The SCARIEST Haunted House and Why It SHOULDN’T Be Banned | Guests: Russ McKamey, Bill O’Reilly, & Megan Phelps-Roper | 11⧸1⧸19
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2 hours and 6 minutes
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152.28438
Summary
Glenn Beck sits down with the man who runs the scariest haunted house in the world, Russ McKamey, to talk about the history of the haunted manor, the history behind it, and why it's one of the most haunted places in the entire world.
Transcript
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It is a story that I actually bought from him to make a movie out of probably 2008 and held his story and just couldn't get it made and couldn't find the time and yada yada yada and finally gave him the story back to to publish a book because I think it's one of the most incredible stories you've ever ever heard.
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Uh, so make sure you don't miss don't miss tomorrow's podcast. It's incredible. This guy, what he has gone through and endured and he beats himself up still today. He's still healing. But when you hear this story, it will blow your mind, blow your mind. All right. We have, we have, what is it? The McKamey, uh, manor.
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We have a guy who runs the scariest haunted house, uh, in the world. In fact, he'll give you $20,000 if you can complete it. Uh, it lasts 10 hours. It's a three to four hour waiver. It takes you three to four hours to sit and go over the waiver before you go in. It's a crazy story. Next.
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All right. So there are, there are a hundred houses and then there's McKamey Manor.
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McKamey Manor, uh, his, has been a, if I can call it this, a haunted house at different locations for over 30 years.
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It has, it's, it's, it's called the scariest haunted house in the world, but it's not really a haunted house.
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The waiver takes you three to four hours to go over and complete.
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the owner, the guy who runs it will give you $20,000.
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Russ McKamey, the owner of the Manor, joins us next.
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Uh, when you get right down to it, all of the things you have to do throughout the day, uh,
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It's an audience participation event in which you, as an individual, will live your own horror movie.
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You go through all kinds of things that you must complete, including a three- to four-hour release form.
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And there is actually a petition now to get him to stop doing it.
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It's not any kind of sexual gratification kind of thing.
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For some reason, we can't get him on the phone.
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I really cannot understand what's happening here.
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Because everything I've heard about you is that you are a really good, normal, nice guy.
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And yet, you bring everybody's worst nightmare to reality.
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Yeah, they get kind of hysterical about this whole thing.
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I mean, it happens every year around this time of the year.
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And they look scary because they're supposed to look scary.
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So I'm trying to make it look as scary as possible.
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And people just get really upset, blow things way out of proportion.
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And now they're doing anything and everything to shut me down.
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I mean, a lot of people on the left would say that shows how sick you are.
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You don't seem to be doing this just for hype or for kicks.
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It just seems frightening when you're going through it.
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But I definitely have a few people kind of fooled into thinking it's something other than it is, I expect.
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I've seen a video where you've buried a person except for their open mouth.
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You've got to put a cage over somebody's face and then bury them alive.
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These are people who have lived and they've done all the bungee jumping and skydiving and then all the exciting things out there and nothing really affects them anymore.
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So they come to me like, oh, I really want to feel this again.
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I want to feel what it's like when I rode my first roller coaster or saw my first scary movie.
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So it's definitely not some sort of sexual thing.
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In fact, there's three very, very big rules in the matter.
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There's nothing sexual, there's nothing inappropriate, and there's nothing religious.
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There's nothing, you know, satanic or I mean, there's nothing like that in there whatsoever.
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It's just like an Indiana Jones ride on steroids kind of, you know, and like you mentioned, there's no cussing.
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You are, you find, everybody starts with 20 grand.
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And then I understand that if you cuss, you're docked $500.
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So there might be cussing, but they're penalized for it.
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So now each of these are custom to each person?
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Because aren't you just doing really enhanced interrogations?
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And it's customized for that one individual or two folks that go through per week.
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It's funny, you know, we talk to their parents or talk to their family and friends or the coworkers,
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and they're more than willing to throw them under the bus.
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They're more than willing to give us all the dirt about what really scares them.
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And so we do a lot of investigative work to find out what's going to make a good show of that individual before anything starts.
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It's not just showing up and going, okay, I'm here, Russ.
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You know, and I hate that word because no one's tortured anyways.
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But, you know, that's what the audience seems to think.
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And that's why that petition has gained so much speed, which is just incredible.
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It's like 80,000 plus, you know, signatures now, maybe more than that.
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It's over a haunted house, over somebody just doing a hobby.
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One big bag of dog food helps towards the rest of the animals.
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Is there, I mean, if you go through enhanced interrogation, I know Navy SEALs and I know
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people in the military who have gone through it for real.
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It's not as intense as if you went to like SEER school, which is search and rescue and
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And our BUDS training, you know, which is SEAL training.
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It's not like that, but I definitely do take aspects of what I learned in the military after
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I mean, you know, I do hypnosis, which everybody knows I do that.
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When they first come here, one of the first things on the contract is saying, you know
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Now, I may not hypnotize everybody, but I'm going to give it my old college try here.
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Because if I can do that, then they're like putty in my hands at that point in the game.
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And so there is mind control techniques, but in a fun kind of way, not in fun.
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That's what's so crazy about this is you, I've seen videos where this woman is just,
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she looks like, and I know it's not, but she looks like she has blood all over her face.
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She looks like she's in hysterics and she's got something in her mouth that's keeping
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And you're, and you're like, okay, it's about to get intense.
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You seem like Santa that is bringing somebody through hell.
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I'm always stopping the show to ask if they're mentally and physically okay to go on.
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If you saw that little tidbit, and that's probably a mistake in editing, but who knows?
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I'm always trying to make sure that people know and that the, that the person going through
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knows that they're safe and they have total control.
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This, this deal of not having a safe, safe word that ended several years ago.
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Cause there was a time, I have to admit that we didn't offer a safe phrase and they signed
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But, but now, but now, yeah, there's absolutely a safe phrase.
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I think you might want to try this just as a, you know, no, what's the longest anybody's
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gone since you've had the safe phrase, Russ, how long is, because you say, well, the show
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So the way it works is that you have to start the clock.
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You have to do an event, grab a key, open a door, do something to start the clock.
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Once you start the clock, then your 10 hour meter is on, but nobody has even started the
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Wait, wait, wait, you've buried people with their mouth open.
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You have to get to a certain point of being buried.
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And once you get to a certain point, now the clock starts.
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Now, I must say, there is one woman who's actually coming back here again in November.
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She's been through it nine times, and she's this solid, upstanding individual, you know,
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who works in Washington, D.C., and a big high player, and she just loves the stuff.
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But we counted up how much time she spent inside the actual manor.
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And she's been inside 45 hours of actually doing activities, 45 hours of doing different
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Have you ever had like a Navy SEAL or Delta Force try this?
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In fact, military folks are my favorite because they have their head on a swivel.
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They know how to, you know, they're not knuckleheads.
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We don't want the ones that are just trying to come here just for the money.
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Because if you're coming here for the money, you're going to be really upset when you leave
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here because you're not going to walk away with anything because the manor is always
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And that's why the testament to that is why people come back time and time again.
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We'll continue with Russ McCamey from the McCamey Manor.
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You're in Tennessee, a place called Summertown, which I believe the Heat-Mizer had to give
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it to his brother so it could snow there one Christmas.
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But you are you're how does the town react to you?
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Oh, they oh, they they went crazy over me and they and they still do in a good way or a bad way.
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In a bad way, at least at least the leadership, you know, the leadership I first got here,
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they put out a community alert saying, get this guy out of town.
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Basically, I had a target on my back for quite a while.
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And then and then the town folk, they started kind of coming around my way.
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They started meeting me and thought, this guy's OK.
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But but the leadership's a whole different ballgame because they kind of put their neck
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out there saying we're going to get him out of town no matter what.
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So they're still looking for ways to to get me out of town.
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Is that what happened to you in San Diego or did you did you just move?
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That probably I started because I like to start a lot of stories.
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The petition claims that you hire employees with violent histories and you make people
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Well, first off, there are no employees because it's just a little old rust.
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There is nobody here except me against the contestant.
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And their job is just not to let me get in their head.
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Um, in San Diego, we had some actors, but as far as what their backgrounds were, I have
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no idea, never heard about violent histories or whatever.
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Um, the, the pill situation, again, here's, here's where people have to put on their logic
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And I know it's hard to do sometimes for certain folks, all those ones who signed that silly
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But if I was really, really doing things that were illegal and giving medication to people
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and torturing people and doing this and that, that would be illegal.
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So there must be something more to the situation.
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Cause if I hypnotize you, like I was saying earlier, I can make you believe whatever I
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want and that's the magic of the manner without giving too much away, just kind of add two
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and two together and realize that if that, if all this stuff is going on, that's in the
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I'd be locked away in the birdcage theater someplace.
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The petition says this, you're literally running literally, I'm quoting a kidnapping and torture
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Some people have had to seek professional psychiatric help and medical care for extensive
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It's good PR, but that's about all it is, but they can write.
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It just goes to show you they can write whatever they want.
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And what they're doing is they're, they're just taking their own thoughts based upon movies
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that are five, six, seven years old that I made back in San Diego.
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So they're not basing anything upon the reality of what it really is.
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And in fact, every show, before every show, I called the police.
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I, I volunteer for them to come down and watch the show anytime they want to law enforcement,
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the district attorney, anybody can come here unannounced anytime they want to with cameras
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in hand, film everything they want, but no one ever does.
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So no one's ever taken me up on my offer to actually see what I do.
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So we have Russ McCamey on, he is the owner of McCamey Manor, uh, McCamey Manor.com.
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You might have seen an episode on Netflix of dark tourist, uh, that is really quite, uh, frightening.
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Uh, and you'll see, you know, you'll see military guys go through and they won't make it an hour
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Uh, it is, it's truly a frightening haunted house.
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Um, you know, is water, waterboarding is considered torture, right?
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You do a form of waterboarding though, don't you?
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Well, I mean, there is a lot of water at the haunt.
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So you're, you know, so it's like going to the water park is all, and, uh, cause water
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is, uh, it's a great way to, uh, to motivate people.
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Now we have, we have, we've done waterboarding here at the studio.
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He, he thought, he thought he could handle it with the chocolate opposed to water, but it
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Uh, we, we have a guy on staff, uh, who is trained in enhanced interrogation techniques.
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And he said, a, that when I told him you were on this morning, he said, oh, I'd never
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He says he knows cause, um, he will neither confirm nor deny.
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Uh, but I, I, I know some, you remember the Harry back guy from, uh, from, uh, Al Qaeda
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He was at least around the area when they were talking to that guy.
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Um, and, uh, and, and I'd like to send him with a bag of dog food just because I'm a good
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employer, uh, and, uh, put him through your course to see how long he lasts.
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Now, let me ask, let me ask you this, Russ, uh, you had really tough guys.
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What is the, what's the shortest amount of time somebody has lasted, uh, in, in, in the
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manor who was a tough guy or thought he was a tough guy?
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Uh, I'd say half the people quit during the contract, so they don't even get inside the
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So these rough and tumble guys, once they read what's coming down the pike for them,
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Is that part of it is the, is the release form.
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And that's also where I do all the hypnosis too, because I'm not, I'm not so good that
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Like some people can, I need several hours with them.
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I need to do all the things, all the tricks that it takes to hypnotize somebody.
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So I'm not so good that I can just click my fingers and you're hypnotized.
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And that's why, that's why when you first get there in the morning, you're, you're,
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you're there at, you know, like 10 AM and you're there until sunset.
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And then when, uh, when the sun goes down, the fun begins.
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So, so this is also wearing, this is also wearing people down.
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So by the time they hit the manor, you've already worn them out.
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Cause we do a lot of physical activities during the daytime.
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I need to know what type of physical activities and they can do what they can't do.
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So I'll have them hold their breath underwater, you know, in a nice way, not, not in a violent
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way, but I'll just say, well, how long can you hold your breath?
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Because these are things I need to know because there is breath holding inside, you know, whether
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it be dirt or whether it be water you're going to deal with.
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So during the daytime portions, that's when I'm finding out what their limitations are.
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And then I'll work around that because the last thing we want to do is have anyone get
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So I really need to know where they stand physically before they roll inside the real show.
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And what is the, what is the fear that you thought, wow, I'm, I have, I'm going to have
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And because there's so much of it being used, it's always on you.
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You're either cold or, but you know, if it's hot outside, you're glad the water's on you,
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but you're either getting cold or you're just, you're just wet and comfortable.
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It's not always in your face, but, but you're always wet and it just drains you.
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It drains your body after hours and hours of having a big, heavy onesie on.
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Cause everybody has to wear these crazy onesies, like a bunny rabbit or a cow or something.
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You got to be something, you got to be something silly when you're inside the haunt.
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It just looks so goofy on film, but there's also a reason why I do it because it weighs
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You get those big old suits all full of water and it's hard to move.
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It's just another, another means of tiring you out.
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And what is the, have you, have you met with anybody that you thought this one's going
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to be hard to crack or this person's fear is unusual?
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We had a war veteran who lost both his legs, the double amputee.
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And I thought, how in the world am I going to put this guy through the show?
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But he is a really motivated young man who is a rock climber.
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One of those really athletic guys, you know, he weighs 170 pounds,
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He's so motivated and it's so inspirational that I was like, I couldn't say no to him.
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I didn't need to dumb down the show whatsoever.
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Eventually, I think the water and just fatigue is what got to him.
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But he held in there just as long as the big rough tough guys with all their extremities.
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Yeah, the women have a much higher tolerance to my little shenanigans than the guys do.
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You know, I just think women are tougher overall, right?
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We all have women in our lives and they're just tough.
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So for being honest with ourselves, they go through some really amazing ordeals in their life and things that a lot of guys would say, no, I don't think so.
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And I think that there's a lot – I think there's something to – girls – I've had girls – I've had boys raising them.
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Girls are mean to each other when they're in, you know, their teen years.
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They go through some really nasty things in school years.
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I mean, they're much more competitive than the guys are.
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But the women are like, no, this is serious, Russ.
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Lots of spiders and snakes and scorpions and rats.
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But field mice – field mice are worse because they're smaller, they're quicker, and they love to get inside your clothes.
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So, as you're – you know, and then they stay in there.
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And so now you're walking around the rest of the day with field mice in your little outfit.
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And they're just – yeah, yeah, that's what I say.
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But if I didn't know how it – I didn't know how it worked, then no.
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And that's why when people come here, they need to come here for the right reason because they want to push themselves and they're coming here just because it's entertainment.
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You know, honestly, if you watch, like, Mission Impossible and you see – and, you know, I don't know.
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I don't imagine that there are very many people, if any, people like this where, you know, he's rock climbing without any rope or anything.
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And he gets his thrills doing that because his life is so crazy.
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If those people really exist, I could see those people saying, oh, I want to go through this.
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I mean, they fly in from all around the world to take on this little challenge.
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But all these folks that fly in from around the world, you know, across the pond, and it's amazing.
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I have to give them a good show because this means a lot to them.
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I would set up a little dog food stand there at the airport.
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Russ, has there ever been a person you thought was going to make it that you thought, okay, maybe they can go the distance?
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I turn away thousands and thousands because the waiting list is – I can't even comprehend what it is anymore.
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In fact, it's so big right now we have to go to a lotto to win a ticket here, especially since all this craziness.
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You know, that's one thing that these petition people don't get.
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All they did was just gain more attention to the manor and made it more popular.
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I just hope that nothing crazy does go on because, you know, it is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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It's like saying, you know, Glenn, you like flying remote-controlled airplanes.
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Well, you're no longer allowed to do that, Glenn, because we don't like what you're doing.
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So it is frustrating because I have people coming out of the woodwork.
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You know, this weekend I have an inspector coming out now.
00:36:29.720
But they're just doing whatever they can do to kind of harass at this point in time.
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This is something that, you know, you're doing it part-time.
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Are you really actually a wedding singer as your full-time job?
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Like if you – there's a movie on Netflix called Haunters, The Art of the Scare.
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And it's got me doing the wedding stuff out there.
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Yeah, if you go to djparty.org, you'll see me in all my glory out there entertaining folks and stuff.
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And, you know, there is a part of me that says, you know, I don't know if we should be doing this.
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But that part of me is that big government part that I hate.
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You know, as long as everybody is a consenting adult and you're not hurting anybody and they know what's going on, I don't see why there's a problem.
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As long as nobody's getting hurt, I don't know whose business this is.
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Except between you and the person going through it.
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If he's serious, I think we send Jason in a cameraman.
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So, we have Jason in with us, our chief researcher.
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I'll do it because I hate the big government aspect of this as well.
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And I want to help him prove that, you know, about this.
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Because I know everything involved in what he's going to do.
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But I'll do it only if we can send one of our, send our crew along with it to help improve this case.
00:41:01.780
Yeah, so let's get him back on the phone, you know, off air and see if we could arrange that.
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And we'll send one of our cameramen out with you.
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But intellectually, emotionally, I could say, oh, yeah, you know, that's not right.
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The guy is seemingly a really good, decent human being.
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So, yeah, we'll see if you can get that lined up and we'll send you out.
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I wonder if he makes people listen to Bill O'Reilly.
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Man, we have a lot to discuss with Bill O'Reilly.
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The impeachment was passed yesterday in Congress.
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All right, so we have yet another person coming out and saying, and this is a medical examiner,
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Jeffrey Epstein, this looks like it was murder, not a suicide.
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And de Blasio now has come out and said, something doesn't fit, something's not right with Jeffrey Epstein's death.
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Also, Adam Schiff on the lack of witnesses who say that Trump committed a crime.
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The Pope says it's an honor to be attacked by American conservatives.
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There is just so much to talk to the one and only Bill O'Reilly in 60 seconds.
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Mr. Bill O'Reilly from billoreilly.com and the author of the new book.
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A new book called The United States of America According to Trump.
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You've done an updated message of the day, which is 10 ways the impeachment process is hurting every single American.
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You read it and refer with Pat and Pat will tell you.
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You see, if I was, if I want your listeners to know before we get into the heavy duty stuff,
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if I were advertising on Beck, the United States of Trump, paying him money, he would be, he would know the title.
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But I mean, in this, in this scenario where I'm doing advertising, you're paying me to do it.
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And I am telling everyone that you would not boot the title of the book.
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But let's get, let's get to the, let's get to the 10 things on how the impeachment is, is actually hurting the average American.
00:47:47.800
And if you see other people celebrating impeachment, you need to just pull them aside and say, do you understand that we all are in this together in this country?
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That we have to have a functioning federal government trying to solve vexing problems, that we must have a robust economy to support 330 million people, most of whom want to improve themselves.
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Do you understand that destroying the office of the presidency, not just the president, but the office of it, is counterproductive to freedom?
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And you'll get silence because this isn't the way impeachment is being presented.
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You know, I said earlier this week, Bill, that this impeachment, the, all of the so-called evidence that they're presenting on TV is not evidence.
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And this is really reminiscent of the glove in OJ Simpson's case.
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African-Americans wanted OJ Simpson to be innocent.
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So it, it would be a win for them because of history of, you know, blacks getting crushed by the system.
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And so the glove was, it didn't have really anything to do with the evidence.
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But the glove gave them permission to say, yep, he's innocent.
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But the same thing is happening here with this.
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This phone call is giving permission to people who want Donald Trump to be out.
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It's giving them an easy way of, even though it's not based on any fact of, yep, we win.
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And whether it's Russian collusion or impeachment or whatever they'll come up with next.
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So someone's going to have actual board game like Monopoly.
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And then you roll the dice and then you'll stop on a square and the square will say, Trump did this.
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Now, I'm not in the business of defending Donald Trump, even though I wrote a book on him, a fair book.
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By the way, if you're looking for a great book to read, Bill wrote that book called The
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So I'm in the business of trying to improve America.
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So whether it's books or commentary or radio, whatever it may be.
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And I'm seeing this as, number one, a division in the country now based on hatred of one individual.
00:51:00.580
Now, there is a system attached to the individual.
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But when you've got a guy like Adam Schiff, by the way, I am counting my trick-or-treats.
00:51:12.060
And it was not easy getting a shirt three sizes too big.
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So did you see the news that we know, we think we know who the whistleblower is now?
00:51:32.380
It's a 33-year-old Yale guy who's a hate Trump guy who worked in the deep state and still is in Langley, Virginia, who was associated with Biden and with other people and has two best friends working for Adam Schiff.
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I haven't heard anything about him for three weeks.
00:51:54.380
You know, it's interesting, Bill, is he is connected with Chalupa, who's a main figure on our chalkboard.
00:52:09.500
Five, I think it was five days later is when they said, yeah, don't worry about that.
00:52:16.280
And as we find out now, this guy is connected directly to the storyline of our chalkboard.
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If this were a criminal case, we'd have been thrown out.
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Everything's gone because the original complaint is a fraud.
00:52:39.020
What does it say to you that yesterday not a single Republican voted for this?
00:52:45.040
And the reason is that there are senators like Romney and Murkowski who hate Trump, hate him, and would vote to remove.
00:52:55.380
Now they can't, because if they do, they'll be blackballed by their own party.
00:53:08.160
I thought there would be a couple of Republican congressmen to vote for the inquiry.
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Remember, this was a vote to continue the inquiry, to continue compiling evidence of a possible misdemeanor and high crime.
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Not one person, not one witness, has said that it is a crime.
00:53:38.280
So there was a big meeting after the vote in the White House.
00:53:44.820
And why I shouldn't say big, because there aren't a lot of advisors in there.
00:53:49.640
Mulvaney is going to be gone in a matter of a very short time.
00:53:54.520
So there was a meeting of about five or six people who trusted him.
00:53:59.320
And they basically sat around and said, look, now let's let this go forward, because we have Nunez.
00:54:06.760
And this is a big key that every American should know.
00:54:13.660
So Nunez is the minority guy on the House Intel Committee.
00:54:24.360
So it's him and Schiff that will direct the questioning.
00:54:30.200
And then in the summaries and the leaking to the press, it's Nunez and Schiff.
00:54:35.440
Nunez will be on Fox News every second of every day.
00:54:40.100
And so they believe that Nunez is going to kick Schiff's butt all over the place.
00:54:45.840
And this is going to directly lead to the re-election of Donald Trump.
00:54:51.720
This is the first time that the president's been relieved.
00:54:54.680
I mean, last time we talked last week, I said I was worried about him personally because it was taking some emotional toll on him.
00:55:03.400
Now he's almost buoyant in the sense that he believes this whole thing has turned after yesterday's vote.
00:55:14.480
And I think it's going to get worse and worse for the Democrats.
00:55:18.420
With one exception, what do you think is going to happen with John Bolton?
00:55:25.300
Yeah, they keep holding him out like, oh, he's going to be the death knell for Donald Trump.
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He was not a guy who was parroting a lot of other people.
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He was bringing a hard right view of foreign policy.
00:56:15.200
Bolton, you can't assume that he has any regard for Donald Trump.
00:56:21.540
I mean, he doesn't like him because it didn't end well in the White House for him.
00:56:26.020
But if he goes in and crushes Trump, and he could.
00:56:34.600
He will alienate himself from his entire ideological structure.
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There's not going to be anywhere for him to speak.
00:57:02.680
Now, the Trump administration has anticipated the worst.
00:57:19.040
Pompeo came out and said, look, I was on the call.
00:57:21.680
And we didn't deviate out from what our policy for the Trump administration is.
00:57:37.300
Does this boil down, Bill, really to an extreme disagreement in the policy of the State Department
00:57:47.680
and the State Department just saying, we don't work for Donald Trump, even though they do.
00:57:55.080
And the State Department engaging in some really nasty stuff over in the Ukraine.
00:58:00.840
Well, the State Department now is very simpatico with President Trump.
00:58:08.140
I mean, because Pompeo's the Secretary of State.
00:58:12.020
Yeah, I mean those long-term players, for instance.
00:58:16.800
But they don't have any access other than leaking whatever.
00:58:21.140
There are two people that Donald Trump deals with every day, Vice President Pence and Pompeo.
00:58:33.520
And as long as they stay there, as long as he has them, he can use them to go out and negate a Bolton.
00:58:42.860
Now, as for your question about the State Department and the Justice Department and everybody else, they all hate Trump.
00:58:54.820
This guy was working to undermine Trump from the very beginning.
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Oh, he's the guy who said that Putin and Trump – you know, Putin told Donald Trump to fire Comey.
00:59:12.780
But Schiff is in trouble because he went to Schiff because his two best friends work for Schiff.
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It's the Glenn Beck Program with Pat Gray sitting in for Mr. Stubergeer, who is out in Disneyland.
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Hey, can I just quickly get your thoughts on Congress going up and finally making a statement about the Armenian genocide,
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except for a couple of people, including Ilan Omar, who said,
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I can't comment on this when we're dealing with what Americans did to Native Americans and the slave trade.
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Well, I have to confess, I don't know much about the Armenian slaughter,
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so I can't really bring anything to the discussion,
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but I can tell you that the radical left in America is the conservative movement's best friend
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that even the people who don't subscribe to information, like they say,
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Even they go, you know, these people are stupid.
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Did you catch Barack Obama criticizing the woke movement?
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You know, I'm telling you, you're too tough on Obama.
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Obama, there's something about him, and I know him pretty well,
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He wasn't involved with the cultural woke movement.
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His whole shtick was, you know, that's the way white people will do you.
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His whole shtick was, well, the police act stupidly.
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Woke is that you're not allowed to say anything.
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You've got to have 15 bathrooms for different ethnicities.
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Do you have the Michelle Obama on the campaign trail?
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This is when she was taken off of the campaign trail.
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And Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices.
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We are going to have to change our conversation.
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We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.
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We're going to have to move into a different place.
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He's talking about our history and our traditions.
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Well, I'm trying to figure out what we're going through right now.
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It wasn't this diametrically opposed on race and everything else and history.
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We're joined by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, who co-wrote the book of Gutsy Women.
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Hillary, I have to ask you a question that has been plaguing me for a while.
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Because you're not in power, but you have all the power.
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I really need to understand how you do what you do.
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Because you seem to be behind everything nefarious, and yet you do not use it to become president.
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But honestly, what does it feel like being the boogeyman of the rights?
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Well, it's a constant surprise to me, because the things they say, and now, of course, it's on steroids with being online, are so ridiculous beyond any imagination that I could have.
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And yet they are so persistent in putting forth these crazy ideas and theories.
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Honestly, I don't know what I ever did to get them so upset.
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Bill, the likelihood that Hillary Clinton did off Jeffrey Epstein with her own hands.
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I do want to ask you a serious question on this.
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Dr. Michael Baden said that it's more likely that he died of a homicide than a suicide.
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He's not the first to say, but he's the one who examined now.
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The New York chief medical examiner said it was definitely suicide.
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But this guy says, and he's respected, no, there's three bones in there that are usually not broken by hanging yourself.
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It's inconceivable that this would happen, but, you know, people like batting that stuff around.
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Who has more in common with Donald Trump than any other politician in the country?
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Because they're both maligned to the point of caricature.
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And remember, remember, I sat behind Hillary and Bill Clinton at Marla Maples, Donald Trump's wedding.
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And now, if there's one soulmate in the political arena for Donald Trump, it's her.
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You, me, the president, and a dog named Boo by Bill O'Reilly.
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I have never seen any religious person say anything like this before.
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Pope Francis, quote, it's an honor to be attacked by American conservatives.
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He said on Wednesday, it was an honor to be attacked by the U.S. church conservatives and
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their Catholic media allies who have criticized him on issues from theology to climate change
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Well, there's a movie coming out about the two popes, I think the name of it is.
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And Anthony Hopkins plays one of the popes, and somebody famous plays the other.
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And it's about the handoff from Pope Benedict, a conservative German pope, to Pope Francis,
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But he is a very liberal theologian, very liberal.
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And that makes conservative Catholics crazy, crazy.
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And so I understand the ire toward Pope Francis.
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But as a Catholic, I think Pope Francis is a good man, even though I don't agree with his
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liberal theology in the sense that we have to have borders.
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But I think for the very first time I could ask the question, is the Pope Catholic?
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He said that Jesus, if you believe in the Trinity, he said Jesus wasn't God while he was here
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Now, if you believe in the Trinity, did we not have God for 33 years?
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So, look, I don't want to get into Catholic theology, but there's a difference between what
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All right, we have had popes throughout history that have been so corrupt.
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And the theology, I believe, is very, very strong.
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But then there's an institution, and the institution is not.
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I think I've uncovered a videotape of Elizabeth Warren on American Bandstand.
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Dick Clark is interviewing her about the Dog Named Boo song that you did.
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So, she just came out and said, what is it, 56 or 54?
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So, but what people don't know is Bernie and Elizabeth, to pay for it, Medicare for all,
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They just come in, pay the 50 trillion for it, and everybody's happy.
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So, today, as they stand today, who's going to be the nominee?
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Because they know the socialists are going to lose.
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They being the power brokers within the Democratic Party.
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They embrace it until they have to actually get Americans to vote.
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They believe by pandering to these far, far left people, these socialist people, they're
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getting younger people engaged than the Democratic Party.
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All the younger people who want to be socialists, don't want to work, just want to get everything
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They also believe, and this is a mistake, that minorities like this.
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I don't believe that Hispanic Americans and African Americans are socialists.
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Until socialism comes to their door, then they don't like it so much.
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And so the Democratic Party, they're playing this game.
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They're going, OK, we can recruit using this stuff.
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But then when it comes crunch time at the convention, they're going to wheel out Joe.
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All right, go ahead and plug the pamphlet or something.
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We take no joy in having to move down this road and proceed with the impeachment inquiry.
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I don't think your wife, your mother, no one believes that one.
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Here is a state lawmaker talking about miscarriage.
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This is Representative Wendy Ullman of Pennsylvania.
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It refers specifically to the product of conception after fertilization, which covers an awful lot
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I think we all understand the concept of the loss of a fetus, but we're also talking about
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a woman who comes into a facility and is having cramps.
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And I'm not sure people would agree that this is something that we want to take to the point
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Listen, I cannot believe that a woman said that.
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That's a woman who obviously doesn't know any other women that have had miscarriages.
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Do we have a minute 30 here that we could play the judicial pick of Lawrence Van Dyke in
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the Senate hearing when one of the senators is questioning him about his political letter
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Did you say that you wouldn't be fair to members of the LGBT community?
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Senator, I, that was, um, that was the part of the letter.
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Look at what, look at what people are doing to people.
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It is a fundamental belief of mine that all people are created in the image of God.
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They should all be treated with dignity and respect.
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Can you commit today to this committee that you will treat, if confirmed, that you would
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I would not have allowed myself to be nominated for this position if I did not think I could
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Including members of the LGBT community and any other community that has been historically
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How are you ever going to get anyone decent to go through this process to be able to lead
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I want to talk to you about what we're doing as a society.
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Nobody is changing the hearts and minds of anybody.
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There's somebody who really, truly understands this and lived it.
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When you say at least 15 years ago, hey, can you name a really horrible, divisive group?
01:28:43.020
You could probably say, yeah, Westboro Baptist Church.
01:28:47.940
But now we are all kind of, we're kind of turning into that.
01:28:53.200
We see people screaming these things at each other.
01:28:57.400
America has become an online version in many cases of the Westboro Baptist Church.
01:29:03.040
Not necessarily screaming the same things, but being just as vile and mean and awful.
01:29:10.620
Well, Megan Phelps, she's a writer and an activist and a former member of the Phelps family, member of the Westboro Baptist Church.
01:29:34.840
First of all, can I ask you, you kept the name Phelps.
01:29:43.820
And Phelps is one of those words, you know, like we say, your name is Mud around here.
01:29:49.840
That's because the guy who was helping John Wilkes Booth, his name was Mud.
01:30:03.220
You know, my name, Megan Phelps Roper, for a very long time, it meant, as my family would say, God hates fags.
01:30:15.080
And, you know, my husband recently, we've been talking about, you know, we want to start a nonprofit at some point.
01:30:21.440
And he had the idea of calling it the Westboro Foundation.
01:30:24.260
Because I want people, when they hear Westboro, to not think of people who celebrate tragedies and deaths, but people who are there when tragedies happen to help people who are suffering.
01:30:35.540
I mean, in some ways, it's what Chip and Joanna did for Waco, Texas.
01:30:39.660
But it was, I mean, that wasn't, that wasn't personally them.
01:30:45.240
And you have a, I mean, you were there on the front lines.
01:30:50.160
Tell me, tell the audience, I know who you were, but tell the audience who you were.
01:30:56.980
So Westboro Baptist Church was started by my grandfather.
01:31:02.580
So my mother was the de facto spokesperson for a very long time.
01:31:10.500
I'm her, you know, I'm the third of 11 children.
01:31:17.960
I was a hardcore believer, a zealous believer in everything that Westboro taught.
01:31:26.720
I was the one who took our message to social media initially.
01:31:31.120
And, you know, helped with all of the logistical work, you know, orchestrating the protest.
01:31:35.880
So I was not, I was not, you know, as I put it, I said I was all in.
01:31:41.000
And then before you, before you change, before you talk about how you changed, was there ever any discussion like, hey, guys, I don't think this is working.
01:31:56.980
No, because for Westboro, you know, they do not use conversion numbers as a metric of their success.
01:32:04.320
They don't believe that, you know, changing hearts and minds is in their power because they believe in predestination.
01:32:11.320
And so we basically saw our, you know, we measured our success as the amount of publicity that we were getting because all we were trying to do was publish this message that we thought was the word of God.
01:32:24.040
So from that perspective, we were very successful.
01:32:27.400
We were all, I mean, you know, pop culture phenomenons, you know, True Blood, that, you know, really popular series on HBO.
01:32:33.260
The opening credits included, you know, God hates fangs, you know, which is part of our, you know, just a play on our God hates gays message.
01:32:43.260
But so it's, you know, for them, they just, that's, they weren't trying to change people's minds.
01:32:48.600
And that's why they, to change, the idea of changing tactics didn't even occur to them.
01:32:54.940
And when people would insist that they should, that it was biblical for them to change tactics, for us to change tactics,
01:33:03.880
So, Megan, when, when you are away from this now and your eyes have been opened and you, you know what you were part of and your family is part of,
01:33:19.060
and you know, you know, what's, what's true and what's not.
01:33:24.040
How difficult is it for you to look at our society today and to see what people are doing online, on air, everything,
01:33:36.420
and, and not just cry out, you fools, what are you doing?
01:33:41.920
Well, I can't say you fools because I, I was exactly where so many people are now.
01:33:47.740
I know, I know how seductive that, that way of seeing things is, you know, the, the appeal of absolute certainty.
01:33:56.380
You know, the, it, my grandfather used to say that it was, there's something wonderfully liberating in the idea that,
01:34:02.820
in the notion, the knowledge that you are 100% right.
01:34:07.320
He believed that we were 100% right with no possibility of error because we, again, we had the word of God.
01:34:13.940
And, and so when I see this, you know, this, this spirit, kind of the same spirit taking over, you know,
01:34:20.600
the Westboroization of, of politics and American culture generally, I know, I know why people are drawn to it.
01:34:28.440
And I understand the group dynamics that lead people to it.
01:34:31.960
But I also know, you know, how incredibly destructive it is to see the world that way
01:34:36.660
and how, how ineffective it is to try to, to change hearts and minds to, to, to come to, you know,
01:34:44.860
collective, to compromise how difficult that is to do when you have completely demonized anyone who doesn't agree with you on everything.
01:34:51.900
Anyone who steps outside of the party line on any, on any notion.
01:35:00.880
So I, I wrote in one of my books, I think it was my last one,
01:35:03.780
where I said, the only thing I am now certain of is that I'm not certain of anything.
01:35:08.040
Um, it is our certainty that is, is dividing us.
01:35:16.460
it feels different than what you went through because
01:35:21.500
you see and you claim what's happening over here is evil.
01:35:28.340
And, uh, and I know the difference between good and evil.
01:35:32.760
And this is just, this movement is evil, but that's what you guys thought.
01:35:40.800
It's, if you are only looking at things from your perspective, you know, you're, you're, you are looking at,
01:35:45.980
at, at current events in light of your, your own experiences.
01:35:50.800
And if you cut yourself off from trying to understand why other people have come to different conclusions,
01:35:56.580
if you just attribute it to, you know, this person is evil, they are ill-intentioned,
01:36:01.800
you, you are immediately cutting yourself off from really understanding that person and what has led them to those conclusions.
01:36:07.420
Right. And it doesn't, it doesn't mean that you, um, are going to change your point of view or, uh, or, uh, that you're not necessarily on the right track,
01:36:19.960
but you don't understand that you are limiting, um, yourself by not listening to how other people got there or viewed it because they are going to teach you something.
01:36:33.100
Uh, and if you close yourself off to that, you end up alone, right?
01:36:38.620
Yeah, absolutely. And there, you know, there is this instinct that I think is very human.
01:36:43.020
You know, when, when we encounter people that we believe are doing and believing destructive things,
01:36:47.800
the instinct that we have is to isolate ourselves from them. You know, we don't want to endorse them.
01:36:52.700
We don't want to have any part with what they're involved in. And again, I think that's very, a very human response.
01:36:58.380
Um, you know, you're trying to shame them into changing. The problem is that when the divide is
01:37:03.760
as great as it is now in, in so many different spheres, you know, I was talking to an anthropologist
01:37:08.960
last year, uh, and she, she explained the feeling of shame as, you know, the feeling that we get when
01:37:14.960
we know that we have violated the norms of our community. And so, you know, for me, Westboro was
01:37:20.800
my community and I didn't have any community outside of that. I felt completely alienated from the rest of
01:37:25.740
the world. It was this very us them mentality. And so when other people, outsiders attempted to shame
01:37:31.460
me, I, I felt pride. I was, I was happy that they, that they thought I was wrong because I thought they
01:37:37.320
were evil. So clearly it just reinforces your sense of righteousness. What's the difference between this
01:37:42.980
and moral relativity? Uh, I think you're, I don't believe that you have to like have no opinions about
01:37:52.120
things. Like, I don't think that you have to say, well, I can't, when you said, um, certainty is the
01:37:58.120
root of this for me, I totally agree. This toxic sense of certainty in your own righteousness. It's
01:38:04.260
not, it's not that you don't have opinions or that you don't have strong values and strong beliefs.
01:38:08.660
It's that you hold them a bit more loosely because you understand that there is information and
01:38:14.320
experiences outside of your own, which are necessarily limited, uh, that can and should change the
01:38:21.360
way you see things. We have to be willing to listen because not because we are, are trying to, you know,
01:38:27.340
say that, okay, white supremacy is okay, or, or whatever the, whatever the specific issue is. Um, it's
01:38:33.000
that, what is that, what, what, what is in this that I can learn from and how can we build a bridge from
01:38:41.620
So show us how, uh, we need to change our behavior. You know, your book is called, uh, unfollow,
01:38:49.200
uh, and you're not necessarily saying disengage from social media. Um, you, because at least I don't
01:38:58.240
think, uh, because that's, that's what, that's what changed you was somebody using social media in
01:39:04.720
the right way. So what's the right way to approach this or another way?
01:39:10.800
Yeah. So I, I, on, I gave a Ted doc a couple of years ago about this. This was, I think the last
01:39:15.700
time I was on, um, that it was basically detailing these strategies that, um, that people used with
01:39:21.700
me. So the first was to don't assume bad intent, because again, you need to understand what is
01:39:27.420
actually motivating this person. And I think very few people are actually deliberately trying to do
01:39:32.440
things that they know are evil or wrong. They have somehow become convinced that this is the
01:39:37.900
right way. And so you need to understand where they're coming from. If you're going to actually
01:39:41.660
reach them. Um, the second is to ask questions, partly again, to help you understand where that,
01:39:47.500
where they are, where they're coming from, but also partly as a signal to them that they're being
01:39:52.260
heard. And so, and you know, there's, there's this reciprocal thing that happens where, you know,
01:39:57.660
somebody, you ask them questions and they, they go through their whole position. They explain it all to
01:40:01.680
you. And then they get to the end and there's this natural, you know, sense of reciprocation often
01:40:05.920
where they want to know what you think, where are you coming from and how it's not asking questions.
01:40:11.240
It's asking honest questions. It's asking questions of, I want to know, not questions that will get
01:40:17.140
them to change their mind. Cause I'm going to have a, I know the answer to this one. Right. Yes.
01:40:22.400
Okay. Uh, and then the third is to stay calm, which is, you know, as you see in conversations on
01:40:27.580
social media, on television, all over the place, it's really difficult, right? It seems like right
01:40:32.640
now to be able to stay calm in these discussions because we, these are conversations about deeply
01:40:38.700
held values and disagreements that we, we cannot fathom how somebody has come to a different place.
01:40:44.620
And so if we can be very intentional and deliberate about keeping, you know, keeping the,
01:40:50.740
the hostility level as low as possible, trying to acknowledge, you know, that the other person is,
01:40:55.580
is coming from a place of genuine disagreement and to be, be able to tolerate that. Like this is,
01:41:00.940
you know, embodying the value of tolerance. Um, I think it's really important. So that's the third
01:41:05.180
step. And then the fourth is to make your argument. Um, you know, and again, this is one of those
01:41:10.220
things that sounds very obvious, but when we have these deeply held values, there is this, you know,
01:41:15.900
this sense that anybody that is a decent person would have already come to the same conclusions that I
01:41:22.340
have. And so we, we end up not actually articulating the defenses and the argument
01:41:27.700
for our position. So we actually need to do that. Um, and then, you know, I think I mentioned this
01:41:32.660
last time too, the fifth point that I would, that I would say, um, that was not in my Ted talk because
01:41:37.300
I ran out of time, but it would be to, to be patient because people don't change these kinds of
01:41:43.500
deeply held values overnight, like in a moment, even, even though I can look back in my own experience
01:41:49.220
to how my mind changed over time, I can point to several moments where I absolutely became aware
01:41:55.140
that there was a contradiction in what I believed. And what it caused me to do was kind of to shut
01:42:00.460
down momentarily. Right. And that's what happens to human beings as we, you know, this cognitive
01:42:06.540
dissonance, like to finally come to the place where we understand, wow, maybe there is something
01:42:11.380
wrong with my position. Maybe I need to reconsider this. And if you push that, you know, if you try to
01:42:17.100
use that as a gotcha moment, that's people react very negatively to that. Exactly. It pushes you
01:42:24.600
deeper into your position. So Megan, I think you're a remarkable, remarkable woman. Uh, and your message
01:42:32.220
is so powerful and, and right on the money and right for this time. Uh, I urge everybody in the audience
01:42:40.040
to read this and share this with people. What she lays out is look, what we're doing isn't working
01:42:47.080
we have to change tactics. And I think she has a remarkable message. The name of the book is
01:42:53.920
unfollow Megan Phelps Roper unfollow. It's available wherever you buy books, uh, currently. Thank you
01:43:01.600
so much, Megan. God bless. Thank you. Thank you. You bet.
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All right. Welcome. Welcome to the program. David Millor is a guy who you've never really
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so strongly urge you to look into. We'll talk about it here in just a second. So, Pat, looking at the
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list of the things that she just put down, let's just look at this with impeachment. Why are people
01:45:05.420
going after, why is the DNC, besides politics, why is the DNC pushing this and why is this working
01:45:13.160
with, you know, Democrats? I think it's hatred. I think they just absolutely hate Donald Trump.
01:45:22.280
I think if you phrase it the way she just did, they assume bad intent. You just assume bad intent.
01:45:31.120
And haven't they done that from the start with Trump?
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From the very start. From the very start. They're not listening to, well, what are the questions? Wait,
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what are we really talking about here? Let's listen and ask him questions on what are you doing? Or you
01:45:51.580
can't really ask him, but see, like, for instance, the chalkboard and open your eyes to a different
01:45:58.120
perspective. Stay calm. And yet make your stand and make your argument. We're violating all of these
01:46:10.240
as a society every single day. And when is it that the group of us are all going to wake up
01:46:15.820
and go, hmm, maybe we should try something different? You notice that, and I meant to
01:46:21.860
ask her before she left, if her family is still doing this, because you'd never hear about them
01:46:25.340
anymore. The Westboro Baptist Church, because everybody's like the Westboro Baptist Church now.
01:46:31.640
Right. Every time you see a protest, it's like those people. And so it's not even uncommon.
01:46:38.300
They're not even, I don't think they even raise any interest in the media anymore, because
01:46:43.260
we see that every weekend, every, everywhere. It's amazing. Especially, you're right. I wish
01:46:49.540
I would have asked that question of her, because especially if they are still active. Yeah.
01:46:53.660
You don't ever hear about them. Never. Not for years now. And I think you're right. It is,
01:46:59.520
we've all become. It's too common. Yeah. We're all that, in one way or another, we're all calling
01:47:05.820
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I just saw the story about the, uh, the mother, nearly 300 pound mother achieves her life-changing
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And so she started working out and now she's thin and beautiful and, and, uh, hopefully the
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authorities in jail. I was going to say, hopefully the authorities have put that kid away for fat
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shaming. If he ever fat shames again, uh, it's you can't have that. Yeah. Uh, fireside chat on live
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television. Trump says he wants to read the Ukraine called transcript to the American people.
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Now it's interesting. Cause this is what I said after we did the, uh, after we did the chalkboard
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about a month ago, I said, president should do a fireside chat. He should. Now I also added,
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he needs to really be prepared for that. And he needs to just take people through it. And I think I
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also then said, he's probably not the guy to do it. Cause I don't know if he's that disciplined,
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but we'll, we'll see. Is there a, uh, was there a date attached to that? He hasn't. He just said he
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wants to do it, uh, sometime soon. Uh, at some point I'm going to sit down perhaps as a fireside
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chat on live television and I'll read the transcript of the call because people have to hear it. When you
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with Elton John? No, this is a different, different sugar bear. This sugar bear is a Brooklyn
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I just chopped her up and put her head in my freezer. For what reason? He didn't want to be
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blamed. Oh, well that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. So this is, this is another sugar bear. This is one
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that didn't save her life, but didn't kill her either. No, he didn't kill her. He just chopped her up.
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Chopped up my life tonight. Well, okay. So if somebody finds your girlfriend's head in your
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to keep her close. And, uh, you know, uh, I'm in the freezer for ice cream a lot. Makes sense. Yeah.
01:51:59.260
It really makes sense. Um, so, uh, uh, Julie Clark told the Brooklyn jury, uh, he didn't want to go
01:52:06.780
to jail. He didn't want to be blamed. He had no motive to kill his main money maker, but he did cut
01:52:13.460
her body up. She then conceded, this is the attorney. She then conceded, look, he's not a
01:52:19.500
nice man. He's not someone you want with your daughter. Um, but you don't have to like his
01:52:25.720
lifestyle. That's very true is I don't want him dating my daughters. Uh, that's very, very true.
01:52:31.720
Yeah. Police closed in on Moses after finding the body parts at a, uh, Bronx waste transfer
01:52:38.700
station, tracing them to his apartment where they alleged were found blood splatters, uh, uh, and,
01:52:46.380
uh, and frozen appendages. They were found under a pile of frozen foods and meats in his, uh,
01:52:56.060
in his, uh, in his freezer. He was charged with concealing the body parts for 10 days
01:53:02.940
after the slaying. But again, he said, Hey, I, I only chopped her up. I didn't kill her.
01:53:12.580
Does he have any ideas on who did kill her? Uh, OJ Simpson. Okay. Uh, OJ Simpson, uh, but OJ
01:53:19.460
swears he was on the golf course, uh, this weekend, uh, something that the farmers always get blamed
01:53:26.660
for. Not true. Uh, it was actually, uh, to be more environmentally friendly and, uh, not burn as
01:53:34.360
much coal. Uh, it's daylight savings time this weekend. Finally, they pushed that back. Has
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it been what a month or six weeks? Um, I think it's, I think it's a month on both ends, right?
01:53:47.000
Isn't that what they did? I don't, I'm not, I haven't, I'm not following the, you're not
01:53:52.600
following the saga of the daylight savings time. And it's actually, we're both saying
01:53:57.900
it wrong. It's daylight saving time. It's not, there's no S in savings. Right. Right. Leave
01:54:02.900
the S off for savings. Saving. Saving. Saving. I hate daylight saving time. I want it to go
01:54:12.640
away completely. I just want to be on standard time the whole year. I think it's time. Okay.
01:54:17.680
No, I, I, no, I disagree with you. I like it this one weekend. I hate it in the spring.
01:54:24.600
Very much so. But I don't know why we don't just fall back in the spring and the summer.
01:54:30.660
Just keep falling back. An hour both times. Yeah. An hour both times. Just fall back an
01:54:37.920
hour. Or if you, you know, you're like, well, then the days would be screwed up. Okay.
01:54:42.340
Then fall back a few fallback 24 hours or 23 hours in the spring. Then we all win. We're
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always getting extra time that way. I'm not sure it works like that. Well, I don't know
01:55:00.200
why it doesn't. We can make it. We can make it. So if, if, if we can have health care for
01:55:06.720
all, we can certainly fall back 23 hours. Oh yeah, absolutely. Let me, uh, let me take
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you here tomorrow. Uh, I have a podcast that comes out every Saturday. We have a really
01:55:22.540
fascinating podcast. This is one of my favorite stories. This is the story, um, about a man
01:55:31.380
who has had an incredible life. He grew up wanting to be a pitcher for the Boston Red
01:55:40.560
Sox. And that's all he wanted to do. And he works so hard his whole life. And he's, he
01:55:47.220
got a scholarship to go to college. He just graduates from high school and he has a scholarship
01:55:52.420
to go for, uh, to go to school. And he's going to be on the baseball team and he's a pitcher
01:55:58.640
and he's a good one. And he's walking in a parking lot one night and he realizes I've
01:56:06.480
left my wallet in the car and they were headed towards McDonald's. I've got to go back out
01:56:10.900
in the parking lot and get my wallet. You stay here. I'll be right back. Listen to how
01:56:18.820
he describes the day that changed his life. So you were on your way, you may not have
01:56:23.880
been a pitcher, but, uh, for the Red Sox, but you were on your way to some sort of career
01:56:29.180
in baseball, you thought. Yes, sir. You're 18. Yes, sir. What happens? Well, a month after
01:56:35.640
I got out of high school, we had, uh, qualified for a state tournament. And my coach said, before
01:56:41.340
you signed a scholarship and why don't you wait till we go to the state tournament? And
01:56:47.100
if you do well, you're going to get more offers. I said, that sounds great. And so about
01:56:52.000
10 days before that tournament, I had gone to see a movie with one of my buddies and we
01:56:57.340
got out of the movie and, uh, it was beautiful sunset and there's a saying, red sky at night,
01:57:02.900
sailor's delight. Really superstitious. And so I thought that's a great sign of things
01:57:08.520
to come. And so we're driving. He says, how about if we stop and get a bite to eat? And
01:57:13.840
so we saw a McDonald's. And so we pulled into the parking lot and parked on the side of
01:57:18.180
the right side of the entrance across from the door. And we got out and started walking
01:57:23.360
across the parking lot. And I realized I forgot my wallet. And so he says, Hey, I'm going to
01:57:28.760
go ahead and go in. And I went back to the car to get my wallet and picked my wallet up
01:57:33.940
and closed the door and started taking a few steps toward the door. And I heard a car come
01:57:39.260
off the street quickly and stopped suddenly. I looked up and the two people in the car,
01:57:46.300
the driver and the passenger had opened their doors and were changing positions, uh, to the
01:57:53.100
other person was going to drive. So I stopped and waited for them to get in. And when they
01:57:58.480
got in and shut the doors, I motioned for them to go ahead and drive, drive through to get
01:58:03.980
to the drive through. And they motioned for me to start walking and go ahead and go. And
01:58:09.160
so I started walking and I heard them rev their engine and squeal their tires. And I had enough
01:58:16.120
time to turn. And I lifted my left leg and put both my hands up and the car was speeding
01:58:24.320
right at me. And I didn't have time to move anywhere else. And the car hit me, threw me 20 feet
01:58:32.000
in the air. And I slammed into the door, the brick wall, right where the corner of the door
01:58:38.480
jutted out. And luckily I landed right in the corner. I slammed into the brick wall, landed
01:58:44.700
in a pile at the base of the corner of the wall. And when I looked up, the car was coming
01:58:50.920
at a higher rate of speed. And the car hit the metal handrail, sparks flew, and the car's
01:58:58.200
metal bumper pinned the handrail in the car's bumper against my knee against the wall. And
01:59:05.580
I, you know, the engine is revving and the car exhaust is, you know, I'm having a hard
01:59:13.020
time breathing. And I can see the lady just staring at me over the steering wheel. And
01:59:19.580
I'm screaming at her to please stop. Please stop. He goes on. He has multiple surgeries.
01:59:28.260
He has nightmares. Uh, he has PTSD, but this is before anybody was diagnosing PTSD. Um, and
01:59:37.340
he gets married. He has all kinds of problems cause he cannot sleep at night. Do we know why
01:59:42.920
this happened to him? This was a woman who just freaked out and stepped on the gas instead
01:59:49.460
of the brake all of a sudden and just was freaking out. Yeah, I know. Then years go by. He, he
01:59:57.400
learns to walk again. Okay. He, he can't even walk. Wow. He goes through therapy. He has a doctor
02:00:04.780
that screws it up and his leg just snaps after surgery. So he's got all these problems. He finally
02:00:12.660
gets a job as a groundskeeper because he wants to, you know, he wants to play baseball, but
02:00:18.200
he can't. So maybe I can just be a groundskeeper. So he goes up and he's working for the, uh,
02:00:23.500
Milwaukee brewers and they're doing a whole, the whole new field for them. And, uh, so they
02:00:31.680
have everybody off and the doors, the gates to the field are open one Saturday as a redoing
02:00:40.160
this field. And this woman, another woman in a car, a different, a different woman in
02:00:47.040
a different city years later, guns, it comes through the gate and starts doing, uh, you
02:00:56.820
know, wheelies around the, uh, around the diamond. She's just going around the diamond. He starts
02:01:03.240
running for the fence line and he hears in the background. He hears that she is coming again,
02:01:12.140
uh, towards him now. And he looks behind and here she is and she runs him down on purpose,
02:01:20.180
on purpose. So she hasn't freaked out. Yeah, no, she is great. This woman's crazy. Okay. So he's
02:01:26.620
unbelievable. He's hit again twice, right? It's crazy. Gosh, you don't know this guy by name,
02:01:33.420
but you know, his work because he finally got a job at the Boston Red Sox and he's the guy,
02:01:40.460
he's the first guy to cut the pattern of like the flag or the logo in the grass. Wow. He's the first
02:01:47.060
guy to do that. And his story is amazing. Uh, it is, it's an actual story that I, I purchased his
02:01:56.060
life story probably 10 years ago. I wanted to play it and wanted to do a book and a movie on it
02:02:02.260
could never get it done. And I felt so bad because it's such a great story. I just gave him the rights
02:02:09.140
back. He's got a new book out. It's called one base at a time. Listen to this podcast. You've never
02:02:15.940
heard anybody like David before such a good guy, such a great, inspiring story. And one, uh, story of
02:02:26.040
a guy who just suffered in silence and nobody knew what he was going through. Don't miss it on
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We're just talking about, uh, we're just talking about one base at a time, new book out of the
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groundskeeper of, uh, Boston Red Sox. And, uh, uh, his story is just absolutely remarkable run
02:04:42.660
over twice by freaky women. Yeah. Really weird. Yeah. I mean, years and years apart in two
02:04:49.280
different cities. Yeah. The coincidence in his life is just, it's remarkable. Were you really
02:04:55.960
nervous when you walked off the set with him that there was going to be a car that burst
02:04:59.820
through the walls and well, no, he was actually more concerned because Mr. Kool-Aid used to do
02:05:05.320
that to me all the time. Oh, wow. Yeah. He'd break, just break through my wall and then he'd
02:05:10.060
body slam me. He's not that son of a bitch. He's not a nice guy. He's not a nice guy. I know a lot
02:05:16.080
of people are like, Oh, Mr. Kool-Aid's here. No. Yeah. He's a psycho. Well, I mean, how many
02:05:21.800
gigantic containers of Kool-Aid do you know that are smashed through people's walls where they could
02:05:27.040
go right through the gate or door? If the guy would just use his power for good as opposed to evil,
02:05:32.280
it could change the world. Imagine how popular Kool-Aid would be if he wasn't breaking into
02:05:38.420
people's houses and pinning the children against the walls. So we didn't even talk about his car
02:05:45.000
stuff. We kind of got focused on the, on Kool-Aid, on my Mr. Kool-Aid tragedy that I've carried around
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