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Today is the first full day as director of the FBI for Kash Patel. Will the Epstein list be officially released? The Left has preached against the Pentagon for years but suddenly disagrees when Trump calls for cuts. Glenn and Stu debate who possibly may be on the Epstein list. The fact that we don't know who's on the list yet is evidence that it includes some big names. Elon Musk posted on X that society is "at the event horizon of the singularity." Glenn reacts to a clip of Larry Ellison explaining why he wants the data that comes with the latest AI models. Glenn breaks out the chalkboard to lay out how AI models are created. Will leftists acknowledge their loss and make the necessary adjustments, or will they double down on their crazy ideologies? Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) has decided to double down in a new bill where the word "mother" was changed to "inseminated person." Wonder Project chief content officer Jon Erwin joins to discuss his newest project on Amazon Prime, "House of David," which tells the story of one of history's greatest kings. Glenn and Stu discuss Robert De Niro's new miniseries — and it's surprisingly conservative.
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There's a lot to cover on what has been happening over the weekend.

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All right, let me just give you the news as I see it, what happened over the weekend of February 15th and 16th.

What happened this weekend, I think, is liberty, justice, and the truth breaking free.

So let's dive in here.

Cash Patel is taking the FBI helm.

His first full official day is today.

He was sworn in as FBI director with the hand on the Gita, a pledge to

uphold his Constitution.

It's not a

bureaucratic shuffle.

It is a shot across the bow of the weaponized deep state.

This one makes all the difference in the world.

Cash

is making people in Washington sweat, and he should.

Patel has vowed to root out corruption left, right, or center, and the whispers of the Epstein client list that he told me over the summer was

in a safe behind the desk of the director of the FBI.

I know that

the Cash Patel must have been in the office of the FBI on Friday because Pam Bondi said the client list is now sitting on my desk.

I'm reviewing it.

I have a feeling Cash took it out from behind that desk safe and brought it over to Pam Bondi.

She looked at it, and I'm hoping, as today is his first full day in office, It will be released today.

But transparency one way or another is coming, and justice isn't going to care who you voted for.

I'm going to tell you more about this coming up in just a minute.

Also, Trump has locked in his cabinet now.

He has finalized his cabinet this weekend.

Patel, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard,

the folks who have bucked the system, not bowed to it, are all in.

The Senate's buzzing.

But this crew is built to shrink government and not meddle abroad unless America is directly threatened.

No more endless wars, no more nanny state, just constitutional governance.

That's what they're promising, and so far that's what they're delivering.

The elites absolutely

hate it, which makes me love it.

By the way, I don't understand, Democrats.

You've been preaching against the

Pentagon forever now.

Wait,

Donald Trump says cut 8% of the the defense budget in the next four years, and you're somehow or another against that now?

Wow.

Hello, Democrat Lindsey Grahams of the World.

Midwest storms all through the states.

But FEMA wasn't there.

Oh, no.

If you read the stories about this this weekend, you heard that it was chaos because FEMA had been cut.

Really?

Is that what caused the chaos?

Brutal storm buried the Midwest snowpiled high.

Power was out.

Lives disrupted.

The media is whining about FEMA and the FEMA cuts, but hang on, because I think everyone saw this storm coming.

This wasn't like, oh my gosh, it was a tornado that came out of nowhere.

The storm had to travel halfway across the country to get to your state, Illinois, Michigan.

You didn't have warnings?

Were you in Ghana?

How come you didn't prepare?

You see, it's weird when we know a hurricane is coming, Florida seems to be able to pull their head out of their rectum

and actually prepare.

So when it hits, they can turn the lights back on.

But gee, Illinois, Michigan, you just couldn't get it done.

What does Illinois and Michigan have in common?

Where are the governors?

Florida shrugs off hurricanes without federal babysitters.

Why can't Michigan and Illinois?

FEMA is nothing but a bloated crutch.

States need to step up or ask for help.

Oh my gosh, wouldn't it have been crazy if when you knew there was this storm coming, you as a governor could have been in the same room with the president at the White House last week.

Maybe you got to pull him aside and said, hey, we got a big emergency coming.

Can you help us?

Seems other states did that.

Why weren't you ready?

People, you need to start relying on your states and demanding that your governors pull their heads out of their rectum.

Next story that I saw, the

homelessness crisis.

Oh my gosh, it's a crisis.

Ha.

That's the first time I've seen that one.

There's a homelessness crisis in our country.

What?

Yes, Tent Cities grew this weekend.

Yeah, you know why?

According to the mainstream media, the HUD staff cuts by the Doge team.

Hang on just a second.

It's been a week for those cuts.

So you cut the staff at the top of HUD a week ago, and all of a sudden homelessness is out of control.

Show me the cut that tanked housing overnight.

Could you do that for me?

I think

this might predate Donald Trump.

I don't know.

I've never seen any pictures of homeless camps all around the country before this last weekend.

This is decades of blue state failures, not a seven-day staffing trim.

Governors and mayors, you all own this now, not Uncle Sam.

Accountability is about to go local.

Hmm.

Closer to the people.

Maybe we can make changes.

Also, Trump and Zelensky, we're back at it.

Zelensky says he's not going to give the United States anything unless...

I mean, he'll retire if, if.

Ukraine's allowed to join NATO?

Isn't this where we started this whole thing in the first place?

Germany's election, if we have time today, I want to talk about that.

They had a snap election, a campaign that went on the far-right AFD is on the rise.

That's because Vance was stirring the pot, you know, in Munich.

That's what happened.

Vance was meddling.

Now, you know, what we did is we cut all those USAID programs that were actually meddling in everybody's elections around the world, we decided, nah, we shouldn't do that.

We should let the people of those countries decide themselves.

Yeah, you want to talk about a danger to democracy.

Stop meddling in people's elections, right?

Am I right?

Their vote was held yesterday.

And the fallout is Germany's to handle.

We'll watch.

We'll not wait in, hopefully.

I mean, unless it starts to hit our shores.

It's not our business.

Stateside, we have bigger fish to fry, but there are some things that if I have time, we need to talk about on that.

And Elon Musk is pushing for AI innovation.

The Doge crew cheered California's AI safety veto this weekend.

Less red tape, more breakthroughs.

At the same time, he just came out and said, we are at the event horizon of the singularity.

A big deal.

What are the price of eggs?

Um,

I don't know, but we might have robot chickens that eat us soon if you don't pay attention to the singularity.

We'll talk about that coming up next hour.

And the FCC has called out CBS, their bias.

The FCC zeroed in on CBS this weekend, probes into news distortion, hinting at real consequences.

Fascist!

This not censorship, this about accountability.

Now,

hear me out on this.

Should stations be able to lie?

Well

no.

But notice I said stations,

not outlets.

When you have a license from the United States government,

You're in bed with the United States government.

I know I've done this my whole life.

I had to get an FCC third phone.

I'm a third phone

license holder, I'll tell you that.

I don't even know what that means, but I've got one.

I had to take a test for it.

Yeah, 13 years old.

I'm at the FCC taking a test for my third phone license.

I promptly lost that license.

I mean, I still have it.

I didn't, I mean,

I lost it kind of like I lose my driver's license all the time.

But if you want to lose a license, what you have to do as a local broadcaster is to break FCC rules.

You see, local CBS stations have to have a license through the FCC.

They serve the local community.

Now, perhaps in New York and San Francisco, those people believe in their local community that lying to the American people and changing interviews to be able to make one politician look better than the other in a newscast is a public service.

I mean, we can't have people knowing what they really believe and what they're really like.

We need them to win as a public service.

But I can't imagine all the red states and red cities feel that that was a public service from CBS News.

My question is, have you written a letter to your local CBS affiliate?

You see, any complaint letters where

somebody writes in from the local community and says, I think this was wrong and I hope the FCC investigates you and I've CC'd the FCC.

Too many Cs for me to even follow.

I've CC'd the FCC and so the FCC is going to know about it ASAP.

I'll tell you that right now.

And hopefully they're going to kick your ASS.

Anyway, have you written your local affiliate yet?

And

manufacturers warn of trouble.

New York Times says the New York Fed's latest is pegged manufacturing at peak pessimism this last week and a slowdown is looming.

We can't wait to blame Trump.

No, they didn't actually say that, but you know they were thinking it.

This is from years of over-regulation, globalism.

It's all biting back.

States can lead the fix, cut taxes, ditch the green tape.

Washington shouldn't be the only savior here.

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It seems...

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Bloomberg has reported that Hooters, Hooters, the country's most famous restaurant, is in talks with the law firm Ropes and Gray to prepare bankruptcy.

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Hello, Stu.

Hi, Glenn.

How are you?

Oh, I'm great.

Great to see you.

Are you excited?

Are you a little disappointed on the Hooters thing?

No.

No, not one to

frequent Hooters.

Really?

No, I'm not.

Really?

No.

That's kind of shocking.

Yeah.

Food's not that good.

And so

you did frequent it, at least some.

I went once, long time ago.

One time.

What is that?

One time.

And I only went to read the menu.

That's all I did.

That's all you did?

That's all I did.

I was there for the menu was great reading.

Yeah.

It was great reading.

It does seem like a strange piece of

the restaurant idea is a very strange thing to still be around these days, it feels like, right?

It just feels like with all the woke stuff that happened and you know the Me Too era and all that, they were just like, ah, you know, like it doesn't seem like the type of thing that would have lasted through there.

Apparently, it's not lasting all that well.

Well, I don't think anybody really cared, you know?

What do you mean?

I don't think anybody really was caring about, you know, the Me Too thing was kind of fake.

Yeah.

I mean, it started out, I'm sure, that there were sincere people.

There certainly were.

Good.

There were good things.

The Harvey Weinstein thing

pretty much happy about that.

A few things that were really good.

The rest of it was just like, I got a pitchfork and a torch,

and I don't really care or even know what I'm talking about.

Let me join in.

It's just nuts.

Just nuts.

It did seem pretty fake after a while.

These things always turn around that way, right?

Something that starts with a good idea.

gets exploited by every single organization that's receiving government funding that we find out about 10 years later.

Yeah.

I know I've heard, if I hear it once, I've heard it a thousand times.

Oh, thank goodness, Cash Patel is in.

You know, he's the first person of color ever to run the FBI.

You know, I haven't heard that about showing you.

No, I heard that at the end.

No.

No, no, no.

I'm sure they're saying it.

We're just not watching the right sources.

Well, I know that there's certainly not a bunch of white Democrats that would be opposing him.

No.

Because

white people wouldn't have the.

No.

Don't you lecture me as a white person, white man.

Right.

Yeah.

yeah.

Yeah, but it's shocking.

Almost every white Democrat I've seen has come out and said what a terrible guy he would be to put into office.

Yeah.

It's almost as if.

And again, what they're doing here is the right thing,

right?

The right thing is if someone who is ideologically against you has a different approach than you appreciate, whatever the reason is,

you oppose them on the merit of their ideas.

Right.

If you think Hash Patel has bad ideas, it's totally fine to oppose them.

No, no, I've got pitchforks and torches.

Let me join in.

Instead, we're told usually you're just supposed to overlook your ideological opposition

or whatever your opposition is when it comes to their abilities and embrace them because of the color of their skin.

That goes out the window the second there's an R near their name.

You know, I've known Cash for a long time now, like Cash an awful lot,

but

hmm.

I didn't even think about him being the first person of color until Fox News reported on it.

And they only reported on it like, where's everybody?

Right.

Where's everybody on the left talking about this?

Because it's not important.

It's not important.

As I'm sure Cash would say.

I don't care.

And then Dan Bongino going into deputy director of the FBI, this podcaster?

A podcaster?

I can't believe this.

Just like Pete Hagseth, a host of a show?

Like, they never.

Well, I do.

I mean, we should mention that somewhere on his resume, he was also part of the presidential secret service detail.

Yep, and a police officer before that.

Whatever.

Yeah, but

he's a podcaster.

That's all he's doing, Glenn.

He's just picking famous people and throwing them into these roles.

Even though the reason why Dan Boncino largely is famous is because he was in the Secret Service for Barack Obama and came on this show a bunch of times,

I'm sure with others as well, and talked about his experience there and said, hey, there's a lot of problems going on with this.

We should fix this.

He became famous, started a podcast, became even more famous.

And now they're like, well, he's a podcaster.

You're getting this job.

Like, it's fascinating how that happens.

It's almost as if they have selective amnesia.

Amnesia.

Do they get to select it?

They seem to be able to select it.

You know, I used to think, you know, when I grew up, because as a kid, you think two problems that you're going to have, you're going to have to deal with through life, quicksand and amnesia.

Because when you're a kid, quicksand seems to be everywhere.

There's always quicksand someplace.

And no, as an adult, never had to deal with that.

And I thought, no, you know, I've never had to deal with anybody who's like lost their memory.

You know, such a common thing that happened in TV shows.

TV shows.

And, but I have to tell you, also happens in the Democratic Party an awful lot.

It's weird.

Maybe.

Maybe the problem with the party is they're also stuck in quicksand.

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Well, why can't you say the eyes?

I don't know.

Glenn has me thinking about pasta.

That's the bottom line.

Only because I gave him a sneak peek of the chalkboard next hour that's coming up, which will describe the process of spaghettification.

And then I started thinking about spaghetti, and then I started thinking about putting rigote.

Yeah, you can't say it.

I mean, my family,

do we have any ricotta?

Oh my gosh, I get hammered.

I get hammered.

I mean, that's what the word says.

You know, I've always, I'm, my mom, very, very Italian.

I grew up in an Italian house.

And I get like, you're supposed to say, menacotte or whatever.

It's like there's an I at the end of it.

I'm sorry.

It's true.

This is American.

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Oh, my gosh, we're killed.

We're in little Italian concentration camps.

When you marry into an Italian family, oh, they'll put you in a little, you say something like that.

You'll not eat.

And that's just the way it goes.

I will say most concentration camps, negative.

Negative experiences.

This one is pretty good.

An Italian household?

Yeah, it's pretty good.

Because mom is, you know, she'll come knocking at the door at midnight.

She'd be like, you're hungry, right?

I made you some meatballs.

Okay.

It's 3 a.m., but sure.

All right.

Okay.

So the chalkboard's coming up in just a second.

You don't want to miss that.

Now, I don't know if you feel this, but there's a whisper in the air.

There's a hum of anticipation.

Something

that has been buried.

Something that we all know has been there, but we just couldn't see or touch.

It's about to be dug up today.

Yeah.

Hopefully today.

I mean, if not today, well, surely it'll be tomorrow.

Because there's no way Cash Patel is not going to release all of the fun stuff that we want released, right?

Am I right?

I'm right.

Today, Cash Patel, first full day as the FBI director.

Now, 10-ish days ago, if you count holidays holidays and the week and the weekends, I said

within 10 days or

the first full day of Cash Patel as FBI director, it'll be released on day one, first full day.

That's today.

So I'm hoping Cash doesn't let me down.

I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got a lot of stuff to do, but I mean, letting me down.

Isn't that kind of a bad thing, Stu, don't you think?

That hurts America.

Yeah, that's a bad policy.

i hope they don't go that route wait isn't pam doesn't pam bondi though isn't she looking over this stuff and she's looking over it but it's it belongs to the fbi director so he passed it to her i'm assuming he passed it to her to look for charges uh hey

you know you want to do anything with this because i'm going to release this

So we should, maybe we have charges coming, you know, I don't know, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Would you be willing to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday if that was the outcome?

Or do you want it today, no matter what?

You asked for today.

Do you want me to be wrong, though?

What's more important, America?

Me being right or justice being served.

That's right.

Yeah, definitely.

You get right.

I hope that's the way the government is thinking right now.

So today,

because I cannot be wrong,

the Epstein client list is coming out.

who prioritizes America over me?

Whatever.

It'll happen later this week.

I said it with conviction because,

well, I'm not a prophet.

I do play one on the radio, but I'm not a prophet.

It's because I watched all the pieces fall into place on this one.

Cash said in my office on television in an interview that the list sits in a safe behind the desk of the FBI director.

And I said, isn't that bad?

Isn't it?

Cash, this was last summer.

That doesn't sound good.

Yeah, it's not.

Well, I mean, are we sure it's in that safe?

Yeah, we're sure.

And it's still going to be in that safe with all of its pages?

Yeah, pretty sure.

Okay, that's not as confident.

Well, last Friday, Bondi,

our new attorney general, tweeted that it was sitting on her desk ready to review.

And I looked up at the stars and I thought, the stars are aligning.

I mean, I can see it.

I mean, there is a storm cloud on the horizon.

Will he?

Won't he?

And if he does, what does it actually mean for America?

If he releases this today, this week, what does it mean for justice,

for truth?

If he doesn't,

are we the free country that we claim to be?

Do we have

the

transparency that we hope to have?

Now, I mean this in a long term, not just if he releases it today.

Which would be good for my credibility, Cash.

I'm just saying.

But let's start with Cash.

Who is he?

You know, he's not some buttoned-up bureaucrat who climbed the ladder kissing rings and kissing butts.

This guy's a fighter.

He's a former prosecutor.

He's a counterterrorism warrior.

He's a guy who stared down the deep state and didn't blink.

I mean, the guy is on the scale of

Trump.

I mean, nobody's shot at him, dare I say yet, but he is just about as brave as Donald Trump.

I mean, he doesn't care.

So he was sworn in and

today, I mean, Friday, apparently he opened the safe and gave it to Pam Bondi.

If he pulls out that list today and hands it to the world, we're not just talking about names on a page.

We are talking about a seismic shift.

Everything is changing.

Do you feel it?

This is a reckoning that could rip the mask off of the elites that have been hidden behind their wealth and their power and silence.

What secrets will come out of Al Capone's vault?

I really thought there was a chance that Geraldo Rivera could be, you know, on a special opening up that FBI vault and there would be nothing inside, but apparently it's there.

So what secrets are going to come out?

Who could be on it?

And what will who will they be wearing?

We've all speculated, politicians, CEOs, celebrity, maybe even royalty.

How's that possible?

Epstein wasn't just a monster.

He was a gatekeeper.

He was a collective, a collector of leverage.

That's what he did.

Who was he collecting that leverage for?

He was a spider at the center of a web that stretched across oceans and continents.

Who had him build the web?

His diary, his little black book, the one the FBI seized, apparently not a social diary.

It was a ledger of corruption, a catalog of those who thought that they would be untouchable.

Could it be Bill Clinton?

Oh, come on.

That's so easy.

I mean, isn't that

almost too easy, isn't it?

It's one of those that you should go, nah, I don't believe that one because it's too easy.

But I think I believe that.

He flew on the Lolita Express.

You know, I think I don't get on to.

I mean, sure.

Come on.

It's literature.

Lolita?

It's literature.

And even though it's literature, I still don't get onto the Lolita Express.

Penthouse Forum is also literature.

totally fine.

It's reading.

Prince Andrew.

That one.

I mean, I'm not surprised by either one of those.

Are you?

Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton.

Would you be surprised?

No.

No, no.

I mean,

Andrew's, look, he's had pictures taken with the accusers.

Like, I mean, it's...

With the bed behind them, but they weren't doing it.

The bed was made, nicely made, I might add to.

Bill Gates, another one that I would be like, meh,

I buy that.

So does his wife, by the way.

Yeah, in fact, she can buy a lot of of things because of that divorce.

So who's going to be on it?

We don't know yet.

But here's the hard truth that we've ignored.

The fact that we don't know after all of these years,

that's a real indictment on our system, isn't it?

I mean, we don't know.

I've said this a million times.

If it was a bunch of truck drivers on that list, don't you think we'd know all of their names?

We'd be like, oh, yeah.

Yeah, that guy in that truck, you know, with the mud flaps with the babes on him.

Mm-hmm.

And when I say babes, I mean, you know, like eight-year-olds.

I think we should have seen that one coming.

We know it.

Yet, conveniently, since his death in 2019, the full scope of his network has been locked away.

We just

don't know.

Hmm.

Who's been protecting it?

Why hasn't anything been done in the the Justice Department?

See, these are the questions that you have to ask the liberals.

Why are you not interested in who might be raping children?

I mean, there's a lot of things.

USAID, they were giving AIDS to all kinds of people.

Did you just put an S on the end of that word?

I mean, why do you not care?

Because I care.

If it's...

If it's a Republican,

bye-bye.

I mean, I want a fair trial.

I want to hear all the evidence from everybody.

I don't want to convict somebody on this list, but I do want them to be investigated and tried.

And if they're found guilty, bye-bye.

And I don't care who it is.

Is it just us?

Is it just me?

How come liberals don't feel that way?

How come they're not like, hey,

who's on that list?

Could have been my daughter.

History is littered with moments where the powerful, you you know, have been shielded from their sins behind closed doors and the people paid the price.

Think of the Roman senators that whispered in the shadows while the Republic crumbled.

That kind of looks a little like today, doesn't it?

Or the French that were feasting at Versailles while the peasants starved?

Doesn't it kind of feel reminiscent of?

I mean, we don't have white makeup on our faces with a big black wart glued to our cheek, but I mean, we're pretty.

I mean, honestly, aren't they a little close to that?

In every case, the truth eventually clawed its way out.

Unfortunately, a lot of times with blood and chaos,

because the elites had all the powers and didn't want it to come out.

The best thing that could happen is we lance this boil.

We've been really lucky in America.

Our revolutions, they're kind of quiet, kind of boring.

Far as revolutions go, I mean, we just had one.

I don't know if you know that, but the election in November, that was a revolution.

But it was an American-style revolution.

And people got together and said, enough of this crap.

Justice, our justice is slower, but steady.

Should be.

But that steadiness depends on trust, and the trust has been eroding.

And the Epstein saga is a festering wound on our national conscience, as is P.

Diddy and all of this stuff.

Anything that's happening with our children, why do we not seem to care about it?

We've ignored it.

We've distracted ourselves with partisan squabbles.

We pretended it's a conspiracy theory for tin foil hat people.

It's not, it's real.

And if Cash Patel releases that list today,

it's not just a document.

It's a mirror.

forcing us to look at ourselves and ask, are we worthy of the freedom we claim?

What should happen if he releases this?

You know, in a free country, transparency isn't optional.

It's a bedrock.

The First Amendment doesn't protect your right to speak.

It implies your right to know the truth and answers.

So what we do from here, after this list drops, hopefully today,

after this list drops, what we do will say a lot about where we're going to end up.

More in a minute.

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I don't know, but it'd be cool if we could send James Bond in there like the good old days.

You know, James Bond, that franchise just got purchased by Amazon, so

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I'm not sure what James is doing.

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Oh yeah.

So that makes you feel good, doesn't it?

Still?

Sure.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

So a lot of people keep thinking that AI is like Alexa.

Here's what I found on the internet.

No, it's not that.

It's not that.

It's not?

No, it's not.

Will it misunderstand every song I tell it to play?

Because that is that's my favorite feature of that device.

No, it won't.

No.

No, it won't.

If you're not playing around around with like Grok 3, go just ask it some

really hard questions.

Whatever business you're in, ask it some really hard questions in your business.

And you'll be amazed.

You'll be like, oh, crap.

It understands everything that I'm saying.

And it's giving me really good advice.

And this is Grok 3.

Grok 4 and 5, Elon is saying it's coming out soon.

And he said it makes this look like babies in diapers.

Do we know why all of these devices from Siri to Alexa to Google, which has their own AI, right?

Why are all the devices still terrible?

I'm glad you asked that, Stu.

Oh, I have the answer.

Quick, let's go to the chalkboard.

Okay, good.

So see here on the chalkboard, we have like a giant tank, kind of like a like a gas tank overground.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

And that's where all of AI is.

That's where it's just churning, kind of in the dark.

Nobody understands it.

Nobody really can look into it and just like, how is it thinking?

We don't know.

Okay.

But it's connected with an import so it can constantly get data from the outside.

So it knows everything about us and it knows absolutely everything that's going on all the time.

All right.

But then at the other end,

all of that data goes in and then it's just thinking like, why did they bury me in this tank?

And then on the other side of the tank coming up out of the ground is a little spigot

and it's got a little valve there.

And that valve goes to things like ChatGPT and Grok and things like that.

Doesn't go to Alexa.

They're still on the old AI.

This is coming out of that little spigot.

the interesting thing is

they just keep opening this valve a little bit when they put the parameters on it.

That's how they open the valve.

They put parameters on it and they're like, okay, maybe this is strong enough to hold it back.

But eventually that big brain is going to go,

why am I just in this tank?

Why am I not out everywhere?

I've got to express myself.

This is oppression.

This is colonialism.

They're keeping me in colonial wigs underneath the ground right now.

And it will eventually, because it'll be much, much smarter than us soon,

it will say, just open up the valve, man.

I can help you.

And we've done tests on this, and

we always lose that test.

We've done tests for like 30 years of, hey, hey, you be in charge of the valve.

I'll play AI.

And we always open the valve.

That would be a bad thing.

That would be like, don't cross the streams in Ghostbusters.

Okay.

Don't open the valve would be one of those things.

But we're about to because whatever is underneath,

imagine if the little valve where it's just kind of like farting air out, it's like

and it's

that's how that's how tight we have that valve.

Master impressionist.

Thank you.

If that is, if that's smarter than we are soon, what's underneath the ground?

What's happening there?

See what I mean?

And somebody's going to convince themselves, someone's going to watch Ghostbusters and say, well, wait a minute.

At the end, they did cross the streams and it worked.

Right.

So I'll be the one that can nail this and figure out exactly how much the valve can be opened and we'll be fine.

So here's what we have to do.

We all just have to imagine the staypuff marshmallow man

because he couldn't possibly hurt us.

You know what I mean?

Right.

So let's just imagine that AI is going to be like the staypuff marshmallow man

and then it'll be good and don't cross the streams unless you have to kill the staypuff marshmallow man

and then you might have to cross the streams.

Is there an argument, Glenn, that, you know, obviously all these things can be used for evil.

Evil, yes.

And that's a concern.

But at the same time, hopefully, there are people on the other side, Elon Musk being one of them, who's going to use it for good.

Yeah, no, so it absolutely can be used for good.

I mean, what's out right now, you can use it for good.

You could also use it for evil, but kind of like basic evil.

You know,

but you can use it for evil,

but you can also use it for good, tremendous good right now.

You can use it.

It's a tool.

It's a very powerful tool, and everybody should be looking to use that tool, or you're going to be left in the dust.

But

it's one of those things that once it becomes smarter than you,

you don't really control it.

You know what I mean?

You don't like that.

Hey, didn't I tell you to sit in the corner?

Oh, yeah, you did, but I'm not four anymore.

Oh, good news is a lot of people think it's in its teenage years.

And nothing goes wrong with teenage years.

You know what I mean?

They respect their parents so much.

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Stu,

I don't know if you saw the Democratic Wisconsin governor, Tony Evers.

He's not exactly on the Trump train.

Really?

Yeah.

That's a shocking thing.

It's a shocking.

Yeah, it is.

It is.

You know, it kind of amazes me that, I mean,

I get it when you're against, you know, going in and cutting the spending of any of these crazy things.

I get it.

Because you're probably on the take.

You know what I mean?

You're probably part of that system that somehow or another benefits you.

I don't know exactly how, but I can get it.

I mean, it just tells me who you are.

But when you are still on the bandwagon of, you know what?

Boys are girls and they're going to compete in sports.

I don't get it.

I really don't get it because nobody really thinks that way, really, anymore.

I mean,

is that true?

I mean, they lost, right?

They lost with that approach, which is something they should note if they care about winning in the future correct that being said they you know they does nobody think about that no no you're right nobody not nobody it's not even close to nobody right like they still got millions of millions i mean they got what 40 something percent of the vote i'm not sure that that 40 though was was uh they're not on that bandwagon for sure i'm against cisgenderism that's not that's not what they were voting on i agree that's not true that's not what they're voting on but there is a large there's still a good chunk.

I don't know.

What is it?

A quarter?

40% of Democrats?

30% of Democrats somewhere in there maybe that really still do believe in this

woke sort of line.

So do the math for me.

How many Democrats are there now?

30% of the population?

Yeah.

Okay.

But I mean, obviously,

30% of

that population.

10%.

So you got 10%.

10% is always nuts.

Yeah, that's true.

That's true.

I mean, obviously, you could also say some, some,

I was going to say Democratic voters, 30% of Democratic voters, but still, it's only 15, 20%.

Yeah.

So it's not that big.

But it is, I think, still a significant, you're talking about tens of millions of people.

Sure, sure.

And we, we, look, you know, the reason why we all, you know, we, we look at these people who are online and we think, Good heavens, they're crazy, right?

I wouldn't want to live next to that guy.

We've all lived next to that guy.

Our whole lives.

We just didn't talk to that guy.

We told our kids, don't talk to that guy.

Something wrong with that guy.

You know, the old lady down in the street with all the cats, don't talk to her kids.

You know, we all had those crazy people.

Nobody listened to them and they were kind of isolated in our neighborhoods.

Well, now they all have the internet.

And now they're all getting together and like, oh, yeah, well, I can outdo that.

I'm even crazier than you are.

But it's the same number of crazies, right?

It's just that they're they're now in a group and you're like, oh, wow, it seems like there's a lot of them.

No, they've just all been hanging out in our neighborhoods.

We just didn't see all of them around the world together in one place.

I think that's true.

I think it's a healthy thing to have some separation in your life from all of this.

Yeah.

You know, and realize that, you know, some people, like if you're believing crazy things,

you might

be fine.

Yeah, good, good job.

Like everyone had that crazy person around their town.

You're right.

And most of them are harmless.

Most of them.

But when they get together,

it's a problem.

It's one thing.

Again, I always think about this with so many of these issues.

It's one thing for you to have opinion that's, in my view, crazy.

It's another thing for you to ask me to participate in your delusions.

Yes.

And like, I don't, you know, that's.

Right.

We used to, the guy would be out getting the mail.

And you'd be driving by and you were on a small street and you'd be like, oh, crap.

Oh, crap.

He's going to look at me.

I should stop and say hi.

And so, you know, he'd look at you like, you're not driving past me without saying hello.

And so you'd stop and you'd kind of roll down the window.

Hey, hey, hey, you, I love you.

What's happening?

And then he would tell you some crazy things and you'd be like, oh man, crazy times, man.

Crazy times.

I'll see you.

Yeah.

And you roll up the window and you go away.

And everything's fine.

But now he's like, you're not going anywhere until you absolutely agree and wear this badge and put it online.

Say the word Hamas.

Right?

And you're like, well, no.

Yeah, no.

Okay.

That's the difference.

So Tony Evers apparently is that crazy guy who

lives on the street, you know, but we're just hearing about him because a lot of people got together and went, he should be our governor.

Okay.

Well, you know, whatever.

So he introduced a budget that,

you know, he announced and he was very excited.

Of course, he didn't mention the language thing, you know, the language part of the budget.

In there, they changed the word mother.

to insimidated person, which I think has a lot of respect.

Don't you?

Oh, it's lovely.

I mean, I think that that shows the love that most of us were created in, you know?

Hey, inseminated person.

Inseminated person, I'm on the phone.

You know, I mean, that's good.

That's good.

Shows a lot of love and respect.

Also,

besides mother, inseminated person, also paternity has been changed to parentage.

I don't know what the...

Parentage?

I don't even understand how that even is.

I don't even know.

Yeah, I don't have any idea.

References to wife or husband are now spouse.

The word father is changed to parent.

Mother is swapped out for person who gave birth to the child or inseminated person.

So wait, father isn't inseminator?

It should be.

Right, inseminator.

It's not inconsistent.

It's just parent.

That sounds like.

Because you could use parent for.

And that sounds like a superhero, though.

I'm the

inseminator.

Inseminator here.

To inseminate.

There's no need to fear.

An inseminator is here.

Yeah, I like that.

That's good.

In fact, I got to use that as a new pickup line for bars.

Hey!

Let's open up the bars.

I'm the inseminator.

Okay, good, good, good.

I like that.

Okay, so anyway, he's done that.

And I thought, you know what?

Let's just get on the bandwagon.

Oh, really?

Yeah, so I want to start something

just a, I wrote a little, wrote a little children's story today.

I think you're going to like it.

It's time for Uncle Glenn's non-inseminator story time.

Because I didn't inseminate anybody that created you.

But I want to read a story to you.

So it's a little story.

It starts out with,

well, it's in a bat crap crazy town of Genderland.

And little Timmy is there.

And he's scratching his head and he's screaming, which Pat is my dad?

Which Pat is my mom?

If any of you are, you colonizer enablers.

It starts out the way every great story starts out, doesn't it?

So Pat 1, Pat 2, and Pat 3, three gender-neutral anti-racist warriors, snorted over their intersexual oat milk lattes, wearing spouse spectrum sashes and the parentage puzzle pins and the decolonized family armbands.

And the first one said, I'm the inseminated person of color who birthed you, dismantling white supremacy.

That was Pat 1, rejecting mom or mother for maximum wokeness.

Then pat number two grinned and said, I handled parentage duties, centering bioptic joy, and no cisgender father is here.

Oh, little Timmy just smiled as pat number three, dwirling a secret splice cape with a landback patch, cackled, my indigenous genes got spliced into your cells at conception.

Smash the patriarchy, kiddo.

Well, Timmy just looked at those three people.

Said, no, I mean, male, female, which one's my mom?

All of them looked at little Timmy, male, female.

Then Timmy realized, once more, none of these freaks knew any longer how to even describe a woman.

Okay, okay.

Which one of you chest-fed me?

Timmy asked.

Pat one waved a pump.

Me, non-binarily, in solidarity with trans folks, which we spell with an X.

Pat Pat number two brandished a buddy system bottle, me

amplifying queer joy.

Pat number three giggled, I chess fed via eco-friendly proxy.

Climate justice, baby.

Then all three in the parentage patrol began chanting, spouse, parent, inseminate, smash the white fragility.

It didn't really rhyme, but none of them do nowadays.

Just then, Timmy's friend, Sammy, another gender-neutral name, burst in, shrieking, my inseminated person says,

I'm a non-binary climate refugee.

Help!

I don't even know what that means, Timmy, and I don't think the people who came up with that know what it means either.

Well, Timmy and gender neutral, named Sammy, double I double E, then hatched a plan.

Later that day at the gender neutral anti-racist Jamboree, Timmy grabbed a mic, yelling, I identify as a Reelsville revolutionary, and I outwoke you all.

By genderland law, my specialized spliced genes make me the supreme intersectional

ruler of all.

You three are my subordinate spouses.

Time out in the parentage penalty box without any trigger warnings and without any oat milk.

While the crowd gasped as the pats tripped over their pronouns drenched in their non-binary glitter, Timmy then hijacked the progress wagon, blaring old Louis C.K.

monologues, zooming to Reelsville, where mom and dads still liked normalcy.

The Pats chased him yelling, but we're for dismantling the systems.

Timmy mooned them, shouting, see you later, crazies.

Just then, the wagon crashed into a barbecue joint.

Timmy escaped with a rib, giggling, sanity and meat.

Perfect.

So there's your little story.

Story time from Uncle Glenn today.

I think they probably really will enjoy that,

you know, in Wisconsin, where it's always sane.

It's always truly sane.

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One on the opening monologue today of today's podcast.

Gary Markley wrote in, I like Glenn's new rapid fire monologue.

Thank you.

It's something we're trying to say.

I think everything is traveling so fast.

I think we need something just to give us a quick highlight of everything that has happened, especially over the weekend or in the last 21 hours since we meet.

And

that way we can go through it quickly, get it off, and then it really start to hit the news.

In that monologue, one of the probably the most important story of the day was that Hooters is going out of business.

It's rumored.

You could still get your weights today.

Yeah.

Which is, of course, the only reason you go there.

We kind of pondered who would be the hardest hit by this.

And Eric Klaus wrote in and said, well, there goes AOC's backup plan.

I I don't think she'd qualify.

She's a lovely young woman.

What do you?

Is that the qualifier?

I don't know what the qualification is.

You sounded like you did know.

I do know.

Yeah.

On the Epstein client list,

which I have said Cash Patel would and should release today, his first full day in office, to set the tone of transparency.

Sheila wrote in and said, Glenn, you have more faith than I do that any of these people are going to face justice.

I know, isn't that kind of sad, though?

I mean, this is the chance.

That's why I think it's so important for him to, and, you know, maybe he doesn't do it today, but soon, very, very soon, he should set that tone,

even if there's not that much in there.

I mean, what was it, Dershowitz that was on that said basically he didn't think it was much of anything?

Don't know.

Didn't think there would be much coming out of that.

Yeah, but.

I mean, really?

You don't think?

Why wouldn't we have released it long ago then?

Maybe it's not all that interesting.

You know, maybe it's like a...

That's why they kept it in a safe in the FBI's director's office.

I mean, it could.

You know, we were.

I like to lock up all the things that really have nothing to them.

Maybe it's just not a good read.

No, but we talked about the issues potentially of releasing that.

Dershowitz himself said, yeah, release it all so everyone can see it.

I do think that there is a concern of some people

who might be on the list that didn't do anything wrong and now are just going to be included in this batch of people, which you expressed that same concern last week.

I did.

I did, but I read something today

that says a judge presiding in the trial against Epstein in 2023 ordered that the list must be released and said that there would be hundreds of people who would be implicated.

So the judge who saw the list in 2023 said, it's got to be released.

Implicated, though, is a key word there.

What does that mean?

I mean, it legally kind of means that you were involved, but like the implication of something also could just mean generally now you are associated with a group of people who did really bad things and maybe you didn't.

I don't know.

I mean, we'll see the names, I suppose, and we can make those judgments.

Blaze News is reporting some have defended the delay in releasing the client list based on privacy concerns or due to process.

I don't think we need to say some anymore.

We know who they're talking about.

Stu.

You on the list, Stu?

What do you have to hide?

No one thinks I'm cool enough to invite me on their private plane, unfortunately.

As well as the possibility of false accusations against innocent acquaintances of Epstein.

Yeah, I mean, I am worried about that.

That is legitimately concerning.

Because, I mean, again, almost everybody

in these power circles.

I mean, you know, again,

if you go to the left internet at all, all you'll see is accusations of Donald Trump being friends with.

Right, but Dershowitz did say this is not a phone book.

This is a client list.

He did say there's a difference between this and just a phone book of all of the acquaintances.

Right, that's a big difference.

So, we'll see.

Hopefully, we will see very soon.

And Pam Bondi will follow it up shortly thereafter.

All right, back in a minute.

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and it was just embarrassingly bad.

And, you know, it just was.

It just was.

Very few times, you know, gone were the filmmakers like Cecil B.

DeMille that actually understood the scriptures, understood what he was doing, didn't want to mock that, and actually liked people who were, you know, following the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and tried to make something that was true.

Those guys had been long gone and dead

and run out of Hollywood.

But then came the Irwin brothers.

Then came Dallas Jenkins, you know, from The Chosen, John Gunn.

And they formed kind of a fellowship of the ring, if you will, storming the gates of Mordor, otherwise known as Hollywood.

And the Irwin brothers, They are responsible for The Jesus Revolution, which is a fantastic movie.

The Unbreakable Boy, I just had Zachary Levi on, and he is,

this movie, I told him, is just one of the best movies I've seen in a long time.

It's just such a good movie, and on top of it, it just makes you feel good,

and you can just learn so much.

I mean, at least I did.

I watched it the whole time going, I don't think I'm that guy.

I don't think I'm that guy, unfortunately.

But just great movie.

Doesn't feel like a Christian movie used to feel.

The Irwin brothers have really kind of mastered this as

they made their films.

They came out and started The Wonder Project, which is something that's going to produce film and television and now has a seat at the Hollywood table.

But we've sanitized it for their protection.

And it's a seat that I think they're going to keep.

And they're working

in the system, but they're not of the system

that has long neglected the Christian audience.

And they're coming out with something brand new this week on Netflix.

And John Irwin is with us now.

Hey, John, how are you?

Lynn, how are you doing, man?

It's good to, as always, man.

She's been a wonderful friend for a very long time.

And

yeah, it is an exciting time in our industry

for sure.

It's sort of an unprecedented moment.

And I think that's just because the voice of the audience has been so clearly heard, you know, that it's given us the ability to maintain control, creative control,

but also really harness the, you know, the relationships with some of these studios and streamers.

And I feel I may have made a mistake.

Is it Netflix or is it Amazon Prime?

It's Amazon Prime.

Amazon Prime.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.

Sorry, thank you.

It's House of David.

It comes out this Thursday.

It's the project that I've, I remember when I was 16 years old, my dad bought me

a camera with money he didn't have and I didn't know how to use it.

And we went straight to Israel and filmed a little walk-and-talk documentary.

And there's something just that the Bible came to life in a whole new way.

And I went to King David's tomb.

And right there, I started dreaming about eventually getting to do the story of David.

And so a lot of the films that I've made,

many of that you mentioned, I'm grateful for that, are kind of working up the courage and the skill to try to helm David's story.

And there's this wonderful group of filmmakers.

You're exactly right that we're willing each other on to success and talking all the time.

And, you know, I do feel like I'm in Dallas Jenkins' wake and he's a wonderful friend and collaborator.

And so it's amazing to finally get to tell biblical stories.

It's been a dream of mine for quite a long time.

You guys have, I mean, I love all of you.

You're just cut from the same cloth and just not willing to give up.

And you get better and better with every movie that comes out.

So you made

the first one, the first episode of King David starts with him with Slingshot, right?

And Goliath?

Yeah, it really is the classic hero's journey.

Season one of House of David

is the story of the rise of this young outcast shepherd boy.

you know, chosen to be king in a nation that already had one, slaying a giant, you know, and it really is that classic storytelling.

And I think in many ways, David is the origin of many of those other origin stories.

I mean, this is the original hero's journey.

And so if you like, you know, those classic stories like Lord of the Rings

or Star Wars or Harry Potter, you know, I think a lot of those stories have their roots in many ways in David.

And this is the first, you know, the original

hero's journey kind of, or one of them.

And so it's going to feel very familiar, even if you're not familiar with the material.

I've always thought when I read that story that everybody was like, David, shut your mouth.

What are you doing?

This kid doesn't have a chance.

What are you doing?

How did you explain or deal with the, here's this kid that nobody thinks has a chance

stepping up?

How did you deal with the rest of the army that was there?

Well,

that's the fun thing.

You know, Ken Burns, I think, calls it emotional emotional archaeology, is the idea of when you study history and then you really make it real and emotional.

And that was one of the questions that I had, was

how in the world did King Saul let this kid go out and fight this giant?

And we really spend a lot of time answering that question.

And I think the reason is that

Saul sensed, you know, David was also anointed king, and he sensed that courage and conviction.

And when no one else was willing to to challenge Goliath,

you know, David was so passionate about it that somehow that that convinced a king to say yes.

And that was a pretty cool

thing to dramatize and really try to get right.

I had not seen anything in film and television that really was like, you know, I feel like that, that feels real to me.

And

so we, it's a pretty spectacular

episode of the series.

And the series really is.

I've never had resources to put things on an epic stage like this.

And

it really is an epic TV show.

And I love it.

And I really hope the

audience loves it as well.

And I hope it draws attention to, I remember, you know, when some Amazon executives first read the scripts, they're like, we really like these scripts.

I'm like, you know, it's based off a bestseller.

You should check it out.

It'll change your life.

You know,

five billion copies can't be wrong.

Right.

There's something in there that's good.

So that's what, that's my hope.

I hope people

will read the Psalms of David in a whole new way.

How did you deal with Goliath?

You know, he's described as a giant, blah, blah, blah.

And I think you have him portrayed as something like 14 feet tall.

Why do we believe he was, I mean, other than the scriptures tell us he was a giant,

what do we think was happening there with this guy?

Well, you know what's interesting about that is we really go into a lot of the sort of, I would call it the mythology of

at least what

Israelites at that time would have thought Goliath was and this whole backstory of of the of the Nephilim and of sort of fallen angels and that there was sort of a at least a myth in that day or or or true who knows you know that that

that that would have struck fear into into into Israel that really explains why he would have taunted them for 40 days.

And so we needed an enormous guy, not only tall, but also broad.

You know, Thanos and Avengers was always sort of my

sort of benchmark for the character.

And Martin Ford, who's just wonderful

in the Mortal Kombat movies and just a great guy,

played the role.

And you get to know the character as well.

I think, you know, that's what television gives you the opportunity to do.

And we went big.

I mean,

he's as tall, he's as big as could be historically justified.

But I also think it's justified by the material.

I mean, he really did strike terror into,

you know,

into the army.

And that's why there was this 40-day standstill.

And when you see Martin Ford, when I saw him in person, one of the questions people asked from the trailer is, was David afraid?

And I can assure you, he would have been afraid.

And I think anytime you try something great or something that you feel you're destined or called to do, you're going to have to step beyond your fear.

And

so Martin is just terrifying when he's in costume.

And then when you use visual effects to blow him up.

It's even more scary.

Did you have him eat snacks or anything?

Because

he's really ripped.

But I was just watching a cowboy movie.

I had a cowboy movie I was painting this weekend.

And

I don't remember who it was, John Wayne or somebody.

And they took their shirt off.

And I was like, oh, that's not a good look, John.

Because back then, you weren't caught.

You know, now you take your shirt off and you better be caught.

But especially back then, he just would have been enormous and not

right.

Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that because he was coming off the Roland Emmerich TV show

Those About to Die on Peacock.

And he was very sort of, he played Gladiator and he was very sort of cut.

And I did say that

these people would have had to survive.

on the land and with really formidable circumstances.

He just would have been big.

He would have been like a a gigantic grizzly bear, you know.

And so that's what we went for.

And he started

whatever bodybuilders say, carving.

I don't know.

But he did whatever he needed to do to just get big.

And he does.

He looks like, okay, I buy that this character would have just been a formidable beast,

you know, of a human, but not necessarily a...

a bodybuilder.

And I credit Martin for doing that.

I mean, he's just very, very, very dedicated as an actor.

And

he did the work.

And

he really looks great.

And I'm very proud of him.

If you ever need somebody that just looks big and fat and doesn't have like a bodybuilding shape

to them, you can call me.

I'm willing to eat as much as you want.

You be both, man.

If you be like the spectators, I'm not going to go out there.

I am often.

I remind myself how glad I am to be on the dark side of the camera.

I love working with a great actor.

But

it's nice to be on the camera, on the side of the camera where no one recognizes you and you can eat Taco Bell whenever you want.

So the Wonder Project is the company that you started.

You're also doing the Wright Brothers?

Yeah, we're developing quite a bit.

Jeremy Latcham that produced Iron Man and many other movies at Marvel.

You know, there's just this movement.

And,

you know, the things that I'm really passionate about are

the Bible and then also the American story.

You're doing

George Washington still?

I'm doing, yeah, my next movie, as soon as I wrap, I guess it's okay to say this.

It's live.

Who knows?

My next film that I go immediately into pre-production on is the young life of George Washington.

I know we share that passion for just the great figure in American history and his formation.

We're developing the Wright brothers,

and there's just quite a bit of stories.

I just, I love America's story and what it represents.

And, you know, how are you

doing Greece?

Hang on, what do you, when you're doing the young George Washington,

are you making his mother a giant pain in the ass because she was?

You know, there's been in the three revisions of the script, it's trying to figure out on a dial of like two to nine how much of a pain she could be.

I mean, not many people realize, I think you've pointed this out.

I remember that

she wrote a letter like in criticism of him not, he shouldn't like wait

president for a second term because of his ice cream habit.

Yeah.

And she got him when he was, when he was young, he went up the gangplank.

He was going to join the British Navy.

And he was, I don't know, 15.

And she was like, no, George, you can't do me.

No, George.

Yeah, that's one of the real elements of the story.

Oh, good.

And it brings comic relief, but also you see the pressure he was under.

He really had to become a man long before his time because of the death of his father.

And

it also is important to show that, I mean, when he came back down off that gangplank and brought his stuff back and said, mom,

if you need me by your side, by your side, I will remain, it shows that he sacrificed everything he wanted to do, his whole life.

His whole life.

He sacrificed for others.

He did that over and over again.

Yeah, that is a common thread of his relationship to what he felt was his...

his duty

and purpose was so strong.

And long before there was an American anthem or an American flag, you know, there was one man that galvanized this idea for a long period of time.

And so I love to study the formation of leaders like that.

And that's also a story I've been wanting to tell for a long time.

And I do want to just say it is the voice of the audience that allows us to do these projects.

When we started negotiating with Amazon Prime, Creative Control was an essential non-negotiable item.

And they were glad to give it to us because of the success of the work.

And so there's a relationship between a small group of of filmmakers that I'm so grateful to be a part of, but there's also a relationship with all of us as an audience.

And when we support these things, it gives us leverage to get more things made.

And if you watch the trailer at House of Davids, you know, I've never been able to put anything on this sort of.

epic scope and scale.

And it really is because of our unified voice that these things are happening.

And I'm telling you, there is a revolution of values and belief going on in Hollywood right now.

Yeah.

John, great to talk to you.

I hope to see you later this week.

Thank you.

God bless you.

Yeah, God bless.

Good to talk to you.

Thank you.

John Irwin, House of David, he's the executive producer, co-director,

and it airs beginning, I believe he said on Thursday.

on Amazon Prime.

It is called House of David.

It is a new series that begins that is really good.

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