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Hello, America.

Welcome to Monday.

I have been looking at a story all weekend, a little perplexed.

It is the story of the largest gasoline pipeline in the country that was shut down by cyber hackers on Friday.

It's still down,

and it's dramatically going to affect gas prices, especially over the Labor Day weekend.

Here's the part of the story I'm confused by.

The journalists seem to care about the price of gasoline for the first time.

And is it because they actually care or is it because they're trying not to focus on the fact that this was an attack most likely from Russia?

And it isn't the first cyber attack from Russia of the year.

I want to get into that just a little bit.

Maybe we should be paying attention to Vladimir Putin.

We go there in 60 seconds.

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The largest gasoline pipeline in the country was shut down on Friday.

It was a sophisticated ransomware attack, which experts are calling the most dramatic cyber attack on U.S.

soil to date.

So this happened on Friday.

The most

dramatic cyber attack on U.S.

soil to date, specifically targeting our infrastructure.

The story goes on to say the president was alerted on Saturday.

Was he in nappy-nap time?

Where the hell, what happened?

What do you mean?

He was alerted on Saturday.

A massive cyber attack happened on Friday.

The president was briefed on it and told of it on Saturday.

There's a little thing that maybe I think maybe we should probably look into.

There's a question for the press to ask.

Why the delay?

There are now fears of major spikes in gas, oil, and diesel prices after, quote, the jugular of the U.S.

fuel pipeline system is forced to suspend operations.

It's called the jugular.

Unless we sort it out by Tuesday, that's tomorrow, they're in big trouble.

The first areas to be impacted would be Atlanta and Tennessee, then the domino effect goes up to New York.

He said oil future traders are now scrambling to meet the demand at a time when U.S.

inventories are declining and demand, especially for fuel for cars, is on the rise as consumers return to the roads and the economy recovers.

President Biden briefed on the the situation on Saturday with one energy expert telling Politico it's the most significant and successful attack on energy infrastructure that we know of in the United States.

The hackers are likely a professional cyber criminal group and a group dubbed Darkseid.

Darkseid is among the potential suspects, according to two government agencies.

The Bloomberg News cited people familiar with the matter reported late on Saturday that the hackers are part of Darkseid, and it took nearly 100 gigabytes of data out of Colonial's network, that's the pipeline, on Thursday ahead of the pipeline shutdown.

Darkseid is known for deploying ransomware and extorting victims while avoiding targets in post-Soviet states.

It is believed to be based in Russia.

So when you read that it is a cyber attack in Eastern Europe, I would say, yeah, you know,

mainly focused around the Crimea area.

Eastern Europe.

This is killing me, Stu.

It's killing me.

What was it that Putin said two years ago that World War III would be fought?

How?

Do you remember?

Well,

I think he didn't even say World War III will be fought.

Didn't he say it's already started?

It's already started and the West doesn't know it and it'll be fought how?

Digitally, right?

I can't remember the exact term.

He said ones and zeros.

It will be, yep, ones and zeros.

We are in a war.

By the way, so the pipeline going down, that's not the only one that has happened now.

Less we forget

the

30,000 U.S.

victims, small businesses and local governments

that were hacked by cyber

espionage unit backed by the Chinese government in January of this year.

Hackers focus on stealing emails from victim organizations by exploiting flaws in the Microsoft Exchange Server, widely used by corporate companies, large companies, and organizations.

Since January, Chinese-backed hackers have used four flaws in Microsoft software to gain control of the email servers of organizations around the world.

There is an Axis power.

It is Russia and China.

Russia and China.

By the way, who is also aligned with Russia and China?

Iran.

Huh.

Wow.

This is weird.

By the way, the attackers on SolarWinds.

China was involved with the

Microsoft, but also SolarWinds, kind of connected.

Also, the SolarWinds thing, it appears that was a Russian hack.

Over the weekend, I read a story.

Experts puzzle over Biden's push to re-enter nuclear deal with hostile Iran.

What makes me concerned, says a Middle East expert, what makes me concerned is that we're trying to find a diplomatic solution with a non-diplomatic partner.

Oh, really?

Oh,

really?

They're not interested in diplomacy?

They just want to destroy the United States?

So, you know, as we are supposedly negotiating with them, this last weekend, just before Ali Khomeini, the new,

I don't know, Grand Vizier or whatever the hell he is,

the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,

he is,

he's about to speak right before that.

And now here's a nice little video from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

And it shows them marching towards the U.S.

Capitol.

And then it shows the U.S.

Capitol dome exploding.

Now, the Grand Vizier.

What?

Here's the wizard.

And the wizard gets up and says all kinds of anti-American stuff.

And we're negotiating with them.

Can we just start

identifying our enemies, please?

Can we?

I mean,

I think it's way high time that we identify China is an enemy of ours.

It's not a friend of ours.

Well, actually, it is a kind of a dating service.

I don't know if you know this.

Stu, did you

see what happened with Hunter Biden now?

Some new information has been

has been leaked out about the

I hate to say soft and hardware on

his anyway.

Apparently

in his emails, he had a close relationship with a Chinese American secretary

who worked for him when he went into business with the man he called the spy chief of China.

Those are Hunter Biden's words.

I'm working now with the Spy Chief of China.

The mysterious young assistant wrote the president's son flirty messages, sent him opposition research for Joe Biden's White House run, and encouraged him to draw funds from the company's accounts when the joint venture collapsed and even ended up, she did, with Hunter's military dog tags.

Now, I wear dog tags.

I don't know if you can.

I wear dog tags.

I can't tell you how many times I've left my dog tags at my hot secretary's apartment.

Oh, right, Stu?

That happens to you all the time.

Well, if it happened to me once, it's happened a million times.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Seven times for me just last week.

Just last

week.

Seven different times.

Even on Mother's Day.

Seven different Chinese American secretaries.

Really?

Yeah, that I just had met, and they all applied

in close

conjunction there, which was kind of strange.

Got a lot of applications.

Hired them all.

Yeah, yeah.

So I was, you know, I had a secretary that was working for Alexander Dugan, and

I thought, there's nothing to worry about there.

I mean, that's a, that's a, you know, sure, she has that on her resume, but we all have worked for Alexander Dugan one time or another, you know, nothing to worry about there.

No, there.

And I was leaving her dog tags after leaving my dog tags after

a

active

sleep session over at her house.

We had a slumber party because it was so late.

We were working so very late.

And she said, you know, you should just embezzle money from your company.

And I thought, you know, coming from her, who worked for Alexander Dugan, that could be used as blackmail.

And so could my dog tags.

But I didn't worry about it.

I don't think I have anything to worry about.

Do you?

Oh, I absolutely don't think so.

Although I will say there is a difference between your situation, we know where you're wearing the dog tags and dropping them off to Chinese secretaries, and Hunter's situation, which is

his were not dog tags.

His were his doggy chain necklace.

You should notice.

That's what she was calling it in the emails.

His doggy chain necklace.

His doggy chain necklace.

So

I leave those everywhere.

Everywhere.

I mean, I just left them in a 7-Eleven just the other day.

In your doggy chain necklace?

I have to take my doggy chain necklace off.

And

so

anyway, hey, by the way, I don't know if you saw this.

Chinese military scientists were discussing weaponizing SARS coronavirus.

in a document obtained by the U.S.

government.

Now, this isn't Gateway Pundit or anything.

This is Bloomberg.

Scientists in the Chinese military discuss weaponizing coronaviruses in the document obtained by the United States government, where they discuss their ideas about using biological weapons to win a third world war.

Apparently, the document written by the People's Liberation Army scientists and senior Chinese public health officials in 2015 was obtained by the U.S.

State Department as it conducted an investigation into the origins of COVID-19.

The paper describes coronaviruses as heralding a new era of genetic weapons, says they can be artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus and then weaponized and unleashed in a way never before seen.

What they were trying to do was to collapse the enemy's healthcare system.

Now, the story goes on, and you would ask yourself, gee, when did we have this information?

I mean, they wrote it in 2015.

When did we get it?

Well, first of all, let me just say this.

There's no evidence that they did any of this.

They're just talking about it.

You know, it's like a lot of these Marxists in universities.

They're not plotting a revolution.

They're just talking about a revolution.

Okay.

By the way,

this document was circulated inside the State Department in 2020.

It was part of an internal file, but most of that file was never made public for a variety of reasons, including that the Chinese government was blackmailing the State Department to shut up or they wouldn't give us our PPE masks.

Does that maybe start to make sense on why genivirus,

why everybody all of a sudden in the media was like, we shouldn't talk about China.

How dare you talk about China?

Because their friends in the State Department are like, oh, he can't talk to China.

It's kind of important, maybe, that we know that the Chinese were discussing this.

It may not be what happened, but they were talking about developing a coronavirus and then unleashing it to collapse the enemy's health care system.

Gee, almost exactly what almost happened.

No, uh-uh, don't worry about that.

Just leave your dog tags on another table.

Let's not talk about China.

Let's not talk about who actually crashed the jugular of our oil pipelines.

I don't want war, but I got news for you.

With the CIA playing footsie with,

hey, you're transgendered.

We want you.

Okay, well, if we're infiltrating something where that person has experience and will fit in, great.

How about we just look for spies that are good at their job and don't have anxiety disorders?

I mean, there's nobody worse in the CIA

than somebody with an anxiety disorder.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know if I can do it now.

Now that we're here, I don't know.

Stop it!

Can we maybe get some people that don't look at the United States as the enemy?

Because this Biden administration is doing the job for our enemies.

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boy still i i don't even know how to explain this one to my wife but i left my dog tags on the table of a hooker's house

uh

and uh i mean i was there for you know just you know regular business purposes uh she was my secretary for a couple of hours and uh i just don't know how to you hire your secretaries by the hour?

Sometimes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sometimes.

Sometimes if it's late at night on the weekends.

Do you use your main offices or do you rent a temporary office of some sort?

Sometimes it's a temporary office of some sort, you know, someplace that I could rent by the hour.

Okay.

You know.

Like near the highway?

Maybe an airport.

Near the highway.

Yeah.

Usually it's a place that guarantees they have a color TV.

You know.

And, you know, I get so excited.

Like, wow, we know we're in the lap of luxury.

They've got a color TV.

Color TV.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, that's just the life I lead, you know?

Yeah.

So anyways, this is it.

This is you.

You're, you're, you're, I mean, you're living the jet-setting life.

Hey.

And, you know, you can't, look, you've been successful.

Nothing to do with your, your, your dad, you know, was vice president of the United States.

But, you know, that's, that might be why some of these things come to you.

At least some people would say that.

But I think you've just worked hard.

i've worked very hard very hard you know uh i had to fly all the way to china to get that that deal that even goldman sex was never offered you know right chinese communist bank uh they offered it to me because they just saw something in me

you know might have been my secretary she saw some things in me and maybe she passed it on to some other people that you know she's connected with she saw lots of things um about you and i don't want to yeah i don't think you want to i don't really go into details.

I feel bad for, you know, Fang Fang and Jang Jang or whatever her name is.

I feel bad for these.

I mean, imagine being over in China, like, you're going to America, yay!

And you got to sleep with this guy.

What?

Oh, come on, put me in the...

Come on, I'm a Uyghur.

Really, seriously, I've all of a sudden become a Uyghur.

I believe everything that they believe, whatever it is they believe.

I'm a Uyghur.

Did you know that?

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I want to introduce a friend of the program and a friend of mine, Dave Issei.

He is the founder of StoryCorps.

Story Corps is this really cool thing that started years ago collecting stories of Americans and then they are kept at the National Archives so we are able to preserve the voices of today.

And there's some amazing moments that happen.

He has been

working on not only Story Corps, but he has also

been working on one small step, which is bringing people of different ideologies together and letting them find their way to each other.

And it's an amazing, healing kind of thing that's going on.

We were supposed to have him on a Friday because of the build-up to Mother's Day, but I thought, you know, we can still use some good news.

So Dave, I say, welcome to the program.

How are you?

Glenn, I'm doing great.

How are you doing?

Thanks for having me on.

I'm good.

I'm good.

So,

how was your Mother's Day, first of all?

It was great.

Thanks.

Yeah.

No,

my mom is thankfully still alive, and we celebrated with her and with my wife and my kids.

So we had a great day.

And how about you?

Good.

I know a year ago we were talking about your son being very, very sick

and,

you know, grandma Hussein, you know, giving kind of some hope there.

Everybody's healthy?

Everybody's fine.

Yeah, my kid had a long-haul case of COVID.

He was one of the earliest people diagnosed, but he's fine now.

Thanks for asking.

He's doing good.

Okay.

So

we went out here in Texas.

Everything is so different around the country.

We went out yesterday and nobody was wearing a mask and it was almost back to normal.

I know

I think it's Wednesday of this week that New York opens up and still people are a little bit in a panic about it.

We're handling this really differently all across the country.

Yeah,

absolutely.

So, Dave, why don't you share with us the

mom's Q ⁇ A?

Set this up for us, will you?

Sure.

So we'll share a couple of stories, Glenn.

And, you know, again, it's always great to be on, and I appreciate how deeply you believe in StoryCorps and One Small Step.

And as you said, you know, StoryCorps is families coming together, everyday people, to talk about their lives.

And One Small Step is a new project that we've developed, partly in partnership with you, that deals with the issue of the toxic polarization in this country.

But we're going to listen to a standard Story Corps story.

And, you know, it's okay to stretch out, like you said, Mother's Day for one more day.

I think we're going to start with,

this is an interview between a mom and

her son.

He actually brought her to a story corps booth.

We have these booths all across the country.

And he was 12 years old at the time.

His name is Josh Littman, and he has Asperger syndrome, which, as everybody knows at this point, a form of autism.

where

people can come across as eccentric and often develop obsessions.

a lot of times in New York City,

a lot of kids who have ashbergers develop obsessions with the subways, for instance.

In Josh's case, it's animals.

And he came to StoryCorps with his own questions.

Usually people use the kind of standard StoryCorps questions to ask.

He came with his own questions

to talk to his mom.

And you'll notice actually an interesting thing.

He was born in England and he moved to the United States when he was one, but he still has a British accent, which is one of the things that

kids with Ashbergers, yeah, often hold on to accents.

So let's listen to Josh Littman,

again, who has an obsession with animals, interviewing his mom,

Sarah, at StoryCorps.

From a scale of one to ten, do you think your life would be different without animals?

I think it would be an eight without animals because they add so much pleasure to life.

How else do you think your life would be different without them?

I could do without things like cockroaches and snakes.

Well, I'm okay with snakes as long as they're not venomous or like can constrict you or anything.

Yeah, I'm not a big snake person.

But cockroach is just the insect we love to hate.

Yeah, it really is.

Have you ever felt like life is hopeless?

Um, when I was a teenager, I was very depressed.

And I think that can be quite common with teenagers who think a lot, you know, and are perceptive.

Am I like that?

You were very much like that.

Do you have any mortal enemies?

I would say my worst enemy is sometimes myself.

But I don't think I have any mortal enemies.

Have you ever lied to me?

Hmm.

I probably have, but I try not to lie to you.

Even though sometimes the questions you ask make me uncomfortable.

Like when we go on our walks, some of the questions I might ask.

Yeah, but you know what?

I feel it's really special that you and I can have those kind of talks, even if sometimes I feel myself blushing a little bit.

Have you ever thought you couldn't cope with having a child?

I remember when you were a baby, you had really bad colic, so you would just cry and cry and I know.

It's when you get this stomachache and all you do is scream for like four hours.

It seems louder than Amy does.

You were pretty loud but Amy's was more high-pitched.

I think it feels like everyone seems to like Amy more, like she's like the perfect little angel.

Well

I can understand why you think that people like Amy more, and I'm not saying it's because of your Asperger syndrome, but being friendly comes easily to Amy.

Whereas I think for you it's more difficult.

But the people who take the time to get to know you love you so much.

Like Ben or Eric or Carlos.

Yeah, and like I have better quality friends but less quantity.

I would I wouldn't judge the quality, but I think I mean like first days like Amy loved Claudia, then she hated Claudia, she loved Claudia.

That's a girl thing, honey.

The important thing for you is that you have a few very good friends and really that's what you need in life.

Did I turn out to be the son you wanted when I was born?

Like, did I meet your expectations?

Oh, my God.

You've exceeded my expectations, sweetie.

Because, you know, sure, you have these fantasies of what your child's going to be like, but you have made me grow so much as a parent.

Because you think...

I was the one who made you a parent.

You were the one who made me a parent.

That's a good point.

But also, because you think differently from, you know, what they tell you in the parenting books.

I really had to learn to think out of the box with you.

And And it's made me much more creative as a parent and as a person.

And I'll always thank you for that.

And that helped when Amy was born.

And that helped with Amy was born, but you are just so incredibly special to me.

And I'm so lucky to have you as my son.

That is such an amazing, frank conversation that you just don't.

It's weird.

You're listening to a very personal conversation with a very tough kid.

Yeah.

He had some tough questions.

On real life, you know, and again, I mean, we've talked about this before, but what I like to think Storycourt does is just shake us on the shoulder and remind us what's important because we're stuck in so much nonsense, Glenn.

And we've talked about this before.

I just want, she told me a story that

Sarah had a column in a newspaper in Connecticut on education, and she's very liberal.

And after that story aired, someone wrote her a note and said, you know, I've read your column for years, and I haven't agreed with a single word you've written, but after hearing this, I realized that we agree on all of the most important things in life.

You know, and that's and that's really what Once False Stat, this effort under Story Corps that you and I are working on together

is just trying to remind us about.

You know, this, this, I know it's Monday morning, and like, who wants to

jump right back into the misery of where we are in the country?

Right.

You know,

more than half of Americans say the greatest threat to this country comes from our fellow citizens.

You know, we've gone from disagreeing with one another to hating one another.

We can't remember why we like each other or why we live in the same country anymore.

You know, I have to disagree.

I don't think it comes from our fellow citizens.

I think it comes from us.

You know, it is, it's not our, we have to stop thinking about the greatest threat coming from our fellow citizens and start thinking about coming from us.

We are all one.

And one way or another, no matter which side you're on, we're in many ways we're doing the same things to each other.

We're demonizing one another and not pausing.

I mean, I think COVID helped me and my family out a great deal.

We learned so much about us as a family.

We are a much stronger family than we were a year ago.

And I don't know if you know this about me, Dave, but I'm a painter and I have

been painting these

different heroes of our past.

And one of them is Lou Gehrig.

And

I call it

Lucky with an asterisk because the actual name of

the title of the painting is Grateful.

Because as I'm painting these people, I really listen to their words.

If anything was recorded, I try to get to know them.

And as I was painting Lou Gehrig, I thought, here's a guy who, as he's, he knows it's a death sentence.

He's going to be dead in two years.

And he gets up to the microphone.

He says, I feel like the luckiest man in the world.

That's gratitude for what you have instead of focusing on what you don't have.

And we've lost that entirely.

Yep.

Yep.

It's, it's, um, and, and,

you know, things are not going in the right direction.

You know, I've been, I've done StoryCorps for all these years and, you know, it's families talking to each other and it's incredibly successful.

But I'm obsessed with this, with one small step, with this across the divides piece, because, and I know, you know, you and I have had a lot of on, you know, face-to-face and also kind of behind the scenes communication.

I know you're worried about this as well, that, you know, this, this is, this, this kind of intractable conflict, the high conflict that we're seeing in the country is an existential threat.

And, you know, it's easy, again, on the Monday morning after Mother's Day.

I don't want to think about it.

You don't want to think about it.

But it's there, and we have to deal with it.

And, you know, I was the crazy thing about it is that your audience, you and your audience, I mean,

you could single-handedly,

your audience could, you know, set us on the road to fixing this problem.

It's a massive audience.

I really believe that.

You know, and we just, we have got to take the first step towards, you know, recognizing that the people we disagree with, you know, that we have to, you know, not treat them

with contempt, but just see them as human beings.

Arguing is not a problem.

It's when we start to see each other as less than human, and it's easy to do that.

So the Story Corps, what we're doing with StoryCorps with One Small Step is putting people across the divides together just to talk to each other, just like Sarah Littman would talk to the guy who read her column about their lives, just to remind us.

You know, it's not everything.

It's just one small step, just to remind us that, God, we share so much more in common than divides us when you get down to it.

How can people get involved?

What can they do?

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You know, we live in a country now that is unforgiving,

that

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you know,

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I just did a podcast with Jordan Peterson last Thursday, and I was re-listening to it again today, and

most of that conversation is about that.

I mean, he's deeply, deeply concerned about what we're going through as well as you and I are.

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I appreciate it.

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I have a really great story to share with you.

Hopefully I'll be going to be able to get it to you next hour.

We also have a few other things things that we have to get to on jobs and the economy, things you need to prepare for.

But

I just read an op-ed

this morning from somebody whose kids are in an elite school in Manhattan and they're conservative.

And

it's like the only conservative in the school.

And all these parents are coming up saying, I'm concerned about the woke radicals in the school.

And they're all complaining to him.

And his response is

remarkable.

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It is Monday, and we're going to start it off right.

We're going to talk a little bit about the woke culture, but we have a couple of good signs that are happening in the woke culture.

And we're going to start there in 60 seconds.

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Roger Daltry, who was with The Who.

Kind of a

big

rebel.

I mean, the Who was, they were a rebellious band.

I don't know when Rock and Roll went soft and lost its real roots of rebellion, but apparently adultery hasn't.

This is from a podcast from Apple Music, an interview with DJ Zane Lowe.

Listen.

It's becoming so absurd now with AI doing all the tricks it can do and the woke generation.

It's terrifying the miserable world they're going to create for themselves.

I mean, anyone who's lived a life and you see what they're doing, you just know that it's a route to nowhere.

Especially when you've lived through the periods of a life that we've had the privilege to.

I mean, we've had the golden era, there's no doubt about that.

But we came out of a war, we came out of a leveled society, completely flattened bomb sites and everything.

And we built that.

We've been through socialist governments.

We've seen the communist system fail in the Soviet Union.

I've been in those communist countries while they were communists.

I've seen how

wonderful, really, it was.

So he's obviously gone off the deep ends, too.

I'm really concerned about his mental health because that's crazy talk.

Yeah.

From a madman.

You don't talk about the woke generation in that way.

These are not.

Not to Apple music.

I mean, quick.

Buy all the vinyl of the who you possibly can and of Roger Taltry because it might get scarce soon.

Not to say that anybody would cancel anybody because we know that wouldn't ever happen.

Well, cancel culture isn't real, Glenn.

You should know that.

Yes, thank you.

Well, no, it is.

Clyburn said it is.

Clyburn said it is.

Here's Congressman Clyburn on cancel culture.

That's exactly what it's about.

And, you know, I don't agree with Liz on much politically, but, you know, that's how we grow as a country.

This whole thing that everybody ought to be marching in lockstep.

That is what leads people to destruction.

People ought to have a diversity of thought.

Diversity is very, very important.

We want to limit it to gender and sometimes to race.

It is also about thought.

And I want to see a strong Republican Party.

My parents were Republicans, and I would love to see this party honor them.

But this party, Republican Party today, is showing so much dishonor to the people who made it possible.

The people who downed from Abraham Lincoln kept this party alive on the basis of anti-slavery

which itself was a big lie and now they are perpetuating it.

Now they talk a lot about cancel culture.

This is the classic cancel culture.

They are perpetrating that which they argue that they are against.

Okay, stop.

So you go into it thinking,

how am I agreeing?

Then the shoe falls, and you're like, he's talking about how the Republicans are behind cancel culture

and they're the ones because of this Liz Cheney thing.

She can go find another job.

She can, she's not canceled.

She got

there.

She still holds her office.

She's still

partnership.

How is this cancel culture?

This is a party saying you're out of step with our party.

Whether she is or not, that's for the party to decide.

And if you want to be a part of the party, then join the party and make those decisions.

You don't, get out and leave them do their own thing.

There is.

But there is something.

Something interesting,

probably not worth hitting on, but it is odd that you'd throw out someone.

who voted with Trump 93% of the time for someone who voted for Trump 78% of the time and say it's a move toward

Trump.

That's a totally different situation, but it is a little little

strange yeah i think the problem my problem with uh liz cheney is that she was um

i think underhanded she was part of this you know

uh movement behind the scenes her votes are fine fine with me i don't care yeah no it's just it's interesting who they're i don't know i mean i people get very you know a lot of people get i think tied up in the personalities involved in these situations and it's like well i it's interesting who the republican party is deciding to replace replace Cheney with.

I mean, it's just like, okay,

she doesn't seem to be very much in line with Trump or hardcore conservatism in any way.

So we're going to take out someone who's voting with Trump

93% of the time.

And someone who's in her last year in Congress, 67% of the time voted with Trump.

And they're going to put her in leadership.

That's exactly what Republicans do.

I know.

And no one seems to be exactly it.

Anyway, it's a totally separate situation.

This is going everywhere now,

the cancel culture thing.

And it's interesting that it's become such an issue and it's so universally sort of despised that the two answers to it from the left are, one, it doesn't exist.

They just claim it doesn't exist

when you bring up clear-cut examples.

And number two, that actually it does exist, but they're the victims of it, right?

Like Andrew Cuomo tried to roll this out too.

No, I love it.

It's like, oh, yeah.

Oh, I see.

Let me show you a.

Let me show you an example of just freedom of thought thought that Clyburn is looking for.

This is a woman, Azra Nomani.

She is talking to the Fairfax School Board about the double standards in the pursuit of anti-racism.

Listen, what happens?

And then by the fall, every single one of you voted to remove the merit-based race-blind admissions test to TJ.

And we pled with you as Asians, as an immigrant.

I came at the age of four.

I knew no English.

And you didn't listen to us.

And now I sit here listening to this empty proclamations and declarations that you're making about your great value of Asian Americans.

You tell us about you going Melanie Marin to a Japanese restaurant.

Well, do you know that just a few weeks ago in social-emotional learning at TJ, Our students were told that if they do salsa dancing, it amounts to cultural appropriation and that they needed to check their racism.

And that is our mostly minority, mostly Asian students.

And so your empty proclamations are just that.

And then today we get this vacuous survey.

from you, Dr.

Braybrand, and you dare to tell us that you're going to consider removing the one policy that parents have to defend their students from indoctrination and activism, the policy that makes certain that anything taught in our school that is controversial must be presented fairly.

You have to just think for yourself: if you have to remove a policy like that, how can you possibly be doing anything good?

And then this survey, it's just a loaded survey.

And who is it by?

Indeed.

New York Leadership Academy.

And what has that survey done?

They've asked us the questions for the policy.

Thank you for your time.

That you have now said that

That will allow you to go.

Thank you for your time.

Your time is up, ma'am.

You all

have to be up.

Your time has expired.

Next speaker.

Continue to shut us down.

Speaker,

please go to your seat.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh.

The arrogance of these people.

Did you hear the disdain in her voice?

Your time has expired.

Oh my gosh.

Oh,

you can't ignore people like this.

You cannot ignore people.

You can't shut them down and treat them like garbage.

It's not going to last.

I fear, however, that's what they want.

Now, let me give you a response to the woke culture and to all of the crap that is happening from from these radical Marxists.

And I'm not going to call them radical Marxist.

I read an op-ed today

and it is from a great author of a really, I think, important book.

And he has his kid up in a very, very prominent,

snotty New York school that's very woke.

And all of these snotty progressives are coming to him and going, I can't believe these Marxist radicals.

What are we going going to do?

And he's like, you know, I'm tired.

I'm the only conservative you know, and so everybody's whining to me.

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I'm terrified of the woke radicals at my kids' school, end quote.

Rarely a week goes by when I don't hear some variation on this gripe from fellow parents in New York City.

Invariably, they lower their voices, lest prying ears catch them objecting to the official ideology.

These are solidly liberal Manhattanites, mind you.

They don't just want their children,

they don't, they just don't want their children being told they carry the unwashable stain of racial sin.

And they'd really rather have their kids master real knowledge instead of being taught to meditate endlessly on their own race, gender, and sexuality.

As they're only out-conservative that they know, I'm often the only person these parents can pour their anguish out to, and I am wearying of the job.

I worry just as much about those rise of the woke as they do.

Yet, I've come to view the ambient ambient liberalism these New Yorkers take for granted as a big part of the problem.

It doesn't suffice to overcome wokeness because it forms people to be selfish and self-maximizing to avoid deep commitments of any kind.

Put another way, there's a reason these parents confine their gripes to the one conservative they know.

At the end of the day, they're prepared to tolerate woke rule if it means passing on their elite status to their prodigy.

If history of the 20th century totalitarianism should have taught us anything, it's that radicals can usually get the better of such people by playing on their yearning to get ahead in life.

Whereas the true dissidents and

resistors,

those who refuse to profess that 2 plus 2 equals 5, draw strength from faith, from tradition, and from true authority.

It's a message I've inscribed quite literally in my own son's identity by naming him after Saint Maximilian Kolby, one of the greatest Christian martyrs, in my opinion.

Born to a pious family in central Poland in 1894,

Kolbe joined the Franciscans at the age of 16.

Following doctoral studies in Rome and ordination as a priest, Colby returned to his homeland where he started a newspaper, a radio station, a monastic community outside of Warsaw.

He campaigned against communism and secularism and went to far-flung missions in the Far East.

Then came the German invasion of Poland, and with it Colby's greatest hour.

In 1941, the Nazis arrested and sent him to Auschwitz.

Father Maximilian Mary Colby became prisoner number 16670.

One night in July, an inmate escaped from Colby's block.

The camp deputy commandment, Carl Fritz,

carried out his protocol for when inmates escaped.

He just randomly selected ten men to die of starvation as the collective punishment for the one escapee.

Colby wasn't one of those chosen to die.

But once the Commandant pointed to one of the men,

that man cried out, My wife, my children.

That's when Colby stepped forward.

Fritz said, What does this Polish pig want?

Kolby told him I'd like to take his place, because he has a wife and children.

And so he did, for a complete stranger in Auschwitz.

The writer of this op ed said, When I learned Colby's story I decided to name my son after him.

I was awe struck by how he climbed the summit of human freedom at Auschwitz of all places, and how he did this precisely by denying himself, by binding himself to the moral absolutes of his faith.

We equate freedom with the mere ability to choose from the wildest range of options, unhindered by the authorities and restraints that guided traditional peoples.

For the pre modern

traditions, not least the West classic and Christian heritage, freedom meant choosing what one ought to do.

Freedom for the good, and that meant self-mastery above all.

We, by contrast, seek self-gratification and well-being, usually defined in material utilitarian terms.

In practice, our version of freedom leaves the modern subject confused.

Every generation has to reinvent morality

and swaying to the ideological winds.

But to be bound to religious tradition and authorities, as Cole was,

is to have a moral backbone.

The person who knows where he comes from and where he's headed won't easily bend along the way, and he is prepared to sacrifice even unto death.

As we prepared to sacrifice anything in resistance to our centuries totalitarians, are we prepared?

The wokes, for all their absurdities, have moral vision, for which they're prepared to make sacrifices.

It's a twisted morality, to be sure, but it's more more than their live and let live opponents in the Upper East Side possesses.

Unless we recover our deeper roots and bequeath what we find,

tradition

literally means handing on,

the wokes will win.

This was written by Saulab Aman

Armari.

He is the author of the book The Unbo-Broken Thread, Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in the Age of Chaos.

It is well, well worth

the read

because he's right.

We're afraid to stand up because we will lose

our

place.

We might lose our material things.

That will not stop any of this.

We don't have a moral compass, it seems, anymore.

One that is rooted in standing up because it's right, not for us, per se,

but for future generations.

That's why we won World War II.

We didn't go over there because we would receive punishment if we didn't.

We went over there because we knew what was happening was wrong.

For a long time, Americans stayed away from the fight.

Stayed away until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Then we wanted to fight totalitarianism.

Well,

the totalitarians are bombing our schools relentlessly with critical race theory.

What will it take for us to stand up and have the moral conviction to say, I don't care what happens to me.

I care about my country and my children's freedom.

That's what's at stake here.

Not our job, not our money, but our children's freedom.

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Axios reported last week a job report for the ages.

April could see more than 2 million jobs added.

Reuters, U.S.

economy likely created nearly a million jobs in April.

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Yeah.

Yeah,

That didn't happen.

It, in fact,

we didn't get

job growth.

We actually lost some jobs.

And so that's.

We were well under expectations.

There was still some growth, Glenn, but it was just, they just missed it by, you know, four or five times.

That's all.

I mean, it was sure.

That's not

a big deal.

I mean, what, what?

It was a few hundred thousand jobs among friends.

It was unemployment rate increased in April.

It grew by 100,000 people.

Well, it grew.

It was 200,000.

I thought they were expecting about a million new jobs, and they got 225,000 new jobs.

Contrary to the bullish expectations, the unemployment rate actually ticked up a tenth of a point to 6.1% in April.

The economy did add 266,000 jobs, far fewer than the 770 revised number added in March and the 536 added in February.

This jobs report actually

is a job report of the ages.

You know what this is?

I was going to say it was

a misfire, but this president wants us to look at this differently.

Here's the audio of Joe Biden talking about the jobs report.

This month's job numbers show we're on the right track.

Shows that we stop.

Stop.

Stop.

Stop.

Stu,

would you say that this jobs report shows that we're on the right track?

Well, the track, as you mentioned, was what?

Increasing for it was January, February, March, all increased.

And then we had a major drop-off in April.

So would you consider that?

I would not.

I would not consider that on the right track.

We should also

point out that

all of the job gains were in the hospitality

areas, which again, you know, look, it's good to see.

We like to see that the restaurants are coming back a little bit and hospitality is popping back.

That's good.

Yeah, that's good.

That doesn't make things.

that we can sell to other people.

Yeah, look, the service industry is an important part of our economy, no doubt.

But

the fact that

restaurants are opening up because restrictions are being lifted in certain areas, but then we have

reactive of policies for

minus jobs in all of the other areas outside of hospitality where we're actually losing jobs.

That's frightening.

And then you add on to the fact that we're in an era where we're spending multiple trillions of dollars to prop this economy up.

Yeah, we haven't spent enough yet.

You'll see.

We We haven't spent enough.

But I want you to listen.

So first of all, we're on the right track, according to this president.

We're on the right track.

And there's even more.

This month's job numbers show we're on the right track.

We still have a long way to go.

As I said, my laser focus is on growing the nation's economy and creating jobs.

My laser focus is on vaccinating our nation.

And we're making continued progress.

My laser focus is on one more thing, making sure sure working people in this country, hard-working people, are no longer left out in the cold.

They're going to get a share of the benefits of a rising economy.

It's been a long time since that happened.

I call my plan

the blue-collar blueprint for America.

That's exactly what it is.

So let's not let up.

We're still digging our way out of a very deep hole we were put in.

No one

should underestimate how tough this battle is.

You still have a job to do here in Washington.

So, Stu, what was his laser focus again?

Did he have three lasers or only one laser?

I don't know.

He's seen a laser focus, I know,

on COVID and vaccinations.

COVID.

Yeah, yeah.

But also, his laser focus is on equity.

And equity.

So

we got that.

Not equality.

Yeah.

I don't know if he's a cyclops, so he only has one eye.

But if so, his laser focus should move towards the economy because without the economy, we really don't have anything.

And, you know, there's some simple things he could do like,

hey, cut the extra $300

from unemployment that people are using as an excuse to not go back to work.

I mean, that's just.

I know.

It's crazy.

We can call it an excuse all we want, but people are making a pragmatic cost-benefit analysis

whether it's worth going somewhere for 40 hours a week to make less money.

I can't blame them for saying that's a bad return on investment.

No, no.

I mean, we're being encouraged to stay home.

And, you know, they know exactly what they're doing.

The Chamber of Commerce just came out and said, can you cut that?

Because after the jobs report, I think it's pretty clear that's...

not the way to go.

Yeah, two states

are going to abandon it already.

And that's it's going to pass.

It's going to continue to pass, especially in red states around the country.

Yeah.

Well, red states lost fewer jobs.

Red states are recovering faster and will continue to lead the way and then be blamed for everything.

The other thing is that he missed on his laser focus was the

cyber attack of the gasoline pipeline.

Kind of a big deal, you know, seeing that it is, what was it, 50%

of the East's

gasoline and jet fuel.

It was just, you know,

somewhere between 40 and 60%.

So it's not even worth mentioning.

But

they say if they don't have this solved by Tuesday,

then it's going to really skyrocket prices.

But only in half of the country.

And fortunately, it's the most populated half of the country.

You take up from the Louisiana-Texas border, and

if you're looking at the map and you go right,

yeah,

you might have some problems with some oil and gas prices, maybe, you know, because there's going to be a shortage.

But don't worry, it's not like the driving season starts in a couple of weeks, you know?

Just drive half as far.

If it's 50% of the gas, just drive half as far.

These are easy solutions that we can common sense solutions.

I don't know why people don't listen to you more often, Stu, because that is really, really, really true.

Here's the thing, Glenn, and you walk me through this because you're the historian around here.

You have all these artifacts.

You got this whole museum right across the walkway here.

And

my impression of the job of President of the United States was you needed to focus on multiple things at once.

I didn't know

that you came in and kind of laser-focused on one thing and let everything else go to crap.

I didn't know that was the thing.

No,

you can't laser focus on just one thing.

that's the way it used to be.

Uh, but now it's, you know, you need a nap at three o'clock.

Take a nap, you know, after dinner, which is at two.

Uh, so to have some dinner, go to sleep, wake up maybe 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning.

Do you remember how many times they said that

Donald Trump is going to bed early?

Oh, yeah.

All he does is watch TV and then he goes to bed early.

Yeah.

Yeah, he goes to bed.

This guy, I think, I think at least Trump was watching the news.

I think Biden, maybe at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, is watching Matlock or Murder She-Road and then going to bed.

You know what I mean?

I have a 16-year-old pug that his entire day is just sleeping, waking up, eating, going to the bathroom, going back to sleep.

He's only up for, I think, legit an hour a day.

That's it.

If you combine all the times he's actually up with his eyes open, you're at about an hour a day.

And I think he's awake more than Joe Biden is.

Well, let me ask you this.

Let me ask you this.

Let's pretend your dog was president of the United States.

Okay.

And you're the chief of staff.

And I find out that Russia, that Russian hackers,

for the second time in just a couple of months,

have now given us a cyber attack where they cut, quote, the jugular

of our oil and gas supply to the East Coast.

And it happens Friday

and we knew about the

hack in on Thursday because they took so much data.

And now they're holding this pipeline hostage for ransom.

And I come over to your house and I say,

is President Miles available?

I've got some really, they've just cut the jugular

of the oil pipeline.

and I think we need to meet.

Here's the thing with Miles:

he's mostly blind.

You mean Mr.

President?

Yes, President Miles.

He's mostly

blind and basically completely deaf.

So

if you try to wake him up, he's always completely stunned.

Like he's terrified.

Whoa!

Like, if he's awake and he's facing away from you, he never hears you coming.

So he always is, you know, scared

and stunned and jolted every time.

So a lot of times I don't, I try not to wake him up or try not to because I don't want

the cutting of the jugular, this is the cutting of the jugular of gas

for the entire East Coast.

But you don't want to jolt Joe Biden away.

You don't want to scare him.

So maybe wait a little while to tell him about this incredible international incident that's ongoing.

Okay, so you would give the,

you would say, wait until he's awake?

Yeah, like wait until he's awake and you're in front of him.

Don't walk from behind him because then he'll be scared.

But if you kind of are already in front of him and walking toward him, he'll see kind of your shadow coming and then it'll be okay.

Okay, so you would give, if your dog Miles was the president,

you would give the same advice that apparently was given to, you know, colonial, the colonial oil pipeline people or the NSA or anybody who should have seen this one coming.

they knew about it on Friday.

They didn't brief the president until Saturday.

It's just a day.

I mean, what could happen?

You know, a day is a day.

Like, if the missiles are in the air, you just say, we'll let him know if one's coming here, maybe.

What are we going to do about it anyway?

Look, Orlando used to be Orlando.

It's no longer Orlando.

He'll have to reschedule a vacation, but I mean, that's not urgent.

It is insane.

insane it's just insane and every country that was afraid of us just recently they're now

they're like hey i don't know uh they're negotiating with iran let's set them on fire let's collapse their economy let's let's go ahead and uh and just hack into all of their financial stuff and their military stuff and their energy stuff we can shut them down within a week and they're not going to do anything

Maybe we have a problem with our stance in the world, maybe just a little bit, seeing that Hunter Biden keeps losing his dog tags at his Chinese secretary's apartment.

You mean his doggy chain necklace?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It might be for Miles.

He might have been getting something for President Miles.

I'm not sure.

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So Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns Clayton Homes.

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Buffett said that Berkshire is seeing very substantial inflation and they're raising prices of the homes.

Now, I don't know about you, but Warren Buffett seems to be accurate a lot of the time, and he's saying that inflation is here, and it's here now.

What's funny is he doesn't have to go to a grocery store to figure that out.

Now, maybe in Omaha, he's still doing the shopping for the wife and kids, but I doubt it.

The worst part is that nobody's really questioning this.

We're all just accepting the idea that inflation is transitory.

No, it usually comes and then massive dramatic things happen, including revolutions,

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Well, I never thought the day would come

when I would welcome Spencer Corson to the radio program.

Spencer is, if you've ever been, if you've ever been to any of our shows, especially, you know, Kashua, has a long, how long has it been?

Maybe 10 years ago,

you would see Spencer.

Spencer was the chief of my detail for security in the golden era of death threats.

And

it was a special, special time.

Spencer, welcome to the program.

Mr.

Beck, great to see you, sir.

Yeah.

So

you started your own security group, Course and Security Group,

and you're a threat management expert now.

I can't be more pleased for your success.

You were.

Let me just say this and see if you know, see if you can respond.

Mr.

Spencer, do you have a six?

Remember the response?

Yes.

And it was no, Cheyenne.

I don't have a six.

Go fish.

I thought you were going to say when we were all sitting around the table, and I would just be like, boom, winning

every time a card got thrown down.

And that became the mantra of the weekend, which I almost got fired for.

Yes, I remember that.

I do remember that.

No, you were with us and the family and our kids.

You don't even know this.

Up at our ranch, we have, you know, we measure everybody.

And the kids wanted me to put my height there and mom's height and everything on the doorframe.

You are about a foot higher because the kids said, I remember Mr.

Spencer being so big and so tall.

And I'm like, he was shorter than me.

They're like, no, he wasn't, Dad.

No, he wasn't.

So you are up on our doorframe.

Anyway,

you've written a book called The Safety Trap.

And I wanted to have you on because I think it's really important

that people understand.

I mean,

Spencer, we have had an incredible time.

You know that we still have great security.

We've had a home invasion.

We have had a

IT attack.

on us.

We've had all kinds of stuff happen to us.

And you know us, we're really prepared and really secure.

But I think that goes to what you're talking about called the safety trap.

Well, and I can't agree with you more.

I mean,

as seriously as you take your security,

I take my own security very seriously.

And I had an attempted home invasion in my house on Monday.

Really?

1 o'clock in the morning.

It's a terrible idea.

You don't invade special house.

It was wrong house.

Wrong

house.

I know, I know.

But went to bed around midnight, 1.10 a.m.

I have a service dog.

Just goes from zero to hero.

And I look over and I see that my motion lights are turned on outside.

My alert notifications on my security system are going into overdrive.

Ronan is just like begging me to let him through the door.

I check the security feed.

I see that there's a bad guy trying to get in through my back fence.

I let Ronan out the back.

I grabbed the shotgun and go out the front.

And I was like five seconds too slow.

and and the guy got away.

But they report they wound up catching the guy about a half a mile down the road.

Because he was trying to break into other houses on the street too.

Yeah, so the next morning, of course, all the neighbors start talking and he had attempted to get into the apartment complex, which is to the left of me, hit my house, hit the house next to me, hit their neighbor's house.

And we all just, you know, I got immediately on the phone right after I

cleared the property.

It was like 5'10, gray shorts, black shirt, tan cap, red backpack.

And he had obviously known what we, what security, like, I always talk about how you want to just like, you know, present yourself as having a strong protective posture, you know, to sort of make that a deterrent factor, which is the first level of deterrence.

And some people take that as just putting the sign in their yard with nothing else.

And the problem with that is that 85% of home invasions is because the guy can just walk through the front door because it's unlocked.

And on the security cameras, you see the brazenness brazeness of this.

He knows that I have the lights.

So he puts

his arm up to cover his face, but has no problem just trying the front door to see if he can just walk right in.

Wow.

Just, wow.

You know, drug-seeking behavior was looking for to rated medicine.

And that's, you know, that's the thing.

You have to be really careful because people who come during the day are typically coming for your stuff.

But people who come at night,

good chance they're coming for you.

So you really need to be of the mindset that you're willing to participate in your own protection.

That's the one thing that I learned from you and others is that robbers don't want to meet you just as much as you don't want to meet them.

They come when the house is empty.

They don't do it at night like you see in the movies.

Generally speaking, they do it during the day.

Somebody comes to your house at night, they got a problem.

You know, they're either a drug person that's desperate or they do want to harm you or they're doing something more than stealing your stuff, generally speaking.

right of course there's always exceptions to every rule but yeah more often than not and especially and when they don't come through the front door which i think this guy was trying to do is by coming in through the back is if you hear if your neighbors hear one loud crash they're probably gonna go oh that was strange but if they hear a second loud crash then they may investigate but if your front door is open or if it's a weak door that they can just get in with one quick kick or you know just one break of a window you know you cannot expect your neighbors to be willing to protect you any more than you are overly willing to protect your neighbors.

Yes, we all have a neighborly responsibility to look out for one another, but we no longer live in a world where we can simply hope that nothing will happen and then solely rely on the first responders to save us once something does.

That is something that came actually out of the Carter administration.

He's the one that started calling police and fire first responders.

We never thought of it that way.

Up until Carter, we all believed we were the first responders.

Yes.

And that

that change alone has changed our society.

So talk to me about the paradox of the safety trap.

So the safety trap.

What's the safety trap?

The safety trap is a turn of phrase that I came up with a few years ago to explain to my clients the false sense of security that tends to hide behind

our own outlook when our fear has been abated, but risk remains.

So if we take

a school shooting, for example, tragic event happens.

There's this rush to that we have to do something.

The politicians say

we're going to ban guns.

And

public safety officials say we need to do something about mental health.

But then

nothing really happens.

The news cycle moves on.

The fear has abated.

But the risk is still there.

We have done absolutely nothing to, maybe we'll do some things that will help to mitigate that risk once it has been realized.

But we don't do anything, we don't put any kind of like preventative countermeasures in place to prevent that bad thing from happening.

And that is the very essence of the safety trap.

We are sometimes the most at danger when we feel the most safe because when we have just a little bit of fear or when we're a little bit hesitant or we're a little bit aware, we have our guard up.

We're looking around.

We're present.

We're very much in the moment.

But then, you know,

things go on, nothing else happens.

And we have this, this, this swinging of the pendulum between hyperplacency and conv and hyper complacency and vigilance.

And everyday safety is really about finding that happy middle, a healthy sense of skepticism, a moderate dose of vigilance, very simple strategy.

You know, I have a story that probably very few can relate to, but I tell it for a reason,

because you don't appreciate the skills that you actually have, these warning signals, these

things in you that

you will see

without recognizing that you're not consciously looking or listening for things.

You just notice things and that gives you that sense of, I should be a little hesitant.

When you were the head of my detail, I had gotten so used to, and I think we may have talked about this, I got so used to always 24-7

having protection with me.

And usually it was more than one guy.

In the bad times, it was a lot of people.

And

so I just knew that I was safe no matter where I was, or at least I felt that way.

And I lost those skills.

And I remember distinctly, maybe 10 years ago, the first time I went out again, just by myself, just to go to the store.

Spencer, I was so freaked out

because I didn't have that natural ability anymore.

I mean, it came back, but it was so foreign to me, I was paranoid about everything.

It's this weird balance of

still sensing the danger, but not living in fear.

Does that make sense?

No, it absolutely does make sense.

And I think this is a very

similar frame.

And I use a couple, I cite a couple examples in the book.

The way I structured the book was I identified these like 16 quote-unquote safety traps that all of my clients throughout the years kept falling into, whether that be complacency, whether that be avoidance, whether that be false equivalence.

And what it really always comes down to is

everything in our normal everyday life.

Like most of us are never going to experience a terror attack or be in an active shooter situation or experience a home invasion or any other like horrific incident.

But that doesn't mean that the risks aren't real.

One of the things my global experience has always shown me is that

there are always pre-incident indicators.

There are always warning signs that come before the bad thing happens.

And staying safe is about training ourselves to see them.

When we drive our cars, We are looking for the person who's flying up behind us.

We're looking for the person who's erratically changing lanes.

We're looking for the person that may, we, you know, in leadership, they always talk about like anticipating the needs of others.

Safety is about anticipating the idiocy of others.

Is this person going to like, and if we could just like

apply those same

safety defense strategies that we employ when we're driving to our everyday life, we would have that ability to notice, hey, you know, this person, even when I was on your security detail and we had all of the advanced teams and the overwatch and the counter surveillance and everything, you would still very often come up to me and be like, something just doesn't feel right about this route.

And all of that, and we would absolutely take that into

our route planning or our threat matrix or whatever, because you not negotiating against your own survival instincts allowed us to keep you safe.

Yeah.

Spencer, I thank you for all of the years of service that you gave my family and kept us safe in some really terribly terribly frightening situations at times.

Thank you for that.

I want to come back because I want to ask you some questions because the world has changed and

you talk about in the book, you talk about don't necessarily go where everybody tells you to go.

And that is advice that my uncle, who used to do civil defense research back in the 60s and 50s with nuclear stuff, that's the first thing he said to me when I moved to New York City.

If anything happens, don't gather where they tell you to gather.

And I want you to kind of explain, because the world has changed so much,

how do we prepare for things that could happen in the future?

We'll do that in 60 seconds.

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So the

two things, Spencer, I want to talk to you about is why is it in the book, you answer the question, why is it so many emergency response plans do more harm than good?

And why is run, hide, fight such a bad idea?

Those are both things that we're told we have to pay attention to, and you're saying, nu-uh, bad ideas.

Horrible ideas.

Okay, so on the

evacuation protocols, why you don't want to go where everyone else is going.

Okay.

Let's say that

one of the reasons, okay, let's just accept the premise that everyone who calls in a bomb threat,

there's no bomb.

Because to get the components for that bomb, to build it, to construct it, to then breach security, to get it in place, why are you going to sabotage your success?

But what you do have readily available is

where is that evacuation zone?

Yeah.

And that's typically outside of the security zone.

So I can put it and I can go on, I can put in hashtag fire drill or hashtag bomb threat, and I can see on social media where everyone's gathering points are.

I can very easily put an explosive device there.

Now, if there is a real, I'm sorry, go ahead.

No, I was just, I was just going to say this.

I think they did this in Beslin.

If you were to go to the middle of the Beslazlin, there's a movie called The Kingdom where they put a small diversionary explosive device inside a building to get everyone to the evacuation point.

And then that's where

the real bomb goes off.

Because schools, buildings, office places are all these like interconnected compartmentalized pockets of protection.

And then you give all of those up to

you know to all move to one centralized collective well we're all gonna go to the parking lot we're all gonna go to the bleachers horrible idea if there's an if there's ever a fire drill or an evacuation drone or even if it's just a rehearsal go anywhere else than where they're telling you to go go to starbucks go home if if the if the crisis is so severe that they had to stop what they were doing and get everyone out they have bigger problems than getting you back in

Go, just participate in your own protection, be disagreeable, and go away.

And this gets us to the run-hide-fight thing.

The run-hide-fight.

Okay, hang on, because I've got about 30 seconds here, and I don't want to cut you off on this because I think this is important with

the number of shooters that we have had, the murderers that come in.

And we had another shooting, I think, on an Air Force, or a, I think it was at Fort Bragg this weekend.

I'm not sure.

And run, hide, fight is what everybody preaches.

Spencer says that's not the right way to go.

Spencer Corson, it is The Safety Trap, a new book available out this week, The Safety Trap.

More in just a second.

This is the Glennbach program.

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The book is out now.

It's the safety trap of security experts' secrets for staying safe in a dangerous world.

Spencer Corson is the author.

We'll have more with him coming up.

Spencer Corson is a threat management expert, founder of Corson Security Group.

And

probably the least impressive part of his resume, he was the head of my security detail for about 10 years.

He is the author of The Safety Trap.

It's a new book that comes out soon.

You can get it on Amazon or wherever you purchase books.

It's called The Safety Trap.

I highly recommend it.

Not only because

he's a friend and I'd like to see him sell a lot of books.

More importantly, he is the guy who protected my family and

many times in very frightening situations, saved my family.

And so I not only wish him well, but I know he has a lot to teach because I learned a lot from you, Spencer.

Thank you, sir.

And as you're going through the book, I hope you won't sue me if you can pick out those times that those stories are definitely not about you.

Are definitely not about me.

Yeah, because you got a

serious lawsuit.

I have a serious lawsuit.

So you use us as examples, kind of disguised?

I think that if someone knows, I think that you will be able to determine where I'm talking about you.

Oh, now it's a good way, or is like, I had this.

I think you'll be able to do,

as you're going through the book, figure out the times I'm talking about.

All right.

No, obviously, we have full confidentiality that I'm in legal review, and your lawyers and my lawyers, of course, had their back and forth.

But of course,

I think, yeah.

We were just before the break, we were talking about the idea of run-hide fight.

And you say that's a bad idea.

It is a horrible idea.

So

the original premise of run-hide fight was what they taught pilots in Sears School.

Survive, evade, resist, escape.

Pilot gets captured.

by taking POW.

He gets the chance to escape.

He's going to run as far away from the enemy as he can.

If he gets too tired or

is injured, he's going to hide until he can get his strength back.

And then he's going to start running again.

And if the enemy should catch up to him, he's going to fight that enemy life.

His life depends on it because it absolutely will.

So then you have

Sandy Hook, you have Columbine, you have all these tragedies.

And this cottage industry starts coming up of run, hide, fight, which is great on an individual level, but is a horrible protocol for a collective because what it has now been reduced to is run to your hiding spot.

And anyone who has ever played t-ball or has played baseball, which is harder to hit, the ball that is coming across the plate at 90 miles an hour or the ball that is sitting stationary on a T?

It is.

I would say both equally for me,

both equally.

Athleticism being a constant.

In standard safety, if the threat is inside your house, you want to get outside the house.

If the threat is outside your house, you want want to barricade yourself inside the house what has happened is that there's there's this wide divide between survivability and accountability

if someone was to break in here right now i would try to i would try to take that guy down while all all of you got as far away from here as possible because the hardest thing to hit is someone that is taking

is time is increasing time and distance putting as many steps between you and the bad guy as possible and getting and getting farther and farther away with each step step you take.

Schools have just basically want schools and police-aligned authors of these security programs want everyone to be compartmentalized, want everyone to be contained because now they're containing the threat.

A lot of people have this misconception that the police are there for your personal safety.

They're not.

They're there for the public's safety.

And in the interest of the collective safety, keeping that threat contained is better for them because now we don't don't have to worry about where else he's going.

So I always urge clients, families, teachers, parents, students, if you ever are in a situation where there is a known threat inside the building, get outside that building as quickly as you possibly can.

But this is different than because you were the one who designed my first safe room when we had to have one in Connecticut.

Yes.

And the idea was get all of the children in there and you and stay in there.

So it's different if you're talking about, you know, you have

some sort of a safe room where nobody can get in, at least for residential security, where that was one small part of an overarching, very comprehensive security program.

Yes.

You know what I mean?

We had multiple levels of concentric rings of security from the outerness of the property to the immediate access to the compound, to the driveway, to the house, to inside the front door, and then more so inside.

So if it got to the point where multiple things were breached and all of us were dead, the safest place for your family to be was in that safe room until the police could get there.

We were buying you the time for a police response.

That is completely different.

from a school or a movie theater or a mall or a shopping center, which may have all of those

false senses of security because you see the cameras and you see the guard and you see all the domes up in the ceiling.

But all of those things are there to protect the products.

They are not there to protect you.

So if you are in a situation where your life is on the line, you are your own authority.

And I will tell you right now, if it's a...

a matter of

life and death is not a game of hide and seek.

You would not hide from a fire in a building and hope the fire doesn't find you.

But an active shooter is just as unpredictable and just as violent as a fire.

So would you hide from a fire or would you run?

I recommend you run.

Do you so that is first because it is

it's hide

What is it?

Hide run hide fight run hide fight.

Your distinction here is you're not running to a place to hide, which is how it's being interpreted.

Correct.

You don't want to run to a place to hide.

You want to run, get the hell out of there.

Yeah.

I would love to see schools put.

I would much rather schools invest in threat management programs and start helping those who are hurting.

And especially now with like all, so schools have finite budgets.

Okay.

And so that means that.

Not now.

We'll see.

But all of the money that typically would go to security programs has now been shifted to COVID protocols.

Right.

Okay.

So none of that money is going to counseling.

None of that money is going to mental health.

And one of the reasons we're seeing such a rise in active shooter engagements and domestic violence and child abuse is because one of

the after effects of a year-long spent in this pandemic is isolation, has been solitude.

And that has had a catastrophic impact on those with mental illness.

And I'm not talking about, you know, people like me who are in therapy.

I'm talking about those who have serious mental illnesses.

Whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Wait, you're in therapy?

Oh, I've been in therapy.

I'm talking about it for the better part of six months now.

It's been great.

How do you feel about that?

Love it.

Tell me about your mom.

Well, I was born in Denver.

Okay.

So wait a minute.

Are you,

I don't want to use the word predicting, but are you warning that we may have more shootings?

What I am saying is that if you are expecting your school to be able to save your child, you are putting your child more at risk.

My parents were both teachers.

They were brilliant educators.

They were not trained protectors.

I am.

And I am telling you right now,

when you go to a...

a movie theater or you go to a ball game and that you see the guy in the security windbreak and you ask him where your where your seat is and he says it's over there you can trust that but would you trust that same person in a mass casualty event no exactly you taught me one thing uh and i thought it was really fascinating because you know at first you guys

could uh

couldn't carry guns in new york not in new york you in new york city you they no guns and they do it for a reason they're doing it for the pension of the police officers And if you hire a police officer, then you have a gun.

And you'd never wanted to do that.

And you said,

because that's the opposite kind of training.

Do you remember this?

Completely different.

If you have...

If you want to.

And it kind of relates to this is what you're saying.

Yes.

Go ahead.

First off,

if you are a, if you are...

So when I was in the army, I was an assaulter.

I was a shooter.

It was my job to...

initiate a violence of action on a known target for God and country.

As a protector, my job is to cover and evacuate my principal off the X.

So if I have time to draw, aim, and fire, I have time to cover and evacuate you.

My job is not to be in a gunfight.

When you saw Ronald Reagan coming out of the Hinkley Hilton and John Hinckley shot him and he got off six shots, how many shots did the Secret Service get off?

Zero.

Because their job was to protect the president, to put themselves between a bullet and a target and get that president to safety.

Firearms are

on a list of protective.

Now, a firearm would be different for, say, like a home invasion, where it's a known target and you have assets in place where you can see how they're coming in, like I did on Monday.

But,

you know, the number one argument against using a handgun for self-defense is to watch the everyday citizen try to take a selfie of a celebrity using their cell phone.

It's a great point.

They're like, oh, oh my gosh, Mr.

Back, Mr.

Back.

Right, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Now, the average person can take a photo of their breakfast with, you know,

photographic expertise that'd be worthy of framing in the MoMA,

but, you know, have Taylor Swift walk into the room.

He's like, ah, ah.

Now imagine that's a handgun.

And tell me that person can, you know,

do that.

And the same thing.

The police are more like the military.

They are to go in and get the guy.

The jar of the police is to police.

Yeah.

They're not there

to evacuate the kids.

I mean, they will help with that, et cetera, et cetera.

But their primary job in those situations is to get the bad guy.

Yeah.

Where a defender is someone who says, get out.

get away from the bad guy.

Yeah.

And what's the, like, watch any, any like crime TV show.

What's the first thing you hear the detectives talking about?

Is like how much they're yelling at the cops in uniform, not to mess things up.

Like, your job is to secure the scene.

Then the, then the detectives will come in and, you know, interpret what's what and what's relevant and what who can go and who needs to stay and who needs to be interviewed.

They're the ones that solve the case.

But to expect, and don't get me wrong, I am not knocking police officers.

I love the police.

I am a supporter of the police.

I am very pro-police.

But I would not expect

my local firemen to change my oil.

It's not their job.

You would not, so therefore you can't expect.

It's just different training.

It's completely different training.

Just different training.

Spencer, thank you so much.

Sir, this was a short time.

Thank you.

I will tell you that we talk about you often still after these years.

The children remember you fondly.

You were a

great impact on their life and

a real impact on mine.

And I

appreciate everything you have.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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Glad you're here.

I want to leave you this.

This is from a local news report, Fox 12 in Portland, Oregon.

They were talking to a guy named Joe Hall, who had just been injured by Antifa.

Listen.

Joe Hall has a long recovery ahead of him.

Partially collapsed left lung, two

lower vertebraes.

fractured.

That's on top of five broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and head trauma.

I stood my ground, and I would do it all over again.

Hall, a local handyman, says he was trying to defend himself after getting stopped in his pickup by a crowd in the street and other vehicles along North Alberta near Michigan Avenue.

All of a sudden, this, you know, these agitators come out.

screaming, pounding on my truck.

He said he tried to go around the group, but stopped and got out of his car after he thought he hit something.

By this time, I've got five people surrounding my vehicle.

AR-15s, AK-47s.

Hall said people in the crowd were calling him derogatory names and pointing guns at him.

While his door was open, Hall told me someone took his keys and his less lethal firearm, so he grabbed his pistol.

I pulled my 38 out of my right

pocket and pointed it at the ground and told them if a weapon points at me again, I will shoot to eliminate the threat.

Shortly after that, Hall said someone tackled him to the ground and took his gun.

Videos posted to social media showing the event unfolding, with posters praising the crowd's disarming of the man.

A neighbor telling me she saw part of the scuffle from her window.

It looked like he was face down and then the people were kneeling on top of him.

I was in fear of my life.

Hall wonders why Portland police didn't intervene.

More 911 calls were made from other intersections Thursday, including Interstate Avenue and Killingsworth, where a driver reported a crowd smashed out their back window and slashed their tires.

For Hall, this was the last straw.

I'm done working in Portland.

You know, I'm shutting my business down and I'm probably not going to be coming back.

It's quite amazing what's going on.

The biggest threat to our democracy, our republic, since the Civil War.

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We'll see you tomorrow.

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