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Hey, everything you need to know on today's Best Up podcast, we take a look at what might happen if next week's election is razor thin and how it might play out through the next couple of months all the way to January 20th.

Also Danny Gockey is with us, Emmy Award, I'm sorry, not Emmy, but Grammy Award-winning artist.

He's got an amazing song to share.

And Christy Kendall joins us to talk about

a divided nation and how do we, quote, undivide us.

All this and more in 60.

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All right, I want to prepare you for

what could happen.

An emphasis on could happen next week.

And everything I'm about to share with you, these are not my words.

These are the words from the actual war games from the left.

And I'll explain.

You'll understand,

you know, over the next couple of minutes.

So this is not a conspiracy theory.

This is not my opinion.

These are the facts of what is being planned.

I just think we all need to be prepared for any potential outcome that is being planned right now, just in case, you know, what happens if Kamala wins a close contested election next week?

What happens if the vote count is in question?

What happens if Trump supporters engage in protesters?

What happens on certification day, January 6th?

Well, I want to start with something that was in the Washington Post.

In 2017, three retired generals declared that the country must prepare now for a real insurrection in 2024.

That's 2017, they said that.

This is why when Biden got in, he purged the military of any Trump supporters, anybody who was online supporting Trump, and anyone who didn't take the vaccine because they were assumed to be Trump supporters.

In that article, they seem to be worried about dissension from within the United States military.

In other words, some on the left in 2017 were expecting and predicting an actual coup

this time around if Trump lost.

Now,

is this bullcrap?

Trump supporters in the military are not willing to defy the U.S.

government.

This feeds into the entire January 6th hysteria the Democrats have been pushing for four years.

But here we have these three retired generals talking about it.

So is that true?

Well, I don't know a single officer that is going to,

you know, in the ranks, not up at the highest levels, that is going to violate the Constitution.

They know they swear an allegiance to the Constitution, not to the President, if he is asking for illegal things to be done, unconstitutional things.

Now we have to consider,

how far are they willing to go if Trump protests, no matter how peaceful they may be, gather in places like Washington, D.C.

We have never expected a weaponized government and never expected how weaponized the federal government

could become.

After January 6th, consider that we still don't know how many federal officers, FBI officers, were even on the ground and if they were involved.

We still don't know who planted the pipe bombs.

We still don't know why Kamala Harris's Secret Service detail deleted text messages from that day on why they moved her away from the Capitol.

What is our government willing to do?

What have they done?

And what are they willing to do this time?

Well, it turns out we kind of know because there's been another war game.

This was the White House, the Pentagon, and Congress have been briefed now on the findings of this war game.

It's a progressive veterans group.

They conducted a January 6th war game.

They even turned it into a documentary, so you can see all of this.

It assumed the worst, including a pro-Trump rally on January 6th, which spins completely out of control, including members of the military switching sides, echoing the Washington Post article in 2021.

The game attendees included some of the biggest anti-Trump fanatics in the country, including the Trump impeachment witness Alexander Vinman,

the disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok, General Wesley Clark, and even, and I kid you not, Bill Crystal.

Okay, so everyone involved in this is verently anti-Trump.

Now, this is obvious fan fiction here.

It's what they dream could happen.

But listen to the capabilities they talk about.

Listen to this.

For me, the question is: what's next?

So we have all this capability from a federal perspective.

What can you do?

What should you do if our guard forces and our law enforcement capabilities are not sufficient strength to be able to handle things?

You can authorize lethal force to protect law enforcement officers.

Pause for a sec.

Is that correct?

You could have federal.

We've done it on the southwest border.

We could have federal troops that, with a presidential directive can protect law enforcement with lethal force.

Got it.

So these are anti-Trump advisors wargaming saying the president can do lethal force.

Okay.

So they're talking about the U.S.

military authorized to kill American citizens.

Just to clarify, but let's go on.

I would just urge you, and I know you've been resistant to doing surveillance on certain people, but you have to assume about the worst case scenario.

Do they know what is your

I think that's right.

And to be clear, my only hesitancy was to FISA on

strictly.

Everybody else I'd be fine.

Okay, this is former Governor Steve Bullock playing the president, discussing with Heidi Heidkamp potentially spying on his running mate.

He's hesitant to do due to how bad that might look, but surveillance on every other American citizen he's good with.

Here's more of that discussion.

This time, General Clark playing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

General, is there a way we could get legal authority to monitor General Sims and Strickland and what they're saying to each other?

And what we're going to do is

the short answer is yes.

The question is whether we're going to be able to get a bunch of people.

I just beat him by six-tenths of 1%.

And we're in a deeply divided country right now.

No one has to know whether we're monitoring this phone or not.

No one has to know this.

No one has to know that.

Notice they're making this all about politics.

They're not making it about principles.

But if no one knows, it makes it okay, I guess, doesn't it?

Okay, so the scenario they're talking about is one that is clearly out of the ordinary and insane.

But how long would it take for the Biden-Harris regime to jump to these conclusions if a few thousand protesters showed up to D.C.

on January 6th?

And we know that this war game was briefed to the Biden-Harris White House, the Pentagon, and Congress.

Spying on Americans, authorizing lethal force on American citizens.

Now, this is all interesting context given the recent update over at the Department of

Defense.

About a month ago, the Pentagon revised the DOD Directive 5240.01.

This is a directive that dates back to the Cold Cold War, and it stipulates the guidelines for if or when U.S.

military intelligence can assist domestic law enforcement.

Now, before last month, there was a revision made in 2016.

It stipulates on page 5, the military intelligence involvement is pursuant to presidential or congressional action.

In other words, a time of war.

It also warns that, quote, they may not investigate U.S.

persons or collect or maintain information about them solely for the purpose of monitoring activities protected by their First Amendment or their lawful exercise of other rights secured by the Constitution.

Okay, so that's comforting.

Also, the fact the words lethal or deadly force do not show up a single time in this revision in 2016 in the directive, not once.

However, about a month ago, it was revamped and everybody says don't worry about it it's not a problem well in light of what the left is wargaming right now maybe we should be a little concerned about it the words first amendment in the directive were taken out

also

It now includes levels of authority, and the language this time adds in lethality, lethal force, death, or serious bodily injury.

Now why?

Why is there suddenly a need to refine the rules on U.S.

military intelligence spying on Americans a few weeks before a pivotal election?

Why did they feel it was necessary to add in the potential use of those assets using lethal force just a few weeks before that election?

We asked the Pentagon to clarify.

We got an email back that's very similar to the fact sheet they gave recently to Congress.

We obtained that fact sheet, so this apparent nothing burger rated an official explainer to Congress and the explainers to lowly outlets such as us.

The response they gave us is this, the reissued directive does not reflect any change to the DOD's views towards its role in supporting civil authorities.

That's not the question, to include law enforcement.

Rather, it provides clarification and delineates the approval authorities for activities conducted by the defense intelligence components.

While the paragraph that's been most frequently referenced on social media is new to this directive, it does not reflect any change to the DOD's policy regarding the use of lethal force by DOD personnel.

That is addressed in DOD D 5210.56,

Arming and Use of Force.

Revisions of DOD issuances are routine and ensure the departmental policies continue to be consistent with the law and executive branch policy, and they clearly articulate departmental policy.

The release in no way is timed in relation to the election or any other event.

Now, there's more.

We have the full statement up at Glenbeck.com, but here's what they're saying.

Nothing to see here.

Nothing.

Nothing.

The timing on the election?

Coincidence.

Any ties to this war gaming?

Nonsense.

And the DOD directive that they listed shows that this is just business as usual, DOD 5210.556.

What exactly is that one?

Well,

we looked at it.

We have it up.

To me, it looks like guidelines for the military that does security around their own bases and things like that.

Now, is it just me, or why is this being used as the example of business as usual?

How is military around bases?

Now, this could very well be nothing, but it also could be something.

We don't know.

The government language as usual is full of confusing bullcrap.

So, we have a fact check from the University of Washington.

They state that the spread of this story is due to a data void.

In other words, the government's not being clear.

We don't know.

We don't have the information.

We have no idea.

At any rate, I find it suspicious, given the left's recent January 6th war game and what they discussed there, that we can use military force

and lethal force on the American public.

Now, again.

I don't think the military, I don't think the actual soldiers would turn their guns on average American citizens.

I just don't think that is part of it.

I don't.

No matter who's president, I just don't think they would do that.

Maybe they would.

I would remind everybody in the military: your oath is to the Constitution of the United States.

No matter if it is Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, your oath

is to the Constitution of the United States.

And in times like these, we made sure to make sure everybody in the world knows

me, I was just following orders is not an excuse.

Not in America.

May have been in Germany until the Nuremberg trials.

But just following directions, just following orders, will not excuse you if you are executing unlawful, unconstitutional orders.

Everybody was briefed on this, including the Pentagon.

What's being planned?

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Be safe.

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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Danny Gockey

is a friend and a friend of the program and a big friend of Mercury One.

He has helped us raise money and he's been at some of our galas and he was just there, I think it was last Saturday.

If you don't know the name, he was a top three finalist on season eight of American Idol.

He became huge quickly.

He dropped his first album, My Best Days, debuted at number four on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.

He's had a series of number ones since then.

He was at our gala on Saturday, and he...

performed a song.

I was here early enough to hear him do a sound check, and it was amazing.

I mean, everybody who was setting up just stopped and listened.

And you could tell it came from someplace deep.

And I want to play it here in a second.

But before I want to get Danny on the line with me.

Hi, Danny.

Hey, good morning, Glenn.

How are you?

I'm great.

Where did this song come from?

Well, it started in 2023, or I should say 2022.

I was invited to sing at my friend's celebration party, and her father was a business owner, very successful of a restaurant chain Jeff Ruby's he his name is Jeff Ruby himself and he invited me to sing God Bless the USA and I'm singing there they're naming the street after him and I sing this song God Bless the USA I sing Akatoa and it just stuck with me and I was and I started I just started thinking I was like I need to release songs and redo some of these songs that celebrate America because we're not hearing songs about our country anymore when the music stops the patriotism stops.

Just like if I stop singing to God,

my passion for God fades away.

If I'm not sending my wife music that is, you know, romantic music,

the romance is fading.

And so I just started mowing on.

I'm going to write some, I just said, I'm going to redo some patriotic songs.

We need to get that patriotism back up.

And then I had an idea to write a song.

And this song

came to me.

It's called My America.

You understand, my wife's family was kicked out of communism.

My wife's family, everything was taken away by a communist dictator that sold the whole country on these lies of how great they were and how they were going to help people.

Basically just gaslit the people.

And my wife's family was kicked out of communist Cuba.

Excuse me, my wife's mother was very wealthy.

And her grandfather was a very outspoken lawyer and had houses on the beach, houses inland.

Long story short, my wife's mom lives with us.

And she was raising maids and servants, and now she lives with us at our house, and she works at Walmart.

Everything taken away at the young age of 18 years old.

And so, anyway, so I wanted to write a song.

So I started writing this song called My America.

And how I just still believe in our country and how I still believe in the American dream.

And I mean, I sat at the piano.

I just started writing, and this song was birthed out of it.

It wasn't my intention to write a new patriotic song.

My intention was to cover the old ones and reignite patriotism.

But it just so turns out that our generation needs this type of, I believe, I'm not trying to, you know, talk my own horn, but do my own horn, but I'm just trying.

Our generation needs believers again.

We lost believers in the American truth.

As a matter of fact, we have people who actually are turning their hearts against their own country.

And it's when the music stops and the patriotism stops, this is what happens.

I have to tell you, I mean, the first thing I said to you after I heard it, I came up to the stage in the sound check and I said, do you remember what I said to you?

Writing a patriotic song.

Yeah, I do now.

Yeah.

It's not a huge truth.

It can get cheesy real quick.

Cheesy real quick.

And this is anything but.

I mean, it is so good.

And I hope you recognized how long the audience stood in a standing ovation for you after this song.

It is, it's just tremendous.

I want to play it.

Go ahead.

No, I just, I want to say thank you, and I appreciate it.

Where I'm noticing everywhere I go, I'm on tour right now, and I do this song at the end of my set because we're in election season, right?

And I just, we just need people to kind of snap out of the rhetoric that has caused them to turn their hearts against the country and go back and remember the good things, right?

Yep.

And that's what the song is about: remembering the good things.

If I only remember my wife's mistakes, and trust me, she makes a lot of mistakes.

Sounding like

starting with maybe marrying you, it sounds like possibly.

You can edit that out.

I hope you don't do it.

Anyways, if I just remember her mistakes,

I mean, you literally just, it's the end of the marriage.

Yes.

You have to go back and remember the good.

And that's what I hope this song does.

Okay.

Here it is.

This is the latest from Danny Goki.

It is called,

gosh, what's called?

Hang on, just say, My America.

My America, I still believe.

I hear them say

our country's far to gone.

Even claim our father's got it wrong.

But I won't give up on us.

And I'll take a stand.

Cause we can overcome.

This is not the end.

I still believe in us.

Oh, America.

You're still the land I love.

Though a little bruised of

stars and stripes still cry, liberty

over evil, over tyranny.

Blood poured out for our freedom.

They sacrificed it all for this nation.

I still believed in us

my America

Our history

is full of bravery.

Heroes fought

for our recalling.

Now is the time to make peace

and forgive our faults.

Because united

we stand,

or divided we will fall.

I still believe in us,

my America.

You're still the land I love,

though a little bruised up.

Stars and stripes still cry liberty.

Over evil over

tyranny.

Blood poured out for our freedom, sacrificed it all for destruction.

I still believe in us.

Oh,

Merica,

oh Merricka,

God shed His grace on thee.

And

proud by good,

we prefer her

from sin to shiny sea.

Always believe in us,

my America.

This is the land I love,

but we gotta heal up.

Lady Liberty will always be a sign of home unto the refugee.

The immigrant can't find escape from oppression to a

better place.

I still believe in us.

I still believe in us.

I still believe in us.

My America

Fantastic, fantastic.

Fantastic.

That's My America, I still believe.

And it's by Danny Gokey.

Go to Spotify and

iTunes and download it and spread the word.

I think you should sing this at the inauguration.

I mean, if one side wins, you should sing it.

I don't think, unfortunately, I don't think I'd be allowed to sing

this song on the other side.

And I think that's a key indicator.

Do you hear songs being celebrated of about of america on the other side of the lane i mean i guess i haven't been at a rally but i haven't seen i see a lot of footage from it and i never see that but uh i was able to sing this song in uh just this past week in atlanta in front of trump oh what did he say what did he say well he so long it's i i gotta try to explain it so it was for a faith rally uh the faith director um and anyways they brought me up the they were trying you know the campaign trump's got a busy schedule so they're the campaign was questioning why is are we having Trump on stage when Danny's singing the song?

This makes no sense.

The schedule's busy.

They really pushed through, and I got up there.

I have a video on my social media of me doing it.

And you can tell Trump at first didn't know what was going on because they just don't bring people on stage to sing for him.

You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah.

No, I know.

I went and did that.

And you can tell when I got to the America part, his face lit up.

And then he called me over by him to shake his hand.

I'm really hoping.

I still don't know if he really knows a song yet, but it was cool that I finally, because I wrote this song last year in 2023, and I finally got the single, but I'm hoping to sing it in front of the inauguration because

Trump needs to become like a father to the nation, like Lincoln and like Washington, you know, where we are in such division.

And get, and hopefully, you know, when he wins, I hope, begins to father the nation and bring people together again.

And this is a song for people who lost faith in America.

It's a song, you know, Lee Greenwood, he's got God Bless the USA, proud to be an American.

Not many people are proud to be an American because of the rhetoric.

So we need, this is this generation's, I believe, like proud to be an American because we got to get people to believe again, to be proud again, to be.

So I'm hoping that it's a song of unity that can be sung at the inauguration.

I hope I think so too.

Well, I will

send it to him, make sure that he remembers or is reminded because I agree.

It's time to come together as people.

And I hope that what we're seeing in America, I know it's the beginning of something.

I know that there are more and more people waking up and saying, I don't want to do this anymore.

You know, I don't hate my country.

You know, we've made mistakes, but I don't want to hate my neighbor.

I don't want this anymore.

And that

change is coming.

Hopefully, it will be reflected on Tuesday, but that change is coming.

And I really believe, especially looking at the way Donald Trump has been handling everything recently, I think

he actually, you would think, would be the last person that could unite us.

And I think he may be one of the only people who actually can get it done.

Look at what he's doing with RFK and Tulsi and everybody else.

Elon Musk, man, they don't agree with everything he says.

It's great.

Yeah.

And you're exactly right, Glenn.

He is, I think, God called him to be a businessman to a president.

And I really sense that God is calling him now to be a go from president this term to a father.

And just like every household of the father, my kids are divided and the father has to come in and bring them together.

I really sense that that's going to be his call in this next presidency.

See, there's kids, our kids, the kids of America are fighting.

We need you to bring us together.

And how do we come together?

By believing.

Unity comes through faith.

Love believes all things.

Love.

hopes all things.

You know, love endures all things.

So believing what you believe about something directly

impacts how you treat that thing.

And so I think, I'm hoping he brings us together, and I believe he will.

Danny, thank you so much.

Thanks for your friendship, and thank you for all of your good work.

You are amazing.

You really are.

Thank you, Danny.

Man, I appreciate you, Glenn.

Appreciate your support.

And hopefully, Donald Trump hears the song again.

Thanks a lot.

Danny Gokey, you can follow him on his website, Danny Gokey.

That's G-O-K-E-Y-Go-Key.com, or you can follow him on X, Danny Gokey.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

You know, what we were just talking about with that New York Times story, Sarah just reminded me because she's reading the book Propaganda Wars or listening to it on audio.

It's really good on audio.

You can get it wherever you get your audio books.

But she just reminded me that the book outlines exactly how to figure out if that story is legitimate or not.

And it starts with what is the original source.

Once you know the original source's media matters, you know it's bullcrap.

So there's no reason to even deal with it in your life.

You don't need to put that stuff in your head.

There's so much information out there that's real and important.

Why would you put a conspiracy theory left or right into your head?

And it's getting harder and harder to find the truth.

You know, it used to be that,

you know, it was pretty close.

You know, okay, they just look at it a different way.

Now, what's happening in the media, it doesn't reflect reality at all.

And how do we come together when

people aren't even operating on the same fact?

They just don't know what's going on in their country.

And I think that's by design,

many times.

Christy Kendall, she is a director and producer of a doc that you should see,

Undivide Us.

It's Undivide Us.

You can find it it at undivideusmovie.com.

And she's got a tough job ahead of her.

How do we bring us back together?

Christy, welcome.

Thanks.

It's so nice to be here, Glenn.

Thank you.

So, Christy,

how do we, because I can talk to anybody who disagrees with me anytime,

until you start dealing in

verifiable lies, like what's happening today.

Donald Trump was not talking about an execution squad for Liz Jenny.

He was calling her a warmonger.

He said, give her a rifle and put her out there and have rifles pointed at her direction and see how she feels.

But they're saying that this is a, you know, he's issuing an execution warrant for anybody who disagrees with him.

How do you unite when you can't recognize the truth?

Yeah, I mean

It's a great question, right?

Because so like let's put yourself in a situation, right?

Let's say you're in a room with someone who has a really different take on that right maybe they've listened to one of these other news sources

I think that getting putting yourself in their position and thinking about what are they what are they worried about what do they as a human being you know we are all God's children right like we are all human beings under this

in this big world and most people regardless of what label they put on themselves most people are really good people in this country.

Like, I know you believe that.

I do.

And so it's like, so

how does somebody watch that and come out with a really different take?

And I think the point of the film isn't to say one side is right and the other side is wrong.

It's to say, how do we as Americans step into our civic spaces with civility and respect and love for one another?

Because that's the thing I'm most concerned we've lost.

And I think we've actually scared people into not stepping into those civic cases.

And that to me is the most terrifying thing because that is actually like disagreement is what this country was founded on, right?

Like think about how much like Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson like hated each other's guts, you know, they really did.

But they like, they created this amazing country and where disagreement should be part of the fabric of our country, not something we are just like terrified of.

Okay, so I want to I want to play just a quick clip from the movie Undivide Us.

Listen.

I feel like there is a gay agenda and I feel like they're pushing it on children which are the most unsuspecting vulnerable group of people that we have.

I spend a lot of time battling people on the internet about this issue and this is coming from a gay man.

I just don't see the need for any of that to be taught.

Teachers are kind of overstepping their lines.

The students are not the teachers' children.

They are there to educate them and teach them a curriculum.

Carol, what did Drake get right about teachers and what you do?

Well,

I think I heard you say they have good intentions.

So you get that right.

I almost totally disagree with you about teachers having their own agenda.

The day is so full with academics, especially in public school.

So you're saying that doesn't happen in schools?

I don't believe it does.

I really don't.

I've never seen it happen.

I've never seen it happen, correct.

I've never read that it's happened.

Okay,

my blood pressure just went through the roof.

Okay.

All right.

Let's address that.

Okay.

All right.

So we know that those things are happening, not in every school, but we know those things are happening.

We know the agenda of the teachers' union, et cetera, et cetera.

How do you find common ground with that?

Yeah, it's it's actually this is a great example because if you watch the film what you'll see is that actually we ended up having Dre and Carol back for like a conversation just with the two of them to talk this through and they actually came to a

lot of agreement around like the parents should be informed like the experience that Dre was talking about, which is something he wasn't in the classroom all the time.

He was hearing from his

niece who was relating things to him, and then also hearing a lot of other things going on in terms of

the transgender

conversation.

And he obviously has a lot of stake in this issue.

He's a gay black man in Atlanta.

And he was like, why is this going on in schools, right?

And his perception was it's going on in every classroom, right?

Carol is a third-grade teacher.

She actually,

she not only doesn't do any social media at all,

like that is just totally not part of her, and it's not part of her classroom, right?

So she isn't seeing this in her classroom or her school, which you can totally imagine happening, right?

And so she's saying,

I don't see that happening at all in school.

And he's saying, well, I think it's in every school and everywhere.

And so maybe there's some sort of common ground that

they can come to in terms of, well, maybe what should happen should should and and that like sensible discussion doesn't really happen right now I think so I agree with having those discussions as long as everyone is open to the actual facts because it's not happening in every school no but it is it is an agenda that is being is being pushed at high levels

would you agree with that

I mean, honestly, God, I don't know enough about it.

What I really come down down to is like,

I believe that I want to know what's going on with my kid in my kid's school, and I'm interested in having these discussions on a local level.

Like, I think that this whole national discussion gets a little crazy real fast in terms of people saying really extreme things on both sides.

How do you not have a national conversation when they've nationalized our education system through the Department of Education.

Because this way

it was designed to go that way originally, and they changed that in the 70s.

There is a certain amount that happens on the national level, but I actually think that's actually a little bit of a misnomer too.

I mean, I haven't looked at the research for a while.

You know, I did a special when I was back at 2020 on the need for school choice and education.

Like, it was pretty much one of the first hours that was ever done on school choice.

By the way, everybody should know,

you used to produce for John Stossel.

So it's not.

So it's not like you're some left-wing activist.

No, although sometimes my family treats me like I am.

I'm just like, I'm like,

let's just think about these things.

No,

I did.

I did used to produce for John Stossel.

I love John.

He's amazing.

But when we did the school,

when I was really up to date on the education numbers,

the federal funding for education is pretty small.

And the federal control of education, what goes in and the power that they execute with those purse strings, is relatively small.

It's a state-by-state issue in terms of, like, I think it was like 40-some percent usually comes from the state, and 40-some percent comes from the

local groups, and then like around 5% for the federal funding.

But in terms of like who actually controls what goes on in the classroom, I think most people, their local school boards are the best place place to go and have those conversations and then actually affect real change.

And localism, less national control.

The whole point of the documentary is like, let's take these conversations off of this place where it's like we have presidential candidates talking about which bathroom you use.

Like, that is not what I want my president thinking about.

I want my president thinking about like the big issues.

Correct.

I want the local governments and I want us to all of Americans be like, if we want to make a change in our communities, it's our moral responsibility to get involved on the local level where we can look at each other as human beings and have these conversations and actually make the difference preach that 10th amendment sister preach on

oh my gosh this this doc this documentary is an homage

um uh in the documentary you expose uh the outside-in approach that the media and the government use to keep us uh divided

It explains the difference between their goals and the goals of everyday Americans.

Can you touch on that just a bit?

Yeah, totally.

I mean, think about it.

Who gets the most power?

Who is incentivized by the rage machine, right?

The politicians, right?

Then they get a winner's take-all situation.

They actually, if they think, if they can make you think that who uses what bathroom is a national issue, like then they actually get the power to make those decisions.

And you just feel like you have to shut up and take it.

And I just think that I want more Americans to feel empowered by

their communities, by the people around them.

So, like, I just,

the incentives are real messed up right now.

And the only people who can change it is us.

Yeah.

So it is, it is one thing that I think the left did very, very well is just go into the local communities because that's where everything happens.

And a lot of the conservatives and

small government people just kind of were like, Keith, I'm just working.

You can't do that.

You can't do that.

Well, and there is a lot.

It's funny.

In one of our focus groups, we actually had a really hard time finding conservatives who would even come and participate in the focus group because they automatically thought, you know, this is going to be a setup against me.

And conservatives are more likely to just like duck and cover, cover, right?

I'm going to take care of my own.

I'm not going to talk to anybody.

I don't want to offend people.

And I think that

we should enter these spaces with love and respect and curiosity and humility, but we need to enter the spaces.

Christy, thanks for your hard work on this.

And I know

it's almost thankless at this point to say, hey, let's not continue to divide ourselves, but thank you for doing it.

It's undivideusmovie.com.

Christy Kendall, thank you.com.

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