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I gotta say it. I gotta say it. What I said today was a retarded monologue, and you don't want to miss it. Also, a newfound hero is amongst us. And this woman's story going from hardcore Black Lives Matter, you know, Palestinian activist to where she is now in Stanford University, which, by the way, is friendless, is an amazing, heroic story. You don't want to miss that. And all these people like what Milli Vanilli's going to pull out of the concert on the Mall in Washington. Oh, why would I go then? It makes me more eager to go. But I have a question for all of those who are dropping out. What is this really about? You don't want to miss that as well. All on today's podcast. When an unexpected pregnancy happens, the focus is almost always on the mother and the dads. Too often they're overlooked, pushed to the side, left feeling like their voice doesn't matter. Maybe that's how you would feel, too. You want to be supportive. You want to do the right thing. But fear sets in. Questions start racing. Can I really do this? Can I be a good father? That's exactly how John felt. John wrote to me, and he said, me, a dad? That didn't even feel possible. I didn't know the first thing about being a good father. But then we found preborn. We talked to people, Glenn, who cared? We got free ultrasound. And that's when it all came together for me so that we could do this, that I could do this. Today, you can help another father experience the same moment of Hope. For $28, you can sponsor an ultrasound through preborn and help expectant parents see a future filled with life and compassion and the hope of God's love. Donate dial £250. Say the keyword baby. That's £250, keyword baby. Or visit preborn.comglenn that's preborn.com glenn. Hello, America. You know, we've been fighting every single day. We push back against the lies, the censorship, the nonsense of the mainstream media that they're trying to feed you. We work tirelessly to bring you the unfiltered truth because you deserve it. But to keep this fight going, we need you right now. Would you take a moment and rate and review the Glenn Beck podcast? Give us five stars and leave a comment. Because every single review helps us break through Big Tech's algorithm and to reach more Americans who need to hear the truth. This isn't a podcast. This is a movement, and you're part of it. A big part of it. So if you believe in what we're doing, you want more people to wake up, help us push this podcast to the top rate, review, share together, we'll make a difference. And thanks for standing with us. Now, let's get to work.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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I'm sorry, I just got a jump to place to places riddled with add. Oh, my gosh. How would you say riddled with add? And I've got a lot to cover today. I'm going to come back to America's 250 because I have a few things to say to people like Martina McBride. And I love you, Martina. I love you, do. But pony up with some evidence here. I'd like to know what you're talking about. We'll get into that a little later. But also, I've got to stop here. There's two stories. One comes from the Supreme Court and the other one comes from the Huffington Post. Huffington Post is very angry right now because the word retard is making a comeback. What a surprise. You know, they're saying, oh, this is an ugly descriptor that you're retarded. Okay? It's making an unfortunate comeback. Yeah, yeah, it is. It is. You know, you notice you don't say that about imbecile or moron, but that's why the word retarded came in, because retarded is a clinic, a progressive clinical term, okay? Because scientists said if you have severe intellectual disability, if you're severely retarded is what we would have said, you're an idiot. That's what the medical term was. You're an idiot. If you're moderately retarded, you're an imbecile. If you have mild intellectual retardation, you're a moron. Okay? So it was idiot, imbecile, and moron. And everybody started calling people, you're a moron, you're an idiot, you're an imbecile. And the people, no, no, it's a medical truth. That's not what that means. That's so offensive. And nobody was hurt by being called a. Okay, you got over it. And so then, so everybody's like, I mean, I, I grew up in a world where retard, everything was either gay or it didn't mean gay or okay. And, and everybody was ringing their hand, clutching their prologue. We can't use that word. So they replaced it. They replaced idiot, imbecile, and moron with retardation or retarded, okay? Because it was humane and scientific. Then the same thing happened because you didn't change people and you didn't change the meaning. You know? And so you started saying, well, these are intellectually disabled people. They're developmentally disabled. They're people of special needs. And you know what? Guess what? Guess what? People of special needs is now not welcome in professional settings. It's an insult. Now, wait, I thought that was to replace the insult of retarded. You can't just replace words, okay? You just. You can't. Because if society doesn't change, then the new word just means what the old word meant. And then you're going to have to constantly. It's lather, rinse, repeat, lather. You know what it is? It's retardation. It shows retardation. You're slow. You're slow, okay? So I couldn't take it anymore. And I am so tired of the word police. And when Huffington Post came out and they were like, oh, you know what? We're so very upset about the word, I decided, I'm going to write an open letter to the word police, okay? And I took some time crafting this because I feel it deeply. So here it is. Dear retarded language enforcers, professional offense takers and euphemism evangelists, oh, how I've missed you. But there you are, melting down in perfectly choreography, choreographed outrage because the word retarded is making a comeback. And not just any comeback, but a glorious, unapologetic, full speed ahead retardation of your carefully constructed news speak empire. Oh, the sheer panic on your face. I mean, it is a chef's kiss, really. It's like watching somebody try to put toothpaste back into the tube while the tube itself is retarded. But let me be clear, since clarity seems to be a retarded concept in your circle. Words are not violence. They are syllables with baggage. And retarded has been carrying its suitcase through the English language for decades now, describing everything from developmental delays to your entire approach to public discourse. Now, you've spent years trying to retire it. You have replaced it with increasingly retarded alternatives. Intellectually disabled, differently abled, cognitively divergent. A person with lived experience of slower neural pathways. Good heavens, man. Each one of these is more retarded than the last one. It's honestly, it's like you're a thesaurus having a stroke. The retardation of your project is, however, truly impressive. I mean, you didn't just want to retire the word. You wanted to retard the natural evolution of language itself. You wanted all of us walking on eggshells, retarded in our speech, self censoring like good little hall monitors. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will literally kill me and require a safe space with an emotional support animal in it. How retarded is that? Extremely clinically textbook retarded. Now here's the funny part, you magnificent retard, you. The more you clutched your pearls and screamed ableist, the more the word gained power. Why? I know you can't figure it out, but you're a little slow. Forbidden fruit always tastes sweeter. So now it's back. And not as a cruel slur aimed at the genuinely disabled, who, by the way, have bigger problems than vocabulary, but as a perfect descriptor for your entire retarded worldview. Climate policies that retard economic growth. It's retarded. Higher education that produces graduates who cannot define a woman. Peak retardation, cancel culture that treats retarded as worse than actual policy failures. That's not just retarded, that's meta retarded. Retardation so advanced that it loops back around, back into performance art. So you wanted to police language. You wanted to police language so hard that you retarded social progress. Remember when we could call bad ideas stupid without triggering a UN resolution? Those were the days. Oh, and they are coming back. But now every mildly edgy observation requires a dissertation on harm and impact. Your retardation of humor, art and honest conversation has produced a culture so fragile that it makes Victorian ladies look like stand up comedians. So keep seething word warriors. Keep writing your think pieces about how retarded is punching down and we'll be over here using it creatively. That DEI training, that was retarded. Your pronoun obsession is retarded. This open letter might even be a little retarded in its enthusiasm, but at least it's honest. You should know the linguistic pendulum is swinging back. And it's retarded in all of the right ways, slowing down your march toward total somatic control. So, in conclusion, I leave you with this word. Retarded is not going anywhere. It's been retarded from retirement. It's your word, your progressive word. You brought it into the culture, so deal with it. Or don't. I don't. I mean, honestly, your meltdowns are half the entertainment for me. Signed with zero regards and maximum linguistic freedom. A recovering compliance speaker who's done being retarded. Glenn Beck. That's for you. The Huffington Post. Now I want to talk to you about the Supreme Court because. Ketanji Jackson Brown, and that is her name, is retarded now. So, you know, I'm not going to demean the office of the Supreme Court any more than Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown intentionally has demeaned it already, okay? She came out. She was the only. Even the liberal judges are like, oh, can you just shut up? You're so stupid. Please just shut up. She was all alone. She wrote the lone dissent. And what. What this case was about was, can a judge who sees an injustice have broad power to fix it? Okay? And all the other. The other judges, all eight of them, they were like, no, it's not in the Constitution. They. They. They have powers, and you got to. They got to be controlled, okay? And she's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let me. Let me give you an analogy of what they were discussing. Let's say there's a lock on a front gate, okay? And the front gate is the official process for claiming you were wrongly convicted. It's difficult. It takes time. There are forms. There are deadlines. There are legal standards. You got to hire an attorney. You got to go back. It's called an appeal process, okay? But there is a side door that gets you out. Now, it's a different. It's a different purpose. Maybe the prisoner is terminally ill, and the judge can say, you know what? I think we should let them out. Maybe they're 90 years old and they're terminally ill. You know, or there's extraordinary humanitarian reasons. Okay? This. This case was. Well, the judge should be able to use that door. Why do we have to go through. Because this judge knows that I'm innocent. Well, that. Wait, no, that's not the system. You were judged by a jury. You got to go back through the jury system, and you got to be judged again, and you can be found that this was wrong, and we can overturn that. But there's a system. So Jackson was saying, if a judge discovers somebody may be innocent, why should they force everyone through that front gate when the side door is right there? I mean. And Amy Coney Barrett, who. Who wrote the majority opinion 8 to 1, said because the side door wasn't made for that. If. If you use that door for this, then no one will know what the doors are for. People just use the doors and the windows and whatever, and you empower the judges. I mean, it's. It's like. It's like saying, you know, the referee. Let's say the referee noticed that A player had cheated earlier in the game. Her position is the referee should have the flexibility to make things right. Barrett's like, no, no, no. The referee's job is to enforce the rule book, not rewrite, you know, the rules or right injustices during the game that already has passed. We've moved on. You got to follow the rule book. She just believes that referees, judges in this case got to do what they feel is right. No, you're making them into dictators. They have ultimate power. That's how retarded she is. And I mean that in the clinical sense. She is a slow thinker. Okay. She's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. And, and even her, even on her own side, I, she's embarrassing. She really is embarrassing. And I, I hate to say that because I don't, I don't. It's not good. I mean, you know, I never thought, I never thought you could come to a place. I kind of said this, though, when she was there. I hated her policies. But Ginsburg was, you know, she was at least honest. She could make an intellectual case. I think she was wrong many times, but she could make the intellectual case. And she wasn't, you know, she, she wasn't filled with hate. I mean, she, she was, she was good friends with Scalia. They were good friends. They couldn't disagree more. Jackson Brown, the non singing one, maybe should try singing, because, I mean, she does. There's no intellectual firepower there. It shows that she just does not understand the constitution or rules at all. When you can just say, you know what? This judge needs to have the power just to go, you know, I think that person's innocent. Where do you find that in the Constitution? Where do you find that in the rule of law? That goes against any. Everything our laws say, but again, they don't care. They'll just, you know, and if they don't get their way, they'll just kick the other. Can you imagine having eight other judges like that? Oh, we would be living in a fun house. We would. It would be a house of mirrors. We'd constantly be walking into a miracle. Oh, I didn't realize that was there. You'd never know what was real. You'd never know where to go. I mean, one of the reasons why we lasted 250 years, one of the reasons why we've been so successful monetarily is because our laws made sense and they were consistent. People knew they weren't going to swing wildly. You could put your money here, you could build a business and you knew 10 years down the road it's still going to be safe. It'll generally be like this. In Ketanji Jackson Brown's world, it's a madhouse. I mean, everything collapses in that kind of world. But the ones in prison that say they're innocent, they would be free. So you have that going for you. Being prepared, always a good idea. But as somebody who tries to prepare, I've always been frustrated that nobody had the medical solution on preparedness until Jace Medical. They've just launched the Jace plus plus, the Pocket Paramedic. You know, most people get their over the counter medical supplies and hope, you know, they never have to use them. But preparedness doesn't end with that. Supplies run low. When something actually happens, you don't want to be figuring out in real time how do I get my prescription medication. The JACE plus is a membership designed to help you stay ready over time. In fact, it was my idea the first time I met with the Jace Team Plus. With Jace plus membership, you can get 15% off on all products on Jace.com, 50% off replenishment medications, free free shipping insurance, plus so much more. And then there's the Pocket Paramedic. It's real time guidance for everyday injuries and situations. Live professionals one call away. It's about responsibility, self reliance. It's about jace.com find out what's available to you now. Jace.com use the promo code free month for one month. Free. Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Karen, what an honor it is to have you on, on the phone and on the show. Thank you for joining.
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Thank you for having me.
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It must be a little surreal to be on the program because if you had your viewpoint and you knew anything about me, the last place you would want to be is on a show like mine. So again, congratulations for having even the bravery to do this. Can you, can you explain who you were before your change? How deeply into this were you?
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Yeah, so I think it starts before October 7th that I used to be a Black Lives Matter activist, like when I'm 16 years old. This was like during quarantine 2020, right after George Floyd got killed. And I remember seeing like Palestinian flags like at our Black Lives Matter protests. And so when I saw this, I would ask our leaders like, you know, why, you know, why are Palestinian flags here? And they would say that, you know, for us to be free, Palestine has to be free. And, and they would utilize the same words. Even now we're seeing the same language of apartheid, dispossession, colonization. And it had, it like, kind of struck me as like a black woman. And I think more so just because of identity politics and kind of like, I like, mistook that familiarity for understanding this con, this conflict and had some intellectual shortcuts when it comes to like understanding this, like, very complex and nuanced history that and just like compressing into like an oppressor versus oppressed, you know, narrative.
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So you went from leading some of these rallies at Stanford, being part of the stanford encampment, etceter, etc. Etc. And then you had a change of heart. And it started, if I'm not mistaken, it started because you were actually looking to disprove something. Correct. Tell me about this experience. What happened?
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Yeah. And so then I would want to say, like, give context on what had happened on Stanford's campus because, like, I think that led me to pull away from the movement itself was specifically after October 7th. By October 20th, Stanford already put up its encampment, sit in to stop the genocide. This is before the families had even finished identifying its dead. This is a week before a single soldier had even crossed into Gaza. And so we were already labeling it a genocide. And so we knew how the story was going to end. And we were already protesting and there was no time that was spent to even grieve those that lost their lives. And if you did grieve and mourn publicly, you were immediately outcasted and you lost your social belonging. And so I was very like, I, I felt like I wanted a 2 safe solution, but I was just very like, I never wanted to talk about it with anyone because everyone was anti Zionist and it felt that you had to, like, the safest position was the most radical one. And so at one of our protests, at one of our protests In June of 2024, they broke into the Stanford University's president's office and caused $700,000 in damages. Twelve students received felonies. And they spray painted like, disgusting things such as, death to Israel, death to America, kill cops, pigs, taste best when dead. And this is, I was just confused on like, where is Gaza in any of that, you know, And I completely lost sight of, like, who we were claiming to be fighting for. And at some point our pro Palestine movement became more of an anti Israel, anti American one. And I no longer could recognize what we were, what we were doing anymore. And I think so once students got felonies, I like, took a step back from the movement and, and it allowed me to receive an Invitation to the Nova Music Festival exhibit that's right now being hosted in London.
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Yeah.
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And I went, going in, wanting to investigate because I, I thought I would find like Zionist propaganda and Zionist lies, and I wanted to reaffirm my pro Palestine position more than anything, but that wasn't what I came across. I found instead, you know, half written I love you, and last messages sent to parents and loved ones. And I'm just. It, it was, it was a tragedy. And then these are kids my age going to a music festival that I would have went to. And it, it, it was just not political. None. Like, Nova Music Festival was not a political thing. And yet we had like compressed them and flattened them into this political narrative, and in doing so, we killed them a second time. And it's. And I just, like, I think it was just very tragic for me to realize that. And I think one of the audio recordings that we had heard was a terrorist calling his dad, saying that he had killed 10 Jews with his own bare hands and celebrating. And I thought I was going to hear horror. And instead the dad congratulated his son.
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Put mom on the phone, if I'm not mistaken.
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Yes. And. And the mom was on the phone saying, I wish I was there with you. And so I was. So this is our resistance. This was who we were calling our martyrs. That they were explicitly saying that they wanted to kill Jews with their own hands. And I'm just. I, again, I always call myself an anti Zionist, but not anti Semitic. And that completely deconstructed that.
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Hey, let's stop for a second. I really want to meet you. I hope I get to meet you someday. I just have so much respect for you. I just want to give you a hug. Thank you for being honest.
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Thank you.
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Was there a moment? Because after this happened, it was what, six months after I called people in Israel and asked to see the evidence and they brought it from Israel. And I sat in my office with a couple of people. Ricky was one. Weren't you in it? Or did you not? I actually declined. Declined? Yeah. And I sat in with a couple of people and, and we saw all of the video. We saw 90 minutes of the videos. And it was. It was horrific. It was horrific. Was there a moment inside this? Because I don't know exactly if they showed you everything that we saw. Was there one moment that made you go, I am on the wrong side. Was it that phone call?
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I want to say, like, you know, I, I'm, I'm. I admire that you had went out to find it like to look for the evidence six months after. Because it, it took me a year to finally attend this funeral. And I, I, I, I feel when I was watching and reading their stories, it, it's just more so that like, that could have been anyone. Like, that could have been your kids. That could have been my friends. And like, the fact that their faces just look so ordinary, just smiling and the stuff that they left behind, from like baby bottles to strollers to like a calculator, I just like, I, I was like, of course, like, you know, a Stanford student would bring a calculator to like a, a, a music festival. And it's just like, I, I, that's why I really hope that more people can attend that Nova Music Festival exhibit if it comes to your area. Because it, like, it, it takes you out of social media and like, just, you know, reading about it, hearing about it, and you get to visually see and like, feel and pick up with your own hands the artifacts of that day. And it's just, yeah, it's just not the same at all. I just like, like I said, like, you take 20 minutes to go through this exhibit and you come out a different person and you just know that in your heart that
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that's true.
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It's. Yeah, go ahead. Sorry.
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So, so you, you left, you, I assume you went back into a meeting with your friends and did you express this? Did you say, hey, I can't be a part of this, or do you try to convince them and what happened to you?
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Right. So right after visiting the exhibit, I, I, I pl. I had planned to talk to my friends about this. I, I immediately I, I didn't talk to my friends. I knew, yeah, I didn't because I knew that like, expressing any hesitancy or like, doubts or questions was to like, risk my social belonging and like, risk my genuinely scared, you know? Yeah, yeah. It, it's just oftentimes it, it that pressure to feel like you're one of the good ones and the, that you want to be. Like, like, I feel like nothing recruits more than wanting to be on the right side of history. Like what you're, what you were mentioning, mentioning about David Hor wits. And so I just like, yeah, sorry. So it's, it's my friends. Like, I knew that they were going to see this as like a moral fl. A moral failure rather than like a me expanding my empathy beyond having a selective empathy of like, which certain deaths matter versus which don't. And I, that was the way that we were operating within the encampment. And so now I have, like, a greater empathy and to, to mourn that publicly. I was genuinely scared. And so I decided to, like, withhold my beliefs and, like, what I was thinking and my doubts to myself. And the people that had, had went to that exhibit were invited by Hillel to go to Israel. And I decided to go and to see for myself, like, what's reality like on the ground. And I think, like, once I went to Israel, it made me realize I need to start speaking up about this.
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You're listening to the Best of the Glenn Beck Podcast. Hear more of this interview and others with the full show podcast available wherever you get podcasts. Who do you want to be when you grow up? Who do you want to be when you grow up? Who do you hope in the time of trouble you are? I, I think I just met somebody I'd like to be more like Taryn Thomas. She is going to do more good than she can even possibly imagine if she keeps her head on her shoulders. She's happy, she's bright, she's intelligent, she's honest and not unafraid. She's like every hero that I've ever read about. Heroes are afraid. They are. They're afraid. They just know something bigger, more important than their fear, than their life, their friends, their job, their death, whatever. They know this is more important and that's who she is. And, you know, I want to, I want to pick up where I left off last hour about this Freedom 250 concert that's going on. You know, the, the Great American State Fair thing is going on at the National Mall in Washington this summer. And Freedom 250 announced the lineup for the Great American State Fair is here. And it's bringing the hits. Martina McBride, Young MC, CNC, Music Factory, Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli. Who knew? They really. That's. Holy cow. I'll tell that story some other day. The Commodores, Morris Day and the Time, Florida, Brett Michaels and many more. Okay, so now here's what was trending last night and today, and that is all these people are pulling out and they're saying, we didn't know. We had no idea. We didn't have any idea that this was so divisive. Bret Michaels said he was worried because of the death threats. Wait, death threats coming from whom? From the people that were gonna go to that or the people who don't want you to go to that? That's who you're afraid of. You're not afraid of the people who are for this. You're Afraid of the people who are against this. That should tell you something. You know, here's what bothers me on all of this news about this concert. I looked at the criticism. I searched it out, okay? I watched all the performers pull out. I watched the headlines scream that these events are somehow dangerous or divisive. But I have not found any specifics. What exactly are you objecting to? What did they ask you to do that was so partisan or divisive? I mean, if there is something truly objectionable, then tell us. Tell us, show us the evidence. Let us judge for ourself. Because as I said earlier, you know, this doesn't belong to Donald Trump and the Republicans. It doesn't belong. Belong to. It doesn't belong to Barack Obama or Joe Biden or the Democrat. This is an American thing. And if the entire, the entire argument boils down to one of these things, it says a lot. Is it boil down that you'll never work again if you show up. Are you being threatened by your own colleagues? You'll. You will never work again. Nobody will ever trust you again. If you go and perform on that stage, you'll never do anything again. Is that what it is? Or, or Michaels, is it really. Is it the death threats? I mean, if it's the death threat, shame on you. Really, shame on you. You know, we have. We as a country survived because patriots risked their lives while in actual danger. And you know what? Honestly, some of us actually live in real danger. Some of us live with death threats every single day wherever we are. But America historically has survived because there were a few people who stood when no one else would, because they were all afraid. It's in the Declaration of Independence. Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Are you not willing to risk that because that's what we're supposed to be celebrating? Is it just because if it's divisive because of Donald Trump, this isn't Donald Trump. America is bigger than Donald Trump. America was here before him. America will be here after him. George Washington is bigger than Donald Trump. Abraham Lincoln is bigger than Donald Trump. The American people bigger than Donald Trump. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, bigger than Donald Trump. He just happens to be the President of the United States now. The millions of Americans who built this country, defended this country, farmed this country, invented in this country, sacrificed for this country, died for this country. That's all bigger than Donald Trump. And they're bigger than Joe Biden. They're bigger than Barack Obama. Is that what's so divisive because that's the problem. Now we see everything as political. Everything. The flag is political. The anthem is political. The Founders political. The Constitution. Now our birthday party is political. I'm just. I guess I'm just getting too old. I was a kid in 1976. I was 12 years old, and I was probably in the most patriotic family ever. We were trying to save our little town. Little town of Mount Vernon, Washington. And it was dying because the Mall came in and we thought. My parents did Mount Vernon, Washington. Why don't. Why don't we make it into, like, a little colonial town like Mount Vernon, you know, and salute George Washington, Maybe build a little miniature Mount Vernon. Because the bend of the river, the Skagit river, was right there. It looked exactly the same. And we'll make our town into something instead of just losing to the Mall. And so all through. For, like, three years prior to the bicentennial and during it, I mean, we dressed up as. You know, I was a little drummer boy, and we marched in parades and all of that stuff. But the one thing I remember about the bicentennial is all Americans celebrated the Bicentennial. Everybody, we were all in that one together. It was everywhere. And nobody asked if you were a Republican or a Democrat. I remember people hated the President. President Nixon hated him. Hated Ford. They still showed up. Hated Carter. They still showed up. People who love the President showed up. People who hated the President showed up. Because the celebration wasn't about the President, it was about the country. How have we lost that? Are we really that small of a nation that we can only see ourselves through the lens of whoever is sitting in the Oval Office? Wow. That is a dangerous way to think. You want to talk about fascism? That's the beginning of it. A nation that can't celebrate itself forgets itself. A people who only remember the failures eventually lose confidence in the future. We're almost there, gang, if we're not already. Confidence matters. And despite all of our mistakes, despite all of our sins, despite all of our shortcomings, and there is a long list, believe me, I have a museum. I can outdo the worst people. Let me tell you how bad the United States is. You're a rookie. Let me show you the actual documents. Still, with all of that, I know the United States has done extraordinary things for humanity. Yeah, we had slavery. We also ended slavery. We fought for it. We're the only country that fought our own people. You know how many people died? Yeah. Vietnam, so horrible. Went on for 10 years. What was it, 60,000, 66? Thousand people died in Vietnam. Nearly 700,000 people died in the Civil War back when the population was a lot smaller and when we fought in other wars. We go in and we rebuild our enemies. We feed starving nations. We pioneer modern medicine, and then we volunteer and share it with them. We've created technologies that changed the world. We defended freedom across continents. We send missionaries and charities and doctors and inventors and entrepreneurs and dreamers into every corner of the globe. Now, is that the whole story? Of course not. Of course not. But that's an important part of the story. And after we have been beating ourselves up for the last 25, 30, damn, almost 50 years now, maybe we could take a summer to remember some of the good stuff. So, Martina McBride, I love you. My wife loves you. I love you. I have nothing against you. I just want to know your evidence. I want to know what they asked you to do so I can help you spread the word that that was wrong. But I'll be damned. I don't think you have a damn thing. I don't. I think you have a lack of courage. And I don't say I like you. I don't mean. I don't say that to be mean to you. But damn it, it is time people have courage and stand up and say, this isn't about the president. And I don't care what you do to my career. I don't care anymore. My country is more important. So if you want to boycott America's 250, it's your right. If you want to criticize the event, that's your right. Just be honest about it. Tell us exactly what you oppose. Tell us exactly what is divisive. Don't hide behind the slogans. Don't hide behind the headlines. Make the case and let the American people decide. Because if the only reason you can't celebrate America's birthday is that it's a president that you dislike might show up somewhere, might be nearby you, and maybe that that is your problem then, that your problem is not the celebration. The problem is you've made one man larger than the country. And no president deserves that power. Not Donald Trump. No one deserves. America is bigger than all of the presidents. Help me help you. Tell me what was so divisive. I want to know. And if I don't hear, others can judge you any way they want. And I'm not going to judge you. But I am going to chalk it up to cowardice. You're afraid of what people will say about you, what will happen to your sales, what will happen to your career? Will I get a job? Will I be hated? Grow up. If your friends and your co workers demand that of you, they were never your friends and you shouldn't want to work with them anyway.
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