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Alright we are on location at the Blaze Studios here in Dallas, Texas and I'm sitting across from Mr. Blaze Glenn Beck.

Oh, how's it going my man? Good to see you. Thank you for letting us do an on location shoot. I feel...

Not a problem. I know you're here for about 10 minutes and then you're I think you're going to probably be on the moon and then a stop at the Mars and...

You know a little bit about traveling a lot. I do. Yeah so I'm in between a thousand things here. It's pretty cool. I want to spend a lot of time talking about this book here addicted to outrage but let's just do everything so right now.

We're about two and a half weeks away from this midterm election.

I suspect something completely bananas over the next two and a half weeks. I mean you can already just see between between the cab and all stuff that we've been dealing with the general outrage and all the things you're writing about here.

So I just said this to a group of friends the other day. I think at this point a spaceship could appear. Okay. And hover over New York City and it'd be like...

I mean I don't know what would surprise me now. Well we'd be arguing about the gender pronouns of the aliens. I know. It's it's absolutely insane how everything is everything is upside down.

Do you think do you think we're in a unique time because that's one of the questions when I'm out there with Peterson often people say okay it's you know everyone says we're we've never been more partisan and we're angrier than ever and all of these things.

But does something about this seem unique? Yeah I'm a I'm a glutton for history. Yes. And we have been in perilous times before. I don't think we've hit the Civil War confrontations yet but we are approaching it.

Do you think we really are because I do because I'm actually worried about the amount of people I see this on Twitter all the time people saying oh Civil War is coming you know like this is like murmur about what would be the most

horrific possible outcome of all of this or remind me to talk about the window because I think we have a window right now. But we have been we've been worse I mean if you look at Jefferson and Adams.

Adams was called a hermaphrodite by Jefferson Jefferson Jefferson his campaign called him a hermaphrodite Adam said back that if you elect Thomas Jefferson there will be blood in the streets and the heads of our children and your daughters will be on pikes into every town.

So we've had rhetoric like this before ironically I'd be thrilled to vote for either one of the guys. I'll take either I don't care. Heads on pikes that would be fun but it all does go to just in the last couple weeks you know there was this Hillary Clinton line on CNN talking to Christiana I'm on poor about how we can't be civil because these these people meeting the conservatives or Republicans are so against our values I mean this is dangerous stuff. Here's the difference.

We have been in these places before but we knew our founding documents. We knew who we served or who our God was and I don't know who our God is now I mean is it money is it fame is it anger I don't know what our God is now.

We knew wait let me pause you there for a second when you when you say that about what the founders believed now they were also saying separation of church and state the whole time so if you were just laying out what they believed.

When you say we who our God was.

So George Washington they did believe in the division of church and state clearly I do too yeah that just means if you're an atheist you're an atheist we're friends we're cool let's get along but if you're a god person you do your god thing you do your thing right do we have what Adam Smith called moral sentiment in common yes capitalism has lost the first volume.

Of Adam Smith the second volume is wealth of nations the first volume is moral sentiments and that says look this is an invisible hand and the market is powerful and it will create whatever you want be careful what you ask for make sure you are always tempering the moral sentiment make sure that you're good decent fair minded people.

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