Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 25, 2023


Tik Tok Flooded with Bin Laden Propaganda, Infrastructure Money Tied to Woke Initiatives, & Education Changing Country Forever the Week In Review


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30 minutes

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163.57607

Word Count

5,031

Sentence Count

115

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

27


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.540 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.340 Welcome, it's Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:08.160 Week in Review, Ben Ferguson with you,
00:00:10.260 and I hope you had a fabulous time
00:00:12.500 with your family over Thanksgiving.
00:00:14.800 Now, here are some of the stories
00:00:16.540 that you may have missed this week
00:00:18.060 that we talked about.
00:00:19.420 First up, China flooding TikTok
00:00:22.040 with Osama Bin Laden propaganda,
00:00:25.500 getting young people to read his letter to America
00:00:28.480 and then advocate for Osama Bin Laden's viewpoint.
00:00:33.040 How are we allowing this to happen
00:00:34.620 in this country and around the world?
00:00:36.900 We're going to dive into that
00:00:38.540 and what this means with China
00:00:40.380 trying to control the minds of young people
00:00:43.120 all over the world.
00:00:45.080 Up next, infrastructure.
00:00:47.200 If you ask voters,
00:00:48.280 it's something they're all in favor of,
00:00:50.220 better roads.
00:00:51.340 But what happens when the roads
00:00:53.020 turn into woke agenda items?
00:00:56.420 Well, billions and billions of your tax dollars
00:00:59.200 that were meant for infrastructure projects
00:01:01.940 are now tied to woke initiatives,
00:01:04.500 and we'll expose that.
00:01:06.240 And finally, education is changing in this country,
00:01:10.280 and that education that has nothing to do
00:01:13.140 with reading, writing, and arithmetic
00:01:14.480 may be changing this nation forever.
00:01:18.180 The senator will break down that warning for you as well.
00:01:21.620 It's the Week in Review,
00:01:22.940 and it starts right now.
00:01:24.680 This goes into something else
00:01:26.660 that I have to bring up,
00:01:27.600 and it's something that we've seen on TikTok.
00:01:29.360 Now, if you don't know what TikTok is,
00:01:30.560 we've talked about this before.
00:01:32.120 Quick recap, it's an app that a ton of people use.
00:01:35.920 Especially young people.
00:01:36.980 Especially young people.
00:01:37.980 And China uses it to influence
00:01:40.320 young people specifically.
00:01:43.600 We saw an unbelievable uptick on TikTok,
00:01:47.380 and there's data to back this up,
00:01:48.960 of pro-Hamas videos,
00:01:51.520 pro-Hamas propaganda,
00:01:53.500 anti-Israel propaganda,
00:01:55.480 pro-Palestinian propaganda.
00:01:57.000 A Harvard poll recently came out
00:02:00.260 that said of Americans 18 to 24,
00:02:02.760 51% believe that Hamas' atrocities
00:02:07.200 could be justified.
00:02:08.780 51%, more than half of young people.
00:02:11.500 And TikTok is affirmatively pushing
00:02:13.740 this pro-Hamas propaganda,
00:02:16.540 this garbage to young people.
00:02:18.880 And it has an enormous negative influence.
00:02:21.120 And I want to put on now
00:02:23.220 one video from TikTok
00:02:25.080 that went viral this week
00:02:26.460 that shows just how cancerous.
00:02:29.300 And it deals with Osama bin Laden,
00:02:30.840 so if you understand the context of this.
00:02:32.900 There was,
00:02:33.800 and this clearly is propaganda
00:02:35.320 meant to influence.
00:02:36.740 And there was a letter
00:02:37.760 that Osama bin Laden had put out
00:02:40.400 before, it was, I guess,
00:02:41.640 technically right before 9-11
00:02:42.900 or justifying the 9-11 attacks
00:02:44.720 and explaining his thoughts
00:02:46.560 on why he was doing 9-11.
00:02:48.660 This letter, decades later,
00:02:51.400 has gone viral only on TikTok,
00:02:54.840 go back to propaganda of China,
00:02:56.980 to influence young people
00:02:57.980 to believe that somehow
00:02:59.420 Osama bin Laden was justified
00:03:01.580 in his 9-11 attack
00:03:03.640 the same way that they're justifying
00:03:05.500 Hamas' attack on Israel.
00:03:08.300 And this is what Americans are saying
00:03:12.060 about reading this letter
00:03:13.580 for the first time on TikTok, look.
00:03:16.400 So it starts with a woman,
00:03:18.040 me when I got the news in 2011
00:03:19.600 that we got him
00:03:20.600 and she's celebrating.
00:03:21.720 Then 2023,
00:03:23.120 reading his letter to America
00:03:24.240 knowing he was right.
00:03:25.840 Osama bin Laden,
00:03:26.600 that's what they're talking about.
00:03:27.440 Actually, before you even read the letter,
00:03:29.480 I did want to mention,
00:03:30.660 in reading the letter,
00:03:31.540 I could only think of this tweet
00:03:32.940 that I saw the other day.
00:03:34.400 Under settler colonialism,
00:03:35.580 any kind of resistance
00:03:36.880 is branded as terrorist
00:03:38.220 because the only acceptable violence
00:03:39.980 is violence by the occupier.
00:03:41.940 So please keep that in mind
00:03:43.660 when reading the letter.
00:03:44.420 Another young person.
00:03:45.360 Um, we really need to stop paying taxes
00:03:47.700 because they ain't doing nothing
00:03:49.940 but messing up everybody else
00:03:51.320 and America is the bully.
00:03:54.240 And it's sad
00:03:54.920 because they have brainwashed us
00:03:57.020 to think that we was the best country
00:03:58.480 on the planet,
00:03:59.900 when in reality,
00:04:01.020 we're the worst country on the planet.
00:04:03.000 It is just insane
00:04:05.200 because this letter
00:04:06.320 is so well written
00:04:07.900 and so reasonably structured,
00:04:09.820 um,
00:04:11.020 in an argument.
00:04:12.520 Like,
00:04:13.020 you gotta present your findings,
00:04:14.600 you gotta,
00:04:15.180 you know,
00:04:16.260 you gotta state your cause,
00:04:18.660 all that.
00:04:19.540 Like,
00:04:19.860 everything he said
00:04:21.020 was valid.
00:04:22.780 Everything Osama bin Laden
00:04:24.480 said was
00:04:25.100 valid.
00:04:26.820 The guy before saying,
00:04:27.760 we need to stop paying taxes
00:04:28.960 because Osama bin Laden
00:04:30.860 was right.
00:04:31.720 And we're the worst country
00:04:33.460 in the world.
00:04:34.880 Hashtag,
00:04:35.480 uh,
00:04:35.780 Free Palestine.
00:04:36.500 It's at the bottom.
00:04:37.160 I don't know if you noticed that.
00:04:38.360 Look,
00:04:38.540 this is,
00:04:39.860 all of these
00:04:40.820 are young people.
00:04:42.240 This is on,
00:04:42.880 on TikTok.
00:04:44.220 These young people
00:04:45.220 are profoundly ignorant.
00:04:46.520 They don't know anything.
00:04:48.320 But they're also,
00:04:50.800 TikTok is deliberately curated.
00:04:54.120 The algorithm is controlled.
00:04:56.740 The recommendation algorithm
00:04:58.180 is controlled
00:04:59.120 by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:05:00.940 I mentioned the last
00:05:01.760 classified briefing
00:05:02.500 I went to this week,
00:05:03.460 Ben.
00:05:04.060 So the topic of it
00:05:05.500 was social media
00:05:07.520 and disinformation.
00:05:09.100 And so it included
00:05:09.720 a number of,
00:05:10.460 of,
00:05:10.760 uh,
00:05:12.140 folks from the government.
00:05:13.080 This was a joint
00:05:14.100 classified briefing
00:05:15.160 with the Commerce Committee
00:05:16.300 where I'm the ranking Republican
00:05:17.620 and the Intelligence Committee.
00:05:20.040 So we met together.
00:05:21.680 And I can't tell you
00:05:22.980 what they said,
00:05:23.820 but I can't tell you
00:05:24.420 the questions I asked
00:05:25.360 because the questions
00:05:25.980 I asked are not classified.
00:05:27.120 Uh,
00:05:28.320 and the question I asked,
00:05:29.520 I said,
00:05:29.800 what evidence do we have
00:05:30.700 specifically
00:05:31.340 that TikTok
00:05:32.940 is affirmatively
00:05:34.120 and deliberately
00:05:34.900 pushing
00:05:35.640 pro-Hamas propaganda?
00:05:38.120 We know that young people
00:05:39.600 are moving dramatically
00:05:40.960 in,
00:05:41.280 in,
00:05:41.620 in the
00:05:42.120 direction
00:05:43.780 of Hamas.
00:05:47.180 And to what extent
00:05:48.380 is the CCP
00:05:49.140 affirmatively doing that?
00:05:50.340 And I'll tell you something.
00:05:51.400 Again,
00:05:51.820 I can't give you their answers,
00:05:52.920 but I will tell you
00:05:53.700 a data point
00:05:54.420 which is TikTok
00:05:56.220 defends itself
00:05:57.160 by saying it keeps
00:05:58.180 U.S. customer data
00:05:59.400 here in the United States,
00:06:00.500 not in China.
00:06:02.000 Although,
00:06:02.620 under its terms of service,
00:06:03.860 the CCP has a right
00:06:04.760 to access them
00:06:05.480 at any time.
00:06:07.400 You know what it doesn't
00:06:08.460 keep here in the United States?
00:06:10.540 It's recommendation algorithm.
00:06:13.280 So,
00:06:13.700 the way TikTok operates,
00:06:15.120 you're looking at TikTok,
00:06:16.480 you watch a video,
00:06:17.580 and then it suggests to you,
00:06:19.040 hey,
00:06:19.840 Ben,
00:06:20.200 you would like this video.
00:06:21.720 Based on what you've seen
00:06:22.660 before,
00:06:23.060 so if you're looking at
00:06:23.960 golf videos
00:06:24.960 or tennis videos
00:06:25.820 or football videos,
00:06:26.920 you would assume
00:06:27.600 they would keep you
00:06:28.260 in the same type
00:06:28.920 of algorithm.
00:06:29.600 Well,
00:06:30.240 a recommendation algorithm
00:06:31.780 is one of the most
00:06:33.840 potent tools
00:06:35.060 social media has
00:06:36.380 to drive content,
00:06:37.700 to suppress content,
00:06:38.820 or to drive content.
00:06:40.140 And if you're engaged
00:06:41.200 in propaganda,
00:06:42.160 the recommendation algorithm
00:06:43.420 is your most potent tool
00:06:46.060 for it.
00:06:47.220 The recommendation algorithm
00:06:48.460 is not housed
00:06:49.560 in the United States.
00:06:50.400 It's housed in China.
00:06:51.620 And China just recently
00:06:52.640 passed a law
00:06:53.560 that defined
00:06:54.620 TikTok's recommendation
00:06:56.380 algorithm
00:06:57.460 as a,
00:06:59.300 quote,
00:06:59.480 national asset.
00:07:02.040 Makes sense.
00:07:02.980 It is an asset of China,
00:07:04.520 and they have developed
00:07:05.880 a global propaganda tool
00:07:07.960 that in particular
00:07:09.180 targets American young people.
00:07:11.580 And so they can decide
00:07:12.920 on any given day
00:07:13.820 what message do we want
00:07:15.080 to put to young people.
00:07:16.460 They can just,
00:07:17.120 on a Tuesday say,
00:07:19.140 let's just push messages
00:07:20.360 that hurt American
00:07:21.340 young people.
00:07:21.940 So let's push
00:07:24.020 to young girls
00:07:24.860 and teenage girls
00:07:25.800 body image problems
00:07:27.480 and push anorexia
00:07:28.540 and eating disorders
00:07:29.380 and let's push
00:07:30.120 self-harm,
00:07:31.240 let's push cutting,
00:07:32.140 let's push suicide,
00:07:33.520 let's push drug use,
00:07:34.740 let's push all sorts
00:07:36.220 of things that will just
00:07:37.060 hurt young people.
00:07:38.160 And they do that
00:07:39.040 tragically every day.
00:07:41.860 But they can also
00:07:42.600 decide politically,
00:07:43.780 okay,
00:07:44.280 we don't want the United States
00:07:46.040 exploring for oil and gas,
00:07:47.380 so let's push
00:07:48.160 Green New Deal garbage
00:07:49.740 to tell them,
00:07:50.700 go stop fracking,
00:07:51.700 go stop this,
00:07:52.540 go stop this,
00:07:53.540 be dependent on Iran,
00:07:55.720 be dependent on Russia,
00:07:56.820 be dependent on Venezuela,
00:07:58.240 be dependent on our enemies
00:07:59.420 for oil and gas.
00:08:00.720 They can push that message
00:08:01.980 to young people.
00:08:02.940 Or if they just want
00:08:04.660 to push pro-Hamas
00:08:07.780 propaganda,
00:08:08.760 they can.
00:08:09.760 In this instance,
00:08:10.580 you have young people.
00:08:12.240 And this went viral
00:08:13.100 to a level of millions
00:08:14.060 and millions
00:08:14.600 and millions
00:08:15.120 of impressions.
00:08:16.700 Over 14 million
00:08:17.720 last I saw.
00:08:18.440 Yeah,
00:08:18.680 and that's just people
00:08:19.540 that were posting
00:08:20.080 their own videos
00:08:20.580 after reading this letter
00:08:22.000 that came out of nowhere
00:08:23.880 from 2001
00:08:26.200 from Osama bin Laden
00:08:27.680 and the majority of it
00:08:29.140 was all positive
00:08:30.400 towards Osama bin Laden.
00:08:31.220 And you've got to
00:08:31.860 understand why.
00:08:32.860 I mean,
00:08:33.060 this is something,
00:08:34.260 as you know,
00:08:34.860 I'm at the tail end
00:08:36.400 of a two-week book tour,
00:08:37.500 so I've been,
00:08:38.500 I think I've done
00:08:39.200 77 media interviews
00:08:40.980 in the last two weeks
00:08:42.040 on the new book
00:08:43.220 on Woke.
00:08:43.620 I've been talking
00:08:44.220 about this a lot
00:08:45.140 because particularly
00:08:46.780 people of the left
00:08:48.040 are confused.
00:08:49.220 Why is there such
00:08:50.460 vicious anti-Semitism
00:08:53.400 among the left?
00:08:54.540 Yeah.
00:08:55.060 And I want to,
00:08:55.920 let's pull this up again.
00:08:57.160 I want to pull it up
00:08:57.880 and freeze it
00:08:58.400 midway through
00:08:59.020 because it really does
00:09:01.240 explain it profoundly.
00:09:03.460 Okay,
00:09:05.840 so this is the first woman
00:09:06.900 on the second person.
00:09:07.940 Just freeze it
00:09:08.580 when the second person
00:09:09.440 comes up.
00:09:10.700 Okay,
00:09:11.200 freeze it right here.
00:09:12.760 All right,
00:09:13.760 so this is a TikToker
00:09:15.520 and it's kind of
00:09:16.240 a young hipster
00:09:17.400 wearing like,
00:09:18.220 I don't know,
00:09:18.540 a shower cap
00:09:19.440 of some kind
00:09:20.280 with curls.
00:09:21.780 He's going swimming
00:09:22.620 afterwards, right?
00:09:23.320 I don't know.
00:09:24.800 But this is important.
00:09:26.860 So I've been explaining
00:09:28.100 and the book
00:09:28.840 Unwoke explains this
00:09:30.080 at depth.
00:09:31.740 So Marxism
00:09:32.620 is the doctrine
00:09:34.280 enunciated by Karl Marx
00:09:35.940 in the Communist Manifesto
00:09:37.160 that explains,
00:09:38.740 views the world
00:09:39.620 as a fundamental conflict
00:09:40.880 between oppressors
00:09:41.760 and victims.
00:09:43.200 Marx put it
00:09:43.700 in socioeconomic terms
00:09:44.840 so the oppressors
00:09:45.580 were the owners of capital,
00:09:47.000 the victims
00:09:47.680 were the proletariat,
00:09:49.060 the working men and women.
00:09:50.000 The solution
00:09:51.340 Marx advocated
00:09:52.500 was violent revolution
00:09:54.840 by the proletariat
00:09:55.960 overthrowing
00:09:56.920 the oppressors.
00:09:58.320 I describe
00:10:00.880 in the book
00:10:02.100 Unwoke
00:10:02.600 how Marxists
00:10:04.260 infiltrated
00:10:04.880 the universities
00:10:05.580 in the 1960s
00:10:06.660 and 70s
00:10:07.360 and then
00:10:07.760 that doctrine
00:10:08.920 mutated.
00:10:09.580 It mutated
00:10:10.120 to critical race theory
00:10:11.340 which has the same
00:10:12.740 basic frame,
00:10:13.780 the Marxist frame
00:10:14.620 of oppressor
00:10:15.220 and victim
00:10:15.620 but instead
00:10:16.960 of socioeconomic
00:10:18.020 it's race
00:10:18.600 so there are
00:10:19.060 oppressor races
00:10:19.720 and victim races.
00:10:21.560 I describe
00:10:22.220 how it mutated
00:10:23.280 to be gender
00:10:24.060 and gender identity
00:10:25.100 and sexual orientation.
00:10:26.380 Same idea
00:10:27.620 of oppressor
00:10:28.320 and victim
00:10:28.740 and the idea
00:10:29.380 is violence,
00:10:31.320 revolution,
00:10:32.240 anything is justified
00:10:33.520 if it is the victim
00:10:34.900 overthrowing the oppressor.
00:10:36.220 Now this TikTok video
00:10:37.840 the text
00:10:38.540 of the tweet
00:10:39.580 he has
00:10:40.080 says
00:10:40.480 under settler
00:10:42.440 colonialism
00:10:43.320 any kind
00:10:45.080 of resistance
00:10:45.760 is branded
00:10:47.300 as terrorism
00:10:48.240 because the only
00:10:50.240 acceptable violence
00:10:51.600 is violence
00:10:52.360 by the occupier.
00:10:53.880 That is straight up
00:10:55.120 Marxism.
00:10:55.680 And it is
00:10:56.980 explaining why
00:10:58.240 as I told
00:10:59.060 this left-leaning
00:10:59.960 tech executive
00:11:00.820 the reason
00:11:02.160 the left
00:11:02.740 is celebrating
00:11:03.520 Hamas
00:11:04.120 is they have
00:11:05.980 defined Jews
00:11:07.340 as oppressors.
00:11:08.820 They have
00:11:09.720 defined Hamas
00:11:11.040 as victims
00:11:11.880 and so
00:11:13.460 they're in favor
00:11:14.340 of violence
00:11:15.080 by the victims
00:11:16.000 against the impressors
00:11:17.500 and that includes
00:11:18.740 mass murder
00:11:19.440 that includes
00:11:20.400 targeting civilians
00:11:21.340 that includes
00:11:21.980 murdering elderly people
00:11:23.140 that includes
00:11:24.100 raping women
00:11:25.140 and little girls
00:11:26.140 in the public streets
00:11:27.120 that includes
00:11:27.940 slaughtering infants
00:11:29.200 that includes
00:11:29.840 as we discussed
00:11:30.700 literally
00:11:33.700 putting a baby
00:11:36.380 in an oven
00:11:37.820 and raping
00:11:40.380 that baby's
00:11:41.520 mother
00:11:41.960 while the baby
00:11:44.400 cooks to death
00:11:45.260 and the mother
00:11:47.240 is being raped
00:11:48.280 and listening
00:11:49.860 to her infant
00:11:51.200 die
00:11:52.280 in an oven
00:11:53.380 being cooked
00:11:54.520 to death.
00:11:55.080 Now that is
00:11:55.660 unmitigated evil
00:11:56.860 that is Nazi
00:11:58.460 like that is a level
00:12:00.320 of grotesque evil
00:12:01.420 that
00:12:01.700 defies words
00:12:04.800 and yet
00:12:05.500 to the cultural
00:12:07.640 Marxist
00:12:08.280 and to these
00:12:08.900 young
00:12:09.500 idealistic
00:12:10.600 imbeciles
00:12:11.540 they're cheering
00:12:13.120 for the terrorist
00:12:14.140 why?
00:12:15.060 Because it says here
00:12:15.780 well under settler
00:12:16.680 colonialism
00:12:17.340 and mind you
00:12:17.960 in their mind
00:12:18.520 it's the Jews
00:12:19.820 that are the bad
00:12:20.720 settler
00:12:21.200 colonialists
00:12:22.220 any kind
00:12:23.720 of resistance
00:12:24.660 so you know
00:12:25.800 baking a baby
00:12:26.540 in an oven
00:12:26.920 that's a kind
00:12:27.800 of resistance
00:12:28.420 is branded
00:12:30.520 as terrorist
00:12:31.660 well no
00:12:32.160 terrorism
00:12:32.680 is targeting
00:12:33.280 civilians
00:12:33.860 I've got to say
00:12:34.880 slaughtering infants
00:12:35.820 qualifies as terrorism
00:12:37.060 because the only
00:12:38.860 acceptable violence
00:12:40.140 is violence
00:12:41.760 by the occupier
00:12:43.400 the reason
00:12:44.540 these young people
00:12:45.460 are so susceptible
00:12:46.400 to this
00:12:47.320 TikTok propaganda
00:12:48.720 is because
00:12:50.420 cultural Marxism
00:12:51.900 has been taught
00:12:52.900 to them
00:12:53.460 from the womb
00:12:55.000 has been taught
00:12:55.780 to them
00:12:56.240 in kindergarten
00:12:57.200 first, second, third,
00:12:58.360 fourth, fifth grade
00:12:59.080 all the way
00:12:59.920 through school
00:13:00.460 has been taught
00:13:01.080 to them
00:13:01.480 in college
00:13:02.460 has been taught
00:13:03.180 to them
00:13:03.620 through social media
00:13:04.800 has been taught
00:13:05.400 to them
00:13:05.760 through entertainment
00:13:06.800 they're told
00:13:07.800 once we say
00:13:09.120 someone is the victim
00:13:10.160 and someone is the oppressor
00:13:11.760 we cheer
00:13:13.040 for violence
00:13:13.960 for any
00:13:15.160 horrible evil
00:13:17.060 against the oppressor
00:13:18.360 because that's
00:13:19.360 the Marxist revolution
00:13:20.320 we support
00:13:20.920 now if you want to hear
00:13:22.300 the rest of this conversation
00:13:23.820 you can go back
00:13:24.800 and listen to the full podcast
00:13:26.400 from earlier this week
00:13:27.620 Canadian women
00:13:29.080 are looking for more
00:13:30.140 more out of themselves
00:13:31.220 their businesses
00:13:32.060 their elected leaders
00:13:33.180 and the world around them
00:13:34.400 and that's why
00:13:35.040 we're thrilled
00:13:35.540 to introduce
00:13:36.200 the Honest Talk podcast
00:13:37.680 I'm Jennifer Stewart
00:13:39.220 and I'm Catherine Clark
00:13:40.440 and in this podcast
00:13:41.520 we interview Canada's
00:13:42.840 most inspiring women
00:13:44.120 entrepreneurs
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00:13:57.520 now on to story number two
00:14:00.920 Biden's infrastructure spending
00:14:03.580 has now gone woke
00:14:05.700 it's a great moment
00:14:07.640 to pause
00:14:08.180 and remind people
00:14:09.120 if you're Black Friday shopping
00:14:10.780 grab the senator's new book
00:14:12.200 Unwoke
00:14:12.920 you can grab it
00:14:14.300 it's a best seller
00:14:15.160 you can get it on Amazon
00:14:15.940 or wherever you get your books
00:14:17.260 unless you're at a bookstore
00:14:18.100 in California
00:14:18.720 apparently they don't like it
00:14:19.800 very much out there
00:14:20.640 in California
00:14:21.300 in the bookstores
00:14:21.940 but you can grab it
00:14:23.300 wherever you get your books
00:14:24.660 I love this part of censorship
00:14:26.400 by the way senator
00:14:27.080 there are quite a few bookstores
00:14:29.360 I've actually
00:14:30.220 talked to friends
00:14:31.520 who have gone into bookstores
00:14:32.840 your book's a best seller
00:14:34.140 and if you're in the wrong
00:14:35.580 part of the country
00:14:36.380 in a more liberal
00:14:37.060 woke part of the country
00:14:37.880 there's a very good chance
00:14:38.940 you cannot find a hard copy
00:14:40.340 of your book in a bookstore
00:14:41.340 which is maddening to me
00:14:43.360 especially since
00:14:44.120 this is a best seller
00:14:44.900 well it is one of the many examples
00:14:48.120 how corporate America
00:14:49.200 is woke
00:14:50.440 as you know
00:14:51.220 two weeks ago
00:14:52.620 I was in LA
00:14:53.320 to shoot Bill Maher
00:14:54.560 and talk about the book
00:14:55.540 and I actually
00:14:56.480 met some friends in LA
00:14:58.540 who went to try to buy the book
00:15:00.300 and they went to a Barnes & Noble
00:15:02.020 in LA
00:15:02.620 and they didn't have a single copy
00:15:04.340 of the book there
00:15:05.020 and they asked them
00:15:05.740 okay search the system
00:15:06.880 and they
00:15:07.740 it turned out
00:15:08.880 there was not
00:15:09.640 one copy of my book
00:15:11.320 this is what they were told
00:15:12.700 in any Barnes & Noble
00:15:15.340 in the entire city
00:15:16.640 of Los Angeles
00:15:17.400 and they had to actually
00:15:19.300 drive to Long Beach
00:15:20.560 which they did
00:15:21.380 to get several copies
00:15:23.260 of the books
00:15:23.720 because it was only
00:15:24.620 the Barnes & Noble
00:15:25.400 in Long Beach
00:15:26.120 that had the copies
00:15:27.060 and throughout LA
00:15:28.500 they weren't there
00:15:29.200 sadly we're hearing
00:15:30.580 we're hearing reports of that
00:15:32.360 there was also a letter
00:15:33.280 to the editor
00:15:34.360 this past week
00:15:35.300 in the Dallas Morning News
00:15:37.500 complaining that
00:15:38.280 the big box stores
00:15:39.280 which have lots and lots
00:15:40.660 of books
00:15:41.880 of other books
00:15:42.760 that you can't find
00:15:44.800 unwoke
00:15:45.820 even though
00:15:46.340 as you note
00:15:46.920 it is a best seller
00:15:48.320 it was at the top
00:15:49.040 of the best seller list
00:15:49.980 and yet
00:15:50.500 the major
00:15:51.680 bricks and mortar
00:15:52.420 retail outlets
00:15:53.520 are very reluctant
00:15:55.040 to carry it
00:15:55.580 and when they do carry it
00:15:56.540 they certainly don't
00:15:57.240 put it out on the table
00:15:58.180 in front
00:15:58.560 they put it off
00:15:59.200 in the back
00:15:59.660 the good news is
00:16:00.840 you can order it online
00:16:02.000 so I would encourage
00:16:03.460 you go online
00:16:04.300 and order it
00:16:04.960 and you mentioned
00:16:05.940 what came out
00:16:08.320 this past week
00:16:09.220 and what came out
00:16:10.060 this past week
00:16:10.900 also is
00:16:12.400 racist roads
00:16:15.440 and woke infrastructure
00:16:16.660 which may sound absurd
00:16:18.020 but it's something I discuss
00:16:19.220 at considerable length
00:16:20.780 in the book on woke
00:16:21.940 and in June
00:16:24.080 Transportation Secretary
00:16:26.840 Pete Buttigieg
00:16:27.620 announced that
00:16:29.140 the Department of Transportation
00:16:30.360 had started accepting
00:16:31.380 applications
00:16:32.080 for the National
00:16:33.600 Infrastructure Project
00:16:34.960 Assistance
00:16:35.880 Infrastructure for Rebuilding
00:16:38.400 America
00:16:39.060 and the Rural Surface
00:16:40.460 Transportation
00:16:41.180 Grant Programs
00:16:42.200 these three programs
00:16:44.260 together
00:16:44.820 received
00:16:46.400 $5.6 billion
00:16:48.820 under the so-called
00:16:50.960 Infrastructure Investment
00:16:52.320 and Jobs Act
00:16:53.280 and
00:16:54.500 the Department of Transportation
00:16:56.540 under Buttigieg
00:16:57.220 said the grants
00:16:58.900 that would be awarded
00:16:59.800 would support
00:17:00.620 quote
00:17:01.040 transformational
00:17:02.720 infrastructure projects
00:17:04.080 across the nation
00:17:05.080 but the notice
00:17:06.720 of funding opportunity
00:17:07.960 issued
00:17:09.220 states that
00:17:10.100 recipients
00:17:10.600 must
00:17:11.780 broadly address
00:17:13.740 quote
00:17:14.200 equity
00:17:14.820 and climate
00:17:16.560 concerns
00:17:17.240 and further
00:17:18.680 it says
00:17:19.180 quote
00:17:19.540 projects
00:17:21.040 that have not
00:17:21.700 sufficiently
00:17:22.180 considered
00:17:22.700 the equity
00:17:23.240 and barriers
00:17:23.840 to opportunity
00:17:24.520 in their planning
00:17:25.200 as determined
00:17:26.700 by the department
00:17:27.560 will be required
00:17:29.080 to do so
00:17:29.720 before receiving
00:17:30.460 funds for construction
00:17:31.480 quote
00:17:33.220 projects that have
00:17:34.460 not sufficiently
00:17:35.180 considered climate
00:17:36.100 change
00:17:36.640 and environmental
00:17:37.700 justice in their
00:17:38.580 planning
00:17:38.940 as determined
00:17:40.260 by the department
00:17:40.980 will be required
00:17:42.360 to do so
00:17:42.980 before receiving
00:17:43.780 funds for construction
00:17:44.860 now mind you
00:17:46.340 what they're saying
00:17:47.220 is if you're actually
00:17:48.580 building roads
00:17:49.440 if you're actually
00:17:50.120 building freeways
00:17:51.280 then that is
00:17:53.260 is not sufficient
00:17:54.400 and in fact
00:17:55.360 Pete Buttigieg
00:17:56.540 made news
00:17:58.440 in 2021
00:17:59.120 when he said
00:18:00.100 quote
00:18:00.480 there is racism
00:18:02.080 physically built
00:18:03.860 into some of our highways
00:18:05.320 now
00:18:06.120 that is
00:18:06.980 idiotic
00:18:08.280 and
00:18:09.160 and I would note
00:18:10.440 that the DOT
00:18:12.600 grants
00:18:13.500 also
00:18:14.260 additionally
00:18:15.080 target
00:18:15.720 so DOT
00:18:16.840 policies
00:18:17.600 frame
00:18:18.260 road building
00:18:19.520 here's what they call
00:18:20.200 road building
00:18:20.780 quote
00:18:21.860 increasing
00:18:23.220 automobile
00:18:24.120 dependence
00:18:25.380 and so
00:18:26.840 they condemn
00:18:27.560 highway expansion
00:18:28.440 projects
00:18:28.980 that don't involve
00:18:30.020 electric vehicle
00:18:31.280 charging stations
00:18:32.260 or bike lanes
00:18:33.160 so it is
00:18:33.900 remember there was
00:18:34.860 a lot of hoopla
00:18:35.620 over all the money
00:18:36.660 to be spent
00:18:37.240 on infrastructure
00:18:38.040 and roads
00:18:38.560 and bridges
00:18:39.060 oh yeah
00:18:39.960 well it turns out
00:18:41.200 Joe Biden
00:18:41.760 and Kamala Harris
00:18:42.460 and Pete Buttigieg
00:18:43.160 don't actually want
00:18:44.140 roads and bridges
00:18:44.960 instead they have
00:18:46.300 a woke agenda
00:18:47.080 now here's the good news
00:18:48.100 which is
00:18:49.520 that I sent
00:18:50.820 I sent
00:18:54.200 a request
00:18:54.900 for a determination
00:18:55.780 as to whether
00:18:57.780 this
00:18:58.280 this announcement
00:18:59.640 constitutes
00:19:00.380 a rule
00:19:01.400 and
00:19:04.500 receive that
00:19:06.100 determination
00:19:06.600 which means
00:19:07.940 which means
00:19:07.960 that it is
00:19:09.260 subject
00:19:09.700 to being
00:19:11.760 overturned
00:19:12.820 by Congress
00:19:13.560 by a simple
00:19:14.400 majority vote
00:19:15.300 and so
00:19:15.880 I intend
00:19:16.940 to introduce
00:19:17.680 that resolution
00:19:19.380 of disapproval
00:19:20.320 to force a vote
00:19:22.500 in the Senate
00:19:23.020 now Biden
00:19:23.580 can veto that vote
00:19:24.740 but in the Senate
00:19:26.160 we're going to see
00:19:27.060 if all the people
00:19:28.760 who trumpeted
00:19:29.320 the infrastructure
00:19:30.020 program
00:19:30.660 support
00:19:31.360 blocking them
00:19:33.100 from going
00:19:33.660 to roads
00:19:34.180 and bridges
00:19:34.700 unless they are
00:19:36.060 sufficiently woke
00:19:37.260 and fighting
00:19:38.540 racist roads
00:19:39.760 whatever the hell
00:19:40.360 that is
00:19:40.880 when people
00:19:42.600 hear this
00:19:43.380 and they hear
00:19:43.900 racist roads
00:19:44.920 as you just
00:19:45.400 described it there
00:19:46.280 and you talk
00:19:47.180 about billions
00:19:47.720 upon billions
00:19:48.420 of taxpayers
00:19:49.040 dollars
00:19:49.560 that's meant
00:19:50.540 for these
00:19:50.980 infrastructure
00:19:51.420 projects
00:19:52.240 that are now
00:19:53.320 just being
00:19:53.860 turned into
00:19:54.320 these woke
00:19:54.700 agenda items
00:19:56.080 how many
00:19:57.060 members of
00:19:57.700 Congress
00:19:58.200 are behind
00:19:59.180 this
00:19:59.780 as well
00:20:00.660 because yes
00:20:01.300 it's a Biden
00:20:02.020 administration
00:20:02.720 initiative
00:20:03.860 but you still
00:20:04.620 got to have
00:20:05.120 some Congress
00:20:05.800 people behind
00:20:06.600 you
00:20:06.960 is this
00:20:07.780 just the part
00:20:08.800 of now
00:20:09.200 where we are
00:20:09.780 in politics
00:20:10.360 where they'll
00:20:10.940 look at you
00:20:11.520 they'll say
00:20:12.020 this is for
00:20:12.540 infrastructure
00:20:13.100 straight up
00:20:14.180 lie to you
00:20:14.700 and then waste
00:20:15.300 billions of
00:20:16.000 your dollars
00:20:16.480 on woke
00:20:17.000 agenda
00:20:17.340 items like
00:20:18.020 this
00:20:18.440 well listen
00:20:19.460 a lot of
00:20:19.880 the left-wing
00:20:20.360 Democrats
00:20:20.880 in Congress
00:20:21.460 are emphatically
00:20:22.200 behind this
00:20:22.940 so that Bernie
00:20:23.660 Sanders
00:20:24.140 the Elizabeth
00:20:24.700 Warrens
00:20:25.260 the AOCs
00:20:26.220 are cheering
00:20:27.540 this on
00:20:28.160 because this
00:20:28.660 is the agenda
00:20:29.320 they want
00:20:29.920 I will say
00:20:31.320 there are a
00:20:31.780 number of
00:20:32.200 Republicans
00:20:32.660 who
00:20:33.300 you know
00:20:35.020 are a little
00:20:35.460 bit like
00:20:35.840 Charlie Brown
00:20:36.500 with Lucy
00:20:36.980 and the
00:20:37.220 football
00:20:37.520 they listen
00:20:38.620 to Democrats
00:20:39.300 who say
00:20:39.620 okay let's
00:20:40.240 work together
00:20:40.820 on something
00:20:41.300 like roads
00:20:41.800 and bridges
00:20:42.220 and the
00:20:42.460 Republicans
00:20:42.760 are like
00:20:43.060 oh yeah
00:20:43.520 roads and
00:20:44.240 bridges
00:20:44.460 those sound
00:20:44.920 really good
00:20:45.440 and they
00:20:46.360 write into
00:20:47.120 law
00:20:47.980 funding for
00:20:49.640 roads and
00:20:50.100 bridges
00:20:50.440 now the
00:20:51.460 left-wing
00:20:51.860 Democrats
00:20:52.380 they're
00:20:52.580 negotiating
00:20:53.120 with know
00:20:53.620 fully well
00:20:54.200 they're
00:20:54.480 pulling the
00:20:54.920 football away
00:20:55.720 and Charlie
00:20:56.620 Brown is
00:20:57.120 landing on
00:20:57.540 his ass
00:20:58.000 they know
00:20:58.460 that
00:20:58.840 but these
00:20:59.700 Republicans
00:21:00.280 are just
00:21:00.760 gullible
00:21:01.320 and they
00:21:01.640 fall into
00:21:02.280 it over
00:21:02.840 and over
00:21:03.320 and over
00:21:03.660 again
00:21:03.860 and if
00:21:04.380 they weren't
00:21:04.900 gullible
00:21:05.360 they would
00:21:06.420 have written
00:21:06.860 into the
00:21:07.400 statute
00:21:07.860 prohibitions
00:21:09.020 on the
00:21:09.780 Biden
00:21:10.020 administration
00:21:10.500 doing this
00:21:11.320 because you
00:21:11.680 and I
00:21:12.020 knew the
00:21:12.860 Biden
00:21:13.120 administration
00:21:13.640 was going
00:21:14.100 to do
00:21:14.380 this because
00:21:14.840 that's who
00:21:15.460 they are
00:21:16.060 they are
00:21:17.200 cultural
00:21:17.780 Marxists
00:21:18.320 it's why I
00:21:19.380 wrote the
00:21:19.760 book
00:21:20.020 unwoke to
00:21:21.200 lay out
00:21:21.920 what it
00:21:22.460 means
00:21:23.260 the radicals
00:21:24.800 who have
00:21:25.020 taken over
00:21:25.560 our government
00:21:26.160 and we have
00:21:26.660 too many
00:21:27.120 Republicans
00:21:27.680 in Congress
00:21:28.340 who are
00:21:29.180 fundamentally
00:21:29.960 naive
00:21:30.560 and they
00:21:31.560 just keep
00:21:32.120 running and
00:21:32.540 trying to
00:21:32.900 kick that
00:21:33.280 football
00:21:33.700 and the
00:21:34.800 problem
00:21:35.060 keeps getting
00:21:35.580 worse and
00:21:35.980 worse
00:21:36.260 as before
00:21:37.620 if you want
00:21:38.240 to hear the
00:21:38.580 rest of this
00:21:39.020 conversation
00:21:39.680 on this
00:21:40.420 topic
00:21:40.800 you can go
00:21:41.360 back and
00:21:41.840 download the
00:21:42.360 podcast from
00:21:43.200 early this
00:21:43.660 week to hear
00:21:44.120 the entire
00:21:44.640 thing
00:21:45.120 Canadian
00:21:46.680 women are
00:21:47.180 looking for
00:21:47.680 more
00:21:48.060 more out of
00:21:48.680 themselves
00:21:49.120 their
00:21:49.500 businesses
00:21:49.980 their elected
00:21:50.740 leaders
00:21:51.100 and the
00:21:51.680 world around
00:21:52.120 them
00:21:52.320 and that's
00:21:52.840 why we're
00:21:53.140 thrilled to
00:21:53.660 introduce the
00:21:54.480 honest talk
00:21:55.140 podcast
00:21:55.800 I'm Jennifer
00:21:56.740 Stewart
00:21:57.140 and I'm
00:21:57.720 Catherine Clark
00:21:58.380 and in this
00:21:59.100 podcast we
00:21:59.920 interview Canada's
00:22:00.760 most inspiring
00:22:01.620 women
00:22:02.040 entrepreneurs
00:22:02.620 artists
00:22:03.520 athletes
00:22:04.160 politicians
00:22:04.800 and newsmakers
00:22:05.680 all at
00:22:06.360 different stages
00:22:07.000 of their
00:22:07.520 journey
00:22:07.840 so if you're
00:22:08.900 looking to
00:22:09.340 connect then we
00:22:10.180 hope you'll
00:22:10.560 join us
00:22:11.140 listen to the
00:22:11.780 honest talk
00:22:12.240 podcast on
00:22:12.960 iHeartRadio or
00:22:13.960 wherever you
00:22:14.520 listen to your
00:22:14.940 podcasts
00:22:15.440 i want to get
00:22:17.680 back to the
00:22:18.360 big story number
00:22:19.480 three of the
00:22:19.960 week you may
00:22:20.460 have missed
00:22:20.920 you mentioned
00:22:22.580 education and
00:22:24.740 and how it's
00:22:25.360 easiest way to
00:22:25.980 change a country
00:22:26.800 in one generation
00:22:27.840 but there was
00:22:28.900 also one of the
00:22:30.040 things you said
00:22:30.580 on page 64
00:22:31.380 it says how to
00:22:31.900 fight back
00:22:32.380 you said a few
00:22:32.920 years ago you
00:22:33.660 walked in to
00:22:34.700 your daughter's
00:22:35.360 bedroom and
00:22:35.900 asked what
00:22:36.960 she'd been
00:22:37.380 learning about
00:22:37.920 in school
00:22:38.340 she said she
00:22:39.140 had been
00:22:39.400 learning about
00:22:40.060 Christopher
00:22:40.400 Columbus
00:22:40.880 the quote
00:22:41.920 unquote real
00:22:42.480 story i asked
00:22:43.680 what that meant
00:22:44.480 for the next
00:22:45.320 few minutes i
00:22:45.980 heard about the
00:22:46.700 crimes of
00:22:47.400 Christopher Columbus
00:22:48.220 in minute detail
00:22:50.240 every murdered native
00:22:51.440 american transmitted
00:22:52.660 disease and stolen
00:22:53.760 acre of land
00:22:54.580 seemed to be
00:22:55.100 accounted for
00:22:55.820 i heard that
00:22:56.940 columbus who
00:22:57.720 claimed the land
00:22:58.420 for himself
00:22:59.000 because he
00:22:59.740 his straight
00:23:00.960 white privilege
00:23:01.740 or something like
00:23:02.500 that had not
00:23:03.700 actually discovered
00:23:04.460 anything at all
00:23:05.500 but rather had
00:23:06.380 landed on the
00:23:07.820 shores of what
00:23:08.700 would come to be
00:23:10.000 known as america
00:23:11.160 by accident
00:23:12.200 this quote
00:23:13.320 unquote revolution
00:23:14.260 familiar to most
00:23:15.640 adults in the
00:23:16.300 united states is
00:23:16.940 something that
00:23:17.380 american children
00:23:18.160 encounter sooner or
00:23:19.100 later in a
00:23:20.080 textbook believing
00:23:21.040 that they've
00:23:22.600 accessed some
00:23:24.040 secret hidden
00:23:25.120 knowledge that the
00:23:26.060 grown-ups don't
00:23:26.920 want them to have
00:23:27.860 that moment for me
00:23:30.240 is the moment that
00:23:31.120 terrifies me for our
00:23:32.360 kids in this my
00:23:33.520 kids generation is
00:23:34.520 that we have we
00:23:35.960 have handed our
00:23:36.720 children over to
00:23:37.420 this school systems
00:23:38.260 and it's not just
00:23:39.200 public schools now
00:23:40.260 it's private schools
00:23:41.140 as well who are
00:23:42.460 indoctrinating them
00:23:43.420 in this idea that
00:23:44.480 america somehow was
00:23:45.760 started on on on
00:23:47.900 evil bad motives and
00:23:50.500 that you should not
00:23:51.220 love this country but
00:23:52.920 you should be ashamed
00:23:53.700 of this country and
00:23:54.700 you had to deal with
00:23:55.600 this with your own
00:23:56.120 daughter look that's
00:23:57.600 exactly right and the
00:23:58.560 problem is this
00:23:59.560 indoctrination is
00:24:00.640 happening in every
00:24:01.500 school in america it's
00:24:02.620 happening to every
00:24:03.360 child in america and
00:24:05.060 and and what i
00:24:05.760 described part of the
00:24:06.520 way that this book is
00:24:07.420 all about how we
00:24:08.080 fight back but you
00:24:09.020 know as she was
00:24:09.600 saying that columbus
00:24:11.280 was evil and racist
00:24:13.000 and genocidal and
00:24:14.120 terrible and she
00:24:14.740 hated christopher
00:24:15.540 columbus you know i
00:24:17.280 just just sat down in
00:24:18.320 her bedroom and i
00:24:18.920 tried to have a
00:24:19.300 conversation with her
00:24:20.000 and i said look i'm
00:24:21.480 not deeply vested in
00:24:23.280 making the argument
00:24:24.260 that christopher
00:24:24.860 columbus was some
00:24:25.900 incredible hero but
00:24:27.840 but i said you know
00:24:28.620 what we do have a
00:24:30.260 federal holiday named
00:24:32.360 after him do we
00:24:34.260 typically name federal
00:24:36.020 holidays after evil
00:24:38.320 racist genocidal
00:24:39.380 maniacs like
00:24:41.200 might there be
00:24:43.180 another side of the
00:24:44.000 story is there
00:24:44.600 anything admirable
00:24:45.820 about him and
00:24:46.600 and she was not not
00:24:47.620 really able to see
00:24:48.620 much that was
00:24:49.660 admirable i said well
00:24:50.420 what do you think
00:24:51.440 about getting in
00:24:52.160 three rickety rickety
00:24:53.800 wooden ships and and
00:24:55.440 and leaving europe and
00:24:56.740 and heading heading
00:24:58.560 west when you think
00:24:59.700 you're falling off the
00:25:00.680 edge of the world to
00:25:02.420 to explore and
00:25:03.800 discover i mean i
00:25:04.700 mean is that spirit
00:25:05.900 that intrepid spirit
00:25:07.100 is that anything to
00:25:08.440 be admired and and
00:25:09.460 and i said secondly
00:25:10.580 look it is true that
00:25:13.440 columbus and and and
00:25:15.000 the men who traveled
00:25:15.780 with him that that
00:25:16.820 that they carried
00:25:18.220 some some germs that
00:25:19.840 that were that were
00:25:21.920 new to to the to the
00:25:24.080 western hemisphere that
00:25:25.020 when they got here some
00:25:25.980 of the some of the
00:25:27.000 native americans died
00:25:28.020 from those germs now
00:25:29.660 it's also true it was
00:25:30.400 the 15th century they
00:25:31.340 didn't know what a
00:25:31.800 germ was so they
00:25:33.080 didn't know they were
00:25:33.780 carrying it and and
00:25:35.040 when you accuse him of
00:25:36.220 mass murder does
00:25:38.700 culpability matter does
00:25:40.020 the fact that they
00:25:40.780 didn't know what a
00:25:41.440 germ was they had no
00:25:42.360 idea they were doing
00:25:43.240 it is that at all
00:25:44.520 relevant if you're
00:25:45.420 going to call him this
00:25:46.400 evil terrible murder
00:25:47.420 and and when i talk
00:25:48.560 about in the book is
00:25:50.240 not long thereafter
00:25:51.320 which thanksgiving of
00:25:52.460 that year we were
00:25:53.100 talking about
00:25:53.540 thanksgiving and she
00:25:54.720 and a friend of hers
00:25:55.420 from school and this
00:25:55.980 is when they were in
00:25:56.440 grade school said
00:25:57.860 said likewise oh
00:25:58.680 thanksgiving is is
00:25:59.820 is terrible it's when
00:26:00.980 the pilgrims were
00:26:01.820 oppressing the the
00:26:02.840 native americans and
00:26:05.080 and you know again i i
00:26:06.420 made the argument i
00:26:07.320 think even more
00:26:07.820 vigorously this time and
00:26:08.920 i said i said listen
00:26:09.880 it is certainly right
00:26:12.460 that the settlers that
00:26:13.400 came to america that
00:26:14.480 they settled america and
00:26:16.560 and and and they
00:26:17.580 ultimately conquered
00:26:19.140 america and and and
00:26:20.240 they they committed some
00:26:22.220 terrible acts to native
00:26:23.400 americans but if you
00:26:25.220 look at the history of
00:26:26.180 humanity in in every
00:26:27.500 continent every
00:26:29.420 nation was acquired
00:26:31.900 by conquest and
00:26:33.100 every time there's
00:26:33.700 conquest you have one
00:26:34.820 group of people who
00:26:35.560 are conquering another
00:26:36.380 group of people by the
00:26:37.260 way in the united
00:26:39.140 states before we were
00:26:40.540 the united states the
00:26:41.620 native americans one
00:26:42.620 tribe conquered another
00:26:43.620 conquered another
00:26:44.260 conquered another and
00:26:45.140 you look at europe you
00:26:45.880 look at asia that's the
00:26:46.940 history of humanity one
00:26:47.900 group of people
00:26:48.340 conquering another and
00:26:49.600 anytime you have
00:26:50.420 conquest uh there are
00:26:53.160 are horrible things that
00:26:55.900 happen there are terrible
00:26:56.720 things that are done but
00:26:57.640 i said look in in any
00:26:58.720 war there were
00:27:00.240 atrocities on both sides
00:27:01.660 and you know i asked i
00:27:02.840 asked my daughter i said
00:27:03.760 you know from whence do
00:27:05.800 you think the verb to
00:27:07.700 scalp was derived the
00:27:10.840 native americans did
00:27:11.620 some horrible things to
00:27:13.680 the settlers who came here
00:27:14.740 also and and the
00:27:17.620 connection that that i
00:27:18.980 made for her and that i
00:27:19.920 make in the book is
00:27:21.920 those two discussions are
00:27:24.080 interlinked and
00:27:24.800 intertwined which is for
00:27:27.420 all of the teachers and
00:27:29.100 all of the professors and
00:27:30.280 all of the people
00:27:31.000 advocating that columbus
00:27:32.680 was evil and advocating
00:27:33.920 that thanksgiving is evil
00:27:35.080 because the pilgrims were
00:27:35.980 stealing from the the
00:27:37.420 native americans it comes
00:27:39.380 down to one antecedent
00:27:40.740 question was the
00:27:42.740 settlement of the new
00:27:44.140 world a good thing or a
00:27:46.760 bad thing was the
00:27:47.720 formation of the united
00:27:49.080 states of america good or
00:27:51.440 bad and and i'm not
00:27:53.420 neutral or ambivalent on
00:27:54.700 that question i think the
00:27:56.280 united states of america
00:27:57.560 has been the greatest
00:27:58.360 force for good of any
00:27:59.880 nation in the history of
00:28:01.200 the world that we have
00:28:02.680 produced more prosperity
00:28:04.000 more abundance we have
00:28:05.260 liberated more prisoners and
00:28:07.500 captives we have shed our
00:28:09.420 blood and treasure and
00:28:11.020 tears fighting tyranny more
00:28:13.580 than any nation in the
00:28:14.840 history of the world do we
00:28:16.320 have our flaws yes of
00:28:17.460 course do we have our
00:28:18.440 problems yes of course but
00:28:20.540 america i i believe like
00:28:22.540 reagan said is a shining
00:28:23.600 city on a hill and i want
00:28:24.700 to make a special request
00:28:26.700 of our verdict listeners you
00:28:27.760 guys are incredible you
00:28:29.220 guys are patriots you guys
00:28:31.580 give me hope and optimism
00:28:33.080 in america i i want to ask
00:28:34.720 every one of you please
00:28:36.000 today when you finish
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00:29:01.920 very tops of the new york
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00:29:06.940 the way and and and i wrote
00:29:09.740 this book for the same reason
00:29:12.700 ben that you and i do this
00:29:13.880 podcast it is right now 1103
00:29:16.100 p.m on tuesday night the
00:29:17.420 podcast will come out early
00:29:18.620 wednesday morning why am i
00:29:20.300 sitting here at 1103 why are
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00:29:22.960 because we care about this we
00:29:24.840 want we want our incredible
00:29:27.640 listeners to be armed with
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00:29:32.800 and this book is exactly in the
00:29:34.920 same spirit the book is i think
00:29:37.500 interesting and fun it's not
00:29:39.180 some abstract academic treatise
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