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00:05:37.420 So there's a couple of things I want to talk to you about today.

00:05:39.440 My son moved out of the house in spring. This weekend was my daughter. She moves out of the

00:05:55.820 house in a couple of weeks. And my other kids, my older kids, are moving up north. And it's

00:06:07.860 Tanya and I. And it's weird. The house is so quiet.

00:06:18.740 I have several things that I want to talk to you about today. One of them is just about

00:06:23.880 being a dad. Because I don't even know what that means anymore. You know, you get to this

00:06:27.980 place. And again, it might just be me. But I didn't have a good dad. My dad wasn't there.

00:06:34.160 My dad was always working. My dad taught me how to work. And he didn't do it by like,

00:06:39.020 get after it. He taught me just by the way he lived his life. And he loved his job. He

00:06:47.520 was passionate about it. But he also was passionate about putting food on the table and making sure

00:06:51.920 the kids had everything. But I didn't have a relationship with my dad until I was 30.

00:06:58.580 I knew I was sacrificing my family to some degree. We all talked about it as a family,

00:07:23.540 even the kids. Because it takes an all-in kind of thing to do this job. You know, you're constantly

00:07:33.740 working. The news never stops. It's 24 hours a day. You constantly are thinking because you have

00:07:38.780 three hours of just running monologue to fill. And so your whole life becomes, in some ways,

00:07:47.820 about this. You're not somebody who can just turn the job off. And I knew when we hit 2006 or 7 and I

00:08:01.900 saw what was coming our way, I had a meeting with a family and I said, you know, it's going to change

00:08:08.360 everything in our life, good and bad. Do we want to do this as a family? And we said, yes.

00:08:15.980 And now that they're moved out, and I walk around in this big house, all this stuff,

00:08:31.100 I've spent so much time thinking none of this was worth it.

00:08:38.980 Because it's just stuff.

00:08:50.180 And I walk around that house and I feel like all I miss, everything could be gone, and all I miss are the kids.

00:08:57.240 I'm going to talk right directly to dads, because maybe it's not like this for you, but it is for me.

00:09:10.380 I didn't grow up with a dad who knew how to be a dad. I mean, at 30, my dad said, I don't know how to be a dad.

00:09:16.320 He said, but if you'll, if you will sit with me through those uncomfortable moments where I don't know what to say to you,

00:09:22.000 and maybe you don't know what to say to me, we can find our way together.

00:09:28.360 And we did.

00:09:29.160 It's weird because, you know, you think as a dad, when the baby's first born, mom.

00:09:43.480 Mom gets the look in the eye every time she breastfeeds.

00:09:47.440 I mean, God is just so amazing.

00:09:49.360 He just built a milking machine where the child has to look at the mom's face.

00:09:55.480 It's crazy.

00:09:56.440 And they bond.

00:09:59.780 And for a while, after you have a baby, you're like, all right, well, I'm not needed here, I guess.

00:10:07.440 You are, but you don't get that same thing.

00:10:10.740 And that continues for a long time.

00:10:12.960 I mean, you could be there with a whole hospital of stuff, but mom, I need mom.

00:10:21.240 And then there's this brief moment.

00:10:23.960 I don't know, maybe about seven or eight.

00:10:26.440 Maybe it goes to 12 or 13, where dad becomes a little magical.

00:10:35.960 And you think, I love this.

00:10:40.620 But then they hit to the teenage years, and you're both garbage.

00:10:43.920 And now, as they move out, the phone rings for mom.

00:10:53.240 And I'm not complaining, because this is the way it was.

00:10:59.020 I think this is the way it is in everybody's family.

00:11:02.340 Mom will say, do you want to talk to your dad?

00:11:04.540 Sure.

00:11:06.140 And you talk to dad for a while.

00:11:08.000 And it's kind of uncomfortable and weird at times.

00:11:10.240 But you don't call mom, you don't call dad.

00:11:17.780 And to be honest with you, I feel a little ripped off.

00:11:20.300 I feel, and I'm only saying this in the time that I'm living in right now.

00:11:28.740 I know this changes.

00:11:30.300 I hope it changes.

00:11:31.200 But it changed with me in my 30s.

00:11:33.420 You know, you're kind of like, as a dad, you're kind of like, yeah, I wasn't home all the time.

00:11:41.500 Because I was making sure that we had X, Y, and Z.

00:11:44.940 And so you feel like, at the end of the race, you're like, didn't get it.

00:11:54.460 I didn't get what I was hoping for.

00:11:56.820 And that's the biggest problem.

00:12:03.960 When have you ever gotten what you were looking for?

00:12:07.300 When have you ever gotten?

00:12:09.300 I think that's the problem.

00:12:11.280 The problem is, I don't know what I expected.

00:12:16.940 I know what I hoped.

00:12:20.940 And my wife keeps saying, it's going to happen.

00:12:23.280 It's going to happen.

00:12:24.160 I wasn't close to my dad.

00:12:27.600 But it's really frustrating because I understand my dad so much better now.

00:12:33.060 And I...

00:12:41.280 I wish he was around.

00:12:55.200 So I could tell him that.

00:12:56.380 You know what I've come to.

00:13:10.140 And I don't know if we can apply this.

00:13:13.080 That's where I'm going to try to do.

00:13:16.040 Apply this to everyone I meet.

00:13:18.320 What I figured out about my dad was, he was doing the best he could do.

00:13:33.460 When you come from an abusive family, my father was abused.

00:13:37.380 His father was abused.

00:13:38.540 My dad tried to stop the abuse.

00:13:43.420 And he did to some degree.

00:13:45.600 Except he became his mother.

00:13:48.700 Who was just the receiver of the abuse.

00:13:53.500 It's really hard.

00:13:54.820 And it takes generations to stop it.

00:13:57.800 And I really believe that families, to really turn a family, takes generations.

00:14:05.920 I see these families who have been great for generations.

00:14:10.020 And they're amazing.

00:14:12.060 Amazing.

00:14:13.540 And I don't know if you can turn a family around that fast.

00:14:20.640 Because you have to change so much.

00:14:22.960 And I don't know about you, but as a father, as a parent, most of the time, I'm bluffing.

00:14:30.000 I have no idea what I'm doing.

00:14:32.280 No idea.

00:14:33.980 Tanya and I look at each other all the time like, do not let the kids see that.

00:14:45.560 And I guess if we...

00:14:47.960 How can we expect someone to look at us and say, he did the best he could?

00:14:59.320 He really tried.

00:15:01.340 And he really failed.

00:15:02.800 But he was doing the best he could.

00:15:06.340 How can we expect that if we're not giving that to everyone we meet?

00:15:11.760 And I think that's hard.

00:15:22.160 It was hard for me because I didn't live my dad's life.

00:15:26.400 I just saw what he was doing.

00:15:28.680 And I'm like, what are you doing?

00:15:30.920 Why would you do that?

00:15:33.200 What was...

00:15:34.760 He was busy trying not to be his father.

00:15:37.300 That's why.

00:15:37.740 That's why.

00:15:41.760 And it took everything in him not to be that.

00:15:48.560 And I may have spent too much of my life trying not to be that.

00:15:56.360 And not enough of my life trying to be what I wanted to be.

00:16:02.640 And my excuse was, I think, is I've never seen it.

00:16:07.980 I don't know how that is.

00:16:09.620 I don't know what that is.

00:16:11.760 So I look at the news today.

00:16:21.040 And I see, hey, the CIA chief just came out and said, we got it dead to rights now.

00:16:27.660 There's going to be an explosive announcement this week with all this documentation.

00:16:31.580 And I looked at it and I went, and so what does that mean?

00:16:40.060 Oh, no, I can get upset.

00:16:42.320 There's even more.

00:16:43.440 There's even more out there that condemns the people that have been doing all of this stuff.

00:16:47.000 That they've been playing with our emotions since 2015.

00:16:51.060 And they knew it the whole time.

00:16:52.560 And everything was a lie.

00:16:54.420 Oh, my gosh.

00:16:55.320 Now I'm really upset.

00:16:57.940 And...

00:16:58.460 There's so many things in this monologue I'm trying to tell you, and I don't know if any of it's coming through.

00:17:19.800 But on that is, and I think it's all tied together, we have to just release the outcome.

00:17:25.820 It doesn't mean we're not engaged.

00:17:28.200 But it just means we have to stop wanting an outcome.

00:17:32.500 We have to stop wanting people to go to jail.

00:17:37.760 I don't know if I can do that.

00:17:39.960 We have to stop wanting to be the perfect dad.

00:17:48.280 We just have to take every moment and just do the next right thing.

00:17:54.920 And I don't know how to do this because I am so future.

00:17:58.440 I just, I've always looked at the reason why I'm successful is that I can see over the horizon.

00:18:03.560 I can point to and say, that's the destination.

00:18:06.580 But I have to do that while relinquishing the outcome.

00:18:15.660 And I've done it on some things.

00:18:19.220 I've done it.

00:18:21.180 I know.

00:18:22.360 When I know what I'm doing is what God wants me to do, I can release the outcome.

00:18:28.440 Because I know whatever it is he's got for me, it's going to be fine.

00:18:34.260 And maybe we're living under a bridge, but it's going to be fine.

00:18:37.560 It's going to be exactly what we want, and it's all going to lead to joy.

00:18:43.760 But when I don't do that, when I don't release the outcome,

00:18:47.340 I am caught in this horrible place of just second-guessing everything.

00:18:52.400 What did I do?

00:18:53.180 What did I not do?

00:18:54.320 How could we do this?

00:18:55.360 How can I make that happen?

00:18:56.880 What a waste of time.

00:19:03.460 I have a lot to talk to you about today.

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00:20:38.800 So my niece and nephew are in town.

00:20:46.480 They're staying with us.

00:20:50.040 And they brought their son, Owee, who I just love, Owee.

00:20:54.380 And he's five, four, five.

00:20:58.840 I don't know.

00:21:00.640 Right?

00:21:01.480 A good uncle.

00:21:02.100 Anyway, so we're driving in the car yesterday.

00:21:06.400 And he's just having a blast in the car.

00:21:09.460 And we're looking at the airplanes as they're flying over and everything else.

00:21:13.280 And he said, are you happy?

00:21:20.460 And I said, I logically think to myself, am I happy?

00:21:25.280 Yeah, I'm happy.

00:21:27.080 I said, are you happy?

00:21:28.180 He said, yes, I'm so happy.

00:21:30.740 And in that moment, I went, I want to be like that.

00:21:37.200 Not even thinking about it.

00:21:38.300 Are you happy?

00:21:39.000 Yes.

00:21:40.380 And we lose that as kids.

00:21:44.840 And I think it's because they don't have to think about the future.

00:21:51.000 They're living in the moment.

00:21:53.080 And I don't know yet how to balance that.

00:21:59.820 But I think that's the only way to live your life.

00:22:04.600 And I don't mean be irresponsible.

00:22:06.680 I don't mean just, you know, don't pay attention to the bills or to the world or to the whatever.

00:22:11.880 You have to do that.

00:22:13.220 But relinquishing the past to the past, relinquishing the future to the Lord, and just doing the right thing in the moment, because that's all he was.

00:22:25.520 I said, are you happy?

00:22:27.180 Yes, I'm so happy.

00:22:28.780 These crackers are so good.

00:22:32.880 I mean, it was like joy for the cracker that he's had a million times.

00:22:39.960 These crackers are so good.

00:22:43.220 I said to my staff this morning, I said, I think this is what the torch is supposed to be.

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00:22:57.900 I'm just doing what I'm told to do.

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00:23:24.460 I can't wait till next hour.

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00:25:36.920 So I had another revelation this weekend.

00:25:56.380 It was a heavy dad-learning weekend for me on so many levels.

00:26:00.880 But Cheyenne, I've called her Lucy her whole life.

00:26:09.940 Because when she was, I mean, she practically came out Lucille Ball.

00:26:15.640 She has been funny her whole life.

00:26:19.280 I mean, hysterically funny.

00:26:21.900 And such, like Lucy, so innocent in her comedy when she was young.

00:26:27.860 She didn't know.

00:26:28.660 She was just funny.

00:26:31.580 And then as she grew up, I sat there and I watched her at four years old going to these ballet recitals

00:26:40.820 where I just wanted to claw my eyes out.

00:26:43.100 I couldn't take it.

00:26:44.060 I just couldn't take it.

00:26:45.220 And, you know, she had Russian ballet.

00:26:50.160 There's this place that we live in, one of the suburbs of Dallas.

00:26:52.940 And there's this Russian ballet dancer and her Russian ballet dancer daughter that give lessons.

00:27:00.140 Oh, if you want to have your kids come back with bloody feet, you know, they are very good at doing that.

00:27:07.000 What do you mean your kids cannot come to it?

00:27:09.560 Okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.

00:27:11.320 You're afraid the Russian mafia is going to come after you.

00:27:14.460 And at four or five, the kids are like, dad, the Russian mafia is real.

00:27:19.940 So she, you know, she went through this and we'd go and watch these ballet performances.

00:27:24.640 And I just wanted to claw my eyes out.

00:27:27.500 And, but I would watch her and her mom and I would sit, you know, towards the front.

00:27:31.620 And we would just look at her like, smile, smile.

00:27:34.800 She was just so intense.

00:27:36.980 And she's like, yeah, you smile.

00:27:39.240 I've got the Russians behind me.

00:27:41.060 Anyway, and then she got into musical theater and everything else.

00:27:45.720 And this weekend was her last performance at this local community theater.

00:27:52.300 And she was one of the Bowery Boys in, what's that called?

00:28:00.560 Oh, shoot.

00:28:01.100 I saw it four times this weekend and I can't remember.

00:28:03.840 No.

00:28:05.960 Oh, geez.

00:28:06.560 It'll come to me.

00:28:07.580 Anyway, so she was in this, this show.

00:28:09.360 Um, and, um, I watched her the whole time.

00:28:16.980 I went four times and I watched her the whole time and she did not lose focus or drop character

00:28:25.620 once.

00:28:27.100 And every moment she was giving it 100%.

00:28:31.540 And it was amazing to watch 100%.

00:28:35.460 And she was just so accurate with every move.

00:28:39.000 And she was amazing to watch.

00:28:40.780 At least I'm just, I know you've got kids too.

00:28:43.020 So, you know, give me a second just to brag on my daughter for just a second.

00:28:47.400 Um,

00:28:47.840 and I thought,

00:28:53.000 I can't wait to see her.

00:28:57.260 I wish in this show she had the starring role and she did too, but she got over it,

00:29:03.800 you know, that day.

00:29:04.520 And she was like, it's going to take me a day to, you know, mourn.

00:29:06.980 It's good to take a moment just to mourn for, you know, what could have been.

00:29:09.580 And then I move on and she did.

00:29:11.620 And she went amazing.

00:29:13.660 And, uh,

00:29:15.120 at intermission at two of the shows,

00:29:19.160 two parents came up to me and said,

00:29:22.500 I want you to know

00:29:24.700 the difference your daughter made in our son or daughter's life.

00:29:31.160 Cause it's a community theater and it focuses on kids.

00:29:38.120 And, uh,

00:29:39.700 one of them said our son was not just didn't feel like he belonged there and got a role

00:29:48.260 and couldn't do it and was worried that he just was going to look stupid.

00:29:52.500 And he was sitting out at a curb and he was, you know, wanting mom and dad to come pick

00:29:57.480 him up.

00:29:58.680 And, uh,

00:30:00.660 they said,

00:30:01.060 your daughter came out and sat on the curb and said,

00:30:06.540 I know how you feel.

00:30:07.260 And just talk to this kid and they said to parents,

00:30:13.720 the pivotal moment in their life,

00:30:18.960 I think is going to involve your daughter because it totally changed their perspective.

00:30:26.040 Somebody else said pretty much the same thing.

00:30:28.960 This kid had to hit a high eight.

00:30:30.500 He was having a hard time.

00:30:31.680 He couldn't hit it.

00:30:32.680 And,

00:30:32.700 and, uh,

00:30:34.860 Cheyenne just took him and said,

00:30:36.500 you can do this.

00:30:37.880 You are blocking yourself from doing it.

00:30:40.720 You're afraid of that note.

00:30:42.320 You can hit that note.

00:30:43.560 Just hit that note.

00:30:45.040 Just stop thinking about it.

00:30:46.120 Just hit the note.

00:30:46.900 I know you can hit that note.

00:30:48.180 You know,

00:30:48.520 you can hit that note,

00:30:49.300 hit the note.

00:30:49.820 And he hit the note and it was amazing.

00:30:53.100 And his parents came up and said,

00:30:56.820 same thing.

00:30:59.760 And I'm listening to them.

00:31:03.200 And you know me well enough to know just tears running down my cheeks.

00:31:11.180 And I thought,

00:31:14.180 honor.

00:31:17.180 I wish I would have known what I knew then from those parents because I wanted to bring her honor cords, you know, for graduation, you know, they always have honor cords.

00:31:31.780 And this is not graduation, but this was her last performance with this group.

00:31:36.200 And, uh, I so wanted to bring her honor cords because I thought she's graduated with honors.

00:31:44.500 She, she's not, she wasn't the lead role or anything else.

00:31:50.700 She found a way, and I don't think she views it this way at all because it's just who she is.

00:31:58.300 I am more proud of her for what she's done backstage.

00:32:02.480 I mean, she was on stage and in character, she saw one of the kids, they had their shoe untied and it's a lot of dancing.

00:32:09.680 And in character, she kneeled down to tie the kid's shoe.

00:32:15.300 I mean, she was constant, she's constantly like that.

00:32:19.380 She gets it from her mother.

00:32:22.580 Um, and

00:32:23.240 I think sometimes to turn this around to us.

00:32:32.120 When we are so set on our outcome, our outcome is to be the lead.

00:32:37.500 Our outcome is to do this.

00:32:40.480 That we miss the moment and we miss what's more important.

00:32:45.520 You know, there's only one lead in a show, every show, show of life.

00:32:50.800 There's a lead.

00:32:52.500 You may not be the lead.

00:32:54.900 So what are you doing?

00:32:56.520 What are you doing?

00:32:57.500 Are you, are you complaining that you're not the lead?

00:33:00.200 And I mean this in, in every situation.

00:33:02.400 It's not just, you know, whatever.

00:33:04.420 It's every situation.

00:33:05.680 Is the role of support even more important than maybe the lead?

00:33:13.260 Because the lead gets all the applause.

00:33:17.460 But the ones that make the real difference are the ones behind.

00:33:21.680 That support that one.

00:33:25.580 And that doesn't normally get the accolades, which makes me think, you know, why are you doing things that you're doing?

00:33:32.340 You know, if you want the credit, you'll get the credit here and then, you know, good luck upstairs.

00:33:38.460 Where if you're doing it just because it's right, or in her case, it's just who you are.

00:33:45.440 What a great accomplishment that is.

00:33:47.860 And maybe nobody notices.

00:33:49.920 Maybe no one notices.

00:33:52.800 But how game-changing can each of us be quietly?

00:34:02.340 I think it goes back to not wanting outcomes, I think.

00:34:15.700 I don't know if any of this makes sense to you, but maybe someday it will.

00:34:21.420 Maybe you're not that place in your life.

00:34:23.060 Does this relate to you with your kids and where you, I mean, because you're behind me about 10 years.

00:34:28.700 Yeah, for sure.

00:34:30.200 I mean, you think about this stuff all the time.

00:34:32.340 And as a parent, you attempt to have an impact that's positive and you have no idea whether you're doing it or not.

00:34:40.380 And you don't know whether you're supposed to care about what the reaction is or not.

00:34:46.220 That is the part that's getting me.

00:34:48.760 It's like, I care about the reaction.

00:34:50.900 And I'm like, you selfish SOB.

00:34:53.220 What?

00:34:53.600 It's not about you.

00:34:55.060 And you're like, yeah, but yes, it is.

00:34:56.860 No, it's not.

00:34:58.240 No, it's not.

00:35:00.320 Well, it kind of is, right?

00:35:01.520 You're trying to, it's about every person has self-interest.

00:35:07.420 That's not, that's not, there's nothing wrong with that.

00:35:10.540 You want those things to align, ideally, right?

00:35:13.200 And that's a good way for them to align, right?

00:35:15.560 You're doing a good job, hopefully, for your kids and that they appreciate it.

00:35:18.480 And wouldn't that be wonderful?

00:35:19.320 Do you think our grandparents thought like this?

00:35:21.020 Probably not, but I don't, I mean, our grandparents did some things that were absolutely incredible.

00:35:29.840 I think maybe we've figured out some things, too, from that experience that maybe has improved it.

00:35:35.420 I think there's ups and downs from that.

00:35:37.200 It's just, you know, because I was thinking, you know, one of the problems that we have with the youth, we were talking about this earlier today, about when you get married.

00:35:45.880 What were you talking about?

00:35:47.180 Well, there's a really interesting new study that just came out about marriage rates, and there's that typical thing that everyone says, oh, you know, 50% of people, marriages end in divorce.

00:35:56.320 And what they're finding now is that that is just a really outdated statistic.

00:36:01.720 There was a time where that was true, but it is no longer true.

00:36:05.700 In fact, the people who are getting married most recently, which the decade of the 2010s, where they have any research on this, it's trending.

00:36:16.180 The rates of parents or of families staying together are better than every decade since the 50s.

00:36:26.140 Only the 50s has a better rate of staying together.

00:36:28.720 Every other decade, we are outperforming them now, people that have been married in the 2000s, 2010s.

00:36:36.260 And there's a bunch of different – there's a really interesting argument there between, you know, what the reasoning for that is and how you should think of marriage, which is part of the reason why that's true is that, you know, researchers believe because people are getting married later.

00:36:51.740 And they're not necessarily going into marriages really early and then maybe marrying a high school sweetheart and realizing that it wasn't the right thing for them long term and those led to more divorces where now people – it's this – they call it the foundation versus capstone debate.

00:37:08.940 So, like, is marriage a foundation of your life that you get into early and it's the entire building block?

00:37:13.820 Or a capstone where you go through, you have a bunch of life experiences, maybe build a career, do things that you – maybe are more frivolous early in your 20s and you get past them.

00:37:23.640 And then you get to a place where now I'm really thinking about that and I want to settle down and get married and have kids.

00:37:29.520 And the way of – that sort of debate between them, there are positives on both sides of it.

00:37:33.380 I don't think it's a – an easy answer.

00:37:36.900 I do think I was a better dad at my late 30s than I would have been in my early 20s.

00:37:42.460 Oh, I was.

00:37:42.980 But – oh, you went through it both times.

00:37:46.740 Yeah, I went through both and I was.

00:37:48.260 However, I don't think that it is that you have to wait to get married.

00:37:53.800 I personally – I'd like to go the other way.

00:37:56.240 Have you met the next generation?

00:37:58.460 Have you spent – well, yes, you have.

00:38:00.160 They're living in your house.

00:38:01.200 A couple of them are, yeah.

00:38:02.500 The new generation is different.

00:38:06.240 They're just different.

00:38:07.040 The 15 to 25-year-olds, there's a real difference in that group.

00:38:16.420 They're more responsible.

00:38:20.660 They're less whiny about things.

00:38:23.220 They understand things in a deeper, different way.

00:38:26.980 It's really remarkable.

00:38:29.100 That's interesting because I think the standard critique of – now, it was always about millennials, which when you're talking 15 to 25, you're below – you're in Gen Z there.

00:38:38.500 Yes, yes, Gen Z.

00:38:38.640 But the typical complaint was that they were whining about everything.

00:38:43.060 Well, and here's the interesting thing.

00:38:45.960 I think that it's not that – it's not that our – you know, we've got to wait to get married until you're 30.

00:38:53.520 No, you should – I'm really turning on this whole, you know, you've got to be out in playtime when you're 13.

00:39:03.320 Why?

00:39:04.440 Why?

00:39:04.860 Playtime.

00:39:05.380 I get playtime.

00:39:06.320 And playtime is important throughout your life.

00:39:09.080 But shouldn't we expect more from our kids than playtime?

00:39:12.960 I mean, when you go back in history and you see what kids – what kids accomplished, what life was like, and how they went out and they were interning – they were not interning.

00:39:26.300 They were, you know, being shepherded, apprentice, you know, when they're 12 and 13.

00:39:33.580 We don't expect as much from our kids.

00:39:40.260 And maybe one of the things we have to do is start expecting more from our kids.

00:39:45.280 Maybe we need to be – you know, you need to grow up a little bit.

00:39:49.200 You know, still enjoy your life as a kid and everything else.

00:39:51.940 But, I mean, why do we not – why do we talk to a kid at 13 or 15 the way we talk to them when they're 10 and expect the same things?

00:40:03.420 Why don't we expect them to be – I mean, you know, bar mitzvahs.

00:40:10.240 How old do you have to be – 13?

00:40:12.540 That's when you become a man.

00:40:15.500 Who thinks of 13-year-olds as becoming a man?

00:40:19.320 And yet I see people who are homeschooled and they have been – you know, they work out on a farm or something with their parents.

00:40:26.120 And they're expected to do it just like we were expected to do it when we were kids.

00:40:31.200 And then we – I guess maybe my generation was like, you know, I don't know.

00:40:36.460 Maybe we should – you know, I want them to be kids and have that childhood.

00:40:40.080 Well, maybe we're screwing that up now that we say kids are kids until 26.

00:40:47.760 I heard one group now scientifically say, you know what, adolescence ends when you're 30.

00:40:55.820 No, it doesn't.

00:40:57.240 No, it doesn't.

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00:46:55.280 The Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:47:09.880 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. There is a lot going on today and I want to start with

00:47:16.680 a solution and a different, a solution from the past that everybody ignored last time that I

00:47:24.260 think we ignore at our own peril. It is really, really good advice I stumbled across this

00:47:29.060 weekend. I'll give you that coming up in just a second. First, when you hear the word ceasefire,

00:47:33.260 you think danger is over, right? But in Israel, it's not that simple. There's no switch you flip

00:47:38.320 that makes a child unafraid to play outside again. No magic word that rebuilds, you know,

00:47:42.320 a bomb scarred home. No headlines that heal the family that won't be whole again. Do you see

00:47:48.240 this stuff about starvation in Gaza? How everybody is starving in Gaza now? I mean, so many questions.

00:47:54.260 The aid. The aid's there. The aid's there. They're shooting the aid workers as they try to bring

00:48:00.960 aid in. And wow, that starvation happened strangely. Slow starvation over what, two years? Yeah,

00:48:08.500 two years. Two years to starve. I had a different impression of how food worked. Yeah. It's weird.

00:48:13.480 I don't know that. Anyway, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews understands

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00:48:30.100 families that have sacrificed everything. They deliver comfort in the form of blankets and food

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00:48:57.780 You know, I read something over the weekend from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. You don't remember

00:49:03.420 who Dietrich Bonhoeffer was. He was a pastor. He was a Lutheran pastor in Germany. He was

00:49:11.400 a pacifist. He, you know, talked about peace, peace, peace forever and taught peace. And then

00:49:17.280 it got to a place in, I think it was 1942 or 43, he was like, this has got to stop. And so

00:49:24.140 he threw his hat in with the, with Valkyrie, uh, which is that Tom Cruise movie. And before

00:49:30.040 the movie, it was an actual event, but, uh, and, uh, he was caught and thrown in jail and

00:49:35.920 he wasn't executed and he was kind of executed, uh, kind of by mistake in the end, uh, because

00:49:44.220 he died 15 days, I think before Hitler died, killed himself. And they were just executing

00:49:49.160 everybody in this one prison, but he wasn't supposed to be in that prison, but that's a different

00:49:52.120 story. He has written some of the most beautiful things in prison. I mean, his understanding

00:49:58.840 of marriage and he was never marriage had a love of his life outside of prison. And he

00:50:03.120 was like, we can't forget me, forget me, forget me, forget me. And he wrote a sermon for his

00:50:08.980 sister's wedding that understands marriage, uh, in, in such beautiful ways. And he's writing

00:50:17.600 this stuff while he's at the end, he's writing some stuff where he is, uh, just beautiful

00:50:25.320 Christ-like stuff. And in the cell with him is the guy who, uh, was doing experiments on

00:50:33.720 the Jews, you know, for medical research and then, you know, shared it with the world.

00:50:40.080 And Hitler was like, we're not trying to save the world. We're trying to save Germans.

00:50:42.880 So he went into the execution camp and next to him was a woman who was like a prostitute

00:50:48.940 and she had become a double spy, a double agent. So these two were doing vile things to each

00:50:54.220 other with him in the same cell. And he's writing this beautiful spiritual stuff. It's, he is

00:50:58.520 an amazing guy, but he, he tries to, he was trying to figure out, I think the same thing

00:51:04.860 that we're going through. And I think the same thing that in some ways, both sides think

00:51:09.880 they're going through because both sides are saying to themselves, I can't even talk to

00:51:15.160 these people. I can't even talk to these people. They don't even listen. They have no, they

00:51:19.100 have no clue what's wrong with these people. Right? I talked to somebody, uh, over the weekend

00:51:26.020 who is really, really well-informed, really well-informed stays up with it all the time

00:51:31.360 and asked me, what do you think is really happening with the Epstein stuff?

00:51:37.100 And I thought, wow, here's somebody really informed that is still there. So much stuff

00:51:45.660 has happened in the last three weeks, but that's my job. My job is to be on top of this every

00:51:50.920 day. It's not your job. And even if you are paying attention every day, you only pay attention

00:51:56.980 or you own, you try to stay alert, but you've got other things to do with your life. And,

00:52:02.860 and then there are the people who are just tuning out and they're just like, I don't, I, and I was

00:52:08.360 there this morning. I read this piece, you know, uh, our CIA director was on, uh, Maria Bartuomo

00:52:14.820 this weekend and she was, and he was saying, you know, some big stuff is coming this week and it's

00:52:18.840 got them dead to rights and they're going to go to jail. And I thought, uh, sure. And I caught

00:52:23.300 myself saying that. And I thought, why, if I feel that way, what is the average listener

00:52:27.840 feel? You got to feel that way, right? I mean, don't we all like, yeah, I've seen this movie

00:52:33.340 before. And just like Charlie Brown, we line the football up every time. No, this time she's

00:52:41.320 going to kick it or this time I'm going to kick it. And she's going to, she's not going

00:52:45.100 to pull it away at the last minute. Uh, yeah. Every time, every time.

00:52:53.300 How do we break through to people? Listen to what Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote. Stupidity

00:53:00.660 is more dangerous, a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. Stupidity is a more

00:53:12.440 dangerous enemy of the good than malice. Stupidity, not evil, is the greater threat. Not because

00:53:21.420 it's more powerful, but because stupidity is unreachable. You can expose evil. You can

00:53:28.280 argue with it. You can shine a light on it. You can resist it. But stupidity just doesn't

00:53:33.840 respond. It doesn't engage. It just is. And it spreads. So what, what did he mean by that?

00:53:43.580 He didn't mean a lack of intelligence. In fact, some of the, the stupidest people he encountered

00:53:54.140 were in Germany were very highly educated. Some were university professors, right? In our

00:54:00.860 own life, they're university professors. He's like, are you stupid? What is wrong with you?

00:54:06.000 What he's talking about is moral failure. It's a willful surrender of independent thought,

00:54:14.960 a kind of intellectual cowardice that allows propaganda and group think to take over and

00:54:21.620 become the root like cancer. Okay. You may have thought at some point, but you really have

00:54:28.080 stopped. Now I want to make this very clear. This is on both sides. This is on both sides.

00:54:34.020 I have seen people on our side that you talk to and you're like, no, that's not true.

00:54:39.540 And they immediately just lies glaze over and you're like, oh boy, they're not there anymore.

00:54:45.900 Bonhoeffer called it a psychological problem. It emerges in groups and crowds and movements.

00:54:53.620 Listen to this. People hand over their discernment, not because they're dumb, but because they choose

00:55:01.600 not to think. They let slogans replace ideas. They let ideology replace truth. How much has that

00:55:10.880 happened? Where ideology, well, that's not true. You're basing this all on lies. It's not true. It doesn't

00:55:18.620 matter. It doesn't matter because they've surrendered thought. Same thing with slogans.

00:55:26.120 I mean, if I hear, you know, global warming is our world war three. One more time, I think I'm going

00:55:33.040 to, I'm going to lose my mind. No, that look, everything you say, all the scientists agree. No,

00:55:40.760 they don't. No, they don't. Have you looked into it yourself? No, but all the scientists agree. No,

00:55:47.200 they don't. Their eyes glaze over. They think you're wrong. They won't even look into it. No matter what

00:55:54.220 you show them, they will not look at it. And if they do, they're reading it to figure out a way

00:56:00.240 to find the way they're right and you're wrong. They've surrendered entirely to whatever it is they

00:56:09.860 serve. We don't, we ask, don't you see what's happening? Don't you see it? The things that you

00:56:21.500 said would never, ever happen, the things you told me were conspiracy theories, the things you said,

00:56:27.680 that's not true at all. It's happening right in front of you right now, right now. Don't you see it?

00:56:36.100 the inversion of morality. When, when did you decide it was okay to have transsexual

00:56:49.580 strippers perform in front of children? Because that's been wrong since the dawn of man. If I went

00:56:58.740 back 10 years with you, you would, and I proposed that, you would have said, that's outrageous,

00:57:05.640 but now it's happening and you think it's good. Can you tell me the thoughts that brought you there?

00:57:14.480 No, you're a bigot. You're just a bigot. Why do you hate transgenderism? No, I, I, what are you

00:57:20.620 talking about? I want to understand you. Can you take me from where you were in 2015 to where you are

00:57:28.280 today? Show me the building of this ideology that you now have. Love is love. That's not, that's,

00:57:39.700 that's a slogan. You're not arguing anymore with people who disagree. You're not even arguing with

00:57:54.200 people who are wrong. You are now confronting someone who has abdicated the responsibility of

00:58:01.700 thought themselves. I mean, it's, they're no longer thinking. And again, I want to make this clear.

00:58:10.700 This is not just a disease on the left. The right has it too. You must not surrender thinking.

00:58:23.020 So this Bonhoeffer described it this way, the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.

00:58:31.700 And he saw it firsthand. The German people, they were good people. They were church-going people.

00:58:36.780 They allowed the Nazi machine to rise, not because they all hated Jews or they wanted war,

00:58:42.700 but because they refused to think. We were just talking about the starvation in Gaza. Think that one

00:58:51.440 through. Think it through. You're, you're protesting for the Gazans. You're protesting for the Palestinians.

00:59:01.060 And you're gay. And you're marching with your gay, transvestite, lesbian group. They'll kill all of you.

00:59:10.720 Think it through. But here's what happens. The stupid, again, on both sides, the stupid

00:59:20.400 side, emotionally and spiritually get swept up in something bigger than themselves. This is our

00:59:29.980 World War II. They get swept up. You want to be on the wrong side of history or the right side of

00:59:35.060 history? Save the earth. It's much bigger than just you. And like an offering, they hand their minds and

00:59:44.880 they're thinking over to the one. And they become uncritical. They become certain of things they've,

00:59:53.140 they're actually not certain of. They're certain of things they never themselves examined. They just

00:59:59.680 stopped thinking. It's not ignorance. It's not even misinformation. It's not even ideology.

01:00:07.300 It's stupidity. And I think this is why most of us feel so exhausted because, you know, you speak

01:00:16.860 the truth. You lay out the facts. You plead. You'd listen. You're like, no, no, no. But no, you have to

01:00:22.300 read this. And nothing moves. It's like there's a giant barricade. And it is. And nothing's going to take

01:00:33.360 that barricade down. Nothing. Because they have an emotional alliance to an idea or a tribe that they

01:00:41.220 chose. Again, both sides. They chose it and they absorbed it. And now they've been conditioned to feel

01:00:50.920 certainty. And so they know everything. And you're wrong. No matter what you present to me, you're wrong.

01:00:59.240 So how do you fight this? I'm going to show what Bonhoeffer said. And then,

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01:02:31.820 Okay, so how many times have we tried to give the right argument? Well, how many times have

01:02:36.980 we tried to give proof? And proof, a lot of times, from the New York Times. I mean, it's

01:02:43.620 one thing to say, this is a proof, and then it's, you know, oh, well, you're giving me Glenn Beck. I

01:02:46.920 don't. No, no, no. Proof that is there. Proof in their own words or whatever. And it's not enough.

01:02:54.500 Because that's not where the battle really lies. You cannot debate a person out of the fog.

01:03:01.720 Because they've chosen to live in the fog. It has to be words of moral liberation.

01:03:07.760 An awakening. A shock. A call from within. So how do you do that? Now, this is what Bonhoeffer

01:03:16.220 says. Only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome stupidity. I spent all week, and

01:03:23.500 what the hell does that even mean? First, it means we have to stop winning arguments. And

01:03:28.680 we have to start planting seeds. Don't speak to the mind. Speak past it. Speak to the conscience.

01:03:35.620 Speak to the soul. And sometimes that takes a crisis. Sometimes it takes suffering. Sometimes

01:03:43.640 it just takes somebody holding up a light in a very, very dark room. This is why what I'm

01:03:53.280 going to be doing in January means so much to me, because this is the torch. It's holding

01:03:58.420 a light in a very dark room, in a different kind of light. Because it's not just about giving

01:04:04.140 people the right information. We've tried that. It's about reawakening the moral spine. It's

01:04:11.760 about helping people see again. Not just the facts, but meaning, truth, beauty, justice.

01:04:19.880 The why beneath everything that is happening. Because the stupid person does not ask, is that

01:04:25.820 true? He asks, is it popular? The stupid person doesn't say, is that right? They say, what does

01:04:36.060 it cost me to believe that or not believe that? That's how stupid people make decisions. And

01:04:43.720 again, I'm not talking about intellectually stupid. I'm talking about people who have surrendered

01:04:47.700 their own mind. So we need a generation that can once again say yes to truth, even though

01:04:55.700 it's really unpopular. And I think we're seeing them. I think this generation that is coming

01:05:01.260 is this generation who will choose to see even when it's easier to look away, who will stand

01:05:08.740 when the crowd runs the other way. Bonhoeffer did that. And Bonhoeffer lost everything.

01:05:13.700 And I mean everything. But he gave us a map. So if you ever feel the ache of talking to

01:05:20.960 people and you're like, oh my gosh, don't give up. Do not give up. You're not crazy. You're

01:05:27.480 not alone. And you're not wrong. You're just speaking to people who can no longer hear an

01:05:35.480 argument. They need courage. So let's give them that. Now, I want to show you here in

01:05:45.800 a minute something that was brought to my attention this morning. It happened this weekend.

01:05:52.040 And I couldn't believe the timing of it. It's not coincidental. I couldn't believe the timing

01:05:57.780 of this. Because I'm struggling with this. And then I found myself this morning as I was

01:06:02.860 outlining this monologue. How do I show in concrete terms what this means? And how do I show this

01:06:13.140 isn't just an empty idea, but this actually can work? And a miracle happened.

01:06:21.860 Ricky, my producer, she forwarded something that she saw this weekend. And she's like, have

01:06:28.460 you seen this? And I'm like, no, read it. Oh my gosh. It is this in action with a result.

01:06:40.580 It's phenomenal. So stand by. We'll get to that here in just a second. Also, we've got a couple

01:06:53.940 of other things. You know the ad that came out with what's her name in the jeans?

01:07:00.480 Sidney Sweeney.

01:07:01.120 Yeah. You heard the latest, what they're saying now? Sidney Sweeney has good jeans.

01:07:07.180 Oh yeah. This is the Nazi thing.

01:07:08.940 Yeah. It's a Nazi. See? They're only doing this because this is a wink to the Nazis. Oh

01:07:13.820 my gosh. Oh my gosh. I knew genetics were involved in this somewhere or another. I knew

01:07:17.620 there was a progressive. And by the way, the Nazis were progressives. I knew there was

01:07:24.420 a progressive message in it, but I didn't think the progressives would actually out themselves

01:07:29.200 on it. Ha ha. We'll get to that. From the woman who was fired from Levi's. She'll be joining

01:07:36.220 us in about an hour. This is Glenn Beck.

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01:09:15.200 So I came in this morning and I was going to talk to you about what I learned this weekend

01:09:26.140 about Dietrich Bonhoeffer and how, uh, you know, he said basically stupidity is, uh, worse

01:09:32.620 than evil because you can point evil out, but stupidity, uh, which means not that you're

01:09:38.120 intellectually stupid. It's just that you're no, you're no longer intellectually curious.

01:09:42.300 You've just made up your mind. You've just surrendered to your side and it can be either

01:09:46.720 side. And we all feel this. We, on all sides, we feel like I cannot have a conversation because

01:09:52.800 they will not listen to anything. Um, and so how do you, how do you break through? You

01:10:00.480 know, we're separating our families because we can't have conversations. So Bonhoeffer said

01:10:06.840 you have to have, uh, you know, a moral turning point. It just has to be an awakening that happens.

01:10:16.080 So I'm thinking to myself early this morning and this weekend, how am I going to show that

01:10:19.840 to you? Miracle of miracles. Ricky, my producer says, did you read this on X this weekend to

01:10:26.100 you? And I said, no, I didn't see it. Let me read it to you. Dear Glenn Beck, you don't

01:10:32.180 know me and we have never met, but you changed my life. Let me tell you that story. On Friday,

01:10:39.940 September 27th, 2024, my whole world turned upside down. Hurricane Helene was hit, uh, in

01:10:46.500 Western North Carolina, like a ball of fury. In the first few weeks, we spent scrambling,

01:10:51.800 taking care of my family and others around us. As the weeks without power went by, we began

01:10:56.180 branching out to, for help, uh, to help others beyond our town. I have never seen such destruction

01:11:02.700 and devastation in my life. We talk with people who watch their homes float away. Kids who barely

01:11:08.680 got out of the way before the landslide, destroy their home. And some stories that just broke you

01:11:14.020 completely. So many people needed help. So few were receiving any of it. That's when I got a call

01:11:21.720 from Steve Baker, a blaze TV reporter. At this time, I was fairly liberal. I didn't trust the blaze

01:11:30.500 or this reporter one iota, but then again, they were the only news outlet calling me to ask how

01:11:35.720 things were going. So I picked up the phone. The conversation that is soon ensued was so kind,

01:11:41.360 so thoughtful, so remarkably empathetic. I was completely caught off guard. Steve disarmed me

01:11:48.040 with kindness. He asked questions. He let me speak. He taught me things I didn't know,

01:11:54.380 shared his story, earned my trust. I cannot express to you how shocking this moment was to me.

01:12:01.500 My wife and I had sworn off all conservative media. Even when we went on conservative TV shows to tell

01:12:09.160 our stories, we held our nose and dove in. Conservatives, of course, could never be as kind,

01:12:15.460 open and empathetic as liberals, right? Yet here was this one reporter from a radical right wing

01:12:22.020 in my head, news outlet, being so kind, so helpful, and so thoughtful. It didn't make sense.

01:12:28.580 Then a week later, I get a message from this guy, J.P. Decker. He says he's with a charity I've never

01:12:38.300 heard of called Mercury One Charity, and he wants to help. We get on the phone, and lo and behold,

01:12:45.040 Mercury One is your charity. So, I'm suspicious. A lot of people said they wanted to help during

01:12:53.320 Helene, and they never did. So, we started sending names of people we knew needed help to J.P.,

01:12:58.840 and one by one, each and every one of them got what they needed.

01:13:03.240 One woman, who was sleeping in a tent with her son until we delivered her an RV, asked for building

01:13:13.300 supplies so she could rebuild her home. Mercury One delivered those within two weeks and then asked

01:13:19.860 for nothing in return. I was floored, and I watched it happen over and over and over again. Someone called

01:13:28.600 us needing something we couldn't do, and Mercury One delivered. Then, on January 9th, our phones began

01:13:36.260 to blow up. FEMA forgot to extend hotel vouchers for thousands of Hurricane Helene victims in hotels,

01:13:44.580 and it was in the middle of a snowstorm. I spent the day on the phone with terrified people not knowing

01:13:51.220 where they were going to sleep tomorrow. People with kids, disabled veterans, whole families.

01:13:56.780 I called Mercury One frantic. They extended the stay of an entire hotel's worth of Hurricane Helene victims.

01:14:08.300 The whole hotel. I couldn't believe it. I just sat there stunned. You don't know me, Glenn,

01:14:15.900 but right then and there, whatever wall I had built up in my stupid liberal brain to say liberals good,

01:14:22.060 conservatives bad, that wall came fully crashing down. Months later, I did something I had not done

01:14:29.020 in years. I took my family to church, a place my five-year-old son had never been. I knew that if

01:14:37.000 Christians were the ones giving up their time and their resources to come and help us in western

01:14:43.840 North Carolina, that it was something I wanted to be a part of as well. Today, our family, who has

01:14:51.220 been going to church for three months, just wants to say thank you. Glenn, you've changed more lives

01:14:58.480 than you could possibly imagine, and it's the least I can do just to say thank you.

01:15:03.180 I want you to know I'm not reading this because this is not about me. This truly is about the people

01:15:14.380 that have worked at the blaze and work at the blaze, the people that work at Mercury One. They are so

01:15:22.560 good. They are so good to the core, and they are so full of the mission. They know what their mission

01:15:32.000 is, and they know it's true that politics doesn't mean anything. Our human relationship does.

01:15:46.240 And I'm just so proud to be a part of them. So proud. And also, this story is about you

01:15:54.620 because you're the one that gives to Mercury One. You're the one that makes it possible to go and

01:16:03.300 do these things. I saw another post this weekend. Some people, I think it was in North Carolina as

01:16:11.220 well, they needed to build a house, and they had this basement built in the foundation, but they

01:16:20.700 couldn't afford anything. And the guy's standing there, and he's like, just look behind me. Look

01:16:28.100 behind me. All these building supplies, they just showed up. And it was because, again, of you and

01:16:35.640 Mercury One long after everybody else is there. This group of people means it. They mean it. We're not

01:16:45.440 there to get our name out. We're not there to do anything but to show kindness and compassion and

01:16:53.400 help one another. And that, I think, is what Dietrich Bonhoeffer was talking about. That was not—we

01:17:01.440 didn't convince him by what we said or what we showed him. He may even disagree with me politically

01:17:09.400 on this or that or whatever. But the wall now is down between us. So we can actually talk to one

01:17:18.200 another again. If you want to know how to bring your family back, do not talk about politics. Don't do it.

01:17:32.720 Just be kind. Be the bigger person. Help them. Be there for them, whatever it is they need. And you

01:17:45.300 know what? They may never change their mind. But is that the point of kindness?

01:17:51.020 But for those who have—and I mean this again on both sides—for those who have turned just their

01:18:00.640 thinking over to a party, you're what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called stupid. That's stupidity.

01:18:11.080 And the only way to reach past that is through the heart. And the only way to do that is to actually

01:18:21.060 mean it. Do you hear? He said, you know, I didn't believe it. I didn't believe it. I didn't believe

01:18:26.020 it. And then example after example after an example after example. Remember, when you hear one bad thing,

01:18:32.960 it takes 10 good things to overcome it. Do you know that? You hear about a restaurant and somebody says,

01:18:40.740 oh no, man, that place really is bad. It takes 10 recommendations from your friends to overcome

01:18:46.520 that one. So if you want to win this game, we have to overwhelm with kindness. This is why

01:18:57.340 I think instinctually, instinctively, I have said forever in very poor English—it's not my first language—anyway—that we

01:19:17.480 cannot become what we despise. When you say, we've got to get them, you'll never—that's not going to

01:19:25.100 work. It won't work. You can't force. You can't convince. You can only love somebody into this.

01:19:34.160 Because that's the thing that's missing in the world. People who actually care. What are people

01:19:39.860 starving for? And it's going to get so much work, so much worse. Actual human kindness and human

01:19:47.520 interaction. You know, when you're on Grok and it says, wow, that was a great idea. You're the

01:19:52.440 smartest person ever. You know, you write something like, hey, I was thinking about compassion.

01:19:59.280 Can you tell me what that means? Wow, you are such a compassionate person. I mean, nobody else in the

01:20:04.740 world is as compassionate as you are. That's an algorithm trying to get you to stay online.

01:20:10.220 That's what that is. Having actual human one-on-one interaction is becoming more and more rare.

01:20:19.580 Having loving interaction. I was at a Kroger grocery store over the weekend, and there were these three

01:20:28.820 ladies, must have been, you know, I don't know, at least in their 50s. And they were working together

01:20:34.800 at the checkout. And they came through, and they were so kind, so nice. And they just showed the

01:20:44.740 basic, you know, what I think, because I thought about it, I thought it's their age, because they

01:20:50.340 grew up at a time that I grew up in, where everybody was like, this is how you're expected to treat

01:20:55.100 customers. I don't know if it was that, or I said to my wife, I said, I love Texas so much.

01:20:59.640 I just love Texas. I love the people of Texas, because they're just different. They're just

01:21:05.060 different. And that's what it takes. That's what it takes. And that's who we should be striving to be

01:21:14.100 anyway, even if it's not, you know, it can't be for political gain. It has to be genuine.

01:21:25.100 That should be our goal. More coming up in January with the torch as we build the framework to try

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01:24:04.380 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. I'm glad you're here. Thank you so much for listening today.

01:24:08.520 Anyway, there's a lot going on. Stu's really upset about spatulas. And it's an actual news story

01:24:17.380 today. And I think you'll be there. Also, we want to talk about media matters. Oh, I don't want to

01:24:22.720 gloat. I know. I'm going to try not hard. I'm going to try hard not to gloat because I really want to

01:24:29.460 gloat, but I'm not going to. Or I'm going to keep it to a minimum. Let me, I don't want to bring up

01:24:34.400 expectations. Do I? No, I don't want to do that. Yeah, that would be bad. Uh, and the president

01:24:39.320 is still in Scotland's had a great weekend, uh, with tariffs. We got past all the tariff stuff with,

01:24:45.720 uh, uh, with Europe and doesn't look bone crunching. So it looks like it could be good.

01:24:52.920 Now let's wait to see the results. And what was the other thing we were going to talk about?

01:24:56.300 Uh, Stu's in the pass in the, in the crossword puzzle.

01:25:01.200 Oh God, this is crazy. Uh, wall street journal Thursday. And we need a copy of it. If somebody

01:25:08.120 has this, the Thursday wall street journal, I mean, I don't know anybody who actually reads

01:25:12.180 a paper anymore. Um, but what was the, what was the clue? It was like, it was conservative

01:25:18.300 radios, Bergier, which is my last name. Who knows that? I mean, I mean, what the heck does

01:25:23.820 that mean? A lot of people know it. I don't say Bergier all the time. I will say my name's

01:25:27.960 not on any of the, you know, it's Stu does America. Yeah. You know, you say Stu all the

01:25:32.820 time. Never say my last name. That's what I mean. Yeah. That's a tough one. It is a tough

01:25:35.740 one. And they spelled it accurately. They spelled it correctly, which almost nobody does.

01:25:41.180 S T S T. Not that part. That part's easy. W. No. S first of all, S T U, but the last name

01:25:48.520 they spelled correctly, which I was impressed by. I mean, many people in my family don't spell

01:25:52.340 it correctly. The crossword people should get it right. You know what I mean? You're

01:25:57.580 in the business of words. Yes. You should get that one right. You'd be surprised how

01:26:02.540 many people scored up, but you'd be surprised how many bills I get with the name spelled

01:26:06.720 incorrectly, which I feel like I should just get out of. Right. That's not me. I don't

01:26:10.220 know what you're talking about. Who's that person? There's no, there's no Y in that

01:26:13.300 name. It's not me. I'll tell you that right now. So that's pretty cool. You've made

01:26:17.720 it. You've made it at some very low level. Yeah. You've made it when you're a crossword

01:26:22.320 puzzle clue and answer. You made it. There you go. I mean, with a group of people that

01:26:28.560 still read the newspaper. Hey, I shoot high. I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. All

01:26:37.080 right. Uh, coming up, uh, the rest of the news of the day and there's some big news next.

01:26:45.280 This is Glenn Beck.

01:27:15.280 Yeah.

01:27:17.280 Yeah.

01:27:18.280 Yeah.

01:27:19.280 Yeah.

01:27:20.280 Yeah.

01:27:21.280 Yeah.

01:27:22.280 Yeah.

01:27:23.260 Okay.

01:27:24.280 Ooh.

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01:28:00.100 Well, Donald Trump is in Scotland.

01:28:01.980 He's been meeting with world leaders over in Scotland all weekend.

01:28:05.640 He's finished the European trade deal.

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01:28:15.020 He just came out and said, I'm really disappointed in President Putin,

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01:28:33.400 I ain't got time for you, dude.

01:28:35.780 He said it's sanctions, and I think I said or else.

01:28:38.500 Yeah, yeah, hopefully that's where it will end.

01:28:41.760 All right, we're going to do that.

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01:30:34.740 So, Stu, when I say to you, communist living conditions, what do you think of?

01:30:43.860 I think of empty store shelves.

01:30:47.180 Okay.

01:30:47.660 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:30:48.540 I think of gulags.

01:30:52.520 But you also think everybody's paying their fair share.

01:30:55.380 Oh, I'm sorry.

01:30:56.380 And nobody's getting rich.

01:30:57.160 Right?

01:30:57.460 Nobody's getting rich.

01:30:58.240 That's definitely not what I think of.

01:30:59.920 But that's the promise of it.

01:31:02.500 All right, so when I say Uganda, what do you think of?

01:31:10.060 Uganda.

01:31:10.960 Yeah.

01:31:11.340 I mean, not a ton.

01:31:13.780 Yeah, right.

01:31:14.280 Not a ton.

01:31:15.620 I think what comes to mind, whether it's...

01:31:17.820 Is it about it?

01:31:18.640 Yeah.

01:31:18.920 So whether it is, you know, whether it's true or not, I think poverty.

01:31:23.500 I think Africa.

01:31:24.540 Poverty.

01:31:25.240 Okay.

01:31:25.880 Gun, you know, war, you know, gun lords, you know, drug lords, war lords.

01:31:32.540 That kind of stuff, right?

01:31:34.760 Well, Mamdani, Zoran Mandami, the candidate, who is a communist, remember what you thought

01:31:42.260 of communism, went to his home in Uganda.

01:31:47.080 Remember what you were thinking about Uganda.

01:31:49.140 And it's a compound.

01:31:50.500 Now, listen to this story.

01:31:52.200 This is from the New York Post.

01:31:53.340 Socialist New York City mayor or mayoral frontrunner, Zoran Mandami, celebrated his recent nuptials

01:31:59.260 with a lavish three-day affair at his family's ritzy, secluded Ugandan compound, complete with

01:32:07.400 mass security guards and a cell phone jamming system.

01:32:10.960 The gates of the bustling private compound, which sits in the wealthy bazooka hill outside

01:32:18.960 of the capital city of Kampala, were heavily guarded by military-style mass men this week

01:32:24.120 with guests streaming in and partying until midnight, according to sources who wish to

01:32:28.940 remain anonymous.

01:32:30.140 The home is set back from the road and sits on two acres of lush gardens surrounded by

01:32:36.600 trees, has breathtaking panoramic views of Lake Victoria, and features at least three

01:32:42.800 security gates.

01:32:44.300 This week, it was transformed into a party pad with Christmas lights strung through the

01:32:49.040 canopy of trees in the garden.

01:32:50.800 A music blaring, sources said, on Tuesday, buses, several Mercedes and Range Rovers were

01:32:55.940 seen driving into the compound.

01:32:57.600 Outside the Mandami house, there were more than 20 Special Forces Command unit guards,

01:33:03.800 some in mass.

01:33:04.620 There was a phone jamming system set up, all for the strictly private invite-only Mamdani

01:33:10.860 event.

01:33:11.740 One gate had nine guards stationed on it.

01:33:15.200 Mamdani's parents, Nair, 67, and her husband, Mahmoud Mamdani, 78, an anti-Israel political

01:33:22.180 theorist, lived on the estate, but also split their time between New York and New Delhi.

01:33:29.900 On Friday, inside the compound, there were military-style tents being taken down as the

01:33:35.020 party had finished, blah, blah, blah.

01:33:37.040 The property is isolated enough that some locals weren't even aware of the three-day

01:33:41.140 wedding extravaganza.

01:33:43.320 Local children had been watching Mamdani on TV, and everyone was talking about him, but

01:33:47.760 not about the wedding.

01:33:48.980 For us, it was just about survival.

01:33:51.060 For us, it's just about survival.

01:33:55.280 We're trying to win the bread and make sure our family's okay.

01:33:59.260 We had heard that Mamdani was going to be mayor of New York, and he had made it over

01:34:02.900 to America.

01:34:03.760 We want to know if we can get free visas in the U.S. and to travel to New York like he

01:34:08.860 did.

01:34:09.820 While the Mamdani family celebrated, neighbors were in mourning for a former Supreme Court

01:34:15.320 justice in Uganda, who had lived a stone's throw away from the Mamdani place, and he

01:34:21.400 had died July 14th.

01:34:22.940 The president also came to pay his respects for the dead.

01:34:26.900 The street was blocked by the president's cars, a local said.

01:34:30.600 Some found Mamdani's wedding bash insensitive because the culture here, it is insensitive to

01:34:35.580 have a wedding celebration in the same week as a mourning.

01:34:38.220 People are still mourning, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, he has not even been buried, and

01:34:44.520 we have friends coming to give last words to mourn before the burial next week, yet

01:34:47.840 Mamdani is celebrating his wedding for three days.

01:34:51.700 Now, this is actually what I think of when I think of communism.

01:34:57.060 Here's a guy saying, you know what, we've got to help the poor.

01:35:00.500 We've got to help the poor.

01:35:01.400 How much is enough?

01:35:02.740 And yet his family has a place in New York, New Delhi, and Uganda.

01:35:07.040 And it looks like a warlord palace, honestly.

01:35:12.340 It's got razor wire just to keep what out?

01:35:14.640 The poor?

01:35:16.140 The poor starving that said, we are just trying to put food on our table while they're partying

01:35:20.980 for three days and the Mercedes going through?

01:35:23.880 That's exactly what I think of when I think of communism.

01:35:28.320 This is, I mean, this is everything you need to know.

01:35:33.360 Communists believe their life is okay.

01:35:37.040 Just like everybody who is taking a private jet over to some Save the Earth conference,

01:35:44.820 but their fuel is okay.

01:35:47.800 Bernie Sanders riding a private jet, but calling for socialism, redistribution of wealth.

01:35:55.080 When asked about his extra 25 trips just in the last month or so, he said, what, do you expect

01:36:03.140 someone like me to be in line at United?

01:36:07.000 Uh, yeah.

01:36:09.460 Yeah.

01:36:10.180 I expect to see someone especially like you in line at United.

01:36:15.020 Why is it bad for everyone else but you?

01:36:19.740 Oh, I know.

01:36:20.420 Because you are important.

01:36:23.400 You have something you have to get across to the people.

01:36:26.980 So you don't have to live by the rules you want everyone else to live by.

01:36:31.720 Do as I say, not as I do.

01:36:34.040 That never works.

01:36:35.460 That never, ever works.

01:36:37.520 Because the children learn, they're not doing it.

01:36:40.700 Why should I?

01:36:41.720 If you're not leading this life, you know, you want to be, you know, you want to be a

01:36:46.840 communist, that's fine.

01:36:48.040 But I would hope that you're poor.

01:36:50.940 I would hope that you're planning on being poor.

01:36:53.820 I'm hoping that even if you're paid $400,000 a year, that you're planning on giving it away

01:36:59.700 and you're only going to live on $80,000 a year because you want to take the $400,000

01:37:05.680 minus the $80,000 and give it away to people who don't have enough.

01:37:10.360 Right?

01:37:11.140 Isn't that right?

01:37:11.920 Or are you special in some way or another?

01:37:16.020 Let me give you another story.

01:37:18.000 Kind of in the same vein.

01:37:20.200 This from the Washington Post.

01:37:22.140 First, affluent voters have become more democratic in recent years.

01:37:26.720 There are also some of the biggest winners in the GOP tax bill.

01:37:30.640 Affluent voters have become more democratic in recent years.

01:37:34.260 What does that say?

01:37:35.400 The rich are going to the Democratic Party.

01:37:38.180 Why?

01:37:38.660 Because they sense redistribution of wealth is coming.

01:37:42.400 And so they better be on the right side.

01:37:45.360 Kimberly Hoover has been the most Michelin star restaurants in the East and West Coast.

01:37:51.120 She and her wife, millionaires from the real estate firms, own homes in or near New York

01:37:56.280 City, Washington, Miami, Quebec.

01:37:58.620 Their lives are filled with skiing, fine wine, and long trips to Europe.

01:38:02.160 Hoover's accountant estimates the new tax law that President Donald Trump signed this month

01:38:06.420 will save her several million dollars over the next few years.

01:38:09.240 While many Americans might rejoice at that kind of windfall, Hoover worked hard to stop it

01:38:13.660 becoming becoming a reality, arguing to lawmakers that she's made more money than she needs.

01:38:18.660 At some point, it just starts to feel wrong.

01:38:21.700 It starts to feel excessive.

01:38:23.700 It starts to feel somehow inappropriate.

01:38:26.660 Well, then good.

01:38:28.840 Then give it away.

01:38:31.960 Why?

01:38:32.520 What kind of idiot takes money and say, I have all this money, and so I want to give it to

01:38:41.940 the people?

01:38:42.560 I think it feels wrong.

01:38:45.220 And so I'm going to give it to a charity that takes 60% of that money and wastes it.

01:38:52.940 So only 40% of that money is actually going to the things I care about.

01:38:57.880 Nobody does that.

01:38:59.480 Nobody does that.

01:39:00.180 And by the way, Hoover, you can do whatever you want with your money.

01:39:04.460 You want to pay more?

01:39:05.820 Let me give you this.

01:39:06.660 Venmo and PayPal now have a link right to the Treasury Department.

01:39:11.980 Their Treasury Department is now accepting Venmo and PayPal payments from those who want

01:39:17.940 to donate money to reduce the national debt.

01:39:21.920 $36.7 trillion.

01:39:23.900 For all of those billionaires that just feel like they've paid not enough money, pay down

01:39:32.160 the national debt.

01:39:34.020 And if all of those billionaires did give millions and millions and millions, hundreds of millions

01:39:41.820 of dollars to pay down the debt, it wouldn't change anything.

01:39:48.120 The national debt wouldn't change.

01:39:49.980 You wouldn't even touch it with all of your money.

01:39:52.040 Give all of it.

01:39:53.180 It won't touch it.

01:39:54.700 It's that insignificant.

01:39:56.100 But if you really cared about the country and you know why people won't give to the national

01:40:01.620 debt, because a they won't see it make a difference.

01:40:05.540 And more importantly, why would I pay down the national debt?

01:40:08.520 They'll just keep spending more.

01:40:10.000 Why, why should I pay taxes when they are wasting that money?

01:40:17.220 Do you know how much good a charity can do?

01:40:19.640 A charity that's run right, 95 cents on every dollar goes to what it says and strangely not

01:40:26.780 to some leftist organization that is teaching people how to protest in the streets.

01:40:31.020 You know how much good that would do?

01:40:32.820 You care about Medicare and Medicaid.

01:40:34.640 Take your hundreds of millions of dollars and find a way to get that money to people

01:40:39.960 who don't have insurance.

01:40:41.680 It would be much better than waiting around for the tax rate to be raised on you to force

01:40:47.720 you to pay it to the government where they will waste 60 plus percent.

01:40:54.520 They don't actually, they don't care.

01:40:56.660 They don't care.

01:40:57.740 That's not true.

01:40:58.640 By the way, NPR, I told you this last week.

01:41:01.120 So they were cut by 550 million.

01:41:04.640 Hey, Hoover, 550 million.

01:41:07.080 You got hundreds of millions of dollars.

01:41:08.900 Why don't you take care of this one?

01:41:10.640 You won't.

01:41:12.340 $550 million lapsed in federal grants.

01:41:14.820 Oh my gosh, Big Bird is going to starve to death.

01:41:16.840 He's going to be in Gaza starving with all the little children.

01:41:19.860 It's going to be horrible, horrendous.

01:41:21.340 You want to see a skinny Big Bird?

01:41:22.760 No, but that's what's going to happen because the federal government's no longer going to

01:41:26.480 pay for Big Bird.

01:41:27.900 So they have 550 million.

01:41:29.580 They have raised in the last two weeks $20 million.

01:41:34.420 20 out of 550.

01:41:36.700 Now that's actually more than I thought that would come in.

01:41:39.640 But that's just from rich liberals who say we've got to do something.

01:41:43.500 Well, great.

01:41:43.960 Wait, 550 million dollars, that should be nothing to people who have hundreds of millions of

01:41:49.720 dollars.

01:41:50.320 It should be nothing.

01:41:52.340 Pay it.

01:41:53.840 Pay it.

01:41:55.240 But you know what happens next year?

01:41:57.380 You're going to have to pay another 550 million.

01:42:00.220 And then the third year, another 550 million.

01:42:05.760 You're going to keep paying that?

01:42:07.420 No, you can't.

01:42:08.140 You'll be bankrupt.

01:42:09.260 Oh, well, that's why it has to be on the people.

01:42:12.200 No, the people are already bankrupt.

01:42:13.900 They're already bankrupt.

01:42:14.820 They don't have that.

01:42:16.120 They don't have it.

01:42:17.440 But if you really, truly believed that this was the most important, 550 million, I would

01:42:24.340 tell you 800 million would have already been raised.

01:42:26.420 If you actually believe that Big Bird was going to starve and that our educational system is

01:42:31.840 going to completely fall apart without PBS and NPR, that no truth is ever going to get

01:42:36.760 out in any way, shape or form, unless we use old fashioned networks to do it, there'd

01:42:43.500 be a billion dollars in the coffer already.

01:42:46.080 But you got 20 million because none of you people believe it.

01:42:48.960 That's what none of you believe it.

01:42:51.640 Back in just a minute.

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01:44:18.100 We're running out of time.

01:44:32.960 Is it spatulas that we're going to talk to?

01:44:35.000 We can talk spatulas if you want.

01:44:36.200 Media Matters.

01:44:36.760 I don't know.

01:44:37.240 They're both so great.

01:44:38.280 Or Media Matters.

01:44:39.120 The Media Matters one is fun.

01:44:40.420 It came out today or yesterday.

01:44:43.400 Big story in the New York Times that Media Matters, if you don't know who they are,

01:44:48.100 Good.

01:44:49.020 Good.

01:44:49.520 They're an organization that basically, you know, to keep a long story short, takes conservatives

01:44:55.680 out of context and tries to destroy their businesses.

01:44:57.860 They are the beginning of the destroyer.

01:45:00.280 The behemoth that shuts people down.

01:45:02.000 Yeah.

01:45:02.680 Black, you know, blackballs them in the industry.

01:45:06.500 I mean, they're really, it's a horrible place.

01:45:08.640 And it was basically the source of most media coverage for many years.

01:45:12.540 Of conservatives.

01:45:13.580 Yeah.

01:45:14.200 Like, of conservatives.

01:45:15.040 Like, oh, conservatives said bad thing on air?

01:45:16.900 Oh, well, what's our source?

01:45:18.200 Media Matters.

01:45:18.840 And they would just basically quote a Media Matters post as if it was news.

01:45:23.160 And whether it was in context or not, all you need to really know is Hillary Clinton

01:45:26.220 and George Soros started it.

01:45:28.440 Yes.

01:45:28.800 They're not enough.

01:45:29.640 At least according to them.

01:45:30.900 Yeah.

01:45:31.420 God only knows.

01:45:32.840 But so they attempted, you know, for a long time to sink a bunch of conservatives.

01:45:38.040 And while they weren't particularly successful at it, they did, I think, form the foundation

01:45:43.120 of cancel culture.

01:45:44.840 Of cancel culture.

01:45:45.640 I think they kind of like drew that up, even though, you know, they didn't.

01:45:50.420 Yeah.

01:45:50.620 I don't think they succeeded on it, but that strategy helped sink a lot of people who didn't

01:45:56.340 do anything wrong.

01:45:56.480 Yeah.

01:45:56.600 They're the forefathers of it.

01:45:58.360 Yeah.

01:45:58.840 Yeah.

01:45:59.440 But anyway, they're having lots of problems, unfortunately.

01:46:01.960 It's a terrible thing that, you know, and you hate when this sort of stuff happens to

01:46:06.200 the worst collections of human beings ever assembled in any context.

01:46:09.780 It sounds rather personal.

01:46:12.460 Unfortunately, they've racked up about $15 million in legal fees over the past 20 months.

01:46:17.000 Hey, Hoover, why don't you give the $15 million?

01:46:19.280 That's nothing.

01:46:20.260 It's nothing.

01:46:20.860 You got so much money.

01:46:22.500 Money when you cry comes out of your tear ducts.

01:46:25.220 Why don't you just cry $15 million over it?

01:46:27.980 Now, this is a big problem.

01:46:30.640 Now, one of the things you could say is causing this is Elon Musk.

01:46:35.880 Elon Musk has decided a long time ago, because, you know, he was slandered by this organization,

01:46:41.020 as so many others have been, that he decided he was, when you do it to the richest man in

01:46:46.860 the world, that not always the best idea, and he has been going after them legally and

01:46:52.580 put them in court all over the place.

01:46:53.940 Occasionally, when things have not turned out the way he wanted, he was able to appeal

01:46:58.880 and file other cases under other contexts.

01:47:03.140 These are the type of things that happen when the person you're fighting against and lying

01:47:07.900 about happens to be the richest man in the world and doesn't care about this.

01:47:12.600 Yeah.

01:47:12.620 Darn it.

01:47:12.820 You know, it's terrible.

01:47:14.260 You hate to see this happen.

01:47:15.420 They've had to fire a bunch of people.

01:47:17.000 They've had to, you know, they're begging now people to come in and donate more money

01:47:23.940 to help their wonderful organization.

01:47:26.480 Now, it's shocking that the left is not doing this.

01:47:29.120 Of course, they do see...

01:47:30.680 Because they've outlasted their usefulness.

01:47:32.520 They're no longer good.

01:47:33.620 They're no longer effective.

01:47:34.940 So nobody's paying attention to them.

01:47:36.760 That's what happens.

01:47:37.560 You're just thrown to the side the minute you lose your usefulness.

01:47:40.420 Yeah, I mean, and I think this is, you know, this seems like the type of thing you want

01:47:45.080 to gloat about because it's, you know, it's funny that people who are trying to ruin other

01:47:49.100 people's livelihoods are having theirs ruined.

01:47:51.700 That's, I mean, I can see there's a German word for that that I won't try to pronounce.

01:47:56.120 But like, you know, it's that type of thing.

01:47:57.640 And I get it.

01:47:58.760 Although I think conservatives should be concerned in that, like, there are a lot of really rich

01:48:03.480 liberals who donate money and have donated money to this organization for a very long time.

01:48:07.720 And that's been almost universally good for conservatism because you have money going

01:48:12.880 to an organization that can't possibly and never has achieved anything of value.

01:48:17.120 So now, if this organization goes away, that money might go to an organization that could

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01:48:22.660 And that would be very bad for conservatives.

01:48:25.120 So it's not something to celebrate.

01:48:27.620 Maybe a little bit.

01:48:28.660 I think it would.

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01:49:56.940 So do you remember back in the day Levi's was, you know, we want to be the, we want to be the, uh, the brand of the revolution.

01:50:20.260 And I'm like, what, what, what happened to the good old American Levi's?

01:50:25.260 Um, and I don't remember what the falling out was.

01:50:28.940 Remember their brand president, uh, Jennifer Say?

01:50:32.260 What was the fallout?

01:50:33.520 Do you remember?

01:50:34.700 I mean, why she left?

01:50:35.960 Yeah, yeah.

01:50:36.280 Um, I believe, uh, she was trying to say this crazy thing about kids continuing to go to school during COVID.

01:50:43.680 That's right.

01:50:44.640 That's right.

01:50:45.960 Like it seems so much longer than that.

01:50:47.360 Crazy idea.

01:50:48.080 So she went out and she left Levi's and she started her own XXXY Athletics.

01:50:55.380 Gee, I don't know what the message is there.

01:50:57.360 Um, and she joins us now because we were talking about, um, the, um, American Eagle brand and the, the commercial they released last week with, with, um, Sydney Sweeney and how their stock jump, I think 15%.

01:51:13.300 Oh, wow.

01:51:13.800 On that ad.

01:51:14.640 15%.

01:51:15.680 Jennifer, how are you?

01:51:18.420 Good.

01:51:19.020 Thanks for having me, Glenn.

01:51:20.280 It is always great to have you.

01:51:21.660 I just, uh, your story is because I grew up with Levi's, um, and I just couldn't understand what they were doing.

01:51:30.980 And then for you to be fired because you were like, ah, no, I think kids should go to school.

01:51:36.060 Uh, it's just, it's remarkable.

01:51:38.580 It's just remarkable.

01:51:39.600 Yep.

01:51:40.300 Of course now, um, I, I resigned, but of course now more than half of all teachers, educators believe schools were closed too long.

01:51:49.420 So that's, and I don't really think we've still had a reckoning over all of this COVID crazy, but, um, yeah, people like me who expressed completely normal, reasonable views that all kids should get to go to school.

01:52:05.180 When, by the way, the well-to-do kids going to private schools were going, people who expressed totally normal views, um, you know, were pushed out of polite society essentially.

01:52:17.620 And now that the, now that the consensus has changed, there's sort of no change for us, you know, we're still considered heretics that no one should talk to, but that's okay.

01:52:28.680 Because we make our own way, which is why I started this brand.

01:52:33.340 Uh, so tell me the brand, how's it going?

01:52:35.360 When'd you just start it?

01:52:37.140 So we launched, we're only a year and a little bit old.

01:52:40.080 So we're just the baby brand, just getting started.

01:52:42.760 We launched, um, at the very end of March last year, it's called XXXY Athletics.

01:52:48.580 Um, we are, I believe the only brand really standing up and empowering female athletes.

01:52:53.760 You know, when I, when I looked around at all the brands in the marketplace, the big ones, you know, from Nike to Lululemon and everything in between, they all sort of, uh, pretend to stand up for women.

01:53:05.380 And, but none of them really do, I mean, outside of the issue of even protecting women's sports, which I believe is an existential for the continuous and existentialist in order for women's sports to exist.

01:53:17.540 Arguably, they don't exist at all if men are competing in them.

01:53:21.380 Um, brands like Nike in particular have a history of treating women and female athletes with just astonishing disregard.

01:53:29.040 And I felt like there's a real opportunity in the market for a brand made by women for women that truly empowers female athletes and gives them a real platform and stands up for them no matter what.

01:53:41.860 So I decided if not me, then who I might as well do it.

01:53:46.680 So how many of these brands do you think actually mean, I mean, I think Levi's actually meant what they said.

01:53:54.820 You know, they want to be the uniform of the revolution and everything else.

01:53:58.740 Um, and, and then others I think are just going along cause they want to be popular and they want to sell clothing and this is the way to do it.

01:54:06.260 How, what do you think the, the ratio is to believers who will, who really mean it and those who are just doing ad campaigns?

01:54:15.400 I think it's a mix Glenn.

01:54:17.120 I think at the tippy top in the C-suite and with CEOs, it's all a marketing strategy.

01:54:22.440 It's, you know, this is woke capitalism.

01:54:24.820 It's riddled with hypocrisy.

01:54:27.080 You know, if we look at American Eagle, for instance, and the Sydney Sweeney campaign for the last, I don't know how many years, American Eagle has been focused on, uh, body positivity.

01:54:37.740 I'll use that as the fat people in commercials.

01:54:42.260 Basically.

01:54:43.300 Um, and you know, they've seen loss of market share.

01:54:47.960 Um, they've seen loss of revenue and then as you indicated, they launched a campaign last week featuring Sydney Sweeney and, you know, bringing along her 25 million Instagram followers.

01:54:59.840 She's basically known for being pretty hot and having, and being well endowed.

01:55:04.420 And she looks great in a pair of jeans.

01:55:06.420 I find the argument really funny online that people are saying she's not even attractive.

01:55:10.380 I'm like, well, I think the consensus is out.

01:55:15.000 I don't really understand that argument.

01:55:17.680 Um, but you know, as you mentioned there, there's, their stock jumped just 15% in one day.

01:55:23.020 Sales are going crazy.

01:55:24.820 Um, and it's a pretty simple campaign.

01:55:27.500 Um, there's nothing revolutionary here.

01:55:29.400 I will say it was well executed, but it's a really beautiful girl looking great in jeans.

01:55:33.600 I think what's a little unique about it is there is a bit of a wink and a nod.

01:55:37.840 She's kind of a little bit self deprecating and, you know, makes fun of herself a little bit, which I appreciate, but there's nothing revolutionary here.

01:55:45.520 But guess what?

01:55:46.040 It works.

01:55:46.580 I mean, sex sells, especially jeans, um, that that's not a new idea.

01:55:51.560 And I think the fact that they're going back to that, this sort of timeless formula shows they never really believed in the other bit.

01:55:58.020 Um, they're willing to do what works as they should, that's their, you know, fiduciary responsibility.

01:56:04.520 So I think it's divided because I do think there are young people in these companies that put a lot of pressure on the C-suite and believe it or not, you know, the C-suiters fall prey to it.

01:56:16.280 And so they're afraid of being canceled by all the youngsters who, you know, come to work, their day job is marketing jeans or whatever, but they think of themselves as social justice warriors.

01:56:27.080 But I feel like the normies have taken the wheel.

01:56:30.300 The adults are back in the room and they're like, we got to do what works.

01:56:33.320 This is our responsibility.

01:56:35.080 You know, Nike, another good example.

01:56:36.660 Look at the campaign they just ran.

01:56:38.280 Yeah.

01:56:38.560 Scotty Shuffler.

01:56:39.600 Unbelievable.

01:56:41.180 That's like a return to normie capitalism.

01:56:44.220 If I've ever seen it, um, it's about, you know, faith and family and, uh, pretty remarkable about faith, I would say.

01:56:53.060 And we all know they're, they're really dealing with some financial challenges.

01:56:56.300 And I think they're going back to a timeless formula that appeals to all Americans.

01:57:00.580 And do you think this works for like, cause like, uh, I don't know, American Eagle, I don't know what they did.

01:57:06.440 Um, and so I see this and do you think they go back or have they made such an impression?

01:57:13.620 Like Nike, it was the leader of some of this stuff.

01:57:18.680 Do they have the ability to just go back and be forgotten?

01:57:23.300 I mean, I guess.

01:57:25.020 You mean for everyone to forget what they did before?

01:57:28.220 Yeah.

01:57:29.200 I believe so.

01:57:30.180 I think we have incredibly short memories.

01:57:32.420 I mean, look at, we were just talking about COVID.

01:57:34.780 Look at the memory holding that's happening there.

01:57:37.600 Um, it's crazy.

01:57:38.980 I mean, even when you, not to kind of switch subjects, but the narrative now is, uh, we never

01:57:45.040 said the vaccine stopped transmission.

01:57:47.360 And literally these people are all on TV video captured saying exactly that.

01:57:53.740 But I think we all have pretty short memories and I think they can pivot and move forward.

01:57:59.380 And if this works, they'll double down and keep going.

01:58:02.520 Um, and I think we're entering a phase of, I call it normie capitalism.

01:58:06.640 How long do you think this lasts?

01:58:09.400 Is this fleeting or is this a swing back that now starts to swing and has momentum behind

01:58:16.100 it?

01:58:17.320 Oh, I think it'll, I think it's going to last some time because it's broadly appealing.

01:58:21.760 I mean, that's the job for a very large brand.

01:58:24.060 Anyway, there will still be niche brands that do this kind of woke stuff because that's their

01:58:28.120 consumer base and they can do that.

01:58:29.820 They're appealing to a niche market for big broad based brands.

01:58:34.080 The idea is to appeal to as many people as possible with a unifying message.

01:58:39.520 Um, and I think the Scotty Scheffler message from Nike is pretty unifying.

01:58:43.300 I mean, it's a man with a baby.

01:58:45.360 That's like a surefire win.

01:58:46.760 Everybody loves a man with a baby.

01:58:48.880 Right.

01:58:49.100 Um, and the Sydney Sweeney stuff is just a great looking girl looking great in a pair

01:58:54.080 of jeans and it makes us smile.

01:58:55.800 Like who's not going to like that?

01:58:57.260 Of course it's going to work.

01:58:58.300 And then other companies will follow suit.

01:59:00.120 I mean, at the very least we've seen since the Bud Light debacle, companies have walked

01:59:04.400 away from that, right?

01:59:06.020 That's a big, broad reaching brand used to be number one share.

01:59:09.660 It's plummeted to number three.

01:59:11.460 Their market share has been cut in half.

01:59:12.940 They're losing 20% in revenue a year since that array.

01:59:18.300 And, you know, so I think brands have been quietly kind of backing away from that sort

01:59:23.640 of message.

01:59:23.980 But are they changing internally?

01:59:28.320 How can I know that?

01:59:29.780 Um, I, I think, I mean, it's hard to know.

01:59:32.440 I think there's probably a lot of tension internally as, like I said, the adults kind of take over

01:59:38.280 and the normies take the wheel and think there's a lot of probably angry young people and they're

01:59:43.080 being shushed and not listened to necessarily in the way they were before.

01:59:46.440 I think, you know, a lot of DEI stuff, the HR departments are walking away from.

01:59:50.600 I still think they're furthering it quietly.

01:59:53.020 Yeah.

01:59:53.360 Um, I, I don't, I, I don't think they can just change on a dime like that, you know?

01:59:59.720 So I think it's still out there.

02:00:00.920 I mean, I was invited earlier this year to this HR conference with 800 of the top HR professionals

02:00:06.780 in the country.

02:00:07.940 And I was shocked, Glenn, that they invited me.

02:00:10.080 I was like, you know, the guys were like, Oh, we want you there.

02:00:16.240 I'd spoken in years ago when I was the chief marketing officer of Levi's.

02:00:19.700 He's like, we want to have hard conversations.

02:00:22.620 And they posted that I was going to be there on their website.

02:00:26.220 And a day later he called me and uninvited me because they got complaints.

02:00:29.680 People didn't want to be HR professionals could not stand to be in a room with me saying

02:00:34.620 things that they didn't like.

02:00:35.940 So I, and these are, these are from the top 800 companies in the country.

02:00:41.380 So I think that tells you something about whether or not they've truly changed.

02:00:45.740 Jennifer, always great to talk to you.

02:00:47.560 I wish you the best of luck.

02:00:49.000 If you are looking for a great brand of clothes, um, that is standing up for girls and women

02:00:55.520 in sports, X, X, X, Y athletics, you can check them out online.

02:01:00.780 X, X, X, Y athletics.

02:01:03.440 Jennifer, thank you so much.

02:01:05.300 Appreciate it.

02:01:05.940 Thank you so much for having me going.

02:01:07.240 You bet.

02:01:07.640 Bye-bye.

02:01:08.100 You know, I remember back in the nineties, maybe when Sydney Crawford was big, she did

02:01:16.940 a commercial and see if this rings a bell for any, anybody who's my age.

02:01:21.000 Uh, she did a commercial where she was wearing a white tank top and jeans and I, she pulls

02:01:27.040 up, I think to a gas station and it's the desert and she pulls up and she goes, uh, and does

02:01:35.080 something.

02:01:35.540 Do you remember this commercial?

02:01:37.040 Oh yeah.

02:01:37.700 It's one of the most famous commercials of the era.

02:01:41.120 Do you remember the product?

02:01:42.120 Do you remember the product?

02:01:43.520 Because I do immediately.

02:01:45.220 Do you remember Sarah?

02:01:46.240 Do you remember the product?

02:01:47.500 Coca-Cola?

02:01:48.760 Pepsi.

02:01:49.520 Yeah.

02:01:50.240 Pepsi.

02:01:51.720 Uh, and it was, it was such a big deal.

02:01:55.900 And now look at Sydney Sweeney, same formula, guys, same formula.

02:02:01.500 You know what?

02:02:02.060 Because it works.

02:02:03.860 It works.

02:02:05.020 Edward Bernays did the first real sex commercial.

02:02:08.300 The reason why women started smoking is because of him.

02:02:11.660 They had a parade in New York.

02:02:13.140 He told all these women suffragettes that when you get to the reviewing stand, I want you

02:02:17.460 to hike up your dress, which you didn't do.

02:02:19.780 And I want you to have cigarettes and matches in your garter.

02:02:23.920 You take a cigarette out and your matches and you light it in front of the judge's stand.

02:02:29.360 And then you take a puff and then you hold it up like the statue of Liberty.

02:02:34.240 And that's your flame.

02:02:35.980 He was paid by big tobacco to try to figure out how they could get women to smoke.

02:02:42.540 And that was the beginning really of mainstreaming women smoking.

02:02:47.200 It's a very simple strategy because the guys are not that, uh, stupid.

02:02:54.440 And that became, I mean, they are that stupid.

02:02:57.180 They're, they're, they're not deeper than this.

02:02:59.040 Um, and that became the beginning of mainstreaming all of that.

02:03:04.760 Um, and it's exactly the same, but it also had not just sex.

02:03:09.760 It had kind of a bit of the forgive forbidden.

02:03:11.980 Women, but not just sex, beautiful women.

02:03:15.220 It also had America.

02:03:17.800 That's always been the strategy that works here in America.

02:03:22.080 All right, back in a minute.

02:03:23.480 When you look at the map of Israel, you've seen a tiny strip of land, smaller than New Jersey

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02:05:13.560 So the director of the CIA was on Fox News Sunday and said, you know, what hasn't come

02:05:22.480 out yet and what's going to come out is the underlying intelligence that I've spent the

02:05:26.680 last few months making recommendations about the final declassification and sent to the

02:05:30.660 Department of Justice.

02:05:31.460 It's going to come out in the Durham Report classified annex.

02:05:36.140 It's what intelligence actually showed.

02:05:39.240 It was part of the Hillary Clinton plan.

02:05:41.060 Part of it was the FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake steel dossier to the fake Russia

02:05:46.440 collusion claims by pouring oil on fire and by amplifying the lie by bearing the truth

02:05:51.880 of what Hillary Clinton was actually up to.

02:05:53.960 So he says this week, some more stuff's going to come out about it.

02:05:57.580 And as I'm reading that, did you know that John Brennan actually voted for a communist

02:06:02.600 in, you know, in his youth?

02:06:05.760 No.

02:06:06.620 Yeah.

02:06:07.040 He said he was just tired of, you know, the corruption and he wanted transparency.

02:06:11.260 And so he voted for the communist.

02:06:13.220 And this is back in the 80s.

02:06:15.380 And I'm like, I want transparency.

02:06:18.380 In the United States?

02:06:18.880 In the United States.

02:06:19.480 I wanted transparency, but I didn't vote for the people who were trying to overthrow the

02:06:22.600 United States government.

02:06:24.300 It was kind of, you think of the 80s as in some ways a peak of the awareness of what

02:06:29.220 communism was.

02:06:29.880 Yeah.

02:06:29.900 He was actually praising the guy, like, you ever see the show The Americans?

02:06:34.160 I mean, I, bits and pieces.

02:06:35.560 So good.

02:06:36.140 I know you loved it.

02:06:36.600 It's so good.

02:06:36.960 You want to understand the 80s, understand, watch The Americans.

02:06:40.920 But that's, he was supporting those guys, supporting the guys who were paying people

02:06:46.700 to pay those kinds of people.

02:06:48.700 It's crazy.

02:06:49.940 And he's like, I was in the lie detector test.

02:06:52.020 And so I just decided I'm going to go for it.

02:06:53.560 I'm just going to tell them the truth.

02:06:55.260 And he said, yes, I did.

02:06:57.520 And they were like, okay, you can be the CIA director.

02:07:00.640 What the hell is wrong with us?

02:07:02.060 How could we have a guy who was sympathetic to the overthrowing of the United States government?

02:07:08.740 I don't care how old you were.

02:07:10.500 I don't care.

02:07:12.140 Wait, you're now, you're, you're now the head guy?

02:07:16.120 Huh.

02:07:16.880 Worked out well, too.

02:07:18.060 Well, strange that it worked out with such a non-Marxist president like Barack Obama,

02:07:23.800 who definitely was not working with any other Marxist trying to overthrow the United States

02:07:30.040 government.

02:07:30.440 What a shock.

02:07:32.780 What a coincidence.

02:07:35.500 This is Glenn Beck.

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