Americans Are Determined to Be Free | 5/18/20

May 18, 2020 2h 6m

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Glenn asks listeners across the country to share what needs to be said: How are you dealing with the pandemic? Is there anything good that has come out of it? The coronavirus has revealed a class struggle in America, as a great story in the Wall Street Journal reports. Glenn argues that Restoring the Covenant is more important than ever during this “civil cold war.” A study found that many Americans are happier than they were a month ago. Glenn remembers one of his heroes, the late Seattle radio personality Charlie Brown. 40% of families are more likely to homeschool after the pandemic. There will be another desk in the Oval Office if Biden is elected. Is Michelle Obama more likely to run now that Obama’s real legacy is at stake?
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All right, there is a great story out of the Wall Street Journal today.

This is in the op-ed section.

And it's called Scenes from Class Struggle in Lockdown.

And it's brilliant.

And the first piece that I have read where I think somebody really truly gets it.

Listen to this.

I think there's a growing sense that we have to find a way to live with this thing, manage the best we can, muddle through.

COVID-19 is not going away anytime soon.

Summer may give us a break late fall.

Probably not.

Vaccines are likely far off.

New therapies and treatments might help.

But keeping things closed up tight until there are enough tests is not a viable plan.

In the meantime, we have to ease up and manage.

We should go forward with a new national commitment to masks, social distancings, hand washing, these simple things that have proved most valuable tools in the tool chest.

We have to enter each day armored up, but at the same time, we can't allow alertness to become exhaustion.

We can't let an appropriate sense of caution turn into an anxiety formation.

We can't become a nation of

agoraphobics.

We just can't be afraid of being outside.

We have to live carefully.

There's a class element in the public debate.

It's been there the whole time, but it's getting worse.

A few people in public life are acting as if they're sensitive to it.

Our news professionals in the past three months have made plenty of room for medical professionals and warnings of the illness.

Good, we need it.

That was news.

They're now not paying attention to an equal degree of sympathetic attention to the living, those who are living the economic story, such as the Dallas woman who pushed back, open her air salon, was thrown in jail.

There is a class divide between those who are hardline on lockdowns and those who are pushing back.

The normal people aren't connected through professional or social lines to power structures, and they have regular jobs, service workers, small business owners.

And since the pandemic began, the overclass has been in charge.

Scientists, doctors, political figures, consultants, calling the shots for the average person.

But personally, they have less skin in the game.

The National Institutes of Health Scientists, they're not going to lose their livelihood over what's happened.

Neither Neither will the midday anchor.

It's not that those in red states don't think that there's a pandemic.

They've heard all about it.

They realize that it is real.

It will continue.

They know they might get sick themselves, but they also figure it this way.

Hundreds of thousands could die in the American economy taken down, which would mean millions of other casualties, economic ones, or hundreds of thousands that could die if the American economy is damaged beyond repair.

There's foreclosures.

There's unemployment.

They'll take the latter.

It's a loss either way.

But one loss is worse than the other.

They know the politicians and the scientists can't really weigh this on a scale with any precision because life is a messy thing and doesn't want to be quantified.

The article goes on to say, here's a generalization based on a lifetime experience and observation.

Working class people who are pushing back have had harder lives than those now determining their fate.

They haven't had familial or economic ease.

No one sent them to Yale.

They often come from considerable family dysfunction.

This has left them tougher or harder, you choose the word.

They're more fatalistic about life because life has taught them to be fatalistic.

They look at those scientists and reporters making their warnings about how tough it's going to be, but if we should lift shutdowns, it'll even be tougher.

And they think, oh, what informed caring observers.

Or not.

Rather, they think, you have no idea what tough is.

You have no idea what painful is.

Why do you have so much to say?

The overclass says, wait three months before we're safe.

Their reply is, there's no such thing as safe.

Something else is true about those who are pushing back.

They live life closer to the ground and pick up other damage.

Everyone knows the societal costs in abstract domestic violence, child abuse, but these people understand it as concrete.

A lot of bad things happen behind America's closed doors, and the pandemic has made those doors thicker.

Meanwhile, some of the governors are playing into every stereotype of the overclass.

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania's Tom Wolfe said in a press briefing that those pushing against the shutdown are cowards.

Local officials who cave into this coronavirus will pay a price in the state funding.

These folks are choosing to desert

their cause in the face of the enemy.

In the middle of a war, he said he'll put state certificates such as liquor license for any businesses that open.

He'll pull them.

He must have liked sounding uncompromising like General George Patton.

But he wasn't like General George Patton.

No sympathy, no respect, only judgment.

That part of Patton he had.

Michigan Governor Whitmer called anti-lockdown demonstrations racic, racist, and misogynistic.

She called the entire movement political.

It was, perhaps, in part, but the clamor in her state is real and serious.

people are in economic distress and worry that the foundations of their lives are being swept away she might as well just call them deplorables she said this protest will only make the lockdowns last longer was that a threat or irony

here's the thing

I think this is absolutely right.

I listen to these elites and I've given a pass that most most people don't to Fauci because Fauci's job is to just focus on health.

Somebody else's job is to then say, thank you, Dr.

Fauci, Mr.

President, what he said, that's fine, but we cannot last because of the economic impact, because of this, because of that.

So I give it to Fauci, but I don't give it to the press.

And let me tell you this.

All of these people who had lost their jobs, if Donald Trump would have been the one giving the lockdown orders, if he would have listened to the left and the press and become a dictator and said, no, no one is opening up until this date,

All of these stories of these businesses that are closing, all of these stories of the guy who started his music store back in, you know, 1975 and it's been his dream and he wasn't rich, but he was happy.

And now he had to close it.

And the state came after him because he tried to open it up.

And now he's lost everything.

I guarantee you, all of those stories would have been wall-to-wall on cable news, would have been wall to wall on the front page of the New York Times.

But because it's the left that is doing this, they pay no attention to it.

That's the sad thing about our country.

And another thing that the press misses.

Nobody wants other people to die.

But

the reason why America is so on edge right now is not just the lockdown.

I believe Americans are happy warriors.

We do it if you suggest it to us.

If you force us into something, we don't want to do it.

But

if you just give us the information and let us decide for ourselves, we'll do it.

As evidenced in

Stu's show last week, he did a whole show on just the stats on how Americans went into lockdown long before

the state or the government said you should go into lockdown.

We knew.

We watched TV.

We started to self-quarantine automatically.

Now we've seen the results.

And if you're in New York City, you're not running out to a restaurant.

Even if they opened them today, you wouldn't be running out to a restaurant in a crowded movie theater.

Here in Texas, it's not anything like it was in New York.

You're still not running out to a crowded place.

We wouldn't do it.

Why?

Because we're thinking human beings.

We're not sheep.

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Or here's a surprise.

I actually like the lockdown.

And here's why.

Or people who are struggling in one way or another and you don't feel your voice is being heard.

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I have some good things and bad things.

A lot of the bad things, in fact, all of the bad things really kind of revolve around the economy.

and what I see coming in the economy.

And my teenage, my teenage son, both my teenagers, but mainly my son, he's having a very hard time with school.

But personally, I like it.

I actually like doing the show from my house.

I like not having my kids running to this practice and that practice.

I like staying at home.

I like the we have a siblings night where all the kids get together and

they just play games and watch movies once a week.

We have a family night.

I like this.

I don't want to go back in many ways.

But I'm one of the lucky ones.

I love my spouse.

I love my family.

I love my job and I can do my job from home.

And for me to

I could easily be one of those media people that say it's no big deal because it hasn't affected me.

Not in a negative way.

Financially, perhaps.

But other than that,

but there are people who are living on the edge when they say financially, perhaps they're like, financially, I'm a wreck now.

Not counting even those who have lost their job, not counting those who have a spouse who's abusive or a spouse you just don't like.

I mean, I can't even imagine that.

Tanya and I were talking about this last week.

We haven't had an argument once, not once, this whole time.

That's That's got to be rare.

Love it.

I actually like church.

I actually like doing the church the way we're doing it at home.

So you're what were you saying?

Number one, you're a shut-in.

You're basically just admitting that you never want to leave the house, which is fine.

Oh, yeah, no, no, no.

I am.

But it's actually helping me overcome something else.

I'm also a hoarder.

I mean, I'm not a weird.

I mean, yes, I am a weird hoarder.

I'm not one that's collecting magazines and they're all to the ceiling, but I see something of, you know, of history and it could be worthless or worth a million bucks.

It doesn't matter.

I mean, I love it.

If it's, if it didn't cost a dime or cost a lot, it makes no difference.

I just like history and I am a hoarder and I have got to get rid of a lot of this stuff.

I am in my house and I'm like, Tanya, how have you lived in this house?

Every closet, everything is full of crap that I've collected.

And she's like, I know.

Would you go through that closet?

And then I go through the closet and I'm like, but all of this stuff is really good.

I don't know what to do.

You're learning what things you need to address with a therapist later on, basically.

Yes.

Yes, exactly.

Exactly right.

Now, the fact that you are angry,

you haven't argued, is this because she's just dead inside?

Or is this,

how do you...

Maybe a little bit.

She's just like, I don't care anymore.

You've just...

You've sucked the life out of me.

Perhaps.

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All right, let me go to Melissa in Texas.

Hi, Melissa.

How are you?

Wow.

Well, first off, I'm good.

And Glenn Beck, it's an honor to talk to you.

Well, thank you very much.

It's an honor to talk to you, Melissa.

So I was calling in to say I took care of my very first COVID patient last night.

I will say, disclaimer,

only one patient, my very first one, lady was asymptomatic.

So precautions that we took, I was gowned up anytime I was in contact with her, limited the amount of time I was in contact with her to protect me.

Before I left work, I changed clothes, wiped out my shoes, took off my haircut, put it in a plastic bag.

Personally, I feel like I'm pretty safe.

I'm a young, healthy person, so I'm good.

Precautions I'm going to take on my own without being instructed by any official by law is I called my sister who I was planning on visiting this weekend, told her, Hey, I came in contact.

I think I'm okay, but you make the decision if you feel like I'm safe to come over to your house.

Now, do you think, do you think, Melissa, this is do you think this is because you're a nurse that you're doing that, or do you think Americans have enough common sense to figure this out?

I'm on the fence about that

because I will you, truthfully, the medical community is going just about as crazy as the common American.

I'm quite surprised that as

educated individuals, they are going nuts and just,

in my opinion, losing their common sense and going way overboard, my opinion.

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Melissa, thank you so much for your phone call.

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Isn't it interesting that we are three months into it?

And here's a nurse in Texas who says, I've just, my first

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I think we flattened the curve and we made sure that we weren't overwhelming the system.

Maybe it's just me.

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Beck, let me go to Tim.

Hi, Tim.

Welcome.

Yes, good morning, sir.

Thank you for taking my call.

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Yeah, no doubt.

Hey, the thing is here is that I wanted to say that you have helped us find the reset button in our lives.

And your inspiration is second to none, sir.

And

I think that families have come together.

They're taking walks.

We go to the restaurant.

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We eat in the parking lot like we used to do at the drive-thru.

Remember those days?

Yeah, I know.

It's weird, Tim.

I feel exactly the same thing.

We've gone to Sonic and we've done the drive-through, which, you know, I haven't done since I was a kid with the family and really just had the time to enjoy it.

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We were talking to Tim in Maine,

and he's got a son who has ADHD.

And how is this affecting him, Tim?

He's 40 years old, sir, and he works away from us, but he's been, he was diagnosed with ADHD when he was three.

With that, excuse me, with that, he

is being told by other people that this is just, he's going to die.

And

he's frightened.

He's frightened to go out.

He said, Dad, if I come home, I may end up running out of gas on the way home and end up in boogeyland and not be able to get out.

He said, how do I do that?

He's not a child anymore.

He's a grown man,

but he's scared to death.

He's got no money.

And we're trying to get him to come back to the farm where he can

eat and drink as we would anyone that would stop by if they were hungry.

But I don't know.

There's got to be other parents out there with this frightening thing that the child goes to dark places and he never was before.

But it's all stimulated

by this.

I think we all have, I mean, many of us have stories like that.

We have, you know, our kids have all gone through a bout of depression from this.

And

all of the family has had their different bouts of, you know, my son in particular is in high school and, you know, typical teenage boy and likes to be out and playing with friends and doing things.

And he is really having a difficult time

with all of this.

But we're weathering it.

But I don't think people are paying attention to

the severity of what's happening behind the closed doors in America.

And the media is completely off of that because

it would play into the narrative, I guess they would think, of Donald Trump, open up the country.

And so they're missing all of these real stories that are affecting real people.

Thanks, Tim.

My best to you and your son, Mike in Florida.

Hello, Mike.

Hi, Glenn.

How are you?

Good.

How are you?

Ah, hanging in there.

So, how are you dealing with the lockdown?

I got to tell you,

it really hasn't affected me much.

In fact, I'm actually liking it a lot better working from home.

Luckily, I work at a call center, so the transition to working at home was rather simple.

I don't have to see the co-workers that really get under my skin because they don't do their job.

Right.

Yeah.

It is good for that.

You're not spending part of your day going, why does that person still have a job?

You don't have any of that

during your day, which is very nice.

I'm more productive at home because I can actually smoke while working and not have to worry about, you know, going up.

I will tell you, Mike, that studies are showing that, on general, businesses are finding that people are much more productive at home.

And I don't know if I'm more productive.

I think the quality of my work is up.

You know, I think I may spend less time, but I'm doing a better job at it.

Have you found that, Stu?

Well, I mean, I haven't been working at home.

I've been here.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

It's been a very long time.

See,

you have a double whamming.

You've gone in

to work, and so you've really started to like the commute.

Yes, the commute.

The commute's coming back.

Better.

I know.

Today was the first day I really noticed an uptick in the amount of cars on the road.

And, you know, for us essential people, unlike you non-essential people like Glenn Beck,

us essential people, we've been talking about it now.

We're just like, oh, gosh, the non-essentials are coming back.

Do you believe this?

They're starting to come back out on the roads.

They're starting to beat businesses.

We're looking down on those non-essentials who are now crowding our roadways and

just grocery stores.

You'd lead a campaign to have license plates that are different for essentials and non-essentials.

You'd be like, yeah,

you can respond to that 911 call if you want, but it's a non-essential worker.

So I don't know if I'll do that.

Thank you.

All I'm saying is, look, don't we deserve our own roads?

Should we be on the same roads as the non-essentials?

It just seems absurd.

No, I get it.

I get it.

All right, back to the phones.

Who's next on the line, Sarah?

Hey, Stephen, welcome to the Glen Beck program.

Glenn, good to talk to you, buddy.

Good to talk to you, my man.

What's happening?

Hey, listen, so I got a lawn care business for North Carolina, and every day I'm out here hustling and making it work.

And I got your program in my earphone every day from 9 to 12.

And, you know, when this whole shutdown first started,

my wife said, what are you going to do?

And I got out a piece of paper, started making out a schedule, contacting customers.

I said, I'm rolling.

I'm not stopping.

And our governor here, even though he's a tyrant, religious tyrant, he...

He kept essential workers as long care.

And so I was able to work through it.

But it didn't matter if he had not, I would have kept working anyway.

And I think that's one of the problems.

People should have just kept working, just kept going, keeping businesses open, you know, like the Shelly Luther lady and the Mankey guy up in Michigan with a barber.

Just keep working.

Just

keep going.

We are not a people that can be shut down.

Like you were saying, you know, a couple weeks ago, I heard you say, we're just not that type of people.

And I've been working every day nonstop.

I've been even more busy than I ever have been because some some people are afraid to get out.

Some people are afraid to do things.

And I've just been, I hate to say taking advantage of it.

I'm not, but they've been thanking me for coming out and, you know, keeping their lawns looking good.

But I just kept working and I'm still doing it.

I don't need anything from the government.

You know, I just, I don't need it.

I don't want anything.

And I feel sorry.

I feel terrible.

That lady you had on earlier that you gave the money to, the house cleanly.

I've thought about people like that.

That was heartbreaking, hearing that lady.

And that was such a good deed you did for her.

But, I mean, those are, there are people everywhere like that and i've been telling people about it and i've been so blessed and thankful um and let me tell you this real quick though one reason that's in in our our genes about that my grandfather was in the navy in world war ii he had enlisted when he was 17 years old and when the navy found out about it they didn't have instant background checks and stuff like that And when they found out about it, he was on a ship in the middle of the Pacific, and they sent a helicopter to go and get him.

And they told him, you know, look, we're sorry, you can't, you know, be in this, you know, in the war when you're 17, but when you're 18, you can re-enlist and come back.

And when he turned 18, he went right back to the Navy and went, he believes so strongly in the country.

And when Ronald Reagan, President Reagan, found out about in the 80s, he sent our family a letter of accommodation.

That's who we are.

We just keep rolling.

We just keep going.

We don't stop.

And that's the same.

I'm just working.

I'm continuing to work.

I'm more frightened of the people who are scared of this whole thing and all it, you know, than I am really of the of the virus itself.

They're frightening people that want to shut down, you know, workers.

And I, listen, I listen to you every

day, 9 to 12.

I got you one of my earphones, I got headphones on, and I listen to you guys and you kept me going.

And, you know, I'm thankful for that.

I'm thankful for you guys.

So thank you.

I'm working nonstop.

Stephen, I'm glad.

I'm so glad to hear from you.

Thank you for your spirit.

Thank you for continuing to

go on.

And

it's amazing to me because as you're talking to me about,

you know, that's not who we are, and your grandfather, I'm reminded of a story of, and I can't remember his name.

Somebody, I mean, Google has it, so somebody can look it up real quick.

But he was one of the first guys.

You know, the Pony Express didn't go on

for very long.

And the Pony Express, in the job, you know, flyer, if you will, the posters, they wanted

young orphans because the life expectancy of these Pony Express riders was, you know, six months to a year.

And they would be taking the mail through the most dangerous parts of the country.

And they just wouldn't stop.

They would actually switch horses along the way, grab some water, get back on the fresh horse, and continue to ride.

Well, one of them was like this 10-year-old kid, and I can't remember his name name now, but he rode and he was just,

the kid was fearless.

He does Pony Express, then he,

I think he fights in the Civil War.

Does he fight in the Civil War as a Pony Express writer right around that same time?

Then he goes and he applies to fight in World War I.

He fights in the Spanish-American War,

World War I.

Then he applies to fight in World War II, but he's so old, they're like, dude, you can't.

He goes up to Canada and tries to get into the Canadian

military.

The British say, we'll take you, but instead we decided to put him on the road here to help raise money for war bonds here in the United States.

But the guy just wouldn't give up.

And those are the stories that used to stir us.

You know, I was talking to somebody this weekend about a series of books.

There are these great books that were written in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and they started to fall out of fashion in the 70s.

They were all kids' books, and they all talked about heroes, American heroes and foreign heroes all over the world.

And,

you know, we were talking about how they were driven by the story.

And yeah, they didn't have all the details and they didn't have all the bad things in them, et cetera, et cetera.

So people would say, well, then they're technically wrong.

Well, no, because what they were were stories.

They were stories to make us understand

who we are and who we can be.

So yeah, the new history books,

some of them you could say maybe are more accurate, but I wouldn't say that.

Because they're so skewed the other direction and so skewed with lies.

This, what, 1619 project

with the New York Times is an abomination to history, an absolute abomination to history.

But they started doing it slowly.

They started, you know, checking all of the boxes on, well, let's make sure we really focus on all the bad things here as well.

Then they just went off the rails and started making things up.

But the point of history is not the year.

I don't care.

1692,

Columbus sailed the ocean.

I don't care.

I don't care who the

commander of the army at Stony Point was in the Revolutionary War.

Don't care.

Now, if I need to know that, I can Google it.

If I need to know the date, I'll Google it.

The date might mean something if it's connected to something else.

Sure.

But I need to know the story.

I don't care that Stony Point was taken by Mad Anthony Wayne.

What I do care about is that he and his men fought and fought and fought.

And about one o'clock in the morning, he was shot in the head.

And they're like, you gotta get up, you gotta get off the battlefield.

And we now know him as Mad Anthony Wayne said, no, the battle's raging.

And they put a bandage around him.

The guy's got a bullet hole in his head.

And he's got a bandage around him.

He continues a fight.

They win Stony Point.

Now, do you even know about the Battle of Stony Point?

It was very important at the time.

Do you even know?

Do you even care?

Here's why I care.

Not only did Man Anthony Wayne continue to fight all the way through it, he then sat down and wrote a letter to George Washington and

said, I have to write, still with the hole bleeding in his head, said, first,

I have to write the general and tell him what what happened.

And he writes a simple note, and it just says, Dear General,

the garrison and the fort are ours.

Period.

Your men fought like men determined to be free.

Anthony Wayne.

That's the important part.

Your men fought like men who are determined to be free.

We need to start telling our stories again.

We need to start looking for those people.

You know, quite honestly, our last caller sounded like a man determined to be free.

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So, Stu, Stu, so I go in the break.

He's there with,

it's Bronco Charlie Miller.

Charlie Miller was that, was that kid I was telling you about.

So, what facts does Google now give you that

are more powerful than the story?

Really none.

But clean up the story.

Tell me about him.

Well, I mean, I think, you know, it seems like you pretty much had it done.

His elderly attempt to get into the military seems to have been World War I.

He did live

until 1955.

But when he went to Canada and tried to get in the military, he was 67 years old and then tried to convince Canada he was 44.

And I guess apparently it worked.

He fought for Canada.

Wow.

Yeah, so so he was in the Pony Express.

Didn't he fight in Cuba or something as well?

Say that?

One of the things that he's not really known for

he was a hard-living guy.

He was a drunk and...

and not really a believer in God.

And he turned his life over in a Salvation Army meeting at one point and transformed his life.

And he's just a fascinating guy.

But, you know, those old books that I was talking about, those children's books, they absolutely had one on

Bronco Miller.

And it's a story we don't tell anymore.

And when we lose track of where we came from and who we came from, we then lose who we really are.

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Well, hello, America, you sick freak.

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It is Monday and we have a lot to go over.

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All right, we all have to save money.

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I hate that phrase.

But the new normal is going to be about saving money, about living a simpler life, hopefully.

I mean, hopefully we're finding that now.

You see, the happiness index is up.

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all right I want to talk about productivity at home and who is staying home, who's not, and what that's going to mean for all the big cities.

They are all promoting Stay at home, stay at home, stay at home.

Really?

How are you going to,

what kind of income tax are you going to put on those buildings now?

Because no one is working from those ghost towns.

Let me go to Jeannie in New Hampshire.

Hello, Jeannie.

How are you?

Hello, Mr.

Beck.

How are things?

I'm very good.

Oh, good.

I've heard today it's overcast, so you're coming in clear.

I don't always

hear you.

All right.

And when I do hear you, lately I've heard you mention

your concerns about abuse, domestic abuse.

And

I've always, I'm a little dyslexic.

It's like being a little pregnant, doesn't exist.

Go away when you're 72.

And I need to own a book in order to read it.

So whenever you would come out with a new book, I would get it because I could read your books.

And probably the best book

on abuse was written by you.

Snow Angel.

Really angel.

Snow Angel.

And

I remember being at a fair once that was run by a woman's group that did a lot with domestic abuse.

And I mentioned it to the woman, and I said it was written by Glenn Beck, and her arms went immediately across her chest, and her foot started tapping.

I gave that book to a friend.

It was so clear she was being abused.

And it started the way abuse always does.

They first analyate you from your family, your friends.

They start with the newest, so they're the easiest to get away.

But in that book, it shows

that indeed God is always with you.

And there are people who really never leave you.

And they're there for when you need them.

And she read that book and when she was finally able to get strength and courage, your book

helped her to get to where she is today, which is in a safe place.

She is

Still fighting the abuse because abusers continue to abuse

no matter what

and she still refers to your book.

Thank you, Jeannie.

I I appreciate that.

You know,

that is the one book that I don't felt I wrote.

That actually wrote itself.

I was actually on stage.

Excuse me, my dog is.

Somebody must be at the door.

But

I was on stage and there was a place on one of the shows that I was doing where I was on stage and I didn't have to say anything for about 10 minutes,

maybe not even that long.

And it was towards the end of the show and

I sat there and that entire story downloaded into my head.

And when I walked off stage, I said to the person who was standing there, the stage manager, I said, I need a piece of paper

and some pencils quickly.

And

I went back out, took my bow, and then I sat backstage and wrote down all the points of that story.

And it was written really for my sisters

as we grew up in an abusive household.

And,

you know, at the end of my father's life,

he was abusive

in a weird way.

He allowed abuse to happen.

He became my mother instead of his father who was abusive.

And he just

he or he became his mother who just stood by the abuse instead of being the abuser.

And

he kept repeating this pattern.

And at the very end,

my father, who had become my best friend,

we were estranged at the very end.

because we had an intervention and it did not

go well.

And

it's something I struggle with still to this day, trying to understand

abuse.

And I don't think you ever can.

It's just a sickness.

And sometimes it's a sickness that goes on and on and on.

And

it should be all of our goals to stop it in

whatever form it takes in our...

in our home.

Otherwise,

if we are not strong enough or we think we're not strong enough, or we are

we allow it to go on in some other way, but we are not the abuser this time.

It continues generationally.

Thank you for reading that book.

It's called The Snow Angel, if you haven't read it.

It's a great story.

Mike, welcome to the Glenbeck program.

Good morning, Glenn.

It's great to be on with you.

Thank you, sir.

A long time, long time listener of Glenbeck.

Every morning, first-time caller,

I spoke with your receiver earlier.

Here in Maine,

we've obviously been less affected by the virus than most of the country, fortunately.

But

economically, that has been no different.

I'm a small business owner.

I train racehorses, which our season came to a stop because of that.

And

I applied for the PPP loan, which I wasn't surprised that I didn't get.

But that aside from that, a couple of the people that invest with me that buy horses with me, they have other businesses that are doing just fine through this.

They did not apply for the PPP loans.

This is four different cases.

And their local banks call them to say that your business, you know, you're a good customer of ours.

You haven't applied.

There's a certain amount of money that we have available.

You folks need to come in and get signed up for this to get that loan.

And these were a couple of few businesses that weren't going to lay anybody off.

In fact, one of them was a trucking company that's actually busier than usual.

And another, a convenience store owner that has stayed open to it all and has actually found their profits have increased.

Just that's

quite a problem

in the way that system is set up, unfortunately.

And some of the small ones that really are struggling are getting left behind.

Well, I will tell you this.

I do know that if you have a good relationship, we've heard this from the beginning.

If you have a good relationship with the bank, you have

an easier time getting it.

If you just started your business,

you don't have a chance of getting it.

The way it was set up

flawed, but it was set up in the middle of the night, overnight, and everybody is just playing it, I guess, the best way that they can to some degree.

I think there are some sharks out there that are also

using it.

But I'm sorry to hear that, Mike.

How's your business holding up?

Well,

we race seasonally and we usually start the very beginning of April.

So as you can imagine, after about three months with no income, we were just about to get the ball moving and down the field and the brakes came on.

So we've been sitting idle for a couple of months.

Our industry is struggling financially because of that.

But things are starting to open up.

We're very hopeful that we're going to get the green light in the near future and be back and running.

We certainly hope so.

My family, I I happen to be blessed.

My wife is an RN, so it's not as though we're without income, but some of my colleagues that totally rely on this industry being agricultural-based and on the move are certainly really struggling right now.

But we're hoping to climb out of it in the very near future.

Thank you very much, Mike.

God bless you, and best of luck to you.

Let me go to Daniel.

Hi, Daniel.

You're on the Glenn Beck program.

Hi, Glenn.

Glenn.

How are you doing?

Hi.

Good.

I just want to

say.

Honestly, this whole quarantine has been a breath of fresh air for our family.

My wife has spent most of the last five years bedridden with various illnesses and is just now starting to find help.

I'm outside.

It's been, yeah, so it's been really just an opportunity.

I have two kids, a 10-year-old and

another boy that just turned seven.

So from the family side, it's really been just an opportunity to

really just reconnect instead of having to

just try and survive, which is what we've been doing for

the recent past.

And

I do video production full-time.

So from a job side, I work with my dad at a company he started in 91.

so from a job side most of our work was corporate events in the spring so obviously those all got canceled

but it's just been it's been an opportunity to

pursue some projects with our family

from the production side we actually were inspired by you kind of inspired by you with your I know y'all had the guy on that that shared a bunch of board games and you

were saying they were just how hard it was to pick up so we actually started a channel where our 10-year-old and six-year-old teach board games

from a kid.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh,

what is your wait, wait, what is your YouTube?

Because the games that we that we have like four games, we cannot figure them out.

We're like, we play them and we're like, we're playing this wrong.

We got to be playing this wrong.

And there's a few of them.

There's a few of them we don't want to read the instructions, but there's a few of them that we read the instructions.

They still don't make sense.

And without somebody that's played the game, it's so hard

what's the youtube channel our youtube uh it's that it's the channel is called kid splaining we don't have enough subscribers yet to get a custom url so we have the website kid-splaining.com and that takes you straight there

okay and they're all they're not they're not kid versions of the game they're all adult games they're all but they're all games that our our six-year-old and ten-year-old can play with our family.

Sometimes the six-year-old needs to play on a team, but they're all going to

explain them in a really simple way that anyone can pick up.

It's like kids explaining, but kid-kid-explaining.com takes it.

Got it.

Thank you so much, Daniel.

I appreciate it.

And you know what?

I got to tell you, I keep saying to my son and my daughter, you guys got to do this.

Mom and dad, we're,

you know, maybe we're just too old to understand instructions anymore.

And the kids can't even figure it out.

Well, I don't I don't know if they've really tried really super hard on some of them, but one of them,

it doesn't matter.

There's one that we're playing that my son was the one that gave the instructions and he ended up winning like by a billion miles.

And we're like, yeah, I don't believe that this is the way you play the game.

It'd be great

to have that, especially if you are playing these new board games because we've been trying to, and every time we play them, we just love it.

But

I think there's something to be said for games coming back into the family.

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