Let’s Be Optimistic | Guests: Bruce Feiler & Maximo Alvarez | 7/17/20

Charlie Sheen is an icon of decadence.

I lit the fuse and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

He's going the distance.

He was the highest paid TV star of all time.

When it started to change, it was quick.

He kept saying, No, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next week I'll be ready for the show.

Now, Charlie's sober.

He's gonna tell you the truth.

How do I present this with any class?

I think we're past that, Charlie.

We're past that, yeah.

Somebody call action.

Yeah, aka Charlie Sheen, only on Netflix, September 10th.

Well, hello, America, and welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

You know, for a very long time,

people have looked at this show and looked at me and said, he's nuts.

And

other people have said, yeah, maybe, but maybe not.

So if you're in that last category of, yes, he might be nuts, but maybe not.

What if he is right?

For those few people,

I've got something very exciting to talk about.

Yesterday, I spent a lot of time thinking about the one question that everybody wants to know.

What comes next?

Right?

How does this end?

Don't we all kind of want to know that?

What happens next?

I've got three options for you.

And

the third option, I don't think anybody's even thought of or talked about yet, or at least talked about openly.

And I think we're going to need to do that because I think it's a very exciting option that maybe we can get a few people on board and do.

And how does it end?

What happens next?

Oh, you're going to love this.

It's coming up next.

I'm going to share it with you.

And again, maybe I'm crazy, but what if I'm not

in 60 seconds?

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You excited, Stu?

Because I shared a little bit of this with Stu right before we went on the air.

Oh, and it's very exciting.

And right?

Uplifting, exciting.

I mean,

it's going to be a shot to your weekend, I'll tell you that.

Right.

I mean, it's something you only would express on a Friday.

It's a feel-good Friday.

Exactly.

All right.

So, yeah.

But you think there's a chance I'm right.

Correct?

Everything at this point is a chance.

I'm never willing to rule out anything ever again.

Stu, how many times have I said things that were absolutely crazy?

And then they happen.

It's occurred more times than I'd like to talk about.

Right.

Even more times than you and I both thought just about four months ago.

Yeah.

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No, no, no.

I need something.

I need something peppy.

Can you give me the full gospel choir?

I need something really peppy and exciting here, Sarah.

This is, I mean, did you not hear it in my voice, Sarah?

Yeah.

That it was a...

It's a Friday.

And we are nothing but sinners that need to come back to Jesus.

So yesterday, by the way, welcome to my good friend Pat Gray,

who has always been one of my trusted counselors, and as is Stubrigir.

His real name is Steve, but nobody calls him that because he didn't speak up.

You see what happens when you don't speak up?

Yeah, this happens to you.

Me, I happen.

Yeah, you turn into Stu.

All right.

So as I see this, there are three options

on

how this ends.

One,

because

I have wargamed this.

You guys know this.

I have wargamed this for almost 20 years now.

And, you know, I've said, we're going to miss the exits.

We're going to miss the exits.

And then there you are.

bridges out.

And it kind of feels that way.

But there is one more exit.

There is one more exit.

And here it is.

That we find

a group of Americans that are so Martin Luther King-ish

that they just, they're willing to stand peacefully through anything.

I mean, take a crowbar to the head and they're willing to, we can get them all together, and we can find a couple of leaders like Martin Luther King or a Gandhi, and we can all rally around these people and

put together a well-coordinated

and well-financed movement.

You know, because Martin Luther King was also very well financed,

and then

we can

stand against Black Lives Matter, which is this just ragtag band of

people

that currently have $1.6 billion at their disposal.

So we can do that, and we can march right into the gates of hell, and everybody, the press, will be there, and they will be witness to good versus evil.

And it will be on the screen side by side.

And people will go, I like those people more than those people.

And

that's the way to change things.

And that we all of a sudden stop being the people that Americans have seemed to turn into.

And we actually start taking our God and our covenant seriously.

And we kind of go back to

not being the whore of the earth.

I just got to speak up here and say that one sounds hard.

It sounds like a lot of.

Yeah.

Now it sounds hard.

I don't think that one's going to happen.

It would be good, though, wouldn't it?

That would be great.

Like, if we were the people of the 1960s, you know, where we still had churches and, you know, people were speaking up at the pulpit and, you know, we had the Constitution

in common and a love for our country in common.

That one could have happened.

That one would be nice.

And I still think we try that one.

I don't think it's going to happen.

But I still think we try that one.

Now, the other one is

we just kind of keep doing what we're doing,

and then

the Marxist and the deep state take over,

and

we lose the country, you know, probably in the next four years, and America as we know it is

over.

And then the singularity comes, and we're already slaves, but some people

get little chips, and so they become super, super powerful and super, super smart.

And there's no way to compete with them.

So, our children and our grandchildren are forever slaves to a really dark system.

Okay.

Now, I think that's a possibility, too, right?

That's a bad one.

You know, we become worse than the Nazis because of our technology,

and

we just

end all freedom on the end, and America just becomes this dark, dark place, and all man's freedom is lost, and possibly forever.

That's it, though.

There's nothing worse than that that could happen.

No, I think that's...

I mean, you give me some time, but

I think that's the dark end of the scenarios.

Don't you think?

So, yeah, so I have the title of the first one as big group of MLKs randomly emerge.

And then the second one, Slaves to Nazi.

Well, we have to find them.

Right.

Well, yeah, sure.

And then Slaves to a Nazi Nazi system but darker as the second possibility.

Right.

Okay.

All right.

Right.

Now, let me ask you.

Let me ask you, which one do you think has a better chance out of those scenarios

of happening?

Well, I thought there was a third scenario.

So let's.

Well, there is.

But I'm just saying, out of those two scenarios,

which ones you think?

Number two.

Number two.

No doubt in my mind.

Right.

Right.

It's just no doubt in my mind.

I mean, it would be really nice, but this thing is so well coordinated and so freaking evil

and so well financed that there's no way out.

You know?

I hate to be a pessimist.

And I'm not.

I actually believe in the first one.

No, I actually want to do the first one, but I think we all, somewhere inside, we all go, yeah, that number two scenario.

That could happen.

You know, if I would have said this to you, if I would have said this to you six years ago,

I wouldn't have said it because it wouldn't have seemed possible, right?

Six years ago, I say, and we turn into a dark Nazi state.

I think we all go, that's not going to happen.

Today,

I think everybody within the sound of my voice, even if they say that's not going to happen, they're like, but

there's maybe a possibility.

Well, yeah, because a lot of it has already happened.

So

you could transform the rest of it by this afternoon.

Right.

It's only going to get faster from here, right?

Yes.

I think we're all clear.

Okay.

All right.

Now, I thought of this third scenario yesterday.

And I thought, wait a minute.

Hold it just a second.

This one, I think, has a better chance of working and happening.

So here, let me

pause the third scenario.

Here, this is going to be fun.

Yeah, no, this is, no, this is a good one.

This is a good one.

one, and I think there's a real chance this one happens.

At least, this is the one that we should hope for.

You know, we should be working towards, I think.

So, here's the scenario: we all start working on the Martin Luther King thing, but someplace inside of us, we all know that ain't going to happen.

But we actually try to do it.

And in the course of doing that, a small number of us really change.

You know, a small number, it's not going to be a lot of people because, you know,

Christians and all of that nonsense is going to be just

more and more laughed at

as the time goes on.

So it's not going to be.

Christians and all of that nonsense.

Did you care to clarify that one a little bit?

Yeah, it's all going to be.

Yeah, no, it's all going to be, you know, deemed hoo-eye soon by scientists and those in the know.

And so

it's not going to be popular, and it's not necessarily going to be fun, but we'll change and it'll be really good.

It'll be really good.

And then

the country is overthrown by the dark forces of Marxism and death and evil.

And we lose the country as we know it by, let's say, 2024.

And

then

there's like seven years of tribulation.

But then Jesus comes.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

All right.

So then Jesus comes and everything is great again.

And when you look at it that way, you're like, wait a minute.

Seven years and then just the next four

and then it was really crappy seven years.

I can do that.

That's not so bad.

You know what I mean?

Going to be really crappy.

And the dark Nazi stuff is going to happen to the United States.

But then Jesus comes.

Now, here's the beauty of this.

Because just a few of us are willing to look at this and go, huh,

that's a possibility.

Or even those who are like, I don't think that's going to happen, but

I'd rather hope for that than just the gulag with the Borg, you know, in an SS uniform.

Because here's the thing.

If we actually start to look at it that way,

Then even if Jesus doesn't come,

we're the happy ones in the concentration camp or the gulag.

I think that's a win.

So your optimistic scenario is essentially we have the nice room at the concentration camp.

Oh, no, we have the worst room in the concentration camp, but we're happy.

We're happy.

I shouldn't have overstated the positivity.

Because if we just endure it for seven years, we know that the second coming of Jesus will be here, and then everything's fine.

Yeah, but let's say that you're one of those who are like, but

now wait a minute.

Let's just say that you're one of those who are like, well, I'm not, I don't think I want to put all my eggs in the Jesus is coming back basket.

Okay, because they've been doing that for a long time.

That's good in this scenario because

if the second scenario is what really is going to happen,

again,

we've changed and we're happy in the gulag.

Okay.

All right.

So to summarize here, if I could, we have

scenario one, which is a big group of MLKs are discovered in an archaeological dig of some sort.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Freezers.

Maybe Walt Disney.

Maybe we defrost him.

Okay.

Maybe he's the guy.

I don't know.

Number two, we're slaves to a Nazi system, but darker, possibly run by animated skeletons.

I asked, I did that last part because it just seemed like it worked.

Well, animated would not be accurate, but audio animatronic, maybe, yes.

Well, I'm thinking they're meaning not animated as in drawn, but just alive and moving around.

They're not like...

Well, that's a little supernatural for me.

I'd rather stick to science.

Again, we're figuring this out together.

And then three is...

Robot skeletons.

Yeah, okay, robot skeletons.

And then three is Jesus shows up in like 15 years, but the Nazi stuff still happens anyway.

So your optimistic scenario is just the Nazi stuff happens anyway.

I mean, the first one's, I guess, the most optimistic, but you've pretty much ruled it out.

Jesus comes.

But Jesus comes.

So we just have to be show some endurance, essentially.

Show some, buck up, man.

Pull yourself up by the bootstraps.

Just be good to each other.

Live, you know, hey, treat others like you want to be treated.

You know, that kind of stuff.

We could do that for seven years.

We could fake our way through that.

And then Jesus comes.

But if he doesn't come, because we faked it, we actually start to live that way.

And when he doesn't show up, sure, some of us are disappointed.

Others are like, no, but let's sing a song, you know, on the way to the gallows.

And we're like, yeah, that would be really cool.

And we're happy about it.

You know, I saw the same segment on Fox and Friends this morning where

they went through the three.

Is somebody onto this theory already?

Already.

Oh, man.

So you're a little late.

Brian Kilmead was all over this one this morning.

So was Cienna, really?

Yeah, same DNA.

Yeah, same thing.

Did they do skeletons, though?

Let me tell you something.

All of of it.

Let me tell you something.

I think they're all going to be.

We're just early on this.

I think they're all going to be talking about this soon.

I think they're all going to be.

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Now, I should throw in a caveat before everybody gets excited and goes, wait a minute, Jesus might be here by, you know, 2033?

Yeah, well, he might not.

And it's not that that scenario is not right.

It's just the dates may be a little off.

So we might have to be in the dark Nazi gulag thing for a little longer

than I would think because the dates could be wrong.

But I don't think by very far.

You're willing to, what, a couple weeks?

You want to give a window?

Is this the type of thing where you're like, it's kind of like a cable installation where they're like, we'll show up between 11 and 7?

Like you're trying to give

a big open way.

Yeah, I'm going to say between 2030 and 2050.

Okay.

That's the

Jesus.

Now we're not waiting for the air truck.

We'll be backing in.

Yeah, we're waiting for a lot longer, though, than the 15 years.

You've now extended our endurance levels that are needed for this equation to play.

Yeah, none of us will survive.

And I want you to know that

I don't think we actually are part of the...

We're not happy in the gulag.

We'll probably be taken first because we're speaking out you know what i mean so we're probably uh killed or tortured or tortured and killed um by the uh dark nazi overlords uh and their and their high technology machinery well um i will say it high long before jesus i for one welcome our new robot overlords uh so i don't know that's i don't know what you're saying so you're going with option two you're just like hey i'm gonna throw in yeah well i feel like if i kind of get out early on this one maybe i'll have like again like kind of the nice the nice seat in whatever camp I'm in.

And I think that's about as good as I could do in your world.

Because the first one, you didn't see

even if you throw in now, you don't think you avoid a camp.

Oh, no, no, oh, no, of course not.

Right, okay.

Of course not.

All right.

I mean, I was reading a little of white fragility yesterday, and I've realized there's no way for me to cure what I have.

I'm white.

So.

Oh, no.

They'll torture it out of you.

Okay.

And it'll fail, so they'll have to eventually kill you, but they'll torture it out of you.

But again, that's only for

Pat for 15 to 20 years.

Yeah, right.

You don't have to endure that.

Not a big deal.

Not a big deal.

Right, exactly right.

And it doesn't happen starting today, so it might only be like you know, 10 years.

This is

so much fun.

Yes, which option are you going with?

I'm going with three.

I think we get to three.

There we go.

Wow.

Yeah,

I'm going to go.

I'm going to work on one,

but I'm also kind of betting on three.

Yep.

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Pat seemed a little

too quick to jump on scenario number three,

which I think is

suspicious that he even took this seriously.

He didn't seem to really even seriously consider scenario two,

which was, you know, the well, I think if you

the Nazis, and except darker than the Nazis, and with robots, right, robot skeletons,

yeah, right, right.

But I think if you are picking number three, which is,

hey, we, you know, it takes us probably about four years

because time is going to speed up to get to the tribulation, then that's a seven-year period.

But then Jesus comes.

I think when you take that one, you just assume that the Nazi robots, that's going to happen.

You know what I mean?

Right.

See, here's my, I guess, my issue with your scenarios, is that

both scenarios.

So again, to review, in case you're just joining us, the first first scenario was a big.

This is groundbreaking.

Now, listen, we want you to know.

You know, a lot of people think I'm crazy, but I think there's a lot of people in this audience that go, yeah, but what if he's not?

Right?

Right.

Hopefully.

Right.

What if he's not?

Hopefully there's some.

Hopefully I am nuts.

Right.

But.

Okay, so scenario one is we magically discover a big group of MLKs

in an archaeological dig of some sort.

And they say we say.

We convince them,

hey, hey, pull yourself together.

I know you've been frozen for some unknown reason,

but pull yourself together.

Here's the scenario.

Get them.

And, you know, we all march behind these miraculous men that we have just found

somewhere.

So there's that.

And I think that's a possibility.

I do think those people exist.

But you got to have just that

daring spirit of like, I'm willing to die for this, but I'm not going to pick up a gun.

You know, so if you're going going to shoot me, shoot me, but you'll only strike me down.

You'll only make me stronger.

That kind of attitude.

And that's usually with the bad guys right now.

It used to be more popular with the good guys, but now bad guys seem to corner the market on that one.

So we find those guys, we follow them, and then everything is solved.

Right.

You have that.

That's number one.

Yeah.

Number two, we all become slaves to a Nazi system, but darker possibly run by

robot skeletons.

And I don't know.

We haven't.

That's your part.

I didn't go with a, you know, I'm just looking at something that Ray Kurzweil has cooked up in the basement of Google.

Yeah.

You know.

That would be robot skeletons, likely, but I mean, that's a whole nother thing.

Okay.

And then

number three, Jesus shows up in like 15 years, but the Nazi stuff still happens first.

And I guess my big question here is: it seems like scenario two and scenario three

are the same for 15 years,

which I I don't know that I would consider either one of those obviously.

Instead of all eternity, right?

Yeah, instead of all eternity.

Okay.

You know, once the singularity hits, it's over.

You're not getting out of that one.

Right.

Of course, obviously, there's no hope, you know, there.

Right.

So, right.

You don't have a wonderfully bright vision of the future at this point, I think, is the only thing that's going to be.

No, I have a really bright vision.

No, I have a very bright vision of the future.

I think great things are coming.

I really don't think that's great.

That's not what I took from your scenarios.

I'm going to have to be honest with you.

Well, that's you can take whatever you want.

I'm just saying great things are coming.

And I think we should prepare for it.

I think that this time with COVID and everything else, I think we could complain about it and we could bitch about it.

Or we could look at this as the time to reconnect with our families and God

and

turn ourselves around.

I think we could look at it that way.

I'm looking at it that way, and I'm starting to feel better about things

if I were to choose option number three.

Because by choosing option number three, you get all of them.

You know, you may not find the cryogenically frozen Martin Luther King guy,

but we can try

and we'd be better because of it.

And then, you know, option two happens, but then Jesus comes.

And even if you're in the gulag, you're happy.

You know, it's man's search for meaning.

You're happy.

I mean, you'd be happier not in the gulag, but you're still happy in the gulag.

I think we win either way that way.

Because I think this whole thing of, no,

we're going to elect

this time.

This time, we're going to elect people that mean what they say.

And I'll tell you what,

they're certainly not going to betray us or our values.

No, siree.

You know what I'm saying?

Right.

And now you've gone to, on television, a full blocking of your face with the monitor.

Is that an intentional?

Well, that is.

Yes, it is.

Okay.

Yes, it is.

You look like the guy from Tool Time where you're looking over the fence,

Wilson from Tool Time.

Yeah.

Well, maybe I am.

Maybe I am.

Maybe I'm hiding

my real

identity.

Now, I took my glasses off.

We learned if I have my glasses yesterday, I learned if I have my glasses off, it scans my face and it's like, I don't know who that is.

I can't turn the computer on.

Who are you?

Right.

And you're like, it's me.

And then I realized, Clark Kent, that thing was true.

Superman might exist because that disguise works.

So let me ask you this.

You have a scenario of you've planned out the

next couple of decades, obviously.

What does that mean for us right now?

What happens right now?

We've got an election 100 days away.

We've got all of this strife going on around the country.

We can't go out of our houses for

most reasons.

What does this mean for us right now?

Well, I think what this means is, you know, we feel like it's wailing and gnashing of teeth, but it's not.

No, this is actually a good period compared to what's coming.

So

you are depressing, man.

How?

No, no, no, no.

Listen, listen.

I'm telling you right now, I have a new lease on life.

I really do.

I have a new lease on life.

You're terrible at expressing it.

Yesterday.

No, no, no.

Well, sure, my kids run out of the room crying a lot, but I mean,

whose kids don't?

So yesterday, let me tell you a happy story.

We found the cutest mouse I've ever seen.

In fact, I have a picture of it.

I've got to tweet it out.

The cutest mouse ever.

And I thought, oh, it's a field mouse, but a really big one.

It was like almost the size of a cat.

It was really cute.

Drove the dog out of his mind.

But he actually climbed up a wall on the outside of the house and

sat there trying to get away from us.

And my wife was like, you can't kill it.

It's too cute.

And then, you know, my vegan daughter and the grandchildren, they're like, you can't kill it even if it's ugly because

it's an animal and we don't kill animals.

And I'm like, you're right.

And it is cute.

And so I found out doing a little research, I found out it was a pack rat.

I didn't even know those were real,

but

it's a pack rat.

And they're cute as a button.

They really are.

In doing my research, they're also

one of the stinkiest vermin out there, and they'll just destroy everything.

So

earlier this morning, I let my dog out, and

gosh darn it, if he didn't visit that little pack rat right there underneath the porch of the house.

And so I caught him and I was like, oh, come here, come here.

He's so cute and cuddly.

And so

I got into the rhino this morning and I drove down the street and I released him in a field where he is going to have such amazing pack rat adventures.

Because he's going to be out there away from people and everything.

And he's going to build his life out out in the middle of this field, way away from the house.

Can we visit the pack rat out in this field?

No, you know, it's like when Prince, my dog, a collie that I had when I was really young,

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This is your uplifting, happy story.

First of all, your home seems to be infested by rats.

Then your dog did something to this rat.

Rats, though.

And then you never saw your puppy.

No, the dog didn't do anything.

Well, no, but I mean,

I've lived happily knowing that Prince had a very, very happy life with some random farmer that I didn't know my folks even knew.

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unbeknownst to me, without even talking about it in advance, just took him to that farm.

And I could never see him, but I lived a happy, happy life knowing that he was happy roaming those fields without fear of cars and you know anything like that i mean chances are prince is still alive right running those fields exactly right now how happy do you feel that's a great story my childhood dog is still running that same field at that same farm right which is probably happening

uh now that is now closed uh but still theoretically uh if that farm still existed that farm is still there.

I'm sure my folks would have thought that through.

That farm still is there.

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Don't worry.

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it's all going to be out on a farm.

We can't visit it because we will miss it too much, and they will miss us.

That American picture that we all had in our mind.

And it'll miss us so much, and it'll be harder to part with.

So we're going to leave it on that farm and just be happy to know that it still exists somewhere

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So Bruce Feiler is a friend of mine.

We've known each other for, gosh, more than a decade.

He is the author of six consecutive New York Times bestsellers, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, The Secrets of Happy Families, The Council of Dads, which is where we met,

because

he was a guy who was dying of cancer, and

he really thought that he needed to put together a council of dads to help raise his children because he would be gone.

Well, he learned an awful lot, and that potential tragedy actually turned into something miraculous.

His two TED Talks have been viewed more than two million times.

He's the host of two primetime series on PBS.

He's got a new NBC drama series that is beginning.

He is living large and still

keeping things rooted in truth.

Bruce Feiler, welcome to the program.

How are you?

Thank you, my old friend.

Nice to be with you.

Yeah, good to be with you.

So,

your book is Life is in the Transitions.

And this is something I've talked about for a long time.

We all have pivot points, and it's when we choose to

reach up

and pick ourselves back up at usually the worst point in our life,

the world changes and for the better.

Well, I have to say, Glenn, you were in my mind a lot as I was working on this project because

not only have you had a lot of pivot points and transitions in your life, but you've also been incredibly open as a public figure in talking about them and sort of helping to model the idea that the old kind of fantasy linear life that we were told where you'd have low-level job, mid-level job, high-level job, right?

You would date, then you'd get married.

Like that that's gone.

And so, you know, you mentioned when we met, and you were exactly right, it was more than probably a dozen years ago

at this point.

I was working on America's Profit at that time.

And

I was having a kind of linear uphill life, and then I just got walloped by life, right?

I had the cancer.

I almost went bankrupt.

And as you know, my book, Life is in the Transitions that we're talking about now,

begins with my dad, who has Parkinson's, never depressed a minute in his life in Savannah, Georgia, tries to take his own life, actually multiple times in the course of a month.

And so I start this kind of storytelling project with my dad, where I send him a question every Monday morning about his life.

Tell me about the house you grew up with, the toys, the, you know, how'd you become an Eagle Scout?

How did you join the Navy?

How did you meet mom?

And this man who had never written anything longer than a memo backs into writing an autobiography.

And I got incredibly interested, like

how we have to rewrite and rethink our life story.

And when I started talking about this, everybody had a story.

And I thought, you know what?

There's not really a book out there that captures how we get through these life quakes, I call them, these massive changes that sort of descend upon us.

So I did what I do.

I went on this journey.

crisscrossed the country.

I got hundreds of life stories of Americans, all 50 states, like every state in this country, people who lost homes, lost limbs, changed careers.

I have military veterans who lost limbs in the Middle East.

I have

alcoholics who got sober, people who got out of bad marriage, incredible stories of recovery and redemption.

And I then spent a year with a team of 12 people looking through, trying to find a toolkit to help all of us as we have to manage these life quakes.

And then, oh my gosh, lo and behold, this book comes out at a moment when the entire planet is going through a life quake at the same time, which is why this book out this week has just sort of exploded out of the gates.

It's interesting, Bruce, because I've been saying, in fact, I just said it last hour.

We can look at what's happening to us right now and take it in a negative way and be angry and let it destroy us and say that it has destroyed us.

Or we can say, it's going to put my feet on a different path and I don't know what it is yet, but it's going to be good And search for the meaning

out of suffering and everything else.

And when we honestly do that with an optimistic spirit

and a trusting spirit,

it changes everything.

Everything.

Well, I love your idea that we're going into the weekend and we need a bit of positivity.

And so here's

what I discovered is that the life quake itself, like the massive change that comes over us, it can be positive.

Having children is often a life quake.

Starting a new venture is a life quake.

I have the story in my book about

a truck driver who became a male nurse.

Like people can make these changes and they are positive, constructive, or they can be negative, right?

You can have a diagnosis, you can lose your job, you can lose a loved one.

But the transition that comes out of the life quake, that must be voluntary.

Like you have to lean in to decide to go through the roadmap I'm going to lay out for you and take the steps to turn that situation, that negativity, into positivity.

That's a choice.

And in some ways, that's where we can start right now.

You have to choose to go through the transition.

What is it that you're struggling with?

Everybody lay awake last night or woke up this morning and was wondering, do I have a job?

If I have a job, is it the right job?

Do I need to quit my job to take care of my children or my grandchildren?

Am I doing something meaningful?

Do I have a medical problem?

We all have these.

Everybody listening to us.

The question is: do you want to make the choice to go into the transition and get yourself to a better place?

So this is also,

I mean, it's deeply personal, but it is the answer to almost all of the strife that we're feeling right now.

Not just in COVID, not just in the struggle, but also in the apparent non-forgiveness of sins of the past.

If you choose to take the things that have happened in your life

and choose to look at Nelson Mandela and choose and say, okay, those things happened.

Now what do I do?

Because I can't change everybody else.

What do I do?

It is so freeing and so empowering.

And it's the message that I think much of America is missing right now.

Well, this is why I think, you know, and I wrote it in the Wall Street Journal this week and in the New York Times today, and it's the reason this book is sitting in the top 20 of Amazon right now, is because learning to master life transitions turns out to be the most urgent life skill people have right now.

people need right now.

And we haven't really talked about transitions.

It's not really been in favor.

The last kind of big book on this was 50 years ago.

And I sort of been discovering that we have many, life comes at us much faster now.

I mean, the good news is we have freedom.

We can live where we want to live and believe what we want to believe, right?

And be in the relationship we want to belie be in and have the job we want to have.

But that's a greater burden on us to kind of make that choice.

And so what happens is when you go into the life transition, right, you feel one of two things.

Either like chaotic and out of control, like, I got to do this, I got to do that, or you feel stuck.

And you, but I know what you definitely feel, which is I'm the only one going through this.

But when you sit, as I did, two, three, four times across from people, you know, I have an Army sergeant who had his face blown off in the Taliban on the brink of suicide, who's turned to

poetry and painting and built himself

anew.

I have a CIA agent who lost his marriage.

I have a two-time cancer survivor who climbed Mount Everest.

I have incredible stories of people with addiction who overcame one.

One I'm going to tell you in a minute.

But when you get into this, it turns out there's kind of a structure.

Like they involve different phases.

There's saying goodbye.

what I call the long goodbye.

You say goodbye to the old you.

Then there's this messy middle, think of the scriptural stories where you have to kind of go into the wilderness where you shed certain habits and create new ones.

And then then you finally build this new you, and then you have to kind of unveil that to the world.

So there are actually steps you can take.

And as you know, the second half of Life is in the Transitions has this toolkit for things that you can do.

And as my wife, I'm chuckling when you risk your question because my wife was like,

don't tell me what you think, Bruce.

Bring me what other people are doing.

And that's what this book is.

You're going to find people just like you who've been through this.

And you're going to find things that they did that will help you almost exactly where you are right now.

One of the most amazing things in my journey is,

and the most clear

example of it was, or maybe it was just the first example of it, was I was just asking the bigger questions of life, and

I read, I began to read Plato

for my own search, not because somebody assigned it to me.

And I realized,

they've been asking these questions from the beginning of time.

And you're not alone.

These problems and

crosses and solutions have been experienced since the beginning of mankind.

And when we can get out of ourselves and look to others currently and to others who have accomplished something in the past, life just becomes so much easier and so much more pleasant because you start to notice the people around you who are kind of in the same place.

And you start talking, you're like, right?

I thought it was just me, right?

And it's really healthy.

All right, we're going to continue with Bruce Feiler here in just a second.

The name of the book is Life is in the Transitions.

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Transitions Mastering Change at Any Age.

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All right, so where do we start on this, Bruce?

Well, I think the first thing that you do, so there are seven tools

that I lay out here in Life is in the Transition.

So the first, I would say, is to ask the question, like, what is the biggest emotion that you're struggling with?

Okay, I asked everybody, what's the hardest thing that you managed to do when you were going through a life transition?

And the number one answer was fear.

They were afraid of what was going to happen.

Can I pay the bills?

Where am I going to go?

How am I going to do with

saying goodbye to what I left behind?

Number one was fear.

Number two was sadness.

You had to mourn somehow.

And the third was shame.

I'm ashamed to have a child who has an addiction, right?

I'm ashamed to have lost my job.

I'm ashamed for whatever reason.

And so I asked people how they overcame these emotions.

And,

you know, the people said that they, some people wrote down their feelings, some people just put their head down, buckled down, and went to work.

But 80%, 80% said that they use rituals of some kind.

You know, one thing that you and I share is an interest in religion.

And this was very, very interesting.

They hold memorial services, right?

They sing or some way.

They like wave a flag.

I talked to a woman who had a brutal year where she became a

bone marrow transplant giver to her brother.

She had a big blowup with her mother.

She was trying to date and she went on 52 first dates and she jumped out of an airplane because she said, you know, if I can overcome that fear, a year later she was married with child.

I mean I talked to addicts who were in, literally had to accept that they were in a difficult place.

So I think the first step,

accept the kind of facticity of your situation and use something to kind of use some ritual to say goodbye because that's a kind of an outward expression to yourself and to your loved ones that, you know what, I'm not going back to the past.

I'm ready for whatever's going to come next.

That's kind of the first step in AA, and it's the hardest because you have to admit that you're powerless, that

everything that you try

is not really in your hands, and you're failing on trying to change and find your path.

And so surrendering to it

is really hard, especially when the fear is is that there's something inside of you.

You know,

when you've made mistakes or whatever.

And,

you know, even in COVID, I should have thought of this, I should have thought of that.

And you can get blocked into

I'm either too stupid or I, you know, I've lived this way too long.

Or

in my case, it was a fear of the unknown of, of maybe there isn't anything better inside of me.

Maybe there isn't anything better than this.

I have this incredible story.

I teased it right before the break.

I'm going to tell it now.

It was a woman who was, in fact, an alcoholic.

Her name is Christy Wanzilak.

And while

she was estranged from her mother, the mother shut the door in the face and said, I love you, but I'm not going to meet you again until you're sober.

She was homeless.

She didn't have anything.

And then she really

basically almost got hit by a bus.

And she said, I have to change my life.

And she was incredibly ashamed by her conduct before because she had robbed 22 homes to try to scrounge together enough money to live.

And what she did, she knocked on every single door,

opened the door.

You don't know me, but I stole from you and I just want to apologize.

Some slammed the door in her face.

And one woman said, look, you're not better off in jail, but you took something from me that I can't get back, which is my grandfather's wedding ring.

Write me a $25 check for a year.

Never call me again.

And she didn't have the money.

She had to reconcile with her mother.

The mother wrote the check.

Years later, she opened an addiction treatment center.

She was invited on Oprah.

She wanted to go, and they said, Will you call that woman?

And she said, No, I promised that woman I would never call her again.

You cannot have me on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

I'm not going to go back on my word.

That's a ritualistic gesture to say, I had to confront my fear in order to open up for what's to come next.

Wow.

Wow.

So

you confront your fear

and you

find some ritual that helps you

move through.

Is it

because you come from a religious background?

You know, I love,

oh, gosh, what's his name?

American Prophet.

They were always so generous.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no.

There was a.

Anyway,

I can't think of his name now, and everybody in the audience knows him.

But

he's a professor up in Canada.

Stu, help me out.

Went on tour with Dave Rubin.

Jordan Peterson.

It's Jordan Peterson.

And Jordan Peterson, you never know if he actually believes Christianity or not, but he says the ritual of

burying the sin and coming back up and releasing that and having a ritual of redemption, whether it's real or not, it becomes real

for those who actually believe it.

Is there something to that, Bruce, that you found?

What we need is expressions to ourselves and to others that we're not going back.

You know, I think that we've been so enamored of the idea of resilience, and that's a very powerful idea.

But resilience actually comes from a spring.

It means you go back.

Some people go back, but usually you go sideways or forwards or a different direction entirely.

And the idea here is to get out of the kind of linear construct that everything has to move in straight lines because life doesn't happen in straight lines.

We are in a situation now.

We're not going back to before COVID.

This life quake is going to last an extremely long time, and therefore we have to accept we're going to go to a new place.

That is scary, but

as we continue this conversation about where you go, there are things you can do to get yourself there more effectively and more efficiently.

Okay,

we're going to continue with Bruce here in just a second.

He'll go through those.

He is the author of six consecutive New York Times bestsellers, Walking the Bible, Abraham, The Secrets of Happy Families, The Council of Dads, and one of my favorites of his, and he's referenced it a couple of times, America's Prophet.

It's an amazing, amazing book that ties Moses and Abraham Lincoln and Washington, ties all of them together.

and

takes you on an incredible journey that gives you a deeper, richer understanding of what we've gone through.

His new book that we're talking about now is Life is in the Transitions, Mastering Change at Any Age.

We're all going through change more with him in just a second.

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We're Bruce Feiler.

He's the author of Life is in the Transitions.

He is a dear friend of mine, a guy who has had many

transitions in his life.

And this is not some sort of kind of self-help book to where, you know, it's for the desperate and needy, although I think it would help with the desperate and needy, as I have been many times in my life, but also for those who are just looking at any kind of transition in their life.

So, Bruce, we went through

the first three things that people fear or that happen to people is they go through fear.

What were the other two emotions that you found 80% of the people struggled with?

Yeah, so fear,

fear, sadness, and shame were the emotions, and people turned to rituals.

And at that point, you're really in the messy middle at this point, right?

So I think two things happen in this phase, right?

Where number one is you shed, people shed habits, right?

They shed things about themselves that they like, right?

They, you know, you may,

I talked to a DEA agent who had been a retired, who was a distinguished American

of drug enforcement agent, and for 25 years he was used to carrying a gun.

He said, wait a minute, I have to not get used to not carrying a gun because now I have to persuade people.

I used to be able to compel people.

So people shed habits.

I talked to a woman who went through cancer, left her job, her marriage broke down, and she went, finally decided she was going to lose the 60 pounds she'd been trying to lose for a long time.

She said she had to shed

her habit of every time she walked in the house, she would go and open the fridge.

I talked to an opera singer who was incredibly successful, married to Miss America.

who was incredibly successful but held a secret, which was he was a stone-cold drunk and he left that, felt called to ministry.

His wife left them, wife left him, and now he works with inner city youth.

So incredible stories.

You shed habits and that opens up to what you were talking about earlier, where people turn to astonishing creativity.

They kind of make themselves anew.

You were talking about reading for you.

You were going to go on a reading journey, right?

Some people in this phase turn to religion.

I talked to a biology professor in Alabama who had always wanted to be a ballerina.

She had stomach cancer.

Her marriage broke down.

And she said, you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to finally take, in her case, adult ballet classes.

I talked to an incredible man named Chris Waddell.

He was a mediocre skier in college, lost the use of his legs.

at 20, had a skiing accident, became the number one most decorated Paralympian in history in both winter sports, a mono ski, like a like a motorcycle, and then also in summer sports, he said stepping down, retiring at 35 from his Paralympic career, was harder than losing his legs at 20.

So he needed a new dream, and his new dream was to climb Kilimanjaro.

And he climbed Kilimanjaro.

They made a documentary about this.

A whole team was helping him.

He got 100 feet from the top, and the boulders were too big.

And they carried him to the end.

There was a big celebration.

He felt awful and guilty, like he was cheating.

And it wasn't until he got home and they were making the documentary, he realized that was the lesson all along, that I couldn't do it alone.

I had to have a team around me.

I didn't want to be just the hero that had overcome adversity.

I realized we all need to go through this with a team.

So, this is

the second big part of this, which is kind of creating your new self.

And that's it's at least for me, it's hard because

just the word transition, it is a trans, it's neither the past nor the future.

And you're, you're, you're betting on the future.

You're betting on that things are going to change.

And I'll never forget, I remember thinking, you know, the time when I was like, get up, get up, and just do it.

And I'd like to say that the next day the sun was shining and the birds were talking to me like in Mary Poppins, but it didn't happen that way.

It was still a schlog,

but you just had to,

you just had to trust your new path.

And if you look at the great scriptural stories, right?

Abraham leaving his home, going down to the promised land, the Israelites leaving Egypt and going into the desert.

In Jerusalem, they go off by the rivers of Babylon.

Jesus going off into

the desert.

All the traditions have it.

You can't find your new self until you let go of your old self.

And this is why that wisdom has lasted this many years.

But the thing I really kind of want to say here that's important is that once you did that, you of all people, Glenn, you did find your way to a better place.

And that can happen to everybody listening to us.

You think you're alone.

And because here's kind of the big message of this, right?

Which is that transitions work.

Like if you feel stuck, the transition is actually the mechanism to get unstuck.

That's how we do it.

And we spend half our lives in this transition.

You know, we have three to five of these life breaks in a lifetime, and sometimes they take three, four, five years.

That's half our adult lives.

We can't view these periods as awful periods we have to grit and grind our way through.

That's why my book is called Life is in the Transitions, because we are all in transition.

You or someone you know, someone in your household is in the life transition right now.

It turns out that the big audience for this book is people in transition.

The bigger audience is people who are the co-pilot, trying to help a loved one who's in transition.

But they work.

That's what I have learned.

I sat across from people, hundreds of them.

I had a thousand hours of interviews, Glenn, six thousand pages of transcripts.

And what I learned is that we can get through this.

So if you come on this journey with me and you meet these people, you're going to find something to do tonight, you know, something this weekend, next week, you're going to find a roadmap.

And you may, it's going to be tough, but you're not going to get lost because you're going to meet lots of other people who've gone through what you're going through right now.

In your journey, I think this is one of the biggest, I mean, except except for, you know, like the

Israelites,

you know, going out into the desert and just not knowing, or one of maybe one of the big world wars, but you'd have to be in places like Germany.

This is one of the bigger moments in man's history where the entire world

is looking at things, knowing that everything is going to change.

We don't know what that even means yet.

And we're wondering, what do we do?

And I think in 9-11, when that happened, we all knew that was a big transition, but we were told go shopping.

And the military would take the rest.

And that was a mistake because we didn't actually go through the pain

of what really needed to be done.

We just had a band-aid.

And we can't put a band-aid on this.

We actually have to face this one.

You're dead right, Glenn, as as always.

This is the first time in a century that the entire planet has gone through a life quake and the life transition to come at the same time.

But here's the fascinating thing about it.

We are all going through this together, the life quake part of it, like the shock of it, but each of us has to go through a different life transition.

So that the transition that you need is different than the one that I need, is different than the one that my teenage daughters need or my neighbor might need.

So

the life quake is collective, but the life transition is going to be individual.

So, that's why I sort of, that's why when we began this conversation, you said, what's the first step?

The first step is to choose to make the transition, to look inside yourself and say, what is it that I am most worried about, and what can I do to fix it?

So, that's where we are now.

We are in the moment now,

six months into this, where we have to realize, what do I want to do?

How do I want to get better?

How do you, do you have any stories in there on people how they got past blame?

Because I think a lot of people, it's natural.

I mean, I did it in my life for a long time, and it was corrosive.

I blamed someone else.

And even if that's true, to some degree, it doesn't, you can't transition out of that.

You have to let that go and realize I can only do what I can do.

I talked to a woman named Michelle.

Go ahead.

No, sorry, I don't mean to interrupt you, but you asked me a story and one just popped into my mind.

I talked to this woman, Michelle Swain.

She grew up in a broken family.

Her parents were divorced.

Her mother had no interest in her being a mom.

She was left at school for hours when everybody else was picked up.

She married her childhood sweetheart.

She was so, she was just vulnerable.

She jogged and jogged.

She became an anorexic.

She just drove her body with kind of shame and guilt and blame into nothing.

And then, and she tried to get pregnant for many years.

She couldn't.

She slips one day on the ice.

She falls back.

She's lying lying in the hospital.

And she has a vision from God who said, I did this to you so that you change.

The next day, her husband comes in.

I got a vision from God that he did this to you so that we change.

They went on to adopt 11 children from refugee countries around the world.

I asked her the shape of her life.

And she said it was a dented minivan because she went from being me, me, me oriented and angry and blaming to, I'm going to give back.

And her life is now defined by helping these children and being a mom.

Because that's the other thing that happens, Glenn, you mentioned meaning earlier.

When we go through these life transitions, we rethink and readjust what's most important to us.

Are we working too hard to spend more time with our family?

Are we tired of our family because we have our kids at home?

You know, and we want to give back.

Are we burned out from giving back and we want to do something for ourselves?

You know, these moments are meaning vacuums.

And kind of what I've tried to do in life is in the transitions is give people the tools to think, okay, well, what is most meaningful to me?

And let's just make sure we're doing it because

we're all being reminded that life is precious right now.

I have to think, as I've, I've, I've, this has popped up in my head a couple of times during the interview.

You and I both share another friend

who wrote a book called

Survivor's Club.

And

those two books, your book and this book,

would a really important

duo for anybody who is looking

at their life and saying, okay, what next?

And I'm transitioning and you don't know what's happening next.

Bruce has written the book, Life is in the Transitions.

Life is in the Transitions, Mastering Change at Any Age.

It's available at Amazon or wherever you buy the book.

I can't recommend it highly enough.

Bruce is a guy that

has found his place in life and has done so much good for himself, his family, and so many others have benefited from the changes and the things that he has found in his own life and shared.

Bruce, thank you so much for being on with us.

Good to talk to you again.

Thank you, all friends.

Be well, everybody.

We'll get through this together.

Bruce Feiler, life is in the transitions.

And Stu knows that because he's been transitioning for a while now.

Yep,

got a date on the surgery.

We'll talk about it later.

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So, Stuart's the weekend.

Any big plans to be out in any big groups?

We're going to be hanging out at

festivals or

yeah, I do have a big neighborhood sneeze party I'm going to be

attending.

That's where everyone kind of just gets together and sneezes.

And, you know, no masks, tight indoors, no ventilation.

It's the best way to do it.

That's good.

That's really good.

I'm actually going out to a kind of like a street fair here.

I mean, I live in a town of 500 people.

And so social distancing is not that hard,

believe it or not.

But

we have this little festival that they do.

And this weekend, it's an old West shootout.

And I was very disappointed to find out that I can't bring my gun.

That these are all actors or

people with experience.

I'm like, whoa, how come?

It looks like that guy's robbing the bank.

I got my gun.

Wait, there's a thing, you can't bring the gun, or you just can't shoot random people in the street.

I can't shoot random people in the street.

They're like, hey, Glenn, we should probably let you know the guy's really not robbing the bank and they're not using real bullets.

And so it kind of took the

polish off it a little bit.

I was like, I was really excited.

I was like, oh, wow, it's a shootout.

Let's go.

I mean, these things are not common.

You're going to a very rare type of situation.

NASCAR did have an event yesterday, though.

I think it was last night or the night before, where 20,000 people were in the stands in a 160,000-seat venue.

But

there were people there.

That was positive to see.

Although, like, a city like Philadelphia has canceled all city events through March 2021.

That's good.

That's good.

The city is better off for no city event in the city of Philadelphia.

You're much better off.

Speaking of NASCAR, you see that Danica Patrick,

she got a divorce, and I have to apologize to her husband.

But, you know,

it's well known that Danica is just infatuated with me.

I don't.

And I don't think that's true.

I don't even think she was married, was she?

Was she

together with someone?

They broke broke up, however, and you think you were the cause?

Well,

yeah, and

it's sad, but Danica, I just have to tell you, try to work it out with him because it's not happening with us.

I'm happily married, and it's just not happening with us.

I know you look for hotties,

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that's, I mean, that is practically my middle name at this point, Hottie.

Why are you making that face, dude?

I don't.

Well, I'm physically physically revolt.

I'm having a revulsion.

Repulsed by thinking Danica.

Yeah, I know.

She's not that hot.

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You're hearing Venezuela and Cuba being praised.

They've moved on from that Swedish thing.

Yeah, sure, just like we told you they would.

These are Marxists, so what does this mean?

Well,

I know, I know.

You can't trust any white people.

So I got somebody of color to talk to us.

And that's not demeaning at all to say that we're just looking at people for what color they are.

No, no, no.

We don't judge people by the content of their character anymore.

Although this guy's character, I guess, did play a role at 13 years old.

He was in Cuba

and he saw the transition of

Fidel Castro.

He says crazily, it's not what all of these people on the streets say it was.

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Maximo Alvarez, president of the Sunshine Gasoline Distributors.

He's a Cuban immigrant,

and he has been speaking out, and I thought you needed to hear his voice.

He's a Cuban immigrant that is warning now that the American dream is under threat.

He came here to America when he was 13, and he saw the revolution in Cuba.

Maximo, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Glenn, and it's an honor.

I've always admired.

your way of thinking and I admire you for being one of the few people in the press who really tell our country what is going on

objectively as possible

because everybody's afraid to tell the truth, I guess.

In the name of being politically correct, everybody's become literally a hypocrite.

Yeah.

Maximo,

I'm so glad to have you on

because I've

one of the things I've always had a big fan base of immigrants, especially the immigrants that come from

communist countries, in the Eastern Bloc or Cuba.

And I think they have the most important voice, and it's not being highlighted.

And I got to believe that even though you were young, you remember enough of what was happening over in Cuba that it must

be a little terrifying for people who came here and have seen communism and Marxism and how it overthrows countries, it must be

a frightening deja vu.

Glenn, it really goes further than that.

I happen

to have learned from mom and dad who had to migrate from Spain to Cuba at the turn of the century, running away from communism.

So I knew firsthand

how difficult and how painful

it was for families who were being destroyed for no reason.

Families who had nothing to do with politics, families who had nothing to do with government.

It was just hard-working families.

So

I grew up in that environment, and then sure enough,

by the time I'm 11 years old,

the same thing happens in Cuba.

And I remember my dad

trying to convince my mom

while listening to Castro's words while he was up in the mountains.

He used to broadcast

the radio at night and

shortwave radio.

And I remember my dad, and I mentioned this when the President was here.

My dad used to tell my mother how he thought that that SOB

was a communist.

And my mother used to even argue with him and said, how can you say that?

You know, he was raised by the Jesuits.

He's a Roman Catholic, his entire family.

As a matter of fact, the very Catholic Church helped save his life.

The very Catholic Church pretty much helped finance his revolution.

And then

I happened to be part of the Catholic Church.

My education was all Catholic.

And then all of a sudden, my school was taking over.

And all of a sudden, the Marius brothers were hiding because they were being persecuted.

So they had to go and hide in embassies or leave the country because their life was threatened.

These are the very people that helped the Castro regime take over.

And you know what is really sad?

The media,

Fidel Castro, never took over Batista's regime.

Batista left.

Batista left December 31st, 1958, at midnight after he celebrated New Year's Eve.

And he left because he lost control of the country.

And guess what?

Guess who actually was one of the biggest factors

that Batista leaves?

The media.

They were destroying Batista.

And then

a few months later, what happened to the media?

What happened to El Diario de la Marina, El Diario del Mundo?

This is the equivalent of the New York Times and the Washington Post.

What happened to Seiemeku?

That's the equivalent of CNN.

There's no free press.

And what is amazing is these people in the press do not understand that they will be the first ones out of here.

But when they find out what they did, it's too late.

Way too late.

So

I had the chance to speak in the panel when President Trump was here.

And you just told me, he told you a story.

And I'm humbled to tell you, it's amazing how my leader's story has impacted so many people.

Because I'm telling you, Glenn, my story is just one of many, many, many, many millions of people running away from communism, looking for the land of the free.

And it's amazing.

It's amazing that we don't appreciate that.

And I remember, and I said it in my speech, and I'll tell you, and

this is something

that will resonate with me until I die.

How my father came from Spain to Cuba at the age of 18, never to go back,

work his ass off.

And when he's about to enjoy the fruit of his labor, he saw my brother graduate.

He had to send him because he was in that age that he was going to be indoctrinated.

And soon after that, he had to send me out

because they had taken over the schools.

And I remember when he finally gets over here, he tells us: this is a man of a sixth-grade education.

This is not a philosopher.

He didn't go to Harvard.

He didn't go to Yale.

But a very wise man who used to tell us how lucky he was because he was able.

to go from Spain to Cuba and to Cuba to America.

And he said, Don't lose this place because you're not going to be as lucky.

So, this is what I'm trying to warn.

And I'm amazed that that little story, which is only one of many millions of stories,

has been so positive, has gone viral.

And I'm humbled to know that

I'm pretty sure it has helped quite a few people understand what the reality is.

So, Maximo, first of all, thank you for sharing that, especially about your dad.

That's got to be a painful memory.

You said that your mom looked at Castro and said, How dare you say he's a communist?

So it it's the same is it the same thing every time where people are just duped and they believe that this time it is different

and these aren't the monsters that rule at night?

Glenn, this is the same old story.

It doesn't change.

We need to explain to people

that the communist philosophy is based on the fact that the ends justify the means.

The ends justify the means.

On our side,

we have the Judeo-Christian values.

We cannot steal, we cannot lie, we cannot kill.

We got to honor mom and dad, we got to honor God, we We gotta respect people.

And on top of that,

we have to forgive our enemy.

Now, on the other side, they will do whatever is necessary to accomplish their objective.

If they have to tell you they're Catholics or they have to tell you they belong to a certain religion, they will.

If they have to kill you, they will.

They have.

Just look at history.

Look exactly what happened in Cuba.

No one have ever imagined that Fidel Castro was a communist.

No one.

If you look at the, just go on the library, any of the books, any of the history books, where they have his pictures coming down from the mountains.

Every rebel, everyone had a rosary hanging from their necks.

And he always claimed that he was, as I said, Católico Apostolico Romaro that's Roman Catholic.

He was educated by the Jesuits.

And it was not until two years after he had taken over power that he declares that he's a Marxist.

And if you look at, and if you have read the book by Saul Alinsky,

if you see what is happening, that's exactly what is happening in every of this country.

That's what happening in our backyard today.

That's what happened in Cuba.

That's what happened in Venezuela.

That's what happened in Nicaragua.

Make sure that everybody's

what is

go ahead.

What is everybody what is what are the Cuban refugees?

What are the Cuban families feeling and and how can they help?

Is there any movement in those families to come together and to form a block and speak out?

Because I think they could be a real powerful force.

here here's the problem uh glenn and i'm i don't know

i'm not an expert in the matter okay because i don't have the numbers or the statistics but if you look at the wave of cubans who come override after cascu take over

uh

we came here

with the shirt we wore on our back

As a matter of fact, I'm an original member of the Peter Pan group.

Those are the kids who came without parents, over 14,000 of us.

If you look at and I know this for a fact, as a group of 14,000, we have done very, very well.

But what happened is after that,

you go through the years,

Fidel Castro has more people infiltrated in our community than you can even imagine.

Fidel Castro has a very, very big, sophisticated intelligence machine.

Those people killing young people in Venezuela are not Venezuelan students.

They're Cubans.

Those people killing Nicaraguans where their students were demonstrated, they were not Nicaraguans.

They were Cubans.

Because Fidel Castro exported terrorism the minute that he took over Cuba.

I remember the word terrorism wasn't used.

It used to be guerra de guerrillas.

That was guerrilla warfare.

Which one person can create enough fear that will destroy the economy.

That means, for example, example, you cannot go to a theater, you cannot go to a restaurant, because all of a sudden a bomb will explode.

And it gets so far out of hand that people are afraid to go out.

The government says you're not protected after six o'clock in the evening, so better stay home.

And what happens to our economy?

Capitalism and fear

are not synonyms.

You cannot be a capitalistic economy with fear.

With fear.

And this is what is, that's why it's called terrorism.

Look what is happening today.

And our own governors, mayors,

this is amazing.

I see the guy in New York painting the street.

And all they do is use people

to create dissension, to create hatred.

And that's what they do.

They're at the end of the day.

And that mayor-class warfare.

Right.

And

that mayor happens to be a guy who loves Castro's Cuba.

I've got to run, but I want to ask you one more qu question.

Do you worry about a boycott from the left like they did to the Goya Foods CEO for his support of Trump?

Glenn,

let me tell you,

being here now since 1961, I have done a lot better than I expected to do.

If I die or I lose everything for this country, I will be here probably.

So no, I have no fear.

And I'm telling you, what they have done to Goya is the best thing because I'm telling you Goya is now going to double the business because they have provided them with great free publicity.

Because Goya Foods is a very great product.

The owners of that company have been very, very generous for many, many years.

And people who know that will

help them and endorse him much more than ever before.

So, no.

Maximo Alvarez.

Don't ever give up yourself.

Thank you so much.

I'm sorry to cut this off, but I've got a network break.

But Maximo, thank you.

He's the president of Sunshine Gasoline Distributors.

His website is sunshinegasoline.com.

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Stu,

you want to talk about stranger things.

I don't know what happened.

On Friday, I'm sorry, on Wednesday of this week, we did a show about how the family is under attack.

And all of a sudden, the numbers on Facebook,

Google, and

YouTube, they just fell through the floor.

And we're like, wait a minute, that's strange.

What could be happening?

Because we noticed that the stream going to Blaze TV, the show gets bigger and bigger every week.

And this last week was no exception, but only about 1,400 people saw anything on YouTube this week, which was strange.

Yeah, it does seem to

underperform your other videos a little bit for some reason.

Yeah,

yeah.

And so we called because we thought it's got to be aliens, all right?

It's got to be something supernatural.

Turns out not so much.

YouTube, Facebook banning us because, well, of the sources and some of the things we said.

I'll talk about it next.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

I urge you to watch my Wednesday night specials, and if you've missed some, go back about four weeks and pick it up.

We are on it.

We are on it and showing you what's really going on.

This last week on Wednesday, we did a special on the destruction of the family.

There is nothing more evil than saying you want to destroy the family, but that is what's happening not only from Black Lives Matter, but happening from several organizations, and we pointed them out.

This is a well-orchestrated and very well-financed operation.

Black Lives Matter, by the way, is not just some little scrappy little group of people, it's an incorporated business now, and it has $1.6 billion

in its coffers.

Why anyone else would give a dime to these people is beyond me.

Imagine what can be done

for good or for ill with $1.6 billion.

And I know what you mean by these people,

Marxists.

Yes, exactly right.

Yeah,

sorrow sacolytes.

Yes.

Okay.

Imagine just what you could do with $1.6 billion

with either good intent or bad intent.

You could change a lot of things with $1.6 billion.

A lot.

You know, I'm looking at

the coverage that you've put out the past few weeks, and this shows have been really big.

I mean,

hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.

And I know that's only one of the places where it gets shown.

It gets, you know, Facebook and on the platform on Blaze TV, blazetv.com slash Glenn, the promo code Save the Family, if you want to check it out.

But we know the numbers are really big there.

We know the numbers have been really big all of these weeks, you know, hundreds of thousands of views.

I mean, even if you take one of the lower ones, you're talking about 50,000 views on YouTube.

And then yesterday's show, just 10,000.

The day before yesterday.

Sorry, yes, Wednesday.

No, it was actually two days ago.

And yesterday it was at 1,600.

And so when I got that number, I said, hey, how did the show perform?

Expecting it to be really big because it's a very powerful message.

And

they said, yes, 1,600 people.

And I said, excuse me?

What about Facebook?

And they said, about the same.

Excuse me?

We have almost, what, 3 million or over 3 million subscribers on Facebook and 1,600 people on Facebook or 2,000 people watched it?

What?

And we found out what the problem was.

Believe it or not,

we were shut down almost immediately and squashed because their fact checkers had a problem with some of the facts.

And the facts that they had a problem with

were related to

the stats on the black family.

Now I say related to because it wasn't an argument with the stats we used.

But apparently, we got those stats out of

a study that was done

that had, at the end of the study, one of the facts they had was wrong.

And so we said,

oh, okay, well, which fact did we have wrong?

And they said, oh, no, none of the facts you used, just that this came from this study, and one of the facts in the study was wrong.

But were any of our facts wrong?

No, but you quoted that study, and we just, it was a violation of our policies, so we just needed to

just needed to squash that down to protect people.

That's true.

That is true.

So you mean it's not, they're not even saying the thing you said on the air was wrong, which, again, I don't, I don't know if you've ever watched YouTube.

There's like three correct statements per month made on YouTube.

That's not exactly a center for

exact language.

But they're saying not that you said something wrong, but that you quoted something from a study that had something else wrong in it.

So the thing you quoted was a very important thing.

That's correct.

We didn't reference.

Okay.

That makes a lot of sense.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So

they're just going the extra mile just to make sure that

you are super protected from dangerous words like people are intentionally trying to destroy the family.

It's evil.

Here are the names of the people that are doing it, the groups that are doing it.

Here's how they are financed.

And oh, by the way, here are the actual stats on the family.

Even though all those things were right,

we came close to reading a study

and

we came dangerously close, I mean within pages of using a fact that was incorrect.

You know, it's interesting

we didn't use it.

We talked about the Smithsonian thing earlier this week

and we've you talked about the black family and how they're trying to get rid of the nuclear family in from Black Lives Matter.

And you quote from their manifesto exactly that they want to get rid of the nuclear family because it's not, I guess it's white culture or something.

The Smithsonian pamphlet that they put out, same story.

It's part of white culture for the mom and the dad to be in the home and to have a couple of kids and to have a family structure, which to me, again, comes as a completely racist statement to say that that's white culture.

It's not white culture.

First of all, Hispanics.

I mean, Hispanics have a better familial situation than whites do.

I bet there are more moms and dads with their children in Hispanic homes than there are in white homes?

I mean, how racist is that?

Yeah, and they go through all the things in the Smithsonian flyer that are this is all white culture.

Self-reliance, independence, nuclear family is the ideal.

Children having their own rooms, objective, rational, linear thinking, quantitative emphasis, hard work is the key to success.

Work before play.

I thought that one was really racist too.

Like, so you're saying that black people play and don't work?

Wh what are you what are you you saying here?

We're saying that only white people work hard and then they play afterwards.

Being polite is white culture.

This is like offensive to the millionth degree.

And you talked about it yesterday and the day before.

Well, after you've talked about it, they pulled it off the site for the Smithsonian yesterday with an announcement saying like, hey, we created this great thing so that people could understand,

you know,

the real white

context.

Yes, it's just...

Yeah, they didn't admit it was wrong.

They just said, you know, look, this is distracting from the conversation.

Well, the website itself is still up.

We're going to go do this tonight on Stu Does America.

Stu Does White Fragility

because

they continue to go down this line.

They have videos posted from the author of White Fragility, this book you've probably heard of at this point, which has become the Bible, essentially, to this sort of new

BLA.

I don't think you need to say to this or anything.

It's just become the buy.

There are a lot of people in the audience that are being forced by their companies to read it.

Yeah, and it is, you know, it's a massive collection of nonsense, basically, a repetitive

sort of pseudo-intellectual nonsense.

We'll go through some of that tonight, too.

But it's like, you look at this and it's all still on the site.

So the site that you paid for.

with your tax dollars, they just pulled down the flyer that was controversial.

However, they left all the other stuff up there.

People telling you, you know, like one guy talking about how he had to have a white man's caucus.

So what he, and that, what that means is a bunch of white men get together and all confess to each other how their whiteness is affecting the rest of the world in like some sort of weird club meeting, I guess.

You know, white fragility, how to, how to stop your whiteness, how to turn that off, because you might think, you, you know, you obviously want to to get rid of it.

It's really bad.

How do you get rid of that?

The fact that you say things like, I want to treat everybody equally, they specifically say statements like that are racist.

That is fundamentally, like, if you say, like, oh, I want to have,

you know, look, I'll treat everybody the same.

I don't care if you're pink or you're polka dot.

You know, they come out and specifically call that out as basically hate speech.

Because that's not authentically trying to understand how you are white and everyone else isn't.

And they want to make race a bigger issue.

It is a full, all-out, frontal assault on Martin Luther King.

That's what this movement is.

I tell you, you're doing that tonight on your show.

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Now he's doing that.

And then, is my show come after on the linear?

I'm not really sure.

I have something I think that is just going to go out for the subscribers.

It's on-demand only.

It's my Friday exclusive.

I want to give you a little taste of it.

It's very, very different, but I just took the news of the week and I surrounded it with all of the words that I found in 1984.

And I presented it like the telescreen in 1984.

And I'm telling you, it works.

The news that we are hearing is the news update from 1984.

You don't want to miss this.

Here's a little clip of it:

This is the voice of Big Brother.

Bend.

Bend lower.

Do we hear insubordination in your mind?

Yes.

Right now you are asking, does Big Brother actually exist?

Of course we do.

But you do not.

Nothing belongs to you.

All things belong to us and the movement and the party.

This is the woke party.

We are here to empty you, then replace you with ourselves.

We are speaking to you now from the Ministry of Love building, a place where there is no darkness.

We are speaking to you from everywhere, as unorthodox tendencies threaten to destroy the Woke Party.

You cannot let this happen.

The time is 13 o'clock in the age of Big Brother, and this is your morning citizen brief.

The thought crime endemic continues to ravage what used to be called America.

Thought crime is death.

The Ministry of Innocence, in conjunction with the Thought Police, have once again been victorious in the capture and re-education of our enemies.

We at the Woke Party love the destruction of words.

But more than anything, we love the destruction of people.

People are meaningless.

Destruction is building.

Two so-called police were killed in an ambush last week, and in a final act of white supremacy, one of the men's daughters expressed her disdain for the woke party and her hatred for persons of color when she tweeted hashtag Blue Lives Matter.

For this crime, she must forego any grieving she had planned and issue a series of apologies.

She must donate to LGBTQ causes and shop at black-owned businesses.

Remember, problematic words are violent.

It is called discursive violence.

Repeat it now.

Discursive violence.

So this is just

a clip.

And by the way, that story is

real.

That's exactly what happened.

It is the prophecy where 2 plus 2 equals 5.

That actually happened this week again.

Critical thinking is not allowed.

So I deliver it the way 1984 would.

I want you to know all of the stories in that are real.

Just the rest of the wrong think

is either from critical theory or from George Orwell's 1984, where war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.

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Today's a pretty exciting episode.

If you'd missed the, well, any of this episode, you've missed a lot, but especially if you missed the first hour, very, very positive, very upbeat.

I outlined, you know, because people want to know, and,

you know, you're not surprised.

Maybe you are.

You were like, I really thought Glenn Beck was crazy.

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Uh, I laid out three scenarios, uh,

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Stu, wouldn't you agree?

Very uplifting.

Oh, incredibly uplifting, yeah.

That's that's your gift.

It is, it is, uh, but it was, uh, it was actually a lot of fun.

But,

oh, dead serious.

Oh, yeah.

But then again, maybe I'm crazy.

Oh, yeah.

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