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Okay. If, you know, if. If nothing will change your mind, nothing will change your mind, then you are a fundamentalist, period. So clear, state should punish those with contrary views. That's totalitarianism. Political opponents should be punished with violence or death. That's a terrorist. Those are easy. However, if. If you believe every man, no matter their color, their station, their creed, their religion, they have the same right as every other man and woman and all of the responsibilities that come with those rights, such as standing up to defend others with whom you disagree, you're open to other points of view, you're willing to change your mind. If the evidence or truth is shown to you, then I think that makes you an American. And the best thing about being free and being an American and about life, the way it actually works, is you get to choose. Those are the definitions. You get to choose which one are those? Which one are you? Which one? You know, so many people don't think they have a choice, but they do. Every day you have a choice. Every day you can reset. You know, your body completely changes. Every cell changes, like every seven years, you are completely new Body. Every seven years. You can change your thinking and change your life so quickly. I have seen it. I've done it myself. I've seen it happen. I've seen what Charlie Kirk chose to do. I saw him when he was young. He chose. He didn't. He didn't go to college. He wasn't indoctrinating. He chose to study every day. He chose what he wanted to learn and who he wanted to be. And look at how he. Because he applied himself relentlessly every day. That's a huge commitment. Look at who he turned on to. Why can't you do that? Why can't I do that? The answer is, you can. I can. You can change or choose your thinking and change your life. What kind of society do you want to live in? Do you want to live in a peaceful, law abiding, free society? If you do, then you have to choose the thoughts in your own life every day that will create that society. And by saying you don't have a right to speak, and I do, if I disagree with you, you should be killed. You're not creating that. Your thoughts are out of line. And that's really what's happening. Because there is and is truly mental illness. It is truly mental illness. Let me speak to those women who are chugging Tylenol because of science. You're not doing it because of science. You did it as performance. You did it to mock, to score points. But the point you're making is not the point you think you're making, because you most likely were one of the people that were demanding lockdowns. You insisted that we listened to the studies and we trust the experts, even when the experts didn't know their butt from their elbow, when the experts continued to contradict themselves every week, you said, no, if you question this, you're killing children and grandparents. And you demanded compliance. But now the same class of officials in exactly the same roles say, perhaps you should use caution with Tylenol in pregnancy. Not a ban, not a mandate, just you should use caution. And suddenly it's like Adolf Hitler is telling you that you can never have a baby. I mean, it is what. Do you see any contradiction in your actions here? Same roles, just different scientists. Same roles. What we said was, I don't want to listen to those. I can. I see what they're saying, but I disagree with that. Then they come out. These new ones come out after you say, no, no, no, you should be. You shouldn't even be treated. Glenn Beck. If you go into a hospital, you shouldn't even be treated like a human being should be treated because you didn't follow the rules, so you're out. I'm saying this is a suggestion from the same people in the same roles. But now you don't like it, and should we treat you in the hospital if you're going in and something's happening with your baby because you took too much Tylenol? Of course. Of course we should treat you. Of course we should. This isn't principle. On when you're gobbling the Tylenol on this. Don't you see the contradiction here? It's not principle. It's not SC just for you. It's all about power. When your side rules, then it's okay. You can. You can. You can tell everybody you can't defy it, but if somebody else rules, you can defy it. That's not integrity. That's hypocrisy. And hypocrisy erodes so much more than trust. It feeds chaos. And look around you. Look around you as you're gobbling the Tylenol. Look around you. Assassins are coming out from the shadows. Acts of violence that make no sense. No sense. People being pushed out of reason into madness. A society that is truly unraveling at the edges. We've seen this before. We saw this in Rome. Final century. Politics became a blood sport. People were cheering on other humans being eaten by lions. It was a blood sport. The Senate no longer debated things, not in reason. It was just mobs in the streets, daggers settled, arguments when words couldn't. That's where we're headed. Weimar, Germany. Neighbors turned into enemies. Neighbors did. Hypocrisy turned into absolute fury and eventually total collapse. 1850s. Same here in America. Rage, people calling each other all kinds of things. And then we had civil war. And you are still fighting the same civil war. Was it about states rights or was it about slavery? Come on, man. It is not that hard. It is not that hard. Let me ask you, for those who are chugging the Tylenol, how far away are you from that breaking point? Because you seem very close. From mockery to madness is not a long road. It's not. How much hate, how much hypocrisy does it take to nudge you into one more step to violence? A week, a year, one spark. I don't know. You may not think that you would do that, but did you think you would be gobbling Tylenol to make a political point ever? Would you ever have thought, oh, I'm going to be really proud Someday I'm going to. I'm just going to go on an unhinged rant and just take fistfuls of Tylenol because they said that you should be cautious with it. Where is the logic in that? So don't tell me you can't get there, because look where you are. The truth is, only humility is going to fix this. You got to. And we all have to do it. I was wrong to demand obedience then. I'm wrong to mock caution now. You have to be willing to stand on principle. Freedom requires consistency and honesty, and that's the only thing that will reverse the spiral. Man, are you a pawn in a performance. You're a woman just trapped in tribal rage. What is that? Become a citizen. Become a human again. Become somebody who listens ways, reasons, chooses, chooses for yourself. Stop listening to the mass. Stop listening. If you're listening to me, you're like, you know what? Everything he says is right. You're a moron. Form your own opinions. Go do your own homework. Study it yourself. These are my opinions. I own these opinions. But what's yours? If we don't start doing that, then history tells us exactly what comes next. And I promise, none of us want to live through that. And by the way, I don't know if you've heard. We have Jay Bhattacharya on with us next hour. We're going to talk about this Tylenol thing. Did you hear about the woman who was making the point with Tylenol? She's now in the hospital. Overdose, we hope. She's okay. Maybe we'll have an update next hour, but does that seem reasonable? Check your reason. Choose your thoughts. Choose what you think about. Choose what you read. Understand that everything you choose to put into your head will grow whatever it is you think you want, if it's. If it's not in line with what you're thinking, what you're choosing to think about yourself and your country all day. You're never going to create a peaceful, loving, caring, united country where we can all get along if your thoughts are constantly. I gotta stop these people. And that will work for both sides. Let me talk to you about. Burn a launcher. Danger doesn't check to see if you're big enough, strong enough, or trained enough to fight back. It just shows up fast, sudden, without apology. And in that moment, you need more than good intentions. The compact launcher from Burna is built exactly for that kind of situation. It's small enough to carry discreetly, legal in all 50 states. No permit is Required powerful enough to stop a threat without taking a life. And it's not a toy. It's a non lethal high pressure launcher that fires chemical irritant rounds designed to incapacitate and give you the chance to escape. You don't need to aim for a vital organ. 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This is something I've been wrestling with, not just as a broadcaster, but as a citizen, as a dad, a husband, a believer, a man who has spent really, honestly most of my life now trying to understand the arc of history and the voice of God through all of it. The question I've been asking is a tough one. Is all of this worth saving? This thing we call Western civilization? This, this project that was born in Judea, refined in, in Athens, tested in Rome, we reawakened in Wittenberg, baptized again on the shores of our own Plymouth Rock. This is a gift that we were all handed. We didn't earn it, we didn't purchase it, we were given it. Do we want it? Do we even want it? Because if we don't want it, what are we doing? Is it worth saving? Because if it's not, again, what are we doing? But if it is, what are we doing? All across Europe, the streets are restless, not just with protests, but with something far more ancient. And it is hatred. The kind of hatred that once fed ovens and marched under banners with swastikas until until now. Now it just marches under flags that claim peace and chant and chant things about a call for genocide. More violence in the streets. We are fractured in this country. It's left Versus right. Flesh against spirit, neighbor against neighbor. Truth doesn't seem to have a home. And even the church, God help us, even the church has been found slumbering, or worse, collaborating with it. We're told by everybody in our society that everything has to be reset. Everything you learned in history was a mistake. It's not true. Tradition, marriage, all of it. Spondage, slavery, gender. It's fiction. Faith. That's hate. Truth, hate. And the only sin left is believing in the absolute truth. And then when you take a breath, you look at the paper and you see that AI is rising and borders are falling. You look inside your home and our children are confused and they're medicated and addicted and fatherless and suicidal. The universities are mocking what little is left of Western virtue. Our national debt can't be repaid. Our Congress is just screwing around more and more every day, it seems. Our elections no longer feel sacred. Our media doesn't inform, it just programs. Our schools don't educate anymore. They recondition, they retrain, they indoctrinate. So I ask you again, is any of this worth saving? I ask you in all humility, in the spirit of a prophet standing before the ruins, holding the ashes of his people in his hands. That is the only question we need to answer. Is it worth it? Because if it is not, let us stop. But if it is, can we get to work? I mean, honestly get to work. If it's worth saving, then we have to know why. Why is it worth saving? And if it's not, then may God forgive us for what we're about to allow. So before we do anything in the news, can we just start with this? Let's start with what is the West? What is it you want to save Western civilization? What is it? Is it a location?