The Best Toxic-Masculinity Can Get? | 1⧸15⧸19
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Glenn Beck's take on the Women's March and the anti-Semitism in the Jewish leadership of the movement, and why it's good to be Jewish in the 21st century. He also talks about Bitcoin, crypto, and what he thinks is coming next.
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The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program.
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Do you have your women's March tree up yet still? I don't. I still have to get mine. I know. I
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decorated it. And the lot is just at this point, there's almost nothing left. I know. I know. If
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you didn't get your women's March tree, it's probably too late. But for those of you decorating,
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remember it happens on Saturday. Oh, my son broke one of the ovary ornaments I had. You're kidding me.
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Glass. Beautiful glass ovary ornament. Yeah. Well, I had one. We got all tangled up. We had to have
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it removed. Oh, no. Yeah. But anyway, the movement has really shown signs of strife. That's what the
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media would tell you. It's actually imploding. An article in Tablet magazine revealed deep-seated
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anti-Semitism among the co-chairs of the movement, which is kind of really kind of funny for a movement
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that brands itself as, you know, a haven of intersectionality. The examples just keep piling
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up. Just yesterday, there was another. And I really mean this sincerely. I hate to bring
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So, I mean, it's really diverse, the women's movement. It's very, very diverse. If you hate
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Jews, you're in. If you like Jews, well, it's not that diverse. Not that diverse. Let's not be crazy.
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Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez, Linda Sarsour, and Bob Bland. It's that diverse. Bob
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can be a part. Bob Bland is an exciting name. It is. That's it. It's hard to be. It's hard to
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have a sexy. You're not going into, like, performance. You're not going to be, like,
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on American Idol. Like, that's not your future if you were born Bob Bland. Like, you're either
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an accountant or you're managing some organization. Like the women's movement. Anyway, we've learned
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about the anti-Semitism and that it is very common among these women. Teresa Shook, who founded the
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Women's March, has repeatedly asked these people to step down. The co-chairs, quoting, have steered
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the movement away from its true course. I have waited, hoping that they would right the ship,
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she wrote, but they have not. In opposition to our unity principles, they have allowed
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anti-Semitism, anti-LGB, LGBTQIA sentiment. Plus two. She didn't include the plus two. Okay.
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And hateful racist rhetoric to become part of the platform by the refusal to separate themselves
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from groups that espouse these racist and hateful beliefs. This is the creator of the movement
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talking about the leadership of the movement. Tamika Mallory gave us the latest example. She
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continues to stand by Louis Farrakhan. Listen to her response.
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And Tamika, you came under some fire for your relationship with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation
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of Islam. Now, he's known for being anti-Semitic, for being homophobic, but you do attend his events
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and you posted, I believe, a photo together calling him the goat, which means the greatest of all time.
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And you are running an organization that says it fights bigotry. Do you understand why your
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association with him is quite problematic? No, I think it's important to put the, my attendance,
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my presence at Savior's Day, which is the highest holy day for the Nation of Islam in proper context.
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Okay. You know, as a leader, as a black leader in a country that is still dealing with some very
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serious, unresolved issues as it relates to the black experience in this country, I go into a lot
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of difficult spaces. Uh-huh. Here's where the real problem is. It's at the end of her nonsensical
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answer. Listen. But let me push back a little bit. Why call him the greatest of all time? I didn't call
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him the greatest of all time because of his rhetoric. I called him the greatest of all time because of
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what he's done in black community. Hmm. Ah, okay. Okay. Here's a little taste of what he's done in the
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black community. White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by God's grace,
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has pulled the cover off of that satanic Jew. And I'm here to say, your time is up.
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So, I mean, you know, that's a, that's a, quite an accomplishment there. Uh, we are going to be
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looking into the women's march on Thursday's television broadcast. You don't want to miss
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that. Uh, you want the truth about, you know, the people who are running the women's, uh, march
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movement have at it. The, the mainstream media won't give you all of this. They're not going to
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say anything. They will talk about if you're a deplorable, how Hitlerite you are, even though
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you don't like Hitler, you like the Jews, you support Israel, whatever it is, they'll still
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tell you that you're a white supremacist and yada, yada, yada. But Louis Farrakhan can say these things
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and they don't mind. We do. And we have the expose coming up on Thursday's television program,
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only on the blaze TV. Speaking of television, I, I, uh, you know, look
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no, let me just say this. Gillette, you're dead to me. You're dead to me. And I started watching
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this with an open mind and I thought, okay, you know what? I, I agree with these things.
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I don't want men to be pigs. I hate, I, I watched Mad Men. Did you watch Mad Men? No. Okay. So I
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watched Mad Men and it's like, I can't believe the world was like that. Okay. It's not like that.
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And if you are like that, you're a throwback and you just don't have any place. The world wasn't
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like that. People were not that good looking back then. Okay. I'll give you, I'll give you that.
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All right. So listen to this Gillette ad. Bullying. The Me Too movement against sexual
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harassment. Toxic masculinity. Is this the best a man can get? That shows their commercials. Is it?
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For the years. And now, we can't hide from it. Sexual harassment is taking over. It's been going on far
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too long. We can't laugh it off. What I actually think she's trying to say. Making the same old
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excuses. Stop for a second. Stop for a second. It's showing these images of, you know, comedy shows.
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First of all, it's one of them is from like the 1950s. From the 1950s. You know, we still have that
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happening with the women ogling the, the construction guy drinking a diet Coke. Um, but you know, it
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shows, it shows stuff that we all know. We all look at now and go, ick. Okay. Um, it's showing a lot
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of Gillette ads from the past, you know, good for them. Now go ahead. Boys will be boys. Boys will be
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boys. Boys will be boys. It has these boys fighting. Allegations regarding sexual assault and sexual
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harassment. Okay. And there will be no going back. Stop. So far, I'm like, okay. All right. I mean,
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please don't preach to me, Gillette, but yeah. Okay. I get it. There's nothing you would disagree
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with in this. It's just, and that's what pandering is, right? Like you, pandering is something you say
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that no one can disagree with because you're trying to kiss the butt of your, of your audience.
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Right. Here's, here's where it goes off the rails for me. Go ahead. Because we, we believe in the
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best in men. Men need to hold other men accountable. Stop. Stop. That is something my father taught me.
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That's some, I'm, I'm, I'm 54. That is something my father taught me. So why is this a new idea,
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Gillette? That men have to be men, not boys. The problem with men is not men. It's boys. It's boys.
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It's boys that never grow into men. I know what a man is. I was taught what a man is supposed to do.
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And then I was taught, no, don't do any of those things. No, no, no. I was taught by feminists. No,
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no, no. Don't you hold that door open. Don't you, don't you do that. Don't you stand when a woman
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comes to the table? No, no, no. They're just like men. Well, a man stands at a table.
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If a woman would like to stand at a table when I arrive, I don't mind. I think it's unnecessary,
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but kind. Thank you. Wow. That's wow. Thank you for honoring me that way.
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I just, I was just talking to my son this, uh, this weekend, a man stands to shake another man's
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hand. If you're kind of sprawled out on the couch and somebody comes by and they're like, Hey dude,
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just want to say, hi, they reached to shake your hand. You stand up and shake that man's hand.
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That's what a man does. It's respect. Now I've grown up with that. I think most American men have
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grown up with that, but let Gillette tell us what it's really like. Come on to say the right thing,
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to act the right way. Some already are in ways big and small, but some is not enough because the
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boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow. Yeah. Thank you, Gillette. Um, by the way,
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Bic, Bic, I will always use Bic. I will never buy another Gillette product. How dare you?
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How dare you lecture me about bullying, about bullying? It shows two boys fighting. Well,
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boys will be boys calling each other names. Well, that's just the way they are. No now,
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because we at the stupid razor company, we want you to know that we we're pulling for the ladies
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we're pulling for the victims. What the hell do you think the American ethic is? Why do you think
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our armed military is different than the rest? Because we don't go in and rape people. We go in
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and we set them free and we try to set things right. And we try to show there's respect for
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people. We go and rescue the Jews. We go and rescue the women. We go and rescue people because
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that's what men do. Boys do not. Men do. Shut your pie hole, Gillette.
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Sorry, I'm tired of it. Say a razor commercial, just in case you were wondering. I know. Isn't that
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the point? That's part of what pisses me off. It's a razor commercial. You're selling us crap.
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You lousy pieces of crap. You're selling us something. You got around. You sat around in a
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boardroom and like, well, what can we do to really reach people? I know we can do. Shut up. Stop
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manipulating us. Oh, OK. And by the way, for the people who like this Gillette commercial,
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all the women who are cheering, aren't you the ones that are telling us about the evil
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This is the Glenn Beck program. So today is the day that we're supposed to they're supposed to vote
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on Brexit. Now, in case you don't understand what's going on, let me just let me just sum it up in two
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ways. You know, it's happening on our border where the people have voted and said they want a border
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wall. They want border security. Let's just leave the border wall. They just want border
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security. And the politicians haven't done it. And it's kind of pissing people off. That's what's
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happening with Brexit. The people say, I don't want your immigration rules. I don't want I don't want
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you telling us how to live our lives. We're English. We're British. So stop telling us how to live our
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life. They're they're anti colonialists. They're saying to Europe, don't colonize us. We're our
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separate culture. So that's what the people are saying. The politicians are doing exactly the same
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thing that they're doing here in the United States. They'll say one thing. But when it comes
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push to shove, they'll do another. So Theresa May has brokered this deal. Well, nobody in their right
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mind wants this deal because it doesn't give their sovereignty back. They still can't make trade
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agreements. They still they're not they're not Great Britain. They're still in the EU, but they
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don't have to live by some of the rules like, you know, immigration, et cetera, et cetera. So the people
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feel like we do when they talk about comprehensive immigration reform. We're all like, no, get this
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done first. And then we'll talk about how what we're going to do after. That's exactly what's
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happening over in England, but they have something else going on. And that is the Irish problem.
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The Irish apparently and I didn't I didn't know this and I don't know if I fully understand this
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correctly, but the Irish to solve the you know, remember the Protestant Catholic IRA kind of wars
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that were going on where they wanted to break away from Great Britain. The way they solve that
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apparently was if you were in Ireland, you could have a British passport or you could have an Irish
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passport. You could do one or the other. You could be a British citizen or an Irish citizen,
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stay in the Commonwealth. But you kind of you know, you have self-determination and we're going to open
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up the borders, et cetera, et cetera. So it wasn't a problem when everybody was in the EU. But now
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Ireland has voted to stay in the EU. So what do you do? It's Great Britain. It'd be like if Florida
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decided, you know what, we want to stay in the in the TPP. We want to stay in this this new agreement.
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We still want to be part of America, kind of. But we want to we want our own thing. We're not going
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to we're not going to do this treaty that the rest of America is doing. And it's a trade trade
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agreement. Well, what would happen? First of all, that would start to eat away at the union. If
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if Florida could do that, why couldn't Texas? Why couldn't others? And so you get on the slippery
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slope of you don't really have a union. So there's one problem with it. The second problem is if if
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Florida was making their own trade agreements, one side or the other, America or Florida is going to
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have better deals on certain products. So let's say they made a really great deal with Germany
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because Germany was pissed at Donald Trump or whatever. And so they started getting Mercedes
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in and they had them at really low prices, no tariffs, everything else. Well, people from the
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other states would go in and buy that Mercedes in Florida and then drive it out. Well, how do you work
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with that? Because it's part of our country. Do we have to put a border there? Do we have to have
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tariffs? Do we have to have new laws restricting what Florida can do? And we have to stop Florida
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from coming in. And let's say, you know, United States had cheap steel. But because Florida decided
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not to do it, they're going to have to buy steel with the tariff. So how do we stop steel from going
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into Florida? And how about those citizens who are like, look, I didn't want anything to do with
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this. I'm an American citizen. I have every right. That's what's happening now with Brexit.
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And it's because of the politicians making this overly complex. I think with an exception of
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Ireland, I think that is a complex problem. But they're trying to go in and not do what's called
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a hard exit, which just says we're out. And that's what the people want. And if they don't do this,
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you're going to see increased strife in England against the politicians. And it's only going to make
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things much, much worse. You're listening to Glenn Beck. Okay, so I start Field of Greens. Why do I start
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Field of Greens, Stu? Why do I start? Because you don't want to eat salads, Glenn. Yeah, yeah. Or any other
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vegetable in any form. So my wife says, you know, I found this new thing that's really healthy. And I want
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you to eat salads for 28 days. Only salads, nothing else. I'm like, what? What the? No, I
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Field of Greens. No, I just, you don't have to do that anymore. I don't have to do that anymore.
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So if you think that all men are basically in the Me Too movement, you want to hear more about
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the Gillette commercial coming up next with Pat Gray. Let me give a free advertisement here for
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the Dollar Shave Club as I open up my, uh, my envelope, uh, that I get from the Dollar Shave
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toilet reader and stuff like that, which I don't get from Gillette. Uh, so hello, welcome to the
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program. Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, the podcast that you can hear, uh, live, uh, every
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day before this program and then download it at your leisure and your, uh, your, your time that
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you want to listen to it. Do you actually use blades now? Uh, I haven't used blades since I was
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in high school. Yeah. About half the time. I have what's called a newfangled invention called an
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electric razor. Do you? Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. It's strange. You're going to switch to, to Gillette
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now though, after this ad, because if you don't, I mean, really you hate women, right? And now I'm
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even more committed to not using Gillette. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you do. I'll never, I'll never, I don't
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really care. I I've never, you know, big, you know, Gillette clamshell. I don't really care.
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Usually does it have a sharp edge that I can trim my beard with? I care. Okay. I care. And by the way,
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the edge, that's, that's, that's the name of a guy, not the flamingo flamingo. What is the
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flamingo? I think the flamingo is their new pastel colored men razor. I think maybe it's, maybe it's for
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women. I don't know. I saw the Gillette ad on the same deal about the, you know, the, the commercial
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or about the, yeah, about the men's commercial. So maybe it was just an auto fill thing and it was
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a women's razor, but it appeared to be a man's razor. I don't care enough to even look into it,
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but if that's your idea of a man's razor, wow. Wow. See, that's, you're exactly the man they're
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talking to in this commercial. Yeah. Am I, am I, am I, am I, I want you to, I, you know,
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Gillette, I invite you to my house for a while and hear the things that I teach my son and then
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lecture me. You are a giant corporation that is only trying to sell a product. You don't really
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care because you were the one pumping sweet cheeks into my living room for decades. You are
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the ones that said, Hey, girls find this sexy and hot. Woo. Uh, put your, put your cheek next to
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mine, sweet cheeks. Uh, and they weren't talking necessarily about the cheek on your face. Wow.
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That's toxic. That was a toxic rant. These, these guys, if, if it, if they could sell more razors by
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being pigs, they would, they would, of course it would. Of course. Yes. That was the plan. Right.
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They did it. And this is just like, we are unhappy with our market share of women's razors. So here's
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a commercial for you about how good women are. Like it's so transparent and awful. Well, they say
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that this is to sell the men's razor, but is there a guy within the sound of my voice that watches that
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commercial and hasn't already been raising your son to be that kind of a man and, and doesn't
00:27:04.800
have a visceral reaction to how aggravating and maddening this and insulting this commercial is.
00:27:12.680
Right. Cause it's not, it's unbelievable. It's not even the content, right? There's nothing in
00:27:16.560
there that anyone would disagree with, but that's the point. That's what's annoying. It's like so
00:27:20.560
insulting. The disagreement comes from the sweeping indictment on an entire gender of human
00:27:27.700
beings. That's the implication here is that men are bad and we want you to be better from
00:27:33.020
at Gillette. But they said some were okay. They said some were okay. It's also like watching BP or
00:27:41.480
Exxon do their commercials. You know, people are burning fossil fuels. Right. Yeah. And you're like,
00:27:49.500
what? You're the people who've been pumping that it, literally pumping that for decades.
00:27:56.840
Amazingly. They're doing that too. Yeah, I know they are. They really are doing that,
00:28:00.900
but at least they're lecturing themselves. Yeah. You know what I mean? At least BP is like beyond
00:28:06.420
petroleum. No, you're not. You're petroleum. Well, but we'd like to be beyond petroleum. Okay. Well,
00:28:13.180
they actually had a legitimate Brexit. I'd like to have wings too. They Brexited their name.
00:28:16.740
We're not British anymore. We're beyond petroleum. Right. That's, that's amazing. It's just,
00:28:22.920
it just strikes me as embarrassing. There is a level there of, of the sort of dominoes approach
00:28:27.720
though. Isn't there where they're like, ah, you know, our pizza used to suck, but now we're,
00:28:30.900
now our pizza's good. That's kind of what they're doing. They're like, they're showing their own ads
00:28:34.820
and saying, but wait, wait, wait, we don't like the Dustin Hoffman has to answer today for something
00:28:41.380
that he did or said while filming the graduate. Okay. Gillette doesn't have to explain what they
00:28:50.700
were doing. I wasn't a Gillette that did Joe Namath. It was one of them. I mean, they don't have to
00:28:58.780
explain. They don't, they don't, they don't, they don't actually have to explain what they were doing
00:29:05.120
when they were selling sex and razors back in the seventies or the eighties or the nineties,
00:29:10.120
or maybe two years ago. They don't have to answer for any of that. But if I, God forbid said something,
00:29:17.200
my son said something in 1995, my life is destroyed. How dare you? It's really weird. And I think,
00:29:26.240
uh, this is a strange thing. We've talked for years. I mean, how long have we been doing the show?
00:29:29.940
And we've talked about how, you know, the left and the media are pushing the boundaries and we're
00:29:35.020
losing those sort of traditional values, right? Like everybody's having sex with everybody. And
00:29:38.840
that's like, like they've now combined that with like this really odd puritanical set of demands
00:29:45.300
where you can't like, you can't talk about sex. You can't talk about any of these things. Like
00:29:50.300
you have to, at the same time, be way over the line and break every barrier, uh, of, of what was at
00:29:56.820
one point, good taste. But at the same time, you can't say anything to anybody. It's a new religion.
00:30:01.580
It is. It's a new religion. These are the puritanical priests that will tell you what
00:30:08.840
you can and cannot say. And what's, what's so aggravating about this is you're the one always
00:30:16.040
saying to us that we're too, we're too tight. We're too, uh, we're too afraid of sex and everything
00:30:24.180
else. We, we just want everybody to be wholesome. And well, now what is that Gillette ad? That
00:30:29.820
Gillette ad is teaching your children to be wholesome. It's teaching your children not to
00:30:37.300
ogle girls, not to pinch their ass, not to, not to whistle at them and cat call them.
00:30:44.240
And it's a good thing Gillette came along because I was teaching my kids exactly the opposite.
00:30:49.000
That's the only reason why I taught my son how to whistle. You're right. I put my kid
00:30:51.940
in cat call class. I was teaching him how to be a better cat caller. I put him in construction
00:30:58.020
sites, uh, so that he could learn from the workers. Oh, that's a smart thing. That's
00:31:01.340
very smart. All construction sites. They're all that way. All men are like that. That's what
00:31:05.940
they do. Right. You know, toxic masculinity. Amen. It's just poison spilling out of these
00:31:13.600
men. Just poison spilling out of them. Thank you, Pat. Thank you for saying that. You're
00:31:18.060
welcome. Okay. Had to be said, can I talk to you about, can I talk to you about a, a poisonous
00:31:23.520
man? Absolutely. A guy who has just, you're going to have to narrow it down though. I mean,
00:31:30.340
it's all men. Well, everybody's going to know this one, Tim Allen. He is the worst of the
00:31:34.720
worst. I mean, he's been pushing that. That'd be a bad kind of man. Your whole, our whole life.
00:31:41.500
Well, ABC did the right thing by firing him. Um, unless you're looking for money or ratings,
00:31:48.220
uh, Fox just put them on debuted. He had great ratings for a show that I really haven't seen
00:31:56.200
talked about. I didn't know it. It was even, I would have watched it had I known that it
00:32:00.160
was coming back. It was coming back. Um, but here is, uh, here's, uh, here's just a real
00:32:06.240
quick clip of the new Tim Allen show as it's back on Fox. Oh, no, I'm trying to DVR my favorite
00:32:13.000
show, but it's not on. Oh, well, maybe it got canceled. You know, the TV business can be
00:32:19.460
a heartless bastard. Hey, canceled. Why would they cancel a popular show that everybody loves?
00:32:26.740
Maybe they're a bunch of idiots. Just try another channel. Oh, no, Mike, they don't
00:32:39.260
just take a show off one network and put it on a different. Hey, there it is. You're right,
00:32:46.300
Mr. B. Am I wrong? Or is it like way better on this network? Way better. Way better. I'll
00:33:02.900
be damned. I've never heard of this happening before. Well, it's pretty rare, but show must
00:33:07.040
have a lot of loyal kick-ass fans. How great is that? How great is satisfying? Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:14.500
Well, if he just wasn't so toxic in his masculinity, I think tools, you know, he wants to talk about
00:33:20.340
tools. He did tools. That's that men tools, power tools. And that means women in short shorts. Oh
00:33:29.400
my goodness. Oh my goodness. Well, Gillette, thank goodness. Thank goodness. Not if that show
00:33:35.520
is number one, Gillette will not advertise. I'm sure. All right. Thanks, Pat. Um, let's talk
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about the X chair sitting in the, uh, X chair now doing the broadcast. Uh, you can have an X chair
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just like this one. Carol Merrill, tell us a little something about it. Uh, what? I don't know what
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you're talking about. Well, you keep purses in safes. I thought you were, I thought you were the least
00:34:01.380
masculine here in the room. Uh, really? Do you want to revisit your, my wife is telling me what to eat
00:34:07.400
for every meal for a month and it's all lettuce? Is it going to revisit that one? Uh, I think I will
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defend your folder. Your honor, may I just point out, I'll defend that one all day long compared to
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I bought a safe and my wife puts all of the person what we, we don't keep guns. We don't keep any
00:34:29.100
manly stuff in there. We keep her purses in that. Yeah. I'll do. Oh, you, you, you keep working on that
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and wait, wait till I turn these things in. I'm going to be living on an, I'll buy my private
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The author? He's been actually, I think, overrated for a really long time.
00:35:52.200
Yes. I don't know exactly. We've been looking into this.
00:35:55.680
Steve's always been rock solid. I've never had a question about Steve King ever until recently.
00:36:04.140
And he's been controversial with the media for a while, but a lot of Republicans are.
00:36:08.380
I've never thought Steve King, oh, he's a racist. He's a white supremacist. Oh, he hates whatever.
00:36:13.860
And never, ever have I thought that about Steve King.
00:36:18.140
There's something that bothers me about this whole incident.
00:36:23.280
He did an interview with the New York Times in which he said, the quote was, I believe, white supremacist, white nationalist, Western civilization.
00:36:38.860
So, they're saying, basically, like, you didn't know that white supremacy was offensive?
00:36:44.520
But his explanation is, he was talking about, people are always talking about white supremacy and white nationalism.
00:36:51.540
The Western culture. When did Western culture become offensive?
00:36:56.460
And there's some reason to believe that's what he meant, and that his next sentence was, I took classes on this, and they told me about the merits of it, and is that bad now?
00:37:13.580
So, you know, there's some reason to believe that that's what he was referring to, and really, it comes down to, on this particular quote, and a lot of people can bring up things on the side of Steve King, and I think we should talk about those, too.
00:37:26.600
But on this particular quote, there's no audio of it.
00:37:29.540
I have yet to see the context in which it happened.
00:37:32.360
You know, I don't understand why we haven't seen the entire transcript of this interview yet.
00:37:36.760
It may very well be that he did something terrible here, and he is this bad guy.
00:37:41.360
But, I mean, but, like, there's a period, there's a comma instead of a period in this quote, where it says, white nationalist, comma, white supremacy, comma, and Western civilization, or it doesn't even say and.
00:37:55.300
It's just Western civilization, when did these things become offensive, or when did this language become offensive?
00:38:01.160
If you put a period after Western, or white nationalism, so he's maybe referring to something else, white supremacy, white nationalism.
00:38:08.560
Listen, Western civilization should not be controversial.
00:38:12.160
If that's a point he's making, I think most people, most certainly most Republicans would not disagree with it.
00:38:16.900
I think what he's saying is that, I'm saying all of these charges, you're this, you're that, you're this, you're that, you're a white supremacist, you know, you're a white nationalist.
00:38:28.880
Western civilization is, remember when Katie Couric said to me, what is the white culture?
00:38:41.240
Remember, he's fighting that point, theoretically fighting that point.
00:38:44.840
Katie, it's everything that you and people like you are now saying is horrible.
00:38:50.720
It's Western civilization, Western civilization.
00:38:56.200
Yes, people of many colors and many backgrounds and many religions and many non-religions helped formulate this.
00:39:07.760
And even Tim Scott, who came out and wrote an op-ed saying how bad Steve King's comments were, says,
00:39:13.120
if it's Western civilization, we all agree that we can defend that, but he's just not getting the benefit of the doubt, even from people who would be friendly with him.
00:39:22.020
And he's had, he's had everything taken away from him on Capitol Hill.
00:39:27.440
You know, everybody, even diehard supporters of him have, have bailed on him.
00:39:32.880
But I, but I wonder if it's bailing on him because.
00:39:42.460
And I don't know this, this particular thing doesn't, there's something I can't square with it, with this New York times quote.
00:39:49.140
And we can go over the details on that, but like, you know, his, his endorsement for the Toronto mayor thing was, was really bad to me.
00:39:59.720
Reach out to him because we've had respect for him for years and I don't even know what to think on this one.
00:40:06.920
You know, it doesn't look good, but I would want somebody to give me a fair hearing.
00:40:12.140
So let's, let's have Steve on and let him explain whether you buy into it or not.
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This is one of those things, you know, I've told you in the past, I, you know, I lived at the time when Tokyo Rose was still alive and she had such a tale to tell.
00:41:35.580
And she died and I didn't reach out and talk to her.
00:41:39.860
I mean, these people who have experienced history or making history, I mean, I've got the greatest job in the world.
00:41:46.840
All we have to do is call them and go, Hey, would you come on the air and talk to us?
00:41:50.740
There is somebody who everyone in this audience, I think, would you say that's pretty safe to say what?
00:42:00.900
Knows this person's voice, but you know nothing about her and you have no idea the story of how it got from her mouth to your iPhone.
00:42:21.460
I'm just going to tell you that her, her Twitter handle is seriously, Susan, seriously, Susan in one minute.
00:42:39.400
There's about 7 million people getting hit with a flu this time of year.
00:42:43.180
If one more person asked me if I've had a flu shot, no, I haven't had a flu shot.
00:42:56.180
We didn't have everybody crying over flu shots when I was growing up and we all pretty much survived.
00:43:07.240
But I don't think it's, I mean, there's been years I haven't.
00:43:18.480
Is it like, is it something really, really bad this year compared to last year?
00:43:29.680
Like I haven't, I haven't changed my air filters yet.
00:43:32.860
Nobody's asking me, have you changed your air filter yet?
00:43:44.660
So nobody ever has to ask me, have you changed your air filter yet?
00:43:50.140
He just gets to get people to come and do all of the stuff for him.
00:43:53.060
No, you can just, you can go right now to filterby.com and you can actually save money
00:43:59.640
by having your filters delivered directly to you.
00:44:03.120
And then nobody has to say, have you, have you checked your filter yet?
00:44:12.340
They're just going to send you a filter and then you'll see it on your porch.
00:44:19.220
You know, we wouldn't have all these problems with stupid people if we just didn't have
00:45:02.760
First of all, I want to get into your history, but just answer this.
00:45:05.960
You didn't even know you were going to be Siri, did you?
00:45:11.960
And when you actually got a phone call from a friend who said, I just got this new Apple
00:45:22.200
So he recognized my voice and he said, yeah, this sounds just like you.
00:45:28.580
So I went on the Apple side and listened and I said, well, that's because it is me.
00:45:39.540
You've been a voice actor for a long time, which is quite honestly, my dream job.
00:45:48.420
All you have to do is just read the words and just think about how they sound the best.
00:45:55.640
You don't actually have to come up with like stuff.
00:46:09.520
Why do you sound like Siri talking down to me when you say that?
00:46:17.060
So you were actually working in studios and the voice actor didn't show up and you're like,
00:46:22.780
No, actually, the owner of the studio at the time said, Susan, you don't have an accent.
00:46:34.100
And as a true freelancer, I was excited to find another avenue to pursue to make a living.
00:46:40.260
Because you were a backup singer for Roy Orbison.
00:46:45.460
I mean, that's like, cool Siri was like a backup singer.
00:46:49.740
Oh, and I got to sing a duet with him in concert.
00:47:13.880
My husband and I had a band together for close to 25 years.
00:47:24.980
And right now, the only consistent thing we do, actually, is we're in a band called Boomers Gone Wild.
00:47:32.380
And we play nothing but 60s and 70s rock and soul music.
00:47:43.880
I mean, we have calls for bands from time to time.
00:48:05.240
And can you give us any things that you've said that we might have heard pre-Siri?
00:48:15.460
It's just, you know, and in the past, when, you know, before technology allowed all voice
00:48:21.620
actors to just work from home, and it's basically up to the engineers to put the commercial together.
00:48:27.860
Back in the day when we would all get in the studio together, it was a lot more fun.
00:48:32.300
And actually, you were talking about the fact that, oh, you just have to show up and
00:48:35.960
Well, sometimes that wasn't the case when we all got in the studio together.
00:48:39.440
Because sometimes we would, you know, improvise things, and they would actually say, oh, that's
00:48:49.180
So you did, you know, you did the loudspeaker announcements over for Delta Airlines for their
00:48:57.620
You did Macy's, McDonald's, Goodyear's, Papa John, IBM, Coca-Cola.
00:49:03.400
You also were, you were the voice of a lot of GPSs where you're like, at the next, go
00:49:17.980
People, do people ever, like, get into a car with you and just be like, that's weird.
00:49:24.340
Well, some people, you know, it's amazing that some people really, really don't hear as
00:49:31.620
Because when they, they actually altered the original Siri voice with the iPhone 5S.
00:49:38.180
And I was one of the few people that really thought that it was different.
00:49:41.980
Most people didn't recognize the change at all.
00:49:44.140
And it turns out that it, they did not get another actor at that point.
00:49:48.720
They actually just manipulated my voice, you know, with computers and manipulated audiologically
00:49:56.700
And finally, the only really acknowledgement from Apple that I've had is if you ask Siri
00:50:04.760
today, who I am, she will say Susan Bennett is an American voice actor and the original
00:50:10.820
voice of Siri up to OS 11, which, you know, was last year.
00:50:15.820
And now suddenly, yeah, Siri's a millennial now.
00:50:20.200
Okay, so your voice is not being used at all for Siri now.
00:50:28.580
So now, this is the, this is the really interesting part to me.
00:50:33.240
Because you didn't, like, when you, when you did GPS, or you did Lucent Technologies,
00:50:39.720
and, you know, for the operator, press, go ahead, say one of those things.
00:50:42.880
Um, yes, for, for Susan Bennett, please press one.
00:50:52.740
And when you did things for the GPS, like at the next, you know, next light turn, you
00:51:00.260
Well, no, um, any, anything that was recorded for the Nuance company, which is, uh, the biggest
00:51:08.040
IBR company in the world, and from which Apple got all the Siri voices.
00:51:13.200
And people go, wait a minute, all the Siri voices?
00:51:15.480
Well, you have to remember that I do not speak every language in the, in the world.
00:51:19.160
And so they had, uh, other voices doing different language, languages for different, um, countries.
00:51:30.960
Uh, the recordings were done, my recordings were done in 2005.
00:51:35.780
I've spoken to some other people that started even earlier than that.
00:51:39.520
We recorded all of these sentences and phrases that were recorded, that were created just
00:51:44.620
to get all the sound combinations in the language.
00:52:07.080
And we read just thousands and thousands of those phrases.
00:52:12.060
And, and, uh, you know, I think I actually had a little brain damage during that time.
00:52:17.280
But you had no idea who was actually on the other end buying this.
00:52:23.020
And no, we were sort of told that we were just doing generic phone messaging.
00:52:27.840
But, you know, we were doing recordings for phone systems.
00:52:31.140
And, you know, I guess it's a combination of naivete and, uh, just the, the desire to
00:52:38.260
do a lot of work that we found ourselves in this position of, of having our voices used,
00:52:43.400
uh, in a lot of different places, uh, basically without our permission.
00:52:49.360
Um, it, um, it's a complicated thing, but the way I look at it is we sort of, we sort
00:52:55.080
of were in the middle of that, uh, transition period between doing business as usual and
00:53:03.420
doing business with, you know, the, at the speed of technology.
00:53:07.300
So we really had no idea exactly what we were doing.
00:53:10.320
Um, I will have to say it was a, you know, it was a little troubling at first to realize
00:53:14.580
And then it's sort of like anything else in life that you're surprised by something you
00:53:20.300
And you have to figure out a way to, uh, to deal with it, adapt, adjust, and spin it to
00:53:25.380
the positive for yourself, which is what I've done.
00:53:27.920
And it's turned out to be really, uh, an incredible thing.
00:53:31.740
It's, it's really, it's really been a very fabulous thing for me, especially at this particular
00:53:38.660
So I want to talk to you, take a one minute break, Susan, then I want to come back and I
00:53:42.920
want to talk to you about, um, because you didn't record it, you, you, you basically handed
00:53:50.080
one thing that is uniquely you, your voice, and it's saying things that you never said
00:53:58.180
and, uh, and how that plays, uh, in a person's head and, and also, um, uh, should there be
00:54:07.460
a law, uh, should there be something that says, Hey, a voice is unique?
00:54:13.360
I mean, I, I think this is the future actors, old actors, anybody, if you don't own the
00:54:18.620
rights to yourself, um, you can now be manipulated and, and you could be a movie star, but it's
00:54:28.800
Susan Bennett, the, the original voice of Siri.
00:54:31.220
Uh, when we come back, all right, one minute, and then we're back with, uh, we're back with
00:54:38.240
Siri first, let me tell you about relief factor, uh, relief factor, uh, I've been taking for
00:54:45.440
And, you know, I know a lot of people will talk to you about relief factor.
00:54:49.760
Other shows have, uh, talked to you about it and you can, you know, trust them and whatever,
00:54:56.440
Uh, I've, I do not endorse things that you put into your body.
00:55:01.380
I don't think I've ever endorsed things in the last 20 years.
00:55:07.220
But I mean, that was, uh, it was a minor campaign.
00:55:13.000
Um, uh, but I, you know, when it comes to ingesting stuff, if I'm not taking it, I won't
00:55:20.600
And if I don't see results, I won't talk to you about it.
00:55:23.520
Uh, relief factor, 100% drug free created by doctors for key ingredients that help your
00:55:32.080
And that is one of the biggest problems we have when it comes to pain.
00:55:41.360
Um, and my pain has greatly reduced, greatly reduced, um, to a point to where I can function.
00:55:49.660
And I, you know, don't get up every day going, I can't live this way anymore.
00:56:07.100
But if it does work like it does with 70% of the people who try it, you get your life
00:56:17.280
So, Susan, I don't want to talk specifically about Apple.
00:56:32.860
I want to, I want to talk about this in theory.
00:56:36.620
Um, you had your voice, you know, you, you signed the contracts and the personal everything,
00:56:42.600
but you had never thought of this technology and how it could be used.
00:56:47.580
And your voice was in some ways taken from you.
00:56:56.660
It was a, it is kind of a troubling thing, but I think even more troubling than that
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is because of just the ability, uh, with technology now, they can basically, basically make you
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They can change, you know, the tone, timbre, pacing of your voice.
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And, uh, even recently I put together, um, I do a lot of, uh, Siri appearances and speaker
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events and I wanted to put together a speaker demo and I was working with, um, a video editor
00:57:28.520
and all of a sudden he said, well, you're saying this, but we can fix that.
00:57:34.540
So you mean we can't, so we can no longer trust anything we hear or see this is not good.
00:57:40.300
So, you know, basically, uh, you know, I try not to take it personally because it's, it's
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sort of just the way our culture seems to be going.
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I mean, as somebody who, um, I watch technology, um, and I've been concerned about deep fakes,
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uh, that are, that are, are going to be a problem starting, I think in 2020 real problem.
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Uh, and that is the manipulation of video and audio.
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So where you cannot believe your eyes and ears, they can make, make me say anything and
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I mean, like, wait, I never, I never said that.
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Um, and the deep fakes are getting so good that that just changes our whole world, doesn't
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I mean, even to the point where I've done so many interviews and I appreciate doing a
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live interview because, uh, many times, uh, interviewers take a direct quote and just sort
00:58:43.200
of make it their own and end up saying something that I didn't actually say.
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And, you know, I, I just really try to, to not think too much about it because it's, uh,
00:58:56.200
And, uh, and, and I feel very bad for really famous people, you know, the, uh, the George
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Clooney's and the Jennifer Aniston's of the world, because God only knows what, what, you
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know, people are saying about them or, or, or attributing, you know, things that they
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So that's one of the things, that's one of the strange place in our culture.
00:59:19.000
They're taking celebrity faces and they're imposing them, um, on, um, you know, on, on,
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And you can't necessarily tell that's not George Clooney.
00:59:34.060
Uh, one of the things I think is a problem is that, you know, that a lot of people believe
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this stuff because I think that too often we've given over our own, uh, brains and our
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own individuality to just the general culture and to TV and media, uh, and, you know, social
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I, I think that, that people that in a way with all these digital devices that we have,
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you know, we just, we just tell Siri or Alexa to do this or do that and we don't really have
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I, I think it especially, um, uh, affects children.
01:00:16.580
She says, oh my God, she said, they tell Alexa to do everything.
01:00:19.740
She said, isn't these, these girls don't even know how to turn on a light bulb.
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And, and I think that we're losing a lot by not going through the process of learning
01:00:32.240
things or the process of doing things, you know, uh, even, even the dark ages when I was
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growing up, you know, you would go to the library and you'd look things up.
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There, there's no, no process of, of, of learning when you're doing these things.
01:00:56.760
Well, I just hope to do more of what I'm already doing, which is, uh, uh, Siri appearances and
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I mean, that's something that Siri created for me.
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I've actually had a chance to go to some pretty exotic places like Croatia, um, to do, uh, the speaker events.
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We have you do some, uh, uh, this is the Glenn Beck program, uh, kind of stuff.
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Let me, let me give you the number of my agents.
01:01:56.880
That's going to be a weird position because I mean, you know, we didn't like in my mind,
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if you were the voice of Siri, like, you know, you're just getting a $25,000 a week Apple
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She didn't, she didn't say any of those things.
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It is a deep fake that we've been talking about, but it's, you still know with the voice
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of, uh, of Siri that it's, it's manipulated somewhat, but very soon you're not going to be
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I mean, listen to when she was saying the Siri stuff.
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So I have nothing, nothing bad to say about the first half of the Gillette commercial because
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I think we all agree that these are good things and we're glad that the world of mad men is
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in the past, especially if we have daughters or we're married to a woman.
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Let's play the first half of this Gillette commercial.
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You're watching this and you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know, it's gone on too long and that kind of stuff.
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Boys will be boys and bullying and all of that stuff.
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Allegations regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment.
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Because the boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow.
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Gillette, the company that has been talking about sweet cheeks since the day I was born.
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They are now lecturing me about the grotesqueness of our society.
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You've been pumping in the bikini clad girls going, oh, yeah.
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And don't lecture me on what we have to teach our sons.
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Luckily, I'm not the only one a little upset about this.
01:08:27.780
Well, you know, I just I'm trying to keep my blood pressure down.
01:08:36.980
So I was talking to Tammy and I realized this all began with the 19th Amendment.
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What's the way we could repeal that and start over?
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The way it started with the 19th Amendment and you want it repealed?
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And Tammy Tammy said, well, it's probably not going to happen because there's too many women in Congress.
01:09:11.640
I you know, I just isn't that what you taught your son, Jeff?
01:09:15.480
I sat my boys down when they hit that age, when they started dating.
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And I said, that's somebody's daughter, somebody's future mother.
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And I said, if you had had a sister, would you want some kid manhandling them in the backseat
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And no, it was a it's a it's a common sense discussion.
01:09:35.060
And there's a difference between married to a woman, you know?
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They're boys who shave, you know, there's their little boys who shave is what I call
01:09:53.300
But I don't think it's, you know, the majority.
01:09:57.300
So is this like you said, I don't need to be lectured by a commercial.
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Is is is Gillette just trying to sell razors, more razors to women?
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Well, most of the men that I know are growing hairy bears.
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Maybe they're going after the the transgender that this the changeover.
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He has been out on the road for CRTV and the blaze on make comedy.
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We're going into New York, February 1st and 2nd.
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But we did what is this like some sort of sacrificial animal?
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You guys are that we're just putting you into New York.
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Go to the Northeast with a car with a tour called make comedy.
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Did you see that Tim Allen's show has has debuted?
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I just don't watch enough television to get the commercials for all that stuff.
01:11:24.320
I knew that he was going to, but I didn't know it debuted.
01:11:32.880
And it's funny because it's one of the few sitcoms in history where there's a strong male lead.
01:11:44.000
And one of the reasons they were going to do the pilot with me is because we pitched a strong male lead in a sitcom.
01:11:49.820
And the head of the studio, he was 55 years old at the time.
01:11:55.220
And he said to me, he goes, you know, it's so unusual.
01:12:00.720
Yeah, sitcoms used to have strong male leads that he remembered years ago.
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And that's when things started getting kind of absurd.
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I can do all that other stuff without looking like a bumbling idiot, you know.
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But, you know, Tim is one of the guys who is, you would say, almost the stereotypical guy that Gillette should be preaching against.
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And yet he hasn't been affected by this at all.
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In fact, if anything, maybe being made stronger.
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Right, because there's a desire, I guess, a desire for it.
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I mean, whether they want to come out and publicly admit it.
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I had a guy get me a job somewhere, and the guy comes over to me, and he goes,
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He's thinking about playing here, you know, if you book me a few more times.
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You know, as we talked to you yesterday, the country is not as divided as we think it is.
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The parties are far more polarized than the American people.
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They're just kicking people out that have common sense.
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Does this sound like something a mainstream party would say?
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Right now, we need to change the dialogue and find a balance in U.S. domestic terrorism strategy.
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So far, there is nobody paying attention to the links of the trend of anti-government activism to Timothy McVeigh and the bombing of the Alfred Murray building in Oklahoma.
01:19:02.800
That event served as a touchstone for over two decades, and it is making a cottage industry with right-wing hate.
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That's why Benny Thompson, the representative from Mississippi, who is now in charge of Homeland Security, is going to have hearings as soon as Congress comes back in, because we really need to look at terrorism.
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And it's not the terrorism of 9-11, it's not the terrorism of al-Qaeda, but it is the terrorism posed by right-wing extremists.
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This is what they're going to use their power for, right?
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That's what the Democrats are going to do with their newfound power.
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They're going to start looking at anything that they deem as a conspiracy theory, anything that they deem as right-wing hate, and they're going to start looking at the speech and those who are perpetrating this.
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I mean, they will go after, I mean, they're going to go after, certainly, you'd think, the Alex Joneses of the world, right?
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In that conspiracy world, the Pizzagate people, all of those sorts of groups.
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But then they're also going to try to, I'm sure, loop in people who aren't close to extremists.
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The guy who went into Pizzagate had been lied to.
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But even he, when he went in, said, oh, wait a minute, this isn't what I thought.
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He wants to find a balance in U.S. domestic terrorism strategy because, so far, we have focused too heavily on the threat of homegrown Muslim terrorism and too little on the rise of the far-right white nationalist and anti-Semitic groups.
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Would that include the Women's March this weekend?
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So I told you that about four or five years ago, I went back up to New York and I met with the heads of GLAAD.
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This will cost me all kinds of listeners because it will be seen as a sellout.
01:25:57.680
People won't really listen to the message at times.
01:26:01.520
You know, they'll take the pictures and they'll spread it across the Internet.
01:26:12.660
And we can argue about wedding cakes all day long.
01:26:16.520
Or we can look at what's happening in Iran and we can look at what's happening in Russia.
01:26:26.580
They are taking their driver's license away in Russia.
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I spent an hour and the head person at GLAAD in New York had no interest.
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She just kept bringing it back to wedding cakes.
01:26:43.940
Oh, I have never been more frustrated in my life.
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I open up to any organization that I may disagree with and you may disagree with me on 90% of whatever it is we say.
01:27:01.700
There is something now that is happening in Russia, in Chechnya.
01:27:14.760
That organization over in Russia has to have their identity obscured and their voice altered to be on the air anywhere in the world.
01:27:31.740
What's happening is in Chechnya, the Russians are scooping up homosexuals and they are torturing them and killing them.
01:27:40.640
It's being called the beginning of a genocide of homosexuals.
01:27:50.700
Why is it that our political class and our media is so hyper on toxic masculinity?
01:28:03.600
So hyperactive on we've got to have 90 some genders.
01:28:08.440
We must have bakeries serving cakes for every event under the sun.
01:28:17.240
But is that the priority when there is a beginning of a genocide happening?
01:28:24.240
Shouldn't the world stand up and say, hey, this is wrong.
01:28:29.780
But did you hear that Kevin Hart joke from 2009?
01:28:42.880
And now the people who are standing up for gay rights in Russia are so afraid to stand up because they're going to be taken next.
01:28:58.060
Then there's this Pakistan was the first Islamic country to come out against what China is doing to the Uyghurs in China up to a mil between a million and two million up to two million.
01:29:16.240
Definitely a million Muslims have already been picked up by China in this one province and put behind bars into concentration camps.
01:29:39.280
We had one woman who escaped three times and finally escaped from China, came here to the United States, spoke.
01:29:49.100
And she said, we are being forced to drink things that make us bleed from every orifice.
01:29:59.620
Said, I can't prove it because I just got here.
01:30:05.360
They're making us drink things that makes us sick and bleed from every orifice.
01:30:13.360
The Chinese are just saying, well, you know what it is.
01:30:18.520
We're just we're just trying to make these Muslims like normal and usable Chinese citizens.
01:30:33.300
Now, when I said at the beginning of the hour, how much is a human life worth?
01:30:46.560
China came back to the leadership of Pakistan and said, hey, we'd like to do some more trade with you.
01:30:52.340
And we'd like to build a literal highway that we can.
01:31:03.860
And now all of a sudden they're saying that, no, this these are these aren't concentration camps.
01:31:11.200
Hey, have you seen the new road we're building?
01:31:15.360
Why aren't we talking about the homosexuals and their real plight, the real plight of homosexuals?
01:31:24.580
Not because we've sold out for a political agenda.
01:31:29.400
We've sold out because we have to make Donald Trump look like an anti-gay president, even though he's the most gay friendly president this country has ever had.
01:31:41.540
I mean, we've sold out for what for political purposes for a wedding cake.
01:31:50.080
We will look and turn a blind eye to people who are being tortured and systematically killed because of their lifestyle.
01:31:57.540
Well, we'll turn a blind eye because we want to make sure we prove a point on wedding cakes.
01:32:04.620
We want to make sure that that baker makes wedding cakes for anybody.
01:32:25.180
Because, well, we've, you know, the West is just so evil.
01:32:34.200
We can say things like this country should be destroyed in the country.
01:32:46.660
Or if we're Pakistan, we'll just condemn Israel that lives with Muslims in their own towns, treats Muslims in their hospitals exactly like they treat Jews.
01:33:02.840
We have to call them the great Satan, but China will build a road.
01:33:07.000
And so we're not going to say anything about our own people.
01:33:24.640
You know, it's like you can really get some good exercise.
01:33:28.300
Do you know why Western civilization is so important?
01:33:31.740
Do you know why we can't wipe Western civilization off the face of the earth?
01:33:37.580
Because this is what Western civilization strives to do.
01:33:43.500
To stand up for those who can no longer stand up for themselves.
01:33:59.580
Stand up for the women and rescue the women who are being systematically raped and abused and killed and buried in graves.
01:34:11.140
We're talking about Western civilization that says, care about your enemy.
01:34:23.960
Without Western civilization, I don't give a flying crap about the homosexuals in Russia because I'm not one of them.
01:34:33.120
And those organizations here in America, well, they're trying to take us down.
01:34:39.120
They're trying to shut me up for what I believe.
01:34:43.920
No, I care about all human beings because they're my brothers and they're my sisters in God.
01:35:04.680
Where is your, dare I say it, Christ-like attitude for the people who are actually suffering today?
01:35:18.960
You can still go get a wedding cake someplace else.
01:35:21.440
And why would you want him to be forced to make your wedding cake anyway?
01:35:28.740
Get married and then spend your time trying to save lives.
01:35:34.680
I didn't hear anything about this on the news today.
01:35:37.320
I did hear, though, that the president served McDonald's at the White House.
01:35:50.220
It's my favorite moment of the entire presidency.
01:35:53.600
It's better than Gorsuch and Kavanaugh put together.
01:35:55.700
I love the fact that he slammed a bunch of Wendy's and McDonald's and Burger King on the table.
01:36:08.160
I want the same people who were making the food last time, have them deliver on silver platters McDonald's and Burger King and Domino's, bring in some Taco Bell.
01:36:22.020
And it's like, you know, we're not a country of titles and kings and nobility.
01:36:27.960
We're just working people who go in and, yes, we all have McDonald's.
01:36:35.320
Not all of us, because I know there's some vegans out there.
01:36:42.080
Yeah, like, I want visiting dignitaries to sit down to, you know, to a freaking Burrito Supreme.
01:36:50.760
I want the other countries around the world go, these guys are just such simpletons.
01:37:01.520
And once in a while, it's nice to have fine dining.
01:37:04.400
But most of the time, and especially when you're on a budget, this is what Americans eat.
01:37:10.420
When you come and visit us, it's going to be Brooklyn style from Pizza Hut.
01:37:17.840
And the only reason why we're talking about that is because we're also talking about the real things,
01:37:23.760
politics of meaning, where people's lives are at stake.
01:37:28.300
And then just to be able to survive the day, just be able to kick back and go, yeah, Wendy's at the White House.
01:37:41.900
Never more than 60 seconds away from the programming.
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And then right back into the show, it's Goldline.
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Will the Dow at the end of the year, Stu, be closer to 30,000 or 15,000 at the end of the year?
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End of the year, I'm going to be hopeful and say closer to 30.
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If I really had to guess, I would say closer to 15, but not 15.
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I think it might be down a little bit this year.
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Look, you know, that's what he's here for, to make sure that America doesn't kill themselves, because I don't think so.
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I think it's happening either this year or the next year.
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And I'm always wrong with timing, but I think it's right around the corner.
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When there is economic turmoil in the world, I mean, Brexit could really, depending on what happens tonight, English time.
01:38:44.720
So around two o'clock this afternoon, Eastern time, when when they decide on Brexit, that just something like that could be the thing that just starts this ball rolling.
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And it all unravels when the world goes insane.
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It always returns to a safe haven, and that is gold.
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Goldline 1-866-GOLDLINE 1-866-GOLDLINE or goldline.com.
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So do you want you want a fun story about you choose the news here, Stu?
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A fun story about destruction, how we're all going to die, or a serious story that's just going to make your head pop off?
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Okay, so I think if I'm going to die, I want to do it the funnest way possible.
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So the polar shift is something I've followed for about 20 years, and just lightly.
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And I have absolutely no idea what any of it means.
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Um, but I, I'm not a, you know, I'm not a sky is falling on this one.
01:40:23.520
So the poles, uh, the North and South pole, it's not fixed and it drifts every year.
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And it drifts because we have a iron core and then a molten core around that, that iron core.
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Well, that's kind of like, you know, taking copper wire and wrapping it around, uh, uh, iron and then taking a magnet.
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I mean, it's creating energy, okay, magnetic force.
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So you get your poles North and South because, because the world is, is molten just beneath the surface.
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And it can, it can move and it can make the polar, uh, magnetic field move.
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The magnetic field generally stays in the same kind of area.
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It has, uh, you know, in the past few hundred years, been as North pole has been as low as Ohio, believe it or not.
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Um, but it's been a long time and it takes centuries to move, blah, blah, blah.
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In fact, it's now last year, it moved 55 kilometers.
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The North pole, if you're standing on the North pole, you are actually South of the magnetic pole.
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If you're standing at the, the, you know, where the pole is, you know, the red, white striped one.
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If you're at, you're at Santa's village, right.
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You are not actually at the, at the North pole at that moment because of the magnet.
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Now, the problem is, is that our GPS is run with magnetic North.
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So the further it can, it, it's built to be able to withstand stuff, but they had to go
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in and have an emergency reset this last year because it's moving so fast.
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I mean, nobody's, I don't think anybody's seen it move 55 kilometers before.
01:42:36.280
Well, our GPS had to be reset because otherwise we'd all be driving in the Pacific ocean at
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some point, um, because it's like, it's, it's, it's all off.
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Now, here's the part that they think is, uh, this is, uh, you know, this, these are just
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They think that this has happened before that the polls got so far out of whack that
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they, that North and South actually was East and West.
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So North and South would be up and down on a map and East and West would be, uh, no East
01:43:15.280
and West would be up and down and North and South would be left and right on a map.
01:43:21.300
And they think that because everything is sitting on this molten, uh, core that at some
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point, and this may have been why the, uh, the continents broke up at some point, the
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thing got so far out of whack that it actually, the mantle slid on that molten core.
01:43:42.960
And so what was at the equator was now North and South, which would explain why you
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have like, uh, fossilized, uh, uh, tropical plants found in Antarctica because it used to
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Well, we're headed towards now a polar shift of some sort.
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And what's fascinating to me is if you've ever read the Bible and you hear, Hey, uh, and
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The only way to make the stars look like it fall is have a continental shift and a polar
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And back, there's more to that, but I don't think we need to go on.
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Um, life lock stolen identity, uh, is a real nightmare and things are getting worse.
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So yesterday, the day before there was a story of, of, uh, a, a group of people that are actually
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If you can help us hack in, uh, to, uh, people's identity and companies, uh, and companies, uh,
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I mean, it's just crazy that you're what really you you're online saying, Hey, join us.
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Brad is the number one New York times bestseller of the inner circle, the book of fate, nine other
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bestselling thrillers, including 10th, just the first council, the millionaires, the president
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in shadow, uh, in addition to fiction, he is one of, uh, the only authors ever to have
01:45:51.840
books on the bestseller list for nonfiction advice, children's books, uh, and comic books.
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I think I'm the only one on that list with you, except for comic books.
01:46:14.760
And it's, and, and I think in the nineties, it felt like we didn't need that hero.
01:46:21.120
Well, I think that's what, that's what happens is in all times, if you look historically at
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the time of the great depression, uh, the heroes that we looked to were heroes that were Tarzan
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and Flash Gordon were the most popular because we would, they were designed to take us elsewhere.
01:46:35.160
We wanted to escape the great depression and then world war two starts encroaching on
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And we don't even know how to fight, we don't know how to fight, we're scared, we need someone
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to come save us and Superman gets invented, sells a million copies.
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We were once again a country, America, we were scared, worried that someone's coming after
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And the first movie that broke through the public consciousness was Spider-Man.
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And right now, even a decade later, 15 years later, we're still a country that's, we're
01:47:06.360
Whatever side you're on, we are looking for a hero.
01:47:09.360
And all times throughout history, it's not just there's a need for hero, that's where
01:47:14.500
And so I actually, um, this is, as you know, my, my nerd study of it.
01:47:18.540
And I think it's, it's no coincidence why, um, we look to whether it's Neil Armstrong or
01:47:23.580
Mr. Rogers this year, or even George Washington, where once again, a culture that's starving
01:47:31.000
Those, all of those three have something in common.
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There's a reason why they're, they're people are looking to them again.
01:47:36.140
You've written a new book called the first conspiracy, the secret plot to kill George
01:47:41.100
Um, you read enough history to know, for instance, Edison was not a, he was a bad guy, did some
01:47:51.200
Um, and you can look at people and you can pretty much find that with almost all of them.
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Uh, and people say, well, I don't believe in any of these heroes.
01:48:02.120
And that these people were, you know, actually really good because a lot of times the history
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is wrong and only tells one side, but you can find it.
01:48:10.340
If you look sure, I cannot find the dark side of George Washington.
01:48:15.360
Yeah, no, the, the, the George Washington lives up to the hype.
01:48:19.240
And I always say, but people will always write to me, right.
01:48:22.120
One of the few, I mean, I, every time I do one of the kids books, everyone always writes
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to me, well, this one did this and this one did that.
01:48:27.400
And this one had an affair and I say, listen, I'm just telling you right now, if you're looking
01:48:32.140
for perfection in people, the only person that's perfect, the only thing that's perfect
01:48:38.340
And I feel like George Washington sets that standard for us at a different level, which
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is why the thought of a secret plot to kill him begs the craziest question of all is what
01:48:57.820
Cause I, I mean, I've written a book on George Washington.
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This is a, I found this story, Glenn, in nearly a decade ago in a footnote where all the great
01:49:11.820
And I was like a secret plot to kill George Washington.
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There was in 1776, just to be clear, let's talk about it up front.
01:49:27.620
Um, either way he dies because back then if you kidnap someone at the lower level, we
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would trade you back to the British, but at his levels that you got hanged.
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The largest public execution at that point in North American history.
01:49:57.720
That's a, that's an actual historical quote from your time.
01:50:00.480
But, but the, but what I couldn't shake is why don't I know the story?
01:50:05.360
One, I went to Pulitzer Prize winning author, Joseph Ellis, and I said to him, you know this
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And he said to me, this is a story about George Washington's spies.
01:50:19.940
He said, you can find the exact number of slaves at Mount Vernon that George Washington
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He said, by its nature, Brad, what you're searching for will forever be elusive.
01:50:30.480
And the other reason why you don't know it is because of when the hanging took place.
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Now guess what else is going on in the world on June 28th, 1776.
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You're a week away from the Declaration of Independence being signed.
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June 28th is when the first draft, one of the first drafts is handed in.
01:50:53.160
And with headlines like that, when you're studying that period, this gets obscured.
01:50:59.660
So his secret, and you make this point in the book, his spies really go on to inspire
01:51:09.680
And we don't know anything about them, or very little, but they go on to inspire even the
01:51:16.000
No, that's one of my favorite parts is we thought we were investigating this secret plot
01:51:20.720
But what we realized is we found something far bigger, which was we found out that George
01:51:27.040
Washington, one of the first things he did is he created his own secret committee.
01:51:30.280
And the secret committee was called, because if you have a secret committee, you've got
01:51:35.240
So it was originally called the Committee on Intestine Enemies.
01:51:39.860
And then they settled on the far better name, the Committee on Conspiracies.
01:51:43.240
And the Committee on Conspiracies, as you saw in the book, is run eventually by John
01:51:48.160
It comes eventually at the end of the war, the first Supreme Court justice.
01:51:51.260
But what John Jay does, and is researching this plot, is he slowly, you know, they go in
01:51:57.140
the middle of the night, they're pulling people out of their houses, they're interrogating
01:51:59.820
them, they're shaking them down for information.
01:52:01.680
What they're really doing is they're building America's first counterintelligence agency.
01:52:07.160
And you ask any historian today, you say, you know, what's the precursor to the CIA?
01:52:14.320
But the real precursor to it all is this moment in 1776 in the plot to kill Washington, because
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And they're using civilians, just like the CIA did.
01:52:24.420
They're using civilians, not always military people, gathering intelligence.
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You know, George Washington, when we started, he wanted a good offense, wanted a good military.
01:52:38.660
But what he learned in this period of time, right at the beginning, and this is 1775, 1776,
01:52:43.860
at the start of it, we always think of the end.
01:52:46.220
We think of George Washington 2.0 as the war goes on.
01:52:48.620
But in the beginning, this is where he realizes, oh, wait, I just don't need a great offense.
01:52:55.860
We need information to see what's coming that we're not going to see on a battlefield, that
01:53:01.620
It's this moment that inspires his later building the Culper Ring, his later expanding the Committee
01:53:07.680
In fact, right now, in Langley, Virginia, at CIA headquarters, to this day, there is a room
01:53:13.580
dedicated to John Jay, who they call the founding father of counterintelligence.
01:53:20.220
And so I love, and you see these parts of things that I, and again, you and I have talked
01:53:24.720
about this offline and on air plenty of times, but there were so many parts I didn't know.
01:53:28.680
George Washington had his own private bodyguards, which I never, I'm like, how did I not know
01:53:34.660
And what he had done is, he asked all of his top regiments, he said, give me your four
01:53:42.740
He wanted what they called drilled men, and drilled men were the best of the best.
01:53:46.680
They were just, they were actually even a certain height, a certain build, a certain moral character,
01:53:52.460
the kind of person you really want on your side you can trust.
01:53:55.400
George Washington personally narrows it down to about 50 people, and these become what they
01:54:01.700
They call him the Commander's Guard, but the name that sticks are the lifeguards, because
01:54:07.140
one of their jobs is guarding George Washington's life.
01:54:09.780
It's also amazingly where we get Baywatch come from.
01:54:16.560
I haven't, trust me, I thought, and I got to look it up, but that, I honestly do think
01:54:21.220
it may be where the term comes from, but it comes from the lifeguards.
01:54:23.920
They guarded his money, they guarded his papers, and they guarded his life.
01:54:28.100
These were the original Secret Service, but these are the men who turn on him.
01:54:32.600
Four of the men on the lifeguards accept bribes and want money and basically decide we're going
01:54:39.320
You know, when you have Alexander Hamilton, you kind of can see why he turns.
01:54:45.760
You don't necessarily agree with him, but you can see, oh man, what a stupid mistake that
01:54:52.460
Yeah, just a series of human errors where he turns.
01:55:01.900
No, it's not, you know, it's not a, it's not a Benedict Arnold where I feel slighted
01:55:07.520
I know you meant though, I know you meant, yeah.
01:55:09.820
Benedict Arnold, you know, has this, you see all the slights, and so, you know, it's ego
01:55:15.180
and hubris and all the other things that go along with any great fall.
01:55:20.160
It's nothing personal, you know, and I think it's, you know, we in America, as you know,
01:55:24.360
we take our heroes, we dip them in granite, we build statues of them, and we do them a
01:55:32.720
They become these lowercase g gods, which is horrible, and we're worshiping the wrong
01:55:39.400
And these people, anyone you look up to, as you know, I've talked many times, whether
01:55:42.940
it's George Washington or Rosa Parks or Dr. King had a moment, any hero you've ever
01:55:47.920
loved, had a moment where they were scared, and they were terrified, they didn't think
01:55:51.760
they could go on, and they keep going forward, they choose to go forward.
01:55:55.080
And what happens in this moment, what we also do with the revolution, as you know, is we
01:56:00.100
tell the story that we all gathered around democracy, we held hands, we marched forward
01:56:04.600
as one, and we beat the greatest fighting force, the British that the world had ever seen
01:56:14.680
We weren't, you know, we think we're divided now.
01:56:17.260
We were so divided back then that there were nearly, in New York City in 1776, there were
01:56:22.140
nearly as many loyalists on the British side as there were on the Patriot side, on the American
01:56:29.280
Our own military, you had, you know, all these different regiments.
01:56:32.440
So one of my favorite scenes in the book is you have the Massachusetts Regiment is meeting
01:56:39.060
George Washington is there, and, you know, these guys from Massachusetts, they look at
01:56:47.540
You know, we don't even have one uniform that we're fighting in.
01:56:49.820
Some guys are showing up in work shirts, and some guys don't even have shoes.
01:56:55.320
A fight breaks out, and George Washington comes racing him and grabs two of them by the neck,
01:57:00.900
and he's shaking him and basically saying, stop fighting with each other.
01:57:06.600
And when you have, you know, and if ever there were a metaphor for where we are today,
01:57:12.020
But to me, what you have back then is you have allegiances always shifting, because here's
01:57:16.180
the one thing that happens, is it's not a sure thing that we're going to win in those
01:57:23.380
And in those moments, the one thing that's true then and is true now is no one wants to
01:57:29.660
And so you have the governor of New York at the time, a guy named William Tryon, who
01:57:33.920
basically is mad he's lost his job as the British governor.
01:57:38.000
He basically starts bribing people and seeing who can he turn.
01:57:41.320
And when you have, as you know, when it looks like America's not going to do well, and you
01:57:45.160
may not pull it out, and you got no gunpowder, you got no shoes, guess what?
01:57:54.140
Their big grand plan, when you read the first conspiracy, is you'll see their, and we don't
01:57:59.100
know every single detail, because of course the plot was thwarted, but their plan was they're
01:58:02.700
going to blow up bridges, they're going to steal our cannons, and they were going to come
01:58:06.720
And it was all going to happen just as the British arrived in New York.
01:58:10.560
At end that moment, they were going to give whatever the signal was going to be.
01:58:13.720
And, you know, it sounds like something out of episode three of Star Wars, right?
01:58:17.160
But they were literally going to turn and switch, and the people who were on, that we thought
01:58:21.760
were on the Patriot side, were going to be revealed as traitors, and kill everyone there.
01:58:25.920
The name of the book is The First Conspiracy, The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington.
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Brad Meltzer is the author, and he's going to be doing a podcast with us as well, so you'll
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02:00:18.020
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I really feel like he should just turn that into a thing.
02:00:41.420
Because I would think that by the time they had it all presented on the table, it might
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You're going to have to develop a system there.
02:00:49.080
I like the fact that he said, you know, the first lady and the second lady, you know,
02:00:55.820
But you wouldn't have really necessarily believed that.
02:00:58.460
You know, like if you were the president or if I were the president, you know, we'd make
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People would believe, yeah, my wife made the spaghetti because that's what she does.
02:01:10.240
You don't see Melania in the kitchen making salads.
02:01:14.680
But I like the fact that he said, yeah, she was going to do that.
02:01:18.460
But then we decided, let's just go to McDonald's.
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I just want to be clear that that is not what my wife does.
02:01:29.400
My wife and I both celebrate the freezer section of the grocery store as if it was the
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Well, it is with all of the flavors of ice cream.
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That's the only thing ever since we started talking about this story.
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And I'm willing to taste test to see which one I like better.