Throwing Monkey Wrenches into the World | Guests: Kevin Freeman, Max Lucado, & Kyle Sammin | 10⧸22⧸19
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about what s going on in the world and how to deal with it. I also talk about the housing crisis, the protests in the Middle East, and what to do if you find yourself in a situation where you can t afford to buy a house.
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so right now as we speak there are major violent demonstrations in lebanon
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chile spain haiti iraq sudan russia egypt uganda indonesia ukraine peru hong kong zimbabwe colombia
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france turkey venezuela the netherlands ethiopia brazil algeria and ecuador oh and this is the week
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of brexit oh and uh trudeau was just elected but he can't form a coalition government
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wow that's kind of like boris johnson which is almost like benjamin netanyahu who also can't form
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a coalition government which reminds me of how our president now can't govern because there's no
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coalition there wow let's kind of put all of these together and see what's happening in the world
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okay just got this from the apartment list just under half of american renters
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say they are overwhelmed by their housing cost just under half
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um i personally think this is going to get worse before it gets better um i think if we
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we hit the skids uh it's going to be really hard to get a loan people are going to lose their homes
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they're going to be looking for places to rent and i think rent is going to go up uh in the future
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perhaps home ownership is affordable for you now it can be now you have to be really fiscally
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all right so there's a couple of things going on in the world that i want to address and try to tie
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together my only real skill in life i think uh is uh to be able to see a bigger picture
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i want you to i want you to look at the demonstrations in lebanon chile spain haiti
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iraq sudan russia egypt uganda indonesia ukraine peru hong kong zimbabwe columbia france turkey
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venezuela the netherlands ethiopia brazil algeria ecuador and what's happening in england now what
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happened last night in canada and i want to break these up into two different categories
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usually when you have riots or you have violent protests it's because of one of two things
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either the people are hungry and they can't afford the things that they need and they see
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the government as a problem or the government's not listening to them and the government's not
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responding to them both of those things are happening but there's a third new one that is also being
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injected so let's look at some of these for instance um you have fuel subsidies that have
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uh that have been cut so the the price of fuel has gone up in places like haiti they can't they can't
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afford it in lebanon they there's a new tax levied on the use of whatsapp that's the social media thing
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that's also one of the causes for uganda they're starting to put taxes on social media now why
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would you put a tax on whatsapp and why would that cause a riot this is really important we'll come
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back to that here in just a second in sudan it's the cut to fuel and food subsidies uh in chile they're
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they're protesting subway fair hikes now this is where whatsapp comes in you'll notice these aren't
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striking workers like we have with gm these are just average people getting together on the streets
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now how is that happening that's happening now because we used to have to have labor unions because
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it was the only it was the only way to get the message out and we could all come together against
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the man and so you had a labor organizer come in and he would organize everybody but now you have
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whatsapp now you have facebook now you have the internet and so if you're if you're upset about gas
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prices you can find other people that are upset about gas prices that you would have never met before
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this is why the governments are starting to crack down on social media and start to tax them and
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everything else because just like facebook admitted to and so did twitter they were greatly responsible
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for the uprising in egypt and they actually helped push egypt so you don't have to form unions anymore
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as long as you have the app now let's switch to other places there is a shortage of gasoline there is a shortage
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of food okay we understand that but here's where something new is happening in france one of the
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the original demands of the yellow vests was and i'm not kidding
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free parking in disneyland paris they one of the things one of the demands they wanted was free parking
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at disneyland paris now if you don't understand if that seems crazy to you which it does me it is crazy
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if it seems crazy it's because you haven't really fully understood what kind of changes are happening
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to our world and there's a reason for it people are people have very high expectations
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in these successful countries and anything that will help them cut their expenses
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or give them free stuff is being pushed just get me free stuff and the more free stuff that is out
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there the harder it is for for instance a government to be able to pay for all that free stuff it's an
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overwhelming of the system people are now just starting to say well i own that parking lot too
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that parking lot wouldn't be here if it wasn't for us i mean it's in france
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should be free parking at disneyland for everybody
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also at the same time in france something else is happening farmers are upset at the climate change
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plans climate change if you think it's unpopular here climate change with anyone in the socialist
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leaning countries um is growing really unpopular with farmers and people but only people who consume
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food because it's jacking the price of food up when the government says we have to cut these programs
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to save money nobody wants to hear that it's starting to set people on fire because they're also jacking up
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we have the poorest country in the western hemisphere
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with the most dysfunctional politics haiti and it's seeing protests because the situation
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is bad but in the same hemisphere we also have chile it's the wealthiest country in latin america
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let me give you let me give you one other thing
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i told you 10 years ago in the future the operative word will be chaos and anything that causes chaos get away from
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so get away from anybody who's trying to cause chaos
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governments cannot work governments fail when the gears get jammed
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this is what this is what saboteurs were during the war
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saboteurs were people that would put a a monkey wrench into the gears
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that was an actual thing in the industrial revolution
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somebody would take a wrench and they'd throw it in the gears
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and it would break the gears and jam the machine up
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so it would stop the factory from producing things
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and i don't mean just here i mean all around the world
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benjamin netanyahu looks like he's going to have to quit
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he's been re-elected but he cannot put together a coalition
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coalition style parliamentary governments only work
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so benjamin netanyahu looks like he's going to retire and quit
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and hopefully they'll find somebody else that can put a coalition government
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who is just trying to follow the dictate of the people
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and i would say that while we don't have a parliamentary system here
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and putting that one person ahead of the whole country
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that honestly nobody in the country cares about
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everyone in the country wants us to move forward
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in the last 10 minutes of trading at the chicago mercantile
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exchange on friday september 13th someone got very lucky
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that's when he or she or a group of people sold short
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120 000 s&p e minis their electronically traded future contracts
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linked to the standard and poor's 500 stock index
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that's when this purchase came in to sell it short
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the time was 350 p.m in new york and it was nearing midnight
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in tehran a few hours later drones attacked a large swath of saudi arabia's
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oil infrastructure choking off production in the country and sending oil
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pre-trading sunday night the s&p index had fallen 30 points
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giving that very fortunate trader or traders a quick
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180 million dollars in profit now does that sound like something that
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donald trump or one of his people are doing and does that sound like the chaos
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he's creating it was not an isolated occurrence
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three days earlier in the last 10 minutes of trading someone bought 82 000 s&p e minis
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when the index was trading at 29 69 it was nearly 4 a.m on september 11th in
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beijing where a few hours later the chinese government
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announced that it would lift tariffs on a range of american-made products
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as has been the typical reaction in the u.s stock markets
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as the trade war with china chugs on without any perceptible logic
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when the news about the potential resolution of you know seemed positive
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stock markets go up the news was viewed positively
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to 29 96 up nearly 30 points that same day later president donald trump
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said he would postpone the tariffs on some of the chinese goods and the s&p moved
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even higher up 47 points the person that bought the 82 000 e minis just before the
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market closed on september 11th uh saw a uh saw a movement up uh an e-mini contract
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worth 50 uh just moving up 47 points is now worth 2350 that person or persons made 190 million
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now that sounds to me like that one was coming maybe from china somebody that knew china or they
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were just extremely lucky a week earlier three minutes before the cme closed on september 3rd
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someone bought 55 000 e-mini contracts with the index at about 29 06
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around 9 p.m new york 9 a.m hong kong market started moving kept rallying for six hours then
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reaching 29 36 around 2 p.m hong kong 2 a.m new york carrie lamb the hong kong leader announced
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that she would be withdrawing the controversial extradition bill that had been rolling the city
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in protest for months somebody there made 82 million dollars but then somebody who bought
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420 000 september e-minis in the last 30 minutes of trading in june 28th that was 40 percent of the
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day's trading volume they made a trade that no one could ignore president trump was already in osaka
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japan 14 hours ahead of chicago on his way to a roughly hour-long meeting with china's president
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uh zhi as part of the g20 summit saturday in osaka the market had closed blah blah blah
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trump emerged from the meeting with z and announced that they had their intermittent trade talks were
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back on track that person made a profit of 1.8 billion dollars the when this happened on september 11th
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um a financial expert who now does a show on blaze tv uh was called in by the pentagon and said can you
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do the forensics on this and he found that indeed somebody shorted the market uh and it looked like
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it was a sovereign fund kevin freeman was that guy and he's on with us now hi kevin
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kevin are you there i am glenn how are you doing i'm good so this is this story is presented as if
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it is trump that is you know possibly uh uh involved here but this looks like it would be sovereign funds
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or investors that have inside information outside of the u.s uh and not about u.s uh movements on things
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are these is this just a string of coincidence or does this look like a pattern to you that we
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should be looking into well there's no question it's a pattern number one number two it is not
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president trump he wants to see the market go up every single day all day every day uh during the
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period of his presidency he has no i no desire whatsoever to manipulate the market uh during this
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his trades would be noticed there's no way he's he's behind it but foreign governments are behind it
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it's what i wrote in my book secret weapon it's what i talked about when you first uncovered my
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research from the pentagon it's what we've talked about on the show all the time foreign governments
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have interest in manipulating our market or traders associated with foreign governments they want to
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both profit but they also want to destroy the american economic system so is this the beginning is
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has this been going on forever because i mean if i'm turan and i'm really struggling for cash
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and i'm going to launch some things i immediately short the markets uh because i know it will affect
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and that will just give me more money for whatever it is i'm trying to do well there's no question in
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fact um osama bin laden was found to have manipulated the markets prior to 9-11 and you know they dismissed
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it in the 9-11 commission but there are several collegiate university studies that came back afterwards
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and said no there was unusual trading activity in united airlines and in reinsurance companies and so forth
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before 9-11 this is a path to profit if you don't mind manipulating causing harm to people and so forth
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of course you it's an old mob technique you know you take out insurance on a on a warehouse and then you burn
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down the warehouse so absolutely it's a way to make money and it's a way to manipulate the global system
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so what has stopped people from just making money like this in the past i mean is this is this something
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new that we're dealing with no it's not entirely new but it certainly has ramped up recently and
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certainly with the iranians i mean we gave for example during the obama administration we gave the
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iranians something like 150 billion dollars to play nice and be good and so forth uh but now they're
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desperate for capital and under the trump administration we're we're really locking down
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in a lot of areas and so this is their way to lash back and to access capital so um the the market
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should know who's making these transactions right can't we can we is there a way to track them
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no you can do a lot of this in secret through dark pools and and other places and keep in mind we just
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assume that every trade is economic that's something that we're born and bred into so we're
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a trader says well somebody's trying to make money this is economic and so we assume that they're acting
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nice and and being legal and appropriate it's not always the case so what we say in the economic war
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room is what we see as a marketplace our enemies view as a battle space and the there's no real way to
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uh to track down some of these foreign trades you you can say they're unusual where's it coming from
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but there's no real way to trace and understand what happened in in 2008 for example we looked at
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the short selling on the banks and you had to go through like seven layers before you found out
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where it came from which was a sovereign wealth fund in the middle east it took you know they were trades
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placed by traders placed by uh dart pools placed by you just keep going back until you finally found
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where it was and it takes a while to do that uh forensic analysis are you concerned at all you know
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we've talked on this program about the i think it's 50 trillion dollars that china has just printed
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uh and 24 of that uh looks like it went to offshore accounts and uh was invested in stocks bonds etc etc
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here in the united states and in the west that really i mean that is a staggering amount of of money
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that if somebody wants to collapse the market you know 20 trillion dollars 15 trillion dollars
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uh makes the market move dramatically does it not yeah it would you normally wouldn't be concerned
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because a major nation would realize that the blowback if you destroyed the global financial
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system would be so severe the frightening thing to me is that china has along with russia
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and other nations created virtually an alternative economic system that doesn't use the western
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system at all so they may not use the swift transaction system they've created their china
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payment system they may not use the international monetary fund they may use the asia development
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bank and so normally you'd say well no sane nation that's not collapsing would would um you know
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collapse the world economy because it would just damage them too much but we're fast approaching the
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point where they may have an alternative system if they wanted to pull the plug on the west
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they could restart very quickly and they would be winners from this and this is something that's
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actually out in the literature it's something they've talked about in unrestricted warfare
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and it's also something that the russians talked about uh more than uh well 20 years ago now
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well they but they've also taken action steps on those they're both stockpiling gold um and they
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both have negotiated with saudi arabia to get off of the petrodollar uh and so they've they've already
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taken those steps to to show us that they are moving towards getting away from the western standards
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absolutely correct 100 percent okay and it never makes me feel good when i talk to you kevin
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uh i mean i always am glad because i know you'd know these things but i guess there's part of me
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that's like i don't i don't know if i really want to know these things what should we be looking for
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kevin well one of the signs are would be um an issue that we're dealing with is the thrift savings
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plan where the chinese are still seeking to access western capital and so in the thrift savings
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plan of the united states which is all of our pensioners and retirees and veterans and so forth
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that's going to be invested in the msci international index which is heavily weighted to china much
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against the patriotic uh veteran who doesn't want his money going into chinese stocks as long as they
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continue to access western capital uh they're probably not pulling the plug yet they're just
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preparing for and and that that is a massive push to take billions and billions of dollars from our
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thrift savings plan and put it into uh chinese companies it will be very painful when they
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switch over um it will be more painful for us than them if they succeed their economy
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unfortunately or fortunately for us their economy is not the powerhouse juggernaut that it once was
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they're struggling and president trump has the first president in my lifetime actually stood up
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to the chinese so this is a war and we're finally beginning to recognize it there's no other
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signal we need to realize that they're fighting an economic war against us we've seen everything
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we need to see and what you're mentioning here about uh currency that they're pushing around the
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world to the tune of trillions just boggles my mind so kevin i've got to i've got to take a break
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and i want to hold you if you know an answer to this question um do you have any idea what is causing the
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banks to have to be you know get those loans every night from the fed do you have any idea yeah it's just
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extreme stresses on the system okay okay okay what the cause yeah okay you don't know what the cause
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so um kevin freeman is with us from the economic war room and i've i've been telling you about this
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this thing that has not happened uh really since 2008 uh and it's really complex and you let me just
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summarize it this way the banks have been having extra stress and at night uh they've been going to
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the fed to get these gigantic loans to be able to uh meet all of the regulations it's very unusual
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uh on what is happening and we're talking about i think it was as high as 215
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trillion trillion trillion billion billion billion dollars um 215 billion dollars a night for a while
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and it's it's happening again nobody knows what this is what is causing this but how concerning is
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it to you kevin well it's very concerning and it's becoming increasingly so initially they told us
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it was having to do with tax payments and so forth very temporary but it's expanded it's gone from an
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average 20 billion to an average 60 billion dollars a night and then a jp morgan uh fixed in camp analyst
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just wrote that with year end coming up this is all likely to get much worse in our view before it gets
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any better this is a sign of stress on the economic system right but what is the stress is it possible that
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the stress is the government is spending so much money and somebody has to buy those bonds and they're
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kind of being strong-armed and they don't have the money for the ball what is what that'd be a crowding
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out theory you know we are clearly when we're having to spend 1.2 trillion dollars beyond what we're
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taking in which is a huge percentage there are all kinds of stresses globally when you add the trade war
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when you add you know the the need to keep the stock market high we have uh negative interest rates
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around the world all of those things it is such a big pile of mess it's hard to understand how people
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don't see uh potential tragedy around the corner and yet we've been drugged into this uh lull and and
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the fed is drugging us even further uh with these overnight repo the market's not able to clear itself
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i haven't seen the news today on brexit i don't even know if the news even matters at this point
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but if they do get out are you worried about that dislocation well everything is a dislocation but
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they just keep covering it over the problem is when the central banks are no longer able to solve the
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problem and then they have to be bailed out who bails them out and that's where we're almost to that
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point and that's a jim rickard's uh argument is the you know the last tragic happening is when the
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central banks fail well that's why norway i think it was norway the central bank said it's time to get
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back into gold because there's a reset coming it's like um how come nobody's talking about that that's
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a central bank saying something that is very very different than everybody else absolutely john maldon
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has been talking about the great reset from the 2020s and that's something that we'll have to face
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and that that is when you have these massive dislocations when people are paying people to borrow money
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that's a signal there's a problem yeah and we have that 17 trillion dollars or something around
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the world is at negative interest rates kevin thank you so much appreciate it kevin freeman he is with
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so we have the most central piece of how elizabeth warren is going to pay for all her plans the wealth
01:06:04.100
tax is it constitutional we answer that question coming up next
01:06:08.340
okay so we've been hearing a lot about wealth tax and i don't even think most people even know what a
01:06:37.560
wealth tax is and they stop listening because it's only going to affect they say only going to affect
01:06:41.880
those people making uh you know or have a billion dollars uh or more uh but it's going to be a tax
01:06:47.980
on everything they own so their art the the money they gave to their kids uh you know uh all of it all of
01:06:56.300
it and so it doesn't seem to be constitutional at all but everybody is loving it because it doesn't
01:07:06.760
affect them and it's going to raise all this money but it's unconstitutional uh kyle salmon is the senior
01:07:13.480
contributor for the federalist uh he has a podcast he's a co-host of conservative minds welcome to the
01:07:18.420
program kyle how are you good thanks for having me on glenn you bet um so you wrote a very good
01:07:24.680
article in the federalist about why elizabeth warren's wealth tax is completely unconstitutional
01:07:29.800
but can you can you can you explain it in simple layman's terms uh why and what a direct tax is
01:07:39.620
uh you know just kind of break this down for us sure um and the distinction i mean between direct
01:07:46.600
tax and indirect tax is one that doesn't come up very much but it was something discussed at the
01:07:51.420
constitutional convention because the founding fathers the the government they were living under
01:07:56.060
the articles of confederation did not have the power to tax they had to just ask the states for
01:08:00.600
money and hope they got it so a lot of times they didn't get it because the states didn't want to
01:08:05.480
pay it so when they wrote the constitution they thought okay we need to be able to tax directly so
01:08:11.020
congress can levy a tax and we can pay for the army and the navy and everything else we need to pay for
01:08:14.880
but they didn't want to give them too much power to tax they didn't want them to overwhelm
01:08:19.200
the states and take away all of the people's money and and put themselves in the worst situation so
01:08:24.620
they they split the difference and said that congress could tax but they couldn't do any direct
01:08:29.680
tax unless it would be apportioned by population so what does that mean uh at the constitutional
01:08:37.640
convention rufus king of massachusetts asked what is the precise meaning of direct tax and according
01:08:42.440
to madison's notes nobody answered and they moved on okay good so even in the beginning it was sort
01:08:49.920
of a compromise language but as they then we moved on it kind of took on the idea that a tax on people
01:08:55.240
or property is a direct tax a tax on sales or imports is an indirect tax so congress always has
01:09:03.760
taxed imports or had the ability to tax imports i mean that's that's tariffs and we've had that since
01:09:08.820
the beginning and the uh... you know alexander hamilton came up with the whiskey tax which
01:09:14.500
caused a little stir in the west but it was definitely constitutional because it was a tax on
01:09:18.660
on the sale of whiskey but they could not tax property directly was the idea unless they apportioned that
01:09:28.180
tax among the states so that each state paid its share according to population according to property
01:09:33.380
effectively this made property taxes impossible because it wouldn't make any sense
01:09:39.700
if you had two states that had the same population say
01:09:42.620
um but one of them was rich and one of them was poor
01:09:45.720
they'd both have to pay the same amount of property tax to the government
01:09:53.640
poor person in the poorer state had to pay the same amount as the rich people in the richer state
01:09:59.180
which is sort of the opposite of how taxes even in those days were meant to go
01:10:02.900
so it had to be apportioned by the state meaning
01:10:05.940
california and south dakota would pay the exact same rate
01:10:14.420
but if if one was california that had all the rich people there and south dakota had none of the rich people there
01:10:23.020
and that's why congress never really imposed a tax like that because it would have
01:10:26.900
made no sense and everyone would have been angry
01:10:30.320
we that worked for about a hundred years and we get down to the first
01:10:34.320
permanent income tax getting imposed in the 1890s and people said hey isn't this the same thing
01:10:39.100
you know you're taxing income that's a direct tax
01:10:41.860
and the supreme court agreed and they said you have to apportion this which basically meant they were going to repeal it
01:10:47.440
then we passed the the 16th amendment a few decades later that says you can
01:11:05.540
well that that's what the court said in in in pollock the case that struck down the uh...
01:11:10.380
the unapportioned income tax in the 1890s because they said look if you have property and we can't tax that directly
01:11:15.260
now you get income from that property and we can doesn't make sense it's the same thing
01:11:19.320
right where you can't tax a person directly but you can tax his income that doesn't make sense
01:11:24.080
that's what that was struck down and it's only legal now because of the 16th amendment which
01:11:36.200
and they had to change the constitution to make it
01:11:42.280
right and it's it's pretty broad it's income on
01:11:45.380
you know any kind of income you get they can tax and they do
01:11:54.900
you know in your state or your township or whatever
01:11:57.540
your school district you might pay a property tax
01:11:59.540
but there's no federal property tax and this is the reason because it
01:12:09.180
constitution so how is elizabeth warren i mean besides getting away with it with
01:12:13.340
the american people because they just don't know
01:12:18.140
she hasn't had a good answer for that i mean that's that's kind of
01:12:21.720
but john delaney brought it up in the last debate that he was allowed to
01:12:25.480
participate in and they kind of just moved on from it but he raises a very good
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a hundred plus years of of direct tax jurisprudence that says you can't just
01:12:50.680
the insurance mandate but said it could survive as a tax
01:12:56.100
justice scalia brought up this direct tax question
01:12:59.080
and said wait a minute if you're if you're saying this is a tax
01:13:01.080
this is a tax on the person not having insurance that sounds a lot like a
01:13:07.320
and justice roberts kind of shrugged this off and said it's
01:13:10.540
he lifted a bunch of direct taxes that existed in the 1790s the first time the
01:13:14.620
court looked at this and said it's not one of these
01:13:17.940
but that's sort of a backward reasoning because of course it's not one of those
01:13:22.780
they didn't have they didn't even have health insurance in the 1790s
01:13:28.420
so that kind of muddied the waters a little bit and perhaps
01:13:34.080
you know if if the democrats succeed in court packing just you know
01:13:38.120
so tell me the tell me the ramifications because people
01:13:41.320
it's people with a billion dollars they have it they won't miss it
01:13:46.520
well i mean that's that's part of it too it's not just the billionaires
01:13:49.300
it's um it actually starts at if you have 50 million
01:13:52.360
which is still it's more than i'll ever have but it's you know
01:13:57.020
and the problem is that's a warrant that she said it's two percent
01:14:00.940
it's on the only the very rich are going to pay it you know
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even down to the percent what they said about the income tax in 1895
01:14:10.280
they said it was a two percent tax and it was only on people making
01:14:19.760
you know it was less than one percent of the population and they said if i
01:14:23.520
remember if i remember they said it would never go above seven percent
01:14:27.160
and it would never be paid by anybody but the uber rich
01:14:31.460
yeah this was just a rich man's tax you know and then people got behind it they
01:14:35.380
said well yeah look at these guys they mean this guy owns a hundred factories he
01:14:40.280
but it's never it never stops at that once they get access to a new form of taxation it always
01:14:50.100
um and at lauren summers clinton's treasury secretary brought this up more than once in
01:14:55.400
response to warren's plans it's not going to take in as much money as she thinks
01:14:58.880
it's uh people they've tried it in europe over the decades and it it never brings in as much
01:15:04.700
because people hide their their stuff or then you have things that like the things that regular
01:15:10.060
folks own you know how much they're worth you know but the things that rich people own are
01:15:13.660
sometimes hard to value and then that what that turns into is just a an audit every year
01:15:18.720
because this is an annual tax where she wants two percent every year of all your stuff
01:15:23.760
which doesn't that over time just delete just deplete your stuff yeah i mean it means you have
01:15:31.560
to earn two percent on all of your investments just to keep them and some things aren't owned as
01:15:37.000
investments i mean sometimes you might you know people own a house it might not go up two percent
01:15:41.440
every year i think most don't you know but you don't own it necessarily for an investment you
01:15:46.360
know because it's the place you live you know or other things you know i mean things you
01:15:49.820
you know art it can be an investment but that market is very up and down and art collectors
01:15:55.900
don't always buy because they want appreciation they buy because they think it's beautiful and
01:16:00.840
they want it on their house so keeping yeah this this basically says if you don't earn two percent
01:16:06.180
on these investments every year in a way that you can pay to the government
01:16:10.380
like you earn two percent cash really because if you you know if your house goes up two percent
01:16:15.500
doesn't mean you have that two percent it's yeah you have to have the you have to have the two
01:16:19.920
percent in cash which might require you selling an asset to be able to hit that right so it's it's a
01:16:27.100
very and then you know i mean we have we have estate taxes where audits go on for years and these
01:16:34.200
biggest estate taxes i mean i i began my legal career as a trust in the state's attorney and
01:16:39.320
there's a whole lot that goes into those and they only happen once a generation
01:16:43.500
this would happen every single year unbelievable unbelievable all right kyle thank you so much i
01:16:49.780
appreciate it um all right thank you you bet we wanted to have him on uh he's podcast host
01:16:54.320
conservative minds wanted to have him on because he took this very complex thing and and made it
01:16:59.100
pretty simple in the federalist uh and there's just no way to do it and the ramifications of stuff
01:17:05.900
like this it fundamentally changes if they can get away with this like obamacare if they can get away
01:17:13.820
with this if they can start to say no we can have direct taxes like this they're going to go after
01:17:20.900
everything because they have to they have to if they are wanting to spend an extra 50 billion a trillion
01:17:28.640
to a hundred trillion dollars in the next 10 years they have to have access to everybody's stuff
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it's still not going to be enough no still not but i mean they're talking about if you think that
01:17:39.980
it starts at 50 million and it stays at 50 million you're nuts it's going to be do you have 50 000 in
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your bank account well then we need a percentage of that too and i mean what do you have what about
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your stocks what about your retirement funds you don't come after all of that you don't own
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so we are on the verge of a a totally different country um we're on the verge of of losing our
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country to socialist marxist radicals that's what they are that's what elizabeth warren is she is a
01:20:04.700
socialist marxist socialist democrat radical she's not radical enough for the likes of uh oac and you
01:20:15.840
saw with um ocasio-cortez endorsing bernie sanders at this point why would you do that because she wants
01:20:23.340
to pick up the mantle of bernie sanders she wants to be the marxist in charge when bernie sanders passes
01:20:31.540
the torch uh and and not elizabeth warren because she's still too democrat for aoc and the squad
01:20:42.720
so this is a hostile takeover of the democratic party and depending on who wins in the in 2020
01:20:52.000
you're going to see a very different democratic party and one that will go for all of it all of
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your taxes all of the whole ball of wax seattle is doing that one of you know one the city's all
01:21:08.620
on the west coast they're all doing it portland's doing it california is doing it san francisco is
01:21:14.240
doing it seattle now is pushing for a seattle city tax they just they just passed a uh an oil
01:21:22.900
a heating oil tax just in time for the winter they've already done the 15 minimum wage it's already
01:21:30.180
killing uh seattle businesses now you want to put a city tax on your uh on your people an income tax
01:21:41.680
if that's what seattle wants to do i'm fine with it i don't live in seattle i'd love to but i choose not
01:21:50.540
to because it's insane but when seattle collapses like san francisco and it becomes absolutely
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unlivable don't come crawling to me don't ask me in texas to bail you out what you're doing in seattle
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is insane now you're doing it and you're getting away with it longer because you have amazon you have
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microsoft you have these deep deep pockets you can rape all the time go for it they love being raped
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apparently go for it but when the money runs out and you have an unworkable city because you've done
01:22:33.380
everything that the rest of america says is insane we're not going to bail you out
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and that should be said from from the oval office if this is the deal we're compassionate people
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but when you don't learn from your lessons over and over and over and over again
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i mean you hate christians but christians will be the ones who will actually go up and make sure
01:23:12.900
but not the federal government not my tax dollars
01:23:18.160
i live in texas and until they screw up texas which they're about to do until they screw up texas
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i'm sorry i have nothing to do with your crazy policies and i don't want the federal government
01:23:34.060
bailing you out because the federal government is taking money from me and utah and south dakota
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and south carolina and sending it to you no thank you you're listening to glenn beck
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you know i i'm i'm listening to this news and i was so glad she started with some good news of the day
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and uh i was thinking about how uh that which you gaze upon you become and looking at this garbage
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every day is so hard you know but we we have to find uh the good news we have to find the the positive
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in life and i want to talk to you a little bit about happiness with max lucado um i heard somebody
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somebody said to me the other day i said how are you and their answer was the best answer i have ever
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heard and it made me re-evaluate everything everything and i want to share that with you and
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we have max lucado on he's got a book how happiness happens let's uh let's find out how it happens
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somebody asked me that question and i and i said fine and they i said how are you and they gave me
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the best answer i've ever heard and it totally reframed everything it made me think wait a minute
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wait a minute that's absolutely right when surveyed only 35 percent in america say they are happy
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that's not good that's not good by some estimates clinical depression is 10 times more rampant than
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it was a century ago ago depression is going to become the second leading cause of disease
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worldwide what's happening to us and how do we fix it max lucado in one minute this is the glenbeck
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a man who has truly changed millions of people's lives max lucado joins us now he is new york times
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multi-time best-selling author uh he has a new book out how happiness happens we talked to him a couple
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of weeks ago for a few minutes and i wanted him back because he's on to something and i think this
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is the biggest problem that we face in the world today is a lack of finding happiness uh and and max
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somebody somebody said to me uh the other day uh when i said how are you they said i am fantastic
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and i said really and they said yeah you know nothing in my life is is has gone wrong today and
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nothing my family is doing pretty good i mean we still have our problems but it's pretty good
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my business is pretty good my health is pretty good and so you would think that he was going to
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say so how are you pretty good he's like if everything is just kind of like status quo i should
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celebrate because one of those things is going to go wrong this is the best time i've had in a long
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time i'm fantastic we what a different perspective that's a great perspective it is so many times i think
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we uh sacrifice our happiness on the altar of high expectations yes you know that everything has
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to be just perfect right uh everybody has to agree with us the traffic has to be just right and we
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enter the day with such high expectations and high expectations can be the enemy of gratitude it can
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cause us to not be grateful for the very many good things that are happening in our lives and you know
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when you when you look at it differently because i started thinking about that and i thought okay
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well my son is struggling in school i have i have other family members that are battling with depression
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uh one that's about to go in for brain surgery and one was just diagnosed with epilepsy
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and those are my those are my kids and i was like oh you know what but you know what max i thought but
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you know what we all get along we're all having really good time in our relationship yeah those
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things are those things are happening but we're really fantastic it's amazing and and and really
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perspective matters the most doesn't it glenn it does i mean any anybody can find reason on any day
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to be downcast and and down spirited and then that that um we run into that person who has so
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much less than we do just like last night i was i was a little bit cranky my wife and i took my
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granddaughter out to a restaurant and the guy who was serving us dinner was just you'd have thought he
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i don't know he he was a super bowl winner he was just so happy to be there so happy to be there
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and i thought and he and i are about the same age you know i'm in my mid-60s and and i thought would i
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be that happy would i be that happy uh to to be working as hard as he is and he loves his work
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and uh and here i was sitting in a restaurant that's very affordable for me but for most people
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in the you know billion people and billions of people in the world they could not afford it
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uh you know it was a perspective just a wake-up call come on locato be grateful don't let your
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don't let your day be sucked out to joy i mean sucked out to see don't let your joy be sucked out
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to see by just a rotten rotten perspective and my point in the book glenn we're paying a high price
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for this we are um where there's a lack of happiness there is uh an abundance of health
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issues uh happier people have healthier marriages happier people make more money happier people
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are more common and commonly and quickly promoted and so really the pursuit of happiness is is more
01:32:02.980
than a phrase in our founding documents but it's a but it's a a moral obligation that we have to
01:32:10.360
those around us we're better people when we're happy so there's there's several things that come
01:32:16.160
to the top of mind on what is causing us to have this lack of of happiness um and can we just tick
01:32:22.920
some of them off and and tell me you know what role these these play but i i think of um you know being
01:32:32.940
self-absorbed and and and absorbed in your problems and not seeing your problems as as blessings i mean
01:32:43.480
my father taught me um you know long story short he taught me that there is no real bad that happens
01:32:50.080
to you it's only how you relate to it that makes it bad um and when you when you have trust that there
01:32:57.560
is something above you bigger and there is no such thing as a coincidence and that it's going to be
01:33:05.840
okay in the long run you don't get that job this thing doesn't happen it doesn't destroy you your kids
01:33:13.120
get sick it doesn't destroy you because you know it's all going to be right it's going to take me to
01:33:20.140
the place i'm supposed to be how much of that has been lost now because of our faith that's huge
01:33:28.160
that's just huge you know the two dollar term for that in theology is sovereignty sovereignty is the
01:33:35.020
belief that and and i remember a professor told me once that the understanding of sovereign is found
01:33:41.020
in the word itself r-e-i-g-n rain solve rain tea you know sovereignty is the belief that there is a king
01:33:49.380
there is a king somebody who reigns over the affairs of our lives and um i just boy i just i
01:33:57.800
don't mean to sound like a old religious stiff-necked person i'm not but i do believe that secularism is
01:34:04.860
taking its toll on our day uh when we raise up a generation of people that are taught uh that prayer
01:34:13.280
is bad it's not permissible it's not something we turn to it's not a go-to response
01:34:19.320
uh and when we and when we uh when it when it's it's unpopular to to be a person of faith and
01:34:28.100
our role models deride faith we're going to pay a price for that i think glenn and and and as a
01:34:34.540
result uh people don't know where to turn they think they think that the that all of life is is
01:34:40.660
wind on a you know on a on a windmill you know or a weather vane it's just however the wind kind of
01:34:47.980
blows and and some people are lucky some people aren't and and that leads to a a just a gloomy
01:34:55.900
sad small view of life whereas what your father taught you that there's a there's a being in charge
01:35:03.740
and this being really does care for our well-being we can we don't have to all agree on the nature of
01:35:09.980
that being how even to access that being uh how that being has revealed uh has been revealed to us
01:35:16.740
but what's essential is the belief that there's somebody in the cockpit and somebody's in charge
01:35:22.440
of getting us where we're supposed to go you know it's amazing because so many people who are atheists
01:35:27.720
um some of them are real militant just like some christians are real militant um but they'll they'll
01:35:33.740
it bothers them that you believe in god and i've i've had conversations with people and i said why
01:35:39.060
does that bother you if it makes me happy and makes me a better person makes me a better father makes
01:35:45.860
me a better citizen and it works for me i'm not trying to jam it down your throat why is this such
01:35:53.840
a bad thing even if there is no there is no man in the sky fine this belief made me into a much
01:36:03.600
better person uh and i don't know why our society doesn't look at people who practice their faith not
01:36:11.500
to claim but people who practice their faith they are happier on the whole yeah they are i think you're
01:36:19.300
making such a great point oh no every comment you've made there we could you know but what you
01:36:24.260
were saying are those who practice their faith those who those who claim to have a faith but don't
01:36:29.540
practice it that's always been the challenge right uh even the teachings of jesus his hardest words were
01:36:36.700
reserved for those hypocrites who like to stand out on the street corner and pray loud prayers just so
01:36:42.200
they'll be heard i mean if that's a turn off to christ it's going to be a turn off to us
01:36:46.760
and uh and and that we we pay a high price for that but there is in our country such a massive
01:36:54.880
population group that would say my faith has made me a better person made me a better wife a better
01:37:03.040
husband uh that they are a resounding chorus to the to the power of a heartfelt and genuine faith
01:37:10.800
you're absolutely right so it makes us better people max let me i'm going to take a one minute
01:37:14.920
break and then we come back and and let me talk about those people because are they the numbers
01:37:19.640
seem to say that they are disappearing that they are more and more people are saying now i don't
01:37:24.740
really believe in anything um and and i think they are critical i've said just the other day if we don't
01:37:31.960
turn our face back to god beg for forgiveness and ask for his help and humble ourselves we are toast
01:37:39.620
and uh that's that's nobody in mainstream media is is saying that kind of stuff they deem that crazy
01:37:46.960
and i'm wondering if these people are just quiet right now or if it is actually dwindling uh as as
01:37:54.500
people say it is max lucado when we come back the name of the book is how happiness happens and we're
01:37:59.820
going to get into that uh he outlines things that you can do and studies show you do these things and it
01:38:06.220
actually helps uh happiness we go back to him in one minute stand by imagine you're in a coffee shop
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you're not an actual coffee shop but i mean one of those places that charges you ten dollars for
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all right max lucado is here and uh one of the reasons why i'm having him on i'm just being
01:39:40.400
transparent is he's friends with chip and joanna gaines and they're my favorites and i'm a huge fan
01:39:46.080
and if you ever just want to pass my name out there and say you know i have a friend and he'd love to
01:39:52.080
have dinner with you guys feel free max i'm just saying feel free um those those two people if you
01:40:00.520
watch chip and joanna they have a what seems to be a happy family because they seem to have fun
01:40:10.220
with each other they laugh they love each other they support each other in your book you talk about
01:40:15.820
how it's got to be a five to one ratio positive to negative are you there max yes okay and you talk
01:40:24.440
about how you have to have you know you have to have more positive uh going out the negative talk
01:40:32.640
about families and relationships yeah yeah you're right about chip and joanna they're just splendid
01:40:39.800
people i wish i know them better but i i know chip better than i know joanna so you and uh i mean you
01:40:45.960
know chip enough to say hey you should get together with my friend glenn right i'll do it i'll do it
01:40:50.700
right now okay all right anyway max go ahead uh you you know this whole issue of happiness the the big
01:40:59.560
idea is that we we find we can find happiness by making other people happy that's that's really
01:41:07.300
what we cherish about people who have a genuine happiness they haven't found it because they won
01:41:13.900
the lottery they haven't found it because they found a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow they
01:41:19.740
found it because they discovered that the secret to happiness is is making other people happy and you
01:41:25.620
cited some really fascinating research and that is that healthy happy marriages have a five to one
01:41:32.760
ratio of encouraging words uh over negative wounds uh negative words uh the truth is words can wound
01:41:41.040
people words can bless people some people's words are like water on an oak tree some people's words are
01:41:47.720
are like a poison or some type of toxicity on an oak tree and um and so what what i urge people in this
01:41:56.360
book is look at the ways that you can make other people happy because you you set out today to make
01:42:04.420
five or ten people happy you just set out today to to give them words of encouragement to bless them to
01:42:10.700
compliment them and you'll be amazed how the the clouds part in your own sky and uh and it really will
01:42:18.960
you really will find that it's more blessed to give than it is to receive you know that sounds like such
01:42:25.500
you know dime store um uh yeah advice too simple right but it is true i am convinced max that
01:42:34.240
you know we are arguing so much about how bad things are in our past and everything else if we just said
01:42:42.060
you know what let's put that on the table for a while let's put that on back burner for a while
01:42:45.180
there are 50 million slaves right now enslaved in the world let's let's work together to get those
01:42:51.860
people out of bondage i think we would forget about all of our problems quickly and the people we
01:42:58.540
thought we were you know enemies with would soon become our friends because we were not focused on us
01:43:06.520
that is absolutely the truth and and that's a that's a biblical truth and it's increasingly being
01:43:14.780
borne out by uh by research in in the first chapter of the book i talk about what i thought was really a
01:43:21.180
fascinating piece of research in which um in which volunteers uh were uh were attached to an mri scanner
01:43:30.740
and they were asked to imagine uh glenn not even do but just to imagine doing good things for other
01:43:37.880
people and when they imagined it that part of our brain that is called the pleasure center just lit up
01:43:45.100
like christmas trees and and just a thought of doing something good for somebody generated the same
01:43:52.360
uh response that a good meal or a hobby uh or a beautiful walk on you know in the in in on a trail
01:44:00.580
on a blue blue sky day it generated that level of happiness so the point is you don't have to
01:44:07.660
change your circumstances to find happiness that's the big lie and that is if i can get my
01:44:14.120
circumstances right then i'll be happy all we need to do is go from the posture of everybody take care
01:44:21.300
of me to the posture of i'm going to try to serve other people i heard a speaker actually i did my wife
01:44:28.560
heard a speaker just over the weekend uh bemoan what you were talking about and that is the the decrease
01:44:35.060
in in church attendance and i'd love to explore that with you it's it's a disturbing fact and he said i
01:44:41.780
wonder how much of that is the fact that we live in a society where if your coffee isn't exactly the
01:44:48.640
way you want it you walk it back up to the counter and they'll make you a brand new one and give you
01:44:53.600
apology or if your pizza is not the way you want it they'll they'll send a team to your house and
01:44:58.560
bring you a new pizza and he said i wonder if we've created an attitude and in churches of all sorts
01:45:05.640
that uh if you don't like the temperature or the song or something the preacher said then you know
01:45:11.660
that needs to be fixed to serve me it's it's it's a it's a consumer mindset that that is taken into
01:45:20.320
churches and consequently no church is perfect especially mine and so people are saying well
01:45:27.120
they're not they're not meeting my expectations and uh and and as a result the attendance is at an
01:45:33.500
all-time low i would like to actually explore that uh let me take a break here but i before we do let
01:45:40.200
me just throw this out my son uh said to me sunday morning we're gonna have to go to church and he said
01:45:47.060
dad why do we have to go to church i'm so tired why do we have to go to church and i said because we
01:45:51.880
have to say thank you for all the things that have gone right this week and all the blessings that
01:45:56.200
we have we have a lot to be grateful for and i i i i wonder if we have forgotten that this isn't our
01:46:08.000
time to have things made right for us this is our time to go with gratitude and to hear what he's
01:46:17.300
trying to tell us okay here's what you do next i don't know if we we have that attitude back in just
01:46:24.140
a second with max lucado you're listening to glenn beck all right i want to talk to you a little bit
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welcome back to the program max lucado is with us
01:48:23.860
he has a new book how happiness happens and uh he has some steps that you can take we can get to
01:48:30.620
those here in just a second i i i want to ask you um max uh the depression that is going on especially
01:48:38.780
with our kids there's nothing it nothing seems real anymore there's no real real true connection
01:48:46.360
it's virtual connections there's i mean touch is important to people uh you can't touch families
01:48:53.440
are not you know all together the way they used to how much of this virtual world is causing some
01:49:01.220
of the depression that we are seeing now in youth yeah yeah it's so disturbing isn't it glenn
01:49:07.420
and the statistics are so so saddening and and uh boy i just would be heartbroken if anybody thought
01:49:14.680
i was in any way uh downplaying this terrible terrible trend depression i mean not not only
01:49:21.860
depression but suicide is up 33 percent since 1999 and and there's a difference between depression and
01:49:28.840
clinical depression i mean there's there that's a that's a whole different level and clinical depression
01:49:34.660
is when you're suicidal yes sir yes sir and and and being able to interrupt that depression early
01:49:42.480
on yeah get treatment and and and uh and seek help uh it it seems to me we should ask the question
01:49:50.020
what's going on in our generation that's unique to this generation and and is and it could be these
01:49:57.180
be contributing factors everything though max is unique i mean unique everything it's the past
01:50:04.160
things have changed more in the last 30 years than in the last 300 absolutely think about so much
01:50:10.860
has changed so fast that it's really i think contributing to to all of our anxiety uh our
01:50:17.280
smartphones uh don't allow us any downtime i mean it's just and i'll confess during the break what was
01:50:24.480
i doing i was checking my smartphone i should have been taking my breath or offering a prayer
01:50:28.520
or giving wisdom but i've i've i've bought into it as well there there's no downtime time and i think
01:50:36.240
the the young people uh are falling victim to thinking that's their community they're they're uh saw you
01:50:44.060
know this this internet community uh where they can you know text people they can uh get online and
01:50:50.940
and just share ideas or even look at pictures but glenn that's not authentic community that's that's not
01:50:57.420
where you really have the opportunity to open up to somebody and build a friendship with someone
01:51:02.760
and so i think that's a factor so i think there's several factors that are coming into play
01:51:07.860
but it's a it's a very disturbing trend so um let's go through a couple of the things that you
01:51:15.480
recommend in the book that i think are fantastic um you say next time you're going through the airport
01:51:20.480
um look at everybody and uh give them an inaccessory prayer explain that well the the again the big
01:51:32.600
idea of the book is happiness happens when we give it away and in the new testament is packed full of
01:51:38.420
passages that urge us to do things for one another they're the one another verses and so i took 10 of
01:51:45.120
them and uh unpacked them in the book and said here's some examples of things you can do and and one of
01:51:51.540
them is pray for one another pray for one another um and this is uh like you say on a kind of a casual
01:51:58.620
level as you're walking through an airport or a shopping mall or a grocery store rather than get
01:52:04.260
overwhelmed by your to-do list or the travel take a moment and just say lord bless that person over there
01:52:09.920
who's on the computer bless that little child who's been born into this busy world and what happens
01:52:15.900
is not only are we activating the power of prayer which i think is just the greatest power there is
01:52:22.300
but we're getting our minds off of ourselves we're expanding our circle we're lifting up our eyes
01:52:28.820
and we're seeing people all around us and then this is especially important with those uh for whom we
01:52:35.720
have uh a deep concern that we know very well uh parents uh you know talk to me all the time about
01:52:43.440
what can i do about my son who's a prodigal or or my daughter who doesn't call home or what can i do
01:52:49.560
there's nothing i can do and i'm trying to be quick to remind them and say oh there's a lot you can do you
01:52:55.360
can pray and when we pray we give our problem we give that person to god we we place that person
01:53:02.740
in god's hands none of us have big enough shoulders to carry everybody's problems we don't even have
01:53:09.120
big enough shoulders to shoulder our own and so one way one one thing that takes our joy is we try
01:53:16.180
to carry the burdens of other people well nobody can do that glenn and what we can do is we can carry
01:53:22.540
those burdens to god we say god please please help my child or please help this person and i i think
01:53:30.060
that that's uh an avenue that uh everybody can take and end up happier uh a person doesn't have to
01:53:39.540
have a you know advanced degree in theology they they don't have to understand all the questions about
01:53:45.480
about faith they can just take take their concerns and lift them up to god in prayer pray for people
01:53:52.340
uh and i pray personally with i know i'm a pastor so people might say well you're supposed to but
01:53:58.060
i don't tell people that i was just with a person day before yesterday uh uh i ran into them in a
01:54:05.340
parking lot they were helping me with groceries and they looked discouraged and i said would you
01:54:10.540
be offended if i just said a prayer for you and he said i'm never offended by prayer and i just said lord
01:54:16.640
bless this person lift their spirit today and help them to have a better day well i i don't know what
01:54:22.960
god did for them but i know what he did for me i got in the car a happier person and uh because i felt
01:54:29.000
like i had done something for that person did that person it's just simple things we can do it make all
01:54:35.240
of us happier doesn't it also um doesn't it also help you start to notice people so many people feel
01:54:42.900
unnoticed uh and alone and it helps you great point it's helps you notice people and look at people
01:54:50.800
differently because when you're just kind of looking around you're focused on your own thing
01:54:53.860
you're just seeing people but if you're really looking at people you'll see things in their
01:54:58.720
faces you might notice their clothes you might notice their hands or something and you'll you'll
01:55:03.720
start to notice them and you'll start to not only just not focus on yourself but you will see
01:55:09.940
the struggles of other people and it will become a habit what a great point that is excellent that's
01:55:17.680
excellent glenn i have a friend who saw a epitaph uh he saw chiseled in a gravestone the phrase i was
01:55:26.400
born a human but i died a grocer and i think what he was saying is i just became a functionary in the
01:55:34.000
world people saw me as the one who checked them out in the grocery store line uh we can all tend to do
01:55:40.600
that we can we can pigeonhole people and say that person's uh runs the convenience store or that's the
01:55:47.200
person you know who uh oversees the security at the parking lot when each person every single person
01:55:54.700
is an idea of god and god has no bad ideas every single person and and i think this is especially
01:56:02.900
important in in the world in which you live glenn you do such a masterful job at and that is not our
01:56:09.760
tendency is to say that person you know is with the donkeys that person's with the elephants that person
01:56:15.340
has this position that and we forget that that's even though we might disagree with that person
01:56:20.720
they're still a human being and they deserve to be treated with respect and kindness and so anything
01:56:26.900
we can do to help us remember that we live in a in a society of living breathing ideas of god
01:56:34.180
is good for us it's and it's good it's hard in a in a society that makes everyone who isn't exactly
01:56:43.960
thinking the same thing that your team is thinking it's hard because everybody wants to make those
01:56:50.960
people into enemies and yeah and you have enough evidence that there are people that are actively
01:56:58.180
trying to thwart what you believe is true that it it it's it's extraordinarily difficult
01:57:04.440
one of the things that's unique and it just seems like i've only experienced it in the last five or six
01:57:10.660
years is something that we might call guilt by association um you know i'll i'll go on anyone's
01:57:17.340
program and and i'll i'll i love conversations i love being interviewed i love to interview and but
01:57:25.560
but of the last four or five years i will get emails or people posting things on my facebook saying
01:57:31.560
uh you were on so-and-so's program don't you know what she thinks about and then fill in the blank
01:57:38.080
are you in on so-and-so's program don't you know what they say about are you one of them and it's
01:57:43.380
just this i bet you get that all the time oh yeah there's no way to win there's no way to win
01:57:49.840
there's no way to win you know we're just carrying on a conversation and we're respecting one another
01:57:56.760
that doesn't mean that you agree with everything everybody says and i don't i don't know what happened
01:58:02.500
there's some civility that got lost somewhere along the way it's arrogance i think we're you know i
01:58:09.980
wrote about this in one of my books that uh the problem that i suffer with sometimes is um certitude
01:58:17.500
that i am certain that i am right and the minute i am certain that some that i am right then the
01:58:24.660
person with the other opinion doesn't matter to me anymore and you you so you don't listen to them
01:58:30.840
you're just trying to tell them eventually just shut up because you don't get it well once you're
01:58:37.600
certain you're done there's there's no way to communicate only if you look at somebody and go
01:58:44.460
there's something that is driving them there's something that i'm missing here there's something
01:58:49.620
there's something that they see that i don't see or they think they see and i want to learn that
01:58:57.420
until you are willing to go down that road with people and not all people are willing to to you
01:59:04.080
know reciprocate um but until you go down there you're you're just it's just an exercise in futility
01:59:10.820
what a great point what a great point there's a there's just a wonderful story in the in the new
01:59:16.220
testament about the time that that jesus was on his way to treat the daughter of the most important man
01:59:23.500
in the village and a woman reached up and touched him on the hem of his garment and she was an outcast
01:59:30.180
because she had suffered for many years from a what's called what was called an issue of blood
01:59:35.200
and she was marginalized by society but jesus stopped because he knew he had healed her and he asked her to
01:59:43.120
come forward and there's a little phrase there in the gospel story that says jesus listened to her whole
01:59:49.700
story he listened to her whole story and and i thought how long has it had it been since anybody
01:59:56.640
had listened to her whole story i think there's a real balm that comes when we listen to people
02:00:03.100
uh you know you honor people glenn because you listen to them you you take time to you you may not
02:00:09.260
i'm sure you don't agree with everything they say but you listen you you let them express themselves
02:00:14.120
and this is something that all of us can do and we can learn from it uh one of my friends says that
02:00:20.800
the best question that any of us can learn to ask is how does it feel to be you how does it feel to be
02:00:27.780
you how how does it feel to be a female in a gray flanneled world you know or how does it feel to be a
02:00:33.680
teenager in this day and age tell me how does it feel how does it feel to be uh you know a middle-aged
02:00:40.580
white man in this day and age what's it like to be you that's a great way to start a conversation
02:00:46.700
and and to urge people to just just tell me your story and i think there's there's some healing that
02:00:52.300
happens when we do that max lucato you can follow him at max lucato.com the name of his book is how
02:00:59.620
happiness happens and the thing i like about this book is that it actually gives you things that
02:01:04.800
will turn into a habit uh the things that that long ago when i was trying to find my way
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uh the things that i did like dismiss coincidence for 30 days changed my life the things that he
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talks about and the tips he gives you can change your life how happiness happens by max lucato max
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thank you so much we'll talk again you're such a delight thank you glenn god bless great to talk
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bye-bye oh he's gonna get so much heat for just saying that that's not not a word i've usually
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seen associated with you yeah delight yeah maybe in a dessert sense yeah i was gonna say there's some
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delight in desserts but uh you're sitting at the table your favorite upscale french restaurant when
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the waiter comes up and uh he's got a uh t-shirt and ripped jeans and beneath the brim of his uh hard
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hat he says what will it be you're like um i don't uh i'm in a french yeah i got a feeling for my cousin
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from time to time that is not the experience i want uh and that's not the experience i want in
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anything i want what what i kind of expect and what i deserve if i'm going to a you know great place
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if i am hiring a real estate agent i know exactly what i want i want somebody who is going to be
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calling me gonna let me know what's going on uh going to be selling my house or helping me buy the
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next house somebody that doesn't do it part-time you know no cousin is filling in yeah you so you
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want to sell your house do you uh you need somebody that is a pro at what they do and the right person
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for the neighborhood that either you're moving into or moving out of you can find that right person
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at realestateagentsitrust.com and they don't sound like this um no do they sound like the
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Frenchy Frenchman neither they speak your language realestateagentsitrust.com that's realestateagentsitrust.com
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welcome to the program i'm so glad that you're uh you're here thanks saturday
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we not you well saturday we have a um uh the m1 ball and this is where we raise money to be able
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to hire the people that we need to hire so we can go and do these things mercury won your charity yes
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yes yes uh and um and you know the the things that we're involved in now with the nazarene fund
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and everything else is just crazy great i mean you just heard max lakedo talk about doing things for
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other i can't tell you how many people who have been involved with mercury one uh even just on the
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donation level get such satisfaction out of it um this this uh ball we do once a year to pay for all
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the salaries and everything so when i raise money on the air i can say 100 of the proceeds go to
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um and so i like to try to do something that you're interested in you get something back uh and
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so the ball is happening this saturday at the dallas omni hotel we would love to see you there
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you can watch saturday night if you can't make it the mercury one facebook page live stream of the
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ball um and we also have an auction going on now yeah there's a six-day five-night trip to florida
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there is um uh this there's another there's this trip to burns ranch which i have to admit
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the first time i looked at it i thought it said the bunny ranch and i was like that's a weird trip
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for mercury one to be giving away but hey maybe jeffy donated it no uh no burns ranch uh hunting
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trip there's all sorts of really cool all sorts of really great stuff including a painting that
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yeah you will not get because i i i want this so bad uh this beautiful painting of uh sept of uh
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of our 828 on the mall in washington dc it is so unbelievably intricate i've never seen anything like
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it um anything that you are looking for just check out our auction site at mercuryone.org