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socialism isn't so bad?

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so stew this whole idea

Hillary Clinton yesterday coming out and saying,

you know, I have to tell you the reason why I lost

is because Michigan,

they didn't want to vote for a woman.

Oh, that's the...

The collection of excuses is, it really does grow by the week.

Yeah.

Because I had just heard

she blamed it on the Supreme Court for the Voting Rights Act.

Oh, I think.

That's why she lost it.

Yeah, that was her latest one that I saw.

Well,

she was saying yesterday that it was the color of her skin and what she has in her pants.

Wait, the color of her skin.

So she lost because she was white?

Yeah, and Trump was

pink,

orange.

I don't know the difference there, but it's got to be a different color.

Anyway, she has come out and she has finally said, no matter how many people scream and yell for me,

no matter what the people say,

I just can't do it.

I can't run one more time.

I just can't do it.

So she has officially said she will not put her hat or her pants suit into the ring.

It's devastating for the

three or four people who would want that to occur.

Oh, my God.

Those people are very upset today.

We talked to Helen.

Helen's the Hillary Clinton supporter that wanted her to run, and she said she's very upset.

No one else in the household or anywhere around her or in the club, which only consists of Helen, is upset by that.

Oh, and also Bernie Sanders is hedging his bet.

He's also running for the Senate.

So he's.

The Bernie and Hillary people are still having their issues, by the way, because, you know, they were never really friendly.

And now the Hillary people

who were upset that Bernie gave...

Hillary such a hard time in 2016 are out planting stories against Bernie's run in 2020.

I wish I could say this made me sad.

Oh, it's fun.

This is, again, a giant bowl of candy.

Do you ever walk into

your grandpa's house and they just had a giant bowl of like MMs?

And every time you walk by, you take another handful.

That's what this primary is.

This is what it is.

It's amazing.

Every day, there's a new story about someone who isn't socialist enough.

Little digs at the campaign, little fights.

I mean, one of the things they're concerned about with Bernie Sanders is that he raised a bunch of money from small donors in 2016, which allowed him to continue his campaign well past the time he had any chance of winning it.

And that was something that Hillary's people complained about.

Well, now he's got all those small donors back because he obviously has all those lists again.

He's added more small donors.

They think that he can ride this thing out whether he's winning or not again, which is just going to make this socialist go on stage with a bunch of other socialists and have to out-socialize the other socialists.

And that is going to be delectable.

Yeah.

It's like if you had a bunch of bowls of candy and one of them is MM and then there's a peanut MM and then they have the peanut butter MM.

And you're like, which one?

I don't know.

Which one?

No.

And there's the mint MMs.

And there's the crispy ones.

And there's the caramel ones, which are delicious.

Yeah.

So we'll have that.

We'll have more on socialism and which candy jar you need to grab from in a second.

But I do want to report this from CNN.

There is no politician, not one, who has risen further faster than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

That's an interesting statement.

I don't know that I could disagree with it.

I mean, maybe you could say Trump, but Trump was so well known anyway.

I mean, he's been in the public eye for decades and decades.

Yeah,

she is as

known as anybody else and maybe more so, with an exception of Donald Trump, but she came from nowhere.

Right.

She was.

A year ago, we had no idea who she was.

Legitimately, last summer, I was was in New York City and walked by the restaurant she had just quit to start campaigning.

It's a Mexican, it's a tequila restaurant, maybe.

Oh, my gosh.

What a racist.

That's a Mexican restaurant.

Oh, really?

Is it?

Yeah, it's called a Tijuana something.

Okay, racist.

I'm pretty sure that's the location of the

particular place.

Two years ago at this time, she was bartending and waitressing in New York.

Now the New York Congresswoman is the face of the liberal left and the Democratic Party nationally.

Really, the face of the party.

I mean, she's basically running the party at this point.

At least she's trying to.

She's running it in the meeting.

Who else would be the face of the party?

I mean, Pelosi?

No, she's the face of the old party.

Right, the face of the hip Democrats versus the hip replacement Democrats.

Correct, correct.

Yeah, I mean, she does seem to be the center of all the energy in the party for sure.

When a politician or really anyone becomes a star overnight, there's an inevitable backlash that grows in opposition to the rise.

And less than three months into her first term in Congress, the AOC backlash has begun in earnest.

Now, listen to that.

Listen to that.

Do you remember what they used to say about the Tea Party candidates, that

they were gaining power and they were all crazy and too extreme, and there was this big battle going on?

Listen to this.

When a politician, or really anyone, becomes a star overnight, there is inevitable backlash that grows in opposition to the rise.

So they're not saying that she's crazy, too extreme, or anything else.

She's a star, and of course, these old people, they don't want her to take the light.

The spark came last week in a closed-door meeting of House Democrats.

Ocasio-Cortez warned colleagues that if they continued to vote with Republicans on procedural motions in the chamber, they could wind up on a list of incumbents ripe for liberal primary challenges.

Speaker Pelosi, who has found herself on the side of AOC a few times during the early months of Congress, was making the same case to members.

Members, especially those holding swing districts that look nothing like AOC solidly Democrat Bronx Queen's seat, took umbrage.

Umbrage.

There is, without a doubt, a myth that Ecasio-Cortez somehow represents the narrative of the Democratic Party in the country.

Alabama-based Democratic pollster John Alazone, who polled for Barack Obama 2012, his re-election race, told the Washington Post.

Over half of them identify themselves as moderate or conservatives.

Once again, another example of people identifying themselves as something they are not.

Yes.

That data showed that 51% of Democrats identified themselves as liberal last year, 47% call themselves moderate, and 13% conservative.

Here's the problem for the likes of N.

Zaloney or whatever, and

2020ers like former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who's running as a pragmatic problem solver.

The energy, the activism, yes, the money is all coming in from the mad as hell and not going to take it anymore liberal base at the moment.

That reality incentivizes candidates, particularly in the presidential race, to run as far left as possible because it's way over there on the left where they will get what they want in terms of political outcomes.

This is interesting.

I mean, it's a parallel example that you will not understand, Glenn.

Sean McVay, coach of the Los Angeles Rams, of course, you know,

one of the youngest coaches in the league.

In the league, I saw him.

Got to the Super Bowl last year, innovative coach.

He was crazy.

He is the media darling.

Right.

Because of him, tons of other coaches are now being hired that are young and innovative on offense and everything else, right?

Right, because of Sean.

Right.

And

you know who hated that?

Coaches who have been working their butts off as coordinators and linebacker coaches and quarterback coaches who wanted head coaching jobs.

Right.

And they see McVay is cutting the line.

And there was nobody happier than those coaches when the Rams lost the Super Bowl and McVay got out coached by Bill Belichick.

Now, I could take us out of the sports analogy that you're just nodding and acting like you understand for a moment.

Oh, I know.

I saw the Super Bowl.

But commercials.

The point being, though, that is a real thing.

No, it is.

When someone comes up and is the phenomenon, the people who have been there and see themselves as I've been working here, I've been slaving away and pushing for these changes my whole life.

And now this 28-year-old comes in here and is going to tell me how to run this party.

Akasio-Cortez, some waitress from the Bronx, is going to come tell me how to run this party.

I've been doing this for 20 years.

That is a that's just a whole nother layer of candy.

Now we've got like Mars bars.

We've got

fun size.

We have

the share size.

Have you seen that yet from MMs?

That no one ever shares.

No one's ever going to share that.

It's a giant bag with like a Ziploc top.

Why would you have the zip?

Stop wasting the money.

We're going to eat it in one sitting.

Gonna eat it in one sitting.

My mother-in-law brought this to me and she put it on the counter and it says share size.

I've never seen that.

I'm like, share size?

That kicks king size and fun size to the curb permanently.

That's fantastic.

Now, that's a lot of MMs.

Notice, by the way, you're a lot more passionate than the sports analogy on the screen.

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So the Washington Post has come out with five myths about socialism.

Yeah, and this is important for you to understand.

A lot of people in the audience are conservatives.

They're not going to get this.

They've been told all these lies, and now they need to know the truth.

Myth number one:

socialism is a single coherent ideology.

Now, at no point did I ever consider socialism to be coherent.

That's important.

Right.

That was the word I focused on, too.

Very strange, but they talk about, they give examples of people who are saying crazy things like, you know, Democratic socialists,

columnist Jenna Ellis wrote in the Washington Examiner, all are precursors to full-blown Marxist-Leninist communism.

An editorial

investors Business Daily, all forms of socialism are the same.

Many attacks on socialism as well.

Polls, gauging its surprising popularity, take for granted that it's a unified philosophy.

You know, again, not coherent, but unified.

Yet socialism, this is from the Washington Post, has multiple meanings and interpretations, which have to be disentangled before a discussion about its merits can begin.

You can't just judge it, Glenn.

It's too national.

One distinction centers on whether socialism is a system that must supplant capitalism or one that can harness the market's immense productive capacity for progressive ends.

Really?

Socialism is about how you can take capitalism and make it work better.

Really?

That would be interesting to a lot of socialists.

Karl Marx, who predicted the historical forces would inevitably lead to capitalism's demise and the government's control of industry, was the most famous proponent of the first type of socialism.

So that's just like, all right,

the history, forces of history, going to change this.

Capitalism can't last long enough.

That's the Marx one.

Then you've got Vladimir Lenin, who said he wanted a revolutionary vanguard to destroy capitalism.

That's type number two, according to the Post.

And by the way, he was a democratic socialist.

Just because people were afraid of communists, he said, we are too.

That's why we're a democratic socialist.

Totally different.

Totally different.

That's what we saw with the multiple decades afterwards.

Other socialists, however, did not accept the violent, undemocratic nature of that course.

Right.

Those were called progressives.

Although they agree that capitalism was unjust and unstable.

The left's role, in the view of these democratic socialists, the Czech-Austrian theorist Karl Kotsky, for instance, was to remind citizens of capitalism's defects and rally popular support for an alternative economic system that would end private ownership and assert popular control over the means of production.

I would say once again, Glenn, these first three categories, there is no distinction as to what they are.

It's just the means of how to get there.

How fast do we go?

Right.

Right.

Marx says it'll happen over a bunch of years with history because capitalism will fail.

Lenin says it's got to be a revolution.

Kotsky says, ah, well, you know what?

We'll have a,

we'll tell everybody how bad capitalism is.

They'll realize it and then come to our way.

It all ends in the end of production as far as private.

Could I just go to the Webster's dictionary?

Now, I honestly search for this thinking, well, it's not going to say that.

They've changed everything.

Right.

So here is the current online Merriam-Webster's dictionary definition of socialism.

Socialism, any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production production and distribution of goods.

Two, a system of society or group living in which there is no private property.

To be a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned or controlled by the state.

Oh, well, I can't see the last one because I just won a new iPad.

Oh, congratulations.

That's fantastic.

I don't need to win iPads, though, because I keep getting these wonderful inheritances from princes in

Nigeria, yeah, and I can buy as many as I want as soon as the cash comes in.

Sure, sure.

Well, I can't read the last one.

Okay, but you get to get the point there.

Here is how,

again, you see, all those would be what everyone thinks is socialism, right?

So they need to come up with a way to make Acasio-Cortez seem okay and her approach.

So, although Sanders, Bernie Sanders, and Ocasio-Cortez embrace the term democratic socialist, the policies they advocate place them much closer to yet another socialist tradition, social democracy.

Now, these are totally different because democratic socialists and social democracy have the same words in different orders.

Yes, which is totally different.

Totally different when it's social democracy or democratic socialism.

Just like national socialism is totally different than social nationalism.

If the Nazis came back today and said they were social nationalists, we'd all embrace them.

Yes.

Surely.

Yes, we would.

Okay.

So

social democrats say it's possible and desirable to reform capitalism.

This tradition dominates.

Hold on just a second.

That does not say that in the actual bills that they are now trying to pass.

No.

It says an end of capitalism.

Right.

We've seen,

we've read you column after column from actual democratic socialists who say very clearly what they want to do is end capitalism.

The new green deal says they're going to reform it.

The new bill,

not the thing that it caused the accord to the actual bill.

It was ridiculous.

This tradition dominated the post-World War II European left and influenced the American Democratic Party, most notably during the progressive era and the New Deal, inspiring Social Security, unemployment insurance, and the eight-hour workday.

This is exactly what the Democratic socialists don't want you to think.

They've told us specifically that this is not, they're not just New Deal Democrats.

They're much further than that.

And they are in this Washington Post trying to put a little shine on there and say, you know what?

They're saying they're socialists, but in reality, they just want Switzerland or Sweden.

That's all they want.

They want some big programs.

They love capitalism.

Everything's fine.

They're just using.

You got to understand, Bernie Sanders, an ideologue for 50 years pushing for this cause, just doesn't understand the terms he's using.

That is legitimately their case.

Now, you can certainly make a case like that over Ocasio-Cortez, who doesn't seem to understand the words that she's speaking on numerous occasions per day.

But Bernie Sanders doesn't understand socialism?

I mean, that is, it's insulting to the 947-year-old Bernie Sanders.

And that's just myth number one.

Myth number two is socialism and democracy are incompatible.

In a speech last month, Crisis in Venezuela, Trump argued socialism must always give rise to tyranny.

Socialism is pseudoscience enforced by political tyranny.

I wrote the Heritage Foundation, blah, blah, blah.

Communists reject democracy, of course, but other other socialists have strongly supported it.

Look, it always starts as democratic.

Unless it's a revolution, it always starts as democratic.

In fact, Maduro

was

a democratically elected president of Venezuela.

Normal guy, a bus driver.

He was democratically elected.

Then he decided, you know what?

I don't like this democratic election thing.

I'm going to fix it.

Now he's a dictator.

You're listening to Glenn Beck.

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So last night I finished watching the

documentary about finding Neverland.

And yesterday at this time, I said,

I believe them, but it was weird.

And I wanted an answer from the parents.

I couldn't see how did the parents not know, et cetera, et cetera.

Then I watched part two on HBO's documentary.

And there is no doubt in my mind that these guys

at least 100%

believe it and the families believe it.

I happen to believe them that this happened, but you know, a documentary, you're only seeing one side.

However, they completely rang true.

And it's not just these guys, it is their families as well.

And the way it has disrupted these families and torn these families apart,

they're just not that good of actors.

You couldn't fake this interview.

Do you agree?

Yeah, and I don't know why you would.

I mean, I guess if there was money involved, but for them,

they're not getting money from it.

The statute of limitations is already up.

Especially not after this.

Like, you could theoretically go to the family and try to harass them to give you a giant check.

But, I mean, after you're on TV and the documentary is over, they're not going to give you any money.

And I think they kind of tried that.

I think Robson went after the Jackson estate in 2013 or 14 and failed, and it was thrown out of court because of the statute of limitations.

And so

from that standpoint, there's not much to gain and you've sort of

then created this thing that I don't think you'd want that on

your reputation.

When you were watching

they didn't enjoy saying any of this.

No.

You could feel it.

I mean, when he was talking yesterday, Robson, the guy who was, you know, he did all of the choreography for Britney Spears and NSYNC and everybody, he's actually, he's turned into somebody.

And I watched it, and in the first episode, he's talking about, you know, how much he, Michael and he loved each other at the time.

And it was very bizarre.

He spoke about that last night, too.

Yeah, he did.

And the reason why he said, I testified in his behalf, was first, the first time,

because Michael had asked him and they loved each other and Michael had gotten out of his life and then he was suddenly back in and he wanted the attention from Michael and Michael was like, had told him from day one since he was seven, you know, we'll both go to jail.

We can't let them divide us.

And then the second time he testified later,

he tried not to.

He said to Michael, I'm done.

I'm out.

I don't want to be involved in in this anymore.

And Michael's team actually subpoenaed him.

And once he...

His sister said, Michael can't go to jail.

He won't survive in jail.

And that resonated with him.

Yeah, he said

that they went to Michael's house for dinner, the whole family before.

And he said, I saw Michael and he said he was a shell of a person.

And he's like, my sister was right.

He'd die in prison within days.

And I just didn't want him to go to prison and die in prison.

He also does a really good job, I think, of explaining that the first trial when he was 11, he didn't consider it abuse.

He considered it

an expression of, you know, as sick as it is, an expression of love from Michael, a 35-year-old man to an 11-year-old boy.

I mean, it's sad, but that's what his mind made of it all.

Yeah, I mean,

he was basically in an alternate universe, right?

I mean, mean, like, where rules are completely different.

Yeah.

He's not going to understand as a kid.

He's the most powerful celebrity on the planet.

And he loves you.

And he said, I looked at him like a dad.

And your mom keeps letting you go over there.

Right.

Right.

So, I mean, like, it all kind of aligns in your mind as this might be something that other people don't understand.

And the pain that they expressed in last night's episode

was

truly genuine.

They both had nervous breakdowns.

Right.

Yeah.

In fact, too, for Robson, and James Safechuck was kind of in a perpetual state of breakdown.

Yeah.

I felt bad for him.

In his adult years, he is really messed up from this.

And there was no,

remember, he didn't come out and try to sue the

Michael Jackson estate for anything.

He never came out.

He only came out after

Robson came out.

Right.

And he came out and said,

okay,

I have to talk to you because this happened to me too.

And he couldn't figure out why he was so depressed and screwed up.

And why he hated himself.

Right.

And he and he couldn't put it together and he couldn't make sense of what had happened to him with Jackson.

And then

Robson came out and then they started to communicate and it was the same story.

I mean, it's amazing how exactly the same those stories were.

Yeah.

You know what else was amazing to me is after the first trial in 93, whenever that was 93, 94,

and they had both been ignored mostly by Jackson for months or years at a time.

And then after they both testified, he was back in both their lives and big time and calling him every day again and having him come over again.

And he picked up right where he left off with the sexual abuse,

even after the first trial.

Unbelievable.

I mean, that's incredible.

It really is bizarre.

I mean, if you can't trust a millionaire musician to care for your child when he's sleeping over at his amusement park for a few months, right?

Who can you trust?

Well, that was the thing that I found interesting.

The mother from Australia, Robson's mother,

she's, I mean, this added so much credibility because she's been ostracized from her son now.

She's taking on all of the guilt.

The daughter is mad at the mother.

The other brother is mad at all of it.

And it's just destroyed this family.

And then there's another family.

The dad committed suicide.

Yeah.

And then there's another family

who lived in California that they bought him, you know, Michael Jackson bought him a house and everything else.

And they really considered them family.

If you watch

how they set up the story in the first episode, they just thought Michael Jackson was part of the family.

And mom, when mom found out that this was happening, she went nuts.

She went nuts.

She said she danced when she found out he was dead.

She really

took it, I think, appropriately.

She blamed herself for not seeing it.

As well she should.

And she blamed Michael Jackson.

Yeah, as well she should.

Right.

It's a Part one was one of the creepiest, most disturbing things I've ever seen.

I don't watch a lot of disturbing shows,

but this one was

maybe the most disturbing I've ever seen.

I didn't see

Schindler's list, so I don't know.

No, I mean, that was a little more disturbing.

Considerably more disturbing.

But I haven't seen that.

So this was one of the, I mean, you just feel icky after it.

Yeah.

Jackie couldn't do it for part two, but part two wasn't as bad.

Part two wasn't as bad.

Part two was, you could probably watch part two and get the gist of everything.

Yeah, probably.

Without watching all of the graphic details that you hear in the first part, which is so bad because these little kids.

Yeah, when you're seeing pictures of them.

They ruin these kids.

This kid was six.

Six when he was first introduced to Michael Jackson.

And you see him,

you see the videotape of him going back to Australia and being on like Good Morning Australia.

And, you know, Michael gave me this hat and everything else.

And you know that Michael had abused that kid.

You know, he talks about what had happened on that trip to see Michael and then he's abused.

Then he goes back and you see this little teeny kid on television.

You're like, oh my gosh.

So it's phenomenal.

Curious, because I did not see any of it.

What happens now, our system of justice, is a documentary is made, and then we figure out whether they're guilty or not, and then we make judgments, like, for example, like, you know, Bill Cosby, like, or R.

Kelly, and we pull all their music and their shows off the air never to be seen again.

That's happening.

Is that happening with Michael Jackson, you think?

Yes.

Supposedly, BBC2 banned his music, but they say they didn't.

But it hasn't been played

since I don't think we should do anything because of this documentary

except learn.

Except learn.

But, I mean, so Michael Jackson and his, you know, his estate doesn't get punished now that we have extensive evidence that he committed horrific crimes.

They're just going to keep playing like...

We're going to keep playing PYT like it's no big deal.

And like we don't know what's going on.

There's no defense.

He's not here to defend himself.

In the closet's just going to keep running.

You know, with the lyrics.

The lyrics of that are amazing.

Oh, man.

But like I mean is that what happens because I mean it's one thing to ban R.

Kelly's music, right?

Right.

It's not that big of a deal no in a cultural way.

I mean, I guess it is maybe with some

Michael Jackson's, you know, it's a lot of music to ban.

It's an entire era of music.

And not to mention, it influenced the next era of music.

I mean, he was what do you do with that?

I mean, they sample his song and how many other songs?

Do those get excised as well?

I mean, I think you still listen to his music.

I think his music is good.

He's dead, so he's not hurting anybody anymore.

He's dead.

I'm not glorifying him by listening to his music.

I am listening to his music because his music was good.

And it was part of our culture for so long.

I still watched the Cosby Show with my kids.

You know, I didn't tell them until it was all over.

You know, hey, by the way, you know, Dad Harry, he's not such a big rapist.

Yeah,

he went to prison.

But the Cosby show is still really good.

I mean, what's crazy about that is that entire decade, I mean, the two things you would use to define that decade culturally would be Michael Jackson and the Cosby Show.

Right?

Like those two shows.

The number one thing and the number one artist.

Yeah, and they're both completely destroyed now.

Crazy.

It's amazing.

I mean,

that whole era is just gone.

Yeah.

Not Reagan.

No, I mean, I mean, that's what I mean.

Not Marty McFly.

Yeah, no, that's true.

We'll always have Marty McFly.

Yeah.

We will have Marty McFly.

We will always have Marty McFly.

That's Star Wars.

Empire Strikes Back.

Yeah, Star Wars would certainly be.

I love Back to the Future, but I don't know if it would put Back to the Future as the lead of that decade culturally.

No, not the lead, not as big as Michael Jackson.

Star Wars, though, pretty obviously would be there.

I would say in the 80s,

Back to the Future was huge.

I was pretty definitely inside comedy.

It's not Star Wars, though.

No, no.

I mean, Cosby's show was like the Star Wars of television of that era, was it not?

I mean, it was the biggest show.

I think that's safe to say.

Yeah, I think that's safe.

And that is like, and that's gone.

And Michael Jackson was the Star Wars of music, and now that's gone.

I mean, Madonna was huge too, but I mean, Michael Jackson was, I would say, the peak of that.

And like they said multiple times during the special,

there's no one like that today.

And we may never, I don't think we'll ever have a star.

No, because everything's too fragile.

It's too fragile.

Everything's too fragmented.

You know, you can be a huge star in a little pool over off to the side that's not even little, but you can be a huge star and half the country have no idea who you are.

Where even I think we were the last generation, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Sean Annity,

we were the last of the people on cable news

that were big across the whole country.

It's not like that that anymore.

No, I mean, doing Christmas shopping this past year, you go down the toy aisle of Target or whatever toy store is open and still selling toys

in a place.

Every freaking other toy has the face of some kid that your kid watches on YouTube on it.

These are all just like kids who open up presents and their whole thing is they review toys or whatever.

Those are

today are all over the place.

And 90% of this audience has never seen them at all.

But if you have little kids, that's what they watch.

And those are the celebrities right now.

It's an

entirely parallel culture that is built.

And they all have deals with like Mattel.

Like all of the

faces are on every toy in the aisle.

You know who they also have deals with?

You know who represents them in most cases?

Ellen.

Oh, really?

Ellen goes out.

I'm sorry to say Satan.

No, Ellen.

Ellen goes out and her team looks for the next big little kid stars and reps them and gets them these deals.

And then brings them on the show, probably.

Brings them on the show.

On the show.

Introduces them to the parents.

Yeah, and then makes money off of the kids.

She's too smart.

That's annoying.

She's annoyingly smart.

Yeah.

Just like Pat Gray on Pat Gray Unleashed, annoyingly smart.

You can get him on YouTube.

Can we get you on YouTube, Pat?

You can get him on YouTube reviewing toys, but also on his podcast.

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another hate crime victim.

Oh, no.

And I...

This is everywhere, Glennis.

Everywhere.

Everywhere.

It's everywhere.

Chicago.

Wait until you hear the latest from the mayor of Lamar, South Carolina.

Oh, no, no.

It was, this is a hate crime that will go down in the history books of hate crimes.

Oh, no.

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Hate crime patrol.

Darnell Bird McPherson.

She's the mayor of Lamar, South Carolina.

She's the volunteer mayor.

I don't know what that means.

Do you just think that means she calls herself the mayor, but isn't actually the mayor?

I have a feeling that could be it, or everybody just stands around and is like, anybody want to do this job?

Well, I do.

All right.

Anyway, she says she was a victim of a hate crime after she found yellow sticky substance that had been sprayed on her car early last month.

McPherson had returned to her home February 7th and told Newsweek magazine that her husband went out to get some things out of the garage and the car.

They had both left their car outside of the garage the night before, and he came in and said, Somebody has painted our cars.

She went out, she said it was a grainy substance like an industrial spray foam used to patch concrete.

It was in like a

swastika.

Well, I mean, Newsweek said it looked like little pebbles, and the stuff was also on her husband's car.

McPherson told Newsweek she said it was a hate crime because, number one, there is a history of racism in our little town of Lamar, which I think you want, I think you want the mayor of Lamar going out and saying, oh, you know, when you think of Lamar, think hate crimes.

I think you move it right over to the tourism bureau because that's really nice.

By the way, that's not how our justice system works.

I don't know if anyone understands that yeah you know you're like you know what well there was a crime uh in this town 50 years ago so that must be a hate crime today so she says it's a hate crime because number one history during the 70s crosses were burned in the yards of uh of our home when my mother was involved with the civil rights movement it's the very same corner in this very same front yard so it happened in the 1970s and it was on the same location so i think if it's only a few decades and it's the same corner you automatically assume it's a hate crime.

Her statement noted, the incident happened last night.

My husband

and I

and our neighbor noticed that the cars looked like someone had spray painted both of our vehicles, which were parked right in our front yard.

She said, it ignited the same fear in my spirit.

My God, who would do that?

I thought.

It was something, it was unnerving to me.

And while no words or symbols were drawn with the substance, she told the magazine to me,

hate was the message.

Newsweek said McPherson had no possible motives for a person or people targeting her.

She said, I really have a good reputation.

I've never been subjected to something like this.

Now, she called the sheriff.

The sheriff came.

Sheriff Sheriff's Office Lieutenant Robbie Kilgo

told Newsweek

that when they were called out,

there wasn't a reason for us to collect a sample because it was

pollen.

It wasn't even paint.

She had left her car, which was normally in the garage

outside, and it was pollen.

Now.

So she got pollen on her car and reported a hate crime?

Well, who would do that?

It was a sticky yellow substance that was covering both her and her husband's car.

Right, but again, like, why would you...

There wasn't a swastika, obviously.

What was the

1970?

They were burning crosses on that corner.

You're saying that they're not going to put...

A pollen-like substance on her car?

Look, she knew.

She knew it was hate.

Although, who who knows, Mother Nature might be wearing a hood.

You don't know.

You don't know.

You don't know.

McPherson has said she does have another possible suspect in mind.

Wait, she's still sticking with us after the pollen thing?

You don't know the rest of the story.

There was a police officer, unnamed.

There was a police officer who came to me and said,

quote, there are rumors out there that someone's trying to assassinate you.

So she has asked local law enforcement to file a complaint about the death threat

as well as the yellow sticky stuff that the police strangely didn't want to take a sample of.

So she thinks the police are doing this to her.

No,

they just are turning their eyes away from somebody who is spraying pollen all over her car.

She said, I don't care about my car anymore.

What I want is my life.

So

there's your volunteer mayor

from

North Carolina.

So she is, after the pollen analysis, is sticking by the hate crime thing.

Well, because it wasn't an analysis.

The police came and they ran their fingers on the car, and her husband even says, yeah, it looks like it was pollen.

They ran the fingers on the car.

The other neighbors also have reported a strange yellow sticky substance on their cars when they leave it out at night.

But

she is

well, I should say.

I mean, she thinks it was something else, and she thinks she knows who did it.

But there's this rumor out that somebody's trying to assassinate her, and she doesn't care anymore about the car.

She wants to know who's trying to assassinate her.

So we have a rumored assassination of a volunteer mayor.

Okay.

Yes.

Uh-huh.

Yes.

This is.

Now, you might think that that has gone too far, that our society has gone over the deep end.

But then I bring you this story.

Jareth Nebula, 33,

has shunned human genders and now wants to be accepted as something else.

33-year-old

a 33-year-old who was born a woman but transitioned to become a man when

she was 29 and then became a he

now believes he doesn't fit into either gender and in fact

he has had his nipples removed because always a good move by the way you just don't need them people don't understand this they're you just don't need them they're they're like they're like the the tonsil just remove it whenever your first chance

your first chance is to just take those things off You just don't need them.

So, I mean, no Barbie or Kendall has them.

I mean, how do they live?

Right.

You know, I mean, like, oh, this is magically, they're the only people who don't need nipples.

No, no one needs them.

Amen, brothers.

Amen.

So he has taken his nipples off and shaves his eyebrows because

those things make him feel human.

He claims now that he belongs to another planet.

I tend to agree.

I tend to agree as well.

He's now living alone and wants people to.

Wait, what?

That's a stunning development.

Yeah, no.

He's, well, there's nobody else like him

on this planet, right?

Yeah.

There are many like him in the universe, but

not a lot, not a lot like him.

So anyway,

he just wants people to accept who he is, and he would prefer if everybody call him a thing

or it rather than he or she.

Now, he that's the least we can do for this Nipolis.

He or it has legally changed its name four years ago after coming out as transgender.

He said, It said, I firmly believe at that time that I finally found myself, but then I was wrong.

I wasn't male, I wasn't female, I wasn't even human.

human.

I don't think or feel like humans.

I can't really explain it to others because I'm simply otherworldly.

But I didn't feel comfortable as either gender or anything in between.

I know I'm stuck in a human form and that's how I'm perceived by others, but I am an alien without a gender.

Jareth says he didn't fit in when he was diagnosed with EDS, which is a lifelong condition affecting connective tissue and resulting in stretchy skin and an increased range of joint mobility.

He was born with this condition, but not diagnosed until he was 26.

He has been nicknamed Mr.

Elastic,

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I'm offset they're calling him Mr.

That's what I mean.

I mean, just you can call it it

Elastic.

He was nicknamed Mr.

Elastic by his doctors due to his stretchy skin, a condition that causes him chronic pain.

He said it's one benefit that he has as an alien because his skin is wrinkle-free and it makes him appear younger than he really is.

Now, I don't know no word yet on how old he really is.

He may be thousands of years old.

Fair point.

Jareth does not not want to disclose his birth name.

He said that its birth name?

Sorry, its birth name.

Now I realize it says why I could pop my joints out on purpose.

It was a fun party trick as a kid.

But that happens to me not because of EDS, but because I'm an alien.

If you are

any Democratic presidential candidate running in 2020,

what other reaction is there to this than,

well, that's just wonderful.

And I accept him for what he says he is

what it says it is.

An alien with stretchy skin and the ability to disconnect all joints at any time because he's thousands of years old.

And I mean, seriously, it really is what their stance would have to be.

Why on earth would you accept a man transitioning to a woman and just by a feeling in their head, as I believe Ellen described it, gender is just a feeling that you have in your head.

If this person has a feeling

in its head that it is an alien, why wouldn't you accept it?

No, you'd have to.

You have to.

To be consistent, you have to accept that that is what it says it is.

Now, here's the question.

Is it more compassionate to just to go along and call

her,

who transitioned to him and is now it, so call her

it?

Is it more compassionate to go, you know what?

Yep, you're from outer space.

You're an it.

And you should have your nipples removed.

And you should do all of these crazy things to your body.

You should do that.

Is that more compassionate?

Or is it more compassionate to say

you, you, there, there, there is.

You need help.

You need help.

You need help.

And then there is therapy that can possibly help you.

I can understand that you really feel this way because

I really understand.

I've had clinical depression and I know the power of the mind and what the mind can do.

But the more you think you're

an otherworldly alien,

the more you will believe you're an otherworldly alien, and that's not healthy.

So your question is, is hate more compassionate?

Is what you just did, which was hate, more compassionate?

I'm more.

Well, the next thing you know, I'm going to say that on the radio.

The next thing you know, I'm going to be taking pollen and spraying it all over his car.

That's true.

Can we dispatch with the hateful language to an alien?

I mean, undocumented traveler, maybe?

Thank you.

Thank you.

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As we've had a conversation about it, the undocumented space traveler who is here,

formerly a man, and previous to that, a woman.

But really the entire time, an it.

Let me run this one by you.

This is a story about Brendan Johnson.

Brendan Johnson is an 18-year-old senior wrestler from the Classical Academy in Colorado.

He was going for the state championship in wrestling, and he had a good shot at winning the actual state championship.

Got to, I think, to the final four.

And his matchup in the final four

was a girl.

And so he decided

to

forfeit the match rather than wrestle a girl.

And he said it was because of his faith.

He said he's never wrestled a girl since he picked up the sport in seventh grade.

And he said the physical aggression required in wrestling isn't something he's comfortable showing toward a girl on or off the mat.

Wow.

Wow.

What does a social justice warrior do?

I know, because I mean, we're told that men are so, I mean, basically, the Me Too movement has proved one thing, that all men abuse all women at all times.

And all women cannot protect themselves because they just do not have the power and the stamina against a man.

But they can do anything a man can do.

Of course.

Like wrestle.

Right.

So

now you kind of feel it's a weird one because it's not the opposite.

The opposite is, I think, really problematic where a male is,

quote unquote, transitioning to being a female and then beating up on women in the women's wrestling,

which is happening.

Which is happening, and that is something that's happening around the country.

They don't have a women's wrestling division here, so she has decided she wants to just go play in the men's and compete naturally in the men's division or the boys' division.

So

it's not one of those things where a guy is trying to take advantage of some transgender thing to win or to go beat up on women, which is for some reason acceptable.

And the other way, though, it is she's trying to compete.

And she, you know, her point is to, the whole time I've wrestled, it's just me trying to prove her point that I'm just a wrestler.

I'm not a male or female wrestler.

And so the fact that my gender is something that kind of holds me back is still a little nerve-wracking, but I respect his decision.

It's fine.

So I can, you know, you almost, like if a, a, I feel like in a physical sport like this, the lines are a little bit different, but if a, if a woman wanted to go play in men's tennis and

the, there was no female tennis division, I mean, I don't think a guy would have any problem,

you know, beating her handily, as by the way, I mean, has happened in the pros.

Yeah, hasn't that happened with Serena?

Venus and Serena Williams played.

I think the guy was ranked like 215th in the world.

This is when they were at their peak.

Right.

And he dispatched with both of them very easily.

And he also said he went out drinking the night before.

Just to prove a point.

Wow.

The whole,

we have this romanticized idea of Billie Jean King playing a guy who I think was, you know, I mean, he was like 70 at the time.

You know, like this idea that women can compete in men's tennis, I mean, it's been thoroughly at this point, at least at this time, debunked.

However,

this is an interesting situation.

She's trying to compete.

She made it pretty far in the tournament.

I mean,

if I was the father of this boy, I would be so proud of the way he was looking at this.

The fact that he just is so against showing any aggression towards a woman, he's going to give up.

And that's what he did.

He lost.

He forfeited the match.

He gave up his chance at a state championship, something he had worked for years and years and years to try to achieve, just because he didn't want to show aggression to a woman.

I would be incredibly proud.

Where's the justice in that?

But where's the justice?

Where is the justice in that?

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Hillary Clinton has said she's not running for president in 2020.

That's something that actually probably the Trump administration is legitimately sad about.

They really are.

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Oh, please, Hillary.

I mean, I just,

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Listen to this.

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What are your thoughts on the

Yeah, so I think that this is absolutely a complex issue.

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Now they're claiming it's not really socialism.

That's one of my favorite things about this one.

Because they all, you know, you can easily, it's easy to go back and say, well, the Soviet Union did it wrong.

It's easy to say that.

They were all on record saying Venezuela was doing it right.

They were going to visit Venezuela and say

what a wonderful example it was for us to follow.

And now that it's collapsing, now they're saying, well, see, you don't understand the distinction.

And we went over some of the myths about socialism, where one of them is

myth number four on the list is when socialism is tried, it collapses.

And they say communism certainly failed, but social democracy, which is different than democratic socialism, because the words are in different orders.

Just so you know, the difference between a social democracy or a democratic socialist country is that the leadership hasn't backed themselves into a corner far enough to where they have to suspend voting.

And that's what happens with Maduro, right?

He was

democratically elected.

Bus driver.

Guy who pulled himself up from his bootstraps.

And the socialists loved him.

Oh, yeah.

All the socialists loved him.

The Chavez people loved him.

He was very, very popular.

He was the guy.

And then, when it all started to come crumbling down, what happens?

Oh,

he suspends elections, or in his case, he just buys the elections.

One of his slogans in the poor areas was

roughly translated into: you give, I give, meaning you vote for me, I'll give you food.

Okay?

This was an absolute corrupt election.

And now everybody is using that to say, oh, well, this isn't socialism.

This isn't democratic socialism.

No, this is the way democratic socialism always ends.

And again, Marx was very clear that socialism was just a pit stop on the way to communism.

And democratic socialism is just a pit stop on the way to socialism.

And social democracy is just a pit stop on the way to democratic socialism, and the Democratic Party of today is just a pit stop on the way to social democracy.

It's progressivism.

They're just moving this, and they're going towards that goal.

And eventually, if they get their way, they will get all the ways to go.

Let me ask you this.

Let me ask you this.

Are the Democratic Socialists happy?

Are they done in England?

No.

Okay.

The Democratic Socialists say we want the National Health Service like we have in England.

Well, they're not happy about it in England because it hasn't gone far enough.

Are the Democratic socialists happy in France?

No.

No.

They're not happy anywhere.

They're not happy anywhere because they haven't gone far enough.

Right.

And this is the thing.

Because they mock this.

I think even in this piece, they mock about how people, back in the day, people said Medicare was socialism.

Well, guess what?

Medicare was a step towards Obamacare.

and Obamacare is a step towards Medicare for all.

And Medicare for all is a step towards Canada's health

system.

And Canada's health system is a step towards Britain, and on and on and on and on.

These are all just little incremental steps, progressive steps towards an end.

And every single play, I mean,

it's so laughable now, Glenn, because these things are happening so quickly.

The current system that every single 2020 Democrat is saying is

a must for our society, Medicare for all, is to replace a system they told us eight years ago was the solution.

They told us Obamacare was going to fix these issues.

And one president later, they are telling us we must go to single payer health care.

When we said at the beginning, this is just a Trojan horse for single payer.

And then the Tides Foundation

was kind enough to point out, it's not a Trojan horse for single payer.

I'm just telling you, it's right there.

And we will get there.

And we were called conspiracy theorists for saying that and playing that audio.

Now they're calling us a conspiracy theorist for saying, wait a minute, you have democratic socialists.

You have Ocasio-Cortez saying capitalism's not going to be around forever.

You have democratic socialists saying their goal is to stop all capitalism.

And now we're supposed to believe.

But just so you guys know, you're a conspiracy theorist.

If you ever think they're going to go one half of a pace past this position, we just saw they changed our entire healthcare system,

told us it was the solution.

The next president in his first term, by the way, they're telling us we have to scrap that system to give you another system, Medicare for all, which not one of them would even co-sponsor in 2013.

Not one of them, only Bernie Sanders would do it in 2013.

Now they're all on board.

All of them, all of them claimed that it was racist to say someone was socialist.

Now they're all claiming that they're socialist.

But when we say, yes, finally, what do they say?

Well, you misunderstand what socialists mean.

Right?

This is not.

No, we don't.

We don't.

The Democratic Socialists of America themselves have come out and said they are not looking to be Sweden.

Sweden itself has come out.

The prime minister of Sweden flew to America to hold a press conference to say, by the way, we're not a socialist nation.

We have a giant welfare state on top, but we are a free market economy.

Okay, now if anybody wants to live like Sweden, you should probably look into it.

In Sweden, you don't get to do what you want.

You don't get to live where you want.

Nobody's living in a 5,000 square foot home.

You're not living like that.

You're living in a little teeny apartment.

It's a country of about what, 10 million people.

Up until recently, all white.

There's no diversity in Sweden until recently.

As soon as they started taking immigration in, now they say, well, there's no unemployment problems in Sweden.

No,

there wasn't any unemployment problems.

It's down to, I think, 0.4

to 4% unemployment for white people, 20%

for immigrants.

Well, it doesn't seem like your socialist utopia is working, does it?

Why?

Because there are people that do not want to be Swedish.

They don't want to join in and be part of the club.

Well, that's the problem with America.

America starts to fall apart when people say, I want to celebrate our differences only,

and I don't want to rely on what's bringing us together, this idea of America.

There has never been a country like America, ever.

If you think that this country is screwed up, go to a country where they're all from there, always been there.

It's always been like this.

Everybody thinks alike.

Nobody's really speaking another language because their parents and their grandparents and their great-great-grandparents and everybody's parents and great-great-great-great-great-great great.

You can trace them all back from Germany and then Garden of Eden.

You look at those places,

they are just as screwed up, if not more.

And yet, we have taken all of the immigrants.

No country is as diverse as the United States of America.

And it has worked.

You can't replicate Sweden's successes here, whatever they are.

And again, what are they?

The average

new living arrangement for someone in Sweden, they live in 902 square feet.

902 square feet is the average new home, quote unquote, home in Sweden.

Now, I lived in a 900 square foot apartment in Tampa, Florida when we lived down there, in Brandon, Florida.

You know, at the time, I was making $32,000 a year.

And you know what?

It was a nice apartment and I liked it.

And, you know, it was not a bad life.

However, the average new home in the United States right now is 2,687 square feet.

So if you want a Swedish-style country, because everyone's being taxed at 70%,

you can have a country in which everyone lives in a moderate-sized apartment, even when you've come to the peak of your earnings life.

You can have that world.

It does exist throughout Europe.

The Washington Post describes it as the single most successful modern ideology or political movement, social democracy or democratic socialism.

They say communism certainly failed, but social democracy has arguably been the single most successful modern ideology or political movement.

Where?

Where there's Europe?

They say Europe at post-World War II, fast growth rates, and they go over some of that stuff.

Excuse me.

Yeah.

They

rebuilt Europe.

Yes.

With what money?

Theirs?

Our money.

Okay.

And they didn't have to pay for a military.

Can you imagine if the United States didn't have to pay for its own military, how fast we could have grown?

We still outpaced them while we rebuilt them and we provided their military.

Yeah.

And let's not also ignore the fact that the United States wins basically every Nobel Prize for invention.

Except for Israel.

Israel is up there with us.

Israel does well as well, especially per capita, but we wouldn't.

We make we innovate everything with our capitalist system.

Yes.

Then those inventions with American companies get spread around the world.

Those countries aren't doing the research on those things.

Those countries aren't developing these things.

They take advantage of what we've created and good for.

I want that to be the system.

I want them to take advantage of the things that we've created.

It's a great system.

It's why billions of people have been pulled out of poverty.

But let's not ignore where that came from.

It came from here, not social democracy.

Social democracy lives on the back of us.

Without us, it collapses.

They are a parasite on us in a lot of ways.

In a good way, by the way.

I'm glad that this is.

Symbiotic.

Yeah.

Symbiotic parasite.

How's that?

Yeah, I don't think that's a bad thing.

Parasite has a bad connotation.

A lot of people, a lot of species survive this way.

It's It's not a bad thing.

It's not hurting us.

I think it's improving us.

The fact that we have to do all these things and these innovations wind up being carried around the globe, ripping, again, billions of people out of poverty.

We've solved so many things that seemed completely unsolvable just a couple decades ago.

If America disappeared overnight.

So does social democracy.

You know what it turns into?

Democratic socialism and then socialism and then communism.

Because they will, without us, without the success that they have, which again is largely based on innovations that we have created in the United States.

And these countries are, they pay for them, but they don't have to pay for the entire research phase.

When they're created, they say, oh, we should buy those things.

In fact, they don't pay for a lot of the research.

We still pay the highest price for our own products, our own prescriptions.

We are the wealthiest 1%.

And so we pay the highest rate because we're the ones paying for all of the invention.

The rest of the world gets it discounted.

And

they're the most successful.

It just shows how

blind and stupid the people are in

the press that write these things or how much of an agenda that they are a part of.

I mean, it's one of the two.

You're either stupid and blind, or you are a useful idiot, and you know exactly what you're doing.

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Such ominous rhetoric isn't exactly new.

I want to take this story and share this with you because they make our point exactly.

And for some reason, you have to live in this delusional world to not see that you're engaged in new speak and doublespeak.

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Hey, what do you say we take a break from the world that

we're supposed to be in?

The world that we where we have to worry about every tweet and every

remark and judge whether it's racist or homophobic or whatever.

What do you say?

We just be people for a minute.

If you have a hard time in your own family coming together, if you have friends that you miss and you want to come back together,

we're going to share a story of two people who did just that.

And we'll do it in one minute.

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So Dave Isse is a friend of the program, and he is the founder and president of StoryCorp.

And StoryCorp is this amazing thing that usually runs on NPR.

And

to me, it's tragically sad because it tells an American story.

And like everything else,

the country is divided.

And so

we have these American stories and they become the stories of the left.

Or American stories become the stories of the right.

No, they're American stories.

And Dave has

been

strong enough

to

make an appointment with me, I don't know, about six months ago and say, Glenn, we're starting something new, and we really want to invite your audience to participate in this.

So it is truly an American story because we have to start listening to each other.

And I welcome Dave Issay to the program.

Dave.

Glenn, great to be back.

Yeah, thanks.

What story are you going to share with us today?

I think we're sharing today the,

as you said, Story Corps has been around for 15 years.

And for

half a million people who know and love each other have come and recorded an interview with one another.

And we started very recently what I came to talk to you about, this project One Small Step, where we're bringing people across the political divides into a Story Corps booth where these interviews go to the Library of Congress so your great-great-great-grandkids can get to know you through your voice and story, building people, bringing people across the divides to the booth

just to remember that

we're people, we're just people.

And I think, David, the secret to this is, perhaps, that it is being recorded for the Library of Congress, and nobody wants to be remembered as being a jerk 150 years from now.

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: That's exactly right.

I mean, I think part of the secret sauce here is that it's in so many ways the opposite of Twitter

because you realize that, you know, this is how your great-grandchildren are going to hear you.

So you want to be your best self.

And that's who, you know, that's who we are.

We're born, you know,

one of the lessons of Story Core is the basic, you know, goodness of people and how similar we all are to one another.

So this is, I thought I'd play a very early One Small Step test interview

today.

And this is this is from Boston.

And it's a 29-year-old woman named Jen Stanley, who's a writer, and her father, Peter, who works in construction, who's conservative.

And they came together.

We're focusing now on strangers in one small step, but this was a family interview just to see what would happen, what could happen when we put family members together in this safe space to feel free to have a thoughtful and honest conversation.

Here it is.

I try to not bring up politics, but you always watch the 5 o'clock news, and the minute any politician steps on, it doesn't matter who it is.

I just cringe and

yeah, but you have to say something, whereas I would like to just pretend it's not happening.

But maybe the answer is we don't watch the news when you're there.

Maybe.

But now I feel like we've gotten to this point where we're together and we're fighting about politics.

And those would be the times when I hear you say, I can't even talk to you, Dad.

And if you're going to get so angry and flip out about it, then you know what?

I'd rather you didn't talk to me.

But see, this is what drives me crazy, though.

You start these conversations out.

Well, I ask questions.

What do you think about this?

And what do you think about that?

It's me trying to glean information from somebody who is significantly more educated than I am and whose opinions I trust.

I'm really surprised to hear you say that.

I had no idea that you were genuinely interested in what I had to say.

I thought that you wanted to tell me how I was wrong and also make a joke about how I was silly.

Well, I would never feel that way about you.

I have nothing but respect for you.

I don't agree with you all the time.

I don't agree with you most of the time.

But that's okay.

We have a lot of things in common.

And I do know that everything you did when you were a little kid was because you wanted to be like me.

You even played softball, which you hated because I loved it.

I did really hate it.

I mean, I just really worshipped you, Dad.

I just thought that like everything that you thought and said was right.

And you were just my best friend.

But I think as I got older, I realized that you were really wrong about a lot of things.

Well, you're probably right, Jen.

I never profess to be right about everything.

The important thing in our relationship is that you have your own beliefs and that I respect you for your beliefs.

You were raised to be a sensitive, caring person, and that's exactly who you are.

You say that, and I feel loved.

But I will say, I think you used to like me, and I don't necessarily know that you like me anymore.

Oh, yeah, I like you a lot.

It doesn't make me feel good good that you say that.

I don't agree with everything you say you do,

but do I like you?

Yeah, you bet I do.

And I'm extremely proud of you.

You know, when my time comes to say, yeah, my father was a good man.

We didn't agree politically, but he was a good man.

And if you can say that, then I'll be happy.

I don't think that you're right all the time, but I think you're the best man.

Oh, thanks.

And you're the best dad.

I bet there's a lot of people that are suffering with this and wish they could heal the divide.

Let me ask you this, Dave.

I noticed that their language was very different.

He never said she was wrong.

He said over and over again, I don't agree with you on everything.

But

she said several times, and it struck me,

you know, I found out that you're very wrong on things.

Did you notice that?

And

is there something to learn from that language?

You know, I didn't notice that.

You know, I think what's happening is that it's two people

who are having a conversation that they haven't had before.

And, you know, it could flip.

You could have the conservative person

using that language and the liberal person not.

I think it just happens to be the dynamic in their ages.

But

what's striking to me is that.

Do you know which one is which?

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, so the dad is conservative and the daughter

is liberal.

But one of the cool things about these one-small step interviews, actually, is that

when you listen in on these,

and we ask people not to talk about politics.

What all this is about is that Mother Teresa line, we've forgotten that we belong to each other, just seeing the humanity in people who we disagree with.

And I actually think of

the culture of,

you got to this a minute ago in the intro with Stu, the culture of fear and disgust and division represents, and I don't know if you agree with me on this, but I've come to think, especially in the last couple of months, it's potentially an extinction-level threat to

see.

Oh, I agree with you.

And I think that

it's our job, like with smoking.

Smoking at one point was thought of as cool and sexy.

And now being, you know, kind of being at each other's throats is considered cool and hip.

And I think that in the same way, we have to start looking at the way we're treating each other in this country

as less than human, as extremely dangerous and not okay.

But if you listen into many of these conversations, you will have no idea

who's on what side.

They're just people talking to each other in a way that you never hear anymore, which is just being human with each other.

How do people get involved in this?

So we are still, we're still testing.

We're hopefully going to go and really start scaling this thing over the next six months.

But come to StoryCorps, which is S-T-O-R-Y-C-O-R-P-S dot org backslash one small step, which is one word, storycore.org backslash one small step to sign up.

And you'll be on a mailing list.

And as we start to roll this out across the country and hopefully, you know, spreading

this idea that it's our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people we disagree with.

You will be a part of it, and

you'll be on the front lines

as we take this to the country and, you know, again, just try and take one small step towards one another again.

Dave, thank you so much.

Glenn, thank you for having me on.

You bet.

Dave Isaac.

I'll talk to you next month.

You got it.

He's the founder and president of StoryCorps, and you can follow it at storycore.org.

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Boy,

the people in

Alabama,

this is just such a devastating tornado.

Is this really late for a tornado or early?

Are tornadoes usually in the summer?

I mean, I didn't grow up in, you know, around around tornadoes, so I don't know.

But usually tornadoes are because of hot and cold hitting each other, right?

Yeah, they're saying now they're a

what was it, a mile wide?

They're saying the devastation was a mile wide for this thing, 170 some odd miles an hour wind.

You know, I mean, it's killed

23.

Yeah, it's a couple dozen people, and I think it's, you know, they think they still think it's probably going to go a little higher.

They say all 23 victims now have been identified, and they're hoping that it's not going to go anymore.

But the youngest victim was six years old.

I mean, brutally, you just look at this, it's just an entire town's just completely wasted.

It's crazy.

Tornadoes are, I know, I've lived all over the country.

I lived in the Seattle area when Mount St.

Helens went off.

You know, as long as you're not living on the mountain or where a lava, the lava can flow.

I've not lived in California, earthquakes and mudslides.

I've lived through an earthquake before, scare the hell out of you.

But I think tornadoes are the worst.

You never know when they're coming, right?

There's not, you know, because like hurricanes are a big thing.

You know, we lived in Florida and, you know, hurricanes were a threat.

You have time, but you at least have a warning.

I mean, it can be very devastating, but at least you have a warning to get out of the way.

Especially when they come at night.

A tornado coming at night.

I mean, you don't even have anywhere close to an opportunity to do anything about it.

You just hunker down and hope and pray.

And, you know, that's all you can do.

They're so scary.

My kids are so afraid of, because the tornado sirens will go off probably once a year near our house.

Sometimes they've gone off, I think, three times in a season, and scares the hell out of the kids.

Just scares the hell out of them.

Do you have a like separate shelter type of situation?

We have one, we have one in the house,

but it's not a, you know, it's not like a bomb shelter, but but we can go underneath the house, which is where you're supposed to go.

But it's, it's terrifying.

It's terrifying.

People who have built shelters that, because I looked into a shelter and I was like, you know, we'll build one right outside the house.

They said, don't build it outside of the house.

Because if you build it outside of the house, you will go in one time.

And then you'll sit there and you'll wait, maybe two times, but you're going to get wet.

going out of the house, going into the shelter.

And then what you eventually do is you're like, well, you you know what, we'll wait until it gets really bad.

Yeah.

And then it's too late.

You know, it's interesting.

The documentary, Twister, that many people know this, you know, shows the idea that you could just hold on to a pipe in the middle of a field as you're getting hit by an F5 tornado.

Sure.

Not actually the case.

Not actually the case.

Now, I know you're not going to be able to do it.

What if you're following it with ping pong balls?

Well, that's okay.

You can definitely say that.

That is definitely how this is.

And Philip Seymour Hoffman is somehow still always there.

But it just doesn't seem like it's one of those things that necessarily is a good idea.

They were talking to a couple

who was hit by a tornado like this several years ago, survived it, and they were saying that we...

That's what we did.

We just tried to hold on to something, and it doesn't matter how hard you hold on to it.

It just takes you and throws you across.

And they actually were thrown in the air and survived it, which is incredible.

I mean, when you think about it, you think of that.

And that's the thing about tornadoes that are so difficult.

We had those tornadoes a couple of years ago that were really devastating that we talked about.

And for those out there chanting global warming at their radios, there is no trend.

In fact, there's a slight decrease in the trend and the amount of hurricane tornadoes that are hitting our country over the past hundred years.

So that's a BS talking point in case you happen to be interested in that.

But you look at a town that is completely devastated and dozens of people die, and then they show drone footage, they zoom out, and the streets right next door are completely fine.

Oh, it's crazy.

It is insane how localized it can be.

And honestly,

the number one defense against tornadoes is statistics because it's unlikely you're going to get hit by one.

Unless you live in Moore, Oklahoma.

But even if you live in Moore, Oklahoma, I mean, your chances are low that you're going to get hit.

But it seems to always get hit.

Why?

It's a little teeny town.

Why?

It always forms over Moore, Oklahoma.

When I went to see Moore, when it was really devastated the last time,

we went out and...

Did you go with me, Stu?

No, I did not.

So I went out and we drove all night to get there to get supplies and water and

everything else.

And we got there.

And on one side of the street, complete and total devastation.

Nothing was left.

And my grandfather used to talk, he grew up in

Iowa, I think.

And he said tornadoes used to come through.

And he said

the winds were so strong that they would drive straw and drive them into the telephone poles.

And sides of barns would have straw sticking out of it.

And I found that so hard to believe and understand growing up.

And when I went to Moore, it had taken the house across the street and made it into a pulp and sprayed right across the street, sprayed this whole side of this movie theater with this pulp that was somebody's life just a few minutes before.

And everything on that side of the street was fine, except it was covered in this two inches of pulp that was a house.

I mean, it's incredible to see the power of these things.

Yeah, more Oklahoma has been hit by,

I mean,

depends on how you calculate major, right?

But since 1999, they had one in 1999 that killed 36 people, injured 583.

Then 2003 had a tornado that injured 134.

2010 had a tornado that killed two, injured 49.

2013 had a tornado that killed 24 and injured 212.

I think that's the one I was at.

Yeah, that's probably the one you were at.

That was, I mean, I remember that one.

But I mean, that's since 1999, four major

tornadoes.

Why, why, why?

If the insurance company is giving you money, why

live in Moore, Oklahoma?

Why?

But again, look at this.

You're talking, I mean, I don't know the population of Moore off the top of my head, but you're talking about

62 people

in 20 years that died from tornadoes.

Still, but you have a tornado coming through.

I mean, how many tornadoes have you had?

I've never had a tornado come anywhere in my town since we've lived here.

I don't think that's.

I mean, they've been, maybe not in your town, but in our area they have been.

We're talking about town.

F-2000,

five, six, seven.

There have been eight since 1999.

And I will say one, two, three.

Three of them were very minor, F-0 or F-1s.

There was a minor F2 as well.

So, I mean, really, they've had

a teacher.

I'd like to live in a town with zero.

Oh, yes.

Of course, zero is the right number.

I get it.

But if you love your town, you know.

How about one?

How about two?

How about not as much as more, Oklahoma?

You're listening to the way that's not a crazy question.

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So, Stu and I are having an argument now about the safest place to live.

And I say it's, you know, my town, Mount Vernon, Washington, or Bellingham, Washington, where I grew up.

And

he said.

You were wrong, completely wrong.

It's third, third best

in the country.

Because you were like, come on, it has extreme weather.

Every place has something.

No, there's no extreme weather in Washington state.

There's no extreme weather.

It's just always rainy.

Always.

Right.

Always get some snow.

It gets cold.

It gets below 32 degrees in Washington.

So he gets four inches of snow.

Once in a while.

Once in a blue moon, and you get 12 inches of snow.

That's a lot.

It's very slick.

Everybody just stays at home and it melts.

We even get snow here

in Texas.

Yeah, actually, they list Dallas as the worst in the nation.

What?

Yeah, they say

lots of almost everything but quakes.

They have twisters, hurricane remnants, hail, wind, drought, and floods.

Yeah.

No mudslides.

You know what, guys?

You shouldn't move to Texas.

I guess that's the answer.

Yeah.

Especially if you're from California.

But yeah, no, it's the southeast that is really the biggest problem.

I mean, I remember, you know, look, I moved here for the weather,

mainly.

Forget you and your stupid show.

I only came here because of the weather.

We did not do our research on weather.

I just listened to God.

Where should we move?

Hello.

I did plenty of research about weather before coming here, and I love it.

I love the weather here.

I hate the weather here.

Why?

It's either cold or hot.

It has like one day

where we'll have it in probably April or May where it's like, oh my gosh, open the windows.

It's beautiful.

It's Friday, the highest 79.

79 this fifth.

And then tomorrow, the next day, it could be 40.

It could be.

Yeah.

It could be a lot of things, Glenn.

But it usually is very cold here now, it's like in the 30s right now, yeah.

And then it and then it gets so it goes from cold

without really snow or anything.

You know, if you have anything extreme, it's ice.

That's not fun

without any, and there's no sanding for the roads, they don't have a salt truck, they have nothing.

If it has ice on the road, stay home or you're dead until the sun comes out.

And it could be 80 the next day, it still could be 12,

and then in the summer, it's like a hundred and you know, 102, 103 with humidity.

This is a mass misstatement of fact here.

No, it's not.

If he's this accurate on,

I might vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for president if this is your level of analysis.

Because, you know,

look, it's much better here in the winters than it was up north.

You don't get the cold.

I mean, you have a few days a year where it gets around 30 degrees, but that was like the best day of the freaking year.

I know that.

I know that.

So I'm not comparing it to New York or to the Northeast.

That sucks.

Everybody knows that.

Well, that's where we moved from.

Why do we know that?

Well, you're going to move someplace and why we move to someplace like Arizona where it's nice.

Oh, because Arizona doesn't get hot.

That's true.

No, Arizona gets hot, but the other six months out of the year, it's paradise.

No, it's very nice.

Paradise.

As long as it's warm, I can deal with it.

Because I'm not moving to California, and that's perfect.

I disagree.

It doesn't get warm warm enough in California.

We went out in California.

I took a vacation, a summer vacation to San Diego, which San Diego is awesome.

I like San Diego.

It was too cold to even go in the pool.

It was like 70.

I want a summer.

You just don't like the wind.

And you probably don't like it.

It was cold at night.

But it's 70 degrees outside as a high temperature.

It's not swimming weather.

Not to me.

I'm a wuss.

I want it to be 95 degrees.

I could just hop in the pool.

It's beautiful.

You get out.

You go inside of the air conditioning.

The average temperature in San Diego is 77 degrees, and it is perfect.

Perfect.

It's got a nice breeze.

Some

great days.

I like the Pacific Northwest.

I like the west coast where there's no humidity.

You got a nice breeze going all the time.

And at night, even if it's blistering hot during the day, it's not at night.

The sun goes away and it somehow or another cools down.

Here in Texas, the sun goes away and it's still 100 degrees at night.

You're like, what's happening here?

Let me tell you why the sun goes away because Kim Jong-un has just fired a nuclear weapon and it can hit you.

That's how it goes away.

It becomes nuclear winter.

You like that?

That's your option there.

We're in the middle.

Nobody can reach us.

Nobody can get to Dallas.

It's way too far for Miss Muslim.

It's exactly what I'm believing for the rest of my life.

What do you think it means?

It is actually listed as the worst.

I mean, we do get tornado warnings sometimes.

Hail for sure.

It's a big deal here.

Wind, oh, yeah, it's really windy.

Drought, sure.

Floods, yeah.

I mean, I, yeah, yeah.

And hurricane remnants.

I mean, you're stretching out hurricane remnants.

It rains.

Houston gets hit really hard with a hurricane and then it rains.

Yeah, we're not affected by.

Yes, we do get rain from hurricanes, but please.

It helps us with the drought.

What?

You're complaining about everything now.

I'm a little depressed.

That's why I'm taking uppers to get rid of the downers.

Right.

Right.

I mean, geez.

So I don't know.

I guess you're right, though.

It does look like the Pacific Northwest is the place to avoid extreme weather.

But then

you have to deal with all of the progressives and the socialists and the crazies and the anarchists and

the people who were rejected by California.

California told most of those people, get out.

You're too weird.

I would think it would be the reverse.

No, all the rejects, all the rejects from California that went down, like, I am just going to live.

And then they got down there and they're like, oh my gosh, this is just so fake.

And so then they went up to California, went up to Oregon, and they were like, the people in Portland, they don't mean it.

And so then they moved to Seattle, and you can't go any farther north.

And that's when Canada built the wall.

Yeah, that's in Canada.

They got a peace arch.

That bull crap, that's a peace arch.

That's keep your progressive hippies out of our country.

That's what that is.

I don't understand.

Those policies are working so well, Glenn.

Like, for example, the $15 minimum wage,

huge success in Seattle.

Really?

Doing really well.

Now, every Democratic candidate has embraced it as part of their platform, except for Bernie Sanders.

I will say Bernie Sanders said at least $15 minimum wage because that's an old school proposal.

There is a new study out about New York City who got to a $15 minimum wage.

And honestly, that's a city that needs one.

I disagree with that completely, but I do understand what your point is and that it's expensive.

I'm not saying that you need a minimum, I don't believe in that.

Pay

what the market bears.

But

compared to, you know, Des Moines, it does not need a $15 wage.

New York, it is hard to live on $15.

There are places that are going to have a $15 minimum wage that that's a lot of money for that market.

Right.

I mean, there should not be a, we've made this point many times, should not definitely not be a federal minimum wage.

I don't think minimum wages do anything for the economy or for people anyway, but at least you can argue it

if you're going to customize it to an area.

Right.

The idea that you go to $15 minimum wage nationally is completely insane.

In Washington, excuse me, in New York, the $15 minimum wage has been implemented.

It's ramping up now.

And as it ramps up, the New York restaurant industry has only experienced the worst decline in restaurant jobs since

recorded time.

Right?

Yeah.

You'd think.

The Depression.

Well, I mean, most people would say 2008 Depression, right?

Like we had a major recession in 2008.

All employment went down dramatically, and it did go down in New York with the restaurant situation.

But no, this goes back to 9-11 for New York.

So 9-11, if you remember,

half of New York,

half the island was closed.

Right.

That was pretty much it.

And in fact, the last two, 2008 and 2001, were the last two drops.

Both, of course, occurred in real recessions.

Now, as of right now, we don't think we're in a recession, although the possibility of one seems to rise in probability kind of by the day.

However, this drop was more dramatic than even the 2008 financial collapse.

And that's just because, you know, hey, they wanted to give a little bit more money to the average worker to make a living wage.

And it makes

it so good.

Wait, how is that killing restaurants?

Well, restaurants have to pay these amounts.

Yeah, they just charge more.

Yeah, no, apparently not.

Apparently, that's not working out.

They're just letting

out.

And the people of New York don't want to pay more?

Yeah.

And was it Cuomo that just came out and said, by the way, you know, here's the other side of the fun millionaire taxes we've been having?

They've all left the state.

All the millionaires have left, and now we're $2.4 billion short than where we thought we were going to be with tax revenue because the millionaires are ditching us and going to other states where they don't get, you know, attacked.

Remember, they're talking about a millionaire tax of 70%.

Wasn't that the exact percentage that France said that they were going to put on their millionaires?

Remember, they did this.

And Girard Depardieu and all these people left and went to Russia.

Went to Russia.

That's how bad it is.

And said, fine, you're going to do that.

I'm going to Russia.

And they left, and it caused all kinds of misery in France.

And so they repealed it.

This is the problem when your policies aim to punish the most mobile and

affluent people around.

They can all go wherever the hell they want.

And when you tell them we don't like what you do,

their quote-unquote shouldn't be any billionaires.

Elizabeth Warren is proposing a wealth tax, which almost certainly is unconstitutional, as

basically every legal expert and constitutional expert, because the 16th Amendment specifically made it so you could not go after these types of property, but she's going to try it anyway.

Bottom line is,

you keep targeting people like this, they're going to want to leave.

And if you target,

it's easy to target poor people because where are they going to go?

Right?

Like, you could target them with a soda tax, no problem.

That affects them.

Oh, sure.

You can collect all your money.

Now, of course, that's also going to destroy businesses as well, but at least you can collect your cash from the poor who want to buy their soda for cheaper prices.

That's a wonderful, a wonderful aspiration.

But when you go after millionaires, they just leave you.

They're like the hot girlfriend.

When you start treating them like that crap, they just go to somebody else.

That's why you have to crack down on them.

That's why you have to force them.

Okay, Harvey Weinstein.

Yeah, the government is essentially Harvey Weinstein.

Exactly right.

In this particular case, well, otherwise, I mean, we got to do it.

We got to punish them.

We got to keep them here.

Otherwise, I mean, they just want to destroy everybody with their

selfish action.

I hate those bastards.

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You know, we just have to start making a list of all the madness and just keep track of it.

I urge you to keep a diary of just the things that are just

how crazy life has gotten because at some point

the ship will right itself and we'll look back at these times and go, I can't believe that.

For instance,

right now they're making a Serena Williams movie.

Yeah, Serena and Venus.

And they're going to do

sort of a biopic of them.

The father,

it looks like it's going to be Will Smith who's going to get the role.

Well, does it?

Does it?

Is it really?

Is he the right one to play in?

Well, there is some complaint about that

from

people who say

he's too light-skinned to play Venus and Serena's father.

No, he is black.

Yes.

He's just not black enough.

Not black enough.

Now, is that something that makeup could take care of?

Or is it actually even important?

For that?

No, it certainly wouldn't.

I mean, because, see, this is what you don't understand.

We need to judge people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.

Right.

And that is something that we're doing here because

as the experts are pointing out, colorism matters.

Sorry?

Colorism matters.

Colorism.

Yeah.

Will Smith might be a great actor, but he's not the exact shade of skin color that is Venus Williams' father.

But he is black.

He is black.

They didn't hire a white guy.

or an Asian guy to play Will Smith.

Why not hire a white guy?

It's the same thing.

Same thing.

I mean, isn't Will Smith white?

I mean, getting jiggy with it was never a term anyone outside of a white, out of a shopping mall ever used.

Amen.

Will 2K?

I mean, he actually did a song with like Rock the Casbah in the background celebrating a new year.

I mean, that is only something a white person would use.

You know, I think that all of the casting agencies, if they don't have the color, if they don't have the Sherman Williams color wheel,

that they can just open up and go, let me see which shade exactly that.

That's me.

Yeah, I need more of a taupe.

Yeah, exactly.

And let me give you this.

He was in The Legend of Bagger Vance, a movie about golf.

Oh,

let me just be diverse enough to allow you on this country club.

Will Smith is a white guy playing a black guy in his personal life, but not able to play a black guy who's black enough to be Venus and Serena Williams' father.

And I think we all know this.

This is colorism at its worst.

Or its best.

Or its best.

I choose to look at it as best, dude.

If we're living in that postmodern world right now, this is

about time somebody gets that color wheel out.

This is Martin Luther King's dream come true.

If he could just think of a future in which black people would hold up a color wheel to other black people to see if they're black enough to play roles, that is what this man dreamed about.

It's what he fought for.

It's why he walked on Martin Washington.

Yeah, I have a dream that my kids can play with other kids whose skin color is exactly the right shade.

Yes, that's what he said.

Yeah, that's in one of his speeches.

Not too dark.

Not too dark.

It wasn't a highly publicized speech.

It was one of the lesser known

chapters in the book of Martin Luther King's life.

But he would be thrilled, I think, that people are just looking to see: is that black actor black enough to play a black person?

I don't know.

You're listening to Glenn Beck.