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It's day number two of the apocalypse.

And what are they calling it?

Transitory.

Transitory hyperinflation.

And speaking of trans, we also talk

about

the possibility of Caitlin Jenner.

Now that's a Radio Hall of Fame.

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I want to play two commercials for you.

The first one is: Hey,

are you a super spy?

Can you figure out equations and codes and stuff like that?

Do you like gadgets?

Have you thought about maybe risking your life?

Join the CIA.

Okay, first one is a recruiting ad for the CIA.

Listen.

When I was 17, I quoted Zora Neale Hurston's How It Feels to Be Colored Me in my college application essay.

The line that spoke to me stated simply, I am not tragically colored.

There is no sorrow dammed up in my soul nor lurking behind my eyes.

I do not mind at all.

At 17, I had no idea what life would bring, but Sora's sentiment articulated so beautifully.

If that really was something that opened your eyes, don't you find that sad?

I mean, who in her life was telling her she couldn't make it?

Who in her life was saying you were tragically Hispanic or whatever?

Who made her feel that way?

That would be a a family tragedy.

It would be a family tragedy.

That's how you're teaching your child.

Correct.

I know my girls feel, you know, have felt at one point or another,

you know, ashamed of their body, or I wish my body was different.

Well, okay, that's what society says.

And none of that is real.

None of that is real.

That's real for us.

I mean.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, for us,

we should be ashamed of our bodies.

But for other people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think the audience understood that.

Okay, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to fat monsters that are just, oh my gosh, you don't even want to imagine it.

But

so,

and I've told my girls the whole time, all of my girls know they could grow up to be president of the United States.

None of them want to.

I used to threaten it as a punishment.

You know what?

You're going to grow up and you're going to be president of the United States.

No, dad.

No.

So, how tragic is that?

But I digress because this is an ad for the CIA.

Listen.

I am perfectly made.

Great.

I can wax eloquent on complex legal issues in English while also belting guayaquil de misamores in Spanish.

That's fantastic.

I can change a diaper with one hand and console a crying toddler with the other.

Are you doing this at the same time?

I'm a woman of color.

I am a mom.

I am a cisgender millennial who's been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.

Wait, wait, stop, stop, stop.

With generalized anxiety disorder?

Does that sound like someone who should be working at the CIA?

I don't know.

I'm just always very, very nervous.

That's not good.

It's not necessarily the, I mean, it's not the stereotype of a CIA person who's like cold and coffee.

See, there you are talking about stereotypes.

Yes.

We need cisgender and non-cisgender

immigrants, non-immigrants, except for the people who have lived here for a long time and are white.

We need people who hate the cops.

We need people who want to change the world away from this old system of dusty documents from these, quote, white founding fathers.

We need some really nervous people

that can change a diaper with one hand and sing some song on the other hand or something like that.

Could you talk to me about, you know, if you're okay, the only thing I've heard in this ad was

I can talk deep legal doctrine or whatever she's saying.

Yeah, that's maybe needed.

That's it.

That's the only thing I've heard about anything CIA.

What if one of the terrorists we have,

you know, Catty has a, it needs to their diaper changed.

You know, you can only hear that song that she's belting.

Right.

I don't think.

I think one of the things making her nervous is trying to change diapers with one hand.

I mean, who knows what's going to happen there?

You should use two hands if it's at all possible.

Yeah.

Well, it may not be.

May not be.

She may be.

If you're singing with your other hand.

It's tough to.

Does she sing with her other hand?

Is it like some little hand puppet?

I don't know.

I don't know.

But I am glad to see that our CIA is finally going woke.

I feel safer.

And I think the world is safer.

This is one of those things I think you learn if you are a business person right now, right?

You're running a business.

Yeah.

People would say, well, how do we recruit the younger generation to come work at, let's say, the CIA, right?

How do we get them here?

I mean, like, they're different.

You know, they're different people, and we need to recruit them, and we should target them in this way.

And you can make that argument until you realize you don't want to hire them.

Yeah.

If you're running a business, the last thing you want to do is hire someone who thinks this way.

What's the name of that software company that last week came out and said, you know what?

You can't talk about woke stuff anymore.

Yeah, Basecamp.

Okay, Basecamp.

They didn't even say woke stuff.

They just said anything political.

Anything political.

You can't talk about it anymore because it's causing too many problems.

And we're a software company.

We're not a political company.

We're not here to change the world.

We're here to change software.

So go to work, no more talking.

You know what happened?

A third of the employees walked out.

And I can guarantee you that CEO went, I told you it would work.

We didn't have to pay severance.

We have no legal hassles.

They quit.

Now let's go find the people who just want to work and have had enough of this stuff.

But I know, but I think it's great.

I think it's great that we have the CIA recruiting that way.

Now,

just so I'm consistent, and I don't care about what you are, I don't care.

I care about what you say and do.

Here's the latest campaign commercial for the California governorship gubernatorial candidate, Caitlin Jenner.

Listen to this.

First of all, he's outing himself.

California was once the envy of the world.

We had what everyone else wanted.

The American dream grew up here.

Yet career politicians and their policies have destroyed that dream.

It's been locked away, closed, shuttered, left in the dark, burned down.

The government is now involved in every part of our lives.

They've taken our money, our jobs, and our freedom.

California needs a disruptor, a compassionate disruptor.

I came here with a dream 48 years ago to be the greatest athlete in the world.

Now I enter a different kind of race, arguably my most important one yet, to save California.

I want to carry the torch for the parents who had to balance work and their child's education, for business owners who were forced to shut down, for pastors who were not able to be with their congregation, for the family who lost their home in a fire, for an entire generation of students who lost a year of education.

This past year has redefined our career politicians as elitists and the people of California as the warriors, the kings, and the angels.

We never take kindly to glass ceilings here.

Instead, we shatter them.

We're the trailblazers, the innovators.

California is facing big hurdles.

Now we need leaders who are unafraid to leap to new heights.

He does not want to be disrupted this way.

He wants the world record.

Who are unafraid to challenge and to change the status quo.

I want to prove that it is absolutely possible if we only

do it together.

California, it's time to reopen our schools, reopen our businesses, reopen the golden gates.

So I don't care if you're a Republican, Democrat, I'm running to be governor for all Californians

to reclaim our true identity, to bring back the gold to the golden state.

What a tremendous victory!

Now is the time to achieve that summit, to be the shining city on the hill, and together we'll restore and renew the California dream.

It's about what happens from here.

It's not just about one person.

It's about all of us.

If you're on the left, how do do you go against that?

If you're on the left, how do you torch Caitlin Jenner?

How do you do it?

Well, they'll just ⁇

she is

a terrible, terrible Republican, a token.

Right.

You know, I mean, they'll just do the same things they do to every black Republican who runs for office.

And

if you're a Republican, I don't know what Caitlin Jenner's policies are, but I do like the feeling of that ad.

Well, we know two things about Caitlin Jenner.

Well, we know multiple things, more things than we want to know about Caitlin Jenner, but there's just two main things we know.

Well, which is the two main things have been.

Well, I'm talking about something else.

Okay.

Caitlin Jenner will be better than Gavin Newsom as the governor.

Yes.

If Caitlin Jenner is to win, it will definitely be better than Gavin Newsom.

And it definitely seems like Caitlin Jenner

understands

the harm that Gavin Newsom has caused for the state.

And seems to understand the harm that wokeness is creating.

Yeah.

I mean, here is somebody that we were all told we had to accept because they never thought we would.

They never thought conservatives would put their arm around Caitlin Jenner.

Okay.

And

they may not.

I don't know.

I don't know.

No, no, no.

I mean as compassionate.

They remember when he first said, I want to become a woman, I'm Caitlin Jenner.

They all said,

you got to say she's beautiful.

Got to say she's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

I'll give you electric shock unless you say she's beautiful.

Right.

Okay.

And they never thought that we could be compassionate because they think we're monsters.

Well, we were.

And I have no problem with Caitlin Jenner.

If I'm at a court of law, it's a guy.

He's a guy.

He will always be a guy.

Chemistry.

tells me, biology tells me he's a guy.

No matter what surgery he has done, he's a guy.

But that's fine.

I I don't have anything against Caitlin Jenner.

You know,

if she wants to be called a she, I have no problem because she's not forcing me.

She understands that if somebody wants to call him, her, him, or him, her, it doesn't matter.

The self-confidence comes from within.

And he has no problem with people who call him he.

That is fine with me.

You want to call yourself an agave plant?

All right.

Kids, he's not really an agave plant.

So, Mr.

Agave, can I cut your limb and use you as salve?

I mean, you know, does it matter?

What matters is the content of the character.

Right.

Will Caitlin Jenner be a good governor?

I mean, I don't know.

You know, we know it'll be better than Gavin Newsom, and it will be satisfying if somehow Caitlin Jenner wins this race that we can say the first trans governor was a Republican.

That'll just be fun to say.

Oh, it'd be great.

Just to torture the left.

That'd be too weird.

It's California.

Oh, God.

Caitlin Jenner is like one of the most normal people in California.

Oh, my gosh.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

By the way, Dwayne The Rock Johnson has said that

he has an ambition to unite our country and run for president.

You want to unite the country.

Please don't run for president.

Don't wreck your movies.

Don't, please, don't.

Everybody likes you.

Please, don't, don't, don't do it.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

I mean, Donald Trump was like the most popular guy

in.

One of the reasons why The Apprentice was so successful.

is because he rated incredibly high with African Americans.

Correct.

And that's why the networks loved Donald Trump so much.

You remember Donald Trump we thought was going to be a flaming liberal and turned out to be pretty good president.

Dwayne The Rock Johnson, we're all going into it, you know, like a Bush presidency and our Supreme Court nominee.

Oh, no, he's going to, we have no record.

We have no reason to believe it, but he's going to be a conservative.

Well, I don't think there's any, I mean, the only thing that would make you think he would be a conservative is he spoke at one Republican national convention a zillion years ago.

And there's no reason.

My big thing on The Rock, and the reason why I think we should at least entertain it, is think of the money we could save on the military if when we have a war or whatever, we just send him in by himself.

We could just get rid of the military completely, save all that money, and then just send The Rock into various conflicts.

In a room with only one knife,

and Putin and The Rock are in it, and only one has to come out.

But there's only one knife, and it's on the table, and they're both equal distance from it.

Who comes walking out of that room?

Again, the rocks win in all these battles.

I'm not sure.

Oh, the rocks would have that battle.

The rock, you could stab the rock like a hundred times.

Wouldn't he just keep walking toward you?

Probably.

He's probably got so much muscle there.

It's not going to hit an organ.

It's like me with fat.

That's why I have all of this.

You go ahead and stab me in the stomach.

You're not going to reach anything.

That was smart of you.

Anything.

Thank you very much.

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I am a health freak.

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do you remember the police officer that did the video about lebron james on tick tock uh in case you missed it here it is dispatch i've arrived at that disturbance we have lebron call my cell phone right away please thank you excuse me sir excuse me no can you put the knife down please sir Sir, no, no, no, sir, don't stab it.

No, no, stop stabbing.

Stop.

Hold on.

Hold on.

It's LeBron.

LeBron, hey, yeah, it's me again.

Listen, I'm out here at this disturbance call, and there's a guy trying to stab another guy with a knife.

What do you think I should do?

Why does that matter?

Okay, uh, well, they're both black.

One guy's trying to stab another guy with a knife.

Deadly force is completely justified.

Uh-huh.

I see.

So you don't care if a black person kills another black person, but you do care if a white cop kills a black person, even if he's doing it to save the life of another black person.

I mean, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but then again, you are really good at basketball, so I guess I'll take your word for it.

Okay, so.

All right.

This is a TikTok video.

He was, they wanted to fire him.

His marshal stood up for him, and they suspended him for a week, and there's much more to the story.

Nate Sylvester is on with us now, getting ready to go back to work tomorrow, right?

That's correct, Glenn.

How are you?

I'm good.

How are you, sir?

I'm, you know, I'm good.

I'm a little disturbed because I'm a part-time resident of Idaho, and all these Californians are moving in, and they're wrecking it.

They're making it crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, they are.

Yeah.

So

the mayor is seemingly, this is what I hear.

He wants to fire you because he thinks it'll make him famous or get bonus, you know, some sort of anti-liberty points to fire you for this.

Yeah, that's the that's the rumor that I'm hearing.

So far, I still have a job.

I am supposed to return to work tomorrow, but

I police in a very liberal area, and the city officials are very liberal, and they weren't happy with the TikTok, and

they did want to fire me, but lucky for me, I have a very

common sense, loyal marshal who went to bat for me

while trying to remain neutral at the same time so as not to put her own job at risk.

But

so far, it's, I mean, the suspension wasn't great, but I still have a job, so that's good.

Well, I think you could always get a job in Texas or, you know, other parts of the state.

I mean, I put good words for it in another part of the state.

I appreciate it.

You had a

you had a friend that created a GoFundMe campaign.

That's right.

And you just wanted, he was just trying to raise raise enough money for the suspension.

And I don't know what they pay police up in Idaho, but last night when I checked, it was at $454,831.

So that might be a little higher than the week's wages.

Just slightly.

It's unreal, Glenn.

The amount of support.

that I've been shown has been very humbling and almost, it's been overwhelming.

And not just with the donations to the GoFundMe.

I mean, the letters and the text messages and the emails, people from all over the country and even in some parts of the world, Canada, Scotland, Mexico, I mean,

people are really stepping up here.

It's really amazing to me that LeBron can say anything and nobody is in an uproar over it.

Yeah.

But you can't do anything even to humorously poke back

with something that is very common sense.

There's nothing that you said that was offensive in that.

Nothing.

The argument doesn't make any sense, LeBron, and you're a stupid, stupid basketball player.

So why would we care?

How is the morale of your

compatriots?

Well,

they're still reeling from this thing.

I work in a very small department.

I have

five coworkers, including my supervisors, and they've been fielding hundreds and hundreds of phone calls.

They actually, this is really cool, they actually printed out all of the emails in support of me.

And right now they're at about 10,000

because they want to show that to the city council to say, hey, look, we have much more support than we do opposition.

I think there were like five total complaints.

We have over 10,000 emails and show of support.

So there, I mean, it's definitely a break in what I would describe as maybe the minutiae of working in Bellevue, Idaho.

So, but they do have to deal with a bit of a headache fielding all the phone calls and visits to the station.

So, that's the only part I feel bad about is

they're very busy now because of me.

But

I think that's better than some places in the country.

I mean, I know Bellevue is not like this.

This is a sad example here of political correctness that has gone just insane.

But at least you're not, you know, a cop in some of these other cities, Los Angeles or in

Minnesota.

And I don't know how you guys are going to continue to do your job.

I mean, when you are coming under attack and being called

the names that cops are being called, I don't know how you get up every day and

do it.

Well, and, you know, my marshal made a good point.

She told me that if they fired me, then she would walk off the job.

And I said, no, don't do that.

Please don't sacrifice your job for me.

And she says, well, it's not necessarily all about you.

If the city officials can't have your back over a silly TikTok video, then what happens when we have a critical incident and God forbid we have to shoot someone?

What happens then?

Do we get

left out to dry and no support from our city council or the rest of the community?

So she's got a good point.

That's happening all over the nation.

We're seeing good men and women, police officers, walk off the job because there's no reason to do it anymore.

I think that's why your GoFundMe account went up so high.

People don't know how to support these guys, which I am really grateful.

I've heard you talk about what you're going to do with the money.

You're actually going to use that money to support other officers, right?

Yes.

So when the funds just started flowing in like they did, just very unexpectedly, I said, well, what do we do with this?

You know, I can't just keep this all to myself.

That wouldn't be the right thing to do.

So I started brainstorming with my friend and

another

sort of a business, a friend of mine that's got some experience with this thing.

And we came up with the idea to create sort of like a scholarship foundation for displaced officers that when they find themselves in similar situations,

you know, we can reach out to them.

And, you know, if they miss a week's pay or a month's pay, then we'd be able to help them out with, you know, help them out financially.

And if they have legal fees, they can use the funds for that.

So I think that's fantastic.

Yeah, it's in its primary stages, but that's what we're working on.

That is fantastic.

Last night when I checked, it was at 454.

I'd like to see if the audience could get that up to half a million dollars.

It's a great, great cause to be able to help other officers.

I know several people who are like, I don't know what to do.

This is one of them.

We have to strengthen

the backbone backbone of our officers and let them know that they're not just out in the cold with a giant attorney fee that they are facing.

We need to fight back on these things legally.

Yes.

Yeah, I agree.

I agree.

Nate, thank you so much.

I appreciate your sense of humor.

I thought the TikTok video, all TikTok videos are stupid, but

I thought this was funny.

And

I think Stu will agree.

Anytime you you want to take on LeBron, have at it.

100% agree.

I've got

other ideas

going around in my head right now.

All right, good.

We'll look forward to them.

Thank you so much.

You bet.

You can, by the way, go to the GoFundMe page.

It is the GoFundMe, please help Officer Sylvester and other families.

Just search for that and

you'll be able to help help out.

Please help Officer Sylvester and other families.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program and we really want to thank you for listening.

We are

thrilled as always to have Tim Ballard with us.

He is the founder of Operation Underground Railroad and the CEO now of the Nazarene Fund.

And

he has

one heck of a rescue story to tell you today.

Hi, Tim.

How are you?

Hey, great to be here.

Yeah, good to have you.

Thanks.

When did you first tell me about this?

Trump was in office.

Oh, yeah.

It was several months ago.

It was an amazing rescue operation and one we haven't been able to tell until right now because of

all the things that are in process.

So many things in process.

Amazing actors involved.

I I mean, from Tony Robbins to the White House to, I mean, it was nuts.

Let me just, let me ask you this while I'm here at the White House.

That's a huge loss to the slave trade

movement to lose Donald Trump.

He was exceptional.

He was exceptional on this issue.

Millions of dollars downrange.

on the survivor care, on the rescue operations, just talking about it.

Ivanka was actually even a louder voice and lots of plans in place.

And they all stopped.

They all stopped.

That is tragic, especially with what we have going on on the border now.

Yes.

I mean, people don't have any idea what's going on on the border and the human trafficking.

We're incentivizing it.

Our policies are incentivizing it.

You know, because

it's this horrible policy that says if you come across with a child in your hand, you basically within 72 hours you're released into the United States to a notice to appear or we call a notice to disappear because they never show up.

And now they're in the country and they just got to recycle these kids and they're using them to as pawns basically, pairing them with

clients of the smugglers.

But eventually these kids and these women, they're being trafficked, they're being sold on the path to the United States.

And we're just saying, keep coming, keep coming in.

And we're just

creating, I mean, it's, it's.

So bad.

So bad.

Okay, so tell me this story, and you have to lay the parameters out because there's things we can't talk about,

including the countries of destination and origin.

Right.

Which is unfortunate because the country of origin kind of adds an extra layer of

trouble.

Yeah.

But go ahead.

Tell us about it.

So we it's it's a Latin American country and this is happening.

We have actually expanded our mission statement to include not only children, but also women.

Women are four times more likely to be trafficked.

And with all these COVID shutdowns and lockdowns, I mean, we're having women who are being trafficked from Thailand into Africa, from Latin American countries into the Caribbean.

So

this is kind of representative of a lot of places and a lot of things we're doing.

But this story,

10 women.

Professionals.

Yeah.

I mean, these are one was a law enforcement officer, believe it or not.

Wow.

Yeah.

But the more important fact, 15 children amongst all of them.

They're trying to take care of their kids.

Their country is in collapse.

And this woman shows up one day.

This is probably about a year to a year and a half ago,

and says, I can give you a job in a very high-end resort town island in the Caribbean.

And it was a professional job.

These were all

professional women.

And it was a professional job.

This person came into the country where nobody had a job

and said, look, I know you have to feed your family.

And we have a professional job.

And this woman looked professional, and she had the pictures.

And it's a resort town that everyone's familiar with come on down and it's it's just a few hour flight from your home and so these women gave their children to grandma and grandpa aunts and uncles in some cases husbands and took off for a three-month journey to go make some money to save their families and they get there and they came at different times they didn't all come together but they they land and their passports are taken to process some are given drinks but they all have one thing in common they wake up in another country where they don't speak the language

one of the most horrific, corrupt countries in the world,

and wake up literally naked and

raped immediately and told, this is your new life.

You will work here and you will be a sex slave in essence.

They had these women, Glenn,

because our guys were on the ground there and literally in a jail cell behind the brothel, literally bars that locked from the outside.

And our team got the lead.

lead we're actually looking for kids in this area and we got this lead that there's a bunch of these these women who don't speak the language they don't want to be there our guys went in pretending to be clients and the first time they went in now by the way these women are praying women um

just they were just praying every night god send us anyone someone because there's no way out what can they do no passport don't speak the language no way to communicate with anybody and this is their this they're stuck uh our guys go in and start talking about doing a party at this brothel nightclub kind of place with the owners and they're buying it like great you know one of the women looks up and sees our guys who look they look like sex tourists you know our guys are awesome undercover operators but they sent something it was a spiritual connection truly we talked to them later and they said we sent something about your guys they're different there's something different about them so they wrote a little note they got together and one of the women wrote in her left hand

so that it couldn't be traced back, just in case their spiritual punch was wrong.

Wrote in their left hand, ayuda nos por favor.

Help us, please.

And walked over to one of the operators, who's actually here at the studio today, and gave it to him.

And he opened it, looked at it.

He called me immediately and said, you won't believe this.

Like, we've been made, but I think by the right people.

They know who we are.

And later they just said there was just something about you guys.

And again, it was the spiritual.

Yeah.

So So we were able to get in.

Now, this country, as you know, Glenn, because we've talked a lot about it.

In fact, you've been there with us.

Very corrupt.

Yes.

Very corrupt.

Very corrupt.

And we know this.

And that's why people say, don't work in this country.

Right.

Because

the cops will turn on you.

Right.

Leave them.

We had no choice.

Right.

So we literally go into this place.

The cops are like ready to go.

Warrant signed.

It looks legitimate.

They get into the place to get the girls out and the cops start taking money from the traffickers right in front of our guys.

And we get the girls out immediately.

We have this plan ready to go in case this happened.

Our guys are literally at this point being chased by

cops and traffickers running with these 10 girls from safe house to safe house.

We had it all planned out and layered so we had another law enforcement agency who we didn't tell about the operation in the same country, knowing that we have them probably for about 10 to 12 hours before they figure out how to leverage the whole situation in their benefit.

but we got them, we got them, they were clean for the time we needed them to be clean, and they helped us get the passports.

But we're running around, it's the whole thing was filmed and it's being produced into a documentary that's going to come out hopefully by next year.

That is crazy.

Um, we have some uh, we have some footage.

I don't know if we've been playing it here.

Um,

this is the after uh the rescue footage, um,

where you guys, I think this is when you guys are,

you know, trying to uh

Yeah, you just saw Tony Robbins jet there.

So the story gets crazy.

We basically get help from the UN in a neighboring country that gives them temporary visas to get over, and they're literally hiding for seven weeks in another country.

But it's close enough to the trafficker country to where they can't come out.

So they're in hiding for seven weeks.

And what do we do?

We can't take them to a commercial airline or airport because we think there's traffickers everywhere looking for these girls.

This is a ton of money they're losing.

And they're not arrested because they just paid the cops off.

So this is extremely dangerous.

We generally don't work this way.

We generally...

Yeah.

When you get a lead, what do you do?

You're not going to get them out.

So I called Tony Robbins and I said, Tony, I got to get these girls out of this country.

And I can't take them through a...

through a public airport.

He says, no problem.

I didn't even bat and I.

I'm sending my 737 down right now to pick them up.

Just like that.

And then we had the problem of, well, where are they going to go?

They can't go back to their home country.

You know where that place is.

They can't go back there.

No.

The traffickers got them from there.

They know where their houses are.

Their homes are.

Luckily, we had super tight connections with the White House at the time.

Again, just like Tony, one phone call to the White House.

We need visas.

This never happens.

They're not going to give us visas.

There's no Nexus direct to the United States.

Instantly,

no problem.

You'll have them as soon as we can print them out.

Got visas for them and got them back to

the United States.

And the White House didn't publicize this, by the way, at all.

It was right in the middle of an election year, and based on the country it was, and I mean, it would have been a great political statement.

It would have been a massive,

massive story and massive story

that could have played on so many different angles.

And it's one of the reasons, again,

why

my thoughts of Donald Trump and his family have just changed so deeply.

He did not exploit it.

And quite honestly, he should have, but he didn't.

We didn't even ask them not to.

We were just hoping they wouldn't because we don't want this.

You know, we would have had to have a discussion about, no, you can't do it.

Right.

Didn't even ask.

Didn't even ask, but said we do request that they come and get an official welcome at the White House.

Unbelievable.

So Tony's plane takes them to D.C.

They they get they get taken to the White House and they're told, welcome to the United States.

And not a peep, not a camera in the place.

Unbelievable.

No one knew.

Unbelievable.

And the other stop, Tony requested, please come to my house.

I want their first day of freedom to be at my house, which is this beautiful mansion on the ocean.

And that was literally their first steps on American soil were, because they went from the tarmac to a bus.

Their first step was Tony's house.

Oh, my, just tears everywhere.

Tony and Sage just showering them with prayers and gifts.

Those people are amazing.

Unbelievable people.

Yeah, really, truly amazing.

Really,

you know, you can think what you want about Tony Robbins, but until you've met him, you,

I mean, it's easy to think that's just, that's just a, you know, he's just doing this.

He is one of the most gen his wife is

amazing.

Really genuine.

Unbelievably genuine.

Even better than you see them on stage.

I mean,

cameras on and off, the same people, no matter what.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly the same.

Mike and Alyssa are always trying to outdo each other.

When Alyssa got a small water bottle, Mike showed up with a four-litre jug.

When Mike started gardening, Alyssa started beekeeping.

Oh, come on.

They called a truce for their holiday and used Expedia Trip Planner to collaborate on all the details of their trip.

Once there, Mike still did more laps around the pool.

Whatever.

You were made to outdo your holidays.

We were made to help organize the competition.

Expedia, made to travel.