The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 191 | They Broke America's Social Compact. What Now? | Steve Deace | The Glenn Beck Podcast

Episode Date: August 26, 2023

The 2024 presidential election season has already proven to be unprecedented and bizarre. Everyone is asking, “What’s at stake?” A lot. BlazeTV host Steve Deace has made a career parsing this ex...act question, and, as he tells Glenn on this episode of "The Glenn Beck Podcast," America has never been more reliant on the answer. Steve is the #1 best-selling author of "Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History." His latest is “Rise of the Fourth Reich.” This year, he took on Hollywood with his underdog success, “Nefarious.” He and Glenn walk through many of his biggest ideas, fears, and suspicions, as well as his proposed solutions, from a new era of the GOP to a bold, new devotion to religion, with some interesting examples, including Billy Graham's fight against Soviet propaganda. In the wake of the first Republican presidential debate, Steve explains why he’s cautious about supporting Vivek Ramaswamy and why he has endorsed Ron DeSantis. With former President Donald Trump facing another arrest, Steve lays out the dubious events of Fulton County. The nation is approaching a breaking point, and, as Steve tells Glenn, there are really only two possible outcomes: policy or violence. It has to be policy. It can’t be violence. But in order to do that, Americans have to make giant choices right now.              SPONSORS: If you're one of the millions of Americans who suffer every day from pain, there is hope, and it comes in the form of Relief Factor. If you want a drug-free and natural way to get your life back, go to https://relieffactor.com or call 1-800-4-RELIEF to get the $19.95 three-week quick start.   Good Ranchers is the sure way to get 100% American, USDA prime and upper-choice cuts of beef, chicken, and seafood. Head on over to https://GOODRANCHERS.COM/GLENN and use discount code GLENN at checkout for 2 years of free ground beef when you subscribe – that’s a $480 value.   Home Title Lock. Home title fraud is growing 2.5x faster than credit card fraud. You could be a victim and not even know it. Visit https://HomeTitleLock.com and use the promo code BECK to get 30 days of free protection.   Try the one-of-a-kind Sweatblock wipes today for 20% off with promo code BECK at https://www.Sweatblock.com; or you can even get these magic Sweatblock wipes on Amazon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:12 no amount on minimum, and no free mensuel. You're made for negotiate, and the TD is there for you aid. Here's a little secret about the mainstream media. They claim to hate
Starting point is 00:00:23 conservative media, but I think they're kind of obsessed with us. And today's guest knows all about this. He's been profiled by the New York Times magazine. ABC News. During the 2016 election, oh, he was a regular on MSNBC, NPR, The Hill, Politico. They've all turned to him for feedback on what's going on. Media Matters in particular is totally in sweetheart love with this guy. They once claimed that the DACE radio show and writings are more extreme and intolerant
Starting point is 00:00:56 than his comments in mainstream media. In the last three weeks alone, they've published 11 articles about him. He's a number one bestselling author, the Fauci and Bargain, the most powerful and dangerous bureaucrat in American history. His latest is the rise of the Fourth Reich. This year, he took on Hollywood with his underdog success of Nefarious, which is just one of the projects that he and I have collaborated on. He's done all the work.
Starting point is 00:01:26 I've just come in and I looked pretty. We're more than just coworkers at Blaze TV. His daily radio program is literally right after mine on the network. At this point, he and I are so deep inside conservative media that we often forget how unique our job is. And we're both so busy that we rarely get a chance to slow down and have kind of discussion that make this podcast unique. So let's slow down and please welcome Steve Days. before we get to Steve, if you're like me,
Starting point is 00:02:00 this time of the year, every time you step outside, you feel like you're supposed to be, you know, dropping the ring of power into Mount Doom. At least that's what it feels like. It does feel like you're right there
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Starting point is 00:03:40 Tired. You know, last night was the debate and we were all here late. And I haven't had a chance to talk to you one on one on what the heck happened? What happened last night? It was a bizarre, never before string of events that is, people are just acting like it's normal. This is not normal. None of this is normal. I don't think anything about this cycle is going to be normal. And I'm not sure that our people are prepared. And in their defense, I don't know any people could be prepared. But I think, like even today, I mean, Fulton County originally wanted to have a trial in March, literally right after the D.C. trial.
Starting point is 00:04:24 Now they want to have it on October the 23rd. This year. They announced that just right before you and I started sending out here to talk. How is not clearly a coup? It's an assassination. We don't do Dealey Plaza anymore. That's too obvious. So now we use social media and lawfare.
Starting point is 00:04:41 We're going to do assassinations that way. And so in a way, I had very low expectations going in, you know, and I actually enjoyed it more than I thought. I did too. It was one of the first debate. The summit, I thought, changed everything. And I was really wondering how old and tired is this format going to look. I actually got a lot of hope out of it. I did because we needed.
Starting point is 00:05:05 to break up sort of the stagnant talking points of team GOP, waste, fraud, and abuse, efficiency, okay, we've heard all that stuff for 30 years. And Trump came in and broke a lot of that monotony up and brought a flare and a showmanship back to the process. And I think that attracted a lot of new eyeballs. But I do fear now that we are at this existential, we're at like 14 existential cliffs as a people right now on every front,
Starting point is 00:05:31 socioeconomic, morally, culturally, philosophically, epistemologically, medically now after COVID. We've got more existential cliffs than we know what to do with. And I kind of feel now like we kind of need some of the old-time religion back. Like the run-and-shoot offense was fun for a while, you know, but now we kind of get back to some blocking and tackling. And I thought last night at the debate, we did something. I didn't, I don't know, it wasn't always great, but we actually talked issues.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Now, most of the candidates and issues that matter, except when Fox decided to ask about UFOs instead of gender mutilation. Yeah. But for the most part, we talked issues, and I think you saw two candidates that represented in their own way, an understanding of what we like to say in the right,
Starting point is 00:06:16 what time it is. Everybody else I thought was from a different era, politically, a different paradigm and a bygone era. Yeah. And it's, it's, I think Biden has really done this. I mean, Trump is, you know, in the same era as Biden, but Biden just looks like Father Time, who has died about 10 years ago. And, you know, when you had Ramoswamy and DeSantis standing there,
Starting point is 00:06:44 Nikki Haley at one point said, you know, it's time for the next generation. And I thought of those two, not including her. And I realized, oh, my, she's the same age. But she was still speaking kind of the old language. Right. Right. And I think that there was one moment last night that I thought kind of encapsulated this the most.
Starting point is 00:07:07 And it was the question on education in the second half of the debate. And DeSantis goes first and talks about how he has specifically confronted things like critical race theory, the rainbow jihad, and thrown him out of the schools in Florida. And he's probably the only person we know
Starting point is 00:07:25 that's ever done something like that. And so he talks about this specific threats, itemizes them, how I confronted them. And then right after him, Vavek gets to follow up. And Vovac talks about the broader zeitgeist cultural issues that led to the things that DeSantis had to confront. And I thought that three to five minutes right there between the two of them, where Vivek highlighted the broader issues that led to the fights that DeSantis has now engaged in. And DeSantis is talking about, here are the fights I took on and how I got rid of these people. I thought that was the best three to five minutes on the issue of education that has ever been televised in the history of the Republican Party.
Starting point is 00:08:05 And it's way beyond any of the talking points or anything we've been fed for a generation and really spoke to an understanding in their own way. The vague speaks thematically. DeSantis speaks specifically. But in their own way, they each touched on things in a level of depth that, none of the rest of the candidates on that stage could, even if they wanted to. No. And I'm not,
Starting point is 00:08:31 and I also don't think that's who Trump is. I think Trump tries to find people that can do that, you know, and I'll delegate, you do that, and I'll be over here, you know, you know,
Starting point is 00:08:40 clearing, giving you air cover with the media. Yeah. But at some point we need to, we are, our people are, and when I say our people, I'm not just talking about now,
Starting point is 00:08:50 people who consume products like ours. I mean, are countrymen. We are in a nuclear, winner epistemologically. Most people don't know why they believe what they believe. They don't know what is true. We're at a point right now that guys like you and I, for example, could go on MSNBC and pretend we believe like them and we could actually articulate their views better than them. They have been so successful in dumbing down and removing critical thinking from their side
Starting point is 00:09:15 of the aisle to get them to buy into their false premises that now their own people can't even explain what they think. They're not like smart anymore. There's no Andrew Sullivan's anymore. You know, there's no gory Vidal's debating William F. Buckley's anymore. They're not smart. Their arguments are dumb. They're very vapid, shallow. It's all name-calling. Well, if you just disagree, they must be a racist. They have, because they have been taught anything else. And we need to have. You know, I was reading a book recently by guy I know that you know, kind of his memoirs. James Robeson wrote his memoirs. And he was talking about how Billy Graham came back from the Soviet Union in 1979. He was invited to speak there and found out while he was there that they were basically using him as propaganda during the confrontation with the Carter administration over the Olympics and things of that nature. And that Billy Graham was walking through Red Square and just, you know, thought the Lord spoke to him and said, um, freedom will be gone from America and the West within the next decade, unless you guys radically change course. And so he came back and he called some of the people that we now know today as kind of the
Starting point is 00:10:18 founding fathers of the old Christian right, the Pat Robertsons, the, um, the, the, um, the, the, um, the, the, Adrian Rogers, the James Robbins, and he convened a meeting here in Dallas, actually. They met here in Dallas. And what do we do in the future? And one of the things they decided was they had to find a leader, someone that could speak to the people about the extent and the stakes that they were playing for, how serious the matter of the moment was. And when they looked and surveyed the landscape of who was going to run in the Republican Party in that next cycle, the only person they could think of that had that credibility was
Starting point is 00:10:53 somebody none of them knew at the time. The former actor is what they called him, Ronald Reagan. And they made the, they decided to go to him and try to, he wasn't going to run again in 1980. He had already run in 76 and lost and was maybe going to move on from politics. And they basically convinced him that you are the one person where they can stand up on that stage nationally and convince people of the existential stakes that we are standing on and that we're on the brink of right now as a people. And what we desperately need right now. And the window for this is closing, Glenn. We have this thing on the right right now, that we somehow believe there is some middle way to win other than policy or bullets. There never has been that way. Our founders gave us a
Starting point is 00:11:39 constitution so we'd fight civil wars at the ballot box and in the halls of legislatures and Congress and not out on the streets. These sorts of irreconcilable differences that we have now as a people. They're only determined by policy outcomes or bullets. There is no killer meme. There is no devastating troll that we're going to come up with. And Randy Weingarten's going to say, you know what? Hot damn. I was really good to convince another generation of kids to become Marxist. But I read your killer meme and I'm really ashamed of myself and I'm going to stop. It doesn't happen. We have to beat them in policy or we're going to have to fight them. That's history. I don't, I'm not, you and I at our age aren't going to be the ones fighting them. Our kids and
Starting point is 00:12:18 grandkids are. And we're going to force them to do that if we don't take advantage of the window we have right now to use whatever remnant of constitutional processes we have to peaceably but aggressively push back on this. And we need someone to stand on the stage and explain, here's why I'm doing this. Here's what's at stake. All right. And if we don't do this, here's what will happen. And if we don't do this and take advantage of this window, I don't even, I don't even want to contemplate what things are where things are in five or ten years. Wow, I can't even think that far out if we don't, if we don't really dramatically change and find this person.
Starting point is 00:12:58 A story I've never shared before. Mike Lee, and I think it started as a joke, Mike Lee used to say to me all the time, you should run for president. And I'm like, are you out of your mind? And he called me one day about a year ago. and he we were just chatting my wife finally came in
Starting point is 00:13:19 she's like what are you two talking about wrap it up and I said he's trying to convince me to run for president and I'm like Mike that's the dumbest thing I have no
Starting point is 00:13:31 this way where it ended I said I have no chance of winning and he laughed and he said oh of course not I'm not saying you should run for president because I think you could win somebody needs to articulate
Starting point is 00:13:44 where we are and what we face and who we have always been and need to remember who we are. He said, we need a storyteller. And I think we have that now. On the stage last night, between DeSantis and Vivek, we have Vivek doing the big aspirational Ronald Reagan, which was fascinating that he coupled it with, he's so positive of, here's who, here's who we are, here's who we, what we're going to be again. But he started it with, it's not mourning in America.
Starting point is 00:14:26 I thought that was one of the most important lines of the evening. Me too. I agree with that. Me too. And I have been critical of Vivek the last few months, and I will explain why. I think I emceed his first campaign event in Iowa. It was a bitterly cold night in January.
Starting point is 00:14:40 I mean, really bad. And I wasn't sure he called and asked me to do this. I adore Kathy Barnett, who is kind of his top campaign advisor. And so she called and asked me to do it. And I had some mutual friends that knew him who were very high on him, so I was very curious. And I went not sure how many people would come. There were well over 100 people there in the dead of January in Des Moines, Iowa. That early in the process, that is a very good crowd.
Starting point is 00:15:07 I mean, the place was packed at this restaurant. And I watched him stand up there and take questions. I mean, I watched him take questions from my fellow evangelicals who dominate Iowa on religion as a Hindu. And I watched him like, and I'm a Bible guy. I use your network. Your network's not explicitly Christian. I use your network and platform. I'll do Bible studies, theology conversations.
Starting point is 00:15:28 And so I'm a big Bible guy. When I hear Mike Pence bring it up, I cringe. Me too. As a Bible guy. Like I can't imagine with the rest of the broader culture who doesn't, who isn't into that or doesn't understand it. I can't even imagine how they receive it because I cringe. when Mike Pence talked about. When Mike Pence talked last night, I agreed with, I love Jesus, that's the problem. We are not worshiping God. We've lost our way. I agree with everything he said.
Starting point is 00:15:53 And I, my skin crawled when he was saying it. I was so, I don't know what it is. Now, obviously, I've got fundamental religious differences with Vivek. I believe there is one God, not 33, for example. And yet there's more sincerity from him, I think, when he talks about these broader spiritual themes than from somebody like Pence, who I more theologically would agree with. When he said last night, the most effective form of government in human history is the nuclear family. I mean, now you're speaking my love language. Okay. And so I listened to this for two hours. And I'm like, I think I could see this becoming a thing in Iowa. I mean, I really could. Something happened the last few months where until like the second hour of last night's debate,
Starting point is 00:16:33 I've not heard a lot of that. And I, here's what I honestly think. I honestly believe that he thought this was an opportunity to have a very serious conversation about the next generation. And then he got out on the campaign trail and maybe found out maybe the people aren't that serious. Maybe what they want is a troll, a show. And so I'm going to become that guy. And I think you saw that at the first hour of the debate last night.
Starting point is 00:17:00 Okay. I'm the only one not controlled. I'm the only one that has done this. And he even got booed. He went so far overboard, overplayed that hand. He actually got booed at one point in the debate. He was on that line, which I thought was really bad. Second half of the debate we got is when he just kind of was the curious ideologue that people like you adore.
Starting point is 00:17:23 And I think you saw him absolutely shine at that point. And when I look at DeSantis, I see a guy that understands the broader stakes very well, does not them them as well as Vivek, but understands how government works. and Ron DeSantis to me, do you remember the old S&L skit with Phil Hartman? It was during a Ron Contra. And it was the early years
Starting point is 00:17:49 of the Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, you know, Phil Hartman era of SNL. And they did this skit where Hartman played Ronald Reagan, who was like, I don't remember anything, I'm old, I'm losing my memory. And then so Reagan would play this up, you know, Jimmy Stewart played by Dana Carvey,
Starting point is 00:18:04 would come visit him. And he'd act like he doesn't remember when they were in movies together. He doesn't remember his name, right? And then at 7 o'clock, when the White House press corps goes home, switch gets flipped. And the Oval Office is like a freaking bat cave. And Reagan is like doing foreign exchange rates for a Ronnie in his head. Do you remember this?
Starting point is 00:18:20 It's brilliant. And like Reagan is actually the godfather. He's in complete control. The amiable dunce thing is all in act. And when the TV cameras go off, he is actually in complete and total control all by himself. That's kind of who Ron DeSantis is, actually. He's kind of the guy that doesn't need much of a staff. I mean, he actually enjoys the, he wants to know where the body.
Starting point is 00:18:39 bodies are buried. He wants to know the specifics. He is eager to, he is eager to exercise power against his enemies and in favor of his ideology. And I thought, which you saw between Vivek and Ron last night was two halves of the, of the singular brain that we need right now. Someone who can emotionally speak to the zeitgeist and the themes that are at stake. And Vivek does that exceedingly well. And then someone though, eventually, it's time as Jesus said, why do you call me, Lord, if you do not do what I say, right? Eventually it's time to grow some fruit on the tree. Who can do the things that Vivek talks about?
Starting point is 00:19:14 And that is where DeSantis shines. And I think what would be fascinating is to see the two of them on a stage together for two hours. And to watch the doer versus the thinker. And the guy that... Well, he is a doer. He's not been a doer for government. Correct.
Starting point is 00:19:32 I mean, he has run large corporations. He's successful. Correct. But he's not. He's not a government guy. Correct. Biennue at board of Via Rai. Embarked and profite.
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Starting point is 00:21:29 home's already been stolen it's home title lock dot com promo code beck one of the things we learned about with trump is that running the government like a business is not easy first of all yes okay secondly remember trump didn't run like your classic corporation he ran an empire he didn't face shareholders yeah division heads so he could be that phil hartman character i mean he could hire and fire in a given day i'm out i'm done with you you're gone i like you i don't you're done and when you're running a the largest corporation on planet Earth, the executive branch of the United States government, man, that includes the Pentagon, okay, the Department of Justice and everything else, your ability to figure out who's
Starting point is 00:22:09 going to run the feetoms. I can't watch everything. This is beyond the grasp of one man. It's like Moses, right? And Jethro, his father-in-law comes to him and says, this is too much for one man. You've got to figure out here you're going to delegate this to. And so he figured out, I'm going to delegate it to people like Steve Mnuchin and Rex Tellerson and we all know these names, okay? And they were disasters. Notice where Trump shined. When he could unilaterally act foreign policy for example i can unilaterally direct that i can walk into a room of saudi sheikhs and declare here's the new america plan if you like making money we'll help you if you want to be left alone we'll leave you alone if you get in our way we're going to drop moabs on you any questions
Starting point is 00:22:47 and lo and behold man we had peace deals you've never seen yep he he undid 40 years a failed bush Clinton era, Jim Baker and, you know, Madeline Albright, foreign policy, and where he could directly intervene, judicial appointments, although that still required some level of approval, okay, executive orders. He did great. Now, of course, Biden comes in and can erase all those executive orders in 10 minutes. But when the best parts of Trump's presidency, where he did things for us no one had ever done before and accomplished things that were way beyond people's expectations, is when he could directly intervene in act. When he actually had to move government, negotiate, move the party, he outsources Obamacare to McConnell and Ryan.
Starting point is 00:23:29 It never gets done. He could not, that's because that's not his background. And that's not the kind of business he ran. The kind of business he ran was, I am comitist in the arena, thumbs up or thumbs down. When he was able to do that as president, he was an A-plus. When he was not able to do that as president, he was handicapped. So the problem that he had, I think, and he has said this, is he didn't realize this, this is what he said to me. me he didn't realize the scope and how deep the problems went and he just didn't make his loading of
Starting point is 00:24:03 his team the priority he was going to make that in the second term but now i'm not sure if he can get enough people i mean we're talking thousands of people that are going to be reporting directly to him or somebody else that is supposed to be taking care of his vision. I don't know who can find these things on their own. It's going to take a tremendous team and a team that is not from the swamp, not your usual players and people with just nerves of steel. You saw this with Reagan. When Reagan came from California or Lin off.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Singer and Michael Dever when he came, Ed Meese, when he came, when he brought the California team with him in his first term, he revolutionized the political landscape. Now, it wouldn't look revolutionary to us 40 years later, but, but, you know, judging from where the political system was in 1981, it was fair, it was very radical. Then what happens, the second term, a lot of those people go home, man, they're tired, Washington is a grind. They want their lives back. And now kind of the Howard Bakers and those kinds of people now begin to take over. And now, now we're going to give big pharma and you know a lifetime you know exemption now we're going to do amnesty that loses California and turns it into the worst blue state in the country and and so personnel you know
Starting point is 00:25:30 this is the old morton blackwell line from the leadership institute personnel is policy your ability to identify personnel and this gets we're back to the conversation with the lawfare against trump you know so a friend of mine Jenna Ellis who was one of the president's attorneys and she did had no clue Jenna had no clue she was going to get indicted in fold to county no heads up. No one called her. No one asked her any questions. She was just hanging out on Twitter. The day the indictments come down and reads on Twitter, her name is in it. She was just stunned and blown away. So now she's got a scramble, all right, to come up with the money for an attorney. Because of the likelihood you'll be disbarred, discredited, because you're representing anybody
Starting point is 00:26:09 associated with Trump. All right? This is like, you know, working, this is, this is the legal equivalent of managing a convenience store in South Central L.A., third shift. All right? You're going to pay those guys a lot more an hour than you're paying people working, you know, eight o'clock in the morning because it's a lot more dangerous. Correct. All right. And so she was quoted as much as million dollar retainers. She finally got a competent attorney who would do this for a $50,000 retainer.
Starting point is 00:26:34 That was the cheapest she could find before we got to the billable hours. She's been told to keep her out of prison. It'll cost a minimum of a half a million dollars. Now, she's at the low end of this RICO case that they're trying to do in Fulton County. What's it costing Rudy Giuliani and the people at the, top end. I've been told by a little Bertie John Eastman's legal fees are already over $2 million. How many people that you and I both know, you and I both know a lot of people that worked in the Trump administration? How many of those people can afford the lawfare of being Trump
Starting point is 00:27:04 adjacent? And that's one. We have to ask ourselves, can he form an administration? If he were, let's say he beats all these, he's got 41 indictments. That's a lot. Let's say he beats them all. Let's say he convinces the Normies and independence to come back to him that we've lost the last three elections and pulls all of that off. That's an incredibly tall task, but let's say he does it. Who's then willing to go, you think these people are going to say, you know what, you beat us again, so we're just
Starting point is 00:27:29 going to go ahead and beat our swords and the plowshares now and let you govern. No, they're going to triple down on what they did before. What competent people will want to go in there knowing that the minute they sign on to a letterhead that has Trump's name on it, I'm looking at walking out of here, not making millions of dollars
Starting point is 00:27:45 writing my memoirs of working in the White House, but spending millions of dollars on legal bills. There's a reason why a lot of the best people, and I'm not talking, you know, the Steve Mnuchin or Jared Kushner's, people that we liked. There's a lot of, there's a reason why even the people that we liked are not formally with the Trump campaign while they're supporting him publicly because they can't afford what's going to happen to them because of that. And I think that these are the kinds of questions we have to consider. And nobody wants to talk about them. And, And I understand why it's uncomfortable.
Starting point is 00:28:22 We shouldn't be talking about these things. It's a frigging disaster that we are. But we're sitting here right now. And can anybody who can say right now that at this time, I think it's 326 days until someone will give the acceptance speech at the GOP convention in Milwaukee next July 18th. Can you tell me right now? I mean, you have a history of being a visionary
Starting point is 00:28:45 and seeing things coming in our movement in our industry before a lot of people. doing connecting dots. Tell me right now, do you know for sure that Donald Trump will have, will have the freedom to go to Milwaukee, to leave Marilago and go to Milwaukee in person and deliver that acceptance speech? They wouldn't have to do it like over Zoom via house arrest. They wouldn't have to take a plea agreement, that he wouldn't even be incarcerated in some way, shape, or form. Can you, can you tell me right now that you know for sure that that's the case? Because I don't. No. And I say that because
Starting point is 00:29:18 of the cowardice of attorneys. Our attorneys in this country have grown fat and wealthy on the just gorging themselves on the blood of freedom. And they are all complete wusses. None of them want to take him on,
Starting point is 00:29:43 you know, in his defense, no one wants to because they're being threatened that they'll lose their firm, their jobs, their reputation. So everybody wants to stay away. And because we don't have a John Adams and we don't have this. Who will even represent Red Coach in the Boston Massacre? Yes.
Starting point is 00:30:03 And we don't have a, I mean, when you look at John Adams, that was almost a death sentence for him to take on. He was the most unpopular guy at the time. But he did it because it was right. I don't see those people stepping to the plate. I don't see those people, you know, they're using, they are twisting the law and using every trick in the book and distorting and pushing to get him into a courtroom lawfare. Where are the people who are the prosecutors in any of these states where Hunter Biden? Agreed. Where are they? So this is this is where the pair, like for example, back to Jenna,
Starting point is 00:30:54 her bond is $100,000, Glenn, to stay out of jail. 100 grand. And again, she's at the low end of this Fulton County case. She can't just come up with $100,000 out of nowhere. Thankfully, a lot of people, including her own Mark Levin, myself and others have publicized her legal defense. She's probably raised enough to come up with the bond and her retainer. But I mean, she's still got to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars more. Why? You asked the key question a second ago. And I had to undergo this paradigm shift as well. I mean, I would have been somebody who four or five years ago, 2017, I'd have said no way. I mean, we are, we, we don't, we don't tell private corporations like Twitter what to do if they want to ban people. They're, they're a private
Starting point is 00:31:34 company. We don't want to set that example. When we talk about the Constitution, we got to take, we got to go back a layer. Understand the Constitution begins with the words, we the people, in order to form a more perfect union. That is a statement. of social compact. Right? So a marriage is not, is not the genesis of a covenantal relationship
Starting point is 00:31:57 between a man and a woman. It is the formalizing of it, the quantifying of it, the announcement of it. That covenant, you're searing that covenant, but you're already stepped into it by your willingness
Starting point is 00:32:09 to confirm it publicly, meaning that that association, that intimacy, that desire to be with one another in that union has already been expressed. The marriage is, just the culmination of that expression. That's what our Constitution is. The Declaration
Starting point is 00:32:24 of Independence is sort of the DNA of America. The social compact is this is who we are as a people. This is how we're going to agree to live together. This is how, you know, how are we going to settle at our differences and maintain e-pluribus unum, as you've talked about for years. The Constitution is simply just a legal quantification of those things. It's not a mission statement. It is the announcement of the marriage. The marriage has already taken place. There's already 13 states. We've already formed a union. Now we're going to talk about how we're going to live together in light of the fact
Starting point is 00:32:53 we've agreed to live together. It's that social compact that is broken. The old way of doing things, and it frustrated people like us at times because it would work against us. But the old social compact was in the two-party era post-Civil War. If one side went too far right of
Starting point is 00:33:09 center, or one side went too far left of center, then there would be such a unique backlash of punishment by the voters for doing so. that are not really as politically in tune to either side like people like you and I are or audiences, that backlash would be so prohibitive then that it would keep people in check.
Starting point is 00:33:26 And a lot of times Republican establishment figures would tell people like you and I, we can't do this stuff that you want us to do because we'll get the backlash of the very voters you're talking about. When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, that was a sign that the social compact in America is over. A new breed of left-wing activists
Starting point is 00:33:47 had taken over now. And someone that is not interested in polls doesn't care. He's interested. Wait, wait, wait. That's not what I think the American people thought they were getting. They thought they were expunging themselves. They thought they were absolving a century of sin of racism and slavery. And they were coming together.
Starting point is 00:34:07 We the people want to show that we are not those people. But you don't sit in Jeremiah's church, Jeremiah Rice church for a few years and not absorb a few things. Yeah, I know. All right. That's not where you go to church in order to flaunt yourself or build up a political resume. You go to a church like that because you're a true believer. And what happened is an actual Marxist got elected. And he's out to win an argument with history.
Starting point is 00:34:29 Republicans are out to win the next election and win polls. So go back and think of that era when we'd have like fights over the sequester and government funding, right? And you'd watch Boehner and McConnell make the walk of shame to the White House and come out empty handed with nothing. Okay. Because they were negotiating against themselves. remember when Bill Clinton got annihilated in 94 and the next state of the union he gave in 95 what was his opening statement?
Starting point is 00:34:52 The era of big government is over. He heard the voters, he saw the backlash. The second term of Bill Clinton, we got the Defense of Marriage Act, we got balanced budgets, we got three strikes and you're out for criminals. We got welfare reform. You couldn't be on welfare for more than two years.
Starting point is 00:35:05 These are the kinds of things that Republicans did these, the racist, misogynist, xenophobic homophobes. Bill Clinton did them all in the second term. That's a different era though. He represented a different era. A new generation of left-wing activists is what Obama represents. And so Obama was not deterred by the,
Starting point is 00:35:20 he got a 94 like annihilation in 2010 by the Tea Party, didn't care. He then got even worse in 2014. We had a nine-seat swing in one Senate election. That's one of the biggest in American history. Didn't deter him at all. He came in a Marxist, went out a Marxist.
Starting point is 00:35:35 He was out to reshape the country. He's a crusader on a mission. And so therefore, your traditional ability of deferring we maintain our constitutional fealty. We let them go radical, and the voters will step in as referees and punish them for overreacting and overreach.
Starting point is 00:35:56 That doesn't happen any longer. And this last midterm election, when you saw me nearly have a nervous breakdown sitting next to you on the stage that night, was the final proof of that. And that's why I was having a nervous breakdown, because there's no more excuses. Now we don't have the Trump excuse,
Starting point is 00:36:09 the mean tweets, he's not on the ballot anymore. They're literally out there wearing unitards and pitchforks, open demonic, you know, we're going to gender mutilate your kids. If there was ever a moment the normies would have come home and said, like they used to, and they would have said, okay, that can't happen. We can't have Hillary care. We can't have Obamacare. If there was ever a moment that the Normies would have come home and said,
Starting point is 00:36:29 time for a backlash midterm election, man, this would have been the one. I was convinced we were going to have it. Not a single meaningful incumbent in America lost. It was like the most incumbent, pro-incumbent midterm election in modern history after all the hell they just put us through. and what broke me was that realization like, oh, the old system is out now. We're going to have to actually punish, we're going to have to elect Republicans that will punish Democrats. We can't trust the voters anymore.
Starting point is 00:36:54 We have to elect Republicans that will do this, that will now take the power we give them. The old social compact of, this is, I pler or bassoonum is broken now. And now this is a full out cold civil war. And what we need now is, and how do we win the last civil war? Reagan understood. there were men in the Kremlin who looked at the weakness of the United States and actually thought they could win a nuclear war. He had to create a deterrent so there would be mutually assured destruction. You understand no one wins this.
Starting point is 00:37:23 You cannot win. You fire 100 at us. We'll fire a thousand at you. You can't win. All we'll do is just turn this thing into a dust bowl for cockroaches. No one can win. And we are going to have to elect Republicans, Glenn, that will do that. You kind of alluded to it a minute ago.
Starting point is 00:37:38 right where are the red state agis where are the red county agis and places where we're we're hundred Biden took a dump once drove through your state once and you got it on camera hey that's residency we got you okay where is the equal law fair to say if you do this to us we will do this to you are you sure you want to do this are you what's happening right now is there is no mutually assured
Starting point is 00:38:02 destruction they think they can do whatever they want to us and get away with it and they do and the voters are the voters have out. They're not going to hold them accountable anymore. And one of the big reasons why is they just don't like Republicans. They just, they hate, they don't think Republicans will do what they think. It's funny, if you look at the midterm elections, who were the Republicans that actually won?
Starting point is 00:38:21 Not even guys I agree with all the time, like Brian Kemp and Mike DeWine, but guys who actually led their states, not always in ways I would have, Ron DeSantis, my governor, Kim Reynolds, they were the ones that won big. No other Republicans anywhere in other words, the idea that I'm just going to vote Republican now is a
Starting point is 00:38:36 check and balance against Democrats and going to work anymore. You're going to have to earn my vote. I don't trust any of you guys. Okay, I don't think you're going to do what I think... I don't think you're going to do your high-minded talk. I don't think we're going to cut government or any of that kind of stuff. Think you're going to help your corporate cronies. That's what I think you're going to do.
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Starting point is 00:40:59 Subscribe and lock in that price, good ranchers.com. Promocode Glenn. Now Republicans are going to have to lead now. We're going to have to elect people that will go to Disney and say, no, you're not going to put porn in our schools. In fact, I'm going to not only, I'll give you one story about DeSantis that just blew my mind at the time. One of his staffers is a guy named Kyle Lamb, a buddy of mine. And when DeSantis came out against Disney, I sent Kyle a text and I said, dude, really? I didn't expect that. But I said, you know what, if you really want to hurt Disney and take them on, tell your boy to go after their set-asides, and that'll really hurt them where it counts.
Starting point is 00:41:38 And he texts me back, L-O-L, I think we're probably a little ways away from doing something like that. 48 hours later, Ron DeSantis walks out there and says, and we're going to take away their corporate set-asides and all of their grift and all of their bennies. And we're to treat them like Bush Gardens and SeaWorld and every other attraction in Florida. No more favoritism for you. That blew my mind. Because I just never saw a Republican do anything like that.
Starting point is 00:42:05 closest was what Scott Walker did in Wisconsin, where he actually took the union's ability to use government to fund themselves away. Okay. But the idea of now affirmatively, that was still like a check and balance move, though, but like taking power and then affirmatively wielding it against the other side to punish them. One of our colleagues here at the Blaze, Oron McIntyre likes to say politics is about punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends. He's right. Now, we can do that in ways that is still constitutional. I am not saying to become nihilists and become Japanese,
Starting point is 00:42:38 the right-wing American version of Japanese kamikaze pilots. But for a long time, Glenn, we've been nicer than God. And I think anything short of helping them burn the Constitution ourselves and violating the Ten Commandments, we ought to be willing to do to win.
Starting point is 00:42:53 And we're not willing to do most of those things yet, and that's why we're on a break of losing. So I am willing to do absolutely everything the Constitution allows us to do. I am willing to do everything that the Bill of Rights allows us to do. And I am willing to look at new strategies like Vivek has talked about. You know, my theory is I can fire all these people or I'm working for them, not the other way around.
Starting point is 00:43:24 I agree with that. And that's a battle I want to fight. But I'm not willing to become everything I despise. I agree. And zero times zero is still zero. Right. And so we are, um, my fear is that we either continue to elect people like Mitch McConnell who will, we're over.
Starting point is 00:43:47 We're over. Or we, um, because hunger is coming. Hunger is coming. Um, you think crime in our cities is bad. Now give it a year. Give it a year. Um, especially if a Republican will win.
Starting point is 00:44:06 We are headed for real hard times. And the next logical step that happens throughout history is dictatorship. And I feel it's very necessary to make sure that when we talk about things like this, that we are saying, and everybody else that is involved is saying, we are based on the, which you said, Declaration of Independence,
Starting point is 00:44:38 that's our mission statement. How to do it is our constitution. And just a safety reminder, you're never to do any of these things is a Bill of Rights. Those three things. And if we can have some sort of a great awakening that balances that power does not fuse itself, but balances it.
Starting point is 00:45:01 If we can restore those things, that's a high, high bar to fill, especially when people are like, just stop them. Just stop them. What you just described is, just to show you how high of a bar it is,
Starting point is 00:45:17 it's only happened one time in human history we just described. That's called the American Revolution. I know. What typically happens is either the Little Red Book Revolution or the French Revolution. Some form of Vo-populi,
Starting point is 00:45:29 power to the people. The problem is the people are sinners. And so when they don't recognize that, meaning they don't have that awakening, that revival. We had great awakenings before we had a revolution. When people don't have the realization that there is a God and you're not it, and you're accountable to him, and you're a human, he's not, you're finite, he's not, you're a sinner, he's not. Without that humility, what ends up happening is the Vo-populi revolution ends up killing even more people than the previous aristocracy of elites did. That's what you've seen in Marxist countries where you see the French Revolution. And so when they're done taking the guillotine to the elites, they then roll it over to the church
Starting point is 00:46:11 next. They bring out the bishops. They execute them. They take the Virgin Mary out of the Cathedral of Notre Dame and they put the goddess of reason in it, they call a reign of terror. Because we're God now. And we're going to replace the people that gave us the old gods. That's why. There's something but there is something new being introduced now that is very reminiscent of 1930 early 1930s and that is um this idea that it is uh modernism that is the problem that the um enlightenment was a problem that we have to go back and reset before the Declaration of Independence, before the Enlightenment, before you could ask questions, before science. Science is not bad. It is the idea that the scientists now believe they're
Starting point is 00:47:10 God. Yes. They're no longer seeking truth. They're conjuring it. Correct. Yeah. You're describing that's progressivism. Right. It is going back to a pre-Judeo-Christian understanding of the world. Correct. And if you go and say, you know, in Germany, it could have been very easy to go and say, you know what, it's these doctors, it's these nurses that really got us into trouble. Because it was. It was the medical establishment. But they knew it was the people's philosophy that had gone. It's not science. It's the people's philosophy that are in science. And so what's new here, I think, that you add to what you were just saying is, there are many people on the right too that are now starting to say none of that is any good right none of the the declaration of constitution we have to go before questioning of anything to be able to come back that's a slaughterhouse as well i agree one of the things i am frustrated by i i don't believe and this last election again broke me because i i don't
Starting point is 00:48:24 believe, I don't like saying this, okay? But I don't believe there is literally anything the system could do to Donald Trump that would make the independence and normies that have deserted us the last few elections and who have made it clear they don't like him. Suddenly say, you know what, you massed my kids, you told me I had to take an experimental shot in order to have a job, and you locked down my church. And I don't really care about all of that. But you know what? This billionaire that you're persecuting now. That's suddenly a real issue for me despite the fact I voted for a dementia patient who
Starting point is 00:49:00 gave me the worst car new car market in American history and the most expensive housing market in American history. I voted for this dementia patient over mean tweets and create a generational damage for my kids and grandkids. But now that you're treating Donald Trump unfairly,
Starting point is 00:49:16 I suddenly care more about him than I cared about my own household and I voted against him the last few elections. So what happens when they put him in jail? I think nothing happens. I think we will meme. I think that we will, I mean, the amount of mugshots that I saw trending today, people coming up with their own Trump mugshots for fun, that I saw on conservative Twitter.
Starting point is 00:49:38 Again, a lot of people think this is a show. I saw a UGov poll last week that showed only 12% of Republicans. I think Trump will be convicted. A buddy of mine who works for a governor, a Republican governor, was at the gym, the day of the D.C. indictment. and he was there with a bunch of his buddies and they're sitting around the TV watching it in between sets and he looks at him and he says
Starting point is 00:49:58 you guys know that they're going to convict him right this is Washington DC it's a gulag it's not a jury and his buddies looked at him these are his buddies oh no man Trump's got a plan it's a show okay and I think we are not as serious as our enemies are they are serious
Starting point is 00:50:13 as a COVID jab induced myocarditis heart attack very serious I think we think this is a show I think we think that some form of normalcy will just kind of organically return. And I think it's because we're very comfortable. And in May I was invited to a meeting of some Christian ministry leaders from around the country.
Starting point is 00:50:34 And we all agreed politics stays away for now. Let's just talk about where the country is spiritually and where we think things are going. And we just got together, prayed together, talked at a very blunt conversation. And one of the senior members of the leaders that were there got up towards the end, almost like Benjamin Franklin Man and Independence Hall kind of stuff. He's one of the oldest guys there. And he got up and he looked at us and he said, you know, there's been a lot of talk about we need revival.
Starting point is 00:50:57 And I have said on my show for years, it's revival or bust, right? He goes, everybody here's talking about revival. He goes, just make sure, do you guys truly understand what you're asking the Lord for if you ask for that? Because he cannot send revival to us right now. We're too comfortable. We'll reject it. All right. We don't think we need him.
Starting point is 00:51:13 We think we got this figured out. We're all good to go. If we just nominate the right Republican and win the next election or if I get the right job, if I marry the right person, my kids get in the right. the right school, we'll get this whole thing fixed. He goes, so I desperately agree this country's needed revival. He said, then at more time and then all my 70, 80 plus years. But understand what you're asking the Lord to do.
Starting point is 00:51:35 If we want revival, is to humble, we have to be humbled first. And he said in the 17th and 18th century, we had awakenings alongside normal American life without a lot of civil disruption because we weren't as profit, we weren't as prosperous and comfortable as we are now. There wasn't a such thing as a teenager, in 1812, all right?
Starting point is 00:51:54 Nobody, nobody during the 18th century, Jonathan Edwards revivals had a social media account that they were monetizing. Right. I mean, life in and itself was far more uncomfortable than anything we could tolerate today. So, so awakenings without a mass amount of civil unrest could be possible because the people were much humbler back then.
Starting point is 00:52:15 We're gonna have to be humbled quite a bit. And so if we truly want revival, he said, things are gonna actually have to probably get markedly worse than they are right now. They will. And that froze me. I hadn't even thought about that because I'd always looked at the past and when awakenings happened and they happened within the largely normal aspects of American life. But this is not the same American life as 300 years ago. It's something else here now. Something new. From exclusively on Paramount Plus, it's the series Stephen
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Starting point is 00:54:23 nine eleven and we just keep getting more and more arrogant and in everything we do we try to prove to him we're god and we don't need you um the the reason why we have the society we have is because we've lost humility because we've lost gratitude i mean i i i i i get up every day and there will be something in my life that happens. And it doesn't have to be grand. It can just be standing someplace and looking at just the technology of everyday life. Thank you. My gosh, look at where we're living. Look at the time we're living in. Even look at the bad things that are happening and the good things that could happen on the horizon. All of this, no one has lived like we are living right now. I know. And because we just take it and go, yeah,
Starting point is 00:55:25 it's always going to be like this, we have no gratitude. We have no humility. When my son was younger, he was about nine, and we sat and we watched Disney's Man in Space, which is the 1955 film that he made that actually convinced America we could go to space and go to the moon. And Werner von Braun was part of it. And the next thing that was up was a man on Mars and also a Disney thing. And I said to my son, it'll be amazing when we go to Mars. And he said, we haven't been there? I said, no. And he said, why? I said, well, it's a little difficult. It's a long, long, long, long way away. And I realized this is the, everything is possible to them. Everything.
Starting point is 00:56:23 You can do anything. Sky's the limit. Mars, why aren't we there? How come we're not there? I've heard people say, oh, we definitely didn't land on the moon. You know, India just became the fourth country to be able to land on the moon, I think, yesterday. And if we could do that, you know, Russia just crashed a lunar rover. China has crashed.
Starting point is 00:56:49 You know, we have these rockets from Musk that are blowing up. We never went to the moon. Yeah, we did. It's just very difficult to do it. We have no concept of any of that now. And, you know, that's why the people in China, I have been told the Christians in China have been praying for us to, for our economy and everything to collapse.
Starting point is 00:57:20 And they're doing it because I said, what are you praying for? And they said, humility. You have to be humbled. You don't remember who you are. You don't remember. Within a decade,
Starting point is 00:57:31 there'll be more Christians in China than any country in the world. There's a better chance that you will be converted to Christianity being born in China than in Chicago. If you look at the stats. I got news for you. I was a better member of,
Starting point is 00:57:44 my faith in New York than I ever am in Salt Lake City. Because there's no rub. There's no, it's just that's what it is. It's like being a Catholic in Rome. So before you and I started recording this, I got an email yesterday from a gentleman who, one of his best friends is a guy named Daryl Evans. And Daryl Evans is a former Major League Baseball All-Star. And he was the first player in baseball history to hit 40 home runs in both the American
Starting point is 00:58:12 and National League. and he played for my beloved childhood Detroit Tigers as a kid, and I watched him, you know, my entire childhood on the great Sparky Anderson Tiger teams of the 80s. And he comes in today, and it turns out he's a big fan of you and the Blaze and our show. And he comes in, I give him the tour, you were still on the air. And he lets me put on, he brings,
Starting point is 00:58:33 he comes in wearing his 1984 Detroit Tigers World Series ring. Wow. And it is actually a perfect fit on my finger. And I take a picture with him in the ring. And my wife takes the picture and I go to talk and I can't. because I'm thinking to myself, I'm back to being the 10-year-old boy that when my parents went to bed, and the tiger's on the West Coast, and it's 10.30 Eastern, and I got school the next morning, and I'm sneaking up to turn the TV on and putting it on with no sound so I can follow the game,
Starting point is 00:58:56 and I'm going to be up to 1 a.m. for school, right? I'm back to being that kid again. And it dawned on me after that moment and how magical it was, first of all, even in the midst of all of the existential dangers facing us, the Lord is still good, just these kinds of little blessings, right? but it also reminded me that what are we really fighting for? I think that we're not fighting for our kids and grandkids. That's who we're fighting for. That's who we're fighting for. To pass on an American legacy to them that was given to us.
Starting point is 00:59:27 So that we're not the generation Reagan warned about, the one that will one day have to tell their children what it was like once in America when we were free. But what we're fighting for is actually moments like what you just described with your son, what I had out here in the lobby with Dare Levens, the idea that it's the major benchmarks in life that matter the most,
Starting point is 00:59:50 a marriage. If everything goes right, it'll happen only once. At most, twice. Your kids being born, that only happens once for each kid. Your kid graduating from school. That only happens once for each kid. Your kid getting married. That only happens once for each kid. These major benchmarks are rare. That's why they're so important. And we organize our lives.
Starting point is 01:00:10 lives around them and celebrate them. In between those major benchmarks, we go to work every day, pay the bills every day, what are the things in between those major benchmarks that bring joy to your life? So that you don't feel like a cog in a machine. So that you feel like your life is worthwhile, that it's fun, joyful, that there's a reason for those things.
Starting point is 01:00:29 When America provided more than anything and more than any other nation on earth ever has been able to, because of its prosperity, and because of its supremacy, and its liberties and its freedoms is those little moments of joy that I was given,
Starting point is 01:00:46 I had the freedom and the prosperity to even go sit for $4 in the old Tiger Stadium bleachers 440 feet away from home plate and watch Darrell Evans as a little boy hit a home run into those seats. And if we lose those things, what's happened,
Starting point is 01:01:02 we're going to lose them because see in our era, particularly the men, they have prioritized those little joys over there main responsibilities. That we now don't look forward to those little joys
Starting point is 01:01:14 to give us a break from our responsibility and we get refueled. Hey, I had a weekend off, I went to the ball game, hung out with my kid, took my wife out on a date night, I'm good. I'm ready to go back to the battle on Monday. All right? I'll be at my kid's school board meeting on Tuesday. I'll go to my kid's game on Friday. All right. We've flipped our priorities now, particularly the men.
Starting point is 01:01:33 Now they know more details about their fantasy baseball team than they do their legislature. Now they know more details about their leisure pursuits, then they do their priorities and responsibilities. And because of that, because our priorities are out of order, we're now in danger of losing both. You're now in danger of everything's politicized now. Even your leisure pursuits are politicized now. And so because we're not our prior, we're not engaged generationally. We're not in the fight generationally, particularly the men. And the leisure pursuits are an ends and a means to themselves. They're the goal. Okay.
Starting point is 01:02:05 not a break, that they're the goal. And we're in danger of losing all of that. That's really the unique, your museum is a testimony to this. You have chronicled for decades and collected and having that museum across the street. Yes,
Starting point is 01:02:18 there's historical things of great significance there. There's also Dorothy's Red Shoes. There's also a Darth Vader helmet. They're really in the grand scheme of things. No one's taken that with them to the next life. Okay. But until we get to that next life, it's actually those things.
Starting point is 01:02:35 that give us joy to keep going, to finish the race, as St. Paul said, to keep going, to not quit, to keep fighting, to encourage us, all right? And we're in danger of losing those things because we have prioritized those things more than the historical things that you have archived in that museum as well.
Starting point is 01:02:54 Without knowing it, I think you explained why we collected those things last. We didn't collect them at the same time. We focused on the really important. And then when we had enough of that as our center, you know, it's like, you know,
Starting point is 01:03:14 John Adams said, I'm doing this now. So my children can study mathematics. Yes. Everything else. So they can build an art, you know, gallery that their children can appreciate art.
Starting point is 01:03:31 But right now I can't do any of that. Yep. Because I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to have, freedom and opportunity to work. Like my son, we had a moment this summer, my son had a lot of days this summer, had to get up and go to off-season conditioning for football
Starting point is 01:03:47 at 7 a.m. in the summer, work out in the heat, then come home, go to lunch, and then go to work when he worked outside for a company that did inflatables. And he was often putting in 7, 8, 9 hours in the heat all summer long. And he'd come home at night and I'd be like, you want to hang out, you're tired, what do you want to do? He's like, I'm tired. I kind of just want to, you know, place,
Starting point is 01:04:05 Skyrim, do you care? I said, you know what? I'm play Skyrim for the next three hours. You know why? Because you got up, went to football practice, worked out for two hours there, came home for lunch, went to work, worked another six hours. You handled your business first. Your time is yours. That is your leisure time. You may do what you want with it. You earned that time. What we want to do in our era now is flip it. Yes. And the leisure time now is actually what we want to do during the day when we're supposed to be productive. Correct. All right. And then and then, And then by that point in time, it's too late. And our priorities are out of order.
Starting point is 01:04:39 And I think God is going to have to humble us, humble us where those priorities are concerned to bring us to a place where our hearts are ready for revival. And if we can be humble enough to not kill each other while that's happening. And I'm worried about that. I am too. But with God's grace, you know, maybe we'll, maybe we'll do that. Always good to see you. You bet, man.
Starting point is 01:05:04 When you come, I didn't ask. single question I had prepared. So when you come back, will you come back to the podcast? Absolutely. I'd love to. You bet. Thank you.
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