Best of the Program | Guests: Jason Buttrill & Dave Isay | 5/13/19

Well, hello, podcasters.

We got a great show for you today.

Are we going to war with Iran?

Also,

Rashida Talib had some great things to say about the Holocaust.

She just

warms her heart whenever she thinks about it.

Incredible.

Also, sex strike.

Yes, that meddler's not going to have sex.

And she's serious about it.

So sorry to break that to you.

The Democratic candidates had a very interesting weekend.

We get into that.

Some disturbing numbers about how we view each other.

20% of both Republicans and Democrats say the other side don't have the qualities that qualify them as human.

Some disturbing stuff on that and some great news about the progress that the world has made because of the free market.

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So now Georgia signed in, of course, the Heartbeat Bill, which outlaws abortion in Georgia.

Once in the ultrasound, detects an unborn child's heartbeat.

Now...

How hateful is that?

I know.

A clump of cells or a clump of skin or a tumor doesn't have a heartbeat,

but a child does.

And so Milano has come out and said, our reproductive rights are being erased.

No,

you can reproduce.

You can not reproduce.

You can reproduce or not reproduce.

You can do that.

You just can't kill children along the way.

How hard is that?

She said, until women have legal control over their own bodies, we just cannot risk pregnancy.

So join me by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back.

I'm calling for a sex strike.

Pass it on.

I know, I mean, I don't want to insult these women, but no one cares about your bodies.

You can do whatever you want with your bodies.

You can do whatever.

We allow you to do all sorts of weird stuff.

We allow you to

have plastic surgery to make you look like a cat.

That is something that is allowed in our society.

You can put horns, artificial horns on the top of your head so you can be

a devil or a unicorn or whatever you like.

You can pierce every inch of your body.

It doesn't matter.

You can have a sex change.

You can take your body and so mutilate it that you are no longer the gender that you you were born as.

It's pretty, we're pretty cool with all of it.

You know, I mean,

you just can't do it to someone.

And this is what we say the same thing about sex changes.

You just can't do it to someone who is not of age to make the decision.

That's it.

I mean, like, really, at that point, we think there's a problem with it.

You should have another person.

You shouldn't be able to force your will on another person who can't make the decision for themselves.

And someone who is maybe seven months

into the process of pregnancy and is not yet

born, but still very much alive and could be born.

That person should be able to make their choice about whether they want to live or not.

Let me say something really controversial here.

I think, maybe not.

I am for

end-of-life decisions.

I am not for doctor-assisted, but I am for end-of-life decisions.

If you are in so much pain, you're just like, I'm just, I can't do this anymore.

I believe it is your right to do it.

I don't think it's right.

I don't recommend it.

But it is your right to kill yourself, I believe.

With that being said,

it's not your right to kill something that you are growing inside of you.

It's 100% about the other person.

You just can't make decisions for other people.

And they keep complaining.

It's like, well,

they won't even know if they're pregnant or not.

Well, I mean, that's probably a great time.

I always thought that it would be a rational debate in this country if the crazy left-wing position was the morning after pill,

right?

Like, if this debate, and like Republicans were saying, you know what, no abortion, and Democrats were saying, you know what, there should be a morning after pill, and you should be able to have that.

So, if you have a night where you did something that you regret and you're worried about it, you should be able, before you even know that you're pregnant, to take this pill and then end it, and we'll never even know.

Correct.

Again, like that doesn't make me excited about the thing, but the idea that the debate instead is happening at, I don't know, let's see, five minutes before birth or five minutes after, When should we allow this to go to?

And that is, and seemingly the debate, it's terrifying.

I mean, at least if you had an idea that it was like, okay, you could take it.

If it was safe, rare, and legal even.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

It was safe, rare, and legal.

That was saying, look, this is a tragic, tragic choice that some people have to make.

But Safe, rare, and legal is not like, hey, this is the way I do birth control.

Yeah.

I got an off another one.

I celebrate celebrate and shout my abortion oh you know my favorite abortion that's psychotic behavior uh yeah i mean the the republican position right now is essentially let's go back to mildly close to roe versus wade

There was like, oh, you're going to try to overturn Roe versus Wade.

Roe versus Wade is a conservative dream right now compared to what we have.

Roe versus Wade basically said first trimester.

I mean, you could get it in second trimester, but it could be regulated in the second trimester, and it could be completely outlawed in the third trimester.

That's Roe versus Wade.

We've moved so far from that to

where we are now.

You talk about a hardcore right-wing shift in reverse while going 70 miles an hour in one direction.

That would be going back to Roe versus Wade right now.

We're not even close to it.

It is amazing.

Did you see all of the things that came out this weekend about the Democrats and what they're now saying on the road?

They're now saying,

what was it, Betto?

You know what?

If I had the power, I'd absolutely get rid of all the guns.

I mean, what?

What happened to

strong believers of the Second Amendment and we care about guns.

I'm a gun owner.

I've seen a gun before.

There's been a gun in a restaurant I went to on the wall.

And that's me.

I'm basically Mr.

Gunn.

Let me tell you,

I'm practically the NRA myself.

I love guns.

I remember my father watching, I think it was gun smoke on television.

I mean, so I have that part of my heritage as well.

I understand it.

We're just looking for common sense measures, and let me tell you about it.

Let me trot out about five victims' families right now to make you cry, and hopefully, it will make you so emotional, you'll change your mind and then forget that I even said any of this.

That's basically where they are.

And now, all of a sudden, they're admitting it.

Oh, now they are admitting it.

And now they've gone all the way to the level of restricting sex from Alyssa Milano.

What's the problem with that?

No, no, no.

And

Bet Midland.

Bet Middler.

Now, you might say sex with Alyssa Milano.

I mean, there was at least a time in which people were interested in such things.

The Bette Midler thing, I don't even think there was a year,

a year of all years, that people were like, please, please, no, don't restrict the Bette Midler sex.

That's a top of my priority list.

There was never a moment by any person in human history where they were like, ah, but what about my Bette Midler sex?

So she says, our reproductive rights are being erased.

Until women have legal control over our own bodies, we can't risk pregnancy.

Join me by not having sex until we get our bodily autonomy back.

Wait a minute.

Hang on just a second.

So

your solution here is abstinence because you can't kill your baby.

That's a crazy idea.

That's a crazy idea.

Aren't they just executing bodily control?

By not having sex, they're actually executing the thing that they say they don't have, which is autonomy over their bodies.

They're saying we're not going to have sex.

Yes.

So they're actually doing the thing they say they don't have to prove they don't have it.

Yeah.

And it's very feminist.

It's very feminist to

bribe men with sex

for things that you can do.

It's so feminist.

That's so feminist.

It is really, I mean, we'll give you the sex when you do what we want.

There's a word for that.

Yeah.

There's a word for that.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

It's crazy.

So anyway, so if you were thinking about Bette Medler and you were like, this is my week.

I got a shot at Bette Medler.

I thought this was going to be the week.

I thought this was the chance that I had her.

And then here it is.

No.

Sorry.

I hate to start your Monday with that.

I will say the upside of, I mean,

we don't know.

We could go to the Supreme Court.

We don't know with this law in Georgia.

It may never save one baby's life, but at least it's doing this.

It's giving the world a break from from Bet Midler sex for at least some period of time.

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I hear her footsteps coming towards the bedroom, and I'm like, no, not tonight, please, not tonight.

I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping.

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So,

how was your Mother's Day weekend?

It was nice.

Was it?

Yeah, yeah.

It was very nice.

Yeah, that's good.

Yours as well, I assume?

I'm not a mother, so thank you for asking.

That's a weird question to ask another man.

That's the same question, however, you asked me.

Well, just because you didn't mind it doesn't mean I can't.

I caught some Game of Thrones.

You did?

Yeah, last night's Game of Thrones.

Yeah, it's going to be a hard one.

I'm going to have to edit a little bit, I think.

I have to look at it because you don't want to give any spoilers.

And last night was an incredible episode.

There was probably a lot of spoilers in there.

Luckily, I don't know what any of them are.

But that is a thing.

I couldn't.

No, so I'm going to make sure somebody looks over your script that watches it to make sure there's no spoilers in it.

This is it.

There's one more episode.

And I'm gone.

I'm up in the mountains without television.

For the final episode?

Yeah.

That's because you're gone next week.

Yes.

Gone next week.

Yeah.

That's true.

That's a big, that's a big issue.

Maybe we can.

Well, that will give people enough time to catch up and we can do the final episode discussion when you come back, maybe.

That's at least one option.

Can I tell you one little parenting thing that happened to me this weekend?

Yeah.

So, when my kids were born,

I decided to, I can't remember where I got this idea, but somebody, I decided to start an email address for them.

Each one of them gets an email address, and then I send them emails.

I've been sending them emails since birth.

Oh, wow, how cool is that?

Little things and notes.

And they don't know it.

They don't know it.

And so, little things I notice or, you know, little cool moments that we had, I'll throw a picture in there, a little piece of advice that maybe I think of,

I'll toss it in there.

And so, they were were these like Yahoo email addresses I started up, you know, seven years ago.

And so I've been emailing, it's not like constant, it's not like 10 a day.

It's really cool.

I like it because I think at some point they're going to be able to open it up and see all these things.

Oh, no, that's really cool.

That's cool.

Well, it was cool until last night when I got an email back from Yahoo that said,

Hey, you're, because I sent a video, a little video of us together to one of the email addresses, and they sent it back and it bounced back.

And I was like, why did that bounce?

So I signed into it.

No emails in there.

It's just all been erased.

It's kidding me.

All been erased.

And I'm.

Why?

Because it wasn't accessed.

I don't know.

I looked all over to try to find them giving me an alert of this.

And I usually go into the email address every couple months just to make sure that it's active and make sure that I send emails so that it's active.

It's still getting them.

I mean, there's no spam or anything in there.

It's just all my emails of all these moments.

And so I went in and both email addresses are completely empty now.

And I am like losing my mind in panic.

I'm hoping there's some way that can be recovered.

Hey, you should have gone with a Glennbeck.com address.

Well,

we wouldn't have done that to you.

At least

I would have done it to you had you not paid me.

You would be holding

my kids' children hostage.

I would be wild.

Hey, I've got to get rid of this space.

I could keep them, I guess.

What's it worth to you?

I mean, I guess I should.

Sex with Bette Medler?

I guess I should have gone with, I don't know, Gmail or something.

I don't know.

Maybe it's just a quirk and I'm going to be able to figure it out.

You have to call.

Let's follow this.

I am in panic.

I will tell you, this is my greatest fear on pictures.

First of all, none of the pictures we have, you know, occasionally we will get, you know, the thing where I think Twitter does this, where you can

tweet pictures and then they make a book out of it.

And you can also send stuff.

But

we dump all of our pictures

onto our computer.

Yeah.

And we have tens of thousands of them.

We have the opposite problem that we had when I was growing up.

You know, I was a third child, so I was like, no pictures.

You know, I was like, yeah,

here you are.

You were born.

Here's your first birthday.

Here you are in graduation.

It's like, wait, what happened in my life?

But now is everything,

practically every food at every

restaurant,

here's a picture of the menu.

Here's the picture of the picture of the food.

Here's the actual food and the picture of the food.

I mean, it's crazy.

It's crazy how much stuff we have.

But at any time, if

the cloud goes down or if you don't even have it on the cloud, if you have it on your computer, we have one computer, one hard drive that the computer went down.

So we assume that the pictures are still on there.

We're lugging around this old computer because we hope that pictures are still on it.

And it's my worst nightmare.

Something happens and it's all gone.

And I've had that problem too with the cloud, with a cloud service.

I had signed up and paid all this money over these years to do all the cloud service from all these old computers.

And then one day I go on there and it won't give me any access to it.

Did you get it back?

And no.

No.

Oh, no.

No.

What they did is they decided to charge my credit card for the year.

When I had done like 10 years, I've been on this thing.

And they decided to do it for a year.

And because my credit card number changed, they sent me like two alerts that said, hey,

your thing is in processing.

They went into my spam, and then they just deleted it all.

I'm like, what the hell?

Like, this is like,

I have no way of, it's not a damage.

You wrecked my vacation because now all I have to, now all I'm going to be thinking about is

everything, and then I've got to, in case there's an EMP, now I've got to print it out and put it into a vault in the ground making Faraday cages all the time thank you thank you for that

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We have

our

head researcher and military

expert, I guess.

What do we call you an expert now at this point?

You have grown so much.

You were in military intelligence, but your knowledge of the world in the last three years, Jason,

is remarkable how much you know.

It's a polite way to say I'm a big nerd.

Yeah, you are.

You are.

Or you were really stupid before.

One of the two.

No, you were were really sharp before uh you you were the guy who helped figure out what was going on with benghazi right two days two days after benghazi happened we had that thing nailed uh and jason played a big role in it and one thing about that just to revisit it the the law the accolades that have rolled in over that i mean just what wow it's just been overwhelming

the media media praise for getting that whole situation right at the beginning you guys have really just swam in that marinated in it for a few years now We really kind of coasting after that, you know, just living off of that crown.

Nobody even recognized it, but nailed it exactly what happened.

Anyway,

the United States has received intelligence indicating that Iran was preparing to attack U.S.

interests or allies in the Middle East.

Last week, we told you that they were going to dispatch a battle group to the Persian Gulf.

They moved a Patriot missile battery and a squadron of B-52 bombers.

And then, late last week, Iran threatened to begin enriching uranium.

Over the weekend, yesterday, two Saudi oil tankers were attacked in, quote, an act of sabotage near the Persian Gulf.

Saudis have not said who's responsible.

This could be either because we don't know or they are restraining due to U.S.

pressure.

But if the Saudis finger Iran, tensions are going to start to spiral out of control.

What are we headed for, Jason?

I think what's interesting is I think H.R.

McMaster said it best, especially in that area, but pretty much this is true all over the world.

But he said there's two ways to fight the United States right now.

One is asymmetrically, you know, via cyber attack, via terrorism, stuff like that.

And the second way is stupidly or stupid.

Force on force, military on military, they cannot match us.

No one can.

No one of us.

They said this weekend, the,

I don't know, the grand poo-bah or whatever came out and said,

there's no match with us in the United States.

We will win.

Yeah.

I thought,

I read that and I was like, wait, no, did we say that?

No, my gosh, they said that.

I couldn't believe that's what they said.

Insane.

Well,

the threats that they were making towards, I'm just guessing here, but the intelligence we got were probably these asymmetric attacks, terrorism, Hezbollah.

They can launch these all over the world.

A report came out that I think you were talking about maybe last week about Hezbollah presence in Venezuela for crying out loud.

They are everywhere.

So Hezbollah, this is really important.

Hezbollah is

one of Maduro's main guys, is a Hezbollah guy, and he has been allowing extremists to come in from the Middle East and train and be there in Venezuela.

We also know that there was another terrorist training camp like the one in New Mexico that was found in, where was that, Alabama this weekend?

And they're here.

They're here.

We know this, and it only makes sense when you have a million plus people coming into the border right now, coming in over our border.

We know that Hezbollah or Hamas has got to be in the numbers of those who have crossed our border.

So we don't know what they're planning, but I will guarantee you that there are people here.

that are under Iranian orders.

Radical Islamists

kind of sounds like you're saying radical Islamists and socialists would work together and that would cascade and that, you know,

be helpful, destabilize.

I know.

There's another one we've lived off of.

The accolades just keep coming in for that one, too.

It was the third parade was a little much for you.

Yeah.

I mean, that's all right.

It's

the ticker tape parade was nice.

The first one.

I mean, you get it.

It gets old after a while.

It does.

Just a lot of cleanup at that point.

The Iranian thing, I think, is going to continue.

I think there's going to be a lot of dog barking that's going to continue.

I do not see a full-on military

engagement.

I tell you, they're desperate.

They are desperate.

Because Donald Trump has taken the lead on this,

he has crippled their economy.

He has taken their

what is it, the yak or whatever they're using over there.

Yes, it's the yak.

The yak.

The real.

Yeah, the real.

He has collapsed their monetary system.

Collapsed it.

It went down by, what, 74%

as soon as we applied the sanctions, and it's not getting better.

Those went back in November, and that's only going to get worse.

The Trump administration put waivers on, I think, eight countries that were still receiving Iranian oil.

He just announced last week, coincidentally, when all these tensions started to ramp up, he said those are going away.

Now, for the past two years,

the European Union been telling Iran, no, don't do anything.

Trump is going to be out.

You know, there's going to be a new president.

He's a one-termer.

And not only the European Union, but John Kerry for crying out loud has been over there telling the Iranians the same thing.

So he's been colluding with the Iranians to say, look, don't worry about it.

Keep everything in check.

We're going to get a new administration in there.

We're going to do it a different way.

It's crazy.

Absolutely insane.

But this is exactly what they would have.

This is where they would have been if we wouldn't have had the disastrous Iran deal.

Yes.

Severe recession, a collapsing economy, their currency in free fall.

They are going to be forced to the table.

We don't have to give them all this stuff.

We don't have to legitimize their nuclear program and set them up in another few years to be able to make nuclear weapons anyway, which is exactly what it did.

We didn't have to do those things.

They were already at the negotiating table.

Here's the thing, and I said this in 2005 about Iran and South Korea.

And I said, South Korea is going to happen first, but we've got to to get to South Korea and be tough right now.

Because once they have nuclear weapons, there's only so much you can do.

You can't be as tough.

And look at it.

What are we going to do about South Korea or North Korea?

Nothing.

We have nothing we can do because all options at this point are horrific.

You cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon because once they do, you have no more good options left.

You're always left with do nothing or possibly engage in a nuclear war.

You can't do that.

Now is the time.

And once they get this weapon, it's too late.

You've got to be tough on sanctions and do everything you can to collapse them.

Look, the people want it.

The people there, this is not Iraq.

Iran, the people, it's different.

Those people are different than

the people were in Iraq.

And you have a chance because the people want revolution, but they want a stabilized, more westernized state.

Iran was a westernized state.

It was a successful state.

It was, you know, had bad leadership, but it was a successful state.

They have experience having that kind of rule.

Most people point to ISIS as having the first caliphate-type country or terrorist Islamist state.

No, it was Iran.

Iran was taken over by Islamists, and terrorists run that country.

And if you want to find out, like if you want to take them at their word, they say they want to destroy the state and the nation of Israel.

They are surrounding the nation of Israel.

You can't think in conventional terms

with a country like that.

And they are behind the attacks on Israel.

Do you believe the intelligence we got on an attack on us, our assets, or one of our allies, do you think it was on us, or do you think it was Iran?

I mean, Israel?

I think it was probably both.

That coincided right with the flare-ups in Gaza exactly the same time that all that started.

And again, it started with an Iranian-funded group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

They are the ones that kicked it off by firing at Israeli soldiers.

And the two oil tankers that were

blown up or had sabotage happen to them, they were both on the way to the United States.

So

they are trying to cripple our economy as well.

And that fits right with the intelligence as well.

That's an American asset on its way over here to the United States.

Thank you so much, Jason.

I appreciate it.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Thank you for

because this is the theme song.

If you don't know, this is the exact theme song for the game.

No, this is not.

This is a...

This is like some 13-year-old, you know, with their phone playing the theme song.

You think?

Yeah.

Okay.

So, it's

one more episode after this, right?

This is the second to last episode.

This is it.

I've only seen three episodes of the show, so I don't know a lot about the show.

Yeah.

But this is what I learned from this most recent episode.

And I think I missed the last week's episode.

However, it's possible the theme song was just so long

that I just joined it right after last week's episode's theme song ended.

Right, okay.

So I don't know.

Maybe I did miss one.

All right.

So Uncle Fester is a new character that joined this week.

He's

not Uncle Fester, but...

He looks just like Uncle Fester.

He's been there since the beginning.

I've never seen him before.

But he was writing a letter.

We learned that the Angry Elf is still alive, which is good because I missed last week's episode.

Uncle Fester and Jon Snow, who's a name I actually know now.

I used to call him, I think, goatee guy.

Yes.

He's now Jon Snow.

Is that one of the spoilers?

No, that was last

one of the spoilers.

I learned that last week.

They're saying the queen doesn't want to eat and shouldn't be left alone, which could be an anorexia thing.

I don't know exactly what I'm saying.

You know which queen?

The blondie, I think.

The blondie.

I think Queen Blondie.

Okay.

And Jon Snow apparently does not want to be king, which is something I learned here.

Queen Blondie, though, a nice open-air balcony with a sweet view.

I mean, I don't know.

Queen Blondie.

Queen Blondie.

She's living in a place.

It's like a loft of some sort.

It's beautiful, overlooks the entire mountain situation.

It's very nice.

Probably very expensive real estate.

So

that's Queen Blondie from last night?

I think so.

Okay.

Okay, I think so.

But this is the.

You're leading to me, one of these big spoilers.

All right.

So let me get to this.

Uncle Fester, he burns his letter and he hides his ring, and then he's brought to the beach at night.

But that's when we got this huge reveal.

This is a big moment, I think, in the entire series.

Where it is revealed that Queen Blondie's name is Daenerys.

Not something similar.

Not.

Because they said it, and they called her Daenerys, which I think is

not a, yes, and again, again not a not something new if you're watching it huge to me

there was there was something last night that i did see

uh about the dragon and the dragon's name did you catch that yet i did not catch anything about a dragon's name no okay because you you've you've you've already said the name of the dragon was

do you remember uh the name of the no i don't remember the name there was a name that came up with the dragon yeah

I don't remember.

Okay, well, you'll have to watch for it.

I'm not going to spoil it for you.

Okay.

There is some hidden truth about Jon Snow.

We don't know what it is.

Something hidden.

He's possible he transitioned.

Maybe it was

Joan Snow at some point previously in the series.

No, okay.

Queen Blondie and Jon Snow then make out.

Which you'd say, well,

why are you saying the transition thing?

But again, we're open here.

There's always these characters changing these stereotypes.

You're kind of missing the big parts of last night's episode, but go ahead.

Okay.

It's a little disturbing, because I thought I did well on this one.

I thought I really nailed this one, actually.

Okay, so if a city rings its bells, that means Queen Blondie is going to, or Daenerys is going to stop an attack that might happen.

Okay.

And then one of them says,

Queen Blondie says to the angry elf, Next time you fail me will be the last time you fail me.

So it's a pretty intense part.

I don't know what the relationship is, but they have some tension there.

I've noticed just generally in this region of wherever this is taking place, there's just not a lot of smiling.

There's just not a lot of happy times.

They don't ever seem to enjoy each other's company.

Well, you're kind of joining the series at the worst part.

Okay.

Although, I will tell you,

reflecting on it, I don't recall a lot of smiling ever.

Okay, so another big revelation that I think,

yeah, all right.

Angry Elf tries to tell an Obi-Wan Kenobi character some sort of secret.

And I noticed this is just pragmatically.

I don't even know what you're talking about at this point.

Well, he said he was going to tell this Obi-Wan Kenobi guy a secret, but just pragmatically, logistically, it's difficult because he's just so much shorter.

How do you tell, if you're three feet tall, how do you tell a six-foot-tall person a secret?

It's difficult.

There's a lot of, at least bending involved, but he just tries to basically just say it in a crowd, which is not a good,

not a good idea.

The Frumpy Girl, she's back in this one.

She wants to kill someone named Cersei.

Mm-hmm.

And then someone known as the stupidest Lannister is in prison.

That's what they called themselves, the stupidest Lannister.

So then Angry Elf gives an emotional speech to Stupid Lannister about

basically who was the only person, he was the only person around who was nice to him as a kid or something.

There's some like, I don't know, middle school drama going on between the two.

Then stupid Lannister also has a gold hand, which seems like it would be limiting in battle, but an odd choice.

And then there's a castle they show that may be attacked or something.

And the doors to break into the castle have an odd gap in between the doors.

Can I tell you something?

This is something I noticed too last night.

I'm like, they close the door and there's like a three-inch or four-inch gap.

And I'm like,

what is that?

You're trying to protect the castle.

It's like, it reminded me of

you're in a public bathroom and

the stall has that odd gap.

And you're like, why would they design it that way right because anyone can look in or in this case break in right which is not a good idea right um so there's two big armies kind of staring each other down um and it at this point i did note that i don't know why it's important or who they are so they're but there's two armies okay facing each other okay um then um

and i will say this you know there's a lot i'm not gonna give anything away about the battle or anything there's a lot of the stuff going on in the series where a lot of people prepare a lot of big weapons and they're fighting and everything and they're getting all excited And then a dragon just flies in.

And the dragon wins, like, it's very powerful.

I don't know if anyone's noticed this.

Like, instead of building all of the, like, axes and stuff that they have, they should probably have just worked on dragon recruitment.

Right?

Like, does Zip Recruiter have a dragon recruitment?

There's no dragons.

This is the only one left.

And they've killed two of the three.

It just seems like that's unlikely.

There's probably other dragons.

These haven't looked hard enough.

Right.

Get on Zip Recruiter.

Okay.

Look for dragons.

So that's what they should have been doing.

Yes, because they.

I was thinking about maybe fire extinguishers.

Or another good option.

You know, another good.

Some sort of asbestos suits.

That would be good.

That would be good.

Okay.

Yeah.

Now, considering all the stabbing and beheading that goes on,

just to die by the dragon's flame may be preferable, I would say.

You know, that yes.

And just get it kind of like you just get dissolved seemingly in an instant.

The stupid Lannister then got into fight with the lead singer of Coldplay, who apparently is in the series.

No, it's not.

That's not.

Uh-uh.

He didn't have a piano that said fair trade now or anything, but it looked like him.

Okay.

And then the stupid Lannister's name, this is another big reveal, I think.

The stupid Lannister revealed his name, I believe it's Jim Lannister.

No, it's not Jim.

It's not Jim.

But it's

difficult to trust.

you on something like this.

Really?

Yes, because you may be misleading me, and I don't know.

How about the next guy?

The big, tall guy, uh he's with frumpy girl and then he goes and he's gonna have a fight or something and his name is like sandal sandor or sandal no something like that no no well he goes and he fights a giant helmetless darth vader in a big battle and that was a pretty exciting scene that was that was really good okay good uh and he keeps stabbing the guy the guys just seem to pretty much enjoy it

um i've also noticed that just the environmentally I have some concerns about this.

It's very dusty throughout this entire region.

I think if all of this, if if there's a follow-up series, it may just focus on the Misothelioma lawyers that can kind of come in and take advantage because they're breathing all sorts of crazy things.

You got to get, I mean, bring a face mask.

So do you think that's where it started?

Maybe.

It's possible.

I do feel like those ads have run enough that they may have started back in this dark age.

But I would say the two big takeaways are Queen Blondie's name is Daenerys.

There's a guy named Sandal and a guy named Jim Lannister.

So you got those three big giveaways on Game of Thrones last night.

Thank you very very much.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Dave Isse, founder and president of StoryCorps,

is with us.

And he has started a StoryCorps, in case you don't know, you probably don't know if you don't listen to NPR,

But StoryCorps is

a service that was started by Dave and his crew many, many years ago.

And what they do is they just get people's stories.

And you go into a booth and you record it.

Well, he's starting something different.

It's the One Small Step initiative.

And when does this actually, when do we start to hear the results on this, Dave?

Hi, Glenn.

It's great to talk to you.

We are We're in full action.

We have results coming in all the time.

As you said, that Story Corps, the standard Story Corps is two people, and we're a nonprofit

in every possible way.

It's two people coming to talk to each other who know and love each other.

And with one small step, we're putting people across the political divides in a booth to remind us that people we disagree with are actually human beings and we don't want them dead.

And

when you're seeing these people go in, there's a difference.

People say say horrible things to each other online and

social media.

But when you're face-to-face, it changes.

And the second thing that changes is this is being preserved by the Library of Congress.

So these voices will last in our National Archives forever.

And people don't want to be...

you know, able to have their grandkids look them up and find their audio of them being a jerk.

You nailed it.

That's exactly why this thing works.

It's kind of the opposite of the impermanence of social media.

People are aware that their future generations are going to hear it.

And, you know, and I mean, you know this is you know this very well.

When you're face to face with someone, you know, you can build up all kinds of things in your head and social media is just

a dumpster fire, you know, for what it does to our brains.

But when you look at someone in the face and realize, you know, that you have families,

you love your families, we love this country.

You know, I saw, there there was a survey that i saw since i was on last time um 42 of people in each party view the opposition as downright evil 20 of republicans and democrats agree with the statement that their political adversaries lack the traits to be considered fully human and these numbers wait wait what was that last one yep 20 of republicans and democrats agree with the statement that their political adversaries lack the traits to be considered fully human.

20% think

20% think that the country would be better off if large numbers of the opposition died.

And these numbers are skyrocketing.

And that's what we're talking about.

Oh, my gosh.

Well, this is

a very, very serious problem that we're facing.

You know,

this goes back to what I've been saying for quite some time now.

And that is

we have to ask both sides because both sides are looking to win.

So what happens, and we're starting to not understand each other.

What happens if your side, I don't care what side it is, your side wins everything and you get everything that you want.

You know, 50% of the country is not going to be for that and not want to do that.

What's your solution?

And if we're starting to look at each other as not human,

we're in trouble.

We know how this ends.

We do, because we know about Nazi Germany.

We know about Rwanda, you know, when people were called cockroaches.

I mean,

there is an extreme danger in dehumanizing other human beings, and we've seen it before.

We've seen it in slavery, we've seen it in Nazi Germany, we've seen it before.

We cannot let the country go down this path.

We can't.

It is, you know, it's an extermination level.

It is potentially.

And we have the power.

And what's coming, we have the power to destroy the entire world now.

We do, but we also have the power to become the, you know, to beat this.

And, you know, our, you know, look, there's nothing that our enemies would love better than to see us at each other's throats

and America collapse.

And we have to fight this.

That's the amazing thing.

We keep arguing in Congress.

And

we're missing the point when it comes to Russia.

Russia, I was on the air three years prior saying, here's their plan.

They stated it.

They were looking to cause dissent between each other and to cause conflict.

The only winner in this whole last two years

when Russia is involved is Russia.

They've gotten everything they've wanted and more.

Yep.

Yep.

No, I mean it's it's it's perfectly executed and we've we've

acted exactly as you know our enemies Russia and otherwise would hope we would.

So you know it's our choice.

And you know, I hope that I hope that people will consider becoming part of one small step.

I do know we're going to be in Dallas pretty soon.

Are you coming down for the museum?

Do you know?

I don't know.

Okay.

Let us know when you're here.

I definitely will.

And we're going to be recording One Small Step interviews.

And if there are any, I know you have a lot of listeners everywhere, but Dallas

is a strong spot for you.

Write to One Small

Blah, sorry.

One SmallStep at storycore.org.

One Small Step at StoryCore.org.

S-T-R-Y-C-O-R-P-S.org.

If you're in Dallas, let us know if you want to participate.

We'll match you with someone who has a different political ideology than you, and you'll just

talk about politics.

But they want to

talk decently to you, right?

And you're just going to talk about your lives.

It's not about arguing issues.

It's not about politics.

It's not about finding common ground.

It's just remembering the humanity and people we disagree with.

All right.

So

what is the story you're going to bring to us today?

So today is just a standard Storycore story, and it's great to be able to come on and play a story every month.

This is just what happens in the booth.

This is not one small step.

It's the other half million people who've participated who just know and love each other.

And this is a dad and a son from Jackson, Mississippi, not too long ago.

The family's name is Sykes, and they came to StoryCorps just to talk.

So here's the nine-year-old with his father.

Do you remember what was going through your head when you first saw me?

I remember when the doctor pulled you out.

The first thing I thought was that he was being too rough with you.

And he actually held you like a little sprite bottle.

And he was like, here's your baby.

That was the most proud moment of my life.

Don't tell your brothers, because it's three of y'all.

But it was like looking at a blank canvas and just imagining.

what you want their painting to look like at the end, but also knowing you can't control the paint strokes.

You know, the fear was just, I gotta bring up a black boy in Mississippi which is a tough place to bring up kids period but there are statistics that say black boys born after the year 2002 have a one in three chance of going to prison and all three of my sons were born after the year 2002

so dad

Why do you take me to protest so much?

I think I take you for a bunch of reasons.

One is that I want you to see what it looks like when people come together, but also that you understand that it's not just about people that are familiar to you, but it's about everybody.

Did you know the work that Martin Luther King was doing was for everybody and it wasn't just for black people?

Yes, I understand that.

Yeah.

And so that's how you got to think.

If you decide that you want to be a cab driver, then you got to be the most impactful cab driver that you can possibly be.

Are you proud of me of course you my man I just love everything about you period the thing I love about you

never gives up on me that's one of the things I will always remember about my dad

you said it like I'm on the way out of here or like I'm already gone so dad what are your dreams for me My dream is for you to live out your dreams.

It's an old proverb that talks about when children are born, children come out with their fists closed because that's where they keep all their gifts.

And as you grow, your hands learn to unfold because you're learning to release your gifts to the world.

And so for the rest of your life, I want to see you live with your hands unfolded.

That is such a remarkable piece of audio.

Dave, thank you so much.

Glad to see me talk to you.

Good to talk to you.

And again, if you would like to be involved, just go to one small step.

Please email one small step

at storycore.org.

That's story

C O R P S Storycore dot org.

Thank you so much, Dave.

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