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And the crime street just keeps coming.

Now we know Brett Baer,

Saturday, pulled over in Georgetown.

Why?

He was talking on his phone, and he wasn't supposed to be on his phone while he was driving, which he pointed out clearly.

His Mercedes G-Wagon.

That's my wife's car.

That's my wife's car.

That was more, he was a, yeah, I got a ticket, whatever.

Yeah, I probably had some blow on me, but that's my wife's car.

That's definitely my wife's car because it was a white g wagon and

i mean it's clearly a girl's car brad clearly i mean g wagon girl wagon that's what it is you take it in you park it in the same parking spot every day it's the g spot we don't you don't need a real big map on this one it's a chick car

at least in white

I had so many additional jokes to add on to that.

I'm going to stop.

But yeah, that was funny.

That did seem to be the focus of his statement.

I guess he was on the

phone, and he got that.

He wasn't supposed to be, so he got a ticket on that.

That's illegal

in D.C., yeah.

And, you know,

good for them.

Pulling over Brett Baer and giving him a ticket.

Good.

I'm glad to see it.

I mean, you know, not that I want to see everybody, you know, you know what I mean.

Everybody, if you're breaking the law, you're breaking the law, you get a ticket.

And it's good to see that they

that everybody is getting that.

They had

56 arrests on Tuesday night.

Don't have the number today, but it's probably about another 50,

including an illegal MS-13 gang member, which, by the way, has MSNBC, you know, they're renaming it to MS Now,

right?

Yeah.

Have they thought about

MS-13?

We give you the news headlines 13 times a day.

We are MS-13.

This would be more accurate.

Really, it's pretty close.

It's pretty close.

That would be

might be better.

It might be an actually a better name than MS Now.

Right.

So

the stats in Washington, D.C., this seems to be working.

Robbery now is down 46%

versus the previous seven days.

So a week ago,

the robberies have gone down 46%.

ADW aiding dumb whites.

What is ADW?

Assault with a deadly weapon.

Okay, okay.

Down 6%.

Carjacking, down 83%.

Car theft, down 21%.

Violent crime, down 22%.

Property crime, down 6%.

Now, here's what I don't get.

After all of those stats, all crimes

down 8%.

How do you have these huge numbers and then it's all crime is only down 8%?

Yeah, maybe, you know what?

Maybe

people like Brett Baer with this phone is up like 45% and that's offsetting it.

Yeah, maybe that's what it is.

Maybe that's what it is.

You know, of course, I don't know because I'm sure there's a law in Washington, D.C.

You know, you can't hitch your horse to like a lamp post.

Right.

You know, I'm sure that's still on there.

Yeah.

Well, that's probably gone through the roof.

I was talking to Drew Holden yesterday,

a writer, and he lives in D.C.

And he was talking about the crime problem.

And he described a situation near his house where a park was closed, one of their local parks that you could go and take a walk and walk your dog or whatever.

And it was closed.

Why was it closed?

Because several hundred teenagers decided to schedule a quote-unquote fight.

in the park.

So there was a massive brawl that broke out in this park, which meant they had to close the entire park.

Now, that's not going to be 200 crimes, right?

That's not how that's going to be.

No, it'd be it's probably maybe one or two.

However, it totally disrupted the lives of the people who lives around this park.

See,

that's what people are missing.

You know, Ricky told us that a friend of hers was robbed.

Somebody came up, took their wallet.

He didn't even report it to the police.

He's like, what are they going to do?

They're never going to find my wallet.

I'm not going to waste my time.

So he didn't even report it.

I don't know what crime this would be, but I've told you the story.

Last time I was in Washington, D.C., my wife and I are just walking down the street and a guy on a bike, a big black guy who looked insane.

And I think he was seriously disturbed.

But he rides his bike around.

He's like, today's the day I'm going to kill me, a white guy.

I'm going to kill me a white man today.

And he's pointing at me.

And I'm like, well.

Too bad you don't see just behind me about 20 steps are two armed security guys.

So give it a whirl, Jack.

But I didn't report that.

And I think that kind of stuff happens to people all the time in Washington, D.C.

It's a quality of life thing

as well.

You just become used to it.

Right.

Like, you know,

New York is a good example of this.

New York's murder rate, by the way, is one-seventh of Washington, D.C.

But we did live and work in New York.

One-seventh.

We did live and work in New York for a while.

And there's just, it becomes part of your life to ignore things that everyone else in the country would never ignore, right?

Like you.

I'll never, the best example of this, Stu, is you and I on the subway.

We were waiting for the subway, and you and I were just talking about something, and we didn't realize.

We stood there for maybe three or four minutes, and I think you said, I think the big one's going to win.

And I'm like, I have my money on him, too.

And what we were talking about, we had not discussed it before.

We had been sitting there talking to each other, but both of us, while talking, were watching two rats

fight over

like a hot dog rapper or something.

And it just had become, and I looked at Stu and I said, we have been here too long.

We got to get out.

When that's just normal, we've got to get out.

Yeah.

And I think that is actually part of this.

If you want to give a little bit of a break to the crazy people who are defending

Washington, D.C.

as this bizarre Disneyland, you almost start to

delete these terrible experiences from your mind.

It's the only way you can deal with them.

Like, I saw one guy actually post.

He's like, you know, I'm sick of all these Republicans and Trump and MAGA people saying, you know, how terrible this city is and how much crime there is.

You know, sure, I've been mugged.

And yeah, I had my car broken into, but this is a great city.

It's like, he had like really just disjointed himself from those experiences as if they didn't happen and as if that's normal for people.

Yeah, everyone goes through those things.

No, they don't.

Like nowhere, nowhere has I've ever lived.

Did I expect that to occur?

But that's not the same, you know, which rat's going to win thing.

No.

Where you just get used to it.

That's politics.

If you're mugged, if it were reversed

and, you know, and crime was going out of control and Donald Trump was not doing anything about it and this guy gets mugged, he'd be like, yo, course, what do you expect?

The Republicans are in.

They don't care about us.

They don't care.

I mean, that's politics.

That's not just getting used to it.

Getting used to it is having to step over the homeless person or the drug addict or, you know, walking down the street and seeing, you know, people that are all hunched over because they're on, what, fentanyl or whatever it is.

That, that's the kind of stuff you kind of get used to and you just don't see it anymore until somebody comes to visit you and then they're like, you live here?

And you're like, oh, yeah, you get used to it.

You don't get used to being mugged.

No, no.

That's politics.

No, but

you know,

you like the person, it was

a friend of Ricky's or talking about how the wallet was stolen.

Like, that's an experience that you remember.

I mean, it doesn't necessarily ruin your life.

Like, it's an inconvenience.

It's a terrible thing to go through.

But you kind of just work it into that city experience at some level, which is terrible.

Like,

I have friends who used to always talk about the city and they appreciated the grit.

The grit sucks.

Okay, I don't want the grit.

The grit is nonsense.

It is, it is, it's like, it's a justification for light, for

what you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Oh, it's a gritty city.

Yeah, getting mugged is, there's nothing, there's no charm in that.

I'm sorry.

You want to have

a dive bar that you like attending?

That's grit, I suppose.

You know, going to a place where you're getting, you know, things stolen from you, or you get beaten, or you get some weird fluid thrown at you, and you don't know what it was.

Like, that's the type of stuff that happens in these cities all the time.

I know.

And

it's awful.

I know.

And that is the kind of stuff.

You know, I was just, I just moved my daughter in.

I'm not going to say the town, but I just moved my daughter into a town.

It's a college town.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have said it.

And

it's this really nice, quaint, seemingly crime-free.

I mean, it has other problems, but I walk down the street with my wife.

We were going to pick something up at a restaurant and bring them back to the apartment as we were all, you know, unboxing.

And

I'm walking down the street and I said, this is what my childhood was like.

This feels like when I was, you know, late 1970s.

you know, as I'm coming of age, this is the way the country kind of felt.

It was generally safe in areas where I grew up.

It was generally safe.

You know, it was clean.

People respected one another, generally speaking.

And I know that, you know, New York City was a hellhole at the same time that I was experiencing that in the West Coast.

But you don't see that very often anymore.

And you forget until you go to one of these small towns and you're like, is

are there, are they piping in the sounds of birds and stuff?

Because it's like perfect here.

No, it's just a small town, you know, that hasn't gone to hell.

And you forget about it.

You really forget on how great that can be.

And you think about the people who are leading this country all live and work in a place where they are justifying.

these terrible things occurring.

They're not living a life that

so many other Americans are living and where their towns are sane and they don't have to deal with murder rates seven times the rate of New York City.

So

the trouble with this, of course, in some way is that Washington has

tools that no one else has, right?

Like they can call in the federal government to take over their town and bring a bunch of troops in and do all these things.

That really, that's not an option for a lot of cities.

They're stuck with the Mom Danis and the guy in Minnesota

who is now taking over their city and going to run it in the ground further.

It's going to get much worse.

Yeah, one of the things that I thinking back to your story from Washington, D.C., just how prevalent crime was there, that guy that said that.

Because you were there.

I was there.

I was standing near your security.

And you can tell they're so used to that's just the norm.

They can intimidate you through crime.

No fear.

No fear.

And what cracked me up, maybe you didn't notice, is because we kept watching him.

He gave us that crazy eye, went across the street, looked back, and we were still glaring at him as if we're not intimidated by this.

And he actually had this look for a couple seconds like, did I not deliver the line?

Did it not work?

And it just, it stuck out in my mind because if you refuse to be intimidated by this, like the administration of Donald Trump is now, refuse to be intimidated by this.

And that is what they were doing right now, essentially.

And their power goes away.

So in Washington, D.C., I don't carry a gun.

You know, I'll travel when I'm in a city like that.

I travel with somebody who has a badge, and they can carry a gun.

And that was the reason why I wasn't really intimidated other than, you know, go ahead.

But bring me

the sweet silence.

Please bring me the sweet relief.

Wouldn't it be bad if you get up to heaven and he's like, great, glad you're here.

There's an election next week.

What?

But,

you know, the average person doesn't have that.

Imagine, you know, you're walking your kids to school in the morning and they see that.

Did you see that guy?

Where was he?

That came up and he was homeless and clearly nuts.

I mean, that's part of it.

It's not just crime.

It's, we have really sick people on the streets as well.

And

this guy comes up to a mom pushing a baby carriage on this, just on the street, just walking by neural business.

And he gets in front of her and

blocks her from moving.

And he's like, this is my baby.

Give her to me.

Give her to me.

And tries to take.

And luckily, living in a town where others see what's going on and race to the woman's defense.

I don't know if that would have happened in New York City.

I don't know if that would have happened in New York

or Washington, D.C.

You know, it's you

don't dismiss the quality of life.

And I'm really anxious to see what happens in 30 days.

Because in 30 days, this is going to, Trump loses the ability to do this without Congress acting.

And I'm anxious to see

what happens if he doesn't get that ability and it goes back to the way it was.

I think the people in Washington, D.C.

are going to be really pissed at the Democrats.

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All right, I want to talk to you about something that's right on our doorstep that

I don't think a lot of people are watching.

I think it was Sunday, Saturday or Sunday, I read an article and I just kind of skimmed it quickly

and I filed it away and it was, the United united states is moving like a battle group to uh latin america and i'm like

what we're moving a battle group what do we what we're moving we're we're moving uh cruise missile ships uh like 4 000 marines i mean this is what you have when you have an invading force you know when you're worried about something you want to keep calm in some area you know we send them over I don't know, off the coast of Africa because there's somebody doing something.

And we send this group over and we're like, hey, knock it off.

What are we doing?

Okay, well, it's not just to Latin America.

It's someplace very specific,

Venezuela.

What's happening now is not some distant strongman.

This is

battle lines are being drawn right now between

freedom and chaos.

Okay.

This week, Nicholas Maduro,

who was indicted by the Trump administration, I think in 2020, and then Biden didn't do anything about it.

He was indicted by our own Justice Department for narco-terrorism.

He just responded to us and mobilized 4.5 million civilian militiamen.

So he's now

just kind of drafted 4 million men and said,

You're a citizen, but you're also a soldier right now.

And he says it's to defend sovereignty against America.

Here's what it is.

He's trying to protect himself.

He's a dictator, and he's

conscripting an entire nation

because he knows the United States is after him.

Why?

Why?

Well, we have warships, three Aegis destroyers, and they're anchored right off his coast, and we just doubled the bounty on his head from from $25 million to $50 million.

And, you know,

at first blush, you're like, can we, what are we doing?

What?

What's happening?

I mean,

we've lived in a time my whole life where we're like, you know, the government can do two things at once.

It should be able to walk and chew gum.

Well, we're not just walking and chewing gum.

We're walking, chewing gum, putting out, you know, the fire of a burning house, juggling flaming bowling pins, stopping a nuclear war, dancing the macarena because everybody in Washington is like 8,000 years old.

We're building a death bot army at the same time, fighting people that want to behead us, oh, and the Islamists, and redistricting Texas.

And we're doing it all at the same time.

Why?

I mean, we're living mission impossible, except our Tom Cruise is 78 years old, which I want you to think about this.

I think Donald Trump is exactly who Tom Cruise will be when he's 78.

Just not.

He's still running that weird run that he's doing.

Anyway, so Donald Trump is

going after Venezuela for two reasons.

One, drugs, fentanyl and cocaine.

Much of it's laced, much of it deadly, and

it is being trafficked here in the United States

by people who are directly tied to Maduro's government.

And it's the so-called cartel of the sons,

MS-13 gang members, all of this stuff is coming from

Venezuela, and they are poisoning Americans.

And this is not just a foreign, you know, a foreign security thing or a foreign policy issue.

This is homeland security.

This is actually affecting us.

The second one, and I think this is the bigger reason of the two, I mean, they're probably tied, but this is a big one that most Americans don't know.

Venezuela is not some backwater place.

It's full of oil, and it is a staging ground now for Russia, China, and Iran.

Hezbollah, it has some of the worst people.

It's a beachhead for those people who want to see the United States taken down.

Oh, Glenn, literally a beachhead.

This is insane because I didn't even know a lot of this.

We mentioned this maybe a couple months ago.

Yeah, we did a, we did a, it was in part of another story.

The Trendea Agua stuff.

Yeah, that's what's coming out.

And we were like, wait a minute, what is Hezbollah doing in

Venezuela?

Oh my gosh.

So I actually dug through congressional testimony to get some of this information.

Now, this is information the American public doesn't really know, but the government knows.

So check this out.

This is from congressional testimony.

In 2011, they tested Congress testified what Hugo Chavez was doing.

Listen to this.

Just the year before in 2010, Hugo Chavez hosted something called the Secret Summit.

Like, literally, it was called the Secret Summit.

Okay.

Guess who showed up to Secret Summit?

The Supreme Leader of Hamas, the chief of operations for Hezbollah, and the Secretary General of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Oh, I thought you were going to say Satan.

I might as well have.

I mean, this is absolutely nuts.

Nobody was talking about that.

How can that happen right off our shore?

Glenn.

And nobody's talking about it.

Glenn, it gets so much worse than that if it can.

So Iranians right now with connections to Hezbollah are on an island off the coast of Venezuela.

It's called Margarita Island.

Everyone should Google this right now and check it out.

Is Jimmy Buffett involved?

Jimmy Buffett would be nowhere near this Margarita Island.

All right.

The whole world is about to crash.

Yeah,

it's not five o'clock anywhere on this Margarita Island.

These are some of the things they're doing here.

okay?

Again, with the involvement of

the Venezuelan government.

They are, quote, running money laundering operations, establishing

paramilitary training centers.

They are recruiting Venezuelan gangs, and listen to this, sending those people, this is like Trenda Agua, sending them to Iran.

For follow-on training.

This is happening right now.

Our government knows about this.

This is the only time I've actually seen them doing something concrete to combat it.

They've known about it since 2010.

2010.

Known it since 2010.

You didn't know that.

Nobody's saying that.

When, you know,

we've argued that, you know, Venezuela and communism and, you know, they were eating the zoo animals.

That's what happens, gang, when you go communist.

And full-on democracy.

They wanted full-on democracy.

And that's what you get.

That's, you know, hello, Maduro.

So

when maduro uh took over he was kind of the mamdani if you will of venezuela he's just a simple bus driver uh-huh uh and look what look what he's done that's the part we've heard about then when the border crisis happened we started hearing about oh well they're sending gangs in and they're sending uh they're sending fentanyl and everything else in.

We still are not talking about their connections to Iran and Hezbollah and how they have been training people and sending them here.

This is really not good.

So Donald Trump clearly knows all of this stuff.

And that's why he's offered $50 million for anybody that will turn him in or can tip us off to lead to the capture.

And now the reason why we're doing that is, you got to remember, we've done this before.

Nori Yeaga was a guy that we, you know, was a drug lord

and he was running a country and we said, we've got to get him.

And we finally did get Nori Yeaga, and he went to prison for what he did.

But the other times we've done that, Saddam Hussein

and even worse, Muamm Qaddafi, that was a Hillary Clinton and

a Barack Obama nightmare.

And they drug his body through the streets because we assisted the collapse and it became a vacuum.

And now Libya is just a nightmare, just a nightmare.

So is Iraq.

We can't let that happen to Venezuela.

So we have to be very careful.

You can't just say, go get them.

We have to be very careful.

Unless the people themselves rise up against Maduro, unless the people themselves do it,

this is going to be a really tough one.

But we have to stop pretending that this is somebody else's problem because it is our problem.

It really is our problem.

Those people are already here.

And we are also,

you know, this one reason why I don't like it when people blame their problems on others.

I'm an alcoholic.

Now, everybody says, well, that, you know, that's a familial thing that runs in your genes.

I don't know.

I don't think they've ever found that.

There's no evidence of that.

But you can make a good case.

I mean, we're riddled with alcoholism in my family.

So, yeah, maybe, maybe,

but I'm the one who makes the choice.

Okay.

Yeah, maybe I have that extra gene that's working against me.

Maybe.

But I went into the bar.

I went into the store and bought the booze.

So

we have to start taking responsibility for some of our problems.

It's easy to say Venezuela is shipping all this fentanyl into the United States.

We have to recognize that Americans are buying it.

Now,

there's one thing to say about addiction.

Once you start buying it, then you're addicted to it.

And it is a nightmare.

I mean, the first time I had fentanyl,

I wake up.

I've woken up on the operating table two times.

They cannot keep me down.

My body just processes stuff like so fast.

It's a fast, high-functioning liver.

And I was in pain.

You might remember this if you've listened to me for a long time.

I was in New York and they put me under and then they I got out and they were giving me morphine,

I think Percocet

and

fentanyl patches.

And my doctor after said, why would you let somebody do this to you?

And I'm like, well, I was a little high and my wife didn't know.

I mean, we listened to the doctor.

That's when we really learned.

Don't listen to the doctor.

They don't always know.

But they had good intent.

They were just trying to keep me out of pain.

But the box fentanyl, I don't know if it still does, but if you get a box of fentanyl from the drugstore, it says black box, you know, warning for end of life use only.

Why?

Because it is so incredibly addicting.

You take it for a day or two and you're done.

You're addicted to it.

So addiction is one thing that we have to deal with.

but we also have to say Americans are buying this stuff.

We have to change our culture and start prosecuting people who are buying this stuff

and treating those who are addicted to it and understanding with compassion, yada, yada, yada.

But we have to also, if you're selling drugs, you're involved in selling drugs, you should have a very, very

long sentence.

Very long sentence.

You know,

don't tell Donald Trump this, but, you know, China does not have a drug problem.

Because if you sell drugs, you're executed.

I don't even think you get a trial.

They just kill you.

Let's not tell Donald Trump that because he might like that idea.

But

it'd fix it quickly.

It'd fix it quickly.

But we have to take responsibility ourselves.

We have to be resilient as people and our communities.

We have to have strong families.

We have to have a citizenry that knows the difference between liberty and tyranny.

We have to understand that freedom does not come when you're on drugs.

It doesn't.

That is the worst tyranny.

You're a pharmaceutical tyranny.

You are a slave to whatever it is that you're putting into your body.

That's the real battle.

But there is another one off our shore that could heat up.

What do you think is going to happen, Jason?

Because this is a significant battle group, isn't it?

It's significant.

I mean, including 4,000 Marines.

I I was on a battle group like that, where this is the same kind where we would go and just sit off the coast of like a Middle Eastern country and just wait for something to happen.

When you were in it, weren't you off the coast of like Australia?

You were one of the first in after 9-11.

Yeah,

in one of these battle groups doing exercises in Australia, we got the call, went straight to Afghanistan right after that.

So this is like the firepower that could do that.

So it's very intimidating.

I would assume that is the reason for this.

I don't think they'll actually be doing actual, you know,

conflict-type kinetic stuff, but I bet that it's just supposed to be, it's supposed to mean to be intimidating.

I'm curious if it's supposed to lend support to maybe some of the, you know, ground people in Venezuela to finally tell them, look, you know, we've got your back.

If you want to, you know, do something about this and finally take your country back, now would be the time.

Yeah, maybe we'd be a peacekeeper.

Yeah.

You know, maybe it would be a peacekeeping force.

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Stu,

do you know who Jesse Owens is?

Sure.

And if so, who was he?

Olympian?

Yep.

American hero.

American hero.

Why?

Why was he?

I mean, he won in

the Hitler Olympics, if you will.

Okay.

Can you tell me who Tommy Smith and John Carlos are?

Tommy Smith and

what was it?

John Carlos.

John Carlos.

I cannot.

I think you're exactly like most Americans.

And I want to show you why

our lack of knowledge, because I couldn't remember, I know of them.

You'll know what they did as soon as I start telling the story.

But you don't remember their names.

Tommy Smith and John Carlos.

It proves a point.

Everyone knows Jesse Owens, but not these two.

We were talking last hour.

Summarize real quick, Stu, if you will, the New York Times article and how they are presenting this story about Donald Trump with the Smithsonian.

Their headline is, Trump Says Smithsonian focuses too much on how bad slavery was.

And the controversy, of course, you know, I mean, that's specifically make you designed to make you think a specific thing, right?

Like, you're supposed to think he's complaining about how they're saying slavery was bad.

Well, what is he saying?

He doesn't want them to talk about it at all?

Is he saying that it was good?

Are there good aspects of slavery, Don?

That's what they want you to do.

And of course,

there is a selection of our country that will dutifully do exactly that.

And it is really weird that a section of our country, much of it, has been led by the New York Times.

The New York Times is supposed to be the bastion of thought.

It's supposed to be fair.

It's supposed to be all the news fit to print.

What they just printed is not fit because it's not news.

That's a lie.

It's not news, period.

What he is saying is there should be balance.

Balance.

Why are we pushing this narrative that America is such a bad place and that we enslaved our people and that's the story of America?

That's not the story of America.

And it's not.

It's a part of it.

It's an important part of it.

But it's not the story.

So that's what he was saying.

That's the story they didn't want to print.

And they can get away with it because they know their readers

want

that hate on Donald Trump.

Okay.

And instead of having the backbone, the spine, and the integrity to say, I don't care what our viewers or our readers want, I mean, how many times have we done this, Stu?

And it's caused us real problems.

I mean, we've lost, we've lost millions of dollars over the years at different times because I have had a point of view and I know it's out of step with you.

And I've said it.

And I've said, you know, I know you're going to disagree with this, but this is where I am.

Because I believe that's what you come here for.

I'm not here to feed you what you want to hear.

You come here because you want to hear my opinion.

And it's just that, my opinion, my view of the world and its happenings and what it all means.

I don't expect you to agree with everything.

And the minute I want you to agree with everything, or I want, I'll change my view so you will agree with everything,

I have nothing left.

I have nothing left.

And that's where the New York Times is.

Yeah.

What is the point?

Yeah.

That's where the New York Times is.

Yeah.

And I think, you know, I, I, we obviously care about the country.

We care about these issues that we talk about every day.

And, and, and those are like, I don't know, macro concerns, right?

These are the high-level stuff everybody thinks about, you know, oh, gosh, what's going to happen with the economy?

What's going to happen with our freedom?

What's going to happen with religious freedom?

Whatever the big issue we're talking about of the day is.

But there are also like micro things that you do that are are part of your job.

And like

one of the things that keeps me up at night is the idea of somebody in this audience

walking into work and having a conversation with a coworker and repeating something that they heard on our show only for that coworker to say, what are you talking about?

That's not true.

And then prove it.

Like that is a nightmare I've had a thousand times working on this show.

Yeah, me too.

I do not want to put our awesome audience in that position.

I hate that position.

I want them to know.

I want them to be the one who says, actually, you're wrong and here's why.

And then having them prove it because they have the facts and they have it backed up.

And that's honestly why I have said over and over and over again: hey, don't trust.

Don't take it from us.

Don't trust.

I don't want your trust.

I don't ask for your trust.

Your trust is nice.

I appreciate it.

I am honored by it.

But I'm telling you, I'll get it wrong.

And don't trust in men.

Men will always let you down.

Trust in God.

Verify everything else.

And the only way that this truth, the only way you can fight for this truth is if you know it yourself.

So you might hear me tell a story and go, wow, is that true?

And then hopefully my, my ultimate view of what I do is I'm a gateway drug.

I get you interested in a story and you're like, that can't be true.

Or, wow, that's really true.

And you start going down this wormhole of history and you start looking at things and going, wow, you know what?

I didn't even know this.

Glenn, did you know this?

Because that's when life becomes exciting is when you're on a constant road of discovery and it becomes yours.

When people say, Glenn, I wish you were with me because I was talking to my friends and I couldn't remember.

You shouldn't have to remember.

And I know there's so much going on that

you need us to do shorthand for you.

But

the ultimate goal is to get you so you know it so well that you don't have to remember.

You'll know how to get on your phone and go, wait a minute, hang on just a second.

You get on your phone.

You can find the facts.

You can find the story.

You can prove it, as Stu just said.

Not with my words, but with the actual facts, with the documents, et cetera, et cetera.

And the New York Times is not expecting that from their audience anymore.

They're, in fact, expecting them not to do homework.

And it's doubly insidious because they are playing to their audience and they've sold their soul to that audience.

But then they also know that the New York Times sets the table for everybody.

Anybody who is a journalist, they look to the New York Times.

Is it in the New York Times?

Okay, then it must be.

Also, the New York Times...

Whatever they print, especially if it's got a catchy headline like that, it will go out and become very, very viral.

So they're not only scooping up the intellectuals that they've already scooped up that

just want to hear that one side and point of view.

They're not really intellectuals anymore.

But also they're getting the dummies on the street that only read that headline who go, yeah, well, he's a racist.

He likes slavery.

Okay?

So it's just an insidious business that they're in.

Now,

I just told you a minute ago what Donald Trump was saying, and I happen to agree with him.

The Smithsonian is a garbage can right now, an absolute garbage can.

It's taken everything and it has its own perspective and that's what it's going to tell the world who America is.

I want to go to a museum where I learn something.

I learned something about the bad and the good.

We got it.

Slavery was bad.

We got that.

Tell me something else that maybe I don't know.

Okay.

Jesse Owens.

Jesse Owens, a hero.

Everybody loves Jesse Owens.

Why?

Well, it wasn't always that way.

You know, Jesse Owens, he didn't want to go to the Olympics.

He pissed everybody off because some people said he should go to the Olympics to show a black man can beat the, you know, the white god of the Germans.

And they wanted him to go to do that.

Others said he shouldn't be used as a tool of our government to do that.

And so when he decided to go, he really didn't want to go because

he just didn't want to go.

He wasn't, you know, he's like, I'm not a symbol.

I'm an athlete.

But he went.

And when he went, he became a hero to those who saw that and said, see, Germans, white supremacy, really?

Look at that.

Look at Jesse Owens.

But when he came back, he wasn't greeted.

All the Olympic winners were brought to the White House.

Jesse Owens was not invited to the White House by

Roosevelt.

Franklin D.

Roosevelt, the god of progressives.

He wouldn't have that black man at the White House.

So he was rejected.

He goes over, he proves to the world that he is, that whites are not superior.

And then he comes back and he's rejected in his own country.

by his own president.

It's an incredible story.

He led a very tough life, but as it went on,

he became more and more

a hero.

We recognize him now as a hero.

By the 1960s, the guy was absolutely known as a hero.

He was very patriotic.

He became

an attaché or a spokesperson or something for the State Department.

He would go around the world talking about America.

And yeah, America has its problems, but look at the progress we're making.

Okay?

That's what Donald Trump is saying.

Yes, look at the problems we have.

We should know that Jesse Owens was not invited to the White House by Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the time, but he now works for the State Department.

And he's spreading the message that, yes, we did those things, but we're getting better.

Now let me tell you.

about Tommy Smith and John Carlos.

I told you that I was in the portrait gallery, which is a garbage can.

Not the art, but the building.

They have turned it into a garbage can.

It's disgusting.

And

then some of the stuff is not about America.

Why I told you, why is there that girl's bike, you know, with a Cuban flag and a Chase sticker on it?

What the hell is that?

And it's not just that one bike.

Because I could go into that room and go, okay, well, there's that bike.

And so let me figure out the context of it, et cetera, et cetera.

But by that time, I was so sick of all of the propaganda, I didn't care to learn about it.

And I went into one of the last rooms right before the bike.

And

like the vertebrae of a dinosaur, there was these hanging from a ceiling.

They had taken the cast of,

I think, Tommy Smith.

who held up his fist.

It was one of them, maybe it was both, but they held up their fist in 1968, say black power.

power okay

um

black power that that's panthers that they were terrorists so they hold up black power so some artists took the cast of both of their fists and their forearms and made it into this art sculpture where it's just an arm and that fist over and over and over again and they laid it out like a giant vertebrae of an animal and it takes up a good portion of this huge room It is the main feature of that room.

But you don't even know their name.

You don't even know their name.

Tommy Smith and John Carlos.

Why?

Well, I think you don't know their name because they weren't effective.

Why?

Because they were promoting black power, black panthers.

terrorism.

That's not America.

That's not America.

Let me tell you another story that you don't know.

And if you want to put that vertebrae up, great, put that vertebrae up.

But I want this story told in the same room and prominently displayed next to the vertebrae.

So Owens was not part, Jesse Owens was not part of the 1968 Olympics.

He was traveling around the world, but he was in Mexico City.

And I think he was at that moment in the stadium for the Black Power.

Okay.

And in Mexico City, here's what I, let me just say what I can verify.

I'm not going to tell you what I, the story I think how it worked, let me just what I can absolutely verify.

After the protest, Owens met privately with Smith and Carlos in Mexico City.

Multiple accounts say he tried to counsel them, and his message was very different

from theirs.

Owens.

urged them to avoid confrontation and to think how their actions would be perceived internationally.

He reportedly told them that they could accomplish more by working within the system rather than defying it so dramatically on the world stage.

Now, that sounds like let's have a cup of tea and just talk.

I don't think that's the way it happened.

This is my opinion.

I don't think this is what happened.

Because there are other accounts that said

while he understood the anger of the black American, because he he had lived it unlike they lived it.

He had lived it

decades before.

So he understood

what they claimed they were going through.

In comparison to him, really not so much.

He was very upset that they embarrassed the United States and undermined the Olympics.

Remember, he's an athlete.

That's why he didn't want to go to the Olympics in Berlin.

He's an athlete.

He's not a politician.

He's not a symbol.

And he's like, you're undermining the purpose of the games in the first place.

It's the games, and it's a unifying thing where we bring all nations together.

And that's not what the Olympics are for.

They're not for political protests.

In 1968,

Jesse Owens was seen as a model of racial progress, and progress had been made.

He was the African American who humiliated Adolf Hitler in the Aryan supremacy narrative in 1936.

He then made progress from a guy who could not even go to the White House to now being part of the government, preaching patriotism and patience in the civil rights struggle all around the world.

Patience.

Patience.

This is what really hacks me off on this story.

Patience.

Why are progressives historically from the early 20th century, why are progressives called progressives and not communists?

Because you could call them communists or fascists.

In the early 1900s, that was the model they were going for.

Why aren't they called those things?

Because back in those days, that wasn't deemed a bad thing.

We didn't know yet.

They're called progressives because communism and fascism required a bloody revolution.

And so these guys were sane communists, sane fascists, if you will, that said, we don't want to have a bloody revolution.

We want to take it step by step, bring people along, have patience, and we will finally get there.

So that's the way to win, according to the progressive of the era.

What does he do?

He's saying, you can't do this.

You're embarrassing.

You're setting us back.

You're dividing.

Stop it.

Patience, which is a good progressive trait.

Hmm.

Which one won in the end?

Which one actually furthered civil rights?

The communist Black Panther Black Power guys that you don't remember?

Or Jesse Owens?

Because it's the same choice we have to make today.

Revolution or work within the system.

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