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Glenn Beck is inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, we talk about the disappearance of Tucker Carlson's papers, and the censorship of the internet by fact checkers, and we look back at the career of radio legend Glenn Beck.
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hey stew it's time for the podcast i love podcasts glenn i listen to this one all of the time
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uh by the way we should point out after that intro with the amazing uh broadcasting abilities
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you've just shown that you're going into the radio hall of fame today yes that's pretty cool
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yeah it is thank you i don't understand the choice i don't either lobbied against it it's
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really cheapened the whole hall of fame in my eyes uh now that i'm uh being inducted but you
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can actually listen to your you do like a acceptance you're doing an acceptance speech of
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some sort and uh so anyway it's gonna be very cool and uh it happens uh tonight 7 p.m eastern you can
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listen to it on blaze radio uh or you can check it out on uh the iheart uh radio app yeah just uh look
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for radio hall of fame or listen to sirius xm the triumph channel but uh but check it out if you're
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interested uh at all um now on today's program we talk a little bit about the missing papers that
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uh seem to have gone missing with tucker carlson shipping problems happen yeah i mean is that
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really shipping problems happen huh because that's never happened we also have the ceo of the babylon
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be on he has won his uh his argument with facebook but we talk about how even comedy is being censored
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by these fact checkers uh at facebook and twitter we also have mike leon we talk a lot about the
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censorship so much to talk about on today's program here it is
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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welcome to mr pat gray who uh does uh pat gray unleashed a podcast that he records on blaze radio
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network and tv shortly uh before this program airs uh and uh he is also heard wherever you get your
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podcast welcome pat thank you it's good to be here how does it feel pat to be in the presence of
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a doctor yes i'm a doctor i'm not a doctor i'm not a doctor and also a uh brand new inductee
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into the radio hall of fame well not yet yeah not yet they have until tonight to change their mind
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right and we do think they will yeah i really do i think they might i think they might i mean they
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should pat and i have been lobbying uh hard behind the scenes we called craig kitchen and said what
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are you thinking i have been thinking you know where in the radio hall of fame is my stuff going to be
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and i figured out probably in the broom closet if you're lucky if i'm lucky yeah broom closet might be
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in the in the round receptacle in the broom closet there is a physical radio hall of fame though
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right yeah where you can go and visit and yeah yeah yeah chicago yeah in chicago okay well i mean
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there's you know people are featured like bob hope yeah and ronald reagan and not to mention every
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radio legend george burns don imus rush limbaugh yeah rush limbaugh thank you okay all right
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you know i don't i don't know why you'd be great giant i know and and then me in the blue in the
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broom closet i mean you're more of a guy you've longevity right you've been around for a long time
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they're like we got to put them in that's kind of i think that was the decision making process is
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it really i mean how long is it 40 42 40 i don't even know 40 some years a long time i think we got
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in the same year i was just three years older than you yeah and that was that 1977 78 78
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78 78 so we i was we were trying to put together something that would look back at the glenn beck
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career from 1978 so basically you got 42 years we combined it into 90 seconds
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this has got to be good this is this is the best 90 seconds of glenn beck's career no i mean this
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is actually listen to this this is going back some of these glenn is anything from like the really
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really early years oh there's some yeah there's some really early stuff in here uh excited looking
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back at the career of one glenn beck wpgc 101 70 wfla my name is glenn beck kick it we started
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with humble beginnings good morning to you with us glenn and james the glenn beck morning show
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little did i know it wouldn't catch on i think you are not tell you what if i give you 50 will you go
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away happy there was a time when i first got on that everybody hated me man mr rush limbaugh
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johnny rudy giuliani how are you sir evil one carl roe hello mr vice president how are you john mccain
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let's say hello to don imus it is tuesday september 11th 2001 we will talk and listen to each other maybe
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in a way that we haven't done for quite some time how can you just sit there you know who has the
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right for free speech i do that's all about power and manipulation sniper on the loose did we tell you
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okay we get it cnn thank you very much i don't think so i think this guy's some sick freak get on my phone
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too much opinion on radio that's the problem what is a peninsula it's an island that's surrounded by
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land right i just got back from iraq we have moved or fed 11 455 christians out of the middle east
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hopefully in a couple of years you'll hear an old show of mine and you'll say wow it's just
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it's different and you'll mean that in a good way and so will i thank you
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wow how long did that take to make there's actual people who belong in the hall of fame
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yeah oh my gosh i can't even i'm glad you didn't concentrate on anything from wpgc or
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i think there was a kupy in there which is like i was 13 years old oh there's some there were some
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really we had even more that had to be cut cut out to be limited to 90 seconds but you know like
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it's been pretty amazing and an amazing run when you go back to through your career yeah all the
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different uh things that have happened all the huge guests that you've had all the it's amazing i
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think if you as such an underachiever and in reality you've overachieved well past your time well there
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you go uh the hall of fame is tonight the induction ceremony and you can uh hear it uh the broadcast
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at 7 p.m just go to the i heart radio app and search for radio hall of fame also it's going to
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be on sirius xm the triumph channel uh tonight at uh 7 p.m eastern time so we got that going to play
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that on the blaze uh i but i don't know we are playing it on the blaze yes we are playing it on
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blaze radio or yeah blaze radio so it'll be there i don't know i you know i this is you know this is my
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party so i don't cry if you want to yeah and i didn't plan it do you think they canceled it so
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they didn't have to have a ceremony with you in person yes i do yes because of covid i just don't
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want them here i guess though next year everybody who's inducted is supposed to go next year to the
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big dinner oh okay but there won't be a big dinner the world will be on fire by then i mean this will
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all be over and we'll half of us will be dead so that's happy yeah well i thought so i thought about
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as optimistic as he's been off the air so uh so pat what what are your what are your thoughts on
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you know here we are just a oh my gosh we are five days away from the fundamental transformation
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of the united states of america that's today yep five days away scary it's scary i'm trying to
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inject a little hope though uh into this madness every day uh just so we can survive it just so we
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can be sane and there's actually some things you know that lead you to believe that maybe there's
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hope okay okay uh let me give you a few headlines yes yes yes from 2016 oh boy u.s news and world
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report seven reasons why hillary clinton's win over donald trump is a done deal oh okay uh didn't work
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out very well for him uh also this survey finds hillary clinton has quote more than a 99 percent
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chance unquote of winning election over donald trump 99 percent well they're saying 96 percent now
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uh so she lost after a 99 percent chance they were predicting uh she would have 312 electoral votes
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uh she came up with 232 uh then there was this from reuters clinton has a 90 percent chance of winning
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uh according to a reuters ipsos poll and then another chance of winning graph hillary clinton this
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was the i think this was real clear politics overall uh average of all the polls together hillary clinton
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had a 71.4 percent chance to 28.6 for donald trump did you read what hillary clinton said this week
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i was born to be the president she believes it's her birthright right she does i was born to be the
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president and that's what has made this so upsetting to me since when when excuse me
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uh are we doing royalty now in the united states of america i was born to be the greatest television
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star of all time and it was taken from me oh my gosh what kind of out of control egomaniac is that
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one that isn't the president that's so kind okay i i like that we'll go there um uh did you see
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one last thing i want to talk to you about did you see the tucker video last night yeah i saw i saw
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it there you're talking about the one where he they lost the yeah can we play this real quick this is
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the uh tucker uh the hunter documents have vanished this is from tucker carlson last night there's always
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a lot going on uh that we don't have time to get to on the air but there's something specific going
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on behind the scenes right now that we did feel we should tell you about so on monday of this week
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we received a from a source a collection of confidential documents related to the biden
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family we believe those documents are authentic they're real and they're damning at the time we
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received them are my executive producer justin wells and i were in los angeles preparing to interview
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tony bobulinski about the biden's business dealings in china ukraine and other countries
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so we texted a producer in new york and we asked him to send those documents to us in la and he did
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that so monday afternoon of this week he shipped those documents overnight to california with a
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large national carrier a brand name company that we've used you've used countless times with never
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a single problem but the biden documents never arrived in los angeles tuesday morning we received
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word from the shipping company that our package had been opened and the contents were missing
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the documents had disappeared now to its credit the company took this very seriously and immediately
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began a search they traced the envelope from the moment our producers dropped it off in manhattan
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on monday all the way to 3 44 a.m yesterday morning that's when an employee at a sorting facility in
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another state noticed that our package was open and empty apparently it had been open so the company's
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security team interviewed every one of its employees who touched the envelope we sent they searched the
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plane and the trucks that carried it they went through the office in new york where our producer
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dropped that package off they combed the entire cavernous sorting facility they used pictures of what we
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had sent so that searchers would know what to look for they went far and beyond but they found nothing
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those documents have vanished as of tonight the company has no idea and no working theory even
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about what happened to this trove of materials documents that are directly relevant to the
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presidential campaign just six days from now we spoke to executives at that company a few hours ago
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they seemed baffled and deeply bothered by this and so are we i'm going to comment on this
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an hour number three but i wanted to get your thoughts did you because i saw this last night
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and then i went online and i saw comments about it and it's the stereotypical you know leftist stuff
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saying this because they didn't exist you're just making this up etc etc etc any first thoughts on this
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i mean it's incredibly strange right i mean obviously some packages do get lost they're not usually
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opened though and then the contents removed i don't know exactly what would happen i mean i i i
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assume they didn't write tucker carlson big hunter documents inside on the outside of the envelope
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um so i mean unless i mean it's hard to know exactly what if it made it all the way across
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the country till 3 44 a.m the day before someone would have had to know maybe the producer's name
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and like it's just a it's a weird string of events that would lead to these things disappearing
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but i i mean if this if the documents if the uh company went through all the records and they could
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find it all the way here and this doesn't happen normally it is very very strange i assume please
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tell me they took pictures of the documents and they still have them right i mean they didn't sell
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one copy they got they got copies i hope across the country i assume and you would think there's also
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video right that would be uh taken in the facility wouldn't you you would think there'd be video
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surveillance here's why i think this is absolutely real did you notice he didn't say ups or federal
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express he believes the company he believes the company and the company is upset about it otherwise
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he would have named the company thrown them under the bus thrown under the bus and he believes that
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there's a chance that they will find out who did this and uh i i have some uh i have some comments
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coming up in the third hour because my wife and i talked about it last night she was like come on
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and i just reminded her of a few things and she was like oh yeah so i will comment on this on hour
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number three coming up she knows how tucker didn't call out the company but glenn did call out his wife
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that's right and i have her i put her in a federal express bag and just now she's missing
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now she's missing the bag i got the bag wow there are so many jokes in there
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seth dylan may he live forever is the ceo of the babylon b the world's most trusted
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factually accurate news source we have seth on the phone with us now hi glenn thanks for having
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me on you bet so i think one of the funniest thing i mean you guys are funny every single day and i
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love what you do um thank you but one of the funniest things i've seen in a while and it was
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because of the reaction was the was the post where you said senator hirono demands uh that amy coney
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barrett be weighed against a duck to see if she's a witch uh yeah and the quotes were all from monty
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python i mean it was really brilliant and you had a picture of her in the committee hearing with a duck
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in a burlap bag next door and uh uh you were banned by facebook we were demonetized demonetized yeah
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they didn't take down our page but they they threatened us well they didn't threaten they
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penalized us with demonetization and said that this was an incitement to violence because
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there was a line in that article that said we must burn her and anyway wait wait but wait
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you can't just say that you have to say the entire line do you have the entire line from
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because i i think i have it here someplace we do yeah you want to read her door no go ahead go ahead
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i gotta find it hold on one second uh i just love this i just love this line i'm looking for it too
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absolutely absolutely absurd oh she's a witch all right just look at her said senator hirono just
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look at the way she's dressed how she's so much prettier and smarter than us i just know it we
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must burn her i mean it's just it's absolutely ridiculous and the line about i know not only am
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i a senator i know a few things about science and uh wood floats so do ducks and so if she weighs the
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the same weight as a duck uh she can be burned because she's what it's i mean it's great stuff and
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there's no there's no way anyone took that seriously no no and this is we've had this happen
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before where there's just stories that i mean if you remember what happened with cnn uh the cnn story
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we did and snopes fact checking it um you know we did we did a piece about how um cnn had bought an
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industrial washing machine to spin the news in before they published it and it was just like on the face of
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it's so absurd obviously they're not going to spin it like that it doesn't even make sense it's just
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silly it's just a silly joke about their bias and their agenda right um but but they fact-checked it
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and facebook uh threatened to penalize us for that because we were putting out misinformation so it was
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a similar situation where i mean there are stories that we publish that that are close enough to the
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truth reality everything is believable today right so i mean it's right it's very frequent that will
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become close to the truth and that will even prophecy prophesy the truth because these things come true
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all the time but um in these cases these are two examples where we've had run-ins with facebook
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and these are the most outrageous stories you can imagine and plus this one this is a common reference
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i mean money is a classic popular film so you know people who are reading this understand that this is a
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joke so when you said to facebook well hang on just a second you allow the leaders of black lives
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matter to say if we don't get our way burn this system down that's allowed but right this is a
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violation of your your violence portion uh of your rules yeah this is the point that i make it it's not
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that we're actually violating their community standards you know they did apologize and reinstate us
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whatever if we made us think about it but we're not we're never actually violating their community
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standards but they're always reaching to right to try to treat us as if we did and my question is
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and the question that they won't answer is why why are they treating us that way you know there's
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there's plenty of other sites out there there's movements there's groups there's there's groups
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that call for violence promote violence they consider violence a justified option instead of discourse
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uh and we're just simply we wake up every day glenn in the morning we look at the headlines and we
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think what would be a funny take on that what would be a funny take on that and that's what we do we
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go and write a funny you know uh satirical uh take on the issues whatever they are so that's how i mean
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we have no ill intentions whatsoever but it goes beyond the social networks you have media coverage of
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us too i don't know if you saw the piece in the new york times recently it was you know one more
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instance of them questioning our motives and saying are they are they trying to misinform
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people under the guise of comedy and this is how they circumvent facebook's rules imagine saying that
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about nbc's uh saturday night live which i do believe is biased but i just did i don't watch it
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if i don't like it i don't watch it right right but it only they say those things about us but i mean
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look you know you've got you've got a lot of political statements being made over at the onion the
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onion is the most popular satire site that's on the other side of the aisle from us in terms of
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you know political meanings and and and their motives are never questioned they're just considered
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a funny satire site um and we see that all the time the media's treatment the media's silent on on
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on their stuff and then the fact checks that are done of the onion which are fewer and further
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between than ours are so friendly if they're they're with kid gloves it's oh this is this is a satire
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site the best satire site on the internet it's funny stuff just laugh at it that's the way they
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handle those fact checks so uh we we are certainly treated differently there's double standards all
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over the place and i'm not sure how people don't see it uh we're talking to seth dylan uh the ceo of
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the babylon b um so you you won this uh they they re-monetized you but you know that doesn't help for
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the lost money and the lost exposure that you have uh you suffered during that time my problem is um
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with this system you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent right this flips american the
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thought of american justice and fair play completely on her head well i'd say let me say it's even worse
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than that uh it's worse than that because we are only out of facebook jail because we have a platform we
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have we are able to make noise we have a huge following a very vocal following that's loyal and
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devoted to us we have reporters people in the media people like you that follow us on twitter and facebook
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and and we'll talk about this stuff when we make people aware of it so we're able to um bring negative
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attention to facebook's doorstep when they do this kind of stuff to us but what about the little guys
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what about people who don't have a large following what about a small business who posts you know blog
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article that was deemed you know an incitement to violence and they get shut down they have no
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recourse whatsoever so they don't even have the opportunity to appeal or make no or make noise or
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prove themselves innocent so it it you you have no uh you need a platform in order to do that we found
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that we're only successful in this case this is a great example of this we we went through the formal
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channels of appealing with facebook um they give you that option when this stuff happens and the person who
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manually reviewed this article upheld the original ruling that it was an incitement to violence
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so we got a firm no from facebook they said no you're demonetized until you fix this you got to
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edit that article um and that's when we went public with it and brought attention to it because that's
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just ridiculous but we're fortunate enough to be in a position where we can do that but not everybody
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is how many people does this happen to and they have no recourse well they did this to me when you
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you know when i was on fox i you know i this show started as a comedy show a lot of the stuff i do
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you know i i've done in the past has been uh you know with a comedic bent to be able to make the point
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they took everything that i did took it out of context made it seem like i really actually meant those
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things and and it it was just not worth the hassle anymore which is so damaging because i think they
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know the power of comedy yeah yeah they do it's a threat i mean i look we love this quote from gk
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chesterton it's a it's a brilliant he puts it brilliantly and framing the effectiveness of humor
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he said humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle and i love
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that because it's it's true i mean humor is disarming when you wrap a message in the package
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of humor it's easier to deliver it it's more easily received this stuff that more easily goes viral
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even on really controversial or heated topics um so you know when we're making our points really
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effectively using it then yeah they try to find ways to to uh to denigrate us to smear us to to shut us
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up um and it's it's clearly you know a building of a predicate for censorship and in our view and
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um and certainly dangerous have you have you been following at all the uh truth and reconciliation
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trials and committees uh suggestions that that the democrats are seemingly wanting to pick up have you
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been following that uh truth and reconciliation you're talking about identifying people um after
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this election is over you know picking out these people who are problematic yes yes anybody in the media
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you know anybody and i've heard mentions of that and you know trying to build lists you this is not
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over you know we're going to come after you kind of stuff and a lot of that i don't know how much of
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that is uh is an is an empty threat but i certainly wouldn't put it past them to to think in those terms
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and and try to do something like that i think it's i think it's awful seth i'll have my well i'll have my
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research team send you some information on this and their white papers on it it's not an empty threat the
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extreme left is really pushing for this and that puts all of us uh especially you i don't know if you
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know who um oh shoot what was his name uh i can't remember now he was the famous actor in germany uh he
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was probably the number one box office uh comedy actor uh and he took on the uh the nazis for a long
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time finally escaped uh because they shut him down but he really thought he could get away with it in
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the end he his story is remarkable uh those people who uh don't appreciate the uh the fact that they're
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not infallible uh when they want to shut people up they become very vindictive and they go after
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people who can rally or people that can make people laugh yep yeah well i mean it's all the more reason
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for us to be more vocal right we you know we it's not that we relish this fight uh you know that we
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enjoy it um but we certainly we won't back down from it that's for sure thank you so much yeah thank you
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god bless you yeah thank you glenn you bet that's uh the ceo of the babylon b which if you don't
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follow you should it's very very funny uh and repost and support we are entering really difficult times
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year uh up until the election it's blaze tv.com this is the best of the glenn beck program
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i wanted to get the person that is uh kind of responsible for some of these and and uh
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her new video the from stories of us is now up at glenn beck.com she's a manager to candace owens
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and a presenter for prager you and i wondered why why i didn't hire her at some point and it's because
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she's also a fitness coach uh and we just can't have any of those around here gina bontempo is with us
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now hi gina how are you i'm doing great thanks how are you glad very good so tell me about what stories
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of us uh are and why they're important sure um prager you did this fantastic series called stories
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of us where um you know they just elevated personal stories of people who have realized uh the lunacy
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of the left um who have come face to face with what the radical left is really trying to accomplish
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in america and um we have seen the light so to speak um so it's a series of people who who tell
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their personal stories of how they were once liberal or leftist or maybe even not necessarily
00:30:33.480
even an obama voter but um someone who identified as a liberal before and the veil was sort of pulled
00:30:39.800
back over the last three to four years um with the rise of president trump and um you know there's just
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there's a shift happening right now so the series is is such a such a great representation of certain
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people including myself who have really come around and seen all the ways that the media has
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been lying to us um all the ways that we have been brainwashed and indoctrinated in higher education i i
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tell that as part of my story as well um as someone who went to college and graduate school i left school
00:31:10.120
um truly hating america and and hating the country that gave me and my family so many opportunities so
00:31:16.440
this series is really a testament to to how people can change their minds once they see the light i
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mean you hated it so much you moved i did i i was on the road for almost three years glenn i was on the
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road internationally i said to myself in um at the end of 2000 i believe it was 2014 i said to myself i
00:31:38.680
said i'm out of here maybe it was even 2013 i left i went to australia for a while i went to south america
00:31:44.520
for a while i jumped around from peru to bolivia to chile and you know what's funny is i was in all
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these different countries and especially developing countries in south america and seeing how they
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lived and um and actually down the line what's funny is that all those experiences really helped
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me understand that the united states of america is truly the best country to live in and it really
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brought me back to realize what a blessing it is to even be born in this country so besides that what
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was it that opened your eyes what what was it that started really making you say wait i i'm i'm wrong
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about all of this stuff i was working as an editor and as a writer for mainstream media publications
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a lot of digital publications that were geared towards women um you know these lifestyle slash news hybrid
00:32:33.000
publications are actually really the machine that that's producing the most information that's being
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released to millennials and gen z and i was working in that industry and i realized after um working
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full-time in the office day to day seeing how editors and editorial directors will censor content
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and how they will frame all of their content depending on clicks views um because that's exactly how these
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companies make money is that the advertisers will buy will buy ads depending on how many clicks and views
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they get and i watched day by day in the office how it was almost like a cult um you if you were
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working in this industry there was just no doubt that you are leftist you were liberal and um i actually
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had a co-worker come up to me this young lady who said she whispered to me she said i am terrified that
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our boss will find out that i'm a registered republican and all these little things bit by bit and and
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seeing how they would censor my own content and whether it was have to whether it had to do with culture
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and politics or whether it even had to do with health and fitness and that really started to
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wake me up and then early 2017 i watched a full unedited speech of president trump's and that's in
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that second i said to myself we are being lied to and that's when it all started to change for me
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you um you actually said uh or wrote 10 new year's resolutions for people of color that they have for
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white people that's right i mean i did write and it's not i didn't write that right and but that
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didn't come from you right no no this is actually a really interesting um interesting point that i i
00:34:11.640
like to tell people is that when you're an editor and a writer for these mainstream media publications
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what the directors do is they give you a long list of posts and articles that they want you to write
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right because they have very specific traffic goals that they need to hit every day and every
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week every month and so the list would be you know just some of the the most radical stuff i've ever
00:34:32.840
seen like you know 10 new year's resolutions that um intersectional feminists have for men everywhere
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um 10 ways that cultural appropriation hurts everyone especially minorities um you know 10 ways that
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president trump is causing mental illness in the united states of america and these are the kinds of
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things that we were assigned and we were told to write and um and we really there was no choice
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in the matter you either wrote this or you didn't have a job so give me the chicken and the egg if if
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you're writing this because the editor says to but the editor is only looking at what people are consuming
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what they want who's leading who that is that's the question that's that's really the question and that's
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something that i found myself asking um too and and you know the funny thing is once you start to
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ask these questions in in media once you are a person who works in the industry and you start to
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just raise some questions to your director or your boss whoever it might be you're shut down very
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quickly um and i remember asking very specifically there was one year at the last media company i worked
00:35:36.040
for they had a ton of layoffs we weren't hitting traffic goals they had to lay off a ton of people
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and they told us specifically we're we're not going to spend any extra money guys we need to tighten
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up on everything and the next thing i knew they hired an external team to come in and teach about
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unconscious bias and diversity and i i asked the question i just posed the question i thought we
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were supposed to cut back on unnecessary expenses and i asked them i said how does this how does this
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unconscious bias workshop directly contribute to revenue growth in our company directly contribute to
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ensuring that we don't have more layoffs in the company and as soon as you start asking these
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questions that's that's when you know they either tell you to shut up or leave
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how important is this election and can you believe that you are fighting for the exact opposite side you
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ever thought you would um sometimes i wake up and i have to pinch myself because i i did spend so you
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know several years in the machine of higher education um and i know that people say this i feel like people
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say it almost every election but i do truly believe that this election is the most important that we
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have seen because it really is we're at a crossroads where we're asking ourselves do we want to preserve
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america do we want to preserve american ideals and values or do we want to create destruction and chaos and
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tear it all down and um a lot of women a lot of a lot of women especially in the suburbs believe that
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that that's what donald trump brings is just nothing but chaos they do believe that and that's because
00:37:11.240
of the content that they've been consuming and that the content that's been shoved down their throats
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for so many years um and and that's really the sad thing that's why i did this series of prager you
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because i really i wanted young women especially to understand that we have been lied to so much
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especially when it comes to president trump who objectively when you look at his record when you look at
00:37:32.760
the fact that he was a billionaire who who then decided to go into public service and work for
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free to serve our country that's when you can really see that president trump he is the man
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who cares about america he is the man who cares about law and order and he's the man who's going
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to preserve american ideals and values and so that's why i say that this election really is the most
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important and and now is now is not the time to back down or or um you know be scared at these threats
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of being racist or sexist or misogynist whatever it might be because at this point the left is overplaying
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their hands right they're doubling down on the same thing they did four years ago and i think
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people are really starting to wake up to it i hope so gina and thank you for helping that i i watched
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your video this weekend i thought it was just tremendous and i retweeted it uh it's prager you
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new series stories of us people who have been in the system and have spat themselves out because
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something's not quite right uh i mean you'll go down a wormhole or a rabbit hole of just watching
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one after another after another they're very inspiring and yours is available now at glennbeck.com
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and i ask that you go down that rabbit hole and share as many of these as you possibly can
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thanks gina i appreciate it great thanks so much bye-bye god bless