'Denying What We Know Is True' - 5/31/18

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Glenn, back.

All right.

The Kim Summit finally happened.

Now,

it's not exactly what we expected,

but Kim was at the White House yesterday and policy was being discussed.

Now,

I mean, I am talking about Kim Kardashian and her meeting with the president regarding prison reform yesterday.

Now, that is one of the most bizarre sentences that I think I have ever said.

Is it ridiculous?

I guess people want us to believe that it's ridiculous.

I mean, you had a reality TV star sit down in the Oval Office and have a serious conversation on prison reform.

Wait, hang on, let me make sure.

We had two television reality stars sit down and talk about policy.

And everybody yesterday went nuts.

Everybody, oh my gosh, every president is rolled over in their graves.

Really?

Really?

Seriously?

Kim Kardashian is just another Hollywood starlet.

How many Hollywood people were in the Oval Office under Barack Obama?

Wait, Leonardo DiCaprio has more credibility than Kim Kardashian?

I don't think so.

And here's the thing.

Wasn't the cause admirable?

Wasn't the fact that yesterday the president sat down with anybody and talked about prison reform, isn't that something that all of us can get behind?

Left and right?

I don't care if it was the mouse on a motorcycle,

if it makes progress.

Kim apparently first got interested in prison reform after hearing about Alice Marie Johnson, and that's who they talked about yesterday.

This is the 63-year-old grandmother who was imprisoned for acting as an intermediary for a drug pusher.

Now, there was no violence or anything else, and yes, she committed a crime.

She's 63 years old, but she was given life in prison.

A non-violent grandmother handed the same sentence given to murderers and terrorists.

Now yes, she broke the law and she should go to jail, but life in prison?

Everybody can make fun of Kim Kardashian goes to Washington.

It used to be Mr.

Smith goes to Washington.

But can we not recognize the case that brought her there?

Yesterday, it was either laughs or everybody was outraged.

Jim Acosta,

he wanted nothing to do with this.

Acosta was irritated at Sarah Sanders not answering one of my questions.

So he went on with CNN's Brooke Baldwin

and he just needed to get his hot take out.

He said, quote, forget about the fact that Kim Kardashian is here today at the White House and what planet

that this is anything resembling normal because it's not.

She shouldn't be here talking about prison reform, end quote.

Wait, wait.

Kim Kardashian should not be there talking about prison reform.

Why?

Well, she's not an expert.

That's really interesting.

Jim, don't you work for the network that has been giving airtime seemingly daily for months to 16 and 17-year-olds to talk about gun policy?

Does that, quote, resemble normal at all?

Oh my gosh.

That wouldn't have been normal in the past.

And a Kardashian going into the oval wouldn't have been normal in the past.

However, having a Hollywood starlet come into the oval and talk about policies,

That's much more normal than 16 and 17 year olds given a daily forum to talk about gun control policies.

Is this normal?

I don't know.

How many times have you interviewed Stormy Daniels' lawyer 59

times in less than two months?

Does that resemble normal?

Here's the thing.

We don't live in normal anymore.

There is no such thing as norm.

I love this.

How dare you?

How dare you try to define what normal is?

Who are you to say what normal is?

I don't know.

I mean, there's normal things and things that are, you know, abnormal.

I mean, that's just the but how how dare you?

Do you know how damaging that is to psyche to be able to say you're abnormal or this is abnormal?

Who do you think you are?

Shut up.

Everything now is abnormal.

Nothing is predictable.

The only institution in the country lately that is actually delivering anything predictable is the media.

You can predict week after week, day after day.

You can predict exactly what they're going to do.

And that is forever

be hypocrites

and inconsistent

it's thursday may 31st you're listening to the glenn beck program

so i have to tell you the uh

The Make America Great Again hat is in the studio.

We kind of

have it in a special place now, and I need a glass case over it and break in case of emergency.

But I mean, I gave the monologue that I gave, what, a week ago or two weeks ago, Friday, that went everywhere.

Oh, my gosh, Glenn Beck is fully on the Trump train.

I had given this monologue, I don't know how many times, nine, ten, probably.

I mean, a very similar

monologue.

Correct.

The only difference is I wore a Make America Great Again hat.

It really is a great example of what is wrong with the culture,

which is that you can say the same thing 20 times.

And again, there are slight variations, and you went with an exclamation point, right?

Yes.

Yes.

And the only time anyone ever hears it is when you go with an exclamation point.

Correct.

And they don't actually hear the things you're saying.

They just see the hat.

No.

It really isn't.

They don't hear anything.

Nobody actually listens to anything anymore.

Because your point was: if I let me try to summarize it, you tell me if I'm wrong.

Yeah.

A, Trump's done some really good things.

And when he does really good things, we should celebrate them.

By the way,

implied in that sentence is when he does things that we don't like, we should criticize them.

Yes.

Right?

We should say things are good when they're good and bad when they're bad.

Yeah,

this is a tough concept.

Yeah.

And secondarily, you're talking about the media coverage being so ridiculously unfair

towards Trump.

Kim Kardashian.

Like, that's crazy talk.

She shouldn't be able to.

I mean, Barack Obama paraded almost every celebrity on earth through that White House.

How many years?

How many rappers?

How many rappers and

athletes?

Yeah.

And his stuff was like parties.

Yes.

Like, not actually talking about, by the way,

an issue that CNN would have praised as enlightened if Barack Obama Obama had taken it.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Instead, because it's Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump, it's being criticized.

So, again, it's stuff like that.

That your point, I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, is the media is doing such a terrible job because they dislike Trump so much that it's driving people towards embracing Trump, really, whether he has good policies or not.

Well, yes.

And the fact that things are going well

and they're not recognizing any of it, it makes you just go, these people are out of their freaking mind.

I don't like all the stuff that Donald Trump does in his personal life, but you know what?

You guys can't even recognize reality anymore.

I don't want it.

I feel bad for him.

I mean, Donald Trump doesn't need anybody to defend him.

He's pretty good at defending himself, but you actually feel bad for him.

You're like, okay, this is, I mean,

this is just a dog pile every day.

And it makes people say, screw you guys of throwing the hat on.

And that was the point of that.

That was the point, right?

And you had made that point over and over again over and over again.

And I also throw a hat on and everyone's like, oh, wow, Glenn's, like, and they still don't get it.

It's like they notice that you've now done a monologue about Trump, but completely missed the point on it.

And they also missed, I think there is a third point, and that is, I told you during the election, and this is like the ninth monologue I did on this.

I told you during the election, if I'm wrong, I'm going to be the first to admit it.

I'll be the first to admit it.

You won't have to, well, how come you won't?

I'll admit it.

And I have over and over again, two weeks ago from tomorrow, I put the hat on and I said it.

Oh my gosh.

Well, you know what?

Isn't that what we're supposed to do?

Millions of Americans saw something that I didn't see.

They believed something that I didn't believe.

They were right.

They were right.

I would never have expected.

Did you hear?

The reason why I brought the hat up is because today is another day.

That I think all Americans, first of all, Kim Kardashian, we're talking prison reform.

This is a good thing for both sides.

We all agree on this.

The other thing, did you hear what bill he signed yesterday?

He signed the right to try bill.

Now tell me how this is a bad thing.

We all say this.

If anybody we know,

if you know anyone with cancer or, you know, a deadly disease and

they're trying to get an experimental drug, but government won't, you know, let them standing in the way in the FDA.

We all say this.

What

could be worse?

They take the drug and it kills them?

They were going to die anyway.

Give them a chance to try it.

We've all said this.

Yesterday, Donald Trump signed that bill.

If you have a terminal disease, if you have cancer, you have the right to try experimental drugs.

Now, there's a lot to be done on this, and we want to make sure that it's

as safe as possible,

but you're going to die.

And the media can't say anything nice about that?

Now, I'm not looking for anybody to say, I'm not looking for, I've got to praise the president, or the media really should praise the president.

I don't care.

Here's what I do care.

Is there anyone who will recognize reality?

I mean, we are denying reality.

You couldn't find anyone that was more outspoken on Donald Trump on the right than me.

Would you agree agree with that?

Sure.

Okay.

Couldn't find it.

I'm recognizing reality.

How is that so unusual in today's world?

This is the way we're supposed to be.

Wow, look, reality, not as bad as I thought it would be.

In fact, some really good things.

Yesterday, prison reform

and the right to try.

There is nothing controversial about either of those things.

I mean,

this is just,

it's going to burn itself down.

It's going to burn itself down.

And it has nothing to do with Donald Trump and the chaos or the people who want to burn the system down or the revolutionaries

on the left or it has nothing to do with any of that.

Americans just want to hear the truth.

They just, they know what it is,

and they're tired of, I believe, a good portion, are tired of living in a world where we have to deny what we know is true.

And it's in every part of our life.

Every part.

How many genders are there?

Two.

There's two genders.

Two.

There's an X and a Y.

It's science.

Don't call me a science denier.

There's two.

It's science.

I have to deny this?

No, I'm not going to deny that.

Hey, are things getting better or are they getting worse?

Well, I don't know.

It feels like things are getting better.

The numbers show me that things are getting better.

Now, long term, I don't know, but I can look along the way and say, wow, look at this.

Just yesterday,

two things that every American agrees on.

And they're done.

Well, one of them is done.

One of them seems to be.

You know who's behind the prison reform thing besides Kim Kardashian?

Jim Acosta.

How dare he?

You know who's behind that?

Van Jones.

Van Jones is behind that.

Whoa, wait a minute.

He works for CNN.

This is a thing that you guys always hold up.

Here's the president actually talking about it and the Republicans moving towards it.

You know, the only reason why you don't report it like this?

is because you hate Donald Trump so much.

I would have been accused of hating Donald Trump.

I have reason to hate Donald Trump.

If you want to look at it this way,

he has not helped me and I have not helped him.

So why should I hate him for doing to me what I have done to him?

If you want to look at it that way, I've been saying for the whole time, I don't hate him.

I just disagree with him.

But when I can no longer disagree with his policies or that he's not going to do those things,

you have to be driven by hate to deny reality.

You have to be.

The people who are yelling at us all the time, this is a hate crime.

That's hate language.

You're just trying to stir up hate.

Tell me about the hatred in your heart where you cannot admit that something

good is happening that you have always wanted to happen.

The only reason why you wouldn't do that is because either you're just playing a game, which I think that's the usual answer, or in this case, you're just driven by hate.

Now, if I would have worn the hat,

well then.

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Glenn back.

We have an update on prison reform and some news breaking on that front.

Donald Trump tweeting he will be giving a full pardon to Dinesh D'Souza today.

I love that.

I love that.

Dinesh has been very vocal in his advocacy for Trump.

However, you know, what he was put in prison for was silly.

Oh, no, it was clearly.

I mean, I think he's one of the first political prisoners of my lifetime in America.

It was clearly he was a target because Rosie O'Donnell has just done far worse and nobody's going after her.

We are so thrilled.

Monday, I hope to be making an announcement on a couple of pieces that are going to be coming for the Mercury Museum.

We have a limited exhibit that is going to be open up for three days.

we're going to be showing you some really exciting things

for the future, but also

the past, correcting history and knowing what is true and what isn't.

It's our rights and responsibilities, the Mercury exhibit, part of our Mercury Museum effort.

It's happening on the Father's Day weekend, June 15th through the 17th.

Grab your tickets now.

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that are going to be given by me or Stu or whoever.

But we're all going to be here and we would love to meet you.

It's Father's Day weekend.

The tickets are available now at mercury1.org/slash museum 2018.

Hopefully on Monday, I can announce one of the exhibits that is mind-boggling, mind-boggling, that it exists and that you're going to be able to see it.

But there's a couple of other things as well that correct history.

Correct history.

One of them is this letter I have in front of me here.

If you're watching, you want to

bring the camera over here.

If you're watching on the Blaze TV,

you can see

this is a handwritten letter from from Thomas Paine,

and it starts out, fellow citizens.

Now, Stu, what do you know about Thomas Paine besides that he was a pamphleteer?

And what do you know about him?

Well, the big thing about him is that he's kind of like the left's favorite founding father.

Why?

Because he was an atheist,

didn't care about God.

There were many aspects of larger government than the other founders that he appreciated.

Right.

He's known as America's first atheist, the founding father that was an atheist.

Everybody else was a deist.

He's a straight-out atheist.

Not according to this letter in his own hand.

He is responding to Benjamin Franklin and to Sam Adams in this letter.

And they both wrote him a nasty letter.

He said, how can you possibly, you know, run the age of reason?

How can you possibly print that?

And you're denying God?

He says,

no,

that's not true.

Listen to these words.

I have said in the first page of the part of the work that it had been long my intention to publish my thoughts on religion, but I reserved it to a later time in my life.

I have to tell you, first of all, why I published it at the time I did.

In the first place, now remember, he goes over to France because he's a guy who sees the

French Revolution, has an argument with George Washington and says,

you know, George,

how can you abandon the French?

They came here and helped us and their cause is our cause.

And Washington said, no, it's not.

You don't understand

them.

No,

this is not the same as the American Revolution.

Well, the two people that disagreed were Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson.

Paine went over.

Washington said, you go over there.

I am not lifting a finger when you're in trouble.

I will not involve the United States in that revolution, even if it means your toast.

Paine never forgave Washington for that because Paine figured it out.

He got there and

he saw things and he was trying to write all the pamphlets defending the rights of the French and that this revolution was just.

And then they bring out the guillotines.

By the way, that's another thing that we have at the museum, a French guillotine.

Unbelievable stuff that you just don't want to miss at this museum.

So he sees the guillotines come out, and he's like, guys, whoa, whoa, whoa,

what are you doing?

This wasn't part of the American Revolution.

Then he sees that they desecrate the Cathedral of Notre Dame and they name it the Temple of Reason and by the end of it there are orgies on the altars.

They're you know, it we're talking human sacrifice.

It just goes crazy

So he says in the first place I saw my life in continual danger my friends were falling as fast as the guillotine could cut their heads off and as every day I expected the same fate I resolved to write this work.

I appeared to my s uh I appeared to myself to be on my deathbed, for death was on every side of me, and I had no time to lose.

This accounts for my writing at the time I did.

And so nicely did the time and attention meet that I had not yet finished the first part of the work when, more than six hours before, I was arrested and taken into prison.

So he finishes it, and then he's taken into prison.

Now listen to this.

In the second place,

the people of France were running headlong into atheism and I and I had my work translated into their own language to stop them in that career

so he's saying I'm trying to wake them up I'm speaking their language

I'm trying to wake them up and make sure that they don't go into atheism.

He later goes on and says,

let's see.

How could you possibly

believe that I don't have

reverential fear and love of a deity?

Did you not read my pamphlet?

And he quotes from it.

Do you want to contemplate his power?

We see it in the immensity of his creation.

Do we want to contemplate his wisdom?

We see it in the unchangeable order in which the incomprehensible world is governed.

Do we want to contemplate his magnificence?

We see it in the abundance in which he fills the earth, which he fills the earth.

Do we want to contemplate his mercy?

We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful.

Sounds like an atheist right there.

Totally.

Oh, my God.

Totally changes history.

Totally changes history.

I don't understand how we have that narrative if that letter exists, which you are currently holding, by the way.

You will see it at the museum.

It's unbelievable.

We don't know which we're going to

show for Lincoln, but there's a couple of things.

You know, they say that Lincoln

didn't care about black men and didn't care about slavery until halfway through the war.

Absolutely not true.

We have shown at other

museum

exhibitions here the letter that

Abraham Lincoln wrote to himself where he's trying to figure out how do I tell the American people that slavery is wrong?

How do I convince them of that?

It was written in the middle of the 1850s, long before he, quote, changed his mind and started to care about blacks and slavery.

There's something else that the museum just acquired, and I don't think we're going to show it this time.

They always say that Abraham Lincoln, he didn't read the Bible.

He didn't do anything until halfway through the war.

Then he started reading the Bible, but he didn't believe in any of it.

He didn't,

it just was not him.

He was an atheist as well.

We've just acquired a letter from 1851

to Mary Todd Lincoln, telling her who her husband is because I've had firsthand knowledge because I invited him in 1851 to preach at my church.

And he got up and he did sermon after sermon after sermon on all the stories on the Bible.

And he had better grasp of theology and God

than any preacher I've ever heard.

So wait a minute, which is it?

Is that preacher writing a lie to marry Todd Lincoln?

Or are our history books wrong?

The history books are wrong.

They're wrong.

Find out for yourself and see things that you've never seen before.

Monday, I hope to announce one of the pieces on Abraham Lincoln, and it is mind-boggling.

I didn't even know this still existed.

Didn't even know it.

And it's one of the biggest pieces in American history.

And hopefully, it will be on display for...

for three days only, June 17th, June 15th through the 17th.

That's Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Sunday is Father's Day.

It makes a great Father's Day.

Gift, come to the Mercury studios here in Las Calinas, Texas, and join us for our rights and responsibilities exhibition of the Mercury Museum.

So excited for that.

So excited for that.

The other thing is, I hope we're able to show in the museum the ad

from Ambien that talks about all of the side effects, you know, may cause cancer, may, you know, not to be taken if you have epilepsy, may also cause racism.

Oh, wait, it doesn't say that, does it?

Did you see what the Ambien response was?

Yeah, that was

an amazing world we live in.

Yeah, it really is.

A drug maker is chiming in on some culture issue.

I can't even follow it anymore.

No, no, but it's amazing to me that a drug maker comes out and says, A, that they are commenting on an issue that is

ridiculous to comment on.

And they comment and they say,

by the way, that is definitely not one of the side effects of Ambien.

Ambien does not cause racism.

Now, were they making a political statement?

I think they were.

Political statement?

I think they were just saying, look, don't blame us.

This is not our...

It's like every, you know, it's problematic.

Well, that's the other is, are they making an actual statement about their drug because they want everybody to know no no it doesn't cause racism.

I think they know everyone knows it doesn't cause racism.

I think they're trying to say like hey Roseanne don't throw don't bring us into the middle of your nonsense.

It's like you know all these products how many have there been over the years rider trucks Kool-Aid like you as soon as you hear those you know there's been so many of those brands like Kool-Aid you think of Jim Jones, drink the Kool-Aid.

Ryder trucks.

Yeah, I mean, you know, when you get sucked into a story that has nothing to do with you, I mean, Ryder Trucks,

it wasn't a Ryder.

Timothy McVay used a rider truck.

It's not Ryder Trucks' fault.

It's got nothing to do.

They weren't taking on the government.

But then people just get that in their heads.

Yeah.

And it's tied to it.

And I think that's what the state, you know, for so much, for so long, these brands couldn't do anything about it.

Like, it just became part of the story.

Now, with social media, they're coming out and saying, look, hey, don't blame us for your racism, lady.

Last night, and we're going to talk about Jordan Peterson here in a few minutes, but

I was with Dave Rubin yesterday.

We spent the day with him.

Did a great interview with him that you don't want to miss in case you missed yesterday's show on the Blaze TV.

Just go to theblaze.com/slash TV, watch last night's episode if you're a fan of Dave Rubin.

But I spent the day with him and then

went to Jordan Peterson's event with Dave last night.

Dave opens up and then Jordan comes out.

It is one of the most

bizarre and

best things.

It just felt historic to be watching that last night.

It really did.

It was phenomenal.

And we'll talk about that here in a second.

But we're in this weird place.

He brought up Roseanne just briefly.

He didn't talk about politics at all.

Or maybe it was Dave that brought up Roseanne.

And

the crowd booed.

And Dave said, wait, is that you're booing Roseanne or you're booing ABC?

What are you booing?

And it was this weird moment of,

I'm not sure either.

I'm not sure what people are saying.

And somebody said, freedom of speech.

And

we're put in this position now to where we are so sick of

people because 10 years ago I supported Prop 8 and now I'm fired for it.

It was 10 years ago and that's my political view.

What does that have anything to do with me being CEO?

We're so sick of it that even when common sense comes into play and says, yeah, that's going to destroy ABC for saying something like that.

We want nothing to do with it.

And it's all because, again, the press and their hypocrisy.

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Another Russian journalist was killed.

Yesterday, there was a press conference about the Russian war reporter

that was brutally murdered.

And at the end of the conference, the police chief

made a surprise announcement.

Let me tell you the story.

Bebchenko is his name.

He was killed while he was on his way just to buy some bread.

He was found by his wife, shot three times in the back while he was in the stairwell outside of his apartment.

The

initial report said he died on the way to the hospital.

Now,

this is a war reporter from Russia that fled Russia February 2017.

He was receiving death threats.

And if you're a reporter in Russia, you know, you're not going to get any protection from the police because they're the ones that are after you.

His family had received death threats.

His home address was published online, accompanied by new threats.

He was a target, and he knew it.

He had to get out.

So he fled to the Ukraine.

Now, me,

I flee someplace else, but where in the world are you safe from Vladimir Putin?

So he was shot to death, I think, on Tuesday.

And then the Ukraine and Russia got into a spat of accusations.

And so the police had a

press conference.

And the police officials stepped to the podium.

They had answers.

In fact, better yet, they had a suspect.

They announced one arrest.

They showed the video of the arrest, and the guy that they had arrested had been paid $40,000 to kill this guy, the dissident reporter, who was a thorn in Vladimir Putin's side.

Then the police chief said,

But I want you to hear this story from Babchenko.

Okay, are you going to show us video?

And like a ghost, this man appears.

And he walks on stage and he says,

I'm still alive.

Now, here's what happened.

He said,

I know the sickening feeling when you bury a colleague, and I am sorry that I put you through this, but there was no other way.

He's not just talking to the people he was working with.

The Ukrainian police had been aware of the murder plot for months and so he in secret had engineered with the police an elaborate sting operation they decided they were going to fake his death but it had to be absolutely airtight and believable or it wouldn't work

even his wife

didn't know.

She was the

one who found him with bread and milk laying in a pool of what she thought was his own blood.

Can you imagine your way?

Can you imagine how much trouble this guy is?

I think I'd rather face Putin than my wife after I faked my death for 24 hours.

There's no, we don't know if he is still alive today, but at the press conference, he was alive.

If he dies now,

I think it's a 60-40 shot that it's not Putin, but it's his wife.

It's Thursday, May 31st.

You're listening to the Glenbeck program.

Let me give you some good news.

I read this story today,

and this actually made me feel good.

Listen to this.

Denver police shut down a lemonade stand put on by a group of brothers over a permitting issue.

When Jennifer Knowles helped her son set up their first lemonade stand over the weekend, she thought it would be a lesson in entrepreneurship and charity.

The boys went online, they decided they wanted to help a child in another country less fortunate, so we found a place in Colorado Springs called Charity International and they picked a five-year-old boy in Indonesia.

But they also got an unexpected lesson.

Turns out you need to have a permit to open a lemonade stand in Denver.

This is about public healthy health and safety.

Bull crap.

Bull crap.

All right.

How does that make me feel good?

Because

do you remember the days when this was happening all the time?

Do you remember the days when

it seemed like every day there was another

city that was busting some kid for a lemonade stand.

And we were all like, what the heck?

This is, this is America.

No, first of all, nobody but neighbors buy the lemonade stand.

And it's, you're lucky if it's a neighbor.

I mean, I see the kids on the sidewalk with the lemonade stand, and I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to, no, I'd like to.

Sometimes I'll just roll down the window and say, here's 10 bucks.

I don't want the lemonade.

Nobody's drinking it except family.

Generally speaking, at this point, I'm more scared if you pull up,

you're some normal person and you pull up to a random kid's lemonade stand, you're going to be accused of a crime.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it's going to be on YouTube, you know, people accusing you of being creepy.

Right.

I mean, it's just, I just don't do it anymore.

However,

what makes me feel good is

when that was going on last time,

it just felt it was

the direction of the country.

It just felt,

and I know it wasn't, but it felt almost coordinated.

We're all socialists now.

And it was horrible.

And remember we had

the National Lemonade Day?

where we had everybody, you know, and people

put lemonade stands up all over because we were making the point, I have a right to do this.

And it just, while it's still going on, it just feels

like that's something we need to be worried about and something we need to watch, but it's not

that we're not surrounded by Marxists, even though we are, that we're not surrounded by Marxists.

And I think that's worth recognizing.

We still have problems.

And, you know, we were with Jordan Peterson last night.

We're sitting backstage with him.

We're talking.

And he's like, you know,

the heart of this whole thing is coming out of the universities.

And, you know, we just got to with the university system.

It's just going to break down.

And there are seven reasons why.

Seven.

And he just starts listing them off.

We're just having a conversation.

And he's like, well, point number one, point number two, point number three.

And you're like, man, this guy is so well thought out.

But there was something in going to Jordan Peterson last night

that

Dave Rubin said to me yesterday, he's been opening for him doing some comedy.

And

he said, Glenn, there's just a different feeling.

You just walk in and there's just a different feeling.

And

he said, but you'll understand when you walk in.

And there was a different feeling.

Now, here's the thing.

Jordan Jordan spoke before and after, and even a little bit on stage.

He's like, I don't know why people come.

I don't know why this is, I mean, it's sold out city after city after city.

Make sure you, I think you can go to jordanpeterson.com and get tickets.

Make sure you go.

He's definitely coming to a city near you.

He's already done 30 cities.

He's doing another 30 in the next two months.

He is.

I sat there and I felt like I couldn't find the right person

to

attach it to because these aren't right, but it was almost, it felt like I was watching a Mark Twain.

And not because of his storytelling ability, because

parts of it are like this, so heady that you're like, what?

I don't know who to compare it to, but it felt like we were doing something historic, that you were sitting there listening to this man in a way that I haven't heard anyone else do.

This was a room full of regular people of all ages, black, white,

young, old,

across the spectrum.

And they were gathered to listen to stuff that made my head hurt.

The first 15 minutes, I'm thinking to myself, I said this to Jordan afterwards.

I said, Jordan,

I mean,

I hope I don't offend you, but I don't think this is going to come as a surprise.

But the first 10 or 15 minutes, I couldn't have been alone going, I don't know what the hell he's even talking about.

It was so, he's so cerebral that you're like, it takes him a while before you're like, okay, okay, I really have to concentrate.

And then once it starts in, you know, you get that first 10 to 20 minutes out of the way, then you're like, you kind of settle into it because you haven't heard anyone speak like this ever,

at least in a long time.

And there's no politics or anything else.

And so he said on stage, and he said before and after, I don't know why people are coming.

I don't know what they're looking for.

And he said, I think they're not looking for a political solution.

He said,

I think they're looking to

fix their own lives.

And I think I told him afterwards, I said, it's very clear to me why this is, why this,

why you are being treated like the Beatles

in England.

I mean, it's crazy what's happening with him.

And

as I was watching it, it was so clear.

Here's a guy who has spent his life

as a psychologist or psychiatrist and trying to figure out how the mind works, I mean, he's probably, you know, a Freud or a Jung of our time.

And

trying to figure out how humans work.

And he explains it so well, and he's so thorough.

And you're listening, and it's interesting.

And it's compelling,

but it's hopeful because you know he knows what he's talking about.

And you know he's being honest and

clinical.

And

what he says about halfway through, you're starting to, you're listening to him.

And all of a sudden, you're starting to be filled with hope because he really means we're going to make it.

It's going to be really dicey, but he's not talking about, you know, the economy or anything else.

He's talking about you.

And he said, you know, when I study the Holocaust, you could get really depressed, or you could see that man

always survives even the worst that other humans can do.

He said, we're stronger than anybody thinks we are.

And he spoke highly of America and, you know, our rights and our understanding.

And he's like, America understands it better than anybody.

And he's like, we're going to make it.

As long as we choose, we're going to make it.

And it was so hopeful.

I think people are connecting with him because he's not giving you a political solution.

I've been telling you for a while,

it's not going to come from politics.

I don't have the answer, but it's not going to come from politics.

That's what he's saying, except he's done, you know, 40 years of research to understand exactly why.

And it does go back to what we've talked about for a very long time together.

You just have to take care of yourself, clean up your own room first, clean up your own life first, and just concentrate on.

He said something last night I thought was really brilliant.

He said, people ask me if I pray all the time.

And he said, you know, it depends on what you, how you define prayer.

And

he said,

I meditate and I do pray.

He said, but I pray in a different way.

He said, you have to be honest first.

He said, you have to be willing to receive the answer.

He said, a lot of us pray and then we want the answer that we want.

And we're not going to listen to, you know, another answer.

And he said,

I don't want the big answer because it's too big.

I can't do that.

He said, so I pray every day

that I find

some small, doable,

almost insignificant

thing

that I know I can do that will make me a little bit better than I was yesterday.

He explains,

he explained,

you know,

it's not whether you win or lose.

It's how you play the game.

And then he said,

your kid, you say that to your kid, they don't know what you're talking about.

And quite frankly, neither do you.

He said, none of us do.

And then he explained

what that actually means.

I'll explain it in just a second.

And once you understand what little things like that actually mean to us and why that phrase is so important, all of a sudden you're like,

he's right.

That

works.

That's what is going to make it

across the finish line.

That's what's going to take us.

If we understand things like this, that's what's going to help us

move in a new direction and

and bypass this temporary blip in our history where we've all

in some way or another gone insane

I'll do my best to share what he shared last night coming up in a second but if you

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Dave Rubin open up I mean a conservative comedian what

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glen back so jordan peterson uh last night on tour here in dallas sold out unbelievable um

he he broke life down into really um

meaningful and easy applications he talked about how we tell our children it's not whether you win or lose it's how you play the game and now we're starting to reject that we're like oh it doesn't it's whether you'll win or no it's not and here's why

he said

this game is not your life.

Your life is a series of games.

Over and over and over again, you're going to be playing game after game after game after game after game.

So it's not about this game.

What it is about is giving you the best opportunity to always be in the game.

And the only way that happens is if you don't lie, cheat, steal, you know, be a sore loser.

Because once you do that, the rest of people are going to say, I don't want to play with him.

I don't want to be with him.

And so he said, the best thing that we can do for our kids and for ourselves is to always play fairly and honestly,

or we're not going to be welcome at the next game.

And we've got to be in the game.

To me, I don't know if that changed anything, but it's certainly clarified.

He did, it was a clarifying moment.

The entire night was like that.

You're like,

that's why that's so important.

That's why.

Now I really understand that

principle.

And when he, you know, when he got to the end and he's like, we're going to make it.

And he said it with, you know, tears in his eyes you believe him you believe him and i do very very optimistic and the media is missing the it's what what am i saying that for

but they just don't see it not a word of politics in it and so uniting and uplifting that's the other thing that you're going to get from this is Here's a guy who will talk to anybody.

You know, we can't reach out to the other side.

Well, he is, and it's working, and it's showing we can have a civil dialogue and drill down to the things that are true and be decent about it.

Beck, Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

There is an amazing article in the New York Times, how Trump's election shook Obama, that has a moment of clarity for Barack Obama that I think is

probably the best explanation I have heard on why Donald Trump won.

Yeah, the story is focused on Ben Rhodes, who is an Obama advisor.

You might remember him as the guy who admitted to fooling reporters about the Iran deal and saying how good it was.

Yep.

Ah, they're all 27-year-olds.

They don't know anything about this.

We can tell them whatever we we want.

And he admitted that bizarrely on record.

So that's that guy.

He has a new book coming out about the election and everything that was going on.

And HBO has a documentary coming out.

Now, the documentary is called The Final Year.

And so there's two things to this: the New York Times story and this video from HBO, which has gone very viral because it is, I mean, I haven't seen it yet.

You haven't seen this yet?

This is.

So Ben Rhodes, night of the election, he's just realized that Hillary Clinton did not win.

Here's how that went.

I just came outside to try to process all this.

It's a lot to process.

I mean,

I can't even.

I mean I I

I I can't

I can't I can't put it into words.

I don't know what the words are.

I mean it's

that was

this so you this is breaking news.

Uh, nobody else has heard this yet before, but that was actually uh Hillary Clinton's

speech that she was going to give that night.

That's why they waited until the next day.

Can you imagine?

That was what everybody, everybody in the Clinton camp, including Hillary Clinton,

felt that way.

They were like, I don't, I, uh,

I don't even,

what happened?

You know, this doesn't, this just doesn't even look right.

What happened here?

Yeah.

They just didn't understand it.

Now, the internet, being the internet, has set that to all sorts of different famous sad music from history, which is

pleasurable to watch, even though, I mean, it's very sad and it rips your heart out.

It is a little pleasurable.

It doesn't really rip my heart out.

Oh, you didn't feel for Ben there?

No.

The guy who basically lied us into a deal with terrorists.

I don't feel too bad for him either but uh it's interesting to see this because he has a new book coming out

uh and it reveals some nuggets from right around the time of the election including uh barack obama riding around in a limo right after the election asking what if we were wrong oh hang on what

what if we were wrong he's obama asked his aides riding around in the limousine he had read a column asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many feel left behind.

Now, listen to that.

This is the New York Times writing that.

President Obama had read a column, probably in the New York Times, asserting that liberals had forgotten how important identity was to people

and had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made many people feel left behind.

And he said, What if we were wrong?

Maybe we pushed too far.

Then he loses it.

Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.

No,

no,

that's not what people,

now that's where you,

this is where the left and President Obama

lose every time, every time.

Listen to what he said.

Maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.

Meaning there really are bad people.

Maybe just, you know, people are just bad.

No.

The first part that you said, what if we were wrong?

Okay, good.

That's the first sign

of humility.

It was, you drove us into this ditch.

Go in the back of the car.

You wouldn't listen.

You wouldn't listen to half of the country.

So some humility.

What if we were wrong?

Maybe we pushed too far.

Yes.

But it's important, the column that he wrote, how important identity was to people, and he had promoted an empty cosmopolitan globalism that made people feel left behind.

This is what's happening in the entire Western world.

And the best way I can explain it is

because I live in Texas, the true Texan attitude, which is starting to be lost, unfortunately, but the true Texan attitude is they love Texas.

If

you've ever run into a Texan, all they want to talk about is the great state of Texas and how great that state of Texas is.

It's the greatest state in the Union.

You know that, right?

I mean, we're really even almost our own country because we're just so great.

I mean, they go on and on and on.

However,

they do not hate other states.

They'll always say the same thing.

A true Texan will always say the same thing.

Well, except for Oklahoma.

They will always say the same thing.

Where are you from?

Kansas.

Oh, that's a great place, I hear.

Not like Texas, but I hear it's great.

They don't hate other states.

What Obama is saying is, wow, maybe people just want to fall back into their tribe.

No, Mr.

President.

No, to all the Western world.

We're just proud of who we are and where we came from.

We're just proud of that.

I mean, how can a man who is so proud and discovered where he was from when he went for the dreams of my father, he was proud of where he came from?

Metaphorically, not with a birth certificate.

How does he not understand that others have that same pride?

And that doesn't mean we do want to identify ourselves as Americans and be proud of that.

But that doesn't mean we hate Canada or Mexico or Europe or anybody else.

We don't hate them.

We want to get along in the family of nations, but we are unique and so are Germans.

They're unique.

You don't want to let them build a military.

I'm just saying.

Each country is unique.

And what's happening in Europe is, it's not that they hate other people.

It's that

they're English.

They're English and

they have been a great nation for a long, long time.

Why am I denying that we are a great nation that we've had our problems we've done bad things but we've also we've also done some amazing things why should I be ashamed of that why am I erased the French they actually are proud to be snots

I mean if that's what makes them happy they're French oh okay they're proud of their heritage doesn't mean that they hate the Spaniards

no Mr.

President we're not bad people.

We're good people.

And there's nothing wrong with recognizing your heritage.

It doesn't mean that we're monsters.

It means we're just like you.

When will you and others on the left begin to understand that?

And it wasn't even just borders, right?

Their entire campaign was designed to say:

if you don't agree with us that evil white men have been oppressing everyone else and that you are partially guilty for that, even if you haven't done any of the actions of oppression, you haven't actually been racist or actually been homophobic or actually been anti-whatever, you're still guilty

by association because of your privilege.

And that was essentially their entire campaign.

Their entire campaign was evil white men victimizing every other group.

And if you happen to be in one of these favored groups, you are guilty by association in that

culture of oppression.

And so people inherently feel violated by that, right?

You know, what are you talking about?

I didn't do those things.

I'm not that person.

So the idea that that wouldn't be successful isn't a surprise to me

or to you.

I think everybody knew that Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate, with the exception of maybe Hillary Clinton.

And Ben Rhodes outlines this.

Again, Ben Rhodes is an Obama aide.

He writes this.

Mr.

Obama and his team were confident Mrs.

Clinton would win, and like much of the country, were shocked when she did not.

Quote, I couldn't shake the feeling that I should have seen it coming.

Because when you distilled it, if you stripped out the racism and misogyny, of course, that's what they're going to say, right?

It's racism and misogyny.

But when you distilled it, when you strip out the racism and misogyny, we'd run against Hillary Clinton eight years ago with the same message Trump had used.

She's part of a corrupt establishment that can't be trusted to bring change.

Yes.

That is

actually a great observation.

It's amazing he made it.

You know what?

Without ever saying these words, that's what Trump was running on: hope and change, just in a completely different way.

But you had both sides.

Remember, Barack Obama, you know,

2008, you didn't have a lot of Republicans who were really thrilled to be voting for John McCain.

You didn't have anybody who's like, oh, I love.

They may have been against Barack Obama

because of his policies or Jeremiah Wright or whatever, but they were not for John McCain.

They had never seen their side promise any kind of change, and they wanted it because they knew it was corrupt in 2008.

And so what happened?

Hope and change comes in, but that half of the country was completely ignored.

And so it got worse for half of the country.

Well, what do you think they're going to do?

They're going to find the guy with the biggest stick that will beat you back into the corner because A,

You've ignored them and they feel abused them.

They have not seen anything that is hopeful.

And at the same time, you've blamed them for everything.

Everything.

They want change too, because they knew that it was corrupt.

And then you offer up a corrupt

person that has been in the system forever and even you know she's corrupt.

Yeah, I mean, that was their tactic.

There was very little space policy-wise between Clinton and Obama in 2008, other than Obama being against the individual mandate and Clinton wanting it, there wasn't much space in between them.

The space that they wound up creating was that she would not do anything to buck the establishment.

She is the establishment.

She's corrupt.

She's been there forever.

She's not going to change things.

That is the tactic Obama used, and it worked.

And then they were all stunned that the same exact tactic worked again against the same person.

If you didn't want that tactic to be used, you shouldn't have run Hillary Clinton.

It's amazing to me how

the press said afterwards, we're stunned by this.

What happened?

How did this happen?

And they claimed that they really wanted to know.

I can tell you firsthand, they did not want to know.

They didn't want to hear it.

They just wanted to hear somebody.

They wanted somebody on our side to vent to.

but they did not want to learn from the lesson.

And in fact, I mean, we should probably talk about Samantha B, in fact, just the opposite.

They are making things so much worse.

And they just, they don't seem to care.

It's sad.

It's sad.

All right, let me talk to you a little bit about Goldline.

Last night and last few nights, I've been having some really

kind of deep conversations with people about the economy and what we're headed for.

Jordan Peterson and I were talking, and I said, so, Jordan, what happens to us if

we have massive inflation or if we really head into trouble?

And that was the one thing that I think made him very concerned.

He He was like, if the economy falls apart, especially with high inflation rates,

we're in trouble.

We've got to fix it.

He's pretty optimistic until he's like, well, if there's a shock of a certain level,

we can't necessarily hold it together.

And he cited several examples from history

where that's been the...

There's been negative factors

in an environment, but when you introduce negative shock to an economy, it gets a lot worse.

But he said, you know, it takes about 20%.

He said, I think it's about 20% of the population that has fixed themselves and are prepared, and that will change everything.

And I completely agree with him.

Now, one of the things that you have to do, because

inflation, high inflation, that hurts the saver.

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Hey, there's a couple of things going on that you should be aware of.

Today, Hands-on History premieres on our YouTube channel or at the Blaze Facebook

page.

Look for it today.

It is

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It's called Hands-on History.

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It will premiere today.

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Glenn back.

Hey, everybody, the most senior North Korean representative to visit the U.S.

in 18 years arrived in Washington yesterday.

Oh, I love this guy, Kim Jong-cho.

He's great.

He is the trusted advisor to Kim Jong-un, which raises the question.

How much of a monster do you have to become to be one of Kim Jong-un's trusted advisors?

Because

Because Choll is, I mean, he's great, former chief of the North Korean Military Intelligence Agency.

He's in Washington discussing a potential meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un.

And he can't rule, you know, he can't rule out the possibility

that he's really here to shop at Costco for Kim Jong-un.

I'm not sure, but there's pallets of Diet Coke that are hard to come by in Kim's communist paradise, and he loves it.

So now the last time there was such a high-level contact between the U.S.

and North Korea in Washington was when Joe Mong-young-rock, I think, by love Joe.

He or she is.

They're great.

Anyway,

that's the person who met with President Clinton in 2000.

That meeting was so productive that we're here now 18 years later, starting over from scratch, and I think that's great.

So South Korea considers Choll one of the most powerful people in North Korea.

He is the director of the United Front Department, which oversees relations with South Korea.

He's the vice chairman of the ruling Workers' Party, Central Community.

He's also a four-star general.

I've heard that I think he is the guy who

leaves the mints on Kim Jong-un's pillow and then reads in bedtime stories, which

Goodnight President Moon is supposed to be his favorite.

Chole was North Korea's official envoy to the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

He was the guy sitting right next to Kim Jong-un's sister, which was great.

You know, remember all the slaves behind them that got so much attention.

So those two were there.

No word yet if they're an item,

you know, but I'm sure TMZ will be all over that.

TMZ in the DMZ

is is

an idea.

TMZ, I'm just giving it to you for free.

The State Department has now had to grant Chole special permission to visit Washington because he's kind of on Santa's naughty list.

He's been blacklisted for his involvement in the 2014 cyber attack on Sony.

But that was so long ago.

Sony, I'm sure, doesn't even remember that.

And because of his aggressive past, South Korea has been shocked by his sudden willingness to talk peace.

Hmm.

Now,

I'm a fan of movies, and just because you see them in the movies, it doesn't make it real.

And it's probably

not going to happen.

Well, I can guarantee you, a giant fish face guy is not going to say, it's a trap, but I think somebody should say, it's a trap.

It hasn't always been smooth sailing for Chole, though.

Just two years ago, he was demoted to a three-star general because he fell asleep during a meeting.

But,

you know, the last guy who got caught catching some Z's in a meeting with Kim was executed.

And he was executed, but I mean, at least they have a sense of humor.

They tied that guy to the front of an anti-aircraft gun and then just blew his guts into the sky.

Ah, that's so great,

isn't it?

You know, that's the way the cookie crumbles in Kim Jong-un's world.

You know,

if they had cookies there,

they don't have cookies there.

It's Thursday, May 31st.

You're listening to the Glen Beck program.

Especially Fortune cookies.

You're going to be sent to a labor camp.

That's what all of them said.

So on this program, I've been saying for a while, really, the thing that kind of set this off, two people

that I

was invited to see Andy Williams.

Andy Williams called me.

I was in Los Angeles and he said, Glenn, it's my Christmas show.

That Christmas album from Andy Williams was a classic in my family, and it reminded me of my mother for a story we don't have to go into, but it was very very sentimental to me and to have andy williams call me and say glenn i want you to come out my christmas show was so cool and i didn't do it because we got busy and there was a snowstorm so we had to leave otherwise i wouldn't and he died right after that and it just it's bothered me when we bought tokyo rose's microphone And I found out that she had died about three years before, I was devastated.

I would have loved to talk to her, but we just never think that we can talk to people.

We need to.

I want to talk to, remember baby Jessica?

Not a baby anymore.

I'd love to talk to her.

I want to talk to the guy who was standing next to George Bush when he grabbed the bullhorn and he said, I hear you and the whole world

hears you.

I want to talk to that guy.

Is he even still alive?

So I've been talking about this for a while, and I wanted to introduce you to a guy.

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He is the founder of a nonprofit group, Heroes of the Second World War.

He has the most incredible childhood story I think I've ever heard.

Rishi, welcome to the program.

Hi, sir.

Thank you for having me on to talk about the heroes of the Second World War.

So, Rishi, you're 20 now?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

And you live in California.

That's where I grew up.

I haven't been back home for the past two years.

I've been on the road interviewing World War II veterans every day.

That's crazy.

So can we take you back, Rishi, to how old were you when you started reading books on World War II?

Ever since I was a little kid, sir, I've always been interested in World War II.

I would read as many books as I could get my hands on.

I would watch the television programs.

And

I just was always fascinated with it.

You know, when I was a little kid, all I ever wanted to be was a Marine.

But when I thought of a Marine, I thought of an 18-year-old with nothing but the shirt on his back and a rifle in his hand, fighting in the jungles of Guadalcanal or the sands of Diwigila, this good versus evil fight.

And, you know,

as I got older, I just really got interested into talking to these veterans.

So I started calling some of them up from the books I had read.

Okay, now hang on just a second.

Wait, wait, wait, Rishi.

You got to

tell this story right.

When you say, when I got older,

how old were you when you got older?

13?

I think it was at 13 or 14.

So you're the ripe old age of 13 years old, and you decide just to start calling the guys out of the blue that you've just read about.

Well, yeah, I mean, a lot of the World War II books, you know, it's like memoirs.

And so all I would do is I would just look up the veteran's name on Google, and, you know, there would be an online phone book, and I would just call them and it was such an amazing feeling that I could actually talk to this real person who I'm reading about and to hear his take on what happened and everything it made me realize oh my god these heroes are out there and so when I was in high school I just started riding my bike to the local retirement homes to start interviewing the veterans in person and I just fell in love with it and I eventually started teaching class to go do interviews because I was learning more from the veterans than I was in school.

And by the time I graduated high school, the local paper had done stories about my mission, and I had people calling me and telling me about veterans they knew.

I realized that, you know,

I should not go to college.

I'm learning more doing this, and I'm helping these heroes.

So I made it my mission to meet and interview two to three World War II combat veterans every single day until the last one passes away.

And to date, I've interviewed just over

870 World War II combat veterans.

Awesome.

So this is, you're inspiring.

Just truly inspiring.

So, Rishi,

are you, you're recording these?

Yes, sir.

So all of the interviews, they're in-depth filmed interviews of the veterans.

What I do is I meet the veteran, we interview, we talk about growing up in the Great Depression, how they heard about Pearl Harbor.

But the majority of the interview is focused on their time in combat overseas.

And then we wrap it up, you know, with life advice they want to give to future generations and how they want to be remembered.

I put those interviews on a DVD.

I mail it to the veteran for them and their family.

A lot of the veterans are open with their experiences and they'll let me share it online like on YouTube where I'll end up donating it to museums.

We're currently trying to make a T V series about these World War II veterans.

I just want people to realize that these heroes are still among us and that we shouldn't wait until there's only five of them left to give them the media attention that they deserve because what I like to say is if a Civil War veteran suddenly came up from the grave, all the world's media would be hounding him, begging for an interview on their knees just for five minutes of his time.

They'd be using the nicest cameras, the fanciest equipment.

And we have this opportunity with the World War II veterans.

You know, everyone has a smartphone with a camera.

Instead of caring about what the Kardashians are wearing, we should be caring about recording the experiences of the brave men who fought for our freedom at 18, 19 years old.

You know,

they were men before they were boys.

And I just, I mean, the youngest World War II combat veteran is 92 now.

So I don't know what people are waiting for.

We have these heroes among us.

I just hope anyone listening to this realizes that you shouldn't wait

next year or next month to go interview your grandpa or to go talk to your elderly neighbor.

The time is now.

You can preserve their stories forever.

Rishi, you said you're going to continue to do this until the last one is gone.

Have you done the math on that?

What date do we start to be in danger that they're all gone?

Well,

in all honesty, sir, I can't give you an accurate answer when it comes to math.

I can just tell you, in the United States, there are 520,000 World War II veterans still alive.

About 300 die every day.

And that was from an original number of 16 million of people who served in the war.

Now, not everyone was in combat, but they all served in one way or the other.

I expect to be interviewing World War II veterans at least for the next five to seven years.

Rishi, what is the first of all,

tell me individually the most compelling thing that you have heard from one of these guys, and then what you've learned collectively from them.

Sure.

So thank you for asking.

So I focus on combat World War II veterans.

And some of the stories I've heard from these veterans, it's just

it makes you really wonder

just how bad the world was at one time and just how fortunate we are to be alive today, even with all the problems we have going on today.

I interviewed one veteran in Ohio named James Kretz, whose twin brother and him, they served together and they were best of friends.

And they were, I call them the dynamic duo.

They each got the Silver Star, which is the third highest award for valor.

They were fighting the Germans, and they took out four German tanks.

They were a bazooka team.

They took out four German tanks, three machine gun nests, and three mortar positions within half an hour.

And that was one day.

And then about a week later, they were running through a field and right next to one another.

And James Krips' brother, Jack, was shot right next to him.

And he was dying.

and very religious so so James was giving his brother the last rite and as he as he was performing his last right

a sniper shot his brother in the neck again

and killed him instantly I mean

to imagine you know not only to have your brother be killed in the war but to be right with him when he was killed you know I interviewed one veteran

Most people in the U.S.

aren't familiar with the Bataan Death March, but basically we had a bunch of American soldiers in the Philippines during the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese were horrible.

They captured these Americans.

We fought for four months, but we had to surrender because they outnumbered us eight to one.

And

they made 5,000 Americans and about 50,000 Filipino soldiers who worked with us at the time march 65 miles without stopping.

No food, no water.

And I interviewed one veteran.

He said that on the march, if they tried to help someone up, you know, who had fallen down, they would be bayoneted.

The Japanese guards would randomly just shoot people just for the fun of it.

He saw one of his closest friends get pushed in a shallow ditch, and the Japanese guards buried him alive.

I mean,

they were inhumane the way they treated these people.

And then after marching to the prisoner or war camp, they were put on a hell ship, which is about like a little cargo ship.

And imagine a thousand guys in the bottom of a hold.

Again, no food, no water.

They all had dysentery.

And guys were literally dying in the ship, in the hold, and the dead bodies would stay there because they were on their way to Japan.

People were licking the sides of the rusty ship for water because of the condensation.

And then they were sent to Japan, and he worked as a slave laborer in a Mitsui

mine.

for the next three years.

Those are just some of the individual stories.

I've been very fortunate.

I interviewed a veteran up in Oregon.

He's a huge hero, still alive, and God willing, he will be for a long time.

His name's Robert Maxwell.

He's the nation's oldest Medal of Honor Assistant.

And this hero, all I can say is he jumped on a grenade knowingly the harm that it would cause him.

He jumped on a grenade to save four other men's lives.

And he survived.

And,

you know, these are just inspiring stories.

But overall, the biggest thing that these veterans have taught me is

don't take your time on earth for granted.

Make the most use of your time, you know, because you never know when you may not live anymore.

You know, we're so fortunate to be alive.

We need to make the best of what we have, and we need to make an effort to understand the immense sacrifices that the veterans made for us.

And I would just like to say, if anyone knows any World War II combat veterans, please reach out.

The organization's website is HEROES, H-E-R-O-E-S of the Second World War.org.

I'm always looking to interview more veterans, and I'm always looking for people to help move forward here in their community.

Rishi,

I am thrilled to be able to talk to you,

and we'll be reaching out because I would like to help support you.

Heroesofthesecondworldwar.org is the website.

Tell them if there's a vet that you know that needs to be interviewed.

Also, you can donate there to help him.

Heroesofthesecondworldwar.org slash donate.

Rishi, hope to talk to you again.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

God bless you all.

God bless you.

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It's incredible.

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He's 20.

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Is he not inspiring?

That was one of my favorite guests in a long time.

Yeah.

He was awesome.

I cannot believe.

I mean, I just feel so pathetic.

And I hate to bring it back to yourself, but it's like.

16 years old riding his bike or 15 years old riding his bike to nursing homes to do interviews with World War II vets.

And now that he's 20, he's been on the road for two years, and he's talked to 870 of them.

I mean, man, do I feel like a slug?

That is incredible.

HeroesoftheSecond World War.org slash donate.

If you want to be annoyed, what an inspiring guy.

That is so cool.

And, you know, the other thing I loved about it is like,

here's a kid who grows up in California.

In California, and really appreciates the country and what people have done to protect it.

I mean, that is not, you could just tell talking to him that that's not a BS thing.

That's not a, no, you know, this isn't just a project for him.

He loves it.

I mean, it's so great.

And he's so smart saying, why would I go to college?

I'm learning more on the road with these guys.

I like that too.

You know, I love that.

I love that.

I mean, there's a reason to go to college.

Yeah.

You might be a doctor engineer.

You want to be a Marxist.

I mean, that's the place to go.

You're an engineer or Marxist.

Those are the third pass.

Yeah.

If you want to engineer Marxism,

you're set.

But, I mean,

I love the fact that we live in a time

where you can do that.

When I was growing up,

when I was 20, you were still getting a license just to talk on the air on a radio station.

Here's a guy.

who doesn't need a film crew, doesn't need anything.

He just packs his stuff in his car.

He calls people up and says, hey, can I come visit you and talk to you?

He does it.

I mean,

we live at a time where you can be the master of your own destiny.

You just have to have

the

gumption or the willpower or just, you know,

you need to be less of a slug than I am

to just get out and do it.

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All right.

So the Blaze has

a good story up about Joy Reed.

Apparently, there's another post that was written.

I think this one was written possibly

by the cat that lives next door to her, hacked into her old blog site and was on Ambien and just started writing crazy stuff.

I've seen it before.

Yeah, I've seen it many, many times.

Apparently, they have discovered new posts on her blog site.

Oh, no.

This one, she was promoting the video entitled Loose Change 9-11.

Do you remember that?

Yep.

Oh, yeah, that's the

Alex Jones.

Yeah.

The 9-11 Truther

documentary.

He was one of the producers of that.

Yeah.

Wonderful movie.

So what's the problem with that?

Everybody at NBC.

Totally discredited everyone at everywhere she loves alex jones and all of his conspiracy theories yeah fine i'm glad this is happening for one particular reason which is to remind everyone that alex jones is not a conservative they constantly call him far right oh my god far right conspiracy theorist why the hell was joy reed writing about him then was joy reed also far right Remember when he was all about,

what's her face, Cynthia McKinney?

Yeah.

Cynthia McKinney.

Who is what, a socialist at least and by the way so cynthia mckinney one of the very few people in in public life who endorsed rosean barr for her uh presidential run of what she was i forgot about that yeah so here's what she wrote she said the fundamental question is do you believe the official story of 9-11?

If you do,

Muslims did it, Muslim extremists were

ridiculous.

They never do anything.

She said, if you do, great.

If you don't, then everything that happened after that

is called into serious question.

Seriously,

even if you're agnostic or you tend to believe that Al-Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the government had no warning that such a thing could happen, it's worth taking a second look.

No, it's really not.

No, what?

I mean, people have taken a second look at it.

And a third look.

A thousandth look.

And they've realized it's all bogus.

Okay, you're right.

On that one.

Okay, on that one.

But they've also found another post.

Okay.

This one written by the dog that lives next door to the cat, but also on Ambien.

Oh, boy.

Another post

seems to criticize illegal immigrants.

Uh-oh.

Now, what?

What?

Yes.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, she wrote,

who's rebuilding New Orleans?

Low-paid Mexican workers, legal and illegal, or the American citizens evacuated from the is it them or the American citizens that were evacuated from there?

Hmm.

Things changed pretty quick.

Yeah, but don't worry about her.

She's got to get Roseanne Barr off the air.

Now, again, but you pointed out she did admit to writing some tweets that were called homophobic.

And then other, it's not not tweets, blog posts.

Then more blog posts came out that were almost identical in tone and message.

Those she was hacked.

So people hacked in many years ago to write posts that sounded just like her, which is a really weird hurdle to try to clear because she's already writing those things and she's admitted to it.

And then some outside source would break into her website and write the same stuff she was already writing.

Well, and then to find out that she's also got a a dog on Ambien writing about illegal immigrants, and then a cat also on Ambien

writing an endorsement of Alex Jones and his theory and movie.

Nothing to see here.

Nothing to see here.

It's crazy.

And again, she has come out and said, I can't prove that.

I've tried to prove through forensics that I was hacked.

I'm sorry.

I can't prove it.

And MSC is like, she wrote it.

Right, because she obviously wrote it.

Or someone on her staff wrote it at the the very least and she's now trying to deny it i don't think she had a staff then yeah i don't think so really either i mean it seemed like she they're all written in the same very and and you know not to be demeaning to to am joy but they're all written in a very uh poor way it's not just bad points they're terribly written and they're all in the same style with the weird sort of punctuation and stops and sentences that are that don't really make full you know a lot of sense yeah uh so i mean it's hard to believe and again it doesn't seem like NBC cares.

No, they don't.

Well, they don't.

Because I honestly, I think you could totally excuse this.

Remember, half,

half of Democrats in polls believed 9-11 conspiracy theories at this time.

Half of them.

So the fact that she was promoting 9-11 conspiracy theories is not weird at all.

It was half of Democrats.

The problem here is that she continues to lie about it.

Why do you assume that she's on the left?

Good question, Glenn.

Good question.

What makes you think think she's on the left?

She was echoing a far-right conspiracy theorist, Alex.

Exactly right.

Maybe she was a conservative.

Yeah.

As soon as she gets fired, she will turn into one.

What about her homophobia?

There's no homophobes on the left.

That's right.

She sounds like a right-wing activist.

You can't be.

Can't be.

Can't be a homophobe and be on the left.

You can't.

It's not the blog post, it's her lying about it, right?

I mean, she's constantly lying.

It is kind of interesting.

One of the blog posts that people were going crazy over was her saying that

she preferred to see

or not to see men kissing men or women kissing women or something to that effect.

And, you know, is that homophobic or is that just your preference?

There used to be a sexual preference.

There used to be a sexual preference.

You prefer to see something else.

And I know gay people who are like, I looked out by heterophobia.

Absolutely.

Okay, I get it.

I get it.

It doesn't affect me or what.

I'm not like, oh, you are heterophobic.

Right.

I don't care.

And like, if you were a gay person and you thought it was super duper sexy to watch heterosexual people have sex, you'd probably just be heterosexual.

Right.

And the same thing I would think it would apply to straight people who are, if you were super, you thought it was super hot to see two men have sex, you'd probably just have sex with men.

Yeah.

Right.

Like, because there's no laws against it.

You can do it if you want.

If you think it's awesome, you just do it.

So I don't know why that's what a sexual preference was.

It was supposed to be.

One time it was okay to

have a sexual preference.

Honestly, does sexual preference exist anymore?

Because it used to be, that's my sexual preference.

But it's just a matter of time.

One has been declared superior to all others.

But I mean, you can't have a preference anymore.

One is just better.

I don't know.

Maybe that's

just better.

It's built into you now, though.

It's not a preference.

Because a preference is just a little bit.

No, it's not.

It's not.

You're born that way.

So it's not a questioning.

Questioning.

Oh, yeah.

I'm.

I thought Q was queer or

queer and questioning.

Well, have you seen the what is her name, Tig Notaro or something?

Oh, my God.

Of course I have.

She's got a comedy special.

Really?

She's pretty funny on Netflix.

Okay.

Is she bouncy, bouncy, fun?

No.

Okay.

I only know one other Tig.

Okay, you're talking Tigger.

Yes.

This particular Tig is lesbian and

her or lesbian.

And

her wife believed her whole life that she was hetero until she met Tig.

And that was her first homosexual

encounter.

And now she's gay.

So was she born that way and just made a mistake for the first 29 years of her life?

I don't know.

I don't know.

That's an interesting question.

Yeah.

She just messed up for 29 years.

I don't know.

It's kind of weird.

Because it wasn't one of those situations where we tell that story that, you know, she thought she was hetero.

so she it wasn't one of those stories where and we've heard this many times where someone who grew up and always had these feelings towards let's say other women and then somebody tried to pray the gay

they prayed the gay out and they were heterosexual for a while and then they finally found their true calling right that's the normal story this is one where she actually didn't find her she would believe she was heterosexual and then just and then just fell in love with a woman

So she just messed up for the first 28, 29 years.

People make mistakes.

Yeah, they do.

You know?

And she made a lot of them, apparently.

Apparently, a lot of mistakes.

What are the odds that you've made a mistake?

That I'm actually gay?

Yeah.

And I've just been married to a woman.

You haven't watched a good, gay, man-on-man film.

And I haven't.

You haven't.

Weirdly enough.

Yeah.

So you don't really know.

He's admitted your narrative.

I mean, he's just admitted your narrative.

You might be on to somehow.

Yeah.

I'm going to explore that.

Yeah.

I'm going to explore that.

You and I have screwed up for 55 years.

You and Joy Reed might have a lot in common.

You're strangely skeeved out by that.

What we're saying is on today's Pat Gray Unleashed on the Blaze Radio TV networks, there could be a closet door opening a little bit.

Just a crack.

Just a crack.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just saying.

I'm pretty excited.

This is going to be a good show.

Yeah.

Thanks.

You never.

Thanks for

woking me.

Yeah.

But what is the main main thing that you think is important other than your homosexuality?

Does anything else matter?

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Terrific idea.

Why do we do it at like eight?

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

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We already have voting booths in schools, that's right, so like the teachers can teach them about the system and you know, who should, you know, who they might want to consider voting for, right?

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Was there a spike in Bitcoin this week?

I mean, you know, I don't know that I would call it a spike because it would be

following

a rough couple weeks.

So it did go up from its lows.

However.

What's it at?

I'm surprised.

I'm surprised.

Because this week the world had a massive shock.

Massive shock.

It's about 7,600.

However, it had fallen to about 7,000.

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It's 10%.

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Hey, Hands on History is being released today.

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It is premiering, and they're shorts that we take the actual artifacts from history and connect history to today.

And so there's no memorization of facts and dates and wars and all of that.

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Yeah, it's really good.

I hadn't seen it until just a second.

Oh, you hadn't seen it?

I had seen little bits and pieces as it was being put together, but I hadn't seen the final thing.

Okay, about great.

Yeah, it's really, it's very, very different and

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It will be first episode, I think, or the trailer.

I'm not sure which is coming out today.

I think it's first episode,

is premiering today.

Which brings us to the museum.

Yesterday, I was out.

Dave Rubin came in and he walks into the office and he said,

I have

heard

so much about the collection of history that you have here.

And he said, and just to walk into your office,

and we were preparing for the museum, so we have all kinds of items that are coming in

and that we're taking a look at and trying to narrow things down.

In my office yesterday was the Cup of the Carpenter from the last scene of Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail,

the Ruby Slippers,

Darth Vader's mask from A New Hope.

The Thomas Paine letter to Franklin saying, I'm not an atheist.

You guys have misread this.

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I think the Darth Vader mask and the Thomas Payne letter, I think, are going to be on display, and the rights and responsibilities kind of are

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We'll see you there.

Brennan, back.

Mercury.