best-selling authors and best friends and the three books, ben sherwood, we were just talking about the survivors club, how people actually survive. there is a test in the back of the book. the question i had after interviewing hundreds of survivors was: what kind of survivor am i? i worked with leading psychologists and we developed the world s first survivor personality test t. takes 10 minutes on the web. you took it a year ago. glenn: yeah. you talk about how you are a believer because there are believers, thinkers, connector, realists. what was interesting was that you said you were a believer and that s core. but as i recall, you found you were a realist. there is an interesting relationship between realists and believers. realists see the world clearly. they see over the horizon, they can think outside of box, they can think the unthinkable and
right. glenn: you say that affects china as well, why? in pure economic term, obviously, china has lifted 400 million people out of poverty in 30 years, which by any historic standard reporter: they did kill 80 million people. well, this is in fact, probably over if you look at the course of timing, running from the ethiopennian war, even more violet. that s right. that ability to snap back gives you a sense of how dramatic the shift that has has been in chin. but they have 3- or 400 million people living on less than $2 a day and they are very nervous about the instability judge didn t they, when they were ready the federal beijing olympics, didn t they take people from the rice patties and put them on scaffolding and say, here, build this building. they did. i can t imagine going from the rice patties to seeing
and so that is the symbol of the promised land and that is i think another thing we have in common here, step number 1, imagine the promised land, if you can t imagine a better place, you are never going to make it to that better place. glenn: here s a thing he wrote about and he said, i didn t see it that way, but my wife prefers your interpretation. glenn: but the famous, give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, that s always read tenderly. and as i am reading your understanding of the statue of liberty, i realize that would be more like oh, europe, i feel so bad for you, send the riffraff here because you will never make it with that anchor around your neck. wingly take your tired and poor and huddled masses. that s not. it was more of a challenge back to europe, saying we will make it with the worst of the
were written by three friends. the age of the unthinkable, i talked to you about 8 months ago. and then the survivors club and then, america s prophet. think out of the box, how to survive and the importance of the god. it s amazing because it s step 1, step 2 and step 3 on everything we talk about on this program. i want to go to bruce who has written america s prophet and talk to you about the one thing and i have used it several times on the show i have seen it. glenn: a couple of weeks ago, i used it at cpac about the statue of liberty. tell quickly the story of what most people don t understand about the statue of liberty? i think to put this into context, the for the story of america s prophet is the story of moses and it comes up in the great symbols of america. what are the great symbols of america isn t liberty bell, there is a quote from moses, proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants.
depression and the extremes in the great depression. and i am unearthing film footage, i went to los angeles to go to a film vault. i am unearthing film that america s going to be shocked and horrified when they see. history you have never seen before. and as i am doing it, i am thinking to myself: the 1930s in america and the rest of the world, 1930s and 40s must have felt like the end game. like the messiah is coming because this is the end of the world. and look what happened right after. you know? it just depends on which road we choose, which road we choose. we will be back in just a second. @y