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Glenn Beck
All right, you've got the best of today's podcast. Donald Trump's newest plan to fight for you and clean out all the bureaucrats in Washington. It is, it is almost a conservative sex tape. It's that hot. Also, SNL welcome comedy back. Really. And with today's being Veterans Day, Justin Hoover talks about how we can help the veterans battling the silent battle. The Burna launcher would honestly help your family out a great deal, I think, especially if you have a gun. But you're. I gotta pull my gun out if I'm not prepared to kill somebody. And there are times when your family will need that protection without killing people. As the holidays approach, it's essential to recognize personal safety is a year round priority. And crime tends to spike during this time of year. What's coming next week? I gotta tell you, I've got my burner launcher with me at all times. And I suggest you do. Hopefully nothing's gonna break out, but if you know, I'm going someplace and there's protests and everything else, I don't want my car surrounded by, you know, and a little tear gas would help. It's the Burna launcher. A non lethal alternative to safeguarding your family, your home and teach somebody a very painful non lethal lesson. It's legal in all 50 states. No permits or background checks required. It can be used by all age groups over 18. Burna Launcher. It'll incapacitate an attacker for up to 40 minutes. Burnaby.com Glenn Exclusive 10% discount now. Burna.com Glenn Protect what matters most. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Stu. This is like constitutional porn. I just want to warn you. I just want to warn you. You might hear some sexy music in your own head. You might be like, oh yeah, ding dong pizza delivery. You might hear that this is the most amazing thing I have heard any president ever say. This is Donald Trump.
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Stu Burguiere
That's quite a standard.
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Glenn Beck
Just, I want you to make a list, okay? Just when he says, oh, and I'm going to do this, just make a list, okay? This is his plan to answer end the censorship cartel.
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Donald Trump
If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country. It's as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominoes, one by one. They'll go down. That's why today I'm announcing my plan to shatter the left wing censorship regime and to reclaim the right to free speech. For all Americans. And reclaim is a very important word in this case because they've taken it away. In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left wing activists and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people. They have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything from elections to public health. The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed and it must happen immediately. And here is my plan. First, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis or disinformation. And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health Human Services, the FBI, the doj, no matter who they are. Second, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, and antitrust laws, the Hatch act, and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory and constitutional offenses. To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans can't even keep up. To immediately send preservation letters. And we have to do this right now to the Biden administration, the Biden campaign, and every Silicon Valley tech giant ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship. Third, upon my inauguration as President, I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk revising section 230 to get big online platforms out of censorship business from now on. Digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness and non discrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful content such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism, while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech. Fourth, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so called myths and disinformation. The federal government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any US University is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interferences in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal of blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth and fifth amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose those elections and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country. Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former deep staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven year calling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DoD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of US user data. Fifth, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a Digital Bill of Rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words, government officials should need a court order to take down online content, not send information requests such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow banned or otherwise restricted, no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it's happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation and curation entirely and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose. The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western civilization itself. When I am president, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won't be anything left. By restoring free speech, we'll begin to reclaim our democracy and save our nation. Thank you and God bless America.
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Glenn Beck
Wow.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, that is the first thing that strikes me on that is just how different it was than 2016. That's not a guy who's just like walking in, I don't know who should we pick? Like, that's somebody who has a plan.
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Glenn Beck
That is. That's one of the exciting things is this is so detailed, even just what he said, you know, there's much more than this behind each one of these and so much thought behind all of this. This is a guy who has sat there for at least the last two years, probably the last four years, going, all right, I get a second chance. What do we do? What do we do? This is the most comprehensive thing I've ever heard a Republican president ever lay out. Now, the Democrats do it, but usually they do it in a bill of about 3,000 pages and you just don't find out until after you. It's like the. The Happy Meal bill.
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Stu Burguiere
Right.
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Glenn Beck
You know, and you're like, wait, is.
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Stu Burguiere
This for Happy Meals, the Inflation Reduction Act?
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, yeah, kind of like that.
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Stu Burguiere
Oh, okay.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, look at the list.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah. I mean, there's a lot in there. Going after the federal employees, colluding to censor speech and put them in jail. Taking the federal money and away from people who are kind of walking that line and drawing our guardrails on mis and disinformation.
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Glenn Beck
That's that. What was that name of that organization over in England that we helped start?
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, yeah.
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Glenn Beck
All the people that were involved in that. Bye. Bye.
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Stu Burguiere
And I think, like a lot of the people on the left and the media will take that as like, oh, he just wants to be able to say conspiracy theories and not be fact checked. And that's just not the truth. Is that the federal government should have no role in that.
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Glenn Beck
None.
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Stu Burguiere
It's up to. You want to have a media organization. It's not going to stop ABC News from doing misinformation reporting, as dumb as it might be. No, it's just going to stop federal money going through that process, which is totally appropriate for a country that has a First Amendment.
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Glenn Beck
Correct.
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Stu Burguiere
Prosecuting crimes that happened. I'm sure they'll say this is punishing enemies, but in reality, it's commit a crime.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
They're supposed to be crime.
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Glenn Beck
And this is a constitutional crime. Government getting involved in freedom of speech. That's a constitutional crime.
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Stu Burguiere
And sending preservation letters so that these suits can go forward so they're not like, clearing out, deleting all these files now before he gets into office.
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Glenn Beck
That's tough.
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Stu Burguiere
And that's going to be, by the way, not something he can. He can do personally. That's gonna be something.
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Glenn Beck
That's why he said they have to send that right away.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, look, all of this, I think, is good. Is there any part in there that makes you at all nervous? There's a couple points in there that I could see going the wrong way if we're not careful. Which is rewriting section 230.
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Glenn Beck
Yes, that could be dice.
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Stu Burguiere
There's nothing wrong with rewriting section 230, but you just have to. You have to be careful with it.
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Glenn Beck
Well, what he said is.
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Stu Burguiere
I think what he said is as.
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Glenn Beck
Long as you have quality.
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Stu Burguiere
High standards of neutrality.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, yeah. High standards of Neutrality, Neutrality, you have to qualify for that. And you should ban things that are illegal, you know, child porn, terrorism, things like that. So.
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Stu Burguiere
And that is theoretically already there, but we have really loose standards on these companies for enforcing it.
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Glenn Beck
Yes.
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Stu Burguiere
It's basically like if you get multiple requests to take some material down and you don't, you can be in trouble. But generally speaking, like they are, they don't have to take action to go get the stuff. They have to just wait for it to be reported to them and then they have to do it after that process. But the process, of course, is really weak. Right. You have millions and millions and millions of posts going up. They would argue that it's impossible to get to all of it. Oh, well.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, well. Oh, no.
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Stu Burguiere
Maybe you don't get to be as large a company.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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Stu Burguiere
Maybe. Maybe. You know what?
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Donald Trump
We.
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Glenn Beck
Maybe.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, look, my, of course, fantasy here is that maybe this doesn't work within the law and the social media companies just go away. That would be tragic. That would be terrible. Now, of course, Zorin, Max Zorin of Zorin Industries, if you go back to a View to a kill documentary from 1985, I believe that was a James Bond movie, actually. He advocated for explosives under the earth that would cause a earthquake that would flood all of Silicon Valley. Now, he didn't get to that, unfortunately. I was waiting for that as one of the action steps for the new Trump administration. Didn't quite get there. But, I mean, that's just. Maybe that's step seven. We'll get there eventually.
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Glenn Beck
The digital Bill of Rights is so important. Yep.
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Stu Burguiere
That was interesting.
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Glenn Beck
I mean, what's interesting about that is you have a right to go without an algorithm. Love that.
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Stu Burguiere
And it's interesting because Europe has a digital Bill of rights. I would assume it's not going to look very much like the Trump, but it is. First of all, there are some similarities. It's like you own your own data. That is a big part. That's the concept behind the European one. Some of those concepts you could say are good and I'm sure will be brought over. But also just the idea that you don't, you don't have to be manipulated by this. It's tough because you should be able to run a website that you own. Yes, right. The Blaze should not need to go neutral and give all sorts of information from the left. We should be able to do what we want to do with our own website. Now, there's that distinction between publisher and curator. A social network that I think will probably be the line there. But again, the details matter on this stuff, as we've seen over and over and over again. If you don't get that exactly right, it could be a problem. But I mean, you know, that's what the process will be for.
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Glenn Beck
I think the idea, first of all, you're a public square now. This is where. This is where people.
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Stu Burguiere
I know, but it's public square argument.
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Glenn Beck
It's digital now. I know, but nobody gets on their soapbox. And we're walking in our town square and we see somebody stand up and say, I want to give a speech.
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Stu Burguiere
If you want a town square, then it's like, then make a town square. These are companies that have spent their own money on this stuff.
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Glenn Beck
I understand.
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Stu Burguiere
I just feel like they should be. Look, there's a lot here that I understand and I think is a good thing making. Essentially just turning giant private companies into utilities makes me scared.
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Glenn Beck
No, I'm not saying that.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, should Elon Musk have to deal with all that? No, I bought the company. No, no, no. When is the next government. The next time the Democrats get in control and they take this public square and they make their own rules with it makes me really nervous. I get what he's saying. I think we'll be able to walk this line. But let's be honest that we have to walk a line here and just be careful here.
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Glenn Beck
I agree with that. But you have things like an algorithm you have a right to unmask. I don't have a right to necessarily know their algorithm, but I do have a right to say, you know what? I don't want you filtering stuff. Why don't you have a right to do that?
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Stu Burguiere
And this is the sort of thing that they should have just done.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, it is.
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Stu Burguiere
You know, it wouldn't have been an issue if they just did it. It would have been easy. They should have just had an off button. But they couldn't bring themselves to do that because they wanted A, money and B, to control correct the public opinion.
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Glenn Beck
How many people will their eyes be opened if you have that and you just say, just unmask it. Just unmask it for a week. See what you see. Be pretty amazing.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
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SNL Cast Member
I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the.
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Glenn Beck
Lord but you don't really care for me. Okay, so far, no laughs.
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SNL Cast Member
Well, it goes like this.
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Glenn Beck
That's McKenna or whatever her name is, dressed as Hillary Clinton, looking like Hillary Clinton, just playing the piano. I mean, and it goes on like you stop. There's no humor to it at all. And then they're like, from New York, it's Saturday night. What is that? All right, this is what they did this time. To many people, including many people watching this show right now, the results were shocking and even horrifying. Donald Trump, who tried to forcibly overturn.
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Stu Burguiere
The results of the last election, was.
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Glenn Beck
Returned to office by an overwhelming majority. This is the same Donald Trump who openly called for vengeance against his political enemies. And that is why we at SNL would like to say to Donald Trump, we have been with you all along.
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Stu Burguiere
We have never wavered in our support of you. Even when others doubted you, every single.
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Glenn Beck
Person on this stage believed in you. Every single person on this stage voted for you. Because we see ourselves in you. We look at you and think, that's me. That's the man I want my future children to look up to. And Mr. Trump, you, Honor, we know that you say things that are controversial sometimes, but really, you're just speaking the Truth. And I hate how the lamestream media Michael Che tries to spin it to make you look foolish. So if you're keeping some sort of list of your enemies, then we should.
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SNL Cast Member
Not be on that list.
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Stu Burguiere
I mean, it's not the greatest sketch of all time, but at least they attempted to have fun with it.
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Glenn Beck
Some humor, right? Yeah. At least it wasn't coming out and playing the piano in dirge. That was a funeral.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah, it was a funeral, and that's how they felt.
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Glenn Beck
So then Bill Burr came out and he was funny as usual, and hit both sides, which, fine. I'm cool. I'm totally cool with. I don't care if you hit both sides. It's why the Simpsons. How do they not know this? This is why the Simpsons are so popular. Because you know, if they're hitting one side, they're going to hit the other just as hard. Hello? Is anybody listening? So maybe comedy is back. Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
Because it seems like in 2016, they felt. It seemed like this once in a lifetime mistake to them. Like, this is. I can't believe this happened. And I think when he gets elected a second time, you just kind of have to be like, oh, it's kind of just like your reality. Whatever world you think exists doesn't exist. The 20s, the whatever world an SNL comedian is surrounded by on a daily basis is not a real world. No, it's a very small part of a real world.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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Stu Burguiere
But it is not real. It's not real life. Well, maybe they're understanding that a little bit.
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Glenn Beck
Well, I mean, it's very real. Once you have women saying they're not. They're. They're not going to. They're not going to have sex with men for four years now. Yeah, yeah. Then it gets real fast, Stu. Does it? Real fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to know, is anyone in this listening audience, is your husband or wife saying that to you? I'd like to talk to you. I can't imagine. Can you?
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Stu Burguiere
No, no, that's not. I feel like we do get into this world where we highlight the craziest people on the Internet and make them into stories. And I think that's only insane people are doing that. Right.
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Glenn Beck
Hang on just a second. We have. Wow. Candy is on the phone. Hello, Candy. Candy, how are you? I'm good. How are you?
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SNL Cast Member
I'm very, very well. And I heard you ask for people who have refused to have sex after this Trump. This Trump Hitler man.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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SNL Cast Member
Has been elected or selected to be president of the United States.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. So are you married, Candy?
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SNL Cast Member
I am not.
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Glenn Beck
You're not surprised. And. And so you've sworn off sex.
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SNL Cast Member
I have. I've sworn off sex. No more candy for you. None of my sweet treats coming your way.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, that's. That's good.
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SNL Cast Member
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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SNL Cast Member
I mean, people, you know, you. People look at me all the time. I see them look at up and down as I walk down the street, I bet. And they're seeing. They're looking at. And say, look at that. Look at that thing. And I see. I know what they mean.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, yeah.
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SNL Cast Member
It's, you know, a lot of times they'll walk up to me and they'll say, oh, yeah, look at. Look at that. And. And then they'll say. They'll say, hey, baby. And then they'll walk away in the other direction quickly.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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SNL Cast Member
And I take that as they just are so turned up.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah.
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SNL Cast Member
They can't resist. They don't want to embarrass themselves.
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Glenn Beck
So you're so. Because of Trump, you're not. You've. You've started not having sex with anyone.
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SNL Cast Member
I've upped my game.
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Glenn Beck
What do you mean you've upped your game because of Trump? What do you mean you've upped your game?
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SNL Cast Member
Well, I've been sexless since 1992. If night. 1992. Ish.
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Stu Burguiere
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Well, let's see, it was 80.
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SNL Cast Member
Yeah. 99. Well, it was more like night. Well, 92 is when I stopped having sex, but that was because people didn't want to have sex with me at that time. But I gave it all up. I withheld it from the men starting in about 1995.
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Glenn Beck
So, Candy, you know how people say that men are only interested in sex? Oh, yeah, they are. Yeah. And that makes women just objects.
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SNL Cast Member
Well, that's. That's what they say.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah. Yeah, that's what they say. Well, wouldn't you be kind of confirming that by holding sex back then? That. Isn't that you saying I'm nothing but a sex object?
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SNL Cast Member
I'm just acknowledging the reality. People want me. They want. They want me sexually.
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Justin Hoover
Glad.
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Glenn Beck
Have you seen some of the ladies online that are. That are.
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SNL Cast Member
I've seen. Oh, yeah, they're very, very attractive. Look, I'm not going to say I'm a perfect 10.
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Glenn Beck
Right. What are you? I'm more like an 8. You're an 8.
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SNL Cast Member
5 out of 100. So really, I think that.
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Glenn Beck
How are you scoring the 8?
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SNL Cast Member
8 out of 100? Just like the normal scrolling.
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Glenn Beck
Scoring. Scoring. I didn't realize there was 92 other choices.
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SNL Cast Member
Oh, yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, yeah.
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SNL Cast Member
There's a lot of them up there.
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Glenn Beck
Wow.
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SNL Cast Member
I said, I'm not going to give you this. Ever since they nominated that hate monger, right? Bob Dole.
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Donald Trump
Wait.
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SNL Cast Member
I was like, I'm out.
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Glenn Beck
You're Bob.
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SNL Cast Member
No more.
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Glenn Beck
Right.
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SNL Cast Member
No more sex for you.
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Glenn Beck
Right. Because Bob Dole.
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SNL Cast Member
This is a Dole related protest that I will not give up on.
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Glenn Beck
Now, this isn't just happening because you're hideously ugly.
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SNL Cast Member
How dare you?
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Glenn Beck
I know. I'm sorry. I'm only. I'm just asking.
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SNL Cast Member
You should see what I'm wearing right now. Do you want to hear?
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Glenn Beck
Not really.
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SNL Cast Member
That's good, because I think it would repulse the audience. We'd have no listeners left. So I'll hold it back.
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Glenn Beck
Okay. All right.
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SNL Cast Member
I'll hold it back. But I will say there's. There's some, Some very. This velvet. I'm wearing some velvet.
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Glenn Beck
You're wearing velvet.
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SNL Cast Member
Red velvet.
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Glenn Beck
Red velvet.
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SNL Cast Member
I. What I'm saying is I'm currently covered in cake. That's what I'm saying to you. So stupid.
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Glenn Beck
Okay.
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Stu Burguiere
It's good that we have a good diverse audience and that's what's. This is important in the show, you know.
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Glenn Beck
Very good, very good. All.
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Stu Burguiere
All different types.
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Glenn Beck
All different types, different strokes.
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Stu Burguiere
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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Glenn Beck
Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. It is Veterans Day and there are a ton of veterans now that are homeless, which is absolutely inexcusable. What we're doing with people that are coming from other countries who haven't given any service to our nation at all. And we're putting them up and we're giving them food and everything else that is an abomination, especially in comparison to what our veterans have done for us. They come back, they're wounded. Mentally or physically? Some of them both. Many of them struggle. The. I'm sorry, but the VA is also an abomination. I mean, everybody's like, oh, we. I really want, you know, socialized medicine. Really talk to a veteran, see how they get the shaft. If they'll give these guys, our war heroes, that crappy of health care, what do you think you're going to get? Well, one of my mottos has always been, if we wanted the government to do less, we have to do more. And there's a lot of really great groups out there to help veterans. A new one that I have found that I really, really like is the Battle Within. And I've asked the executive director to come on with me. His Name is Justin Hoover and you can find this at thebattlewithin.org thebattlewithin.org When I was up in Kansas City, I met with him and he's got an incredible story to tell. Justin, welcome.
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Justin Hoover
Thank you so much, Glenn. So great to be with you here on Veterans Day.
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, thank you. So, Justin, tell me, tell me your story.
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Justin Hoover
Sure, yeah. So really my story starts in Iraq. I was in Tel Afar, Sinjar region. I know when you were in Kansas City, we talked about you being there. It's where the Yazidi got chased up the mountain of death. And so that was really my ao. And I spent a year, just shy of a year there. There was a lot of heavy fighting that went on. I ended up coming home with a pair of purple hearts. First one thanks to some small arms fire to the face. And the second one occurred, bummer, left me full of some shrapnel that I had to get metaback out of country to get 10 to 2 and ended up resulting coming home. And after that, you know, Glenn, I really felt like I, I had all my stuff together. I got out of the military, came back to Kansas City, was really moving on with my life and forward with my life for the next 10 years. And it wasn't until my stepdaughter at high school and was really suffering from depression and suicideology. But all the things that I suppressed, you know, I'll just say kids should never be in a war zone. And I. All the times when I couldn't help those children in the way that I wanted were kind of replaying itself in my living room. And just that hopelessness and helplessness just really drove me and my mental health into a dark place. And fortunately my wife recognized it and was able to convince me to actually tend to it. And that's when I really started my own journey and my own path towards getting better myself.
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Glenn Beck
How'd you do it?
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Justin Hoover
Well, I was very fortunate. You know, I tried different services. You know, I tried with the va and I'll say we're often our own biggest barrier, right? There's a lot of barriers.
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Glenn Beck
Wait, you're breaking up. Are you there?
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Justin Hoover
Oh, can you. I am. Are you able to hear me?
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Glenn Beck
Yeah, I am now. Go ahead.
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Justin Hoover
There we go. So, you know, we're often our own biggest barriers to our mental health. And I was very fortunate. He's now our clinical manager. Adam Majors had designed a program that I went through and it was just so life changing and I knew I needed to stay involved in this community and that really kind of led to the Battle Within's creation just as a way to pay it forward to others that have been in that same space that I, that I was. And because it really allowed me to be the family man, the father, the partner, the parent that I wanted to be, it allowed me to really have the self confidence and find myself again to be able to be a leader of an organization, to be able to provide that mental health for others.
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Glenn Beck
So you, you came home and you didn't necessarily, I mean, I don't want to make this such a blanket statement, but you didn't necessarily fight for what you fight with what you had done. It's what you couldn't do or didn't do. The saving of others. Is that right?
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Justin Hoover
Yeah, yeah. And, you know, everyone's story is so unique and so personal to their own, but for me, you know, really, I felt I had 10 fingers, 10 toes. I kept seeing all these organizations helping veterans, and a lot of them were amputees or burn victims, of which there were guys in my unit that had applied to. And so I really felt, hey, I'm good to go. I don't want to take services from somebody else. I know there's limited resources and I want it to go to them. And so we all do that, right? Because we are these selfless servants. And so there's always that call to just allow others that need it worse. And I always tell people now it's kind of like a mass casualty event. Like when a IED goes off, you don't tell the medic, no, I'm good to go. The medic triages you all and tells you, hey, you need services now or you need them here in a little bit, and ranks you on who gets to go on the medevac bird first. And so really that's what we do at the Battle within is we help people get started on that path to healing. And that's. That was really the struggle for me is finding both the courage and the permission to allow myself that healing process.
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Glenn Beck
So this is free to veterans, if I'm not mistaken. What is, what do you do? What is like the five day program in the. Go ahead.
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Justin Hoover
Yeah, great question. And as you said, yes, it is free to our veterans and first responders throughout the entire nation. And really what we do at the Battle within, during our five day revenant journey, is we really take these people that come in, really most of them hopeless, and we give them that opportunity to fully understand, explore those traumas that they've endured. And service to us all. And that's very hard to do. Right. Because you don't want to. You don't want to expose those parts of yourself. Because in our professions, there's a lot of shame and stigma that goes with that. These are team sports, their life or death sports. Sports. If I share that I'm not in a good place, then you're hurting. Kicked out of the. Yeah, that's a good way to get kicked out of the family unit. So to really allow them a place where they can come and share that. Are these doctors and respected.
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Glenn Beck
Are these doctors or veterans clinicians?
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Justin Hoover
Yeah, we have clinicians that lead the program. Several of them are veterans themselves. We also have peer support that are previous graduates that are veterans or first responders that come back and really hold the space, help process, and be there for these folks as they go through what's a very challenging but rewarding week.
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Glenn Beck
So here we are on Veterans Day. Give me your pitch to any veteran who might be listening who is struggling, or any family member that knows of somebody who is struggling.
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Justin Hoover
You know, I would just say that there is a place that understands what you're going through, that cares what you're going through and believes that you're worth it. And I think that that is such a challenge where veterans get into this isolated place where they believe that nobody understands, nobody cares, and that they're not worth it. And that is the perfect recipe for isolation, depression, and ultimately suicide. And so if you are struggling with whatever in your life, please reach out for help, either through the battle within or to someone else. That first step is the hardest step, but it gets so much easier. And there is hope. And that's really what we bring at the Battle within is we bring that hope, we bring those tools, we bring that community support to really allow people to reclaim their life and to really have the life that they've earned and that they deserve for themselves and their family.
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Glenn Beck
I will tell you that I'm a recovering alcoholic, and you get to a point where you like, nothing can help me. Nothing can help. It's just me. I'm the problem. And you've just boxed yourself into this corner where there's no way out. And if you happen to be listening right now and you feel like, yeah, but it's not gonna work for me, please call them. Also, if you are somebody who has money, this. They can offer this for free because of big donations. So if you can donate anything, go to the battle within.org that's the battle within.org make a donation or if you or somebody you love check out all of the information and spread this, please. It is Veterans Day, and there is no excuse for any veteran to be suffering right now. There's none. And we want to make sure, and I know you feel the same way, that our veterans are treated with the respect and the dignity that they deserve. So go to the battle within dot org the Battle within dot org thank you so much for your service and thanks for your continuing service, Justin.
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Justin Hoover
Thank you, Glenn. And thank you for sharing our mission here.
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Glenn Beck
You bet.
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Justin Hoover
Today.
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Glenn Beck
Bye.