The hate that we dare not speak its name is spreading, and as it does, it strangles the rest of the world just a little bit tighter. In the Gaza Strip, we re seeing that hate. But let s not talk about it. Let s just live in fear.
00:19:56.800I, you won't be able to believe your eyes.
00:19:59.060Now the director, Alfred Hitchcock made some of my favorite movies because in, in every movie it's there by the grace of God, go I in almost every single one of his movies.
00:20:13.400It's an innocent guy just getting trapped into something that you're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
00:20:33.400And that first came out in the 70s and I was coming of age in the 70s and I remember seeing, you know, my folks sitting down, you know, like, we're watching this prison show on ABC.
00:20:45.260You know, like, okay, and I was always afraid that I was going to be wrongly accused and end up in prison somehow or another.
00:20:52.400Well, the good news is, won't be wrongly excused.
00:21:37.080Maybe there's some sort of mix-up at the DMV, maybe, you know.
00:21:40.640And so, I called the number on the letter and the lady at the courthouse said, you know, is your name Joshua McKay, social security number, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.
00:21:49.420And she says, sir, you need to hire a lawyer.
00:21:52.180You have a felony warrant for your arrest.
00:21:54.120And, you know, I thought, since it was through the DMV, that I had some sort of parking ticket or something, and that's why they were taking my license.
00:22:04.500And so, the first thing I said was, oh, my gosh, how old are those parking tickets?
00:22:12.160I don't think you get a felony for old parking tickets, but go ahead.
00:22:15.920And, you know, and so, and we called around, and sure enough, it was an actual warrant.
00:22:21.700And so, we couldn't get any information from the court systems or the sheriff's department on what was going on until the warrant got quashed.
00:22:30.200So, we figured that the best thing we needed to do, I had to turn myself into jail to at least get the warrant quashed.
00:22:36.360So, I spent a night in jail, still not knowing why I was being charged, but I knew there were felony warrants, a felony warrant.
00:22:44.640And then, over the next eight to nine months, I want to say it was nine months, the prosecutor in our case just basically kicked the can down the road and didn't, you know, didn't bother to look at the evidence we'd provided him.
00:23:04.100My lawyer, James Ahern, I mean, just sent him piles and piles upon evidence showing that I had an alibi, and the prosecutor just kicked the can down the road.
00:25:17.220And James even, my lawyer, sorry, he even, you know, he took the opportunity on my first court date to say, look, you know, if, if, if prosecutor Whitfield's not going to answer my emails, then we'll just talk to him in court and talk to him in person.
00:25:35.640Because he, you know, he can't leave there.
00:25:38.160And we show up for my first court date.
00:25:39.980And the prosecutor didn't even show up.
00:25:49.460Well, he, the judge sort of had no, you know, we, we made a motion for dismissal and we made a motion to, you know, remove the identification and all the things that lawyers do that are smarter than I am.
00:26:01.700And, and the judge says, well, you know, I can't really proceed without the prosecutor present.
00:26:07.580So, you know, I'll grant your motion to, you know, cause we had a motion to move to my new job in Utah.
00:26:14.060And, you know, he granted all those motions, but said the prosecutor's not here.
00:26:36.340It wasn't until the local CBS affiliate who first covered my story, you know, put the, put my story on the news and it got picked up by CNN and it got picked up by the blaze that they made an arrest of the actual people driving.
00:26:53.760And are they charged with making a false claim?
00:27:00.780Yeah, they're, they're now in custody.
00:27:02.880I'm not, I'm not privy to their specific charges and I'm sure you could look it up somewhere, but I do know that they're in custody.
00:27:21.120We, we did have the, Douglas County Sheriff's Spurlock reached out to us and, you know, we've gotten a sincere apology and they've made steps to, to make this right for us.
00:27:34.520And, and, you know, the, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department at least has, has been absolutely 100%, you know, fantastic as far as realizing that they made this mistake and, and trying to make it right.
00:27:48.960Yeah, everybody makes mistakes and it's great that they would come clean the, you know, and apologize.
00:27:55.700The question is, what about the court system?
00:27:58.520I mean, obviously the, the prosecutor has a real issue.
00:28:02.240You can't just issue a warrant for somebody's arrest and then that person be denied a speedy trial.
00:28:09.400Well, and, and, and, and the, the, the issue Glenn is, is constitutionally zero of my rights were violated.
00:28:20.120I was offered by the court system's definition.
00:28:23.280I was offered a speedy trial within six months of going to trial.
00:28:29.100Um, but that doesn't mean that, that doesn't mean that the cost didn't add up, you know, constitutionally I was allowed an attorney.
00:28:37.480I was allowed the right not to perjure myself on the witness stand.
00:28:41.980You, I mean, you know, your constitution better than anyone else here.
00:28:45.380I was not denied any constitutional rights.
00:28:48.080Um, and so, you know, as far as the, the district attorney office goes and, and all that, like, I don't know, I, it's, it's sort of this weird purgatory of, I wasn't denied any rights, but I was definitely, you know, we definitely had to pay for it.
00:29:06.900And we're, you know, you're young and don't have a lot of money.
00:29:12.980I would imagine, um, Josh, how's your wife doing and your baby?
00:29:20.220In fact, she's sitting right next to me, uh, listening in.
00:29:22.500Um, and my son is, uh, actually over at his aunt and uncle's house because I don't think I could do this interview without, uh, him in the background screaming and tearing stuff up.
00:29:32.040Well, they're, they're amazing and they're a blessing.
00:29:35.360And I'm, I understand that there were some, there, there was heat after the blaze article.
00:29:41.340Um, some people started giving the sheriff's department heat and I'm sorry about that.
00:29:47.420I, I mean, you know, you never know who's going to read and how people are going to react.
00:29:51.140I hope the article didn't, uh, didn't feel that way to you, uh, or to the sheriff's department, because we know that they, uh, have apologized and they, they took care of business right away.
00:30:05.920Well, and, and I don't, I don't want you to, listen, I, I have no problem with demanding accountability in your state and local governments.
00:30:13.600I have no problem with being disappointed with, you know, our elected officials.
00:30:17.820That's what our country is supposed to be about.
00:30:20.640Um, I, but I don't, I don't believe in hate, you know, if, if I could get any message out there, it would be that, you know, people make mistakes and these, our elected officials make mistakes, but that doesn't give us the right to live our lives in hate.
00:30:36.820You know, love fulfills all God, all God's commandments.
00:30:40.840That's, that's how I try to live my life.
00:30:42.920And that's, I don't want anybody to be hateful on my behalf.
00:36:47.980Now, if you're not familiar with these patriarchy just continues to roll over people, you might be thinking it's a celebration where a person announces, you know, their true gender to family and friends, where everybody eats cake and toast the person's pending sex change surgery to become he or she or it, you know, who they've really been the whole time.
00:37:11.640And it's just the enlightened way to go.
00:37:17.640A gender reveal party is one where parents discover the sex of their own unborn baby and then pronounce it, not asking for permission.
00:37:27.900Now, most of these parties now are including an element of surprise for the parents, family and friends and attendants as they find out the first time whether they're having a boy or a girl as if they know.
00:37:39.560Gender reveal parties are a booming industry fueled by social media, expecting parents now must one up each other in intention, grabbing ways to announce their baby's gender.
00:37:52.280Oh, my gosh, I can't keep saying this.
00:37:54.720Event planners in Washington, D.C. are seeing gender reveal parties that cost up to twenty five thousand dollars.
00:38:01.520Last week, a couple in Maryland arranged for a Ferris wheel to light up in the color of their baby's sex.
00:38:26.980Experts are appalled by this gender reveal party trend.
00:38:32.640And I think the experts are on to something.
00:38:34.780How can modern parents be so narrow minded to think that they can actually identify their child's gender because they do or do not have a penis?
00:40:38.560As the Post likes to remind us on a never ending basis, democracy may die in the darkness, but not as fast as common sense dies in progressivism.
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01:08:16.820I can remember sitting up on school nights with my conservative parents watching Fox News each night.
01:08:21.320This chair of face, baritone voice, middle aged man with silvery blonde hair would work my family and millions of others like mine around the country into near frenzies of paranoia as he scribbled gibberish, gibberish diligently on his chalkboard with a team of experts to uncover what he considered the hidden truth.
01:08:37.460Did you know FDR was pen pals with Mussolini?
01:08:43.240Did you know the progressive left of the 1930s were friendly with the Nazis?
01:08:47.340Did you know the founding fathers weren't all racist who loved slavery?
01:08:51.400These were the kind of real humdingers that middle America thrived on in the age of Obama, when conservatives like my parents desperately wanted to believe that his reign was a secret plot from Satan to destroy the universe.
01:09:04.640My parents would sit wide eyed and receptive like diligent students excited for the chance to know something that maybe their neighbors didn't.
01:09:11.640I later often modeled my social media presence after after the sensationalism like Beck's long rants on Facebook about history, the dangers of socialism, problems with the military industrial complex and even, yes, conspiracies about the Federal Reserve and 9-11.
01:09:29.280Even embarrassingly, a large part of my school media post in my 20s.
01:09:33.840Well, I could have helped you on that one, but I made a lot of Facebook fanboys and girls who followed my boys post and a lot of people thought I was an idiot.
01:09:41.460It was a real shock when I received a phone call from two-time Emmy nominee Riaz Patel, a producer, asking if I wanted to have dinner with Beck and some different-minded people to chat about the world's problems.
01:09:54.480Apparently, one of the show's producers had read my Facebook page.
01:09:58.020Patel is, in his own words, the poster boy for modern liberal Americans, a married gay man with two small children who, after Trump's election, spent the last year and a half trying to learn as much as he could about the political landscape to the right.
01:10:10.520Not surprisingly, that journey landed him at Beck's doorstep, and the two men had become great friends as well as co-producers on many of the Blaze's newest offerings.
01:10:19.720Patel's most recent idea was to partner with a group called Make America Dinner Again, which small dinners are filmed as people from all walks of life discuss their differences over a meal.
01:10:30.080I was invited to Beck's studios in Irving along with a transgendered man, a liberal college professor, a conservative Christian, a Venezuelan immigration activist, and a radio DJ from K-104.
01:10:43.100I was to fill the role of the young white libertarian musician who likes to talk a little bit about everything.
01:10:49.280When I arrived at the studios, Patel and Beck's staff met me with open arms, serving me as much coffee and snacks as I wanted while I waited for the other guests to arrive.
01:10:56.760None of us had ever met. After makeup and getting outfitted with Mike's, Beck finally walked out to the dinner table to greet all of us.
01:11:04.980He's taller than I had imagined, the edge of his shoulders towering slightly above the top of my head.
01:11:10.620He shook my hand and said he was glad to meet me and was excited to hear what I had to say.
01:11:15.440Don't worry about being too intellectual, he said. Be as intellectual as you want.
01:11:18.800The dinner began with a prayer from Trenton, the transgendered man, and we started passing around food prepared by Beck's chef.
01:11:27.440Patel and Beck began asking the group a series of general questions about the current events and the feelings we had about political minefield that is America today.
01:11:37.160Beck seemed conscious of adding follow-up questions designed for each individual at the table.
01:11:41.100Many subjects wandered and blended into others. Questions about personal feelings became discussions about technical economics.
01:11:47.880Questions about democracy became discussions about religion. Worries about gun violence became discussions about the threats of terrorism.
01:11:54.760The socialist college professor across the table from me quickly became the most outspoken and impassioned about his sureness of the validity of his proposed solutions.
01:12:03.660He seemed to imply, often, that anyone on the right who disagreed with it was foolish and just buying into propaganda.
01:12:11.880He remarked, to a cross-look from Beck, that Fox News was really just an arm of propaganda for the state.
01:12:19.460Beck chuckled and redirected the conversation back to its original point.
01:12:23.440But the most moving moment was when Trenton opened up about his struggles.
01:12:27.260He and I had spent some time before the dinner talking about our shared experience of growing up in South Dallas and swapping locations of our favorite barbecue locations.
01:12:37.620The revelation that he had spent the first half of his life as a woman came later in the dinner when Beck asked him to share his story.
01:12:44.360I was surprised to see looks of genuine sympathy on everyone's faces.
01:12:48.720Trenton was optimistic about the fate of transgendered people in America, but expressed serious concern about the levels of depression and suicide among his community.
01:13:00.320But the most surprising person of all at the table.
01:14:51.900And they were obviously, you know, angry, but they also just wanted the situation over with because most of their, like, business dealings were in the old city.
01:14:59.480Now, we also talked to some Christians.
01:15:01.280Now, the Christians had an interesting perspective.
01:15:03.640We talked to one Christian that said, hey, we kind of feel like we're always the one played off the other.
01:15:07.380We always feel like that the Jews are one soccer team and the Muslims are another soccer team.
01:16:52.820Well, we're sitting here looking at everyone reporting on the same thing, and you'll see, like, in the New York Times and all these other places, where they're saying that, okay, there's now 40-plus people that have been killed.
01:17:00.580But they're not providing any context.
01:17:02.400And we don't understand that because I was in Bethlehem at another riot earlier in the day, and we wanted to see what it was like to be on the other side, to be on the Palestinian side.
01:17:11.380So we waded on into that riot, and that was not a peaceful protest.
01:22:11.220Not everybody is, but some are, and those are the people that we need to spend our time on.
01:22:17.240He said, whenever the leftist college professor made a dismissive quip about the right or fired off the popular tropes of the left about gun violence,
01:22:27.220Patel was often the first to criticize the narrow-mindedness of his reasoning.
01:22:31.700Those stats aren't actually completely correct, he might say, after some statistic about gun deaths and gun ownership.
01:22:38.480Beck, of course, was also quick to counter such statistics with data of his own, but the shocking thing was watching Patel be willing to remove his political bias and admit errors of leftist reasoning.
01:22:51.240He talked at length about his experience working for liberal media outlets and the pressure to conform language in programming to fit politically correct standards to the point of interfering with decent journalism.
01:23:03.340He discussed his fears about attacks on free speech from the left and how the obsession with identity politics was dividing people rather than bringing them together.
01:23:13.500In this midst of intellectual tempest, I did my best to get a word in without dominating the conversation,
01:23:19.360but my shining moment for the evening came when the socialist professor's solution to the world's problems was a new utopian market socialism,
01:23:27.620which blends the best parts of capitalism with socialism.
01:23:32.360I rattled off the history of socialism in America and the world and the many forms it had taken, including market socialism and the many ways it had failed.
01:23:40.860Fascism in its original form was supposed to be that balance between market and the socialist,
01:23:46.520and the professor claimed the solution was the solution for the world's ills.
01:23:52.540Beck looked at me with a knowing smile of pride, like he were my distant uncle watching his nephew score a touchdown.
01:23:59.580It goes on, but that he, he's a really smart.
01:24:36.220And it's usually the people who don't think they're smart in those scenarios that wind up being smart because, and the ones who think they're really super smart end up being the ones that like, no, I mean, it's interesting.
01:24:46.940I, I, I like the professor, but he was, uh, it was interesting to hear him say, well, those are just verifiable facts.
01:24:55.500And it was Riaz, I, cause I said, ah, and Riaz says, no, actually that's wrong.
01:25:03.980And if we're not, I mean, honestly, if we're going to give up talking to people who are not convinced of our worldview, I mean, what, what's the point of this?
01:25:11.460I mean, the point of it is to try to tell, you know, try to inform people and, and, and hopefully maybe they see your, your, your, you know, see the light as far as you see it.
01:25:21.020But that doesn't, that's not the entire, uh, breadth of, of human interaction either.
01:25:26.440Um, but I mean, when you're talking about talking politics or talking about these issues, convincing people who already believe them is not exactly a task.
01:26:13.800Find the things that bring us together.
01:26:15.460And the things that bring us together should be the bill of rights.
01:26:18.800Once we agree on the bill of rights and that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights among these life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, we have it.
01:26:28.240But that's the thing that always brought us together was we believed those things.
01:26:34.160There's a lot of people that don't believe those things anymore.
01:26:37.000There's, there's people who believe in, in Marxist principles.
01:26:41.620Well, those go against the bill of rights.
01:26:58.260And demonstrating not only their, their pragmatic ability to solve the world's problems is part of it.
01:27:05.140Arguing it from a moral perspective is another.
01:27:07.880But the, the bottom line is if you can't make these points and you don't make them with the idea of converting someone who doesn't believe them.
01:27:19.400I mean, Teen Vogue ran a thing this, this week about Karl Marx, like the ninth, how great is Karl Marx article that we've seen in the past couple of weeks.
01:27:30.300Karl Marx, remember when you said the president was a, was a Marxist and it was, you were accused of being a, a hater.
01:28:20.260We have to be able to find the answer to that.
01:28:25.920And unfortunately, I don't think, I don't think capitalists win that one in Seattle, but let me frame the argument and tell you what's going on.
01:28:34.100When we come back, we want to thank our sponsor this half hour.
01:28:52.460And I love this thing where people are, you know, I just, um, I, I, I got a guy cause he's, he's cutting his, uh, he's cutting his, uh, uh, his, uh, percentage and I'm getting a discount from him.
01:29:05.780If he doesn't know the value of his own work, how's he going to know the value of your home?
01:29:09.980You need a great real estate agent that has a track record of knowing the price, helping you set the price and then selling for the highest price, uh, available.
01:29:24.020Now that takes an agent who is like you does their own homework, um, where their word is their bond, where they just want a fair deal.
01:29:33.380Somebody who has been vetted and handpicked for their knowledge, their skill, and their track record, and then can come into your house and do it.
01:31:20.600So here's, here's what Seattle and King County declared a state of emergency over homelessness because the, the average home, the median price for a house now in Seattle is $777,000.
01:32:05.640They owe it to their shareholders to make the most amount of money for the shareholders.
01:32:13.140And if you do business in Seattle and they're charging you all kinds of taxes, it is their fiduciary responsibility to look at another space.
01:32:49.300You're the one putting a new, a new term of, of, of business, right?
01:32:55.580They're having to add a whole new line on their business model to figure out how to pay for your stupid tax.
01:33:00.800That's you changing the rules, not them.
01:33:02.260A hundred companies, Alaska Airlines, Expedia are opposing this and 300 small business leaders, you know, from coffee shops, mom and pop places all across the sea, all across Seattle said, this is only going to hurt small business in our community.
01:33:35.040We went to a, uh, we went to our, you know, our, our, our, my, my daughter's ballet recital, a recital.
01:33:42.080And my, and my granddaughters, cause they're in the same, they're in the same ballet unbeknownst to us initially wound up there at the, cause there's these Russians that are really good, but they're intense, man.
01:33:56.000And I, and Mr. Uli, um, who is the, is the husband of the mother who was a Russian ballet person who taught her daughter and who's now in the Russian and the daughter is the teacher of the class, right?
01:34:30.620I mean, besides watching your, he's the best part of it.
01:34:34.420First of all, you have to mention that every catastrophe on earth, whether it's war, famine, lava, earthquakes has happened on the freeways and streets of Fort Worth.
01:41:43.200She can bend in ways that I don't think the human body is supposed to do.
01:41:48.280There's something, there is something about staying that limber and nimble.
01:41:53.480I often think about, um, if I were to spend every moment, uh, that I had while awake for the rest of my life, I do not believe I could touch my toes once.
01:42:05.340Like I, I can't even when I was legitimately spend multiple minutes per day, trying to figure out how to do things that are on the floor without going to the floor.
01:42:17.480Like trying to scoop up my, my, my foot and like, you know, a shoe and like, you know, I get it on it.
01:42:23.920Sometimes the lip of the back of the shoe, you can't get, you can't get on.
01:42:34.700But I've been thinking like, okay, I, you know, maybe I'm just getting to the point to where, you know, all people get to where you're like, I just want Velcro.
01:42:49.540I want, I just, I think I can handle, if I can just put on my socks and then I have Velcro in the soles of my shoe, but I don't have to have anything on the outside of it.
01:43:48.540Well, I think too, a lot of people would look at this and it sounds like, like we're old and lazy and perhaps out of shape and not flexible.
01:43:57.460But isn't this real, at this point, isn't this the shoemaker's fault?
01:44:00.820I mean, Hey, we are, we got to put ties.
01:44:03.720We got to put laces or Velcro on the shoes to make them fit properly.
01:44:30.860See, you are dismissing technology and the truth of shoes.
01:44:34.980And the truth of shoes is we're not going to need them much longer because everything will be delivered into our house where we have carpeting and comfy floors.
01:44:45.040And so everything will be delivered to us.
01:45:05.980I guess if I have to get up, I'd rather just have them bring it to the couch when they say the address, you know, what's your address and say, well, I'm going to give you the address.
01:45:15.260But also just come on in, go down the main hall, turn right.