'Burning It All Down'? - 6⧸26⧸18
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Summary
Laura Ingalls Wilder is the dead author of the beloved series Little House on the Prairie that inspired the TV show. Her work contains a few lines that express the stereotypical attitudes that progressives have accused her of, but her entire body of work is dismissed as racist, xenophobic, and land grabber.
Transcript
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did you have it yet i mean can you do you have a match
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can you who has a lighter we need a lighter i'm sorry we were
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look it's i mean i think we just have to come out and say it
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okay a little house on the prairie needs to be burned it just needs to be burned
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um you know along with a lot of other books turns out that laura from little house on the prairie
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is a xenophobic racist and a land grabber now i'm not talking about melissa gilbert the actress who
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played laura on the tv show no she's okay she's okay she's a progressive she's fine i'm talking
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about the real life laura ingalls wilder she's the dead author of the beloved series little house on
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the prairie that inspired the tv show now last weekend the american library association
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voted to strip wilder's name from a children's book award that had been given the name the laura
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ingalls wilder award for over 60 years the association cited anti-native and anti-black
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sentiments in her work as their reason for wilder's work includes expressions of stereotypical
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attitudes inconsistent with our core values of inclusiveness integrity and respect do you have
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it lit yet can you just light the fire please i mean how hard is it just roll up some newspapers or
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something her work contains a few lines that express the stereotypical attitudes that she's accused of
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but uh should a few lines dismiss her entire body of work yes of course it should and out of all
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literature um this is where we need to start little house on the prairie i i mean i i don't know about
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you but we need to start getting rid of some of these these pages in some of these books uh they're
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offensive yes yes they were written at a time when things and people were different but really history
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doesn't matter anymore why why in our wildest dreams would we just put it in the fireplace
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there's nothing better than a good book burning right she is i mean it's time for a cultural purge
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let's work overtime on this can we please what books what books do you have what points of view should
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we purge next i tell you what if you have any symbols crosses uh bibles of course any kind of flag
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unless it's a rainbow flag statues we gotta we gotta get them can we get the can we get this hot
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enough to melt some of those statues and we could melt those and then we can make them into some sort
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of art that means nothing that would be really great so i thought we'd start today by joining in
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the progressive bandwagon sure it's arrogant to judge all people you know of the past based on the
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pristine standards of 2018 progressivism because they know what's right today and they'll never be
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wrong they never be wrong the people in the future are not going to look back at this time and say the
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progressives were wrong no they were right so what we need to do is burn all of the stuff that disagrees
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with them now it would be nice to be able to time travel and then just circle uh laura ingalls you
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know in in some sort of a mob circle and shame her sure sure but we don't have a time machine can't
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stop slave owner thomas jefferson from writing the declaration of independence which you know which
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really reminds me i don't know why we have the declaration of independence you know or the bill
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of rights we should get rid of the bill of rights and if we're not going to burn them let's just at
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least use our moral scissors to re-edit history based on current values but we have to look at them
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sure some will say the saddest thing about progressivism is that you know that it doesn't
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trust you at all it doesn't trust that you can encounter difficult controversial or offensive things
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and deal with them on your own no no no no no no no no there is no grace in the progressive mindset
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not even for authors who have been dead for well over half a century and who lived in a completely
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different life in different context than our own yes it's tragic grace is what we need
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those religious freaks will tell you but i'm telling you now progressives have it right
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a good mob and bonfire is always the thing to do
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it's tuesday june 26th you're listening to the glenn beck program
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hello america how are you today i'm so glad if books weren't meant to be burned they wouldn't
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you know the coming insurrection well we deserve it we deserve it um because there are people that
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just need to be silenced and shamed and uh surrounded and books to be burned and voices to silence
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it's the way we have to do it you hear about the you know you know the movie mr rogers
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mr rogers and it's uh won't you be my neighbor that uh yeah documentary looks really interesting
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well does it i thought well does it yeah well does it he's an interesting really an interesting what
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an interesting gender male is that what you're gonna say then not exactly but i was gonna say man
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well i i don't know i haven't seen it and i can't recommend that anybody sees it until we have
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somebody who knows better than all of us tell us whether we should see it or not it could be it could
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be filled with cisgender normatives well it's his life so it's going to be basically whatever choices
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he made he he do we know if he made that choice or that his name is mr rogers right but was that
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forced on him by a society and the patriarchy exactly stew you don't know so might why don't
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you just zip it pam bondy was there as you know the um attorney general of florida she left the theater
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and uh they blocked her exit they hurled insults at her what would mr rogers think about you i don't
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know he'd probably say hi neighbor that's probably what he would say i i i i don't know taking away
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health insurance from people with pre-existing conditions shame on you pan bondy you're a horrible
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person okay have you guys noticed what the theme of this movie is i mean have you i mean wasn't this
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guy all about not bullying people practicing preach preaching uh peace and understanding
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i think so i maybe i missed maybe i you know what
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those should be burned can we can we start the fire again please because i i don't know why we put that
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out can we get any of this mr rogers rhetoric of peace and love and understanding and tolerance of
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people that are different not all people certainly thank you certainly not pam bondy stew can you take
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the script over there i brought it in i i wasn't going to go see the movie but i decided i was going to
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get the i would read it just to see on my own thank you very much i just need to get this into the
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fireplace would you be my neighbor no i won't be your neighbor okay you and your cisgender normative
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all right let me just blow the fire out thank you um powerful lungs there well
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just saying let me ask you this is it okay to not burn a book if you throw it at a republican
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um are you going to hurt him or is he going to catch it oh definitely hurt and the intent would be to
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hurt uh but again like i don't like i don't like an element of their immigration policy so if you know
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then it's okay right yeah okay yeah if therefore immigration policy that isn't approved by the
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hierarchy and i don't mean the hierarchy as in the patriarchy i mean the hierarchy of the new
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non-cisgender the new non-cisgender normative okay so there's it's okay to have an a normal of course
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of course we have it just has to be the opposite of what it's like yesterday when we were talking
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about the people that were surrounding ice it was the uh it was the uh anarchist
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planning community or commission so i thought that was the people that plan for the anarchist plan
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the anarchy yeah the planarchy planarchy yeah they're the planarchists so like that really
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organized anarchists yeah can i just let me you know i just found something else could i just
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let me just let me light the fire here again and it's thank you thank you
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i didn't feel warm i don't like to smell like smoke all day but i don't know there's something about
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the smoke of books that just i've seen those words die it's so it's so lovely yeah so let's do this
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one this got to go into the fire okay because we can't teach this rudyard kipling if you can keep
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your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you if you can trust yourself
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when all men doubt you but make allowance for their doubting too if you can wait and not be tired by
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waiting or being lied about but don't deal in lies or being hated but don't give way to hating and yet
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don't look too good nor talk too wise hang on i just turn the page let's rip it out and throw it
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into the fire here i don't want to hear those words again or if you can talk with crowds and keep your
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virtue or walk with kings nor lose the common touch if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
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if all men count with you but none too much if you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of
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distance run yours is the earth and everything that's in it and what is more you you'll be a i can't he can't
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even say these words trigger warning here and what is more you'll be a man my son
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are you gonna blow the fire out or just let it burn
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jeez it's called safety ever see smokey the bear by the way we have no idea if if it was a he or a
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she we don't know what what that what sex smokey is just projected that on him yep what choices did
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back at 1-800-LIFELOCK or lifelock.com there is something happening uh in iran that uh i i hope
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we start to pay attention to as a nation and i i hope this president will act i assume he will
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in a much different fashion uh than uh president obama did the protesters are beginning to come out
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in iran and you could be seeing the collapse of the iranian regime if we play our cards right
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what president trump did and how he has handled uh iran since he got into office could mean the end of
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the regime right now people are um uh underway in a march at the bazaar in tehran um and they are
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uh they are chanting free iran they are uh chanting uh down with the dictators that's they're calling
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their own people dictators um close your stalls leave syria alone think of us instead uh they are now
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uh calling for a major uh calling for a major strike they are also uh protesting and and saying
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death to the dictator death to the dictator and death to palestine not israel not america death to palestine
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if if iran falls it completely changes our world it is remarkable and if this president plays his cards
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right and we support uh as president reagan did uh in uh with the berlin wall this president
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may have been elected just for what's happening in the middle east that may have been divine providence
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just for what is happening in the middle east i mean with him turning around on the iran deal
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uh and supporting israel the way he did and then choking off the funds their currency is in a freefall
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their currency has lost 50 percent of its value since january people are starting to be very hungry
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and you know with this big you know march for the madi uh going across and sweeping you know into syria
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the people have had enough the currency is now actually uh valued less than it was at the time of the
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islamic revolution in 1979 holy cow when that happened it was 42 000 to 1 rial to dollar um and then uh it went
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now it is at 70 000 to 1 and it keeps increasing you know so that's uh i mean for for the regime not good
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but uh that's what george bush was trying to do to him and um and then um obama came in and gave him all
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the cash and and reversed all of that and uh donald trump thank god reversed all that and now their
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currency is collapsing and they're being squeezed on all sides and the people are starting to rise up
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and they're not rising up against us i think the iranians uh will be very good friends if if this
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revolution is supported uh and if we um if it ends up in their hands in the people's hands because the
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people that you know iran was a very different place iran's very well educated iran was uh very
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westernized for a long time and you know they just wanted to get rid of the shah and they said burn the
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whole system down and there were some radicals that were willing to do it and here's what happened
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yeah the people were not for the the the islamic state of iran it was just the few radicals that
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promised a revolution and a free people that uh that brought that to be the people have not wanted
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this that's not who they are and what would the results have been if not for ben affleck uh going in
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there pulling those people out i don't know they almost definitely would have died in iran uh no
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so it's a based on a true story uh what would have happened to i mean what we could have lost
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batman versus superman oh my god ever do not go down that road don't go down that road people would
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have lost that entire experience if if if the iranian revolution uh continued and did not step in
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can i tell you something you've made me reconsider whether or not a revolution is a good thing
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losing batman and superman movie i uh boy or slavery for an entire country it's borderline have you seen
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superman and batman oh why can i just kind of may have sidebar what the hell is wrong with dc comics
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what is wrong with them why would you do that how many times do you need to reset the story
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of batman you had it you had it nolan did a great job leave that alone and build on that oh
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gosh ben affleck oh okay you know what there's there's um a few things that are disappearing uh that uh
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i sure sure would love your help on um i learned this from the smithsonian they said uh
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that i went and they they opened up this big drawer uh and uh it was in their you know their
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their room of politics where they had shown me you know the the banners and the flags to get
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thomas jefferson elected and everything else and they pull open the drawer and they say you're like
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this they pull open a drawer and it's all the stuff collected from you from our rallies
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and i looked at that and i said well what is what is this he said it's all all the stuff that you did
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with the rallies and i said you're collecting it and he said uh well yeah he said we're not sure it'll
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ever go on display or be worth anything he said but we found that it's easier to grab things from
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history early and hold on to them than it is to go back and try to find them and buy them later
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it's kind of a thing that they you know they have an advantage on i think that there are some things
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that are going to disappear uh from history uh and it's it's already happening in north korea north korea
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is getting rid of all of its anti-american propaganda posters and that is a staple in north korea
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uh so you know if you happen to be in north korea can you send some of those uh but what i'm really
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looking for are any of the flyers any of the posters anything are that are handouts uh that are
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uh calling for you know revolution or mob justice or anything that marks today's political climate
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if you have a chance to grab those please do and send them to me here at the studios at las colinas
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in dallas texas uh because uh we need to uh we need to collect all of the things that are that's going
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on today uh because it's it's remarkable if you have anything that you're getting from your kids
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schools that are showing how you know these these post-modernist rules are starting to come in
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please send them by the way stew you know we talked about uh starbucks closing 150 stores
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yeah yeah nationwide and i wondered if it had anything to do with you know their their recent
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debacle uh no it no it actually they're closing 150 stores uh the bulk of them are being closed in
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large cities that are offering now or demanding a 15 an hour minimum wage and they're moving to cities
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that don't have that required huh isn't that amazing that is very surprising yeah because they're a very
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progressive company no i know that uh and they are embracing the important uh new guidelines on how to
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operate in our society uh except they're they're moving out of the because i think they would want
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to support the movement these are people looking for a a living wage here that's all they're looking
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and that's uh and that's the sort of treatment they get that's amazing that's amazing um i there's
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some other bias i wanted to talk to you about i want to get your opinion on this because it's it's
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important and we've seen these stories before about bias in colleges usually by some right-wing
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extremist group who says you know what i think they're the affirmative action is the wrong thing
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there are people out there that believe this glenn there are people out there that believe you should
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not have people admitted into college based on their skin color wow there are some people who think you
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should judge them by like some antiquated standard of the content of their character rather than the
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color of their skin and that is wow well i tell you you know the the the the the racist
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that we you know we all know we all know the african american is racist um but nobody has said it but
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we all know that of course um you know because they've just come out uh with a new poll i think
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it was a pew poll that shows that african americans um want the people crossing the border sent back home
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send back them send back them as the president of mexico said once send back them yeah yeah and that
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weird that is very weird yeah they're or or not maybe they're not racist they just are just like
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all the other you know americans of other colors that are just like no this is wrong and uh it's not
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good for us to just have open borders well it's good policy i'm glad they're you know you know they're
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saying that however we can't give them that of course and luckily uh the uh we've now reversed
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the policy the controversial policy and it's now we're straight back to catch and release now as of
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this morning in case you were wondering about how that was turning out uh the media pressure has now
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turned the administration all the way back to catch and release so hopefully they can get something done
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in congress because now it seems to be the only way that that's going to occur uh any border uh tougher
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border uh policies because we are back to uh catch and release as of this morning
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huh that's been a new policy change in case you missed that he was just saying like yesterday that
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he thought we should be even tougher yep uh ice uh has uh they don't have enough space and uh surely
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that has nothing to do with the media pressure it's just a spatial there's just not enough space out
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there they had more than double yeah the obama administration obama was holding more than double
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the amount of people that's a whole other issue but i never got to this bias in uh college story okay
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all right so uh there are some upset people because apparently harvard believes that asians have
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terrible personalities huh asians asians have terrible personalities according to harvard
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they went through and they uh the they went through um all their admittance of policy and they went
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through uh several years worth between 2000 and 2019 what they found is that asian americans outdid
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everybody in uh in all of the actual school-based things like extracurricular activity and grades
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they outdid everybody by a large margin so what harvard did was rate on the third area uh was
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personality they just gave them really crappy personality scores so they didn't overwhelm the
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college because obviously you don't want asians with all their bad personalities all over your school
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you want to make sure that you keep them out now if you actually based it on the things that would
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matter to get into a school instead of 19 of the eight of the harvard student body being asian it would
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be 43 because they achieved at a higher level but no instead they decided to go the opposite way
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and give them really crappy personality scores so that they wouldn't get into the school
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asian american applicants receive a two or better of their personal score more than 20 of the time
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and only uh in in uh only the top academic index decile this is this is the stew this is the same
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group of people that um were not even classified as people uh in the 1800s right yeah they were had a
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rough time in the 1900s too if i remember yeah and they they built the railroads kind of slave labor
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yeah yeah anything happened in the in the 1900s yeah any progressive presidents step in well a couple
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of times but to protect them yeah in uh with with fdr he hated them uh and uh even though all of the
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evidence showed that uh they weren't a threat uh he just rounded all of them up okay but that group
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that group of people that were have struggled so much they're doing fine they're doing incredibly
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fine yeah they have to sex so much better that they have to actually make them seem as if they
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have bad personalities to keep them out of harvard so here's here is the one time that um because i
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hate this i hate statue of liberty is weeping today statue is it really it's a statue then you know
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maybe we should maybe we should call the pope because liberty should be canonized because she's
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crying now i don't know if she's crying blood but she's crying wow she's weeping the statue of liberty
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is weeping today no no the statue of liberty metaphorically is not weeping it's not you know what makes the
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statue of liberty weep when she challenges the other countries and says give them to me give me all
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the people that you say can't make it give me all the people who you say are worthless give me all the
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people that your system of government continues to oppress i'm going to set them free over here and
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they're going to join and they're just going to they're going to have a dream and they're going to
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be able to pursue it they're not going to live the same way that they were living in your country
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generation after generation after generation because here we're going to take them and say
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you're free to dream you're free to work what do you want to build and watch what they'll do that's
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the message of the statue of liberty the torch is imprisoned lightning how does that mean imprisoned
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lightning all those people all those people all of those ideas all of those things all of the power
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behind those people you've kept them in cages i'm going to open it up you watch what happens when
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they're set free statue of liberty is weeping yeah it is it's weeping today over harvard because what
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you've done is you've taken the american dream you come over here you work hard no matter what no
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matter what anybody has ever said about you or said about your your race or your relatives in the past
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no matter how poorly you were treated the the statue of liberty weeps when we have those people here
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and they are coming through the golden door for their chance to try and some guild or some university
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or some union keeps them down that's when we have betrayed the promise of the statue of liberty
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by the way one more interesting takeaway from this you might be uh you might find compelling in some
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way asian americans only had the solid personality score on the top 10 of academic achievement
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but whites got the solid personality score for the top 60 of achievement so i mean they a lot more
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people got good personality scores if they were white however hispanics got in the top 70 and
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african americans got in the top 80 so it's interesting like there's a level of this is how
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selena zito is um i think one of the best writers um in the country and probably has a better pulse
00:34:16.120
on america than 90 percent of the people that you see on radio or television um she's just written a
00:34:21.980
piece for uh town hall and she said it was blustery afternoon in april and i filled a van along with 10
00:34:28.580
students from harvard university we had just spent the last couple of days in chicopee massachusetts
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where we had chatted with the police chief and his force the mayor and his staff small business owners
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waitresses firemen about the struggles of living in small-town america the undergrads were buzzing
00:34:43.240
with their impressions chicopee is about 90 miles west of the university in cambridge but when it comes
00:34:48.380
to shared experiences it might as well have been a thousand light years away we were only a few days
00:34:54.500
into a new political project that i had developed with harvard institute of politics called main
00:34:59.240
street and back roads of america a journalism workshop where students were immersed in small
00:35:04.820
town america even though these kids had almost all been raised in the united states our journey
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sometimes felt like an anthropology course as they thought they were seeing the rest of the country
00:35:14.260
for the first time this was their opening lesson i've been a national political journalist for 15
00:35:20.260
years and wherever and whenever i travel in the country i abide by a few simple rules
00:35:24.340
no planes no interstates and no hotels definitely no chain restaurants the reason is simple planes fly
00:35:31.940
over the interstates the interstates swiftly pass by what's really happening in the suburbs the towns
00:35:37.100
and exurbs of this nation staying in a hotel doesn't give you the same connection i get in staying in a bed
00:35:41.940
and breakfast where the first person i meet is a business person who runs the place and knows all the
00:35:46.540
neighborhood secrets you also have to spend time in the community and really report on it parachuting in a few
00:35:52.120
hours to interview the locals when can lead to flawed evaluations when you're short on time your instincts
00:35:58.160
can get blurred and you can gravitate towards the shiny objects these simple rules are what intrigues
00:36:04.560
students the harvard institute of politics or iop after hearing me speak at the pizza and politics event
00:36:10.960
on the school campus last fall she goes in to talk about what had happened you have to read this i'll tweet it
00:36:17.260
out she said that it was eye-opening for the students they didn't think they would find anything
00:36:25.020
in common uh with these and students ranging from 19 to 21 they had come from the coasts they thought
00:36:34.020
the people would be backward and no longer useful undereducated or uneducated what they came out with
00:36:40.540
was a very different feel and both sides broke the barriers glenn back quote revolutionary movements
00:36:50.080
do not spread by contamination but by residents something that is constituted here resonates with
00:36:58.720
something a shock wave emitted by something constituted over there an insurrection is not like a plague or a
00:37:06.500
forest fire a linear process was spreads from place to place after an initial spark it rather takes the
00:37:13.140
shape of music whose focal points through dispersed though dispersed in time and space succeed in imposing
00:37:20.640
the rhythms of their own vibrations always taking on more density end quote that is from the book by the
00:37:30.660
invisible committee called the coming insurrection i shared that book with you in 2007 or 8 it was written
00:37:39.760
by radical leftists in france and it talks about quote the imminent collapse of the capitalist and western
00:37:47.160
culture it was published in france in 2007 it was split up in two different parts first part is a bunch of
00:37:54.240
marxist stuff basically complaining why they believe capitalism is so bad the second part is a little more
00:38:00.020
interesting beginning under the section get going the authors lay out a pathway for revolution and their
00:38:07.020
main strategy is to wait for a crisis economic environmental or political and then begin attacking
00:38:15.220
the government institutions the corporations and the police now think about what's been happening
00:38:20.840
think about what you've heard in just the last few weeks think about what's happening with the
00:38:26.040
department of homeland security over just the last few days the acting deputy secretary of homeland
00:38:31.800
security claire grady had to send out a department-wide memo warning employees of recent developments this is
00:38:38.100
on saturday she said and i quote the assessment is based on specific incredible threats that have been
00:38:45.640
levied against certain dhs employees and a sharp increase in the overall number of general threats against dhs
00:38:53.100
employees so grady goes on to instruct the dhs employees not to wear any identifying markings
00:38:58.820
outside of official buildings don't talk to anybody about where they work in public or on social media
00:39:04.220
and to keep their windows and their doors locked in their homes she warned them be alert and aware of
00:39:10.600
any unexpected changes in their neighborhoods this doesn't sound good this doesn't sound good not only for
00:39:17.840
the safety of dhs but it's a really bad thing to take a police force and isolate it from the community
00:39:26.040
and and then begin to plant the seeds that it's us versus them that's not going to end well
00:39:32.760
last week wikileaks they leak the information of over 9 000 current and former ice employees
00:39:40.360
they said they did this to increase accountability
00:39:42.840
accountability but what kind of accountability are you looking for by pointing you know radicals to
00:39:49.020
somebody's house it's not oversight they're looking for it's insurrection ever since that leak
00:39:56.580
the dhs has received over 20 credible threats in one instance a burned and decapitated animal corpse
00:40:03.720
was left on the uh was left on the porch of a dhs employee as the invisible committee describes it
00:40:12.100
this crisis is taking on more density anybody on either side that are stirring up anger and rage
00:40:22.220
are misguided at best because anger and rage begets terror and violence
00:40:30.780
it's tuesday june 26th you're listening to the glenn beck program alex benayan is uh is an author i guess
00:40:43.940
you could call him an author because he has a book but that's not really who he is he is a guy who
00:40:49.540
who looks at the world differently and has realized that there are three different doors in life there's
00:40:57.260
a door that everybody lines up in front of and takes their turn and waits patiently in line then there's
00:41:03.120
the one for celebrities and politicians and people with power or money and then there's a third door
00:41:08.920
that's the name of his book the third door and he has it's full of examples in his own life
00:41:18.480
of how that third door works welcome how are you alex i'm great thank you for having me
00:41:23.400
you were forbes 30 under 30 when you were 22 is that right yep exactly yeah um
00:41:31.760
wildly wildly successful because you think completely out of the box
00:41:38.420
right is that why you would say you were i realized when i was 18 that not only did i not know what i
00:41:46.060
wanted to do with my life i don't know how all the people who i looked up to how they did it
00:41:49.680
so i went on this quest to learn from all these people who i admired
00:41:53.500
and by coincidence not by design the lessons i was learning during these interviews
00:41:59.560
were starting to play out in my own life so this is really you kind of your own university because
00:42:05.220
you didn't get you didn't go to college your mom was not happy about that i'm still traumatized
00:42:10.400
from the tears you know having you know jewish immigrant parents and telling them you're leaving
00:42:16.820
college is the end of the world oh yeah i bet i bet what did she say it was what she didn't say
00:42:24.060
for weeks you know not talking crying and did you know that you would get this education or did you
00:42:32.220
just say no not now or how did you approach this what was your thinking so i i love college and when i
00:42:38.980
entered college i was the pre-med of pre-meds which happens when you're the son of immigrants i was you
00:42:44.820
know cradled in my mom's arms and then she stamped md on my behind and sent me on my way right and by
00:42:51.640
the time i got to college you know i was in my pre-med bio classes but very quickly i remember the
00:42:57.800
life being sucked out of me and at first i thought maybe i'm just being lazy then i realized maybe i'm
00:43:04.700
not on my path maybe i'm on a path somebody placed me on and i'm just rolling down so i always loved
00:43:11.520
college but i knew the answers i was getting weren't the answers i wanted so i just toured through
00:43:17.260
a bunch of books business books and biographies and self-help books looking for a specific guide of
00:43:23.860
how all these people i looked up to how they were able to break through when nobody knew their name
00:43:28.340
but eventually i was left empty-handed so very naively because i was 18 and i thought
00:43:33.800
why not just write it myself you know i thought i could just call up bill gates interview him
00:43:38.200
interview everybody else you know i thought he's just waiting to help out kids these days right
00:43:42.460
right to my surprise that's not how it played out right that was the original inspiration to go on
00:43:48.920
this quest to get the answers i was looking okay so i want to talk about a couple of things before we
00:43:53.160
get into your quest to meet these people first of all tell me about your dad because he's he's all
00:43:57.360
the way through this book my dad passed a year ago and you know what i'll tell you about a couple minutes
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ago right before we started i closed my eyes and i told my dad you know you're here with me
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the hardest and biggest lessons i've learned in life
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and the biggest thing is that you don't know how much you'll miss someone until they're gone
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my whole life was just worth living because my son feels that way about me
00:45:33.520
all right we're going to take a quick break and then we're going to come back and talk about
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alex benayan he is uh the author of the book the third door the wild quest to uncover how the
00:47:27.260
world's most successful people launch their careers uh he is 25 years old and uh going to
00:47:34.580
have a very successful uh life in front of them uh in front of him um first let's start with
00:47:41.120
what the third door is so after spending seven years interviewing the world's most successful
00:47:47.000
people i realized while on the outside they are completely different you know bill gates grew up
00:47:53.020
wealthy in seattle maya angelou in stamps arkansas at their core though they all treat life and business
00:48:01.900
and success the exact same way and the analogy that came to me because i was 21 at the time was it's
00:48:08.300
sort of like getting into a nightclub so there's always three ways in there's the first door the
00:48:13.260
main entrance where the line curves around the block where 99 of people wait around hoping to get
00:48:18.340
in and then there's the second door the vip entrance where the billionaires and celebrities go through
00:48:23.840
and for some reason school and society have this way of making us feel like those are the only two
00:48:30.320
ways in you're either born into it or you wait your turn like everybody else but what i learned is
00:48:36.280
that there's always always the third door and it's the entrance where you jump out of line run down
00:48:41.700
the alley bang on the door a hundred times crack open the window go through the kitchen there's always
00:48:45.680
a way in and it doesn't matter if that's how gates sold his first piece of software or how spielberg
00:48:50.320
became the youngest director in hollywood history they all took the third door do you think there's
00:48:55.120
anybody who's that does really truly game-changing remarkable things that hasn't done that i don't believe
00:49:03.840
i don't think so either i think the whole you know the very essence of your question game-changing
00:49:10.000
things right you have to think that how can you stand in a long line hoping life hands you what you
00:49:17.020
want if you're trying to do something that actually changes things so were you did you did you learn the
00:49:24.020
i don't think you learned this from them it was just verified in you because the way the first thing
00:49:30.720
you did was you thought it was going to be easy to get all these interviews right there's a power of
00:49:36.800
being naive right okay yeah there is there really is you just don't know any better and i love that
00:49:42.240
um but you thought it would be easy to get that you thought it would be hard to get the money to
00:49:46.900
publish the book right because i was you know buried and i was buried in student loan debt so i thought
00:49:52.180
there had to be a way to make some quick money because i figured bill gates of course would say come on
00:49:57.120
in immediately yeah so i needed the couple hundred bucks to fly to seattle right okay so two nights
00:50:02.500
before final exams this is my freshman year of college i'm sitting in the library doing what
00:50:07.120
everyone's doing in the library right before finals i'm on facebook and i'm on facebook and i see someone
00:50:14.500
offering free tickets to the prices right and the first thought that comes into my mind is
00:50:21.180
what if i go on the show and win some money to fund this dream you know not my brightest moment
00:50:29.120
right but i had a problem i had never seen a full episode of the show before plus i had finals in two
00:50:36.040
days right and you know my mom would kill me but i decided that night to do the logical thing and pull
00:50:42.380
an all-nighter to study but i didn't study for finals i said how to hack the prices right and i went on
00:50:48.180
the show the next day and executed this ridiculous strategy and ended up winning the whole showcase
00:50:52.880
showdown winning a sailboat selling the sailboat and that's how i funded okay so hang on just a
00:50:57.180
second what was the hack and how did you learn it so during my all-nighter what i realized when i was
00:51:03.880
on the you know 23rd o of a google search is that the price is right isn't what it seems you know they
00:51:09.900
make it look random glenn come on down as if they pulled your name out of the hat but what i learned
00:51:15.980
is that there's a producer who interviews every single person in the audience and then on top of
00:51:21.720
that there's an undercover producer who's planted around in casual clothing to verify those selections
00:51:28.540
so like everything in life there's a system to it it wasn't just luck so how did you work that system
00:51:34.700
so when i got there i didn't know who the undercover producer is so i just had to assume
00:51:40.660
everyone was so i'm you know flirting with old ladies i'm dancing with the custodians i'm break
00:51:45.520
dancing and i don't know how to break dance right and eventually i get in line and it's my turn to
00:51:50.660
be interviewed by the producer and the second i saw him i knew you know i knew everything about him
00:51:55.620
from my night of research i knew where he grew up i knew where he went to school and i knew he had a
00:52:00.360
clipboard but it's never in his hand it's in his producer's hand who sits right behind him
00:52:05.720
so it's finally my turn to be interviewed so he goes what's your name where are you from what do
00:52:10.480
you do and i go hey i'm alex i'm 18 i'm a freshman in college i'm studying pre-med and he goes pre-med
00:52:16.220
you must spend a lot of time studying how do you have time to watch the price is right and i go
00:52:20.920
oh is that where i am you know no laughter the joke falls flat so i had read in one of these
00:52:28.740
business books that i was reading that human contact speeds up a relationship so i had an idea
00:52:35.600
i needed to touch stan so i you know i called the producer over stan i'm like stan come over
00:52:42.380
here i want to make a handshake with you and you know we pound it and blow it up and he laughs and
00:52:47.100
he goes all right good luck and walks away doesn't turn around to his assistant she doesn't write
00:52:52.720
anything on the clipboard just like that it's over and i don't know if you've had one of these
00:52:57.960
moments where your whole dream is right in front of you and you can see it slipping through your
00:53:03.040
fingers like sand and the worst part is you know you didn't even have a chance to really prove
00:53:08.300
yourself so i don't know what got into me but i felt this rumbling in the pit of my stomach and i
00:53:13.300
started yelling at the top of my lungs stan and you know the whole audience shoots their head around
00:53:20.220
they think i'm like having a seizure and he runs over he's like are you okay are you okay and i have no
00:53:25.820
idea what i'm gonna say and i'm looking at him and he's looking at me and you know he's typical
00:53:29.960
hollywood you know goatee red scarf and i just look at him and i'm like your scarf and now i really
00:53:38.500
don't know what i'm gonna say and all i can do is with all the seriousness i can i just look at him
00:53:44.940
and i say stan i'm an avid scarf collector i have 362 pairs in my dorm room and i'm missing that one
00:53:50.460
where did you get it and he starts cracking up because i think he finally figured out what i was
00:53:55.700
doing and he was laughing more at why i was doing it so he gives me the scarf he's like look you need
00:54:00.380
this more than i do he turns around winks and his assistant makes a mark on the clipboard wow wow okay
00:54:07.160
so now this is this that you just took the third door you didn't learn this on the road i mean i want
00:54:14.420
to hear the stories for everybody else but you didn't learn this on the road you knew this instinctively
00:54:20.180
didn't you i didn't know consciously that i did right what i learned much later in my journey and
00:54:29.160
it's funny how life works this way you know the answer is sometimes if you're not ready for it
00:54:33.200
it waits until you're ready halfway through the journey of writing the book my grandpa finally
00:54:39.620
opened up about his life to me and what i learned is that he was in iran you know born into a family
00:54:48.600
where food could barely be put on the table in his story of making ends meet when he was five years
00:54:56.800
old his father passed away and in iran women couldn't work so it was really up to my grandpa
00:55:02.540
five six seven eight years old to make ends meet in his story of overcoming you know coming to america
00:55:12.400
rebuilding everything really following that american dream i didn't know it consciously
00:55:17.820
but when i finally heard the story i realized this has not only been in my blood this has been what i
00:55:24.180
was raised around i just didn't know it all right so who's the first person you want to meet
00:55:32.140
oh when i was 18 the first person i tried to meet was steven spielberg and i knew he was at a
00:55:39.720
you know a fundraising party in los angeles and i ended up going to the party sneaking in as part
00:55:47.040
of the catering staff and at the party i you know i had done all my research on him i'd read all his
00:55:52.440
biographies watched all his movies and when i was at the party i finally built up the courage to go up
00:55:57.580
and talk to him because he was you know talking to some you know bald man i didn't know who i later
00:56:02.260
found out was jeffrey katzenberg so i'm like oh this is a perfect opportunity he's talking to some
00:56:10.140
random guy yeah so i run up to him and i'm like you know mr spiel over mr spieler can i ask you a
00:56:15.880
question as you walk to your car and he swings around and throws his arms in the air and i flinch
00:56:20.580
and he gives me a big hug we'll pick the story up there when we come back the name of the book is
00:56:27.620
the third door so you need to sell your home you've made the decision it's time to move you
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want to maybe take some money off the table lock in your profit or maybe you just want to go to a
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better area move south go somewhere that has non-communist laws whatever you want to do when
00:56:45.460
you want to sell your house you have to make a decision up front which is who's going to be a
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real estate agent well you better find somebody who knows what the heck they're doing you better find
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somebody who shares your values you should find someone from realestateagentsitrust.com
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realestateagentsitrust.com is a place that glenn put together a long time ago basically designed to
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screen through real estate agents to find people who share your values who know what they're doing
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who are great at advertising and get real results instead of making it a guessing game because
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guessing is not fun it might be fun when you're a kid and your dad has two things his hands behind his
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this is the glenn beck program at the top of next hour we have an update on a couple of supreme court
00:57:40.060
cases that have come in favorable to the conservative point of view one was the travel ban and the other
00:57:46.380
there was this ridiculous law in california where uh if you were an adoption agency or you were a
00:57:54.200
christian agency you had to post the posters about abortion in planned parenthood it was crazy
00:58:00.920
but anyway we'll give you all of the information on that coming up in just a second
00:58:05.460
um um alex benayan is uh here he has a book called the third door and it is about his meetings with
00:58:14.920
these really famous people uh and he got in to see like everybody everybody um and and i let's finish
00:58:23.940
up on on steven spielberg so he gives you a hug at this party he gives me a hug and because i'm 18 i
00:58:30.840
don't have a pitch i just end up pouring my heart out to him yeah and when i ask him for an interview
00:58:37.020
you know his eyes clenched because you know that's the last thing he sort of wanted to hear
00:58:41.100
but he did something that was the most powerful thing he could have given me he sort of stopped
00:58:46.960
and he looked at me and he said i don't know why but i really think you're going to make this happen
00:58:53.660
go do it come back to me later and he walked away you know he said goodbye and walked away
00:59:00.680
and then he turned around right before getting in his car and walked back and said i really meant that
00:59:06.180
i believe you can do this and when you're 18 years old there's no power no more powerful gift
00:59:11.940
yeah at all did you go back to him yeah did he meet you what ended up happening and it's a pretty
00:59:18.640
wild story i ended up going out to the south of france where he was the judge of the can film
00:59:25.360
festival so i could get back in touch with him and i'll spare you the whole story but i ended up
00:59:30.720
taking a little dingy out to the middle of the french riviera to spielberg's yacht to deliver a
00:59:36.000
letter almost died um the story was so preposterous it actually didn't even make it into the book
00:59:42.540
because my publisher is like this is too too much this is non-fiction that is crazy so did he answer
00:59:51.180
the letter spielberg sadly was not oh it's too bad and one of the things that i've learned about the
00:59:58.160
book is that well you know most things don't work out yeah if you don't ask you don't get yeah um
01:00:05.400
when you met um bill gates you wanted him after your interview with him you wanted to
01:00:11.520
get him to line you up with warren buffett and what happened is his office loved gates his office
01:00:18.060
loved the interview so much they actually reached out to buffett's office to vouch for me to try to
01:00:22.820
give me the interview but what had happened is i had spent eight months pounding on warren buffett's
01:00:30.500
door calling his office week after week sending him handwritten letters every single month i was so
01:00:37.980
persistent that when gates his office finally reached out buffett's office said oh we know all about alex
01:00:44.940
and it's not happening and i learned a very strong lesson for a young person which is there's a such
01:00:52.060
thing as over persistence did you meet with him with buffett what ended up happening is because i
01:00:59.560
couldn't get the official sit-down interview me and my five childhood best friends went to omaha for
01:01:05.680
buffett's annual shareholders meeting where there's 30 000 people there oh my gosh and there's a q and a
01:01:11.580
portion but you have to be selected for the q a it's a it's a random lottery but you've done the
01:01:17.960
price is right exactly so me and my best friends go to buffett's meeting and although there's only 30
01:01:24.500
people who ask questions out of 30 000 one in a thousand odds we find a loophole in buffett's lottery
01:01:30.400
and out of you know one in a thousand odds four of us get winning lottery tickets and that's how we
01:01:37.440
asked my questions to warren buffett in front of 30 000 people what was the what was the trick so
01:01:43.960
buffett didn't think out his system clearly enough what ended up happening is it's a big basketball
01:01:50.380
arena and there's 12 different lottery stations all around the arena and they're equally spaced out
01:01:58.080
assuming that everyone in the in this arena wants to equally ask questions but if you think about it
01:02:05.600
the people in the front rows are the biggest buffett fans who are dying to ask the question
01:02:10.520
the people all the way up in the shadowy top part don't want anyone to know they're even there
01:02:17.520
so no one's entering that lottery so you put your name in there and they pull equal amount from each
01:02:23.040
pocket wow so the odds are completely tilted so this is so so well first of all let me ask you met
01:02:35.020
uh maya angelou uh bill gates uh spielberg uh lady gaga uh and then jessica alba and i'm thinking to
01:02:46.580
myself hmm one of these things isn't quite like the other she's built a hell of a business though
01:02:53.860
she does have she does have a uh a business what did you learn from jessica alba i didn't expect to
01:03:02.160
learn it and we actually touched up on it in the beginning where i went into the interview with
01:03:07.000
jessica alba the week after my dad's cancer diagnosis and i went into that interview thinking
01:03:14.580
you know i need to be professional i need to stop thinking about death and as soon as i sat down
01:03:21.140
jessica alba for some reason i'll never know why she immediately started talking about how you never
01:03:28.600
know when your parents are going to go oh my god that is her biggest fear that helped spur her to
01:03:35.480
start this business so did you just start bawling or i tried to hold it in i tried to change the
01:03:41.260
subject so i changed the subject and asked her how she started her company she goes well when i had kids
01:03:45.320
i realized they can die just as easily and i'm like please stop talking about death and when i finally
01:03:52.820
blurted it out she for the first time made me feel not alone and not only did she make me feel that
01:04:03.040
she taught me lessons about how sometimes looking and using your biggest fear could be your biggest
01:04:08.920
advantage you have at 25 you have uh more real knowledge than i may even have now
01:04:22.580
uh what are you gonna do with it what i've learned is that when i set out to write this book my
01:04:30.020
original intention was to gather all of these tools and tactics and principles from all these people who
01:04:35.980
i looked up to and put it all in a guidebook and while that element still exists you know the saying
01:04:41.460
one person's hindsight can be your foresight while that still exists in the book what i've realized is
01:04:47.660
that the soul of the book goes much deeper and the soul of this book is really about possibility
01:04:53.660
and what i've learned is that you can give someone all the best knowledge and tools in the world and
01:05:01.520
their life can still feel stuck but if you change what someone believes is possible they'll never be the
01:05:07.960
same and that's the mission moving forward you know i have um i've told this story um a few times
01:05:15.680
but i just want to uh verify what you're saying uh i'm 30 i uh uh am an alcoholic i just start to
01:05:27.560
uh sober up and start to really look at my whole life and and everything and uh and uh somebody said
01:05:37.020
i said you know i just like to go back to i'd like to go to college as i didn't go to college
01:05:41.360
like to go to college and um somebody said well you live in new haven why don't you go to yale
01:05:46.560
and i said they're not going to accept me i was a loser i was i had horrible grades
01:05:53.100
well i sent for my transcripts i was an a student i was a really good student but i had talked myself
01:06:00.920
into not being a good student not being smart and i had allowed others to build on that
01:06:08.740
and um i said with a professor and uh because he said one of the one of the underclassmen said um
01:06:19.000
uh could you just could you just do you know it's finals week and would you just do what you do with
01:06:26.760
the professor uh all the time uh so we don't have to you know really listen and i said wow okay well
01:06:35.000
what is it that i do and they said you know you get him talking and it's because i was asking
01:06:39.460
questions i really wanted to know they just wanted to get through the class i really wanted to know
01:06:45.100
and um so we had kind of this exchange uh over a two-week period and um uh and he finally said i
01:06:53.880
want to see you after class and we sat down and he said what are you reading why are you why are you
01:07:00.080
here and i said i've realized i don't i don't really know anything myself he said what are you
01:07:05.600
reading i said i'm i'm trying to get through einstein i'm trying to get through emmanuel kant i'm
01:07:12.720
i'm reading the founders i'm you know i'm i'm i'm reading augustine i'm trying to figure out you know
01:07:19.840
plato all of this stuff and uh he said who's guiding you through that and i said me and he said
01:07:27.640
and i said i feel so stupid i just can't it's so hard and he said he reached across the table he put
01:07:34.480
my hand his hand on mine and he said you know you belong here don't you that changed my life
01:07:43.000
steven spielberg saying to you i really mean this is going to happen you're going to do this
01:07:50.040
it changes your life somebody who you respect and it doesn't have to be anybody big or
01:07:58.420
famous or anything else dad especially dad sometimes dad saying i believe in you changes everything
01:08:08.240
the name of the book is the third door alex it has been a real honor to meet you and uh thank you
01:08:17.200
very much the honor has been mine yeah and i uh i hope to see great things coming from you
01:08:23.640
from here on out i appreciate that a ton thank you bet thank you name of the book again the third
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it for safe keeping so let's look a little bit at a couple of the decisions that the court has just
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handed down yeah two pretty big ones and and actually a third sort of uh piece of collateral
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damage that's i think particularly interesting uh to this audience uh first of all uh the law in
01:11:04.660
california uh was basically required places you know like a christian um counseling center on
01:11:12.780
abortion to or an adoption center to give advice to people who come into it posting notices on the
01:11:20.480
wall to say hey don't forget you can also get an abortion i mean typical california right um and that
01:11:28.740
has been overturned on a 5-4 decision um it has possibly wider um uh consequences yes a little
01:11:38.720
in that they're basically saying you can't really force someone to say something just because you
01:11:44.620
call it professional speech so what the way the law kind of works is to say well we're not saying
01:11:49.580
you say this as an individual we're saying this as your role as a doctor you have to say this as
01:11:54.660
your role as a lawyer you have to you have to you have to make make these notices no i'm an individual
01:11:59.780
first right they're saying you're an individual first you can't compel the person to say things just
01:12:04.500
because they happen to be a professional and you know holding a job which is interesting i could
01:12:09.360
see a wider significance the other one is the travel ban travel ban uh was upheld by the court
01:12:15.760
um and uh so that can go forward uh this is wow reflecting one of trump's probably best decisions
01:12:23.540
in that he got rid of steve bannon who designed the first couple versions of it and failed miserably
01:12:29.160
with them uh this one is the you know the third or fourth take at it and this one actually passes
01:12:33.780
scrutiny um and is now okay to go forward um there's interesting parts of this in that um
01:12:41.820
one of the big arguments there's several arguments the uh other side made which was one hey we know
01:12:48.420
this is about banning muslims because the president said it over and over again in the campaign and as
01:12:53.160
presidency basically the court looked at those arguments and said he yeah whatever he said he could
01:12:59.000
say whatever he wants um however that wasn't actually in the text so they basically dismissed
01:13:04.220
all the stuff that he said they did not say that everything he said was okay they said the stuff he
01:13:07.820
said had nothing to do with this because it's not in the text of it wow you know wouldn't that be nice
01:13:11.260
if the media started doing that yeah actually looking at the argument looking at what's actually
01:13:16.080
going on and going i don't really care what he says yeah he says a lot of stuff and uh some of it
01:13:20.880
you should listen to some of it you shouldn't we should get into maybe uh the the way that that
01:13:26.640
was written about because it's pretty important uh and it also you know seems to overturn in the
01:13:34.620
ruling another case a famous one um that has something to do with one of the biggest progressive
01:13:42.160
presidents in history oh my gosh oh my oh my i think i again oh my don't know really
01:13:48.440
fdr woodrow wilson don't tell me don't tell me i want to wait until open this i mean it's like
01:13:53.820
christmas now give me a hint no don't give me a hint don't give me a hint let me dream
01:14:00.060
of what it might be and we'll come back with the supreme court in just a minute
01:14:05.880
glenn back there's a story today coming out a couple of things first of all california is
01:14:14.480
considering creating a fake news advisory group uh this a government group that the californians
01:14:21.700
are going to put together uh and uh they're going to figure out what's fake news what's not fake news
01:14:26.780
well that'll be helpful now also in the news today president trump uh still everybody is protesting his
01:14:34.580
now repealed immigration party uh policy he's now saying it is back to catch and release
01:14:41.340
every day we get a fresh example of outrage that is dubious or unsavory or sometimes now even
01:14:48.740
violent there was a graphic cartoon by occupy wall street just the last few days the abuse of floor
01:14:54.340
of florida's attorney general pam bondy she left a movie theater she'd been watching would you be my
01:15:00.320
neighbor and they're spitting on her and screaming at her similar abuse of department of homeland
01:15:06.300
security secretary kirsten nielsen the mistreatment of sarah sanders over the weekend and boy i just
01:15:12.660
have to say side note your honor i mean a group that calls itself feminist progressives do mistreat
01:15:18.260
an awful lot of women at least they have in the last week the bungled time magazine cover story which
01:15:23.460
saw the magazine use a photo of an immigrant girl being kidnapped from her parents which was false
01:15:28.980
the girl had never been taken from her mother but that didn't matter though time magazine concluded
01:15:33.680
it's the message that counts oddly enough a similar incident happened just again today alex wren
01:15:41.520
maxim's mexico cover girl in uh 2017 she's sports illustrated swimsuit rookie for 2018 she posted an
01:15:50.860
image of a sobbing child reaching through the chain link fence and she writes i'm effing disgusted right
01:15:57.480
now yes but are you are you wearing a bikini uh or would that be sexist of me to notice that she's
01:16:04.860
wearing a bikini if she's on the cover of sports illustrated i don't even know the rules anymore
01:16:09.600
the assumption is that she had posted evidence of a child being taken from their parents at the u.s
01:16:16.000
border but it wasn't until after the tweet went viral that people realized uh no that that uh that
01:16:22.440
photo has nothing to do with the current border situation not even close the photo was actually
01:16:26.520
taken last year for a metro uk article titled thousands of children separated from parents
01:16:37.820
now again i don't know you're wearing a swimsuit i mean she's a sports illustrated swimsuit model
01:16:47.300
who gives a flying crap what she has to say well strange as it is her tweets can have a real world
01:16:55.480
effect that is both divisive and precarious before wren deleted the tweet it had garnered 16 300 retweets
01:17:05.420
and 50 300 likes with roughly 12.2 million followers on instagram and 1.5 million followers on twitter
01:17:15.240
she had the ability to spread a false message to influence public opinion
01:17:21.740
i wonder if this is the kind of fake news that the new california board will be looking for
01:17:31.200
it's tuesday june 26th you're listening to the glenn beck program
01:17:43.360
all right supreme court rules 5-4 to uphold the travel ban now there's a couple of things
01:17:51.600
in these we're just going to go through them here uh the there are three uh decisions that have come
01:17:58.000
out right so just two big ones here yeah so let's let's uh let's go through uh what the supreme court
01:18:04.520
has just decided so there's a law in california uh basically that required uh you know some like an
01:18:11.900
adoption center or a christian counseling center to post uh notices hey did you guys know that you
01:18:18.900
could also get an abortion instead of going through adoption they wanted to alert people that they
01:18:23.120
could instead abort their children rather than get them for adoption this is a person who's already
01:18:27.340
walked into an adoption center we're trying to talk them out of adoption and get them over to the
01:18:32.700
abortion center now you can make that point if you'd like no you're certainly covered by the first
01:18:36.680
amendment to make that argument but you also can't make the argument that i want them rare
01:18:41.200
safe and legal no they did they've given up right it's just safe and legal and honestly like i don't
01:18:46.900
know that they care about safe really i think they care about legal but the the they are selling the
01:18:54.020
body parts that's true it's a good point they don't care about any of it they're all lying let's put
01:18:57.860
it that way so that they can make that argument you could say hey we think abortion is a wonderful
01:19:01.500
argument we can't force a catholic charity for example to say they have to say that abortion is
01:19:07.880
a great option for you um and that's you know your your compelling speech now uh it clarence thomas
01:19:14.740
wrote the decision um as we know on this program one of the basic tenets of this program is that
01:19:19.300
clarence thomas continues to be awesome um so we have to interview i want to interview him i don't i
01:19:25.620
don't think he should do that interview i advise against it yeah no i mean it wouldn't be an
01:19:28.420
intelligent interview but and he wouldn't take it but i want to interview no he would be i mean
01:19:32.660
fantastic yeah he's so i mean so smart and yeah we he's the most i i potentially the most important
01:19:38.880
man in america right now yeah he writes and this is a great summary of what he wrote the ninth circuit
01:19:44.260
uh did not apply strict scrutiny because this it concluded that the notice regulates professional
01:19:49.880
speech but this court has never recognized professional speech as a separate category of speech subject to
01:19:57.920
different rules speech is not unprotected merely because it is uttered by professionals
01:20:03.740
he's just awesome uh so that one is a great you know it's great five four uh down the line there
01:20:11.600
as you might expect with a decision like that um and it does wind up being the correct one i think
01:20:17.560
clearly you know i mean i think there's it's absolutely clearly the right decision uh and one i'm
01:20:23.880
very excited about um on the other side of this travel ban it's going to get a lot more uh press
01:20:28.180
than the abortion ruling um and it's also important the decision uh uh goes through and says the travel
01:20:34.380
ban can go forward uh there's a lot of nuance to it and some interesting uh things inside of it first
01:20:39.540
of all um one of the main arguments made by people by hawaii trying to say hey the travel ban should
01:20:45.840
not exist one of their main arguments was we know this wouldn't be constitutional if it was done
01:20:52.340
based on religion and we think that it was based on religion and here's our evidence donald trump
01:21:01.360
called it a muslim ban about 5 000 times okay here's all the people in his administration who
01:21:05.860
called it a muslim ban here's all the times he said it was to ban muslims blah blah blah blah blah blah
01:21:10.680
what the court said is they actually looked at those arguments and they said okay we you're right
01:21:16.660
donald trump did say those things however it's a it's not technically in the writing it's not
01:21:24.160
technically in what they call the proclamation which is what this is to uh what the travel ban is
01:21:28.800
so they're basically saying yeah it's his opinions aside we're not art we're not ruling on whether those
01:21:35.620
are good opinions or whether they're right or wrong what we're saying is they're not in here
01:21:41.000
technically and a lot of that's because it's the third or fourth version of so think of the far
01:21:45.780
reaching um uh ramifications of that because what he's saying here is that just be called because
01:21:55.080
it's called the patriot act doesn't mean it's patriotic right and that's at least the name of
01:22:01.780
the act i mean yeah yeah yeah no it's true i i think i would have loved this standard to be applied to
01:22:06.800
the obamacare ruling which it was not now of course clarence thomas didn't write that he dissented in
01:22:11.940
that opinion but i mean the same standard as applied to obamacare says you can't change a fee
01:22:17.700
to a tax or a tax to a fee after it's been written uh you can't you can't change the way subsidies are
01:22:26.420
given out afterwards because you think it's what they they probably meant that was the whole both of
01:22:32.940
the main obamacare rulings were decided on the basis that we think they meant this so therefore
01:22:38.460
it is that it's really weird because um you even asked them in those particular case you even asked
01:22:45.220
them and they told you yeah well yeah i kind of kind of screwed that one yeah two separate cases and
01:22:52.020
both times roberts was there saying you know we think they meant this now roberts gets on board with
01:22:56.960
this ruling he's on the correct side of uh or the i guess the conservative side depending on your
01:23:02.400
viewpoint of this particular ruling he's with thomas so in the 5-4 decision he's he here embraces
01:23:09.560
the idea that you shouldn't just insert things that you think they meant into a rule a law a
01:23:16.960
proclamation um that was to me completely different than what he said last time but uh in this particular
01:23:23.980
case it may uh uh help if you were if you like the travel ban all right so you promised you promised
01:23:31.320
some candy i did you you promised me that this has far-reaching possible far-reaching ramifications
01:23:40.040
it overturns something of real historical significance at least i think it does and you
01:23:47.120
tell me you're nobody but i can hope you can hope all right you tell me all right the idea one of the
01:23:53.340
other arguments made by hawaii uh in an attempt to overturn the travel ban was to say this is
01:23:59.540
basically the japanese internment camps okay you're taking people based on some group and you're
01:24:07.460
punishing all of them at the same time okay what the court said was wait a minute this is not the
01:24:13.160
same as japanese internment camps you can't compare the two one's about foreign nationals asking for a
01:24:18.420
privilege of admission the other is about citizens losing rights uh in their actual citizens uh in a
01:24:25.480
what they call a morally repugnant way however they go on uh to talk about uh of the let me read this
01:24:33.560
part for you forcible relocations of u.s citizens to concentration camps solely and explicitly on the
01:24:39.280
basis of race is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of presidential authority
01:24:44.620
now what's interesting about that is this is the reason why they were able to do the japanese
01:24:52.120
internment camps is a supreme court decision in 1944 which allowed for for that whole you know
01:24:59.060
disaster to take place so the argument here is this ruling as they call that the the uh the japanese
01:25:08.360
internment camps objectively unlawful and outside the scope of presidential authority
01:25:12.900
overturns the ruling that allowed internment camps in the united states um and that while you might
01:25:21.520
say well come on they're not gonna that could never happen again i know i know it's only happened
01:25:26.460
with two different presidents i certainly don't have to make that case to glenn beck yeah but i mean
01:25:29.920
to a lot of people will say well that's not not a big deal it's never going to happen again well
01:25:33.180
it has happened before multiple times it's happened all over the world is happening now in the world
01:25:37.280
right now george takai says it's happening on our border right now as we just found out we just heard
01:25:41.600
from george takai this is already going it's actually worse it's worse right than that uh so
01:25:45.300
that's a pretty big deal in that here is something that again from one of the biggest progressive
01:25:49.800
presidents of all time fdr one of the people who is consistently listed in the top five presidents
01:25:55.660
by progressive historians for interning an entire race of people multiple races of people by the way
01:26:01.900
multiple uh nationalities uh what we see here is i think and you know this is certainly not just my
01:26:08.220
speculation but other uh legal experts speculation that this essentially in effect overturns that
01:26:14.420
ruling they are saying that that was unlawful they are saying that that was outside the scope of
01:26:19.760
presidential authority that's really good i think it's really good because they did not need to go
01:26:24.340
that far um for example in the abortion ruling they go pretty far they say hey you can't force people
01:26:29.680
who are professionals to say things just because it's their job which is a big deal because that could
01:26:34.200
reach past just this one thing the masterpiece cake shop ruling that we talked about a few weeks
01:26:39.560
ago was the opposite it was very narrow and didn't apply to a large swath of these of these
01:26:43.980
arrangements so this i think is a is a much more further reaching um situation i will say this and
01:26:52.340
you're going to hear a lot about this if you want to tune into uh msnbc tonight and tune into a little
01:26:56.180
cnn later on today what you're going to hear a lot about is not the thomas ruling on this you're going to
01:27:00.540
hear a lot about the concurring opinion from justice kennedy now so kennedy is joins the majority
01:27:07.680
in this case in the 5-4 case and says yes the travel ban should up uh should be upheld his argument
01:27:13.500
essentially in his concurring opinion which he is alone in he basically says yes technically the
01:27:18.760
travel ban uh should be upheld however it's pretty mean and he goes through it's a two-page ruling it's
01:27:24.960
pretty pretty limited pretty mean i'm summarizing here all right but yeah he doesn't really say it's
01:27:29.680
pretty it's pretty mean okay he said we should we should re-evaluate kennedy's health if he said
01:27:35.180
right and you know what i think it's pretty mean and we're not a bunch of meanies no he he didn't
01:27:39.860
word it that way but it's essentially what he said he said a it's pretty mean b and other stuff and
01:27:47.580
other stuff no b the president shouldn't make this this thing as presented is technically okay for the
01:27:53.700
president to do there's a very low standard for the president to apply these types of immigration
01:27:57.200
restrictions based on national security so technically yes he can do it however he wanted
01:28:04.960
to make sure that everybody knew that a president and his job is to uphold the constitution and if
01:28:11.800
what he's doing is essentially rewording a thing over and over and over again to get it to pass
01:28:16.380
scrutiny when what he really wants to do is ban muslims that is wrong and while i think that is
01:28:24.020
actually i'm okay with that well first of all i completely agree with that point from right from
01:28:28.980
i think i'm okay with that however the larger scope of what people are going to read into this is
01:28:34.240
this is a a slap at the on the wrist of the president saying hey what you did passes here but
01:28:41.120
what you're doing i don't agree with or what you said you were going to do right what you said
01:28:47.420
multiple times what you're going to you know i'm going to ban muslims you can't ban muslims and if
01:28:51.700
you're just trying to play with the rules to try to get it past us that's the wrong thing to do i
01:28:56.100
can't stop you because i have a limitation as the court of what i'm supposed to do however what i
01:28:59.820
think of that is really wrong now of course you might say well who cares what he thinks he's you
01:29:04.680
know what doesn't matter if he's applying the law and he's and he's doing the job of the supreme court
01:29:09.120
it's not his opinion to say what's mean and what is it mean a you're gonna get a lot of media attention
01:29:13.500
on it so i'm just alerting you that that's going to be coming and when they have the quote from
01:29:16.980
kennedy saying it's mean yeah well then that's going to play i mean i could read it to you it's
01:29:22.520
two pages but basically what it says is it's mean yeah okay i got it in addition to that though um
01:29:28.100
it's going to lead to a lot of speculation that kennedy is not going to be stepping down anytime soon
01:29:32.620
because if what he says is yeah i have to approve that but what you're doing is wrong there's the
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speculation that he's going to say well you know i can't i'm not going to step down at this point
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and give this guy another supreme court pick if what he's going to do is this or these sorts of
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shenanigans now i don't he's not critical of gorsuch at all and i don't think he has any problem
01:29:56.180
with gorsuch uh so i don't think that he's complaining about his his previous picks i think
01:30:01.420
he's saying hey watch how far you're going here um because i think if he's completely comfortable
01:30:07.520
with trump the idea is he's more um open to stepping down and he's been the one that everyone
01:30:14.180
talks about stepping down soon now everyone on the court's like 175 years old so any one of them
01:30:19.360
could step down at any time uh but kennedy's the one that's often tossed around and kennedy is no man
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is the moderate right i mean you look at you look at uh uh ginsburg she is like walking death
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i mean how old is she now ruth rpg ruth ruth like we know rpg how old is ruthie now she doesn't look
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a day over a thousand she's she's not she doesn't look she doesn't look i mean her her mind is still
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there and i actually have a lot of respect for her i don't like the way she rules at all but i really
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respect her her and her the relationship between her and uh scalia is fantastic i love that they were
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actually very good friends very good friends um she was born in 1933 so that would make her 85
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well she she she doesn't look a day uh right younger than 86 okay
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um but yeah i mean she just had a big documentary put out about yeah um and she's kind of a become a
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a liberal lion s who's who would you compare her to because she she she's almost like a um
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betty white you know how like betty white was always a popular she was very accomplished in her
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if ginsburg would appreciate the comparison you know to betty white although i understand it
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the long-term uh predictions uh of what was what the west was going to go through
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01:34:13.620
mr pat gray hello pat how are you hello glenn i'm good good stew hi i'm well thank you for asking pat
01:34:20.400
good you didn't ask i didn't ask actually but i thought so uh what's on your mind today uh i'm
01:34:26.200
kind of impressed with the supreme court rulings two pretty good ones um it's a mystery to me why
01:34:32.640
they don't specify more things why they don't actually rule on on whether or not things are
01:34:39.720
constitutional they tend to rule on an ancillary issue you know well that's what they try to do
01:34:46.500
though i don't want them to let's definitively decide it and the travel ban i mean can we now tell
01:34:52.680
democrats that's settled law man i don't even want to hear about that anymore that is settled law
01:34:58.140
same with the uh abortion thing that the the ruling was that you don't have to tell them about uh
01:35:07.260
abortion as a possibility when uh a mother is considering adoption wasn't that the gist of it
01:35:13.800
you can't force speech on professionals just because they're professionals i mean that's amazing
01:35:18.640
that's because because of the way all of these things have been going no it shouldn't be but uh
01:35:24.560
but how does that work with the with the kind of the fuzzy uh you can colorado it looks like colorado
01:35:33.780
just misbehaved and made it about religion uh but uh you know maybe you can uh force people to make a
01:35:41.960
wedding cake well that's a professional too and your art is your speech yeah i think there's a lot of
01:35:46.660
inconsistencies here we mentioned the obama one before and that where they did say well sure it's
01:35:52.820
not the tax and the fee you know it's not in the document but but we know what they meant and therefore
01:36:00.320
now it's in the document it's the exact opposite of what they're saying here they're saying you know
01:36:04.920
and again this is clarence thomas writing it so of course it's better but you know thomas is saying
01:36:09.660
look you can't you can't do that and then in the travel ban uh case which in the travel ban case by the
01:36:14.620
way is roberts right i think roberts is the one who did the travel ban case so again like which is
01:36:19.460
bizarre i mean that was his it was his his ruling that said you can insert stuff into the bill if you
01:36:25.760
really want to you know there's a court there's no set number of supreme court justices it doesn't
01:36:30.740
have to be nine no don't don't don't it could be 12 or really one clarence thomas why can't we
01:36:38.240
just make him the supreme court it's a tad risky if he happens to die at any point
01:36:45.780
it's just a thought you know i mean and it was a thought that was tried by franklin
01:36:52.420
roosevelt and everybody went crazy he just wanted to stack it with his people i'm just saying
01:36:57.080
you just want to eliminate i'm just putting one guy in there from a percentage standpoint you kind
01:37:03.180
of are stacking it pat so i tell you what pat we'll do that but we have to just draw blindly
01:37:09.400
for the name that gets that one slot no no okay no all right i think that's a good idea but it's uh
01:37:19.000
it's nice to have some sanity restored to the travel ban uh discussion because um as you were saying
01:37:25.660
earlier the argument against it was that it was it was just like the japanese internment camp yeah
01:37:31.620
yeah yeah um pretty soundly rejected that argument except they're not citizens oh and we're not
01:37:38.460
putting them in prisons oh and we didn't confiscate their property other than that it is exactly the
01:37:45.720
same thing well i'm sure george de kai would tell you that it's not as he said uh recently about uh the
01:37:52.820
and he was happening on the border he said in his he was he remembers being rounded up in an
01:37:58.380
internment camp and he was four yeah and he said uh i remember it and it was horrible but
01:38:03.720
what's happening on the border now is worse than the japanese internment camp that's such a an
01:38:09.620
asinine that is it's an insult yeah to the injury that was the japanese internment well i mean we did
01:38:16.880
give him 20 grand like 30 years later so oh yeah twenty thousand dollars that's great changed their
01:38:22.460
whole lives and the lives of their grandchildren generations of people imagine losing absolutely
01:38:28.120
everything and then coming home and you don't have anything you don't have anything your your land is
01:38:33.420
sold and you got nothing i i wouldn't even know where to start what to do i wouldn't either i mean that
01:38:39.480
had to devastate people can you imagine how hard it was to restart your life if the country
01:38:44.520
you know had just deemed that you were a possible enemy
01:38:49.600
and now you come back how did you even start your life again
01:38:53.360
how did you fit back into the community because they didn't give you anything to restart your life
01:39:00.060
no nothing hey sorry you were here for the last four years oh well i mean that's really what they
01:39:06.240
got until what was it late 80s or early 90s when we finally compass compensated the families twenty
01:39:11.840
thousand dollars each uh that would have been good at the time you know to help them get their stuff
01:39:16.800
back or maybe you don't take their stuff in the first place that might have been a good idea yeah
01:39:20.600
that's a good idea oh by the way they kind of harken back to this era with the uh the abortion ruling
01:39:27.020
as well and with thomas writing in the majority basically like you can't force professionals to say
01:39:33.300
things just because they're professionals we've noticed this in history you know kind of a guy named
01:39:37.940
adolph did this uh kind of made uh doctors around the country come up with forced to kind of agree on a
01:39:44.700
certain things like certain people were inferior for example um and he goes to the point of like
01:39:50.760
you can't a government cannot gather a bunch of a group of professionals and make them say things
01:39:56.700
or do things right like in the case of the bakery uh all the bakers shouldn't be forced to do that and
01:40:03.440
by the way thomas is very consistent he yeah he's probably one of the few that would be in his concur i
01:40:08.180
mean he's all he's he does what you want pat which is and i want as well which is don't just try
01:40:13.380
to make it this little tiny narrow thing say what the principle is when it applies i mean i'd rather
01:40:18.620
have them keep this the scope of these things narrow if it's not a larger principle but with
01:40:23.980
something like this where it's like okay it's in the constitution written very clearly that you
01:40:30.080
should have freedom of religion and freedom of speech it's two parts of this very blatantly you
01:40:35.400
should be able to do x y and z right um and that i think you should really you should rule as you
01:40:40.980
know in a more broad sense it's like you know they say like oh you know there's a roe versus
01:40:46.000
wade comes through like oh there's a right to privacy so i guess yes forever you can never
01:40:49.400
challenge that ruling it's like wait a minute how does this happen our rulings never get that sort
01:40:54.080
of treatment they're never treated like that well it's and it's a good thing otherwise uh the united
01:41:00.360
states would still be living under the democratic jim crow laws if you can't ever question the supreme
01:41:07.120
court you have to be able to you have to be able to including this one by the way where they basically
01:41:11.100
overturned the japanese internment case you have to be able to go back and say no and at least now
01:41:16.040
there's a is an idea that if anyone ever tries this again uh i mean i don't know how much value the
01:41:22.840
supreme court has in that moment but i mean at least there's some way to push back on it the other
01:41:28.100
thing that's pissing me off today is oh we're back to catch and release oh yeah yeah it's pretty
01:41:34.200
amazing what really well yeah we're completely out of room even though obama had double the people
01:41:42.460
detained well yes but there were much smaller people back then and they fit in there a lot
01:41:48.260
better uh do you know how big these people are some of them are 16 17 feet tall weigh 800 900 pounds
01:41:54.400
we don't have space for them anymore they were like eight inches yeah years ago yeah people were
01:41:58.480
eight inches remember what it was like in 2010 oh yeah they all see some people they all slept in
01:42:03.320
shoe boxes it was amazing it was amazing we had like a whole country full of lilliputians yeah
01:42:09.000
that were detained uh now you can't say that these are normal and gigantic people yeah you don't hear
01:42:16.020
us use the words little people anymore little people midgets little people you don't hear even
01:42:21.300
little people anymore and that was the politically it's just mexicans now really yeah that's now that's
01:42:27.160
okay yeah yeah yeah right except they're not anymore not anymore they grew or you don't call
01:42:32.920
them you don't call them you know little people or little people mexicans now no they're giants in
01:42:38.060
the last two years they've gotten extremely big down there i don't know what it is must be something
01:42:42.900
in the water so why they tell us not to drink it drink it that's right so what what what so are we
01:42:48.020
now for catch and release i guess i'm trying to keep up or if if you're on the conservative side
01:42:54.460
are you now that is such a good question yeah that's gonna be fascinating to hear today i bet you've
01:43:00.200
been just because i know i filled in for pat uh last week and was just berated with calls of people
01:43:05.160
really angry that the you know that there was kind of a turn back to a more lenient immigration policy
01:43:10.100
people really upset about it oh yeah they were just infuriated by they weren't the what i did get one
01:43:17.300
call i got one call i got a lot of calls i got one call who actually said you know what i'm kind
01:43:21.900
of annoyed we had a tough border policy we've just we just put we just turned it around based on media
01:43:26.440
pressure isn't that a problem i got one call one call about that i was fascinated to see if people
01:43:31.880
would call because i know in it in a in a parallel universe somewhere there's a guy doing a radio talk
01:43:36.080
show and he's getting berated by calls that a republican president has turned back from a tough border
01:43:40.860
policy to a much more lenient one based on media pressure that's happening somewhere in the ether
01:43:46.280
not here we've not had many calls about that that's in a place called 2006 yeah i know certainly
01:43:52.140
if mitch mcconnell did it we'd be getting george bush george bush we got calls all the time about
01:43:57.320
george bush was a globe globalist and that might just be people are you know more like for example
01:44:03.420
you know and there's some evidence here right like we just talked about two great supreme court uh
01:44:07.340
decisions that theoretically if you know if mcconnell didn't uh hold up the you know merrick garland
01:44:15.500
uh uh nomination from obama and then wound up getting a republican president and then trump
01:44:20.780
naming a very good justice seemingly in in gorsuch who's been very solid so far if those three things
01:44:26.580
didn't happen uh you would have potentially it could have got these both of these rulings could
01:44:31.760
have gone the other way and so maybe you're just willing to kind of overlook that stuff yeah no i mean
01:44:36.820
i i think we have to be able to get to a place to where we we don't overlook it but doesn't mean we
01:44:45.060
don't accept it doesn't mean we're like okay you know what i got this this and this which i never
01:44:49.640
thought i would get i will i'll tolerate this uh because it is about compromise you're never going
01:44:56.560
to get everything that you want um however that's not the way it's going that's not the way it is it's
01:45:01.840
it's i'm i'm thrilled with this this is the that's the policy we're actually working for the whole time
01:45:07.520
what i mean you have to at least be consistent because there's no love catch and release that
01:45:13.000
you hated under obama you love that now i mean that's that's the way it goes too i mean you know
01:45:18.060
sam alito is a pretty good justice too and george bush never got the you know oh well yeah but he
01:45:24.800
gave us alito we never got those calls i don't think we ever got a call that said oh they gave us
01:45:30.120
alito has been fantastic conservatives didn't side with bush when he was weak on immigration but here's
01:45:35.040
but here's the thing let me just point out before i go into this um remember this is the one thing
01:45:41.720
that everybody called during the election we said okay what is the one thing is there anything and
01:45:47.340
what we heard was immigration immigration if he backs off of immigration but i don't think that's
01:45:52.180
true anymore i just don't think anybody's going to care i think that's true i mean i think that's
01:45:57.540
at least partially because something you've explained uh and uh illustrated by putting on the hat
01:46:03.400
right in that like the media is so ridiculous against trump that it's almost hard to you know
01:46:11.640
for a lot of people to get on the bandwagon of any criticism of him because you feel like he's had an
01:46:16.560
unfair shake though i will say that he was really bad on george to be bush too this is not a new thing
01:46:22.020
for for republican presidents no but you you now have it's more you have 15 years behind that yeah i mean
01:46:28.580
we've been doing this for 18 years now listen to this remember my my the reason why i put on that
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red hat was to show say to the media you're driving people into his arms you're just driving them because
01:46:38.360
if you can get me to feel bad for this guy and feel like he's being picked on if you can get me to do
01:46:44.760
that right you're gonna you're you you're gonna lose everything you're so far off the track
01:46:50.180
here's the here's the latest gallup polls gallup uh has trump's approval at a new high since the
01:46:56.300
beginning of his presidency 45 that's the same as others at the same point barack obama 46 bill
01:47:02.980
clinton 46 ronald reagan 45 jimmy carter 43 support among republicans is at 90 among independents
01:47:13.060
he's up to 42 tied for his personal best and the only uh and only the fourth week in his presidency
01:47:20.180
that he has been over 40 percent trump's attacks on uh muller are working special counsel now has
01:47:27.340
a 53 unfavorable uh uh rating uh and a new high a whopping 26 point spike since uh 2016 trump thinks he
01:47:39.460
has the winning winning formula and he may be right the more he trashes a muller the more he trashes the
01:47:45.880
media and then the media trashes him the more republicans want to see save his back and the
01:47:53.020
more casual viewers see everything like the russia probe as messy and muddy but they don't see trump
01:48:00.780
as messy and muddy we're growing more and more tribal and this is what i was trying i wanted to
01:48:07.080
explain to uh to brian seth uh selter but they don't want to hear it but they are truly responsible
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