47.640 kirk's uh you know memorial one year memorial and i said to my son who goes to college and i said

00:20:53.700 you know what are people saying you know when when you're at the tp usa table and he said dad

00:20:58.100 one girl walked by and excuse me for this but one girl she said he said probably 19 really pretty

00:21:04.660 walks by and goes oh oh my throat hurts and he's like I just stood there and I was what is wrong

00:21:13.300 with you what is wrong with you and I said how'd you answer and he said I didn't and I said good

00:21:19.280 um and you know if that happens to you there's how you answer it you know Charlie if you would

00:21:26.800 have had a chance to meet him Charlie would have listened to you for an hour and he probably would

00:21:31.360 have ended up liking you, and maybe you would have ended up liking him. Have a good day.

00:21:37.100 Don't fight back, because they win. When you fight back like that, they win. Say something

00:21:41.800 to them that makes them think at two o'clock in the morning, oh crap, I feel like a bad human 0.67

00:21:47.520 being, because that's what gets people to change. You say such kind things back to them, they change

00:21:54.740 at two o'clock in the morning. They're not going to change when the crowd is cheering.

00:21:57.960 now a couple of days ago i hear about another girl that comes on another campus and she's made

00:22:06.960 a cake for kirkiversary um and she goes up to uh riley barnes riley beasley this isn't going to be

00:22:17.680 an impossible interview because they're both rileys one's a boy one's a girl and yes i can

00:22:22.640 identify boys and girls but uh anyway so one of them is a guy one of them is a woman and and i'm

00:22:30.120 gonna have to just say riley boy riley girl uh i don't want to answer uh from one of them but

00:22:35.880 welcome to the program these guys they were investigated for exposing this ghoul for

00:22:43.080 for celebrating charlie kirk's death and they didn't they didn't dox they didn't let me have

00:22:49.960 them tell the story uh let's start with uh riley barnes girl go hi thank you for having us first

00:23:00.060 off but yeah we were trying to promote the charlie kirk memorial and we had a whiteboard that had

00:23:07.560 tally marks for yes and no and we put the question do you think that charlie kirk deserved to be

00:23:13.620 murdered this woman came up and she started laughing on our board and she said oh i think

00:23:19.260 my cake is pretty funny we then request her to remove the lid of the cake which he gladly did

00:23:24.340 and then we saw that it said happy kirkiversary and then we told her that we were going to take

00:23:29.500 a picture and she sat there and posed for us for 10 minutes okay so i mean think of think of this 1.00

00:23:40.120 woman's sad life she took all that time out to go get a cake have it made to bring to say to you two 1.00

00:23:48.040 And, like, she knows this is going to go on social media because unless she gets just really sick, twisted pleasure for saying it to two people. 0.97

00:23:58.420 So what happened then after that?

00:24:01.280 Riley, boy, go.

00:24:03.480 Yeah, well, I'm so glad that you can identify whether we are a boy or a girl.

00:24:07.900 And I'm excited to be on the show here, Glenn.

00:24:10.040 And just to reiterate here, we were actually that day promoting the event that you were speaking at, the Memorial at UVU for Charlie Kirk.

00:24:19.040 So what happens next is we take that photo, and then it ends up online.

00:24:23.960 She poses as Riley Barnes, Riley Girl says, and this post goes viral.

00:24:30.560 One of the biggest posts that we've ever had, and we've had some big posts before.

00:24:34.780 And for just finally so, she faces a lot of backlash.

00:24:38.360 I think it's vile. I think it's disgusting when you're going up to a group of conservatives on the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's murder and showing them a happy Kirkiversary cake when they're doing nothing more than promoting an event to memorialize the tragedy that occurred just 45 minutes down the road at UVU.

00:24:58.120 so i would go and say it's despicable even if it wasn't a conservative and i know you didn't mean

00:25:03.560 that but i mean i would broaden that it is despicable what is ghoulish it is absolutely

00:25:07.920 ghoulish okay so now the school starts coming after you guys what did you say on that post

00:25:14.680 all i said on the post was what is wrong with students in utah perfectly logical okay so then

00:25:24.320 the the the university comes after you yeah shockingly i have no idea what they were thinking

00:25:33.700 to begin with but what were they what were they coming after you guys for

00:25:38.980 so one of one of the things that the university was alleging when they had summoned us to a

00:25:44.780 meeting was that we participated or were involved in uh doxing they they thought this was some sort

00:25:51.120 a dox campaign. And, you know, luckily enough, the university has come to its common senses just

00:25:57.060 yesterday now and fully dismissed our case because, one, they were lacking in evidence of

00:26:02.580 any proof that we had any involvement in doxing because we didn't. Doxing is a serious allegation

00:26:09.000 here. Doxing has a criminal element to it. And I can say confidently that I and no other member

00:26:17.680 of our organization has had any involvement or coordination in anything illegal, including

00:26:21.680 doxing. Two, we had great legal counsel. Erica Kirk actually played a major role in us getting

00:26:29.780 that counsel. She put some lawyers on a retainer for us, and they provided expert legal services,

00:26:35.900 which were to our benefit. And then three, at the end of the day, the university backed down

00:26:42.060 on this because of the massive backlash they received on social media. Rightfully so. They

00:26:47.320 went after two conservative students for calling out somebody celebrating murder instead of actually

00:26:53.000 addressing the fact that students on their campus are celebrating murder. Riley, what do you take

00:27:00.300 from all of this? I've talked about this a couple of times this week. I talked about it in my speech

00:27:05.300 that when a culture loses, especially it's women, 0.99

00:27:13.260 when women become coarse and guys or slugs,

00:27:18.980 we look up to women, and it's not your responsibility, 0.97

00:27:21.540 but it does.

00:27:22.720 We hold ourselves to a higher standard 0.63

00:27:25.220 because women, and women have always been nurturing and kind, 0.97

00:27:29.960 they're the ones that do that. 0.99

00:27:31.320 We go to war. 1.00

00:27:32.080 women are the ones that say knock it off and so we do i'm seeing women now become 0.90

00:27:40.080 as bad as the most ghoulish men i have ever seen is how rampant is this 0.58

00:27:47.440 it's honestly very unfortunate i am saying that this is more of a norm especially in our younger

00:27:54.300 generations of them celebrating political violence or just them being violent themselves

00:28:01.100 as a human. And I completely agree with you. I think that women are way worse than men in this

00:28:06.900 situation. Women think that they are a protected class so they can do whatever they want. And 1.00

00:28:13.160 that's not okay. And they shouldn't think that way either.

00:28:19.180 I wonder, has something died in all of us? I mean, women are naturally more 1.00

00:28:30.140 nurturing. And it feels like that is dying in there. I mean, when you have women sitting in 1.00

00:28:37.180 a courtroom and saying, you know what, it'll be good for women if we dismiss the fact that she 1.00

00:28:45.160 just brutally strangled three of her kids. You're hearing people holding up pictures of their kids 1.00

00:28:55.640 going, yeah, me too, I get it. I mean, what is happening? Yeah, I would love to speak to this

00:29:03.220 one. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I believe when you're living

00:29:06.940 in these end times that evil will be seen as good, and good will be seen as evil. And I think this is

00:29:15.320 what's going on in this situation. You're seeing all across this country radicalization, this

00:29:22.160 polarization between you know man and woman left and right whatever it may be but at the end of

00:29:28.380 the day it seems like good is being punished and bad is being celebrated and i think that's

00:29:34.320 something really wrong going back to your last question too it's not only women earlier in the

00:29:39.360 year at the university of utah we had a a man who came up to one of our booths when we were doing a

00:29:45.620 debate style, debate at the University of Utah. And this individual ended up getting arrested by

00:29:52.720 university police because he said to us at our booth, as we're conservatives, that he was going

00:29:58.120 to Kirk us. And I don't think it takes much of an imagination to maybe understand what he might

00:30:04.180 have meant by that. But we're seeing this on all fronts. There's a pattern of radicalization being

00:30:10.060 seen at the University of Utah and really just colleges in general across the country.

00:30:15.220 It's weird how, you know, and I think that's why evil took a stand in Utah.

00:30:21.820 You would not expect stuff like this to happen in Utah.

00:30:25.000 And if it can get there, it can get anywhere.

00:30:27.140 You know, you think of these campuses being, you know, soft and, you know, and kind and everything else.

00:30:32.600 But it's everywhere.

00:30:33.600 It's absolutely everywhere.

00:30:35.640 How are you feeling?

00:30:36.720 Does this embolden you or does this lead you to say, you know, there's a lot of risk in this?

00:30:45.760 I don't know.

00:30:47.920 How are people in your community interpreting this for themselves?

00:30:53.640 I'd like to hear from both of you.

00:30:55.900 Yeah, I'll jump on this one first.

00:30:57.360 Something that we're seeing at the University of Utah is insane growth.

00:31:01.800 Conservative students are seeing what the university was trying to levy against the two of us.

00:31:06.720 And they understand that now it's time they need to get involved and they need to stand with us in this fight.

00:31:12.460 And luckily the case was dismissed. But that doesn't mean that the campus culture has changed either with students or faculty.

00:31:19.820 So we've seen immense growth over this past week. And we're we're fortunate to have so many great patriots at the University of Utah that are willing to stand with us and get involved.

00:31:32.840 Riley, girl, go.

00:31:34.220 yeah I think the way that Riley just phrased that was just beautiful honestly we are seeing a lot

00:31:42.460 of growth with what happened from honestly a lot of students on campus as well the amount of

00:31:48.600 messages or dms that I have gone from students saying this is what I needed to get involved so

00:31:55.220 that people can hear my voice is exactly what we needed to show them and it is inspiring to see

00:32:01.900 that these students are now ready to be on campus, to show their voice, and to be an open conservative.

00:32:09.720 I'm proud of the two of you. I think you are, I mean, I know that probably doesn't mean anything,

00:32:14.140 but, you know, I'm proud of you. I know how hard it is. I know how confusing your life is. I know

00:32:21.440 what you're going through on campus, after campus, after campus, and to be able to hold strong,

00:32:29.220 not respond uh in kind instead be kind and respond with the truth um is you're going to

00:32:37.980 you will change hearts like i said earlier in the middle of the night you may not win the room

00:32:43.240 but you will change hearts in the middle of the night because that's the place that's the only

00:32:47.540 place that people really change their heart is it two o'clock in the morning when they're laying in

00:32:51.200 bed reviewing what the hell they are as a human being so congratulations on that thank you so

00:32:56.960 much thank you you bet thank you glenn you know what's really tough about this story is

00:33:03.600 the lawyers got involved and not everybody's going to be able to have a lawyer not everybody's going

00:33:10.600 to get the attention of you know erica kirk and i think that's what really changed this around

00:33:18.660 lawyers got involved and lawyers said really you want to play this game and all of a sudden they

00:33:22.600 change their tune in seconds we have to be vigilant and we have to be good to each other and we have

00:33:29.220 to support those organizations that are lawyering up uh to protect our kids in their college campuses

00:33:36.000 because it's a jungle really is a jungle things are changing this is the best of the glenbeck

00:33:43.160 program all right i know how everybody feels right now because i i feel it every time i go to the

00:33:51.520 gas pump i go to the gas pump and it cost me you know 80 90 dollars to put you know fuel in my tank

00:33:57.260 and i'm like what what how this can't last it can't last and i know that diesel is over six

00:34:04.660 bucks a gallon and that can't last because that's baked into all of the tractors so our farming

00:34:09.400 all of the trucks the diesel and the trains that move everything i mean it's bad

00:34:16.820 but is that what is really happening yes those numbers are real but what are the rest of the

00:34:25.960 numbers we just got numbers out the poverty rate in the united states just fell to the lowest on

00:34:33.860 record ever not the lowest in a decade the lowest since we started counting the lowest poverty

00:34:42.460 record, the lowest poverty

00:34:44.440 rate in the history of the

00:34:46.440 United States. I don't know, let's

00:34:48.400 take a moment. Shall we?

00:34:51.040 Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

00:34:53.900 That's 0.99

00:34:54.500 worth celebrating.

00:34:57.360 By the way,

00:34:58.460 he only likes the rich people.

00:35:01.100 Lowest

00:35:01.780 poverty rate in

00:35:04.080 history.

00:35:06.480 Same report.

00:35:08.360 Real median household income

00:35:10.260 in 2025 was

00:35:12.440 $87,460. That is an increase of $2,250 in one year. That is the highest on record going back

00:35:25.180 to 1967. Now that's real meaning after inflation. So that's not a bigger number on a paycheck that

00:35:34.360 buys less. That number is after inflation. So that's more groceries, more house, more gas in

00:35:41.100 the tank than the year before, in one year. Now, so you know, this is really unusual. Those numbers

00:35:48.440 don't usually travel together. Usually when the top does well, the bottom gets left behind.

00:35:54.460 This time, the floor came up. I thought that couldn't happen. I thought the free market was

00:36:01.040 just the worst thing for all they cared about was rich, rich, rich, rich, rich.

00:36:04.400 now this week the Atlanta Fed has come out with their GDP now model this runs the estimates of

00:36:13.180 what the economy is actually doing right now so you don't have to wait you know until the end of

00:36:18.420 the quarter you want to know what's happening right now let's look at the let's let's look at

00:36:22.480 the speed. Where are we going? On September 10th, it read 4.4% real GDP. Let me give that number to

00:36:35.520 you here with some perspective. Biden, his first quarter in his last year was 1.6. Second quarter

00:36:44.580 was 3.0. Third quarter was 3.1. Fourth quarter was 2.4. Okay. So he's about 3%, 2.8% for the year,

00:36:58.520 his last year. Let me go back. What did I just say that was? 4.4. September 10th, real GDP

00:37:05.620 read 4.4. However, if you check it, what was it, last night? Is it the, yeah, 16, two nights ago.

00:37:15.340 If you check it two nights ago, that number was up from 4.4 to 5.1. 5.1 annualized. Do you know

00:37:24.700 what that means? 5.1, that's not a recovery. That's a boom. Remember when China was just

00:37:32.300 slaughtering everybody their economy was just out of control they're building these ghost cities 0.95

00:37:37.140 and everything else and it was bogus but you remember that that number was seven to eight

00:37:42.720 percent GDP we're at 5.1 and it's real we have to understand the administration I god bless them I

00:37:54.020 love them but the worst thing they do is PR how come these number I this is this is what the

00:38:00.380 president should be talking about all the time august jobs 162 000 wall street had penciled in

00:38:09.460 53 000 so it's triple the forecast that's the strongest month since march then they went back

00:38:18.880 and revised june and july but remember every time that every time that happened under biden

00:38:25.800 they revised those numbers down. July just got flipped from a reported loss to a gain of 21,000.

00:38:34.320 The number inside that report tells you everything. 683,000. What's that number? 683,000 Americans

00:38:46.000 walked back into the labor force in a single month. Those are people who stopped looking for work

00:38:54.140 that started looking again, got a job, and are now working.

00:38:59.460 Now, why, if you were on the unemployment line,

00:39:03.280 if you had stopped looking for work,

00:39:05.640 why would you start looking for work again?

00:39:07.760 Why would you go get a job?

00:39:10.880 One, I guess, let's be really cynical,

00:39:15.840 you didn't want to work.

00:39:17.180 You want somebody else to pay for it.

00:39:19.340 Okay, well, I'm glad you got a job now,

00:39:21.840 and I'm not paying for you anymore.

00:39:24.140 The other is, because you smell it in the air, there's something happening.

00:39:28.720 There are jobs that are starting to open up.

00:39:31.940 And the count of people stuck in part-time job work that wanted full-time dropped by almost half a million people.

00:39:40.700 414,000 that were working part-time that are now, and they wanted a full-time job, and they now have a full-time job.

00:39:50.220 414,000.

00:39:51.340 In a month, that's 414,000 kitchen table conversations that just got an awful lot easier.

00:40:00.120 Inflation.

00:40:01.480 Here's the headline.

00:40:03.200 3.4% year over year.

00:40:06.860 Okay.

00:40:08.020 True.

00:40:09.260 Not great.

00:40:11.860 Core inflation.

00:40:12.920 That's taking out food and fuel, and I know that's how they measure it.

00:40:17.000 Core inflation.

00:40:17.800 food and fuel are the things that are affected by wars and weather how we've been doing on

00:40:24.920 the weather this year gang how are we doing all war you take core inflation and it is running at

00:40:32.880 2.5 percent and over the last three months headline inflation has run at an annualized rate

00:40:39.440 of 0.18 percent two tenths of one percent the fever is breaking

00:40:49.620 business investment is up 8.5 percent equipment chips tooling the boring stuff companies like

00:40:58.500 these are the things companies do because they believe next year is going to be better

00:41:03.900 Residential construction just posted its first increase in six quarters.

00:41:08.920 Somebody's finally building houses again.

00:41:13.340 And now the part you feel every time you pull up to the pump.

00:41:17.320 Because I can't tell you that your food price isn't up.

00:41:21.000 I can't tell you your gas price.

00:41:22.340 You know that.

00:41:24.260 Gas is an outrageous $4.31.

00:41:27.860 Diesel is $6.20.

00:41:31.040 That's an all-time record.

00:41:32.340 set this month, and it's still climbing. Well, that's because he went into war with Iran. No,

00:41:38.880 no, no. No, it's not. No, it's not. The Strait of Hormuz, the war, the tankers. Hormuz is

00:41:46.120 absolutely the reason, when you're pumping gas into your car, that's absolutely the reason it

00:41:52.000 costs. That's all war. That was his choice, if you want to say it that way. But diesel is a

00:41:59.720 different story and why isn't this story everywhere because diesel is biden the truth came out over

00:42:10.780 the last 10 days the ukrainian drones the ukrainian drones have been flying over the border and going

00:42:19.520 into russia and taking out their refineries not oil fields the refineries the international

00:42:26.640 Energy Agency says a Russian refinery was successfully struck on average once every

00:42:32.140 three days for the first eight months of this year. What does that mean? Three of Russia's

00:42:39.340 largest, three of the six largest diesel producing refineries have been slashed or shut down on their

00:42:47.420 output this month. Russian refinery for diesel is now at a 24-year low. Moscow has banned all

00:42:54.860 diesel exports outright just to keep their own trucks working and moving. You take that much

00:43:02.540 diesel off the world market and every gallon everywhere gets bid up and up and up and up.

00:43:09.480 The European refining margin, the benchmark set now diesel prices across most of the planet

00:43:15.360 runs $12 to $18 over crude.

00:43:20.820 It closed near $94.

00:43:25.720 We haven't bought Russian oil since 2002.

00:43:29.420 It doesn't matter. 0.88

00:43:31.340 It's all one market.

00:43:34.920 And here's why this is actually better news than you assume.

00:43:38.920 The price has been driven by a supply that has been knocked offline with a fixable price.

00:43:45.360 Refineries can get repaired.

00:43:47.680 Targets lists can change.

00:43:49.540 Cease fires can happen.

00:43:51.320 A war could end.

00:43:53.520 Our own refiners are running hard into the most profitable diesel spread in history.

00:43:59.400 And capital moves really fast.

00:44:03.220 So, what does all this mean?

00:44:10.700 I got to tell you, I am very concerned.

00:44:12.900 I see the price of gasoline.

00:44:14.620 I see the price of oil, and that has to be solved.

00:44:18.500 I see the price of diesel, and that has to be solved.

00:44:21.640 But when you look at all of the other numbers that are happening,

00:44:24.680 this is not an American economy that is broken.

00:44:27.680 This is an American economy running at 5% with record incomes

00:44:32.920 and the lowest poverty ever measured in the history of our country

00:44:37.400 that's paying a premium for war.

00:44:42.780 Fix the war, and that last bad number goes away. 0.50

00:44:48.980 So, if you want to say, yeah, well, that's Donald Trump and war, Iran.

00:44:54.640 Okay, he'll take the gas price, but you got to take the diesel price.

00:45:02.420 The question is, really, who's the president that's going to stop it?

00:45:06.020 my guess is president trump is going to wait until the end of the this is a total guess

00:45:12.180 he's going to wait until the uh the election and then he's going to go hammer the bat snot 0.83

00:45:18.740 out of those crazy mfers that's what's going to happen so what's going to happen because it has 0.96

00:45:25.820 to end and so i mean what are his choices he just said he just said in an interview someplace you 0.99

00:45:33.540 know i've got a couple of choices i can either just kill them all or not well what do you think 0.97

00:45:38.780 he's going to do because he can't give him a win what do you think he's going to do he's going to 0.99

00:45:42.120 make it stop he's going to wait until after the election and i got to tell you uh it'll be even

00:45:50.520 more dramatic if the democrats win because he'll know he'll have from november to january

00:45:57.120 to finish it. Because once they get in, they'll destroy everything America is working towards.

00:46:04.540 They'll destroy it. So here's the thing you need to know. We have wages ahead of prices for the

00:46:11.760 first time. We have people off the sidelines going back to work in record numbers. We lifted the

00:46:18.120 bottom instead of just the top. That's the part that was supposed to be impossible for a free

00:46:24.180 market, remember. The pump is all that's left. And the pump, in some ways, is the easy part.

00:46:33.020 That one only takes peace. Let me go to Joshua in North Carolina. Hello, Josh.

00:46:42.120 Hey there, Glenn. You know, I've been better. Look, the reason why I call, first off, love you.

00:46:49.800 Thank you. I love you. And I never call in. But when I heard the last segment, I had to.

00:46:57.360 You're talking about how the economy is great. And, you know, we have all these these great things that are happening in the economy.

00:47:03.800 And we just got to fix the gas prices and the diesel prices.

00:47:08.380 Well, we're to me, you sound like the Democrats when they were trying to convince us that the economy was great, but nobody felt it.

00:47:18.000 I know that.

00:47:18.840 All right.

00:47:20.460 You're saying the economy is great, but we do not feel it.

00:47:25.100 We do not feel it.

00:47:26.040 So, Josh, that's why I said gas prices.

00:47:28.580 Gas prices affect food and your transportation, and it bakes into almost everything.

00:47:35.880 The gas price is a massive, massive problem.

00:47:39.740 What I'm trying to show is not that you should feel good about, hey, I'm making it.

00:47:44.600 A lot of people are not making it.

00:47:46.060 You're really strong.

00:47:46.860 That gas price, I don't know how people afford food and transportation right now.

00:47:50.940 I don't.

00:47:51.900 I feel it every time I go and fill up my gas tank.

00:47:54.620 I'm looking at that number going, how does the average person do this?

00:47:58.460 So I completely understand that.

00:48:00.520 I just wanted to show you that the fundamentals on the direction that we're headed, we have

00:48:06.620 massive problems with gas.

00:48:09.000 We do.

00:48:09.960 Massive problems with diesel.

00:48:11.520 We do.

00:48:12.560 But the direction is going the right way.

00:48:16.240 So you can feel it.

00:48:18.420 You can even say, I can't take it anymore and whatever.

00:48:21.440 But don't think that nothing is happening behind the scenes because I've told you for a long time, I don't think you're really going to feel Donald Trump's effect for five to ten years because he is building, he is fixing infrastructure.

00:48:37.120 And nobody likes when you fix infrastructure because it snarls traffic while they're building new bridges.

00:48:42.960 But once those bridges are built, everybody loves it.

00:48:45.580 The problem is getting to the end of the bridge being built, and that's the things that nobody is seeing, and so I'm trying to show you that bridges are being built in the right areas and really good things are happening, but that doesn't mean that you're going to feel it necessarily.

00:49:03.900 A couple of thoughts. Trump may be doing those good things, but can you honestly say that if the Democrats win the next presidential election, that any of those quote-unquote good things will continue?

00:49:20.820 I don't think they will.

00:49:21.660 Yeah, I can, because you have $20 trillion, and he doesn't ever explain this, $20 trillion in foreign investment.

00:49:29.820 Those are factories that are going to be built and are being built.

00:49:34.020 You have numbers in your business sector, corporate numbers, that show they are reinvesting.

00:49:40.240 You don't do that if you think this is short-term, because it takes you too long before a factory is going to open up.

00:49:46.900 And so a lot of this stuff is happening.

00:49:50.400 That's the other reason why everybody's saying, Glenn, he's paying attention to Europe and he's paying attention all day. Yeah, because notice what he's done just with oil. He's putting it all here. That's why Canada is so important. He's putting it all in the Western Hemisphere so we don't have to worry about the rest of the world.

00:50:09.740 If the Democrats win the House and the Senate, we're in trouble.

00:50:13.520 If he wins and we're going to see more, we will see more growth and we can stop these things.

00:50:19.080 I don't think you're going to have a Democrat win in 28.

00:50:22.560 I think you're going to have enough prosperity that it will be able to move forward with the Trump agenda.

00:50:28.420 We knew when we first got in, when he first got in, and I told you this, he told me, I said, can we do this in four years?

00:50:36.580 And he said, no. And he said, I've got two years before it gets really tough. He said, we need eight to 12 years. We have to follow this. They've been building the opposite for 100. Don't expect this to be built in four years. It's not.

00:50:53.120 but this is the biggest step forward away from that progressive Marxist nightmare I've ever seen 0.93

00:51:00.740 in all of American history so not trying to say your life doesn't suck right now I recognize that

00:51:06.640 I'm trying to say have hope you're listening to the best of Glenn Beck need a little more

00:51:11.160 check out the full show podcasts anywhere you download podcasts look I

00:51:17.260 I have been saying for a while people are not feeling it people are not feeling it they're not

00:51:24.800 feeling what's going on but I also didn't have until the last 10 days I didn't have the numbers

00:51:31.560 that show that the body is getting better what we're going through right now with such damage we

00:51:38.220 had let me let me ask you this did the United States of America with what has been done to it

00:51:46.260 in the last 20 years with the way the Democrats have been running it, the way both parties have

00:51:53.240 been spending us into oblivion, everything that was going on, our education, our culture,

00:51:59.080 everything. Would you agree with me that you could say this country had cancer?

00:52:04.620 We had a deadly form of cancer. If you say no to that, then why did you think it was

00:52:12.120 the most important thing

00:52:14.680 to make sure that Donald Trump won?

00:52:17.600 Was that just

00:52:18.800 hype? Because I

00:52:20.800 actually felt our country was over

00:52:23.020 if we didn't start

00:52:24.820 fixing this. I believe

00:52:26.780 the country had deep

00:52:28.340 bone cancer.

00:52:31.520 When you have

00:52:32.560 cancer, what do you do?

00:52:35.840 You either

00:52:36.900 do, honestly,

00:52:39.060 what the rest of the world is doing

00:52:40.800 to Europe, and that is just give everybody a drug. Just give everybody a drug, and we'll ease the pain

00:52:47.720 as it dies, okay? They just nurse it down until it's gone, but everybody feels better because

00:52:55.420 they're just managing the decline. You manage the death. That's what we were doing, gang. We were

00:53:01.940 managing the death. If you want to stop the cancer, what do you do? Unfortunately, in this barbaric

00:53:08.780 time period that we live in, because I think it will be remembered as barbaric,

00:53:14.920 chemotherapy. Why is it barbaric? Because it almost kills the patient. It's a race.

00:53:22.640 Which is the chemotherapy going to kill first, the cancer or the patient? It's insanity,

00:53:28.840 but it's the only thing that works. We had cancer. Would you say

00:53:38.220 When you're in chemotherapy, you feel better than when you had cancer?

00:53:44.360 Because I've never met anybody who was going through the chemotherapy and went,

00:53:48.440 Oh, I feel so much better.

00:53:50.380 You feel like you want to die. 0.95

00:53:52.280 You pray for death.

00:53:53.800 Just make it stop. 0.90

00:53:54.920 I can't do this anymore.

00:53:56.720 Okay? 0.95

00:53:58.720 If you stop the chemotherapy, you die.

00:54:01.700 If you continue with the chemotherapy, you might live.

00:54:11.400 What do you do all the way through?

00:54:15.540 You start to watch, is the cancer receding?

00:54:19.520 Is this working?

00:54:21.620 You don't feel like it's working.

00:54:24.220 That's why you have to look at the stats.

00:54:26.720 Is the chemotherapy making the cancer recede?

00:54:30.040 what i showed you on the economy you are vomiting from chemotherapy

00:54:36.620 you are weak you are and i don't mean weak like you can't handle the truth i mean you're weak 0.62

00:54:44.360 you've been beaten up the economy's been beaten up the country the culture everything has been 0.99

00:54:49.960 beaten up forever and then a guy comes in and says here's what we're gonna do and he does stuff

00:54:56.280 that everybody's like wait that looks like chemotherapy that looks very dangerous yep and

00:55:00.260 we're doing it otherwise the country will die and he's doing it and everybody is saying this is worse

00:55:06.840 i feel worse i feel worse i feel worse i know i know wait until we get to the debt in a few years

00:55:12.260 gang if this doesn't work we're really up a creek without a paddle so you're feeling

00:55:25.720 the sickness and the cure at the same time.

00:55:32.560 The cure for gasoline is Straits of Hormuz.

00:55:36.920 That's what's happened. 0.99

00:55:37.640 The Straits of Hormuz is the problem that keeps us in the Middle East, 0.99

00:55:42.460 our forever wars. 1.00

00:55:44.420 You want to cure that?

00:55:45.960 Good. 1.00

00:55:46.320 Then you have to take care of Iran.

00:55:48.600 You want to make sure that Iran and others don't hold us hostage in the Middle East?

00:55:53.780 Good.

00:55:54.140 then what you have to do is fix the Strait of Hormuz,

00:55:57.740 make sure that there are pipelines there

00:55:59.240 that can get that oil out, but stop relying on that.

00:56:03.000 Go get oil someplace else.

00:56:04.860 Open it up here, which he did.

00:56:07.080 Then buy the Venezuelan oil, get the Venezuelan oil,

00:56:11.380 get that online, work with Canada,

00:56:15.540 if Canada would work with us, work with Canada,

00:56:18.260 get that oil.

00:56:18.940 Now you are the largest oil producer in the world

00:56:23.960 You're beholden to no one.

00:56:25.980 But you haven't felt that.

00:56:28.080 You haven't felt it because all you're feeling is the chemotherapy that is going to stop the forever wars,

00:56:33.140 hopefully if the plan works, and get us off of that teat over there.

00:56:40.620 But once that is done, the body should feel a lot better.

00:56:48.460 And the body will be stronger.

00:56:50.120 All I did was, I'm not trying to tell you that you don't feel, that you should feel good.

00:56:56.920 What? You're imagining, you're not imagining things. It sucks.

00:57:05.560 You're at the grocery store. You're at the gas station. I know exactly what you're going through. 1.00

00:57:11.300 You're in chemotherapy, and I'm just trying to say, hold on, hold on. Let me show you the stats.

00:57:16.460 this therapy is working. It's working. You're not going to feel it for a while. There's probably

00:57:23.400 lots of vomiting ahead, but it's working. If you're a chemotherapy patient, while you're there,

00:57:32.880 don't you want somebody to hold your hair back as you're vomiting in the toilet going, 0.97

00:57:36.860 I know, I know this sucks. I know this sucks. I know this sucks. But listen to me, it's working. 0.99

00:57:41.760 it's working you are getting better the cancer is receding that's an important message

00:57:48.700 and that's the message that needs to be said to people because people are starting to say

00:57:54.100 this chemotherapy is not working at all and it's only making things worse and I got to go to

00:57:58.420 Marxism no that's more cancer that's why that's why I did this monologue today not to not to

00:58:10.460 sound like Joe Biden. I hate it. I hate it. I was at the RNC and the president was shouting numbers 0.95

00:58:16.160 and stuff. And I'm like, hey, those numbers don't translate to anything. People don't understand

00:58:21.440 what that number means. And nobody's feeling it. Nobody is feeling it. So if you were shouting that

00:58:32.200 at me a few minutes ago, I get it. But I want you to know that's not what I'm doing. I'm not trying

00:58:36.780 to say, what's wrong with you? Why don't you see this? I'm telling you, nobody's showing you the

00:58:41.760 stats. Nobody's showing you the actual, we're doing the checkup. We're running the tests.

00:58:47.940 We're looking at your blood. We're seeing all the things that you won't feel for a while.

00:58:53.080 And the numbers are really good. The cancer is receding. You know, you don't feel better the

00:59:00.680 day after surgery. You probably feel worse. You go in and do something and you have to have

00:59:04.840 surgery, you feel worse the next day. Why? Because they just cut you open.

00:59:12.880 Have you ever remodeled a house? The money pit is the funny version of that.

00:59:21.440 But if you've ever remodeled a house, it'll tear the family apart.

00:59:28.800 It's the hardest thing. You ever go through marriage therapy? You probably will argue

00:59:34.020 more during the therapy at first

00:59:36.120 because you're lancing

00:59:37.920 the wound.

00:59:42.100 Ever gone to physical therapy?

00:59:45.900 I say the same thing to my wife and she's like, 1.00

00:59:47.780 I don't want to hear you whine.

00:59:49.500 I go to physical therapy. If I've ever gone to physical

00:59:51.740 therapy, I come home and I say the same thing.

00:59:53.540 I feel worse. I feel worse.

00:59:56.100 She's like, yes, you're going

00:59:57.860 to feel worse for a while.

01:00:01.740 It's not getting better.

01:00:02.820 Yes, it is. You just don't know it yet.

01:00:12.000 I'm a recovering alcoholic.

01:00:14.920 The hardest thing in my life to do was to admit I'm an alcoholic, that I had a drinking problem.

01:00:22.800 It was easier to admit it to friends than it was to even myself.

01:00:29.600 And that's not the hard part.

01:00:30.980 The hard part is then digging into your life and finding out what it is that makes you drink.

01:00:39.140 You know what makes me drink?

01:00:40.480 I want to forget all of the things in my life.

01:00:44.440 You think I'm going to get better by looking at all of those things directly in the eye?

01:00:51.380 No.

01:00:53.120 Yeah. 0.97

01:00:54.440 The first year sucked.

01:00:56.940 Anybody I've ever run to, if you're a recovering alcoholic and you're just starting the program, let me tell you this. 0.69

01:01:07.620 Say this every time.

01:01:09.320 Dude, it is hell.

01:01:12.800 It's going to suck, but it is so worth it.

01:01:17.360 Life gets so great.

01:01:20.460 You just have to do it.

01:01:22.860 You just have to get through it.

01:01:26.940 Have you ever had an argument with your wife or your husband where your kids fall or they fail?

01:01:38.300 And one of you reaches to fix it for them and the other one goes, no, no, no, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.

01:01:47.100 I know, but it takes so much more time if I don't.

01:01:50.020 I know, but they're crying and they're hurt.

01:01:54.840 Yeah, they got to go through it.

01:01:56.940 Is that a good dad or a good mom?

01:02:00.300 You're letting your child suffer?

01:02:02.120 They're going through hard things?

01:02:04.880 Yeah.

01:02:06.180 Why?

01:02:07.240 Because to get stronger, you have to go through hard times.

01:02:11.360 Hard times made us.

01:02:14.920 Hard times is what made Americans Americans. 0.99

01:02:18.380 Do you think my great-great-grandmother who lost an eye on the wagon trail?

01:02:26.940 Do you think she wanted to cross those mountains?

01:02:29.980 I don't know. 0.99

01:02:30.440 She might have been crazy.

01:02:31.940 But I don't think most of them looked at those mountains and went,

01:02:34.540 this is going to be fun.

01:02:36.880 They knew there was something better on the other side.

01:02:40.560 But if, and this is what the media is doing to you right now.

01:02:47.040 Honestly, this is what I would have been doing if we were on the wagon trail

01:02:49.920 and we were going over the Rocky Mountains.

01:02:51.980 This is what I would have been doing. 1.00

01:02:53.380 I want to kill the leader right now. 1.00

01:02:55.320 I want to kill him. 1.00

01:02:56.100 You know how nice it was in Denver? 1.00

01:02:58.860 And he said, it's just over this mountain, and we get on top of that mountain,

01:03:01.720 and you see all those mountain peaks.

01:03:03.740 We have to go down and up and down and up and down and up and down and up

01:03:06.520 where we could all be fine in Denver right now. 1.00

01:03:09.540 Let's kill him. 1.00

01:03:10.640 I would have been that guy. 1.00

01:03:12.340 That's the press today.

01:03:16.200 Are you kidding me?

01:03:17.540 We're going up this mountain.

01:03:18.860 I thought we went up the mountain.

01:03:20.400 We voted for the guy.

01:03:21.480 That was the hardest thing we've done.

01:03:23.260 We got it done.

01:03:24.540 He's in.

01:03:25.260 he's doing all these things

01:03:27.060 and look we're at the top of that mountain

01:03:29.260 and look at all these we're going to go down again

01:03:31.380 then we got to go up and then we got to go down again

01:03:33.380 then we got to go up and then we got to go down again

01:03:34.980 yes because the Pacific

01:03:37.340 Coast is worth it

01:03:38.560 I do not want to

01:03:47.480 please do not

01:03:49.480 misconstrue I am not dismissing

01:03:51.380 how you feel I know how you feel

01:03:53.740 I feel it.

01:03:55.080 I just said to my wife, she was talking about filling up gas,

01:03:59.700 and I'm like, we are in so much trouble if this thing doesn't work.

01:04:02.860 We are all in so much trouble.

01:04:04.560 Everything is so close to the edge.

01:04:07.800 I feel it too.

01:04:10.700 Perhaps not like you do, and for that I am grateful,

01:04:14.240 but I do not dismiss what you're going through.

01:04:18.180 It's real.

01:04:19.480 Don't let anyone dismiss it.

01:04:21.680 It's real.

01:04:22.940 but know that it's going to get better, and it's not just some boob on the radio saying,

01:04:30.720 because I believe it's going to get better. I have the facts. The test results are coming in

01:04:37.960 right now. The test results would not show what the test results are showing today

01:04:43.340 if it wasn't getting better. The poverty rate in the United States, I know how you feel,

01:04:49.320 But I'm talking about the poverty rate.

01:04:52.020 So people have come out of poverty.

01:04:56.180 It's the lowest level ever recorded.

01:05:00.720 The bottom, the very bottom.

01:05:03.080 You might not be feeling it yet, but the very bottom is feeling it.

01:05:08.140 Things are getting better.

01:05:10.820 It's going to take a while before you feel it.

01:05:13.620 I just don't want you to lose hope.

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