Rick Rescorla: The 9-11 hero who saved 2,700 lives

0:00You're listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio. I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton. As September 11th is now in a rearview mirror. I think we saw the good, the bad, and everything in between here in America. We saw people protesting. There was the pro-Palestine person wearing an Elmo costume in New York City. There's the famous video of the New York firefighter absolutely screaming his head off at this guy. Many people deeming the fireman a hero. Telling him to get out of our country if you don't like it here. We saw many people, or I saw many people posting horrific things on social media. I unfriended quite a few people. Happily unfriended quite a few people over the weekend.

1:02All of them, by the way, for what it's worth, all of them from the extreme left Democratic Party, not one Republican, at least on my newsfeed, not one Republican, was saying anything negative. It was all the Democrats, the tolerant Democrats. They turned September 11th into January 6th. They were posting things like, well, the real terrorist attack on this nation was January 6th. Folks, I can't even begin to explain how stupid and insensitive that is. To the almost 3,000 people who lost their lives that day, not just to them, but to their surviving family members, what is lapping the face, what a disgusting thing to say?

2:08People waited on the left. They waited until September 11th, the 25th anniversary. They waited. They just waited because they knew that would steal the thunder or they thought that would steal the thunder. They wanted their two seconds of fame. They waited until September 11th to mock the death of Charlie Kirk, unfriended. I want nothing to do with those people. There were people who were talking about how September 11th was completely preventable. It was an inside job, all these conspiracy theories never, never acknowledging the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives that day, never mentioning the heroes of that day. There are many heroes on September 11th. I mean, many heroes.

3:10People who selflessly put themselves in harm's way, saved lives of multiple people. Today, we're going to highlight one of those people. I just learned about the gentleman who we're going to be talking about today and what an amazing human being. And there were so many of these people and folks, that's what September 11th is and always will be about. Not these unhinged lunatic left wing radicals who make it all about themselves. They want their two seconds of fame. Now, it's just absolutely unbelievable. I don't know. I could go on forever about this and I don't want today to be a rant, but it just shows. It proves my point that the more I see what the left is doing, the more unhinged I see they are and the less I want anything to do with them.

4:12Now both parties have their faults for sure. And quite frankly, I don't really like either one. I don't like either party that much at all. It's why I'm independent. I'll probably remain independent for the rest of my life. People keep saying, well, why don't you, why don't you change your political life? I don't want to be a political party so that you can vote in the primaries. And I'm like, I just don't want to be associated with either one of those parties. They're both very toxic. There are a lot of problems within both parties. And I just don't want that affiliation. Not just a personal choice. It's not to say that I fault anybody else for claiming a political party, not at all. But it's the left who increasingly has become unstable.

5:13The amount of mental, I don't even know what to call it, mental illness, mental being mentally unhinged is just absolutely fantastic. And now the democratic socialists of America, I still clip and I honest to goodness thought that it was AI or that it was a parody. And it turned out it really happened. It was at a democratic socialist of America meeting or a rally or something. And my goodness, it just it devolved so quickly. And they're just literally eating their own. I mean, they've turned into cannibals because they don't tolerate anything and they're like even their own. So it really bizarre stuff. But again, that's not the focus of today. Today I want to talk about a hero, an absolute hero who saved the lives of 2700 people on

6:20September 11th. I mean, we could almost say single handedly saved the lives of 2700 people, almost as many people as what died. Rick Riscorela saved that many lives. Now I'm going to tell you how this story is absolutely phenomenal. It blew blew my mind. Absolutely blew my mind. It's incredible. What a decent human being. And like I said, many, many, many, many people were heroes on September 11th, not just September 11th, but in the months and years to follow. But Rick Riscorela is one of those people. And let me just paint the picture for you. I want you to begin with the chaotic morning of September 11th, 2001. All of us who are old enough, we remember thousands on that morning, I mean thousands on

7:26that morning were paralyzed, crippled with fear. The building announcements in New York City were telling people to stay put. I've listened to some of this footage. I've listened to firsthand accounts. They were told to stay put. That was kind of the conventional wisdom at the time. People didn't know what was going on. They knew that it was some kind of attack on the building or accident. They didn't really know at the time. And so the conventional wisdom was just stay put where you're at. But one man was on a bullhorn guiding 2700 people down the stairwells. He refused to stay put. Many people were angry, upset, but he wasn't panicked at all. In fact, he was singing an ancient Cornish battle hymn to keep everybody calm.

8:36Enter Rick Riscorela. He's not just a victim of September 11th, but he's an extraordinary protector and hero whose entire life of service and foresight were culminated in one of the greatest rescue efforts in American history. Now I'm just today, well, as in 2026, hearing about Rick Riscorela. And I think part of that is because there was so much noise surrounding September 11th. And a lot of people stole the attention away from the heroes by coming up with, I mean, pretty much immediately coming up with conspiracy theories. I don't have a lot of tolerance for conspiracy theories. I really don't enjoy them. I think they're a waste of time. You look at what happened with Alex Jones and Sandy Hook. It's not just Sandy Hook. The guy has made a living of coming up with these wild, bizarre conspiracy theories.

9:43And I don't know. I think there's something mentally unhinged about people who do that too. And it's on the right as well. So I'm both the right and the left. Look at what happened to Tucker Carlson. I mean, he just he chases every single conspiracy theory that he can wildly imagine. He always has the insider scoop. You ever notice that like these people always have, they're the only ones with the text messages or they're the only ones with this pertinent information. I that's usually a glaring red flag. You know, it's even when I worked undercover with the US marshals. Yeah, people have asked me about people who know they've asked me certain details. And I'm like, well, that's, you know, the information has been spread across multiple

10:45agencies. Like, I don't lay claims to any information that nobody else has. I'm the only one with this information. That's total crap. You know, especially if you think the law is being broken, you know, that I can't believe people don't ask those questions of Tucker and Candace Owens. Or like she is a whack job. She's like, oh, I have all this pertinent insider information. Only I have the information. Really. Yeah. And so these people go down this path and they see that they're gaining a following. People like that. People are like, oh, my goodness, like tell us more. And it feeds their ego. And they just constantly keep dangling a carrot. Notice how they never give information. They just give little teasers and they're like, yeah, in one month, something's about

11:46to break loose. And you'll see, you know, in one month, all this is going to come to light. Well then a month comes and goes. Then they're like, in one more month, you know, I can't release it now because people's lives are on the line. You know, so you hear that kind of thing. And I just, I don't have a lot of tolerance for it. It's bizarre. It's strange. And with September 11th, you know, there are all the conspiracy theorists who start coming out again on the 25th anniversary. It happens every single year. And they start talking about the engineering and how it's impossible for the buildings to implode. And it was, it was a bomb. These were bombs that were set and it was an inside job and it was the government and it was the CIA and it was this and it was that like, come on. Now, not that we can't ask valid questions, but notice how the attention is not.

12:46It's not on all the people who lost their lives. It's not on all the heroes who put their lives on the line for innocent people. That's never the focus. They don't even mention it. Yeah, so be very weary of conspiracy theories. And I think that's a large part of why stories like this get drowned out by all the other noise. So I wanted to bring this to the surface because man, it is just such a powerful, powerful story. So Rick, Rys Gorla, right, he's not panicked at all. He was an extraordinary protector whose entire life of service and foresight that culminates in one of the greatest rescue efforts in American history.

13:46He has this, this foresight where he knew that there was going to be an attack on the twin towers. Now some people might call that premonition. Other people might call that a conspiracy theory. Other people are like, oh, there's no way that that's impossible. And he's just people are making that up and they're rewriting history. No, he actually talked about it. And I don't think he's prophetic or anything like that. It's that due to his training, he was a master at understanding how evil people think. Where the vulnerabilities are. I did this for years. Training churches. I would walk through and show them what a predator is looking for. A child sexual predator. I would show them all the vulnerable places. I said, I don't care how tight you think your security is.

14:46I don't care how like we have two adults in every room. Okay. So what? Here. Let me show you. Let me walk through the building with you. And let me show you exactly how these people get around every single bit of security that you have in place. And then you start finding out they're like, oh, my goodness. Well, we had an incident that was really similar to this. Yeah. So his training is really what put him into the mindset. And he was like, oh, well, these buildings are incredibly vulnerable. It's the heartbeat of America for all finances. I mean, literally in these two buildings, you take these two buildings out and you begin the collapse of an economy. Or so they thought. And so anyway, he predicted that there were going to be attacks by airplanes.

15:50And he was born in Cornwall, England. In 1939, he grew up with a deep admiration for American soldiers, staging for Normandy. He was in the British Army. And Cyprus, Northern Rhodesia, before he immigrated to the US in 1963 specifically to join the US Army. And he had this unyielding commitment to the people around him. I mean, like he was a protector, a completely selfless, fearless protector of the people around him. To him, that was the most important thing that he could possibly do is protect the lives of the people who are right next to him physically. And that training, that heart, that grit would make him one of the best people positioned

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19:03Rick Urskourla is an absolute hero. He saved, single-handedly, saved 2700 lives on September 11th. Now you have to keep everything in perspective. Alright, and we're going to talk about the story about how he made that happen, but we have to keep things in perspective. Nobody knew on September 11th, except the hijackers, the terrorists. Nobody knew that America was going to be under attack. Nobody knew that there were going to be four planes intentionally driven into structures and one that missed its target because of the heroes on board that went down in my hometown of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nobody knew that on September 11th. Nobody boarded those planes thinking that was going to be the last time that they would be alive.

20:04Nobody showed up to work in the twin towers, thinking that was going to be the very last time that they would say goodbye to their loved ones. Nobody knew that. Alright, nobody knew that the twin towers were going to collapse in a matter of minutes. The south tower collapsed in 56 minutes after being struck. That happened to be the tower that Rick or Skorla was in. And nobody knew that the north tower was going to collapse 102 minutes after it was struck. Nobody knew that. Now think of all the first responders, the firemen who were inside of the buildings when they collapsed. There are many people, many, many people lost their lives that day. Thousands. I mean, it's one of the most gut-wrenching horrific stories when we actually stopped

21:09to think about it. And that's why I didn't have the tolerance on social media for the people who were like, no, the real, the real terrorist attack on America is January 6th. What a disgusting thing to say on the 25th anniversary of September 11th. I think that's why a lot of people don't have a lot of tolerance for a C&M Donnie and AOC yucked it up in Laffin while names of deceased are being read. I know I saw the other camera view. There's a longer camera view, a different angle. And it was a quick exchange. They were saying hello to each other. But that wasn't the time to do it. I mean, that's common sense 101. When people are sobbing, when the names of loved ones who perished that day are being read. That's not the time to be exchanging pleasantries and smiling, knowing that there are cameras

22:14on you. It's just it's not the time. Now, I'm going to give them a benefit of the doubt. I don't think, you know, again, there are conspiracies out there. They're like, oh, they were talking about 9-11 and what a joke it is. That's, come on. That's a stretch. I think I saw the longer video. I think they were just saying hello to each other. But there's a time and a place. You know, that image of them smiling and yucking it up, that's going to stick with people. People remember that, especially the families. And keep in mind the sensitivity. A lot of the families didn't want Mamdani to be there. There's a petition that very quickly had over 100,000 people that signed it. Anyway, yeah, just really bizarre stuff that people tend to chew their own horns and

23:15that sort of thing. But back to Rick Riscola. All right. He came to America and he again had this warrior ethos. He had this unyielding commitment to the people around him. I mean, absolutely unapologetic, unafraid, unyielding. He was a protector of people around him. So there was a hardcore in the Valley of Death, the Battle of the Drang. 1965. He was at Vietnam as a platoon leader under Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore. Riscola's photo is on the cover of an old book We Were Soldiers Once and Young. So there was one night where his unit was outnumbered by 2,000 enemy troops.

24:20When a calm, his men Riscola walked the perimeter singing wild colonial boy and of course his Cornish folk songs. Well, his people held the line. He had earned several medals, the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for his bravery, but he shunned the hero label. Right. He said the real heroes were the ones who didn't come home. They were the real heroes. And obviously this is the true mark of a hero. A true hero doesn't take the glory. They give it to the other people. They honor the lives of people who lost their lives. And again, I mean, I don't mean to keep going back to the soapbox, but that folks that

25:23really got under my skin when people failed to honor the lives of the nearly 3,000 people who died on September 11th. 2,977 to be exact. 2,977 souls lost their lives on September 11th. And when people start making it about themselves, are they start mocking the death of Charlie Kirk or anybody else for that matter? And they choose to use that day to celebrate the death of one innocent person. I don't have empathy for them. I don't want to see them. I don't want them to pop up on my newsfeed. I just don't have tolerance for that.

26:24So, Rescuerla, he said the true heroes were the ones who lost their lives. They're the ones who we need to honor. They laid their lives down literally. They laid their lives down for freedom. They laid their lives down for their fellow countrymen, their fellow troops. So fast forward a little bit. And Rescuerla becomes the vice president of corporate security for Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center. And Rescuerla and his close friend Dan Hill accurately predicted the 1993 World Trade Center basement truck bombing before it ever happened. But their expensive security recommendations were ignored. Yeah, again, this is not the, I don't think he's like some secret CIA agent.

27:29But rather, when you know how evil people think and you walk around a building enough times, and especially when you're in the mindset of security and protection, you see vulnerabilities. You see raging cracks in the security system. Well, that's exactly what I saw. He's like, well, people can freely drive in and out the basement or the underneath. I don't know what it's what it was called. I don't think they called it the basement. But it was the the underneath section of the Twin Towers. Anybody could drive in and out of there as they pleased. So Rescuerla was like, no, we need to increase security. There's gonna be a bombing. Well, in 1993, the attack happened. And Rescuerla gained the authority to act after that bombing.

28:34And it's interesting how we as people, I think it's just human nature. Right, we don't make radical changes until something bad happens because we live in denial. We live in a world where we have rose tinted glasses, many of us. And we're like, well, why would you reinforce the door in the cockpit and spend all that money? Do you know how much money that would cost? Right, like there were so, there were many simple things that we could have done to prevent 9-11 had we known. Now, I don't think this was negligence. I think it just, we didn't, it wasn't on a radar. You know, in post 9-11, everything changed in aviation. You know, you used to be able to pre 9-11. You could walk into the boarding area. Anybody could. You could walk right through and have virtually no security whatsoever without even having a ticket.

29:44Well, that all changed because it had to. I think about child sexual abuse and my training with that. It wasn't even on my radar until it happened. Until it happened in our church, until it happened in our family, it just wasn't on my radar. It's not that I didn't care about it. You know, and I think we need to be very careful here. And that's what all the conspiracy theorists are like, oh, the government wanted this to happen. They were on the inside. That's why they purposely didn't reinforce the doors on the airplanes. And they let just let anybody on the airplanes. No, that's called a conspiracy theory. There's absolutely no evidence that proves that. And so our culture began to change after the 1993 attack.

30:44Now, people weren't thinking with the exception of Riscuela and maybe a handful of other people. People weren't thinking in terms of driving airplanes into the side of the buildings. They were thinking, oh, my goodness, we had this attack. We had this bombing in the basement. Now, a lot of people probably don't even know about the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. It was by Ramzi Yusuf and his conspirators that killed six people and injured thousands. And so after that, they were like, oh, we really need to step up security. But they were thinking in terms of bombs. And then of course, two years later in 1995, there was the bombing in Oklahoma City. All right, so people were thinking in terms of bombings, not airplanes.

31:48But that's what the exception of one person, Riscuela. He warned him, warned him, warned him, said, look, there will be a day, these buildings are vulnerable. There will be a day when somebody attempts to fly an airplane into the building we need to be prepared. All right, so believing that the towers would be targeted again, likely by plane, he implemented a super-strict surprise evacuation drill, repeated drills for all Morgan Stanley employees. Executives began to complain, but Riscuela refused to compromise on their safety. He didn't care. You know, this kind of is reminiscent to me of whenever Noah was building this arc, right? Like God warned him. He's like, look, there's going to be this massive flood.

32:48And Noah starts building this arc and people were making fun of him. And people are getting angry. They're like, this guy is out of his mind. What the heck is he doing? But Noah persisted. He kept doing it anyway and lo and behold, the flood waters came and they kept coming and they kept coming. And there were eight people who were saved because of Noah listening. He listened and he acted. All right, Riscuela was not well liked within Morgan Stanley. The executives really didn't like him because this was taken away from productivity. It was tinfoil hack kind of stuff. It was getting the employees kind of worked up and over, over, quote, nothing. Right? So this is kind of how people think. And I've been in security long enough too with churches. I know. Within my own church,

33:58I know. After we found out that my own father had been abusing victims for years. I'll never forget one of my dear friends, very, very, very, very close friends. He looked at me and he said, now Jim, I just don't, I don't share the same paranoia that you have. And I bit my tongue and bit my tongue and bit my tongue and I just pressed forward. As I come up, I'm not going to argue. I'm not going to defend myself. We're going to, we're going to move forward. We're going to press forward with a real security plan. It has to be in place. It has to be implemented period. Absolutely. 100% hands down. Well, then, you know, of course, we started seeing the, it was the 2018 Grand Jury investigation into the Catholic

35:03church here in Pennsylvania. I mean, a bomb shall report. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of victims and cover ups and horrific stories of abuse and suicide. And I mean, on and on and on. And I just thought, this is why we train. It doesn't matter what the naysayers say. So, Rescuerla got that. He's like, it doesn't matter that the executives are breathing down my neck. He refused to compromise on the safety of the employees because they were the people who were in his charge. Again, it's the warrior ethos. It's this unyielding commitment to the people around him. That trait defined literally his entire life. He didn't care what people thought. He didn't care what people said. He didn't care if that meant a demotion at work. He did not care.

36:04He was unrelenting. And he practiced these drills over and over and over and over again from 1993 until September 11th, 2001. We're up on another break here. All of our shows do go to podcasts the next day after the broadcasts heard on talk radio. You can hear them on your favorite podcast app. Be sure to subscribe, rate the show, share it, and visit the store at AmericaOut Loud.News. Use the code out loud. I promise that isn't the deal of a lifetime. 20% off with inflation and all the stuff that's going on around the world. 20% off is a good deal. Great products, healthy products, fun products. Check out the store. Use the code out loud. Visit AmericaOut Loud.News and we'll be right back. Have you been looking for a healthy snack from the go? Well, not all energy

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38:11I'm Doug Evans, author of the Sprout Book, and I'm also a father with a three-year-old daughter, and that's why we grow sprouts. Did you know that you could take seeds, add water, and get fresh, organic vegetables in three to five days without soil, sunshine, or fertilizer for under a dollar serving? That's the miracle of spouting, and I want to share that with you. Go to thesproutingcompany.com slash out loud and use the code out loud for a special offer. Rick Riscourla Literally, stave the lives of 2700 people working at Morgan Stanley. He was the VP of Corporate Security for Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center. He brilliantly predicted the 1993 bombing. Now, I don't know that he predicted that that was going to be the year that

39:11there was a bombing, but he knew that there was going to be an attack on the World Trade Center. Loan behold, there was thousands of people got injured. There were six deaths, thousands of people injured, and of course, there was the Oklahoma City bombing just two years later, 1995, but after the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, Riscourla gained the authority to act. He believed that the next likely target would be by plane. He was very vocal about that. He was in the minority. People didn't believe that to be true. They thought he was kind of a tin foil hat wearer. The executives at Morgan Stanley complained. They complained to and about Riscourla, but he absolutely utterly refused to compromise on the safety of the employees who were under his care. They were under his charge and he was unrelenting. When flight 11 hit the North Tower,

40:24Riscourla was at work that day. The port authority announcements told the South Tower occupants to stay at their desks. Stay put. Riscourla immediately ignored the authorities. He grabbed his bullhorn and he ordered an immediate evacuation of his 2700 employees. He wanted to stop the panic. People were rightfully so. We're absolutely panicked. We've seen the videos. We've seen things that the human eyes shouldn't see. We've seen the video footage. We've seen the people jumping out of the broken out windows because of the smoke and the intense heat. It's virtually impossible to think of that level of desperation.

41:24To know that that's the better option. This was hell. I mean, a literal hell. And Riscourla knew if he didn't keep the people calm, they would panic. They would get lost. They would forget their training. He knew this. So to stop the panic, he began to sing men of harley and God bless America. He calmly sang into the bullhorn as he helped shuffle people to the stairwells, something that they had trained over and over and over again. He wanted to make sure that no matter what part of the building people were in, that they knew where the closest exit was, that they could feel their way through, suspecting that it was going to be a plane that was going to hit the tower, that that's how it

42:29was going to be attacked again. He ensured that every single person knew like the back of their hand what the escape route was, what the plan was, what the route was, where to go, how to get there. He called his wife Susan, telling her that he had to get his people out safely. And again, because of his relentless drills, his unapologetic drills, even when he received ridicule. Almost all of the 2700 Morgan Stanley employees made it out alive. Rescuerla, however, was lasting on the 10th floor, heading not down, but back up the stairs, to ensure that nobody was left behind. He tragically passed away when the South Tower collapsed.

43:36I mean, it's so hard to wrap our minds around this. It's so difficult to wrap our minds around what it would take to keep calm in a situation like that, what it would take to keep your what's about you, what it would take to be unfairful to be singing God Bless America into the bullhorn in order to keep your people calm. I can't, I can't imagine. I just can't, I can't begin to imagine what it took to be that calm, what it took to be inspirational in a moment of fear and tragedy and terror to be inspirational to people. You know, by 2001, he was no spring chicken. Yeah, running up and down those stairs, and that's the thing about the fireman too, with 40 to 60 pounds of gear, these brave men and women ran up and down these stairwells. An intense heat,

44:44smoke so thick that you can't see through it, debris everywhere, chaos everywhere, these people are heroes. And so again, I don't want to hear about how September 11th is, this is the day we're going to celebrate Charlie Kirk, Charlie Kirk, Kirk's death. Those people are ranged. And my suggestion is if those people are in your life, cut ties to the best of your ability. They're not mentally well. There's something not right about taking such a horrific tragedy, where so many innocent people lost their lives, so many more could have lost their lives. And one of the most horrific ways possible. And to turn that into something about yourself,

45:47you're celebrating the death of somebody else, you're out protesting wearing an Elmo costume, protesting like anti-Israel, pro-Palestine, whatever it is, like these people are doing this in New York City, right outside of ground zero. Like, what is wrong with these people? Now, September 11th was, is, and always will be a time to remember the heroes of that day. And so we remember Rick Riscourla. And we tie that into the theme of this show. Good deeds aren't always spontaneous. Yeah, like people talk about random acts of kindness. They're not always random. Sometimes they're the result of years of meticulous preparation,

46:48heartache, care, or refusal to compromise on human life. Now, a lot of times it's driven by seeing loved ones perish or suffer. You know, this is the thing about human nature. We tend to get angry at God. And we scream and we're like, well, you know, where's where's God? How could a good God let these bad things happen to all these innocent people? People curse God. They get angry at God. And I'm not judging here. I'm saying that I went through the same emotions. Heck, I wrote about it in my book when I was yelling at God. Yeah, I think that's part of lament. We need the room to be able to yell scream and question. But to hold onto that anger and to never let that go and to turn your life into a life of crime and

47:56and upending other people's lives, that's not okay. That's where somebody needs to pull you back. Be like, no, no, no, no. Right. We have a choice. We can either use tragedy for good or we can use it to inflict harm on other people. I think that's why I do so many of these stories to show like a lot of these people who are who are letting their hidden lightness shine. They've been through tragedy. They've been through heartache. They've been through something difficult in their life. And they have the credibility right because they've been there. They've been down a super tough road. And they have the credibility to reach into the lives of other people because they're not angry about it. Or maybe they're angry and they're just taking that anger and they're using it for good. So instead of celebrating the death of innocent people, like how did we get to this point? How did we get to the point where in a Lindsey

49:03clancy, like murdered and cold blood murdered her three little children, strangled them in the most horrific, vile, violent way? How did we get to a point where she's the one who's celebrated? She's the one who's upheld as a hero. And the lone juror who held out and was like, no, I just, I can't go along with this. He's getting doxed by the mainstream media. They're publishing information about him. People showing up at his house threatening him with you guessed it, death. Like how is this normal? How in the world is this normal?

50:03And so like I said, we can take the tragedies in our life and we can either turn that around and do good for a fellow man. Are we can celebrate the villains? That's where Pratt was absolutely right. Spencer Pratt when he did that video on the Lindsey clancy, I mean right away, he came out with that video and denounced it. I did a show on that. I, man, he hit the nail on the head. Spencer Pratt was like, how, how is this normal? We take the villain, we take the evilest person, the most evil, vital person. And we hold them up as heroes. We celebrate them. Right. All these women writing love letters to these, these people in prison. Shown up in pink, fainting whenever the, the bus goes by, Lindsey clancy is in chains.

51:11And these women are like practically fainting and taking selfies, being caught on camera, smiling, and laughing, like looking directly in the camera, smiling and laughing during the trial. Nice that we, we need to walk away from that kind of stuff. That all in my opinion is, it's like a clear sign of some kind of mental illness that's going on inside of people. So we can either start going down that route. Because I'm going to be clear, most of us have had some kind of tragedy in our life. Almost all of us. And if we haven't, we will. And we can either take that tragedy and we can learn from it and we can grow and we can be like

52:12the rest gorillas who turn his tragedies and appointing at those people and saying, hey, they're the real heroes. Don't you dare hold me up as a hero? Those people, my friends who lost our lives, they're the heroes. You know, so the hidden lightness is not always about being spontaneous and coming up with this good idea and you just take it and run with it. And sometimes it's just the hidden lightness is this result of years of meticulous preparation, years of care, attention to detail. And her refusal to compromise whatsoever on human life, period. Yeah, look at, look again, look at where we've come. People celebrating abortion.

53:19You want to have a conversation about different scenarios and where it should be legal or acceptable and whatever. Great. Fine. Let's have a conversation about that. But people bragging about having abortions. These women going on video, bragging, laughing about having abortions, making a mockery of snuffing out human life. That's mental derangement. Right. So the hidden lightness is about finding the people who are the heroes. And I uphold people as heroes who honor the lives of other people, who lay their lives down online to protect the lives of other people. The men and women in blue. And I'm not talking about the corrupt police

54:20officers, which make up a fraction. They're out there. There's there's a small minority. Not talking about them. I'm talking about the men and women who every day, they dress in uniform. They go outside, they get spit on, they get kicked, punched, threatened every single day. And they keep showing up day after day after day. They show up to and they see the absolute worst in people. Every single day they put that uniform on. They're the heroes. Now we need to remember this. This is who America is. Man, record squirrela. We need to remember him. His memory lives on in thousands of families who still have their loved ones today.

55:24Because one man decided to be prepared. That's incredible. Folks, be that person. Don't be the person who gets caught up in all these endless debates that never have a winner. To don't mean anything anyway. Be the person who swims against the current. When you see what's right, you latch onto that and you reach for that, you swim for that, you go for that, you fight for that. No matter what, be that person. And I promise the world will be a better place. There are 2700 people. Who get this really, really well. You know, all those annoying drills that they see the benefit in that now. Be that person of the likeness. You can find more out about my show and get all the latest podcasts if you go to the menu navigation bar in America out loud.News under our shows or schedule.

56:27You'll be in the know. There is a hidden likeness that shines inside of all of us. When so much darkness envelopes the world, remember that it doesn't take much light to expose that darkness and to ultimately inspire other people. Join me in being a light.