9/18/17 - 'New Perspective' @ The Blaze.com

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Speaker 2 Love.

Speaker 2 Courage.

Speaker 2 Truth.

Speaker 5 New York City is being invaded by diplomats. It's being invaded.

Speaker 8 193 member states of the United Nations, and the chaos and the confusion that they bring to the city of New York is an unintentional metaphor for for what's going on inside of the United Nations building.

Speaker 16 You know, the United Nations was this grand experiment.

Speaker 19 We're going to heal the world, bring everybody together.

Speaker 21 Does anybody have any confidence that the UN is going to do that?

Speaker 22 I mean, did we really ever have it?

Speaker 25 I mean, wishes were dreams and, you know, pigs were horses.

Speaker 22 But anything more than a grand wish or hope?

Speaker 29 Billions of dollars pour into this international organization, and yet they rank near dead last in every category they're supposed to lead.

Speaker 14 Have you ever been to a UN refugee camp?

Speaker 33 They are awful.

Speaker 16 They are full of despair.

Speaker 36 People sit literally just waiting to be raped or die.

Speaker 35 Mercury One was thrilled to be able to close two of these

Speaker 25 despair camps down in the Middle East in the last 12 months.

Speaker 41 Among aid agencies, the U.S.

Speaker 42 is ranked near the worst in the world.

Speaker 38 Fraud, corruption, mismanagement.

Speaker 44 It follows the UN wherever they go.

Speaker 5 UN peacekeepers caused a cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010.

Speaker 4 Their employees have been accused of

Speaker 4 sexual harassment and exploitation in over 10 separate countries.

Speaker 29 On top of that, UN personnel

Speaker 5 cannot be be sued in national courts, arrested, or prosecuted for their actions.

Speaker 36 So President Trump is going to meet with them this week.

Speaker 34 Today, he's actually meeting with representatives of 120 other member states that say, we've had enough.

Speaker 5 We've just had enough.

Speaker 17 They're all pushing for long overdue reform, but two nations are curiously missing, Russia and China.

Speaker 5 They're refusing to attend.

Speaker 48 Why is that?

Speaker 31 Why wouldn't two of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council be interested in reforming the dumpster fire that is the UN?

Speaker 23 Follow the money.

Speaker 56 Follow the power.

Speaker 57 The United States cuts an $8 billion check to the United Nations every single year. We supply nearly 25% of the entire global budget.

Speaker 58 And they say America isn't exceptional.

Speaker 48 Of course, China and Russia want the status quo.

Speaker 59 Look at what they get in return.

Speaker 48 The UN provides them a check on U.S.

Speaker 42 power through their Security Council veto.

Speaker 19 It costs them little money in return.

Speaker 59 And they make us pay disproportionately for them doing it to us.

Speaker 41 May I suggest that

Speaker 6 all thinking human being,

Speaker 36 anybody who is actually, for instance, if I may point out, Bono,

Speaker 41 came to the idea that some of these systems that he has been propping up just don't work.

Speaker 30 Maybe it's time for bankrolling a corrupt, failing, and all-powerful institutional organization like the United Nations is over.

Speaker 9 And the time for reform is right now.

Speaker 1 It's Monday, September 18th. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 42 This is the sound of the very peaceful

Speaker 66 protests that happened in St.

Speaker 67 Louis this weekend.

Speaker 57 I had a hard time finding this story anywhere.

Speaker 69 And anytime I did see this story,

Speaker 70 it was pointed out over and over and over again.

Speaker 72 Peaceful protests, peaceful protests, peaceful protests.

Speaker 42 Well, 33 people were arrested.

Speaker 32 And

Speaker 66 it wasn't as violent as it could have been.

Speaker 60 But I don't know if you saw the reporter

Speaker 74 that was pretty assaulted,

Speaker 75 I would think.

Speaker 76 That's the way I would view it.

Speaker 5 Intimidated.

Speaker 78 If we can play cut three, here is the Black Lives Matter protesters assaulting a reporter in St.

Speaker 79 Louis this weekend.

Speaker 81 Now, he is surrounded.

Speaker 48 He is all by himself.

Speaker 48 And some of these people are wearing masks.

Speaker 48 What is great is one of the protesters actually took him by the shoulder and escorted him out.

Speaker 25 Here's another guy who looked like a bad guy wearing a mask, and yet he fended the rest of them off and tried to push the reporter out of the way.

Speaker 13 Dan Gray was the reporter, and

Speaker 69 here's what he said afterwards.

Speaker 89 Shaking.

Speaker 88 I'm shaking and a bit scared as the mob kind of surrounded me and my photographer and got water thrown at us.

Speaker 91 We got

Speaker 90 yelled and shoved and pushed.

Speaker 88 And I understand people's frustrations.

Speaker 90 with the judge's decision,

Speaker 88 but they seem to be taking it out on the news media. And I don't know why they're taking it out on me in particular.
But

Speaker 88 it is, so my boss said if there were any confrontation, any threatened violence, we're leaving.

Speaker 93 So we're leaving.

Speaker 94 There is so much anger in the streets now.

Speaker 77 Lawrence Jones was on Fox.

Speaker 13 Lawrence is from theblaze.com.

Speaker 77 And he's a guy who followed Barack Obama, in fact, campaigned for Barack Obama, and then realized: wait a minute, all this stuff is a lie.

Speaker 102 What they're saying they're doing for my community is not happening.

Speaker 32 It's a lie.

Speaker 101 And he's become a constitutional conservative.

Speaker 25 More of a libertarian in many ways.

Speaker 60 He's a young kid who, a millennial, who is

Speaker 31 trying to figure life out and realizing

Speaker 63 these are all lies.

Speaker 82 Here's what he said

Speaker 63 about the protests in St.

Speaker 39 Louis over the weekend.

Speaker 65 So, what you're seeing is that a lot of these leftist agitators, like Antifa, are being bussed in by the liberals to create this chaos.

Speaker 65 Remember, a lot of these businesses that were torts during the Ferguson decision are still rebuilding back from 2014.

Speaker 65 And so, what you don't realize, a lot of people don't realize, is that this is really not the city doing this. These are people that are paid to create chaos.

Speaker 107 I know nobody wants to hear that.

Speaker 48 At least on the left. Nobody wants to hear that.

Speaker 108 Nobody wants to believe it.

Speaker 5 Nobody wants to listen to it.

Speaker 109 I mean, they'll accuse the right of all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 77 And believe me, I can accuse the right of a lot of stuff myself.

Speaker 82 But if we really want to get down to it, if we really want the truth, here's the truth.

Speaker 82 The

Speaker 62 alt-right is being funded,

Speaker 99 I believe, because

Speaker 87 I take people at their word, and I've seen evidence of it outside of the United States, and I've seen the influence, at least intellectually.

Speaker 84 But it's being funded, I believe, by the Russians.

Speaker 37 They're getting getting a lot of money from overseas because they're funding the Nazi movement's jobs in Hungary.

Speaker 114 They're supporting the Nazi

Speaker 62 Golden Dawn Party in Greece.

Speaker 16 And they have direct ties here to the alt-right in America.

Speaker 23 That's the truth.

Speaker 77 Antifa

Speaker 37 is getting their money.

Speaker 66 A lot of this money is coming from the left and George Soros.

Speaker 117 And nobody seems to care.

Speaker 6 And I'm having a really hard time with.

Speaker 58 I'm going to get into this

Speaker 120 a little later.

Speaker 77 But

Speaker 121 I went to,

Speaker 96 I was in Nantucket this weekend because I was asked by a guy who I really believe in.

Speaker 123 I think he's a really good guy, Tom Scott.

Speaker 124 He's the guy who started Nantucket Nectars, and we've become friends over the last few months.

Speaker 37 And he's

Speaker 115 a constitutionalist and

Speaker 29 a successful businessman and a man who's really on his own journey, trying to figure it all out.

Speaker 126 And I love people who will question all sides.

Speaker 86 And I went up, and

Speaker 66 the Nantucket Project

Speaker 87 is his kind of big thing that he does every year.

Speaker 8 And for the life of me, I couldn't figure this crowd out, which is a good thing in many ways.

Speaker 63 I couldn't figure out who they were.

Speaker 108 I know this,

Speaker 108 they were definitely not fans of mine.

Speaker 101 But I didn't go for that reason.

Speaker 28 And I

Speaker 108 listened to a group of people talk about some really fascinating and worthwhile things.

Speaker 129 And yet there was about 20% of the audience that had paid a lot of money to be there,

Speaker 130 who I'm not sure they really

Speaker 21 wanted anything other than

Speaker 66 confirmation of their bias.

Speaker 39 And I don't want to stick them out as being unique.

Speaker 47 I think that happens with everybody.

Speaker 60 You just want confirmation of your own bias.

Speaker 58 I was walking into a church on Saturday because they were having a big deal about God in church.

Speaker 75 And so I brought my family.

Speaker 132 And so I'm walking into church on Saturday with my kids.

Speaker 25 And somebody wearing a badge who had paid to go to the conference

Speaker 25 shouts out in this crowd,

Speaker 46 well, look at that!

Speaker 133 Glenn Beck

Speaker 134 walking into a church.

Speaker 41 This is a big thing.

Speaker 21 And I said, really? Not really.

Speaker 53 Not really. I do this every Sunday, and sometimes on Saturday.

Speaker 107 And my kids just looked at him and then looked at me like, what the?

Speaker 108 He didn't know who I was, and he didn't care.

Speaker 32 He didn't care.

Speaker 136 I had dinner on Saturday.

Speaker 126 You want to talk about a head explosion?

Speaker 87 I had dinner Saturday, and at first I was told that it was like only like 10 people were coming, and I'm like, how did I get this invite?

Speaker 40 That's not possible

Speaker 95 with Paul Kagami, who is the former president of, or maybe current president of Rwanda,

Speaker 86 and

Speaker 37 really an amazing guy.

Speaker 58 And then I find out Saturday afternoon that Vicente Fox is coming, and I'm like, you have got to be kidding me. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 92 How am I going to this dinner?

Speaker 107 Oh, well, I'll just listen.

Speaker 131 I'll just listen to what he has to say, and I'm just not going to, I'm just, I'm just going to eat my food, and I'm just going to go away.

Speaker 138 But I get there, and there's like a whole bunch of people.

Speaker 139 Jennifer Garner is there, who was

Speaker 79 really impressive and gracious, really amazing.

Speaker 139 And I'll have to, if we have time today, I'll tell you about that because it's nice to meet somebody

Speaker 120 who you think is probably going to be a jerk and was absolutely not.

Speaker 110 So I sit down and I don't want to say who I was sitting with because

Speaker 110 it was a closed dinner, but I was sitting next to somebody that was very, very

Speaker 75 influential and famous.

Speaker 134 And he was delightful and wonderful, and there's not a thing we agreed with.

Speaker 79 But we had a great conversation about things that were meaningful.

Speaker 107 His wife, on the other hand, decided to the minute we sat down

Speaker 85 to blame me for all of the problems the United States is going

Speaker 142 through,

Speaker 101 blaming me for

Speaker 125 Donald Trump and everything else.

Speaker 101 And

Speaker 107 I sat there and I tried to have a conversation with her on, well,

Speaker 130 do you know why Donald Trump was elected?

Speaker 92 I mean, do you have any...

Speaker 143 No, after she stopped talking, she stopped listening.

Speaker 69 It was weird.

Speaker 92 It was as if she thought her mouth was the listening device.

Speaker 62 Somehow or another, if the mouth stops working, the ears stop working.

Speaker 135 It was weird.

Speaker 79 The only reason why I bring this up is because

Speaker 140 We have to realize that our mouth is not connected to our ears.

Speaker 145 In fact, our mouth should probably work less and our ears should work more.

Speaker 32 Beyond that,

Speaker 46 we have to start

Speaker 104 talking about the things

Speaker 33 that are uncomfortable.

Speaker 143 We have to start dealing with things that are uncomfortable to us and start listening and discussing and stop shouting and blaming.

Speaker 114 I don't need to say this to this audience.

Speaker 126 But if there's a bad cop, I want the bad cops arrested.

Speaker 18 If there's a bad judge, I want the bad judge arrested.

Speaker 118 But how do we have this conversation?

Speaker 146 How do we have this conversation in a country

Speaker 20 where we don't believe that any of the leaders are going to get off?

Speaker 143 I understand now for the first time.

Speaker 75 I didn't understand,

Speaker 107 you know, 20 years ago, and I probably didn't understand five years ago. but I do now, and I think you do too,

Speaker 20 how people could cheer

Speaker 108 when

Speaker 78 O.J. Simpson got off.

Speaker 147 Do you remember that?

Speaker 148 It was the first time in my lifetime that I thought, oh my gosh, A, justice isn't served always.

Speaker 23 That was a new thought for me.

Speaker 47 Wasn't for a lot of African Americans.

Speaker 70 It sure was for this white guy from Seattle.

Speaker 32 Whoa, wait a minute.

Speaker 81 The justice system could go wrong.

Speaker 100 And I think the same people who are saying, how can people be cheering that Donald Trump won, I think it's the same phenomena that happened with O.J.

Speaker 127 Simpson years ago.

Speaker 103 They're so tired of being kicked in the face.

Speaker 63 They're so tired of

Speaker 62 justice not being served that when somebody

Speaker 81 works the system

Speaker 81 and punches the system in the face and beats the system,

Speaker 150 you cheer.

Speaker 25 I will tell you, though, I think it's going to end the same way that it did with O.J.

Speaker 58 Simpson.

Speaker 142 I think there comes a time that we all say, yeah, you know, because look at the ratings on O.J.

Speaker 145 Simpson now in the African-American community.

Speaker 82 They're all kind of saying, yeah, you know,

Speaker 39 maybe not so much.

Speaker 1 Coming up in the show today, we're going to do everything we can to make Glenn tell us who he was sitting next to at the dinner the other night.

Speaker 82 It's pretty much our only goal on the program.

Speaker 152 We can trick you into it.

Speaker 1 That'll happen. You usually blurt things out and get yourself in trouble.

Speaker 154 It won't happen today, but it probably will

Speaker 82 in the future.

Speaker 23 I'll be like, I didn't tell that star. Oh, crap.

Speaker 47 I wasn't going to tell you that.

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Speaker 16 It's worse, I think, worse than that.

Speaker 138 Somebody comes up to you and robs you.

Speaker 140 You're personally violated.

Speaker 16 Somebody comes into your house and it is worse than the money you lose.

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Speaker 41 Glenn back.

Speaker 64 Glenn back.

Speaker 101 You know what's amazing is I can't find a single story on theblaze.com and the things that matter, the stories that matter about the Emmys.

Speaker 129 Not one.

Speaker 6 It's almost like they don't matter at all.

Speaker 1 No, you're going to trust the Blaze, though.

Speaker 82 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 82 I know.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm looking at it right now. Yeah.
I don't even see the biggest story of the day on the stories that matter.

Speaker 73 What is it?

Speaker 1 I mean, it's a cool section. Great idea to have the best story.
But, like, they're not even covering the naked egg taco.

Speaker 40 The what?

Speaker 1 The naked egg taco, a taco bell. Don't tell me you haven't.

Speaker 101 No, I haven't made it.

Speaker 161 I guess we.

Speaker 1 It's unbelievable. It's a taco, but the taco shell is a fried egg.

Speaker 59 That does not sound good. They stuff

Speaker 1 the cheese and the potatoes and the bacon. Inside the egg, and it's folded over in the shape of a taco shit.

Speaker 148 It's a little too rubbery to sound delicious.

Speaker 163 I don't know. I mean, this is something I think we need to try.

Speaker 1 Well, you know, because it's okay.

Speaker 162 It's an egg.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because you can make a taco shell out of almost anything.

Speaker 82 People don't know this, right?

Speaker 23 People have not been covering this. Yeah.

Speaker 82 But they may. I don't know if I want my egg to be so rubbery that it's because

Speaker 42 that it is like a

Speaker 63 taco shell.

Speaker 92 That does not sound appetizing.

Speaker 161 Maybe try.

Speaker 153 It's just me.

Speaker 64 Glenn back.

Speaker 147 This is the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 47 So, I want to talk about Ben Shapiro.

Speaker 1 Actually, you mentioned you saw Jennifer Garner in real life, and I'd rather hear about that. No offense, Ben.
I'm sure, you know, Ben's a good guy.

Speaker 39 We like there's a lot to be said about the Jennifer Garner thing.

Speaker 77 Yeah, there's a lot.

Speaker 32 Okay. And I'm not going to share with you.
But

Speaker 148 Ben Shapiro, he was out at Berkeley.

Speaker 50 And I want you to know that

Speaker 52 people who listen

Speaker 86 will,

Speaker 104 some will say,

Speaker 166 you just are just cowering in a corner.

Speaker 32 No, uh-uh.

Speaker 129 Not cowering in a corner.

Speaker 143 Speak the truth and speak it with wisdom and facts and without hyperbole and without name-calling.

Speaker 1 Because I think a lot of people translate. what you're saying a lot of times as cower in the corner and just you know go along to get get along yeah that's not really what you're saying no No.

Speaker 43 Your corner.

Speaker 100 What corner?

Speaker 50 You belong in a corner?

Speaker 100 I don't belong in a corner.

Speaker 167 My corner is my country.

Speaker 5 I'm going to speak out and I'm going to come out for my country.

Speaker 17 I'm not going to cower in a corner.

Speaker 1 However, what about really divisive issues, though? Because sometimes.

Speaker 99 May I?

Speaker 68 I know you really are focused on Jennifer Gardner.

Speaker 1 Could we talk about that?

Speaker 170 I mean, because a lot of people are divided.

Speaker 50 I don't even think about her and then listened about what Ben Shapiro was saying.

Speaker 150 This is Ben Shapiro at Berkeley.

Speaker 127 He is taking on

Speaker 23 a person on the left about abortion.

Speaker 102 And listen to the way he handles this.

Speaker 172 So my question was about abortion, and I just wanted to know, why exactly do you think a first trimester fetus has moral value?

Speaker 173 Okay, so a first trimester fetus has moral value because whether you consider it a potential human life or a full-on human life, it has more value than just a cluster of cells.

Speaker 173 If left to its natural processes, it will grow into a baby. So, the real question is: where do you draw the line? So, you're gonna draw the line at the heartbeat?

Speaker 173 Because it's very hard to draw the line at the heartbeat. There are people who are adults who are alive because of a pacemaker.
They need some sort of outside force generating their heartbeat.

Speaker 173 Are you gonna do it based on brain function? Okay, well, what about people who are in a coma? Should we just kill them?

Speaker 173 The problem is, anytime you draw any line other than the inception of the child, you end up drawing a false line that can also be applied to people who are adults.

Speaker 173 So, either human life has intrinsic value or it doesn't. I think we both agree that adult human life has intrinsic value.
Can we we start from that premise?

Speaker 172 I believe that sentience

Speaker 172 is what gives something moral value.

Speaker 172 Not necessarily being a human alone.

Speaker 2 Okay, so

Speaker 173 when you're asleep, can I stab you?

Speaker 172 I'm still considered sentient when I'm asleep.

Speaker 173 Okay, if you are in a coma from which you may awake, can I stab you?

Speaker 172 Well then,

Speaker 172 no, I guess not.

Speaker 93 I'm glad you answered that because I have no interest in actually ordering that.

Speaker 172 That's still potential sentience and it's still a potential like that.

Speaker 82 I agree.

Speaker 93 It is potential sentience.

Speaker 173 You know what else is potential sentience? Being a fetus.

Speaker 33 Yeah.

Speaker 175 See, there's nothing better.

Speaker 73 The issue I have with that though is that

Speaker 172 if I'm in a coma and I'm not like doing anything to anyone, I'm not causing any issues amongst the world, whereas

Speaker 172 an unwanted child may or may not be a burden to people.

Speaker 2 There are lots of people who are unwanted, right?

Speaker 173 I mean, there are lots of people's parents who aren't wanted, right? We're a bunch of college students.

Speaker 173 The problem is that now, so now you're shifting the argument, right?

Speaker 173 Before you were making the argument based on the intrinsic value of a life based on sentience, and now you're talking about the level of burden that somebody presents as a separate moral argument.

Speaker 173 Okay, I don't believe that you being a burden on somebody is justification for them killing you, as a general rule.

Speaker 120 I'll leave it at that, but I appreciate you and thank you.

Speaker 73 No, thanks.

Speaker 166 I'll leave it at that.

Speaker 82 Yeah, you probably, you probably should

Speaker 82 probably leave the state after that.

Speaker 1 It's amazing because, you know, how you can, first of all, you can go to their last argument there.

Speaker 177 A burden?

Speaker 1 I mean, you know, look, a lot of people, when you have someone who is hooked up to machines and a coma, it's an incredible burden on a family.

Speaker 1 But because you care about human life, you still try to fight through it.

Speaker 147 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And the state, you're right.

Speaker 1 Cost? I mean, there's a million things you could argue on that.

Speaker 1 That is embarrassing. And the reason, it's not, you could fault the guy for making the point the way he did.

Speaker 51 The problem is, there's no value in the point.

Speaker 1 It's not that he made the point poorly. It's that the point's ridiculous.

Speaker 34 So here, but here's the thing.

Speaker 5 I mean,

Speaker 47 being able to have that dialogue, and that's quite honestly why people want to shut other people up.

Speaker 167 And when you don't have the

Speaker 26 when you don't have the intellectual firepower of Ben Shapiro,

Speaker 23 then you get down to, well, that's because your side did it first.

Speaker 1 And that's just, there's just no, there's, there's nothing to be gained there nothing to be gained there is a there's a moment where you go into like the gym at your local why

Speaker 1 and you know you're going into a bit of pickup team it's like i i got one other guy i'm just going to bring in and just lebron james walks in yeah that is the ben shapiro moment it's like he is probably our william f buckley he and he and gold uh jonah goldberg are probably the william f buckley of our our generation it's one of those things when you have one of those guys on your side you're never losing an argument so i met uh

Speaker 76 or i shouldn't say i met i met some people around him, and I listened to Ray Rice this weekend.

Speaker 169 Ray Rice, the former Ravens running back,

Speaker 153 who might be known for something else.

Speaker 1 Yeah, quite a public incident at a casino in Atlantic City in an elevator.

Speaker 82 He was more popular at this convention than I was.

Speaker 147 He's saying something. Now that's saying something.

Speaker 81 That is like, huh, okay.

Speaker 166 That says a lot.

Speaker 4 I was interested, and I'm not sure.

Speaker 178 I'm not sure

Speaker 20 how I feel about him yet.

Speaker 118 I'd like to talk to him.

Speaker 148 But he is on this,

Speaker 126 I don't know if you'd call it a tour.

Speaker 34 He's just

Speaker 8 wants to have his voice heard and set the record straight.

Speaker 11 I don't think there's any coming back for him.

Speaker 1 Not now. I know initially, because he had a domestic violence incident, if you don't remember that video,

Speaker 161 a really bad one.

Speaker 1 And he's, you know, he was

Speaker 1 released and has tried to come back, has shown interest in that, but no one's given him a chance.

Speaker 29 So he's, I mean, you know, he spoke and he said,

Speaker 180 you know, there's no excuse.

Speaker 11 And it and it happened once.

Speaker 58 And he said, it never happened before.

Speaker 58 It never has happened since.

Speaker 122 And he said, the woman who was my girlfriend is now my wife.

Speaker 96 And he said, you know, we have, I think he has three or four children now.

Speaker 132 And he said, we are doing things together to speak out against abuse.

Speaker 58 He said, but

Speaker 11 there's a problem in our communities.

Speaker 108 We don't ever want to address it.

Speaker 39 What's interesting is one of the women that was flying in for this conference happened to, by chance,

Speaker 109 be seated right next to Ray and his wife on the airplane.

Speaker 101 And

Speaker 146 she started a domestic abuse

Speaker 60 program around the time that Ray was.

Speaker 41 She said, I've said his name

Speaker 139 probably 10,000 times.

Speaker 41 And she said, I've never spoken to him until we sat next to each other.

Speaker 110 And she said, it was fascinating.

Speaker 100 And she said, I applaud him for what he's doing.

Speaker 13 And she was, you know, speaking about what they're doing.

Speaker 111 But she said something really interesting.

Speaker 110 She said,

Speaker 16 well, first, Ray said,

Speaker 106 fear rules the world.

Speaker 104 And he said, I define fear as flee everything

Speaker 100 and run.

Speaker 63 Flee

Speaker 100 everything

Speaker 129 and run.

Speaker 77 Fear.

Speaker 11 An acronym.

Speaker 106 Or

Speaker 60 face everything and rise.

Speaker 69 He said, I have decided to face everything and rise.

Speaker 9 And he said, I want to rise for my children.

Speaker 30 Now, imagine your dad is known as

Speaker 129 a guy who knocked your mother out while you were dating.

Speaker 32 Imagine what

Speaker 141 you as a child are going to go through having that as your dad and nobody ever forgetting or forgiving you

Speaker 2 on that.

Speaker 58 She said that

Speaker 29 she started around the same time

Speaker 78 this domestic abuse because she was personally involved with somebody who was killed.

Speaker 183 And she said, everybody said, oh, there was no signs.

Speaker 58 There was no signs of it. And she said, yeah,

Speaker 63 there really were.

Speaker 56 She said, but the problem is nobody's teaching about domestic abuse because no one wants to hear it.

Speaker 13 And I think this is really important, not even on domestic abuse, but on our country.

Speaker 167 You know, those friends that just don't want to hear the truth or they don't want to hear warnings.

Speaker 82 They don't want to hear, hey, this is not going to end well.

Speaker 41 She said, they did some studies and they found that the minute you say domestic abuse, nobody listens.

Speaker 115 They're finished.

Speaker 26 And because nobody wants to hear about it because it's too horrible.

Speaker 62 And B,

Speaker 26 nobody thinks it's them.

Speaker 128 And she said, until it becomes them,

Speaker 134 they don't see any of the lead ups.

Speaker 44 So there's no real teaching because all we really do is teach about domestic abuse.

Speaker 68 Hey, don't knock your wife out in the elevator.

Speaker 61 She said, but what they found is that if they change the language just a little bit and make it personal

Speaker 151 and make it about something that...

Speaker 31 Everybody has seen and make it about the warning signs instead of abuse, unhealthy relationships, signs of an unhealthy relationship.

Speaker 179 She said, now people start to listen.

Speaker 182 And so they found the way to talk about it.

Speaker 77 And

Speaker 41 one of the things that we spoke about this weekend was technology is, we're not having, we have zero experience.

Speaker 44 Now, if you're a millennial, you have almost zero experience talking about hard things face to face,

Speaker 79 doing hard things face to face.

Speaker 56 So

Speaker 47 how are we going to be able to talk about things?

Speaker 70 How are we going to be able to communicate to each other?

Speaker 44 How are we going to be able to get through things if we can't say the hard things to one another?

Speaker 39 So she's been going around the country, and this organization is called One Love.

Speaker 110 And her name is Katie Hood.

Speaker 25 And she said, we first we made a, she said, a 17-minute film, and then we would go into schools and we would show it.

Speaker 53 And she said, and then we started working with, I think it was the people at Apple.

Speaker 136 And she said, the people of Apple said, why don't we take this 17 seconds or 17 minutes and make it into 30 seconds?

Speaker 66 She said, well, it's very complex. They said, yeah, I know, I think we can do that.

Speaker 44 Here's how they took the Ray Rice

Speaker 137 issue

Speaker 110 and then packaged those issues into something that was 30 seconds long

Speaker 35 to show you,

Speaker 34 hey,

Speaker 30 there might be some signs that you should watch out for.

Speaker 26 She said, people think that it goes from like 90%

Speaker 39 I'm not a part of an abusive relationship to about 50% saying,

Speaker 56 holy cow, that stuff, while I'm not now, that stuff has happened to me.

Speaker 61 Maybe I dodged a bullet.

Speaker 104 Listen.

Speaker 163 Because I love you.

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Speaker 82 You were walking with Mark?

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You should know how dumb that makes me look. I don't care if she's your lab partner.
Why do you have texts from him?

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Speaker 80 Because I love you.

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Speaker 188 I'll let you give me your password instead.

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Speaker 188 Because I love you.

Speaker 1 Because I love you. You think it's okay.

Speaker 176 Because I love you.

Speaker 188 You understand.

Speaker 168 Because I love you.

Speaker 190 You stop talking to your classmates.

Speaker 156 And you feel completely alone.

Speaker 2 Because I love you.

Speaker 149 Website is joinonelove.org.

Speaker 1 It's kind of a creepy ad, actually.

Speaker 61 It is kind of a creepy ad. It's weird to,

Speaker 72 it's weird because it starts out with

Speaker 82 seems nice.

Speaker 82 I mean, I think that's the point.

Speaker 25 Taking 17 minutes of what seems nice into

Speaker 39 and turning it into abuse in 30 seconds is pretty remarkable.

Speaker 13 I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether we should have Ray Rice on or not.

Speaker 1 I would be very interested to talk to him i've heard i was fascinated i've heard he really has made the effort to try to turn this thing around sure seemed like it to me whether you're going to forgive him or not i you know i don't i mean i'm sure he wants forgiveness but he doesn't expect anyone to forget about what happened uh but i have heard a lot of people who really stand by his sincere effort to turn it around i i think that would be a fascinating talk maybe with him and his wife nothing quite like when you have that feeling um of making somebody that you care about happy make that person smile smile again.

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Speaker 101 Let me go to Barry in West Virginia.

Speaker 94 Hello, Barry. You're on.

Speaker 191 Hey, Glenn. My name is Barry.
I'm a 54-year-old man from West Virginia. I'm a child of an abusive father.
He passed away 17 years ago. No, I'm sorry, God, in 93.

Speaker 191 And it took me basically

Speaker 191 a long time to get over the hate that I had for this man. And

Speaker 191 I became a single parent

Speaker 191 from my first wife, the mother of my children, and I had to be mother and father to them.

Speaker 191 I think you ought to have Ray Rice on just for the simple fact of his

Speaker 191 ability.

Speaker 191 Hopefully, he forgave himself, and

Speaker 191 his children are going to be involved, and he needs to explain

Speaker 191 at that moment what happened and why it happened.

Speaker 135 Yeah,

Speaker 167 I will tell you, Barry, I heard him speak this weekend, and

Speaker 41 to me, it did sound like like

Speaker 4 he had dealt with it with his wife, he had dealt with it with his children.

Speaker 152 And he did lead with the hardest one of all is to

Speaker 76 forgive yourself for it.

Speaker 108 I'm not sure if that work has been done yet, but we'll look into it, see if we can get Ray Rice on.

Speaker 79 Interesting conversation.

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Speaker 85 Broken glass littered the sidewalk.

Speaker 61 The debris was evidence of what had occurred hours earlier.

Speaker 59 Chaos.

Speaker 70 Even though the press is calling it peaceful, it was chaos.

Speaker 61 Shop and restaurant owners inside Universal or University City outside of St.

Speaker 9 Louis woke up to sweep the glass from their broken windows of their businesses again.

Speaker 5 They were innocent victims of the violence that erupted after Jason Stockley was acquitted of murder on Friday.

Speaker 38 Stockley, a white former police officer, shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith, a black man, during a 2011 car chase.

Speaker 94 It's a colossal failure of our nation that one more of our citizens

Speaker 107 doesn't understand that this is

Speaker 159 not the thing to do here.

Speaker 4 I don't want to get into the officer or the case because, quite honestly, I haven't been following it and I wasn't on the jury.

Speaker 4 If there's a problem in St.

Speaker 79 Louis, it needs to be fixed.

Speaker 62 But rioting and looting and destruction and chaos.

Speaker 14 That's the way they do things in totalitarian countries and socialist countries and underdeveloped countries.

Speaker 44 That's not the way we do things here

Speaker 28 it is that it is that very chaos that a lot of immigrants came here to get away from

Speaker 22 if you want to protest something you have every right and I'll stand for your right to do it

Speaker 14 You want to you want to you want to stand up and protest something that you you know you had nothing to do with and you don't understand all of the details as has been the case in other instances

Speaker 92 Go ahead.

Speaker 23 You have a right to do that too.

Speaker 47 But you have a responsibility to do it in a peaceful manner.

Speaker 171 Remember Frederick Douglass, Booker T.

Speaker 12 Washington, Martin Luther King?

Speaker 60 They would not stand with you.

Speaker 177 Their protest strategy was never violent.

Speaker 164 They knew that riots in the end would not work.

Speaker 12 And by the way, Martin Luther King never wore a mask.

Speaker 129 Never.

Speaker 142 The bad guys, the enemies of his people, of all people, the Klan, they were the ones that wore wore the masks.

Speaker 44 Let your face be seen.

Speaker 19 Bad guys wear masks.

Speaker 129 And certainly something worth protesting for, something worth living for, is something worth going to jail for.

Speaker 17 You'll be joining great ranks, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Bonhoeffer.

Speaker 26 But the moment you smash a window of a small business and you mess up that owner's effort and right to make a living, you forfeit your ability to be heard you're no longer a protester at that point

Speaker 30 you're simply a felon

Speaker 32 it's monday september 18th this is the glenn beck program danielle ryder a hobby lobby customer found a decoration in one of their stores offensive.

Speaker 154 I have to tell you, I like Hobby Lobby.

Speaker 29 It It is one of the only stores that I frequent a lot.

Speaker 110 I am probably in a Hobby Lobby myself, probably at least once a month.

Speaker 66 I paint, so I buy painting supplies and everything else.

Speaker 5 My wife goes there all the time.

Speaker 141 And my kids and I, we go through and we, you know, we look at the models and everything else.

Speaker 47 And just once in a while, just for fun, we just kind of walk the whole thing.

Speaker 82 And there's a lot of stuff in their

Speaker 146 home accessory department that I find offensive.

Speaker 35 Yes, I do.

Speaker 43 I find like, who would put that up?

Speaker 161 Who would put that up?

Speaker 134 Not in an offensive, like, any other way than, wow, is that bad taste?

Speaker 33 Okay.

Speaker 101 This is not what Danielle Ryder did.

Speaker 35 She shared an image on something she found so offensive, and she requested that Hobby Lobby remove the decor from their shelves.

Speaker 61 So, what was it?

Speaker 62 She posted a picture of a shelf with glass bottles containing what appeared to be replicas of raw cotton plants.

Speaker 39 She captioned the photo.

Speaker 101 This decor is so wrong on so many levels.

Speaker 118 There is nothing decorative about raw cotton.

Speaker 80 What?

Speaker 45 Since when?

Speaker 81 Have you ever seen people who just take sticks and put them in a vase?

Speaker 9 There's not, I mean, that's the same thing, isn't it?

Speaker 1 Oh, I got piles of sticks all over my house.

Speaker 82 That's right.

Speaker 1 There are sticks in every corner of my home right now, tied with, of course, twine. Yeah.
Because the only use in modern society for twine is to hold sticks up in the corner of your house.

Speaker 155 Correct.

Speaker 27 And by the way,

Speaker 45 what is cotton?

Speaker 125 It's a plant.

Speaker 102 This is basically a flower in a vase.

Speaker 147 That's it.

Speaker 5 This is so wrong on so many fronts.

Speaker 37 There's nothing decorative about raw cotton, a commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves.

Speaker 125 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 76 A little sensitivity goes a long way.

Speaker 79 She had to please remove this decor.

Speaker 82 Okay.

Speaker 82 Let's go through a couple things. Do you ever wear cotton?

Speaker 12 Danielle, do you ever wear cotton?

Speaker 123 Because do you know, at one point that was picked by slaves?

Speaker 108 There is nothing decorative.

Speaker 34 And may I ask,

Speaker 145 you're certainly not using that cotton shirt to be decorative, are you?

Speaker 115 I mean, it's just

Speaker 161 a container, right?

Speaker 82 It's a container of your

Speaker 100 flesh.

Speaker 5 It's not decorative.

Speaker 1 Clothing is nothing really, but at this point, decorative.

Speaker 170 Decorative.

Speaker 1 Because we could, I mean, we could all control the temperature in each building. We don't even need to.

Speaker 1 I'm not encouraging anyone here, by the way, to come in without clothing on, but in theory, you could.

Speaker 79 Crucifix.

Speaker 116 A crucifix in urine.

Speaker 163 That's art.

Speaker 47 But a plant

Speaker 5 is not.

Speaker 158 And by the way, Danielle, please tell me that

Speaker 129 you don't wear denim either.

Speaker 99 Because A, denim is made out of cotton, but B, indigo.

Speaker 110 Indigo is a color.

Speaker 43 All that blue, if you're not wearing blue, are you?

Speaker 54 Because blue,

Speaker 110 indigo was

Speaker 62 pretty much, I don't know if you mine it or how you get it, by slaves.

Speaker 13 Slaves did that.

Speaker 76 And also tobacco and rice.

Speaker 70 You haven't eaten any rice, have you?

Speaker 100 Or rum

Speaker 49 or sugar?

Speaker 26 Because most sugar back in the day came from plantations here in the United States, and they were all farmed by slaves.

Speaker 37 So please tell me, Danielle, that you're holding these, you're holding your restaurant

Speaker 77 accountable every time you go in, and there's a sugar packet right there in the center of your table.

Speaker 146 You're saying, aren't you?

Speaker 140 I can't believe how insensitive you are.

Speaker 1 That's why I only will use sweet and low.

Speaker 155 That's exactly right.

Speaker 48 No slaves ever involved in that.

Speaker 52 Of course, you would have a hard time telling your person,

Speaker 16 your waiter or waitress, wait person,

Speaker 35 if you will,

Speaker 85 that you have a problem with that because you, of course, don't frequent restaurants because waiters used to be African-American slaves, so

Speaker 13 they once held that job.

Speaker 16 So there's nothing, how dare you use a weight person, right?

Speaker 56 Or a maid, or a seamstress, or a laundere, or a driver, or a stable hand, or a carpenter, or a stonemason, or a blacksmith, or a weaver, or a fisherman, or a sailor, or a bricklayer, or a baker, or a tailor, or painter, or porters.

Speaker 44 Any of those things I'm sure you don't use, right?

Speaker 100 Here's the thing.

Speaker 12 This story is the number two story on The Blaze.

Speaker 55 Now, The Blaze has launched kind of softly today,

Speaker 60 a redesign of the front page and the way that we are writing stories.

Speaker 69 And I have told the writers, and we've gone over this now for quite a while, and we worked all last week together, every day last week, trying to develop a new writing style.

Speaker 5 And I have told them, I just stay out.

Speaker 177 You can have perspective, but add your perspective to the end of a story.

Speaker 66 Don't tell me about a historic speech because that is opinion.

Speaker 101 It's opinion that is your, that it's historic.

Speaker 60 Tell me about what happened.

Speaker 66 And if you want to add perspective, then let's make that at the end of perspective.

Speaker 157 But I said, don't waste anybody's time.

Speaker 60 Nobody has time to be able to read stories.

Speaker 48 Nobody has time.

Speaker 114 You have about 10 seconds that you're reading a story.

Speaker 9 So let's get to it and let's make sure that we're only covering the things that really matter.

Speaker 100 Now, that's really hard to do.

Speaker 123 So this story came out yesterday, and

Speaker 123 I talked to Leon, who's the editor of

Speaker 8 The Blaze.

Speaker 60 And he made a case that this story is a story that matters.

Speaker 19 And I just want to read the perspective.

Speaker 31 So, does this story matter?

Speaker 28 Blaze answers, no.

Speaker 43 But you reported on it.

Speaker 112 Yes, we did.

Speaker 137 And here's why.

Speaker 110 Our new directive as a company is to never waste your time as a reader, and we're taking that seriously.

Speaker 70 The reason why we included this story is because we felt it was indicative of how blessed we are as a nation and people.

Speaker 165 Maslaw's hierarchy of needs would put this pretty high up.

Speaker 186 As you can guess, the vase being offensive is really something that only people who are in the most stable of economic conditions could or would include in their worries of the day.

Speaker 9 Perspective is what America is missing.

Speaker 98 You don't need another story to outrage you or to show you how crazy things have gotten.

Speaker 70 You can find those stories on any radio program, any television show, and any news site.

Speaker 16 We're not going to give you those stories.

Speaker 60 It's a waste of your time and it's taking us in the wrong direction.

Speaker 44 But But we do feel that the Americans do need stories that show how blessed we really are.

Speaker 49 Our problems that we are dealing with are the dreams for much of the world.

Speaker 4 It isn't our privilege that is so disturbing.

Speaker 154 It is our lack of gratitude and perspective.

Speaker 189 For people to take their time to worry about a bunch of cotton in a vase in a store which 85% of Americans will never step into, not because they're against it or for it or anything else, it's because they're just never gonna walk into it, should show us that most are not spending their time searching for ways to simply feed their families or find a roof over their head.

Speaker 155 America is blessed, even for the worst off.

Speaker 70 America does have real issues,

Speaker 98 but what some Americans call problems

Speaker 62 are certainly blessings to much of the world.

Speaker 45 so what matters most

Speaker 179 this

Speaker 133 don't get distracted by stories like this or discouraged by those who have enough wealth health and time that they can spend their time in worry about meaningless things like a cotton plant in a vase

Speaker 49 instead why don't we work together take our time helping those who are truly struggling instead of posting about a product in a store that honestly will never affect you or your life in any way, shape, or form.

Speaker 1 Find that story and the perspective from Sarah Taylor at theblaze.com right now. The headline is Hobby Lobby's offensive decoration has gone bonkers viral.
33,000 Facebook reactions and counting.

Speaker 1 And then you find out kind of like that's because it's true. It's the type of thing that gets people through the day these days without any meat, without any real value.

Speaker 131 My hate keeps me warm.

Speaker 15 So, as I was reading that yesterday,

Speaker 161 and Leon and I were talking about this article that Sarah wrote,

Speaker 11 I'm on my way back from Nantucket, and

Speaker 23 I just posted something, leaving Nantucket broken yet optimistic, or something like that.

Speaker 146 Just searching for something that matters.

Speaker 86 And

Speaker 11 Dwayne posted, and by the time I landed, I read his post.

Speaker 62 I said, Glenn, I need to thank you for something.

Speaker 24 Your program over the last couple of weeks has pushed me out of my comfort zone like you can't imagine.

Speaker 70 I'm literally writing to you from a bus on the way to Houston to help those who have been devastated by Hurricane Harvey.

Speaker 56 I'm a father of four in my mid-forties from Ohio.

Speaker 61 Like most, I got to work every day.

Speaker 5 I have homework and sports in the evening with my kids, and if I'm lucky, I might have an hour or two of time to myself.

Speaker 123 My wife of 17 years, much the same, without the luxury of most any downtime to herself, as she has to work nights.

Speaker 78 We have a nice house and a couple of cars to show for all of our work.

Speaker 68 Thankfully, our kids are healthy and we have family vacation and we'll enjoy a night out on the town occasionally.

Speaker 5 But with all that we're blessed with, now listen to this, I felt as if we had no meaning.

Speaker 78 I felt this way for several years.

Speaker 79 What good is all of this work?

Speaker 31 What is it really affording me?

Speaker 177 What is the purpose?

Speaker 124 Duane, I have to tell you, that was me yesterday.

Speaker 9 I was yesterday morning, I woke up,

Speaker 122 and I was a completely broken man.

Speaker 79 I was done.

Speaker 77 I was done.

Speaker 9 What is the meaning of any of this?

Speaker 140 He writes, both my wife and I were raised Catholic, went to Catholic schools.

Speaker 113 A few years ago, we just stopped going to church.

Speaker 66 No real reason. Our attendance just became less and less frequent and eventually stopped.

Speaker 13 A few months ago, my wife was invited to a new church and asked me to go as well.

Speaker 66 We've been attending this non-denominational church ever since, and the message I'm receiving is much more impactful than what I had experienced in churches before.

Speaker 101 The message that I was hearing from church was one of action, one of involvement.

Speaker 158 I was being challenged to be more than just a person who shows up on Sunday and then goes back to my routine to do something that matters.

Speaker 47 Then, Texas was hit by the hurricane.

Speaker 114 I have two hours every day of commute time, and I can say that the vast majority of that time is spent listening to your program, and I listen to your description of the devastation and to those on the ground helping to bring some sense of hope back to the victims.

Speaker 13 That weekend, a call came out from our pastor to help with donations and volunteers.

Speaker 5 Well, I hesitantly signed up.

Speaker 26 With a trip about two weeks away, there was plenty of time to find excuses on why I couldn't go.

Speaker 10 My kids sucker.

Speaker 41 I'd miss work.

Speaker 78 Almost every time I wanted to back out, there was something that pushed me to go. And one of the biggest was your show over the past week, Hammering Home, Find Your Meaning.

Speaker 140 So here I sit, Glenn, on a 57-passenger bus somewhere in Kentucky.

Speaker 129 We have 23 people of all ages.

Speaker 123 One flew in from Massachusetts to join us.

Speaker 145 Several in the bus couldn't afford the cost of the trip, about three hundred dollars each, so we set up a GoFundMe account and we raised over $1,500 to ensure that they could go and use their time to help.

Speaker 39 Below me, the bottom of the bus is filled with donations, thousands of dollars of diapers and wipes and food and cleaning supplies, and in the row seat next to me sits a binder with over three hundred letters of encouragement to the people of Houston from a junior high school.

Speaker 121 I am thankful that there are some that actually are well on the path to knowing what matters.

Speaker 95 They were the ones that organized this trip and donated items and money and even asked their students to write letters.

Speaker 145 And I'm hopeful that in my small effort to help those in Texas, I will come to recognize what matters most

Speaker 123 so I may teach my children and encourage them to do the same.

Speaker 123 Thanks for the part you

Speaker 94 played in driving me to look for what matters.

Speaker 121 Hopefully, we'll be able to find Duane and get him on the phone in the the next couple of days as he finds meaning in Houston.

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Speaker 64 glenn back

Speaker 148 Stu, I could you just do me a favor?

Speaker 77 Could you just Google something for me? Sure.

Speaker 106 A wall.

Speaker 82 Okay.

Speaker 12 Could you just Google that for me?

Speaker 82 A wall?

Speaker 100 I just like, yeah, what a definition.

Speaker 106 Definition of a wall or wall.

Speaker 1 A continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land.

Speaker 50 No, get to the one where it says a concept of amnesty.

Speaker 1 I'm going to be scrolling for a while.

Speaker 161 Yeah, I think to get to that.

Speaker 48 Do you think that's

Speaker 49 no scroll amnesty wall?

Speaker 133 Google that. Amnesty wall.

Speaker 102 Maybe there's something.

Speaker 24 because there's a new thing happening here where and we're going to play the audio for you in a second where everybody is saying no he didn't mean a wall wall

Speaker 142 whoa

Speaker 82 well what the hell did he what wait what oh you thought he meant a wall wall like a like a wall structure like the one that i thought

Speaker 84 we all agreed on was the definition of the four-letter word wall.

Speaker 82 See, he didn't mean a wall.

Speaker 72 You're thinking of a wall like a wall you would would use to separate two.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's okay. That's a common mistake.
No, that's so.

Speaker 30 What did he mean when, because I heard somebody say, no, he was talking about a concept.

Speaker 167 When he was talking about hanging solar panels on the concept.

Speaker 47 What kind of concept holds solar panels up?

Speaker 155 A wall concept.

Speaker 82 Okay.

Speaker 1 A solar wall concept hangs solar panels.

Speaker 21 So this wall, it's a wall concept.

Speaker 60 Is that like an occasional table?

Speaker 1 Yes, I think it's like an occasional table.

Speaker 82 I mean, mean, it's an occasional table.

Speaker 4 I don't know what it is the rest of the time, but occasionally I think it's a table.

Speaker 193 I don't know what that means.

Speaker 163 So maybe this is a concept wall like an occasional table.

Speaker 89 But I will tell you: if that indeed is true, occasional tables are always

Speaker 89 still tables.

Speaker 64 Glenn back.

Speaker 64 Glenn back.

Speaker 91 Is it a real wall you're talking about or a fence?

Speaker 195 I think that what the definition of a wall is is something that we all need to have a serious conversation.

Speaker 195 In some cases, it will be a Ballard fence, which is what in fact was appropriated last year, and we've already begun construction.

Speaker 91 In that tweet the president tweeted yesterday, the wall, which is already under construction in the form of new renovation of old and existing fences and walls.

Speaker 33 This is marked short over the weekend from the White House.

Speaker 195 Well, Wolf, there's already, in fact, in many cases along the Rio Grande River levees that are built that in fact are higher in some cases than what the wall would be.

Speaker 91 So yes,

Speaker 195 it is a myriad of different structures along the wall that we expect to secure to make sure that America is safe.

Speaker 91 He promised the wall and Mexico will pay for it. Will he deliver on that promise?

Speaker 195 The president's going to deliver on his promises.

Speaker 91 How are you going to convince the Mexicans to pay for it? They say there's no way they're going to pay for it. The president of Mexico, he says that isn't happening.

Speaker 91 We all saw the transcript of that conversation he had with the president.

Speaker 195 I've doubted the president before and been proven wrong. I suspect that he's going to make sure that that wall is built and that Mexico will pay for it.

Speaker 129 They have to have a conversation about what the word wall means.

Speaker 5 What do you mean?

Speaker 153 Because we were told there was going to be a wall.

Speaker 142 A physical wall.

Speaker 1 And now we have to have a serious conversation.

Speaker 196 about the definition of a wall.

Speaker 11 No, actually, we don't.

Speaker 185 Here's from Fox and Friends.

Speaker 137 Here's Steve Doocy.

Speaker 147 Has the wall almost become symbolic?

Speaker 99 I mean, I know the president ran on it.

Speaker 197 It was a mantra. But at the same time, border crossings have gone down dramatically.

Speaker 197 And you were talking about how the wall exists in certain forms, and there's money to go to it. It has to come from Congress.

Speaker 197 But do you think we're going to get to the point where maybe they won't build a wall?

Speaker 99 Maybe they won't build a wall.

Speaker 1 So the definition of wall is mantra?

Speaker 1 It's mantra.

Speaker 166 Yes.

Speaker 1 So it's not a wall wall.

Speaker 82 Like when I think of a wall, I think of a wall.

Speaker 100 No, this is more of...

Speaker 186 This is more of cotton in a vase.

Speaker 24 This is more decorative.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's decorative. It's decorative.

Speaker 82 Okay.

Speaker 47 The wall is more decorative and gets us to start a conversation, which is another theory that was passed around this weekend.

Speaker 190 So is Trump going back on his promise on the wall, or was the wall his blunt way of raising the issue? Saying build a wall is just a catchier way of saying fix our borders.

Speaker 190 Face it, saying I love you is way better than saying, I have a biological attraction to you that may wear off at some point.

Speaker 175 Wait, so it's just, it wasn't a wall.

Speaker 1 It was a catchier way of saying control the border.

Speaker 72 That is what it is?

Speaker 52 That's clearly what it is.

Speaker 161 It's just, it's clearly what it was.

Speaker 73 Right.

Speaker 175 So when they were saying wall, what they were saying was basically

Speaker 1 amnesty.

Speaker 48 Yes. Okay.
So it's a

Speaker 127 amnesty.

Speaker 48 See, here's the deal.

Speaker 47 Look, I understand.

Speaker 60 People want to

Speaker 47 live live here.

Speaker 11 They want to live where Fox is telling them to go live

Speaker 35 because you don't want to feel like you were duped.

Speaker 143 And I understand that.

Speaker 37 And it is human nature.

Speaker 14 And you want to give somebody you've trusted, you've put a lot of stock into.

Speaker 5 And so you don't want to feel like, oh, wait a minute, he was lying.

Speaker 44 So what you will do is you will lower the standards.

Speaker 9 It is the Overton window.

Speaker 23 You will lower the standards and you'll say, yes, well, but him just saying that has turned around people coming across the border well why is it why is it we wouldn't have a conversation in america on on amnesty and why wouldn't we have a conversation on any kind of border security that seemed reasonable to people

Speaker 66 We wouldn't have that conversation because we said the next president that comes in, all he's going to do is reverse it.

Speaker 137 You have to have a physical wall because the next president, and so we'll be going back and forth.

Speaker 180 Every four years, we'll just be going back and forth.

Speaker 23 And we can't do that.

Speaker 189 That was your reason.

Speaker 164 And now people just don't want to feel humiliated and they don't want to feel like they were duped.

Speaker 110 And so they are, they're giving themselves an out.

Speaker 126 Please don't go over the cliff with the rest of society.

Speaker 51 Please don't do that.

Speaker 25 There has to be something that is true and solid,

Speaker 94 like a wall in your life

Speaker 82 that you say, okay, I'm not going to cross this wall.

Speaker 1 So you're saying I should cross, I can cross those lines when I need to, is what you're saying. No, in my life,

Speaker 1 there are certain lines that I can just kind of move over when needed.

Speaker 16 Exactly right,

Speaker 78 except completely reverse it.

Speaker 92 Then you have it.

Speaker 1 Then everything will be fine.

Speaker 119 All right.

Speaker 164 There's a story about the Dallas School District that is now weighing renaming schools after Franklin, Jefferson, and Madison.

Speaker 133 There are schools that they are now exploring taking the name of Franklin, Jefferson, and Madison off.

Speaker 166 Oh, okay.

Speaker 33 Oh,

Speaker 158 okay.

Speaker 29 Well, Thomas Jefferson, I can understand because that's an easy one for the intellectually lazy.

Speaker 52 It's an easy one.

Speaker 101 If you don't really know history, you have only listened to history in sound bites and you've got it from a social justice warrior.

Speaker 124 I understand Thomas Jefferson.

Speaker 116 Benjamin Franklin?

Speaker 156 Benjamin Franklin was an abolitionist, one of the strongest abolitionists who died as a joke because they were trying to smear him in the South.

Speaker 133 Because he had become such a strong abolitionist, they tried to smear him and say he went crazy.

Speaker 134 And you want to take his name off?

Speaker 171 I'm having a hard time getting my arms around that one.

Speaker 1 He's like the example of what you want to hold up as a guy.

Speaker 155 He's the guy.

Speaker 189 He is the guy.

Speaker 193 You know what?

Speaker 1 It's easy to be anti-slavery now. Everybody's anti-slavery now.

Speaker 189 Back then, everybody supported it.

Speaker 1 It was the thing to do. It was the way of the world.
It was the way of the world before there was an America. It was the way of the world when America started.

Speaker 1 To take that stance at that time takes immense bravery.

Speaker 1 And the man who, you know, one of the founders who did that, and he was not alone in that, but one of the founders who did that was Ben Franklin.

Speaker 1 And he's still getting beat up like all the other founders.

Speaker 58 Let me just give you this.

Speaker 43 Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature that it is an open source of serious evils.

Speaker 31 The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species.

Speaker 37 The galling chains that bind his body do also fetter his intellectual facilities and impair the social affections of his heart.

Speaker 141 To instruct, to advise, to qualify those who have been restored to freedom for the exercise and enjoyment of civil liberty and to procure for their children an education calculated for the future situation in life, these are the great outlines of the annex plan which we have adopted.

Speaker 78 I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained.

Speaker 101 Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory is strong, and their docile is in every respect

Speaker 48 equal to that of white children.

Speaker 149 So, in other words, he's saying, you know what?

Speaker 193 Everything we've ever learned in science, in let me just repeat that, science

Speaker 171 was telling us that blacks are animals, they're not people.

Speaker 133 And he's saying, you know what?

Speaker 60 My scientific observations are quite different than that.

Speaker 23 But let's go ahead and

Speaker 101 stop looking at Benjamin Franklin and call him an evil slave owner, which he was never.

Speaker 4 And he was the chief abolitionist in the country.

Speaker 1 Yeah, contrast that against a progressive hero, Che Guevara, who believed that

Speaker 1 much, much later in history, that blacks were indolent, that they were lazy, that they were drunks, that they were not serious people.

Speaker 1 He mocked them as basically worthless because they were not serious people.

Speaker 139 Yeah, but he lived in a different time.

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 166 A lot later than Ben Franklin.

Speaker 82 Right. He sure did.

Speaker 91 Right, but that's what they'll say.

Speaker 70 Well, he lived in a different time.

Speaker 102 Yeah,

Speaker 45 so did Thomas Jefferson.

Speaker 52 So did Ben Franklin.

Speaker 21 So did Madison.

Speaker 82 So did Washington.

Speaker 31 By the way, schools, they're now talking about no Franklin,

Speaker 110 no Jefferson, no Madison here in Texas.

Speaker 146 But there are Cesar Chavez schools.

Speaker 42 By the way, Cesar Chavez used violence to intimidate both growers and farm workers to force them to sign UFW contracts.

Speaker 154 This is according to FBI.

Speaker 54 Those

Speaker 146 intimidation sessions included beatings, overturned cars, throwing Molotov cocktails, torching fields.

Speaker 5 1997,

Speaker 116 40 female UFW members filed a lawsuit against the union for urging them to use sex as a recruitment tool.

Speaker 72 Cesar Chavez hated illegal aliens.

Speaker 59 Illegals were considered a threat to the jobs of the farm workers.

Speaker 178 They patrolled the border and beat any illegal alien that

Speaker 100 they caught.

Speaker 72 And a pretty good quote here is,

Speaker 31 why are you doing this?

Speaker 98 Are you doing this for the cause or are you just angry?

Speaker 66 I suppose if I wanted to be fair, I could say I'm trying to settle a personal score.

Speaker 110 I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers.

Speaker 48 But the truth is, I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did.

Speaker 146 And if we can even the score a little bit for the workers, then we're doing something.

Speaker 66 Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this.

Speaker 22 I really don't.

Speaker 146 That's him beating people, crossing the borders.

Speaker 6 But you got a school named after him.

Speaker 51 Tons of them.

Speaker 84 One in Phoenix, one in Detroit, one in Denver, another one in Detroit, Stockton, Eugene, Oregon, Madison, Wisconsin.

Speaker 182 How about Malcolm X?

Speaker 187 There's new thinking coming in.

Speaker 62 There's a strategy coming in.

Speaker 60 It'll be Molotov cocktails this month, hand grenades next month, and something else the month after that, be it ballots or be it bullets.

Speaker 4 We want freedom now, but we're not going to get that saying we shall overcome.

Speaker 10 We're going to fight until we overcome.

Speaker 180 There's schools with the name Malcolm X, one in Chicago, one in Berkeley, and one in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 29 They'll say, well, he had a transition at the end of his life.

Speaker 156 Yes, he did.

Speaker 27 But are you going to give that benefit of the doubt to any of the founders?

Speaker 32 Woodrow Wilson schools.

Speaker 189 There's a Woodrow Wilson.

Speaker 6 They're thinking about taking the name of Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison off of schools in Dallas.

Speaker 70 But there is a school, the Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Texas.

Speaker 167 On immigrants, he described them as men of the lowest class from Italy and of the meaner sort from Hungary and Poland, men out of the ranks where there was neither skill nor energy or any initiative of quick intelligence.

Speaker 134 And they came in by the numbers, sordid and hapless elements of their population.

Speaker 78 The men whose standards of life and work are such as American workmen had never reamed hereto there,

Speaker 23 hitherto.

Speaker 180 He was appalled by the French army allowing blacks to serve next to whites.

Speaker 4 He's the guy who put the Jim Crow laws into place in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 14 Let me say that again.

Speaker 181 It was the progressive Woodrow Wilson that put the Jim Crow laws into place at the federal government level in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 66 He also allowed the Secretary of Treasury and the Postmaster General to segregate.

Speaker 71 He resegregated the military.

Speaker 20 That's your beloved Woodrow Wilson.

Speaker 21 There's schools named after him.

Speaker 171 You know what? You want to have this fight?

Speaker 171 You want to have this fight?

Speaker 56 We can have that fight.

Speaker 124 Let's just base it on facts

Speaker 110 because I got news for you. I'll put our founders up to the progressive heroes of the 20th century and win every single time.

Speaker 42 If you're a gun owner like me, the best thing you can do for yourself and your family is to educate yourself.

Speaker 34 First, get yourself a gun,

Speaker 101 get permit, and then get to a range.

Speaker 100 But then also make sure you have classes on what to do.

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Speaker 87 In this guide, you're going to learn how to detect attackers before they see you, how to survive a mass shooting.

Speaker 112 That seems crazy.

Speaker 79 Crazy that we have to have that conversation.

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Speaker 62 That is protectandefend.com.

Speaker 64 Glenn back.

Speaker 64 Glenn back.

Speaker 101 A Facebook comment just came in, and they said we should burn all of the progressive money that has people like Andrew Jackson on there in Washington.

Speaker 128 And of course, Lincoln isn't like, and neither is Benjamin Franklin.

Speaker 101 Here's what I'm going to do: I am offering

Speaker 101 today

Speaker 157 that you can send every one of those racist, engraved, and numbered prints that you have

Speaker 25 and send them in.

Speaker 99 You can donate them all to mercury1.org.

Speaker 101 All you do is, if you are somebody, you say, I cannot take this racist slave owner in my pocket anymore.

Speaker 6 I will not have Benjamin Franklin.

Speaker 22 I will have nothing to do with him.

Speaker 47 And until the government takes that racist off of my money, and Andrew Jackson, too.

Speaker 26 And Hamilton, he's got a Broadway play that everybody likes, so we'll leave him alone.

Speaker 60 But Lincoln, he's out.

Speaker 70 Grant, yeah, he fought the Civil War, but he was with Lincoln.

Speaker 15 He's out.

Speaker 63 And of course, Washington, he's out.

Speaker 66 And I want you to send all of that, and we will dispose of it

Speaker 101 at mercury1.org.

Speaker 1 We've done a lot of complaining about government spending over the years. Is it possible they have already put this into effect and are just burning all the money to protest?

Speaker 163 You do seem to be setting our money on fire.

Speaker 48 Very possible.

Speaker 63 It is very possible.

Speaker 1 Because, I mean, it could just be a strong stance from our government. Right.

Speaker 60 We're going to end oppression

Speaker 11 at mercury1.org.

Speaker 13 And so that's what I would like you to do.

Speaker 47 If you have one of those Benjamin Franklins, oh man, I hate that guy talking about him now. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Seeing what they're talking about here in Dallas?

Speaker 99 Right?

Speaker 82 Right. I want him out.

Speaker 47 Get rid of the school. I want him out.

Speaker 48 Get rid of those. Yeah.

Speaker 47 I want you to go through.

Speaker 182 If you're a progressive, you get those Benjamin Franklins out of there.

Speaker 47 You realize you have a government-issued, so the government was endorsing him.

Speaker 164 A government-issued individual serial number printed engraving

Speaker 186 of Benjamin Franklin.

Speaker 81 That you are somehow or another, he is oppressing you.

Speaker 43 And I want that oppression to go away from you.

Speaker 1 Slavery will only truly be defeated when you send us all your money.

Speaker 47 No, no, no.

Speaker 74 You sent us those evil engravings of those evil founders.

Speaker 26 Send them to mercury1.org.

Speaker 64 Glenn, back.

Speaker 64 Love.

Speaker 64 Courage.

Speaker 108 Truth. You ever heard the saying, you know, the blind following the blind?

Speaker 72 It's never a good idea because you usually end up in a ditch or off a cliff or something like that.

Speaker 101 And the bespectled Bernie Sanders apparently has not heard that

Speaker 6 because he is leading us into a massive pit or off a cliff.

Speaker 81 And he knows it.

Speaker 70 The independent senator from Vermont who calls himself a democratic socialist, which is weird because that is a term, look it up, which was coined by Lenin himself because Russians were afraid of communists.

Speaker 163 And so he said, no, no, no, we're not communists.

Speaker 45 No, we're democratic socialists.

Speaker 160 He has now proposed

Speaker 42 Medicare for all, a single-payer healthcare system.

Speaker 81 It's a plan that would repeal Obamacare and replace it.

Speaker 164 Oh my gosh, the Democrats are going to repeal and replace with a huge expansion of Medicare, large enough to open the government-run program to all Americans.

Speaker 160 Now, this proposal is no longer just a dream of the far left.

Speaker 99 It enjoys the support of 16 Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, Kristen Gildebrand, and Kamala Harris.

Speaker 171 Which, why does that list sound familiar?

Speaker 102 Oh, I remember because these are the people that are saying that they might run for president in 2020.

Speaker 9 Sounds good, but there's even more.

Speaker 47 There's a problem with Bernie's proposal.

Speaker 61 It is lacking in detail, specifically the little detail of, how do we pay for this?

Speaker 4 But Bernie already knows this.

Speaker 198 You want to guarantee that all people have access to health care as you do in Canada.

Speaker 198 But I think what we understand is that unless we change the funding system and the control mechanisms in this country to do that, for example, if we expanded Medicaid to everybody, right, give everybody a Medicaid card,

Speaker 198 we would be spending such an astronomical sum of money that we would bankrupt the nation.

Speaker 48 Okay, so wait,

Speaker 189 that's what he's proposing.

Speaker 66 That what, by the way, was Bernie in 1987.

Speaker 4 The reason why he's avoiding the details now is because he's very well aware of the costs.

Speaker 141 In his own words, they're astronomical, and they will, I want to get this exactly right, they will bankrupt the nation.

Speaker 47 End quote.

Speaker 17 When the blind lead the blind,

Speaker 35 both shall fall into the ditch.

Speaker 47 Democrats, follow Bernie Sanders at your own peril.

Speaker 1 It's Monday, September 18th. This is the Glenn Beth program.

Speaker 32 I had a rough weekend.

Speaker 82 I wanted to have a good weekend.

Speaker 23 I had a rough weekend.

Speaker 34 And maybe you said, you know what?

Speaker 116 You know what the problem is?

Speaker 101 Is expectations.

Speaker 5 Expectations always get you into trouble.

Speaker 76 When you go in without any expectations, you're always bound to have a good time.

Speaker 99 But when you go into

Speaker 110 with expectations that

Speaker 2 I don't know,

Speaker 115 you're going to find utopia somehow or another, you're always disappointed.

Speaker 1 Yes, that is 100% true.

Speaker 19 And it's very true with you.

Speaker 153 You have a.

Speaker 1 I mean, this is a tendency of yours.

Speaker 129 How do I know what you...

Speaker 92 Well,

Speaker 1 if you've noticed that you're constantly always

Speaker 1 depressed about various...

Speaker 81 I don't know if depression is quite the right word word for it anymore.

Speaker 56 Probably not.

Speaker 47 It's constant

Speaker 1 disappointment.

Speaker 99 Yeah, never-ending

Speaker 62 just feeling of doom and death.

Speaker 23 Probably closer to that.

Speaker 158 I had a tough time because it was,

Speaker 13 I went up to what's called the Nantucket Project, and I was invited by a new friend, Tom Scott, who runs it.

Speaker 101 And

Speaker 103 he wanted to talk about redemption and alcoholism and understanding, understanding.

Speaker 59 And so that was the point of the conference.

Speaker 143 Let's understand

Speaker 160 the concept of understanding.

Speaker 57 Let's try to understand each other.

Speaker 32 And I don't think that went real well.

Speaker 48 Not with, not at least not with everyone.

Speaker 136 And at the same time, it was truly remarkable because

Speaker 61 I had an opportunity to meet with Paul Kagame,

Speaker 34 who is the president of Rwanda,

Speaker 142 who

Speaker 60 it's complex because in America, he would not be a guy I would vote for.

Speaker 100 In Rwanda,

Speaker 22 he's a dream come true.

Speaker 101 In Rwanda, you're like,

Speaker 23 are you going to?

Speaker 1 It's really one question on the

Speaker 82 slaughter half of us.

Speaker 175 Is it going to be a genocide situation?

Speaker 52 Are you going to rape the country and kill half of us?

Speaker 49 Yeah. No.

Speaker 82 No. Okay.

Speaker 176 Your taxes are going to be a little high.

Speaker 82 Okay, I can deal with that.

Speaker 156 I'm with you.

Speaker 82 I'm with you.

Speaker 105 So

Speaker 74 Paul is a guy who,

Speaker 21 now

Speaker 167 think of a country the size of about Connecticut,

Speaker 31 about the population of

Speaker 127 Massachusetts.

Speaker 49 And think of about

Speaker 134 million, million and a half people killed

Speaker 4 in the streets, butchered

Speaker 43 with machetes and raped in front of their families

Speaker 136 in eight months.

Speaker 20 Can you imagine what the world would be like if on our continent

Speaker 151 there was one state that just did that?

Speaker 49 How the other states would not come to the defense, let alone hopefully the whole world, but it was just left to happen.

Speaker 105 And it was because of the Hutus and the Tutsis,

Speaker 71 which I love them both.

Speaker 77 They're great.

Speaker 5 I prefer Tootsies because it sounds like I'm going to get a chocolate treat that I always loved as a kid in a role, but I'm not sure if they're related.

Speaker 171 Don't think they are.

Speaker 149 Didn't want to ask the president that.

Speaker 82 Yeah, I thought so.

Speaker 44 But

Speaker 99 it was interesting.

Speaker 20 to me to hear a guy say, you know, we knew the answer was going to come from within.

Speaker 149 It had to. It couldn't come from outside.
It couldn't come from the United Nations.

Speaker 59 It couldn't come from America.

Speaker 47 Could not come from anyone else.

Speaker 149 It had to come from us.

Speaker 6 And there is no way we were going to heal

Speaker 82 with

Speaker 124 someone just jamming down a policy.

Speaker 22 So we had to do something radical.

Speaker 152 We had to do radical forgiveness.

Speaker 171 Now, what do you think radical forgiveness really is?

Speaker 143 Radical forgiveness is

Speaker 182 somebody calling in and saying, Hey, I killed, you know, Stu, that guy on the radio?

Speaker 29 Yeah, I raped his wife and his daughter in the street and then slaughtered them in front of him.

Speaker 154 I really like to apologize.

Speaker 27 So the government calls you and says, Hey, Stu, I know you have no family members left anymore.

Speaker 27 But the guy called in and he really liked to

Speaker 140 apologize to you.

Speaker 69 Now, first, you have to say yes.

Speaker 62 Second,

Speaker 117 you then have to listen to him describe what he did.

Speaker 47 That's part of the repentance process.

Speaker 44 He has to tell you exactly what he did.

Speaker 81 Now, that would set me off.

Speaker 5 I know, I saw it.

Speaker 12 You don't have to tell, I saw it.

Speaker 165 He has to tell you what he did,

Speaker 24 and then he has to tell you he's sorry and ask for forgiveness.

Speaker 164 Then you

Speaker 194 have to say, I forgive you.

Speaker 23 And then it's all over. He doesn't go to jail.

Speaker 82 You all walk out arm in arm.

Speaker 1 He doesn't even get punished for the crime.

Speaker 127 How many, what's the percentage do you suppose

Speaker 28 went away?

Speaker 118 If you don't, by the way,

Speaker 35 believe, believe you're executed if they don't forgive you.

Speaker 81 What's the percentage?

Speaker 137 That walked out?

Speaker 1 That said, I will not forgive you?

Speaker 5 No, that said, I forgive you.

Speaker 152 Come on, let's go out together.

Speaker 100 Let's leave together.

Speaker 1 Oh, God, I have, I mean, I would very low.

Speaker 23 80%.

Speaker 23 80%.

Speaker 1 80% said, I will forgive you.

Speaker 152 I will forgive you.

Speaker 1 That's incredible. What's the reasoning for that? Is there something in the culture going back?

Speaker 5 Paul Kagame said that

Speaker 110 it is because

Speaker 87 he convinced, and he doesn't take the credit for it, but I don't think, I don't know of anybody else that could have done this.

Speaker 87 He said,

Speaker 51 We had to have a frank conversation in the country that said, we need each other.

Speaker 35 We have to have each other.

Speaker 124 Half the population is gone.

Speaker 20 We kill all the people who did this, then

Speaker 115 we have nothing left.

Speaker 66 And so we need each other.

Speaker 53 We have to forgive each other.

Speaker 22 And if we can come back together in forgiveness, we'll be stronger than ever before.

Speaker 5 And that is exactly what's happening.

Speaker 31 Their GDP rate of growth is 8%

Speaker 78 every year since 2001.

Speaker 1 Wow, that's incredible. I mean, obviously, what's ours? You know, three if we're lucky.

Speaker 124 Try this on for size.

Speaker 116 They're now delivering medicine and supplies around the country with drones.

Speaker 6 We're not even doing that.

Speaker 135 Really?

Speaker 99 They are

Speaker 43 for Africa.

Speaker 164 They are way ahead.

Speaker 98 They are the most stable in Africa.

Speaker 47 They have tapped into something

Speaker 108 that

Speaker 68 hopefully will never need.

Speaker 128 God forbid, we would ever need something that dramatic.

Speaker 48 No, you had a civil war.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's, you know, that's pretty dramatic. And we, you know, half the country was at war with the other half of the country.

Speaker 68 I don't think we ever healed from it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it doesn't certainly seem like that today.

Speaker 21 No.

Speaker 30 I think as Americans tend to do,

Speaker 41 I think we said, no, I'm good.

Speaker 32 I'm good.

Speaker 46 No, I'm good.

Speaker 109 You know, Lincoln died and nobody wanted to continue the war.

Speaker 22 And everybody was like, no, no, you know, I'm good.

Speaker 32 I'm good.

Speaker 49 We're, no, we're fine.

Speaker 129 We're fine. We'll get along.

Speaker 15 And I don't think we ever had that process of, I'm sorry, I'm, I forgive.

Speaker 20 And then, and then, you know, 20, 30 years later, we had Jim Crow and, you know, the Dixiecrats and the Klan and all of that stuff.

Speaker 35 And And I think after Martin Luther King was killed, we all went, you know what?

Speaker 47 I'm good. I'm good.
No, no, no. We're all good.

Speaker 83 We're good.

Speaker 20 Okay. Yeah, we're all together.

Speaker 47 And we've never had those conversations.

Speaker 129 And I'm not sure.

Speaker 49 And I'm not talking about a conversation on like, okay, so now, all right, so now you get, I mean, the kind of conversation.

Speaker 70 Millise, there was no reparation there.

Speaker 82 They're not saying, okay, you need to give me your hut or your cow or whatever those people might have in the in the outskirts of Rwanda.

Speaker 52 They're not saying give me stuff.

Speaker 167 They're saying I forgive you.

Speaker 12 And I met some of the people that have gone through this

Speaker 151 in truly remarkable fashion.

Speaker 186 They are friends, literal friends now, with people who killed every member of their family.

Speaker 6 One woman who everyone in her family was killed by this guy,

Speaker 167 she now says he didn't want to approach her because

Speaker 42 he was afraid that she would always hate him.

Speaker 183 And so

Speaker 82 he really felt really bad about it, obviously, and realized he was duped.

Speaker 42 He was just a part of this anger.

Speaker 36 So even if this sounds familiar to the extreme,

Speaker 186 this anger between these two groups.

Speaker 52 And they were just had convinced each group that the other group was a monster.

Speaker 194 And so the only way we could do it is if we killed everybody in this.

Speaker 134 And they did.

Speaker 154 And as soon as it was over, they said that the killers realized, oh, crap, what have we done?

Speaker 20 He couldn't live with himself.

Speaker 98 He was one of the first to call and say, I want to apologize.

Speaker 71 And

Speaker 59 I'll take the punishment if I have to.

Speaker 20 He apologized to her. She forgave him.

Speaker 116 Now they're good friends.

Speaker 15 She's married and has a son or a daughter.

Speaker 70 When she has to go out and work, if she has to go do something,

Speaker 164 she'll leave her children with him, the guy who killed her whole family.

Speaker 1 Wow, that's uh, that's a, I mean, it feels like a terrible decision to be very forgiven.

Speaker 33 And you know what?

Speaker 155 But it works somehow.

Speaker 34 It is

Speaker 5 he, Paul Gagami said: forgiveness is a choice.

Speaker 79 And once you make that choice, forgiveness becomes a miracle.

Speaker 146 You know, a crisis doesn't bring out a new version of you, and you know this.

Speaker 16 How many times have you done something really stupid and you're like, I'm sorry, I was really stressed out?

Speaker 167 Well, when your family's at stake, when there's a crisis, that's the version of you that comes out.

Speaker 113 And if you're not prepared to be the best version of yourself.

Speaker 129 You can rise to the level of preparedness and education,

Speaker 77 but only if you are educated and prepared.

Speaker 128 We've seen examples like this from Houston to Florida all last month.

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Speaker 6 be prepared for any eventuality, and that means being able to bring food down to others who have just been hit,

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Speaker 129 We're all going to

Speaker 100 be humbled.

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Speaker 59 Glenn back.

Speaker 2 Glenn back.

Speaker 100 Paul Gagami said,

Speaker 107 forgiveness is a process and a choice.

Speaker 79 It's a difficult thing, but if you sacrifice yourself to someone who has hurt you, it's a miracle.

Speaker 73 Boy, do we need to hear those words.

Speaker 5 Stu, would you look something up?

Speaker 76 Because there's no way this is true.

Speaker 66 I heard this and I wrote it down.

Speaker 161 I'm like, no way.

Speaker 103 The ninth safest country in the world is Rwanda.

Speaker 58 This is according to him.

Speaker 1 There are stories that do indicate that.

Speaker 1 Let's see.

Speaker 107 Ninth safest country in the world.

Speaker 108 Take a guess which, according to these surveys.

Speaker 71 And I don't know how they rank them.

Speaker 1 I think the costliness of common crime and violence, as well as terrorism, and the extent to which police services can be relied upon to provide protection from crime.

Speaker 79 Ninth safest in the world, Rwanda.

Speaker 5 The United States?

Speaker 82 89th.

Speaker 82 Is that true?

Speaker 1 I do not see the United States in the top 20 here. Number one is Finland, in case you were interested.
UAE, Iceland, Oman, Hong Kong, Singapore, Norway, Switzerland.

Speaker 82 A lot of those, I mean, some of those are because they cut your head off.

Speaker 52 No, he was just, he didn't mean to steal the napkin.

Speaker 137 He was, he had an allergy attack.

Speaker 87 Sorry. Well, we have to cut his face off.

Speaker 1 When you look at this list, though, it's largely the type of list you'd see at the top of places with economic freedom, with good growing economies, largely.

Speaker 1 Rwanda would be one that would stand out and you would not expect it to be there.

Speaker 109 You mean the top 10?

Speaker 1 Finland, UAE, Iceland, Oman, Hong Kong, Singapore, Norway, Switzerland, Rwanda, Qatar.

Speaker 1 Again, you've got that's another

Speaker 1 Luxembourg, one of the highest per capita wealth countries on earth, if not the.

Speaker 31 So you have great wealth and stability, and then Rwanda.

Speaker 81 Yeah. That's bizarre.

Speaker 1 There's no other African nation in the world.

Speaker 22 There is absolutely no way that you would say to me, hey, you know what?

Speaker 170 Should go to Rwanda.

Speaker 66 No, seriously, it's safe.

Speaker 118 You'd be like, shut up.

Speaker 137 Right.

Speaker 1 Now, I don't know as a, I'd like to be a little American here for a moment. Not sure that I would

Speaker 82 trade the life that I have now for one in Rwanda.

Speaker 49 I don't know enough about Rwanda.

Speaker 126 I know I don't like leaving the comforts that we have here in the first world.

Speaker 137 Yes. I'm pretty sure that.

Speaker 1 And safety, I do feel, while there are really rough areas, generally speaking, pretty safe in America.

Speaker 82 Yes.

Speaker 11 It's just you have to know where you are.

Speaker 12 And by the way, we're

Speaker 137 the most diverse culture in the history of the world, and we're rather large.

Speaker 1 Is it a fat joke?

Speaker 77 Who would I be to make a fat joke?

Speaker 18 I think that would be right.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, that's true. It's an incredible thing.
I mean, you know, I understand. I mean, imagine getting over something like that where someone is murdering your entire family, a genocide.

Speaker 1 However, it is one thing to get an apology for a genocide. When someone tweets something nasty at you, you cannot forgive them.

Speaker 175 That is over the line.

Speaker 48 Right.

Speaker 1 If someone's on your Facebook wall and they're saying something offensive, you hold them to that till they die.

Speaker 82 And I see that to the day they die.

Speaker 153 Yes.

Speaker 1 Every moment for the rest of your life should be spent in anger and outrage at that person. That is how society is supposed to work.

Speaker 5 I'm with you 100%.

Speaker 47 They don't understand it, Rwanda.

Speaker 82 They don't understand if they. They have political differences here.
Right.

Speaker 49 And they're more important.

Speaker 37 Yeah, the Hooties and the Tushus or whatever they are.

Speaker 1 Hootus and the Tootsies.

Speaker 2 Whatever.

Speaker 133 I mean,

Speaker 20 that's nothing. We have the Republicans and the Democrats.

Speaker 1 Right, and they're much further apart

Speaker 196 on main issues than the Hutus and the Tootsies were in the Rwandan general.

Speaker 116 Right.

Speaker 27 For instance, the Republicans want to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Speaker 56 And now, under Bernie Sander, he would like to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Speaker 82 Well, it's Obamacare, but in a different way.

Speaker 89 Completely.

Speaker 4 One is complete socialized medicine, and the other is

Speaker 1 socialized medicine.

Speaker 82 Yeah, but it's kind of different in a different way.

Speaker 56 It's a different way because it's a Republican proposal.

Speaker 82 Republican.

Speaker 161 Socialized medicine.

Speaker 64 Glenn, back.

Speaker 1 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 49 Welcome to the program.

Speaker 101 The one, the only.

Speaker 47 Mr. One Twice.

Speaker 14 Some say number 11 on

Speaker 108 iTunes.

Speaker 40 I like one twice better.

Speaker 125 One twice.

Speaker 82 Mr. Pat Gray, welcome to the program, Pat.
Thank you.

Speaker 82 We had quite an interesting

Speaker 168 email from some people in,

Speaker 168 they run a youth group called RCC Youth in Richmond, Virginia.

Speaker 168 They took five RCC youth, 16 and 17-year-olds, all from Section 8 public housing, to the Confederate monuments in Richmond for one purpose, so they can formulate their own opinions before the media frenzy that's going to ravage through Richmond.

Speaker 168 It was a powerful experience. Upon returning back to the RCC headquarters, they all talked about it.
And then

Speaker 168 one of the kids, 17-year-old Daquan Morton, typed this out.

Speaker 168 He said, today me and my peers decided to visit the monuments to see what all the fuss was about. And we came up with this.

Speaker 168 Is it more convenient to take down some statues than to improve the real problem of society?

Speaker 82 Oh my gosh, thank you. Yes.

Speaker 137 Yes.

Speaker 168 I bring sanity

Speaker 72 to this particular broadcast.

Speaker 168 A lot of people think that the problem with society is racism, but racism is only the feeling of one race being better than another.

Speaker 168 From living in low-income areas, we have our own ideas about society.

Speaker 168 Everybody pointing blame at Monument Avenue and statues that reside there, but those statues never did anything to me or any people that I care about.

Speaker 168 The only thing that ever harmed people in these low-income areas is the violence that resides there in the low-income areas. In low-income areas, five kids each from

Speaker 168 different areas collectively know 22 people who've been killed over the past year.

Speaker 170 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 135 In the past year. In the past year.

Speaker 40 Not in their lifetime.

Speaker 149 Over the past year.

Speaker 69 I know, we all know, Navy SEALs who have said to us in a moment of despair, I can't go to another funeral of a friend.

Speaker 40 Right.

Speaker 50 Yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 107 I don't know if they've lost 22 friends in a year.

Speaker 135 Right.

Speaker 168 And these kids. I mean, this really kind of puts everything into perspective, I think.

Speaker 168 He says, he goes on, from the day we're born, we're taught nobody cares and nobody can help. What if I told you there are kids starving in your own backyard living in rundown buildings?

Speaker 168 What if I told you that there are kids that would rather rob, steal, and kill rather than go into a house with nothing to eat?

Speaker 168 Every day, kids like these say to themselves, do whatever to get them bans, which is money, I guess. And if they don't give it to me, I'm going to take it.

Speaker 168 Meaning everybody's everybody's young, dumb, and broke.

Speaker 168 Instead of using money to knock down statues that most people in low-income areas never even saw, how about using that money to improve schools, fix up the community, and see that we every day

Speaker 168 not protest in our neighborhoods where we see violence and hate the most? I mean, just unbelievable wisdom from a 17-year-old kid who's seen nothing but violence in his life.

Speaker 168 And it's nice to go to this source and talk to the people who should be the most offended.

Speaker 82 And they're not.

Speaker 168 They're not offended by these statues. They don't care about the statues.
They care about their lives.

Speaker 40 It'd be nice if

Speaker 40 we could go

Speaker 168 kind of reorganize the focus and put it where it belongs. But we're not going to.

Speaker 1 You're never going to solve the racism problem without getting rid of these racist statues. These statues who judge us by the color of our skin instead of the content of our current.

Speaker 99 No, they're made of

Speaker 170 us.

Speaker 82 They look down at us because they're built so high for a reason.

Speaker 168 Yeah, they don't have eyes, Stu.

Speaker 162 They do have eyes.

Speaker 1 I've seen them.

Speaker 82 And those are eyes of hate.

Speaker 81 They don't have

Speaker 153 eyes. No, they don't.

Speaker 48 It's an empty

Speaker 110 piece of metal.

Speaker 161 I don't know if you've noticed that.

Speaker 1 An empty piece of metal.

Speaker 82 Or plaster.

Speaker 168 Or bronze, whatever.

Speaker 168 Plaster. What people that they represent are dead long.

Speaker 1 Well, what color would, let's say, a plaster statue be, Pat?

Speaker 40 Well, it could be painted, so it could be.

Speaker 166 If it's not painted,

Speaker 166 what would it be, Pat?

Speaker 161 Could be painted. I think it's a lot of people.
It could be painted.

Speaker 73 I don't know. I see those.

Speaker 82 I've seen it painted brown a lot.

Speaker 82 A lot.

Speaker 33 It happens all the time.

Speaker 135 All the time.

Speaker 168 So I'm not even going to hazard a guess as to what color it is.

Speaker 153 You know that all the marble statues from Rome were painted?

Speaker 23 Did you know that?

Speaker 135 No.

Speaker 31 Yeah, all the paint has gone off of them.

Speaker 47 They were originally all painted.

Speaker 82 Really? Really?

Speaker 21 Yeah, they have a few in the marble.

Speaker 147 They were marble and then they were painted.

Speaker 82 And they painted them.

Speaker 106 Yeah.

Speaker 44 That's really garish colors.

Speaker 60 There's one or two in the

Speaker 30 Vatican Museum.

Speaker 101 And Tom.

Speaker 40 Do they not understand how gauche that is?

Speaker 82 It really looks like it's bad.

Speaker 33 It looks really bad.

Speaker 63 It's like, whoa, that's ugly, gauche.

Speaker 165 I mean, more gauche than a big marble statue.

Speaker 147 I mean, that's saying something.

Speaker 82 Yes, it is.

Speaker 19 And really tacky.

Speaker 22 I mean, the colors are not so...

Speaker 63 You're ain't good with colors.

Speaker 1 That feels like a really weird thing for... us to even have today.
Just statues in general. It's a really weird thing that we've pulled over from the old days.

Speaker 1 I mean, especially when, you know, it's a strange,

Speaker 133 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Would you want a statue made of you?

Speaker 161 I mean, you don't usually get them when you're alive. No, I know, not usually.

Speaker 70 Something like Lincoln was like, I don't know.

Speaker 52 I think the chair needs to be bigger.

Speaker 135 That was his commentary.

Speaker 73 When he commissioned the monument.

Speaker 73 He was like, it's not big enough.

Speaker 1 But I'm saying, though, like, it's meant to remember people, usually, and to honor them in some way.

Speaker 1 Not always but it usually is and it's not something that i i would want made of me it's weird it's like you know it's fashioning an image of someone else you know it's i mean there are commandments that deal with things such as these well that's you know it's weird because i have jewish friends who talk about that and say this is one of the reasons why you don't have this engraving images yeah because you it's not just a god thing but it's also because what part of a person are you glorifying yeah

Speaker 168 i mean you can't glorify i mean and every person you glorify has many many faults, and you can pick all of them apart.

Speaker 82 Of course. Yeah.
Because they're people. Yeah.

Speaker 82 They're actually just human beings. Yeah.

Speaker 168 And maybe when we make them into statues and monuments, it just glorifies them too much. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe. I don't know.
It's a weird thing that we would continue doing. I kind of understand that at times in

Speaker 1 human history.

Speaker 37 We continue doing.

Speaker 82 Do you know of a statue company that's roaring to life right now?

Speaker 196 You're telling me that they're not going to be able to do that.

Speaker 157 No, I'll tell you, Silicon Valley, this statue thing is taken off.

Speaker 82 Of course, there are statue companies.

Speaker 189 Yeah, but I mean, it's not like we're doing a lot of them.

Speaker 82 What are we doing?

Speaker 165 It's probably more statue repair.

Speaker 162 I mean, I would

Speaker 1 refer you to a somewhat recent documentary entitled Rocky.

Speaker 82 And in Rocky 3,

Speaker 1 as he was retiring, they gave him a nice big statue, which still exists today.

Speaker 82 Statues go up and down.

Speaker 147 But it's there in real life, right?

Speaker 153 I mean,

Speaker 160 it was on the steps where at the top where he would run up the stairs.

Speaker 48 But the art people thought it was too good.

Speaker 24 This is not odd.

Speaker 82 Rocky is not odd.

Speaker 5 And so they actually moved him to, where was it, the spectrum?

Speaker 47 Yeah, that was it.

Speaker 1 Which is no longer there. But it's in that area still,

Speaker 1 the sports complex, which is kind of where you would think it belongs.

Speaker 168 Sylvester Stallone actually has a statue in Philadelphia.

Speaker 40 It's a real one.

Speaker 82 It's awesome.

Speaker 49 It's real.

Speaker 33 It's appropriate.

Speaker 189 It is. I mean, I thought it was appropriate at the top of the.

Speaker 63 Please. Yeah.

Speaker 189 You'll put, you know, you'll put like a, you know,

Speaker 182 a 30-foot vagina out in front of a building.

Speaker 166 You can't have, you can't have have

Speaker 82 Rocky on the stairs.

Speaker 33 Come on, man.

Speaker 82 It's a fair point.

Speaker 166 I got news for you.

Speaker 163 That's art.

Speaker 154 That's that Rocky. That's a piece of crap.

Speaker 48 But that vagina, that is art.

Speaker 1 I got to say, too, for all you artsy people out there, the only reason anyone goes to your stupid museum is to run up those stairs. I got news for you, Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 It's the only reason anyone's ever at the top of those stairs to go into that building is because that's for sure.

Speaker 33 So you should let it go.

Speaker 23 Let me rephrase that.

Speaker 161 Let me rephrase that.

Speaker 66 As somebody somebody who has been to Philadelphia and lived in Philadelphia for quite some time,

Speaker 98 it's also the reason why people go maybe halfway up the stairs.

Speaker 82 Okay.

Speaker 82 You don't couldn't make it all the way up.

Speaker 2 You don't make it all the way up.

Speaker 82 You're just like, this is good enough.

Speaker 33 He was a professional boxer.

Speaker 2 Of course, he couldn't make it all the way to the top.

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Speaker 26 the stories that matter the most.

Speaker 50 What we're trying to do is

Speaker 50 simplify things a little bit and give you the top five stories that we think are important that people will talk about and that you need to know and that actually may impact your life.

Speaker 20 And read them because, like the one from Hobby Lobby, did you read that today on the base?

Speaker 19 Did you read the perspective?

Speaker 61 Did you get to the perspective?

Speaker 72 I haven't got to the perspective yet. Yeah.

Speaker 12 Read the perspective on

Speaker 182 why we included that.

Speaker 15 Because

Speaker 48 that's not a story that's going to affect you.

Speaker 31 Hobby Lobby selling a stupid

Speaker 181 vase with cotton in it.

Speaker 160 Somebody found that offensive.

Speaker 47 And now everybody's raging.

Speaker 81 That's not a story. That's not a story.

Speaker 51 Here's the perspective on that story.

Speaker 153 This just shows you how sweet our life is in America, that we have the time to argue about stuff like that.

Speaker 16 If somebody is, look, nobody's starving.

Speaker 116 Nobody who is at the end of their rope is going into Hobby Lobby and going, oh, and another thing.

Speaker 171 I'm really offended by that.

Speaker 166 No.

Speaker 166 No.

Speaker 20 We're a really blessed country.

Speaker 70 So anyway, just check it out, if you will.

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Speaker 61 hear your thoughts.

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Speaker 123 a new approach at theblaze.com.

Speaker 47 And, you know, I just, I want you to know.

Speaker 17 It is kind of a mantra of mine that

Speaker 152 I know that at the Blaze we're going to get this right.

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Yeah. It's not like here's $5.

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Speaker 185 Glenn back.

Speaker 185 Glenn back.

Speaker 1 I actually invented this in my head.

Speaker 1 Have you ever had that happen to you where some like you invent something in your head and you realize that someone else really a lot smarter than you did it already?

Speaker 124 Oh, I used to do that as a kid all the time.

Speaker 1 But it's actually my invention.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I invented the

Speaker 113 street sweeper vacuum.

Speaker 48 That was my invention. You did that?

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wow, but in reality, someone else did it.

Speaker 108 Somebody else did it long before me, but that was my invention.

Speaker 1 They made the money.

Speaker 30 I learned, young, just give up.

Speaker 76 Everything's been thought of.

Speaker 177 It kind of, that's kind of where I am.

Speaker 2 It's sad.

Speaker 41 You come up with something, you're like, that is genius.

Speaker 71 Oh, it's already out on the market.

Speaker 32 Oh.

Speaker 82 Yeah. Like,

Speaker 1 Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, which is in the Blaze article you were just referring to about Hobby Lobby. And there's this kind of a pyramid of what a person actually cares about.

Speaker 1 And a long time ago, I had a friend who was going through some financial trouble and it was, you know, going through a tough time in his life. This is like when we were just out of high school.

Speaker 1 And he was talking about wanting to improve his career and he's talking about wanting to

Speaker 1 get a girlfriend and all the things that you want to do when you're in that time in your 20s, early 20s.

Speaker 1 And I was like, you have to get past like

Speaker 196 thinking about survival first.

Speaker 1 You can't worry about what car you have and who you're dating. You need to be able to feed yourself first.

Speaker 1 And once you get past that, and this happens, I think, in societies as well, people are like, oh, the global warming, they have to make sure they're doing, how about, I don't know, energy so I can heat my house so I can live.

Speaker 128 So, you know, it was really interesting to me.

Speaker 8 In this conference that I was attending this weekend, talking to these girls from Rwanda who had all come to the United States to go to college.

Speaker 47 Most of them are going back home, and it was amazing.

Speaker 101 I have my degree in sustainable farming. I have my degree in power infrastructure.

Speaker 5 All things that you're like, okay, yep, yep.

Speaker 82 You're going to need, you need that.

Speaker 5 You're going to have a great job.

Speaker 128 Then one said,

Speaker 101 I'm getting my degree in feminist studies.

Speaker 18 And I thought, that's going to be a hard one to work.

Speaker 48 I'm going to have a hard time finding a job in Rwanda with that, I think.

Speaker 41 And she said,

Speaker 82 well,

Speaker 76 I'm staying here.

Speaker 128 And it was really interesting the way she phrased this.

Speaker 42 I'm staying here because

Speaker 171 I think the world really needs me.

Speaker 103 I think my experience

Speaker 56 really will help the world.

Speaker 22 And I don't know where they need me the most, but the world needs me.

Speaker 99 And I'm like, honey, the world doesn't.

Speaker 130 No, it doesn't.

Speaker 48 I mean, would you like to?

Speaker 82 No, offense to her. No offense to you.
No, the world doesn't need anybody.

Speaker 160 No, it doesn't need anybody.

Speaker 134 It really doesn't. It doesn't need me.
It doesn't need you.

Speaker 77 It doesn't need anybody.

Speaker 23 Can you go, can you flip that?

Speaker 171 How can I go and help?

Speaker 4 There's so much

Speaker 129 the world

Speaker 128 has that I can go and I just want to help.

Speaker 31 I want to relieve the suffering or the pain or whatever.

Speaker 98 It was really fascinating to me how the ones that were going back, they were all like, I need a degree in how do we eat.

Speaker 127 And the one who said, I'm going to stay in the West was like,

Speaker 74 how can I piss people off?

Speaker 64 Glenn, back.