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Also, a heartfelt message to the youth of the country and Matt Van Swall with a thank you for your help on Hurricane Helene.

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Media is just so bad.

We're just sitting here looking at CNN.

They're showing these pictures of these, you know, famine,

famished children

that, you know, they say they're not being fed.

Well, show me the parents, you know, because what's happening is these children are having muscular dystrophy or other ailments, and it's now coming out that it's verified.

These are not starving children.

If they are, show me they're starving parents.

Parents are just well-fed.

Yeah, notice that?

Have you noticed that?

You'll see the parents holding the children, and they're well-fed.

How did that happen?

Yeah, I mean, I don't know about you, but I feed my children before I feed myself.

Yeah, let's not personalize that.

Yeah, I mean, when I'm talking about, when I'm saying me, I mean the royal right, the royal.

Okay, you know what I mean.

Pat Gray joins us now.

Hello, Pat.

How are we?

Hello.

Oh, great.

Oh, so great.

So great.

So great.

I want to play something from CNN as they were describing the shooter yesterday, you know, right off of the heels of, look at these, these starving children and their fat parents.

They go right into the shooting and listen to this.

Sean, you're here to John's reporting that they do know what they look like.

Male, possibly white, mustache, sunglasses in that building, isolated to, they believe, to various locations.

Possibly white.

Possibly.

Let me translate.

Hopefully white.

Yes.

Yes.

But it is.

Translate further.

Not white.

Well, very much not white.

Impossibly white.

And you're judging that by what?

The photos?

Yeah, by the photos of the guy of the actual shooter.

Well, he's possibly white.

Not white.

He's possibly.

Can I possibly quibble with your analysis on?

Is he in another universe?

If he had another parent, he could have been white.

He's possibly white.

I will say, though, to be fair to Aaron Burnett, what we see in the video is his face, which is clearly not white.

Right.

However, the rest of his body is covered by clothing.

Oh, right, entirely.

To 90% white.

Yeah, he could be.

Possibly.

Possibly white.

White.

We don't know.

That is crazy.

I can't argue with that.

I can't see the rest of his body.

Meanwhile, while this is going on in areas like, we've got to have gun control.

What's happening with crime on our cities?

Then the same network is going after Alligator Alley.

Oh, Alligator Alcatraz?

Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Sorry, Alligator Alcatraz.

This clip is amazing.

Sarah Gonzalez on her show was showing this to Pat and I yesterday, and we were just flabbergasted by it.

It is apparently supposed to be

the design of the piece is to make you feel bad for people who go to Alligator Alcatraz.

Now,

let me just ask you, who goes to Alligator Alcatraz?

Criminals.

Criminals go to Alligator Alcatraz.

People who have, number one, broken our immigration laws and likely have committed other more serious crimes, if you will.

They go to Alligator Alcatraz.

And and it is not a permanent facility.

It's a temporary holding facility, which is next to a runway, which has planes on it that take them to other countries where they're supposed to be.

But there's alligators.

But there's alligators

surrounding it.

There are alligators

within miles of the facility, yes.

I mean, it is in an area where alligators may live.

I don't know if you've known this.

I've lived in Florida.

The whole place

is where alligators may live.

Sometimes you look out on your little cul-de-sac, and there's an alligator crossing the street.

Oh, look at that.

That's an alligator.

People don't say, this is my alligator house.

No.

They don't live inside of alligator Alcatraz.

They exist.

I mean, in theory, if you escaped and tried to swim across the swamp, you may run into an alligator, like any swamp in the state.

It is not an act, like, it's just a kitschy name for a place that makes it sound scarier than it is, frankly.

It's just at an airport, and it's a bunch of tents at an airport.

That's what it is.

Okay, show this to me.

Here's the video.

This is sad.

Sad.

Hopeless.

Oh, no.

It's a type of torture.

Torture.

These are the stories of migrants held at Alligator Alcatraz.

Oh, no.

A new detention facility deep in the Florida Everglades.

Deep.

Using a plan of the site shown during President Trump's visit and photos from media tours and social media, CNN created a 3D model.

Oh, my God.

Why?

When you have the photos of it.

Why would you have to do it?

Here are the giant tents where people report being crammed into cells.

Hold on, stop here.

In a cell, there's two bunk beds.

Yes, what they've done here, as Pat points out, is take an actual photo of the inside of Alligator Alcatraz and then

formed it into a 3D model of the same photo.

So what you're seeing are a couple of beds, and then there is a 3D model of a couple of beds.

What is

simply the purpose of that?

I think it's to make it more mysterious.

Yes.

It's like, we can't even get a camera in there.

Well, you just showed us the actual photo, and now you're doing the 3D mock-up.

Look at that.

Why?

Look at that.

It is

superimposed.

There's the photo, and then it just fades into the 3D model.

That's amazing.

Bizarre.

What possible?

That's right.

Can you imagine using resources on that?

Why would you need that?

So they can rotate around the outside of the bed?

That is legitimately what they use it for.

But there's so much more.

Watch it's so much more impactful this year.

It is.

No, it is.

Okay, here it is.

CNN spots detainees to hear first-hand accounts of what conditions are like on the inside.

Oh, no.

Some asked not to be named for fear of retribution.

Because of the way that we have been treated, it has been a very terrible experience.

Oh, no.

No, guys.

You want it to be a nice experience for them, don't you?

Let me just go back to every torture place you've ever heard.

How many times did we get the phone call from Dietrich Bonhoeffer?

I mean, where he's like, was it 12?

I gotta tell you,

this is really horrible.

This is really horrible.

I don't like it here at all.

I mean, you know, Edie Amin, he's putting people in boxes.

We never got the phone call from them.

No, that's not.

Wait a minute, Edie.

You might be torturing me and putting me in a hole, but wait a minute.

I demand my phone call to the press.

As they pointed out, it is true some of the people who did this

did not want their names to be used.

Some of them did.

Now, how many times have you seen that from when a fascist dictator has imprisoned people and tortured them?

They don't usually get to speak at all, but they certainly wouldn't be like, yeah, my name's Bob.

I'm in bunk 74.

All right, go ahead.

Detained by ICE when he showed up for a meeting with his probation officer.

Oh, no.

Positive.

He has a probation officer, which leads you to believe he might be on probation, which also leads to he committed crimes.

I love that.

32 people per cell, or per cage, really, because this is a cage.

It's a metal cage strapped in with

zip ties.

Three open toilets are shared by dozens of men who say there's no running water or sewage system.

Roger Moreno was literally black.

Stop, stop.

That is the same story for many mobile home parks in Florida, surrounded by alligators.

Very good point.

It's also true of every concert festival I've ever been to, right?

They don't have running, but they do have a lot of people sharing the bathroom.

It's not the prettiest situation.

And the chain-link fences held together by those all-ever defensive zip ties.

Zip ties.

All get out of those.

Do you remember all the reports reports from World War II when Himmler was saying we used zip ties on the cell?

I don't.

Also, like, you know, it's such a,

they use the word cages as if that's worse than cells.

Like,

is a chain link cage, which would be a holding facility, worse than a cell with steel bars

and concrete walls?

Like,

anything would be more open and better.

Yeah.

But they use it in the opposite way to make it.

Well, it's actually basically cage.

And they say, you know, 87 people to the cage.

Look at the size of the cage.

Right.

Yeah.

Look at the size.

It's massive.

Yeah, they've got 87 bunk beds.

I mean, you know,

did you see the one in, where was it, El Salvador, where there's like 60 people on a bunk?

Right.

Like, that could be a difficult situation.

Not at all.

All right, go ahead.

Are shared by dozens of men who say there's no running water or sewage system.

No, Roger Moreno, who has lived in the U.S.

for more than 30 years, told CNN the rain makes it worse.

The toilets, when it rains, they overflow and the cells we're in fill up with sewage.

Detainees told CNN the lights are kept on 24 hours a day.

I have to personally put a rag on top of my head to at least try to take a nap because the lights are so bright.

There's 24 LEV lights in the roof, and it's like shining bright.

Now, stop for a second.

Now, I wasn't familiar with the right to nap

when you're being held in a facility like this.

I mean, you would want the lights to maybe go down unless you were afraid of a shiv.

Let me go back to the next guy who

also has a criminal record to tell us about how horrible this is.

It's like shining bright.

Juan Palma Martinez has lived in the the U.S.

for more than 20 years and was also picked up by ICE at a routine meeting with his probation officer.

Oh, wait, wait, what?

Pat,

another one picked up at a meeting with his probation officer.

What could possibly be the reason he would be visiting a probation officer?

Maybe he just has friendly with them?

You know?

I don't think so.

Like, hey, my man, hey, my probation officer.

Maybe it's slang of some is there some slang being used?

I know of.

It's usually indicative of committing crimes.

That's interesting.

It was a visit.

A visit.

It was a visit.

It wasn't an appointment.

It was a visit.

A visit.

A little visit.

There you go.

All right, go ahead.

Know when it's daytime or when it's nighttime.

I don't sleep.

It's affecting me mentally and physically.

The tents aren't sealed.

Okay, stop for a sec.

I just want to rewind what he just said here.

Okay.

Or just review.

He said he can't tell if it's nighttime or daytime.

That's a complaint.

Now, you could say that could be like a problem, right?

Like, I mean, you know, it would be weird to not be able to detect that.

Listen to the literal next complaint they have.

I no longer know when it's daytime or when it's nighttime.

I don't sleep.

It's affecting me mentally and physically.

The tents aren't sealed.

You can see cracks in this image.

Stop.

If you could see cracks, that means you could see the outside and would be able to detect whether it's daytime or nighttime.

I love the fact.

I love the fact that they have President Trump and Ron DeSantis, or I mean, that's not Ron, yeah, that's Ron DeSantis

standing there on a tour with the press of this facility.

Right.

Like they're not hiding it.

They did not need the 3D mock-up.

No, no.

Where is the 3D model with the 3D rendered Trump in that?

No.

I like to know.

This is what we believe the president looks like.

Go ahead.

In this image, and at the height of the hot Florida summer, that means the insects are relentless.

Yesterday, the air conditioning went out.

The air conditioning.

We had the whole morning without air conditioning.

The whole morning without conditioning.

Our air conditioning has gone down in our house, and I've had days without air conditioning.

In this very building,

for like a month, for a month to the month, and we've suffered every day's week.

It's awful.

to mention, the entire continent of Europe has no air conditioning, right?

Probably your home back from wherever you came from has no air conditioning.

It doesn't have air conditioning.

And I would guess lots of bugs, right?

Lots of insects in tropical climates.

Thank you, Pat.

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Matt Vince Wall is with us now.

He is North Carolina hurricane victim and a guy who I shared his email on the air yesterday.

Hi, Matt.

How are you?

Hey, Glenn, I'm good.

How are you?

I'm good.

I imagine you're kind of saying that with a smile on your face because you could not have ever imagined you'd be on the program with me.

No chats.

No, no chats at all.

I love that.

So, Matt, quickly just recap your situation for anybody who missed it yesterday.

Yeah.

So, like you said, we live in western North Carolina.

And after

Hurricane Helene didn't hit our house super hard, but hit our neighbors very, very hard.

And during that time period, we were trying to help a lot of people.

And we were pretty liberal during that time.

I think I sent your producer some photos of my son in like a Black Lives Matter 1Z.

I was wearing

a mask that said,

you know, Trump's slogan is Make America Great Again.

And I wore this red mask in 2020 that said, it hasn't been great.

Wow.

Anyway.

So wait, wait, wait, wait.

Were you the kind of person that would not have

would have would have exiled family members or friends if they said they were for Donald Trump?

We, oh man, this is so embarrassing.

But we made my wife's dad take off his Trump paraphernalia when he came to the house.

Wow.

We were that level.

So if he's he remembers.

Yeah, no, I mean, I know people, you know, on both sides, I know people.

So anyway.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So back to the hurricane.

Yeah, back to the hurricane.

So we were trying just trying to help people.

And it just seemed like the government was dropping the ball everywhere.

I mean, it was unbelievable.

And I did not feel like the news was getting out from how bad Hurricane Helene was.

And it didn't, it wasn't making sense to me at all.

Like the, it felt, I always thought that the real news was the mainstream news.

Like the news I saw on CNN or MSNBC.

or reading the New York Times was just that was the biggest news.

And if a story was big enough and good enough, it would just make the news.

But none of the insane stories that I was hearing from my neighbors and people on the ground was making the news at all, like at all.

And we were talking with people who were

watched their homes, get flooded, had applied to FEMA and had been waiting for months.

And FEMA would come out and do these press conferences and say, hey,

you know, nobody's living in a tent.

And I was like, I was just driving through Suananoa and I just saw 12 tents.

Like, what are you talking about?

And so I would make these videos.

I had a drone and I would make these videos and say, hey, they're not telling you the truth because I live here and I walk out my front door and I see devastation and it's not being talked about at all.

And it was crazy because I got a call during this time period from one of your reporters, Steve Baker.

And Steve called me because he wanted to talk about the FEMA camp that was just up the road from us and how they were not helping people.

They were packing up and they were going home.

And as soon as Steve messaged me and said he was a Blaze reporter, I was like, I don't trust this dude at all.

Like, he's related to, you know, Glenn Beck.

I, you know, honestly thought y'all were pretty like crazy right radical right wing.

That's what I had heard.

I know, you know, I know what they've done.

I know what the media has done to me, man.

I got it.

Yeah.

And so I, you know, I didn't even like, I remember vividly my wife and I in bed saying, like, should we talk to this reporter?

Like, and we were like, okay, I guess we should do it, but we should have our guard way up.

And so we talked to Steve and Steve completely disarmed us both.

It was unlike a phone call I've ever had where I thought the person calling me was going to be one way and they were completely like,

I had this,

I don't know, thought in my head that any reporter on the right wing was

mean.

and not kind and just trying to push a narrative.

And I talked to Steve, and I can't emphasize this enough.

Steve let me speak.

He asked questions, and he earned my trust.

He disarmed me with his kindness.

And it was one of the most shocking moments I've ever had

because no one would talk to us.

We had a direct, my wife works in film, and she had a direct line to CNN.

They ghosted her completely.

They would not talk to her about what was going on in Western North Carolina.

And it was like we were alone in a situation that we thought would be on the news non-stop and so to have steve like listen to us say yes you're not crazy this is actually happening and it's even worse than you imagined it's just unbelievable i've i've honestly never experienced anything like that so i just want to say thank you to steve so matt so what was your

What was happening in your mind when your worldview was crumbling just about the news?

When you were like, wait a minute, I thought CNN, I thought that was, you know, and they're ghosting you.

What was going through your mind and your, honestly, your heart when you're like, uh-oh, wait a minute, something's really wrong here?

It just felt,

honestly, it felt like I just described.

You would just think that the news is the news.

And if a story is big enough, it makes the news, no matter what.

But I did not even imagine that because it was an election cycle and that the hurricane reflected poorly on the response of the current leadership, that they would just not talk about the story at all.

I mean, there were,

I posted tweets, I did not have a Twitter following at the time, and I posted tweets about what was going on in Western North Carolina, and they would get millions of views because the stories were so insane.

Like FEMA promising 100 homes to people in Western North Carolina by Thanksgiving, and then they only delivered 40.

Or the fact that there were no homes delivered between September 27th and the middle of November, zero.

And you'd think, and there were people sleeping in tents all over.

And I thought, this would be on the news.

This would be the news.

And it just never was.

And it blew my mind.

And at that moment, I knew there's a bent to this media.

Like, there is a bent because

it's not the economics.

Because if it were the economics, these stories are getting millions of views on Twitter.

Like, the stories are real and the stories are crazy.

They're just choosing not to cover them.

It's an act of choice to not cover the stories happening in Western North Carolina.

And that was the start for me where I thought, I don't think I can trust these guys anymore.

And

that worldview just kind of started crumbling for me, that the news maybe had an insane bent.

And I just didn't realize it because one would think.

that if every news organization told you the same story,

that that story and the bent to that story, there would be no bent because news organizations would hold each other accountable.

Like the story you'd read on the New York Times is the same story you see on CNN, is the same you see in the Washington Post.

So you're like, oh, if all of these people are telling you the same thing, they're not all colluding,

right, to tell you a story with a bent, would they?

And it just turns out, yeah, yeah, they are.

I will tell you, I feel for you.

I've had maybe two or three of those moments where my worldview collapsed on me.

Everything that I thought was real, I realized, oh my gosh, it's not like that at all.

And it's like, at least I did.

I almost went through mourning in a way to where

you're just losing such a big part of what you believed.

And

it was just, it's soul-crushing.

I don't know if you felt it that hard, but there's been a couple of things like that for me where it's just been soul-crushing because you just, you just knew.

And now,

no, it's not that at all.

And I just, I honestly, looking back, offloaded so much of my critical thinking

to

the news and just said, oh, okay,

I read headline.

Therefore, I know the truth.

No more investigation is needed.

And that's on me.

I shouldn't have done that.

And once you actually, sometimes even when you read the whole article, you can actually get the truth of the story.

It's shocking to me how many headlines are just

virulently anti-GOP, Republican, conservatives.

But then you read the article and you're like, wait a minute, I should have just read this article.

But it really, it kind of came crashing down for me at that point.

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So Lucy Biggers is somebody who wrote an article, U.S.

Politics, that says, I woke up to the news last week that 33-year-old Democratic socialist Zoran Mamdani had beaten Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.

Charismatic, handsome, and social media savvy, Mamdani amassed an enormous following of young New Yorkers and spurred more than 50,000 volunteers to get out and canvas for him.

His promise of free bus rides, free child care, and government-run grocery stores, and his vow to tax the rich reminded me of another young, good-looking, charismatic Democrat who upset the heavily favored party nearly a decade ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Back then, I was one of AOC's biggest supporters.

In fact, it was not too much to say that I helped her win.

In the fall of 2017, when I was a video producer at the left-wing millennial news company, Now This, I found myself at a small meet-and-greet event hosted by ARENA, a political action committee, dedicated to backing those new Democratic candidates.

The speakers that night were unknown candidates hoping to take back the House.

One of the candidates was

Elisa Slotkin, who has since become Michigan's junior U.S.

Senator.

And there was AOC, an unknown bartender turned volunteer for Bernie Sanders.

Out of all of the candidates, I hit it off with Alexandria.

She was beautiful, humble, articulate, and had a spark of charisma.

You could tell this girl was going places.

We're the same age, and it was easy to talk about our frustration and fear of Donald Trump, our love of Bernie, and the need for real change, from universal health care to climate action to free college.

We exchanged numbers.

Two months later, I booked her for a video interview on the Now This.

program.

AOC arrived to our office, and by the end of the hour, we felt like old friends.

My friend, working behind the camera was also completely taken by AOC and her vision.

We agreed that AOC had tapped into something real and it was going to be popular with the coming generation.

I am now 35, a mother of two and a homeowner.

Like so many other people before me, I've grown up and my eyes have, my ideas have moderated.

Much of the hyperpoly being thrown at Mom Dani and his followers goes too far, for example, that Mom Dani is a 100% communist lunatic, as Trump says.

I don't know if that's due.

But I no longer think that giving the government more of our money to run free programs is the right way to do things.

I spend time at the DMV, and tell me if you want government-run grocery stores

run like the DMV.

We need less government in our lives, less regulation, and lower taxes so individuals can flourish and create capital and prosperity.

Hopefully these young New Yorkers don't have to live through the downturn of New York City to learn the hard way that socialism never works.

This is a woman who helped AOC get elected.

I still have sympathy for the young people who see inequality and poverty and want to do something about it.

Their hearts are in the right place, but sadly the promises that charismatic people like Mom Dani and AOC sell are not the solutions that young people are seeking.

They have been mistakenly taught that our capitalist society is the source of all of their problems and the only way to fix it is with more government spending.

Whether from the lack of life experience or just pure ignorance, they fail to realize that programs offering free everything have to be paid for and nothing is free.

The politics and policies they promote will lead to a more centralized government with more power, higher taxes, and a higher cost of living.

I think we should extend these people grace and realize that most of them don't have any idea that they're supporting horrible ideas that literally ruin civilizations.

We should understand that they just want to make the world a better place.

That is what Mom Donnie, with his charming demeanor and understanding of social media, is promising to do.

He is still way ahead in New York.

It's weird because I have always been an optimist.

Yes, I'm an optimistic catastrophe.

I know that, but I've always been an optimist.

I've always believed in people.

I believed in the country.

I believe people can change.

And the older I get, I see some of that wearing thin.

You know what I mean?

There are times I catch myself and I'm like, no, stop it.

Stop it.

You know the truth.

You've just had 60 years of being beaten into the ground.

Nothing's going to change.

Nothing's going to change.

And it's all a game.

And that's where the gift of youth comes in.

Because

it is the power to renew, to breathe life into the world that, frankly, has gone a little weary.

has lost all of our hope.

We're tired.

We're cynical.

And then you, the youth, show up and you renew us, and that's part of your job.

You are the hope

that

this entire country is starving for right now.

And soon enough, whether we like it or not, the world is yours to shape, and it doesn't have to be shaped the way we want it shaped.

But let me just plea to those, give a plea to those who are young.

You need to understand something very, very, very

real.

Your passion, your energy, your hunger to change the world, it is fantastic and it is not invisible.

It's not going unnoticed.

And

there are those who see it and are excited by it, but there are those who see it and crave it.

They would gleefully take it, twist it, bend it, and weaponize it to their own ends.

Because history repeats itself.

History is not clean.

It's not clear-cut.

Revolution, war, protest, all of these things, they're not fairy tales.

They happened and they can happen again.

And for every cause that was just,

there was somebody lurking in the wings ready to hijack it.

Let me show you how this works.

Let me take you back to 1933.

The Hitler youth brainwashed millions of German children into Nazi ideology.

Why?

Because they knew the youth

were optimistic, they were idealistic, they were looking for hope, they were looking for something bigger than themselves that they could be involved in.

Well, they ended up spying on families, disrupting the church services.

They helped lead the German military's aggressive style, and eventually, all of that led to the Holocaust.

And you know the rest of the story, unless you went to a public school.

In 1966,

who did Mao

rely on?

The Red Guards.

What did the Red Guards do?

They attacked the intellectuals.

They destroyed artifacts.

They led chaos and violence in the street.

They pulled university professors out and stoned them, killed them, beat them, and their families.

They were responsible for so much of the loss of freedom in China.

And who were the Red Guards?

They were the student-led youth groups.

They were

you, if you're in that age group.

That's who, and why?

It wasn't them.

They wanted to be a part of something bigger to change the world.

The Hitler youth wanted to be involved in something bigger, and there was always somebody who was older, who couldn't get it done themselves, and needed the power of the youth to be able to take that and and and chain it and twist it to what he wanted

nineteen ninety four genocide in Rwanda

one million deaths in a hundred days

they used machetes to kill a hundred a million people in a hundred days

who was the main perpetrator of this

The youth militia.

Misguided, wanting to be a part of something for justice, something to change the world,

used by leadership.

2020, BLM.

Americans, youth, flood the streets, hammers, fists, fire, mass destruction.

Ended lives, dreams, opportunities.

Remember, you have to have the black square for BLM.

Did you know that all of that money ended up, most of it, at BLM?

I'm not making this up.

Look it up.

BLM Incorporated?

That money was laundered.

That money was lost.

Useful idiot.

That's what Stalin used to say.

So

to the youth of America.

I know you want to change the world.

I know I do too.

I'm more jaded because I just, we've tried to do it over and over and over again, and that's the problem.

The people of my age that are using you,

they know they can't do it because they've tried, and so they're now co-opting you and they're convincing you that this is your idea.

It's that's exactly what, but they're not, they're not.

Most times, most times, they are looking for their own greed and their own power.

So I know you want to change the world.

Just don't you want to make sure that you're on the right side of right and wrong?

Don't you want to make sure you're not on the popular side, not on the easy side, but on the truthful side?

This is really hard because

you want to believe.

And people my age no longer believe many cases.

But I do.

I believe in you.

There are millions of us that believe that, you know, it's your turn.

It's your turn.

But don't be used.

Don't become a tool of somebody who couldn't fix it themselves because if they could, they would have.

They would have fixed it by now, but they didn't.

And now they're looking to you, not to lead, but to serve the power.

We all have to learn what

history is begging us to learn.

Yeah, the odds are stacked against real change.

But here's the good news: real change never comes from the odds, it comes from the people, and usually young people.

But that change is often very dangerous if the young people don't know history.

They want to choose to be more than just useful.

You have to choose to be true

because you have a light that is dimmed as life goes on.

You are the balance between the people who still see the light, still believe in the light, but have worked their whole life to try to make that that light become stronger.

And in many cases, we have in many ways.

But in others, it just seems like it's never going to end.

It's never going to be a fight we win.

And that's the way power wants it.

And so we look down to you and we're like, they have the light.

They believe in the light.

And if that light is true, if it is based in thinking, in reason,

in critical questioning,

then it's true.

It's a universal and eternal light.

And it's your job to not just carry it, but to guard it and protect it and refine it in the truth.

Because now is your turn.

And I am

so excited to see what you're about to build.

Our job at my age is to protect them.

To point out the weasels that may be duping them, just like she did.

She's like, look, I get it.

I was there.

But that's not true.

If you base your life in truth and you guard that light,

you are going to do something remarkable.

The future will be brighter than anything you dared to imagine.

It is.

And the best part is, it will be yours.

It will be your success,

Not somebody else who is going to take your success and mock it.

Morning decisions.

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