The NBA's Gambling Scandal Is ... Exactly What America Needs？! ｜ Guest： Jonathon Seidl ｜ 10⧸24⧸25
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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Stu Bergeer to discuss the latest NBA gambling scandal and the impact it's having on the national sports culture. Glenn also talks about the new over the counter hearing aids available to replace your old fashioned hearing aids.
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Well, let's say hello to Stu Bergeer, our executive producer.
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It's a great story, especially the way I tell it.
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So, you know, can I talk to you a little bit about the basketball gambling scandal?
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You know about the basketball gambling scandal?
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I don't know the names of the people that are involved.
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I mean, I heard them, but I'm like, I don't know what that is.
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And, you know, one of the things that caught my attention was how sophisticated it was.
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You know, x-ray tables that could read the cards from underneath.
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This is the illegal poker game part of this scenario.
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Uh, and the, uh, you know, the, the contacts where they could read the, the back of the cards, all of these different things.
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And I thought that was really kind of, that's kind of cool.
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But then it got to the point to where it was four out of the five crime families.
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And with a newscast I heard was, it was the Italian mafia.
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And then they, you know, Genovese, Genovese crime family, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And, uh, I actually got to the end of that story and I'm like, oh, do you remember when we just had the five crime families?
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Oh, it's like, it's like my childhood coming back.
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You know, it's like, oh, I understand this news.
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It's like old fashioned, you know, it's like, hey, somebody went in and, and robbed the, all the sarsaparilla from the fountain.
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Uh, it does feel like, uh, you know, you think about these players, some of them have made hundreds of millions of dollars in their careers and they're, they're worried about illegal poker games.
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And, you know, a couple of hundred thousand dollars betting on the under on Terry Rozier's assists or something.
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But I tell you, so that part, did, did you ever see any of those games?
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Like, cause the way I heard it, you know, that's the way I interpreted it.
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That, you know, they, they, they got hurt and then they had to leave early or whatever.
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The main one that they highlighted was a guy who, uh, basically told people in advance he was going to leave the game early.
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And so everyone could bet the under, like they scored less, fewer points.
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And then he left after nine minutes of the game.
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Just to give you a background quickly on this player, very good player for many years.
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And over the last two years, his entire career has mysteriously fallen apart.
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I mean, it was like an outside of the gambling, like what happened to this guy, Terry Rozier,
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who was like a good player for a long time, you know, 20 points a game type of guy,
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and then couldn't even get on the court, like was traded for a number one pick and, and all of a sudden just fell apart.
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And some of the highlights of games of his are so bad.
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Like there are plays that I would see when I was coaching my seven-year-old's basketball games.
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Like they're horrible that you would never see an NBA player make.
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And the insinuation now, of course, is it had to be something related to the gambling.
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Though in the indictment, I don't think it was charged like that particular game that he had done anything with.
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But he looked so bad that either something was really going on with him physically or he, you know, allegedly was gambling.
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So the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers, Chauncey Billups.
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So he was playing the fascinating part of this.
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And like a lot of people are like, well, I can't believe now they made gambling legal.
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Let me just remind you of the word illegal and illegal poker games.
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Like part of this was done on, you know, legal betting services on the sports stuff.
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What's funny is they're not really getting in trouble for having illegal poker games.
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They're having trouble for cheating at the illegal poker games, which is with all the technology you were mentioning.
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And what they did was say, hey, we're going to have these underground poker games.
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Some of them underground in Vegas, which, by the way, you can play legal poker games in Vegas.
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Don't go to illegal poker games when you're getting this type of pitch, which was, hey, come come.
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You'll sit next to Hall of Fame players and like, you know, former players.
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Everyone was in at it at the table, except the fish.
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You did read this indictment and you're using poker terminology.
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And of course, their motivation for being there, we should note, was to take advantage
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of the stupid players that were going to do dumb things during these games.
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Were these the NBA players that were kind of muscled into it because of their poker debts?
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There are some stories about that in the indictment where players had debts, so they had to come
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and participate in the illegal games to essentially pay off their mafia gambling debts that were
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Now, of course, this stuff has happened forever.
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I mean, if the mob does exist, I want them to know I love them.
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Can you tell we lived in Connecticut for a while?
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I saw one yesterday of a 2023 clip of a professional poker player saying all of this was going on.
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This is now two years ago, saying he knew people who would go to these games and they
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And obviously, they were cheating because they would just go all in on combinations of
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And so it was really obvious to the professionals who were going there going, oh, I see what's
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Now, it's a comical situation when it comes to the poker stuff because, again, you're talking
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like Chauncey Billups made nine figures in his career.
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He's not a guy who certainly is short on money.
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Well, apparently he was if he had gambling debts to the mob.
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I don't think he was the guy in that particular.
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There was a lot of multiple people involved in this.
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But some people, you're right, can gamble away $100 million.
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Like we always say, you know, you talk about alcoholism, right?
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If you're a big alcoholic, like people would say, wait, well, you've got all this to live
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You have a, you know, what they would call a disease, right?
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Like it's a serious issue that's not easy to just drop off.
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That's when I'm like, I think I have a problem.
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We know if they, for anyone in this fictional Costa Nostra thing, we know you wouldn't threaten
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But yeah, so it's a, it's a pretty amazing story and, you know, it is not as bad, I think,
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as previous gambling stories where like referees were actually fixing games.
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Like that is a much, much worse thing than what we see at least so far in this, but it's a
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pretty big story and I'm, I'm, I'm impressed, Glenn.
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We used to have conversations about sports that would just be nonstop comedy because
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So this is basically your version of a mob movie.
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That's as close as I could get to a mob movie today.
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Well, I, I mean, I like the characters in them, but I really like the food.
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Like, like he's, you know, you get to eat like that.
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As, as, as, as someone who grew up in new, uh, near New Haven, Connecticut, and you worked
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in New Haven, Connecticut for years, uh, like there is a calculation made by the community
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If they can have the pizza, like we're actually, Oh yeah.
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You could guys can commit a certain number of crimes.
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That's the only part of New Haven though, that makes any sense.
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I mean, it starts at Yale and then goes downhill.
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Worcester street, this whole area completely not run by the mob.
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And, uh, it is, it's the safest place you could, you could, you could take a woman and ever
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take all of her clothes off and tape hundred dollar bills to her and say, walk down this
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Unless one of the mob bosses are like, you know what?
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I think maybe we got to talk to her all the way, bring her all the way, you know?
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And we should move, but all of this outside of the pizza quality is alleged.
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Anyone who knows pizza, like you'll hear a lot of people say, Oh, New York pizza, New
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That doesn't mean you know anything about pizza.
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If they say new Haven, New Haven, it is really, it truly is the best pizza out there.
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But I tell you, they get on that particular street, do not ask anything about the pizza.
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And if it comes because it's brick oven and so, uh, you know, it'll come a little burned.
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Then they look at the picture of Frank Sinatra on the wall.
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What's that service where you can get the pizza?
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Some of the places in New Haven are on Gold Belly.
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So, uh, I had Jillian Michaels on, uh, the podcast to spend some time with her yesterday.
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And she is, she's obviously always been a very, a big, a big liberal.
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And, uh, she's kind of had a come to Jesus awakening.
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I mean, not, not come to Jesus in the phrasing, but I'm saying, does she see it as an awakening
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Like the parties just moved away from her, the party moved away from her and she woke up
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Um, and she is, uh, she's really clear on it and really great, but we talked, I was just,
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you know, doing the rough greens commercial and I was thinking, this is kind of the stuff
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The stuff she talked about, you know, the food processing that we do.
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And I know this is not one of your big things, but the, some of the stuff that she pointed
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out that happens in the process food and the food scientists trying to make it better.
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There's a difference between making it better for you, better, healthier for you and tasting,
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And what they're doing now with the, um, you know, the, like Ozempic.
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And do you know what they're, do you know what food companies are doing?
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They are going in and trying, how do we change the molecular structure of this food to be
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able to bypass Ozempic because people, you know, they're not hungry.
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And the fast food companies are starting to go down.
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All of these companies are losing lots of business.
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And so they're, they're hiring these food scientists to say, we've got to make it more
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like fentanyl, you know, and I want you to know with RFK in office, don't do food science
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I mean, you know, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, yeah.
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And we were talking about it and it's, you know, there's, there is, as she said, you
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know, a lot of the stuff started out with good intent.
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You know, we're feeding the world, you know, the GMOs, everything else.
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And she said, and there's a line that you get to where you're like, yeah, but I want it
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I mean, certainly like they, you know, you think about social media, right?
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Like in theory, there's a world where social media could be, you know, as someone pointed
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this out the other day, like it was called social media, but that's totally out, out,
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Like it was supposed to be like, Hey, you're talking to your friends about what's going on
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Like nobody uses it that way in touch with your family.
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Talk to people that you haven't seen since high school.
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Like you're following a bunch of accounts that are posting AI videos.
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So you scroll all night and you've talked to Tristan Harris about this many times.
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They are designing it so that you consume as much as possible.
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Every industry is going to, this is one of the big criticisms of capitalism.
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If you, if you have them and, and it, and it's of course true at some level, you're
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And I know Jillian Michaels would support that.
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You know, there's, you talked about, you know, how, when she left the biggest loser,
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which you gotta hear her talk about that, how the biggest loser and how, what reality
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And she was like, you know, I kind of understand like you, because I understand, you know, I
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And she's like, when you start to see the machine and how it works, she's like, you realize,
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What, what do I know about people I watch on TV or listen to or people in the news?
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I don't think I believe any of that stuff now because I seen the inside of the machine
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Um, it's, it's very similar to what you're talking about with food and yeah, yeah.
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Like it is like they, they, they could, they could tell you a very interesting story about
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people losing weight or they could, you know, maximize the drama and suck out the good moments
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and put only the bad ones and whatever else they're doing.
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We talked about, um, you know, we talked about Simon, Simon Cowell and, and, and her, remember
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She was kind of the Simon Cowell of that show at that point.
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And she's like, she's, I think she's going to sue.
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Um, there's a new documentary out that, you know, making her look bad again.
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And it was the actual good guy on the show that was doing that stuff.
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Uh, and, uh, it's, it's, it's a great interview.
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You want no kings or you want no kings but Christ?
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You're working with somebody you've worked with for 30 years.
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And they say to you, you know, if you've ever really seriously considered alternative citizenship,
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I mean, it could be that I have information that I'm going to give to the government about
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Well, I mean, I was thinking about it a little bit.
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And by the way, Glenn, if you've ever really considered alternative citizenship, now is probably
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My thought process was, you know, there was a truce of sorts in our country where you
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didn't go after your political enemies with the force of law.
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The Democrats decided, if you remember recently, that they were going to break that truce and
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just dissolve all of the traditions that we had in that area by trying to throw Donald
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Now, you may have noted that, you know, we are having a situation where I think this is
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And when the next Democrat gets in office, I, I'm not saying you're at the top of the
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list to get thrown into a gulag, but you're not at the bottom of it.
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Oh, I, I turn state's evidence immediately on you.
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The easiest thing in the world for me, because I can just go in there and be like, oh, let
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Uh, but I do think, you know, you know, Donald Trump's not going to be president forever.
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Well, imagine if like AOC is the president of the United States.
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Do you think there's going to be, and by the way, not completely outlandish.
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She's, uh, right in the, I would say middle of the pack right now on the democratic primary
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if she were to run, uh, and you'd never know what's going to happen.
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Oh, by the way, mom, mom, Domi, it looks like there's absolutely no way of stopping him
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So my point is what someone like that gets into office.
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Don't I come after anyone who's ever, who's ever said anything about low taxes?
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If anybody thinks, um, I mean, we, we must win the midterms and we must win 2028.
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You, I mean, because he has come after, you know, when he starts saying you're a terrorist
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organization and which I believe, you know, Antifa is a terrorist organization.
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When you say I'm coming after George Soros, Bill Gates and the Ford foundation, all of these
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things, you are, you have declared war and, uh, they are not, when they have the opportunity
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He's either got to wipe it out, uh, or, or we're screwed.
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And look, we could all, uh, you hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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And so, so what, so what country is going to be the country?
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And I'm like, look at, we got to go back into America and free America.
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So, I mean, where do you go where the United States, remember how they were uniting people,
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you know, Biden under Biden, they were, I mean, they, they were trying to get Elon Musk,
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you know, destroy him in like four different countries.
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Well, first of all, someone who's known you for 30 years, it's true.
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You'd never shut up, including at movie theaters and, and concerts and funerals.
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And, uh, so that's number one, uh, is that that's, I do agree with you on that part of
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Uh, I think like your goal in a situation like that, and you've probably put more thought
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into this than I have, but like with your goal into a situation where a government has
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become, uh, weaponized to come after you is to move your name down the list.
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And one of the ways you do that is just add barriers.
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Like if you're not, if you're at your house in Texas, they just show up.
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If you're in another country, they got to make a few phone calls.
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There's a lot of people they're going to target.
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That's what comes to mind, you know, and if they're back in charge with big food and big
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farmer, they're like red mist, put it on the fruit loops.
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That's it's, it's very inexpensive, artificial.
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Apparently it's more difficult than I remember.
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When I was taught, I was thinking when a civil war, if a civil war came to the country,
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Never did I ever dream that it would be government officials like in Illinois and California, not
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listening to the laws, not listening to the administration.
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And for several years before I admitted I was an alcoholic, I would ask myself every day,
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When you're asking the question, pretty good shot.
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So if you're asking, is this going to develop into a civil war?
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Now, you kind of ask yourself every day, if they're doing this and they are blocking the feds from actually doing constitutionally what they're supposed to do,
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and that is then triggers the constitution on an insurrection, which would mean the government then has to, has the right and the power to go into those states and put down an insurrection.
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Yeah, I don't think we need to ask ourselves, where is that leading?
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It's not, and it's no place good, but there is a difference.
00:33:06.380
So wait, are you saying we are in a civil war because you're asking the question or you're saying that we're not?
00:33:10.260
I'm saying that the likelihood of going into a civil war is higher than any other time in my lifetime because we're all asking that question of, is this going to lead to a civil war?
00:33:24.060
Yeah, so we're all asking this question because we all have the same feeling.
00:33:27.760
I can't find the way out of this because they're going, they're using police to go against federal police.
00:33:42.120
I said it's more likely to happen because we're seeing these things.
00:33:47.400
When you go into a civil war, no one's going to ask, is this a civil war?
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You want to do everything you can to avoid a civil war.
00:34:07.360
So is it like, you know, Michael Moore walks into a restaurant?
00:34:17.360
But walks into a restaurant and sits down on the table.
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He's just like, we're going to run out of food.
00:34:25.980
So Michael Moore walks into a restaurant, sits down at a table, looks across the restaurant.
00:34:30.640
And across the restaurant, on the other side of the restaurant, is Jennifer Aniston.
00:34:36.320
Don't know where you're going with this, but it's an interesting scenario so far.
00:34:41.460
No, he, so walking into the restaurant, the chances of Michael Moore having a fling with
00:34:50.380
Jennifer Aniston were incredibly low, like almost zero.
00:34:55.080
Now that they're in the same location, the odds are increased.
00:35:04.480
Would you say that's where we are with civil war?
00:35:14.020
So you're saying it's not necessarily a high probability event of a civil war.
00:35:18.120
No, but it is becoming more, it is becoming more and more likely.
00:35:35.820
I mean, this is what I'm saying about citizenship.
00:35:41.280
You, you have people who are intentionally funding a, a color revolution.
00:35:48.200
But you've been talking about this for 20 years.
00:35:51.000
And notice things are starting to happen and come true.
00:35:54.300
When I was talking about it, remember that's when Harry's like, that's crazy.
00:35:58.520
And we're going to have, we're going to watch TV on our phones too.
00:36:03.840
Now all this stuff is happening and everything that I told you was like, these people are
00:36:09.340
all going to work together to do this and it's going to be a color revolution.
00:36:13.240
We now have proof that they are doing a color revolution here in America and they're funding
00:36:29.240
So we also know that, you know, did you see the stuff on snap?
00:36:35.740
You know, so they're now saying that we're going to, we're going to run out of money for
00:36:40.020
Some, some, some states are starting to get to that point.
00:36:42.960
Um, you look at X and you'll see person after person, after person Americans, you got to
00:36:49.620
get ready to loot after snap is going to get canceled.
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Uh, and snaps the food stamps, food stamps, the new name for food stamps.
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And there's people that are, are seriously now saying we should riot and lots of influence
00:37:03.820
from foreign governments, uh, absolutely own might own particular apps that you're on.
00:37:13.900
It's, there was this book called, um, positioning the battleground of your mind.
00:37:19.720
It is, it was what started and, and, and explain the Cola Wars.
00:37:25.640
Pepsi versus Coke came out in the early eighties.
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And, uh, that's the kind of civil war I like, by the way, me too.
00:37:31.560
Um, and, and what it talked is, what it talked about was perception is reality.
00:37:38.800
And, you know, when you perceive something one way and the society perceives it one way,
00:37:47.480
The, the perception here for a lot of people on the left is the only way to solve this is
00:37:56.860
And that's becoming more, I would say that that's.
00:38:01.560
I'm, I'm hopeful that it's less than 5% of our population believes that violence is the
00:38:10.820
And the apathy toward violence, political violence is growing probably faster than the
00:38:21.500
And I do think, you know, when you talk about social media, perception is an interesting
00:38:25.600
Like, so it's why they say in relationships, in your marriage, like, don't talk about divorce,
00:38:30.940
like don't threaten divorce when you don't mean it.
00:38:35.180
So I can see what you're saying from, from that standpoint.
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Maybe it's because some spend their weekends for free reenacting the civil war, that it
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It's not something that you want to keep bringing to the forefront of our political conversation.
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I'm not, but I'm not advocating, obviously I am warning that's my job is to warn for anybody
00:39:16.340
The government is now recognize that and is trying to curb that, but they're dead serious
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And so when you know that that is happening, you, you have to put in gear the opposite direction.
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You, we, we have to go the opposite direction and try at all costs to hold things together,
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And as soon as you said, I'm going to take a few calls, something in my head triggered to me.
00:47:00.440
I actually give that man a call right now because I just see a few canaries in the coal mine, Glenn.
00:47:07.080
If you guys see what's going on in Virginia, the AG race, I mean, it's just you got Ma and Dummy there in New York.
00:47:13.300
I mean, the Virginia race, I mean, what was said, that the evilness behind it,
00:47:17.620
it just goes along with what's going on up here in Maine.
00:47:25.320
She's not a friend to conservatives by any means.
00:47:28.520
We are being pushed in a corner up here because we have no, you know, nobody is in our corner for us, really.
00:47:40.520
And we have a man right now running for Senate who's an actual Nazi.
00:47:45.020
I'm saying that because the things he said on the stump is really disturbing.
00:47:50.240
As a Christian, as a Jewish Christian, I am very upset the things he said.
00:47:55.840
And the tattoo that just came out and he just supposedly covered it up.
00:48:04.160
And what scares me the most is the new poll that just came out, the New Hampshire poll.
00:48:11.900
She's the Democrat from, you know, the establishment Democrat.
00:48:20.300
It scares me that people will just vote for, you know, an AG in Virginia who's like, hey, just let the blood flow in the streets and a Nazi in Maine.
00:48:34.340
But do you think in the general he would win over Susan Collins?
00:48:39.320
You know, Glenn, I've been thinking about it lately.
00:48:43.380
And the same push that made me call you is ringing in my head right now.
00:48:49.080
And it's just bringing up a quote that you brought up in a book that you wrote.
00:48:54.220
And it talks about how the spirit becomes almost like magic, you know.
00:48:59.680
If you look at the youth right now, they're being, I mean, they're pushed against the corner too, you know, guys.
00:49:07.700
And if you see what these people are saying on the stump speeches, they're, you know, like Rush used to say, their skull is full of mush.
00:49:17.800
And this man's out on the stump saying the things that they want to hear.
00:49:20.800
You know, Mondami's not doing anything different than no one else has ever done.
00:49:23.780
But he's giving these people hope, you know, and that's what they're grabbing on to.
00:49:28.740
You know, just like the Islamists, they'll lie to their adversaries.
00:49:31.800
And I believe these people are lying to our faces.
00:49:34.900
And I know, Glenn, for the years I've been listening to you and reading your books, these people are serious.
00:49:39.400
I mean, if you took what they did during COVID, I mean, we haven't even got to the bottom of that yet.
00:49:45.900
And this man's out there saying things that just his rallies are bringing in the youth.
00:49:53.680
You know, this might be the actual in the grand election.
00:49:56.680
And this could be the end for Senator Susan Collins.
00:50:03.740
And if you really think about it, New England is where all of us really came.
00:50:08.800
I mean, a lot of our history, Boston, Maine, Massachusetts, we are rich in history.
00:50:21.660
And it upsets me so much because we're so rich in history up here.
00:50:25.000
And this guy's going out there saying things that just, it's disgusting.
00:50:29.400
Do you really think Senator Susan, I mean, I don't see her grabbing on to Trump.
00:50:33.420
I mean, I don't, she's going to try to grab on to Democratic votes.
00:50:41.320
The conservatives are going to, I mean, I know no one, we don't really love Susan Collins.
00:50:46.780
But if we lose her people, that's a, that's, that's a heavy voice and a heavy hand that
00:50:54.240
I'm afraid, Glenn, that these, the youth are buying what these, what these Islamists and
00:50:59.400
what these Marxists, like you said, they're working together and, and they're, they're
00:51:02.960
grabbing onto it and they're, they're chewing it up and they're swallowing it.
00:51:05.940
And it upsets me because I wish Trump would come up here and do a speech and do it and
00:51:11.300
just do a rally because we're just, I mean, it's, it's, you know, what's going on with
00:51:16.700
I mean, from China taking over, I mean, it's, it's, it's getting to a point where
00:51:21.500
Alan, Alan, I can hear it in your voice and I, I feel what you're feeling.
00:51:33.300
And, uh, I just, I want you to know, Texas is a wonderful place to live.
00:51:44.120
Um, uh, I know nobody wants to give up on their, on their areas.
00:51:49.220
Um, but there are places that, um, you know, I think Minnesota, I think, um, you
00:51:56.920
know, some parts of Michigan, um, and may lose all of Michigan at some point, um, that
00:52:03.740
are just, they are, they're being fed to the wolves and they, um, they are being fed
00:52:11.400
The Democrats made this, this deal with the devil to get into bed with the, with the leftist
00:52:20.200
and the Islamists and they thought they could control them.
00:52:27.700
The Democrats, the old Democrats that made this deal and played footsie with them are all
00:52:34.520
terrified that they are going to be eaten by their own leftist crazies.
00:52:41.040
And you're seeing it now, you know, where you have a, uh, you know, a, an okay Democrat,
00:52:47.800
you know, as far as that goes in Maine running against a Nazi and the Nazi is winning.
00:52:56.020
Um, this is, um, we, we are in extraordinarily difficult times.
00:53:02.920
And I know that, and I, I want you to know that you're not alone in feeling that, but you're
00:53:08.980
also not alone in, in praying and, uh, trying to do the right thing.
00:53:26.260
Exercise your faith in God, that God has control and he is not neutral in the affairs of men that
00:53:38.400
If we want the blessings, it requires us to do all of the hard work.
00:53:48.940
We must do all that we can do and then let it go.
00:53:54.020
Whatever happens, it's his will and he will work it out.
00:53:59.180
We don't deserve the blessings that we have already received.
00:54:08.440
And now look at how, if we, we all know if 2020, if Donald Trump would have won, then
00:54:14.620
we would not be in the place we're in right now on the good side because Donald Trump changed.
00:54:27.880
Um, he educated himself over the last four years, what he and his family went through in
00:54:36.540
And now we have this version of Donald Trump, not the 2020 version of Donald Trump.
00:54:42.060
And yet I was on the air going, this is really bad.
00:54:48.620
We, we could be doomed by 2024 and we might've been, but look at the miracles that happened
00:54:56.440
in the summer of 2024 that led up to Donald Trump winning.
00:55:02.740
Um, we've got to let our version of what has to happen.
00:55:07.840
We have to just do the next right thing and the Lord will work it out.
00:55:12.980
Um, we cannot value our second citizenship, our passport in the United States of America.
00:55:19.800
We cannot value that higher than our first citizenship in the kingdom.
00:55:51.260
We are dealing with, as I said in 2008, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
00:55:57.600
He said almost every day, we are going to see the evil that we have not seen since the 1930s.
00:56:07.180
We're going to see it on our own streets here in America.
00:56:14.080
And there's no way for man to defeat evil without God.
00:56:44.720
Because Charlie Kirk lived his life every second doing exactly what God told him to do.
00:56:51.880
And look at the miracle that has happened since the death of Charlie Kirk.
00:56:57.520
The number of people that watch that memorial is estimated to be over 1.2 billion people watch that memorial.
00:57:08.520
We just received a Bible from an auction that we bought.
00:57:14.020
And it's one of the first Bibles printed here in America.
00:57:17.440
And in it, back in the old days, you know, Bibles and books were just very expensive.
00:57:22.000
And so you went to leaders and, you know, influencers, if you will, and very wealthy people.
00:57:29.200
And you said, hey, we want to print this book or this library, and we would like you to be a funder of it and help, you know, endorse this.
00:57:38.420
We just bought this Bible, one of the first printed in America.
00:57:41.260
And the funders and the ones who attached their name to the testimony of the truth of the gospel.
00:57:51.880
First funder was George Washington, President of the United States.
00:57:55.700
Second one, John Jay, Supreme Court Chief Justice.
00:58:00.560
Third one, Secretary of War, Alexander Hamilton.
00:58:04.140
We believe, and we're still doing our homework on this, we believe that is the last time that Cabinet and those kinds of people testified publicly of Jesus Christ until the miracle of the memorial at Charlie Kirk.
00:58:24.380
Where you had the president, the vice president, the secretary of state, the secretary of war, health and human services, and everybody else openly testified, not saying I love God, not even saying I love Jesus, saying Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior of the world.
00:59:25.260
We've had revivals over and over and over again.
00:59:28.360
You know when the biggest revivals were happening in America?
00:59:42.560
Those are the times when eugenics started growing out of control.
00:59:46.300
When we started changing our country towards this progressive nightmare where we made our God government.
00:59:54.560
We don't need a revival because that puts people in the pews.
01:00:00.800
And that means you get out of the pew if they're not talking about it.
01:00:06.880
And you tell your pastor, I cannot come here anymore because you won't talk about applying these principles to everything we do every day.
01:00:24.760
When there's an awakening, there is a reformation.
01:00:28.220
Not just of the churches, but also of government and our own private families and institutions.
01:00:35.000
Because the leadership of those families, institutions, companies, government, they all have been to church.
01:00:46.760
And they now say, I'm applying this in my own life.
01:00:56.800
It's why I'm talking like I'm talking to you right now.
01:01:05.080
Because the time to just say, we need God is over.
01:01:09.700
The time to say, we must obey the true king and savior of the universe, Jesus Christ.
01:01:27.800
We must elect people who understand who their king is.
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You find those people and we elect those people.
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If you're not doing what you're doing right now,
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and do something that does have eternal consequences.
01:03:13.340
Because if you want to face the world tomorrow,
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me gosh john how long how many years did we work together we went from 2010 when we started this
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whole thing to 2015 yeah uh and and you you left in 2015 um and i had no idea about the struggles that
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you were going through uh and where that would lead you and why you're on the program uh now your book
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is confessions of a christian alcoholic tell me the story well here's the funny thing glenn i think i
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didn't realize the struggles that i was having when you and i were working together and i think what's
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what's ironic right is i heard your story for how many years right that you you know what that looked
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like and what that what what that did to you and family and tanya saying you gotta you got something's
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gotta change right yeah and yet you know and i think this is the truth about addiction is we can
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know something and want to do something and still fall prey to it and so you know 2021 i had a
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another book come out became a top 100 book on all of amazon called finding rest it was about faith and
01:29:16.740
mental health and you know a mutual friend of ours billy halliwell called me up and billy said john
01:29:23.520
you have to be careful and i said what he said you're gonna publish a book and you know this as
01:29:29.020
well glenn he said you're gonna publish a book and you kind of get this this period after you publish
01:29:34.360
it where you fall into this like lull right yeah and and you know i kind of joke that it's like it's
01:29:40.300
like talladega nights like ricky bobby he's like what do i do with my hands you know yes and and and so
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i just kind of said well thanks billy you know but i'll be fine you know and sure enough like i published
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that book and you just realize you have certain expectations that it's going to do this and that and
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the other thing and it doesn't and you fast forward i had my own business at the time i lost my biggest
01:30:04.840
client and then my son was diagnosed with a tumor in his shin he was four years old at the time
01:30:10.300
and well by the grace of god that ended up being benign all of those things stacking up and here's
01:30:18.900
what i did glenn i just slowly started drinking more and more and more and it wasn't this overnight
01:30:28.180
thing and i don't think for a lot of people it is right but all of a sudden i wake up in 2023 and i
01:30:34.560
realize oh my gosh i am a full-blown alcoholic and i have this rock bottom moment on an anniversary
01:30:41.340
trip in miami with my wife where you know she says hey i'm gonna have the night in why don't you go do
01:30:47.900
whatever you want i said i'm just gonna go down to the hotel bar have a few drinks and appetizers and
01:30:52.120
she goes don't get drunk and i say i'm not gonna get drunk and i can say you know with 100 certainty
01:30:57.840
that my goal is not to get drunk that night and yet by the end of the night which is the beginning
01:31:03.780
of the morning i'm on south beach miami by myself waiting in the ocean going to the bathroom drunk
01:31:10.540
and i'm like what has my life become and my wife much like tanya you know said hey listen i don't care
01:31:18.980
if you never drink again what you have to do is get to the root of why you're drinking this way
01:31:25.300
you have to find something greater you have to return to something greater you have to dig that
01:31:29.820
stuff out because otherwise it's going to be something else and i said can we just go back
01:31:34.820
to the non-drinking part like that would be easier you know like than actually doing the soul searching
01:31:39.760
and the you know the surgery that it requires you know and um it's weird you think that i mean you
01:31:46.560
know i i got up early today and i read good portions of the book uh and it's very well done
01:31:52.480
um and um i i have to tell you that there's a couple of things that i think we all go through
01:31:59.540
first of all i'm not really an alcoholic i'm not an alcoholic because alcoholics i love the the
01:32:04.180
section where you're talking about you know what does an alcoholic look like um right we just have
01:32:08.580
this image in our mind of this is what an alcoholic is like and i'm not i'm not that you know i'm not a
01:32:13.980
why no um and so you go through that you go through you know asking yourself and then trying
01:32:20.660
to stop and you can't stop and you really try and you promise yourself every day and it gets worse and
01:32:26.280
worse and worse every day where you're like i i i'm a loser i cannot stop myself i promised myself i
01:32:32.460
wasn't going to drink today i promised myself i was not going to get drunk when i went down to the bar
01:32:36.560
you know uh at the hotel and you violate it every day and your self-esteem just gets getting worse and
01:32:43.020
worse and worse because you can't stop and you have every intent intention of stopping but you'll
01:32:47.860
always find an excuse um and then when you finally realize you have to then you don't want to do the
01:32:55.060
work of what's causing you to drink because you're terrified of it you're terrified of looking into it
01:33:02.380
and at least i was terrified that that's all that existed in me that there wasn't actually anything
01:33:08.740
good in me it was just this collection of things that i had gathered my whole life does that make
01:33:17.380
sense to you did you feel that way at all absolutely you know i that's why it's like i would rather and
01:33:24.760
this is what i tell people glenn and some people don't like it but i'm like listen my goal my my ultimate
01:33:30.800
goal for people when i'm talking to them the ultimate goal for myself is not sobriety right
01:33:35.740
because i want a better life than just not drinking right i want a better more fulfilled flourishing
01:33:44.060
life that's why i'm like man i shot for jesus and i got sobriety thrown in right now i'm i'm all okay
01:33:50.080
with programs i'm all okay with steps and doing what you need to do right community and talking about
01:33:55.420
you need that right but man if you when because when you do look into yourself glenn and you see
01:34:01.580
what is truly there right there's no way that you can personally fix all that no and now some people
01:34:08.020
can white knuckle it for a long time but ultimately they're not as fulfilled as they would be if they
01:34:14.040
actually dug in and invited someone in to fix those things i don't know if you can white knuckle it i
01:34:19.660
really don't i mean yeah um i really you know and aa doesn't expect you to white knuckle it aa the
01:34:26.940
first thing is you're not in charge here you got to admit that there's something much bigger than you
01:34:32.100
some whatever god is to you there's god and you um you you have to surrender to him um and and that
01:34:40.060
you know the surrender part is part of it but i will tell you that until i got into the waters of
01:34:45.880
baptism after all my alcoholism and everything and white knuckling it for several several years
01:34:51.660
until i got into the water i could not hold it you can't you can't carry that burden you know i it
01:34:58.400
people who i feel bad for people who don't need the atonement as bad as as badly as i did um because i
01:35:04.320
don't know if you can really truly appreciate it it it is when you cannot go anymore when this
01:35:11.560
decision is i can't live with myself anymore it is it's suicide or something else and i've tried
01:35:19.120
everything else so i'm going to give this a try and you truly surrender and accept that forgiveness
01:35:24.680
and then say i don't want this anymore i don't want to think about this anymore it's all yours
01:35:29.400
take it it's a miracle it's a miracle absolutely and i think what you know part of my message to
01:35:37.520
glenn is for people listen i was a christian i kind of say like i'm not the i'm the christian
01:35:44.300
that became an alcoholic not the other way around right and listen it's okay like i love the stories
01:35:50.240
of the other way around right but i also want to encourage people that listen some of these things
01:35:55.360
that are festering inside of you you can you can love god you can love jesus and and want to pursue
01:36:02.100
him and have all that stuff and yet you still have these things inside of you that fester and
01:36:08.240
that you need to work on and that was true for me right and so my hope is that people listening to this
01:36:13.980
like if you are not you know a person of faith and you want to find you know sobriety in jesus
01:36:20.360
let's talk but also if you are a person of faith who's like i am so messed up jacked up i'm drinking x y
01:36:28.680
away i'm cheating on my wife whatever i'm like there is still hope for you because there is hope
01:36:33.380
for me yeah i have to tell you i think that um i feel bad for people who are are deep in faith
01:36:42.880
because i've seen too many say no i know who god is and i screwed up and there's no going back for me
01:36:50.500
there's just no going back you know i'm i'm beyond the redemption because i knew everything it
01:36:56.120
it's not the way god works that's that's your sick head uh telling you that um what is go ahead
01:37:04.060
go ahead well i think there's parts of ourselves glenn right there are we have these we have these
01:37:08.980
whole healed you know parts that we've given over to god right and that's great and for me like that
01:37:15.020
whole healed those parts wrote a best-selling book on faith and mental health right but then when i hit
01:37:20.700
the hardest part of my life what happened is i realized oh my gosh there's stuff in here that
01:37:27.680
that a i had either stuff or didn't know existed and i'm like i don't want to look at that let alone
01:37:33.900
do i want to give that over to god right and and i think what we have to realize is man we all have
01:37:40.080
these rooms in our soul these rooms in our heart that we have blocked off and in fact i think for
01:37:47.320
some of us there's like secret passageways right like there's a bookcase and we're looking at that
01:37:52.300
and we don't realize that there's a door behind there and in that door is a bunch of rotten stuff
01:37:56.660
yeah and that's what we need to do and it's that over it's uh it's amazing too that you for me um
01:38:03.300
i honestly said my whole life my mother kid commit committed suicide i'm 13 years old my mom commits
01:38:10.480
suicide you know we were very very close i mean my whole life changed um and and i said my whole life
01:38:18.780
until i sobered up i'm fine i'm fine i'm totally fine with that i i got it i dealt with it i didn't
01:38:25.100
deal with it at all um but i actually believed i was fine because i had created this little this
01:38:33.400
little bunker inside of me that could keep that sealed um but that that rot uh even though you
01:38:41.260
don't realize it that that you can't seal that bunker off it that it's it's like it has nuclear
01:38:46.300
waste in it it seeps into everything my wife says this line and uh she's a very wise woman and she goes
01:38:55.600
you know what john you have to get to the root to get to the rot and i was like oh yes absolutely
01:39:05.280
and so that's what i've been doing two and a half years been sober for two and a half years now
01:39:09.280
and i'm still glenn finding rot down there oh yeah i'm like i'm like oh my gosh that cellar
01:39:15.660
like there's some potatoes that were in the corner that are like look like mutant now you know and
01:39:20.260
i'm like well all right here we go we're going to dig those out as well i'm 30 years i'm
01:39:25.260
30 years into it and i'm still finding rocks so i mean you know you're you're you know you're
01:39:31.700
still like wait this rude i thought i pulled this out you'll see it's a never-ending process but
01:39:37.800
i'm so happy for you um i i'm i'm really really happy for you um because your life i mean you're
01:39:44.500
two years into it let me just tell you john it just gets better and better and better it really does
01:39:50.320
and it is so worth the journey it doesn't feel like it at first and i know you you
01:39:55.040
you know it you wrote about it doesn't feel like it at first but it is so worth it and
01:40:00.860
and and happen it it is your future should you choose it and it's very very bright so very happy
01:40:08.840
for you john well thanks glenn and i think thank you for you know you never know when you're telling
01:40:14.420
your story this is what i say is you telling your story that wasn't if there's 20 steps to finding
01:40:21.100
sobriety for someone finding jesus if you will like you never know whether your story is step
01:40:27.200
one five or 19 right you're sure it wasn't step 19 for me right but because you like when you talk
01:40:35.560
about it it's like i remember those things right and so i appreciate it and i tell people listen i
01:40:40.060
didn't get the easiest life possible because i'm sober but i've gotten the best life possible
01:40:45.700
and and best is better than easiest yes yes you can't have best if it's easy i don't think yeah
01:40:53.500
right jonathan thank you so much jonathan sidle the the name of the book is confessions of a christian
01:40:59.440
alcoholic uh if you're asking yourself am i an alcoholic probably are if you're asking you probably
01:41:05.860
have a problem with it at some point um but um uh but again christian alcoholics it's a whole
01:41:14.260
different world because as he points out really well in the book um it's not what alcoholics aren't
01:41:21.080
what you think they are you know i remember the first aa meeting this this woman who was 80 had a
01:41:27.880
sweater set and a pearl necklace on and i said i don't know if i'm an alcoholic but but i'm really
01:41:32.860
confused now because i didn't think alcoholics looked like you and she didn't even turn around
01:41:38.040
and she was just this beautiful beautiful older woman um just so prim and proper and she she just
01:41:43.840
said oh honey we're all drunks in here and i realized you don't have to look like that you don't have to
01:41:50.320
lose everything you don't have to you know uh be you know a wino in an alley to be an alcoholic that
01:41:56.940
is a cartoon character uh of it and uh he points it out really well really well written book jonathan
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sidle confessions of a christian alcoholic all right back in just a minute
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um yes and he's moving the grave of adolf hitler and going to bury him in the rose garden anyway um
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the white house has responded and this is hysterical i don't know if you can yeah good you have it up on
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flagpoles are installed i mean it is the white house what are they saying there what are they saying
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get your scandals in order yeah let's look at scandals in the white house is it the scandal that i redid
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the rose garden or that i'm tearing this down that was built a hundred years ago and i'm going to now
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you didn't care about the cocaine in the white house or the the
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arena with megan kelly megan kelly is uh is uh doing her uh traveling stage show i don't even
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know if that's what you would call it that's exactly what she calls she calls the megan kelly
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traveling stage show whatever it is experience experience the megan kelly experience that's
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gonna be a great tour yeah it's gonna be a great tour she's got a lot of great people and then she
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has me in uh in fort worth uh and uh i can't wait to go can't wait to go bring he's arena yeah
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dickie's arena bring bring your family bring your friends it's gonna be a good night uh making a
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pretty big major announcement um tomorrow night uh and uh and also i'm i'm i'm going into the vault
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today to see what i'm gonna bring for history teach teach something for history i think i know what i
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want to share with megan uh and you tomorrow night dickie's arena get your tickets at megankelly.com
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megankelly.com very cool um now you as you mentioned do have a vault filled with all sorts
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of historical documents items from our history and uh i i think this makes you a little overqualified
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to answer the new citizenship test that is being we have a new citizenship test yeah it's the new
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citizenship test oh boy federal government imagine what it was under biden no how much do you hate
01:50:40.760
america on a scale from one to ten are you supposed to be here if you click no you're in uh the federal
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government rolled out a longer harder exam this month for aspiring americans test your knowledge
01:50:53.980
with the quiz washington post has this if you want to take it a lot if you're by yourself you want
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to check these off see how many you can get you want to take this glenn
01:51:03.020
no no you don't i think you'll be you should be able to do this go ahead like the first i hate
01:51:09.720
these because you know you're walking into you're like oh there's gonna be something that's gonna make
01:51:13.660
me look really stupid all right go ahead um the first one if you get this wrong because you now the
01:51:21.040
normal i think an average person just walking around and i'm thinking about their lives could
01:51:25.360
easily get something like this wrong you should not get this one wrong who wrote the declaration of
01:51:32.000
independence is it benjamin franklin john adams they give you they get it's multiple choice multiple
01:51:38.180
choice thomas jefferson or george washington uh but i mean thomas jefferson you are i'm gonna put
01:51:45.540
that in there and see if it's right oh wow it's right it's correct okay um i will say you be like
01:51:50.820
you have a copy of the original draft of the declaration of independence i've seen you give
01:51:54.960
20 speeches based on it and all the things that it says it's very focused on thomas jefferson
01:52:00.360
and your analysis of his thought process in that moment of course you get that right but i think an
01:52:05.500
average you know what but you could see some famous give me the names again give me the names again
01:52:09.560
benjamin franklin benjamin franklin's writing is on the original draft john adams that's right john
01:52:15.040
adams his writing is on the original draft so you could say because it was a committee of five
01:52:19.340
but the three of them really were instrumental in that so if you would have given me only three
01:52:24.740
choices i would have had a hard time you know what i said thomas jefferson but you could also say
01:52:29.640
in the fourth choice all of them all of the above right george washington and george washington was not
01:52:34.760
you know and selena gomez was she oh she was yeah okay she was a big factor yeah name a power that is
01:52:42.520
only for the federal government a oh thank god it's just multiple choice
01:52:48.180
thank god a print paper money yes b declare war yes c make treaties d all of the above gotta be
01:53:00.520
yes correct that is correct you're two for two glenn okay what may i let you in we might let you into
01:53:06.760
this country okay what amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the united states
01:53:12.640
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are u.s citizens what a fascinating one for them to stick
01:53:18.280
in here you know you should know this i knew this one you should know this one give me their choices
01:53:23.780
a second amendment no b sixth amendment no c 12th amendment d 14th amendment i want to say the 14th
01:53:36.740
but it could be the 14th 14th amendment final answer yes you want to phone a friend
01:53:41.900
uh no because i'd call you and you are not my friend 14th amendment is correct okay all right
01:53:48.500
and that's one of course interesting because they are specifically the trump administration is
01:53:53.020
pushing for a particular interpretation of that amendment which includes the phrase they often
01:53:57.920
lead off uh in the jurisdiction thereof okay question number four you see that's how you though
01:54:02.800
that's the multiple choice the choice that's how i knew it was the 14th amendment but when you have
01:54:07.600
the choices you're like i don't get my 12th i don't know what the 12th one is it's 14 14 go always go
01:54:13.300
with your first guess not that that was a guess no no all right go ahead the american revolution had
01:54:19.400
many important events name one okay okay a the battle of gettysburg uh b battle of the bulge
01:54:28.960
c the battle of yorktown yes d the battle of plattsburg no so it's what c yorktown c yorktown
01:54:38.940
is correct correct good job with that you didn't think battle of the bulge i didn't think so and i
01:54:44.360
don't want to even think about that one on where that would lead some people to go
01:54:48.520
let's leave that let me you know what let me give you a safer place lizzo
01:54:56.480
there you go why were the federalist papers important is it a they supported passing the
01:55:06.620
constitution d b they stoked tensions leading to the civil war c they inspired americans to break
01:55:14.320
from the british crown or d they inspired the declaration of independence a constitution
01:55:21.420
correct yes that is correct although like you know i'd be i'd be a wealthy man if this were like on
01:55:28.240
you know who wants to be a millionaire yeah just gets you nothing actually all it does is get you
01:55:32.140
entry into a country that will tax you into oblivion uh okay next up who wants to be a millionaire
01:55:38.260
and is gonna lose it all uh six james madison is famous for many things name one he was the first
01:55:47.840
foot fungus that's right that's e a james madison right james madison first secretary of state is a
01:55:54.320
b help draft the declaration of independence c founded the university of virginia d president during the war of 1812
01:56:04.260
dolly madison saved the painting of george washington so it would be war of 1812 president is war of 1812
01:56:13.760
correct the new test spots all these madison fourth president father of the constitution for the first
01:56:19.360
time another new questions similarly asked about how fellow founding father and federalist papers co-writer
01:56:25.220
alexander hamilton so there you go uh what uh when did all women get the right to vote
01:56:30.160
wait what when this is a new news to a lot of people hold it just a second now we're talking
01:56:39.640
about men who are saying they're women too they get to vote right yeah uh what when did when all
01:56:45.460
women get the right to vote 1919 1920 1925 1931 this is a trick question no you actually can vote clip
01:56:53.820
is a trick question because i think the vote happened in 1919 or at least it started because
01:57:02.940
i remember 1919 but i think it it finalized in 1920 i would have guessed 1920 but i will be honest with
01:57:11.640
you total guess this is the type of thing like what does this have to do with citizenship like i this
01:57:16.080
isn't a question that should be on here am i i'm not going to critique it i'm not learning the date
01:57:21.380
between 1919 and 1931 who cares like you always talk about like why am i teaching dates you always
01:57:27.240
talk about this yeah you know why are dates the important thing it's the story it's what's behind
01:57:30.860
the story the range of dates in a 12 year period to me makes no difference you guessed 1920 which was
01:57:37.420
actually what i was going to guess too i have no idea if it's right it is it is right uh 1920 i think
01:57:42.340
i think the 19 i think 1919 is when the the people's vote happened and then it had to go through
01:57:49.020
ratification right so that had to be over a period of longer than just 1920 i mean no 1919 i think
01:57:55.120
yeah 1919 1920 that's really a tough one yeah uh why did the united states enter the persian gulf war
01:58:02.400
oil that is actually answer b to secure oil in kuwait okay a is to defend the u.s from iraqi threats
01:58:10.640
no c to force the iraqi military from kuwait yes d to defeat saddam hussein c c is correct though
01:58:18.740
of course there were parts of some of those things that were also i would say elements in that decision
01:58:24.660
uh but when did you start hating america still i love this country glenn i've gotten them all right so
01:58:30.600
far even the one i totally guessed that of 1920 i got right okay name one example of an american
01:58:36.700
innovation a the light bulb b the stethoscope c no idea the computer d the electromagnet
01:58:47.520
have a problem with these okay is the light bulb
01:59:01.420
uh was france maybe but i think a light bulb as we know it was edison what was the next one
01:59:13.400
the stethoscope no idea where that came from right don't really care the computer
01:59:23.240
think that's english but i think that was a socialist that's why i think it was english
01:59:31.180
because i think it was an english socialist that came up with that and i've always wondered
01:59:34.360
why didn't you just give that all away what are you mr socials why do you know um
01:59:39.340
you'd have to go the light bulb yeah that's what would be my guess of these as well uh it is correct
01:59:46.500
but i mean like the computer like that is always one that they i mean you can go to turing of course but
01:59:51.460
like that you know that wasn't what we think of as a computer right like it was you know it was the
01:59:55.380
basis phrase the question again name one example of an american innovation we certainly have innovated
02:00:00.540
with the computer we did but we didn't but but it wasn't the that what i think i mean you'll have to
02:00:06.760
look it up i think i think turing was the one who first kind of came up with the idea of what we think
02:00:13.340
of now as the modern the basis right like but they talk about this with the innovation of the
02:00:17.420
internet trying to trying to calculate who actually started that you could a lot of people
02:00:22.000
like oh the the u.s government started it but actually a guy who was an employee for the u.s
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government had the idea before he was in the u.s government actually he was employed largely
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because of an idea that he had before he was in the government he was hired by the government for that
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purpose so like i don't know there's a great book called how innovation works which is matt ridley
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that goes through they has a great uh section on the uh on the uh light bulb and all a lot of these
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things are worth your time if you feel if you're interested in such things okay last one what is
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memorial day is it a holiday to honor military history is it a holiday to honor soldiers who died
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in military service is it a holiday to mark the beginning of summer or is it a holiday to honor veterans
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uh it's the to honor those who gave their lives it's a tricky question because you could you a lot of
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people think veterans but it's those who gave their lives they're only the way you easily remember
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that is of course there's veterans day right so that is a memorial for people who die so of course
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the answer is it's marks the beginning of summer yes no it is uh honor soldiers who died in military
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service so you went 10 of 10 there okay so if i if i pass now do i have to
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marry my brother yes it's the ilan omar amendment of the constitution all right yes yes that should
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be on there you can't marry your brother in this country that's question 11 by the way you only have
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to get 12 of 20 and we only give you 10 questions but in in the real the real test is 20 questions you
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have to get 12 of them correct oh come on 60 percent 60 percent that's that's that's that's an
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abomination what is the average american person not the average american in this audience what is
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the average american person out of 20 questions how many do they get rid of that
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okay 60 percent is high because that's i just look at the i'm thinking about that i'm like
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two out of the 10 maybe two it's really bad all right uh back in just a second let me tell you
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private conversation you just had what are you uncomfortable yet glenn beck is back after this
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i cannot believe this leticia james right now is standing in front of a courthouse in new york
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because she's just pleaded not guilty and received a trial uh date of january 2026 and she's
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actually saying this justice system has been weaponized is she bragging about when she did it that is
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absolutely incredible to me her whole campaign was hire me i'll find the crime and put him in jail
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i mean i believe her campaign slogan was uh elect me and i will weaponize the justice department of
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the state against the people you don't like i mean she legitimately said i'll get trump
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i'll get one way or another i'm gonna get trump i'm going to get trump and she tried right and failed and
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is now reaping the the fruits of that labor yeah if you will she's actually i mean oh doesn't it hurt
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your heart and your head just the hypocrisy every day it just is like oh ow that hurts that hurts yeah
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i don't know how you live like that we've all told a lie at some point in our lives and then you're in
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the middle of that lie you have that tinge of like gosh this feels wrong what's going what am i doing i
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shouldn't say it this way whatever that thing has that tin doesn't have it at all no none she also has
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the most annoying speaking style of anyone in public life jasmine crockett hey you know jasmine
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crockett's got some at least she's got some spunk it feels like it's off the top of her head you know
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she kind of just like lets it fly i mean she's an idiot don't get me wrong oh right okay but like
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letitia james has this really methodical like almost like a bad actress in a like city play
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you know where she she's trying to be overly dramatic she stops and starts a lot in the same
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patterns overly dramatic yeah you know she was just a rain and she came out and she said quote