The Glenn Beck Program | Hour 1 | 4/21/25

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JD Vance JD Vance was with

5:35

the Pope on Easter and then

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the Pope dies That's all I'm

5:39

gonna say. I'm just gonna leave

5:42

it there. I'm just gonna you

5:44

draw your own conclusions America No,

5:46

he had a good conversation apparently

5:48

with the Pope And the Pope

5:50

died he was very very sick

5:52

in the hospital. He had pneumonia

5:54

So we're we're back to the

5:57

we're back to the voting for

5:59

a new Pope now if I

6:01

may Let me just

6:03

tell you a story that I

6:05

don't think most in the

6:07

media even understand and if they

6:09

do they certainly won't touch

6:11

it But I was there back

6:13

in 2013 I think Rob.

6:15

What did we decide it was

6:17

12 or 13 something like

6:19

that? I was I was

6:21

at the Vatican. I was supposed to

6:24

meet with the Pope I met

6:26

instead with a bunch of the high

6:28

advisors for the Pope and

6:30

it was Pope Benedict at the

6:32

time. And I just

6:34

want to talk to you about

6:36

what I learned there and

6:38

what we need to understand on

6:40

this last Pope because there

6:42

was a quiet coup inside of

6:44

the walls of the Vatican. The

6:47

first public victim of

6:50

the deep state was not

6:52

a president of the

6:54

United States. It was the

6:56

Pope, wasn't a priest, wasn't a

6:58

whistleblower, It was Pope Benedict. Benedict

7:01

wasn't just a conservative, although

7:03

he was a staunch conservative.

7:05

He was absolutely immovable. He

7:08

was elected in 2005. He stood

7:10

for everything the modern world wanted the

7:12

church to abandon. He was moral. He

7:15

had moral clarity. He

7:17

was a traditionalist and a spiritual

7:19

authority. And my

7:21

first, my first realization that

7:23

Pope Francis was going to

7:25

be none of these things is

7:28

when the media was talking about, you know,

7:30

they kept doing the white smoke and the black

7:32

smoke and they finally had, I don't remember

7:34

what it is, the white or the black smoke

7:37

and it came out and they knew they

7:39

had a pope and so they were waiting and

7:41

they were speculating. Everybody on CNN and ABC,

7:43

they were all speculating. Who could it possibly be?

7:46

And they started to speculate and they would

7:48

say, oh, it's probably this cardinal. Oh,

7:50

he's a real hardliner. He's going to be

7:52

really bad, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

7:54

Then they finally came up to this pope.

7:57

I don't remember what his real

7:59

name is, but you know, they

8:01

mentioned him and they said, well,

8:03

we don't know much about him.

8:06

And within 10 minutes, everybody on

8:08

every network started talking about how

8:10

great he was going to be.

8:12

He was practically Jesus. And

8:14

then when he when he was

8:16

named Francis, oh, see, he is

8:19

Jesus or St. Francis, take your

8:21

pick. And I remember looking

8:23

at used to and saying, oh, boy,

8:25

we're in trouble. They like him. This

8:27

guy's gonna be a nightmare. So

8:31

you had, you had a

8:33

Benedict who would not compromise

8:35

on life, no surrender on

8:37

marriage, no applause for, you

8:39

know, the modern world. and

8:42

the globalist hated him. The

8:44

media called him rigid, progressive,

8:46

called him dangerous, and

8:48

the machine went to work behind

8:50

closed doors because that machine is

8:52

in every government and make no

8:54

mistake, the Vatican is a government.

8:58

Scandal after scandal, corruption,

9:00

abuse, all real

9:02

problems, yes, but

9:04

they were used to discredit

9:06

this pope and to stabilize

9:08

his papacy. and he refused

9:10

to bend and then suddenly

9:12

in 2013 he resigns now

9:14

I remember when this happened

9:17

gang let's let's let's put

9:19

this into what we now

9:21

know okay we now know

9:23

who replaced him we now

9:25

have seen the deep state

9:27

in governments all across the

9:29

world okay we have seen

9:31

people being voted for and

9:33

the deep state didn't like

9:35

him and so they say

9:37

nope not him We've

9:39

seen them throw people into

9:41

jail. Okay So by

9:43

2013 he resigns and he's

9:46

the first pope in

9:48

600 years to resign and

9:50

it's because he was

9:52

too frail. He was too

9:54

frail. He was too

9:56

tired Biden wasn't but Benedict

9:58

was Okay, and yet

10:00

he lived for nearly 10

10:02

years. He lived he

10:05

wrote He was speaking. He

10:07

was warning. He

10:09

stayed in the Vatican inside the walls.

10:11

He stayed in the Vatican. He

10:13

wore white. He signed

10:15

his name Pope Emeritus. That's

10:17

not retirement. That's

10:19

him. Not really resigning. That's

10:21

resistance. That's what that was

10:24

and into that vote void

10:26

came Pope Francis Okay, immediately

10:28

everything about the church changed.

10:30

There was global applause. Oh

10:32

my gosh climate change sermons

10:34

Remember those though. They were

10:36

great doctrinal ambiguity to the

10:39

where the point where Catholics

10:41

were like, wait a minute.

10:43

It what is he saying

10:45

here? Suddenly, the church is

10:47

less about salvation, more about

10:49

sustainability and collective salvation, less

10:51

moral compass, more moral relativism,

10:54

and it seemed as though

10:56

the fix was in. Now,

11:00

even members of some

11:02

press overseas were saying,

11:04

uh, this was a

11:06

coup. Apparently,

11:10

Benedict left a box, it's

11:12

called a white box, full

11:14

of scandal files. And

11:16

it was not a gift to

11:18

Pope Francis. It was a warning.

11:21

He knew he saw it

11:23

coming. So it

11:25

was in resignation. It was

11:27

a removal from office, a

11:29

soft coup by the progressive

11:31

faction inside the church who

11:33

was eager to align Rome

11:35

with Davos and make no

11:37

mistake, Davos was there. The

11:39

UN was there. You

11:41

know, all the global priorities of

11:43

the UN and Davos were there

11:45

that have nothing to do with

11:47

God. But now the

11:50

church was aligned with all of

11:52

it. I

11:54

remember going As

11:56

I said, we were supposed to meet with the Pope, and

11:59

I went and I met with several

12:01

cardinals, I think the good cardinals, and

12:03

I saw stuff that I had never

12:05

seen before. It

12:07

was amazing. I saw the

12:09

church as political and as

12:11

spiritual at the same time. I'm

12:14

a former Catholic, so I respect

12:17

the Catholic Church. I also, you

12:19

know, I'm no dummy. It

12:21

is a political organization. I

12:23

think most churches can, you

12:25

know, go that direction. But

12:27

it was especially one that's, you know,

12:30

what, 2000 years old, 1900

12:32

years old. I think it could

12:34

probably go awry from time to

12:36

time and go political because that's

12:38

what it that's what it was

12:40

for a very long time. And

12:42

I remember seeing the guy who I

12:44

think was in charge is Jason out

12:46

there. See if Jason could come in

12:48

for a second. There was

12:51

a guy that Jason was with me.

12:53

Can you, Rob, can you open up one of those mics?

12:55

you know? Jason,

12:59

remember when we were at the Vatican?

13:01

You were in the room. Remember that

13:03

big map room? It was like we

13:05

were in the Godfather. Yeah. Okay. I

13:07

don't remember what that place was, but

13:09

it was, you know, like near the

13:11

Vatican, right around the Vatican. And it

13:13

was a place where they went and

13:15

they held, you know, Dignitaries

13:18

and held functions there and it

13:20

was amazing. It was like a

13:22

three -story room that we were

13:24

in and they were the biggest

13:26

maps of the world I've ever

13:28

seen and all of the I

13:30

mean it was incredible and it

13:32

had to be 400 years old.

13:35

Would you agree with that? Oh,

13:37

yeah. Okay, so it's just steeped

13:39

in quite honestly Dan Brown kind

13:41

of. Totally Dan Brown. Right? Totally

13:43

that. And I had just gotten

13:45

out of the archives the night

13:47

of the day before and I

13:49

don't even know how I got

13:51

this invitation, but I was I

13:53

was given an invitation and even

13:55

the guy who consulted the Pope

13:57

for doctrinal issues When

14:00

we were, I don't know, a quarter of the

14:02

way into the archives, he was with me and I

14:04

asked him a question and he said, don't ask

14:06

me, ask him. I've never been allowed in here. And

14:09

the next day, when we were

14:11

getting a tour from the head

14:13

of the Vatican Museum, he

14:16

said, you'll never guess where they were

14:18

yesterday. And he said, you know, they

14:20

were in the Vatican archives. And

14:22

she stopped, she was the head of

14:24

the museum. She stopped and she looked at

14:26

me and she's like, Tell me about

14:28

it. What was that like? So

14:30

like, I don't know how we got in there, but

14:32

we were asked to go in. So

14:35

we're experiencing all of this stuff.

14:37

And that night we were with,

14:39

I don't even remember who they

14:41

were, but they were the most

14:43

Christlike, you know, cardinals and preachers

14:45

or whatever they were that I

14:47

had been with the whole time.

14:49

They were so kind. You could

14:51

just feel the goodness coming off

14:53

of. They were real servants of

14:55

God. And

14:57

we were all sitting around talking and

14:59

you could tell everybody's guard in

15:02

that group everybody's guard was up and

15:04

all of a sudden and I'm

15:06

not kidding you the room dropped 10

15:08

degrees and I happened to be

15:10

facing looking at the door way across

15:12

this huge room and Here comes

15:14

this guy. I don't know if he

15:17

was a cardinal. He was wasn't

15:19

he in charge of all of the

15:21

the pope's schedule or something like that. Yeah,

15:24

OK. So he was he was the

15:26

main guy that, you know, you had to

15:28

get by if you were going to

15:30

get to the pope and the room dropped.

15:33

It became cold. And

15:35

I said, holy cow, who

15:37

is that guy? And the whole the

15:40

whole group of really nice guys turned around

15:42

and looked at him and one of

15:44

them turned back and went, oh, you can

15:46

feel that. And I said, oh,

15:49

Yeah, just feel no offense. I

15:51

didn't know if they liked

15:53

him or not. I said no

15:55

offense, but He doesn't seem

15:57

like a good guy and he

16:00

was way across the room

16:02

and they were like, oh good

16:04

sense on you. Oh, no

16:06

He's leading the opposition. So he's

16:08

the guy I think that

16:10

was helping thwart Benedict and he

16:12

was on in the inside.

16:14

Okay, it's exactly the Trump story.

16:16

Would you agree? Yeah, it felt

16:19

like it felt almost like a

16:21

game of thrones in the Vatican.

16:23

Didn't it? That's the best. And

16:25

it was the weirdest, weirdest feeling.

16:27

Yeah. And it's exactly what we

16:29

saw in 2016. I had never

16:31

seen that before. But it's

16:33

exactly what we saw in 2016. It's

16:35

what we're now seeing in the

16:37

EU, where the people with power are

16:39

just taking people out. The

16:42

pattern here is really Familiar

16:44

because we've seen it in

16:46

Washington. We've seen it in

16:48

Hollywood. We've seen it in

16:50

the media. It's the replacement

16:52

of the immovable With those

16:54

who are more malleable the

16:56

strong Replaced by the inclusive

16:58

the faithful with the fashionable

17:00

That's what happened And this

17:02

deep state doesn't just run

17:05

in governments. It runs in

17:07

everything. It runs in institutions.

17:09

And when those institutions start

17:11

to resist the world's

17:14

direction, they're infiltrated, they're neutralized,

17:16

and they're repurposed. And

17:18

it is in everything. It

17:21

happened at the Vatican.

17:23

I saw it. And

17:25

Pope Benedict was the warning

17:28

shot that we all missed.

17:31

He was the first

17:33

Donald Trump. I believe

17:35

now What happens next? Are

17:38

we gonna get somebody you

17:40

know as the church is starting

17:42

to grow again the Catholic

17:44

Church is starting to grow and

17:46

it's growing with Generation Z

17:48

who are saying we want our

17:50

traditions back. We want marriage

17:52

We want truth. We want eternal

17:54

truth as it's laid out

17:56

in the Gospels of Jesus Christ

17:59

As it's growing, will

18:01

the church grow

18:04

in that direction? Or

18:06

has Francis put such a cabal

18:08

in there that you might get

18:10

somebody who says that but is

18:12

do - Is it going to

18:14

be, yeah, we just elected a

18:16

new guy and he's doing exactly

18:18

what the last guy did, just

18:20

the way it happens in our

18:22

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18:24

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18:26

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not gonna hear that opinion anywhere. Do you think so?

20:09

Interesting Considering it happened very very

20:12

recently. It wasn't exactly the way

20:14

I thought you're gonna come out,

20:16

but that's all right interesting Interesting

20:18

start to the program as

20:20

usual. I mean, you know, I

20:22

wish I don't wish anybody any

20:24

harm obviously and you know, he

20:26

was a pope and

20:28

I have respect for the Pope, but I

20:30

have no respect for the policies that he

20:32

held. I'm not Catholic, so who am I

20:34

to say? It's, you know, I

20:37

might as well be talking about women, you

20:39

know, as astronauts. I've

20:41

never been to the moon, so what

20:43

do I know? I'm not a Catholic, so

20:45

I, you know, I don't mean to

20:47

impose my, but it is my viewpoint. And

20:50

what I witnessed there,

20:52

and it's really fascinating. It's

20:54

gonna be fascinating to

20:57

watch. You know yesterday I

20:59

posted on X something

21:01

that was happening in Where

21:03

was that in? Ethiopia

21:06

and I saw this thing

21:08

that happened on Easter Eve in

21:10

Ethiopia and there were there

21:12

had to be a million people

21:14

out in front of this

21:16

giant Cathedral and they were all

21:18

holding candles and and singing

21:20

and it was amazing Amazing what's

21:22

going on in Africa and

21:24

all over the world? People

21:27

are waking up again and

21:29

it will be interesting to see

21:31

what happens And who is

21:33

who is selected by those in

21:35

charge and You know, we've

21:38

seen it before where I think

21:40

there were like two popes

21:42

wasn't there two different popes that

21:44

died right before in between

21:46

Pope John Paul the second because

21:48

there was Pope John Paul

21:50

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21:52

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21:55

I think there was another one that died right before

21:57

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21:59

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22:01

him. Oh,

22:05

okay, John Paul. So we'll

22:07

see. Did you just swipe right on

22:09

him, Pope? Is that what you were doing? I did. I

22:11

just wanted to make sure. I mean, as God, I think

22:13

God was like, swipe right.

22:16

No. Yeah, people

22:19

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22:21

right? They had the movie

22:23

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22:25

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22:27

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22:29

again, I didn't see it. I

22:32

don't know. I'm not,

22:34

you know, as you are, I'm not

22:36

Catholic. I'm not all that

22:38

involved in the process other than

22:40

just kind of watch from afar.

22:42

But they're the - It's pretty

22:44

amazing. The wide range between Benedict

22:46

and Francis. is a really interesting

22:48

thing that the Catholic Church is going to

22:50

make a big decision on here real soon. And

22:53

that's going to be a fascinating

22:55

thing to watch. Yeah. Because it's

22:57

not just the future of the

22:59

church, but it's so influential in

23:02

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to the Glenn Beck program. We're glad

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you're here. I want to take on

25:28

something else that I don't know maybe

25:30

I should just keep my big fat

25:32

mouth shut But because I think this

25:34

one's gonna piss off everybody, but it's

25:36

the truth There was a story in

25:38

the New York Times the podcaster asking

25:41

you to side with history's villains He

25:43

was in the New York Times. Let

25:45

me read some of it Daryl Cooper

25:47

is no scholar, but legions of fans

25:49

many on the right can't seem to

25:51

resist what he presents as hidden truths.

25:54

All of a sudden, everyone was coming for Daryl

25:56

Cooper. There were the newspaper

25:58

columnists, the historians, the Jewish groups, repugnant,

26:00

says the chairman of Yad Vashem,

26:02

Israel's Holocaust Museum in a statement. Even

26:05

the Biden White House released a statement

26:07

calling him a Holocaust denier who spreads Nazi

26:09

propaganda. So it was for a

26:11

time for Mr. Cooper, one of the most

26:13

popular podcasters in the country, to do what

26:15

he does best, hit record. In

26:17

a special episode of his history

26:19

program, murder made, Mr. Cooper addressed

26:22

the controversy, which had exploded out

26:24

of September 2nd appearance on The

26:26

Tucker Carlson Show, the podcast started

26:28

by the former Fox News host.

26:30

At first, Mr. Cooper, a gifted

26:32

historic storyteller, but not a

26:34

trained historian, defended the claims he

26:36

had made on Mr. Carlson Show, one

26:38

that Winston Churchill was the chief

26:40

villain of the war. Ridiculous. Not

26:43

by implication, Adolf Hitler.

26:46

the two and two that millions

26:48

had died in Nazi controlled Eastern

26:50

Europe because Nazis had not adequately

26:52

planned to feed them. Okay,

26:54

not true. Uh,

26:57

he then said, you know, the story goes

26:59

on to say then kind of retracted some of

27:01

that stuff. This emotional ventriloquism is part of

27:03

Mr. Cooper's approach and appeal. On TikTok, a fan

27:05

praised him as one of the best historians

27:07

of our time because he tries to go out

27:09

of his way to understand the perspective of

27:11

everyone involved in his situation. These

27:13

critics have probably helped make Mr.

27:16

Cooper bigger than ever. He has

27:18

been the most subscribed to history

27:20

newsletter on substack one spot ahead

27:22

of the eminent economic historian Adam

27:24

twos in the wake of the

27:26

Rogan interview Mart Martyr made blah

27:28

blah blah blah blah Okay, so

27:30

they go on and on and

27:32

on to talk about how this

27:34

just can't stand. I mean we've

27:36

got to there's got to be

27:39

some sort of Filter and you

27:41

know Joe Rogan just can't have

27:43

on whoever he wants to have

27:45

on that's the problem Is it?

27:47

New York Times? Is that the

27:49

problem? Hmm. It's

27:51

really interesting. Now

27:53

let me just look and let

27:55

me just look in the past

27:57

here and see if we've had

27:59

this exact same problem with anybody

28:01

else. Because the person

28:04

that came to mind was

28:06

not Daryl Cooper, but Nicole

28:08

Hannah -Jones. Because I think those

28:10

two are the same coin.

28:13

And the coin's counterfeit, but

28:15

Just opposite sides of the

28:17

same coin the martyr made

28:19

podcast spins a tale of

28:21

grievance and distrust and it's

28:23

wrapped enough in enough fact

28:25

to keep it plausible But

28:27

there are some facts in

28:29

there, okay Jones she did

28:31

the 1619 project She did

28:33

the same thing in reverse

28:35

except I think she's actually

28:37

worse. I mean Because I

28:39

think she made up almost

28:41

everything in that She recasts

28:43

American history as racist from

28:45

the very inception of the

28:47

country. Neither one of them is telling

28:49

the whole truth. Neither one of them. Neither

28:52

one wants to, I think. They're

28:54

both in the business of narrative

28:56

and not history. So am

28:58

I. But I try to be

29:00

fair. The real

29:02

problem is not these

29:04

two. Honestly, it's

29:06

the New York Times. because

29:09

in their Sunday Styles right up

29:11

on Cooper, the Times

29:13

poses as a concerned

29:15

observer, wary of growing influence

29:17

among the disaffected right. Why

29:20

are we disaffected? Why is

29:22

the right disaffected? We're disaffected

29:24

because you have tried to take our

29:26

country from us, everything that we

29:28

believe, our history, our values, our traditions,

29:30

and you've tried to denigrate them

29:32

and destroy them every step of the

29:34

way. And you've done it with

29:36

one lie right after another. Okay

29:40

Why are they framing him

29:42

not with facts but with suspicion?

29:45

Not because he's dishonest or not

29:47

dishonest but because he's popular They

29:50

clutch their pearls because he has

29:52

an audience and only the New

29:54

York Times can have that audience

29:56

But where was that concern when

29:58

they did? when they gave an

30:00

audience to Nicole Hannah Jones and

30:03

gave her a Pulitzer for a

30:05

project now so discredited by the

30:07

very historians that are now talking

30:09

about Cooper. Where

30:11

was the caution when they

30:13

declared that 1619, not 1776,

30:15

was the true founding of

30:17

the nation? They didn't question

30:19

her authority. They didn't

30:21

say, well, she's not a historian.

30:23

They printed it. In fact, they

30:26

taught it and endorsed it. They

30:28

platformed it in schools. That's

30:30

different than anything that Joe Rogan

30:32

is doing. They platformed

30:35

it in schools. So let's

30:37

be clear, okay? I

30:39

think both Cooper and Jones are

30:41

wrong. They

30:43

may have points worth considering. But

30:46

I think that they get

30:48

it fundamentally wrong in a

30:50

few places. They are looking

30:52

at facts to tell the

30:54

story and not necessarily reveal

30:56

the truth. Now, maybe I'm

30:58

being too cynical, but that's

31:00

the way I see it.

31:02

And I'm not condemning either

31:04

one. I'm condemning all of

31:06

those on the left or

31:08

the right that are now

31:10

doing the same thing that

31:12

the New York Times did

31:14

with Cooper. but didn't do

31:16

with Hannah Nicole Jones. Only

31:19

one of those two was

31:21

lauded by the New York Times

31:23

as legitimate and a necessary

31:26

corrective, even though it was all

31:28

a lie made up. So

31:30

that's what, when I'm reading that

31:32

op -ed in the New York Times,

31:34

I can't take the, oh my gosh,

31:36

the hypocritical nature of it. I

31:38

just, blood shoots out of my eyes.

31:42

Because that's what the New York

31:44

Times is actually saying. Don't

31:46

you little people understand? We must

31:48

decide what stories are acceptable.

31:51

Not you. Not somebody

31:53

like Joe Rogan. We

31:55

will decide which distortions are

31:57

virtuous and which ones are dangerous.

31:59

Not you. We get to

32:01

choose the false prophets that get

32:03

a column which and which

32:06

ones are called conspiracy theorists. We

32:08

at the New York Times.

32:10

We in the media. And

32:13

that is the problem.

32:16

This isn't about the authors. Okay,

32:19

First Amendment gives them a right to say

32:21

whatever they want. You may not like it. If

32:23

you don't like it, stop listening. Well,

32:25

but other people might listen.

32:27

Yeah, well, other people might listen.

32:29

And maybe we should pay

32:32

more attention to our education in

32:34

our schools. Maybe we should

32:36

pay more attention so we don't

32:38

become somebody that is a

32:40

dummy. themselves and are,

32:42

because this is the problem.

32:44

We don't have a press that

32:46

exposes lies anymore. We have

32:48

a press that curates the

32:51

lies. I

32:54

really think this is why I

32:56

started collecting, you know,

32:58

we have now the third largest

33:00

collection of founding documents in

33:02

the American Journey experience along with

33:04

David Barton's wall builders. It

33:06

is It's only behind the National

33:08

Archives and the Library of

33:10

Congress. Most people don't know it

33:12

because, you know, we don't talk

33:14

about it yet. Beginning in 26, we're going to

33:16

be making a big deal out of it. We

33:19

also have the largest collection

33:21

of pilgrim -era artifacts and documents

33:23

in the world. The largest. So

33:26

I can tell you what happened

33:28

in Jamestown in 1619. I can tell

33:30

you this, the ship that Hannah

33:32

Nicole Jones talks about, there were no

33:34

slaves on that ship. How do

33:36

I know? We have the manifest. No

33:39

slaves. Hmm.

33:42

That seems problematic, doesn't it?

33:45

And the Mayflower did not launch

33:47

a system of slavery. In fact,

33:49

they fought against it. We...

33:52

I mean, girls are so

33:55

crazy. What the

33:57

Pilgrims did against slavery

33:59

was remarkable. Remarkable.

34:01

When a slave ship accidentally came into

34:03

their port. It was slavery was

34:05

against the law. They called it man

34:07

stealing. It was against the law

34:09

and as soon as that slave came

34:11

into port you could smell a

34:13

slave ship They knew exactly what it

34:15

was and they marched marched up

34:17

and they arrested the captain of the

34:19

ship They put him in irons

34:21

and put him in jail and then

34:23

these people who are already paying

34:25

50 % of everything they made these

34:27

poor people 50 % of everything they

34:29

made to a king that they despised

34:31

but they paid it because they

34:33

wanted just to stay alive. They

34:35

took up a collection from

34:38

each other, not outside, from

34:40

each other. Got

34:42

a new captain, refueled, restocked the

34:44

ship and sent those people, those

34:46

slaves back to Africa so they

34:48

could be freed. That's who our

34:51

pilgrims were. Don't believe me, you

34:53

don't have to take my word

34:55

for it. We have the evidence.

34:59

Please. You know what? The longest running

35:01

treaty with Native Americans happened with

35:03

our pilgrims. And you know who broke

35:05

it? Not the white man. It

35:08

was the Native Americans. And you know why? because

35:10

after years and years of the pilgrims

35:13

and the Native Americans getting along Christianity

35:15

was starting to seep into their culture

35:17

and they needed to go to war

35:19

with the tribe and the war that

35:21

the way they used to fight it

35:23

the Native Americans were it was okay

35:25

to enslave your enemy in fact you

35:27

needed to you could torture them after

35:29

you won just to make a point

35:31

and then you can enslave anybody you

35:33

wanted And Christianity said, no, you can't

35:35

do either one of those things. And

35:37

so the Native Americans that were part

35:39

of this tribe that were friends and

35:42

under this treaty with the pilgrims, they

35:44

started telling their chief, you know, we

35:46

can't do these things. And the chief

35:48

got so pissed because he's like, we're

35:50

fighting a war and we're fighting it

35:52

the way we've always fought it, that

35:54

they broke the treaty. Did you

35:56

know that? No, no, we were

35:58

just horrible. We stole the land. Oh,

36:02

yeah, yeah, yeah. Did America?

36:05

Live up to its ideals. No

36:07

has anybody ever have you has

36:09

the Pope has anybody really lived

36:11

up to their ideals all the

36:13

time No, but you have ideals

36:15

and that's what matters by the

36:17

way on the other side I

36:19

also happen to own a few

36:21

original Nazi documents from the actual

36:23

perpetrators I've got documents from the

36:26

engineer that actually calculated how much

36:28

Zyclon be it would take to

36:30

murder a room full of Joe

36:32

Jews, okay? It wasn't because

36:34

they have

36:36

enough food. This was calculated.

36:39

I have the final prescription signed

36:41

by Dr. Mangala for a thousand

36:43

liters of luminol for the so -called

36:45

children's hospital. That's how the Reich

36:47

was killing the undesirables in the

36:49

children's hospital. They didn't do it

36:51

in a frenzy. It wasn't in

36:54

a riot. It wasn't out

36:56

of desperation. It was silence

36:58

in lab coats with bureaucrats and

37:00

experts signing off and the

37:02

press, like the New York Times,

37:04

refusing to say a word

37:06

about it. The scariest people

37:08

are not the ones in the streets. They

37:11

weren't. They were the ones with

37:13

titles, with offices, with press credentials. They

37:16

were the ones with the doctorates. They

37:19

were the people who decided what

37:21

could be published. Who could be

37:23

punished? What could be known? What could

37:25

be said? And that's

37:27

the danger that we're staring

37:29

down right now, not from

37:31

fringe theorists on a podcast,

37:33

not even from overzealous academics

37:35

with a Pulitzer, but from

37:37

the institutions that bless one

37:39

distortion and condemn the other. Not

37:42

based on truth, but based on

37:44

usefulness. Is it useful to our

37:46

side? I just want you to

37:48

know. This is my stance

37:51

on this and make this very very

37:53

clear. The First

37:55

Amendment does not exist to

37:57

protect comfortable speech. It

37:59

doesn't exist to protect Cooper

38:01

as opposed to Jones. It

38:04

exists to protect both of

38:06

them. It protects uncomfortable

38:08

points of view things you

38:10

do not like to hear.

38:12

and disagreement. It protects people

38:15

who are absolutely wrong and

38:17

even those who are lying.

38:20

It protects the process so

38:23

you can figure it out.

38:25

There is no licensed priesthood

38:27

in our country. You know,

38:29

that are the priesthood of

38:31

truth tellers. No official ministry

38:34

of facts. That's where countries

38:36

go wrong. The times

38:38

should be exposing both sides

38:40

of these stories just

38:42

like I'm doing. The distortions

38:44

of the right and

38:47

the left but instead They

38:49

become exactly what they've

38:51

warned us about a newspaper

38:53

that prints dogma and

38:55

not dialogue and The real

38:57

problem here No, the

38:59

real solution here is you

39:01

Jefferson warned that a

39:04

man who reads nothing But

39:06

newspapers Sorry, a man

39:08

who reads nothing is better

39:10

informed than a man who only

39:12

reads the newspaper. Okay, I

39:14

would say the newspaper is today's

39:16

social media. Man who reads

39:18

nothing is more well educated than

39:20

a man who just only

39:22

reads social media. But today we

39:24

might say better to be

39:26

ignorant than confidently misled by trusted

39:29

media. They see themselves not as

39:31

a watchdog, but as a shepherd and we

39:33

are the sheep. So

39:35

I'm not defending either one I'm

39:37

defending the idea that we the

39:39

people not the institutions not the

39:41

elites not the New York Times

39:43

not Joe Rogan You decide what's

39:45

true and that takes work and

39:47

it takes curiosity Maybe the other

39:50

guy's wrong. I don't know. Maybe

39:52

I don't have the whole story

39:54

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39:56

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39:58

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