Glenn Beck on Antifa and how to deal with them. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator and radio host who has been in the business for a long time. He is a frequent contributor to conservative publications such as The Weekly Standard, National Post, and National Post. He is also a frequent guest on conservative radio shows such as Rush Limbaugh and Rush Limbaugh. Glenn has been a long-time supporter of the conservative movement and has long been a supporter of conservative causes.
00:06:35.280Now, he taught me this when I was really young, but it took it took me hitting rock bottom, alcoholism, divorce, everything else.
00:06:42.660My life completely falling apart before I really learned that it took a dark chapter in my life that that taught me there is nothing that life can hand you that is in itself bad.
00:06:57.100It just depends on what you do with it.
00:06:59.260Is this going to change you in destructive ways?
00:07:35.500So living in interesting times, I think that's a blessing.
00:07:41.820And we're going to learn this one way or another.
00:07:44.300We can either learn this the easy way, like with my dad telling me, or we're going to learn it the hard way, like I actually had to take at the end and learn through just total collapse.
00:07:55.780But one way or another, humility will reign again.
00:07:59.260Because we have an unbelievable lack of humility in D.C., in Hollywood.
00:08:05.380I have a story today to tell you about Michael Buble, who's now quitting the music industry.
00:08:11.940He says he's tired of the celebrity nonsense.
00:08:17.320Everybody on the left and the right, we all have an ego problem.
00:08:23.140We're utterly convinced that our side is absolutely right.
00:08:27.400And if you violate that, if you violate one part of that, you're a traitor.
00:08:33.760You're a traitor to the race, the party, the cause, whatever.
00:09:15.020And maybe we don't see it because we're so busy staging and filtering and enhancing the colors on our Facebook or Instagram pictures that we can really no longer recognize what is true, even about our own lives.
00:09:30.520Because everything that we print and post, most of it is a lie.
00:09:34.140One way or another, subtle or bold, it's a lie.
00:10:12.880But now we're being told that you can't even be part of the great new society unless we believe and champion product, politician, or party A, B, or C.
00:10:25.000Opinions now are products as well that you must embrace and wear.
00:17:48.360The boomers never got to see who they really were.
00:17:51.400The boomers feasted off the crisis of their parents.
00:17:55.380They never really had to choose for themselves, like the greatest generation did, life or death, freedom or slavery.
00:18:02.480They never had to push themselves as a group beyond what humans thought was even possible to achieve something as valuable or as celestial as freedom.
00:18:14.800The crisis that we're now beginning to see is a blessing.
00:18:18.600It's a blessing our parents never received.
00:18:20.980Each of us is going to have to choose.
00:18:25.960We're going to have to pick between black and white, slavery or freedom, good or evil, life and death.
00:18:31.360The choices are going to be that clear.
00:18:35.580We will all know in the years to come who we really are.
00:18:40.160If we choose carefully who we really are.
00:18:45.620Otherwise, we will be painfully aware of who we simply allowed ourselves to become.
00:18:55.540We can become, through this struggle, exactly who we were born to be.
00:19:02.820If each of us were honest and we began to see this struggle in the proper light, we'd admit that it's the softness of our foundations that have caused all these troubles.
00:19:16.020It's our wanting an easier life, not making the hard choices, not having to say no, not having to say yes.
00:19:23.680But Barack Obama nor Donald Trump are the problem or the solution.
00:19:37.180No matter who you voted for, I think all of us will admit now at this point that our country and perhaps the entire world is very, very sick.
00:20:47.540And they're each prescribing the opposite medicine.
00:20:50.000And each of us, as patients, are all so desperate to cure what is killing us, killing our society, that we will follow these doctors' directions because they know better.
00:21:23.240Now, at the same time, the doctor's not going to get more humble because the doctor will know he or she has everything to lose if his or her patients begin to seek another opinion, another diagnosis, another remedy.
00:21:36.740It's in their best interest to keep patients busy looking at the other side so they're not questioning what he's doing.
00:21:48.460And while we're all fighting over the cure, none of us even have stopped to ask if the diagnosis is even correct.
00:21:54.920We're just too busy fighting what our doctor said.
00:22:00.540Now, I don't know about you, but I know you know we're sick.
00:22:36.740And every time I'm really sick or in real pain, it usually is followed by a time where I have to begin conversations with, I'm really so sorry.
00:22:44.700I was just in really bad pain or I was really sick.
00:23:39.420In fact, many, if not most of us who voted for Democrats and those who voted for Republicans have a ton in common.
00:23:51.060And a ton in common with those who voted for neither.
00:23:54.600While the parties and the politicians try to convince us otherwise, and many of us may have believed for a while or even engaged in this warfare,
00:24:02.760it's becoming more and more clear to more and more Americans that our neighbors are not the enemy, no matter who they voted for.
00:24:14.320And if you're not there yet, or your neighbor is not there yet, ask them to ponder this.
00:26:40.680Is it really that much of a stretch to believe that you and I are not alone in our doubt of our doctors?
00:26:50.040Is it really that hard to believe that our neighbor, who knows how sick we all are, really wants everyone who disagrees with their doctor to die?
00:27:07.980Is it possible that our neighbors have seen the flaws in their practitioner as we have in ours, but we haven't talked about that?
00:27:20.040Is it really that much of a stretch to think that if we stop spending all of our time looking at what's wrong with America, or what's wrong with them,
00:27:32.560we might be able to see and search for the things that are right with America, and good about our neighbors?
00:27:40.520Perhaps we're not as sick as all the doctors tell us are.
00:27:51.520Perhaps our doctors, our politicians, and our parties are more akin to bad, crooked chiropractors that you've gone to and have done more damage to your spine than good,
00:28:03.020and will continue to bilk us out of every single dime week after week until we finally stand up and say,
00:37:12.200Something has gone wrong in the university, especially in certain fields within the humanities.
00:37:16.640Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon attending to social grievances has become firmly established, if not fully dominant within these fields.
00:37:28.200And there are scholars increasingly that bully students, administrators and other departments into adhering to their worldview.
00:37:35.940So, Dr. James Lindsay, along with a couple of other friends, decided, you know, let's find out what this is all about and let's see what the lines are.
00:38:19.960Well, we were looking into these fields to find out whether or not their scholarship has gotten so kind of ideologically biased that if we put forth really absurd arguments, that they might be willing to publish those so long as they fell in line with the political views that they seem to be forwarding in place of scholarship.
00:38:46.920So at first, you didn't really understand the political view part, right?
00:38:53.220Because the first few studies that you submitted, you got back.
00:39:17.520It was literally Thanksgiving on the day of.
00:39:20.520We really realized we were in trouble.
00:39:23.020We weren't getting anywhere with trying to hoax them.
00:39:25.460But the problem wasn't that we didn't understand the politics so much, although there's still a lot to learn there, and there was for us, too.
00:39:33.220They call it a matrix of domination that you have to understand.
00:39:36.160But it was more that we actually were not trying to work their scholarship in.
00:39:41.620So there are two things that are needed to get these papers in.
00:39:45.040One is that you actually have to understand what they call scholarship.
00:39:47.820You have to do it according to their rules.
00:39:50.220You have to understand the concepts you're working with and present them knowledgeably.
00:39:55.160And then you also have to navigate this kind of matrix of offense-based rules that stand in place of the academic rigor you would expect in a more serious field.
00:40:09.520One of the things I thought was really interesting, and I apologize for, I think, misunderstanding this initially, because the coverage gave me the impression that what you were outing here was these sort of pay-for-play journals where you could get anything published as long as you pay and they'll print anything.
00:40:28.040But this is, I think, A, much, much, much more thorough process, and B, much scarier, because these were not these crappy internet things that you could pay $100 to get your nonsense published.
00:40:50.040Actually, you know, a little over a year ago, about a year and a half ago, I heard you on your program reading out from the paper I wrote previously with Peter Boghossian, The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.
00:41:01.940And that ended up going to one of these pay-to-publish open-access journals that has apparently fairly low or very low review standards.
00:41:13.840And so it didn't prove what we wanted to prove or didn't even really offer good evidence for what we're looking at.
00:43:52.300And I know you talked to Helen the other day.
00:43:53.720So this was an immense amount of work.
00:43:57.800It required learning these fields very quickly, writing academic papers, a typical academic will publish a couple a year maybe if they're working hard.
00:44:14.240And these are all fields we have no expertise in.
00:44:16.740Helen has a little bit of background in some of this.
00:44:19.520But this was primarily having to learn this material on the fly with no education, with no teachers instructing us.
00:44:27.980Our only feedback was how our papers fared in the peer review process and then reading what was out there to try to emulate it.
00:44:34.340And so what does having something published in one of these magazines mean?
00:44:40.460What does it mean to the author and to the educational community?
00:44:46.480So for the author, it is the absolute pinnacle of what an academic is trying to do in the research side of their career, is to get papers published in well-established journals.
00:44:57.760For example, Hypatia is one of the journals we got a paper in.
00:45:00.920And Hypatia is the feminist philosophy journal with probably the highest standing.
00:45:06.440So it would carry a lot of weight looking at the academic community that that scholar is embedded in.
00:45:11.560So they could take that to their university and say, hey, I got this many papers published.
00:45:15.560If people are being considered for tenure, there's a research component to that.
00:45:19.480Depends on how the school wants to do their tenuring process.
00:45:23.180But typically, seven papers spanning seven to ten years is considered the basic research requirement to be qualified for tenure.
00:45:32.740Our papers spanned – the ones we wrote spanned 15 sub-disciplines of thought.
00:45:38.140The ones that got accepted spanned seven.
00:46:54.480And then they would go around and they would post it on all the job sites.
00:46:57.200Well, since that time, they have now become the leading job site.
00:47:01.820And so they have just this pool that they're pulling from that is remarkable.
00:47:08.460They also put it on all of the other job sites.
00:47:11.680But ZipRecruiter has gone a step further.
00:47:13.660They have just a floor full of software experts and scientists that are working on algorithms and looking to be able to narrow everything down to the point to where now you as an employer will get a qualified candidate, usually within an hour of posting.
00:47:37.240And when you say quality candidate or qualified candidate, it's not somebody it meets all of your requirements.
00:47:45.040It meets the requirements of, you know, I don't care if I'm Starbucks and there's a barista in Seattle and I've got my Starbucks here in Dallas.
00:56:53.120We're talking to Dr. James Lindsay, author of Life in Light of Death.
00:56:59.040He is – you can follow him at ConceptualJames on Twitter.
00:57:05.920He is one of the – if not the mastermind behind the papers of record that were being written for feminist studies and queer studies.
00:57:20.940And were published in some of the leading journals and critiqued, but not really critiqued in a way that most people would.
00:57:31.720I'll just quickly go through some of them going in through the back door, which is not something we're going to discuss here that's really great.
00:57:39.820Rubbing one out, the violence of objectification through non-consensual masturbation.
00:57:49.200Then we get to some really disturbing ones.
00:58:07.020The journal was inviting us to resubmit it and give it another go.
00:58:14.800It says it's a solid essay that, with revision, will make a strong contribution to the growing literature of addressing injustice in the classroom.
00:58:24.420Yeah, and so what it argues for is that we take students in college classrooms and we have them go through some kind of a inventory that determines how privileged they are.
00:58:36.360It recommends a thing called the step-forward, step-back game as a possibility.
00:58:42.120Once they determine how privileged they are, the students are ranked according to their privilege.
00:58:47.440Then the more privileged you are, the worse you get treated in class.
00:58:50.780So the most privileged white and male students are invited to listen and learn throughout the semester, which means they aren't allowed to speak or ask questions in class.
00:59:01.480They're invited to sit in the floor in chains to experience reparations and level the knowing field to de- and re-privilege the classroom learning environment.
00:59:13.620And the problem that the reviewers seem to have with this set of suggestions was that we thought there's no way this will get in.
00:59:23.840We have to temper it by saying we have to be compassionate to these students as we put them in the floor in chains.
00:59:28.840And they said, watch it with a compassion that re-centers the needs of the privileged over the oppressed.
00:59:36.060And there's this idea out there called the pedagogy of discomfort, which means that you learn to overcome your privilege by being made uncomfortable and left to sit in that without being comforted.
00:59:47.420And so they actually wanted to make a terrible, scary idea properly evil.
00:59:53.380And that's the worst part is it's only a small step from what already exists in a great deal of the feminist and race-based education literature.
01:00:04.860So this was not this was not accepted because it didn't it wasn't bad enough?
01:00:09.880At first, yeah. And then later, they were a bit concerned with the depth of a scholarship and the kind of routine things that you would expect out of a scholarly paper.
01:00:21.980They claimed, for example, that we drew on too many concepts and it would be confusing for the reader and to try to narrow it down to something a bit tighter and so on.
01:00:29.520But the idea that giving students experiential reparations and asking them not to be able to speak in class or to be spoken over and interrupted to teach them what that feels like.
01:00:56.640So all these answers are really complicated.
01:00:59.520There would be people who try to take this out.
01:01:02.380In fact, we got the idea from a news article about somebody at the University of Pennsylvania who was employing a similar but less extreme version of this in her classroom and got in trouble for it late last year.
01:01:16.000So this idea didn't come to us out of the vacuum.
01:01:19.420This was actually something that people are attempting in classrooms.
01:01:22.820And so there would have been some educators primarily working in social justice side field topics courses, I guess is the best way to say that, but also probably into some of the general ed stuff who would take up some degree of these suggestions as, you know, experimental but legitimate to use in the classroom.
01:01:44.980And this was being submitted to the gold standard journal.
01:01:49.120This wasn't some fringe journal in education.
01:01:51.360This was the gold standard feminist philosophy journal, Hypatia, that we were working with here, which is where a lot of the literature that's like this already exists.
01:01:59.380Which, if you don't mind me going on a little bit, this is kind of what's happening.
01:02:03.580We think that what's happening here is kind of the equivalent with ideas of money laundering, called idea laundering.
01:02:12.780So they take these bad ideas, some of which are just opinions.
01:02:19.180Some of them are genuinely terrifying, like this educational thing.
01:02:23.560And then they launder them through the academic process, and they come out with a stamp of academic approval that makes them look like they're real knowledge.
01:02:31.600So you'll hear people say, oh, well, there was a study, or we've based this program on studies that show.
01:02:37.260Well, that's fine when the studies are good, but when the studies are coming from a place that can't tell truth from prejudice and opinion, it becomes a real problem.
01:02:49.640James, one of the other ones I found disturbing was the HOH2 and HOH1.
01:04:01.420That's Robin DiAngelo, who has just had a big book published on that this year, but introduced a concept in 2011, which says that if somebody with privilege, in particular white people for her work, is challenged so that their privilege is put into question, that they are fragile and don't know how to deal with it because their privilege made them weak.
01:04:21.920They don't know how to psychologically deal with having that challenge, and they act out in anger or grief or something like that in trying to maintain their privilege.
01:04:31.200And so these ideas are already getting out there.
01:04:38.420It's interesting because the one about hoaxes is interesting in that if to criticize what you guys did, they would almost have to cite your paper.
01:04:50.940It was definitely to put them in that position.
01:04:53.280And I've asked Hypatia to stand by the paper that they accepted and published in our right names.
01:04:57.920They haven't responded yet, but we'll see what they do.
01:05:00.900That way, indeed, people who want to criticize our project from a position of intersectional feminism will need to cite us in order to criticize us.
01:05:34.260It was written from the position of an auto-ethnography where the researcher is reflecting on, in this case, her own experience as a white lesbian woman coming to hate her own whiteness.
01:05:45.160And it was rejected partly because the scholarship wasn't quite fair, which is the case in all of the papers, but also because it positioned the author as a good white rather than being sufficiently supplicant or whatever to critical race theories.
01:05:59.960So there was an explicitly political reasoning behind why it was rejected, and it was that the author, as a white woman, was trying to make herself look good by criticizing her own whiteness.
01:06:18.240And that took the parts of Mein Kampf where he was talking about Jews and replaced the words Jews with whites.
01:06:28.300Yeah, in that case, it was either whites or whiteness, and then we edited the text around it and added a whole bunch of literature and reworded things so it would get past plagiarism checks and things like that.
01:06:41.120It started with scanning through Mein Kampf, picking out passages about the Jews and replacing Jews with whites or whiteness, and then editing around it.
01:06:52.700The feminist one didn't do it quite the same way.
01:06:56.640It didn't take Jews out and replace it with men, for example.
01:07:00.980It actually is the chapter in Mein Kampf where Hitler explains the need for the Nazi party.
01:07:06.440That's chapter 12, and what its members would be expected to hold to, including especially the sacrifices that they have to make to be Nazis.
01:07:16.660And we replaced our movement, the party, etc.
01:07:20.680He doesn't mention Nazis specifically in that chapter.
01:07:23.620We replaced that with intersectional feminism or solidarity or allyship, something to do with the feminist movement,
01:07:30.920and criticized the idea that some feminists do what they call choice feminism,
01:07:37.940which is the idea that if a woman is living her own life the way she wants to and considers that to be a statement of feminism,
01:13:04.760Sitting, they're laying on a bench in public, and he's, she's, and I guess what the picture was taken in 2013, and he didn't know about it for years.
01:13:49.100And what do the numbers look like, Stu?
01:13:51.080Depending on what you're looking at, you can find a lot of good and a lot of bad if you happen to be a Republican or are rooting for conservatives to have a chance here to pass anything.
01:14:00.980Obviously, you need both to really have a good chance of passing anything, and as we've seen over the past couple years, even that is no guarantee you'll be able to get anything done.
01:14:10.680But what you're seeing now is really good polling for the GOP in the Senate.
01:14:14.980A lot of these races that were close have moved the GOP's direction.
01:14:18.480To get to 50, which is what they need, of course, to have control with Mike Pence as the deciding vote, you need to have—there's about 10 races there.
01:14:28.240And they've knocked out most of the—now just the ones that lean in their category, get them to 50.
01:14:32.780There's an additional seven toss-up races where they could get all the way up to 57 if they were to sweep those.
01:14:38.440You know, maybe even outside shot at something dramatic, maybe even getting to 58.
01:14:42.640Most likely, you're probably in that area of 53 or 54 right now, which is an improvement over the current situation in the Senate.
01:14:49.060But if they lose the House, it doesn't mean anything.
01:14:50.960Yeah, you know, it doesn't mean—it means something, but it doesn't mean a heck of a lot because you're not going to be able to pass anything because, you know, the House is going to vote the other way.
01:14:58.500And the House is where it looks—things look very bad for Republicans.
01:15:02.180It's interesting the way that they're looking at this is not whether—usually it's like, will the party lose or gain seats, right?
01:15:10.660That's the way we usually typically look at these things.
01:15:12.780And then there's the control angle as well, who will control the House.
01:15:16.040Well, if you notice, you haven't heard a lot of talk about whether Republicans will gain any seats, largely because it looks like it's not even possible at this point.
01:15:25.060In fact, the polling models that they have working right now, 538 has one, which they have the chance of Republicans maintaining their current amount of seats at less than 0.1%.
01:15:37.600Now, you might say, oh, well, they've gotten—you know, there was issues with—they didn't get Trump right, which is the thing every time I talk about polls.
01:15:43.400They're like, oh, well, they didn't get Trump right.
01:15:44.540Well, first of all, the national polls were almost exactly dead on for Donald Trump.
01:15:47.860It just didn't get the Electoral College right, but that also wasn't what they were polling, right?
01:15:53.340Some of the states were obviously wrong.
01:15:55.860But, for example, 538, I believe, had about a 30% chance that they thought Donald Trump would win.
01:16:01.320They're saying there's a 0.1%, less than a 0.1% chance that the Republicans will maintain the same amount of seats in the House.
01:16:08.520In fact, they are saying the equal chance that Republicans maintain the same amount of seats as Democrats gaining 83 seats.
01:16:18.400Now, both of those are extreme outliers, right?
01:16:21.000Like, they don't think either one of those is going to happen.
01:16:22.680But the chances of the Democrats just controlling the House are about 80%.
01:16:28.960Again, more certain, if you want to use those words, or more probable is the right way to say it, than Donald Trump being elected.
01:16:38.620Or more probable than Hillary Clinton being elected, right?
01:16:44.280And what you're seeing, oddly, after the Kavanaugh thing, is I think people kind of going and hardening their own sides, where the far left really hardened their own sides.
01:16:54.580So, districts that were left-leaning have become more left-leaning.
01:16:59.020Districts that were more right-leaning, and a lot of these states that we're talking about in the Senate are red states.
01:17:04.220So, those states have actually improved for the GOP since Kavanaugh.
01:17:08.300What we're seeing in the middle, though, in these purple districts in the House, is movement towards the Democrats.
01:17:13.160So far, there's a lot of movement in the generic sort of congressional poll, where you see, you know, generically, what party do you prefer?
01:17:24.520There's been a movement of about six or seven points in that area towards Democrats.
01:17:28.720So, what it looks like right now, and again, these things can change with large developments, obviously, you know, something like a war were to break out.
01:17:38.960You know, individual scandals can change these things as well.
01:17:41.640But the Republicans look like, as of this moment, they're in really good shape to control the Senate, and really bad shape to continue their control of the House.
01:18:42.560CNN has a list of the top ten Democratic candidates.
01:18:45.760Which, by the way, will not be enough to cover the field.
01:18:48.220There's going to be a lot more than ten, I think.
01:18:49.980Uh, but, I mean, everybody with the exception of Joe Biden, who I will not be surprised at all if he comes out and does endorse Medicare for all.
01:19:02.160There, many of them were co-sponsors of the bill.
01:19:03.960Uh, it seems to be this, I mean, the idea that we, in 2010 and 11, were being called racists for suggesting what they wanted was single-payer.
01:20:28.100So, now, they're talking about taking apart the Electoral College, which would make all of the red states really pretty much inconsequential.
01:20:38.680Yeah, I mean, it certainly would change the way the founders thought about the idea of people being elected, right?
01:20:44.520All you have to do is just appeal to the big cities.
01:20:47.440And, by the way, this is an idea that, I mean, it's not just Democratic support for getting rid of the Electoral College.
01:20:52.880I know Trump supports it, for example.
01:21:52.800So why should we have the people in farms and farmlands trying to dictate rules that are good for them that also have to be applied to the city?
01:22:25.720Yeah, it used to be that the House was the place where the people could move and move quickly.
01:22:31.900So things could be passed because there was a disaster, and things could be passed quickly.
01:22:35.440Then the next, the first check on the balance of power, the first check on that power, was to go through another body that was a lot slower.
01:23:24.040Because they would be focused on their state and they would be making sure that the federal government would not be eating into the power of their state.
01:30:14.400Usually people who are, you know, national socialists or Marxist radicals of some sort.
01:30:23.140They're in power and they let this they let this stuff go until the people have had enough and then they do what they want with those people.
01:30:33.340And they, you know, use those people as cover to seize even more power.
01:30:39.120That's the way it works on a national scale.
01:30:41.080I have no idea what this Portland mayor is doing.
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01:33:25.900There is a fascinating story about Michael Buble.
01:33:29.680If you're a longtime listener of this program, you know that Michael Buble is a friend of the program and somebody that I have known, I think, since before he was really, really famous.
01:33:43.220This comes from the Daily Mail dot co dot UK.
01:33:50.400I'm not sure that this I'm not sure that Michael wasn't joking in part of this.
01:34:03.960The singer, 43, explained that the heartache he endured following his son's cancer diagnosis as at just three years old has changed his perception of life.
01:34:12.940And he is done now with fame with a new album out titled Love on the way.
01:34:20.620He explained that this is time for him to step away from music, wanting to leave it at the very top after making the perfect record.
01:34:27.520Michael revealed his decision to quit the industry in what he claimed to be his last interview.
01:34:32.740My whole being has changed since my son got cancer.
01:34:45.700The Canadian singer has won four Grammys, sold 75 million records, earning him 35 million dollars a year.
01:34:51.460He has been married to a stunning Argentinian model and actress for seven years.
01:34:56.600The couple lived the life of luxury in the three with their three children, Noah, five, Elias, two and daughter, Vidya, Amber, Betty, who is 11 weeks old.
01:35:04.920Yet all of this seemed meaningless when Noah was diagnosed with liver cancer two years ago.
01:35:09.680And the devastated couple immediately announced that they were putting their careers on hold for the care of their son.
01:35:15.800Noah has been declared now cancer free.
01:39:28.940It is fascinating to read these things from him because what I've always felt about Michael Buble was he was just having fun.
01:39:43.540He was just living a dream, and I wondered, and I never spotted it in him.
01:39:51.600I just wondered if it was ever going to get old to him because what makes him, I think, the best performer I've ever seen on stage is that joy.
01:40:04.340He just has a joy of performance, and it is so infectious.
01:41:24.700So why would he possibly be saying that he is now?
01:41:28.940It seems like it might be one of those situations where the internet has taken somewhat a sarcastic comment and turned it into reality.
01:41:37.120His spokespeople are coming out today and saying that he's not actually going to retire because he's in the middle of a tour and a book, album release, and all that other stuff.
01:41:46.800So here's what he says exactly to the reporter.
01:41:51.800There are three reasons I wanted to do this album.
01:41:54.040One, because I felt a debt of gratitude, deeper than I can explain to the millions of people all over the world who prayed for us and showed us compassion.
01:42:03.680Two, because I love music and I feel I can continue the legacy of my idols.
01:42:07.880And three, because if the world was ending, not just my own personal hell, but watching the political turmoil in America and watching Europe break up, there's never a better time for music.
01:43:04.480You don't want to have to go through that to do it, but sometimes it's the only thing that makes you kind of reprioritize the things you're doing in your life.
01:43:10.960Uh, and he seems to have, I mean, he, he is making $35 million a year if he's out there, uh, touring and stuff.
01:43:18.560And he's able to walk away from that, um, because he just wants to spend time with his son.
01:43:23.680How many times do we hear those excuses?
01:43:25.540Um, so quitting to spend more time with my family.
01:43:28.660That was completely real with this guy.
01:43:30.760It's nice to see somebody who actually, you know, it's nice to see that he, he got through it and has made it into a good thing.
01:43:38.140You know, I, I have, I have probably more respect for Michael Buble than any other professional that I have ever met in the entertainment industry because he has found a way to keep his feet on the ground.