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00:01:04.360 Glenn Beck.

00:01:08.540 You know, I was going to start with Nancy Pelosi, but I don't really get it.

00:01:11.740 But Nancy Pelosi is not going to affect my life.

00:01:13.800 She's not going to affect my life.

00:01:14.980 I'm not going to allow her to affect my life.

00:01:17.300 What's going on in Washington is just a total scam.

00:01:20.500 And we all know it.

00:01:21.740 Nobody really likes Nancy Pelosi.

00:01:24.040 Nobody really wants her there.

00:01:25.620 This is all a power struggle.

00:01:26.920 So I thought I would start instead with two stories.

00:01:32.540 You want the good story or the really weird story first?

00:01:38.840 I guess the good story.

00:01:42.360 Let's start with a good story.

00:01:43.380 Okay.

00:01:44.240 And then I want the really.

00:01:45.260 But I do want where I'm still getting the really weird story.

00:01:47.040 You're going to get the really, the really, this story is a story about a woman who has

00:01:56.240 made a choice on her, on her daughter.

00:01:59.440 Now, you know, the one that the six year old daughter, she says is, is, you know, transgendered

00:02:09.140 and needs to have a sex change at six.

00:02:11.280 And dad has said, no, dad lost custody.

00:02:15.120 Mom has custody.

00:02:16.220 It's being called child abuse.

00:02:17.780 I think it is.

00:02:18.920 I mean, it's crazy.

00:02:20.960 This story makes that story look normal.

00:02:26.580 Wow.

00:02:27.180 Okay.

00:02:27.500 I'm okay.

00:02:28.440 I'm in.

00:02:29.080 So let's, let's, let's, let's have some, let's have some, some good news.

00:02:32.940 First, when I was six weeks old, I went to have an ultrasound for tummy issues and they

00:02:39.540 noticed my ovaries were not hooked up.

00:02:41.160 Right.

00:02:41.460 The doctor at the time thought it would be best to remove them completely.

00:02:44.840 When I was 13, I found out that I'd never be able to have children.

00:02:48.440 It was then that I started researching adoption.

00:02:51.120 As I grew older, my biggest fear was to have somebody tell a perspective to have to someday

00:02:56.720 tell a perspective South spouse that I would never be able to have birth, uh, for our children.

00:03:03.220 Then I met Jason.

00:03:04.360 He was a single dad to two wonderful little boys and we fell head over heels before we

00:03:09.700 got engaged.

00:03:10.520 I told him the biggest secret of my life.

00:03:12.460 One of only a handful of people knew about me.

00:03:15.260 I sobbed as I told him he grabbed my face and he told me it didn't matter how our children

00:03:20.700 came to us.

00:03:21.620 They would be our children.

00:03:23.400 I went through this with Tanya and there is something about women that when they can't

00:03:37.780 have children, they, it just changes them and it's just so devastating to them.

00:03:46.280 Um, Tanya was not supposed to be able to have any children and, uh, didn't know that until

00:03:53.220 we were married and it was so colossally devastating to her.

00:03:58.920 And I kept saying to her what he is, honey, we can adopt the child's going to be ours.

00:04:04.640 I mean, it won't matter.

00:04:07.340 And we, we did adopt and it didn't matter.

00:04:11.220 Rafe is, well, for some strange reason lately, Rafe is my son, uh, but when he behaves, uh,

00:04:20.940 you, you know, he's her son anyway, before we got engaged, I told him about this.

00:04:27.620 So we, uh, took out $55,000 because there was too many shading, uh, shady adoption agencies,

00:04:36.060 uh, where they would cost you $55,000 and, you know, all was said and done.

00:04:42.260 So we set out to do it on our own.

00:04:44.060 We marketed ourselves online and through social media.

00:04:47.040 We made a Facebook adoption paid a page and paid for targeted ads.

00:04:51.440 We had an Instagram page with pictures of our life.

00:04:53.940 We also put a profile of a dot on adoption.com.

00:04:56.680 We were contacted by a handful of women, but most turned out to be scams.

00:05:00.580 Then we got a message on Facebook.

00:05:02.640 A young woman emailed us telling us that her friend was pregnant and looking for a family.

00:05:07.620 September 1st, we got a phone call from this woman in Missouri, and we talked for about

00:05:11.420 an hour and a half over the next month.

00:05:14.000 We built our relationship and became increasingly excited.

00:05:17.160 However, she never got us official proof of pregnancy.

00:05:21.180 People can fake ultrasounds and blood tests online all the time.

00:05:24.680 I was ready to commit, but I, uh, because I trusted this woman, but my husband wanted to

00:05:30.920 renew our adoption.com profile one more time.

00:05:34.220 We renewed it on October 1st and October 2nd.

00:05:37.840 We got a message from another expectant mother.

00:05:40.580 She had been watching our profile and wanted to meet us.

00:05:43.560 Two days later, we met in a little diner 20 minutes from our house.

00:05:47.140 Just when we thought she had stood us up, in walked a very pregnant girl and her mom.

00:05:52.380 We hugged and she showed us the ultrasounds of a little baby boy.

00:05:56.700 He then started kicking and she had me feel her belly.

00:05:59.180 Toward the end of breakfast, she asked how we felt.

00:06:02.720 She then asked us if we would adopt her baby and love him forever.

00:06:06.260 Jason and I sobbed in the middle of a diner in complete shock.

00:06:11.160 And three weeks later, we stood there and watched as our son Andy was born.

00:06:16.760 I was the first to hold him and kiss his tiny hands.

00:06:20.420 That was October 30th, 2017.

00:06:22.820 As we took Andy home and adjusted to being new parents, I had continued to talk with the

00:06:29.120 first expectant mom that we had matched with.

00:06:32.040 She had still never given us any proof.

00:06:34.420 She had told us congratulations and that she had found another family for her baby.

00:06:38.780 I was happy for her and maintained occasional contact over the next couple of months.

00:06:43.060 But in January of this year, I received a phone call from the same woman.

00:06:48.080 She told me that she had just told the other family that she didn't feel good about them

00:06:52.180 adopting her baby.

00:06:53.580 She then told me that she knew this baby was supposed to be ours.

00:06:57.600 I stood there holding my three-month-old baby boy, and she sent me pictures of an ultrasound

00:07:08.620 of the baby boy growing inside.

00:07:10.620 I was speechless, but I also knew.

00:07:13.140 Deep down, I knew.

00:07:15.580 Over the next two weeks, my husband and I prayed a lot about adding another newborn to

00:07:20.080 our family only months apart.

00:07:22.000 The same resounding answer came again and again.

00:07:24.840 Six weeks after that phone call, we flew out with Andy to Missouri and met another woman

00:07:30.740 and her three children the night before she was being induced.

00:07:34.940 We all instantly connected.

00:07:37.380 The next day, we stood at her bedside and watched as our son, Ellis, was born.

00:07:42.680 Jason even got to cut the cord.

00:07:45.260 I was the first to hold him as well and kiss his tidy hands.

00:07:49.720 Never did we imagine having two newborn babies only four months apart.

00:07:55.760 Adoption is an amazing thing.

00:08:04.860 Because of a woman's greatest sacrifice and selfless decisions, I have become a mom.

00:08:10.400 Two, two of the most perfect baby boys I could have ever asked for.

00:08:17.460 We have open adoptions with both boys' birth parents.

00:08:22.080 We can talk and send pictures and recently met up with Andy's birth parents at a nearby park.

00:08:28.280 Four months after Ellis was born, we had a strong feeling to reach out to his birth mom,

00:08:33.080 and she had mentioned that they were in a rough spot.

00:08:35.220 Jason and I decided to fly her oldest child out to visit us for ten days so he could spend some time with Ellis.

00:08:44.200 Sean had never been on a plane before, and he had never been that far away from home.

00:08:50.840 We instantly fell in love with this sweet boy.

00:08:53.840 Ten days eventually turned into all summer.

00:08:57.160 At the end of the summer, he asked if he could watch his new family try out for football.

00:09:01.980 Before we knew it, he was talking to the coaches and asked if he could try out.

00:09:07.340 Sean made the top football team for the eighth grade in his first year of ever playing an organized sport.

00:09:13.060 He called his mom and asked her if he could stay.

00:09:16.620 She said, whatever would make you happy.

00:09:19.920 Sean has now been living with us for six months, and his football team made it all the way to the playoffs.

00:09:25.920 Never did we imagine a year ago that we would be adding three more children in under nine months to the two that we already have.

00:09:37.000 I have not given birth to any of the five boys we have at home right now, but I am their mom.

00:09:45.960 We have since finalized both Andy and Ellis' adoptions, and they are officially ours.

00:09:51.880 We share custody with our oldest two boys and their mom, and we don't have a timeline on how long Sean will be staying with us.

00:10:01.980 Family doesn't have to be made from blood.

00:10:04.600 It can come in many shapes and sizes.

00:10:07.200 It is the love that matters.

00:10:09.940 So here we are, a current family of seven, and we love each other deeply, and we go out on a lot of adventures together.

00:10:19.420 It's not always easy.

00:10:21.860 There have been many ups and downs and everything in between, but we would never trade this for the world.

00:10:35.040 So many people would love to be parents.

00:10:39.560 So many people cry themselves to sleep because that's what they were born to be, a parent.

00:10:53.060 If you are listening to the sound of my voice now, and you don't know what to do, please, please adopt that child of yours out.

00:11:05.700 Because that child of yours is a miracle, a true miracle that somebody else has been praying for.

00:11:21.580 That child has just happened to come through you.

00:11:27.040 Back in a minute.

00:11:35.700 My apologies, I didn't see that one coming.

00:11:46.220 I should have, but sometimes it just sneaks up on you and blindsides you.

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00:13:37.100 I'm going to preface this next story with I already don't understand the Japanese people, okay?

00:13:43.720 I just don't.

00:13:44.900 I don't get their love for robots.

00:13:47.020 I don't get their, you know.

00:13:49.460 Fear of giant dinosaurs coming out from the sea.

00:13:51.700 Fear of dinosaurs.

00:13:52.840 I don't.

00:13:53.280 Or giant moths.

00:13:53.960 Yes.

00:13:54.300 Their whole sexual thing with robots and not real people is just weird, so I don't understand them, but that is nothing compared to this heartwarming story.

00:14:09.660 Megumi was a baby when her parents separated and her father disappeared from her life, but years later, her mother told her, she told her mother that she wanted to reconnect with her dad.

00:14:21.260 Megumi began to see Yamada regularly.

00:14:26.300 She thinks Yamada is her father and that Yamada is his real name, but this is a lie.

00:14:34.880 Mom says, ever since she was a little kid, she'd ask me where dad was.

00:14:39.580 All she knew that he had gone soon after she was born, so she blamed herself.

00:14:45.180 For years, it didn't appear to be a problem, but when Megumi was about 10,

00:14:49.560 Asako noticed a change in her daughter's behavior.

00:14:53.440 She didn't talk to me, and she became very quiet and withdrawn.

00:14:57.160 It took a while, however, to find out about the bullying.

00:15:00.520 Asako discovered that Megumi was not only blaming herself for her parents' breakup,

00:15:04.620 her classmates were also ostracizing her because she didn't have a dad.

00:15:08.760 Children of single parents often stigmatized in Japan.

00:15:12.600 Eventually, she became so unhappy that she refused to go to school.

00:15:15.680 She's my only child, Sokka said, and was breaking my heart to see her so sad.

00:15:21.420 She tried to get the teachers at the school to help, but then, when failing one after another,

00:15:28.720 another idea came to mind.

00:15:31.280 All I could think about is, what if I could find a man who is nice and kind,

00:15:36.760 an ideal father, someone who would make her feel better?

00:15:40.200 She heard about a relative rental agency that would send an actor to play a guest at a wedding

00:15:50.620 or go on a date.

00:15:52.520 They are well established in Japan.

00:15:55.040 Okay, I don't think that's a relative rental agency.

00:15:57.940 I think that's an escort service.

00:15:59.600 That's like the real idea of an escort service, not the one in America.

00:16:03.860 It kind of means something else, usually.

00:16:05.660 But it doesn't seem, I would bet in Japan it doesn't.

00:16:07.800 It's probably just legitimately, you're renting a relative that's nice to you at family dinners.

00:16:11.440 Yeah, it could be.

00:16:12.560 I mean, they have this aversion to sex, so maybe.

00:16:14.620 So she contacted one of these actors and asked if they could, or one of these acting agencies,

00:16:21.860 and asked if they could provide a fake dad.

00:16:25.420 After auditioning five hopefuls, she settled on a man called Takashudi or something.

00:16:31.420 I found him easy to talk to.

00:16:33.900 He was very kind and sweet, so I just followed my instincts.

00:16:37.200 Well, he runs the rental agency with about 20 staff and more than 1,000 freelancers,

00:16:45.400 men and women of different ages and background, who can cater to almost any situation,

00:16:49.620 taking on fake names, personalities, and roles.

00:16:52.280 They often have to lie, but they're very strict about not breaking the law.

00:16:57.300 As an actor himself, he's played boyfriends, businessmen, friends, fathers.

00:17:01.600 He's been a bridegroom at five fake weddings.

00:17:04.480 Let me say that one again.

00:17:08.600 He's been a bridegroom at five fake weddings.

00:17:11.880 So is he a fake bridesgroom, or is he at a fake wedding?

00:17:15.080 Is he a real bridesgroom at a fake wedding?

00:17:16.240 He said he's been a bridesgroom at five fake weddings.

00:17:19.700 So he's a real bridesgroom at a fake wedding.

00:17:21.780 How does that work?

00:17:23.080 Oh, I think he's more of a fake bridesgroom at a real wedding.

00:17:26.500 But the way they word that, I think it's the opposite.

00:17:29.480 I think they're fake weddings.

00:17:31.780 A fake wedding, but a real bridesgroom?

00:17:34.480 No, I think he's playing a bridesgroom at a fake wedding.

00:17:38.460 What is a fake wedding?

00:17:39.500 I don't know what a fake wedding.

00:17:41.200 That's why when I read that, it just kind of spilled out of my mouth.

00:17:44.120 And then the gears dropped in.

00:17:46.520 And I'm like, wait a minute.

00:17:47.980 What's a fake wedding?

00:17:50.300 Okay.

00:17:50.740 Again, I cannot explain this story or the Japanese people.

00:17:55.260 He prepares for his roles, he confesses, by watching Hollywood movies like Little Miss Sunshine,

00:18:01.080 the Oscar-winning film about a dysfunctional family bonding on a road trip.

00:18:04.900 That's a classic, by the way.

00:18:06.300 It's so funny.

00:18:06.920 And the Descendants, in which George Clooney plays an indifferent parent who suddenly has

00:18:11.160 to embrace fatherhood after a family tragedy.

00:18:14.120 I study these films and I memorize phrases and lines.

00:18:17.480 I take notes on how different family members interact and communicate and what it takes to

00:18:21.840 be a certain kind of father or husband.

00:18:23.940 And they help me understand different family dynamics and relationships.

00:18:27.960 Asako met him several times to talk about the kind of father she wanted him to play to

00:18:32.880 her daughter.

00:18:34.100 My requests were very simple.

00:18:36.720 Firstly, I just wanted to say how sorry he was.

00:18:39.000 He couldn't be in Megumi's life until then.

00:18:41.460 Secondly, I wanted him to listen to whatever she wanted to tell him.

00:18:45.780 Asako then told Megumi that her father had remarried and now had a new family.

00:18:50.300 But he had recently been back in touch because he wanted to see them again.

00:18:54.860 He was working, she said, as an actor.

00:18:58.700 Megumi was shocked, but eventually agreed to meet him.

00:19:01.500 And so nearly 10 years ago, Tshaki became Yamata, Megumi's father, his longest running

00:19:12.860 and perhaps most ethically dubious role to date.

00:19:18.020 Tshaki still remembers their first meeting.

00:19:21.060 It was a very complex emotion that he was there.

00:19:24.620 She asked me why I hadn't come to see her before.

00:19:27.300 And I felt her resentment.

00:19:30.160 As Yamata, he began seeing Megumi and her mother a couple of times a month, joining them

00:19:35.940 on days out, trips to the movies, visiting for birthdays.

00:19:39.720 And Asako said it didn't take long to see a real change in her daughter.

00:19:43.140 After a while, Megumi became much happier and much more outgoing.

00:19:46.720 She loved to talk.

00:19:47.640 She was lively.

00:19:48.440 She even wanted to go back to school.

00:19:49.740 And that's when I thought, this is all worth it.

00:19:55.400 One particular occasion sticks out in Asako's mind.

00:19:58.640 When she and Yamata were at Megumi's school parents' day.

00:20:02.300 We were standing in the back of the classroom.

00:20:03.960 She saw us together and kept on turning around to look at us.

00:20:06.820 She had the biggest smile on her face and that made me really happy.

00:20:10.780 Now, the services aren't cheap.

00:20:13.280 Every time Asako hires him to play Yamata, she pays about 10,000 yen.

00:20:18.940 That's about $90.

00:20:20.320 And although she earns a decent salary, she has to make savings elsewhere to afford it.

00:20:24.680 But she remembers how unhappy her daughter once was.

00:20:27.620 And she thinks it's money well spent.

00:20:31.320 The fake father also sees a difference.

00:20:34.220 Gradually, she's become happier and more confident.

00:20:36.840 I used to meet her with Asako, the three of us together.

00:20:41.400 But one day she said, I want to go out with my dad, just the two of us.

00:20:46.420 So I took her out, and we held hands for the first time.

00:20:51.860 There's more to this story.

00:20:55.280 I feel like we hit both sides of the family dynamic in this one.

00:20:57.860 Both extremes.

00:21:03.280 Okay.

00:21:03.880 All right.

00:21:07.980 Welcome to Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:21:11.760 I love that show.

00:21:12.700 I do, too.

00:21:13.380 I appeared on that show today.

00:21:15.160 I didn't like that segment.

00:21:17.380 No, no.

00:21:17.840 We were attributing.

00:21:19.760 Yeah.

00:21:20.220 We were doing a tribute to your painting.

00:21:23.760 I know.

00:21:24.380 So, anyway, we were just telling this story, Pat, about this mother.

00:21:30.340 And I would love to hear your opinion on this.

00:21:33.420 This mother whose daughter was going through depression because she didn't have a dad.

00:21:39.220 And, you know, she blamed herself for mom and dad's breakup, blah, blah, blah.

00:21:43.280 And instead of, I don't know, therapy and telling your daughter, no, honey, it had nothing to do with you, she decided to rent an actor to play the dad.

00:21:55.020 And it went on for about 10 years.

00:21:59.880 And the girl has grown up thinking, this is my dad.

00:22:04.280 And she loves her dad.

00:22:06.380 Okay.

00:22:07.020 Wow.

00:22:07.640 Now, she asked, we left the story with her saying, I just want some dad time.

00:22:14.020 And they left holding hands.

00:22:15.960 Well, now, this caused some problems with Yusako because she, the mother, she had to face the bittersweet reality that she was in love with the dad.

00:22:27.980 And she said, I told him how I felt, but he told me to my face that I'm only here because it's my job.

00:22:37.840 So, now, I have to realize that he doesn't love us.

00:22:42.860 He is only here because he's getting paid.

00:22:46.600 I sort of fantasize about our relationship that maybe we can be a real family.

00:22:51.780 But the relationship is, you know, as it is, helps me emotionally and mentally.

00:22:56.660 Well, it keeps me stable, says mom.

00:23:00.220 Okay.

00:23:00.580 Sounds stable.

00:23:01.380 She does, doesn't she?

00:23:02.660 Yeah.

00:23:03.240 Right.

00:23:03.540 So, she's going further and further in debt because she's renting this dad more and more often.

00:23:11.880 And her daughter still thinks of him as a father.

00:23:16.480 Now, this is now going on for about 15 years.

00:23:20.440 Wow.

00:23:21.060 She says the ideal situation is that she continues to think of him as her dad.

00:23:28.140 So, when she gets married, I like him to be at the wedding ceremony.

00:23:32.200 And when she has her own child, I'd like him to act as a grandfather.

00:23:38.380 The worst case scenario is that my daughter finds out.

00:23:42.480 Now, I don't know how you could possibly find out if I'm reading about it here in America.

00:23:50.040 I'm sure you've got a good, you have a good handle on keeping secrets, mom.

00:23:55.000 If Megumi's real father were ever to turn up, the reporter asked.

00:24:00.180 Well, Asako, the mother said, oh, I've never even thought of that.

00:24:07.360 Okay.

00:24:07.980 She then says, but if he did walk through the door one day, I think Megumi would choose Yamada over her real dad.

00:24:15.960 Because they have such a good father-daughter relationship.

00:24:20.480 He really is her ideal father.

00:24:22.780 Just what Asako hoped he would be.

00:24:25.440 Except he's not real.

00:24:28.380 Now, the guy who's playing the dad says, yeah, the lie is really growing here 15 years later.

00:24:37.660 This is one of the biggest issues with renting a family.

00:24:42.360 Megumi could get married in the future.

00:24:44.880 And then her husband would think I'm the father.

00:24:46.880 And then if she has a child, I'm the grandfather.

00:24:49.100 And the stakes just get bigger and bigger.

00:24:51.940 He has thought about how Megumi might feel if she found out.

00:24:57.080 Though the plot lines he envisions might strike many as highly optimistic.

00:25:02.400 The best case scenario, I'd like to think that she might thank me for taking care of her.

00:25:10.480 Yeah, that's likely.

00:25:12.360 That's 80% of my imagination.

00:25:15.340 The other 20% thinks she's going to be really devastated.

00:25:21.740 She might say, why did you do this?

00:25:25.820 How could you keep lying to me my whole life?

00:25:29.800 I think I've been a big support in her life.

00:25:33.320 Maybe asking her to thank me is a bit excessive.

00:25:37.040 But I'd like her to at least recognize my service.

00:25:41.560 Many might find it hard to understand why Asako has chosen to do something

00:25:46.380 which could be so distressing for her daughter if she discovers the truth.

00:25:50.820 Yet she stands by her decision.

00:25:53.260 I know some people will think I'm foolish to pay money to lie to my own daughter

00:25:57.480 to pretend to have a father.

00:25:59.080 But I was really desperate.

00:26:01.340 Anyone can understand that horrible feeling of desperation to see your child so hurt.

00:26:07.800 Yeah.

00:26:08.860 Yeah.

00:26:09.600 How much money is it going to take for you, mom, to get out of this hole?

00:26:15.700 That is the weirdest story of a mother-father relationship that I have ever heard in my life.

00:26:23.900 So how old is, is it Megumi?

00:26:26.520 How old is she now?

00:26:28.580 In her 20s?

00:26:29.120 She's got to be 20 or something.

00:26:29.900 Yeah, she's in her 20s.

00:26:31.360 I mean.

00:26:32.140 And they're still doing it?

00:26:34.080 They're still perpetrating the hoax?

00:26:35.460 Yeah.

00:26:36.000 And by the way, we don't believe Megumi is the real name.

00:26:39.280 So that's why.

00:26:40.820 That's right, Megumi.

00:26:42.460 This is a complete.

00:26:43.440 If you're a Megumi and your mother is a Sako, it's not you.

00:26:48.660 Right.

00:26:48.940 There's some Megumi-A Sako combination who's questioning their entire life today.

00:26:52.980 And Yamada.

00:26:53.880 And Yamada.

00:26:54.800 That is quite a coincidence, I know.

00:26:58.240 But Japan's a very big place.

00:27:03.720 What a bizarre.

00:27:04.900 Oh my gosh.

00:27:05.620 That is really weird.

00:27:06.180 Is there any chance.

00:27:07.860 I really want to follow this family.

00:27:09.520 Is there any chance that that doesn't end in foul play, never talking to each other again,

00:27:19.800 suicide of one of the three?

00:27:22.760 I feel like in Japan there is a chance.

00:27:24.320 Like, I think she could be like, you know what?

00:27:25.820 That was a really nice thing my mom did.

00:27:27.180 Did she spend a lot of money on that?

00:27:28.840 I'm glad she lied to me my whole life.

00:27:30.520 Yeah, it was great.

00:27:31.120 And paid a guy to be my dad who wasn't my dad.

00:27:33.420 Seems possible.

00:27:34.420 That was great.

00:27:35.420 Well, that seems.

00:27:36.000 Had a good time with him.

00:27:36.480 That seems possible.

00:27:38.240 But it also, in Japan, seems just as possible that a Sako may say at one point, I know.

00:27:44.440 I know.

00:27:47.340 I know.

00:27:49.980 Very possible as well.

00:27:51.120 Mom, you were a robot the whole time?

00:27:53.520 There are a lot of strange things going on in our culture right now.

00:27:56.680 Have you noticed this at all?

00:27:58.140 I haven't.

00:27:58.640 At all?

00:27:59.620 I haven't noticed that.

00:28:01.060 Do you remember the drag queen children's story hour that was happening?

00:28:06.360 Mm-hmm.

00:28:07.240 Where they invite drag queens.

00:28:09.060 You're not going to preach your hate, are you?

00:28:11.180 No, no, no.

00:28:12.160 No.

00:28:12.680 This is a wonderful story of love and appreciation.

00:28:15.520 Some drag queens would be invited into this library and would read stories to kids in their drag queen getup, which looks a little frightening for children.

00:28:28.080 But, I mean, a white face and then a series of five horns all over the head of the drag queen.

00:28:35.080 And then this person reads stories to the kids.

00:28:37.820 So, some parents took issue with it.

00:28:40.940 And they were haters, obviously.

00:28:42.500 They literally did.

00:28:43.380 Mongering in hatred.

00:28:45.080 Because all this person was trying to do.

00:28:47.320 Well, it just did.

00:28:48.800 Just read stories.

00:28:49.280 Come in and read stories to the kids.

00:28:50.860 That's all it's about.

00:28:51.840 Right.

00:28:52.740 The parents said, well, what about, are you like indoctrinating our kids?

00:28:58.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:28:58.580 Listen, these haters.

00:28:59.200 Of course not.

00:29:00.140 Of course not.

00:29:00.640 Right.

00:29:01.420 Well, now, amid all of that controversy, one drag queen has admitted that the events are meant to groom the next generation.

00:29:11.780 Huh.

00:29:13.720 Dylan Pontiff, who is one of the drag queens, says, this is going to be the grooming of the next generation.

00:29:18.960 We're trying to groom the next generation to be accepting of LGBTQQIA2 values.

00:29:24.960 Just read that sentence again for me, please.

00:29:29.440 That is so great.

00:29:30.480 We're trying to groom the next generation to be accepting of the LGBTQQIA2 values.

00:29:37.960 Pontiff was dressed in street clothes for this meeting, but goes by Santana Pilar Andrews when he's on stage.

00:29:45.600 Oh.

00:29:46.340 He said that he's been bullied most of his life for being gay, and he blasted those who oppose the drag queen story hour.

00:29:52.860 However, even those gathered at a city council meeting in Lafayette, Louisiana, who complained about it because they were haters.

00:30:02.660 However, now LGBTQQIA2 activists have said that they're determined to indoctrinate children to accept the movement's agenda.

00:30:12.680 Could I ask you just real quickly, for those who don't know, I know, and I know you know, could you just tell me what each of those letters...

00:30:23.680 Go through the letters?

00:30:24.480 Yeah.

00:30:25.060 Well, the L.

00:30:26.160 Yeah.

00:30:26.620 Lesbian.

00:30:27.260 Of course.

00:30:27.780 Gay.

00:30:28.320 Yes.

00:30:28.860 Bisexual.

00:30:29.620 Yes.

00:30:30.500 Trans.

00:30:31.180 Yes.

00:30:32.560 Q is queer.

00:30:34.520 Then the next Q is questioning.

00:30:36.900 Questioning.

00:30:37.460 Good, good.

00:30:37.820 Then the I is intersex, which means...

00:30:41.940 Which means you kind of escape between both, I believe.

00:30:46.300 You're like, you can go either way.

00:30:47.860 You're fluid.

00:30:48.480 All right.

00:30:49.320 So why isn't that F instead of I?

00:30:51.220 I don't know.

00:30:52.060 Okay.

00:30:53.480 I, A, then the last A is asexual.

00:30:56.460 You don't have any sex with anybody.

00:30:57.980 And then the two is two-spirit.

00:30:59.960 You've got two-spirit people.

00:31:01.260 You've got two inside of you.

00:31:02.560 You're both male and female inside.

00:31:05.880 And I think we've...

00:31:07.060 Wouldn't that be called when you have two spirits?

00:31:09.840 Oh, no.

00:31:10.100 Don't you do it.

00:31:10.700 Don't you do it.

00:31:11.840 You hateful jerk.

00:31:13.680 Don't you dare.

00:31:14.940 Really?

00:31:15.480 I can't even question?

00:31:16.880 I can't...

00:31:17.360 No.

00:31:17.760 Oh, my...

00:31:18.140 Look what happened to Megyn Kelly when she questioned.

00:31:20.680 One of the Q's is for questioning.

00:31:22.800 I'm just questioning.

00:31:23.840 Not hateful questioning.

00:31:25.620 Questioning.

00:31:26.240 Oh, I just wanted to...

00:31:26.740 Is this a loving question?

00:31:27.900 Where you're accepting and tolerant?

00:31:29.280 Will it end in love?

00:31:30.040 Well, I think everything ends in love.

00:31:33.280 All right.

00:31:34.660 I mean, I am as optimistic and as well-grounded in my optimism as Asako is.

00:31:42.340 There you go.

00:31:44.180 By the way, I believe we're all on the bandwagon of quilt bag.

00:31:47.720 Yes.

00:31:48.260 As a much better acronym.

00:31:49.740 Yeah.

00:31:50.020 It's a little easier to pronounce than LGBTQIA2.

00:31:53.900 It sort of feels like an insult, but it's not.

00:31:57.980 It's not.

00:31:58.380 It's actually the...

00:31:59.020 And they seem to like it.

00:31:59.900 Yeah.

00:32:00.220 And I think, first of all, you have to make it the sequel, Quilt Bag 2.

00:32:03.760 And I think for all the things we haven't covered yet, if you do Quilt Bag 2, Electric Boogaloo,

00:32:08.240 you're going to cover a bunch of different things we haven't necessarily uncovered yet.

00:32:11.320 Are you mocking now?

00:32:12.120 No.

00:32:12.560 I think Quilt Bag 2, Electric Boogaloo is the best way to go.

00:32:14.840 You can open up that quilt bag and put a lot of stuff in it.

00:32:17.480 Right.

00:32:17.860 All sorts of things.

00:32:18.820 Yeah.

00:32:19.000 But I like how open they are about it because this transgender person says,

00:32:24.420 I'm here to tell you, all that time that I said I wasn't indoctrinating anyone with my beliefs about gay and lesbian and bi and trans and queer people,

00:32:31.320 that was a lie.

00:32:32.380 Anyway, I have come to indoctrinate your children into my LGBTQQIA2 agenda, and I'm not a bit sorry.

00:32:39.960 All 25 years of my career as an activist, since the very first time as a 16-year-old I went and stood shaking and breathless in front of 11 people to talk about my story,

00:32:50.800 I've been on a consistent campaign of trying to change people's minds about us.

00:32:55.120 I want to make them like us.

00:32:56.840 That's absolutely my goal.

00:32:58.120 I want to make your children like me and my family, even if that goes against the way you've interpreted the teachings of your religion.

00:33:09.960 So there it is.

00:33:10.940 They're, you know, the mask is coming off.

00:33:13.240 Not this mask.

00:33:14.200 Right.

00:33:14.660 No, not with horns.

00:33:15.860 Right.

00:33:16.340 No, not that one.

00:33:17.160 That one stays.

00:33:18.040 Right.

00:33:18.420 It's a handsome mask.

00:33:19.620 And you don't want to mess with that.

00:33:20.680 It's a handsome mask?

00:33:21.360 Or beautiful, whichever you want to go by.

00:33:23.900 Right.

00:33:24.480 You're still questioning which one.

00:33:26.200 Yes, I'm questioning.

00:33:27.080 All right.

00:33:27.960 So, but the mask of the secrecy of indoctrination, they just don't care anymore.

00:33:32.980 Right.

00:33:33.340 Like you said years ago, the socialists are going to say, yeah, we're socialists.

00:33:36.480 Why?

00:33:36.780 Because capitalism doesn't work.

00:33:38.300 Well, they're indoctrinating your children because they want them to accept their lifestyle in the future.

00:33:44.580 So, yeah, we're indoctrinating them.

00:33:46.300 So what?

00:33:46.620 So let me ask you this.

00:33:47.700 Let me ask you this.

00:33:48.540 I don't, I don't really care about, I mean, you want to dress up and you want to do whatever.

00:33:57.820 And yeah, right.

00:33:58.660 That's, that's your deal.

00:33:59.920 And I don't want my kids to hate anybody.

00:34:02.800 I don't want my kids to, I just want my kids to, I mean, I really got to remember, I grew up with Spock.

00:34:09.360 My dad was Spock.

00:34:10.300 And, uh, you know, so he just loved how everybody manifests the spirit in their own way.

00:34:16.000 And, uh, and, and it's a good thing.

00:34:18.120 And to some degree, um, you know, unless people are manifesting the spirit by stealing your car.

00:34:23.780 Um, but I don't want, I don't want anybody.

00:34:27.260 I don't want my kids to hate anybody.

00:34:28.800 So it's really, this is really hard because the way that story is written, I just want people to like me.

00:34:34.480 Yeah, I do too.

00:34:36.040 But the problem comes in.

00:34:37.860 I don't care what you believe in your religion.

00:34:40.980 Yes.

00:34:41.820 Because that means for you to decide my children.

00:34:45.280 Right.

00:34:45.560 That's not for you to, and these are five and six year old kids and five and six.

00:34:49.120 And you also, at the time when you are saying that, that shows you don't have any respect for me.

00:34:56.060 Right.

00:34:57.320 That's the real problem here.

00:34:58.940 Yes.

00:35:00.680 More on trivia, by the way, tomorrow.

00:35:02.340 Oh.

00:35:02.820 On Pack Ray Unleashed.

00:35:03.620 What's the game?

00:35:04.480 Uh, the game is Minnesota, New England.

00:35:07.620 Oh, that's a big one.

00:35:08.520 Big one.

00:35:08.800 That's a big one.

00:35:09.340 Yeah.

00:35:09.800 Pat, you have, uh, you have Liberty Safe.

00:35:12.400 You keep man stuff in your safe, right?

00:35:14.000 I do.

00:35:14.580 Yeah.

00:35:15.120 Guns.

00:35:15.720 Yeah.

00:35:15.920 Yeah.

00:35:16.220 I mean, you don't have to be open to other ideas, you know, maybe.

00:35:18.680 Maybe other, other cultures, maybe some LGB quilt bag to electric boogaloo ideas are okay, too.

00:35:25.120 Like, what would you keep in your, your, your big manly safe?

00:35:28.760 Maybe some of your wife's expensive purses.

00:35:31.240 Right.

00:35:31.860 So you're taking care of that quilt bag stuff.

00:35:34.020 Could you just, could I, could you provide a picture of the inside of your safe?

00:35:37.480 I'll show you the inside of my safe and you show me the inside of your safe.

00:35:41.820 I bet they, they look radically different.

00:35:46.140 I would say they probably do.

00:35:47.780 Yeah.

00:35:47.960 Can we do that?

00:35:48.680 Can we share pictures of our, inside of our safes?

00:35:50.920 Because, uh, I, I, I'm fascinated to see, and you'll be fascinated to see mine.

00:35:57.400 You'll be fascinated to see the purses all up nicely on a shelf.

00:36:02.460 Uh, anyway, Liberty Safe right now, number one safe manufacturer in the nation.

00:36:06.280 Uh, and you're not going to believe the price, uh, they're, they're priced, uh, to be

00:36:12.020 able to be affordable and you also can have, uh, um, you know, uh, what do you call it?

00:36:17.980 When you can get a, uh, a loan thing, 12, 12 months interest-free financing.

00:36:23.940 That's what it is.

00:36:24.740 You're good at this.

00:36:25.280 Yes, I am very good.

00:36:26.620 I've been doing it for over 40 years.

00:36:28.440 So, uh, check out their special deals in that crazy LibertySafe.com.

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00:36:36.560 Invest in safety for your guns and for the things that are precious to you.

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00:36:46.280 John Ray's Davies is going to be on with us.

00:36:48.480 I love this guy.

00:36:49.720 He came out.

00:36:50.960 We did a documentary with us, which, uh, with him, which I think is, uh, is airing on the

00:36:56.340 blaze Friday.

00:36:57.340 Yeah.

00:36:57.480 Friday at 5 p.m.

00:36:58.500 Uh, he's true.

00:36:59.620 He's, he's just an amazing guy.

00:37:01.180 He's the guy who played Gimli in, uh, Lord of the Rings.

00:37:05.260 And, uh, he's an Indiana Jones though, too.

00:37:07.140 Let's, let's point that out.

00:37:08.320 Yeah, he was Indy, you know.

00:37:11.560 I wanted horses, not camels or what was it?

00:37:14.960 No camels, not five camels.

00:37:16.500 Yeah, that's right.

00:37:17.140 So, uh, anyway, so it's, he's a great guy.

00:37:19.360 He's going to be on with us.

00:37:20.200 Also, Mike Rowe and his mother are going to be on with us.

00:37:23.900 That's going to be fun.

00:37:24.360 On today's, uh, program.

00:37:25.880 And Mike Lee.

00:37:28.540 He's got a few things to, uh, to discuss, uh, on what's going on in Washington, D.C.

00:37:34.900 We'll talk to Mike Lee, Mike Rowe, his mother, and John Ray's Davies, uh, Davies next.

00:37:41.140 Uh, first talking about home title lock, Glenn.

00:37:43.640 Uh, home title lock is something we both joined a while ago now, um, to make sure our home

00:37:48.020 title was protected.

00:37:48.960 Yeah, because I had an FBI guy come in and, uh, say, uh, here's the title of your home.

00:37:53.560 Uh, and you'll see that it's in, uh, my name, not yours.

00:37:56.520 And we're like, wait, what?

00:37:57.780 And it was signed by a notary, uh, and it was all official.

00:38:02.420 Yeah.

00:38:02.780 And he's like, all I have to do now is sign it and, uh, bring it down to the county clerk

00:38:07.820 and file it.

00:38:08.640 And your house is mine.

00:38:10.140 Wait, what?

00:38:11.420 And it, it took him all of about $40 to do.

00:38:14.720 It's crazy how easy this is.

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00:38:44.680 Glenn Beck.

00:38:46.060 It is fascinating to watch the hypocrisy of what is going on in the mainstream media.

00:38:51.720 Very frustrating, but ridiculously fascinating to watch.

00:38:56.920 I can't really wrap my brain around how they, how they get away with calling everybody that

00:39:00.920 doesn't agree with them a racist or a bigot, a chauvinist or an anti anti-Semite while at

00:39:05.800 the same time saying racist, bigoted, chauvinistic and anti-Semitic things.

00:39:11.080 They'll go on CNN or even write in the New York times claiming that all white men are

00:39:15.960 evil, but somehow that's not bigoted and racist.

00:39:19.180 They'll take pictures with and defend Louis Farrakhan.

00:39:22.420 They'll stand with Hamas.

00:39:24.140 And yet that's not anti-Semitic.

00:39:26.400 Let me give you a case in point.

00:39:27.620 Yesterday, yesterday was the UN's international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

00:39:32.720 And a CNN commentator was invited to speak.

00:39:36.400 This is a CNN employee, Mark Lamont Hill.

00:39:40.840 Listen.

00:39:41.540 Contrary to Western mythology, black resistance to American apartheid did not come purely through

00:39:47.120 Gandhi and nonviolence.

00:39:48.560 Rather, slave revolts and self-defense and tactics otherwise divergent from Dr. King or Mahatma

00:39:59.660 Gandhi were equally important to preserving safety and attaining freedom.

00:40:05.140 We must allow if we are to operate in true and true solidarity with Palestinian people, we

00:40:11.620 must allow the Palestinian people the same range of opportunity and political possibility.

00:40:18.660 So are you hearing what he's saying?

00:40:20.380 First of all, the disdain in his voice is Martin Luther King or Gandhi, the non MLK and

00:40:25.960 Gandhi range of possibility.

00:40:29.080 Let's be clear.

00:40:30.160 He's saying violence.

00:40:32.420 You just heard someone from CNN actually advocate for attacks against Israel.

00:40:39.900 And you know who's leading the Palestinian resistance?

00:40:44.400 Because I'm it's a sure bet that Lamont Hill knows Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror

00:40:53.740 organizations that get their funding weapons and even their directions from Iran.

00:40:57.900 They want all of the Jews dead all over the world.

00:41:01.140 They want Israel destroyed.

00:41:03.440 Now, knowing that, listen to this next part.

00:41:06.540 To commit to political action, grassroots action, local action and international action that

00:41:16.580 will give us what justice requires.

00:41:20.240 And that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea.

00:41:25.420 From the river to the sea.

00:41:28.640 That means from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, also known as the destruction of Israel.

00:41:36.420 Here is a CNN employee calling for terrorists to attack Jews and saying, yeah, we've got a final

00:41:46.240 solution.

00:41:47.220 The eventual destruction of Israel.

00:41:49.760 Is it not anti-Semitic to call for terrorists to kill Jews and the annihilation of their country?

00:42:00.120 CNN, I would love to hear you comment on this or at least explain because of a conservative

00:42:06.080 commentator on your network said anything even remotely similar that was counter to the

00:42:12.020 left leaning agenda.

00:42:13.400 They would be fired in a heartbeat.

00:42:15.920 This is your employee speaking from a written text calling for violence.

00:42:26.260 Now, I don't expect CNN or anybody else from the left to actually criticize Mark Lamont Hill

00:42:31.020 for any of this.

00:42:32.680 They're just going to mask his blatantly anti-Semitic and racist talk.

00:42:36.820 Mike, mark my words.

00:42:38.140 They will actually call him brave.

00:42:40.640 When did hypocrisy become something you didn't hide from and avoid?

00:42:49.280 When did it become something that you embrace and wear as a badge of honor?

00:42:55.740 As I said before, I guess the best way to look at this is just utterly fascinating.

00:43:04.040 John Rhys-Davies is a guy that you absolutely know and love.

00:43:21.820 You love all of the characters he has ever played from Indiana Jones to Lord of the Rings where

00:43:28.960 he was Gimli.

00:43:30.200 He is just great, and you've heard him do a ton of documentaries.

00:43:34.080 He did one for us.

00:43:35.600 He's the narrator of I Am Israel, iamisraelfilm.com, and we are airing that again on Friday on

00:43:44.200 the Blaze Network.

00:43:45.520 We welcome John Rhys-Davies to the program.

00:43:48.780 How are you, John?

00:43:50.540 Very well, Glenn.

00:43:51.680 And yourself?

00:43:52.880 I'm good.

00:43:53.600 I'm a little confused by everything that's going on in today's world.

00:43:57.600 You're not alone in that.

00:43:58.900 You're not alone in that.

00:44:01.000 Over here, we have an additional set of problems.

00:44:05.600 We have a government that was elected to regain our independence that has managed to do a deal

00:44:12.620 that would probably have been rejected by the French after they collapsed in 1870.

00:44:19.300 I mean, no sovereign nation on Earth has ever been asked to surrender quite as much of their

00:44:26.920 liberty to leave an organization as Britain has.

00:44:30.940 John, what do you have to do for Americans have been so, you know, concentrating on what

00:44:36.720 we're doing, and it's a mess, but if you're not following it every day, what is this deal

00:44:43.580 look like for Brexit?

00:44:46.800 Well, it looks basically as if we will lose any of the advantages that we had by being in

00:44:57.000 Europe, but still be bound to it in terms of, we cannot leave the customs union, we cannot

00:45:06.240 leave the, we cannot make trade treaties with other people without the consent of the EU.

00:45:16.420 Why would anyone sign that?

00:45:19.320 Well, we've got a big scare thing going on now.

00:45:24.800 Everyone is saying, oh my God, you realize, well, I mean, at the end of March, we're going

00:45:29.740 to fall off the cliff.

00:45:30.820 You realize the disruption, the chaos.

00:45:33.460 We'll have 15, the Bank of England says that there's 15 years of chaos coming up ahead.

00:45:40.760 Any economic forecast that goes 15 years ahead has got to have some element of error in

00:45:47.460 it.

00:45:47.740 Can you predict to me what your bank account will be in 15 years?

00:45:52.040 No.

00:45:52.720 I can't.

00:45:53.740 I mean, it's nonsense, but there is the possibility that the extent of the nonsense will confound

00:46:06.260 the actual Brexit moment itself.

00:46:09.860 And, and then I think we're into a very different world because it was the democratic will of

00:46:17.360 the people that we should leave the EU.

00:46:21.200 And, and once again, if an elite blocks the wishes of the people by subdivide or, or cunning

00:46:31.600 or ignoring or disdaining or, then that elite will ultimately find themselves in a very uncomfortable

00:46:39.560 situation.

00:46:40.760 I find this fascinating that people are saying that, you know, people who want to leave the

00:46:45.240 EU or standing up against the, the immigration thing, which now our own Hillary Clinton was

00:46:51.920 over in Europe saying, you know, that was a real big mistake.

00:46:54.520 Oh, you think so Hillary.

00:46:56.720 But anybody who is standing up there immediately called bigot and racist and everything else

00:47:02.560 instead of saying, wait a minute, here's a group of people that are tired of being told

00:47:08.640 that there's nothing unique about their culture there.

00:47:12.300 They can't recognize their culture.

00:47:14.840 They have to live in service of everyone else's culture.

00:47:19.040 You know, if you, if you fly the British flag or the Swedish flag, now, you know, you're

00:47:24.580 called a racist.

00:47:25.580 You have to, you, you're, you can't have any pride in your country.

00:47:30.000 And there's a difference between a European nationalist and somebody who is just proud of their country.

00:47:38.920 Well, you're quite right, of course, but, but there is a, there's a great strain of a sort

00:47:46.580 of sort of some, some mutant virus in Western European and, and, and you're part of that

00:47:52.000 civilization, uh, which actually despises it, uh, diminishes it, believes that all history

00:47:58.660 is bad wherever we are, we occupy.

00:48:01.220 I mean, just the abolition of slavery alone is one of the glories of civilization and of

00:48:06.940 mankind.

00:48:07.340 Um, and it, it, it, it, it, it wasn't, it, it, it wasn't, uh, a Chinese abolition.

00:48:14.760 It wasn't a, a Muslim or Arab abolition.

00:48:19.420 It was British and Western European Christian civilization that got rid of it.

00:48:26.900 Uh, you know, we have a, we, all of us have a checkered history in terms of, of national

00:48:33.520 identity and things like this, but on the whole, I'd sooner be in a Western European, uh, Christianized

00:48:41.580 world than in any other civilization that's going at right at the moment.

00:48:47.800 I mean, would you really want to live in China, uh, or Saudi Arabia or anywhere other than,

00:48:55.520 you know, a few countries in Europe and, and, and, and North America?

00:48:59.780 Uh, how are you, um, uh, how are you feeling about, um, you know, the, uh, um, Asia Bibi

00:49:06.900 who is, has asked the United Kingdom for, uh, refugee status.

00:49:13.200 Here's a woman who's going to be killed or children are going to be killed because she's

00:49:16.720 a Catholic and she will not conform.

00:49:20.040 You know, even the Pope is offering her, uh, a place to live.

00:49:23.920 She's going to be beheaded and killed and dragged through the streets of Pakistan if she

00:49:28.440 doesn't get out of there soon.

00:49:30.300 What, what, what, it's a, it's an absolute disgrace, isn't it?

00:49:34.460 Um, you know, we are, we are constantly asked to accept refugees from war zones and things

00:49:40.520 like that.

00:49:41.020 And some of them are genuine refugees, but many are just simply smart economic migrants that

00:49:46.380 want to do better for themselves.

00:49:47.740 But once somebody is actually being persecuted, um, and they happen to, you know, be Catholic

00:49:57.640 or Christian or anything like that, well, we can turn our backs on them.

00:50:01.420 Somehow, somehow they represent, well, not terribly important people.

00:50:06.980 I mean, like Khashoggi now clearly was terribly important, but this poor woman, not, not important,

00:50:14.380 not, not important.

00:50:15.520 John, you're, um, you're, um, you've narrated a film, I Am Israel, and it's in 4K and it,

00:50:21.920 it, it, it really shows the inspirational story of, uh, of Israel and the Holy Land.

00:50:28.020 Um, like people have never seen it before.

00:50:30.820 Where does your, where does your, your courage to do things like this come from?

00:50:38.620 I am the least courageous man you know.

00:50:41.500 I mean, there are countries, there are countries, there are countries financing films at the

00:50:47.380 moment that I, I, I, I, I have to bite my tongue not, uh, not to speak up, but, uh, when

00:50:56.920 it's, uh, friends, money and things like that, you have to be quiet sometimes.

00:51:01.720 But in truth, in truth, there, there are, there are certain fundamental things that we

00:51:07.600 should believe in, the right of freedom of speech, the right to exist for God's sake in

00:51:12.660 some places, uh, Israel, uh, Israel is, is, uh, a historical obligation that anyone who

00:51:24.180 belongs to Western European Christian civilization or is a beneficiary must acknowledge, must be

00:51:30.900 preserved, uh, it, it, it would be, I, you know, that most of the good things that we

00:51:39.380 have, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, these things have their germ in second century

00:51:47.680 AD Christians in Rome saying, I don't believe that the emperor should have to make, can, can

00:51:55.520 make a choice of me, for me, whom I would worship.

00:51:59.680 And our whole tradition of, uh, of freedom of speech, freedom of association, right to

00:52:06.540 vote, and all these things, they basically stem from that idea, along with a few other

00:52:12.460 ideas as well.

00:52:13.380 But, you know, we have an obligation to, to, uh, to remember our past and remember its

00:52:21.500 inception and, and, and, and honor it. And Israel, that curious people, um, with their

00:52:30.800 balmy, extraordinarily magical, uh, relationship with their God is, is, we are indebted to them.

00:52:41.880 And, um, and we must not allow that to be, to, to, to be lost.

00:52:50.140 Yeah. Uh, we're talking to John Rhys, uh, Davies and John, I don't know if you have

00:52:53.900 time. I would like to hold you for just for a couple of minutes. I have to do a commercial

00:52:57.600 break, but I, I was doing some research on something and I stumbled across, uh, a film

00:53:02.720 that you did, a narration of something that you did. And it is something I've never even

00:53:08.040 heard of. I don't even know if you remember doing this. You did it in 2002 or it was released

00:53:13.340 in 2002. And it's about, uh, the mountain of Moses in Saudi Arabia. Do you remember

00:53:19.220 that? That's right. Yes. Can you hold to talk about that for just a second?

00:53:25.760 I can certainly hold. Okay. I'm going to have to scratch my memory a little bit. Okay. All

00:53:30.520 right. Okay. We'll be right, right back. Uh, John Rhys Davies, uh, I am Israel film.com

00:53:37.960 and that film is going to be playing on the blaze on Friday. And it's, it's great. And this

00:53:43.940 John, he might say he's the least brave man. I know. I don't think so. I know a lot of people

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00:55:11.140 John Rhys Davies is, uh, with us. Uh, he is, uh, a voice. You will

00:55:15.660 automatically, uh, recognize and an actor that you would automatically recognize. Even if you don't

00:55:20.900 think, you know, the name, uh, you certainly know his roles in Indiana Jones all the way to the Lord

00:55:26.940 of the Rings. Um, he's a distinguished actor. Uh, and, uh, despite what he says, I believe a very brave

00:55:35.040 man, um, John, um, all right. All right. All right. Yes. I can't see someone pinning the VC for

00:55:44.840 politically incorrect valor on my chest. No, you're not going to get any awards or anything,

00:55:50.560 but, uh, you know, it does take courage to stand up and say some of the things that you have said,

00:55:57.200 even just being on this program, what you've said on this program takes guts for a man in,

00:56:02.140 in your position. And I appreciate that. It doesn't take it's strange. It doesn't take a lot

00:56:08.200 to be called a man of courage, uh, in today's world. Um, disgraceful, isn't it? It is. It's

00:56:14.340 disgrace. Um, so John, I was doing some research on something and I came across, uh, a video that

00:56:20.820 you narrated. I, I doubt you remember very much of it and, or if you even saw it, I know you were

00:56:25.840 the narrator of it, but it was about the actual Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia. And these two guys that

00:56:35.260 went over to Saudi Arabia, because I think the fifth guy that walked on the moon, uh, he found

00:56:40.940 out about it and said, you have to go there, but it's under guard. And what they found was

00:56:45.080 astonishing. Do you remember this? Only little bits of it, but you're doing very well. Go on,

00:56:52.100 go on. So they, they, I just wondered if you, if you remembered any of this, cause I had never heard

00:56:58.540 of it and it is, it's fascinating. They, they went in, in the cover of darkness, they stayed for

00:57:04.000 several days. Um, and they took pictures of it. They found an altar that they believe is the altar

00:57:10.140 where the, the golden calf was made and it has ancient markings of a golden calf on it. Uh, they

00:57:18.060 went up to the top of the mountain and it is singed rock. It's black rock, but, but granite inside

00:57:24.400 the rock, it's not lava. It, they found all of these things that are directly talked about in

00:57:29.760 the Bible. And this entire mountain is surrounded by high security fences and guards. And I, I just,

00:57:38.820 I, I just found that amazing. And I didn't know if you had anything to share on that.

00:57:43.400 I have nothing new to add, uh, but the, the geography of the ancient world is, is, is, uh,

00:57:51.160 is coming to life more and more as we, we find different ways of, of examining the past. Um,

00:57:58.600 uh, it would not surprise me. The, you know, the, these, these were nomadic herding people

00:58:06.460 and they probably traveled vast distances in that time.

00:58:12.180 So John, one last quick question before we let you go. Uh, I asked you this when you were here,

00:58:16.240 could you just hold on and get your, I want to get your agency phone number. Cause I would love for

00:58:21.100 you to be the voice of this show. If you would ever consider that, would you consider that?

00:58:24.980 I would love it. I would be flattered, my dear. Oh, that would be great. Okay. Hold on. I want

00:58:29.260 to get your information of how to contact the people that need to be contacted, but we just

00:58:33.620 so respect you and admire you. And I love, I just want you to come over my house and read stories to

00:58:38.300 me. I love your voice. God bless John.

00:58:40.420 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. So there's a few things that are going on in the

00:58:49.060 news. First of all, Michael Cohen, uh, has, uh, just taken a new plea deal. He pleaded guilty

00:58:55.320 to trying to get a, to lying about trying to get the Trump tower built in Moscow during the election.

00:59:03.040 Uh, I don't think this is going to mean much. Do you think it's still, uh, no, I don't think so.

00:59:13.420 Um, you know, I think these developments are going to coming fast and furious right now. Um, and, uh,

00:59:19.460 they can kind of continue to pour out without all that much perspective. We don't really know

00:59:24.540 that all that much about where they're going with it. They don't, you know, what it means in the,

00:59:28.500 in the bigger picture. It's a giant puzzle and we keep getting three or four pieces. It's tough to put

00:59:32.600 it together. And that's why we've generally speaking, just decided to, to not continually

00:59:38.120 speculate about it. Like everybody else, you know, I'm watching, I'm watching CNN and, uh,

00:59:42.580 and Fox news and everybody is speculating. I'm like, what are you speculating on? We don't know

00:59:46.980 anything. We have no idea when the thing comes out, then we can talk about it. But right now it's just,

00:59:52.780 just speculation. Um, we have Mike Rowe and Peggy, his mother on with us in about an hour from now.

00:59:59.840 Also Mike Lee is going to be on because he's actually, he's actually in a way siding with

01:00:05.240 the president. He's, he's siding with the constitution. Um, but there is a new bill

01:00:10.200 that is being circulated about, uh, protecting the job of, uh, Mueller. And Mike says, this is

01:00:18.920 unconstitutional. I want you to listen to this clip. Here's Mike Lee.

01:00:23.560 Sorry. Do we, do we have it? I'm sorry, sir. I think it's articulated by justice Scalia in his

01:00:30.620 classic opinion in Morris V Morrison V Olson. The prosecutorial authority of the United States

01:00:36.260 belongs in the department of justice. The department of justice answers to the president

01:00:40.100 of the United States. It's principal officers consist of people appointed by the president

01:00:44.560 serving at the pleasure of the president after being confirmed by the United States Senate.

01:00:49.160 This is a fundamental component of our Liberty. The separation of powers protect us. That doesn't

01:00:57.220 mean we're going to agree with what every president in every administration always does.

01:01:01.040 But as justice Scalia explains, we cannot convert an office like this one and office like the

01:01:09.200 previously existing office of independent council without creating a de facto fourth branch of

01:01:15.100 government. Fundamentally undermining the principle of separation of powers that is so core to our

01:01:21.900 liberty. And on that basis, Madam President, I object. Objection is heard. It's quite amazing.

01:01:27.860 Mike Lee is, is just very well thought out and very consistent. This is a time where he's siding with

01:01:32.940 the president, but it's not really about the president. It is, it is truly about you. We have to

01:01:38.460 separate our powers and keep them separate. Now, at the same time, I think it would be stupid,

01:01:45.100 of the president to fire Mueller. I don't think that would end well.

01:01:49.060 I agree with that. And, and to be honest about it, I think like there's a part of me that says

01:01:56.500 the bill isn't a bad idea. The whole fire Mueller, it would basically protect Mueller from being fired

01:02:02.440 by Trump. And the reason why I don't think it's that bad of an idea is, first of all, like if you go

01:02:07.520 back to the Clinton administration, if, if a Republican Congress put up a bill that said,

01:02:11.400 uh, Bill Clinton can't fire Kenneth Starr in the middle of the investigation, I think we all would

01:02:15.600 have been like, ah, it sounds pretty rational, right? Like that seems like a reasonable idea.

01:02:18.720 You can't fire the person investigating, uh, and they're not even investigating Trump per se,

01:02:22.800 but he's involved. And it certainly, um, is investigating people around him. Uh, so you would

01:02:28.600 say that seems rational. Um, and I also think it helps Trump in a way because he's always asked

01:02:36.280 about, are you going to fire Mueller? It's like constantly around him, swirling around him.

01:02:40.240 And I don't think he has any intent on firing Mueller. I think he, it would be a political

01:02:45.640 problem for him anyway. And in reality, he's going to be able to go at the end of this and say, look,

01:02:51.320 this is why this was biased. Here's what I think. I mean, he's going to make those arguments anyway,

01:02:55.240 and win with his audience. I think anyway, so go ahead. But I, Mike Lee actually convinced me,

01:03:00.840 uh, on that. I hadn't thought, I hadn't thought about, I thought about it more as a, as it affected

01:03:06.000 whether it's a good idea or whether it's rational or whether it's a good move, but you got to look

01:03:10.660 at the constitution first. And that's what Mike does so well. He doesn't think about what the

01:03:14.200 political ramifications are of a specific thing. He says, this is a constitutional argument and the

01:03:19.200 there's a separation of powers for a reason. And we have in our system, the right for the

01:03:24.380 president to fire this person. And that can't be overwhelmed by Congress because then you're

01:03:28.520 saying Congress is more powerful than the president. We're supposed to have a check and

01:03:33.440 balance. All right. So, uh, there's another story, uh, that we're watching that we find

01:03:37.900 fascinating. Incredible. If you, if you haven't read this yet, it's, it's disturbing. It's a disturbing

01:03:42.480 read and it's a long read, but the Miami Herald has done an investigation into, uh, Jeffrey Epstein.

01:03:48.600 Uh, now if I were to say to you that name or Jeffrey Epstein, is that Jeffrey Epstein? I get that

01:03:53.300 confused. I don't remember. Um, but when I said that name, there's a, there's another name that

01:03:57.120 immediately pops into my head when I say it for you, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton. That's exactly

01:04:02.180 it. Because there was a big time. If you remember this, there was a lot of reporting on it, bits and

01:04:05.880 pieces at the time where this guy, Jeffrey Epstein, hedge fund guy, really rich guy, um, took people

01:04:11.860 like Bill Clinton in his private jet to all sorts of, uh, places around the world, including one

01:04:18.300 island that he owned that was, uh, uh, believed to have sex slaves, sex slaves. Um, and, and they

01:04:24.860 called him an underage sex slaves, by the way. Um, and on the plane, they called it the Lolita

01:04:29.880 express was what the media kind of picked it up. And Bill Clinton was good friends and really close.

01:04:34.940 Uh, the guy was very close, very tied into politics in general. Um, and so it was amazing when that

01:04:42.040 popped out to see the headline from the Miami Herald, this is separate from the story and there's

01:04:46.000 amazing reporting in it. The headline, however, is how a future Trump cabinet member gave serial

01:04:51.320 sex abuser the deal of a lifetime. So again, the obsession with Trump continues here. Now

01:04:56.420 Trump is, he also was on this plane. Um, he also was friendly with this guy. He was a very powerful

01:05:04.040 guy in the community. It does not condemn Bill Clinton that he slept with minor with minors,

01:05:07.920 and it does not condemn Donald Trump that he slept with minors. There's no evidence of that at all.

01:05:12.380 Um, but they were all, this guy was a big money guy. He was very friendly with people in the

01:05:16.240 community. He lived in Palm Beach. Uh, one of the girls who was abducted worked at Mar-a-Lago.

01:05:21.520 One of the women who was actually abused, that's revealed in this story, I think for the first

01:05:24.960 time, um, was actually, was actually approached at Mar-a-Lago to do this. This, the way it happened

01:05:31.900 is insane though. He, uh, Jeffrey Epstein had a, he has multiple mansions and he has a private

01:05:38.100 island, but the multi, the mansion he has in Palm Beach, he would, uh, he went out and

01:05:43.160 was able to recruit 16, 15, 14 year old, 13 year old girls from local high schools and

01:05:52.560 middle schools in the area. And the way it would work is he got, at the beginning there

01:05:58.780 was only one, brought in one, and it was somehow he convinced her to give him a massage for

01:06:04.540 $200. Um, now the massage, some would, I don't think the first one didn't even turn

01:06:11.820 sexual, but it started to escalate. And when he would get bored of the girl, which a lot

01:06:17.240 of times is after the first or second interaction, he would offer them more money to, first of

01:06:23.120 all, get more sexual and do more sexual things with these underage girls. And some of them

01:06:27.660 he had sex with, some of them he did all sorts of crazy, uh, you know, twisted sort of stuff

01:06:32.480 with. Um, but then he would pay them even more to go out and recruit new girls from their

01:06:37.960 high schools, from their middle schools, from the mall, from all of these local places where

01:06:43.800 teenagers hang out. He essentially turned it into a underage sex pyramid scheme in which

01:06:49.280 he would reward the girls who were in early to go recruit new girls to come in. They go

01:06:55.300 through, they now have for the first time, um, a bunch of these women giving interviews

01:07:00.980 about, about what happened. And this is not like ancient history. This is the mid 2000s,

01:07:05.260 like 2005 to 2008, something like that. And they would come in, they'd, they'd have sex

01:07:11.480 with him. He had another sex slave that he had apparently imported from the Eastern block

01:07:16.160 that would, would, was hooking up with the girls while he was watching. I mean, there was

01:07:20.380 a lot of sort of twisted sexual stuff that went on. Um, and of course these, you know, they

01:07:25.300 were all, almost all, uh, targeted in communities where, uh, and households where they were in

01:07:31.440 need. They were, um, uh, disadvantaged people who didn't have money, who were abused. I mean,

01:07:36.600 it was all the typical sort of horrible stereotypes you'd expect out of the situation. And it was

01:07:40.560 people who would jump at $200 for almost anything. Um, so he was able to just keep paying and paying

01:07:45.740 and when he, and you think about yourself, it got up to the point of like a hundred different

01:07:52.500 teenagers, a hundred. He was able to do this with over a relatively quick period of time.

01:07:58.700 They talk about times where he'd have three of them in, in a day, three in a day. He would,

01:08:03.380 his appetite was, uh, not able to be, uh, yeah. So, um, they go through this whole thing.

01:08:11.420 Eventually, as you'd kind of expect, you get a hundred different teenagers in a situation like

01:08:16.760 this. Eventually one of them talks, the police goes, uh, talks to their parent. The police goes,

01:08:22.180 interviews them, finds out, oh my gosh, well, this, is this credible? This really rich, you know,

01:08:25.960 important guy here. Um, did he do this? Well, that one gives them two other names, the people

01:08:30.540 who they recruited and who recruited them. Anyway, every time they go to a new girl, there's two or

01:08:36.580 three more names they're getting. And the list builds and builds and builds and builds

01:08:39.420 eventually gets to like a hundred. So the story is already super twisted at this point. Um, they

01:08:45.660 all have really credible stories. They can describe the insides of the house. They can describe what

01:08:49.920 was in certain drawers, like sex toys, where they were. They go, uh, eventually the police raid the

01:08:55.260 house. They have, I mean, everything they have names. All of the, the names are on the flight

01:09:00.800 registry from flying them all around the world. Some of them, um, they have, uh, black books with

01:09:06.920 phone numbers of all these, like, you know, 15, 16 year old girls that came over for massages.

01:09:12.760 Um, you know, now there's been accusations from some of the girls that he would loan them out to

01:09:16.880 other, uh, uh, people, all VIPs. That's not necessarily a confirmed in here. Um, but they go

01:09:23.900 through all of that, uh, sorted stuff. Then what really kind of the Miami Herald, and again,

01:09:30.840 despite the title of it, and this is where they focus some of it, it's an incredible piece of

01:09:35.420 reporting. It really is. Um, but they go into talking about the actual investigation. The police

01:09:41.740 tried, did everything they could to try to make this, um, this case stick. I mean, the people who

01:09:47.680 are actually investigating it really seemed to care and, and did everything they could to make this

01:09:51.820 stick. But political influence, money, um, was able to get him to a position where the, the, the,

01:10:00.180 the higher ups locally were actually negotiating and having the defense attorneys help write

01:10:06.820 the deal that was being made. Now, again, you have, you hook up with one 15 year old and this guy's

01:10:14.560 like 50. That's, you're basically, I mean, in my mind, you're in jail forever. You're, you're

01:10:19.700 everything that people accused, uh, Roy Moore of. Right. But I mean, it's way worse than what Roy

01:10:25.660 was accused of. Horrible. Way worse. Horrible. It's not even remotely close. Of course, he did.

01:10:29.240 No, with one. With one. With one. Yeah. This is a hundred. So this guy should obviously be in jail

01:10:35.200 for, for, uh, life. So the, it's the, the police locally got, started getting wind that this was,

01:10:41.320 they were trying to make a deal with this guy. They're like, what, this is crazy. Now the Trump

01:10:45.120 official was the guy who was the, the local, uh, district attorney, or I can't remember. It's not

01:10:50.360 even that it's another position. I lost the name of it, but it was, he was the guy who was had the

01:10:53.960 power to make the deal. And there was a couple of people who were in power to do it. Uh, the, uh,

01:10:59.120 Costa is his name. He's the current labor secretary. His defense is look, the other guy we were dealing

01:11:03.520 with wanted to just make it a misdemeanor and go away. So I got a better deal than that. He had to

01:11:07.960 register as a sex offender. He was charged with two counts of felony prostitution, one with an

01:11:12.400 underage, two counts, two, there's a hundred. Um, so he basically got, uh, uh, the, the, the cops

01:11:21.340 are locally. We're like, we can see what's going on here. So they turned the investigation over to

01:11:25.820 the FBI and the FBI started looking into it and they found tons of stuff in the middle of the FBI

01:11:31.340 investigation. They sign a deal where he gets just 13 months. I think it was in prison, 13 months.

01:11:38.420 And in there is a promise not to prosecute, which I had no idea. This was a thing that I didn't even

01:11:46.040 know this could happen. A local official signs a deal not to prosecute. So it cancels the FBI's

01:11:51.240 investigation. They can't do anything because they signed a deal where no one would get prosecuted.

01:11:55.200 Not only can he not get prosecuted, they sealed all the records. And in addition to that,

01:12:00.360 no one else associated with him can get prosecuted over this. So if he did lean loan them out to other

01:12:06.260 VIPs, they can't get prosecuted. It's unbelievable. He goes to jail, 13, 13 months in jail. They give

01:12:14.180 him a private wing of a prison. Oh my God. With his own personal security. Oh my God. And they let

01:12:19.080 him leave and go to the office 12 hours a day. This is his prison term. He leaves and go to his own

01:12:25.000 office for 12 hours a day. And he gets to have lunch outside in the park. This is a, I can't remember

01:12:31.940 the name of the character from Daredevil. This in, in Daredevil, this, this, this Marvel thing on

01:12:38.400 Netflix, the, the chief bad guy, horrible, horrible human being. He's let out by the FBI. He can live

01:12:45.480 in the top floor of this, you know, like Ritz Carlton. He's living a luxury life. He's got

01:12:50.800 everything back, but you know, he just, he has some strings he can pull. It's unbelievable that it's

01:12:56.900 happening in real life. And in America, this is the kind of stuff that people are fleeing their

01:13:03.400 country to get to us because there is no rule of law. We have to have rule of law. Justice is blind.

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01:15:10.060 Cohen said that he was a weak person and not very intelligent. True. Uh, but then also seemed to admit

01:15:17.160 that yes, the Trump tower in Moscow thing, at least this is the way it sounded was, was

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01:15:56.920 download your favorite podcast. Glenn Beck. We have, uh, Mike Rowe and his mom, Peggy on it in about

01:16:05.480 30 minutes. We have another favorite of ours, another favorite Mike, Mike Lee, Senator from

01:16:11.480 the senior Senator from Utah is on with us now. Hello, Mike. How are you doing? Great. Good to be with

01:16:19.460 you. Thanks. I want to talk to you about a couple of things. And I think one of the reasons

01:16:24.800 why I really like you is because you always look at things through the constitution. I mean,

01:16:29.620 you, you know, you were a clerk for Supreme court justices and, and you're talking about,

01:16:36.280 I want to talk to you about two different bills. One is, uh, is about protecting presidential power.

01:16:43.640 Can you tell me about this with Manafort? I'm sorry, Mueller. Yeah, yeah, sure. So the,

01:16:53.020 the flake Coons legislation is designed to protect Robert Mueller from being fired. There's only one

01:17:00.160 problem with that. It's not constitutional. Justice Scalia pointed out in a great opinion,

01:17:06.420 he wrote in a case called Morrison V. Olson, that the department of justice is part of the executive

01:17:11.940 branch. It's run by an attorney general who's appointed by the president confirmed by the

01:17:17.360 Senate serves at the pleasure of the president. You can't create a new de facto fourth branch of

01:17:23.480 government within the department of justice. One that's completely isolated and insulated from

01:17:28.900 the executive branches, chief executive officer. It's wrong to do that. That's for that reason,

01:17:33.380 the Congress allowed the former independent council statute to expire. What Coons and Flake are trying to do

01:17:39.620 with this bill would be to create a new de facto type of independent council. That's wrong. It's

01:17:44.500 unconstitutional and I oppose it. Okay. So I just want to make sure I understand this. This helps the

01:17:49.820 president, but this is not something that you're trying to do to help the president. You're trying

01:17:52.760 to make sure we protect the constitution and the structure of our country. The, the exactly right.

01:17:58.120 I'd be doing the same thing with a democratic president, right? Because this is about the structure of

01:18:03.160 the constitution. And that is a nonpartisan issue. So the president, because he's the chief executive,

01:18:09.600 he oversees and he runs these departments, the department of justice. So he is the chief executive.

01:18:17.380 So he's the guy who can fire and hire. Now that could be horrible politically for him. Uh, could the,

01:18:25.360 could the Senate or the house Congress take any action against him constitutionally?

01:18:30.680 If he did do this or is it just sure? Okay, sure. There's no doubt there would be political

01:18:37.280 consequences and there's no doubt that there are some things that would happen in response to it

01:18:42.940 in the Congress if he did it. Um, and that's one of the reasons why I don't think he's going to fire

01:18:48.540 him. First of all, it's been almost two years for crying out loud. He would have fired him by now.

01:18:52.520 Right. Um, secondly, he knows that there would be dire political consequences for him doing so.

01:19:00.260 And that's why he's not going to do it anyway. That's why this is, um, uh, much ado about nothing,

01:19:05.220 in my opinion, in any event, even if we're not much ado about nothing, it's still a constitutional

01:19:10.920 and we shouldn't do it because it would then create a, a fourth branch that the Congress is

01:19:19.760 overseeing in the justice department, right? Yeah. Yeah. Effectively. And because, uh, this is a

01:19:27.820 principal prosecutorial officer, all of our U S attorneys in the country, like the attorney general

01:19:34.360 himself are appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate and serve at the pleasure of the

01:19:38.080 president. That's how the system works. This bill would create a, a mini department of justice within

01:19:45.400 the department of justice, one that would operate outside of the executive branch chain of authority.

01:19:49.560 And that's not okay. So I can break this down for people in ways that maybe they, they understand

01:19:54.580 in their real life. Um, you know, we, we all may have our own roles as mom and dad, but mom and dad

01:20:02.000 have to agree that, uh, what the roles and the rules are, this is like, uh, you saying no to your

01:20:09.300 son or daughter for going to a movie. And then mom says, well, no, there's this special carve out over

01:20:14.920 here. Dad can't say that on this movie because I disagree with them. Yes, you can go. That just

01:20:20.580 causes chaos in the family and destroys the family in the end. Yeah. I, the analogy is not perfect,

01:20:28.140 but, uh, uh, I'll give you a points for trying. I, I, it's just close. It gets close. Okay. All

01:20:34.160 right. Um, Mike, there is the, uh, the other that you are really in some ways getting hammered for by

01:20:41.180 conservatives on, on criminal justice reform. And you've been, you've been, uh, spearheading this,

01:20:48.280 uh, along with others. And I happen to agree with you. Um, but some conservatives are saying,

01:20:54.460 well, you're just going soft on crime. Yeah. The, the opposite is true. They could not be more

01:21:01.580 wrong in order to fight crime. We have to be smart about the way we fight it. Uh, Michael

01:21:08.220 Mukasey, uh, hardly a squish, you know, former attorney general of the United States, former

01:21:12.820 federal judge, uh, and real hard nose prosecutor, uh, has explained that pretty soon we will cross the

01:21:21.160 threshold where more than one third of the money going into the department of justice goes to

01:21:26.460 running the prisons. Part of this is because of the fact that we've relied on these sometimes

01:21:30.940 excessive minimum mandatory penalties within the federal criminal justice system. Uh, guys like

01:21:37.880 this guy, Weldon Angelos, who I've talked about in the past, who sold three dime bags of pot while

01:21:42.180 carrying a gun and he got 55 years in prison for it. It's ridiculous. And it diminishes our ability

01:21:48.300 to fight crime effectively. So our bill would fix problems like that, giving judges an added degree

01:21:53.400 of discretion, uh, to put the long, the, the, the really bad people, the dangerous people behind

01:21:58.520 bars for a long time, uh, but make the right choice on other pieces of risk. This bill would also,

01:22:04.580 uh, provide incentives for prisoners to go through training exercises that will have been proven

01:22:10.860 to reduce their rate of recommitting and offense once they get out. This will make the American people

01:22:16.000 safe. And that's why president Trump supports it. That's why I'm proud to be part of this effort.

01:22:22.040 Mike, why have we not heard, heard any, uh, the, the president come out in favor or anyone in

01:22:30.660 Congress stand up for Asia BB and say, we welcome Asia BB, the Christian from Pakistan that is, uh, you

01:22:39.580 know, spent nine years in prison because she blasphemed the prophet and, and Supreme court in

01:22:45.100 Pakistan heard her case and said it was a travesty of justice. Uh, and because of that, her, her and

01:22:51.180 her family under threat, England has passed. Germany has passed. Why are we not leading the way on this?

01:22:58.160 I don't know. That's a good question. I'm happy to look into that. Would you look, we've got

01:23:03.500 countries. Yeah, I'd be happy to, we've got countries around the world who do crazy things. This sounds like

01:23:08.500 a particularly egregious one. And, uh, whenever we've got a country that purports to be an ally

01:23:14.520 in at least some respects, we ought to be able to exercise some degree of leverage on that.

01:23:18.980 I mean, we have, we, we have, uh, we, we, you know, we, we, we should be welcoming. We're, we're having

01:23:24.780 this problem in the border now, and we're having a debate on what a refugee is. Uh, well, here's one,

01:23:31.140 here's, here's a Catholic woman who refuses to deny her faith. And so she is, she is going to be

01:23:37.980 beheaded and dragged through the streets. She's in hiding now. She's trying to get a Western country

01:23:42.900 to take her. Nobody will. And at the same time, we have 2 million people now, these Uyghurs in,

01:23:50.440 in concentration camps in China and in Washington, DC, just two days ago, there was this, this woman

01:23:56.920 who has escaped from China. She was pulled into one of these camps five times and she begged them

01:24:03.620 for death. They're, they're doing things that are worse than George Orwell was doing in 1984.

01:24:09.720 And I think they're trying to sterilize the entire Uyghur population. And we don't seem to be even be

01:24:16.480 talking about this. We should be as a, as a government, as a party, we should be showing the

01:24:23.880 world what a real refugee looks like. And it's not somebody who wants to come here for more

01:24:28.700 economic opportunity. A real refugee is somebody like these people.

01:24:34.440 Yeah. That's why we have refugee programs. It's why we have asylum laws is to take on

01:24:39.960 people like that who are being persecuted. And there is a real distinction. This is not to diminish

01:24:46.200 the direness of anyone's circumstances around the world, but it is very significant. The distinction

01:24:53.360 between people who live in a country economically depressed, generally, on the one hand, and live

01:24:58.700 in a country where the government is actively persecuting people based on their faith, or

01:25:03.260 based on some other immutable characteristic, based on who they are more than what they do.

01:25:10.800 Mike, I'm curious if you have any, any thoughts on the investigation on Jeffrey Epstein. This just

01:25:16.200 came out. It has a lot to do with, I mean, certainly a lot of really shady interactions,

01:25:22.200 a very seemingly a sweetheart deal in which, you know, he had reportedly, allegedly, you know,

01:25:29.240 done all sorts of things to teenagers. And it was a very sort of really twisted tale. And he

01:25:36.000 wound up receiving 13 months in prison with all sorts of beneficial treatment. And it certainly seems

01:25:40.500 like he was the beneficiary of all his political connections and his money. Is there anything we

01:25:46.060 can do to stop that sort of thing from happening going forward? And is there anything we can do about

01:25:50.000 this particular case? Probably not, not anything that we can do about this particular case.

01:25:57.280 Once a deal like that is done, it can't really be undone as far as that deal is concerned.

01:26:03.880 How do you, in this case, in this case, there was, he made a deal with what was it, the local

01:26:10.260 prosecutor not to prosecute? Yeah, I didn't even know that was possible. Basically, they said they,

01:26:15.240 the agreement was a non-prosecution agreement, which covered not only him, but his friends

01:26:22.300 and others associated with this, these incidents from being prosecuted, even by the FBI. The way

01:26:29.520 it read was it essentially canceled the FBI investigation that was going on. Is that even

01:26:33.720 possible, Mike?

01:26:34.380 It does happen in some instances. I would want to know more about it before attacking

01:26:40.820 it wholeheartedly. I will say, normally, that is not the kind of sentence you expect to see

01:26:44.960 from that type of really wild criminal behavior. Once in a while, you will see agreements like that

01:26:51.500 if there is a failure of evidentiary proof, if there's significant uncertainty as to their ability

01:26:58.140 to prove the crime, if there are chain of custody problems with their evidence, or if somebody has

01:27:05.920 the ability to offer more evidence. Circumstances like that can come into a play. But like I say,

01:27:12.300 that's not the kind of response from the government that you typically see with regard to offenses like

01:27:18.860 what you're describing.

01:27:19.700 Because this kind of goes back to your bill on criminal justice reform. I mean, you know,

01:27:23.140 we can't be in a country in which someone who has a small amount of marijuana gets 55 years in prison

01:27:28.860 and Jeffrey Epstein molests potentially up to 100 underage teenagers.

01:27:34.080 It makes them into slaves.

01:27:35.300 Yeah, and winds up with 13 months. I mean, because I think when it comes to criminal justice reform,

01:27:40.280 is it both sides of that? Is it making sure we punish real criminals more harshly and ones that

01:27:47.800 are with minor offenses a lot less harshly? Is it both sides of that equation?

01:27:51.900 No, it absolutely is. And this this gets right to the heart of the point I was trying to make

01:27:56.660 earlier, which is that this bill that we're talking about really is hard on crime. If you want to make

01:28:04.460 the American people safer, you should pass this bill, because when we're so focused on locking the

01:28:10.720 guy who sells three dime bags of pot up for 55 years, that ends up having an effect when you have

01:28:17.840 minimum mandatory sentences that automatically take you there. And then you have prosecutorial

01:28:22.640 policies that encourage prosecutors to bring those cases because they're easier to win,

01:28:27.320 easier to prove and result in an automatically really high sentence, you end up missing the boat

01:28:34.040 or you end up diverting scarce resources away from other far more dangerous offenders. And so,

01:28:40.620 yeah, I think this quite arguably helps prove the need for this bill.

01:28:45.260 Yeah, I just think that there's a we're growing into the state and and it's it's, you know, it's why

01:28:51.520 people are clamoring to get here. They're not clamoring here to to work at Walmart. What they

01:28:57.940 really are clamoring to work here for is a fair shake and a system of of justice that isn't corrupt.

01:29:05.680 And it seems like our justice system is becoming one where we're we're hammering people for doing

01:29:12.500 very little. If you have no connections, you, of course, get the maximum sentence.

01:29:17.820 But if the same person has a lot of connections, they get nothing. They walk away.

01:29:23.020 No, that's exactly right. And that undermines the legitimacy of the criminal justice system.

01:29:28.260 It's yet another reason why we need to pass this bill. And I also like how you connected that to

01:29:33.420 the border crisis. I think the two are related. They are. Look, what scares us about this is not

01:29:40.760 the country of origin. It's not anything about their ethnicity. It's the mob behavior that we've

01:29:46.200 seen, the mob lawlessness. Now, if you go to anywhere, any venue in your day to day life, whether

01:29:53.720 it's church, the grocery store, a sporting event, a rock concert, an amusement park, even your workplace,

01:30:01.120 chances are pretty good. You're going to have to cross through a gate, a fence, a door, something

01:30:06.260 where there are rules governing your entrance and your exit. If you break those rules, especially if

01:30:11.960 you break those rules as part of a large mob, there will be consequences. You will be thrown out.

01:30:17.220 And if you can't be thrown out, if we reward the behavior of a mob in that respect, those same venues

01:30:22.900 that you today enjoy will quickly become ruined. They will quickly no longer be created. They won't be

01:30:28.360 there for you to enjoy. Well, I just can't believe so many people are standing up for this, as you

01:30:33.380 would say, this mob. And and yet at the same time, the people who created those mobs in in Europe,

01:30:41.740 Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, the policy that we had in Libya, they're now going and talking all over

01:30:48.720 Europe saying, you know, this migration thing, this immigrant thing, that was a real mistake.

01:30:53.080 And yet they're still standing up for it here. Doesn't make any sense.

01:30:58.640 And they're disregarding the fact that there are people right here. I mean, I lived for two years

01:31:04.040 along the Texas-Mexico border, and I can tell you there's no group of people more concerned than the

01:31:10.000 poor middle class Americans, many of whom in some neighborhoods, most of whom are themselves

01:31:15.760 immigrants or the children of immigrants. There's nobody more scared than they are about uncontrolled

01:31:20.920 waves of mass migration. You know, it's easy for people who are hundreds or thousands of miles

01:31:26.940 north of that border, living in their gated communities, sending their kids to elite schools

01:31:31.400 to say, let them all in. It's quite another thing for those who actually live in the areas most

01:31:37.260 affected. We ought to be worried about them. Yeah. Senator Mike Lee, thank you so much.

01:31:41.300 God bless. Thank you. You bet. Bye bye. Mike Rowe and his mom coming on in just a second. You don't

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01:33:05.260 I am so excited to talk to Mike Rowe's mom. Mike Rowe's going to be on with his mom.

01:33:12.440 Peggy is, she's now 80, and she's got, I don't even know how many millions of followers she has now.

01:33:22.800 She has fans everywhere. But she grew up, she was a tomboy. She was a horse rider.

01:33:31.380 But her mom was this, Peggy says she was like a tyrant who was determined to raise these,

01:33:38.860 you know, really sweet little girls. And then in the 1950s, her mom, the Orioles come to town.

01:33:44.880 They live in Baltimore. And she said her mom goes crazy. And her mom becomes this big Orioles fan.

01:33:51.580 And she like literally just went off the edge for the O's. And the schedule was taped to the refrigerator.

01:34:01.720 Don't mess with mom during the seasons. She would be cussing out the television, the umpires.

01:34:07.980 She, she gets so mad. Sometimes she'd throw her underwear at the TV. And Peggy was like, oh my gosh,

01:34:13.220 my mother is insane. And yet somehow or another, uh, she didn't turn out, uh, she didn't turn out

01:34:21.080 like that. And she goes and she raises Mike Rowe, who, if you've, if you've ever paid any attention

01:34:27.520 to him, he is extraordinarily bright. He's really smart and very well grounded. Oh my gosh. I feel

01:34:34.800 like his posts, like they, they, they, people, people treat him like they're like some amazing

01:34:38.940 like thing. Like let's, let's read this viral post. It's amazing. But it's like common for him.

01:34:43.980 He does it all the time because he's just speaking common sense off the top of his head in a really

01:34:47.940 intelligent way. He's not, I've not heard him. It's weird because he's such a deep thinker,

01:34:55.100 but I have never heard him overthink something. He might use really deep language, but he's just

01:35:01.160 talking common sense and it just flows from him. Yeah. And it's, it's gotta come from her.

01:35:07.960 It's gotta come from her. So that's an interesting investigation here. It is.

01:35:12.540 It's, it's, it's, I think they're having a lot of fun with this book too. They are. Um, so yeah,

01:35:16.480 this'll be a great conversation. He's awesome. I remember the first time we had Mike on, he said,

01:35:20.080 you know, I don't know about this Facebook thing. I said, Oh Mike, you got it to Facebook.

01:35:23.260 How do I do it? We helped him set up his Facebook account. Really? Yeah. When he came here,

01:35:28.980 we helped him set up his Facebook account. He's like, I'm going to give this a try. You think

01:35:32.780 that really? And I'm like, yes, yes, that you really should do that. Now he's one of the biggest

01:35:37.180 things on Facebook and they have all of his information and they can see into his bathroom.

01:35:41.560 But other than that, it worked out well. We're going to do an interview with his mom,

01:35:44.660 but then we've got Zuckerberg on and he's going to tell us a real story about Mike and his mom.

01:35:49.000 Coming up next.

01:35:53.260 We want to welcome to the program, um, a friend of the show and his mom, uh, Mike Rowe and, uh,

01:36:02.840 and his mother, Peggy. Hello, Peggy. How are you? Good morning. I'm fine. Thank you. Good. I, I,

01:36:08.680 Mike, I'm sorry that we're going to waste your time here. We really wanted to talk to your mom.

01:36:12.860 Um, um, but, uh, uh, you're, uh, are you there, Mike? I'm right here. Is my mother there? I didn't

01:36:20.780 hear her. You're not wasting his time after all. Okay. All right. Good. So, uh, uh, Peggy, I wanted

01:36:26.640 to start with you and first give you a compliment on raising an amazing son. Uh, he is, I don't know

01:36:34.860 how you did it. I'm raising a son. I don't know what you did, but he is kind. He is smart. He is

01:36:41.280 one of only two people that have come into our broadcast studios, uh, in the last, uh, what,

01:36:48.240 almost 10 years now. And after he was done, he went into the control room and shook the hand of

01:36:54.540 every person that he had no reason, nothing to gain from any of these people. Uh, and he is,

01:37:02.620 he's a remarkable man. You did a great job. Well, thank you. You know, I really can't argue

01:37:08.540 with anything you've said. I was hoping you would. Well, he has his moments, of course. Yes. Perfect.

01:37:16.760 Um, but he is unfailingly gracious to everyone. He respects, uh, people and the jobs they do.

01:37:25.080 Um, and you know, it's always been like that and that's sincere. Yeah, no, it is. That's nothing

01:37:30.900 fake. Yeah. So Mike, can you tell me what it was about your mom that helped you turn out this way?

01:37:39.040 Well, Glenn, I'm at somewhat of a disadvantage because I can't hear my delightful mother talking

01:37:44.400 to you. So, so God knows what she's saying. She just says she's yeah, go ahead. That works to our

01:37:52.360 advantage, by the way. We have Mike in a soundproof booth. You really do. This could be some sort of

01:38:00.520 game-changing game show if we do this right. Uh, or the end of my misspent career. But either way,

01:38:06.960 Glenn, what, what was your question precisely? I was just, now apparently Peggy can't hear you

01:38:12.620 either. So this is not going to work out well. Um, but I don't know why can we, we were working

01:38:18.480 on it. There should be some technical issue. This is, this has not happened before. I, what I was

01:38:23.280 asking was, what is it about your mother that helped you turn out? Because I, I know a little

01:38:29.740 bit about her, you know, her mom. What is it that your mom did that helped you turn out the way you

01:38:36.420 are? Mike, Mike. Yes. Um, she, well, look like any good mom, she provided a great example, but she

01:38:44.860 also had something that a lot of good mothers today don't have. And that is her own good mother

01:38:52.700 living a hundred yards away who basically had carte blanche to walk into our home anytime day or night,

01:39:02.240 uh, and completely upset the apple cart in a way that was both fun, horrifying, instructive,

01:39:10.000 unforgettable. And, um, it just, I mean, go ahead, go ahead, Mike. When you have a force of nature

01:39:18.740 living in your neighborhood who has a key to your home, you, you simply sit back, hope for the best

01:39:26.720 and take good notes. So Peggy, that's where I want to go. I don't know if you could hear him yet,

01:39:30.720 but Mike was talking about your mom and said, one of the things that really affected him was that

01:39:37.080 she was a force of nature and she had a key to the house. Uh, and, uh, and it, which made things

01:39:44.600 exciting. Uh, the, what little I know about your mother, you describe her. And this seems like an

01:39:50.860 understatement as an, uh, as a Baltimore Orioles fan, uh, that would throw her underwear at the TV

01:39:57.920 and swear at the umpires. Uh, can you, by the way, I, by the way, I could hear Mike. Oh, you could.

01:40:06.520 Okay. Good. Hi mom. How are you? Yeah. Hey Mike. Long time. Hey, yeah. Do you miss me? Be honest.

01:40:17.140 Okay. So minutes ago, we talked. So tell me, so Peggy, tell me about your, uh, tell me about your mom

01:40:23.520 and growing up with your mom. Yeah. You know, I, I say in the book that I actually had two mothers

01:40:31.260 and that's true. Mother number one was refined and sophisticated. She enjoyed the opera, the ballet,

01:40:41.420 she played contract bridge. She dressed impeccably and her home was always ready for guests.

01:40:48.340 And then in 1954, the Baltimore Orioles came to town and mother number one just kind of disappeared.

01:40:56.540 Um, mother number two was a crazed Baltimore Orioles fan. She did, she jumped up and down and

01:41:03.840 hooped and hollered. Um, oh, and she would drag me out to Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Yeah.

01:41:10.920 And she would dance in the aisles and shout obscenities and umpires. And you had never seen

01:41:17.500 any of this from your mother before. Oh, absolutely not. This was a complete 180 from my mother. Um,

01:41:26.320 and for a young teenage girl, it was very embarrassing. Horrifying. It was terrible. I really had to be

01:41:32.900 very careful when I invited friends over. I had to make sure there was no ball game on that day.

01:41:38.400 Okay. So, so, so, so after the ball game, she would go right back to mom. Number one.

01:41:44.400 You know, in most cases she would, unless of course there was a sports program on, uh, like baseball talk

01:41:51.160 or, um, you know, where they would talk about the game, the post game. I mean, it mother number two

01:41:59.120 would remain as long as there was anything baseball happening in the area. And then number one,

01:42:06.680 you know, mother number one would return. Now, was there, I mean, I know it was, is it,

01:42:14.700 was there something wrong with her or was this just her passion?

01:42:21.400 Well, I don't think there was anything really wrong with her. It was just a passion.

01:42:26.100 She just loved baseball. And you know, to my knowledge, this was her first encounter with

01:42:33.860 sports, except for high school where she played basketball and my mother was always in charge.

01:42:39.540 So I always think that she probably was the captain of her team. Um, but no, um, previously

01:42:46.960 she had not really had anything to do with sports. So this was a surprise to all of us.

01:42:52.180 Yeah. So Mike, let me ask you the same question. Was there something wrong with her or?

01:42:59.220 Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to go with, you know, a fundamental, uh, defect in a,

01:43:08.320 in a chromosome, probably, um, you know, I, I wouldn't go so far to say, uh, it was a deficiency,

01:43:17.060 but it was definitely an anomaly. Um, because among her many other traits, my, my grandmother,

01:43:25.620 she was a corrector, you know, in the same way, like if she was still around today and on,

01:43:31.280 on Facebook, much like my dad, actually, um, you know, she couldn't bear to hear a story being told,

01:43:38.760 uh, whose facts didn't comport precisely with her recollection of them. Unless, unless she was

01:43:48.180 talking about my mom or any of her grandkids, in which case she lied. Like it was no, like amazing.

01:43:59.220 Oh, lip mom. Honestly, what did she say? I was an extra basically in the opera. I had one line.

01:44:07.940 I sang in the chorus, right? I've told you the story back in the eighties. I got into the

01:44:12.280 Baltimore opera. Well, my grandmother loved the opera. And so when she learned that I was singing

01:44:18.360 at it, I mean, she was literally introducing me to her friends as a guy who was touring with

01:44:24.260 Pavarotti and Domingo. And, um, you know, I mean, I was literally a star of the opera world and I had

01:44:31.680 basically Forrest Gumped my way into the Baltimore opera. I didn't know Italian. I didn't know anything,

01:44:36.580 but when my grandmother talked about her grandsons, we could do no wrong. And I didn't know how to

01:44:44.680 behave. You know, when I was 18, 19, hearing this version of me that sounded pretty good,

01:44:51.280 but wasn't true. But I swear there was something in her that, that made a kind of a self-fulfilling

01:44:58.800 prophecy. She, she made everybody around her want to be better than they were in whatever way she

01:45:06.320 had to do. And in my case, it was just wanton prevarication. I just met a family. Uh, I, I just

01:45:15.440 met a family, uh, yesterday that live all on 25 acres in, in Houston. Uh, and the family split it up

01:45:25.600 back in the fifties between like five brothers. And now those five brothers all live in house, uh,

01:45:33.100 and with their families. And now their kids are trying to buy up some of the property around and

01:45:38.440 they keep splitting it. And they said, it's the greatest thing ever. We're, it's not a compound.

01:45:43.160 We're just all living next to each other. And that's the way it used to be. And I think there

01:45:47.800 is something really, really good to be said about having family right there.

01:45:53.860 Um, I agree. Go ahead, Peggy. Yeah. Well, it could be like a sitcom, but you know, holidays

01:46:03.580 would come and there was no question as to who would be in our house, uh, who would help

01:46:08.700 us celebrate birthdays, the 4th of July, um, Memorial day, every holiday. My parents were

01:46:15.960 there. Um, they were so supportive of the children and I know it must've seemed to Mike

01:46:23.820 as though they popped in and out all the time, but really they respected our privacy, um, for

01:46:30.040 the most part. And, you know, they were active people. They both worked. So, um, they weren't

01:46:35.820 at home all the time. Um, but yeah, my mother did have, I mean, she knew how things should

01:46:42.100 be. And when she came over and if I was playing on the floor with the children, she would invariably

01:46:49.000 say, well, it must be nice to have all your housework done. And I knew. Um, Peggy, the name

01:47:01.060 of your book is about my mother. Um, thank you so much for, uh, uh, for sharing her and thanks

01:47:07.940 for coming on the program. And I, uh, I, I really, uh, I'm just so impressed with your

01:47:14.500 son. And I, I know that's not coming from him. Uh, I know that's coming from, uh, an

01:47:20.900 amazing family. Uh, and I just, I just really wanted to tell you job. Well done job. Well

01:47:26.120 done.

01:47:26.560 I will accept that compliment. Thank you so much. Yeah. And you won't get any disagreements

01:47:32.140 from me.

01:47:33.780 Wow. The lying continues in the family, doesn't it?

01:47:36.500 Mike, thank you so much. God bless.

01:47:42.900 Glenn. Thank you. As always. I do owe you a solid for that Facebook thing once upon a

01:47:47.860 time. And, uh, and now I owe you another one for this. No, you don't appreciate it. Thank

01:47:51.740 you so much. 81 years old, New York times bestseller. When has that ever happened? Awesome.

01:47:58.000 So great. Peggy, keep going strong. Write another one. God bless.

01:48:02.420 Thank you, Glenn. This has been, this has been fun. Great. Thank you. About my

01:48:06.480 mother is the name of the book. You can find it now. Peggy Rowe, Mike Rose, uh, mom, just

01:48:12.020 there's just great people.

01:48:14.280 Glenn back tonight on TV. No catastrophe is too catastrophic. No apocalypse is too apocalyptic.

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01:48:46.320 Welcome to the program. Uh, glad you're here. Going to be in Tampa. Is today, Thursday?

01:48:51.820 Yes. Yes. Going to be in Tampa. Uh, we're flying out tonight. We're going to be there,

01:48:55.560 uh, live from WFLA tomorrow. Uh, and I'm so excited to, uh, see the old Tampa fans, uh, in,

01:49:04.040 in concert tomorrow night. I don't remember the name of the theater. What is it? The Stranahan

01:49:08.480 or something like that? Glennbeck.com slash tour. Yeah. Is the name of the place you should

01:49:11.800 go to. Okay. That's what you look for. And then on Saturday, we're going to be in Orlando.

01:49:15.880 Yes. In Orlando, one of our first affiliates. It's cool to go back to kind of where the whole

01:49:20.060 thing started. We blame you. America blames you. Yes. Should we give away one more pair

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01:49:30.340 Tampa. Uh, if you want to go to either one of those shows, call us now 888-727-BECK. Also,

01:49:36.300 uh, got this in, um, my family and I lived in, uh, the province in China where the Uyghur

01:49:42.940 people, uh, live for over five years. We had a business that was for the purpose of helping

01:49:48.680 young Uyghur men integrate into society as well as bring pride to their culture. We showed many

01:49:54.220 people the love of Jesus while we were there and made many friends. We recently just left

01:49:59.360 the region because of our contact with the local Uyghur people was causing harm to their

01:50:03.660 families. People would be taken in the middle of the night after a small amount of contact

01:50:09.440 with us. They were taken to a prison and reeducated. I listened to your podcasts. I guess

01:50:15.660 the recent radio program, uh, was, uh, I listened to the radio program and I was incredibly grateful

01:50:22.160 to the point of tears for your bringing this news up. It seems like it's just not popular

01:50:27.720 because it doesn't fit anybody's political narrative. It really only fits the narrative

01:50:32.400 of our Lord suffering and laying our lives down for another, uh, one another. Thank you.

01:50:37.580 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It means so much to my Uyghur friends who are suffering

01:50:41.720 greatly in China. It means so much for my best friend who is currently being forced to teach

01:50:48.660 propaganda to others inside of the camps or he becomes a prisoner of the camp. Please don't

01:50:55.980 stop bringing this to light. Ben, Ben, our thoughts and prayers are with you and all of those who

01:51:04.740 are suffering, uh, in China. I don't know why this country is not leading the way anymore. Uh, but we

01:51:11.900 need to lead the way, especially with people claiming to be refugees that need asylum. We need to define

01:51:21.100 what real refugees and people who need asylum are and give them shelter.

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