WEBVTT - Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:09.120 Oh boy, it's nine eleven, but a day after it's 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.280 you will be listening to this on nine twelve, after 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.360 you have um finished whatever it is that you do 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.840 on nine eleven either either be sad or uh tell 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.079 jokes or nothing at all. Um, it's all fine. There's 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.480 no wrong thing to do when you're thinking about a 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:30.640 day where a really fucked up thing happened. But that's 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.760 actually untrue. There is one wrong thing to do, and 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.400 we're going to talk about the wrong thing today because 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.480 most people, I think, think back to the day after 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.080 nine eleven as oh, everybody was like out of their 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.120 minds with like grief and fear and saying some really 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.319 fucked up shit and generating a kind of fury that 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:54.040 acted as propulsion and justification for a lot of very 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:58.040 very bad things. Um. And it's not in general a 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.320 time that we should look back on with particular pride 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:06.640 or or certainly what's the word I'm looking for here, um, nostalgia? 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:11.680 Everyone that is except for Glenn Beck. Um. Now, James, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.080 we've got James stout here. Chris, Hey, Chris, what do 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.080 you what do y'all know about Glenn Beck? Because James, 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.560 you are this is controversial to say, but I think 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:26.560 we should rip a vand aid off British. Um and Chris, 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.120 you're very young, so I'm wondering how much do you 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.319 know about Mr. Beck? He was like the my memory 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.920 of him, he was kind of like the well, I 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.119 don't know or is not quite the right word, but 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:42.600 he was like he he was like like the guy 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.399 in sort of like right wing ship head like punditry 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.760 for a while. My memory of him he was like 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.960 he was like a slightly more put together Alex Jones, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.320 Like he had like the weird pinboards and ship and like, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.320 is is this the right guy? Yeah, he's Alex Jones 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.880 with a budget in terms of end of the space 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.160 he fills. Um, James, did you know did you catch 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.239 much of him? No? So my engagement with Glenn Beck 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:12.360 is mostly through like teaching American history classes and trying 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.960 to explain like the explosion in lies and bullshit and 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.120 hate that immediately follows nine eleven. Yeah, and so they 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.320 know they've never really heard his stuff. Yeah, Glenn Beck, 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.160 he's he's doing radio, ship and stuff before nine eleven. 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.440 By the time he actually comes on the scene, it's 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.840 a few years after nine eleven and he gets a 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:38.120 show on Fox News. UM and Glenn Is. You know, 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.040 I watched him every night. My parents always watched him. 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.720 My dad considered him to be like a really good historian, Um, 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.600 which is bleak um a lot, but he was. He 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.480 was He was a unique sounding figure. So when Glenn 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.880 Beck comes onto the stage, right, the biggest dude in 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.200 right wing media is still Rush Limbaugh. But rush Is 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.040 has kind of taken a back seat in the last 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.760 couple of years, especially right after nine eleven. Two guys 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.440 like Um, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Riley, you know, and 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.200 those are kind they are kind of like they are 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.600 powerhouses and right wing media. And then you've got, well 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.000 those guys are on TV. You've got this cast of 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:19.680 people who are like bargain basement discount Rush Limbaughs on 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.880 the radio that are all kind of waiting in the 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.960 wings for their chance to be the next big TV hero. UM. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.560 And those guys include people like Um, Um, like Glenn Beck, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.520 and also folks like Michael Savage. Um, there's a couple 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.560 of a lot of maniacs that you probably have not 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.240 heard of that we don't need to dredge up. But 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.520 Glenn Beck kind of sales out of the fever swamps 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.200 of the right wing media UM and gets a fucking 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.480 TV show on Fox News, and in very short order 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.240 he is the biggest fucking thing on the network. Fox 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.720 News is the most popular network in the country, and 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.040 Glenn Beck is their number one host. In two thousand nine, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.040 he's pulling in something like three million viewers a night. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.960 And yeah, he's he's he's very very influential. UM. And 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.320 this is the point in time and two thousand nine, 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.800 by the way, the other thing that's happened that's big 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.480 in right wing media circles is Barack Obama has been 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:20.680 elected president. Now, yeah, you've got birtherism happening, but in general, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.039 I think one good way to think about it is 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.880 that nine eleven super charges the right, but in a 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.360 very like populist way in a because there's this expectation, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.479 like we talked about in the last episode, this expectation 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.320 that people are coming back to God because there's been 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.200 a big disaster, We're going to war, and war always 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.680 benefits you know, the conservatives in the in the you know, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.520 the party, like, we're gonna win this war, and that's 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.360 going to be huge for US. UM. And you also 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.320 have like just this this sense because Bush becomes the 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.920 most popular president anyone can remember having that the type 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.600 of history is with conservatism, you know, in the immediate 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.680 wake of nine eleven, and then that all goes to 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.720 ship because conservatives have terrible ideas for everything, um, and 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.120 they launched two disastrous wars, and by two thousand and nine, 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.000 there's not a lot of people who are gonna like 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.200 admit in public, no, I think we both those wars 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:12.240 were good ideas that were handled well. Right. Even the 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.960 people who were who were real bullish about that stuff 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.279 are like, well, you know, they didn't do this right 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.080 or that right, or it's impossible to win in that 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.440 part of the world. And you know, it was that's 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.520 the I heard different versions of that from from different 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.679 family members and stuff. But there's this this real sense 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:32.840 of aggrievement and in the wake of Bush, like it's 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.920 it's kind of taken for granted because about how disastrous 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.360 his his presidency had been. That um, he was not 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.320 you know, it's not going to be a Republican who 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.000 won that election. Um. But the fact that it is 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.000 Barack Obama, a black guy, they lose their goddamn minds. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.160 I think they've been ready for I think even they 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.320 would have been fine with Hillary Clinton. Obviously they would 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.920 have liked gone nuts on her like they did on Bill, 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.880 but like I think they would have, I don't think 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.280 that would have caused them to go crazy a way 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.840 that Obama did. Um. It is it is not wrong 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.120 to compare the impact to nine eleven in a lot 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.320 of ways, because it's this massive shock that shakes the 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.720 center of their world that they view as an attack, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.279 as an assault on like white middle class Americans, and 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.680 the shock waves of that. I mean, we're still dealing 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.159 with them. But one of the things that's that's happening 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.160 here is that after nine eleven they had this sense 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.279 that history is with us, momentum is with us. And 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.760 after Obama gets elected, you see the conservative movement get 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.599 much more insular and much more conspiratorial and much more 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:41.200 focused on like grievance and anger and revenge um because 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.599 they know they're nothing's going to bring back the people, 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.919 so there's there's kind of nothing but but vengeance UM, 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.440 and Beck is the guy who's going to tap most 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.000 effectively into this feeling, this feeling of fear and this 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.080 need to feel like you're like you were right after 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.680 nine eleven, when it like everything was surging forward in 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.400 the rights direction. And so in two thousand nine he 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.440 launches what he calls the We Surround Them campaign. Now, 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.920 the we in this I think is supposed to be 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.840 conservatives and them is the government. But I think you 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.440 can assume other you know, if you think about the 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.200 urban rural divide in this country, there's another meaning to 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.120 that sort of thing. Um. Now, this, this is a 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.840 series of segments and specials on beck show that grew 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.360 very popular. It's so popular, in fact, that a lot 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.760 of local right wing organizations start hosting viewing parties. And 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.960 this becomes like the earliest stirrings of the Tea party movement. Right, 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.320 all of these right wing radio stations and stuff, these 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.480 local talk radio stations and other organizations are holding viewing 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.240 parties for to watch Glenn Beck talk about you know, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.920 his do his We Surround Them act. And I'm gonna 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.520 play a clip for you now from one of these 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.760 viewing parties. We're gonna play a couple of eclips. This 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.280 is from one filmed by a talk radio station in 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.960 Fort Wayne, Georgia. UM and Uh, yeah, it's it's it's 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.840 something else, all right, So I want to, um, I 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.080 want to play this for you. I think it's a 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.480 fascinating artifact. And how the radio host chooses to introduce 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.600 the event is noteworthy, as is the man's appearance was 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.600 six hundred six freaks watching Glenn Beck on Fox News 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:22.800 for Project It's amazing. So well, what it's interesting to me, 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.520 I think it's it's kind of worth going over a 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.800 couple of things there because that's that doesn't seem like 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.920 a lot. But the fact that he he describes the 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.040 guy the people in there is sick freaks and and 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.160 and then like we're sick freaks, but like kind of 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.640 taking pride and that that's what he assumes liberals would 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.400 call them for watching Glenn Beck. You can see a 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.079 shade in this of a lot of liberals because they're dumb. 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.280 We're taken by surprise when like Hillary Clinton called Trump 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.240 supporters a basket of deplorables and they immediately adopted that 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.520 name for themselves. Again, you see the stirrings of it here, 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.920 right like, this is this is what the movement's turned into. Um, 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.719 you're taking pride in the fact that you're outnumbered and despised. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:06.880 Also the project, I'm intrigued. Oh yes, that's that is 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.400 that is coming. We're we're building to that. Um. So anyway, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.880 we get some rock and guitar licks, just just some 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.280 some of the best preloaded writes, free guitar music I've 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.920 ever heard. And then we pan into this very full 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.720 conference room. There's like six people in this thing and 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.480 they are, as far as I can tell, all white. Um. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.960 It is certain that the only people they talk to 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.240 when they do like because you know, the camera goes 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.960 around to get people's statements on the event, the only 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.480 people who are featured on camera are white, like a 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.600 hundred percent of them. And I'm gonna play a clip 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:44.000 from that now boring. I'm glad you're doing this. I'd 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.800 like to get our constitutions back. I love you, you're 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.800 doing it. We're all behind your thanks. We are Jackie 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:55.559 and Bill Sesker. We're from Angle, Indianas and we would 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.280 like to thank you that you are helping us we 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:04.959 the ball to take back our America things. You're the 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.560 man glam. What you're doing is great for America here 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.160 and encouragement that all of us were fed up with 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:17.400 the federal government. Now they are like, it's impossible. I know, 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:23.600 I have not seen since I was James, James might die. Yeah, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.360 there are a couple of extinct kinds of white guy 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.040 in that video. The very last of them died to 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.360 COVID when they cut a hole in the middle of 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:41.560 their mask and went to a Luby's. It's missed. Now 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.520 here's the thing I want to acknowledge, something that is 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.200 impossible to deny, which is that the fact that we 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.080 are laughing at them in this way is part of 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.560 why they got so angry and put Trump in office right, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.280 part of why liberal tears is a thing, part of 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.680 why there's so much focus on this desire of hurting 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:02.079 the enemy. Um. But also they just all look like 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:08.040 impossibly American, like like like these people I used to 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:13.200 see in Barcelona. From a hundred yards away, people would 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:14.720 be like, how do you know in American? And like 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.280 my friends would be like, first of all, you've come 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:23.600 dressed as a fucking tree yourself and this book. These 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.600 are some of the people who raised me, are are not? 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.880 You know? I grew up around these people. I grew 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.880 up with these people. I am I am of these people. Um, 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:39.680 I think I wear better shirts. But but but it 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.080 is like you you see in this these people who 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.679 feel like and that's kind of the thing they're communicating. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:47.920 Something has gone wrong with the country. And the thing 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.720 that's gone wrong is they are looking out and people 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.559 don't look like them, and in fact, people are looking 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.439 at them like they look weird, and people are making 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.440 fun of their ways and their customs, and this has 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.320 taken them, I surprise, and they're extremely angry about it, 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.360 and seeing a black man as president, which is the 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.199 least anyone could look like them, right, Barack Obama many 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.480 flaws two thousand nine. There was not many cooler looking 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:16.000 dudes than Barack who Obama like And that you have 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.360 to understand, like the bar is so low here that 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:23.080 like a reasonably well dressed person is like dropping a 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:29.360 nuclear weapon on like six cavemen. It is yeah, yeah, OK. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.160 So the show ends with Beck because they're watching Glenn 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.800 Beck on a fucking projector, and it ends with him 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.960 near tears. He would cry on his show constantly telling 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.240 everybody there that they were all going to meet back 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.959 together in six months to find some ways in which 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.240 they've managed to to to add some nine twelve energy 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:48.600 to their lives, and we'll get to this more. But 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.040 the thing he's saying is that the day after nine eleven, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.240 we were the best version of ourselves as a country. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.480 Everyone was so godly and so loving and so united. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.240 And that's the thing that we need to get to 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:02.280 deal with the horror of Barack Obama being the president. Um, 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.160 and obviously the other thing happening. I shouldn't. I don't 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.160 want to be unfair here. It's not just that they're 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.400 scared about Barack Obama. This is two thousand nine. The 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.600 economy has just completely shadow fucking brick. The housing market 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.679 is through the goddamn floor. Some actually scary things are 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.520 happening to It's just that they're kind of grafting all 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.040 of them onto the specter that is Obama, you know. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.840 Um anyway, Uh yeah, So after this we pan out 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.200 to widespread applause in this very full room, and then 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.960 we cut two interviews. This time. I know everyone's going 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:35.120 to be really excited. Here there's a baby. It's pretty cute. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:39.480 It's pretty it's a pretty cute baby. The young fans 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:47.640 at that child has my reaction to this, it's so funny. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.600 It's so funny. Look at this. Let's get this baby's statement. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.600 Just shine it blinded with a light until it weeps. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.959 That's that's the good stuff. Okay, So this this video 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.560 has paused on a freeze frame of a guy in 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:09.439 a suit that when they talked to this guy they 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:13.920 call him the best dress I'll just play it. I will, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.880 I will just play I wasn't planning to play this, 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.240 but I will play it. Stry the best dress up 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.200 guy here? Did we have a good time tonight? Think 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.120 of the presidentation? I thought it was nice and it's 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:28.280 nice to get together with great turnout. I know that 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.480 so many people still care. You know that guy? Okay 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.800 that that that exact kind of person was like the 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.520 political class of like the town I grew up in. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.680 Like these are the people who were like like this 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.200 is the guy? Yeah yeah, like the thing the things 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.120 they get up to were like like there was a 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.360 guy who was taking money from the sheriff's department to 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.480 try to abolish the police so that he could install 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.760 the Sheriff's department as the only law enforcement like division 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.840 in this town while he tried to sell like oh god, 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.560 that that is a kind of person night Like he has. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:03.760 He has some wrong strong Republican city comptroller energy for 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.520 like a town for like a town of thirteen thousand people. Yeah, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:13.080 he's dressed much like Ricky Gervais dressed in the original office. Yeah. Dump. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.240 He is literally the guy Ricky Gervais is making fun of. Yes, yeah, 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:38.720 he is so beck pared his message of government accountability 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.040 as he framed it with, and this is what we're 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.320 talking about, the nine twelve project, which what follows. We 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:47.800 surround them with nine principles and twelve values, which, if followed, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.880 would help bring your heart back to the mythical nine twelve. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.560 This moment in which America was was beautiful. This this 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.960 we've gone from the fifties, like there's this, there's this 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.280 twenty twenty year Golden Era to like we have one 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.280 great day and if we could just get back to that, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:07.280 everything will be fine. Um. So here's here's the nine 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.600 value or nine principles. Sorry, it's nine principles and twelve values. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.240 I want you to hold me accountable if I fucked 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.640 this up in the future. The nine principles are number one, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.760 America is good. Number two. I believe in God and 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.520 he is the center of my life. Number three, I 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.320 must always try to be a more honest person than 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.040 I was yesterday. Number four. The family is sacred. My 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.880 spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.360 And I say this a lot, but in the Roman Empire, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.320 the father of the family used to be able to 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.560 execute his wife and children. And you're a fool if 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.680 you think that's not what these people want things to 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.800 be like. Um. Well, and their slaves too. That's also 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.560 in a variable, and the slaves are a critical aspect 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.640 of this. Yes. Uh. Number five. If you break the law, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.160 you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.840 is above it. This is, by the way, confusingly a 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.200 reference to all the people who lost their home in 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.320 the housing crash. Um. That's what he's talking about. That 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.480 they didn't. They didn't. You know, you can't like bail 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.600 people out um. Number six. I have a right to life, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.560 liberty in the pursuit of happiness, but there is no 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:15.119 guarantee of equal results. Number seven. I work hard for 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:16.640 what I have and I will share it with who 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:19.399 I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.439 Number eight. It is not un American for me to 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.639 disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion. And 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.040 number nine, the government works for me. I do not 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:32.680 answer to them. They answer to me. Now that's fun. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.359 There's there's some interesting things they're including the government can't 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.280 force me to be charitable, you know I will, which 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.240 like the side of that, that is something that actually 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.359 happened on nine twelve is a bunch of people showed 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.480 up and volunteered to, like at great personal cost because 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.640 many of them got sick and died, to help pull 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.919 bodies out of the rubble and try to save people. Right, 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.200 and that the government literally did not need to tell 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.480 people to do that because a bunch of cops actually 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.320 refused to go do anything at all, ground and and 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.800 the like the government the government knew about like like 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.560 that the when when the government did do something, it 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:08.880 was they they put a bunch of firefighters like inside 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.440 of the range it was the dusk was toxic and 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.240 then just fucking got them killed, which and then spent 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:19.160 the next we had to have John fucking Stewart fight 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.399 for them to get some kind of recompense from the 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.439 federal government, which credit where it's due is a legitimately 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.880 cool thing that he helped do. But like why did 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.879 it fall upon the Daily Show guy to do it? 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.080 Share that the guy who's doing trensch phobic bits at 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.240 the same time. Yeah, yeah, Like it's kind of didn't 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.760 Ted Cruz vote against healthcare benefits for these people? Yeah? Absolutely, 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.800 Which again it's very funny that like the government can't 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.240 force me to to to be charitable. It's like, well, 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.080 what that actually ends with is people actually volunteering and 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.119 risking their lives and then the government, the conservatives in 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.200 the government callously voting to let them die in agony 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.879 because like, well, why should I have to Oh, you 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.720 do was rescue people during our country's darkst hour? Why 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:07.120 should I have to pay? Like it's this it's amazing shit. Um, 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.000 now that I'm sure you're curious about those twelve values, 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.440 they're really boring. Like it's boy, it's like boy scout ship. 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.280 It's like honesty, reverence, thrift, courage, Like it's not worth 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.280 focusing on the thing this entire time. Think I've been 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.680 thinking about this is the exact naming scheme that like, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:25.879 like if you just walked up to someone on the 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.160 street and like asked, what what what are what are 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.679 the nine principles and twelve values like this. This sounds 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.480 exactly like like that. This sounds exactly like what like 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.359 a like a a a mid level like a mid 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:43.240 level Chinese bureaucrat would name their campaign to like make 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.080 sure the water restoration is done properly, Like it is 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.800 the exact naming scheme of like like campaign style stuff 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:55.240 and like fucking like post post vours China. Yeah, I 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.960 mean well, and yeah, there's a lot to say about 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.800 that and about Glenn Beck, but um, you know, so 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.480 I got that list of twelve principles from Glenn Beck 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.720 dot com. What I find interesting is that the principles 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:10.720 as are up on his website right now, because this 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:12.800 is a thing he still gets into every now and again, 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.080 are somewhat different from the ones that he debuted on 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.240 the episode of his show in which he introduced the 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.640 nine twelve project. And I found the way he worded 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.159 point eight point eight is it's not un American for 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.479 me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion. 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:28.399 I found the way he actually worded that in the 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.280 show very interesting, And I want to play that for 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:34.080 you now because it's it's quite a bit different. Do 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.800 you agree with this? It's not Unamerican for anyone to 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.120 disagree with my opinion. But my opinion or others opinions 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:44.880 maybe anti American. Anti American rhetoric would be anything that's 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.480 destructive to the Constitution and our country as the founders 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:53.040 understood it, unless you want to change that. There it is. Yeah, 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:58.360 there we go, There we go. That's the real good grievance. Yeah, 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.440 I respect You're right to say anything in less you're 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:05.919 disrespecting the founders, of course, which which case, Yeah, like 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:09.199 swat teams will commence immediately, etcetera, etcetera. We were we 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:13.040 are reading the wrench mobs. Now, after introducing those principles, 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.119 he asks his audience to mail him personal photographs so 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.199 he can put them together into a big we surround 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.080 them graphic, which you can find if you really want 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:25.040 to um, it's yeah, it's if you want to get 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:26.879 an idea of like the people who are listening to 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.399 Glenn Beck, that will give it to you. Now here's 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.320 what happens. Immediately after he gives the email address for 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:36.640 people to send this to calm all right, the climate 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:41.440 change people are pulling a page from nazis, what are 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:52.919 your kids learning at school? Perfect moment in American television. Yeah, it's, 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.760 it's it's really incredible, right, it's. It's also it's also 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.679 things like you couldn't do this anymore, not because you 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.120 not not not actually because you can't say that about 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.240 climate change, but because if you tried to say that 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:05.159 about the Hitler youth people will get mad at you. 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.600 Oh yeah, no, yeah, you'll you'll get in trouble. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:10.639 the hate the youth defenders will be a day with 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:15.119 very very pro environment. I can hear Tucker Carlsson saying that, Yeah, 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.919 it's it's. I just want to share with everyone that 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:21.720