The Glenn Beck Program - Best Of The Program | 7/5/21

Episode Date: July 5, 2021

Justin Barclay fills in for Glenn Beck. Apparently there is not a firework shortage. The Fourth of July has passed but are we finally back to normal? People are still saying July 4th is a racist holiday. Biden tweets over the weekend, ‘getting the vaccine is the most patriotic thing Americans can do’. Mark Zuckerburg was spotted surfboarding with an American flag. Seth Dillion of the Babylon Bee joins the show to talk about big tech and social media censorship. Should the 25th amendment be used on Joe Biden? Why is the left trying to divide America? Author Adam Davis joins the program to explain why division is ruling America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to aboard of Vyarai. Embarked and profite. Embarked and celebrate. Rigolet. Publiere. Admire. Admire. And profite. Viaray. The voice that we love that you're listening to. The best of the Glenback program. No matter how much they try it. Oh, no matter how much they try to drive that wedge between us and divide us, tear us apart as a nation. Ha ha, ha, it's not working. That's some of the good news. And I've got some, I've got some proof for that. I'll explain coming up.

Justin Barkley and for Glenn Beck today on the Glenn Beck Program. Do you remember this commercial from the 70s? What's your favorite sport? Baseball, sandwich, hot dog, apple. And what's your favorite car, America? Chevrolet. Let me see, that's baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet, huh? Right.

Well, you sure sound like America to me. We are. Well, and you better tell me again, because I just might forget. We love baseball. Now I know it's superficial, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. Now, I know it's superficial, the baseball, the hot dogs, the apple pot, yeah, even the Chevrolet. But there's a little bit of nostalgia to that.

Just watching that? Thinking about all those things were uniting. All of those things were pieces of the culture that we could gather around, that we could somehow find a way to rally around, because it doesn't matter, you know, who you identify as. It doesn't matter what you think you are today. It doesn't matter the color of your skin or what church you go to.

We could all rally around our favorite baseball team, watching America's pastime. And we could all enjoy some sort of grilled product, I would think. If it's not a hot dog, you'd still throw some sort of meat on the grill. And nowadays, we can't even do that. It's got to be maybe a plant-based meat. Let's throw a plant-based meat on the barbecue. It doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?

But, you know, even things like that are uniquely designed to devalued. divide us these days. Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet, even in the commercials, even in the advertising,

Madison Avenue and the rest of them spent, millions. Putting all that together. To sell some cars! How do they sell cars now? Oh boy. You and I both know, look at the commercials. Now, here is, here's why I think

they're not successful. And this is where I think the good news is. I started this show off by saying, boy, I heard there was a shortage of fireworks this year. Just like the other shortages. Now some of these shortages are real and some of them I think are a little artificial. But we have issues in the supply chain for all kinds of reason. It's true.

Not just the inflation, but of course we've got the issues with trying to even find folks to work. A lot of them in many states. It's like states like mine, blue states like Michigan, where they're being paid to sit at home? Of course they're not going to go back to work. Why would you do that? Summertime? Go back to work now? No.

And of course, then when the kids are back in school, yeah, I don't know if I could do that either. If I'm still being paid, it's probably, I'd probably need to stay home, you know, because the kids are going to need help with their home work. You get the point. But, you know, there are issues. While there are issues, I don't know that the fireworks were real or not. Because I'd tell you last night, I heard more, and I certainly heard plenty on, Saturday. But I heard more last night than I heard

Saturday. And if I recall, last year was very similar, because we were told last year to stay home and to hunker down and to shelter in place and to not leave. Oh, my goodness. By the way, over the weekend, Biden tweeted,

or somebody tweeted for him, because thank God. You went from a president who owned Twitter to to a president who doesn't even know what a Twitter is. I mean, this guy doesn't, I don't think he's putting his own sentences together, let alone tweeting them on Twitter on the toilet at 4 a.m. What I'm saying is I don't know what Biden's doing, and I don't think he does even,

but yesterday or over the weekend, it was tweeted on his account. Let's put it that way, that the most patriotic thing that we can do as Americans is to go get the jab, if we haven't already done that. Oh, boy, oh boy, when you know it, there's another thing. being used right now to divide us. Last year they used all kinds of interesting tactics. Our governor here in Michigan, she used masks to divide us. And as they started to roll the language out, I thought them.

I said, you know, got to be careful with this. Early on at the big guy caught it. I said, you got to be, because she was telling people to go out and confront each other. Okay, so which is it? Are we supposed to stay six feet away from each other? Are we supposed to go up to each other in our personal space and confront each other? She told people to confront each other and people died because of it. I think there were a couple of people shot at a dollar store over an argument over masks.

And in fact, I think one man stabbed some people waiting in line at an ice cream shop, while another one, I think that man eventually fled. Police caught up with him and shot and killed him. People died because of this division. So as I mentioned it, and I do believe it's good news. Last night, I didn't see here. Here any issues with division? Not this weekend.

I saw a country more united, I think, than almost any time in the nation's history. Because the truth is, every single one of us, I think, want very much, at least pretty similar, very much the same thing. We want to come together with our family. They want to celebrate holidays like the Fourth of July. But slowly, oh, and surely, just like you would turn the Titanic, they are trying to turn this nation. And I think it's something that we should be aware of, just like everything else.

I think it's wise, it's prudent to know what's going on. but I think you ought to know the good news, too. And the good news is they haven't turned all of us. And there were millions last night that weren't. They weren't turned. There were millions over the weekend. They weren't turned. So when I play this audio from this commercial, the baseball, the apple pie, you know.

Baseball hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet. That's baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. That's a little slice of Americana right there from the 70s. I play that commercial and I think about the stark contrast and the difference between the commercials we see on television now. And I'm telling you, it's my God instinct. I just know for a fact. And I think you would probably feel the same way. If we saw those kind of commercials today, those products would fly off the shelves.

In fact, we do see those type of advertisements and commercials for certain products, certain niche industries. Certainly, things like my pillow and, you know, you know the advertisers because they advertise right here on this program and they support these programs. But what if, what if, you know, the car manufacturers and all the other companies out there, what are instead of advertising how woke they are to us and signaling how virtuous they are to us in every single commercial. And really, in a sense, trying to drive us apart. What if they, well, I don't know. What if they tried to wrap everybody up in their arms and unite us together, maybe under that flag? I tell you, I think they would see a stunning return.

to those products in a response because of the fact that it would just resonate with so many different Americans. These things are deeply embedded. They're ingrained in who we are. And although they're trying to turn us, they're not winning. They aren't winning. Even though the New York Times is now suggesting that the flag itself is problematic. the flag itself. They're getting hit back.

Today flying the American flag, this is from the times, from the back of a pickup truck or even a lawn, is increasingly seen as a clue, albeit an imperfect one, to a person's political affiliation in a deeply divided nation. You know, I often said, like, I don't know, it's pretty clear.

If you have a flag outside your house, I probably know who you voted for. You don't need a lawn sign. I probably know how you voted, at least. Although they're drawing the connection into a disturbingly divisive place. They say a person's political affiliation in a deeply divided nation can be ascertained by that flag. They say deeply divided nation, but see, I see it differently.

We keep being told that we're deeply divided. We keep being told that we're the problem. I just don't think that's the case. I think why they really don't want us getting together, and they didn't through the last year, but especially for holidays like the Fourth of July, is because when you do, you turn off the TV, you step out of your bubble,

you join in towns, and cities all across this country with your neighbors. For fireworks celebrations, big displays, right next to each other. Regardless of CDC guidance. Standing next to one another. Having conversations with a hot dog in one hand and a cold drink in the other. Talking to your neighbors, your friends, your relatives, the people who make up this country. They're just other folks like you and me.

The millions of us who just want the same thing. A better life for our children than the one we had before us. The freedom to do so. Get government out of all the rest of the stuff that causes problems. Just let me go to work.

Just let me live my life. Just let me enjoy the little bit of free time I have with my family. but we're constantly being pulled in to political fights. We're constantly being told that we're the problem. Folks, you're not the problem. You're the solution. Back after this. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Every day, there was something insane happening in the news. literally every day. And as those true events take place, I often find the need to check in with a very specific source. It's not the usual go-to that you might think of, you know, not the New York Times, the paper, a record, people like that.

No, I actually like to check in when I hear some of the craziest things happening with the Babylon B. Now, don't laugh, or actually, they may be okay with you doing that, because that's their whole intention. They write satire, and they are deadly, serious. And boy, does it sting sometimes. Isn't that what satire is supposed to do? And so, I thought to myself, you know, when I heard the story that they were being targeted,

by big tech, social media censorship, but it's just a matter of time. Why are they coming after the Babylon B? Because they're effective. And their chief, Seth Dillon joins us now on the Glenn Beck program. Seth, thanks for being here with us today. Appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me on.

Glad to be here. So as I mentioned, I don't think I'm alone on this, but every time I hear something crazy happening in the news, which is every day. There's a headline. There's something that's a real story. I didn't got to go find out, okay, how did you guys cover it?

Because that, in a lot of ways, it really does. It sort of shows me like, okay, and this is how I feel. I think a lot of, most of us. And I think that's why

the popularity of the B has risen so, so sharp plays, because people feel this way and they relate to that humor. There's stinging truth in all of it. Yeah, Well, it's a rich environment right now for satire.

That's for sure. In some ways, it does make the job harder, though, because satire's project is to exaggerate the truth to make its points. And like you said, when we wake up and we read the news every day, the news is so insane, so absurd. You know, it's hard to make, it's hard to exaggerate things like reporters standing in front of burning buildings describing the situation is mostly peaceful. You know, like that kind of stuff is, it's difficult to satirize.

So it makes the job challenging. But, yeah, it's also good to bring some less. and get people laughing and and and you know but also thinking about these things how often though does it happen because i've seen this it's almost like prophecy the baby prophecy now where you know i say like you can't make this stuff up but apparently you guys did and you did it it may be a little bit in advance and now here's you know life imitating art right in front of our eyes well yeah that's the challenge so okay the challenge is to stay a step ahead of reality right because reality is as moving at breakneck pace towards insanity.

We exaggerate it and to make our points and to make our jokes go through. And sometimes literally within like minutes or hours, something that we've written that was satirical at the time we wrote, it comes out in a real headline. So that's happening pretty frequently. It doesn't happen every day. But usually every couple of weeks, there's something that we published either very recently

or even sometimes like one or two years ago that ends up coming true, mark it down as a fulfilled prophecy, which is, you know, it's comical on the one hand, but it's also kind of depressing on the other. What is, like, if you think back to this, Seth Dillon is on with us now from Battle on B. If you have to think back to maybe the first one that you remember, or maybe the one that makes the biggest impact on you, it was a story that you guys wrote or something that you put together, and then it just, you thought this was wild, maybe it'll never happen, but then, And there it was real life.

Well, I mean, there's a million examples. I mean, some recent ones, like even some lighthearted ones, like we made a joke back in the middle of the pandemic when things were bad last year about how, you know, there were increased sales of shirts, but not pants because everyone was working from home. And we showed a picture of a guy sitting there in his boxers. And then the very next day, Yahoo Finance published a story

about how Walmart was seeing increased sales of tops, but not bottoms. Like almost to a word, like exactly the headline that we had joked about, was actually true. But there's other ones, too, where, you know, it just shows that we're right on, we're right on with our criticism of, you know, the mainstream or legacy media and how, and how they, you know, they just try to distort things and cover things from their own narrative. We did a story on how President Trump during the Abraham Accords was ignored. ignoring COVID protocols. And that's what, well, that was how CNN was going to cover it, right?

Trump ignores a COVID protocols and shakes hands with, with foreign leaders. And then three hours later, CNN publishes the headline where that was they covered. It wasn't the monumental occasion that was happening on your screen. It was Trump disregards COVID protocols and, and, uh, in disregards distancing at the Abraham Accords. It's like, that's not the story here. That's not the story. Um, but that kind of stuff happens all the time.

I think maybe one of the most egregious was when we made a joke about how Black Lives Matter had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and then it actually happened. Incredible moments in the history of the Babylon B. And Seth, I just realized you guys had just reached a big milestone on Twitter, too. You now have a million followers there. So the popularity growing by leaps and bounds, and I think it's because you're effective. matter of fact, that's probably why you guys are under attack. What's the latest and what have you found with big tech and censorship right now? Yeah, so that is a big milestone.

A million followers on Twitter. We just recently have a million on Instagram, too. And a lot of people will point to that and say, what's censorship? What are you talking about? Look at you. You've got a huge following. You know, people are following you in droves. But our success on those platforms is despite the fact that we're facing huge setbacks from, you know, attacks from the media.

and suspensions like our Twitter page has been suspended. Our Facebook page has been, our posts have been pulled on and we've been demonetized several times. We've been threatened with being deplatformed there. MailChimp suspended us recently and then apologized and turned us back on. But there's been this coordinated effort between big tech and the media in the last couple of years. As the crackdown on fake news was really happening and they were trying to stop the spread of misinformation, you started seeing our posts getting fact checked all the time and rated false. and then we were getting threatened with being deplatformed

if we continued sharing false information. And we had to defend ourselves and say, this is not fake news. This is, well, it is fake news, but it's not fake news intended to mislead. It's fake news intended to entertain. It's a satire. So we've been constantly in this battle to assert our right to be on these platforms. And the media, what's really interesting with the media is,

that they've been trying to generate this narrative where we're not really satire, we're pretending to be satire, to just get around Facebook's rules against the spread of misinformation. So that's what happened with in New York Times recently, where they called us a far-right misinformation site that traffics and misinformation. And that kind of stuff, you know, like on the one hand,

you know, we want to joke about that and make fun of them for being representing us that way and trying to make people think that there's something malicious about our satire. But on the other hand, we've got to take it really seriously because next thing you know, we are going to get the boot from these social media platforms on the basis of lies like that. It's in fact, New York Times

that's spreading misinformation about us, not the other way around. So it's been an ongoing battle, but we've had some successes and we continue to fight back not taking any of it lined out. What do you make about this latest craziness about, and I'm watching this

over the last couple of days with Facebook and these warnings about you may have come in contact with extremist content and you, in fact, may be an extremist. It's almost like, you know, do you have an amazing? American flag flying outside of your house? Do you have a Bible? Did you attend church yesterday? You

make it be an extremist. What what do you make about? I mean, it's so crazy that this is the world we live and we're starting to see Facebook doing something like this is nuts. Yeah, it feels very Orwellian, doesn't it? And again, that's a rich, rich atmosphere for satire. We're making plenty of jokes about this. I'm personally concerned because I have not been yet warned that it might be an extremists or have affiliation with extremists. You know, I think I think I should have that warning on me and I'm a little concerned that Facebook doesn't think of me that way. I think, look, honestly, it's a badge of honor when these, when people like the New York Times are coming after us and trying to smear us, I would much rather have them doing that than praising us and saying that we're great. So

I think it's a good thing. I mean, I think it means that we're on the right track, honestly. but the stuff with big tech and putting out those warnings, I mean, it's very ominous, isn't it? It's no laughing matter on one hand because they're basically looking for you to rat on your friends and your neighbors and expose them for being extremists. I made a joke about this. I said, you know, I'm concerned that some of my friends are pro-abortion, that they're okay with abortion. Does that count? You know, it's just, it's amazing how views on one side of the political spectrum are considered extreme. but not on the other.

Yeah, it really is something. I mean, when you guys started this, was this all your always the plan? Or was there, I mean, what was, like, what was the kind of the spark with the Babylon B? I mean, you probably had no idea you would be where you are today and could see this coming. No, but the guy, Adam Ford is the founder of the Babylon B.

He started in 2016. And he did see that there was a absolutely huge opportunity to go into, to tap into the untapped market where people on the right were not, you know, the left has always been very good at satire, at mockery, at ridicule. You know, they've always been great at, and I think a lot of the reason is because they don't have great arguments for their position. They resorts to ridicule because, you know, that's how they think they're refuting you. But the right has historically been much worse at that.

And so there was a huge void there that the Babylon be filled. So the site took off like crazy when it was first launched. I think that was, you know, credit to Adam for seeing that opportunity there and executing on it. I think the Babylon B was able to do conservative Christian humor that wasn't cheesy and that really connected with people. It was, you know, it was snarky and it was fun and it was biting and it stung on both sides and didn't really pull back, any punches on anybody, you know. Trump was one of our biggest targets during his presidency. So I think that's part of the reason why the B has been so successful.

So, Seth Dellen with the Babylon B right now, just last kind of thing, before I let you go, is you guys must be a fun work environment, but you're finding yourself in some serious places, too. You know, where do you see all of this going? You're so much, I don't know if it's a prophetic thing or if it's, you know, I'm not asking you get the crystal ball out or anything, but just because you're so close to it, maybe, where do you see us headed? in what's resonating with people on your website and the things, the content you guys produce, and where we're headed as a country?

Well, I mean, just for where we're headed, I mean, we're going to continue to see a lot of these attacks. You know, we're seeing the landscape evolved a little bit. I think these attempts to label us as misinformation and shut us down and suppress our speech have failed. You know, our victory against the New York Times and getting to retract those statements is evidence of that. But now they're switching course, and that there's. attacking from a different angle. And we have Facebook now saying that satire that is down is not allowed.

That doesn't count the satire because it's hate speech disguised as satire. And now you've got media outlets like Slate writing articles later after that policy is announced that the Babylon B has a nasty tendency to punch down. So I think that's the new line of attack. They're going to say that we're spreading hatred under the guise of satire instead of misinformation under the guys of satire. So there's going to this ongoing battle. where we're defending ourselves and our right to speak freely,

our right to make these jokes that on the left wants us to make because these are protected targets. And this whole idea that we're punching down is just so insane. We are punching back and we're punching up at all these, this top-down tyranny from the progressive left. You know, there are ideas that are being imposed on everyone from the biggest corporations, celebrities, politicians, it's all coming from high up.

And so when we push back on that and we fight, back. They try to say that we're punching down. That's just absurd. And the idea that you can punch down anyway that, you know, oh, don't make jokes about women that's punching down. Why do you say that? Are women beneath me? I don't think that. So, you know, it's just, we're in a crazy environment right now where we're still defending ourselves against a lot of that nonsense. But as far as where this is all going, I try to stay optimistic, and I hope the pendulum swings back the other way. Seth Dellen, thank you so much for being here with us. Good luck to you, man. And we appreciate it. Keep up the great work at the Babylon, B.

Thanks so much. Appreciate you. The best of the Glenn Beck program. People are fighting back. They are standing up. I mean, even when it seems like all may be lost and it's hopeless at times. There is some good news. You know, it's one of the things I talk about in my book, good news, that there are things happening in the world.

I think that are worth celebrating. And we ought to do that more often. You're not going to hear it in the headlines in nightly news. You're not going to see it from the usual suspects. But when we see it, we ought to make sure that we share those things, and we definitely tell those stories with each other and together. There's one such video I wanted to share with you. This comes from a dad in Arizona who's gone to a school board meeting.

First of all, I congratulate him for that. Parents, you've got to go to school board meetings. We've got to be engaged civically. We've got to be engaged at our kids. in their education. If you're going to send them to public school, especially, we've got to be engaged in that process to let these people know that we're watching, that we're going to be a part of it, that we're actively participating. This man is speaking up, and it's also what he says, from his perspective, as a black man, a father, what he says about what they're teaching,

the critical race theory, and the divisive things that they're teaching in schools. Take a Listen. And Chandler? Thank you. I'm not part of any group. I just came here because my kids are 8, 10, and 12. And we start to experience things as far as Black History Month. My kids will come home and they would be afraid.

And I was always asking what was going on. And then I start realizing that they were teaching stuff. They taught my kids about slavery and then civil rights and nothing in between. you got CRT and I ask you guys not to burden my kids but something that's going to hold them back. 30 seconds. I don't really give them, teach them all the history because I want them to soar as big as they can be without the burden of someone saying where you're oppressed or I'm being nice to you as why you're succeeding. I want my kids to just thrive and continue to be kids and grow as much as they possibly can.

So I ask you guys just take a look at what you're doing and what's the future going to hold. for the kids that's experiencing all this right now. So that's pretty much all I have to say. The father making a plea at a school board meeting, it may not seem like he's doing anything, you know, too grand. It may not seem like he's, he is wielding a sword and just completed a battle and come out victoriously. But I applaud that man.

because he's done what a lot of folks, and more and more are doing every day. And we ought to consider doing ourselves. Whether you've got kids or not, if you're a taxpayer, you live in the area that you live in, a lot of times your home values are even tied to the schools. Like where we live, it's a great school system. Their home values are tied to that.

You're paying taxes on it, et cetera. So you ought to have some importance. especially in that system. Another place where they're seeing right now, critical race theory and divisiveness, sort of rearing its ugly head, is a place that is very concerning. In fact, that's the military.

Journey to talk a little bit about that. Author Adam Davis, good friend of mine, he's written several books, multiple on different topics, but they all really involve around the same theme. He's a retired police officer. supporting those folks who go out and serve for us, whether it's in the line of duty on the call here on our streets or in battlefields all throughout the world. Adam, appreciate you being here with us today. How are you?

Justin, always an honor to speak with you, my friend, and doing well. Doing well here in South Alabama down in Dothan, Alabama, and wonderful to be able to speak with you again on such a important matter. So recently the military is now going through this woke process. And it's something that a lot of folks is we're watching it very concerning because you think about this and you think, wow, if this falls. I mean, some of the real last havens in government and service is our military. You've got patriots there that are conservative, that are traditional. They might call them extremists now, but I think the real extremists are the ones who are the Marxists, who are trying to drive a wedge and drive this ideology into places that it doesn't belong, like the military. Yeah, well, that's the thing you have to realize, and I think more and more people are realizing it now,

is that for the true extremists, which are the liberal, the woke crowd, if you want to, whatever you want to label them as, the ones that want to destroy the very foundation, the fundamental truths of our nation, there is nothing sacred to them. Not our Constitution, not our way of life, not the military, the church, the school system. They want to attack the very core of who we are.

And there's no place for such divisive teaching in the military. Like, you know, law enforcement, you have to move as one. You have to be united. And they want to divide every fact. of America so that they can conquer America with their socialist and Marxist ideas, where their communist propaganda, they want to destroy America and turn it into what they want. They want to make you a slave to their rule. That's what they want.

And this is just part of their strategy. And it hasn't been stopped immediately. It's happening in the military. You're also seeing it with the police officers. And I know you served as a police officer, but now you serve police officers and you serve first responders and folks in the military as well as an author you you write books a lot of times devotionals these are these are things that are that are directly serving the souls of these of these folks who probably need it more than any of us these days they're constantly under attack but

you see the same thing the same thing that we're seeing now in the military been happening with police and police departments all across the country all across the country heard last year about defunding the police and how we're starting to see in some of those places where they tried that. It didn't work too well. And of course, they're having the backtrack on that, but it can't be easy to serve in the line of duty these days. No, well, you know, the fact is that they want to erase truth and they want to redefine truth, but you can't redefine what the truth is. And we have to go back to the basics of who we are as a country. Yes, you can believe differently. In fact, you can speak things that are

against what I believe, but that's the beauty of America, is that you can have a different belief and without being persecuted. But the people who are behind this critical race theory and behind defund the police and all these divisive movements, they don't believe the same way. They wanna silence and censor the people who speak the truth.

They wanna silence the conservative movement and label us extremists. And the only way that we can see America grow and continue to be a country, land of liberty and freedom is where we all have the freedom and liberty to speak and speak truth and silence those who want to divide America. You know, we've talked about this earlier today, but why are they trying to divide, and not just each of us, and by the way, I don't think it's working.

I don't think Americans are as divided as they want us to believe, but why is that their goal? Why are they trying to do this? You can't defeat a united front. It doesn't matter if there's three people of 30 million or 300 million. If an enemy of one billion comes against 300 million, but that 300 million is united and arms locked shoulder to shoulder, that's why military and law enforcement operations are so successful. They move as one, the United, they have one mission, they move as one body. You think about marriages, marriages that are where the couples are on. on different terms where they're on different pages where they're not united they face conflict

they fall apart if they're united as one in every aspect they're more successful in everything unity is the beautiful joy it is it is truly the greatest thing of all when you're looking at a country when you're looking at a family when you're looking at a business you need to be united an opponent cannot come from the outside and take down a united front no matter how many number how much they're outnumbered so you see the you see foreign interference You see foreign adversaries, they love the division that they see coming from the media in the United States because they see us as an easy target. It is all an attack to divide America to further their propaganda, to take down Christian ideals, to take down the Christian fundamentals, the foundation of who we are, to redefine to fundamentally reshape America. They want to further the communist propaganda, the Marxist movement.

want everything to go their way or it's not the right way at all. This isn't about liberty and freedom for them. This is about taking over and conquering America. Adam Davis, author of several books. By the way, we'll tell you about those coming up in a second. But as you're serving those who are in service to others,

what are you hearing from whether it's military or police or what are you hearing what they're facing, some of the issues they're facing on a daily basis? You know, law enforcement, One of the biggest things is you see these just absolute idiots calling for defunding police, and that's all you can label it, because they think that they're hurting police, and they are, but the people that the hurting are themselves. So defund the police.

That's the one of the biggest things. But you know what? The beauty of it all is through all of this. You don't hear about this on the news, and I know you talk about this. We don't hear the good news. You don't hear that over 70% of Americans trust and support law enforcement. You don't hear the good things. things that are happening and the people who let them know they appreciate them and support them.

So out of all of these cries that get media attention for defund the police, the vast majority of Americans support and love law enforcement, support first responders and love the military, and we've got to get back to where we highlight that more than we highlight the idiots. Take the microphone away from the people who hate America and give it to the ones who love our country. You know, it's an interesting stat. You just said over 70% support the police, 70% of Americans. And so we just had that study.

In fact, it's in my book, Good News. Did the U.S. ranks last among 46 countries in trust and media? Reuters reporting that that trust level is down the lowest of all the countries, but down the lowest it's been ever in the history. And I think when you compare those two numbers, wow, it's easy to see who Americans trust and why, and probably because of their track record and who they are. I mean, we can be a judge of that fairly easily. Adam Davis, people can go grab your book today if they'd like to. You've got a couple of those. So quickly, let's run through them.

Theadamdavis.com is the website. But you've got a couple of different books because I know we're coming up on the 20th anniversary of September 11th. And I know Americans haven't forgotten. I've seen the way we celebrated over this weekend. You may want to give a copy to someone that you know that you love that's serving, whether it's a police, fire, some sort of EMT or frontliner or somebody who is in the military. What would you recommend? You know what?

For first, well, specifically law enforcement, we've got behind the badge, which is by far the best-selling book I have out. Behind the badge is 365 daily devotions for law enforcement. And we have one for military and first responders on spiritual combat, a co-authored with Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman. It is the absolute essential handbook that you need to understand the source of everything you see going on in the world today. And then the latest book, I co-authored with a Force Recon Marine named Chad Robes Show called Behind the Lines. It's 365 daily challenges for military personnel. But we also have bulletproof marriage, 90-day devotion for military and first responder married couples. I co-author of that with Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman.

Of course, you can find all this on my website, beadam-davis.com. and would always love to hear from your listeners and connect with them in the future. Thank you, brother. I appreciate your work, and thank you for serving those who are her serving others. Adam Davis. Oh, absolutely. Thank you, Justin. You too, brother.

You got it.