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00:02:01.660 We have just taken another giant leap for mankind.

00:02:06.060 Kind of. Giant leap for mankind.

00:02:09.420 The president yesterday signed an executive order that America will lead in the quantum tech race.

00:02:19.180 What does that mean?

00:02:20.280 Oh, it means everything.

00:02:22.100 And we'll get into that here in just a second.

00:02:24.520 Also, the president is floating a trial balloon about taking pieces of the AI companies.

00:02:33.680 Let's not.

00:02:34.440 I'll explain why this is actually something that Hamilton was for, believe it or not.

00:02:40.620 I mean, you know, the founders, you know, people like they could have never seen this coming.

00:02:46.400 No, but they saw a lot of things.

00:02:48.460 that are exactly like today and i'll explain alexander hamilton saw ai coming no but he saw

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00:04:18.640 All right, so let me give you a couple of stories here.

00:04:22.520 Trump has just signed an executive order to lead the quantum tech race.

00:04:29.840 It's the first order that pushes for a U.S. quantum computer at a national lab by 2028,

00:04:36.480 plus sensors and networks in five years

00:04:40.820 while expanding training and supply chains

00:04:43.500 across agencies, energy, commerce, and NASA.

00:04:52.340 Quantum computing is something

00:04:55.620 you're not going to have access to.

00:04:58.200 Quantum computing is everything.

00:05:03.600 quantum computing coupled with artificial super intelligence changes the entire world

00:05:11.360 the problem with all of this stuff is you're not going to have access to it

00:05:18.080 the government will um the government you know we're in this catch-22 the government has to have

00:05:27.260 control of quantum computing for their own sake because there will be no secrets your bank account

00:05:34.340 will be gone the minute we have quantum computing any country can destroy the other because we they

00:05:40.080 can they'll just wipe out bank accounts overnight they just wipe them out there's no secrets there's

00:05:46.220 no national secrets you'll be able to go into uh hack into uh our our codes to launch missiles

00:05:53.500 There are no secrets. There are no doors that have any locks once you have quantum computing.

00:06:01.100 That's the biggest problem. And that's the second post that he did for the executive order.

00:06:08.080 And that is, we have to have by 2030, 2031, encryption that is quantum that will stop any kind of quantum attack on encryption.

00:06:21.760 So we have to have it.

00:06:23.560 I just don't like the government having access to things that the average person can't have access to.

00:06:29.600 And I don't want access to encryption, you know, technology, et cetera, et cetera.

00:06:34.440 But this is much more than that.

00:06:37.440 And you combine it with the other thing that was floated yesterday.

00:06:41.860 J.D. Vance said yesterday, the president is supportive of the United States owning these big AI companies.

00:06:49.200 He likes the idea sort of as a sovereign wealth fund idea.

00:06:54.380 Okay, that's good.

00:06:56.840 I understand the sovereign wealth thing,

00:06:59.360 and I understand where Trump is coming from on this.

00:07:04.360 Where he's coming from is he believes that the nation needs to be strong.

00:07:09.960 You know, this is the same argument that was made back in the colonial era.

00:07:14.300 Let me tell you a story about an argument, okay?

00:07:16.320 because it just walked into the room with a new face,

00:07:20.340 but it's the same argument.

00:07:22.080 It's the winter 1791.

00:07:24.600 Two men are sitting in the same cabinet

00:07:28.160 and they can't stand each other.

00:07:30.780 They can't stand what the other one wanted to build.

00:07:33.680 Alexander Hamilton, he was an orphan. 0.79

00:07:35.680 He was an immigrant.

00:07:36.480 He was a genius.

00:07:37.860 He was the first secretary, treasury secretary.

00:07:40.120 And he looked at this fragile, broke,

00:07:42.920 barely stitched together republic

00:07:44.440 and saw what America could be great someday.

00:07:49.380 We could be a great power.

00:07:51.180 He saw way over the horizon.

00:07:53.200 But he believed that to get there,

00:07:55.020 the government had to do something really, really bold.

00:07:57.100 It had to partner with the biggest power on earth.

00:08:01.380 And that wasn't a government, that was money.

00:08:04.620 He wanted a national bank.

00:08:06.940 The federal government would assume the state's debts

00:08:09.820 in his report on manufacturers,

00:08:12.960 the open argument that the state should encourage industry directly through tariffs and subsidies

00:08:19.900 and a thumb on the scale he said we we can build national champions we'll fuse the strength of the

00:08:26.800 government to the muscle of commerce and you get a giant and he's right you would but that philosophy

00:08:34.520 seems really familiar doesn't it now across the table was thomas jefferson and jefferson

00:08:40.260 looked at his blueprint and was like, oh my gosh, this is poison. This is slow acting poison.

00:08:47.400 His argument was not that it wouldn't work. His fear was it would work because Jefferson

00:08:54.480 understood corruption the way the Romans understood, not a bribe, you know, in a briefcase,

00:09:00.200 but a marriage. You just marry people off. The moment you wed the government to moneyed interest,

00:09:06.080 You create a class whose fortune depends on the state.

00:09:10.240 Listen to this carefully.

00:09:11.760 You create a class whose fortune depends on the state

00:09:15.420 and a state whose appetite depends on that class. 0.66

00:09:21.120 So those two grow together.

00:09:24.100 By the way, you're not in that marriage.

00:09:26.480 You're not even a child in that marriage.

00:09:29.020 That marriage will be between AI, high-tech, quantum, and the government.

00:09:36.080 You're not in that.

00:09:37.840 And they grow bigger and bigger quietly

00:09:40.240 until one day you look up and you find out,

00:09:42.660 I've been squeezed out of my own republic.

00:09:45.760 Nobody even fired a shot.

00:09:47.340 I'm out.

00:09:47.800 This is Thomas Jefferson's argument, okay?

00:09:50.240 The argument got settled.

00:09:54.000 A little bit.

00:09:55.040 They decided against the bank.

00:09:56.440 But the actual argument, it just keeps changing clothes.

00:10:00.800 The bank war.

00:10:03.480 That was this argument.

00:10:05.700 Then the railroads put these clothes on.

00:10:09.200 And they were like, we're too important.

00:10:10.740 The New Deal, same argument.

00:10:12.900 The 2008 bailouts, same argument.

00:10:16.380 And now we put on the newest suit it has ever worn

00:10:19.560 because the vice president said out loud

00:10:21.880 that the president is supportive of the United States

00:10:24.100 owning the big artificial intelligence company,

00:10:27.060 a sovereign wealth fund.

00:10:28.420 That's the idea.

00:10:30.400 A stake in the people's most important technology of the age.

00:10:33.520 Now, Donald Trump is doing it because America first. He believes that America can be strong

00:10:41.500 exactly the way Hamilton did. When I first heard this, the first word that jumped into my head was

00:10:48.880 fascism. And I've been saying this is Italian fascism. I want to tell you why this is 0.83

00:10:56.140 a losing argument okay it's not entirely wrong um but i uh you know in doing my homework it's

00:11:06.360 we want strong arguments here's the thing about italian fascism okay italian fascism

00:11:14.620 is not german fascism mussolini's economy didn't seize the factories like communism does

00:11:21.700 the owners kept their names on the door what the state state took was not the title it was the

00:11:27.420 steering wheel okay the company stayed private and ran at the pleasure of the regime in service

00:11:34.240 of the regime everything within the state nothing outside the state that's mussolini

00:11:38.920 so yes the government that owns a piece and steers

00:11:44.360 it rhymes not going to pretend it doesn't it rhymes with fascism

00:11:50.900 but here's why i want to correct myself um so a i want to correct myself because it's important

00:11:57.460 that i do and you can hold me to that but uh it's important because people always think of

00:12:03.480 race hatred you associate race hatred with fascism that wasn't the engine of fascism

00:12:09.980 mussolini didn't pass his race laws until 38 and that was under german pressure not from his own

00:12:15.220 doctrine okay anti-semitism was essential to nazism not essential to fascism so fascism

00:12:22.700 without the race hatred you know doesn't reveal some secret core it just describes early italian

00:12:29.260 fascism pretty accurately hatred is not required in it but that nobody's gonna listen to that okay

00:12:34.660 the part that really takes the word away from me the government holding stake in a private industry

00:12:40.480 doesn't make a country anything what donald trump is saying is norway norway has the sovereign wealth

00:12:48.540 fund it owns roughly one and a half percent of every company on the face of the earth it took

00:12:55.060 stakes in the banks and the car makers in 2009 we did and then it gave it back singapore does this 0.87

00:13:02.460 if state ownership uh equaled fascism then norway is a fascist state and that's just ridiculous okay

00:13:09.080 What makes fascism fascism is the politics, the one party, the leadership worship, the

00:13:15.160 boot on dissent, the deliberate dissolving of the individual into the organic nation.

00:13:22.600 Economics was a part of this.

00:13:25.480 The reason why I'm afraid of this is it's more than just state capitalism.

00:13:35.680 that's a better word maybe than fascism state or mercantilism the thing that the kings did

00:13:42.800 it's worse than that because uh what this actually what this actually means

00:13:51.200 is more than what hamilton was talking about

00:14:00.960 it's because of what the state would actually own hamilton's bank would just move money

00:14:08.740 the railroads moved steel and grain and you can see them and you can argue with them

00:14:14.420 but artificial intelligence doesn't sit downstream of your life it sits it sits upstream of your

00:14:23.660 thoughts that's the real danger here and i don't want the government anywhere near that

00:14:29.900 it's becoming the thing that answers your questions before you finished asking the question

00:14:35.800 it drafts the email it suggests the word it frames the choice it decides what you see and what order

00:14:42.840 you see it in and what it leaves out it's quietly becoming the surface on which free people do

00:14:48.720 all of its thinking and this is i need you to think on this there has never in human history

00:14:56.580 been a tyrant who got to own the tool people use to form their own decisions choices and minds

00:15:04.940 every despot before had to wait for you to think the thought and then punish it he had to come

00:15:11.940 after you reasoned it out but for the first time the temptation on the table is to put the state's

00:15:18.280 hand on the instrument before the reasoning on the thing that shapes the question itself

00:15:24.800 that's not censorship censorship is crude you can feel that this is gentler and worse this is

00:15:32.000 grooming and a and a mind that has been groomed doesn't feel oppressed it feels helped

00:15:40.240 so let me try to be the guy that you want me to be trust me to be i guess a guy who's not just

00:15:51.240 yelling at the sky and yelling at you that the sky is falling. This does not need to be a death

00:15:59.140 knell of freedom of choice. I'll tell you what we can do. There are three things that have to stay

00:16:09.300 true. Otherwise, it's bad. Let me give you those three things here in just a second. First, let me

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00:17:38.020 I'm actually, you know, in doing my homework,

00:17:43.660 I'm actually for sovereign funds the way Norway is doing.

00:17:48.540 One and a half percent of everything that's on the market.

00:17:51.820 You buy it.

00:17:55.440 I'm not for our country just owning this tech.

00:18:02.380 And I have a problem with this tech, a real problem with this tech.

00:18:05.200 But I think to solve it, you don't get the government in bed with it.

00:18:09.120 I think that's the worst thing you can do.

00:18:10.740 So three things.

00:18:12.240 If these three things stay true, we're okay.

00:18:15.460 First, it has to be ownership in daylight.

00:18:19.880 On a balance sheet, it has to be named, not laundered through some agency that nobody can find.

00:18:25.520 Sunlight is the whole game.

00:18:27.960 Jefferson's marriage only kills the republic when it's a secret one.

00:18:32.260 second the door swings both ways we took the car makers in 09 and we gave it back which proves the

00:18:41.780 stake is not a sentence if the people insist on an exit third this one matters the most that you keep

00:18:50.220 the one thing no no government can uh can vote you back the ability to reason for yourself

00:18:58.240 to hold a thing in the light and decide.

00:19:01.960 I don't think that one can be done.

00:19:04.320 Once the government has power to manipulate you,

00:19:07.940 they will manipulate you every time

00:19:09.680 and they will never reveal it

00:19:11.860 and they will never give that power back.

00:19:14.740 We have walked past this cliff a dozen times

00:19:17.660 and every single time the thing that saved us

00:19:20.280 was not a law or a court.

00:19:22.660 It was a citizen that could think his own thought

00:19:25.900 and ornery enough just to do it.

00:19:28.240 I am not afraid of a machine.

00:19:31.340 I am afraid of people who forget how to argue with a machine.

00:19:37.220 I trust you.

00:19:38.760 I trust the American people completely for exactly as long as you can still reason your way through your own conclusion and tell the state to keep your hands off the lever of your mind.

00:19:52.780 As long as that ability is still existing in everybody, then we have a firewall.

00:20:05.920 This thing, they've tried it with the banks, the railroads.

00:20:10.000 They did it in 2008.

00:20:13.280 And it was an argument that started between Jefferson and Hamilton.

00:20:19.020 Guard this.

00:20:20.540 Guard this.

00:20:21.120 because every other freedom is downstream of your freedom of thought.

00:20:25.880 And that's what we're actually talking about the government owning.

00:20:30.500 I don't know how to solve this problem,

00:20:33.280 but I am wildly uncomfortable with tech having this ability to control your thoughts.

00:20:41.380 I'm wildly uncomfortable with the government having the ability to control your thoughts.

00:20:47.180 And those are the only two players in it.

00:20:49.480 nowhere is nowhere are you and if you think we have a representative government let's talk about

00:20:56.760 the save act the day you can no longer tell whether the thought in your head is yours

00:21:03.880 no vote will save you and those days are coming

00:21:07.740 and when you when you realize that well maybe it was i was manipulated here a little bit

00:21:16.160 you know you'll have done that you'll have given that over to the government feeling like you were

00:21:24.760 helped so think think think out loud while it is still entirely your own thought

00:21:33.280 i want to talk to jason here for just a couple of seconds jason talk to me about your concerns on

00:21:41.360 the quantum mechanics

00:21:44.180 and the quantum computing

00:21:45.760 for security.

00:21:48.280 Well, that's

00:21:49.980 clearly one of the biggest concerns

00:21:51.940 that the administration has here.

00:21:54.040 And that's the, I think it's

00:21:55.920 the very first, is either

00:21:57.920 the very first order or the second order

00:21:59.620 goes directly toward, oh, it's the second order,

00:22:02.160 goes directly toward standard encryption.

00:22:04.480 And I don't really, I guess

00:22:05.860 one of my biggest concerns is I feel like they don't

00:22:07.960 even really know, once they unleash

00:22:10.140 this beast. What's going to happen with it? That's one of the biggest things to concern.

00:22:14.560 It's like AI. Yeah, this is the problem. There's no good answer to this. I haven't found an answer

00:22:23.060 that I'm comfortable with in any direction, in any direction. I don't want the private sector

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00:23:51.680 Coming up, Glenn takes on Tucker Carlson's recent announcement that he's leading the GOP.

00:23:56.380 We'll get perspective you won't hear anywhere else on the Glenn Beck Program.

00:23:59.600 We're just talking in the break about how impossible it is

00:24:27.440 to solve this problem.

00:24:32.160 You know, and I don't know people,

00:24:34.740 I don't know if people really understand

00:24:39.340 what is coming yet and how close we are to this.

00:24:42.520 And, you know, the real question here

00:24:44.300 that I have on all of the fronts of the AI and quantum

00:24:48.400 and everything the president did yesterday

00:24:50.200 or is talking about doing, you know,

00:24:53.060 Can you regulate power that you don't possess?

00:25:00.020 And if you have to possess it to regulate it, then who regulates the regulators?

00:25:09.720 That's the real problem.

00:25:11.260 And I don't know how to solve that.

00:25:12.520 Because every time you give power to a group to regulate, you're giving power to that group.

00:25:19.900 and that group can easily be co-opted by the power of the AI and it just it just it's it's

00:25:30.040 almost it seems like a what are those knots called the Gordian knots where you just can't

00:25:35.920 ever figure out how to get out of them so let me go to something that is closer to my pay grade

00:25:40.860 let me tell you something that happened on a podcast about a week ago Tucker Carlson was on

00:25:48.440 a podcast and here is what he said on the podcast i would not support the republican party there's

00:25:57.620 no chance i would support the republican party not going to support the democratic party i don't

00:26:01.460 know what i'm going to do but at this point you know how could you support how could i or any

00:26:06.560 american voters support a political party that's not loyal to the united states that puts the

00:26:11.380 interest of a foreign country above those of its own citizens like that's that's you know it's not

00:26:16.460 possible to vote for people like that. And I'm not going to. And I think I voted Republican my

00:26:21.100 entire life. I worked at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. I've been a consistent defender for 35 years of

00:26:30.260 the Republican Party. I mean, very consistent defender. But there's no defending this because

00:26:34.860 it's immoral. And it's exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged

00:26:41.620 with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation. And they're not

00:26:46.840 doing that. So no, I'm out. And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out.

00:26:53.800 Okay. So let me just take this, what he's saying. If I am out, then I think a lot of other people

00:27:00.020 are out. That's the really important part. And you can think about what you want about

00:27:04.080 Tucker Carlson. I'm not here. I'm not going to canonize him. I'm also not going to bury him

00:27:07.840 on this um that's for others to take on if they want to i'm not going to get into the mud

00:27:13.440 if he's building a third option which he didn't say he was but if he is or recommending a third

00:27:18.580 option then i'd like to know what that third option is um you know and we'll take that because

00:27:24.080 i'd like to know what his political solution is to holding back tyranny besides israel bad

00:27:33.120 iran and russia not so bad maga you know everybody's saying this is a split of maga

00:27:40.360 maga was born out of the tea party disaffection with both parties but pragmatism ultimately

00:27:50.540 delivered trump via the gop vehicle it was working the way it was supposed to work

00:27:56.880 so let's just look at him saying i cannot will not vote for another republican again

00:28:01.500 Who hasn't said that as a Republican?

00:28:04.820 Why is this bothering people?

00:28:07.180 I think it's bothering some people because coming from Tucker, a lot of people, and I think rightfully so, are worried about where are your loyalties here?

00:28:16.200 But if we today just deal with the words that he said, you know, I can't vote for him, I can't blame him.

00:28:22.380 I genuinely can't because I understand that I've said that.

00:28:25.520 I understand the feeling of being asked to keep playing a game

00:28:28.960 with people who have no intention of ever letting you win

00:28:31.900 I'm not playing that game anymore

00:28:34.020 but here's what the press and everybody else wants you to take from this

00:28:38.260 it's a fracture in MAGA, no it's not

00:28:40.780 it's a crack up on the right, no it's not

00:28:42.940 a movement eating itself, Axios, the rest of them

00:28:46.100 growing fractures inside the broad coalition

00:28:49.500 that's not what this is and don't let anybody sell you that

00:28:52.480 that's not what this is

00:28:53.580 this isn't the movement breaking this is the movement i i think actually completing the last

00:29:00.940 this is the death throes of the gop as we know it this is what happens to a party when it tells

00:29:07.800 its voters yes at the microphone and then governs no behind the closed doors that's been happening 0.78

00:29:14.740 for years the base hasn't fractured the base fractured a long time ago and said we're not

00:29:20.820 putting up with this. Have you noticed where the Republicans are? The Republicans are much better

00:29:26.740 than the Paul Ryan Republicans, okay? This is merely the distance between what you're promised

00:29:33.580 and what you were given. And that gap got finally wide enough that a man with 35 years invested

00:29:40.840 looking at it, stepped over the edge and said, I'm not going to do it. So let me talk past you

00:29:47.400 for a second and talk to the people in Washington, okay? Let me talk to them, to the men and women

00:29:51.980 in Washington, D.C. with an R after your name. Stay with me because this concerns you, but this

00:29:57.180 part's for them. I told you, I told you this would happen for years. I have said this. I said the day

00:30:05.540 would come when your own people would stop defending you, when their loyalty would run out,

00:30:11.100 when the other side is worse, doesn't work anymore.

00:30:15.540 And you all rolled your eyes.

00:30:18.240 I mean, I had Orrin Hatch say,

00:30:19.760 I'll just do a flag-burning amendment 1.00

00:30:21.280 and that'll bring them all back. 1.00

00:30:22.800 Oh my God.

00:30:24.540 Nope.

00:30:26.820 Now it's real.

00:30:28.140 It's here.

00:30:29.540 Your inaction, or worse,

00:30:31.740 your unwillingness to understand

00:30:34.260 that the days of Paul Ryan are over.

00:30:37.060 I mean, look at the people coming in.

00:30:38.960 They're not like you.

00:30:39.820 They're not.

00:30:41.100 And I'm not sure exactly what MAGA actually is.

00:30:44.460 I know everybody wants to make it about Donald Trump

00:30:46.600 and just being a racist, but that's not what it is.

00:30:49.880 I think MAGA is about common sense things

00:30:52.720 that make us strong as a nation again.

00:30:55.840 Donald Trump and MAGA,

00:30:57.480 he was just the first major candidate that said,

00:31:00.500 you know, we're not done as a nation

00:31:02.480 and I'm not going to manage the decline.

00:31:05.020 That's what people want,

00:31:06.780 a healthy and common sense driven country

00:31:10.020 that doesn't destroy their faith and their family and their freedoms that's what they want

00:31:14.520 now before i say another word to washington when this happens when somebody like tucker walks when

00:31:21.860 the next one walks and there will be a next one people are going to come and say circle the

00:31:25.940 wagons you've got to defend the party no no now's not the time the stakes are too high hold the line

00:31:32.200 if we can just get the white house and the senate and the house and a super majority

00:31:37.620 don't rush to defend the GOP don't do it not because you owe them you know or the other

00:31:45.060 side anything you don't you don't but because every time you defend them for free they teach

00:31:52.000 you that betrayal is survivable that they can ignore you and keep you the only language a

00:31:59.840 comfortable incumbent understands is the sound of the door closing behind a voter who's done

00:32:05.660 yes we have to stop the authoritarian and crazy left yes but we need we need to find the

00:32:13.880 republicans or whatever that stand for something stand for something not just to burn it down 0.72

00:32:21.560 not to go jews bad russia good

00:32:25.740 washington listen to me carefully i'm trying to help you and almost no one around you is

00:32:34.840 you're not going to survive this i don't mean a tough cycle coming your way i mean

00:32:41.600 you are building with your own hands a movement aimed directly at you and you deserve it

00:32:48.260 and there's exactly one way to take the power out of a movement like that actually

00:32:54.040 you know there's a couple ways first of all you don't outspend it you don't out message it

00:32:59.940 cornyn just outspent his challenger nearly nine to one in texas and the voters retired him anyway

00:33:08.000 30 years of seniority gone in a single night money didn't save the establishment in texas

00:33:13.880 and it's not going to save you either now there are two ways that i can think of you take the

00:33:20.720 steam out of a movement where people are like i'm leaving the party the first one is the obvious one

00:33:26.260 that every politician in power will jump to immediately.

00:33:29.640 And that's silence the people who are saying it.

00:33:32.100 That makes you a fascist, an authoritarian.

00:33:35.480 And I, well, I know people on the left are trying it

00:33:37.720 and I'm sure people on the right will try it.

00:33:39.460 And you'll lose, but so will the republic.

00:33:42.920 The other way to go is to simply remove the reason it exists.

00:33:48.940 And the only way to do that

00:33:50.840 is to start listening to the people who sent you there

00:33:54.080 and then actually do the thing they sent you to do.

00:33:59.160 That's it.

00:34:00.820 That's the secret in the sauce.

00:34:04.020 Listen and respond.

00:34:07.040 Be a mirror to what your own voters are telling you

00:34:10.740 instead of a wall.

00:34:15.220 I want the GOP to win

00:34:18.540 because I don't want to start a whole new thing

00:34:20.240 and it's just, I don't want a third party.

00:34:22.140 God, look at France.

00:34:24.080 I want you to win.

00:34:26.960 America needs you to win, but not who you are, not as who you are.

00:34:31.920 I don't want any of that.

00:34:34.220 What I'm telling you right now is I'm describing the natural consequences of you ignoring the voter.

00:34:40.940 So let me give you a test.

00:34:42.060 This is a simple one, okay?

00:34:43.520 It'll cost you nothing except courage.

00:34:46.640 Put the SAVE Act on the floor.

00:34:49.080 Do it.

00:34:49.940 Do it.

00:34:50.400 proof of citizenship to register to vote in a federal election do it that's the whole thing

00:34:58.000 it's not a 50 50 issue you get to hide behind roughly seven in ten americans supported

00:35:03.520 independent supported half of democrats supported and among republican voters your voters the ones

00:35:10.520 whose name are on your name is on their yard signs it's not even a question it's a settled

00:35:16.900 matter, so put it up. You don't even need it to pass. I pray that it does, but all we need really

00:35:23.780 is a roll call. I want the vote recorded. I want every name on the board lit up green or red. That

00:35:31.360 way the whole country can see it, because when something has 70% of a nation behind it, 70 plus

00:35:39.120 people among the people who elected you, it's complicated. It's not complicated. There's no

00:35:46.640 nuance here it's really simple did you vote for what your people said you should vote for or not

00:35:52.460 and that that's the real reason that's the real reason why it never comes to a vote

00:35:58.380 not because they'd lose but because you'd be seen you'd have to stand in the light

00:36:05.800 and you'd have people watching what you choose and then judging you so you bottle it up in

00:36:12.340 in a committee. You blame the filibuster. They tell you, we need a super majority. Yeah, right.

00:36:19.960 And you know damn well, if we handed you 60 seats tomorrow, you'd discover that suddenly we need

00:36:25.120 67 seats. When a man has to hide his position from the people who hired him, he's not a

00:36:30.900 representative. He's an incumbent. And government, this one is full of incumbent weasels who don't

00:36:37.660 want to tell you where they stand that's a representative government by the way but you've

00:36:43.300 turned it into a performance cast the vote put it on the floor find out who's in who's out

00:36:50.860 the ones who sit down america show them the same freaking door texas just showed cornyn

00:36:57.620 back to you washington let me tell you where this ends if you don't change it because you should be

00:37:04.520 far more afraid of the truth than anything said on a podcast somewhere out there this party does

00:37:13.060 exist not yet but it does call it whatever you'll call it the 80 party a party built on nothing but

00:37:20.380 the things the vast middle of this country left right exhausted already agree on lower the price

00:37:27.960 of health care. Balance the budget. End the forever wars. Stop the deficit spending. Secure

00:37:35.900 the border. Zero tolerance. Zero tolerance for fraud of any kind from any party. And show the

00:37:44.800 people line by line exactly how you're spending our money. I don't think that's a fringe platform.

00:37:50.260 I think that's the kitchen table of the entire country. And if ever somebody builds it, it doesn't

00:37:55.520 dent you it'll gut you it cuts both of you left and right because it walks straight up the middle

00:38:02.980 and takes 80 that you've both been ignoring while you fight over the angry 20 that should scare the

00:38:10.440 hell out of you not the guy who said on the radio the thing that everybody every republican is

00:38:15.920 thinking i can't vote for another republican again the warning and i'm exactly i'm aiming it

00:38:22.020 exactly at one target and it's not tucker and it's not the voters heading for the exits

00:38:26.460 not at the other side of the aisle it's at you the ones with the r be bold be real be a mirror

00:38:32.660 to your own people who are telling you what they need when an issue is close okay room to interpret

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00:38:46.000 don't get to deliberate you act you act now well there's still a choice and that choice is not

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00:43:03.000 Who is exploiting your grievance

00:43:05.240 and who is actually voicing your grievance?

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00:45:47.380 this is the glenn beck program hello america welcome to the glenn beck program it's election

00:45:59.380 day in several states new york is one of them they hate you're they got a full-fledged socialist

00:46:05.960 uh that is running in new york i wonder i wonder if the people of new york will reject her

00:46:11.980 not uh we'll get into this here in just a minute uh and five stories i want you to look at from

00:46:19.060 today's news we'll do those in 60 seconds first let me tell you about z factor you know people

00:46:25.500 always say let me sleep on it nobody ever says let me stay awake until three o'clock in the

00:46:29.260 morning thinking about it but that's what we all do if it's important we're not sleeping on it we're

00:46:36.000 lying awake you know what's really frustrating is there are lots of non-important things that i just

00:46:44.880 lie awake at night thinking tossing and turning is it like that with you the decisions are not

00:46:50.560 that big and you're just tossing and turning thing i gotta get to sleep i gotta get to sleep

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00:47:40.560 big change in my life when I sobered up what a surprise um in case you don't know I'm a recovering

00:47:47.280 alcoholic I screwed up my life blah blah blah uh and I was whoa whoa for me I've got all these

00:47:52.700 problems and why does this stuff keep happening to me I love that I laugh at myself now because 1.00

00:47:58.100 I was such an idiot. But why does this stuff always happen to me? Well, it's happening to 0.95

00:48:06.080 you because that's life screaming at you. Stop doing that. Okay. You're causing, in many cases,

00:48:14.940 you're causing your own problems. Why do I always find, why do I always find a man

00:48:20.240 that is abusive i don't know but there's something that is in you that is calling that up okay

00:48:30.220 not always the case but if it keeps happening to you it's calling it up you know why do i keep

00:48:38.520 why do i keep finding all of these people i keep finding all these people and they just keep

00:48:43.340 breaking up with me it probably is you i know when they break up with you they say it's not you

00:48:49.540 if they're all kind of saying the same kind of thing it is you it is you life screams at you

00:48:58.420 sometimes okay stop doing that so i'm looking at the news i look at it every day and i think

00:49:06.440 what is what is the news screaming at us what is the thing that we're like okay this is the

00:49:13.540 universe saying stop America let me give you five stories and see if you can spot the thread here

00:49:19.540 okay story one Supreme Court this week decided to take up a gun case out of Washington DC man

00:49:26.240 named Dante Carter he was stopped by police a lower appeals court had thrown it out you know

00:49:32.380 said the stop was unlawful fine courts do that but listen to the part of the reasoning the court

00:49:38.520 leaned on the fact that carter was in their words a black man in a heavily policed area

00:49:44.540 his race was folded in to whether his fourth amendment rights had been violated

00:49:49.640 two justices samuel alito clarence thomas looked at that and said wait a minute wait a minute wait

00:49:54.980 a minute you can't build a man's constitutional protection on the color of his skin even when

00:50:00.460 the results help him you can't do that they wanted the court to hear it precisely because

00:50:05.740 the racial logic cut in a sympathetic direction.

00:50:10.160 That's story number one.

00:50:11.260 Hold on to that one.

00:50:12.580 Now, story number two comes out of Texas.

00:50:15.100 Democrat running for Senate, James Talrico.

00:50:18.120 Talrico said of his own ability to understand the world

00:50:22.480 that his imagination is limited by his own background

00:50:26.620 and identity of being white and a male.

00:50:31.740 Now, he offered this as some sort of humility, okay?

00:50:35.740 you know i guess let's be generous take it as a man who says i have blind spots i just can't see

00:50:41.480 everything okay whatever but notice the mechanism of the claim the limit isn't experience or his

00:50:49.580 reading or his choices the limit is his category the category of his race and his sex set that is

00:50:59.720 putting the limit and the ceiling on what his mind can reach wow i mean think about how racist

00:51:10.160 that is if i said you know uh tal rica let's say he was african-american and i said you know 0.94

00:51:15.280 well his imagination is limited because he's black i mean that's clearly racist right okay

00:51:22.620 story three joy reed talking about the fourth of july she's not excited about it what a surprise 0.97

00:51:29.560 She said, black Americans are not excited about the 4th of July, that to black America, Independence Day is Juneteenth.

00:51:40.000 I guess there is a clear, honorable point buried in there, you know, when freedom actually arrived for whom, and, you know, let's not wave that away, but I'll bet you Joy Reid had no idea what Juneteenth was.

00:51:56.420 Most Americans had no idea.

00:51:58.300 Most black Americans had no idea what Juneteenth was until recently.

00:52:03.140 But I don't want to argue this.

00:52:05.040 I want you to look at the shape of the sentence here.

00:52:07.340 She didn't say, I feel this way. 1.00

00:52:10.340 She said, black people are not excited. 1.00

00:52:15.220 Oh, okay. 1.00

00:52:16.700 All right.

00:52:17.320 So there's one holiday for one category and another holiday for another category. 0.99

00:52:23.040 The nation's birthday has to be sorted by skin. 0.99

00:52:26.420 Hold on to that. 0.95

00:52:27.740 Let me give you a story four.

00:52:28.820 We're doing five stories.

00:52:29.720 Let me give you a story four.

00:52:32.200 Across the ocean, Great Britain, teenager, Henry Nowak.

00:52:35.900 He was murdered.

00:52:38.360 You know it.

00:52:39.360 It was the guy who stabbed him.

00:52:44.880 The Brits now say it was an example of two-tier policing.

00:52:49.360 The accusation, the law comes down harder and softer depending on which group you belong to.

00:52:54.720 Since then, a senior police chief,

00:52:57.840 Greater Manchester's own top constable,

00:53:00.800 came out and said,

00:53:02.260 the race guidance given to officers should be rewritten.

00:53:06.680 That the social engineering language

00:53:08.420 baked into how police are trained

00:53:10.460 was feeding the perception that justice isn't blind.

00:53:14.940 So a man inside the system

00:53:16.720 is asking to take the category back out of policing.

00:53:20.800 Hold that one closest at all.

00:53:22.420 Let me give you the fifth story. 0.79

00:53:25.060 Church in Virginia, historic, mostly white, 0.60

00:53:28.140 congregation, generations ago, owned slaves.

00:53:31.040 Its members took part in a black-led walking tour,

00:53:34.380 a slave trail through Richmond, 0.77

00:53:36.180 and confront and atone for that history.

00:53:38.380 Now, examining our own history, honestly,

00:53:40.620 that is absolutely not just acceptable.

00:53:43.560 It is also commendable, okay?

00:53:46.020 As a Christian, I think it's kind of required.

00:53:48.620 But watch what's being atoned for and by whom.

00:53:51.880 not the men who did it

00:53:54.460 because they're two centuries dead

00:53:56.180 the living are doing the penance

00:53:59.460 for an inheritance of guilt

00:54:01.760 guilt assigned by not anything they did

00:54:04.920 but by the group they were born into

00:54:07.680 five stories

00:54:10.060 a gun case, senate candidate, tv host

00:54:13.760 british murder, church walk

00:54:15.940 left, right, american, foreign, legal and religious

00:54:19.980 what's the thread here

00:54:24.140 identity politics is the easy way okay

00:54:31.100 you have thomas and alito blowing that apart they're conservatives conservatives and their

00:54:40.720 and the racial logic in their case helped the defendant a partisan would cheer for that outcome

00:54:47.360 So why did they refuse to? Why? Because the thread running through all five of these is not

00:54:54.960 left or right. It's this. Every single one of them swaps the category for the person.

00:55:04.440 Don't look at it as race. Look at it as categories. You cannot create categories over individuals.

00:55:13.380 When the man becomes his race or his disability or whatever, over who he is as an individual, there's trouble on the horizon. 0.72

00:55:24.160 The citizen who becomes his demographic before he becomes an American, the believer that inherits guilt by bloodline rather than by his own deeds, the mind has a ceiling that's set by their skin. 0.63

00:55:39.460 in every single case the individual has disappeared and the group steps forward to

00:55:46.560 stand in its place and that's why i dragged a supreme court dissent into the same room as a

00:55:52.320 guilt trip church walk because alito and thomas are warning you about the principle and not the

00:55:59.500 politics the exact same logic that helps dante carter today is the logic that harms the next

00:56:07.760 man tomorrow. Because once you agree that the category decides, you're no longer arguing whether

00:56:15.740 to judge people by their group because you've already lost that. You're only haggling over

00:56:20.560 which groups get which treatment. So to me, here is what the news is shouting to me today.

00:56:30.140 Go back and read the worst chapters of human history. Every single chapter. The camps,

00:56:36.540 the purges the trail of tears the massacres not one of them began with a monster announcing

00:56:42.660 hey everybody come on over here i'm evil let's all be evil together no it began with a clerk

00:56:50.160 or a teacher or a kindly reformer training ordinary people to stop seeing the man in front

00:56:57.380 of them and start seeing the category he belongs to. Dehumanization is always step two. Step one,

00:57:07.400 de-individualization. Quiet, bureaucratic, often dressed up as fairness, as repair, as safety,

00:57:13.880 as justice long overdue. It never arrives wearing the face of cruelty. It arrives wearing the face

00:57:20.940 of correction. And the single most radical thing the founders in this country ever did,

00:57:26.680 The idea that took mankind thousands of years and gallons of blood to even reach was the individual.

00:57:37.160 One soul, equal before the law, judged on what he did.

00:57:42.400 Not his tribe, not his father's sins, not his skin.

00:57:46.580 That idea is the American firewall.

00:57:50.140 It is the entire firewall.

00:57:52.600 and right now we're prying bricks out of it from five different directions five different directions

00:57:58.960 five stories today i didn't reach back over weeks those are today's headlines one brick at a time

00:58:07.240 taking that out of our firewall and each of us certain that our brick was the unfair one

00:58:13.320 and we are always always astonished when the wall comes down and the rubble looks exactly like the

00:58:19.820 thing we swore we would never build again so here's the lesson the one that history is writing

00:58:27.920 on the chalkboard and screaming at me because the class keeps failing the test category is the first

00:58:35.600 step toward the camp every time and you either train yourself to see the person the one the soul

00:58:44.980 the man with a name, or you will eventually relearn the hard way in the dark

00:58:51.400 why your grandfathers bled to make you stop seeing the group.

00:58:57.600 So today, see the person.

00:59:00.740 It's that simple.

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01:00:50.640 A new Bill of Rights song is out at torch250.com with lesson plans for all ages so your family

01:00:58.880 They can learn how to defend our freedoms.

01:01:03.700 So we have this unique way of disagreeing about everything.

01:01:10.840 The reflecting pool is driving me out of my mind.

01:01:13.680 We argue about absolutely everything.

01:01:17.140 And part of that is a good thing.

01:01:18.340 It's a byproduct of liberty.

01:01:20.040 You know, we love to debate, okay?

01:01:22.460 I have a right.

01:01:23.280 Yeah, okay, okay, I got it, got it, got it.

01:01:24.720 that's why it is so shocking to me that there is one amendment in our bill of rights

01:01:31.020 that we have never fought about no quibble i i can't find anyone making a case against it like

01:01:38.020 you know this shouldn't be all right i'm not do you know which one it is we've never argued about

01:01:43.000 it i call it the invisible number three the third amendment not one single supreme court debate on

01:01:51.880 it we're all pretty cool with not letting the government quarter soldiers in our homes without

01:01:58.700 our permission okay but we should not forget about it even though we don't we don't argue about it

01:02:05.520 we shouldn't forget about it because you know quartering of the soldiers that was one of the

01:02:10.480 beefs that the the government you know that the people had with the government of great britain

01:02:14.440 they were just sending people in and just saying go find something just go live in their house

01:02:19.520 you'll find something on them.

01:02:20.800 I mean, it was really bad.

01:02:21.720 It was really bad.

01:02:22.660 But when we put that in there,

01:02:24.380 we think no quartering ever.

01:02:26.300 No, no, no.

01:02:26.860 That's not what that amendment says. 0.83

01:02:29.520 You can quarter soldiers.

01:02:32.020 You just have to vote on it.

01:02:34.080 You have to pass a law about it.

01:02:39.320 So what are the conditions

01:02:40.800 where the government could say,

01:02:43.080 yeah, you've got to have some people

01:02:44.460 stay at your house?

01:02:46.040 Because the Constitution is clear

01:02:49.280 All they have to do is pass a law

01:02:50.720 And they can make people stay in your house

01:02:52.640 Did you know that?

01:02:56.020 So we've put together

01:02:57.200 Can we play just a little bit of the song behind me

01:02:59.480 As I'm talking about this

01:03:00.380 This is a third song

01:03:01.380 It's about the forgotten number three

01:03:04.160 You have it?

01:03:05.680 So this is part of the summer of 250.

01:03:22.320 And it's the quiet number three.

01:03:25.500 And you get with each amendment song and each amendment,

01:03:28.980 you get something you can go over with your family.

01:03:31.260 And this one is kind of actually fun because we're asking you

01:03:34.820 to have the conversation with your family.

01:03:36.800 And there's no right answer on this,

01:03:38.500 no wrong answer on this either.

01:03:40.260 What would have to happen?

01:03:44.680 Make a case to quarter soldiers.

01:03:47.060 Make a case that the government can say,

01:03:48.800 yep, they're going to stay in your house.

01:03:52.580 What could possibly happen

01:03:54.640 where that law could be passed?

01:03:57.820 Kind of a fun exercise you could do in your car

01:03:59.660 or whatever with your kids

01:04:00.620 as you're traveling this summer.

01:04:02.260 but get the whole understanding of the entire Bill of Rights

01:04:06.640 because a lot of people don't even know what number three is.

01:04:11.640 A lot of people don't know what the Fourth Amendment is.

01:04:13.820 I mean, do you know the amendments? Do you?

01:04:17.400 Because I barely did.

01:04:19.400 And I started doing this exercise about eight months ago

01:04:23.480 to try to get this ready for you this summer.

01:04:26.760 And I learned a lot. I learned a lot.

01:04:29.740 you can't defend the things that you don't understand. So quiet number three in the study

01:04:35.140 guide with the lessons, the stories, the activities for all ages is out now at torch250.com.

01:04:41.500 Torch250.com. If you're already a subscriber, you'll get it with your subscription. It's already

01:04:47.800 there on the website, or if you use the app, it's much better. But anyway, get your kids thinking

01:04:54.340 about the principles of this country it's the summer of 250 and it's torch250.com if we want

01:05:00.660 another 250 years we got to do some things to remind our kids what they're fighting for do we

01:05:06.240 still have the um the only fans thing that we played yesterday there there's a clip from this

01:05:13.840 podcast i can stall because i was going to say i felt like an only fans model learning about quiet

01:05:18.300 number three so but now that i've read it i feel smarter than an only fans model and you will too

01:05:24.120 Wow. Yeah, you were never, you were never an OnlyFans model. Here, play it.

01:05:29.840 What country did the United States gain its independence from?

01:05:33.160 Europe.

01:05:35.260 Oh, boy.

01:05:36.340 I can't.

01:05:37.040 Who was the first president of the USA?

01:05:40.780 Oh, oh, oh, uh, he had a top hat.

01:05:45.520 Yeah.

01:05:46.380 Oh, my gosh. Okay, okay, stop, stop, stop, stop. It only goes downhill from there. It really only goes downhill. Don't let your kids be like that.

01:05:53.240 Don't be like that yourself.

01:05:55.480 Know what you're trying to defend.

01:05:57.740 Know your history.

01:05:58.480 And there's all kinds of ways that we make it really fun to learn history as a family, as an individual, or as a kid.

01:06:05.900 Just go to Torch250.com.

01:06:08.700 By the way, Torchy, the insider, asked that we give them all of the lyrics to the song.

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01:06:14.860 It's up there now.

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01:06:17.740 And each week we release a lesson plan and a new song for all 10 amendments.

01:06:22.680 We're up to Amendment No. 3, The Quiet No. 3 at Torch250.com.

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01:08:17.240 glad you're here thank you so much um i hope you don't mind i am i'm i i'm fascinated by

01:08:31.060 our 250th i remember when i was a kid and it was the bicentennial

01:08:34.760 and i remember thinking 250 250 years i i'll be dead by then what do i you know when you're a kid

01:08:41.140 You just think, like, by 30, I'll be dead, because 30 is really old.

01:08:46.200 But here we are at the 250th anniversary, and I'm fascinated at how we are not really celebrating it this time around.

01:08:53.700 The Bicentennial was everywhere, everywhere.

01:08:57.640 And, you know, we were proud of it, and we're not.

01:09:00.900 And I think it's because we've lost our stories.

01:09:03.160 and i i'm looking for stories to tell you every day you know uh this this month and um and try to

01:09:11.060 try to get you a little interested in american uh history and not the names and the dates and

01:09:17.260 all that because that doesn't matter it's the stories and i found a story uh yesterday that

01:09:22.040 happened 250 years ago this week so it was right before we signed the declaration of independence

01:09:27.660 um i didn't even know we were at war did you know we were at war before we declared our independence

01:09:32.800 they were already they had already sent ships over we were already at war we were fighting them

01:09:37.320 okay um and so it's like you know why might as well we might as well um but the ships were

01:09:46.060 in our harbors the the british ships were in our harbors and i found a story that i just

01:09:52.900 wait until you hear the end of the story who are we really okay who are we we are people

01:10:00.200 that when the experts have written us off,

01:10:03.360 we are the ones that just keep standing. 1.00

01:10:06.080 Now, maybe it's because we're too dumb. 0.99

01:10:07.480 I don't know. 0.99

01:10:08.700 But what created us is that we don't run from things.

01:10:13.320 We run towards the trouble, not away from the problem.

01:10:16.120 And then we are like, we can solve it, we can solve it.

01:10:18.980 And then when we can't really solve it,

01:10:21.320 somehow or another, a miracle always saves us, okay?

01:10:24.560 So let me take you to a sandbar.

01:10:26.200 It's June, this week, 1776.

01:10:29.180 and you are standing on a low hot mosquito bitten island in the mouth of the charleston harbor

01:10:36.460 there's a fort here and i'm i'm being very very generous when i say it's a fort

01:10:42.380 it's a square pen of palmetto logs they're 16 feet apart packed in between with sands

01:10:50.160 two walls are finished okay the back of it is open you know entirely it's half built it's kind

01:10:57.540 of thing that if you you know you saw that on your own property and somebody came by you'd be

01:11:01.060 like yeah that was a project i meant to get to and i never really did it okay out past the bar

01:11:06.880 coming for it is the most powerful navy navy in the history of the world nine british warships

01:11:13.980 hundreds of guns and on board is a guy named sir peter parker you'll remember that name

01:11:21.120 because he's Spider-Man in a white wig, okay?

01:11:26.040 Peter Parker has crossed the ocean to put down a rebellion.

01:11:29.940 And behind him, a few thousand redcoats 0.98

01:11:32.640 and their spider senses are tingly, okay?

01:11:35.980 General Henry Clinton waiting to come ashore

01:11:38.960 and finish whatever the cannons would start

01:11:41.000 because they're just going to blow everything up, okay?

01:11:43.560 They've done the math.

01:11:44.740 Everybody's done the math.

01:11:45.960 And the math says, oh, that little pen of logs.

01:11:48.980 yeah that'll be gone in about 10 minutes okay and charleston will be gone by supper time

01:11:55.380 so the american general in charge of the whole southern theater agreed charles lee was his name

01:12:01.420 he wrote out he looked at the thing he said that's your defense these two little walls of logs are

01:12:08.840 you kidding me this is slaughter pen he's like get out of there get out they'll knock it down within

01:12:13.640 in a half an hour abandon the place pull everybody out okay but that's not the american way he's like

01:12:20.400 don't die for a sandcastle but the colonel inside that sandcastle he's a planter william i think his

01:12:28.360 name is moultrie he's not famous not a man you've ever heard uh heard of um but you've seen the

01:12:36.980 result of what he did in a couple of ways so what did he do he didn't give a big speech or anything

01:12:42.340 he just declined to leave he was like we're gonna stay he had about 435 men some south carolina

01:12:49.820 regulars out on the far end of the island men were dug dug alongside 30 native warriors and the ford

01:12:57.620 had been you know raised in part by the hand of enslaved africans who hauled and stacked the logs

01:13:03.200 in the heat they were there as well the whole thing improvised i mean it's an unfinished 0.84

01:13:09.980 collection of human beings that are not somebody that's going to stand up, okay? And they decide

01:13:15.840 to stand on a position the smartest man in the army had already said, get the hell away from

01:13:21.660 that thing. Now, here's the thing that nobody knew. Not Parker, not Clinton. I don't even think

01:13:26.540 Moultrie knew this, okay? Palmetto, it's not oak. When you fire a 32-pound iron ball at an oak wall,

01:13:35.940 what happens we've seen this in all of the movies and everything else that ever show us fort getting

01:13:41.240 attacked the wood splinters and it becomes shrapnel and it kills all the people behind it and that's

01:13:46.080 how a fort dies and it dies quickly but palmetto is soft it's spongy so the british they open up

01:13:54.020 the fire that morning and they're expecting 20 minutes we will be on we'll be on the shore in

01:13:59.140 about 30 minutes okay and they hit it with everything i mean thunder that you could feel

01:14:04.300 in your chest across the water and the cannonballs hit those palmetto logs and the logs just take it

01:14:12.800 the whole wall was it was like jello it would just quiver and swallow the ball and then hold

01:14:19.400 and the shot sunk into the sponge and then just stopped nine or ten hours the greatest navy on

01:14:29.920 earth hammered the half-finished pen of logs, and the pen wouldn't break. The sandcastle was

01:14:37.060 standing. It was crazy. It's crazy. The men inside were doing something, you know, with their cannons

01:14:44.340 that the British, they weren't expecting this, okay? They expected that to be over in 20 minutes,

01:14:49.300 but that, those palmetto logs held, and so they had time to aim slowly and carefully. They were

01:14:56.580 low on powder. They couldn't waste a single shot. So every ball that they sent back had to go into

01:15:03.920 the ship. So they needed patience. And it was, I mean, it was almost cruel. The fort that was

01:15:11.280 supposed to die in half an hour, 10 hours in was tearing the fleet apart. And then came the moment

01:15:19.800 where we make statues of these people a british round caught the flag staff and cut it clean

01:15:27.600 the flag was moultrie's own design it was one of the first flags that we had for the revolution

01:15:32.920 it was blue and it had a white crescent up at the top corner and when the staff was cut it fell down

01:15:40.660 now i didn't know this but you know if a flag falls in a fort the men firing on that flag

01:15:49.200 they immediately look at that and go, they've surrendered, okay?

01:15:52.920 When it falls to the ground, that's what happens, okay?

01:15:56.880 Flag going down means that, surrender, it's over.

01:16:01.720 A sergeant named William Jasper,

01:16:04.260 he looks out at the fallen flag laying out there

01:16:06.560 in the killing ground, outside of the walls, okay?

01:16:11.000 He didn't think about the math either.

01:16:12.800 He climbed up onto the rampart,

01:16:14.620 full view of every gun in the British fleet.

01:16:17.160 he jumped down outside of the wall he walks out in the open he picks that blue flag up off the sand

01:16:24.800 and because the staff was gone he tied the flag to the rammer of a cannon you know it's a sponge

01:16:31.740 on a pole and he climbed back up and he planted the flag back up on the wall he held it up so

01:16:36.780 every ship out there would understand the answer is still no no no we're not moving

01:16:42.120 they started in the morning it's now nightfall it's in the summer it's been a long day

01:16:50.000 the fleet pulls back because they're bleeding they're hemorrhaging they're beaten it was the

01:16:57.480 very first time that in war americans stood toe-to-toe with the royal navy and won and it

01:17:04.860 happened six days before the declaration of independence was even signed governor of south

01:17:10.620 Carolina took the sword off his own belt and gave it to Sergeant Jasper. And that tree became kind

01:17:19.620 of important. They didn't build a statue of this. That's the South Carolina flag. It has the crescent

01:17:27.260 moon up at the top. I'm sorry, South Carolina, for just discovering this. You're all rolling your

01:17:31.080 eyes going, yeah, hello, dummy. Most Americans don't know this. That's why the palmetto tree 0.98

01:17:36.420 is on that flag that unimpressive spongy wood that everybody overlooked

01:17:42.380 goes on a south carolina flag still flying today the state made an emblem out of the thing

01:17:49.360 the enemy underestimated

01:17:51.140 so why is this story important today

01:17:55.700 every wise voice has told told these people the position was indefensible abandoned get out of

01:18:04.200 there be reasonable cut your losses had they listened to the smart money charleston falls

01:18:09.600 the south open up and the whole story of america bends in a completely different direction

01:18:14.600 the republic has always been the half-finished fort that experts have always written off

01:18:23.380 right now somebody is doing the math on you you in your own life or on your town or on your faith

01:18:32.160 on the whole idea of self-government.

01:18:35.800 There are millions of people now saying it's a sandcastle.

01:18:40.720 It's naive.

01:18:41.880 It won't hold.

01:18:43.120 The forces against it are just too big, too modern, too sophisticated.

01:18:48.120 Be reasonable.

01:18:49.060 Walk away.

01:18:50.260 Don't walk away.

01:18:51.700 Don't walk away.

01:18:53.380 Be palmetto, the soft wood that takes the blow and doesn't splinter.

01:18:58.280 It's like jello.

01:18:59.080 I'm built for this.

01:19:00.040 and when the flag goes down and it will go down some days it goes all the way down into the sand

01:19:06.240 be the one willing to climb over the wall in front of everything and put it back up

01:19:12.740 on any pole you can find put it back up we keep the republic by holding the ground that clever

01:19:20.720 men have already surrendered we're seeing it saved by miracles now and by people standing

01:19:29.020 up and doing the right thing they had already surrendered this nation to the global elites

01:19:35.060 somebody climbed over the wall picked the flag back up and said not today satan not today

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01:22:31.800 Glenn Beck is back after this.

01:22:46.880 you know jason and i were just talking during the break with the insiders about gas prices

01:23:02.740 coming down they're not here in idaho they're still up over four and a half dollars uh and

01:23:08.540 that's ridiculous and it's got to stop it's got to stop now gas oil you know when oil was uh you

01:23:15.680 know, went from $80 a barrel to $120 overnight. We felt it at the gas pump that day. Now it's in 0.80

01:23:22.120 the 70s and 80s. It's back down to where it was when we had $3 a gallon gas. And somehow or another,

01:23:28.220 the prices, you know, in some parts of the country, the prices just aren't coming down.

01:23:33.180 Why is that? Why is that? I'd like to know. I mean, I know you had to make your money because

01:23:39.520 of what was in the ground. So I have no problem. I have no problem with that. But how long does

01:23:44.680 last? How long before all that gas is gone? And how come you raised the price when you didn't

01:23:51.180 bring the new tanker in? You raised the price as the price of oil was going up. So you made all

01:23:56.420 that money. Shouldn't it be the other way now that oil prices are coming down? Because oil prices are

01:24:01.480 falling. Donald Trump just tweeted that, what was it, 19 million barrels came out of the Strait of

01:24:11.160 Hormuz yesterday. It's a record. It's a record. Why, why is my gas still so high? I'd like to

01:24:18.000 know. And I don't want your bullcrap answer either. I really, I'm tired of your bullcrap 0.98

01:24:23.480 answer. You can, uh, you, you have to explain why they went up when you still had gas in the 0.96

01:24:31.860 ground that you had paid a low price for. Um, why did, why did the price go up? You explain that to

01:24:38.700 me then you can explain why it won't come down now when the price of gas why am i betting why

01:24:44.640 am i paying the gas price for the future and i'm not paying the future gas price now i don't

01:24:50.600 understand that who's making money on this it's despicable it really is aren't we all in this

01:24:56.000 together do you have to gouge our eyes out every single time and it's not the local gas station's

01:25:03.120 fault i mean it might be sometimes but it's usually not the local gas station's fault it's 0.98

01:25:07.500 it's the oil companies and uh you know stop treating us like we're imbeciles why why does 0.99

01:25:15.780 everybody insist on it's like apple with the damn short cords why do you insist on making us hate 0.99

01:25:21.580 you every time i try to go plug my apple product in because i hate you every time every time there's 0.93

01:25:26.600 a short cord i'm like no couldn't make it couldn't make it a normal length could we apple i mean i

01:25:31.560 have that that argument in my head every time couldn't do it the normal length could you apple

01:25:36.600 it's the same thing that's happening to you oil companies

01:25:40.140 and you're not enemies of the people you provide a great service

01:25:45.460 you power the world you make our heat and air conditioning and our cars work and it's great

01:25:51.240 can you stop making us hate you please jeez i don't understand it what is the price of gasoline

01:25:58.540 now in texas uh jason it's like right at three dollars and some gas stations have gone down

01:26:05.040 below i know i'm looking at the insiders now they're all posting their gas prices across the

01:26:09.440 country and it seems like the norm is 350 and above at 350 texans are like 455 455 in in idaho

01:26:19.640 no ricky what are you paying oh we are coming down like we're in the mid threes right now in

01:26:26.560 south florida and south florida is typically more expensive than central and north florida

01:26:30.980 Mid threes.

01:26:31.820 I had to drive.

01:26:32.860 I drove six hours down almost to Vegas and then back.

01:26:37.740 And I didn't pay under $4.30 a gallon anywhere.

01:26:42.960 Anywhere.

01:26:43.780 Just two days ago.

01:26:46.100 I mean, I think we're getting ripped off here.

01:26:48.400 Just a little bit.

01:26:49.520 I think we're getting ripped off.

01:26:51.940 But anyway, it is coming down.

01:26:53.780 There is relief coming at the pump.

01:26:55.900 I mean, not you, California.

01:26:58.040 I'm sorry.

01:26:58.380 I didn't mean to include you.

01:26:59.320 There's no relief coming for you, but everywhere else, relief is coming.

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01:28:23.300 We'll be right back.

01:28:53.300 the fusion of entertainment enlightenment and empowerment this is the glenn beck program

01:29:10.360 hello america welcome to the glenn beck program it's tuesday there's a lot to cover in the news

01:29:20.200 We now have, from U.S. intel, what a surprise, this has just been released,

01:29:28.860 proving the coronavirus research in China, even as Fauci was denying.

01:29:35.620 I think they need to bring him in front of Congress again.

01:29:39.020 You just need to ask him, just like you to testify,

01:29:42.880 is what you said to Congress true, yes or no?

01:29:46.340 They can't do anything about it unless he lies again.

01:29:48.760 but he'll be forced to say uh no i i wasn't telling you the truth whatever um and uh so at

01:29:58.500 least we'd be on record he'd have to admit that he lied and i would guess you could get him into

01:30:05.540 more lies because he's too arrogant to tell you the full truth he's just too arrogant uh and then 0.68

01:30:11.900 he'd finally go to jail and i think that should be done also the asylum seeker uh who's they made 0.93

01:30:18.820 the craziest claim on why he wasn't the rapist of this woman wait until you hear this story it is i

01:30:24.380 mean you think you've heard nuts things before nah you haven't even scratched the surface we have

01:30:30.300 more nuts for you than you can possibly imagine we get to that also donald trump is thinking about

01:30:35.060 raising the price of admission you know if you want to come in and you want to be a citizen

01:30:40.260 Well, it's going to cost you a little bit more.

01:30:42.220 Good.

01:30:42.480 I say raise it to a trillion dollars.

01:30:46.480 You know, whatever it takes.

01:30:48.120 Just stop all of this.

01:30:49.960 Stop this until we have it under control.

01:30:52.940 When we have it under control, then fine.

01:30:55.720 But, you know, admission here should not be free.

01:31:00.300 It shouldn't be free.

01:31:02.020 All right.

01:31:02.720 More in just a second.

01:31:03.620 We have Tim Barton coming in with us.

01:31:05.480 He has just written with his father, David Barton, a new book about the 56 signers.

01:31:11.840 You know, I've been reading about the signers.

01:31:13.420 I have not read this book yet.

01:31:14.580 I have to get it.

01:31:16.160 But I've been reading about some of the signers, and I am learning so much.

01:31:19.320 These guys were incredible.

01:31:21.180 He's got the receipts on it.

01:31:22.960 So we're going to talk to him on this here in just a second.

01:31:25.100 First, let me talk to you about chapter.

01:31:26.960 One of the strangest things about getting older is that life gets more complicated.

01:31:30.180 Right about the time you were hoping it would get simpler.

01:31:33.220 You know, when you're young, you expect confusion.

01:31:34.920 It's pretty much par for the course.

01:31:36.480 I mean, you're still just figuring things out.

01:31:38.200 The very beginning of building a career and starting a family, you make mistakes, you

01:31:42.480 know, all the fun stuff.

01:31:43.900 Believe me, you will look back on it as fun.

01:31:46.540 But there comes a point where you're like, okay, I've been doing this now.

01:31:49.100 Things should get easier, right?

01:31:50.840 Then somebody had you a stack of Medicare options and you're comparing plans and network

01:31:55.280 coverage and prescriptions and costs and trying to figure out which choice actually makes

01:31:58.740 sense for your life.

01:31:59.540 You're like, can somebody make this easy?

01:32:02.600 Yes, Chapter did.

01:32:03.560 And the reason why they did it is because the guy who started it, his parents got screwed by somebody saying, no, I'm doing all of the comparisons for you.

01:32:12.760 He was only there making money.

01:32:14.540 Most of these guys are only making money because they go with the plans that pay them the most.

01:32:21.180 And most of them can't compare all of the plans.

01:32:23.740 Chapter can.

01:32:25.280 They have it now.

01:32:26.400 They have the system that can compare everything.

01:32:28.700 They listen to you, and they find the one that's right for you.

01:32:33.200 I want you to go to chapter.

01:32:34.620 Go to chapter right now.

01:32:36.820 The address is, oh, no, it's a free call.

01:32:39.680 It pound 250.

01:32:40.880 Pound 250.

01:32:41.680 Say the keyword chapter.

01:32:42.740 Pound 250, keyword chapter.

01:32:44.140 See, they already made that easy.

01:32:47.940 Tim, my man, how are you?

01:32:49.740 I'm good, Glenn.

01:32:50.640 How are you?

01:32:52.240 I am great.

01:32:53.320 I'm excited to read the book about the 56 founders.

01:32:56.620 It's called Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor.

01:33:00.100 How long have you guys been working on this?

01:33:01.500 how many books are you writing like 400 books how long do you have this one uh well in fairness

01:33:09.020 uh this is one we've been writing for 20 years because we've been studying maybe maybe even 30

01:33:13.600 or 40 right we've been studying these guys forever you and my dad for 20 years have been

01:33:18.020 studying and telling their stories uh and we finally said that this this seems like the optimal

01:33:23.600 time uh for people talking about the 250 like hey guys let's have a place we can go back and not just

01:33:31.360 have a general conceptual understanding where you and my dad again for like 20 plus years been

01:33:36.380 working on on helping americans understand this but have a place where instead of just learning

01:33:40.720 the general story of them let's get some specific details uh and so this has been a labor of love

01:33:46.200 really for the entire time my dad's been doing this for the the entire time i've been with them

01:33:51.620 but uh we focused on this probably for uh eight or nine months hard trying to get all the stories

01:33:58.860 lined up and writing and getting ready to come out this summer that's great i have to tell you

01:34:03.500 paul harvey wrote a book on the 56 signers it was a very thin book it wasn't like what you've just

01:34:08.480 done tell me what you um tell me what you found that surprised even you that you're going through

01:34:16.680 and you're like people have got to know about this guy yeah so some of the stories some of the guys

01:34:22.640 we already had a general understanding of but then when you do a deeper dive you're like this guy's

01:34:26.060 even more impressive than we realized and glenn we talk about it all the time like it blows up

01:34:30.820 all of the narratives we think um right like you know john witherspoon who was the president of

01:34:36.120 what became princeton university trained more founding fathers than any other individual

01:34:40.260 we know that he was a pastor but when you start looking into the fact oh so he was a presbyterian

01:34:45.260 revivalist preacher from scotland and you start setting some of his background you're like this

01:34:49.820 was far more of a fired up christian pastor than even maybe a general surface understanding would

01:34:55.160 give you you look at guys uh stories that might be more surprising that actually one of the ones

01:35:00.900 that got me william whipple a signer of the declaration his father was a merchant trader

01:35:05.380 and so had lots of trade ships uh which is not surprising and his family actually engaged one

01:35:10.660 of the things they did was engage in the slave trade um and of like the hundred something voyages

01:35:15.240 he took it was like 12 or 13 voyages that had uh they transported slaves so it's not the majority

01:35:20.600 of what they did but he grew up in a family that literally they were slave traders and he becomes a

01:35:25.700 guy who his father gives him a slave he goes to fight in the american revolution he signs a

01:35:30.900 declaration he becomes then a soldier in the revolution he took the slave his dad gave him 0.97

01:35:36.660 but he's an abolitionist and he's like this is dumb um and at one point he was talking that 0.85

01:35:42.380 the individual that was a slave is known as prince whipple now prince was not an uncommon term um for 0.96

01:35:48.880 a lot of slaves back then and and the last name was often the last name of whoever the slave master

01:35:53.900 was but he tells prince he says prince we must be men of courage and stand our ground and prince

01:35:59.000 tells william he says i would be a lot more courageous and i'd stand my ground a lot better

01:36:03.140 if i had freedom and william says you're right well well then you're free and literally on the

01:36:09.580 spot says you are free please continue to fight with me and and prince fights for the rest of

01:36:15.080 the revolution um when the revolution is over he gets the official certificate that he gets his

01:36:19.640 freedom uh william closes the family slave trade business so you have a kid who grows up in a family

01:36:25.860 business where they are slave traders he becomes an abolitionist frees his slaves stops the slave

01:36:30.380 trade for the family and again like you start reading these stories and you're like not only

01:36:34.940 are these guys a lot different than we realize they're so much more honorable one of my favorite

01:36:40.520 stories thomas nelson jr was a signer of the declaration from virginia he and george washington

01:36:46.120 were really good friends and there's actually some really fun letters from george washington

01:36:49.640 to thomas nelson jr about how god's hand was all over what they were doing in the american

01:36:55.080 revolution god showed up time and time again to save the military but but thomas nelson jr is a

01:37:01.480 commanding officer at yorktown the last major battle of the revolution and thomas nelson jr

01:37:06.440 was also a very wealthy guy but he used all of his wealth to to fund the military and the endeavors

01:37:13.560 of what the continental congress was trying to do so so he gave it all for the cause of liberty

01:37:18.040 but because he's a wealthy guy he was in yorktown he leaves yorktown to be part of the military

01:37:22.360 the british have taken over yorktown and he had the nicest house in your yorktown so the officers

01:37:27.960 make that the place where they're going to stay and as the men surround yorktown the the continental

01:37:33.960 Army. Yorktown is under siege. He's with an artillery unit and they're firing cannonballs

01:37:39.480 into Yorktown and they're driving the British back. And he realizes they fired on every house

01:37:45.220 except mine. And that's literally where the British officers are. So he goes to the guys

01:37:50.360 firing the cannon says, why aren't you firing in my house? And they said, sir, we know like who's

01:37:58.060 paying our check, right? Like we know who you are. There's no way we would fire in your house.

01:38:03.600 and so that like the old historic accounts they said that he pulled out his his checkbook and he

01:38:08.020 says i will give a five pound guinea like this i will give money for every man that the first man

01:38:13.240 that hits it with a cannonball he gets the first one but then every cannonball after that i will

01:38:17.560 literally pay every man well to this day his house still stands in virginia which is amazing

01:38:21.840 people can literally go to yorktown and see it and there are cannonballs in the side of his house

01:38:26.740 to this day that record says he literally was paying the men to fire on his own house to drive

01:38:33.820 the british officers back and glenn these are the stories that when you read them you're like

01:38:38.040 these guys are amazing it's so fun stories how many of them how many of them were wealthy

01:38:46.820 and died poor because of this so i i would say that the percentage is small um but i would say

01:38:55.580 probably there were probably 10 or 12 or 15 and right i mean obviously wealth there's different

01:39:01.580 standards out of 56 um sure but but when you talk about wealthy guys they're depth john hancock

01:39:07.580 very wealthy guy thomas nelson jr wealthy uh charles carroll there were some very wealthy

01:39:12.600 individuals but it was not the majority of them uh and you do have a great disparity from like

01:39:18.480 the john hancock one of john hancock's best friends and running buddies was sam adams sam

01:39:24.460 adams is the poorest of all those guys and you know the story but right sam adams growing up at

01:39:30.820 14 goes to harvard he graduates when he's 18 his dad wants him to be a lawyer mom wants him to go

01:39:35.040 into business uh his dad gives him a loan because he decides sam is going to go into business and

01:39:40.020 sam fails lost all that money the dad dies leave sam's a business sam runs a business in the ground

01:39:45.880 they go bankrupt um sam has to find another job becomes a tax collector which is super funny to

01:39:51.180 think about. Sam gets fired from being a tax collector because he refused to take in all the

01:39:57.200 taxes that were demanded because he would go to people's houses and he's like, wait, you owe how

01:40:01.640 much? That's crazy. Give me like half of that. And so literally Boston is going in debt because

01:40:09.540 Sam Adams is not collecting enough taxes. But I say this because as you get to like the stand back

01:40:14.820 tax, Sam doesn't even like really look for another job. He's so fired up for the Patriot cause.

01:40:20.360 so he spends all of his time trying to rally other americans and by the time the continental

01:40:25.780 congress comes around sam's been doing this for more than a decade and his people say that's the

01:40:31.620 guy we want to represent us he understands this the best he's been writing all these essays making

01:40:36.240 these speeches he he formed he started the sons of liberty this this is the guy we want but they

01:40:41.720 were embarrassed of the way he looked because he only had one suit and it had holes in it he had

01:40:46.840 one pair of stockings with holes in it. And so the town took up a collection. One man brought in a

01:40:51.840 tailor that made him a tailored suit. One man bought him six new pairs of stockings. One man

01:40:56.260 bought him a wig. Somebody wrote to John Adams and said, Hey, will you loan him a horse? Cause

01:41:00.200 we don't want him to have to walk all the way to Philadelphia. So, so literally Sam Adams is going

01:41:06.060 because he's this incredible voice, but he's also incredibly poor because not only was he a failed

01:41:11.280 businessman, he spent all of his time trying to rally Patriots. And so when you look at the

01:41:16.420 disparity of like a john hancock who's this uber wealthy guy to a sam adams you had people from

01:41:21.960 all walks of life coming together some that had been doctors or teachers some that were farmers

01:41:26.920 some that were like a sam adams just a patriotic voice some like a john hancock very wealthy

01:41:32.300 but it was all people who understood the vision and then when they signed their names on the line

01:41:37.840 and i mean the reason we chose life's fortunes and sacred honors is there is not a single person

01:41:42.460 that signed the Declaration of Independence that did not pay to some extent with their life,

01:41:48.980 their fortune, or their sacred honor. Tim, I was reading up on doing something

01:41:55.800 later this week on Caesar Rodney. And he's the guy who had to break the tie for Delaware. And

01:42:03.900 so they've told him, you got to get here. We vote tomorrow and you got to be there. And it was like

01:42:11.180 a three-day normal ride he rides hard all night in the rain etc etc what i didn't know about him

01:42:17.400 was that he was so riddled with face cancer that i think it was john adams who said not in a joking

01:42:25.180 way his face was like the size of an apple he said it was so distorted and so rotted away by the time

01:42:35.620 he was riding all night the doctor's like don't you'll die you'll die you'll die don't do this

01:42:40.580 and he wore a veil most of his yes time because he it was so i didn't know that about him that

01:42:48.280 yeah it's suffering beyond everything you're saying is correct it's also something that

01:42:53.220 even though they're founding fathers um there were times that that people noted that because

01:42:59.340 of the rotting flesh on his face it also smelled terrible and so he was so dedicated to be there

01:43:05.740 because he believed in the cause but he had to keep it covered because it was unsightly and then

01:43:09.120 it smelled bad but these were people to your point who literally were like i i don't care what

01:43:16.020 it costs me i i care that we are doing something for for the next the rising generation for our

01:43:22.040 kids for our grandkids there's a really really great letter from john adams to abigail in 1777

01:43:26.540 um where as he's a diplomat at this point he's already signed the declaration he's a diplomat

01:43:31.020 over in europe and he's frustrated and john adams was dramatic at times so this is not like super

01:43:36.500 unusual, which we also cover some of these stories in the John Adams bio in this book.

01:43:41.400 But John Adams writes Abigail. He's so frustrated. He says, Abigail, I don't think, I don't think

01:43:45.720 people even fully appreciate that. They don't understand what we're doing. They don't fully

01:43:49.740 appreciate what we're doing. He said, I wish I could just gather all of the kids around,

01:43:54.300 like all of the college students. And I wish I could just tell them something. And here's what

01:43:58.400 he said he wanted to tell them. He said, posterity, you will never know how much it costs

01:44:02.320 this present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you make a good use of it. If you do not,

01:44:08.300 I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains I did to earn it. And, and, and this

01:44:14.960 is the sentiment that I would say, even looking back today, most Americans, because we don't know

01:44:20.100 their story, we have no idea the cost that was actually paid for us to be able to be free. And

01:44:25.960 so Glenn, this is something that we've been for years advocating for people go back and learn the

01:44:30.740 story and honestly we didn't feel like maybe there was the best resources out there to do it and so

01:44:37.400 we said look and kind of like the wall builders fashion we want to be the storytellers let's tell

01:44:41.820 the story of these guys where we talk about some of their faith their family their accomplishments

01:44:46.420 even some of their positions for the abolition movement or for some of them that actually

01:44:51.360 maintain that slavery position we tell the good the bad and the ugly but we think every American

01:44:56.240 needs to understand, especially on the 250th, who these men were and the sacrifices they actually

01:45:01.760 made for independence. Tim, as always, good to talk to you. The name of the book is Lives,

01:45:07.440 Fortunes, and Sacred Honor. It comes out today. I can't recommend it highly enough. I mean,

01:45:12.720 these guys have looked at the documents and taken the actual letters from the founder. This is not

01:45:18.880 scholarly people coming back, you know, 200 years later and saying, I think what they meant,

01:45:23.480 they take the actual documents from the time it is accurate it is great and they're both

01:45:29.700 really good storytellers lives fortunes and sacred honor tim barton say hi to your dad

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01:51:37.540 all right you sick freak welcome to the glenn beck program you know i can't believe it's taken

01:51:45.680 me this doll it's taken me almost the entire show before i could get to the real issue of 0.97

01:51:51.540 the reflecting pool good god almighty i think i'm gonna lose my mind

01:51:57.880 what is wrong with these people seriously what is wrong with these people how many times can

01:52:06.380 you look this up ricky i think obama worked on the reflecting pool and i think biden also did

01:52:15.140 and it's not been repaired correctly right is that right ricky um look that up and it's

01:52:22.640 look it up for me when's the last time they did any kind of improvements to the reflecting pool

01:52:27.120 and it's my understanding that they have worked on this and worked on this and worked on it never

01:52:30.820 get it right. So Donald Trump gets it, you know, and he's trying to repair it. I'm not saying that

01:52:36.940 they got it right. I don't know exactly what's going on with the reflecting pool. I know the

01:52:40.880 surface is coming up, but I know some vandals got in there. People were picketing for the algae.

01:52:48.560 I mean, they're for the algae, destroying the reflecting pool. What is wrong with you?

01:52:55.720 And by the way, I don't, I mean, if it's a reflecting pool or algae, I go with a reflecting pool.

01:53:01.580 If it's Kamala Harris or algae, I vote for algae.

01:53:06.000 But maybe that's, maybe that's just me.

01:53:11.820 Here's Donald Trump talking about how vandals slit the reflecting pool.

01:53:17.480 Listen to this.

01:53:18.420 We have vandalism.

01:53:19.640 You know, we have a hundred and we have a, I think, two hundred and ninety, three hundred foot slit right through it.

01:53:28.420 Probably a box cutter or a knife of some kind.

01:53:31.620 We had people lifting up the basic, some of the, it's not a lot of damage, but it's, we'll probably have to let the water out and refix it.

01:53:41.000 They went in there with a knife.

01:53:42.600 I was just told by the

01:53:45.320 by the people over at Parks

01:53:47.720 they have five people are arrested

01:53:49.640 and five people are under

01:53:51.700 investigation right now

01:53:53.100 I'd like to see

01:53:57.100 I mean the one thing I don't like about

01:53:59.800 this is there was a no bid contract

01:54:02.120 to fix this

01:54:03.680 but you know Donald Trump is a builder

01:54:05.800 he knows how to fix

01:54:07.740 and it's my understanding that he's also

01:54:09.760 on the phone with the construction

01:54:11.680 workers like at four o'clock in the morning saying, are you doing this? Are you doing this?

01:54:17.360 So the guy was on it and you know, he knows how to build a pool. Uh, but I just can't, I can't take

01:54:24.040 everything is about, why do they make everything about Donald Trump? Everything. I swear to you,

01:54:31.920 if the Democrats win the white house, they will dig those flagpoles up and they will take those

01:54:37.940 flagpoles down uh they will never build the east wing back the the ballroom they'll never build it

01:54:45.500 at least they will build it to look entirely different than what he did i mean there's

01:54:52.140 nothing this guy can do that is right for them they have to destroy everything it's it's really

01:54:59.340 a sickness it's really a sickness do you have that answer for me ricky yes uh reagan tried to

01:55:05.440 fix it throughout the 80s and by 86 the structural system was still failing and obama over a two-year

01:55:11.760 period tried to do significant intervention and i think it's important to note that it cost 30

01:55:19.680 million dollars as opposed to i think trump 16 million and you should also point out that the

01:55:25.440 contractors who are going to go in and fix it again including the vandals destruction they're

01:55:31.520 They're doing it under warranty.

01:55:33.960 Right.

01:55:34.500 They're doing it for free.

01:55:35.360 They're not paying for this.

01:55:37.660 It's incredible to me.

01:55:39.480 Did you even know that Barack Obama took two years to redo the reflecting pool?

01:55:45.320 I didn't know that.

01:55:46.880 This is something that is so far down.

01:55:51.200 You know, they're actually talking.

01:55:52.420 I think it was Joy Behar on The View that said, was it Joy?

01:55:55.980 that said that people should sue

01:55:58.780 Donald Trump

01:56:00.660 and the federal government

01:56:01.740 because that's a national landmark

01:56:04.220 and how dare him

01:56:06.480 go in there and do stuff to it

01:56:09.160 are you

01:56:10.040 you're kidding me right

01:56:11.480 you're kidding me

01:56:13.540 it needed repair

01:56:16.240 it's like

01:56:18.720 I swear to you

01:56:20.000 these people would rather have

01:56:21.540 all of our monuments dirty 0.73

01:56:23.840 and urinated on

01:56:25.780 and everything else other than Donald Trump being able to fix it.

01:56:29.720 Look at the two pictures we have side by side.

01:56:32.380 One is a blue reflecting pool.

01:56:34.800 One is a green reflecting pool.

01:56:36.920 The green one is because of algae.

01:56:39.660 It's dirty.

01:56:41.380 Have you been there?

01:56:42.240 It's awful.

01:56:44.060 The blue one is because it's clean and it's reflecting the surface on the bottom.

01:56:50.260 Water is supposed to look blue when it's clear outside.

01:56:55.780 You know, when it's cloudy, it looks different.

01:56:57.700 But when it's clear, it reflects the sky.

01:57:00.700 That's why you put the blue there.

01:57:02.460 My gosh.

01:57:03.240 And these people, I actually heard interviews with people who said, green looks better.

01:57:09.620 No, it doesn't.

01:57:11.300 I mean, that's a Rorschach test.

01:57:14.660 It really is.

01:57:15.520 That's a test.

01:57:16.640 You should hold those two up.

01:57:18.900 And, you know, assuming you know who Donald Trump is and you say the green looks better,

01:57:22.980 that's a that's a sign you need some medication you need some medication or you need just a nap

01:57:29.280 get a nap in okay you've you've made everything into this trump derangement uh syndrome and by

01:57:36.800 the way and it it is feeding off of some of the most radical people look joy reed uh from msnbc

01:57:44.100 she's she's never been straight in the head okay she's always been a radical anti-american but now

01:57:52.520 this is spreading into mainstream society here's what she said cut for here's what she says about

01:57:58.440 the fourth of july there's a there's a duality to fourth of july that is hard to reconcile if you 0.99

01:58:04.440 think about it too much it's like indigenous people on thanksgiving like they're like yeah

01:58:09.240 but you know y'all are celebrating that but this is actually our nakba okay we're you're celebrating 0.96

01:58:13.680 our the destruction of all of our lands and y'all think um all we did was give you corn

01:58:19.340 so they're like you know it's not cute to us but so y'all go ahead and celebrate your 0.99

01:58:23.820 thanksgiving we're not giving thanks okay and the black people feel that way about fourth of july

01:58:27.700 whereas juneteenth to me is the real thing that fourth of july is because we really were not

01:58:36.120 a democracy until we ended slavery 1.00

01:58:39.000 no we were a democracy you're such an idiot you don't even know what you're saying 1.00

01:58:45.360 Um, you weren't free until Juneteenth in Texas. You were actually free. Um, but it was the South 1.00

01:58:54.500 and the racist that kept it from you until Juneteenth, until a union soldier, um, came in

01:59:02.880 because of Abraham Lincoln, which you don't want to even talk about. Um, Abraham Lincoln said

01:59:08.480 emancipation proclamation, and then the war is over. And it was Juneteenth that they finally 0.60

01:59:14.800 told the slaves in Texas, the war is over. You're free. But I bet you, Joy, that you don't know

01:59:23.420 about one of the best friends of Abraham Lincoln. You know, one of his best friends was Frederick

01:59:30.280 Douglas, which brings me to Frederick Douglas then to say, did you know that Frederick Douglas

01:59:35.040 once hated the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? He felt like you did.

01:59:40.640 then he read it i recommend it then he read it and he realized wait a minute this is not

01:59:49.900 an instrument of oppression this is the greatest slave ending document of all time

01:59:56.560 the same conclusion that martin luther king came to 0.88

02:00:00.960 black people were not free until the civil war and it's the first time in history

02:00:11.040 white people fought for the freedom of black people 0.99

02:00:15.700 and got slaughtered, slaughtered. 0.99

02:00:22.220 And I know my family, my family fought for the North.

02:00:27.980 They fought for the North, not for the South.

02:00:30.440 They fought for freedom.

02:00:33.240 I don't understand why I'm an enemy.

02:00:36.420 i don't understand why my family has anything to repent for we fought for the north and by the way

02:00:44.260 you can't hold people respond i mean it just goes now we're into theology what kind of collective

02:00:49.640 god do you serve where you're not judged for the mistakes that you made as an individual 0.98

02:00:55.280 how what kind of lousy ass god is that where he's like you know what i know you didn't have 0.99

02:01:02.040 anything to do with it but 75 years before you were born one of your ancestors mouthed off to me 0.99

02:01:09.560 and i'm still a little pissed off about it what i had nothing to do with that what kind of god

02:01:17.540 judges you as a collective or for the sins of people you didn't even know

02:01:23.940 god doesn't judge me for what my children do i hope i mean unless i'm personally responsible

02:01:31.300 because I dropped the ball on a few things,

02:01:34.100 which, Lord, just hear me out on this.

02:01:36.800 But anyway, that's not God.

02:01:39.800 That's not God. 1.00

02:01:42.560 Fourth of July, yes, black people were not included. 0.99

02:01:47.940 But do you know, Joy, that the three turning points,

02:01:55.180 the three turning points,

02:01:57.020 the the revolutionary war really started with the death of a black man okay crispus atticus

02:02:05.100 atticus atticus atticus i can't i can't remember crispus that guy kentucky fried chicken i think

02:02:11.340 has i don't know his extra crispus atticus anyway um so he died at uh the boston massacre black man

02:02:22.300 it was prince whipple that actually we were just talking about that actually in the middle

02:02:32.360 of the war saved us from being completely annihilated because of his bravery he steps up

02:02:40.680 and he shoots the commanding officer which takes the british by surprise and they scatter for a

02:02:47.760 it gives us a chance to escape. So a black man saved the revolution. And then it was the black 0.89

02:02:55.320 man that ended the revolution because he was a spy for George Washington. So, you know, blacks 1.00

02:03:03.240 played a very important role, a very important role. Now I would ask why? Because there were

02:03:12.860 abolitionist. The majority of our founders were abolitionists. They didn't believe in slavery.

02:03:20.540 Some of them complicated past. Some of them were absolute racist. Some were not. 0.72

02:03:28.480 Let's not judge people as a collective. Should people call you a Nazi because

02:03:34.780 you're in the same business that I'm in at the same time and people call me a Nazi? So does that

02:03:42.740 make you a Nazi? Because if I could do guilt by association, because we're in the same industry

02:03:46.560 at the same time, we must have all been Nazis. Blacks had their history erased. I have a book, 0.98

02:04:02.440 oh man, it's got to be 300 pages. And it's from the early 1800s. And it's called

02:04:08.000 The Colored Heroes of the American Revolution.

02:04:14.200 Well, what happened to that book?

02:04:16.320 What happened to that book?

02:04:18.080 Why was that book out everywhere in the 1800s,

02:04:21.420 but strangely in the 1900s, you can't find it anywhere?

02:04:25.700 I'll tell you why, Joy.

02:04:28.340 Progressives.

02:04:29.400 That's why.

02:04:30.580 That's why.

02:04:32.020 That's why.

02:04:33.080 Now that's history you don't like to hear,

02:04:34.800 but I don't think you hear any history

02:04:36.620 except your own made-up history.

02:04:38.680 There's a lot of bad things that happen in America, a lot.

02:04:42.440 A lot of your grievance is true, not against me.

02:04:47.720 I didn't have anything to do with it.

02:04:49.740 But you can look at the past and say that was wrong,

02:04:52.700 but then you should look at the people that changed it,

02:04:56.100 the people who fought and died, and say, you know what?

02:04:59.360 Really bad people, but there were some really good people too.

02:05:03.280 And I can't judge the past from today's seat

02:05:07.320 because I can't even, 0.94

02:05:08.740 they had to crap outside all the time, 0.88

02:05:11.460 wipe themselves with leaves. 0.96

02:05:13.240 I can't relate to how they thought about anything

02:05:16.120 on any subject.

02:05:18.820 But I can look at them and say,

02:05:20.600 you know what? 0.99

02:05:20.960 They weren't all scumbags. 0.98

02:05:22.100 A lot of them were great. 0.98

02:05:23.580 A lot of them were really great.

02:05:25.860 And they got it.

02:05:29.080 And then I can look at history

02:05:30.440 and I can put it in her proper place and I can say, what does this teach me about how I as an

02:05:37.880 individual should behave? What I can do to make things better. But Joy, I know you're not interested

02:05:46.120 in that because you're on, I don't know, communist kick or whatever it is you want to turn the

02:05:50.020 country into. That's fine. We're just not going there because there are millions of Americans

02:05:58.080 who actually know that what the founders did

02:06:01.400 on July 4th or July 2nd, 1776,

02:06:05.100 that document is the most freeing document

02:06:09.220 ever written by any man at any time.

02:06:13.280 It has set more people free

02:06:15.800 than any other document of all of human history.

02:06:21.560 We know that.

02:06:23.360 And we understand that you're disgruntled

02:06:25.360 and you're angry and you're misinformed.

02:06:27.280 and that's okay but we're not gonna we're not gonna let that document slide into obscurity 0.99

02:06:34.360 and let the world slide into the darkness that you damn communists never see coming you bring 0.98

02:06:40.640 it on every single time you're like yeah but this time it's different it's not different 0.97

02:06:44.660 it's never different more in a minute let me tell you about mercury one as we turn 250 years old i

02:06:52.220 think that raises an important question what exactly are we handing to the next generation

02:06:56.480 Not in terms of money or buildings or technology.

02:06:58.780 I mean the story.

02:07:00.120 The understanding of who we are, where we came from, and what we believe, and why this country matters.

02:07:05.580 This is so important in the last chapter of my life.

02:07:08.940 We have to preserve the story or someone else will rewrite it.

02:07:12.640 And that's happened far too often in recent years.

02:07:15.260 And it's one of the reasons I'm so excited about the American Journey experience.

02:07:19.480 Let me tell you this.

02:07:20.580 We are opening next year a brick-and-mortar museum.

02:07:24.480 It is a home for the true story of America,

02:07:26.860 the good, the bad, and the ugly.

02:07:28.880 It'll be a place where more than 100,000 artifacts

02:07:31.320 will help bring our story to life for future generation.

02:07:36.240 2,000 years ago, God's truth was preserved in clay pots.

02:07:39.460 Today, we have a responsibility

02:07:40.820 to preserve the American story with the same care

02:07:43.600 because this story is worth passing on.

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