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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 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. So I was thinking about America and what we really are. Because, you know, we. Honestly, I was watching F1 and I saw the big, you know, race in Dubai, and I thought, look at Dubai. Look at the way they're building things. Look at the way China is building things. These new nations are building all these amazing things. And we used to be in that position. We're not anymore. And I thought, what are we now? You know, there was a time when the very edge of the world was not a metaphor. It was a. It was a belief. It was conviction. It was a line on the map where reason stopped and terror began. Just beyond that line, God only knows. Sea monsters, darkness, cliffs, Unknown. But there were people in the west that went anyway. You know, we can argue and we do about first. Who first reached the shores here? Christopher Columbus, Leif Erickson. You know, whoever. You know, the. The reindeer from. From frozen. I don't know if he was whoever the textbooks say discovered America the first time for the West. But at some moment in history, a human being stood at the edge of certainty and looked directly at the abyss and said, yeah, I'm gonna go. And that is our story. That's the story of Western civilization. But it is uniquely American. As I was driving in this morning, there was this big, beautiful moon. And I looked at it. And as I was thinking as I was driving in, what was Important enough to tell you today I saw that that moon just hanging there in the sky. And it was a reminder of all of the people that have looked at that moon prior to 1968, 1969, as we went to the moon, all of the people that refused to accept limits. And is that still alive? It is. As I looked at that moon again today, I thought of the four people that are readying themselves that they looked up at that moon last night or this morning, and they saw it differently because they're about to be there. Artemis 2. Artemis 2. Think of the astronauts. Not the famous ones of the past, but the ones we don't even know their names. They leave tomorrow to go deeper into space than any human has ever gone before. And this time we go not to prove that we can reach the heavens or reach the moon, but to begin to prove that we can actually live in space. Apollo was really the question, and Artemis is the answer. And the names are important because it comes from Greek mythology. And Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo. He was the sun. He was bright and bold. And everybody saw Apollo. She was the moon. She was steady, watchful and enduring. So Apollo was meant to blaze the path that everybody saw. And Artemis is the one that claims the ground and is immovable because that's where we are now. Years ago, we sent men like John Glenn and Neil Armstrong into the unknown, as Kennedy said, not because it was easy, but I think not even because it was hard. We sent them there because many thought it was absolutely impossible. And Americans needed to know if impossible meant something, Something that has never existed before. This is going to be a permanent gateway. It's a spaceport, a staging ground that first we'll be on the planet and then eventually we'll orbit around the moon. That turns exploration into presence, presence into expansion. We are going to live on the moon and then we are moving to other planets. And for the first time in human history, we're not going to be just visiting another world. We're preparing to stay there. And that changes absolutely everything. You know, America talks about leadership and who leads in chips and who leads in the markets and who leads in military power, blah, blah, blah. And all those things matter, but they are not the measure of a civilization. This is exploration is. America leads the world in the one thing that has always defined the future and always defined us. The willingness to go first into the unknown. Why did Columbus come here? It wasn't just for exploration. It was for gold. Because that's the only way you could get the kings to do it for gold. And they believed that it would be waiting for them there. There would be cities made of gold, glittering just beyond the horizon. But it wasn't. At least not in the way they imagined it. What they found instead, years and centuries later, we now know, was far more valuable. New worlds, new ideas, new possibilities. What happened on this continent reshaped humanity itself. Because somebody got onto a boat. This time we're not going blindly to the moon. We have data. We have the maps. We have a better understanding of what waits for us. We know the resources, the, the, the lunar caps. We know we can make fuel. We have pathways now to Mars and beyond. That's why we're going. But I think what we'll actually find will be much, much bigger than what we're currently looking for. The greatest discovery is never gold. Never has been. It's never been the land. It's been the expansion of the human mind and the human experience. And that's where we excel over all other countries. That, honestly, is what makes us great. Our boldness, our daring, our willing to expand the limits. Are willing to go. You know, don't tell me I can't do that, because I think we can. When a civilization decides, the horizon is not the boundary. But that's the beginning. That's when everything changes. That's when we change the world over and over and over again. And that's why tomorrow matters. Tomorrow matters not just for science, not for national pride or technology, but because something happens to a people when they stop exploring. When you stop exploring, you shrink. When you stop exploring, you turn inward. You begin to argue over smaller and smaller things because people have forgotten how big the world really is. We argue over taxes and money as if it's a finite pool. It's not success and money. And all of this is like taking a dump truck and backing it up to the ocean and filling it up with water. There's more water in there. There's plenty of water for everybody. Expanding our understanding. Stop fighting over the small things. Artemis is a chance to reverse all of that. It reminds us that we are not just citizens of a nation. We are participants in something that is much, much larger. What we begin today. Think of this. If man survives, what we begin today in five, six, ten centuries from now, will be remembered on some distant planet that none of us have ever heard of. Because what we start tomorrow will put us out into space in ways none of us can imagine. Tomorrow, for the first time in all of history, we start to begin to become what we've always been destined to be humans who will soon, over time, be known as earthlings. Because tomorrow, four people get into an impossibly small capsule and put unbelievable amounts of explosive power behind them, and they become spacemen. The Moon. Been there, done that. This isn't about reaching the moon. This is about changing everything. This is about rediscovering the part of ourselves that I miss most of all. What I mourn when I think about the loss of America. It's not our cars or our success or our houses or anything else. I mourn that unique American spirit that says, why not? Who says we can't? Let's do it. Tomorrow we begin to rediscover that part of ourselves that looks at the impossible and refuses to believe it. And we can talk about how much money it's going to cost and how much this and what that, how much money we're going to make if this works out, blah blah, blah blah blah. But I think looking at the impossible and refusing to believe it is going to be the most important thing we will find out there. 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