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Tucker Carlson
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Glenn Beck
Beck is on. Glenn Beck is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment, and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We have just taken another giant leap for mankind. Kind of giant leap for mankind. The president yesterday signed an executive order that America will lead in the quantum tech race. What does that mean? O. It means everything. And we'll get into that here in just a second. Also, the president is. Is floating a trial balloon about taking pieces of the AI companies. Let's not. I'll explain why this is actually something that Hamilton was for. Believe it or not, we. I mean, you know, the. The founders, you know, people, like, they could have never seen this coming. No, but they saw a lot of things that are exactly like today. And I'll explain. Alexander Hamilton saw AI Coming. No, but he saw this problem coming. I'll explain in a minute here. First Let me tell you about Rush Tax. There are problems that you deal with immediately, and then there are problems that you hope will somehow another solve themselves. You know, leaky faucet, you fix it. Flat tire, you fix it. Letter from the irs. Yeah. Let's put that one on the corner of the desk for a few days because I'm afraid to open it. Then it's a few weeks, then it's a few months. And you don't know, you don't know what to do because it's really important. But the problem is the IRS is not, it's not something most people feel equipped to deal with, and that's why you leave it on the corner of your desk. And I want you to know about rush tax resolution for that reason. They resolve tax problems fast and thoroughly. If, if you owe money, you haven't filed in years, you haven't filed last time, you know, you're dealing with liens, levies, wage garnishments, whatever it is. They have experienced professionals who know how to work through these situations. And they are a plus rated by the Better Business Bureau. And they're the only company that I would recommend for this. They are, they are people that will help you. In fact, they will only take your case if they know they can help you. So I want you to go to tax to rush tax resolution. Russ Rush taxresolution.com 877-5547-874877-75547-7874 Rush tax resolution.com that's right. All right, so let me give you a couple of, let me give you a couple of stories here. Trump has just signed an executive order to lead the quantum tech race. It's the first order that pushes for a US quantum computer at a national lab by 2028, plus sensors and networks in five years, while expanding training and supply chains across agencies, Energy, Commerce and NASA. Quantum computing is something you're not going to have access to. Quantum computing is is everything. Quantum computing coupled with artificial superintelligence changes the entire world. The problem with all of this stuff is you're not going to have access to it. The government will. The government, you know, we're in this catch 22. The government has to have control of quantum computing for their own sake because there will be no secrets because your bank account will be gone the minute we have quantum computing. Any country can destroy the other because we, they can. They'll, they'll just wipe out bank accounts overnight. They just wipe them out. There's no secrets. There's no national secrets. You'll be able to go into, hack into our, our codes to launch missiles. There are no secrets. There are no doors that have any locks. Once you have quantum computing, that's the biggest problem. And that's the second post that he did for the executive order. And that is we have to have by 2030, 2031 encryption that is quantum. That will stop any kind of quantum attack on encryption. So we have to have it. I just don't like the government having access to things that the average person can have access to. And I don't want access to encryption, you know, technology, et cetera, et cetera. But this is much more than that. And you combine it with the other thing that was floated yesterday. JD Vance said yesterday the President is supportive of the United States owning these big AI companies. He likes the idea sort of as a sovereign wealth fund idea. Okay, that's good. I understand the sovereign wealth thing and I understand where Trump is coming from on this. Where he's coming from is he believes that, that the nation needs to be strong. You know, this is the same argument that was made back in the colonial era. Let me tell you a story about an argument, okay? Because it just walked into the room with a new face, but it's the same argument. It's the winter, 1791. Two men are sitting in the same cabinet and they can't stand each other. They can't stand what the other one wanted to build. Alexander Hamilton. He was an orphan, he was an immigrant. He was a genius. He was the first secretary, treasury secretary. And he looked at this fragile, broke, barely stitched together republic and saw what. America could be great someday. We could be a great power. He saw way over the horizon, but he believed that to get there, the government had to do something really, really bold. It had to partner with the biggest power on earth. And that wasn't a government, that was money. He wanted a national bank. The federal government would assume the state's debts. In his report on manufacturers, the open argument that, that the state should encourage industry directly through tariffs and subsidies and a thumb on the scale, he said, we can build national champions. We'll fuse the strength of the government to the muscle of commerce. And you get a giant. And he's right, you would. But that philosophy seems really familiar, doesn't it? Now, across the table was Thomas Jefferson. And Jefferson looked at his blueprint and was like, oh my gosh, this is poison. This is slow acting poison. His argument was not that it wouldn't work. His fear was it would work. Because Jefferson understood corruption the way the Romans understood not a bribe, you know, in a briefcase, but a marriage. You just marry people off. The moment you wed the government to moneyed interest, you create a class whose fortune depends on the state. Listen to this carefully. You create a class whose fortune depends on the state and a state whose appetite depends on that class. So those two grow together. By the way, you're not in that marriage, okay? You're not even a cho. You're not even a child in that marriage. That marriage will be between AI High Tech Quantum and the government. You're not in that. And they grow bigger and bigger quietly, until one day you look up and you find out, I've been squeezed out of my own republic. Nobody even fired a shot. I'm out. This is Thomas Jefferson's argument, okay? The argument got settled a little bit. They decided against the bank, but the actual argument, it just keeps changing clothes. The bank war.
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Ricky
That.
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Jason
That.
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Glenn Beck
That was this argument. Then the railroads put this clothes. Put these clothes on, and they were like, we're too important. The New Deal, same argument. The 2008 bailouts, same argument. And now we put on the newest suit it has ever worn because the price. Vice president said out loud that the president is supportive of the United States owning the big artificial intelligence company, a sovereign wealth fund. That's the idea. A stake in the people's most important technology of the age. Now, Donald Trump is doing it because America first. He believes, you know, that America can be strong exactly the way Hamilton did, okay? When I first heard this, the first word that jumped into my head was fascism. And I've been saying this is. This is Italian fascism. I want to tell you why this is a losing argument, okay? It's not entirely wrong, but I, you know, in doing my homework, it's. We want strong arguments. Here's the thing about Italian fascism, okay? Italian fascism is not German fascism. Mussolini's economy didn't seize the factories like communism does. The owners kept their names on the door. What the state. State took was not the title. It was the steering wheel, okay? The company stayed private and ran at the pleasure of the regime in service of the regime. Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, that's Mussolini. So, yes, the government that owns a piece and steers. It rhymes. Not gonna pretend it doesn't. It rhymes with fascism. But here's why I want to correct myself. So a. I want to correct myself because it's important that I do, and you can hold me to that. But it's important because people always Think of race hatred. You associate race hatred with fascism. That wasn't the engine of fascism. Mussolini didn't pass his race laws until 38, and that was under German pressure, not from his own doctrine. Ok, Anti Semitism was essential to Nazism, not essential to fascism. So fascism without the race hatred, you know, doesn't reveal some secret core. It just describes early Italian fascism pretty accurately. Hatred is not required in it. But that. Nobody's going to listen to that. Okay, the part that really takes the word away from me, the government holding stake in a private industry doesn't make a country anything. What Donald Trump is saying is Norway. Norway has the sovereign wealth fund. It owns roughly 1 1/2% of every company on the face of the earth. It took stakes in the banks and the carmakers in 2009, we did. And then it gave it back. Singapore does this. If state ownership equaled fascism, then Norway's a fascist state. And that's just ridiculous. Okay, what makes fascism fascism is the politics. The one party, the leadership worship, the boot on dissent, the deliberate solving of the dissolving of the individual into the organic nation. Economics was a part of this. The reason why I'm afraid of this is it's more than just state capitalism. That's a better word maybe than fascism, state or mercantilism, the thing that the kings did. It's worse than that. Because what this actually, what this actually means. Is more than what Hamilton was talking about. It's because of what the state would actually own. Hamilton's bank would just move money. The railroads moved steel and grain, and you can see them and you can argue with them. But artificial intelligence doesn't sit downstream of your life. It sits upstream of your thoughts. That's the real danger here, and I don't want the government anywhere near that. It's becoming the thing that answers your questions before you finished asking the question. It drafts the email, it suggests the word, it frames the choice. It decides what you see and what order you see it in and what it leaves out. It's quietly becoming the surface on which free people do all of its thinking. And this is. I need you to think on this. There has never in human history been a tyrant who got to own the tool people use to form their own decisions, choices and minds. Every despot before had to wait for you to think the thought and then punish it. He had to come after you reasoned it out. But for the first time, the temptation on the table is to put the state's hand on the instrument before the reasoning on the thing that shapes the question itself. That's not censorship. Censorship is crude. You can feel that this is gentler and worse, this is grooming. And a mind that has been groomed doesn't feel oppressed, it feels helped. So let me try to be the guy that you want me to be, trust me to be, I guess a guy who's not just yelling at the sky and yelling at you that the sky is falling. This does not need to be a death knell of freedom of choice. I'll tell you what we can do. There are three things that have to stay true, otherwise it's bad. Let me give you those three things here in just a second. 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If these three things stay true, we're okay. First, it has to be ownership in daylight, on a balance sheet has to be named, not laundered through some agency that nobody can find. Sunlight is the whole game. Jefferson's marriage only kills the Republic when it's a secret one. Second, the door swings both ways. We took the carmakers in 09 and we gave it back. Which proves the stake is not a sentence if the people insist on an exit. Third, this one matters the most, that you keep the one thing, no, no government can. Can vote you back. The ability to reason for yourself, to hold a thing in the light and decide. I don't think that one can be done. Once the government has power to manipulate you, they will manipulate you every time. And they will never reveal it and they will never give that power back. We have walked past this cliff a dozen times, and every single time, the thing that saved us was not a law or a court. It was a citizen that could think his own thought and ornery enough just to do it. I am not afraid of a machine. I am afraid of people who forget how to argue with a machine. I trust you. I trust the American people completely. For exactly as long as you can still reason your way through your own conclusion and tell the state to keep your hands off the lever of your mind. As long as that ability is still existing in everybody, then we have a firewall. This thing, they've tried it with the banks, the railroads. They did it in 2008, and it was an argument that started between Jefferson and Hamilton. Guard this, guard this. Because every other freedom is downstream of your freedom of thought. And that's what we're actually talking about the government owning. I don't know how to solve this problem, but I am wildly uncomfortable with tech having this ability to control your thoughts. I'm wildly uncomfortable the government having the ability to control your thoughts. And those are the only two players in it. Nowhere is. Nowhere are you. And if you think we have a representative government, let's talk about the Save Act. The day you can no longer tell whether the thought in your head is yours, no vote will save you. And those days are coming. And when you. When you realize that, well, maybe it was, I was manipulated here a little bit. You know, you'll have done that. You'll have given that over to the government, feeling like you were helped. So think, think. Think out loud while it is still entirely your own thought. I want to talk to Jason here for just a couple of seconds. Jason, talk to me about your concerns on the quantum mechanics and the quantum computing for security.
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Jason
Well, that's clearly one of the biggest concerns that the administration has here. And that's the, I think it's the very first is either the very first order or the second order goes directly towards. Oh, it's the second order goes directly towards standard encryption.
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Glenn Beck
And I don't really, I guess one
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Jason
of my biggest concerns is I feel like they don't even really know once they unleash this beast, what's going to happen with it. That's one of the biggest things of concern.
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Glenn Beck
It's just like, AI, yeah, this is the problem. There's no good answer to this. There's no, I haven't found an answer that I'm comfortable with in any direction. In any direction. I don't want the private sector to have it. I don't want the government to have it. You know, I, I just, I don't know how to solve for this one yet. All right, let me tell you about super sure, paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, llc, a licensed insurance agency. All right, here's a story you'll recognize. You need to do something that should take you five minutes. Five minutes. But then you discover in order to do that thing, you have to fill out a form. To get the form, you have to create an account. To create the account, you need to verify an email. You to verify the email, you need a code. To get the code, you have to log on to something else. Three hours later, you can't remember what the hell you were trying to do. Somehow modern life turns simple things into complicated things. That's one of the reasons I like Super Sure. They take business insurance, which has a very long and proud history of being more complicated than necessary. And they make it simple. You can get coverage quickly, you can manage your policies easily, and you can actually understand what the hell you're looking at right now. You can go to supersure.com beck and get a full report on your current policies with no obligation. Find out if you're overinsured, underinsured, or somewhere in between. It's super sure.com Beck one super agency, one powerful platform, and all your policies in one place. It's supersure.com Beck supersure.com Beck Coming up,
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Ricky
Glenn takes on Tucker Carlson Wilson's recent announcement that he's leaving the gop. We'll get perspective we won't hear anywhere else on the Glenn Beck program.
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Tucker Carlson
Foreign.
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Glenn Beck
We're just talking in the break about how impossible it is to, to solve this problem, you know, and I don't know people, I, I don't know if people really understand what is coming yet and how close we are to this. And you know, the, the real question here that I have on all of the fronts of the AI and quantum and everything the President did yesterday or is talking about doing, you know, can you regulate, can you regulate power that you don't possess? And if you have to possess it to regulate it, then who regulates the regulators? That's the real problem. And I don't know how to solve that because every time you give power to a group to regulate, you're giving power to that group. And that group can easily be co opted by the power of the AI. And it just, it just, it's, it's almost, it seems like a. What are those knots called? The Gordian knots, where you just can't ever figure out how to get out of them. So let me go to something that is closer to my pay grade. Let me tell you something that happened on a podcast about a week ago. Tucker Carlson was on a podcast and here is what he said on the podcast.
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Tucker Carlson
I would not support the Republican Party. There's no chance I would support the Republican Party. Not going to support the Democratic Party. I don't know what I'm going to do. But at this point, you know, how could you support, how could I or any American voter support a political party that's not loyal to the United States, that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens? Like that's, that's, you know, it's not possible to vote for people like that. And I'm not going to. And I think I voted Republican my entire life. I worked at Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. I've been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party. I mean, very consistent defender. But there's no defending this because it's immoral. And it's exactly the opposite of what a political party in a democracy is charged with doing, which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its own nation. And they're not doing that. So, no, I'm out. And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out.
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Glenn Beck
Okay, so let me just take this, what he's saying. If I am out, then I think a lot of other people are out. That's, that's the really important part. And you can think about what you want about Tucker Carlson. I'm not here. I'm not going to canonize him. I'm also not Going to bury him on, on this. That's for others to take on if they want to. I'm not going to get into the mud if he's building a third option, which he didn't say he was, but if he is, or recommending a third option, then I'd like to know what that third option is. You know, and we'll take that because I'd like to know what his political solution is to holding back tyranny. Besides Israel bad Iran and Russia, not so bad. Maga. You know, everybody's saying this is a split of maga. MAGA was born out of the Tea Party disaffection with both parties. But pragmatism ultimately delivered Trump via the GOP vehicle. It was working the way it was supposed to work. So let's just look at him saying, I cannot, will not vote for another Republican again, who hasn't said that as a Republican. Why is, why is this bothering people? I think it's bothering some people because coming from Tucker, a lot of people, and I think rightfully so, are worried about where are your loyalties here. But if we today just deal with the words that he said, you know, I can't vote for. I can't blame him. I genuinely can't. Because I understand that. I've said that. I understand the feeling of being asked to keep playing a game with people who have no intention of ever letting you win. Okay, I'm not playing that game anymore. But here's what the press and everybody else wants you to take from this. It's a fracture in maga. No, it's not. It's a crack up on the right. No, it's not a movement eating itself. Axios, the rest of them growing fractures inside the broad coalition. That's not what this is. And don't let anybody sell you that. That's not what this is. This isn't the movement breaking. This is the movement, I think, actually completing the last. This is the death throes of the GOP as we know it. This is what happens to a party when it tells its voters yes at the microphone and then governs no behind the closed doors. That's been happening for years. The base hasn't fractured. The base fractured a long time ago and said, we're not putting up with this. Have you noticed, have you noticed where the Republicans are. The Republicans are much better than the Paul Ryan Republicans, okay? This is. This is merely the distance between what you're promised and what you were given. And that gap got finally wide enough that a man with 35 years invested, looking at it, stepped over the edge and said, I'm not going to do it. So let me talk past you for a second and talk to the people in Washington. Okay? Let me talk to them. To the men and women in Washington, D.C. with an R after your name. Stay with me because this concerns you, but this part's for them. I told you, I told you this would happen. For years I have said this. I said the day would come when your own people would stop defending you, when their loyalty would run out, when the other side is worse, doesn't work anymore. And you all rolled your eyes. I mean, I had Orrin Hatch say, I'll just do a flag burning amendment and that'll bring them all back. Oh, my God. Nope. Now it's real. It's here. Your inaction, or worse, your unwillingness to understand that the days of Paul Ryan are over. I mean, look at the people coming in. They're not like you. They're not. And I'm not sure exactly what MAGA actually is. I know everybody wants to make it about Donald Trump and just being a racist, but that's not what it is. I think MAGA is about common sense, things that make us strong as a nation. Again, Donald, Donald Trump and maga, he was just the first major candidate that said, you know, we're not done as a nation and I'm not going to manage the decline. That's what people want, a healthy and common sense driven country that doesn't destroy their faith and their family and their freedoms. That's what they want. Now, before I say another word to Washington, when this happens, when somebody like Tucker walks, when the next one walks and there will be a next one, people are going to come and say, circle the wagons. You got to defend the party. No, no, now's not the time. The stakes are too high. Hold the line. If we can just get the White House and the Senate and the House and a super majority, don't rush to defend the gop. Don't do it. Not because you owe them, you know, or the other side. Anything you don't, you don't. But because every time you defend them for free, they teach you that betrayal is survivable, that they can ignore you and keep you. The only language a comfortable incumbent understands is the sound of the door closing behind a voter who's done. Yes, we have to stop the authoritarian and crazy left. Yes. But we need, we need to find the Republicans or whatever that stand for something, stand for something. Not just to burn it down not to go. Jews bad. Russia good. Washington, Listen to me carefully. I'm trying to help you. Almost no one around you is, you're not going to survive this. I don't mean a tough cycle coming your way. I mean you are building with your own hands a movement aimed directly at you and you deserve it. And there's exactly one way to take the power out of a movement like that. Actually, you know, there's a couple of ways. First of all, you don't outspend it. You don't out message it. Cornyn just outspent his challenger nearly nine to one in Texas, and the voters retired him anyway. Thirty years of seniority gone in a single night. Money didn't save the establishment in Texas, and it's not going to save you either. Now, there are two ways that I can think of. You take the steam out of a movement where people are like, I'm leaving the party. The first one is the obvious one that every politician in power will jump to immediately and that silence the people who are saying it. That makes you a fascist and authoritarian. And I. Well, I know people on the left are trying it, and I'm sure people on the right will try it and you'll lose, but so will the Republic. The other way to go is to simply remove the reason it exists. And the only way to do that is to start listening to the people who sent you there and then actually do the thing they sent you to do. That's it. That's the secret in the sauce. Listen and respond. Be a mirror to what your own voters are telling you instead of a wall. I want the GOP to win because I don't want to start a whole new thing. And it's just, I don't want a third party. Look at France. I want you to win. America needs you to win, but not who you are, not as who you are. I don't want any of that. What I'm telling you right now is I'm describing the natural consequences of you ignoring the voter. So let me give you a test. This is a simple one, okay? It'll cost you nothing except courage. Put the save act on the floor. Do it. Do it. Proof of citizenship to register to vote in a federal election.
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Jason
Do it.
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Glenn Beck
That's the whole thing. It's not a 50, 50 issue. You get a hide behind. Roughly 7 in 10Americans support it. Independent supported. Half of Democrats support it. And among Republican voters, your voters, the ones whose name are on your name is on their yard signs. It's not Even a question. It's a settled matter. So put it up. You don't even need it to pass. I pray that it does. But all we need, really, is a roll call. I want the vote recorded. I want every name on the board lit up green or red. That way the whole country can see it. Because when something has 70% of a nation behind it, 70 plus people among the people who elected you, it's. It's not. It's complicated. It's not complicated. There's no. No nuance here. It's really simple. Did you vote for what your people said you should vote for or not? And that. That's the real reason. That's the real reason why it never comes to a vote. Not because they'd lose, but because you'd be seen. You'd have to stand in the light and you'd have people watching what you choose and then judging you. So you bottle it up in community, in a committee, you blame the filibuster they tell you need. We need a super majority. Yeah, right. And you know damn well if we handed you 60 seats tomorrow, you discover suddenly we need 67 seats. When a man has to hide his position from the people who hired him, he's not a representative, he's an incumbent. And government, this one is full of incumbent weasels who don't want to tell you where they stand. That's a representative government, by the way. But you've turned it into a performance. Cast the vote, put it on the floor, find out who's in, who's out. The ones who sit down, America, show them the same frickin door Texas just showed. Cornyn, back to you, Washington. Let me tell you where this ends if you don't change it. Because you should be far more afraid of the truth than anything said on a podcast somewhere out there. This party does exist. Not yet, but it does. Call it, whatever you call it. The 80% party. A party built on nothing but the things the vast middle of this country, left, right, exhausted, already agree on. Lower the price of health care, balance the budget, end the forever wars, stop the deficit spending, secure the border. Zero tolerance. Zero tolerance for fraud of any kind from any party. And show the people, line by line, exactly how you're spending our money. I don't think that's a fringe platform. I think that's the kitchen table of the entire country. And if ever somebody builds it, it doesn't dent you, it'll gut you. It guts both of you, left and right, because it walks straight up the middle and takes 80% that you've both been ignoring while you fight over the angry 20% that should scare the hell out of you. Not the guy who said on the radio the thing that everybody, every Republican, is thinking, I can't vote for another Republican. Again, the warning. And I'm exactly. I'm aiming it exactly at one target. And it's not Tucker, and it's not the voters heading for the exits, not at the other side of the aisle. It said you, the ones with the R, be bold, be real. Be a mirror to your own people who are telling you what they need. When an issue is close, okay, room to interpret, fine. But when an issue has the whole country standing behind it, when 70% and climbing, you don't get to deliberate, you act. You act now while there's still a choice. And that choice is not between winning and an obituary. Because I'll tell you plainly, the way I see it, I look at the GOP today, I don't recognize the party of Lincoln, not even a little bit. You still have time to be a party worth defending, but you're running out of time and you're running out of people and voices that will defend you, except the ones who are defending you because you're paying to. Paying them to defend you. And that's not a base. That's a service with a receipt. Back in a minute.
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Jason
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Glenn Beck
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Make this time of your life the best chapter of your life. Pass it on. Crank the game. Glam Back is on. Glam back is on. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It's election day in several states. New York is one of them. They hate you're. They got a full fledged socialist that is running in New York. I wonder, I wonder if the people of New York will reject her. Not. We'll get into this here in just a minute and five stories I want you to look at from today's news. We'll do those in 60 seconds. First, let me tell you About Z Factor, you know, people always say, let me sleep on it. Nobody ever says let me stay awake until 3 o' clock in the morning thinking about it. But that's what we all do. If it's important. We're not sleeping on it, we're lying awake. 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Z factor.com. all right, I have, I had a big change in my life when I sobered up. What a surprise. In case you don't know, I'm a recovering alcoholic. I screwed up my life, blah, blah, blah. And I was, whoa, whoa, for me, I've got all these problems and why does this stuff keep happening to me? I love that. I laugh at myself now because I was such an idiot. But why does this stuff always happen to me? Well, it's happening to you because that's life screaming at you. Stop doing that, okay? You're causing, in many cases you're causing your own problems. Why do I always find, why do I always find a man that is abusive? I don't know. But there's something that is in you that is calling that up. Okay? Not always the case, but if it keeps happening to you, it's calling it up. You know, why do I keep, why do I keep finding all of these people? I keep finding all these people and they just keep breaking up with me. It probably is you. I know when they break up with you, they say it's not you. If they're all kind of saying the same kind of thing. It is you. It is you. Life screams at you sometimes, okay? Stop doing that. So I'm looking at the news, I look at it every day, and I think, what is. What is the news screaming at us? What is the thing that we're like, okay, this is the universe saying stop America. Let me give you five stories and see if you can spot the thread here. Okay, story one. Supreme Court this week decided to take up a gun case out of Washington, D.C. man named Dante Carter. He was stopped by police. A lower appeals court had thrown it out. You know, said the stop was unlawful. Fine, courts do that. But listen to the part of the reasoning. The court leaned on the fact that Carter was, in their words, a black man in a heavily policed area. His race was folded in to whether his Fourth amendment rights had been violated. Two justices, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas looked at that and said, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You can't build a man's constitutional protection on the color of his skin, even when the results help him. You can't do that. They wanted the court to hear it precisely because they the racial logic cut in a sympathetic direction. That's story number one. Hold on to that one. Now, story number two comes out of Texas Democrat running for Senate, James Talrico. Talrico said of his own ability to understand the world that his imagination is limited by his own background and identity of being white and a male. Now, he offered this as some sort of humility. Okay, you know, I guess let's be generous. Take it as a man who says, I have blind spots. I just can't see everything. Okay, whatever. But notice the mechanism of the claim. The limit isn't experience or his reading or his choices. The limit is his category. The category of his race and his sex set. That is putting the limit and the ceiling on what his mind can reach. Wow. I mean, think about how racist that is. If I said, you know, Tal Rico, let's say he was African American. And I said, you know, well, his imagination is limited because he's black. I mean, that's clearly racist. Right? Okay, story three. Joy Reid talking about the fourth of July. She's not excited about it. What a surprise. She said black Americans are not excited about the fourth of July. That to black America, Independence Day is Juneteenth. Okay, I guess there is a clear honorable point buried in there. You know, when freedom actually arrived for whom? And, you know, let's not wave that away, but I'll bet you Joy Reid had no idea what Jo Juneteenth.
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Ricky
What?
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Glenn Beck
Most Americans had no idea. Most black Americans had no Idea what Juneteenth was until recently. But I don't want to argue this. I want you to look at the shape of the sentence here. She didn't say I feel this way. She said black people are not excited. Oh, okay. All right. So there's one holiday for one category and another holiday for another category. The nation's birthday has to be sorted by skin. Hold on to that. Let me give you a story. Four. We're doing five stories. Let me give you four stories for story four. Cross the ocean. Great Britain teenager Henry Nowak. He was murdered. You know it. It was the. You know, the guy, we stabbed him. The Brits now say it was example of two tier policing. The accusation the law comes down harder and softer depending on which group you belong to. Since then, a senior police chief, Greater Manchester's own top constable, came out and said the race guidance given to officers should be rewritten. That the social engineering language baked into how police are trained was feeding the perception that justice isn't blind. So a man inside the system is asking to take the category back out of policing. Hold that one closest at all. Let me give you the fifth story. Church in Virginia. Historic, mostly white congregation. Generations ago owned slaves. Its members took part in a black led walking tour, a slave trail through Richmond and confront and atone for that history. Now, examining our own history, honestly, that is absolutely not just acceptable, it is also commendable. Okay, as a Christian, I think it's kind of required. But watch what's being atoned for and by whom. Not the men who did it, because they're two centuries dead. The living are doing the penance for an inheritance of guilt. Guilt assigned by not anything they did, but by the group they were born into. Five stories, a gun case, Senate candidate, TV host, British murder, church walk, left, right, American, foreign, legal and religious. What's the thread here? Identity politics is the easy way. Okay, you have Thomas and Alito blowing that apart. They're conservatives. Conservatives and they're. And the racial logic in their case helped the defendant. A partisan would cheer for that outcome. So why did they refuse to? Why? Because the thread running through all five of these is not left or right. It's this. Every single one of them swaps the category for the person. Don't look at it as race. Look at it as categories. You cannot create categories over individuals. When the man becomes his race or his disability or whatever, over who he is as an individual, there's trouble on the horizon. The citizen who becomes his demographic before he becomes an American, the believer that inherits guilt by bloodline rather by than by his own deeds. The mind has a ceiling that's set by their skin. In every single case, the individual has disappeared, and the group steps forward to stand in its place. And that's why I dragged a Supreme Court descent into the same room as a guilt trip church walk. Because Alito and Thomas are warning you about the principle and not the politics. The exact same logic that helps Dante Carter today is the logic that harms the next man tomorrow. Because once you agree that the category decides, you're no longering. You're no longer arguing whether to judge people by their grand group, because you've already lost that. You're only haggling over which groups get which treatment. So to me, here is what the news is shouting to me today. Go back and read the worst chapters of human history. Every single chapter. The camps, the purges, the trail of tears, the massacres. Not one of them began with a monster announcing, hey, everybody, come on over here. I'm evil. Let's all be evil together. No. It began with a clerk or a teacher or a kindly reformer training ordinary people to stop seeing the man in front of them and start seeing the category he belongs to. Dehumanization is always step two, Step one. De Individualization. Quiet, bureaucratic, often dressed up as fairness, as repair, as safety, as justice, long overdue. It never arrives wearing the face of cruelty. It arrives wearing the face of correction. And the single most radical thing the founders in this country ever did, the idea that took mankind thousands of years and gallons of blood to even reach, was the individual. One soul, equal before the law, judged on what he did. Not his tribe, not his father's sins, not his skin. That idea is the American firewall. It is the entire firewall. And right now, we're prying bricks out of it from five different directions. Five different directions. Five stories today. I didn't reach back over weeks. Those are today's headlines. One brick at a time. Taken that out of our firewall. And each of us certain that our brick was the unfair one. And we are always, always astonished when the wall comes down and the rubble looks exactly like the thing we swore we would never build again. So here's the lesson, the one that history is writing on the chalkboard and screaming at me because the class keeps failing the test Category is the first step toward the camp. Every time. And you either train yourself to see the person, the one, the soul, the man with a name, or you will eventually relearn the hard way in the dark why your grandfathers bled to make you stop seeing the group. So today, see the person. It's that simple and it's that hard. But it's the whole ball game. Back in just a minute.
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Tim Barton
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Glenn Beck
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This will give you a fixed rate loan. You leave that loan alone, you know, and it will make your payment shockingly lower. Okay, if high interest debt has been holding you back, this could be a very smart way to start moving forward again. No upfront fees. To find out you know what you qualify for, talk to a salary based consultant today. Experts who are paid to help you save, not to sell you more than you need. Call 8009-0624-4080-0906-2440 or go to american financing.net 10seconds station ID. A new Bill of rights song is out@torch250.com with lesson plans for all ages so your family can learn how to defend our freedoms. So we have this unique way of, of disagreeing about everything. The reflecting pool is driving me out of my mind. We argue about absolutely everything and part of that is a good thing. It's a byproduct of liberty. You know, we love to debate. Okay, I have a right. Yeah. Okay. Okay, I got it, got it, got it. That's why it is so shocking to me that there is one amendment in our Bill of Rights that we have never thought about no quibble. I, I can't find anyone making a case against it like, you know, this shouldn't be. I'm not. Do you know which one it is? We've never argued about it. I call it the invisible number three. The Third Amendment. Not one single Supreme Court debate on it. We're all pretty cool with not letting the government quarter soldiers in our homes without our permission. Okay? But we should not forget about it. Even though we don't. We don't argue about it, we shouldn't forget about it because, you know, quartering of the soldiers, that was one of the beefs that the, the government, you know, that the people had with the government of Great Britain. They were just sending people in and just saying, go find somebody. Just go live in their house. You'll find something on them. I mean, it was really bad. It was really bad. But when we put that in there, we think, no quartering ever. No, no, that's not what that amendment says. You can quarter soldiers. You just have to vote on it. You have to pass a law about it. So what are the conditions where the government could say, yeah, you've got to have some people stay at your house because the Constitution is clear, all they have to do is pass a law and they can make people stay in your house. Did you know that? So we've put together. Can we play just a little bit of the song behind me as I'm talking about this? This is a third song. It's about the forgotten number number three. So this is part of the summer of 250, and it's the, the quiet number three. And you get with each amendment song and each amendment, you get something you can go over with your family. And this one is kind of actually fun because we're asking you to have the conversation with your family. And there's no right answer on this. No wrong answer on this either. What, what, what, what? What would have to happen? Make a case to quarter soldier. Make a case that the government can say, yep, they're going to stay in your house. What could possibly happen where that law could be passed? Kind of a fun exercise you could do in your car or whatever with your kids as you're traveling this summer. But get the whole, get the whole understanding of the entire Bill of Rights. Because a lot of people don't even know what number three is. A lot of people don't know what the fourth amendment is. I mean, do you know the amendments? Do you? Because I barely did and I started doing, you Know this exercise about eight months ago to try to get this ready for you this summer. And I learned a lot. Learned a lot. You can't defend the things that you don't understand. So Quiet Number three in the study guide with the lessons, the stories, the activities for all ages is out now at torch250.com torch250.com if you're already a subscriber, you'll get it, you know, with your. With your subscription. It's already there on the website or if, you know, use the app, use the app. It's much better. But anyway, get your kids thinking about the principles of this country. It's the summer of 250, and it's torch250.com if we want another 250 years, we got to do some things to remind our kids what they're fighting for. Do we still have the. The Only fans thing that we played yesterday? There. There was a clip from this podcast
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Ricky
because I was going to say I felt like an only Fans model learning about Quiet Number three, so. But now that I've read it, I feel smarter than an Only fans model. And you will, too.
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Glenn Beck
Well, yeah. You were never. You were never an Only fans model. Here, here, here. Play it. What country did the United States gain its independence from?
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Ricky
Europe.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, boy. I can't. Who was the first president of the usa?
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Jason
Oh.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, he had a top hat.
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Ricky
Yeah.
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Glenn Beck
Oh, my gosh.
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Tim Barton
Okay, okay.
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Glenn Beck
Stop, stop, stop, stop. It only goes downhill from there. It really only goes downhill. Don't let your kids be like that. Don't be like that yourself. Know what you're trying to defend. Know your history. And there's all kinds of ways we make it really fun to learn history as a family, as an individual, or as a kid. Just go to torch250.com by the way, Torchy, the insider asked that we give them all of the lyrics to the song. So we listened. It's up there now. All the lyrics for those songs are up there. And each week we release a lesson plan and a new song for all 10amendments. We're up to amendment number three, the quad it number three@torch250.com More in a minute. Paid for by Super Sure Insurance Agency, llc, a licensed insurance agency. It's story time with Glenn next. I can't wait to tell you the story I found out just yesterday. Can't wait to tell you about it. First half of adulthood is just pretending you know, you know what certain. Certain words mean. Escrow, fiduciary, depreciation, at some point, somebody uses these terms in a meeting and everybody else, you know, nods like they completely understand what's going on. And you're like, I don't, I don't, I don't. I'm afraid to ask. I don't know. Look, business insurance can feel that way sometimes, and you know you need it. You know it's important. You're just not sure what you're looking at. That's why I like Super Sure. They have a category that has a reputation for speaking its own language and make it really easy to understand. So you can manage your policy online and actually have a pretty good idea of what you're paying for and why that's how it should be. Because if you run a business, you should be spending your money and your time on the things that you're an expert at. And that's not deciphering jargon from an insurance company. Get a full look at what you have with your current policies right now. Just go to super sure.com beck that's super sure.com beck@torch250.com we're producing history lessons
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Ricky
so engaging even only fans models can learn it. Join us in this righteous mission. Torch250.com.
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Glenn Beck
Ah, glad you're here. Thank you so much. I hope you don't mind. I am, I'm, I, I'm fascinated by our 250th. I remember when I was a kid and it was the bicentennial, and I remember thinking, 250. 250 years. I'll be dead by then. What? I, you know, when you're a kid, you just think, like, by 30, I'll be dead because 30 is really old. But here we are at the 250th anniversary, and I'm fascinated at how we are not really celebrating it this time around. Bicentennial was everywhere. Everywhere. And, you know, we were proud of it, and we're not. And it's. I think it's because we've lost our stories. And I, I'm looking for stories to tell you every day, you know, this, this month. And, and try to try to get you a little interested in American history and not the names and the dates and all of that, because that doesn't matter. It's the stories. And I found a story Yesterday that happened 250 years ago this week. So it was right before we signed the Declaration of Independence. I didn't even know we were at war. Did you know we were at war before we declared our independence?
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Ricky
They were already.
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Glenn Beck
They had already sent ships over. We were already at war. We were fighting them, okay? And so it was like, you know, why? Might as well. We might as well. But the ships were in our harbors. The, the British ships were in our harbors. And I found a story that I. Just wait until you hear the end of the story. Who are we really? Okay, who are we? We are people that when the experts have written us off, we are the ones that just keep standing. Now maybe it's because we're too dumb. I don't, I don't know. But what created us is that we don't run from things. We run towards the trouble, not away from the problem. And then we, we are like, we can solve it. We can solve it. And then, you know, when we can't really solve it, somehow or another, a miracle always saves us. Okay, so let me take you to a sandbar. It's June, this Week, 1776, and you are standing on a low, hot, mosquito bitten island in the mouth of the Charleston harbor. There's a fort here. And I'm, I'm being very, very generous when I say it's a fort. It's a square pen of palmetto logs. They're 16ft apart, packed in between with sands. Two walls are finished, okay? The back of it is open, you know, entirely. It's half built. It's kind of thing that if you, you know, you saw that on your own property and somebody came by, you'd be like, yeah, that was a project I meant to get to and I never really did it. Okay, I'll pass the bar. Coming forward is the most powerful Navy. Navy in the history of the world. Nine British warships, hundreds of guns. And on board is a guy named Sir Peter Parker. You'll remember that name because he's Spider man in a white wig. Okay? Peter Parker has crossed the ocean to put down a rebellion. And behind him a few thousand red coats. And their spider senses are tingly. Okay? General Henry Clinton waiting to come ashore and finish whatever the cannons would start because they're just going to blow everything up. Okay? They've done the math. Everybody's done the math. And the math says, oh, that little pen of logs, yeah, that'll be gone in about 10 minutes, okay? And Charleston will be gone by suppertime. So the American general in charge of the whole Southern theater, agreed, Charles Lee was his name. He wrote out, he looked at the thing, he said, that's your defense? These two little walls of logs? Are you kidding me? This is slaughter pen. He's like get out of there. Get out. They'll knock it down within a half an hour. Abandon the place, pull everybody out, okay, but that's not the American way. He's like, don't die for a sandcastle. But the colonel inside that sandcastle, he's a planter. William, I think his name is Moultrie. He's not famous, not a man you've ever heard. Heard of. But you've seen the result of what he did in a couple of ways. So what did he do? He didn't give a big speech or anything. He just declined to leave. He was like, nah, we're gonna stay. He had about 435 men, some South Carolina regulars out on the far end of the island. Men were dug, dug alongside 30 native warriors. And the fort had been, you know, raised in part by the hand of enslaved Africans who hauled and stacked the logs in the heat. They were there as well. The whole thing improvised. I mean, it's an unfinished collection of human beings that are not somebody that's going to stand up, okay? And they decide to stand on a position. The smartest man in the army had already said, get the hell away from that thing. Now here's the thing that nobody knew. Not Parker, not Clinton. I don't even think Moultrie knew this, okay? Palmetto, it's not oak. When you fire a 32 pound iron ball at an oak wall, what happens? We've seen this in all of the movies and everything else that ever show us fort getting attacked. The wood splinters and it becomes shrapnel and it kills all the people behind it. And that's how a fort dies, and it dies quickly. But palmetto is soft, it's spongy. So the British, they open up the fire that morning, and they're expecting 20 minutes. We will be on. We'll be on the shore in about 30 minutes, okay? And they hit it with everything, I mean, thunder that you could feel in your chest across the water. And the cannonballs hit those palmetto logs. And the logs just take it. The whole wall was. It was like Jello. It would just quiver and swallow the ball and then hold. And the shot sunk into the sponge and then just stopped. Nine or ten hours, the greatest navy on earth hammered the half finished pen of logs. And the pen wouldn't break. The sandcastle was standing. It was crazy. It's crazy. The men inside were doing something, you know, with their cannons that the British, they weren't expecting this, okay? They expected that to be over in, in 20 minutes. But that those palmetto logs held. And so they had time to aim slowly and carefully. They were low on powder. They couldn't waste a single shot. So every ball that they sent back had to go into the ship. So they needed patience. And it was. I mean, it was almost cruel. The fort that was supposed to die in half an hour and 10 hours in was tearing the fleet apart. And then came the moment where we make statues of these people. A British round caught the flagstaff and cut it clean. The flag was Moultrie's own design. It was one of the first flags that we had for the revolution. It was blue, and it had a white crescent up at the top corner. And when the staff was cut, it fell down. Now, I didn't know this, but, you know, if a flag falls in a fort, the men firing on that flag, they immediately look at that and go, they've surrendered. Okay? When it falls to the ground, that's what happens, okay? Flag going down means that surrender, it's over. A sergeant named William Jasper, he looks out at the fallen flag laying out there in the killing ground outside of the walls, okay? He didn't think about the math either. He climbed up onto the rampart, full view of every gun in the British fleet. He jumped down outside of the wall. He walks out in the open. He picks that blue flag up off the sand, and because the staff was gone, he tied the flag to the rammer of a cannon. You know, it's a sponge on a pole. And he climbed back up and he planted the flag back up on the wall. He held it up so every ship out there would understand the still. No, no, no, we're not moving. They started in the morning. It's now nightfall. It's in the summer. It's been a long day. The fleet pulls back because they're bleeding, they're hemorrhaging, they're beaten. It was the very first time that in war, Americans stood toe to toe with the Royal Navy and won. And it happened six days before the Declaration of Independence was even signed. Governor of South Carolina took the sword off his own belt and gave it to Sergeant Jasper. And that tree became kind of important. They didn't build a statue of this. That's the South Carolina flag. It has the crescent moon up at the top. I'm sorry, South Carolina, for just discovering this. You're all rolling your eyes going, yeah, hello, dummy. Most Americans don't know this. That's why the palmetto tree is on that flag. That unimpressive, spongy wood that everybody Overlooked. Goes on a South Carolina flag still flying today. The state made an emblem out of the thing. The enemy underestimated. So why is this story important today? Every wise voice is told, told these people the position was indefensible, abandoned. Get out of there. Be reasonable. Cut your losses. Had they listened to the smart money. Charleston falls, the south open up, and the whole story of America bends in a completely different direction. The Republic has always been the half finished fort that experts have always written off. Right now, somebody is doing the math on you. You in your own life or on your town or on your faith, on the whole idea of self government. There are millions of people now saying it's a sandcastle. It's naive, it won't hold. The forces against it are just too big, too modern, too sophisticated. Be reasonable. Walk away. Don't walk away. Don't walk away. Be palmetto, the soft wood that takes the blow and doesn't splinter. It's like Jell O. I'm built for this. And when the flag goes down, and it will go down, some days it goes all the way down into the sand. Be the one willing to climb over the wall in front of everything and put it back up on any pole you can find. Put it back up. We keep the Republic by holding the ground that clever men have already surrendered. We're seeing it saved by miracles now and by people standing up and doing the right thing. They had already surrendered this nation to the global elites. Somebody climbed over the wall, picked the flag back up and said, not today, Satan. Not today. Back in a minute.
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Jason
There are only so many dad gifts available in the world before everything gets just a little bit repetitive at a certain point. Every father in America owns enough novelty grilling. Aprons, socks with the tiny golf clubs on them, and the coffee mugs with those hilarious sarcastic slogans. Those are all great, of course, but I would say food better option. Especially the food is really, really good. And that brings me to Kexi. Kexi has a special Father's Day cookie box available right now with six gourmet cookies baked fresh and shipped everywhere nationwide. And these things look absolutely insane in the best possible way. They're my favorite cookies in the world. You will love them. One of their featured cookies is their peanut butter marshmallow Flavor combines warm peanut butter, melted chocolate and gooey marshmallow into something that honestly sounds less like a cookie and more like a controlled substance. They've also got s'. Mores. S' mores cookie. This is incredible. It kind of tastes like an entire summer Camping trip condensed into into dessert form. If you want to try other flavors, they've got so many great ones you can build your own box if you use the promo code stew. When you do that, you'll go to kexi.com get 15% off right now. Now the, the note just so you know, the, the the code doesn't apply to special Father's Day box. That's its own separate thing. But these are unlimited for the holiday. You just gotta make sure you order them by June 14th for Father's Day
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Glenn Beck
so you don't wait too long.
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Jason
Go to kexi.com use the code stu get 15% off regular orders. Now it's kexi.com k e k s I.com the code is is stew.
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Glenn Beck
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Tucker Carlson
Why.
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Glenn Beck
Why does everybody insist on. It's like Apple with the damn short cords. Why do you insist on making us hate you every time I try to go plug my Apple product in? Because I hate you every time. Every time there's a short cord, I'm like, nope, couldn't make it. Couldn't make it a normal length, could we, Apple? I mean, I have that. That argument in my head every time. Couldn't do it the normal length, could you, Apple? It's the same thing that's happening to you oil companies, and you're not enemies of the people. You Provide a great service. You power the world. You make our heat and air conditioning and our cars work. And it's great. Can you stop making us hate you, please? Jeez, I don't understand it. What is the price of gasoline now in Texas, Jason?
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Jason
It's like right at $3 and some gas stations have gone down below.
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Ricky
I know.
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Tim Barton
I'm looking at the insiders now.
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Jason
They're all posting their gas prices across the country, and it seems like the
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Glenn Beck
norm is 350 and above. At 350, Texans are like 55. 455 in. In Idaho. No, but, Ricky, what are you paying?
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Ricky
Oh, we are coming down like we're in the mid threes right now in South Florida. And South Florida is typically more expensive than central and north Florida.
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Tim Barton
Mid three.
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Glenn Beck
I had to drive. I drove six hours down almost to Vegas and then back, and I didn't pay. I didn't pay under 430 a gallon. Anywhere, anywhere, just two days ago. I mean, I think we're getting ripped off here just a little bit. I think we're getting ripped off. But anyway, it is coming down. There is relief coming at the pump. I mean, not you. California. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to include you. There's no relief coming for you. But everywhere else, relief is coming. You know, it's becoming exhausting buying food from companies that want your money but don't want to tell you where anything is made or anything much about it. You pick up a package, you squint at the label, and somehow you still need a private investigator to figure out. Figure out what you're actually bringing home for dinner. It shouldn't be like that. Shouldn't be hard. That's one of the reasons I like Good Ranchers. 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It's just been released proving the coronavirus research in China, even as Fauci was denying. I think they need to bring him in front of Congress again. You just need to ask him, you know, just. Just like you, to testify. Is what you said to Congress true? Yes or no? They can't do anything about it unless he lies again. But he'll be forced to say, no, I wasn't telling you the truth. Whatever. And so at least we'd be on record. He'd have to admit that he lied. And I would guess you could get him into more lies because he's too arrogant to tell you the full truth. He's just too arrogant. And then he'd finally go to jail. And I think that should be done. Also, the asylum seeker who's made the craziest claim on why he wasn't the rapist of this woman. Wait until you hear this story. It is. I mean, you think you've heard nuts things before? Nah, you haven't even scratched the surface. We have more nuts for you than you can possibly imagine. We'll get to that. Also, Donald Trump is thinking about raising the price of admission. You know, if you want to come in and you want to be a citizen and, well, it's gonna cost you a little bit more. Good. I say raise it to a trillion dollars. You know, whatever it takes. Just stop. Stop all of this. Stop this until we have it under control. When we have it under control, then fine. But, you know, admission here should not be free. It shouldn't be free. All right. More in just a second. We have Tim Barton coming in with us. Us. He has just written with his father, David Barton, a new book about the 56 signers. You know, I've been reading about the signers. I have not read this book yet. I have to get it. But I've been reading about some of the signers, and I am learning so much. These guys were incredible. He's got the receipts on it, so we're going to talk to him on this here in just a second. First, let me talk to you about chapter. One of the strangest things about getting older is that life gets more complicated right about the time you're hoping it would get simpler. You know, when you're young, you expect confusion. It's pretty much par for the course. I mean, you're still just Figuring things out. The very beginning of building a career and starting a family. You make mistakes. You know all the fun stuff. Believe me, you will look back on it as fun. But there comes a point where you're like, okay, I've been doing this. Now things should get easier, right? And somebody hand you a stack of Medicare options, and you're comparing plans and network coverage and prescriptions and cost and trying to figure out which choice actually makes sense for your life. You're like, can somebody make this easy? Yes, Chapter did. And the reason why they did it is because the guy who started it, his parent, his parents, got screwed by somebody saying, no, I'm doing all of the comparisons for you. He was only there making money, okay? Most of these guys are only making money because they can only. They go with the plans that pay them the most, and most of them can't get. Compare all of the plans. Chapter can. They have it now. They have the system that can compare everything. They listen to you and they find the one that's right for you. I want you to go to chapter. Go to chapter right now. The address is. Oh, no, it's a free. Call it £250. 250. Say the keyword, chapter. £250. Keyword, chapter. See, they already made that easy. Tim, my man, how are you?
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Tim Barton
I'm good, Glenn.
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Tucker Carlson
How are you?
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Glenn Beck
I am great. I'm excited to read the. The book about the 56 founders. It's called Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor. How long you guys been working on this? How many books are you writing? Like 400 books. How long do you think you write this one?
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Tim Barton
Well, in fairness, this is one we've been writing for 20 years because we've been studying maybe, maybe even 30 or 40, right? We've been studying these guys forever. You and my dad, for 20 years, have been studying and telling their stories. And we finally said this. This seems like the optimal time for people talking about the 250. Like, hey, guys, let's have a place we can go back and not just have a general conceptual understanding where you and my dad, again, for like 20 plus years, been working on. On helping Americans understand this, but have a place where instead of just learning the general story of them, let's get some specific details. And so this has been a labor of love, really, for the entire time. My dad's been doing this for the entire time I've been with him. But we focused on this probably for eight or nine months hard, trying to get all the stories lined up and right and getting it Ready to come out this summer.
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Glenn Beck
That's great. I have to tell you, Paul Harvey wrote a book on the 56 signers, and it was a very thin book. It wasn't like what you've just done. Tell me what you tell me what you found that surprised even you that you're going through. And you're like, people have got to know about this guy.
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Ricky
Yeah.
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Tim Barton
So some of the stories, some of the guys we already had a general understanding of. But then when you do a deeper dive, you're like, this guy's even more impressive than we realized. And Glenn, we talk about it all the time. Like, it blows up all of the narratives we think. Right. Like, you know, John Witherspoon, who was the president of what became Princeton University, trained more founding fathers than any other individual. We know that he was a pastor, but when you start looking into the fact, oh, so he was a Presbyterian revivalist preacher from Scotland, and you start sending some of his background, you're like, this was far more of a fired up Christian pastor than even maybe a general surface understanding would give you. You look at guys stories that might be more surprising that actually one of the ones that got me, William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration. His father was a merchant trader and so had lots of trade ships, which is not surprising. And his family actually engaged. One of the things they did was engage in the slave trade and of like the 100 something voyages he took. It was like 12 or 13 voyages that had. They transported slaves. So it's not the majority of what they did, but he grew up in a family that literally they were slave traders. And he becomes a guy who his father gives him a slave. He goes to fight in the American Revolution. He signs a declaration. He becomes then a soldier in the Revolution. He took the slave his dad gave him, but he's an abolitionist. And he's like, this is dumb. And at one point he was talking that the individual that was a slave is known as Prince Whipple. Now, Prince was not an uncommon term for a lot of slaves back then. And the last name was often the last name of whoever the slave master was. But he tells Prince, he says, prince, we must be men of courage and stand our ground. And Prince tells William, he says, I would be a lot more courageous and I'd stand my ground a lot better if I had freedom. And William says, you're right. Well, then you're free. And literally on the spot says, you are free. Please continue to fight with me. And Prince fights for the rest of the revolution. When the revolution is over, he gets the official certificate that he gets his freedom. William closes the family slave trade business. So you have a kid who grows up in a family business where they are slave traders. He becomes an abolitionist from frees the slaves, stops the slave trade for the family. And again, like, you start reading these stories and you're like, not only are these guys a lot different than we realize, they're so much more honorable. One of my favorite stories, Thomas Nelson Jr. Was a signer of the Declaration from Virginia. He and George Washington were really good friends. And there's actually some really fun letters from George Washington to Thomas Nelson Jr. About how God's hand was all over what they were doing in the American Revolution. God showed up time and time again to save the military. But. But Thomas Nelson Jr. Is a commanding officer at Yorktown, the last major battle of the Revolution. And Thomas Nelson Jr. Was also a very wealthy guy, but he used all of his wealth to, to fund the military and the endeavors of what the Continental Congress was trying to do. So, so he gave it all for the cause of liberty. But because he's a wealthy guy, he was in Yorktown. He leaves Yorktown to be part of the military. The British have taken over Yorktown. And he had the nicest house in your New Yorktown. So the officers make that the place where they're going to stay. And as the men surround Yorktown, the Continental Army Yorktown is under siege. He's with an artillery unit and they're firing cannonballs into Yorktown and they're driving the British back. And he realizes they fired on every house except mine. And that's literally where the British officers are. So he goes to the, the guy's firing the cannon, says, why aren't you firing in my house? And they said, sir, we know like who's paying our check, right? Like we know who you are there. There's no way we would fire in your house. And, and so that like the old historic accounts, they said that he pulled out his, his checkbook and he says, I will give a five pound guinea like this. I will give money for every man that. The first man that hits it with a cannonball, he gets the first one, but then everybody cannonball after that. I will literally pay every man. Well, to this day, his house still stands in Virginia, which is amazing. People can literally go to Yorktown and see it and there are cannonballs in the side of his house. To this day, that record says he literally was paying the men to fire on his own house to drive The British officers back and, and Glenn. These are the stories that when you read them, you're like, these guys are amazing. It's so fun stories.
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Glenn Beck
How many of them, how many of them were wealthy and died poor because of this?
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Tim Barton
So I, I would say that the percentage is small, but I would say probably there were probably 10 or 12 or 15. And. Right. I mean, obviously wealth, there's different standards out of 56.
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Glenn Beck
Sure.
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Tim Barton
But. But when you talk about wealthy guys, they're depth. John Hancock, very wealthy guy. Thomas Nelson Jr. Wealthy. Charles Carroll. There were some very wealthy individuals, but it was not the majority of them. And you do have a great disparity from like the John Hancock. One of John Hancock's best friends and running buddies was Sam Adams. Sam Adams is the poorest of all those guys. And you know the story, but. Right. Sam Adams growing up at 14, goes to Harvard. He graduates when he's 18. His dad wants to him to be a lawyer. Mom wants him to go into business. His dad gives him a loan because he decides Sam is going to go into business. And Sam fails. Lost all that money. The dad dies, leave Sam's the business. Sam runs a business in the ground. They go bankrupt. Sam has to find another job, becomes a tax collector, which is super funny to think about. Sam gets fired from being a tax collector because he refused to take in all the taxes that were demanded because he would go to people's houses. And he's like, wait, you owe how much? That's crazy. Give me like half of that. And so literally, Boston is going in debt because Sam Adams is not collecting enough taxes. But I say this because as, as you get to like the stand back tax, Sam doesn't even like, really look for another job. He's so fired up for the Patriot cause, so he spends all of his time trying to rally other Americans. And by the time the Continental Congress comes around, Sam's been doing this for more than a decade. Decade. And his people say, that's the guy we want to represent us. He understands this the best. He's been writing all these essays, making these speeches. He. He formed, he started the Sons of Liberty. This, this is the guy we want. But they were embarrassed of the way he looked because he only had one suit and it had holes in it. He had one pair of stockings with holes in it. And so the town took up a collection. One man brought in a tailor that made him a tailored suit. One man bought him six new pairs of stockings. One man bought him a wig. Somebody wrote to John Adams, said hey, will you loan him a horse? Because we don't want him to have to walk all the way to Philadelphia. So, so literally, Sam Adams is going because he's this incredible voice, but he's also incredibly poor because not only was he a failed businessman, he spent all of his time trying to rally patriots. And so when you look at the disparity of like a John Hancock, who's this uber wealthy guy, to a Sam Adams, you had people from all walks of life coming together. Some that had been doctors or teachers, some that were farmers, some that were like a Sam Adams, just a patriotic voice, some like a John Hancock, very wealthy. But it was all people who understood the vision. And then when they signed their names on the line, I mean, the reason we chose lives, fortunes and sacred honors is there is not a single person that signed the Declaration of Independence that did not pay to some extent with their life, their fortune, or their sacred honor.
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Glenn Beck
Tim, I was reading up on doing something later this week on Cesar Rodney, and he's the guy who had to break the tie for Delaware. And, and so he, he, they've told him, you know, you got to get here, we vote tomorrow, and you got to be there. And it was like a three day normal ride. He rides hard all night in the rain, et cetera, et cetera. What I didn't know about him was that he was so riddled with face cancer that I think it was John Adams who said, not in a joking way, his face was like the size of an apple. He said it was so distorted and so rotted away by the time he was riding all night, the doctor's like, don't. You'll die, you'll die, you'll die. Don't do this. And he wore a veil most of his. Yes time because he, it was so. I, I didn't know that about him. That, that, yeah, it's suffering beyond.
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Tim Barton
Everything you're saying is correct. It's also something that even though they're founding fathers, there were times that, that people noted that because of the rotting flesh on his face, it also smelled terrible. And so he was so dedicated to be there because he believed in the cause, but he had to keep it covered because it was unsightly and then it smelled bad. But these were people, to your point, who literally were like, I don't care what it costs me. I care that we are doing something for the next, the rising generation, for our kids, for our grandkids. There's a really, really great letter from John Adams to Abigail in 1777, where as he's a diplomat at this point, he's already signed the Declaration. He's a diplomat over in Europe. And he's frustrated. And John Adams was dramatic at times. So this is not like super unusual, which we also cover some of these stories in the John Adams bio in this book. But John Adams writes Abigail, he's so frustrated. He says, abigail, I don't think. I don't think people even fully appreciate that. They don't understand what we're doing. They don't fully appreciate what we're doing. He said, I wish I could just gather all of the kids around, like all of the college students, and I wish I could just tell them something. And here's what he said he wanted to tell them. He said, posterity, you will never know how much it costs this present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains I did to earn it. And this is the sentiment that I would say, even looking back today, most Americans, because we don't know their story, we have no idea the cost that was actually paid for us to be able to be free. And so, Glenn, this is something that we've been for years advocating for people go back and learn the story. And honestly, we didn't feel like maybe there was the best resources out there to do it. And so we said, look, and kind of like the wall builder fashion, we want to be the storytellers. Let's tell the story of these guys where we talk about some of their faith, their family, their accomplishments, even some of their positions for the abolition movement or for some of them that actually maintained that slavery position. We tell the good, the bad and the ugly, but we think every American needs to understand, especially on the 250th, who these men were and the sacrifices they actually made for independence.
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Glenn Beck
Tim, as always, good to talk to you. The name of the book is Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor. It comes out today. I can't recommend it highly enough. I mean, these guys have looked at the documents and taken the actual letters from the founder. This is not scholarly. People coming back, you know, 200 years later and saying, I think what they meant, they take the actual documents from the time. It is accurate. It is great. And they're both really good storytellers. Lives, Fortunes and sacred honor. Tim Barton, say hi to your dad. We'll talk to you again. Thanks.
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Tim Barton
Sounds great. Thanks, Glenn.
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Glenn Beck
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It also tells the story of Lewis and Clark and their amazing 8,000 mile voyage. I mean, these guys went off, they didn't know where they were going and no idea. And they wanted to get all the way to the west coast. It is a story of ambition, survival, discovery and complicated growth of the continental Nation. Summer of 250Travel season. Perfect time to experience this kind of series. If you've already gone through the 15 or what are we up to? 11 episodes at Torch. 250. If you've already gone through the 11. We also have the first two chapters of Chasing Embers. Another this one's a dystopian fiction, but it's all based on a country, America, that lost its way, went into big tech, kind of took over, corporations took over, suppressed all the history. History has been erased. These people don't know who they are anymore. And there are some rebels that are trying to piece history back together and figure out who they actually were at one time. 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Ricky
July 1st. Lynn destroys the lies you've been told about immigration and a groundbreaking Torch special. Join us today@torch250.com to watch it live with Glenn.
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Glenn Beck
All right, you sick freak. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. You know, I can't believe it's taken me this, it's taken me almost the entire show before I could get to the real issue of the reflecting pool. Good God almighty. I think I'm gonna lose my mind. What is wrong with these people? Seriously, what is wrong with these people? How many times can you look this up, Ricky? I think Obama worked on the reflecting pool and I think Biden also did and it's not been repaired correctly. Right? Is that right, Ricky? Look that up and it's, look it up for me. When's the last time they did any kind of improvements to the reflecting pool? And it's my understanding that they have worked on this and worked on this and worked on it. Never get it right. So Donald Trump gets it, you know, and, and he's trying to repair it. I'm not saying that they got it right. I don't, I don't know exactly what's going on with the reflecting pool. I know the surface is coming up, but I know some vandals got in there. People were, were picketing for the algae. I mean, they're, they were, they're for the algae destroying the reflecting pool. What, what is wrong with you? And by the way, I don't, I mean, if it's a reflecting pool or algae, I go with a reflecting pool. If it's Kamala Harris or algae, I vote for algae. But maybe that's, maybe that's just me. Here's Donald Trump talking about how vandals slit the reflecting pool. Listen to this.
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Tim Barton
Vandals.
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Glenn Beck
You know, we have a hundred, and we have a, I think 290, 300 foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter or a knife
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Tim Barton
of some kind or we had people
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Glenn Beck
lifting up the basic, Some of the, it's not a lot of damage, but it's, we'll probably have to let the water out and refix it. They went in there with a knife. I was just told by the, by the people over at parks, they have five people around arrested and five people are under investigation right now. I like to see. I mean, the one thing I don't like about this is there was a no bid contract to fix this. But you know, Donald Trump is a builder. He would, he would, he knows how to fix and it's my understanding that he's also on the phone with the construction workers like at 4 o' clock in the morning saying, are you doing this? Are you doing this? So the guy was on it and you know, he knows how to build a pool. But I just can't, I can't take. Everything is about. Why do they make everything about Donald Trump? Everything. I swear to you, if the Democrats win the White House, they will dig those flag poles up and they will take those flag poles down. They will never build the East Wing back the, the ballroom. They'll never build it. It least they will build it to look entirely different than what he did. I mean, there's nothing this guy can do that is right for them. They have to destroy everything. It's, it's really a sickness. It's really a sickness. Do you have that answer for me, Ricky?
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Ricky
Yes. Reagan tried to fix it throughout the 80s and by 86 the structural system was still failing. And Obama over a two year period tried to do significant intervention. And I think it's important to note that it cost $30 million as opposed to I think Trump's 16 million. And I should also point out that the contractors who are going to go in and fix it again, including the vandals destruction, they're doing it under warranty, right?
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Glenn Beck
They're doing it for free. They are not paying for this. It's, it's incredible to me. Did you even know that Barack Obama was took two years to redo the reflecting pool? I didn't know that. This is something that is so far down. You know, they're actually talking. I think it was Joy Behar on the View that said. Was it Joy that said that people should sue Donald Trump and the federal government because that's a national landmark and how dare him go in there and do stuff to it. It. Are you, you're kidding me, right? You're kidding me. It needed repair. It's like, it's, it's. I swear to you, these people would rather have all of our monuments dirty and urinated on and everything else other than Donald Trump being able to fix it. Look at the two pictures we have side by side. One is a blue reflecting pool. One is a green reflecting pool. The green one is because of algae. Okay? It's dirty. Have you been there? It's awful. The green, the blue one is because it's clean and it's reflecting the surface on the bottom. You know, water is supposed to look blue when it's clear outside. You know, when it's Cloudy, it looks different, but when it's clear, it reflects the sky. That's why you put the blue there. My gosh. And these people. I actually heard interviews with people who said green looks better. No, it doesn't. I mean, that. That's a. That's a Rorschach test. It really is. That's a test. You should hold those two up and, you know, assuming you know who Donald Trump is and you say the green looks better, that's a. That's a sign you need some medication. You need some medication or you need just a nap? Get a nap in. Okay? You've. You've made everything into this Trump derangement syndrome. And by the way. And it. It is feeding off of some of the most radical people. Look, Joy Reid from msnbc. She's. She's never been straight in the head, okay? She's always been a radical anti American, but now this is spreading into mainstream society. Here's what she said. Cut four. Here's what she says about the Fourth of July.
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Ricky
There's a.
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Glenn Beck
There's a duality to Fourth of July that is hard to reconcile if you think about it too much. It's like indigenous people on Thanksgiving, like, they're like, yeah, but, you know, y' all are celebrating that. But this is actually our nakba, okay?
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Tucker Carlson
We're.
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Glenn Beck
You're celebrating our. The destruction of all of our lands. And y' all think all we did was give you corn. So they're like, you know, it's not cute to us, but. So y' all go ahead and celebrate your Thanksgiving. We're not giving thanks, okay? And the black people feel that way by 4th of July, whereas Juneteenth to me, is the real thing that Fourth of July is because we really were not a democracy until we ended slavery. No, we were a democracy. You're such an idiot. You don't even know what you're saying. You weren't free until Juneteenth in Texas. You were actually free, but it was the south and the racist that kept it from you until Juneteenth, until a Union soldier came in because of Abraham Lincoln, which you don't want to even talk about. Abraham Lincoln said Emancipation Proclamation, and then the war is over. And it was Juneteenth that they finally told the slaves in Texas, the war is over. You're free. But I bet you, Joy, that you don't know about one of the best friends of Abraham Lincoln. You know, one of his best friends was Frederick Douglass, which brings me to Frederick Douglass, then to Say, did you know that Frederick Douglass once hated the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution? He felt like you did. Then he read it. I recommend it. Then he read it and he realized, wait a minute. This is not an instrument of oppression. This is the greatest slave ending document of all time. The same conclusion that Martin Luther King came to. Black people were not free until the Civil War. And it's the first time in history white people fought for the freedom of black people and got slaughtered. Slaughtered. And I know my family. My family's fought for the North. They fought for the north, not for the South. They fought for freedom. I. I don't understand why I'm an enemy. I don't understand why my family has anything to repent for. We fought for the North. And by the way, you can't hold people response. I mean, this goes nowhere into theology. What kind of collective God do you serve where you're not judged for the mistakes that you made as an individual? How. What kind of lousy ass God is that? Where he's like, you know what? I know you didn't have anything to do with it, but 75 years before you were born, one of your ancestors mouthed off to me, and I'm still a little pissed off about it. What? I had nothing to do with that. What kind of God judges you as a collective or for the sins of people who you didn't even know? God doesn't judge me for what my children do, I hope. I mean, unless I'm personally responsible because I dropped the ball on a few things, which, Lord, just hear me out on this. But anyway, that's not God. That's not God. Fourth of July. Yes, black people were not included. But do you know, Joy, that the. The three turning points. The three turning points. The. The Revolutionary War really started with the death of a black man. Okay, Crispus, Atticus. Atticus. Atticus. Atticus. I can't remember. Crispus. That guy, Kentucky Fried Chicken, I think has. I don't know, it's extra Crispus. Atticus. Anyway, so he died at the Boston Massacre. Black man. It was Prince Whipple that actually, we were just talking about that. Actually, in the middle of the war, saved us from being completely annihilated because of his bravery. He steps up and he shoots the commanding officer, which takes the British by surprise. And they scatter for a minute. Gives us a chance to escape. So a black man saved the revolution, and then it was the black man that ended the revolution because he was a spy for George Washington. So, you know, blacks played a very Important role. A very important role. Now I would ask why? Because there were abolitionists. The majority of our founders were abolitionists. They didn't believe in slavery. Some of them complicated past. Some of them were absolute racist, Some were not. Let's not judge people as a collective. Should people call you a Nazi because you're in the same business that I'm in at the same time, and people call me a Nazi. So does that make you a Nazi? Because I could do guilt by association because we're in the same industry at the same time. We must have all been Nazis. Blacks had their history erased. I have a. I have a book. Oh, man, it's gotta be 300 pages and it's from the early 1800s, and it's called the Colored Heroes of the American Revolution. Well, what happened to that book? What happened to that book? Why was that book out Everywhere in the 1800s, but strangely in the 1900s, you can't find it anywhere. I'll tell you why, Joy. Progressives. That's why. That's why. That's why. Now that's history you don't like to hear, but I don't think you hear any history except your own made up history. There's a lot of bad things that happen in America. A lot. A lot of your grievance is true. Not against me. I didn't have anything to do with it. But you can look at the past and say that was wrong. But then you should look at the people that changed it, the people who fought and died and say, you know what? Really bad people. But there were some really good people, too. And I can't judge the past from today's seat because I can't even. They had to crap outside all the time, wipe themselves with leaves. I can't relate to how they thought about anything on any subject, but I can look at them and say, you know what? They weren't all scumbags. A lot of them were great. A lot of them are really great. And they got it. And then I can look at history and I can put it in her proper place and I can say, what does this teach me about how I, as an individual should behave, what I can do to make things better. But Joy, I know you're not interested in that because you're on, I don't know, a communist kick or whatever it is you want to turn the country into. That's fine. We're just not going there. Because there are millions of Americans who actually know that what the founders did on July 4th or July 2nd, 1776. That document is the most freeing document ever written by any man at any time. It has set more people free than any other document of all of human history. We know that and we understand that you're disgruntled and you're angry and you're misinformed, and that's okay. But we're not gonna, we're not gonna let that document slide into obscurity and let the world slide into the darkness that you damn communists never see coming. You bring it on every single time. You're like, yeah, but this time it's different. It's not different. It's never different. More in a minute. Let me tell you about Mercury One. As we turn 250 years old, I think that raises an important question. What exactly are we handing to the next generation? Not in terms of money or buildings or technology. I mean the story. The understanding of who we are, where we came from and what we believe and why this country matters. This is so important in the last chapter of my life. We have to preserve the story or someone else will rewrite it. And that's happened far too often in recent years. And it's one of the reasons I'm so excited about the American Journey Experience. Let me tell you this. We are opening next year a brick and mortar museum. It is a home for the true story of America, the good, the bad and the ugly. It'll be a place where more than 100,000 artifacts will help bring our story to life for future generations. Two thousand years ago, God's truth was preserved in clay pots. Today, we have a responsibility to preserve the American story with the same care. Because this story is worth passing on. Would you like to be a part of building our new clay pot? Join us at americanjourneyexperience.com Become a Founding Member americanjourneyexperience.Com Common Sense is a fleeting quality in media, but around here it's standard practice. Hang tight. Glenn Beck returns next. Thank you so much for listening. If you missed any of the show, go grab it@torch250.com Become a member of the Torch. Or you can get it wherever you get your podcasts and listen back to it. You don't want to miss anything. Now there's a lot of crazy stories that we did miss on today's show and I would usually say, well, we'll get to those tomorrow, but we can't. Cuz there'll be a whole another list of crazy stories that we won't be able to get to tomorrow.