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Speaker 1: Look at who we have.
Speaker 3: Gosh, oh my gosh, I love him. He is so great?
He is is he really? Is it really him? Or
you guys? Just oh my god? How did you get him?
How did we get here?
Speaker 1: Just a couple of a couple of Glenn Beck? Oh
my god.
Speaker 2: I mean you barely need introduction, but just to get
it out a way for the for the losers out
there who.
Speaker 3: Don't know who this is, for the lucky ones, really
for the lucky ones.
Speaker 2: He is a syndicated radio host, CEO and founder of
Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company The Blaze. He is
host of the Glenn Beck TV program. He is the
author of six new York Times best Selling Books, the latest,
which we now have a copy of.
Speaker 1: What is it ten?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got gold.
Speaker 2: Wow, we've got Okay, apologize, but this is the latest.
This is the latest. It's called Chasing Embers. Tell us
all about it, because we haven't had a chance yet
to read it.
Speaker 1: We just got them.
Speaker 3: Oh so I could tell you anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can tell us anything.
Speaker 3: We believe it. Actually, let me tell you why, how
the premise came, and then why I wrote it. This
book started. I write stories in my head all the time,
and and this one has been in my head since
about two thousand, I don't know, six or seven. And
I was reading Karl Marx, and if you've ever read
Carl Marx, you're like, this time doesn't make any sense.
How does anyone believe this? And it's just all against
human nature and everything else. And I thought, what is
the draw to him? And in America and the West,
I think it's because you know, he's the rebel, he's
the radical, he's the one against the system man. And
I thought, you read him, and then you read Jefferson
or Adams or you know, any of them, and there
is such a difference, and it's so clear when you're
reading these guys, And I thought, what is it going
to take before Jefferson is a revolutionary again and not
the stuff shirt, you know what I mean? And I thought,
you know, I think he's I think it's going to
take the loss of those and making them very unpopular
to radicalize them again and have you know, kids reading
it when it's absolutely not supposed to be read. That's no,
you don't do that. That's when they'll start discovering these
guys again. And so that led me to a series
of thoughts of you know, how do we preserve that
for that generation and what could happen? And so I
came up with this dystopian world where a public private
partnership has put together these these cities, and everybody lives
in these cities and it's all going to be great.
It's all of the WEF stuff, the World Economic Forum stuff,
except it failed. And so these are failing cities. But
it's very very dystopian. And the parents who would be
you know us now or the next generation that lived
at these times, anyone who just didn't buy into the
whole WEF thing, they're kind of liquidated. And so there's
a group of people that have tried to preserve what
they could remember and write it down because all books
have been banned now and history meets kind of games
meets yeah, yeah, it is kind of and and nineteen
eighty four as well, and and so these what's left
are these kids with memories of their you know, rebellious
parents who are just trying to keep record in their
mind and then write it down and smuggle it out
to the cities, to these rebels that you don't know
much about at first, that are the public enemy number one.
And all they you find out, all they're trying to
do is reproduce a library. They're trying to collect all
of the history that's now forbidden and teach it to
their kids in an oral fashion. And so the book
takes place in this place called Topos. It's a it's
a dystopian kind of I don't know. I always think
of it as almost like Ebcot, where nothing's real, and
it's just very dystopian. But these kids, one of them
remembers their mom and dad being taken and liquidated, and
she wants to be part of the crowd. You know,
She's given the opportunity for some reason by the higher
ups to become one of the rebel hunters, if you will,
to just mix in with your friends and find out
who's sharing things that you know they shouldn't be sharing.
And she's given these kind of these tokens that she
can just drop on somebody and it will alert the
government this is a problem child. And then they're just
taken away and she starts to get wrapped up into
Look at the power I have. You know, I think
everything that I thought I knew was a lie. Meanwhile,
another kid, a boy, a teenager, teenage boy, he escapes
the city and he doesn't know what he's looking for,
but he goes in and he actually finds these rebels,
and he's torn on whether to report them or not.
And he's just a really screwed up kid, and you
find out why in the book. But he's now learning
that these aren't really rebels, and all the way through,
you know, when MICHAELA and I put this together, we
did a lot of research with teens and we told
them stories, not like a history feature does, just told
them stories about things of history, because we wanted to
include those stories, the important ones in the book. So
they're discovering this history not taught like a regular history book,
to try to get the reader to go, oh, wow,
I didn't know that, is that true? And look it
up and follow that trail nice And so we did
a deal where we would tell a bunch of you know,
twelve to eighteen year old's stories and then we tell
them what do you think of this? What discuss And
we found some fascinating views on things, and so we
incorporated that to try to tap into their mindset on
how they connect to different stories of history.
Speaker 1: And so many of the elements that you just described
we've seen over the past several years, like the snitching
and the things you know, like looking in at your
looking at your telling on your neighbors, you know, not
suppressing information, things like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, changing information. History is being changed now in real
time cheap face, cheap fakes.
Speaker 1: Times. Right now.
Speaker 3: We are we are we are. And so it takes
the technology that we're now working, you know on, and
it takes the all the dystopian things they all run
exactly the same and it's running exactly like what we're seeing,
and then take the actual US I mean w e
F World Economic Forum, plans for cities and everything else
and takes and plays it out and you know, obviously
it fails, but it's still in slaves and has turned
people really into slaves and morons. They don't know what's
real and what's not anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's do you do the audio for the like?
Speaker 2: Do you do it for kindle or I'm not gonna kindle,
but for audible?
Speaker 3: Do you do the reading of it? We have been
going back and forth on this. I haven't had time
to record an audiobook yet. We've been going back and
forth whether we should have somebody else read it or me,
And I've got about that.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to read it, but I'd rather listen
to it in the car or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I tell you it is. I think
it is the perfect way in for parents that don't
know how to teach history, don't want to lecture their kids,
and their kids roll their eyes when they're lecture. This
is a book they can discover and it's it's really good,
and it's an adventure, it's got danger and you know,
all kinds of stuff in it that is yeah, that
I think you really like. And it's a it's actually
a six book series, but we we got to make
sure this one works because the stories that we have,
the way this whole thing comes about is so great,
so great.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: It sounds amazing.
Speaker 1: You know. I was telling Miriam of Selling Mock that
I rewatched your twenty ten speech, your keynote speech at
SEAPAC and how you wrote progressivism on the board and
you talked about how progressivism was a cancer and you
called out some people like Soros and Barack Obama, and
I'm just you know, and then listening to this the
synopsis of the book you just wrote and everything that
is wrapped up in it, and just I don't know
the fact that we just talked about living in Orwellian
times and I like, progressive. Do you feel like the
cancer has spread? Do you think that do you have
Do you think it's inoperable at this point? Like where
do you see us now? Because I mean that was listen,
that's when we first started our site. It was right
after that that you gave that speech, and so I
remember thinking, this is what we're fighting for as chicks
on the right. And I look back on that and
I think, gosh, things have changed, and I don't know
if necessarily it's for the better, but they should have
changed and everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I know you guys well enough to
know that you know that, you know, God exists and
no matter how bad it gets, it will all be
used for his purposes in the end. So wherever we
end up, it's going to be He's not surprised by
any of this. And you know, I hope we're not
living in the times you know, foretold, but we could be. Yeah,
and we just have. All we have to do is
let me sit. Put it this way. When you started
your site, are you a better person and citizen today
than you were back then?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I love that question. Yes, Glenn, I think so,
I really do. I've lost, you know, friends and family
along the way, but I know myself better and I
have better and stronger and more robust relationships with people. Yes,
I know who I am.
Speaker 3: And you're living You're actually living life, no matter how
tough it is and how many things. I mean, there's
a lot of things I wanted to do other than this.
I didn't. I never got into this business to do
a serious talk show, especially where I'm the doom and
gloom guy. That is not what I wanted to do
or want to do. But I have lived an amazing life,
and I'm better spiritually, and I'm better as a citizen.
I'm a better dad. I mean, it's just it all
is used in the end for his purposes.
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Speaker 2: I was going to ask you, you know, piggybacking off
of that, I was going to ask you if you
felt more cynical or optimistic about the country's future. But
it sounds like instead of either of those, you're just saying,
let go and let God. Yeah you know what I mean,
And that's actually that it is reassuring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I immediately feel better.
Speaker 3: Well I should have done that earlier, right the uh
the uh. You know, I've gotten to a point to where,
you know, I've always said on the air that all
I am is a reader of the signposts, and I'm
just saying, here's the mile marker, here's the time to
the next exit. But I've said, at some point we're
we're out of exits and it's just going to go
over the cliff and that'll be an interesting ride, and
we're we're there to where there are exits. But only
with God, only with really disciplined people, people who have studied,
know what they know, know what's true, will anchor themselves
in the Constitution and the Declaration and the Bill of
Rights and then just go through hell, but do what
they have to do to make sure those things are
preserved in one form or another. And you know, my
I have a I have We've had some bouts with
suicide in my family from the beginning, and then I've
had three of my four children have serious bouts with them.
Uh and uh. I took one of my my children
to a psychiatrist who I thought at first was I
heard he was the best, and I thought when I
hear when I heard him, I was like, you're insane.
And he said, your son knows what you're afraid of,
and he said you got to get past that. He said,
so what are you afraid of? My wife? And I
looked at him went, I don't know that he's dead,
and they said he said, okay, so let's play this out.
They commit suicide, what do you do? And we're just well,
we we mourn and uh huh and then what, well,
we probably blame it on each other for a while,
you know, because we don't we don't know how to
deal with it. But then we get help and then
we get through it, and then we probably I don't know,
write a book about our son and suicide and and
uh and then we probably do a tour and we
try to help other people. And he said, so you
make it. We were like, yeah, we of course we
make it, but we don't want that. And he's like,
you need to tell him now, you're not afraid of it.
That's his decision. You're not afraid of it. And we
were like, oh, wow, no, I don't think so. Yeah.
It was terrifying, and so he brought my son in
and we sat down and he said, let's just play
this out. You're dead. What happens to you? Well? Nothing,
I'm dead, okay, And then we talked about religious stuff
and then he said, what do you think happens with
your parents? He said, I don't know, and so we
started talking and went through the whole thing and said,
there's nothing we can do. This is your choice. This
will always be your choice. We can tell you we
love you, we can tell you all these things, we
can help you in any way, but unless you're willing
to live, there's nothing we can do. And so we're
just not going to live in that fear anymore. Yeah,
and when you have problems, we're not going to take
them on as our problems. We will help you, but
then we will we'll end our little time together with
It's going to be interesting to see you work that
all out that way. It's not ownership on us, it's
on you. And it changed him, it really, I mean,
it was remarkable. And I'm not suggesting that anybody else
does that because it was terrifying. Yeah, but it worked
with us, and we've decided that that's the best way
to look at everything in life. You know, the country
might be suicidal, might be I can't stop that. I
can do my part, but unless the country wants to
wake up from this insanity, it will commit suicide. And Andy,
it's going to be interesting to see how Americans work
this out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's This is one of the reasons
that I really that I that I love you is
because you're because you're vulnerable, Like you're not screaming. There
are a lot of screaming people out there and doing
what we do, there are a lot of not I mean,
and there's a I guess there's.
Speaker 3: A I feel like I'm a screaming well, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, there's this there's a space. You have more of
a like a gentle like a cerebral gentle way about you.
And is that do you find that to be difficult,
like to be vulnerable and to share personal stuff because
we just kind of started in the past couple of
years doing more of that. That's because it's hard to
put yourself out there and to share personal stuff.
Speaker 3: Because so I have a I have a really interesting
I can't relate and tell you because I didn't start
doing that. I started in radio when I was thirteen,
so and I worked all the time. So my best
friend was this the microphone. Yeah, and I could say
anything into it and it won't reject me. The audience might,
but it won't. And U and so I've I, you know,
always talked about personal things. But what happened in nineteen
ninety five, probably was. I was doing Top forty morning radio,
and I was, I just I couldn't play Britney Spears
one more second, and I just, I mean.
Speaker 1: I maybe one more time.
Speaker 3: I got to the point to where I would say, yeah, yeah,
just one more time. I got to the point to
where this is, this is how I would DJ. The
records say there's another super super classic from What's Her Face?
And all of the songs were that because I just
didn't care, and I didn't care if anybody fired me
and I couldn't do it anymore. But we were talking
about something and on the air, and it was an
event of something. It might have been the Clinton scandal
or something, and a caller said, what do you know
you're mister goody two shoes? Because I was known at
the time as clean cut, you know, all American blah
blah blah, that was the image that had been created.
But I was a raging alcoholic for most of it
and just not a good guy, just not a good guy.
And I said, they said, what do you know you're
mister goody two shoes? And I said, you know, let
me tell you something, and the whole room stopped everybody's like, oh,
dear God, what is he going to say?
Speaker 1: Here we go?
Speaker 3: And I said, you don't know me, nobody knows me.
Let me tell you about me. And I was actually,
in a way, I think, trying to end my radio career.
But the opposite happened. People started coming up to me
and saying, I cannot believe you said what you said
about yourself. And then they look around and go, let
me tell you, brother, I've been there. Yeah, you know
what you're talking about. And we were all hiding from
our darkest selves when we're all struggling with the same
basic things. And so if you're if you're willing to take,
if you're willing to be completely honest and say, yep,
this is who I am. Like it or not. There's
parts of me I really don't like, but that's who
I am. And your audience understands you. They know, generally speaking,
when you're telling the truth, you know, because they'll they'll
find all these inconsistencies and be like, wait a minute,
wait a minute, wait a minute. And as long as
you've done your homework on yourself and you know who
you are, you guys know this. You know who you are.
You know what you believe, and you're not so strident
that somebody couldn't come, you know, on and say, you know,
I got to challenge you on that. I think you're wrong.
If you're willing to listen and and and if they
make a good point that you can't diffuse after thinking
and researching and everything else, then you should come back
on the air and go, you know what, I was
wrong about that absolutely, and here's my thing.
Speaker 2: And you've done that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've done that a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you've you've you know, you've talked
very very openly about your struggles with alcoholism, drug use.
Speaker 2: And and just illness in general. So how are you
like today?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm probably better than i've been in well,
better than I was even when I saw you guys.
Really really, I'm probably better than i've been in five years.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's great.
Speaker 3: I had a just a turning point. You know, there
are times when you just get you're just like I
just I just want a bag of Oreole cookies.
Speaker 1: Oh, we understand that with women. That's about one. You're
speaking our language.
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need a bag of Oreos and uh and yeah, yeah,
I hate them by the bag, the.
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to make like pumpkin flavored ones now like they have
all different flavor? Why do I have to do that? Why?
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too many choices. When I was a kid, we were
happy with one Oreo cookie, one flavor, and.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that we loved so much about
coming to see you at the Blaze Studios is the
museum and all the artifact of the historical artifacts that
you've collected.
Speaker 1: What how did that start?
Speaker 2: And like, what would you say is your most prized
item in the whole way about the museum?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I.
Speaker 3: Don't think I can answer the most prized because it's
so fast now. It started in two thousand. Uh, well,
it actually started with my kids. My kids. I hated
history when I was growing up, hated it. Really.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe that, because it's all I can know that.
Speaker 3: Gosh, oh, did you like history a little?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I did.
Speaker 3: Memorized the name and the dates and where the battle was.
Speaker 1: Weirdly, like my fourteen year old, Like my fourteen year
old daughter, she loves it. That's like her favorite subject.
It's crazy. But yeah, so I'm surprised that you didn't.
Speaker 3: You're so Oldyeah, no, I hate it like kids. Yet
it well because I learned to love it, because I learned.
You know, the word history has the word story in it. Yeah,
why aren't we focusing on the story of history? And
if you do that, then you know, forget about the dates.
It was seventeen ninety one. No, it was seventeen ninety two. Okay, nerd,
you know, nerd, argument stop, I don't I don't need,
I don't care. What was the argument about? Which side one?
What did they do with it? What did the losers
do walking away? You know what happened? Why were they?
Why did this come up? That's all A human story,
and when you focus on the human story, it's so
much better. I could tell you. You know, they tried to
teach us George Washington chop down the cherry tree, and
he couldn't tell a lie, and he had wooden teeth.
None of those things are true. Let me tell you
two stories. First, he didn't have wooden teeth. By the
time he was president, he lost his last tooth. His
teeth were rotting out of his face. He had for
a while a metal contraption in his mouth that looks
like something that Steve Martin would have been installing in
Little Shop of Horrors. Okay, it was horrific, Okay. And
the reason why his painting, the paintings of him always
kind of mouth, kind of like this, is because he
was trying to hide. He was so embarrassed by his teeth.
And so when he became president, he just he was
so embarrassed by himself that he wanted to he wanted
to do something. So he and for the latest thing,
which was drilling holes in your gums and then implanting
teeth in there in hopes that they would grow good
God right, no anesthesia, nothing, nothing, And so it takes
this guy who wouldn't teeth? What does that take? Anything
about it? That's not even true? Why? Yeah, this takes
a guy who is a giant among men and humbles him.
He's embarrassed by his own looks, and because he believes
the president should look a certain way and be distinguished,
he goes through that. Now, that's a much that's a
much better story than Wooden Teeth never tells, Yeah, never
tells a lie. Let me just let me tell you
the story of Gosh, I'm thinking about so many of them.
I tell you a story. I was with the head
of the American Museum of the Smithsonian, and I was
looking for specifically things about George Washington that were negative.
Because I can find I can tell you that before
Abraham Lincoln, you know, his mom raised him. He was
terrified of his father, but he really because his father
was like you will believe in Jesus as he's beating him.
He falls away from the church and he goes dark.
And there's a period of Abraham Lincoln's life where he's
with prostitutes and everything that you've never heard about Abraham Lincoln. Okay,
but then he finds himself and he finds God, Okay,
I can find that stuff on anybody. I cannot find
that stuff on George Washington. So I'm going to the
Smithsonian to meet with the American, the head of the
curator of the American Museum, And I said, I'm desperately
trying to find something on Washington. That's bad because I
believe that you have to understand the story, understand the
story of America. You have to understand the Tuskegee experiments,
and you have to understand the true meaning of the
Declaration of Independence. Okay, all men are created equal. You
have to understand both sides. If you're surprised by the
bad things all of a sudden, America has no credibility. Okay,
because wait a minute, I didn't know about that. What
else are they hiding? Yeah, so what are you hiding
about George Washington? He said, Oh, I have something, he said,
but I've only I've We've only found one thing. And
I said, what is it? He said, Commers, I'll show you.
And so he took me back into the archives and
he pulls out all these drawers and there's just these
little thin drawers and he pull one out and he'd
be like, oh, there's George Washington's you know, baptismal gown,
and you know, here's this and here's that, and I'm like, okay,
and he pulls out a deal and it's a newspaper
and he's says, this is the worst thing I can
find on George Washington. And it's an editorial right before
his second election. Okay, somebody writes in that George Washington
is a monster. And this person must know because the
editorials written by his mother. Okay, his mother was this. Yeah,
his mother was this giant pain in the ass where
she was just like because she was just she was
a nightmare. And she always like, oh, George, you cannot
leave me, you can't go away out. You know, all
these stories of him just acquiescing yes, mother dear, Yes,
mother dear. Oh, so she wants him back at Mount
Vernon and so she writes this editorial and says, you
have no idea. You cannot elect this man again. He's
the most extravagant man you have ever met. And you'd
be horrified if you knew the details, just the details,
this is it. Just the details on how much this
man spends on ice cream every month alone disqualify him.
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, and now we have Nancy foodstuff.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: That brilliant, absolutely brilliant, Oh my gosh. Okay, so I
would have to know your favorite interview of also besides us,
besides interviewing with us obviously because I did. We were
I know, we were the pinnacle of your career.
Speaker 3: Besides, I don't have fun very often. It's good.
Speaker 1: Who would you say would be like the I guess
the highlight when it comes to interviewing somebody or somebody
who was on your bucket list, you were like, I
can't believe I just interviewed this person, because I mean,
I know you're you, You're Glenn freaking back, you know,
But but like, who would be like a person that
you interviewed that you were like, I cannot believe I
just did that, or or just maybe not maybe not
somebody who's famous that you just really enjoyed interviews. I
don't know, Uh can you don't know?
Speaker 3: You know? Nieah, I interviewed a guy who was a
hundred and six maybe Oh my god, he remembers, Yeah,
he remembered Woodrow Wilson. Wow, he remembered. Gosh, he remembered
and he had perfect recollection. This guy I thought was
going to live to you know, one hundred and ten.
Speaker 1: How did you meet him? And uh, how did you?
How did that happen?
Speaker 3: He was I think he was a fan of the show.
And he called in one time and They're like, he's
you know, he's and I'm like, he's not that old.
Come on and got him on the phone, and then
we brought him in and he was fascinating because he
could remember, that's amazing where he was, the stock market crash.
He could remember where he was, you know, World War
two beginning and the end. It was amazing. It is amazing. Wow.
The other guy that I have I never interviewed, but
I became friends with. That was the first name that
came to mind, but not an interview is Billy Graham.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Billy Graham was just it was such an honor to
meet him, and I was He invited me to his
house for some reason, and I had been praying on
something and I had just said to one of the
guys in my office, I think I'm supposed to I
think I'm supposed to talk to Billy Graham, And they said, well,
did you call him? Did you reach out to him?
And I'm like, yeah, Billy's not taking my phone calls
right now, called me. I just checked it out. Yeah yeah,
and uh. And that later that afternoon he his office
called and asked if I no, I swear to you.
Same day, same day, his office reached out and said
that he would like to meet with me and my
family that following Sunday. So we had an hour to
go up and we ended up six hours up with him,
and he was the most remarkable man I've ever met.
I remember, you know, he asked me to share my
testimony with him, and we were both crying, and he
was talking about how, you know, we're all going to
make mistakes, We're all going to make mistakes. He's like,
every mistake I made, and I have made so many
were because I wasn't listening. He said, every accomplishment does
not belong to me. And he meant it, He really
meant it, and so humble. And he said, but I
know where I'm going, and he said I know who
I serve. And he said, I am not afraid of death.
The whole dying part has me a little worried, but
I'm not afraid of that.
Speaker 1: What happens after, right, yeah, so is there someone go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry I'm saying. I was just going to ask
you if there's someone that you aspire to interview that
you haven't had a chance to talk with yet, or
have you just checked off your entire bucket list you
want to talk to.
Speaker 3: There's so many. I I'm doud he's doing interviews. But
for the longest time I wanted to interview Clint Eastwood.
I still would. I'd love to tell about him.
Speaker 1: Please invite us when that happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think it's going to happen. I just
I don't know why. We've reached out and reached out
and reached out. And and it's funny because he was
at CNN doing an interview when I was at CNN
and one of them, my producers, was in the hallway
when he was walking with a group of producers and
my picture was up on the wall and he stopped
and he went that guy. I like that guy, and
then just started walking away.
Speaker 1: Talk Can we talk?
Speaker 3: But and the and the the current one is Elon Musk.
I don't know why I can't get an interview with
Elon Musk. But we've been in touch with each other
back and forth, but we just never seem.
Speaker 1: To does he not know? Not know?
Speaker 3: He's aware of who I am? And that may be
the problem.
Speaker 2: That may be the problem, Glenn.
Speaker 1: It's always just such a treat.
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like we're old friends now because
we've been to visit you in person, and I know
we've only talked twice, but it feels very familial, and
it's just.
Speaker 1: You are to Troy.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you got are the best. Thank you,
thank you, thank you for all of all the stuff
that you do and all the joy you spread.
Speaker 1: That's so sweet. That's what we're trying to relate. That
is precisely our goal. And it was just a joy
talking to you. Thank you, Glenn.
Speaker 3: Thank you for a couple of whores, you're nicely true,
a couple of floods, that's true.