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I want to take you through that story, what it means. And then I want to talk to you about another knife attack because it seems like the whole world is talking about knife attacks. The other one happened in Belfast in Ireland where a... Now they can't say for sure, they can't say for sure where he's from, but they know that he's not from Ireland. Okay. Okay. We don't know why this guy was trying to be head another guy. They have no idea what the motivation might be. Okay. Sure. So, we're going to take that on here about the bottom of the hour because there seems to be a problem with knives and they have the same root. We'll talk about that coming up in just a second. First, let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. I learned long ago that there are some things in life that you can get away with doing yourself. You know, you can paint a room yourself. You can mow your lawn yourself. You're feeling particularly adventurous. 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The jury in Cullen County deliberated for about three hours before finding Anthony guilty of first degree murder in the death of 17-year-old who now has to, you know, they're now deciding, you know, are they going to have a retrial? Are they going to file an appeal? Of course they will. Of course they will. And I'll get to that here in a second. This thing is such an unbelievable tragedy. And I was singing last night, what should we take away from all of this? First, let's look at the deliberation. Happened in about two and a half hours. Okay. That tells us the evidence was overwhelming. Two and a half hours, dozens of witnesses. By the way, the minority makeup of this jury we think was about a third to half minority. Okay. Now, what did they have? They had all kinds of video. They had body cam footage. They had witnesses. They had the medical examiner's testimony about that single fatal wound to the heart. And it wasn't long before the jury just, you know, there was no murky facts here to debate. It was a clear case of escalation. A knife brought to a teenage verbal spat under a team tent in a rain delay. And there were words, a push, and a deadly response. But they got him with, is a law in Texas where it was a disproportionate response. That's what it was. Because he was claiming self-defense and they were like, yeah, you know, if anybody pushed anybody, you don't stab the guy in the heart. Jury saw through the narratives, focused on the truth, because it was all right there at his face. And in a world drowning in spin, this is a powerful reminder that facts still matter when good people are willing to weigh them honestly. Now, let's talk about the appeal. Is there going to be an appeal? Absolutely. Without, with real credibility? No, probably not. They're going to attempt, you know, the defense teams are going to, you know, challenge the jury composition and, you know, there's no black jurors seated despite the racial tensions and all of that stuff. But any credibility behind any of this? I don't think so. Jurors struck jurors for race neutral reasons like occupations and prior experiences. The evidence wasn't thin. It was stacked. The appeals court, at least in Texas, they look for legal errors. They don't retry facts. They look for legal errors. And the verdict was pretty solid on self-defense, proportional force. Okay. Expect noise, but don't bet on a reversal on any of this. Now, what does it mean on the streets? Because now we have to, you know, look at that too. Out on the streets, some people were trying to light the fire and get everybody riled up. Agitators were pushing the, you know, free Carmelo chance and they were accusing people of racism and confrontations. So there was one guy who was standing up against this guy who was just an animal, just an animal trying just up in this guy's face, just trying to get him to swing. And he didn't. Texans, God bless Texas. They didn't take the debate. But here's what was said on the streets. Now this one is, the first one I'm going to play is a next generation action network president. Okay. So we have the NGOs out in the street. This is Dominique Alexander. Go ahead. But what this process did is shown that black lives do not matter in Collin County. It showed us that time and time in American history, it has shown us to remove emotions from yet the law. This trial showed that it put emotions over the law. After Trayvon Martin and so many countless names, it has shown us that black life is not safe in Collin County. It showed us that they did not listen to the law. It showed clearly that a judge in a fear in this process, it showed very clearly that a black boy was allowed not one black soul on a jury. An all, all white jury. Okay. No, it wasn't an all white jury. It wasn't an all white jury. Okay. If you're Hispanic, you're not white. If you're Asian, you're not white. I don't know if you know that. Not everybody is white or black. Gosh, it just makes me so angry. I'm sorry. It shouldn't be that way. It just makes me so angry listening to these lies that people are, and they're, because they're buying them. People are buying into these lies. You know why the black juror was, the final black juror was dismissed? Because the final black juror when asked, can you be neutral, said, and I quote, I don't think I could put a black brother in prison. Well then you can't be on the jury. That wasn't that bad was the system protecting the system of fairness. You can't be on the jury if you can't look beyond race. God, what is wrong with people? Okay. Now, here's some other supporters crying and ranting after the verdict. Listen to this. They're saying this is sick. All kinds of stuff. Now listen to this supporter. Listen to this supporter quoting Carmelo, but as again, as a threat. Listen. If you see any time a white man or white child can go and put their hands aggressively on anybody and something like this occur, it's self defense. It's self defense. You put your hand on me and see how I respond. What will the answer be? What will the people that stand behind the Hampton family do? That's the question you should ask. You don't stand behind them and we're going to fight. That's what's going to happen. Just like they're doing this to Carmelo, guess what? It could be your child, little kids out here, it could be you. All right. And I'll be out here for y'all. We got to fight for one another. Stop. I don't want to hear anymore. Let me ask you this. Do you teach your child if somebody grabs them or pushes them, you reach for a knife and stab them in the heart? If so, your children should be taken from you. You were a bad parent. That's not how a society, no society can survive. No civilization can survive if it is guerrilla warfare. So people were shouting, there were tears, it was hot, but contained. No widespread riots, no cities burning. I think it's because the average person, the average African American saw this story for what it is. By the way, this is not weakness. This is strength, the community choosing restraint over rage. Thank you. Now, maybe North Texas can have some time to heal and breathe and breathe just a little bit, but let's not gloss over the human cost. This is really, it's horrible. Two families are shattered. Austin Metcalf, gone 17, promising athlete, twin brother, stabbed at a moment that should have never happened. His parents and his brother, I mean, his father said, you not only killed my son, you killed the man I used to be. I can relate to that. Can you imagine that feeling? Then the other tragedy is Carmelo Anthony, 19 years old, decades behind bars. His life absolutely, his future gone because of one choice. Both sides lose. This isn't a victory. This is a tragedy. So over what? Over what? Who wound this kid up? Who taught him that bringing a knife to a school event was reasonable just in case? Who filled his mind with the idea that a grab or a push justified lethal force, that he could escalate, threaten, touch me and see what happens and walk away unscathed? Who taught him that? I'll tell you, our culture did. The entitlement of grievance did. The glorification of toughness without any wisdom or thinking. The erosion of basic self-control. The erosion of basic respect for other human beings. Before the stabbing, the behavior refusing to move, the warning, the weapon after flight. Then self-defense claims because there's a media store and that takes a storm and that takes that tragedy into a proxy war. This wasn't inevitable, but it was foreseeable and it was cultivated. Does this verdict heal the wounds? Probably not because healing takes truth first. See people go in and they have no personal responsibility for anything. I gotta tell you. There are people on January 6th that I feel for and those that I don't. There were those who came in with intent. They were violent. They were doing horrible things. It shouldn't have been done. Do they deserve the treatment that they got? Probably not. However, did they deserve some jail time? Yeah. Everybody? All of those people, the grandmas and everything else? Certainly not. But again, our progressive culture tries everybody by class or by group, by race or by voting habits. This needs to be a system of the individual. The good news is this does send a desperately needed message to our kids. Control yourselves or lose everything. Lose control of your impulse, your pride. That little voice whispering inside of you saying, you can't touch me. It has consequences. At least in Texas, it has consequences. Bring a knife to a stupid teenage spat and you don't get to rewrite the story later. Everybody thinks accountability is cruel. It's not cruel. It is the guardrail that protects the entire civilization and it redeems the wayward. If you don't have accountability, there's no redemption. This why I say, is it going to heal? No, probably not because I haven't seen anybody admit what the problem was. They just want to make it about race. So there's no healing. There's never any because there's no punishment for the thing that went wrong. There's no recognition. And so what do you have? It's bittersweet because it's bitter because two bright young men have had their lives taken from them. One innocently, the other one took a life, but now his life has gone too. And both families are grieving on what could have been. But it's sweet because the truth has prevailed here. Division didn't explode and perhaps, perhaps this can stand as a warning that will save other kids from the same path. You see, that is the hope here that you learn from this, that we as a society show this to our kids and they learn, wow, I can't get away with that kind of behavior. If we can reject the race-baiting hatred that poisons everything in our society, if we teach our young radical responsibility, courage, and fear of the Lord, honestly, instead of victimhood and vengeance, then maybe we start healing. And not just from this, but from everything else that's tearing our citizens and our country apart. Choose truth, choose self-control, choose life. We are told this too shall pass, but it only passes if we learn the lesson. One last thing, God bless that jury and God bless the great state of Texas. All right, back in just a second. Let me tell you about Simply Safe. Most criminals have something in common. They are not lazy. Well, not all of them. 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I would imagine, you know, people tend to group and tend to think that that's the case, but it's really not. You know, people are individuals. You know, collectively, I tell you the truth, we're all Americans, so truth be told, we all need to stop the bull. You know, we're all Americans. Let's just stop the crap. It's really ridiculous, you know? And, because let me tell you, had that been, had that scenario been reversed, or it would have been a big, it would have been a, you know, that would have been a big cabal, you know, and, and even, you know, truth, it seems like either way it goes, the race cars always pulled and that's always an issue. You know, we've got to stop that. Stan, I think that, you know, because I said, I hope that, you know, what we're seeing are just a few NGOs and a few people that really don't get it. And I believe because there wasn't a big uprising yesterday in Texas, that that's not the way the black, the majority of the black community feels. Some do, some don't. But, you know, maybe we are getting past this. Maybe this is a sign that we're getting past it a little bit. This may be a baby step in the right direction. Thank you, Stan. I appreciate it, especially hearing common sense coming out of New York City. You know, we have two knife attacks and that's what everybody is talking about. And these, these knife attacks, we're not supposed to notice a pattern, I think. We were just talking about in Texas, you know, Carmelo Anthony convicted of first degree murder, 35 years for stabbing verbal spat, we got it. Now, what happens next? The jury took two and a half hours, evidence is clear. But across the ocean, there is another knife attack that everybody is talking about. It happened in Belfast, that's Northern Ireland. Just days ago, I don't know if you saw it, it was horrible. June 8th, a 30 year old Sudanese asylum seeker, they're still not sure where he's from. But he was charged, he was charged with attempted murder after a brutal knife attack on a local man in his 40s, Stephen Ogilby. And we have the video of him now on the ground just hacking at this guy's throat. It is horrible, straddling the guy on the ground, slashing his head and his neck, trying to hack his head off. Victim lost his left eye, suffered devastating wounds to his face, his neck and his back. He's still fighting for his life in the hospital, he's not dead yet. Now, so what happened? Well, I think you're starting to see the Bubba effect in Ireland. Protests erupt all across Belfast, fires burn, vehicles clashes, because it's years of frustration now boiling over. And it was bad because what have I told you in the Bubba effect? What is the Bubba effect? The government has screwed things up, Bubba goes in, he thinks he's going to take vengeance on a Muslim, he kills a sheik because he's wearing a turban even though Muslims don't wear a turban. And everybody's like, Bubba, what did you do? And they know they have to punish Bubba, they know he has to go to jail, but the federal government comes in and they're like, no, back off. We know Bubba did wrong, but we'll take care of that, not you, you're the cause of it. So what is, what are you seeing in Belfast? They went and they set fires at houses that supposedly were for immigrants. Some immigrants are, you know, they're not Muslim, they're not from Africa, whatever. And they were standing outside going, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, doesn't matter, you've enraged the mob. And the world wants to talk about isolated incidents and then far right group unrest. Let me tell you what's really happening here. Everything you're seeing, these are horrors. They're downstream from progressive policies that have weakened our kids, they have raised our borders, erased our history, erased common sense and punished anybody who dares notice the consequences. We here in America have raised generations now without any clear identity. I'm going to get into this next hour. You've got to listen to next hour. No moral guidelines, no self-control, no personal responsibility. Race has been weaponized by politicians to divide us instead of uniting us under one creed. Kids don't know who they are anymore, so a disagreement over a seat in a tent escalates immediately to murder. We have sown entitlement, we have sown grievance and we're now reaping the knives in schools and parking lots. In Belfast, across the UK, Europe, same globalist mindset opened the floodgates. Diversity is our strength since when? Unity is our strength. Coming together, even though we're diverse people, coming together under one principle, that's a strength. Imagine having an army and going, you know what, these guys are all going to do whatever they want. They're all from different armies and they're all from different things. We're just going to let them do what they want. Diversity is our strength. They'd be slaughtered on the field. Then the people who are preaching this garbage to us, brand-concerned citizens as racists for pointing out the obvious. You know, not every arrival comes to assimilate, to melt into Western society, to respect our laws and customs. Not every incident is about race. We've seen the spikes in knife crime, grooming gangs, rapes, violence, authorities that downplay or deny and then accuse the people who are saying, wait a minute, this is my neighborhood, accuse them of being racist. And let me just talk about beheadings, because I don't know the last time you saw somebody in the street trying to hack somebody's head off, but I looked it up. England hasn't had beheadings since 1747. We weren't even a country and the guy that they beheaded was executed for treason. So 1747 was the last time people were beheaded in Great Britain until the mass migration from certain Muslim majority countries brought the ideology and the blades with it. I have now seen in the last five years two people on the streets of England, one was beheaded, he was a soldier, I wonder what that was, and now this one where they tried to cut the guy's head off, gee, and the press is like, I don't know, we don't have a probable cause. Probable cause? Probable cause. We don't know the cause, but you don't know the probable cause? I know it was probably rooted in that guy's culture. Probable cause. I mean, it could be the cultural class rooted in Islamic patterns of violence that have no place in Western society. That's probable, isn't it? I mean, good. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. People are rising up because the elites ignored them for too long. If you keep telling people that they are stupid, bigoted, far right, just for preferring safe streets and a coherent community where their children aren't continually raped and they just don't want imported chaos because they got enough chaos in their lives, we have enough problems with crime, with Americans, we don't need to bring more people in that are criminals, that want to be head people. You know, towns just didn't slide into third world violence by accident. It happened when leaders prioritized open borders and brought the third world in, and then they added political correctness over integration and vetting over the national interest. I'm telling you, Britain does not have a civil war yet, but you are at the Bubba effect in Great Britain now. And if the elites keep denying reality and blaming the native population instead of confronting failed policies, they're lighting the fuse themselves. Victims are being stabbed here in America, nearly beheaded in the streets of Great Britain. They're own citizens. Aren't these the people that our governments are sworn to protect? You're not very kind. This isn't about kindness. This is suicide. Suicide by compassion without any wisdom at all. What do you say we plant the flag deep in the heart of truth? Borders exist for a reason. Assimilation is an optional. Here in America, self-control and moral clarity are not relics, they're survival. I mean, look how far we have fallen. Look at what our society has become over the last 20 years. We weren't like this before. We were not like this. What has changed? Oh, I don't know. The progressive nonsense. And I think our children deserve a better future than knife fights. Our neighborhoods deserve better than imported tribal violence. Here's the good news. All of these things, they provide an opportunity for us to wake up. When people see that guy on the street in Belfast where the guy is hacking at his neck, it provides a chance for everyone to wake up. Now, I think the people are awakened. People in Great Britain, they do not have a Martin Luther King example. They don't. Their example is Gandhi, but Gandhi used it against the English, so they're not really happy with Gandhi. They don't have that example. They only have Christ, and Christ is almost dead in Great Britain. There is no real church in Great Britain. It's starting to revive a little bit, but it's on the ropes. These people are not going to go for a Martin Luther King. There is no understanding of that over there. If we can reject the division, we can restore real accountability, we can secure our homes, and remember who we are under God, then perhaps these tragedies are not going to be in vain, because we can still choose life, we can still choose order, we can still choose courage over chaos. You know, they're calling the one guy who stopped the beheading a hero, and I find that kind of sad. It's true, but there are a lot of people standing around just taping it with their phone. What do you say? You put the phone down. Now, I understand if it's one person, I get it, but if there's lots of people standing around, why don't you? Does no one say, hey guys, let's stop videotaping, or you videotape so we have it on record, and the rest of us, let's go stop that guy from being beheaded? Personal responsibility in all things. All we have to do is choose wisely. We haven't been doing that lately, but I think that time is coming quickly. The hour is late, America. Choose wisely. Back in a minute. God is calling you to something bigger than you are maybe prepared for. You'll see it throughout the Bible. Moses didn't think he was the right man. Slow of speech. Gideon didn't think he was. Jeremiah didn't think he was the right man. And again and again, God chooses ordinary people and asks them to do extraordinary things, and usually they're very flawed people. They got a problem. The president and global CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Yale, Exxine, spoke at Turning Point at the USA Turning Point Women's Leadership Summit. She described stepping into the leadership role of 34 years after the loss of her father. She was remembering feeling that you've got the wrong person. I've said that so many times. You've got the wrong person. God. God has always called the ordinary, uncertain people to do his work. And I'm grateful that she answered that call because I've seen the work of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and it is just people. They're not getting into politics. I don't care about the politics. I don't care if you like Benjamin Netanyahu or not. The Jewish people have a right to not be hunted. 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We can work it out. The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck program. Hello America. I want to talk to you a little bit more about what's happening in the world, but specifically I want to jump off the Carmelo Anthony story and the stabbing of Austin Metcalf. And I want to talk to you about our kids because something is happening in our country to our kids and we all can put our finger near it. But if we don't solve this problem quickly, we're not going to have anything left to be able to pass to our children and our children won't even understand it when we do. So I'm going to get into that here in a second. First, let me talk to you about Z Factor. Your car needs maintenance. Your air conditioner needs maintenance. Your computer needs maintenance. Every complex machine on Earth eventually needs to be taken offline so somebody can fix it. Clean, update, repair something. 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We've we've seen our society, our classrooms, our kids just start just start unhinging and and self mutilating and suicide and all of these things. What's happening to us? If you're a parent or a grandparent, why don't you listen carefully here? We are a people that have misplaced our own story. We have lost the thread of who we are and how we got here. Humans must have a story. And the story they're being fed to replace that is just of grievance and anger and revenge. That's not healthy. Do do do yourself a favor. Ask somebody under 25. Ask them under 30 35. Tell me the American story. Most people can't do it. On the last National History exam, 13% of eighth graders came out proficient. 13. They're in school currently 13, four in 10 couldn't clear the bottom bar, which was we're going to set a document out in front of you. Tell us anything about it. They couldn't do it. And you can guess what those documents were, right? The civic scores fell for the first time since they started keeping record in 1998. We are raising a generation that cannot explain the country they're standing in. And it's not just the story that is thinning out. It is everything that used to hold a person in place. Stories, your family holds you in place. The church holds you in place. A church is used to anchor a town fewer than half of us now belong to a congregation. Gallup has its lowest measure since they started asking this question in 1937. Then friendships, they used to hold you in place. In 1993, 3% of Americans said they had no close friend at all. 3%. No close friend at all. That's now 12%. Since 1990, we didn't drift apart slowly. We hollowed out in one generation. So of course, we're lonely. Surgeon General said that it's an epidemic of loneliness. He gave a body count. He said isolation does to a person to a human body, roughly what smoking 15 cigarettes a day does loneliness. Now it used to be that the loneliest people in America were the old people. Not now. It's the under 30s. The most wired, the most connected, the most in touch generation that has ever drawn breath is also the most alone human beings have ever produced. Hang on just a second. Try to hold all of that in your head at once and then say, what do you think is happening to our kids? No shared story. Emptied out churches. Emptied out clubs. A friendship. Drought. A loneliness the doctors are calling a health emergency. Now picture being born into that. You don't know all the stuff that you've known in the past. Picture that country being handed to you one day. You don't even know where you are. You have no map. You have no name for who your people are. There's no seat saved at any table for you. You just have a screen in your hand and a thousand strangers glad to tell you who you ought to be. That's the ground our kids are standing on. They didn't crack it. Don't blame them. They didn't crack it. They inherited this. And it's exactly why out of everything I could talk about, I want to talk about them. Because we all know stuff, but we may forget from time to time. Kids don't know who they are. They don't. We think they do, but try to remember all the things that you used to think about yourself. They're not supposed to know who they are at 19. They're not supposed to know who they are at 16. Certainly not at 11. And that's how young this starts now. 11 is starting to be old. Identity is not something kids have. It's something that kids build piece by piece and they build it after whatever is reflected back at them. Here's what's changed since we were growing up. When you and I were building ourselves, the mirrors were our friends. Remember, what did your mom used to always say? Show me your friends. I'll show you your future. It was our friends. It was our family. It was a coach. It was a teacher. It was a pastor. Today, your daughter is 12 years old and she's holding a mirror in her hand eight or nine hours every day. More waking hours than she spends in any classroom or doing anything else. She's looking at that mirror. It's actually worse than a mirror. The phone, the feed, the algorithm, the shows she watches, the influencers she follows, what she hears at school. This mirror is actually talking back to her, whispering the same question. This is who you are, right? This is who you are. This is who you are, right? Now, some of that noise is just noise. Companies trying to sell our things. Fine. We grew up with that as well. But some of the voices reaching your kids, they are not random. Okay. You've got people who know exactly what they're doing. They have a vision for who your kid should become. They're patient and they didn't ask your permission. They don't care about you. I'm telling you, stop assuming that everything coming through that screen in the screen in that classroom door is neutral. It isn't neutral at all. So picture it. A kid younger than you think, still under construction, swimming in a sea, an ocean of a thousand voices. And then one of those voices steps forward and offers the whole package. Finished identity. Here's who you are. Here's your people. Here's your club. Here's what you stand for. Do you understand now how that lands? Why that lands with kids? Kids, the kid doesn't feel like they're joining something. They feel like they're finally becoming someone. That's the hook. Oh, you're going to join the club for, you know, because you're bi or you want to be trans. You're joining a club and all your friends are there and you're accepted and you're cool. And the hook is set into your kid the deepest when your kid is lost, when they're cut from the team, when they're dumped, when they're left out of the group chat, when you move to a new town, a new school. Nobody saved them a seat. You know how that feels even at your age. When a kid feels invisible, a ready-made identity stop becomes attractive and becomes irresistible. Because they're looking for a shore. And the people I want to warn you about, the determined ones, they know all of this. They're not looking for your kid at their best. They're looking for your kid at his loneliness, the loneliest. Don't kid yourself that the one, my kids, my kids are fine, really? Because a lot of them are hurting. You just can't see it. You don't remember. And here's the other half of this trap. You've seen this movie over and over again. Our kids have never seen this movie before. We've watched movements rise and fall our whole lives. We know things are going to constantly change. We know the smell of it. They don't. They can't spot the bad movie yet. The group that says, sure, you belong over here, but hand your doubt over at the door. Stop questioning. Stop pushing back. That one thing, that one group that promises to transform your kid and all they have to do is just obey. Just obey. Just fit in. That's the bind. The pull is stronger on the young. The danger is harder for them to see. And the recruiters now have to not go out and search everywhere. They just, they find the recruit right there. It's in their pocket. Your gut might say, make a list. Good groups are here. Bad groups are here. Block this app. Band that channel. Switch schools. Look, you use your judgment. You're the parent. You know your kids, but you're not going to be able to list your way out of this. Some of these movements are harmless. Some are propaganda. Some are extraordinarily dangerous. Your kid's vulnerability is identical for all of those categories because the weakness was never in the movement. The weakness is in the normal unfinished kid and the normal lonely moment that is now not normal or it's becoming normal at epidemic proportions. And it goes wherever they go. You can't pre-screen the whole world. So I got a couple of ideas and I want you to actually write this down. If you're following me on this, write these two things down. First one. Give them a place where they belong. And more importantly, where they belong, where they can sit and disagree and it's allowed. Okay? Your dinner table. Your church is even better. You disagree. I don't know. I have a question about this. Good question, question, question. Question with boldness even the very existence of God forever. Be a God eat mush. Surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear. Yes, question. Because if the only place you're offering your kid belonging is a place that demands their silence, they will pay that price. And when they're hurting, when they've gone quiet and pulled away, that's not a moment to give them space. That's the moment to move towards them. Because somebody's going to fill that void in your kid. And the only question on the table is who? Second thing. Tell them about the trap. Tell them. Share this monologue. Talk to them like they're adults because they understand a lot more. Speak in plain English. If anyone ever tells you that you have to stop doubting in order to belong, run, run from them. If they promise that they will transform you and all that you have to do for payment is be compliant, that's the tell. Tell them this now before they need it. Because they will need it if they haven't already. And when they do, you need them to be able to recognize it on site. You cannot bubble wrap your kids. You can't vet every voice that reaches them. That world is long gone. But you can make sure that when they walk out your door, their eyes are wide open and they have a home worth coming back to. Listen to your kids. Encourage them to question. Even you. That's going to be so hard. I hated the teenage kids. I hated the teenage years with my kids. I hated it. But they are, you know, God is just a genius. Do you know why our kids get so nasty when they're teenagers? Because God needs them to find out who they are and they can't do it if they're living with you and they're 20. So there's this natural thing that says, I just, you don't know anything. You're stupid. That's good. That's good. You want them to have that because that means they're questioning everything and they want to find who they are. You have to make that safe for them. Because if you are fighting that all the time, it will only get worse and then they won't listen to you anymore. They barely listen to you. You're like my kids. They barely listen to you anyway. But you've got to make sure that you are a place where you can, they can tell you anything. And believe me, my son and my daughter have told me things that I'm like, oh my gosh, don't react. Don't react. You're right. You can tell you anything like that where you're like, oh, okay. Yeah, that's no big deal. And inside you're like, ah, don't react that way. Okay. All right. I understand that. I need some time. Can I think on that? Let's talk about that some more. That's really interesting. I'm glad you told me that. No, I'm not inside. No, I'm not. I didn't want to know that. I didn't want to know that. Yes, you do because they are so lonely. They are looking on who they are. If you can't help them find safe places to help. My father said to me when I was young, I've said this a million times. Son, the two most powerful words in any language is I am. And it's usually followed by a blank. I am blank. I am happy. I am sad. I am a monster. I am worthless. I am great. Whatever it is, I am is usually followed with a blank. And if you don't fill that in, I'll never forget the way he said it. He leaned into me and he said, believe me, there are all kinds of people that are just waiting to fill it in for you. You make the choice on what you fill that blank with and be very careful because that's who you will be. Share that with your kids. More in just a second. I love working with companies who not only provide the highest level of service but also on the same page as I am on moral issues. I mean, you don't have to agree on everything, but moral issues? I don't know. And it's increasingly rare, but one of my favorite companies is Patriot Mobile because we agree on big issues. Their goal isn't just to give you a cheaper, better experience with a cell phone company, which they do every day, but they also stand with you in defense of our American liberties and values. 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Promo code is back. 10 seconds. Station ID. Prepare for the next 250 years with Torch's Summer of 250, designed to teach our history like never before. With music, stories, lesson plans and more, find it at torch250.com. You know, I told you at the beginning of this hour, I said, you know, we don't know, we don't have a story anymore. We don't know our story without a story. That is what human beings search for. That's how we understand the world through stories and it gives us meaning, gives our life meaning and purpose and that's, they're looking to make a difference. They want to join something that is good, that will make the world a better place. I so urge you to listen either on the podcast you can available anywhere or you can get it commercial free and they're way ahead. We have episode one through 15, episode 11 through 15 drop this morning for Torch insiders and it is the American story. It's based on the book written by David Barton if you haven't gotten the book you should David Barton the American story. And Nathan Nipper, one of my best historians and writers on the staff. He wrote this up. It takes us literally, I mean, we've spent thousands of hours on those 15 episodes. And we want you to hear it because if I heard, if I would have heard history like that when I was young, I would have loved history. And if you're listening to it, especially if you're taking a vacation or something driving across the country or yours in the car with them every day. Let me give you an example. My kids hated history when they were young. I pick them up from school every day and I would tell them history and we had a 15 minute drive. And I would say, let me tell you about Columbus and I would start on a Columbus story and it might last a week or so in 15 minute chunks. Both my kids, my older kids that experienced that, they both majored in history in college. They hated history. 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But nobody seems, especially on the left, nobody seems to want to actually fix the problem because the problem, even if it is just perception, that is as bad as if it is happening. Okay. And so what do they want to do? They want to shut you up on saying, Hey, this is, well, that's not going to work. That is not going to work. That makes things worse. So Gavin Newsom stood at a podium last month and he signed a bill that said finds and jail time three years. If you are interfering with the election, now listen, I'll be more fair to him that he would ever be with me. This particular penalty is aimed at people who physically walk off with boxes of ballots. Listen to the language around it. Governor wrote a letter telling his officials to count fast so the election lies don't take hold. Stop and think about that for a second. Wait a minute. Chief executive of the largest state in the union has appointed himself the man who decides which doubts or lies. And in the same season, his allies pass a provision that tells election observers they may no longer challenge the signatures on the ballot. They're watching get counted. So they didn't criminalize your doubt. They did something quieter. They turned down the lights in the room where the counting happens and you're told it's a conspiracy theory to ask, Why did it get dark? So there's two things going on here and possibly really bad fraud, but there's something that you have to know about this. This is to me, this is the most important thing about the ballots. The government cannot ever ever, no matter who's in charge, Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, Satan, God, whatever, the government can never be the arbiter of truth. Ever. Especially when the question on the table is about the government itself. You cannot let the accused run the evidence room. What's happening? You're accusing California of having fraud and what do they do? They say, No, we're in charge. Right. You're the one that everybody's saying is causing the fraud and they're saying, No, you can't question because there's no fraud. That doesn't help anything. This is not a conservative idea or a liberal idea. It's just how you keep a free people free. You cannot have the accused or the government in charge and the arbiter of the truth. We tried this. I've mentioned this a couple of times in the last couple of weeks, 1798, we did it right at the start. The income, the constitution was just barely even dry. Congress passed the sedition act, made it a federal crime to publish false and scandalous and malicious writing about the government. Okay, well, that sounds reasonable. You don't want false things out there. Well, who's who's for false information? Right, nobody, but who decides what's false? The people who decided turned out to be the politicians being criticized and they jailed newspaper editors. They jailed sitting congressman. His name is Matthew Lyon for a crime of writing that the president had an unbounded thirst for ridiculous pomp. I think I've seen that before. Thomas Jefferson comes into office and he looks at what they've built and he pardoned everybody that they had sent to jail. He understood a government cannot define the lie if you're the one being accused of being the liar. Do you know this? Do you know the famous line, you can't shout fire in a crowded theater? Okay, every time somebody says, oh, there's not freedom of speech, there's not, you can't say. Okay, do you know how that came to be? Do you know why you quote that? 1919, what a surprise Woodrow Wilson, Supreme Court case called Schneck. You know who Schneck was? Schneck was a guy who was handing out pamphlets telling other men that they had a right to oppose being drafted in World War One. He did it in a movie theater. The line that every single person uses to limit speech was written to jail a guy for protesting his government. What? That's the company you keep when you start drawing these lines. It took 50 years to fix it. 1969, Brandenburg versus Ohio. Court finally drew the line where it belongs and drew it razor thin. The case was all about a guy who said about who's talking about the draft. Same problem. He's talking about the draft and he said, you give me a gun and I'll tell you the first person I'll shoot is the president. Okay, that went to court. He was arrested, blah, blah, blah for making threats. Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm. He didn't go to jail. It went all the way to Supreme Court. They said unless this actually is inciting imminent lawless action or is very likely to produce imminent lawless action, it's free speech. Okay, not that speech isn't wrong. Not that speech isn't offensive. Not speech that undermines trust. Speech that essentially lights the match to the gasoline. Imminent. That's it. That's the whole exception. And that's as narrow as it should be. Now, look at the First Amendment. We're doing this song five in the first. Listen to how this works. If you know this, you can answer these questions about speech. That's why we're doing the summer of education, the summer of 250 at torch250.com. Look at the First Amendment. Count the five freedoms. It's 45 words. There's five freedoms. Religion, speech, press, assembly, petition. When you question an election, you're not exercising free speech. You're exercising four of the freedoms that are guaranteed. The right to speak, the right to print it or have the press report on it. The right for people to assemble. And then comes the one that we always forget. The right to petition the government for redress of grievances. We have a right in the First Amendment that says, I can go to the government say, I don't believe you. I want to see this fixed. I want to see the reason. Show me the proof. You have a right to do that. So four out of the five in the First Amendment exists for this exact moment. A citizen who looks at the machinery of power and says, prove it to me. Only one of the five in the First Amendment, the free exercise of religion, sits this one out. Four out of the five. The founders didn't protect questioning the government as an afterthought. They built four separate doors into the First Amendment. Okay, so let me be really careful and very clear because this is where you earn credibility. Being honest, I am telling you right now, I cannot verify or deny that there is widespread fraud in California. There is mounting evidence and it looks like there is fraud enough to change the election. I don't know. But neither does anyone yelling that there is or there isn't fraud. I'm telling you, be the honest person and saying, I don't know what the extent is, but it must be investigation. It must be investigate. We must have an investigate. We have to know. You don't want dimmer switches in jail time. If there are real questions about signatures being gathered in places where vulnerable people can't consent. And I mean, have you seen the videos for heaven's sake, investigated in the open and let the chips fall where they may. The remedy for a doubt has always been the same. Count the ballots honestly in a room with very bright lights and both sides watching. You answer a question with an answer. You don't answer a question with a threat because once you decide you can round people up for the wrong opinion or the wrong question, you'll never stop. It's the same. The machinery is the same every time and it doesn't care who's running it this week. We watched mobs decide guilt by accusation. The me too. We watched the whole country told the questioning of official line on a vaccine made you a danger to your neighbors. Same engine, different paint. And if the roles were reversed, if their candidate was down and their observers were shut out and they saw what we see now on the streets of Los Angeles, the same people calling you a conspiracy theorist would be in the streets. And I've heard what I'm tired of all of it. I don't. I don't want to yell at each other. I just want to solve this problem. I can't tell you that it's happening or it's not happening. What do we do? We make sure everything is counted. So the next time somebody in power tells you that a certain question is too dangerous to ask on any side about anything. You've learned everything you need to know about that person. Not about the question about them. The honest don't fear questions. The honest don't fear the count. They turn on the lights and they hand you the clipboard. I mean, honestly, if this was all fair, what would you do? What would you do in a reasonable situation? You would say, well, come on in. I'll show you exactly how we're doing it. Turn on the lights, guys, guys. When you're done, send all your paperwork over here. So and you can talk to anybody in the room because we want it to be as fair as you do. Anyone who'd rather take the clipboard away and dim the lights down in the room is telling you exactly who they are. And you know our biggest problem with our society is people tell us who they are all the time. Graham Platner comes to mind. They tell you who they are. Believe them. Believe them. You're a fool if you don't believe them. All I want is a fair election. I can handle losing to fair elections. And I think that's the way most Americans feel. But this is all been whipped up into a frenzy. And I don't think anybody has the actual answer. I think, I don't know, we owe it to the future and to our country and to our founders and all of the millions that have died to protect this country. A look-see. An honest view into what is actually happening. My guess is a lot of this stuff is happening. Don't know if it's enough, seems like there could be, but I don't know if it's enough to change the outcome of elections. But it's happening. And I think that they have changed the laws so much that some of the stuff they're doing that you and I think should be illegal is perfectly legal in California. I think we should have a list of all of those things. I think we should have an honest conversation about what's actually happening. What's legal, what's not, what's different in California, why they do it, and then an accounting of all the people that they have arrested because they are arresting people. Good. I want to see it. Have you dug all the way into that? That's only fair and right if you actually believe in a stable country. All right, let me tell you about rapid radios. Every generation has a few things they take for granted. My grandparents took for granted that if you wanted to talk somebody, you either called them or went to their house. 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No, they don't. And if you've not understood when I say that all the time and say, look, you become that which you despise, you need to know the John Brown story. And that isn't one of the new episodes that's just been released today. Episodes one through, I think, 15 are out now, all commercial free, if you're going anywhere with your family. You're driving around the town, you're picking your kids up, you're taking them wherever. Listen to the American story. It's riveting. It really is. It's all commercial free at torch 250.com torch 250.com or if you're already in a member, it's on the app or however you get the torch. Lenbeck.com slash torch or torch 250.com. One of the most frustrating parts of hearing loss is that it can make you really feel disconnected without ever announcing itself. You're still in the room. You're still nodding along still showing up, but you're working a lot harder just to keep up. 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Well, let me tell you a little bit about tape temptation and it's not the temptation that you know, as sin, it is the temptation of winning what happened in Maine yesterday. And I'm going to give you three warnings because Plattener won and he might he may win in the general. I don't know, but the Democrats need it to be able to take over the Senate. And so I want to give you three warnings on this. We'll do that in 60 seconds. First, I have good news and bad news. The bad the good news is there are a ton of Medicare options available to you right now. The bad news is there are a ton of Medicare options available to you right now. And if you've ever tried to sort through them, you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's a little like walking into a grocery store, you know, and trying to buy a jar of peanut butter and discovering that there are 47 different kinds. There's crunchy, there's smooth, there's natural, there's organic, honey roasted, low sodium. At some point you stop feeling empowered by all of these things. Can somebody just tell me which one's the best peanut butter? That's how a lot of people feel about Medicare. There are so many plans, so many different options and so many variables that it feels easy to be overwhelmed. And that's why chapter is there. Their advisors can look at a wide range of plans from different carriers and help you find the one that fits your specific situation. Because the goal is to find the right one for you. So give them a call. A call is absolutely free. Dial pound 250 say the keyword chapter. It's pound 250 keyword chapter. All right. So last night in Maine, Democrat Democratic Party got the candidate and had been told it could not afford to lose. Glam, Graham Platner. We know him as an oyster farmer. He is a combat veteran. He is an outsider and he beat the establishment's own recruit. Janet Mills, she was the governor. He beat her so thoroughly that she quit the race weeks before the votes even were counted. She still got 20% of the vote. That means 20% of Democrats voted for a hat that is not going to be the senator over this guy. Okay. And now he is the nominee, the official nominee for the Democrats against Susan Collins. Collins is the only Republican senator that is sitting in a state that did not vote for Donald Trump. For Democrats trying to take back the Senate. Maine is the doorway and they think Platner is the key. There's just one problem. Actually, there are several problems, but let's start with this one. There is the tattoo that he covered up. It is the toting cough. That is the death head that the SS wore on their caps and they had the same tattoos on their bodies. That's how I mean, if you were a member of the SS, that's why you went to prison most likely afterwards because you had the tattoo and everybody knows it. And that is happening. They're turning a blind eye to that at a time when this just happened on the subway in New York. Listen to what this woman said to another woman who she just, I guess, assumed was Jewish. Listen to this. The Jews, Jews are eating kids. Yeah, Jews, and other kids. Yeah. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Jews are eating kids. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's okay for her to eat a kid, but I can't choke her down. I was just assaulted. Oh, yeah, yeah. Jews are eating kids. It's okay for her to eat children, but I can't choke her out. At least there were some sane people on the subway with her, but we're entering insane times. You don't mess with this. Then let's look at the old posts. There was a report in the New York Times. Remember, the New York Times, their paper, not ours, which three women who used to be in relationships with him described the behavior they called toxic and unsettling. One of them said that he physically restrained her in a room until she was, in his word, calm. You're not leaving until you're calm. Wow. And the party is lining up behind him. This is the Me Too party. So yes, he's done these things, but I mean, he can win. He can win. The stakes are too high. I mean, yes, he's done these things, but, you know, this time it's different. No, no, no. Remember what I told you last week? Everything you say before the word, but is what your principles are, what you believe. Everything after the but is what you're willing to trade those principles for. Okay. Yes, he's got a Nazi swastika. But we have to win the Senate. Okay. I want to give you three warnings. One of them is political. One is about a movement and what it becomes when it makes this trade. And the other is very, very old, older than our country, older than the idea of our country even. And I promise you, by the end, you will see that it's all the same warning bell. Okay. So let me start with the political one. And I want to aim right back at, you know, the Republicans first because, you know, the only way you can gain trust with people is when you aim at your own side first. So let me do that. Republicans, they have walked into the same fire and the same trap over and over and over again, and they get burned every single time. Roy Moore in Alabama 2017 party rallied around a man drowning in allegations because the seat mattered. They lost the seat. Red estate in America went to Democrat. And the president of the state, Todd Aiken in Missouri, Richard Mordock in Indiana, two winnable seats in 2012 thrown into the ditch, not over policy, but over the candidate. Christine O'Donnell in Delaware, the insurgent who knocked off the electable guy in the primary and then just lost in the general and just went away. 2020 Mitch McConnell, sorry, 2022 Mitch McConnell stood up and said the quiet part out loud. He didn't like Mitch McConnell, but he's right. He admitted his own voters had handed the other team a majority by nominating people who couldn't close the deal. There's a body of research behind this, you know, a scandal stain or an extreme nominee reliably runs behind in what a plain generic candidate of the same party would have gotten in the same state. I don't know if it's going to happen in Maine, but the party always tells itself the, you know, the movement's energy. It's going to outrun the baggage, but the baggage wins the race almost every time. That's the political warning. And it's bipartisan and it's earned the seat you believe you cannot afford to lose is the exact seat you're most likely, you're most tempted to likely throw away because need makes you stupid. And you'll talk yourself into a candidate that you would have laughed out of the room a year ago when the stakes felt smaller. Now, here's a second warning. And this one's harder because it's not about strategy. It's about the soul. For a decade, one word has been used. It's an, it is an artillery shell that has been fired by the American left over and over and over again. And that shell is Nazi. It's been pointed at parents at school boards. It's been pointed at Catholics, anyone who wouldn't get in line for their political, their political viewpoint, they've been called a Nazi. Okay. It's like this universal solvent. Pour it on your opponent and you never have to argue with them again because you don't debate Nazis. You destroy them, right? I have seen good people get that label welded to their foreheads for the crime of just disagreeing. And now the people who have used that as a shell made that word its sword is, wait, what? You're, you got a guy who has a death head tattoo covered it up after, but he stands accused by women who knew him and called him frightening, controlling, and he's got a death head. Wait, wait, what? And you're swallowing it? What happened to the artillery shell? They're doing it because he's useful. When you excuse your own people in what you damned in everyone else, you've just confessed that your use of Nazi was never a principle. You're not actually worried about Nazis. You use that as a weapon and that's it. A principle is something you hold even when it costs you the election. A weapon is something you drop the second it gets too heavy to swing. A movement that figures out it can do this, that virtue is just a tool you pick up to hit the other guy and set down when it's inconvenient. That movement loses its soul long before it ever loses the vote. And I believe that is already happening. That's why you have the problem with the Democratic Party. They don't have anything they actually believe in except win. Everything else is a tool. The temptation to weaponize your own goodness, that's human, not partisan. It's human. And the day we start excusing our own side, that's the day to be afraid because the day we've become the thing we've warned everyone about is the last day for us too. Democrats just went through this with Eric Swalwell. I mean, I mean, despicable, horrible human being, discarded, disgraced. The minute he stopped being useful. And they think they're going to do this with Plattener. The minute he becomes no longer a use, they think he can get rid of. But remember, with Nazis, they've tried that before and it didn't work. Now let me give you the third one. The third warning, this one goes back 2400 years to Athens. I want to tell you about a guy you probably have never heard of. Most gifted man of his generation in Athens. His name was Al Solbidea, Solbideides. Solbideides, that's it. Al Solbideides. Sorry, I don't speak Greek. Picture this guy. Charismatic. Think of him as the most charismatic you guys have ever met and then multiply it because he's also beautiful. He's famously rich. He's brilliant. He's brave in battle. He was a student of Socrates. The two of them had saved each other's lives on the battlefield. And when he shows up at the Olympic Games, he didn't just enter one chariot team. He entered seven and he took first place, second place and fourth place in front of all of Greece, just to make the point, no one alive can touch me. So Athens sees this guy and they're like, this guy is fabulous. He's great. He's the future. And they were right to be dazzled. He really was that good. But that's also what made him so dangerous because a mediocre man, you can dismiss a brilliant one. You convince yourself you have to have them. So at the moment, people decide it needs a man. It loses the one thing it has to keep and that is the ability to judge him and dismiss him. So this guy goes in and he is talking to Athens and he talks them into a great gamble of war, the Sicilian expedition. And you all know you never take on the Sicilians. It's an enormous fleet and he sends it across the sea to conquer Syracuse. The cautious men in Athens said, don't do it. But he is who he is and he wins the argument. But on the eve of the fleet's departure, Athens wakes up and they find across the whole city in the dark, somebody had gone around smashing all the sacred statues, the irms, whatever they are, and that stood at every door. And somebody went and did that. The city was horrified. Suspicion fell on this guy and his fast crowd. And they knew it was him. His enemies were clever but that didn't stop him from sailing. They just said, let him go. So they let him go. And then recalled him to stand trial knowing that they had him. Here's where you learn who he really was. Rather than come home and face Athens, he defects and he defects to Sparta. That's the enemy of Athens. And he didn't just sit there. He handed Sparta the playbook to destroy his own city. He's not going to go back. Fortify this position in our territory, he says. Send aid to Syracuse. Both things happened. The great Sicilian expedition, his idea ended in total annihilation. The Athenian army was destroyed. All of its generals executed. A generation of young men from Athens gone. The man that Athens had needed so badly authored their own death. Now you'd think that would be the end of it but it wasn't. Because somebody still found him useful. They still found him useful. He wears out his welcome in Sparta because that's what these guys do. He was reportedly, I guess, seducing the Spartan king's wife and then he fled to Persia. And then astonishingly, Athens takes him back. The fleet recalls him. He won them some victories. He sails home in 407 and he's a hero. Didn't you just turn and, yeah. Then the first time, for the first time things go wrong on his watch. And they turned on him again. And he went into exile again. And he died in a foreign land with his house in flames all around him. Murdered, some say, at the request of the very people he'd served. Why am I telling you this story that happened in 407? Because the warning that history is handing the Democratic Party this week is handing this lesson and warning to all of us. Because none of us is too good to need the warning or to not need the warning. Athens did not fall because it lacked talent. It fell because it could not stop reaching for the talented man that they had every reason not to trust, but they had to win. They needed him so much to win. They never trusted him. Never enough to follow him safely. And so he did the worst possible thing. It used him again and again. And then the using is what got them all killed. So when a party stands out front of a flawed but dazzling candidate whispering to itself, he's the only one that can win. Stakes are so high. This time it's different. Understand this has happened over and over and over again in history. This is not a moment of strength. This is the precise sound a civilization makes right before it decides that the man it can't afford to trust is the man it can't afford to lose. The statues came down the night in Athens, but they let him go anyway because they needed him to win. Listen to me carefully. Watch what gets covered up in the night and watch who sails him anyway. They are destructive. All right. Back in a minute. Let me tell you about LifeLock. If you wanted to steal somebody's identity 20 years ago, you had to put in some effort. You apparently would just wait sooner or later. Some company you've done business with gets hacked and suddenly your personal information is completely exposed. Case in point, Carnival Corporation, world's largest cruise company. They just confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 6 million people and hackers got in. They sold the names, the addresses, the email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, even the driver's license and passport numbers. That's a real problem. 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You're going to find some new stuff that we just released today, including the episodes 11 through 15 of the American story. It's available for torch subscribers right now. It's all commercial free. They run about 45 minutes to an hour each. They are tremendous. I want to play just a clip of the latest of episode 11. It's with an event in Haiti that most people don't know anything about and it changed us as well as the world. Listen to this. A cup catches the blood and is passed around. One by one, the participants take a drink and make a vow of vengeance against their white oppressors. There is no turning back now. As later recorded by a French doctor, one of these runaway slaves recalled the words that were spoken that night. The hour of vengeance is coming. Tomorrow night, all the whites are to be exterminated. No more delays. No more fears. The conspiracy extends everywhere, leaving the whites no refuge or hope of salvation. All will meet the same fate. And if some elude our blades, they will not escape the fire that is going to reduce the plane to ashes. Just days later, the spark turns into an inferno. Sugar fields become walls of flames. Night skies glow orange. Armed vans surge from the hills. Masters are dragged from beds. Whole families are slaughtered. Over the next month, 800 plantations burn to the ground. More than a thousand... So that's a clip of the American story. You can find it now. If you're a member, go to torch250.com, sign up to become a member and get all 15 episodes now commercial free. It's amazing. But each episode also, you can take and look at that and you could say, look, that's kind of what's happening here in America. That happened in Haiti. That kind of vengeance does not ever turn out well. Look at how stable Haiti is. Not. That's the same future we have if we follow the same path. We fix our problems. We don't look for vengeance and bloodshed. America 250. 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Well, first of all, you've had two presidents spend millions of dollars trying to fix that damn thing and it keeps leaking. And so they couldn't fix it. Why? Because they don't know what the hell they're doing. They don't know their ass from their elbow. When it comes to fixing things, when it comes to construction projects, Donald Trump knows exactly what he's doing. That's why the White House ballroom, it's got to be built by him. It has to be built by him. He knows what he's doing. Stop with this nonsense. All right. The reflecting pool. It's either it's the ugliest thing I've ever seen or the other headline is $10 million and it looks the same. Well, which one is it? Which one is it? The Trump derangement syndrome is so crazy. First of all, he fixed it. It wasn't about making it look nicer. He fixed it. Let's see if it lasts because they'll ask two presidents to try to fix it. It didn't last. Let's see if it lasts. I'll bet you it lasts. This goes to what he's done to Washington in cleaning up. Now he's going in to what is it? Penn Station and saying that he wants to clean up. I think it's Penn Station in Washington, D.C. and he's just released plans on what he's doing. He is beautifying Washington, D.C. They have gone from these fountains were awful, awful, graffiti and black and horrible. He's cleaned them up. It looks brand new. Washington, D.C. is going to look nice for the 250th if you're planning on going to the 250. There's a lot of stuff going on in Washington, D.C. I'm going with my family. I think it's going to be cool. Stop with the Trump derangement syndrome. When you can't say, no, that looks good. Or, I don't like the way it looks, but at least it's fixed. You have no credibility whatsoever. None whatsoever. Let me go to California votes. The California votes, Jason has a theory that this is the Rosetta Stone. I hope you're right. Let me add on top of that, I'm going to bring Jason in. He can explain his theory. I really hope he's right. I think this is also the moment where we can get the Save America Act passed. Susan Collins just said that she would vote for the Save America. That means there's 50 senators. If you don't have to have this ridiculous filibuster, and let me explain, I have not been forgetting rid of the filibuster. I wanted a return to the original filibuster, which was not what our founders had at the very beginning. The return of the regular filibuster, the Jimmy Stewart goes to Washington filibuster where you can talk and talk and talk, but the minute you stop talking, they have to vote, but you can slow things down so people can catch their breath. I'm all for that. I am not for this 60 vote minimum. You can listen to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, all of them said it is a majority rule except in things like veto or anything that is requiring a supermajority. Regular bills do not require a supermajority. They were very clear on that. So yes, get rid of the filibuster. If you're not going to return to the Mr. Smith goes to Washington, you have to return to the old one. So this one's on Thune now. Thune, are you going to do anything about it? Because now you have the 50 vote minimum, and you have more than that if you actually vote. But let's see what they do. But Jason says that this is actually the Rosetta Stone. What's happening in California is the Rosetta Stone. What do you mean by that? Well, I think that in the progressives and the left's arrogance, they have done this multiple times, but there's been this aha moment where they have gotten so arrogant that it has been clear, then suddenly becomes clearly obvious to everyone what they are trying to do, in this case, through elections. And it reminded me of the Rosetta Stone story. And I'm not sure if you know the full story or not, but at the end of the 18th century, in 1999, or 1997, or whatever, after the Napoleon invasion and conquering of Egypt, a single soldier found the Rosetta Stone. And what they found later was that what it was, was in the Egyptian king's arrogance, and at this time, nobody could decipher hieroglyphics. It was just pictures. They had no idea what it was saying. But in the king's arrogance, because he wanted everyone to know how amazing he was, and the Egyptian king wanted to know exactly how you make a statue of him, how you glorify him. This is a very important part of the story. They wanted to put it in multiple different languages, so everybody in Egypt knew. So they were speaking ancient Greek. They were speaking something called, I think it was Demotic, which is the derivative of ancient Egyptian, and also in hieroglyphics. So they put all three languages. So everyone knew how amazing the king was. What that ended up doing was I gave a way to decipher how to read Egyptian hieroglyphics. Finally, everyone knew what they were talking about or doing with hieroglyphics. I think the same thing is happening right now. In the left and the progressive's arrogance, they have finally revealed. And I think that we have to adjust probably our language and a lot of this stuff. I think that a lot of it gets turned into hieroglyphics. Excuse me, glyphics. When we talk about stolen elections or when we say words like that, what we have failed to realize, some have realized, but I think what we are missing is that in many of these blue states, it's going exactly as planned. They have done these laws and in some of these blue states, it is exactly legal. It's just that I think that we have been using the wrong language. It should be completely clear right now exactly what they are trying to do. This should be this California election. It should be that Rosetta Stone that outs the arrogance of the left. And they've gone too far this time. We should all know what's going on. And I know, go ahead, Jason, will you just ask somebody on the team to ask Ricky to assign somebody on the team all of the laws where they've made these things legal? Let's show the let's use this theory. Let's use the Rosetta Stone theory and say, okay, so what have they done? Because I agree with you. I don't think you can prove that it is an election fraud enough to turn things. I think there's more than enough smoke and fire to say, look at what is being attempted. I can't tell you. Now, maybe there is. It will only come through an investigation. Maybe there is enough to say, look at how they've stolen the election. I think you're right. What is actually happening is we define it as a stealing of election, but they don't. They've made all of this stuff legal. And so while it's not legal in your state, it's legal in their state. And so when you say that they're stealing the election, they can clearly say, no, it's not. It's all legal. We're doing everything we are following California law because they've had that kind of power for that long. Can you see if you can come up with a list of those things? Let's look at that in the next few days. Maybe next week I can do an after show deep dive on that and look into it. Okay. Hang on because I want to also talk to you about Belfast. This video, and can we play the video here? I'll describe it as we're playing it here. If you haven't seen it, kind of good for you. It is a guy that is in Belfast and he is taking, is he Somali, right? Or Sudanese. And so he is, he has got a guy down. He's pinned him down to the ground and he's sitting on his chest and he's taking a knife. And he is, he is sawing back and forth trying to hack this guy's head off. Now, the woman who's taking this video, you can hear her saying, get off him, get off him. Well, I don't expect a woman to go into the house and get off him. I don't expect a woman to go in by herself, but was she the only one that was there? Apparently not. There was one other guy that we know of that runs up at the end and pulls him off and hits him. And then finally other people start. That's the only thing to save this guy's life. Now, last night there were riots in Belfast and this, we've had lots of people write in today, the torch members and saying, Glenn, is this the Bubba effect? This, what you're seeing now is the Bubba effect. Jason. Yeah, what concerns me the most on this is, especially if, you know, we're talking Rosetta Stone and what the progressives and the radicals are revealing right now. We know that this is exactly what they are looking for. That's what worries me the most about the Bubba effect. And, you know, they, the progressives in the left know exactly what's doing this. They know that unchecked immigration, open borders, messing with the asylum system. They know that it is dangerous. You look at things like a digital ID that the UK government is now pushing. You heard that from the King, also heard it from Starmer. Did you hear why they're actually doing digital ID and pushing towards more control that way? Because they said, immigrants, that's what, to protect you. It's for jobs. It's for jobs to make sure that we know exactly who's got a job and the you're a citizen in job. That is, that's, it's absolutely ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous. And in case you don't know what the Bubba effect is, it is something that I don't even know. Can you look this up? Is this an actual term or was this something that I heard from some people in special forces years ago? It was about 2004 and I'm with a bunch of guys that are at special forces headquarters on the East coast and they're showing me all kinds of stuff. And I said, so what is the thing you're most worried about? What are you training for? What are you most worried about? And they said, well, long term, the thing we're most worried about is the Bubba effect. And I said, I've never heard of the, but what is that? They said, that is when a government, for instance, let's just say, they use the example of terrorism. Um, there is terrorists in the country and we have terrorism and let's say we have a Bezlin kind of terror where it's just awful. And everybody in the country has been saying, wait a minute, you've got to stop coddling all of this. These Islamists, um, they're a problem and the government keeps saying, you're a racist for saying that. And then all of a sudden there's a huge terrorist attack. The trust has already been lost. And then somebody in town, Bubba, uh, he, he takes action himself, does something stupid. Everybody in town knows it was wrong. Everybody wants Bubba to pay a price. But then the federal investigators come in and the federal investigators say, you got to turn over Bubba. And the town says, we're not turning over Bubba, not to you people. You're part of the problem. You did it. No. And so the town starts to rise up against the government because the government was, uh, responsible in some ways because they either created the policies that made it possible or they ignored the things that were actually happening and blamed it on the town. So the town says enough is enough. That's what is happening right now in Belfast. And it's, it's going to happen all over the Western world. It's going to, we would call this a civil war. It's not there yet in Belfast, but I'm telling you, it's coming. If they don't change, it's coming. Um, and that's what our special forces, this is 20 years ago, told me that they were most worried about was the Bubba effect. Um, and if you, if you want to be really cynical, and I'm not, but if you want to be really cynical and say, what do the people who are on the left, what do they actually want? They want to reset the nation. Um, they believe that this is a country that isn't worth saving. The founding documents are the problem. It's never worked. Man can't rule himself. We'll get a bunch of experts to run it. You know, all the things, the great reset, all of that, they have to have the people rise up and you know, we have seen them try to get us to rise up. Yesterday with Carmelo was a great example of it. You saw people and this was not coordinated. This is just people being people. And that's kind of the secret in the sauce. People being people, there were people that were standing up that were very outraged at that verdict and who were standing right in front of white people. And I mean, nose to nose, screaming at them, making gestures like, come on, I'm come on, come on, come after me, come after me. They wanted to fight. Um, because once you give, once you give them a fight, then you can do all kinds of things because then there's chaos on the streets. And we've seen this since 2008 in the tea party. They, they kept calling us all kinds of names, trying to get somebody to strike back and anything would happen. They would immediately blame it on the tea party. This is continued. They're just different names. They want you to fight. The Bubba effect is the final attempt to get you to fight. And it happens out of frustration. That's why you need to know about it. You need to be warned about it because it is a natural instinct. But for Belfast and countries over across the seas, I think it's going to be, we're soon headed towards that straw that will break the camel's back. Let me tell you about our sponsor. It's Rough Greens. 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