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Glenn Beck Carries a Torch for America · Mom Wars

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Speaker 1: From the front lines of the mom Wars. Here's Bethany
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Speaker 1: Mandel and Kara Kennedy.
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Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to another episode of your favorite most
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Speaker 2: unreliable podcast. But I promised you that we would become
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Speaker 2: more reliable, and we have, in fact become more reliable. Kara,
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Speaker 2: my lovely co host, just had a baby, and it's
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Speaker 2: really it's her fault that we've become unreliable, because she
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Speaker 2: was apparently steering the ship. My name is Bethany Mandel.
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Speaker 2: I'm a mom of six. We homeschool, I do lots
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Speaker 2: of other things. I write for places and I am
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Speaker 2: joined by my beautiful co host.
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Speaker 3: Car Kennedy, contributing writer at The Free Press, and we
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Speaker 3: are very excited today we have a lovely guest with us. Bethany,
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Speaker 3: do you want to introduce.
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Speaker 2: I do none other than Glenn Beck. And when we
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Speaker 2: heard from you and you asked to come on our podcast,
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Speaker 2: I was like, all right, Glenn Beck wants to come
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Speaker 2: on my podcast doesn't need an introduction, but I'm still
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Speaker 2: going to do it because I pulled it up so
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Speaker 2: I might as well. He is a distinguished American media personality,
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Speaker 2: political commentator, and author. He is best known for his
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Speaker 2: incredible talk show, the Glenn Beck Program, which is the
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Speaker 2: second highest ranking program in the United States, making him
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Speaker 2: one of the most listened to and respected pundics worldwide.
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Speaker 2: He's the founder of this little operation you may have
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Speaker 2: heard of called Blaze Media. It's the first conservative streaming
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Speaker 2: subscription network. And he's the founder of The Torch, a
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Speaker 2: groundbreaking new company that pushes the limits of media, technology
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Speaker 2: and education for the betterment of mankind. You can follow
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Speaker 2: him anywhere and everywhere at Glenn Beck on all social media,
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Speaker 2: and you should. And we wanted to have you on
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Speaker 2: today because you're doing this incredible new project that I
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Speaker 2: think interests a lot of moms, especially in advance of
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Speaker 2: America two fifty, which is coming up this week. I'm
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Speaker 2: so excited. So can you tells a little bit more
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Speaker 2: about what you're up to?
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Speaker 1: Sure, So I wanted to be on your show. First
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Speaker 1: of all, I love you guys, but I wanted to
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Speaker 1: be on your show because even though you're wildly unreliable,
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Speaker 1: we have to the moms are the key to saving
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Speaker 1: the country. They are the key, and not just homeschooling moms,
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Speaker 1: but you know, moms are the ones that instill the
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Speaker 1: values that the kids just I mean, my kids, they'll
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Speaker 1: disobey me, and you know it's not the same Mom
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Speaker 1: can just look at them and they'll be like, I'm sorry, mom.
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Speaker 1: You know. So moms are so critical, and especially if
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Speaker 1: they're with the kids all the time and they're homeschooling.
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Speaker 1: And we have got to make history interesting again. History
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Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties was taken by the progressives. They
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Speaker 1: had this big progressive utopia right within their reach with
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Speaker 1: Woodrow Wilson, and it scared the American people. And that's
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Speaker 1: why in the nineteen thirties they had to change from
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Speaker 1: progressive to liberal. Before they were a liberal and then
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Speaker 1: they went to progressive. Now progressives want to take that
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Speaker 1: liberal chair away from the table. But they hid as
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Speaker 1: liberals and they knew that we'll never get this socialist
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Speaker 1: utopia if people know about the founding, the founders the
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Speaker 1: real story, and humans are built on stories. If you
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Speaker 1: know who you are, where you came from, you know
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Speaker 1: where you're going. Well, they have made our story so warped,
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Speaker 1: so wrong, so unappealing, and so boring that nobody wants
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Speaker 1: to hear it. Nobody wants to hear it. It's the
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Speaker 1: greatest stories ever told. So I have put to torch
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Speaker 1: together and my whole goal is this last chapter of
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Speaker 1: my career will just be about telling America's story, educating
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Speaker 1: and trying to help people think critically, know what the
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Speaker 1: principles are that you just never violate, and trying to
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Speaker 1: arm people like you who are doing all the heavy lifting.
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Speaker 1: And so, you know, one of the things I wanted
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Speaker 1: to say to you is I'd like to develop a
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Speaker 1: relationship with you where you are when you're talking to
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Speaker 1: homeschoolers and you hear there's a need for this, tell me,
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Speaker 1: tell me because I don't. I don't have any illusion
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Speaker 1: of becoming, you know, some great homeschooler or whatever. All
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Speaker 1: I want to do is provide the things that you
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Speaker 1: can't find anywhere else. And the American Story, I have
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Speaker 1: to tell you. We have a podcast now called The
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Speaker 1: American Story, and one episode has four hundred audio tracks
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Speaker 1: on it. It took eight Each episode takes about eighteen
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Speaker 1: hours just to produce the audio. That's not including my
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Speaker 1: time in reading it, and it's not including the time
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Speaker 1: to write it. It takes about seventy hours per episode
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Speaker 1: to produce and we are up to fifteen in the
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Speaker 1: second series now the second season, and we're up to reconstruction.
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Speaker 1: But you've never heard history told like this ever. I mean,
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Speaker 1: when you're in war with George Washington, you can. If
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Speaker 1: you're wearing headphones or ear you know, AirPods, it's like
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Speaker 1: your you could it feels like the bullets are whizzing
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Speaker 1: right by your head. It's amazing. It's amazing.
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Speaker 2: So you're really speaking the language. So we we homeschool
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Speaker 2: according to the Charlotte Mason method. I don't know if
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Speaker 2: you're familiar with it, no, but it's it's she's a
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Speaker 2: nineteenth century English educator. I don't think it's very interesting,
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Speaker 2: but it is interesting that she's built this movement that
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Speaker 2: has really propelled a lot of homeschoolers, and they're thinking,
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Speaker 2: and the bedrock of it is exactly what you just said.
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Speaker 2: It's the stories are the foundation. It's how we transmit everything.
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Speaker 2: It's how we transmit history, it's how we transmit ethics
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Speaker 2: and morals everything.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and even even Thomas Jefferson said, if you want
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Speaker 1: to if you want people to remember who you are,
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Speaker 1: if you want your civilization to go on, you have
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Speaker 1: to embed it even in your architecture.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: So buildings should be telling a story. Everything should be
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Speaker 1: pointing to our story, and it's not.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I find that for kids especially. I was
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Speaker 2: actually just talking to a liberal producer who she does
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Speaker 2: documentaries and different media, and I said, I think that
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Speaker 2: there is a market for telling stories to children in
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Speaker 2: ways that are not left because the reality is eighty
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Speaker 2: percent of people who are having children now are of
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Speaker 2: our political persuasion. And how they're capturing them is by
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Speaker 2: taking over the classrooms.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 1: So we you know, I haven't hired yet ahead of education.
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Speaker 1: This whole project is about education, but I needed to
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Speaker 1: get the AI element. I needed to get the storytelling
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Speaker 1: staff right. And so we're doing we're doing what we have.
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Speaker 1: You know what we've already done. In the next few months,
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Speaker 1: I need to hire somebody who really knows the home
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Speaker 1: schooling not market, but people really, really well, so we
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Speaker 1: can produce the things that you need and can't get
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Speaker 1: anywhere else. And I want my company to produce, you know,
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Speaker 1: I learn. It's funny. We we built a house, my
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Speaker 1: wife and I and I can see things finished. I
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Speaker 1: always have and it's the way, it's the way I
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Speaker 1: know my staff knows. Do you see it finished or
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Speaker 1: you see outlines? They asked me, I see it finished, good,
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Speaker 1: then we can start. When I see it finished, I
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Speaker 1: know I can do it. My wife cannot. She doesn't
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Speaker 1: think that way. She doesn't she doesn't visualize that way.
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Speaker 1: She's much more of a numbers person. And show me
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Speaker 1: this and show me that, and let me see it,
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Speaker 1: and she can. She can do it. And we all
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Speaker 1: learn in different way. We all engage in the world
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Speaker 1: a different way, And so we are trying to tell
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Speaker 1: the story because most people engage on story. But we're
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Speaker 1: also like, I'm doing something right now with the first
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Speaker 1: ten amendments, and we're up to Amendment number three. It's
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Speaker 1: all through the summer, and we're releasing them on Torch
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Speaker 1: one at a time in the fall. They'll come out
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Speaker 1: as a you know, I don't even know what you
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Speaker 1: call it, but a single, I mean an album, and
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Speaker 1: it'll go out everywhere. But I've written ten songs, one
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Speaker 1: for each amendment. We're going to be making them with videos,
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Speaker 1: almost like a schoolhouse rock. They're really really good. And
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Speaker 1: the whole thing is, I know that I learn so
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Speaker 1: much from schoolhouse Rock and when you can sing conjunction, junction,
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Speaker 1: what's your function that I'm I learned that when I
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Speaker 1: was a kid. I'm over sixty and it's still there.
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Speaker 1: So I've written these songs and we're having some people
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Speaker 1: produce them really really well, so they they will drill
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Speaker 1: these principles. If I say the third Amendment, nobody knows
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Speaker 1: what that is. What's in the fourth minute? Tell me
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Speaker 1: the the first song is called five in the first
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Speaker 1: tell me the five freedoms that are guaranteed in the
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Speaker 1: first Amendment. So turn it up, say it loud. These
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Speaker 1: are rats should be prouder n.
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Speaker 2: You can't choose what I believe the speech, honesty on the.
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Speaker 3: Breast, I'll print the truth, let it plan, tosembol meat
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Speaker 3: him peace, let them not you again, to disagree.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the government, to change things, not believe. That's five
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Speaker 1: in the first five in the first one. Five in
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Speaker 1: the first five in the first one. You can't defend them.
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Speaker 1: You certainly can't use them if you don't know what
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Speaker 1: they are and where they came from and what they're
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Speaker 1: protecting you from. And so we're we're trying to do
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Speaker 1: it in you know, almost mathematical terms, where we just
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Speaker 1: give you the facts. We're doing it in story form
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Speaker 1: for people who really engage in story, and we're doing
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Speaker 1: it in a musical form. And if if you know of
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Speaker 1: any other forms that people need to learn, you know
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Speaker 1: one of the things that we're ways away from this.
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Speaker 1: I was hoping we were closer, but I don't think
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Speaker 1: we are. I am. I have been watching AI since
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Speaker 1: the nineties, and I have been warning on AI since
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Speaker 1: the nineties. This is either going to be the greatest well,
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Speaker 1: it'll be both. It will be the greatest thing and
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Speaker 1: could be the end of all humanity as well. I
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Speaker 1: don't know which which one, but I do know there
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Speaker 1: may come a time where you need to pull the
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Speaker 1: parachute and get away from all of that. But it's
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Speaker 1: not yet. And right now, AI, if it is a
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Speaker 1: closed system like i've we're putting together a I have
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Speaker 1: one of the largest libraries of founding documents in the
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Speaker 1: in the world. We're only behind the National Archives in
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Speaker 1: the Library of Congress, and we have we are putting
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Speaker 1: in over one hundred thousand documents just of the founding writing.
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Speaker 1: So what did Thomas Jefferson write? What is you know?
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Speaker 1: What did George Washington write, What did the people at
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Speaker 1: the time, not the historians, the people who witnessed it,
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Speaker 1: what did they say on top of that? I think
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Speaker 1: we have I don't remember like two hundred or three
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Speaker 1: hundred sermons that were preached at the time of the
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Speaker 1: founding and in the years building up to it, about
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Speaker 1: forty years before, where that gave all of the principles
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Speaker 1: that you'll find in the Declaration and Constitution. Okay, they
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Speaker 1: were all preached a sermon first, so anything that influenced
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Speaker 1: them that was happening at the time, we've put into
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Speaker 1: this system that is proprietary. It's not chat GPT, it's ours,
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Speaker 1: and it's closed, and right now we're only using it internally,
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Speaker 1: and we do something called George AI where we can
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Speaker 1: ask George. The question yesterday was tell us about Valley
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Speaker 1: Forge from from the perspective of the people that were there,
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Speaker 1: and it tells a story. And like we did one
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Speaker 1: where it was I think it was on the Federalist papers.
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Speaker 1: We were asking about a certain right and it said
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Speaker 1: it puts you at the table, and it said Franklin
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Speaker 1: said this. Then Hamilton responded by saying this, but George
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Speaker 1: felt this way, okay, and it had the argument that
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Speaker 1: they actually had. It was amazing. What we want to
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Speaker 1: do with that eventually, if I can afford it is
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Speaker 1: the compute is so expensive right now, but if we
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Speaker 1: can get it so we can afford it, so you
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Speaker 1: can have access to it at all times, you'll be
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Speaker 1: able to say, I want to learn about the Constitution.
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Speaker 1: I have an eight year old, a ten year old,
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Speaker 1: and a fifteen year old. I have fifteen minutes every day.
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Speaker 1: I want this course to last twenty days. It will
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Speaker 1: design it for the whole family. It can then design
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Speaker 1: it for the individual, and it will ask at the end.
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Speaker 1: It will ask you questions to see if you understood,
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Speaker 1: and it will understand how. Over time, you'll understand how
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Speaker 1: each child learns, and it will begin to adapt to
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Speaker 1: that child. If the child misses something, it then readapts
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Speaker 1: the next episode to make sure it goes back and
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Speaker 1: solidifies that principle and does not go forward until that
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Speaker 1: principle is solidified with each child. That's what we're going for.
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Speaker 3: That's incredible, Can I but in a seg sorry, yeah,
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Speaker 3: because I was listening to the songs in the car.
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Speaker 3: The First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and the moment yesterday,
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Speaker 3: and I was thinking to myself that this is a
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Speaker 3: great like learning like apparatus for me, because people like
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Speaker 3: me who have moved here and don't really know much
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Speaker 3: about American history in a couple of months second eligible
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Speaker 3: for citizenship and have to study up and that's like
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Speaker 3: an incredible tool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, I hope you like them.
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Speaker 2: I mean their earworms. Actually, if I'm going to complain
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Speaker 2: about them, it's that I'm there. They don't get out
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Speaker 2: of your head.
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Speaker 1: Mission accomplished. That's not a complaint. That is for me. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I know it is. I know it is.
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Speaker 4: You should have been me, because I've been working with
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Speaker 4: them for about eight months and I still can't get
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Speaker 4: them out. Now that we're releasing, I'm like, I can't
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Speaker 4: listen to this one more time. But that's been done.
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Speaker 4: What we have already is just been done on a
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Speaker 4: shoe string.
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Speaker 1: When we can actually get the support that we need
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Speaker 1: to be able to really do them, we are going
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Speaker 1: to be able to branch out on so many different
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Speaker 1: things and teach them through songs, through videos, through stories.
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Speaker 1: We just the American Story that we did that twenty episode.
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Speaker 1: We're now releasing it for Torch and that's a subscript.
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Speaker 1: Then it's going to come out and you can listen
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Speaker 1: to it on podcasts for free with commercials. But I'm
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Speaker 1: taking the whole thing and I'm making it as a
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Speaker 1: book as well, and hopefully at Christmas time it will
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Speaker 1: come out as a book and the podcast will become
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Speaker 1: an audiobook. So I'm trying to hit people wherever they live,
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Speaker 1: whatever their least resistance is. We're just going to keep
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Speaker 1: hitting them and hitting them and hitting them with the story.
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Speaker 1: We just did one called control Freaks and it's the
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Speaker 1: history of progressivism. How did we get to a place
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Speaker 1: to where moms won't listen to themselves or they won't
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Speaker 1: ask mom, They'll take it from an expert in a book.
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Speaker 1: That was the biggest problem. That's what's happened to us
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Speaker 1: is we stopped listening to wisdom and we started taking
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Speaker 1: it from control freaks.
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Speaker 2: So this is I actually read of it. This. We
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Speaker 2: have a substat called the mom Wars also, and this,
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Speaker 2: by the way, belief that like moms are the future
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Speaker 2: and we are able to sort of seer the ship.
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Speaker 2: This is why we started podcast. This is why we
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Speaker 2: stopped started the substack all of these reasons, and I've
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Speaker 2: observed in homeschool conversations and communities this I feel like
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Speaker 2: very un American need to for validation and for approval,
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Speaker 2: especially but maybe not especially, but even in homeschool communities,
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Speaker 2: and so people will listen to can I do this?
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Speaker 2: Can I do that? And even in the framework of
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Speaker 2: Charlotte Mason, people ask questions like, you know, according to
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Speaker 2: the Charlotte Mason philosophy, can I have a play set
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Speaker 2: in my backyard? And I think to myself, why do
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Speaker 2: you care? What a nineteenth century child educator.
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Speaker 1: Right listen, You're gonna love it's on the torch now.
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Speaker 1: It's called control Freaks. You're gonna love it because you
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Speaker 1: It answers that question why do we get here? It
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Speaker 1: was so well thought out the way they built this framework.
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Speaker 1: One piece of a time to get you to question
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Speaker 1: yourself and questioning yourself is.
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Speaker 2: The school system. It's the bells. You go from one
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Speaker 2: to the other. It's it's John Gotto who really opened
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Speaker 2: my eyes to how unnatural it all is. You go
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Speaker 2: from one bell to the other, and it leaves you
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Speaker 2: in a place where you can't think for yourself and
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Speaker 2: you can't question you just do.
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Speaker 1: And that is the world that is. That is the
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Speaker 1: world that is coming. And AI is going to play
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Speaker 1: a big part of this. And the secret on AI
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Speaker 1: is it's a tool. Always remember it's a tool. It's
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Speaker 1: not your friend, and it's not it's it has more
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Speaker 1: information than you do, but it's not wiser than you are.
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Speaker 1: It will never cry itself to sleep. Okay, So but
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Speaker 1: if you use it the way as a tool, you're
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Speaker 1: going to be fine. But that too, is built to
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Speaker 1: strangely build you up. What a fascinating question that is. Okay,
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Speaker 2: So one of the I think one of the ways
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Speaker 2: we can sort of push back on all these things
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Speaker 2: is exactly what you're doing with the torch, the stories,
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Speaker 2: And like speaking as a homeschool mom, we do so
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Speaker 2: many audiobooks, we do so many podcasts. We get we
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Speaker 2: derive so much out of all of that. But one
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Speaker 2: of the things, as we're sort of sitting here and
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Speaker 2: talking that my brain is turning that I feel like
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Speaker 2: we don't have as homeschoolers is in person community. And
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Speaker 2: I just want to like throw this in your court
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Speaker 2: a little bit, because I've emailed a lot of people
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Speaker 2: about this bizarro idea and I think you might like it.
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Speaker 2: So in Valley Forge, in like the worst Winter during
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Speaker 2: Valley Forge, George Washington did an illicit production of Cato
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Speaker 2: for the troops. They weren't supposed to do any theater
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Speaker 2: or whatever, but he decided he was going to do.
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Speaker 2: He was going to stage a production of Cato.
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Speaker 1: And I do not know this story. This is fascinating.
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Speaker 1: There's a story I never heard either.
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Speaker 2: So we teach Plutarch to our children. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if you're familiar with it. I figured, so Plutarch, just
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Speaker 2: for our listeners, is basically the histories of Greeks and Romans,
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Speaker 2: I would say, right, And it was used as a
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Speaker 2: tool during you know, the founder's time to teach history,
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Speaker 2: but also also civics and morality. It was like a
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Speaker 2: sort of a catch all thing. And I have a
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Speaker 2: plan this summer to write about the importance of bringing
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Speaker 2: back the instruction of Plutarch. But I think it would
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Speaker 2: be very cool to do in person events as well,
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Speaker 2: like restaging Cato at Valley Forge. Not in the winter.
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Speaker 2: I'm not a masochist, but maybe like October, like there's
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Speaker 2: a chill in the air, but it's not overwhelmingly cold,
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Speaker 2: like we're not going to make our children walk around
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Speaker 2: barefoot in Valley Fortune January, although I was tempted this year.
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Speaker 1: So I will tell you I love that idea. I
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Speaker 1: would love to talk to you about that idea. There
20:57
Speaker 1: is something that I've been working on. I just I
21:00
Speaker 1: need to take things one step at a time or
21:02
Speaker 1: I go broke quickly. I've been broke several times. I
21:06
Speaker 1: just have to not get too far ahead of things.
21:09
Speaker 1: But I am looking at a property to do exactly
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Speaker 1: that every summer, and to act them out and act
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Speaker 1: out portions of history and make it look real. So
21:23
Speaker 1: you're just a witness of history. And every year will
21:26
Speaker 1: be a different theme, but it will like Hilkimora kind
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Speaker 1: of like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I grew up.
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Speaker 2: I grew up right next to Hilkimora and I went
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Speaker 2: every single year. And the closest I ever came to
21:39
Speaker 2: becoming LDS was it Helkamore.
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Speaker 1: Really yeah, is so good. And your families come together.
21:46
Speaker 1: And if you can hold people for three days, the
21:50
Speaker 1: science says three days is the key. If you can
21:53
Speaker 1: hold people not for just one day, but three days,
21:57
Speaker 1: it becomes imprinted on them. So I have I have.
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Speaker 1: My idea is to do a three day festival every
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Speaker 1: year about America, about American history. And to do a
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Speaker 1: three day festival that is I mean, you can glamp,
22:13
Speaker 1: or you can just come and sleep in a sleeping bag,
22:15
Speaker 1: and it costs you nothing except the food you eat,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So we make it accessible
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Speaker 1: to as many people as possible. But I think it
22:26
Speaker 1: you know those things. Look, I'm a We're building a
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Speaker 1: museum in Dallas and it opens next year, next February.
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Speaker 1: We haven't announced it yet, so around February, and it's
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Speaker 1: just the first phase. But I am designing it the
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Speaker 1: way I mean, I've studied. I have Walt Disney's original
22:46
Speaker 1: perspectus of Disneyland in my library upstairs. I have his
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Speaker 1: original works on EPCOT. I've studied him my whole life
22:55
Speaker 1: because as a kid, I was fascinated by him. But
22:57
Speaker 1: look at what he did, imagine America. Without Walt Disney,
23:01
Speaker 1: America would not have had Johnny Tremaine, would not have
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Speaker 1: had The Mickey Mouse Club, would not have had all
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Speaker 1: of those shows that he did that taught certain American values.
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Speaker 1: Then you also don't have Disney Disneyland. Disneyland, and it
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Speaker 1: says in the cover of this book, Disneyland is dedicated
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Speaker 1: to the ideals and ideas that created America. It will
23:24
Speaker 1: be uniquely equipped to educate, inform, and storytell the stories
23:30
Speaker 1: that made that made this country something like that made
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Speaker 1: this country what it is, and it will send these
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Speaker 1: stories forth throughout the world as a beacon of hope.
23:42
Speaker 1: That's not what Disney is doing, but that's what I
23:45
Speaker 1: want to do. And if we can take his basic formula,
23:52
Speaker 1: nobody is doing it now. Nobody is saying this story
23:56
Speaker 1: should be told. And if we can planet deep into
24:01
Speaker 1: our kids, we survive. If we fail. We don't, we don't.
24:07
Speaker 2: I just wrote there's an incredible new book company called
24:11
Speaker 2: Chapter House, and I'm going to be interviewing their their
24:14
Speaker 2: founders on the podcast in probably a couple of days,
24:18
Speaker 2: and this is exactly their founding principle and this is
24:21
Speaker 2: what motivated them to start an entire new imprint. Was
24:25
Speaker 2: this idea that like, we need we have these shared
24:28
Speaker 2: stories as humanity. And it's not just you know, the
24:31
Speaker 2: founding stories, but it's Asop's Fables, it's you know, Shakespeare,
24:35
Speaker 2: it's all of these things. And I don't feel like
24:38
Speaker 2: they're being adequately imparted to kids in these multimedia sort
24:44
Speaker 2: of textual ways. So I think it's critically important obviously
24:49
Speaker 2: to have these books and to have beautiful books and
24:51
Speaker 2: books that will last and you can hold in your hand.
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Speaker 1: And you and I we have to talk offline because
24:57
Speaker 1: I've got a lot to share with you and what
25:00
Speaker 1: we're doing. We are seeing the world exactly the same way.
25:04
Speaker 1: And like I said, I am you know, when I
25:06
Speaker 1: created the Blaze, somebody asked me the other day, what
25:09
Speaker 1: was the biggest you have a disappointment in the Blaze?
25:12
Speaker 1: It should have been bigger or whatever. No. My disappointment
25:15
Speaker 1: is that I couldn't convince people that do what I do.
25:21
Speaker 1: Leave the ego behind. I don't care if you get credit.
25:25
Speaker 1: I don't care, and I'm not looking for your money
25:28
Speaker 1: and I'm not looking to make money off of you.
25:31
Speaker 1: If we can just take our talent, what you're doing,
25:35
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, what somebody else is doing, and then
25:38
Speaker 1: just get together and go, hey, do any of these
25:40
Speaker 1: things work together. If we don't do that, if we
25:44
Speaker 1: try to create our own empire, and we don't reach
25:48
Speaker 1: out to other people and say, like, I have my
25:51
Speaker 1: own imprint, I had it with Simon and Schuster, but
25:54
Speaker 1: I still have to distribute through Simon and Schuster. I
25:56
Speaker 1: don't want to distribute through Simon and Schuster. But I
25:58
Speaker 1: also don't want want to run my own imprint and
26:02
Speaker 1: have to go and do distribution and area I don't.
26:05
Speaker 1: I'm not in the book business. I'm in the writing
26:07
Speaker 1: of the book business, but I don't want to do
26:09
Speaker 1: business with certain people. So you know, you look at
26:13
Speaker 1: things and say, look, I have this pile of stuff,
26:17
Speaker 1: what do you have, Well, I have this pile of stuff. Great,
26:20
Speaker 1: these two piles work together. You do your thing I'll
26:23
Speaker 1: do my thing and let's let's yeah, let's not recreate
26:29
Speaker 1: the wheel when it doesn't need to be recreated.
26:31
Speaker 2: And that's something that I took from a lot of
26:34
Speaker 2: what you're doing with the Torch is like thinking about
26:36
Speaker 2: like the synergy with Hillsdale for example, Like they've produced
26:41
Speaker 2: a lot of great stuff Tuttle Twins. Also they also
26:44
Speaker 2: produce brain worms. The music on their cartoons is awful.
26:48
Speaker 2: And I say that in the most loving way. If
26:52
Speaker 2: I hear another song about Bitcoin from my children. Bitcoin
26:57
Speaker 2: personally not a fan, but what I loved about the
27:02
Speaker 2: Torches that I'm like, at least I like the songs
27:05
Speaker 2: about the amendments versus the Bitcoin.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you that everything that we do. I
27:11
Speaker 1: don't like talking down to children. I never have and
27:14
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know, I don't.
27:15
Speaker 2: Know speaking so much to the Charlotte Mason moms right now,
27:18
Speaker 2: you have no idea.
27:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, my kids, My kids were expected to sit at
27:22
Speaker 1: a table with senators when there were eight hold their
27:26
Speaker 1: own right, you know, my kids when they were twelve,
27:30
Speaker 1: Prime ministers and presidents and had to And that there
27:33
Speaker 1: is a difference when you meet my children. The difference
27:36
Speaker 1: is this not the Prime minister. It was that no
27:39
Speaker 1: one treated them like a kid. Okay, if if you
27:43
Speaker 1: want to learn life, let's learn life, because there's it's all.
27:47
Speaker 1: But you know why we have I just did a
27:50
Speaker 1: monologue today on James Monroe. James Monroe gets into the
27:55
Speaker 1: icy river on the Potomac. He's going to write behind
27:59
Speaker 1: George Washington, and he's going to go and fight the Hessians, okay,
28:06
Speaker 1: or the Prussian Hessians. And most people don't know he's
28:10
Speaker 1: shot right here, and because they happened to stumble across
28:14
Speaker 1: a doctor right who happened to say, I'm going to
28:19
Speaker 1: go with you because somebody's going to get hurt. And
28:20
Speaker 1: he happened to be standing by James Madison when he
28:24
Speaker 1: was shot. He would have died if that doctor hadn't
28:27
Speaker 1: been there and just put his finger right there and
28:29
Speaker 1: knew exactly what he was doing. But anyway, how old
28:31
Speaker 1: was he? You know how old James Madison was when
28:34
Speaker 1: he was in the Revolution with George Washing thirty two,
28:39
Speaker 1: he was eighteen. Seriously, Lafayette when Lafayette came to train
28:46
Speaker 1: the American army. And you know the role Lafayette played
28:49
Speaker 1: when Lafayette came. How old was Lafayette?
28:52
Speaker 2: Oh, he was also like nineteen twenty, he.
28:55
Speaker 1: Was nineteen Nathan Hale when they put the rope around
28:59
Speaker 1: his neck and said, you know, give me liberty or no. Sorry,
29:02
Speaker 1: I only have one. My only regret is I only
29:04
Speaker 1: have one life to give for my country. How old
29:06
Speaker 1: is he? Twenty one? I was going to say that, yeah,
29:11
Speaker 1: twenty one. Yeah, they were kids. They were kids.
29:16
Speaker 2: And I think a lot about the fact that, and
29:18
Speaker 2: I say this a lot on the podcast, and people
29:19
Speaker 2: are probably annoyed. The entrance requirements to get into Princeton
29:24
Speaker 2: for Alexander Hamilton are higher than the graduation requirements to
29:30
Speaker 2: graduate with a master's from Princeton.
29:32
Speaker 1: You know what I'm going to give you. We have
29:34
Speaker 1: so many of the school books from the eighteen hundreds.
29:38
Speaker 1: We have one from like eighteen ninety nine. It's an
29:41
Speaker 1: eighth grade test and it's all Catechism. So you have
29:45
Speaker 1: to add. I have to tell you I can't get
29:47
Speaker 1: past page one. I know, I can't get past page one.
29:52
Speaker 1: I don't know anyone who could pass that in college.
29:54
Speaker 1: I don't know anyone who could take an eighth grade.
29:57
Speaker 1: And that's the difference. They they didn't dumb everything down. Yep,
30:03
Speaker 1: look you're you can learn these things. We just we
30:06
Speaker 1: want to learn them. They they were not They weren't
30:09
Speaker 1: surrounded by a bunch of experts. They had taken the
30:12
Speaker 1: things that naturally worked throughout history and they were just
30:17
Speaker 1: using that storytelling, asking questions, getting you to think critically.
30:21
Speaker 1: That's how it worked. Catechism, it worked, and you know,
30:25
Speaker 1: the experts came in and destroyed that for their own purposes.
30:29
Speaker 1: It's got to go back to that.
30:31
Speaker 2: So if folks are listening at home and they're like
30:34
Speaker 2: super energized because I know, I am, what is there
30:37
Speaker 2: to do list both as parents to sort of self educate,
30:41
Speaker 2: but then also like how can they jump into all
30:43
Speaker 2: of these resources that you've created.
30:45
Speaker 1: So we're creating resources, and you know, if you can't
30:48
Speaker 1: afford the subscriptions, I think ten bucks a month, but
30:51
Speaker 1: it is full of stuff and we are just beginning,
30:55
Speaker 1: you can subscribe to Glenbeck dot com slash torch and
30:58
Speaker 1: then you'd have access to them and there's no commercials
31:01
Speaker 1: in it everything else, or you can wait until we
31:03
Speaker 1: release it slowly, you know, piece by piece, and right
31:07
Speaker 1: now we're really we just started releasing The American Story.
31:11
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, if you're going on a trip
31:14
Speaker 1: with your kids, you put the American Story on the
31:17
Speaker 1: twenty episodes you, I mean, your kids will be riveted
31:22
Speaker 1: the entire time. But you get all that at the torch,
31:26
Speaker 1: and I only ask you. I wish I could do
31:28
Speaker 1: things for I hate selling my own stuff. I hate it.
31:31
Speaker 1: I'm from radio where everything was paid for by commercials,
31:34
Speaker 1: so I hate selling stuff. But I need some people
31:39
Speaker 1: that are willing to step to the plate and say
31:41
Speaker 1: I believe in this, and I will subscribe to this
31:44
Speaker 1: because it's costing a fortune to do what we're doing,
31:48
Speaker 1: and I believe in it, and I want to do it,
31:50
Speaker 1: and I don't care I'm going to do it anyway.
31:53
Speaker 1: But it'd be nice to have some people that are
31:54
Speaker 1: joining us as subscribers and they're getting real use and
31:57
Speaker 1: value out of it. The other thing I would say is,
32:01
Speaker 1: don't read anything to your children as far as education
32:05
Speaker 1: from anything past eighteen or nineteen twenty. Don't nineteen twenty
32:09
Speaker 1: everything started to change, and that's when the progressives and
32:13
Speaker 1: when you read a book, a modern book, look to
32:16
Speaker 1: who the person usually will say, oh, we gotta tell
32:19
Speaker 1: about George Washington. And you know in this book about
32:21
Speaker 1: George Washington, or this person said about George Washington. It's
32:25
Speaker 1: this circle. It's this circle. It's all these modern scholars
32:30
Speaker 1: that are quoting each other quote the original source, quote,
32:34
Speaker 1: the document, tell me the story that somebody told that
32:39
Speaker 1: was there. Yep, you know that is so critical, and
32:45
Speaker 1: most people just don't know it. They'll think, oh, well,
32:47
Speaker 1: this is a good book. I have a original copy
32:50
Speaker 1: of Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery, which if you
32:53
Speaker 1: haven't read it, you need to, your kids need to.
32:56
Speaker 1: I have an original copy, first edition. Then I have
32:58
Speaker 1: a copy from about two thousand and maybe five, and
33:04
Speaker 1: it says on the copyright page, we are not sure
33:09
Speaker 1: if this story is true. Sorry, it's not a copyright.
33:12
Speaker 1: It's in the forward. Not sure how much of this
33:15
Speaker 1: story is true. Okay, it was his it was his biography,
33:20
Speaker 1: his autobiography. So we know it's true because we know
33:23
Speaker 1: he existed. Blah blah blah. So scholars differ on how
33:27
Speaker 1: much of this story is true. The latest edition that
33:29
Speaker 1: I have, on the copyright page, this book is a
33:34
Speaker 1: work of fiction. Up from Slavery. It's a work of fiction.
33:46
Speaker 1: So it's much worse than I think anybody knows, and
33:49
Speaker 1: you guys know better than most. It's bad. It's bad.
33:52
Speaker 2: I mean, this is the creepy like rewriting of roll
33:56
Speaker 2: Dall that they're doing in more recent Yeah, we know.
34:01
Speaker 1: It all being be it's all being rewritten, it all
34:04
Speaker 1: and the bad thing about AI, and that's why we
34:07
Speaker 1: have I mean, our AI has an electric fence around.
34:10
Speaker 1: There is nothing new that comes in, nothing new unless
34:13
Speaker 1: we put it in. It cannot reach outside, and it
34:17
Speaker 1: purges if you ask it a question, and it doesn't
34:19
Speaker 1: understand because you know, like I think we said something
34:22
Speaker 1: about I don't know. We might have said something about
34:25
Speaker 1: a new law in Washington State. It didn't know what
34:28
Speaker 1: Washington State was. So you know, you put it in,
34:30
Speaker 1: but it purges all of those things, so it cannot
34:33
Speaker 1: hang on to anything modern. It's all prior to eighteen thirty.
34:38
Speaker 1: And that's critical. That's critical because as that thing continues
34:42
Speaker 1: to churn and is a gi comes into play, which
34:47
Speaker 1: we are at the singularity now, you're not going to know,
34:51
Speaker 1: you're we are at the point of losing free will.
34:58
Speaker 1: People will not be a able to know if they
35:03
Speaker 1: came up with that idea or if they have been
35:06
Speaker 1: groomed by AGI to believe that. So you have to
35:11
Speaker 1: be very very aware of everything that is going on.
35:17
Speaker 3: Well, on that note, we are going to get in
35:20
Speaker 3: trouble if we say any long.
35:23
Speaker 2: Not that I don't want to.
35:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you guys. You guys are the greatest. Thank you.
35:27
Speaker 1: Thank you for your support, and thank you for everything
35:29
Speaker 1: that you do. And thank you moms for doing what
35:33
Speaker 1: you do.
35:34
Speaker 2: Amen.
35:34
Speaker 1: I know it's scary because it was scary for me
35:37
Speaker 1: to be a homeschooling dad. Terrifying. I'm not qualified here
35:41
Speaker 1: you are, Yeah, they are so.
35:43
Speaker 2: Glennbeck dot com slash Torch Torch, thank you so much
35:48
Speaker 2: for everything you do. I can't wait. I mean, if
35:50
Speaker 2: nothing else, you've bought yourself a subscriber with this conversation.
35:54
Speaker 2: So there you go. Your time made you.
35:58
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. Well. I really want to sit
36:01
Speaker 1: down with you guys at some point off here because
36:04
Speaker 1: I think we have there's a lot of work we
36:07
Speaker 1: can do together. I agree.
36:08
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