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00:02:21.300 Hello, America.

00:02:29.320 It is Wednesday.

00:02:31.040 It's Wednesday.

00:02:32.240 It's Wednesday.

00:02:32.840 We're halfway through.

00:02:34.020 We're halfway through.

00:02:34.980 Everything is downhill from here.

00:02:36.780 Got a great show for you planned.

00:02:38.280 Not for today, but one of these days.

00:02:40.140 I'll reveal that great show.

00:02:42.300 Today we have a, you know, meh.

00:02:43.900 No, we have actually a lot of stuff we have to talk about

00:02:46.420 because the elections happened yesterday in New York.

00:02:50.140 And guess what?

00:02:51.300 the Socialists won. Three of them. Three of them. New York is going to hell in a handbasket. And

00:02:59.260 gee, who said that was going to happen? Who warned you Democrats? They're going to primary you.

00:03:05.860 They are going to eat you in the end. Starting in 2004, when you put Michael Moore in the box,

00:03:12.960 I said, you don't play footsies with Socialists. You think they're your friend. You think you're

00:03:18.300 using them they're using you and when they have enough power they will eat you i mean you think

00:03:25.080 michael moore got that big on twinkies no he's been eating democrats for quite some time look

00:03:30.100 here's the thing um it's happening and we have to know how to fight it so i'm going to tell you all

00:03:36.460 the news that happened and then i'm going to show you how to fight it this hour uh and so much more

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00:04:56.800 of the things trending today is social security is going broke what i've never heard that it's what

00:05:01.140 let me get my arms around that one it's going broke when did that happen it's the most popular

00:05:07.300 government program in america and it's quietly quietly going broke while everybody politely

00:05:12.000 agrees not to bring it up at dinner or especially during an election okay social security you love

00:05:18.040 it your grandmother loves it and the math loves no one the retirement trust fund runs dry social

00:05:26.140 security administration says in 2032 that is six years six big years and unlike global warming

00:05:33.000 this is actual math so it will run dry in six years and when it does the checks don't stop

00:05:40.980 they just get smaller by almost 25 percent now do you think things are going to be cheaper or

00:05:48.460 more expensive by 2032 i don't know i guess it could go either way i mean we did buy social

00:05:56.020 security wasn't some you know sham so i guess we might buy that prices will be cheaper this is

00:06:03.340 going to happen to everybody the retiree the widow the disabled steel worker no exceptions no mercy

00:06:09.240 now cbs news uh has known this was coming nbc news knew this was coming i knew this was coming

00:06:17.380 you knew this was coming the newspapers knew that every president has known this was coming

00:06:22.040 for 40 years, for zero, 40 years. We've had more warning about this than Y2K. We had more warning 0.94

00:06:33.940 than this on disco, on my own hairline. And we've done the same thing for all of those things.

00:06:40.740 Nothing until now it's embarrassing, isn't it? I mean, look at it. It's really getting embarrassing.

00:06:45.740 social security i would say is a ponzi scheme but it's not really a ponzi scheme i know that's

00:06:54.500 a fun thing to say at parties but a ponzi scheme is illegal and it hides the math

00:07:00.200 so there's the difference social security is perfectly legal and prints the math every single

00:07:07.580 year in a report so long and so boring that congress has successfully avoided reading it

00:07:12.620 since the Carter administration.

00:07:14.840 So it's not a con.

00:07:16.100 It's telling you.

00:07:17.320 It's right out in the open.

00:07:18.660 Yep, this doesn't work.

00:07:20.840 It's not a Ponzi scheme.

00:07:23.280 It's a chain letter, okay?

00:07:25.360 Here's how the chain works.

00:07:27.140 The money you pay in,

00:07:29.380 it's not sitting in a box with your name on it.

00:07:31.780 I know Al Gore said there's going to be a lockbox.

00:07:34.780 There's no lockbox.

00:07:36.180 The lockbox contains IOUs and a Post-it note.

00:07:40.000 your taxes go straight right out the door to today's retiree and your promise that tomorrow's

00:07:48.960 worker is going to cover you it's called pay as you go and it works beautifully as long as there's

00:07:56.360 always more people paying in than cashing out how's that going come on america how's that go

00:08:02.060 what's one of the problems the other problem we don't ever want to talk about and we're like well

00:08:05.720 that's good because of planet earth okay the people were like we're going planet earth planet

00:08:11.020 earth planet earth i don't want to bring children into this world because planet earth planet earth

00:08:14.880 planet earth we need more social security here's the problem gang in 1960 there were five workers 0.85

00:08:22.480 for every retiree today there are fewer than three by the 2070s there will be barely two

00:08:30.320 Now, the bipartisan policy center said this, and, you know, we've built a program that assumed Americans would keep having babies like it was 1955, and then we all act shocked when nobody's having babies like it's 1955.

00:08:46.100 We taxed work.

00:08:47.760 We subsidized not work, and the population did exactly what populations do when you change the incentives.

00:08:55.100 They don't work. 0.97

00:08:56.640 They don't have babies.

00:08:57.800 the system isn't failing because somebody's evil it's failing because the arithmetic

00:09:03.860 is wearing a halo this modest beloved demographically doomed program is what might

00:09:12.440 what you might call socialism light all the unsustainability with half the calories

00:09:19.060 and here's where it would get funny if it wasn't so horrific i mean a banana peel is funny until

00:09:26.340 it happens to you you know the safety net is buckling it's over it's over and the loudest

00:09:34.600 fastest rising voices in american politics what do you think they're reaching for more socialism

00:09:41.740 they look at socialism light and say you know what will fix this is socialism heavy

00:09:48.320 regular full-strength socialism extra shot oat milk no apology let's go for it this week in

00:09:56.660 new york yesterday the mayor's handpicked slate of democratic socialists ran the table all three

00:10:03.980 candidates that he backed won two sitting congressmen got bounced they were democrats

00:10:09.740 they were democrats now we need a socialist the democratic establishment got booed off its own

00:10:19.740 television even john fetterman who now wanders you know uh into his his own party like he's the

00:10:27.780 last guy at a halloween party that didn't hear they changed the theme it's like the dirtbag left

00:10:32.780 is surging. Yeah, John, it is. And you're the only one left. When Fetterman is your moderate,

00:10:41.820 the Overton window has left the building and taken a car.

00:10:47.780 The flagship socialist fix for social security? You're never going to guess. Guess what their

00:10:53.580 plan is? How did you know this tax the rich? Shut up. Lift the cap. Now, here's the real

00:11:01.340 point buried in here someplace. Right now, you stop paying social security tax at $184,500 of

00:11:09.660 income. If you make more than that, you stop paying that, okay? The nurse pays on every dollar

00:11:15.160 she earns. Now, the reason why the hedge fund guy doesn't, he pays a sliver of that, $184,000,

00:11:23.040 is because the idea is that's what you're going to get back someday, okay? Everybody pays the same

00:11:30.540 because you're all going to get the same.

00:11:32.180 But here's what happens.

00:11:33.660 The rich guy pays, I mean, if they want to lift this cap,

00:11:38.180 he'll pay on every dime, and then they will also say to him,

00:11:42.320 and you don't get anything back.

00:11:44.380 That doesn't seem fair, but okay.

00:11:49.660 It feels rigged, and feels rigged is not nothing.

00:11:53.820 um even um bernie uh moreno from uh ohio has teamed up with elizabeth warren no yeah yeah

00:12:05.160 a republican in air quotes and the democrat in air quotes get together lift it tax every single

00:12:14.640 dollar soak the rich completely and you know what that buys you if you soak them completely

00:12:21.060 it closes half the gap half that's the government's own number that's not my number

00:12:28.120 you can confiscate everything above the cap take it all and you're still standing in a hole

00:12:35.020 because you cannot tax your way out of a what are we short of what are we short of here

00:12:40.600 i was going to tell you now i want you to think what what is the real shortage here is it money

00:12:47.020 no the real shortage is babies the problem was never the slices the problem is the baby pie

00:13:00.060 babies we're not having they're not growing fast enough we're not making them okay so more people

00:13:07.440 keep showing up hungry which brings me to the thing that nobody teaches anymore the exact reason

00:13:13.280 and we might do this to ourselves,

00:13:15.340 a whole generation has been raised on a fairy tale.

00:13:19.880 Socialism is kindness.

00:13:22.200 Capitalism is cruelty.

00:13:24.440 Socialism shares.

00:13:26.640 Capitalism hoards.

00:13:28.840 It's a lovely story.

00:13:30.200 It really is. 1.00

00:13:31.120 The only minor flaw is it's backwards.

00:13:35.300 Socialism is a theory about how to divide the pie.

00:13:39.380 Capitalism is the thing that bakes the pie.

00:13:43.280 You can argue about slicing it all night, and we should, but if you switch off the oven, the fairness committee that you've just put together, they're standing in an empty kitchen dividing the smell of bread that one day was here.

00:13:59.420 capitalism didn't pull a billion human beings out of extreme poverty in a single generation

00:14:06.820 because bankers are saints they did it because you free people trading freely under the rule

00:14:14.260 of law generate wealth no central planner has ever matched that's not faith that's the scoreboard

00:14:20.380 that's what that's that's the game that's it it's all right there

00:14:24.640 now there is a downside of capitalism capitalism without and this is where we've gone wrong

00:14:33.640 without a moral society that self-regulates that says i don't want to be the greediest person in

00:14:42.620 the world okay without the rule of law that's just theft with better branding that's all that

00:14:50.640 is. Same thing with socialism. It's theft with branding. And that's what we have now. Capitalism

00:14:57.440 has become corrupt because it has found a path to power in DC and DC encouraged it. So DC and

00:15:06.000 capitalism have become corrupted. You have the corruption with the drug companies where they

00:15:11.340 write the laws and then Congress passes them. Do you think the drug companies are going to write

00:15:16.720 laws that Congress will pass that will hurt their business or keep us in check? No. And then it

00:15:23.520 only gets worse when you officially merge business with government. Why? Because humans are the

00:15:30.980 problem. We have a baby shortage and we have a human problem. Look at the other headline that 0.81

00:15:37.980 just came out yesterday. The Justice Department has charged 455 people in six and a half billion

00:15:45.480 of healthcare fraud. Who did this? People, doctors, billing Medicare for wound grafts,

00:15:53.200 hospice patients, they never saw, marked up 2,000%. How is this fraud happening? I'll tell you,

00:16:03.640 human greed. And in most cases that we're finding now, that greed was coupled with state,

00:16:09.900 local and federal government officials who turned a blind eye now why would they turn a blind eye

00:16:16.160 because it helped them because they have a different kind of human greed the greed of power

00:16:23.320 you see none of this is going to be solved by getting rid of capitalism or adopting socialism

00:16:28.980 or anything else you have to change the person and government can't do that you know this isn't

00:16:36.220 Capitalism, what's happening with our health care system now, that's not capitalism.

00:16:41.340 That's not socialism.

00:16:43.000 When you're stealing from it, it's neither of those things.

00:16:47.020 That's greed gaming the system, whatever the system is.

00:16:51.640 Dr. Oz said the fraud like that drains $100 billion a year.

00:16:57.580 To double the life of Medicare trust fund, if we just stopped it, we double the life.

00:17:03.660 So no, the lesson is not capitalism, good.

00:17:07.060 Socialism, bad, the end.

00:17:08.880 Or the other way around.

00:17:10.560 That lesson is so, I mean, it's a bumper sticker. 1.00

00:17:13.980 And it's stupid. 1.00

00:17:16.600 Every system runs on honesty. 1.00

00:17:19.760 Guardrails.

00:17:20.700 People willing to do the boring maintenance that none of us have wanted to do.

00:17:26.560 Capitalism bakes the cake.

00:17:28.840 Bakes the bread.

00:17:29.620 It makes the food.

00:17:31.240 the rule of law makes sure nobody walks off with the oven socialism keeps promising you a shiny

00:17:39.060 beautiful bin and you discover that wait a minute that's a trash can okay we may actually go full

00:17:49.460 socialist in this country i never thought i would say that but we may actually do it because

00:17:53.740 everything i predicted in 2004 and every day almost after is all happening and not because

00:18:02.220 the arguments are good they just they tend to to they they they just are not they're not being

00:18:11.860 taught nobody is teaching the truth the net is fraying period the salesmen are charming

00:18:20.780 The textbook is quiet, and the kid who never heard the other side

00:18:24.840 will always buy the only pitch in the room.

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00:20:26.340 say it was moreno who who is the guy who walked into the coffee shop oh golden golden yeah it's

00:20:34.240 correct golden yes thank you you have that cut so goldman he he walks into a coffee shop in new york

00:20:40.380 and he just orders a cup of coffee, blah, blah, blah.

00:20:43.960 And then there's a post from this coffee shop.

00:20:46.740 We didn't recognize who you were until after you left. 0.97

00:20:50.000 We don't want your genocidal mania in here.

00:20:54.880 I mean, just tore this guy apart. 1.00

00:20:57.220 He's a Democrat and he is also, dare I say it, a Jew. 1.00

00:21:04.140 He has been playing footsie with the left the whole time. 0.90

00:21:08.380 And so they tear him apart, and what does he say?

00:21:11.580 He says something nice about them.

00:21:13.180 He said, you know, I was in, and everybody there was so delightful,

00:21:15.620 and I'm sorry that you would say that.

00:21:17.200 You know, I needed a bathroom for my daughter.

00:21:19.300 We were in the area.

00:21:20.280 We stopped in.

00:21:21.200 It was for customers.

00:21:22.280 I felt bad. 0.98

00:21:23.400 You guys let me use the bathroom for her anyway,

00:21:25.600 so I bought a cup of coffee, and I enjoyed myself.

00:21:29.580 I'm really sorry you feel that way.

00:21:31.020 It was a really nice response, but why did he make it?

00:21:34.280 he made it because he was still trying to get the left and the people who hate the jews and are

00:21:41.800 full-fledged socialists to like him remember i'm one of you guys no you're not you're not

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00:24:59.780 okay i want to help out the homeschoolers i want to help you out if you can't defend capitalism

00:25:06.040 you can't explain why it's better than socialism because i'm telling you we are going to be a

00:25:10.860 socialist nation if we don't stop this soon and that is going to require us to be stronger people

00:25:16.700 better educated people um and there was something that i read when i was kid and i and i think it

00:25:23.080 was eye pencil i can't i can't remember exactly um and so i'm going to bastardize it horribly but

00:25:29.500 i'm holding a pencil yellow six sides little pink eraser at the top and we've used these our whole

00:25:40.440 life i mean you don't know use them now but we use them our whole life everybody had one okay

00:25:45.100 nobody on earth even though you have these nobody on earth knows how to make this thing

00:25:50.020 not me not even the man who runs the pencil factory i mean he knows what it takes but he's

00:25:56.260 not the guy doing all of it. Not the CEO, not his best engineer, not the genius three

00:26:01.340 cubicles down who corrects everybody's grammar. Not that guy. It's a pencil. The cedar comes

00:26:09.920 from, uh, comes off a mountain in the Pacific Northwest. It's cut by a steel saw. That steel

00:26:15.940 came from iron ore in Minnesota, smelted with coal hauled by the rails by people who are long

00:26:23.340 dead okay the graphite comes out of the ground in sri lanka and it's mixed with clay from mississippi

00:26:31.380 the little band up at the top it used to be copper from chile zinc from canada the yellow paint the

00:26:41.520 rubber that never once met a rubber tree in its life all of these things thousands of people on

00:26:47.800 five continents that don't speak the same language, who never met, who probably crossed

00:26:55.320 the street to avoid each other, you know, if they did. All of them, somehow or another, without even

00:27:00.620 knowing it, have conspired to put this perfect little writing machine in a child's hand for

00:27:06.180 less than a quarter. These people couldn't agree on lunch, and they built the pencil.

00:27:13.080 and here's the key no one was in charge there is no pencil czar there's no department of pencils

00:27:21.860 in a marble building deciding how much graphite Sri Lanka needs to mine this year nobody on the

00:27:29.400 planet wakes up at three o'clock in the morning in a cold sweat thinking dear god does Ohio have

00:27:36.060 enough eraser erasers nobody does it just happens every day it's a miracle so ordinary we walk

00:27:45.960 right past it on the way to complain about something so here's how you explain capitalism

00:27:54.800 and socialism if no one is smart enough to plan a pencil nobody it doesn't take anybody it just

00:28:02.160 happens who exactly do we figure is smart enough to plan an entire economy

00:28:08.800 you know this person right you meet the man who flunked the pencil but i think he's probably

00:28:18.380 pretty good on running health care or energy or lunch for 300 million people no no there's this

00:28:28.740 economist named Friedrich Hayek, he spent his life on this one idea. The knowledge that it takes

00:28:36.500 to run an economy doesn't live in any one place. It's scattered across millions and billions of

00:28:44.280 heads. It's the welder who can feel a batch of steel running brittle. It's the grocer who notices

00:28:50.640 that young families are starting to move in and they're starting to move in and they got all these

00:28:55.280 kids so i better stock up more diapers it's the farmer that can read the sky none of them could

00:29:01.900 write down what they know they couldn't fill it out in a form they'd lose the form but they act

00:29:09.140 on it every single day and the price tag is how they talk to one another copper jumps and a man

00:29:16.080 in a workshop who has never spent one waking thought on the nation of chile suddenly figures

00:29:22.000 out we should use less copper he didn't know why i don't think he even wants to know why i don't

00:29:27.700 want to know why but the number told him hey slow down on the copper somebody else in the world

00:29:33.260 is using a lot of it and they need it worse than you do right now so slow down that message

00:29:39.260 races around the planet at the speed of light without one human being saying uh put out the

00:29:45.940 warning on copper they're not there's not there's no forum there's no there's no phone call nobody's

00:29:52.880 scheduling a meeting about it but then we introduce a central planner let's just say best heart in the

00:30:00.740 world it's mother teresa with a phd and a spreadsheet and the most sincere mother teresa

00:30:08.560 desire to help the poor and she stands up and she says we don't need all this messy haggling over

00:30:15.480 prices, I'll decide. I'm going to set the prices. You love me. I love you. You know my heart.

00:30:22.100 We'll just plan it. How hard can it be? And the second Mother Teresa does that,

00:30:27.900 she turns off the lights. She blinds herself to the one thing that is telling everyone what

00:30:34.260 everybody else knew. She's not stupid. She's not greedy. She's been handed the job. No human, 0.97

00:30:42.160 no computer can pull off because the information she needs doesn't exist in any form that they can

00:30:50.740 hold it's in the lives of the welders and the hands of the farmer's gut and the and it dies

00:30:56.920 the instant that you tell them to stop deciding for themselves and wait for the memo then the

00:31:02.460 farmer's like well i gotta tell you my gut says this but the memo says do this and that's when

00:31:07.540 the breadline happens breadlines are real and it happens the same way every single time

00:31:14.660 it's honestly it's like a band that only knows one song that's what socialism is 1.00

00:31:21.280 because those countries they were not stuffed with lazy people evil people stupid people 0.99

00:31:29.760 the people were the same we're the same we're proving it right now we took one nation and we 0.99

00:31:39.040 split it down the middle with a wall and we waited 40 years like the world's bleakest science fair

00:31:45.280 east german west german same people same beethoven same grandmother's recipe same family

00:31:53.240 sometimes they were on different sides of the wall one side became one of the richest places on earth

00:31:59.000 and the other side bugged its own citizens, ran out of coffee, and built a wall.

00:32:05.260 Same people, what happened?

00:32:07.140 And by the way, notice which direction people were climbing over that wall.

00:32:10.820 In all of history, all the history of that wall,

00:32:14.400 not one man ever risked the searchlights and the machine gun towers

00:32:18.240 to sneak into East Germany for shopping or the good food.

00:32:22.940 Pull up a satellite photo of Korea tonight.

00:32:25.620 the south of korea south korea it is a blanket of light the north is a black hole with one lonely

00:32:34.340 pinprick where the dictator keeps his lamp on same people same mountains same conditions

00:32:42.180 one border one difference so when somebody tells you socialism just hasn't been done right

00:32:51.120 ask them and ask them gently

00:32:53.120 how many times

00:32:55.700 do we have to see the same movie

00:32:57.820 end the same

00:32:59.800 way before we stop being

00:33:01.720 surprised at the ending

00:33:03.080 how many times do you go to the movie

00:33:05.400 and go wait

00:33:06.840 so

00:33:08.500 Jaws

00:33:10.780 the shark was going to eat the swimmers

00:33:13.680 I didn't see that one coming this time

00:33:15.440 we've seen it

00:33:16.940 it ends the same way every time

00:33:18.760 we owned this story on every format we know in the end the dog doesn't make it

00:33:24.960 so let me let me spend a second being the kind of man i always ask you to be

00:33:31.080 and give you the strongest thing the other side says because i can't just hand you an easy version

00:33:37.160 of the argument i'm not informing you i would be flattering you and i don't want to do that i hate

00:33:43.040 when i ask a question of chat gpt or some one of these ais and they're like that is a very smart

00:33:48.140 shut up just give me the facts okay the socialists will look at my pencil and say beautiful story

00:33:55.500 glenn that's really not i mean that's really hallmark movie stuff it's great i'm gonna cry 0.96

00:33:59.520 in the end oh and do you do you end up together okay but your market made that pencil and the

00:34:08.120 market can't make a single thing that it can't slap a price tag on it can't price clean air

00:34:15.160 It can't price a stable climate.

00:34:17.260 It can't price the quiet dignity of a man who has built something with his own hands.

00:34:22.120 So it just ignores them.

00:34:24.220 It runs clean off the cliff with those things and calls it efficiency.

00:34:29.280 Here's the thing about that argument.

00:34:31.160 It's not wrong.

00:34:32.560 And any honest defender of the markets has to own that.

00:34:36.100 He's not wrong.

00:34:38.100 And then I could go harder.

00:34:40.460 The wealth doesn't stay polite.

00:34:42.440 It doesn't sit in the corner, Glenn, sipping water.

00:34:45.900 It buys senators.

00:34:47.000 It writes the rules of the very game.

00:34:48.900 It swears it's playing fair.

00:34:51.320 A kid born in a dying town with a worn-out school,

00:34:54.560 you're going to look him in the eye and tell him, you know,

00:34:56.920 his reward is tied to his effort when the race was three-quarters run

00:35:00.820 before he put his shoes on?

00:35:03.500 Absolutely fair.

00:35:05.180 Absolutely fair.

00:35:06.520 That is correct.

00:35:08.720 So if you want to be honest, where do you land?

00:35:12.440 well, you don't burn down the engine

00:35:16.620 that lifted more human beings out of crushing poverty

00:35:19.460 than anything else in the entire history of the world.

00:35:22.400 This is why I'm a conservative.

00:35:24.060 You look at the whole situation,

00:35:26.100 you go, what worked, what doesn't?

00:35:28.460 Okay, the engine is good.

00:35:30.620 The corruption is bad, okay?

00:35:34.060 That's what you have to do. 1.00

00:35:36.140 When China and India finally quit trying to plan

00:35:38.840 every single pencil and let the markets breathe,

00:35:42.440 A billion people climbed up out of the kind of poverty that kills your children.

00:35:46.700 A billion.

00:35:48.220 No charity, no revolution, no five-year plan ever came close.

00:35:52.980 A thousand miles to something like that number.

00:35:56.940 What it did was let ordinary people own things, trade things, keep a little of what they earned.

00:36:03.280 You don't put out a house fire by knocking the house down.

00:36:06.660 You build the thing the market can't, the rule of law.

00:36:11.340 a real shot for that kid a fence at the edge of the cliff you build it around the engine not in

00:36:18.960 place of the engine and the part that has almost nothing to do with money when the government owns

00:36:23.880 the work the government owns the worker you keep saying well the capitalist owns the worker well

00:36:29.360 the government will too because it's humans that are involved a man a man who can take your living

00:36:36.900 can make you say almost anything he can make you applaud until your hands bleed when all you want

00:36:43.260 to do is weep you won't weep you'll clap because he owns you in a free economy if one boss fires

00:36:51.380 you for what you believe you just walk down the street to the next one unless the government is

00:36:56.640 involved the government is supposed to be the policeman if a powerful man hates your idea

00:37:04.300 somebody else prints it. They might even just print it just to make a buck off the controversy.

00:37:10.100 That grubby, profit-hungry marketplace is the very same thing that keeps the dissident fed.

00:37:17.220 The freedom of the spirit and freedom of the wallet were never two things. They were always

00:37:21.580 one thing wearing two coats. So let me quickly end where I started with the pencil.

00:37:27.840 The reason why this little miracle works, the reason a quarter's worth of cedar and Chilean

00:37:35.280 copper assembles itself in a child's hand with nobody in charge, is that it trusts something

00:37:41.480 that no planner ever can or will. It actually trusts you. It trusts the welder that they've

00:37:50.100 never met, the farmer, the grocer, the grandmother. It trusts that millions of free people,

00:37:55.560 each one knowing one small true thing will between them no more than any genius in any

00:38:02.840 capital ever could socialism say says that the people at the top are wise enough to run your

00:38:08.840 life capitalism at its best says something much humbler and a whole lot more radical

00:38:14.680 nobody's that wise not the king not a committee not a computer not the man with a spreadsheet and

00:38:20.680 the very sincere face, not Mother Teresa, nobody. So we'll leave deciding the only people, leave it

00:38:27.880 to the only people who actually know, which is all of us, one at a time. And I'd rather live in a

00:38:34.240 country that admits nobody knows how to make this pencil, because that's the country that figured

00:38:39.140 out how to make a billion of those pencils, and then hand them to the poor. More in a minute. 0.66

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00:46:33.920 hello america welcome to the glenbeck program it's wednesday got a lot of news to cover um

00:46:45.520 antifa finally has been charged federal charges you remember when they attacked the um the ice

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00:48:43.200 All right, there is something really glorious that is happening in America.

00:48:46.780 and i can't believe it's happening with soccer in the world cup i mean i am not interested at

00:48:54.120 all in the world cup and finally i am fascinated suddenly fascinated by the world cup and i think

00:49:01.680 why is because the world came and they didn't lecture us they came to play and somewhere

00:49:08.700 between the kickoff and the final whistle the people who came to watch the visitors watching

00:49:13.980 are discovering something the people who sell them opinions never wanted them to see.

00:49:19.520 They're seeing the actual real America.

00:49:22.380 They arrive here and they have expected to see the caricature,

00:49:26.120 the cruel, broken down, dangerous, you know,

00:49:29.080 cops riding on the hood of a car shooting people.

00:49:31.880 And instead they find a barbecue or a stranger waving to them into a parking space.

00:49:37.840 You know, 70,000 people in a stadium who really don't care,

00:49:42.300 care you know what flag you arrived under just can you play or not for years these people have

00:49:50.140 been told america is the villain you don't you're not gonna like americans and america's a bad place

00:49:56.300 instead have you noticed how many of them are like i would live here in a heartbeat

00:50:00.960 and all because of soccer soccer has everybody's attention and because of that politicians are

00:50:08.680 reaching for soccer too and i was really disgusted yesterday before i get to that let me just play a

00:50:13.540 couple of things that i think are are really cool that what people are actually saying uh about us

00:50:19.000 um let's play uh but but um let's play cut 16 please have you got a message for the scottish

00:50:30.040 fans i've taken over the city that our suit is yeah absolutely stay here never leave dude this

00:50:35.000 is new Glasgow now don't leave I just want to say thank you to the fan base you guys are absolutely

00:50:39.620 electric you brought an energy to Boston that we've been missing so thank you very much and

00:50:43.560 it's now added Scotland to the list of places to visit because you guys are a great crew

00:50:47.640 please don't leave we're gonna miss you guys when you're gone this was the best thing that

00:50:53.200 happened to this city these Scots all these Scots here man I love these people and Uncle Fern

00:51:00.160 i'm saying right now a year from today i'm going to scotland and i'm gonna do videos over there

00:51:07.240 and i'm gonna have a hell of a time i'm gonna go for 10 days over there

00:51:11.780 okay those are boston people who are like i just love these people and i feel the same way i don't

00:51:19.040 care i don't care what country they're from i don't care what they look like i don't care what

00:51:24.300 flag i don't care what team they're rooting for none of it none of it they're coming over and

00:51:29.800 they're discovering i love america and we love them it's great it's great

00:51:35.640 now let's wreck it with politics when we started winning the u.s team started winning the narrative

00:51:43.980 machine kicked into gear wall street journal now the editorial board has published a piece titled

00:51:49.000 america's immigrant soccer team and then of course the weasel john cornyn amplified it arguing the

00:51:56.120 team's success really reflects america's historically welcoming immigration system

00:52:01.080 okay all right it's not about soccer this is all about politics the article is clearly aimed at

00:52:08.740 the ongoing debate over birthright citizenship and the supreme court case that is expected to

00:52:14.800 rule on it okay soccer is just the vehicle so let's take their article let's count the journal

00:52:22.020 noted that six of the 26 players on the roster were born outside the united states technically

00:52:27.460 true but birthplace is not the real question now is it the questions the question is how many of

00:52:34.620 those players became americans five of those six were born to at least one american parent so i

00:52:43.040 don't care where you were born if one of your parents is an american you get citizenship at

00:52:48.460 birth. That's not immigration. In any meaningful sense of the current political debate, that is

00:52:56.520 not being debated. So you remove those five and you're left with one actual immigrant on the

00:53:03.360 roster. He was born in Mexico. Zendayas, I guess. I don't know. He moved to the United States as a

00:53:11.800 child he became a citizen when his father was naturalized when his father stood up by every

00:53:18.600 public account lawful ordinary immigration story the kind that very few people object to he stands

00:53:26.240 up and says i will protect and defend the constitution of the united states he takes the

00:53:29.840 test and every player representing the united states in the world cup has to be a verified

00:53:35.660 american citizen there's no ambiguity on that one yeah but what about birthright citizenship

00:53:41.360 okay let's count those cases maybe you get four maybe one born in new york to nigerian parents

00:53:51.520 before growing up in england then you have one another one who was born to parents that came

00:53:55.860 from al salvador in guatemala then you have a couple of others that were born in the united

00:54:00.920 states the foreign-born parents whose status at the time is not publicly documented so i don't

00:54:05.320 know but if you grant everyone the benefit of the doubt that's four of 26 that's not a quarter of

00:54:10.960 the team. That's not an argument for open borders. What the players demonstrate is something else

00:54:16.660 entirely, Wall Street Journal, that people from around the world want to be a part of America.

00:54:24.140 There's so much sleight of hand in this story. It is crazy. Take a true statement that ambitious

00:54:31.780 people from everywhere strengthen this country, quietly substitute a different claim that border

00:54:36.660 of citizenship and legal distinctions no longer matter. That's what's happening here. You're

00:54:41.600 watching a magic show. They're not the same argument. And then you get John Cornyn coming in.

00:54:48.820 John Cornyn. John Cornyn, Republicans already made their judgment on you. In 2026 in the primary,

00:54:58.120 yeah, oh my gosh, it was just this year, wasn't it? It seems such a long time ago.

00:55:03.160 he lost his party's nomination ken paxton won ken won despite being outspent by cornyn

00:55:12.840 10 to 1 you couldn't buy the voters okay why because people are done with the republican

00:55:20.560 establishment and people like john cornyn what makes moments like this so striking is here's

00:55:25.720 a politician rejected by his own voters who is still trying to shape a conversation they've moved

00:55:31.940 beyond maybe it's conviction maybe it's habit maybe maybe it's something else hmm i wonder what

00:55:40.920 that could be either way the larger story is not about one senator it's about the political and

00:55:46.580 media establishment just making mistakes in volume for influence for forever for my whole life they

00:55:58.880 just assumed they were the referees. And for my whole life, they generally were the referees.

00:56:04.060 But today you're discovering, wait a minute, I'm just an ordinary participant in the game. I'm in

00:56:10.760 the bleachers here. How did that happen? And I think that's the most encouraging part of this

00:56:15.100 whole story. A new generation is coming up behind these weasels in the media and these weasels in

00:56:21.140 Washington, people who are tired of the stale arguments, the broken trust, the endless attempt

00:56:25.620 to divide Americans into competing camps.

00:56:28.080 We're done with it.

00:56:29.240 They all want, I don't care who they vote for.

00:56:33.520 I actually do.

00:56:34.740 If you're a socialist, you don't want this.

00:56:36.920 But generally speaking,

00:56:39.460 everybody who's joining in now,

00:56:41.480 they want a country confident enough to welcome visitors,

00:56:44.200 proud enough to be admired,

00:56:45.940 clear enough about what citizenship means.

00:56:48.600 Look at the list of the people in Boston.

00:56:52.020 A country, we want a country

00:56:54.060 that is open to those who want to contribute.

00:56:57.180 If you come here legally, raise your hand, take an oath,

00:57:00.460 commit yourself to the nation's future,

00:57:03.000 generally speaking, we're happy welcoming you, okay?

00:57:06.920 Because America does not owe anyone a place here,

00:57:12.540 but because citizenship means joining a shared project,

00:57:16.460 we want you here if you want to share in it.

00:57:20.540 The question in, oh man,

00:57:22.440 the question is not what america can do for you the question is what can you do to help build

00:57:29.460 america that's the country millions of visitors are seeing right now a group of people who are

00:57:37.000 like they love their country they're nice they don't want to hate people that's not who they are

00:57:42.920 and maybe someday the united states lifts the the world cup trophy that would be sweet

00:57:49.360 but this year the trophy is not the most important thing to me what's remarkable is that the people

00:57:54.820 who were told to fear america spend 90 minutes at a time seeing it for themselves and they're

00:58:01.040 discovering that the country they were warned about is not the country they were they found

00:58:06.700 so who's been lying to them the whole time and why by the way cornyn we're not going to miss you

00:58:14.420 It's sad. It's really sad and pathetic to see you've lost and now you're doing everything you 0.97

00:58:20.360 can to burn the house down on the way out. It's really sad. We should have seen how much you 1.00

00:58:25.260 really, I mean, how it's almost psychotic. If I can't have you, no one will. It's psychotic.

00:58:32.720 You're a really bad boyfriend or ex-husband, really bad. And I, for one, not going to miss you. 0.98

00:58:40.680 I'm glad they threw your ass out the door in Texas. 1.00

00:58:44.120 All right, back in just a second. 1.00

00:58:45.340 Let me tell you about Rough Greens. 0.94

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00:58:49.140 You know, they don't pay taxes.

00:58:50.580 They don't have to work.

00:58:52.120 We have these two dogs that we got because they're abandoned.

00:58:55.680 And so they're sitting on our porch.

00:58:58.680 They sleep all the time.

00:59:00.160 I mean, it's like, can you guys do something?

00:59:02.360 I don't know what you have to do, but you should do something, don't you think?

00:59:05.680 I mean, it's an admirable way to go through life, I guess.

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01:00:07.680 history only survives if they do listen with your family today to the brand new audiobook

01:00:15.660 of glenn's new york times bestseller chasing embers at torch 250.com there is so much going

01:00:23.620 on if you're trying to teach your kids or yourself about american history i mean this is the summer

01:00:28.160 to join torch i mean there is so much going on in on july 1st i think that's next week we're doing

01:00:35.080 a live uh special we have a new doc that is uh coming out america 250 doc and it's called the

01:00:42.060 golden door and it's really really good we take you from new york uh to uh the white house and it

01:00:50.520 is i mean it's it's really well done really really well done i'll be there uh live we'll be taking

01:00:56.960 questions and and things jason will be with me and we'll be doing it from washington dc it is on

01:01:03.680 July 1st, 8 p.m. only on Torch. You're really going to love this because of the history and

01:01:09.080 inspiration and, quite honestly, the truth. Here is a trailer from Golden Door that premieres on

01:01:14.560 Torch next week. Now, on the base of the Statue of Liberty is a poem, and it's called The New

01:01:22.500 Colossus. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

01:01:30.320 The wretched refuse of your teeming shore 1.00

01:01:33.420 Send these the homeless tempest-tossed to me 1.00

01:01:37.200 I lift my lamp beside the golden door 1.00

01:01:40.560 For more than a century, Americans heard those lines

01:01:44.120 as an invitation to the world's dreamers, the fighters

01:01:47.680 the people who looked at tyranny and said

01:01:50.440 I'm going to go to a place where a man can rise

01:01:52.700 where I can be who I was born to be

01:01:55.100 It was never intended to be a suicide pact

01:02:00.220 And that's why I say this with zero apology. 0.96

01:02:04.400 Zero new immigration until we can get this right.

01:02:09.380 Because you can't understand immigration if you first don't understand its purpose.

01:02:14.580 Well, we're going to correct that.

01:02:15.600 From New York City, where it all started, we'll take a tour through history from some

01:02:20.000 of the historic sites that wrote the immigration story in our country.

01:02:24.920 And speaking of stories, I'm going to tell you the story of a young woman who stepped

01:02:28.280 off a boat from Scotland. One generation later, her child achieves something I can guarantee you

01:02:35.560 she could have never dreamt of. You think this kind of success happens in Somalia?

01:02:50.440 It begins next week. You'll see it live with me July 1st, 8 p.m. Let me just play a little

01:02:57.300 montage of the people who are coming in what they're saying about america let's remember this

01:03:02.100 listen

01:03:02.520 do we have it

01:03:10.080 here are the things i love about americans first of all amount of patriotism flags everywhere and

01:03:18.700 i absolutely love it nobody on this planet can come even close to the amount of patriotism

01:03:25.920 Americans have especially American South. Another thing that really stands out is the amount of

01:03:31.680 water Americans consume daily. Believe it or not nobody else drinks so much clean water as

01:03:37.680 Americans. At first I thought oh my god this is so dumb nobody needs so much water and to be honest 0.98

01:03:43.540 the only dumb one in the situation was me. I decided to give it a try and started drinking 0.99

01:03:48.620 water on regular basis and I've never felt better. Headaches went away, skin cleared out,

01:03:54.980 it's absolutely amazing thing i love small talk it makes you feel so much better of course nobody 0.93

01:04:01.860 gives how are you really doing that your day is crap no that's why you put a smile on your face 0.94

01:04:06.260 you leave your problems at home when a cashier tells you hi how are you doing with a smile on 0.98

01:04:10.420 her face it automatically brightens your day and i love it okay i am just walking around randomly

01:04:18.020 no idea what's ahead of me but i gotta show you these houses and these places

01:04:26.820 gosh no 10 foot fences no rabid people trying to burgle rape and murder the citizens

01:04:36.980 in washington my goodness look this is wow look at this they really used to build

01:04:48.780 beautiful buildings look at that that would be a death trap in south africa imagine walking 0.99

01:04:55.060 through there in the middle of the day or the middle of night i can also basically guarantee 0.97

01:05:00.800 you'd have your throat slit in South Africa. 0.99

01:05:03.660 But not yet. 0.94

01:05:05.100 This is the land of the free, ladies and gentlemen.

01:05:08.740 This is actually truly overwhelming.

01:05:11.940 Look at that little fence.

01:05:13.840 Such a tiny little fence.

01:05:15.720 That's literally just decorative.

01:05:17.720 Let me stop this here.

01:05:19.580 Let me stop this here.

01:05:21.120 This is how we change the world.

01:05:24.820 This is honestly why the French made the Statue of Liberty for us. 0.59

01:05:28.420 They were trying to teach their own people.

01:05:29.680 It's why Washington Crossing the Delaware, that painting, it was painted in Germany for the Germans by a German painter saying, look, America has it.

01:05:38.480 We have beat our chests and we're like, we're going to make everybody free.

01:05:44.040 You're going to, we're going to come in and bomb you and then we're going to give you our, your freedom the way we like to give it to you.

01:05:51.400 No, the way to change the world is live the example, just live the example.

01:05:57.220 and then when people come over here they do what they're doing my gosh you would not believe

01:06:01.740 america they have it down look at what they're doing now we don't have it down you know that

01:06:07.020 i know that imagine how bad it is over in their countries that they think we've got it down

01:06:11.280 we don't need to get arrogant we need just to to recognize yeah this is a special place

01:06:17.500 this is a place that is different than everywhere else in the world and it's good it's good do we

01:06:24.960 have problems to fix? Yes. Can we fix them? Yes. Why can we fix them? Because we're Americans.

01:06:30.680 So let's fix it the American way, not the European way. European way is government will fix it. You 0.98

01:06:36.680 just sit down, stay out of it. We'll fix it. We'll tell you how to live your life. It's not the

01:06:41.080 American way. That's not how we got here. This is the greatest example I have ever seen in my 1.00

01:06:48.160 lifetime of just live your life the way you're supposed to people will notice and they'll say

01:06:55.960 my gosh we got to be more like that what makes them special that's how you take real freedom

01:07:01.640 the real principles of our country and share them with the world not through the state department

01:07:07.660 not through USAID not through any of that live your principles America and people will notice

01:07:14.940 and want it.

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01:09:14.880 okay it has been um it's been a pleasure in the last couple of weeks as we're building up to the

01:09:26.040 250th anniversary to be able to teach you about america and tell you some of the stories about

01:09:31.940 america and show how all of our problems really can be solved if we go back and look uh at our

01:09:39.280 history um and i'd love to hear from you you know if you could write us or you know just drop us a

01:09:46.060 line somewhere or another i'd just like to know if it's connecting with you if you're like been

01:09:50.020 there done that heard that before um because i i know i find such strength in learning from history

01:09:57.040 you know um and i have been trying to teach american history over the last couple of weeks

01:10:03.160 and teach you and even teach myself.

01:10:06.060 But I want to talk today, just for a second,

01:10:09.580 the person who is holding the phone right now looking at it

01:10:11.940 and pretty sure that the future has already been canceled.

01:10:15.620 This is the younger generation.

01:10:17.820 And I can't imagine what it's like to grow up being you today

01:10:20.980 because nothing seems real.

01:10:23.380 Nothing seems solid, you know?

01:10:25.240 And the first thing you need to know is this. 0.99

01:10:28.360 Your fear is not stupid. 0.99

01:10:29.920 It's not. 0.98

01:10:30.400 You look out to the world and you see reasons to worry everywhere.

01:10:34.740 I do too.

01:10:35.380 I do too.

01:10:36.420 But I have a well that I can pull from.

01:10:40.560 You were told civilization has 20 years left unless we solve the crisis at the moment,

01:10:45.720 and you're probably 20.

01:10:47.680 You see machines now that can write and paint and code and think faster than you can.

01:10:52.560 And you wonder, are jobs even going to exist by the time I get there?

01:10:56.060 you see prices of things completely detached from paychecks housing detached from wages

01:11:02.560 headlines that read like countdown clocks on everything you've done the math on your life

01:11:08.540 the life that you were promised and the numbers don't work and you know that and so you feel like

01:11:12.540 you've been lied to and i'm not going to tell you to cheer up that's a little insulting hey cheer up

01:11:17.980 hang in there kitty uh but i want to tell you something that history class never got around

01:11:24.780 to teaching you, because this is where all the secrets lie. You're not the first generation to

01:11:30.120 be handed the end of the world. It happens all the time. You're just the first generation that

01:11:36.180 was taught that you're not going to survive it. You're not strong enough to do it. So let me

01:11:42.280 introduce you to some people. There was a guy named James Monroe. He was crossing an icy river

01:11:50.560 in the dark to attack an unbelievable, the strongest army in the world. They had no chance

01:11:55.280 of winning. That kid, when he was in the boat, he was 18 years old, James Monroe. There's a French

01:12:01.600 aristocrat that is named Lafayette. Lafayette is here. Lafayette crossed an ocean to fight for a

01:12:11.700 country that wasn't even his. You know how old Lafayette was? 19. Alexander Hamilton was an

01:12:20.340 immigrant orphan, barely out of his teens. Nathan Hale, they put a rope around his neck and he said,

01:12:26.320 my only regret is I only have one life to give for my country. You know how old he was? 21.

01:12:34.200 Okay. These aren't old men in powdered wigs. Wigs came later in the paintings. In 1776,

01:12:40.960 They were young, scared, broke, and in way over their heads.

01:12:45.720 They didn't have an army.

01:12:47.640 They had no meaningful navy.

01:12:49.680 They had no money worth speaking of.

01:12:52.640 They were rebelling against the most powerful empire on earth

01:12:55.880 with odds that made any modern-day strategist laugh and go,

01:13:00.120 I mean, the king laughed.

01:13:01.600 Go ahead.

01:13:02.860 Go ahead.

01:13:03.540 Rebel all you want.

01:13:05.260 If you would have told them they had no future, 0.67

01:13:08.420 you wouldn't have sounded irrational.

01:13:10.960 You would have sounded realistic.

01:13:13.560 Most of the world would agree.

01:13:15.920 But they built something anyway.

01:13:17.900 And that's the part that matters.

01:13:20.200 Not that they weren't afraid.

01:13:21.580 They were.

01:13:23.100 They acted despite what they were feeling.

01:13:26.380 They acted despite what they felt the world had handed them.

01:13:32.100 And if you look at this story honestly,

01:13:34.200 you have to look at everything honestly,

01:13:35.480 otherwise it becomes propaganda.

01:13:37.380 Maybe the reason you've struggled to love this country

01:13:40.120 is because you've spent your life hearing about all of its failures.

01:13:43.780 Maybe you've come to assume that anyone telling the bright version of the story

01:13:47.120 is hiding the receipts.

01:13:48.660 I mean, just look at that.

01:13:49.620 Did you know that those guys were in their teens?

01:13:51.920 Did you know that?

01:13:52.780 At the time of the revolution, they were in their teens.

01:13:55.920 Well, then how could they be the powerful, rich, greedy, you know,

01:14:00.640 capitalist that was just trying to...

01:14:03.240 They're in their teens.

01:14:05.600 Put the receipts down on the table.

01:14:07.420 Let's look at all of the facts. 0.64

01:14:08.640 the same generation that wrote all men are created equal tolerated slavery that's a fact

01:14:14.640 america broke its promises to native tribes that's a fact we interred the japanese that's a fact

01:14:22.580 we have fallen short of our own ideals so many times it's hard to count

01:14:27.320 some sometimes really brutally most times shamefully and those facts don't disappear

01:14:33.980 because they're uncomfortable, but neither does something else.

01:14:40.100 America is unusual because it was founded not just on blood

01:14:43.980 or language or tribe or territory.

01:14:46.980 It was founded on an argument.

01:14:50.360 It was founded on a sentence.

01:14:53.720 We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

01:14:58.400 That is the strangest national foundation in history.

01:15:02.740 Nobody had ever uttered those words before.

01:15:05.500 And here's why it was really strange.

01:15:06.880 Because it embedded inside of that sentence a measuring stick.

01:15:11.640 The measuring stick that judges everyone who touches it, including the men who wrote it.

01:15:19.560 Slavery violated that principle immediately.

01:15:22.640 The abolitionists didn't need to import a foreign philosophy to fight slavery.

01:15:27.040 They used that line, America's own founding words, and said,

01:15:30.680 that's your ruling stick, that's it, that's your measuring stick, you're failing. The suffragettes 1.00

01:15:37.180 did the same thing, the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King did the same thing. Martin

01:15:42.080 Luther King didn't reject the promise, he argued that America failed to keep the promise. He called

01:15:47.680 it a promissory note that had come back marked insufficient funds, and he demanded, don't

01:15:53.280 abandoned the founding principle. He demanded we honored it. That's important. Because most young

01:16:03.080 people feel their attention that they can't explain. They love justice, but they're not sure

01:16:08.860 they love America. Well, what if those two things are not opposed to each other? It's the people

01:16:19.180 that fail? What if the instinct that makes you angry when America falls short is itself deeply

01:16:27.000 American? Think about that. When you say, this is beneath us, this is, this is, we should do better.

01:16:34.860 What standard are you judging it? Usually the ideals embedded in its founding, equality,

01:16:42.320 liberty

01:16:43.600 human dignity

01:16:45.260 equal justice

01:16:46.680 equal treatment and justice under the law

01:16:48.840 you're reaching into the same well

01:16:51.320 that generations before you reached into

01:16:53.540 the founders drew from that

01:16:55.820 the abolitionists drew from that 0.54

01:16:57.860 suffragists drew from it

01:16:59.300 king drew from that well

01:17:00.600 you're drawing from that well now

01:17:02.480 your frustration is not proof the idea failed

01:17:06.360 it's proof the idea is still alive

01:17:10.620 now let's talk about the apocalypse that's coming because every every generation gets an apocalypse

01:17:18.080 and they all feel permanent they all feel unprecedented they all feel final your great

01:17:24.120 grandparents got the great depression they fought the nazis can you imagine doing that

01:17:28.580 banks collapsed in the depression millions lost jobs bread lines everywhere the land seems to

01:17:34.640 fail. There was dust bowls. Serious people announced that democracy was finished, but it

01:17:40.760 wasn't. Then your grandparents got the Cold War. Children practiced nuclear drills because they

01:17:46.720 genuinely believed the world would end in an afternoon, and it could be this afternoon.

01:17:52.040 13 days, the Cuban Missile Crisis went on. Some of the smartest people alive thought civilization

01:17:57.240 might not survive the month.

01:18:00.360 It did.

01:18:02.180 And then there's crazy things like overpopulation.

01:18:05.100 1968, a Stanford professor named Paul Ehrlich

01:18:07.980 published The Population Bomb.

01:18:10.220 This thing is so discredited.

01:18:11.920 Don't buy into The Population Bomb.

01:18:13.840 Argument's simple.

01:18:15.280 Humanity is doomed.

01:18:16.840 Mass starvation is inevitable.

01:18:18.680 Hundreds of millions will die.

01:18:20.120 Debate over, okay?

01:18:21.440 Smart people believed it.

01:18:23.600 Politicians believed it.

01:18:24.780 Journalists believed it.

01:18:25.900 The future was settled.

01:18:26.880 We're all going to die.

01:18:28.740 Then came a guy named Norman Burlog.

01:18:32.100 He's a plant scientist.

01:18:34.380 He's the guy who said, can we develop a high-yield wheat?

01:18:41.160 Because if we can do that, then we can feed the world.

01:18:45.260 The catastrophe that experts considered unavoidable never arrived because somebody had another idea.

01:18:50.700 One stubborn man working in fields changed the equation.

01:18:53.780 That could be you.

01:18:54.880 You don't know.

01:18:56.880 But the pattern is worth remembering.

01:18:59.620 Not the fears we fake.

01:19:02.640 The fears are real.

01:19:04.440 The depression was real. 0.94

01:19:05.960 The Nazis were real.

01:19:07.140 The Cold War was real. 0.87

01:19:08.400 Nuclear annihilation was real.

01:19:10.420 The threat of famine, real.

01:19:13.300 The pattern is that human beings keep solving problems

01:19:17.300 after the experts declare they're unsolvable.

01:19:22.520 Which brings us to the machine

01:19:24.300 that you're going to have to deal with.

01:19:26.300 And this is the hardest, most complex problem we've ever dealt with, artificial intelligence.

01:19:31.880 And unlike some people, I'm not going to dismiss your concerns, and I'm also not going to stand on the roof and say we're all going to die.

01:19:38.040 Because, look, this is real, and it is the defining technological question of your generation.

01:19:44.660 But understand what the actual question is.

01:19:47.460 The question isn't whether powerful technology is powerful.

01:19:52.740 Is technology powerful?

01:19:54.220 Yeah, it always has been powerful.

01:19:56.300 the nuclear weapon. The question always is who governs the power? Who controls the power? Who

01:20:03.680 benefits from the power? Who's protected from the power? That's not a new question. That's the

01:20:09.780 oldest political question there is. The founders wrestled with it too. Not about algorithms,

01:20:14.420 but about governments, empires, majorities, human nature itself. How do you prevent

01:20:21.480 concentrated power from crushing individual dignity? Well, their answer wasn't perfect,

01:20:28.040 but it was profound. Checks and balances, consent of the governed, limits on authority,

01:20:36.700 rights that exist before the government arrives and remain after the government leaves.

01:20:42.080 The technology will change over and over again. Technology changes, but the question remains.

01:20:47.380 so now we're back to the well because eventually every discussion about the future ends there at

01:20:53.960 the well why does a human being matter why do individuals matter the founders gave the answer

01:21:02.740 and you don't have to agree with it but it shaped everything that followed they argued that your

01:21:08.780 rights don't come from a king or parliament or a president or majority or a corporation or a

01:21:15.160 machine. They're inherent and they belong to you because you're a human. That's what they meant

01:21:22.440 by being endowed by your creator with certain inalienable rights. The source matters because

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01:21:35.840 state, the state can redefine it. If your worth comes from public opinion, public opinion can

01:21:41.680 withdraw it. If your worth comes from economic usefulness, a machine may eventually outperform

01:21:47.100 you. But if human dignity exists independent of those things, then none of those things get the

01:21:54.540 vote. Not the government, not the market, not the algorithm, not the crowd, none of it. That's the

01:22:00.960 well. The belief that every person possesses value that cannot be measured by productivity,

01:22:07.720 popularity, wealth, or utility. And wells matter because civilizations get thirsty,

01:22:14.500 and we are really, really thirsty. Sooner or later, every generation reaches a point where

01:22:21.620 fear runs ahead of confidence, where problems look bigger than the solution, where decline

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01:22:59.460 It's not something that simply happens to you. It is something you help create. You weather.

01:23:06.400 Every institution you inherited was once an impossible idea.

01:23:10.940 Every freedom was once and still is fragile.

01:23:14.780 Every improvement was once unfinished work.

01:23:17.700 Somebody before you built those things while they were afraid.

01:23:21.500 Not after the fear has disappeared, during that.

01:23:25.920 And here's really a couple of keys that I haven't hit, but will in a couple of days.

01:23:30.940 Because I guess, because I feel this way.

01:23:33.040 Nothing feels real and you feel empty, okay?

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01:23:43.260 Let me leave you this.

01:23:44.240 God connects you to your soul,

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01:23:49.600 That's imperative.

01:23:52.560 Have children.

01:23:54.020 Be good to them.

01:23:54.800 Be good to people.

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01:23:57.100 And the second thing is build with your hands.

01:23:59.700 Your body connects you to your soul,

01:24:02.340 and that cannot be de-severed.

01:24:04.560 We're missing those two things.

01:24:06.620 Those are really important

01:24:08.000 because the torch is being handed to you now.

01:24:10.960 Not because previous generations finished the job.

01:24:13.500 They didn't.

01:24:14.780 They knew they wouldn't.

01:24:15.700 Nobody ever finishes it.

01:24:17.040 That's why they pass it on to you.

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01:24:21.740 Believe in yourself.

01:24:23.260 The work is still there and so are you

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01:30:20.120 of this uh and he has written a new book i am teddy roosevelt he has this whole book series out

01:30:24.800 for kids um about you know heroes of american history and this one is about teddy roosevelt

01:30:31.300 who i have a love-hate relationship with um i love the guy but he was also and i give him a break and

01:30:37.460 Maybe I shouldn't, but I give him a break because it's he's before you start to see the results of what deep progressivism does and, you know, eugenics and everything else.

01:30:50.460 But he was deeply into all that stuff.

01:30:52.300 But he also, at the same time, is a monstrous hero.

01:30:56.800 I mean, just he belongs on Mount Rushmore because he is a giant sized hero, a man like no other.

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01:32:53.640 you thank you so for joining us on zoom um so i want to talk to you we're going to talk to you

01:32:58.720 about Teddy Roosevelt but let's start with the news the um the fight that happened at the White

01:33:04.440 House I thought of Theodore Roosevelt the whole time everybody is freaking out Theodore Roosevelt

01:33:11.640 that's his kind of thing don't you think uh well here's what I think I actually was not a fan of

01:33:18.540 the fight at the White House because I just felt like it was um I think what I love about the Teddy

01:33:25.180 Roosevelt is Teddy Roosevelt would fight. Teddy Roosevelt was the guy who got in the ring. Yes,

01:33:31.180 he had fights there, but also wanted to fight there. I just don't like the money making part

01:33:36.660 of it. I like the fighting part I get. Teddy Roosevelt has this, Nixon has Bowling, everyone

01:33:41.980 present has their thing. I just didn't like the cash value of it. But of course, how could I not

01:33:47.040 think of Teddy Roosevelt when you're thinking of fighting? It's the guy who truly was the guy who

01:33:53.640 had fights at the white house how do you how do you reconcile him as a as a parent because i

01:34:01.200 there's parts of me that absolutely loves him as a parent and there's parts of me that go you would

01:34:07.640 be in jail today he used to take his kids out and i don't remember the age you probably do but he

01:34:12.980 would take them out they were very young and he would just take them out in the middle of forest

01:34:16.580 and say find your way home and yeah they'd have to find their way home because they he taught them

01:34:23.120 how to survive in anything listen he's complicated every hero and and i listen i owe you a huge thank

01:34:32.360 you this whole series started i came and launched it on your show it was to give people better

01:34:38.380 american heroes to look up to we started with the obvious i am abraham lincoln i am amelia

01:34:43.780 at heart people we love i am rosa parks we've done together on this show and every book i've

01:34:49.180 dunglin someone has written to me and said that person has this wrong with them not wrong with

01:34:54.200 them they shouldn't have done this they shouldn't have done that and they're right every person

01:34:58.000 we've written about is complicated the only person that's perfect and you know is of course god

01:35:02.940 and everyone else take a number right we're all flawed in some way and teddy roosevelt

01:35:07.720 the reason why it took me so long this is our 39th book in the series is he was most complicated

01:35:15.240 maybe the most complicated person we've written about. And yes, I don't feature some of the

01:35:21.320 things he's done that you've talked about. I don't feature problematic things he's done as

01:35:26.420 his presidency goes on. But you know what I do feature? I love the fact that when he's a little

01:35:31.380 kid, his father doesn't like bullies. And his father says, when you have money and you have

01:35:37.540 power, that doesn't make you fantastic or strong or terrific. What it does is it gives you a

01:35:44.000 responsibility, a responsibility to help other people. So you see those orphans that are in the

01:35:49.400 streets that have no place to live, we got to help them. You see these workers that are suffering

01:35:53.640 under bad conditions, we got to stand up and make sure they're not being taken advantage of. And

01:35:58.060 that's what he does with the environment. And the great outdoors, our mutual love, right,

01:36:01.880 has always been, is he goes to those great outdoors and says, we have to protect them.

01:36:06.380 And we have a responsibility to the environment too. And those are the parts, of course, that I

01:36:11.040 picked to feature in the book sure um you know my editor was like maybe we shouldn't talk about the

01:36:16.360 later parts of his life maybe we shouldn't talk about these parts but maybe we don't talk about

01:36:20.140 abandoning your kids in the wilderness um but that doesn't mean he doesn't have amazing amazing

01:36:25.260 things to teach us no i know but i mean you're writing a kid's book and i i get that you you

01:36:30.660 cover all the important things that make him a great guy um but i but he is so i think he's

01:36:37.620 probably the the president that is he's probably the most complicated president since Jefferson

01:36:45.920 I think those two I have a hard time reconciling I like both of them I like and I can understand

01:36:53.560 both of them um and maybe because um Roosevelt is closer to me and I don't even know if this is

01:37:01.000 right you know he was a big eugenist guy I mean we have some documents where he is like look we

01:37:06.380 wouldn't do this with our cattle just let them breed with anybody we got to pick and choose who

01:37:10.840 we breed you know who we let have children um but i i look at that and think he's at the beginning

01:37:16.940 of this science he doesn't understand what it's going to turn into um and you you could have made

01:37:24.240 that case back then because you didn't have any negative am i being too kind on that or do you

01:37:30.580 i don't think you're being too kind on you know eugenics i mean that's a huge issue

01:37:35.800 I think, you know, as we all look, that's a moment in time where I certainly don't think he knows what's going to happen in the future and what it's going to be turned into.

01:37:45.840 Of course, what I focus on very strongly is how he gets there.

01:37:50.620 And as you said, he's a complicated president.

01:37:53.220 But as a person and as someone growing up, it's an incredibly great hero to give to my kids.

01:37:59.920 And let's talk about why, because it is important.

01:38:01.960 I think today, Teddy Roosevelt is sometimes held out as being that strong guy, the macho guy. Look at him. He's the big stick, the whole thing. But that's not who he is when he's growing up. He's actually sick a lot. He's smaller than everyone else. He gets picked on. He's so scared when he's little that his mother used to read to him to go to bed because he was so scared to go to bed.

01:38:23.120 he used to get bullied and that's when he takes boxing lessons because his dad is like listen you

01:38:28.820 know fighting is a last resort but if you're being picked on you've got to stand up and i can tell

01:38:33.560 you my editor wanted to take that part out of the book and i was like no no no no right we have to

01:38:39.680 put that in i learned the same thing from my dad i remember being picked on my dad teaching me how

01:38:44.520 to throw a punch and not that that's the answer but listen when you're pushed around and someone

01:38:50.900 picks on you, you have to stand up and say no. And that was a key part of the book that we put

01:38:56.560 in there. And what I love is... Go ahead. Do you think that's his turning point?

01:39:02.540 I think the turning point is this. And it's the part that I think you and I,

01:39:05.780 I'm going to wager just knowing how much we know each other, is your favorite part of his story,

01:39:10.860 which is his turning point. He's not the great outdoorsman. He loves animals his whole life.

01:39:15.940 He had mice and spiders he used to keep in his room.

01:39:20.900 He was a weird kid.

01:39:21.880 He'd keep animals in his pockets, and he called his bedroom to the Roosevelt Museum of Natural History.

01:39:27.100 It's a weird kid, but here's the turning point.

01:39:31.460 His father dies, and then soon after, his mother and his wife die on the same day, Glenn, on Valentine's Day.

01:39:38.680 On that day, he's devastated, loses the great two women in his life, and he can't get over it.

01:39:45.940 So he moves in that moment.

01:39:48.200 He can't, he's suffering in New York.

01:39:49.800 He moves to their ranch out in North Dakota.

01:39:53.860 And in North Dakota, he just sits under the stars and he listens to the wolves.

01:39:59.440 And it's there that he really develops that need and that truth, what I call his experience

01:40:07.420 in the great outdoors.

01:40:09.040 He's never a great rider until he gets out there.

01:40:11.460 And then he starts spending 12 hours, 13 days in the saddle.

01:40:14.720 You know what that takes.

01:40:15.940 in degrees that are crazy below zero temperatures. And what I love about him when he does that

01:40:22.060 is he, it's not, he's not the best writer. It's, he worked hard in it day after day.

01:40:28.800 And if being out in nature teaches him anything, it's like success doesn't come from having natural

01:40:35.120 gifts. It comes from how hard you work those gifts. And that's where he falls in love and

01:40:41.220 starts protecting the outdoors. And on this one July 4th, as we come up to July 4th ourselves,

01:40:47.720 he gives this speech, they ask him to speak. And he says this quote, and this is his speech. He

01:40:52.500 says, like all Americans, I love big things, big prairies, big forests, big factories,

01:40:58.380 but we also have a responsibility to protect things that can't take care of themselves.

01:41:03.140 And that's when he starts protecting Yellowstone and Yosemite and Niagara Falls. And he creates

01:41:08.740 five national parks those national parks that you and i love so much they exist because of teddy

01:41:14.340 roosevelt that's who gave us the national parks and federal lands and wildlife bird preserves and

01:41:20.520 that's why he's on mount rushmore not because of you know even the big stick or the freedom

01:41:25.540 fighters or anything else it's all because of what he does to our national parks so next time you're

01:41:31.100 in a national park this summer say a prayer and thank teddy roosevelt for that one and to me that

01:41:36.380 is the lesson I wanted for my kids

01:41:38.060 to teach them that love of the great outdoors.

01:41:41.280 I love Mount Rushmore.

01:41:42.920 I love Mount Rushmore.

01:41:44.700 But I find it so ironic

01:41:47.700 that they carved his face in a mountain

01:41:52.800 and he was the guy who was protecting

01:41:56.060 and saying, leave everything alone.

01:41:57.920 Leave it the way it is.

01:41:59.300 Leave the mountains alone.

01:42:01.220 And they carved his face into it.

01:42:02.760 So ironic.

01:42:03.800 When I've been to Mount Rushmore,

01:42:06.380 There's an, I can't even tell you every time that I've been there, I have someone, cause

01:42:12.680 I can't help but listen on everyone.

01:42:13.920 And someone says, oh yeah, there it is.

01:42:16.620 Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and FDR.

01:42:19.600 And I'm like, it's not FDR.

01:42:21.340 I can't help myself.

01:42:22.140 I'm just like, it's not, it's the other Roosevelt.

01:42:23.800 There's another Roosevelt.

01:42:24.740 And that is the irony.

01:42:26.400 Of course, my favorite part of Mount Rushmore, you know, there's a secret room behind Mount

01:42:31.340 Rushmore, which I spent a lot of months trying to get into.

01:42:35.240 It's just a storage room. But the fact that there's a secret room behind Mount Rushmore, come on, baby. You know I love that.

01:42:41.620 cool so cool um one thing that um the story to me that defines him and his just inner strength to go

01:42:54.900 on is he is going over um to accept the nomination to run for president um and he's going to run

01:43:04.180 against wilson and he's trying to get the nomination of the progressive party blah blah

01:43:07.700 blah which he starts um and he's going to give this speech and he talks so long he's so long

01:43:13.140 winded he talks so long he folds this speech up and he puts it in his pocket he has then his

01:43:17.820 glasses and he puts his glasses into his pocket into his shirt pocket he puts a heavy coat on

01:43:22.480 he goes across the street somebody shoots him the bullet goes through his glasses then through

01:43:28.340 the speech which i have the speech i know you have the speech that was what trust me i was

01:43:32.560 waiting all day because i know you told me you have it i don't know if i was supposed to say it

01:43:35.420 or not yeah yeah listen it's a great bullet hole in it speech the speech saves his life

01:43:41.660 saves his life protects him in the assassination attempt i debated putting that into the book

01:43:48.220 because it's so good but it goes through it goes through i love the fact that a politician is

01:43:52.440 protected by his own words i know i know so it goes through the speech it's slowed down so much

01:43:58.660 that it just lodges between his ribs and it stays between his ribs forever but then he goes on to

01:44:04.000 give a 45 minute and he's saying right and he's saying please you know you gotta there's no

01:44:09.660 microphones or anything there's thousands of people there and he has to project and give

01:44:13.160 this speech and at one point his coat kind of opens up and everybody sees all the blood on his

01:44:18.440 shirt and and they laugh or they like gasp and he's like i told you i was shot but nobody believed

01:44:23.420 him nobody well that's the best part is where does that come from i'm finishing the speech

01:44:28.800 because i'm not done right and that right i know again he's complicated but he has these hero

01:44:37.860 moments that you're like oh my goodness like you can't know if i get if i put that in one of my

01:44:43.680 thrillers my editor would say no one's gonna believe that no there's no one that's gonna

01:44:48.260 believe that but he over and over has these moments like he even when he's younger he has

01:44:54.380 these moments when bullies come and pick on him he goes and gets the boxing lessons you can hear

01:44:59.400 the rocky theme being played in your head oh yeah and he then fights back and beats up the bullies

01:45:05.340 and you know again it sounds like something that's just made up but the fact that this guy rises and

01:45:12.080 and when he goes to run for the for his first office he loses he comes in third he runs for

01:45:17.560 i think mayor of new york and i love the fact that he loses and i love the fact he won't stay

01:45:23.700 down on the mat and keeps getting back up. That's why I wrote the kid's book for him,

01:45:28.500 is I want my sons, I want my daughter to have that lesson that you can be. It's what it says

01:45:34.240 in the back of the book. Every kid's book we do, yes, they're history books, but they're value

01:45:39.140 books. So on the back of I am Amelia Earhart, it says, I know no bounds. On the back of I am

01:45:44.720 Abraham Lincoln, it says, I will speak my mind and speak for others. On the back of I am Teddy

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01:47:54.800 audiobook get hooked today at torch 250.com hey jason i love your opinion on this uh just talking

01:48:03.740 about uh theodore roosevelt and how he went on to give that speech for 45 minutes almost an hour

01:48:10.740 before they took him to the hospital after being shot.

01:48:13.940 There is no doubt in my mind

01:48:16.260 that if Secret Service would have allowed it,

01:48:19.160 Donald Trump would have gotten back off.

01:48:20.900 Now, I know it was only an ear wound,

01:48:23.200 but he is cut from exactly the same cloth

01:48:27.080 as Theodore Roosevelt.

01:48:28.420 He would have gotten back up

01:48:30.340 and said, I'm finishing the speech, I don't care.

01:48:34.800 Secret Service would not have allowed him to do that,

01:48:37.220 and it's not the president's prerogative

01:48:38.660 in those situations to override the secret service they protect the constitution uh and

01:48:43.960 the president is part of that line um but is there any doubt in your mind he would have gotten back

01:48:49.080 up and finished that speech oh no you saw the look on his face he he was pissed he was absolutely

01:48:55.520 pissed he was holding the secret service back with his fist clenched in the air 100 he wanted

01:49:00.120 to stay out there but yeah can you imagine what he would have said in that that speech would have

01:49:06.040 been remarkable could have been really really bad but it could have been really good it would have

01:49:11.980 been remarkable to hear him say in the moment after being shot to stand back back up and just

01:49:19.340 speak i mean yeah i would i you know i wish we could go back in time and just watch an alternate

01:49:26.560 universe version of that to see what he would have said you know what next time i interview him i'm

01:49:31.580 going to ask him what do you think you would have said i'll bring him the speech with theodore rose

01:49:36.440 with a bullet hole through it and have him see that and then ask him he went on to speak i know

01:49:41.580 secret service wouldn't let you what would you have said be fascinating fascinating i don't know

01:49:49.240 do you know anybody like that jason i mean you're in this you were in the service you were in the

01:49:53.040 marines so you guys are all tough guys do you know anybody like that in a public official like a

01:49:59.500 politician yeah uh yeah no actually not because i i've been involved with protecting a few of them

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01:50:11.800 scary situations i think i would have run for the hills you think i would have run for the hills

01:50:15.480 you would have looked at something to crawl under 100 thank you for that i feel so much

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01:52:25.800 unbelievable uh i've got a lot of things to do jason i want to bring you back in because i want

01:52:32.320 to finish our conversation real quick um about our conversation between theodore osvelt and

01:52:37.500 donald trump if donald trump would have finished uh the speech i don't know did you see the thing

01:52:43.160 it's cut 10 where joe rogan was talking at the ufc fight and talking about you know maybe there

01:52:50.300 we could have been killed you know is anybody worried i'm a little worried about being killed

01:52:54.460 donald trump without blinking listen to this cut 10 i was honestly really nervous joe i was like

01:53:01.620 dude there's like just again being around everybody and something could happen the drones that could

01:53:06.720 that they stopped.

01:53:08.820 Again, I wasn't knowing what to expect

01:53:10.580 until after the fight, because again,

01:53:12.620 we couldn't take it in. It was a beautiful thing.

01:53:14.200 I was like, f*** it. If I get taken out in the middle of the 0.99

01:53:16.780 cage, how f***ing legendary would that be? 0.57

01:53:19.040 I said to Trump, I go, I hope we don't 1.00

01:53:20.580 f*** you, dude. I said to Trump, 0.99

01:53:22.720 I hope we don't die in a terrorist attack. He goes,

01:53:24.460 we gotta go somehow. 0.99

01:53:26.120 I go, what the f***? 0.96

01:53:28.780 Everyone will remember it for the rest of 0.99

01:53:30.500 an eternity.

01:53:32.460 I'll pass. Sign me up, bud.

01:53:33.980 that is the way he is though gotta go somewhere look gotta go my today might be the day he is

01:53:42.640 just a different dude and i i love that about him i i do too and what's crazy about this situation

01:53:49.240 that they're in that he has just gotten accustomed to did you see the the melania documentary i think

01:53:53.880 it's on prime or whatever you could tell there were multiple different occasions where melania

01:53:59.660 set in right before the inauguration with uh her husband and you could tell she was terrified like

01:54:06.240 they're like oh we can go here you can get outside and she's like oh my gosh even places that like

01:54:10.800 seemed like they might be secure she wasn't completely sold i yeah i didn't i didn't get

01:54:16.780 the feeling that she was terrified i got the feeling she was terrified for him it wasn't about

01:54:22.380 her she was like are you going to keep him safe that's the way i remember it i don't know if that's

01:54:26.900 what she said but you're gonna keep him safe is that safe to do she was i got that impression

01:54:33.880 i feel like maybe i got it wrong i feel like at one point baron was going to be at one of these

01:54:38.220 locations and it seemed like she mentioned something like that about just being nervous

01:54:41.660 for him but i mean the fact that we have gotten into that point oh oh yeah oh yeah you remember

01:54:47.580 when were you you weren't with me in israel um israel became an actual military operation when

01:54:53.080 i did that show there um and everybody tried to get me not to do it and i'm like i'm i'm doing it

01:54:58.300 um and i was called in the prime minister's office that morning and he said this is no longer your

01:55:04.140 event this is an israeli military operation there are two suicide vests out that are targeting your

01:55:09.260 event um we will have security all over that place beyond your security um and we got there and i

01:55:16.240 mean they had you know little red dots you know you would see them on the back wall of the temple

01:55:22.040 mount uh once in a while you could see the snipers were everywhere and it was a military event

01:55:27.740 uh yeah and uh and you know tanya tanya was there with me but she would not let the kids come and i

01:55:35.940 didn't want the kids there anyway because they were too young but she was like you know that i

01:55:39.580 mean that's a mom no but she was there not the kids yeah kids it was a military operation to

01:55:46.300 protect you over there because of like military opera people like terrorists that use military

01:55:50.720 tactics it's crazy that that is how it has devolved here in the united states as well i mean we we

01:55:55.600 just had the first federal anti-terrorism prosecution and they're using military style

01:56:00.560 tactics yeah good so i want to talk about this because this is the way this is the way everybody

01:56:05.860 is reporting this update uh texts uh eight texas protesters were sentenced today following a july

01:56:12.020 4th noise demo outside of an ice detention center the federal government rounded up 18 activists

01:56:18.900 tied to an anti-ice protest in Texas

01:56:21.260 claiming they were part of an antifacel.

01:56:23.480 That is the first big test of Trump's crackdown on free speech.

01:56:27.700 Okay, they say they were just protesters.

01:56:30.720 Protesters don't come and shoot a cop or an ICE agent in the neck.

01:56:36.740 Okay, you don't come with a military plan to a protest. 0.99

01:56:41.780 You are a terrorist.

01:56:43.560 You don't do that. 0.70

01:56:44.480 I mean, what is the noise demo thing?

01:56:48.900 What, are they claiming that this was a noise disturbance?

01:56:53.140 Do you know, Ricky?

01:56:56.680 No, but Jason, you know, was pretty close to some of the people in the ring.

01:57:01.720 I'm kidding, Jason.

01:57:02.420 And he has a lot of details about actually how much plotting went into this.

01:57:06.420 So it wasn't just an organic grassroots protest.

01:57:09.340 This was a real terrorist plot.

01:57:11.260 Jason?

01:57:11.500 So the noise demo thing was, I think, was just the fireworks display that they did to, that was not a noise demo in protest.

01:57:22.040 That was the way that they got them over to the kill zone.

01:57:27.180 The only noise that should be concerned about was the, as the guy is bleeding out from his neck after you shot him.

01:57:36.840 That's the noise that people should be concerned about.

01:57:39.860 um so tell me about the planning of this thing because people are upset now they got 100 years

01:57:45.700 and i'm telling you if this if liberal judges get a hold of this and they reduce this sentence and

01:57:50.620 make this sentence go away texas is doomed this sends a message to antifa and everybody else

01:57:56.480 you can protest all you want you bring a gun and you bring violence into it that's not a protest

01:58:02.720 that's terror and you're going away in texas for the rest of your life that's the only thing that

01:58:08.720 will send a message to these people. And that's the message they need to hear. So what planning

01:58:14.340 went on? Yeah, just wild. I mean, we talked about just the plan in general that looked like a

01:58:20.420 military-style attack, a distraction, get them into a kill zone. Then you read about what

01:58:27.000 investigators recovered afterwards. And I'm reading this from Andy Ngo, who's been following

01:58:30.520 this really closely. He said, investigators recovered a cache of weapons, ammunition,

01:58:36.140 and electronic devices stored in Faraday bags.

01:58:40.440 Authorities also later recovered Antifa anarchist propaganda.

01:58:43.380 Testimony established that members of the group had trained together

01:58:45.980 and collectively acquired more than 50 firearms before the attack.

01:58:51.400 And this is not to mention how they were using signal groups

01:58:56.400 to coordinate movements, even escape afterwards.

01:58:58.700 I mean, there were no witnesses to this that would testify on their behalf.

01:59:03.980 The only witnesses that actually testified on this were members of their own group that turned state evidence and worked with the prosecution against their comrades, I guess they would call them.

01:59:15.760 Just wild.

01:59:16.740 So two of them were sentenced to 70 and another one to 100 years.

01:59:24.540 The one who wasn't even at the protest was sentenced to 30 years.

01:59:29.520 You don't get that kind of sentence for a protest.

01:59:32.320 You don't.

01:59:33.580 What kind of deal do you think the people that testified turned against them?

01:59:37.760 What kind of deal did they get?

01:59:39.740 That's a good question.

01:59:40.940 So there's eight of them, of the co-defendants,

01:59:43.660 and their sentencing is scheduled for July 4th.

01:59:46.880 So we'll find out very soon.

01:59:48.960 Oh, my.

01:59:50.240 What an amazing day to lose your freedom.

01:59:55.760 Wow.

01:59:58.920 Wow.

01:59:59.760 Do judges even work on July 4th?

02:00:02.200 That's an interesting day.

02:00:03.580 july 1st oh july 1st oh they said july 4th okay that's fascinating fascinating well i mean

02:00:12.220 i have absolutely no sympathy when i heard it i don't usually cheer at verdicts or anything else

02:00:17.840 you know justice justice is justice but i heard this one and i and i when i when it first happened

02:00:24.740 i said good which is the most the closest i get to cheering for a verdict that is absolutely the

02:00:31.300 right verdict that is absolutely the right sentence i should say um if you know these guys

02:00:36.880 went in with guns military operation they absolutely it's like the other people what did

02:00:41.900 the other guy get in dallas do you know has he been tried or sentenced yet the guy in dallas

02:00:46.860 suicide so he got eternity in hell okay um the only thing that will stop these people

02:00:58.080 because they all think that, I mean, some of them are not going to stop. 0.99

02:01:02.680 Some of them are so committed, they will kill and be killed.

02:01:05.840 And, you know, you're not going to stop those people with deterrence.

02:01:08.720 But there's a lot of people that are, you know, 18 years old or 25 years old,

02:01:12.940 and they're like, yeah, we're just protesting.

02:01:15.380 No, there's a big line between protesting that is protected by the Constitution.

02:01:19.180 If you're protesting and you're not bringing violence into the situation

02:01:22.720 and you're saying stuff that I absolutely despise, I'll testify on your behalf.

02:01:28.080 But you're bringing, you're bringing violence into it. Nope. Nope. You shoot somebody. No,

02:01:35.880 no. I'm glad you get a hundred years because that message, you know, there, there's a reason

02:01:42.800 why we used to have automatic death penalty for cops. You shoot a cop. It is automatic death 0.97

02:01:49.620 penalty. And in the old days, it used to happen quickly. Oh, you got the sentence. It's death

02:01:56.280 penalty, take them outside, shoot them. I mean, it was fast. You'd be hung in a week. And they did 1.00

02:02:01.820 that because too many cops were getting killed. And as soon as that happened, you saw all the

02:02:07.500 organized crime and everything else. They stopped killing cops immediately. People generally get

02:02:13.060 the message. I get caught. I die. In this country, the problem is, especially like in places like

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02:04:44.360 history only survives if they do torch members get an exclusive preview of the chasing embers

02:04:54.660 audiobook get hooked today at torch 250.com uh elizabeth just wrote in she said glenn chasing

02:05:03.900 embers audio the first two chapters is so well done looking forward to uh to read the next book

02:05:10.060 in the series. The entire audio book comes out. People have been asking me about a follow-up of

02:05:16.320 this book forever. I think I released it two years ago. It was a New York Times bestseller,

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02:05:55.480 Marx. And I thought, you know what? When they make Thomas Jefferson and our founding documents

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02:06:07.140 say this is the way humans are so um i told uh michaela one of our great producers um to uh

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02:06:32.340 now it's out this summer and it's a great way to learn history it's a dystopian fiction for

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02:07:50.940 250 LFG says, serious question.

02:07:54.800 I have a trip planned to D.C. for the 4th of July with my kids.

02:07:57.840 Am I nuts?

02:07:59.000 This show is making me nervous.

02:08:01.380 This show?

02:08:02.260 Today's show?

02:08:03.640 I mean, I wasn't even trying to make you nervous.

02:08:05.200 I can make you nervous.

02:08:06.720 Really?

02:08:07.060 You're nervous about going to Washington, D.C.?

02:08:09.280 Look, you should be nervous about going anywhere, okay?

02:08:11.680 And then blow it off.

02:08:12.580 Because wherever you are is wherever, you know, there's, what's going to happen is going to happen.

02:08:18.460 and you know i don't want to be the department of homeland security i i think they deserve a

02:08:24.680 mighty round of applause by the end of this summer and uh by the uh end of the year protecting

02:08:31.740 america's 250 protecting our cities our airports and everything else with everything that they've

02:08:37.180 gone through and everything that everybody is coming after us with it's remarkable what they

02:08:42.520 have thwarted don't worry about i mean otherwise you'll not you're not going to do anything in

02:08:47.560 your life. Don't worry about it. I'm going, I'm going to be there. I'm going to be on the mall

02:08:52.500 with my family on 4th of July and everything else. I'm not getting any special treatment and

02:08:56.680 we're going, um, because it's America's 250th. You will never see these things ever again

02:09:04.200 in your lifetime. Bring your kids, join it. It's going to be really remarkable. Uh, I'm speaking

02:09:11.580 like at least twice a day

02:09:14.220 for the whole week of 4th of July

02:09:16.640 when I can tell you

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