'When Gov't Sets the Fire' - 5⧸15⧸18
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1 hour and 51 minutes
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Summary
The Democrats are feeling a little desperate with just under six months to go until the midterms. The blue wave isn t shaping up to be quite the tsunami that the left anticipated, so the party s most radical all-stars in Congress are turning up the progressive crazy dial to 11.
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The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.
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Well, the Democrats are feeling a little desperate with just under six months to go until the midterm election.
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The blue wave isn't shaping up to be quite the tsunami that the left anticipated.
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So the party's most radical all stars in Congress are turning up the progressive crazy dial to 11.
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The loudest congressional Democrats, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Sherrod Brown,
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all think the best way to take on Trump in 2020 is proposing an over-the-top, progressive, socialist legislation.
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Now, it's working in some cities like Seattle, which we'll get to here in a second.
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But topping their fringe policy list, of course, is universal health care.
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If you like the way we treat the vets, don't worry.
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Next is the Federal Jobs Guarantee Development Act, which has already been introduced by Cory Booker.
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Now, under this genius plan, the federal government will guarantee jobs for the unemployed.
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Third, this one is estimated to cost over $500 billion a year.
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So if you don't want to work, you don't have to.
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As soon as the left accomplishes universal health care, this one guaranteed to be their next pet project.
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Never mind that it's completely unsustainable in a country this large with a national debt that we already have.
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But the idea here is when your ideas can't win, you just bribe the voters with free stuff.
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Rounding out their fabulous five, abolishing the Immigrations and Custom Enforcement Agency, and legalizing marijuana.
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Wow, does that sound like a let's get America on track plan.
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They are proudly nudging America towards socialist collapse, and they've been doing it since 1912.
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Voters are crying out for people who are just realistic.
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Ironically, Democrats are ignoring a detailed report from their own party.
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We've talked about it before called the Heartland Democrat.
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The report is a blueprint to help them win elections.
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The left doesn't want to hear it because the prescription calls for dialing back the crazy and moving closer to the center.
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People forget Bill Clinton didn't run as an insane progressive.
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She's moderate compared to where the Democrats are today.
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He was a diehard liberal, but he was close enough to the middle that half the country could relate to him.
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Lifelong Democrats in the middle of America see Cory Booker and Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren as the Marxists that they really are.
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And the average person, Democrats, in the center of the country, does not relate to the radicals that have hijacked their party.
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Seattle has voted the city council after a weekend of negotiations.
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For the city's largest employers to help address homelessness through a new tax.
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Starting next year, it was five hundred and forty dollars, I think, per per employee that this tax was supposed to happen.
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And now they have they've reduced that to two hundred and seventy five dollars per employee for companies that gross at least twenty million dollars a year in the city.
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Amazon tax Amazon in their eyes, I guess, successfully negotiated that to be lower, but it's still happening.
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Well, I remember I remember I remember when the progressive tax first started, they they promised that it would never, ever go over seven percent income tax.
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And it was only for the richest ten percent that lasted four years.
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You know, it's it's like the company that, you know, gives in on like some frivolous lawsuit, right?
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Where like you settle it and you think to yourself, well, it's going to cost us more to go and and and fight it.
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So let's just settle it and give this person holding us hostage a bunch of money.
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Right. And everyone in Seattle should, of course, know that in, you know, a matter of months, years, they will come for companies making over ten million dollars and then five and then one and then one hundred thousand and then a thousand.
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And the tax will go up and up and up and up and up until the entire community collapses on its own weight.
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So they have resumed construction on their office tower in Seattle.
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So what happened was when they said, you know, hey, we got about a five hundred dollar tax coming.
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They said, that's that's twenty million dollars a year, twenty two million dollars a year just on Amazon.
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They went ahead and and started construction again on their tower.
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However, they did say we're disappointed by the city council's decision to introduce a tax on jobs.
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Yeah, they've resumed construction planning because that's that's that gun to their head.
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Right. They know that I'd rather not lose half a tower.
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However, we remain very apprehensive about the future created by the council's hostile approach to rhetoric toward larger businesses, which forces us to question our growth here in Seattle.
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They've lowered the tax enough for them to finish this building, but I think they're signaling no more.
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Right. We're not going to continue to expand here.
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And with Amazon, it's the most amazing thing in the world, because you've got every mayor in America making a cheesy viral video to try to get Amazon.
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It's like it's like, look, we'll babysit your kids.
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It's like a pathetic nerd in high school trying to get the hot girl to go to the prom with them.
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I don't like I, of course, want businesses to come.
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I don't like the way they're doing it because it winds up being they're holding.
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Yes, they're they're they're looking for tax breaks.
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Our business taxes and our business atmosphere is friendly to everyone.
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You know, Texas has to go out and court companies as well, but not all that hard.
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When Texas was courting Boeing, they weren't talking about all kinds of, you know, tax breaks and everything else.
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In Texas, the the wives of the Boeing executives said, I don't want to live in Dallas or in Houston.
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People really have said, so where are all the cows?
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So anyway, the the thing that Texas had to do was convince people that it wasn't a cow town.
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And this is when Governor Perry was the governor.
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And he said he went to the city fathers, the people who have all the money, you know, in the area.
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And they said, you know, if we want to be world class, we have to have world class arts.
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So they built an opera house and more museums and everything else.
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This is the problem and the need for the state.
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All of these, the opera house is one of the greatest opera houses that have you ever been here to the 100% certain.
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They have other things besides opera there, but they shouldn't put opera in the name.
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It's one of the greatest theaters I've ever been in.
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And we've played a lot of really great theaters.
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Not because we're saying to Amazon, hey, we'll change things for you.
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We're saying to Amazon, no, it's different here.
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Improving your town with private dollars is obviously a fantastic thing.
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I think a lot of these cities are like, well, what we're going to do is we're going to pass a law that says any company
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that sells more than a million books gets zero percent taxes.
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We're going to give you lots of free stuff if you sell lots of products that are under the banner of the name Prime.
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It's like, all right, we know what you're doing.
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I mean, that stuff frustrates me because that is the government just, you know, it's picking favors.
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Everyone gets to deal with the policy the way it is.
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That's what made America what it was and what it still can be.
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Here's New York with, as we all know, the worst tax scheme that you're going to face outside of California, right?
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It's the worst one basically in America for business.
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There's a giant island with a lot of tall buildings that you kind of need to be on if you're in a certain industry.
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Wall Street's tough to make that in Topeka, right?
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So you go to New York and there's a lot of people who have to deal with the, you know, oppressive tax regime that's in New York.
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But they wanted to get new businesses to come to New York and particularly other places in New York.
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They waive taxes for all new companies coming to New York.
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Well, if you just had a sensible policy the whole time, you wouldn't need to lure them with zero taxes for five years.
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If they continue on this trend, the taxes are going to be much worse in six years than they are today.
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And then in four years and 360 days, have the trucks back and we'll move someplace else.
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The bottom of the news file that I think are important.
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Scientists think they know what the best song of all time ever is.
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I'd like them to tell me what they think the worst song of all time is.
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Where you're trying to get me to listen past the next commercial break?
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Sometimes they come in a pack of six, I've noticed.
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Perhaps maybe a few packs of those were downed.
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And so, he went to Burger King because the only time you ever want to go to Burger King
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is at about 2 a.m. after you've had multiple six packs.
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So, he went to Burger King, I think, intelligently.
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Because if you want Flamin' Mac and Cheetos or whatever creation they've come up with,
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So, he starts to bang on the drive-thru window.
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But it doesn't mean he has to get up every time someone comes to the drive-thru window.
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No one's coming because it's been closed for over two hours.
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It's actually almost the furthest point from it being open.
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3 a.m. would be the furthest point from it being open.
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And then he decides, while he's hitting on the window, he decides to strip naked while he's doing that.
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Now, I'm not exactly sure how that would solve the problem.
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I don't think that the Burger King people are going to be more likely to serve him while nude.
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Well, so he was sadly arrested for this, which is, to me, a Travis Sham mockery.
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But he was handcuffed, charged with public indecency, resisting a police officer, and aggravated battery.
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God only knows what he was trying to hit people with.
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He was scheduled to appear in court on Monday, I guess yesterday.
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I said, I don't know what the update is on this.
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First of all, did he get whatever he was looking for at Burger King, number one?
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I'm not sure what he was looking for at Burger King.
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I mean, there's a lot of things that you can do in the nude.
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Eating Burger King is not one of them that you want to...
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You don't always feel like you look your best after you eat.
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You know, when you're kind of on an empty stomach, for some reason, you feel you look
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But once you've had a big Burger King meal, you're kind of like, oh, I am a fat pig.
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Because I've always thought that if there was a pill that they could create that made you
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feel like you felt about 10 minutes after finishing Burger King, you would be in incredible
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Because that's the only time I don't want to eat.
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After I've had, you know, a value meal with, like, one of those weird pieces of, like,
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pudding cake that they put in the triangle boxes, once you're done with that, you feel
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Now, you're asking for a pill that makes you feel like you do 10 minutes after.
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But to make you feel like 15 minutes after, it's called X-Lax.
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If you're like me, you're doing everything you can to raise your kids right.
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I can't imagine what it's like in the rest of the country.
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And, you know, you know that your kids are going to have to have education.
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They're facing a whole new set of challenges that we've never seen before.
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And what are you going to do when they're college age?
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Well, there was a new study out that showed that political bias is, is not what you even
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I mean, you've thought it was bad, but the numbers are actually nuts.
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When you remove the two military colleges from the study, the ratio of Democrat professors
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40% of colleges have zero registered Republicans on the staff.
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80% had so few Republican staff members that they were statistically insignificant.
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It's a problem that has been growing for a while.
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Now, history, there are 17.4 Democrats for every one Republican history teacher.
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English, 48.3 Democrat professors for every one Republican.
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Nearly 9,000 professors for, uh, media studies, 9,000 of the 51 top rated schools for media.
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And these are, you know, it's, I think, unfair to say Republicans and Democrats because many
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There are more socialists slash Marxist on campus, I would wager, than there are Democrats
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David Barton is here to fill in some of the gaps and, and, and add a little color commentary
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Um, David, you and I talked to a couple of weeks ago about George Washington university.
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If you go in as a history major, you do not have to take any course in American history
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If you want to change the direction of a country, you stop studying its history because history
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You find the university of Wisconsin now, a part of that system, they're dropping history
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History major is not even available if you want a history major.
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So if you have no history, I, you know, it's the thing with Abraham Lincoln.
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If I told you Abraham Lincoln dropped a nuclear weapon on, um, on Thailand to end world war
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seven, you'd all laugh at me unless we hadn't been teaching Abraham Lincoln for 30 years.
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And then I could tell you that you'd believe that.
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So what happens is when you have no history at all, you can remake it into any shape you
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And that's what we're seeing coming out of high school, uh, coming out of high school.
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Only two States in the United States require kids to have any knowledge in government or
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Only 3.2% of colleges require any course in government or civics for graduation.
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So we're coming out completely non-knowledgeable.
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Um, 62% of Americans right now cannot name the three branches of government.
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So we don't even know what that, so if you can't do it, that's easier to have a new form
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I mean, the scores of, of math and, and reading and writing are unbelievable.
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We are churning out 60% of our students now in, in the major cities, not being able to
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And on top of that, 19% we turn out or a hundred percent illiterate.
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And so that's after 12 years of school, 19% of graduates are illiterate and we're spending
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on the average about 13,000 a year, about $165,000 to make sure kids cannot read at all
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Um, and I also think it's important that someone makes a movie about Abraham Lincoln dropping
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Um, so, so talk to me about the schools now that are, they are not even, they are not
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No, they're, they're getting away from academic scores.
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Um, the, the two, there's two national organizations of math teachers and they are claiming that
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teaching math is a racist course and it perpetuates racism.
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So people in it or the, no, these are, these are the math organizations themselves.
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So these aren't outside activists, these are, I guess, inside activists, which number
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It's always, well, it's always, it's like glasses on its side.
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The University of California system is now, has said, we're going to stop testing incoming
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kids on math and English because not only are those kind of racist courses anyway, kids
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just don't know the answers and that makes them feel bad if we test them coming in.
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You're going to feel really bad when you're starving.
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Um, but when you look at international testing, America comes in dead last or next to last in
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math and science and reading testing over the last two decades.
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And when we come in dead last, we spend more than any other nation in the world.
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And we used to have in education, we used to have these nationally normed tests, Stanford
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achievement tests, California achievement tests, Iowa tests of basic skills.
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And therefore you could say, oh, Texas is number 47 out of the 50.
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Now every state has their own individual tests.
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So you can't compare states to say, oh, we feel great about it.
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So when you look at Texas, we have our ratings here, but you're a superior school or whatever.
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As I recall, a superior school is one in which one third of the students can read at grade
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And so kids say, our parents say, my kids go to a superior school.
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That means that's a really inferior school, but they've named it superior.
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So David, what, what, so what, so what do you, what, I mean, I just had this conversation
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with my wife and she said, they got to go to college.
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And I said, no, they don't have to go to college.
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Well, if they do, there's about three or four that I know of that I'd consider.
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Well, if you're, if faith is important, you better think about college again, because right
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at this point, we're seeing stats that about 70% of particularly Christian kids, when they
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And at Christian colleges, almost half the Christian kids going in and leave their faith.
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So when you, I've got some articles here on what theology profs are teaching right now
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and theology profs in Christian schools, teaching that Jesus was a drag king, that he had queer
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desires, that the Bible creates a rape culture.
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This is, this is theology profs at Christian and non-Christian schools.
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So you're looking at pure indoctrination at this point.
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If you get a degree and come out of college, 27.3% is all that can get a job in their degree
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So you're going to college and three out of four students will come out and can't get
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a job in their degree field where they've been trained because it's a useless education,
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but they will come out with a debt of about $37,000.
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So they will have a $351 a month payment for the indoctrination they've received, unable
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This is a system that is absolutely ignoring free market.
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As a matter of fact, just take Harvard, look at Harvard.
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If you look at Harvard's catalog and search right now, the word you'll find so often,
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sexuality, 295 listings of sexuality when you look at the course catalog in Harvard.
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And what are you going to do with that when you get out?
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And so this year's listings of amazing courses at college.
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You can get a course on tree climbing, which is really significant in the real world.
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If I don't learn from YouTube, I'll just YouTube it.
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The course consists of students watching YouTube videos and then discussing them, and they also leave comments on the videos themselves.
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And I'm going to pay for this and go into debt.
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What we're saying is put pressure on legislators, because most of these are state-funded universities.
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It is your tax dollars going to absolutely destroy the country.
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Right now, 75% of college students support socialism.
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They cannot define what it is, and they are unable to give a single example in world history where socialism has increased freedom or raised prosperity.
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Then you ask them specifically about other courses like that.
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I just talked to George Barna, national pollster.
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He just finished a poll where the 41% of Americans say they support socialism.
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He then took them in and asked them specific questions about socialism, found out that at the end,
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only 2% supported socialism, because they didn't know what it was.
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But they've been told it's a really good thing.
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And that's what's happening with kids, is they're getting all this indoctrination, no knowledge that goes with it.
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And so they're coming out wanting certain things that will never work in real life at all, ever.
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David, let's talk about the one thing that you and I are working on to change this, and that is the leadership program.
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And if you have somebody who is in college or you're in college or somebody that you know is between 18 and 24 and you want to enlighten them with the truth and teach them not what to think, but how to think, how to find answers based on original sources, we have a program for you at Mercury One.
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And you hit a key word, truth, because right now, four out of five millennials say there is no absolute truth, period.
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Now, in the leadership program, within 15 minutes, we get them believing there is absolute truth because you just have to ask the right questions.
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It's amazing how fast you can change it by asking the right questions.
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And we show students really how to ask six or seven questions to their professors, pin them in a corner.
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I cannot tell you the number of accounts we have from students who have changed their professors and professors even admit they've been changed.
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But what we do is we do believe there is actual truth.
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And Dr. Nation says there is no truth or I don't care what it is.
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And so that's what professors do is give you their viewpoint, not what truth is.
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We'll let you actually handle the actual documents, whether it be George Washington or things out of the civil rights movement or entertainment, pop culture.
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And then we show you questions that you can ask to get to the truth, because we believe the truth is the ultimate objective.
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That's what you want with education is to know truth.
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So knowing what's there in colleges, what we've been talking about this morning, knowing what's there and knowing what these kids are going into, which they don't know what they're going into.
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We can give them vaccinations, say, hey, there is truth.
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And when your professor says this, lead them in this direction.
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And again, I cannot tell you how how how impressive it is to see what these kids are able to do in changing their peers and not being changed themselves.
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And that's what's so good about the leadership training is not only and it's cool, too, because we get these things back from kids that said my professor said this about Washington.
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But I told him I actually held that document myself.
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And you're wrong because I saw and once once they see what truth is, you just can't move them off.
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And we have about 100 slots left that are open.
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Yeah, by the way, in how many weeks, four weeks from now, we're doing the we're doing highlights from the museum.
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And it's I'm going to talk about a little later today.
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It's really going to be impressive and remarkable.
00:35:23.720
And it's really all about the rights and responsibilities of being free.
00:35:27.980
And it starts with what life was like before the Bill of Rights.
00:35:34.480
Kind of a dark twist at the at the beginning, but inspiring and something you won't see anyplace else.
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You can find all the information about that and grab your tickets now.
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You can get on to the list to give into one of our tours at mercuryone.org slash museum 2018.
00:35:56.480
Let me talk to you a little bit about how to learn, how to how to know what the right questions are.
00:36:04.780
The crypto master master course that we have going on with Palm Beach Research Group was something that we asked them to come up with.
00:36:15.160
He he was a hedge fund guy up in Wall Street and is now into cryptocurrency, left Wall Street and doing cryptocurrency has probably helped more people become very, very wealthy than any other man alive based on cryptocurrency.
00:36:39.420
A lot of times, unless it's one of the three cryptocurrencies.
00:36:42.600
We don't know exactly what what we're even looking for.
00:37:13.400
You know, the one thing we didn't do this hour, Stu, that we promised we were going to do.
00:37:18.940
The song you told us we were going to tell us the best song of all time.
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OK, scientists have found a way to scientifically prove what the best song of all time is.
00:37:33.360
But they now say they have an algorithm to be able to.
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California State University, Los Angeles, Professor Melina Abdullah.
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I don't know if you do that in front of a mirror.
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I don't I mean, does it matter if she repeats it?
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Are they going to read it only once or not read it unless you write it seven times?
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You know, don't call the police on black people.
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Now, she could have used the extra space for facts or statistics to make her point.
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But like academics of today's world, why do that?
00:38:45.860
Are we not supposed to call the police if black people are in trouble?
00:38:50.100
Are we not supposed to call the police if a black man is being beaten by another black man?
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Does this mandate apply strictly to black people?
00:39:00.620
What happens if the majority of like in Democratic cities, the majority of the police force, including all the higher ups all the way up to the mayor are themselves black?
00:39:18.840
I don't know what to do now, because all I've been told is don't call police on black people.
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Inarguably, Abdullah's attitude contains a clear hatred of the police.
00:39:31.240
Ms. Abdullah describes herself as a professor and chair of pan-African studies.
00:39:39.340
This is going to get good at Cal State, Los Angeles.
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Or, I'm not really sure, I'm not really sure if that works.
00:40:01.300
Her Twitter page is exactly what you would expect.
00:40:04.080
A hate-filled racist thread of accusation and activism and stories of black supremacy.
00:40:12.080
Her entire existence seems premised on the idea that blackness is supreme and whiteness is wrong.
00:40:27.980
Can I just talk to people who are in this boat?
00:40:31.000
Aren't you tired of being outraged by everything?
00:40:36.180
And it's really, it's got to be tiring to view every single aspect of life as racist, or sexist, or transphobic, or whatever the phobia is that you are saying that whatever it is that coffee cup is telling you.
00:40:54.860
For Professor Melina Abdullah, make no mistake, this is war.
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And she is teaching our college students exactly how to look at their world.
00:41:24.300
Welcome to Sarah Gonzalez, who is the host of the News and Why It Matters.
00:41:31.520
Yesterday, she told us a story of a horrific story of a death here in Texas.
00:41:40.140
And the premise is, if you've been following what's going on in England with the death of the children, where these hospitals are just making decisions, Sarah, death panels are here?
00:41:56.240
Many people follow what was going on in the UK, and they say, you know, well, we need to be careful because usually what happens in the UK starts to trickle to the United States, so we just need to keep an eye on it.
00:42:07.720
Well, we've let some things slip under the radar.
00:42:09.980
And, you know, we do have death panels in Texas, of all places, which is really disappointing because, you know, you think of Texas as this freedom-loving state.
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But, unshockingly, the death panel is not actually called a death panel.
00:42:25.960
So, but, I mean, for all intents and purposes, we have death panels.
00:42:33.340
Yes, because it would, at any point in time, be ethical to consider terminating someone's life.
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He was going out and helping people his whole life.
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Put him on a breathing tube for some unknown reason.
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And then said, you got to turn off the machine.
00:43:16.240
Then after he became, there's only a certain amount of time that you can be on a ventilator
00:43:20.620
before you are dependent on that ventilator for the rest of your life.
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Soon as he was dependent on it, they said, yeah, we're going to have to turn off the machine.
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And meanwhile, they had a hospital advocate who was talking to his mother and telling
00:43:37.880
his mother that her number one priority needed to be to sign up for Medicaid.
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Uh, and she said, my number one priority would be, you know, my son who's laying in that hospital
00:43:48.620
And, um, she said, why are you so insistent that I do this?
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And the hospital advocate told her because Houston Methodist needs to get paid.
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She's the mother of, uh, Chris and Joe Nixon, who is the attorney.
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Uh, I believe, I believe that they do have a lawsuit.
00:44:14.120
Uh, Evelyn, welcome to the program and Joe Nixon.
00:44:21.300
First of all, I am, I'm so sorry for your loss and I can't believe this happened in Texas.
00:44:26.780
Um, can you, can you tell me, did they ever confirm any diagnosis they were treating him
00:44:40.180
Well, they came into my room and they never sent a cancer doctor to Chris until about, I
00:44:48.160
think it was about two weeks before he passed away.
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And because I kept, they kept telling me when I would not allow them and Texas right to
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life, stop them from giving him those two deadly shots.
00:45:06.280
And so they said, then they started with Chris's eat up with cancer.
00:45:14.800
And they, they kept telling me this every day, all day long.
00:45:18.280
And I said, okay, then send us a cancer doctor, send Chris, a cancer doctor.
00:45:27.260
And so two weeks before he passed on, they finally sent that cancer doctor and she walked
00:45:36.300
She stood over his bed and she never acknowledged me because I was sitting, I stayed there 24th,
00:45:42.640
24 hours a day, at least six days a week and only went home one day a week.
00:45:50.440
She, she stood over his bed and she, um, I walked, I finally walked up to her at the
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So-and-so and I'm the head doctor of, um, the cancer department here at Methodist hospital.
00:46:10.320
And she said, um, I'm here to diagnose your son.
00:46:16.580
So I'm waiting for this doctor to pull the covers back and examine him or show me, prove
00:46:22.500
to me somehow, some way that, you know, what they had been telling me that he was eat up
00:46:31.160
And so she just looks at me and she said, I'm diagnosing Chris with stage four advanced
00:46:46.760
And you're going to write in this chart and in the nurses area that, that Chris has got
00:47:04.600
I said, she, I said, you can just tell by looking at somebody, they've got stage four
00:47:10.780
And she said, Ms. Kelly, I was a doctor, a cancer doctor at Indy Anderson for 13 years.
00:47:21.480
I said, well, Shazam, Indy Anderson didn't know what they lost when they lost you, girl.
00:47:27.440
And Evelyn, Evelyn, if you can correct me if I'm wrong, didn't they, they looked for
00:47:32.960
cancer markers in his blood and that always came back negative?
00:47:38.580
They kept taking blood, blood, blood, more blood.
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So finally, one day I'm going, what in the world are y'all doing with all this blood?
00:47:46.160
And the nurse said, well, we're actually looking for cancer markers.
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And until Chris passed on, they never found any cancer in his blood.
00:47:58.220
So tell me about when the ethics panel came in and told you that they were going to turn
00:48:10.040
Well, that was first that this doctor, this very famous doctor at Methodist, it was a pancreatic
00:48:17.520
liver doctor came in after Chris was there for a few weeks.
00:48:21.720
And he told me, he said, Ms. Kelly, he said, I've looked over all of Chris's tests.
00:48:25.840
And he said, I've looked over all of his tests.
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I'm going to put a trach in his, in the base of his throat.
00:48:43.300
He said, the reason for the throwing up is there's a mass that's wrapped around the small
00:48:48.820
I'm going to take out some of the small intestine.
00:48:50.960
He said, if I can say Chris's pancreas, I will.
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But it's not, the tumor is not in his pancreas.
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He said, but if I have to take the whole pancreas out, I'll take it out.
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I didn't think you could live without your pancreas.
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You can, but it's going to, he will be a severe diabetic from that point on.
00:49:17.840
Well, I'm waiting the next day for this doctor to show up.
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And they just kept putting me off, putting me off.
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I'm in there with Chris, sitting on that couch.
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And I have about 10 people standing above me, looking down at me.
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And this president of the ethics committee, he hands me these formal papers.
00:49:47.440
He said, Ms. Kelly, I'm the president of the ethics committee here at Methodist Hospital.
00:50:02.840
He said, we're going to come in here on this coming Tuesday.
00:50:08.340
And my nurse right here is going to administer two drugs that we call comfort care.
00:50:16.060
And Chris is going to pass on within eight to 10 minutes.
00:50:24.940
And I got him to repeat it because I didn't think I heard him correctly.
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And he told me exactly what he had said before.
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And I said, who gives you the right to kill my son?
00:50:40.840
I said, you can call it whatever you want to, Bubba.
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I said, when he was governor of Texas or president of the United States.
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And he said, when he was governor, this bill went past his desk.
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because this is the death panel that we warned about the ethics panel.
00:51:19.380
And do they have the right to end life that they think is not worthy of living
00:51:29.880
This is exactly the argument we made when we warned against Obamacare.
00:51:47.180
The reason investors are becoming panicked is because of the rising inflation.
00:51:52.800
And one of the few investments that can thrive in inflation is gold.
00:51:57.400
One of the major reasons that I own it is for a hedge against inflation.
00:52:02.280
However, you know, I don't I don't see myself selling it at the top of the market.
00:52:12.580
So I don't wake up one morning and see that my dollar is worthless and I got nothing.
00:52:19.180
If you think it can't happen, look around the other countries that had bad inflation.
00:52:24.560
They had to print new denominations to keep up.
00:52:28.740
And there's nothing like when people start talking to you about inflation, you just pull
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out your wallet and you pull out a 10 billion dollars Zimbabwean bank note.
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Really didn't it couldn't happen because it's happened throughout history and we are prime
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But if it doesn't, we will be the first country that has ever tried to print and borrow and
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He's a well-respected attorney here in the in the state of Texas because there is something
00:53:40.560
that Chris Dunn's death and Evelyn Kelly, who's also with us on the phone, his mother
00:53:48.660
And that is the Texas advance directive statute, which which means that a doctor or a hospital
00:53:55.800
can terminate life and terminates sustaining treatment if the doctor disagrees with continuing
00:54:06.900
Now, they're called ethical panels here in Texas.
00:54:10.040
But, Joe, is there any is there any doubt these are death panels?
00:54:17.580
I think Evelyn told you a great story about how these things actually work.
00:54:24.680
You know, a patient who is suffering and very ill, there is a patient or the family members
00:54:35.460
are told that the doctor does not want to continue care.
00:54:39.980
So who's what is the qualification for getting on the committee?
00:54:44.580
There are no qualifications for getting on the committee.
00:54:47.820
That's what's so shocking and scary about this situation.
00:54:52.040
So, you know, we have in statute the authorization of a hospital to put together an ethics panel.
00:55:02.380
There are no qualifications to be on the panel.
00:55:17.960
What about if the doctors have any kind of conflict of interest, like if they own part of the hospital
00:55:28.280
I mean, you know, there's always the potential for conflict of interest in that the doctor
00:55:36.820
The other people on the panel may be employees of the hospital.
00:55:41.560
The hospital may have a financial interest in, you know, terminating care because it's expensive.
00:55:53.620
So is there a standard of, so we don't have any qualifications.
00:55:59.980
And is there any standard of proof that they have to meet?
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That's what's so that is what's so problematic about this statute.
00:56:16.820
So we sued a Methodist on behalf of Evelyn and Chris and claimed that the hospital was
00:56:24.560
denying Chris of his due process rights to life guaranteed under the Constitution.
00:56:30.000
You know, you have a nameless, faceless committee without a standard of care, without a standard
00:56:39.020
And what's what's shocking is, is that, you know, in Chris's situation, he was very ill
00:56:44.980
and he died like five weeks after they told Evelyn they were going to invoke the process in the
00:56:55.720
But, you know, there's no requirement in the statute that you be terminally ill.
00:57:01.720
Well, it is possible they could say, we're not going to give you care to a person who
00:57:13.320
I just posted this story up on my Facebook page.
00:57:17.840
Sarah did a really good digest of this whole story.
00:57:32.020
We'll continue to follow this and bring you updates as we go forward.
00:57:35.800
Check out this story at TheBlaze.com and on my Facebook page at Glenn Beck.
00:57:42.580
I have a lot to say on the Gaza protest and Israel coming up in about 25, 30 minutes from
00:57:52.840
We were we were just talking about this this law in Texas that I think is going to become
00:57:59.580
more and more prevalent as health care locks you out of a recourse.
00:58:07.080
You know, there's one thing about public shame and public companies and public hospitals that
00:58:16.720
But when the government is involved, you have no recourse.
00:58:26.760
And if they're the ones setting the fire, who are you going to call?
00:58:31.060
So there is this there is this law now in Texas, the Advanced Directive Statute, which
00:58:38.040
puts together death panels in hospitals and they're called ethics panels and they're assembled
00:58:44.860
by the hospital to hear the doctor's position if they want to off a patient.
00:58:50.700
There are no minimum qualifications to serve on the committee.
00:58:53.920
There is no disclosure of who is on the committee.
00:58:59.060
There is no standard of proof that the committee must consider.
00:59:03.300
There's no standard of medical care or necessity to the committee that they must consider.
00:59:12.380
There is no right of appeal and there is no right for the patient or decision makers or advocate
00:59:19.840
to present their sides, their needs or their wishes.
00:59:23.020
When this family went and said, wait, you're you're treating my son with for cancer, there
00:59:46.040
By the way, this happened in the Obamacare era, you know, that time period where everyone
00:59:52.940
And everyone got to keep their doctors and everybody, you know, no, there wouldn't be
00:59:56.340
people that just went in without insurance and didn't get help.
01:00:00.480
This isn't 1999 back, you know, back in the day before the Obamacare was passed.
01:00:05.960
This is a prime time Obamacare before even the individual mandate was gone.
01:00:09.420
So if it's not like the government couldn't, the government couldn't do this.
01:00:17.920
You can't take somebody's life without a right to appeal, without a knowing who the
01:00:23.820
judge is, without without even knowing what you're charged with.
01:00:34.320
You've got doctors who are coming in and saying, yep, that looks like cancer.
01:00:42.200
You had another doctor say we could we could surgically remove this.
01:00:47.540
It's a tumor that is wrapping itself around the the intestine.
01:00:53.240
We might we might lose the pancreas, but you can live without a pancreas.
01:01:02.680
Why is it suddenly cancer when there were zero blood markers for cancer and nobody opened
01:01:20.260
You know, when Sarah first brought it up on the news and why it matters, we were talking
01:01:28.840
And I had missed this somehow missed that back in a couple of years ago.
01:01:34.260
And if you look at that and you say, well, this case is a really sad case.
01:01:40.160
Maybe it's, you know, one bad thing that happened.
01:01:42.600
I mean, you can justify that, I think, and feel better about it.
01:01:44.860
But when you look at, you know, there's a real structure here to let this thing have these
01:01:52.800
It's it's it's a violation of of of the basic tenets that we believe we have here.
01:02:00.200
You have to know what has led to your death sentence.
01:02:20.760
And and they'll say, well, you could go to another hospital.
01:02:24.040
Well, because you just gave this diagnosis, no other hospital would take him.
01:02:29.820
It'd be interesting, too, because once you have a panel that is making your medical decisions,
01:02:38.440
I mean, we know that was the case in the last two babies or toddlers that were killed in
01:02:45.840
Well, we know that when she said no to them, she filed a lawsuit and they countered with
01:02:52.120
trying to get the hospital to be his advocate and to get the mother out.
01:02:57.760
So, I mean, it's the same story as it was in England.
01:03:01.260
Just I guess people don't care because, you know, he was a 30 year old guy, I guess.
01:03:05.160
I guess this comes back to a larger sort of fundamental issue in which people don't understand
01:03:10.500
the rights that they have, the principles that the country was founded on.
01:03:16.560
People don't, you know, there's just not a, you know, David Barton was talking about this
01:03:20.360
last hour, there's just not a level of education as to what is supposed to happen in this society.
01:03:26.440
We are, you know, we're doing the Mercury Museum in, what, four weeks from now, and you
01:03:33.500
And I'm going to be giving some of the tours, leading some of the tours.
01:03:41.340
We're all going to be here and we would love to see you this, that weekend.
01:03:52.160
We're opening up the doors on Friday of the studio and we, we are showing things that have
01:04:01.880
Uh, and it's, I'm, we're, we're still working on a few of the pieces that we're trying to
01:04:11.260
Uh, one of them is, uh, the rack that was actually used in the Inquisition.
01:04:23.660
There's also the, the, I think it's the chair of apology or the chair of truth.
01:04:32.880
Except it's a big wooden chair with spikes, uh, that go through your back, through your
01:04:38.500
butt, through your legs, through your feet, and they just keep tightening the straps until
01:04:44.600
And the point at the beginning of the museum, because it's filled with something, have you
01:04:57.000
Now, if pear is something that you put in your mouth, it's made to put in your mouth and
01:05:02.540
then you just start cranking it and it, it opens up and opens up until eventually you break
01:05:07.880
I mean, it's just, it's phenomenal what people did to one another in the name of God or the
01:05:31.500
You get the Nazis because as, as, um, Nietzsche said, God is dead.
01:05:46.380
When people don't believe in anything, when they don't believe in God, they, they stop
01:06:01.660
So whatever is out there, they'll grab onto it and they'll believe it.
01:06:06.160
And you better hope to God that it is not one thing that means death for everybody who
01:06:12.840
The museum is going to take you through, um, some of the amendments of the bill of rights,
01:06:20.700
and it's going to show you what that original intent was and why it's important and what
01:06:31.860
We're going to tell you stories and show you artifacts that you've never seen before.
01:06:35.840
Uh, you can find out all about it at mercury one.org slash museum, 2018 mercury one.org slash
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You can sign up to grab your tickets, uh, for my tour or anybody else, or just come on
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It's a special showing of some of the items that are in the mercury museum, uh, that are
01:07:06.580
And especially in this light of knowing the rights of man and where they came from.
01:07:19.420
You know, I basing a entire, an entire society on reason doesn't work.
01:07:24.200
It's because of law and order because you watch an episode of law and order and you will be
01:07:32.180
And then three minutes later, you're convinced the other guy did it.
01:07:35.540
And it's like Dick Wolf has produced like 7,000 episodes of the show and every one of
01:07:41.200
them, I believe both people did it until the very end.
01:07:44.260
And that is why basing something on reason doesn't, it doesn't work.
01:07:48.800
So you could always be convinced of something new.
01:07:51.580
There's always somebody who will come around with an argument that will convince you of something
01:07:55.260
So continue, you know, uh, the progressive, uh, you know, theology.
01:08:06.280
No, I don't think he's making us question things and that's not right.
01:08:12.100
I don't think that that's not everything is solved.
01:08:16.260
According to Fannie Mae's latest housing report, April was a seminal month for homeowners.
01:08:20.960
It found the consumer confidence in housing has jumped to its highest level on record.
01:08:26.100
People who think that home prices are going to move even higher rose the most.
01:08:31.320
And those who think that now is a good time to sell came in second.
01:08:35.540
This, it looks like the gloom and doom is gone.
01:08:38.600
At least right now, now is the time to sell your house.
01:08:42.960
If you've been thinking about it, do it now, but put your, put your house in the hands of
01:08:47.920
a real estate agent that is qualified, that knows how much your house is worth in your
01:08:53.060
area and has the proven track record of selling homes on time.
01:08:58.120
And for the most amount of money, it's realestateagentsitrust.com realestateagentsitrust.com.
01:09:06.280
You go there, you, you just sign up, say, Hey, I just want somebody to contact me with
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by lunchtime, you're going to have somebody responding to you, uh, and talking to you about
01:09:18.020
your house and showing you what they think the house is worth.
01:09:22.160
They're going to talk you all the way through it.
01:09:24.480
If you don't like them, I mean, I think that you should make this your last stop, but interview,
01:09:29.200
interview your real estate agent, ask them, what is your plan to sell my house?
01:09:37.580
And if somebody says, well, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to, you,
01:09:43.560
You're, you don't even know the value of your work.
01:09:48.860
Get the person with the knowledge, the skill and the track record, and you will find them
01:10:04.900
Do you remember the shooting of the congressman, which was not politically motivated?
01:10:14.300
There is a, there's new research on this on, on a couple of things.
01:10:20.360
And two, um, the, the, the amount of coincidence that stopped this from being much, much worse.
01:10:30.640
First of all, on the, on the not politically motivated part, with the amount of attention
01:10:35.480
and beating James Comey has taken in the media from particularly conservatives, but really
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both sides have beat up on James Comey saying he's was incompetent at times.
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Uh, the fact that the FBI concluded that the shooting wasn't politically motivated.
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Uh, the guy, the shooter carried a name of law, uh, the list of names of lawmakers in
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Mo Brooks, Jim Jordan, Trent Franks, uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Uh, the list included their office numbers and short physical descriptions.
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So again, like this guy was specifically targeting at least six Republican politicians.
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The list included their office numbers, physical, uh, descriptions.
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He recorded a video of the field in April, uh, assigned the prosecutor wrote in his official
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report that Hodgkinson had already selected Simpson field as a potential target as early
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as April, 2017 has shooting happened in June, only 11 months ago ago.
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And by the way, that's kind of the point of this article is like, we really forgot about
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We almost lost like 10% of all elected Republicans.
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Um, they had, uh, noticed the shooter in the bleachers the day before the shooting.
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He worked, uh, moved from Illinois to DC in March, 2017, telling his family he was leaving
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to protest, leaving in a van near the YMCA near, right near the field.
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Uh, his social media posts show that he hated Trump, supported Bernie Sanders, his campaign
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He routinely wrote letters to the local paper criticizing Republicans.
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When he, when, uh, one of the congressmen left a practice early that morning, uh, this
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guy walked up to him and said, can you tell me who's practicing this morning?
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So the idea that it was not politically motivated and that James Comey was leading the FBI somehow
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came up with the conclusion that it was not politically motivated.
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Politically motivated, motivated, we, we immediately think, well, that's Democrat and Republicans.
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Well, this one clearly was, but beyond that, if a guy has a list of politicians, no matter
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He wants to disrupt the politicians and politics of the United States of America.
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And that's why we always have this issue with terrorism and whether it's terrorism or not.
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When you have a political motive like that, it is terrorism.
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Um, so there also was, you mentioned the coincidence.
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The shooter never got a good shot into the dugout.
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Most dugouts at softball fields are not, they're not down.
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The first shot hit the fence, diverting the bullets path away from a Trent Kelly, who's
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They should still have the chain link fence at the field still broken today.
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Um, that he never thought to climb the announcer's booth where he'd had elevation.
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They would have been trapped in a batting cage throughout the shooting.
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Um, uh, people who they go through a list of people who turned just the way, you know,
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so a millimeter left or right, they would have been dead.
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Um, the doctor didn't leave early who was able to help the people who he was supposed
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The ambulance hit all green lights on the way to the field.
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The gate next to the third base to which the shooter could have walked right through
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So he had to, he started at third base and had to walk around the fence to the other
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And everyone says that that credits them for, for, uh, you know, being able to survive
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And the fact that Scalise was there at all, because without Scalise, the Capitol police
01:14:20.960
So yesterday we opened up the embassy in Jerusalem.
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What we did, we opened our embassy in a city that is the seat of power for the government
01:14:41.280
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, according to Israel.
01:14:55.060
Everybody knows Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, everyone, but we've denied it and we've
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And yesterday we decided to do something pretty non-controversial.
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It's as controversial as saying, you know what, we're not going to have our embassy in
01:15:18.440
We're going to have it in Moscow because that's where all of the leadership is.
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But it's only controversial to those in the media that have a hard time recognizing what
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We begin this morning with an historic moment in relations between the United States and Cuba.
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Is that the move, this very controversial move, which clearly is a blow to Palestinians.
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It was a real historic day, steeped in symbolism.
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Underlining just how controversial this embassy move is.
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Reopened, rather, U.S. Embassy in Havana for the historic moment.
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And right now, the ceremony for that embassy opening, which is highly controversial.
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Secretary of State John Kerry about his historic trip to Havana.
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On that incredibly tense issue of Jerusalem's final status.
01:16:20.120
Historic moment this morning, the raising of the American flag over the U.S. Embassy in Cuba.
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In many ways, today is all about controversy, faith, and history.
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Now to the historic moment that is set to unfold in Cuba a little bit later this morning.
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The U.S. Embassy making its official and quite controversial move where the American flag
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is flying over the U.S. Embassy in Havana for the first time in more than half a century,
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Why would the White House, in the middle of what they already know is controversial,
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And for now, we leave you with just some of the sights and sounds of this historic day
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I do not think it means what you think it means.
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The controversy yesterday was that we supported a country created, in fact, the only country
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A country of equal rights that treats women and homosexuals and race and religion equally.
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In fact, the only country in the Middle East where that is true.
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We opened an embassy in the city where the government has its seat of power.
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What is not controversial is the embracing of a communist nation without any changes.
01:17:55.660
We fought a cold war against communism, and it's not controversial to suddenly embrace a communist
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country, a communist country, which is a nation that has human rights abuses as long as you
01:18:18.580
We, it's not controversial to embrace a nation taken by dictators who have enslaved its own
01:18:26.660
people, silenced the press, and kills those who speak out against it.
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But yesterday, doing what everyone knows is true is controversial.
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And the only reason why it was controversial is because the media and its allies want the
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As long as you are not setting fields on fire, chanting death to anyone.
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If they were on the other side, chanting death to Palestinians, death to Palestinians, I'm not on
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They dropped pamphlets yesterday saying, please do not try to cross our border.
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Well, you shot an innocent child in a wheelchair.
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Why would you have a child at the front of the line on a, on a border where they've told
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You have launched kites in the hopes that you could set the kite on fire, which would then
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nosedive into the fields on the other side of the border and burn the Israeli food supply.
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Why are you going to put it, does he have an emergency appointment in Israel for a doctor
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Even the Washington Post quoted yesterday, supporters of Hamas and the people who were there
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at the border, Palestinian to cross over, asked what their objective was, quote, to gain
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I have no idea why we, why the hell we still pay attention to you.
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I have no idea why anybody's still watching you.
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And your power is gone once we stop watching you.
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We're here to point out what you do so we can show the people the influence that you're
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We can see the kid in the wheelchair and ask ourselves, what the hell were people thinking?
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The only real controversy here yesterday is why we still give the people in media the power we do.
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Speaking of that, giving power to the media, we were talking about the bizarre way we treat
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And I feel like this grows from mainly the Sarah Palin thing where like all of a sudden
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they decided what our job is here is to try to overturn election results or stop people
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And like they've always done political comedy on Saturday Night Live, but it feels like
01:22:17.900
Like making you laugh is completely secondary to what their goal is with a big G.
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Now Vice is no conservative outlet by any means.
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You could tell that they're not Newsmax because of how much money they've raised.
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Because they've been able to get billions and billions and billions of dollars.
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No, they're having a real tough time financially.
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Didn't they just cut off a whole bunch of people or were they rumored to do that?
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I mean, look, the media is going through that at every level.
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So this is an amazing story, though, from Vice.
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Cold opens are unfunny, elitist pieces of liberal propaganda.
01:23:21.020
Your cold opens are terrible, cringeworthy pieces of self-satisfied liberal propaganda
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that are sometimes so bad they seem like parodies of themselves.
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Even if you avoid SNL, you probably hear about these cold opens, which are consistently
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politically themed, but they're mostly just recaps of the political news of the week
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Thanks to star power, these sketches inevitably draw headlines.
01:23:42.600
Last Weekend's Affair featuring Ben Stiller as Michael Cohen, Scarlett Johansson as Ivanka
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Trump, and Jimmy Fallon as Jaron Kushner was no exception.
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And honestly, if you're a fan of very famous people appearing together on screen, a very successful
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genre, if the Avengers franchise is any indication, you'll get your money's worth.
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So, this is, can we start with the SNL cold open with Stormy Daniels?
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This is the one that he's talking about, and this is every week with these things.
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They make the news all the time, but this is the one with Stormy Daniels in it.
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Michael, did we hear Giuliani call Jared disposable on national television?
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Listen, Ivanka, you know your dad would do anything to protect you, but if he needs
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to, he'd throw Jared under the bus in a heartbeat.
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I'm supposed to be meeting with my new chief strategist, Kanye West.
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Call up Stormy Daniels and fix this once and for all.
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Okay, but as your attorney, I highly advise against you.
01:25:33.900
So again, there aren't any jokes in that sketch.
01:25:38.300
The only things that are notable are people appearing.
01:25:41.520
Like Stormy Daniels is actually Stormy Daniels, and that's seemingly the joke.
01:25:47.900
The joke is the person they're talking about is on the screen.
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And this is, I think, the larger problem with Saturday Night Live is it's not that the politics are screwed up, which, of course, I would argue they are.
01:26:02.460
It's just that they're not even attempting to make jokes anymore.
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This is something I think you'll find interesting, Glenn.
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This is the first sketch of, this has nothing to do with politics.
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The first sketch of this past weekend's episode, Amy Schumer is the host.
01:26:19.100
And the sketch premise is a game show in which mothers and daughters or sons guess things, facts about each other, right?
01:26:33.100
And the main joke in the sketch is there's one really creepy mother-son pair that seem to be maybe incestuous.
01:26:43.220
But I want to draw your attention to a second joke.
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When it comes to comedy, by the way, incest is best.
01:26:52.480
This is Amy Schumer introducing the game show and talking to her announcer, like the onstage announcer.
01:27:03.460
To find out what our teams are playing for today, let's check in with our announcer, Cutie Pie Paul.
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Our teams are playing for a grand prize of $10,000.
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But when you have a joke like this, what is this, Glenn?
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As a person who's done comedy for a long time, you would know that a joke like that doesn't have to be funny the first time.
01:27:44.920
So you're going to that and you're building to something.
01:27:46.600
So the way that that joke would be structured would be the first time she says Cutie Pie Paul and he's uncomfortable with it.
01:27:53.380
The next time he would escalate that, she would escalate it to something more dramatic and he would be more uncomfortable.
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And then it would keep going until by the end it got ridiculous, right?
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So here's the next time this joke run comes up.
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This is, again, Amy Schumer talking to the announcer.
01:28:30.720
So now you're looking, okay, so are they escalating this?
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Then inexplicably, a minute and a half later, she brings it up again.
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There was no point for that to be part of that sketch.
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It's as if they screwed up and forgot part of it.
01:29:11.240
And in the middle of it, for no reason, are those two Cutie Pie Paul references.
01:29:23.080
So Vox is making the point that you would just turn this into just political nonsense.
01:29:33.240
I contend that they're just as funny as they've always been.
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They've just gotten press because they've made political points.
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That's the way Saturday Night Live has always been.
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You don't leave the joke in and then do nothing with it.
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They all are on the highest profile sketch comedy program of all time.
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And that would be funny if we call them cutie pie.
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That is the biggest problem with Saturday Night Live.
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They're putting all of their time in the celebrity appearances and the political acts.
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For years, I started my day with a dopamine hit at 6 a.m. for Morning Joe.
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I got my fix a little later, recording the show to feed my craving.
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He goes on to talk about how this was a giant family and what everybody represented.
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I would not ask anybody in this television family to become what they are not or defend what they find indefensible.
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I would not ask that they consider what is becoming obvious to others.
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Donald Trump may end up not only being a good president, but a great one.
01:33:07.640
Precisely because he is doing the opposite that everything Morning Joe supports.
01:33:17.100
Donald Trump was a hand grenade thrown under Washington's door.
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Millions of Americans saw Trump with his gargantuan failings and excesses.
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What should we, the family that represents America's establishment.
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Since our country did risk the entire future of humanity on Donald Trump.
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Rather than just go one more lap around the track with us.
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But neither old political party is asking those questions.
01:34:07.980
According to a, I say this with all surprise, a fan of the show.
01:34:17.900
Our best to Melania Trump, who is, uh, just, uh, just, uh, just hashtagging me too over here.
01:34:27.020
I was just telling Stu, I've said everything I want to say.
01:34:44.580
And then yet, the next day, there's some story.
01:34:50.680
Other than the Israel thing, there hasn't been much new material lately.
01:35:06.040
Well, CNN spent all last night speculating on why Paul Ryan tweeted his, his feel-good wishes
01:35:17.620
Uh, because that was, that's, that's telling about their relationship.
01:35:22.700
My wife would break my fingers if, on the day she was having surgery, I tweeted to her.
01:35:38.220
And she mentioned to me at one point, you know, I've noticed a lot of other people posting
01:35:42.180
really nice tributes to, to their wives about being a mom.
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You know, she, she was like running down and reading them and she's like, why don't, how
01:35:52.340
And I thought to myself, I, like, never does it cross my mind to put a Twitter tribute.
01:35:58.620
Like, I, like, I might, I have a relationship with social media that I want to have with
01:36:06.280
But like, I have, it's part of my world and I have no choice, but it's like, I, like, this
01:36:13.560
Like right now, uh, author died, uh, Tom Wolfe, uh, Bonfire of the Vanities among other
01:36:21.640
And there's, everybody's posting their tributes to him and saying all these amazing things
01:36:25.680
and all the books they remember reading, all their experiences reading his books.
01:36:28.440
And like, I just never think that's a, that's how, that's what I want to do.
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Like, I never, I'm like, Oh God, there's a hurricane and you know, people died in X area.
01:36:42.060
The condolences to the person that got hit by that log that flew through the air at 300
01:36:47.220
Like, never do I feel like that's an appropriate gesture.
01:36:52.680
And that's probably because I, I'm like, I have an 89 year old mind and I guess I don't
01:36:57.980
put the appropriate, uh, emphasis on social media that everybody else in our society does.
01:37:03.040
No, I, you know, I wanted to mention, you know, uh, the kidney procedure, but I don't
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think it's, I mean, you know, our thoughts and prayers are with the first lady.
01:37:13.960
But aren't thoughts and prayers the thing that matters there?
01:37:16.780
The tweet about the thoughts and prayers doesn't matter.
01:37:24.060
I mean, she's the first lady of the United States and we all wish, hope that she's doing
01:37:29.320
And same thing, Harry Reid has pancreatic cancer.
01:37:32.080
It looks like, and you absolutely praying for Harry Reid to get better.
01:37:35.820
Even though I think every one of his policies was garbage, you know, I'm rooting for the
01:37:39.960
guy to do well, but me tweeting about that does zilch.
01:37:43.260
It's a giant zero in the, in the, in the grand scheme of things, isn't it?
01:37:58.940
So others would, would know and, and, and pray.
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There is a new algorithm out that says that they can find the most, the, the, the most
01:38:29.520
Can you get, can you go out and find what is the song that is the greatest song ever written?
01:38:38.380
You know, because people are just like, I, you know, I just really like that song.
01:38:47.240
I thought it was always, it doesn't have to be one of those.
01:38:57.420
I mean, how many times have we done research at radio stations?
01:39:03.460
But there's always a Beatles thrown in there as well.
01:39:35.980
Well, an algorithm might believe it's pleasing.
01:39:43.560
I mean, I would have guessed something like, you know, like a standard, like a Frank Sinatra
01:39:59.820
I love Toto, but man, that's one of their worst songs.
01:40:02.860
My son, I come home and my son on Apple Eye, Toto.
01:40:05.980
Tunes is listening to Africa the other day, and I'm like, what the hell are you doing?
01:40:11.440
And he said, oh, it's just a great song, Dad, by Toto.
01:40:21.400
That had to be one of their, they had two really big songs in the 80s that I really remember,
01:40:47.640
But Africa was, I think, number one for like half a year.
01:41:11.900
It's a computer that's like, oh, and by the way, let me tell you where you should put
01:41:22.180
That tells you why I don't like most of the songs my algorithm plays for me on Pandora.
01:41:31.960
It starts throwing in Bob Dylan and, you know, stuff I absolutely despise.
01:41:43.520
And then I get some other crappy song I don't like.
01:41:48.540
No, but yeah, because you only like, like a certain.
01:42:06.520
So is the guy in Africa, he just, he's singing about Africa.
01:42:15.640
I'll tell you, I played that, I played that song probably 25,000 times.
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It's going to take a lot to drag me away from you.
01:42:29.400
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do.
01:42:31.640
I used to think it was when I was a kid, I used to, there's nothing that a hundred
01:42:36.200
I don't know why I thought it was that, but I was like, wow, why would they be?
01:42:42.440
Going to do some, going to take some time to do the things we never had.
01:43:00.420
The wild dogs cry out in the night as they grow restless, longing from some solitary company.
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As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.
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I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing I've become.
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I thought it was a nice little song about rain.
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The number one song of all time is about weather.
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And not even weather on the continent that plays that stupid song the most.
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The microaggression might have not been so micro there on that one.
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I think we have, I think I've diagnosed something here, and Stu, I think he is either dying of some horrible disease,
01:45:19.940
or he is going through the beginnings of his midlife crisis.
01:45:27.080
No, I don't think I'm dying from anything, and I don't think I'm going into a midlife crisis.
01:45:30.380
I'm not worried about the things I was just discussing.
01:45:33.540
Well, it started from the Twitter rant I just went on about how people are now tweeting about this author, Tom Wolfe, who died.
01:45:40.340
And you know what they're not going to be doing tonight?
01:45:45.180
This guy with this amazing career of like a hundred huge bestsellers that have influenced tons of people.
01:45:51.180
And people will tweet about it for about the next half hour, and then it'll be over, and that's it.
01:45:56.440
I was listening to a radio show yesterday, and they did an interview, about a 10-minute interview, about the career of Chuck Knox.
01:46:01.900
Now, Gled, as a guy who doesn't care about sports, you don't know, but Chuck Knox is a legendary coach.
01:46:08.060
Hall of Famer, one of the best coaches of all time.
01:46:13.000
And it was about a 10-minute interview going back over his entire life.
01:46:17.080
And it felt pretty much like a throw-in because the guy died, and you've got to talk about the guy.
01:46:24.700
And if so, if you're great, if you do everything amazingly well, if you're the top of your field for a generation,
01:46:30.920
you might get that 10-minute interview the day after you die.
01:46:33.880
Or if you just happen to be standing around greatness.
01:46:40.620
She just happened to be standing next to a movie that also wasn't great.
01:46:45.400
But Christopher Reeve, who was also not great, but was thrown from a horse and was paralyzed,
01:46:52.080
and therefore we had his moment of greatness exposed.
01:47:05.580
But I think you're right in your analysis of her.
01:47:09.040
Did not have an amazing career outside of Superman.
01:47:13.920
And then later, I always felt bad for her because she went nuts, didn't she?
01:47:20.560
Yeah, real depression issues and went crazy and kind of came to the point of saying,
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you know what, I'm glad I went crazy in public because it helped me cure it.
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Like, she has an interesting story that fills a tweet or two.
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And it's one of those things where Margot Kidder, you could say, oh, well, Margot Kidder.
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I mean, she was in one classic, you know, series of movies that were, two of which were absolutely horrible.
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Superman 2, when you go back in, it doesn't really stand up even though I loved Zod as a kid.
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But you watch it back, it's very uneven and bizarre.
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Bottom line, though, is that puts Margot Kidder in what?
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Like, the fact that we know who she is decades after she's done really anything?
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This is like one of the best actresses, as far as success goes, of all time.
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People go, you think of this, I'm like, oh, I barely even remember.
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Now, think about the people that are politically on the other side.
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Like, you're a person who's had serious influence.
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There's no reason to go down this road with me.
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They're going to be like, you know, he worked for that guy you barely remember.
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And so, my point here is not to think, oh, God, it's all meaningless.
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It's to think that your legacy is not what you should be focusing on.
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Because even, look at, look, Harry Reid is a good example.
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Think of how influential Harry Reid has been in our world.
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This is a guy, and I think all negatively, right?
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I think he's been, was a terrible senator and did a million terrible things in office.
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He was a central focus of the news and talk shows.
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And again, you either think that's really good or really bad.
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And here he is with pancreatic cancer going on right now.
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And people are like, oh, man, I mean, rightly so.
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And people will, when he passes on, God forbid, will acknowledge his influence for a couple of days.
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And he's probably spent the last two decades focusing on his legacy and what he's left.
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John McCain will because of Reagan, standing next to Reagan, and being who he was in Vietnam.
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Well, and McCain's amazing, too, because now the media is like this.
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The people in his office, they won't apologize for this crude joke.
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I just felt like, you know, someone said something that looked what may have been inappropriate and it was leaked out.
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And that so it goes back and forth and back and forth.
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And now the media is like, well, this is the most amazing man we've ever had in the world of politics.
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Back in 2008, you thought he was the worst racist hate monger that ever existed.
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You should care about things that actually matter to you.
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Because when you think about your legacy and who's going to be tweeting you after you die, you get a little depressed.
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I don't know if I'll be here tomorrow, but thanks for listening.