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Summary
The body of Brian Laundrie has been found. Is it the same person as the one who killed Gabby Petito? Or is there something else out there that could be the real killer? Also, Dave Chappelle was forced to apologize to a huge crowd at a Netflix protest.
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Hey, it's Pat and Jeffy for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program today.
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So that might answer some questions that we had on that situation.
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Or they might be on the hunt for something else.
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Dave Chappelle fan was, there was one in this big crowd of protesters at Netflix,
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We get into some founders phobia and the fact that bread lines are good.
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Those things and much more coming up for you on the podcast today.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Pat Gray for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program, joined by Jeffy.
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If it's not, you know, COVID-19 is the situation with Gabby Petito, who was killed.
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And where was her fiance, Brian Laundrie, who's been missing, what, for a month?
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Everybody's pretty sure he's a little more than a person of interest, right?
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And if this is him, I mean, the same person who killed Gabby could have killed him.
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Followed him from Wyoming, right, where she was killed.
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You know what else is possible is he killed her, and then he couldn't face the consequences
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That's kind of what I thought would happen, would be the outcome of this from the beginning.
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But they did find human remains, and they do think it's him, right?
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So, I don't know, I mean, because he hasn't been dead long enough to not be able to see
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So, but if he was in the water for all this time.
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Yeah, and if he's in the water for this time, I mean, things tend to happen that aren't good.
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And then, I guess people want to know what the parents had to do with it.
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And this will be the resolution, though, right?
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Because you still, you're never going to know for sure.
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Now, we're saying, okay, well, he's dead now, so that's the resolution.
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Unless you do actually believe that the same person killed Gabby and him.
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It's just like OJ on those golf courses, looking for the real killer of Nicole.
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Has he ever been at the same golf course at the same time?
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He's searching golf courses all over the country for that killer.
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But we'll keep an eye on both of those stories.
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It's been amazing, though, how many people have followed this story.
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And, you know, some of the sleuths on the internet that have sort of tried to figure out that Gabby was...
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And that she was sending certain signals to her parents because one of her last messages, she talked about her grandfather.
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She never called her grandfather Stan, but she called him Stan in this message several times.
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So, because she never called him Stan, some people on the internet figured out that was a secret message that meant send the authorities now.
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I mean, she's lucky that Grandpa was named Stan.
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And then they had the guy that they thought was him.
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They busted in on he and his girlfriend at the hotel.
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So, I mean, the hotel was kind enough to say, hey, sorry.
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We'll give you a free night and a free breakfast.
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We'll give you a free night and a free breakfast.
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I think I would have asked for a little bit more.
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Netflix protesters accosted a single supporter of Dave Chappelle.
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One guy holding a sign and the crowd is going crazy on this guy.
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Oh, and now we're just going to rip it out of his hands.
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And now some douchebag just rips it out of his hands and breaks it.
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And now he just has a pole that used to hold a sign.
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I would have just been breathing in her face like crazy.
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She may identify as Puddin', but I don't know that she identifies as a woman.
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They can't stand that somebody has a differing point of view.
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The one, I don't know what that person identifies as, was just out of her mind.
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You just don't know what those animals are going to do.
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Did you see the letter that they wrote, though, to Netflix with their list of demands and what they wanted?
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It was interesting that one of the top demand was create a new fund to specifically develop trans and non-binary talent.
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So I'm going to develop content on Netflix for 0.4% of the U.S. population.
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Okay, 0.4% is, that's what I'm going to develop content for.
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Should exist in addition to the existing creative equity fund.
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In fact, I want you to create as much trans content as you create transphobic content.
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Don't just think you're going to create it and then not talk about it.
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Then, of course, let's not forget they want them to recruit trans people, especially BIPOC trans people.
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Isn't it weird that the, I guess it's Black Lives Matter and LGBTQQIA2 plus communities have essentially merged.
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They have almost, I mean, if you look at the Black Lives Matter website, it's all about LGBTQ issues and trans issues.
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So, recruit trans people, especially BIPOC for leadership roles in Netflix and promote an inclusive environment for them.
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So, allow employees to remove themselves from previous company promotional content.
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If you were in some kind of promo that now you're not happy with, that's fine.
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Eliminate references and imagery of transphobic titles or talent inside the workplace, including, but not limited to murals, posters, room names, swag.
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How many room names are there at Netflix that are transphobic?
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How many murals have they devoted to being afraid of transgendered people?
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You can't even walk in that building without seeing the anti-trans.
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And I know that I love the, we need to suggest trans-affirming content alongside and after content flagged as anti-trans.
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And I find it hard to not see anti-trans promotion on Netflix.
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They have a whole section that covers, you know, watch this now.
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When I had Netflix, which I don't anymore, but when I did, I kind of noticed the opposite of that.
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I noticed just about every show on Netflix features LGBTQQIA2+, trans.
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Every show has somebody in it with a trans message.
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I mean, they definitely, they definitely, I mean.
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They've gotten way out of their way to create content.
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The head of Netflix even went out and said, yeah, you know, when I made his statement about Dave Chappelle and we're going to keep it and it doesn't matter.
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Saying that, yeah, I screwed up the internal communication there.
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I feel I should have made sure to recognize that a group of our employees was hurting very badly.
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I mean, this is the same guy that allows the murals on the walls of the transphobic murals.
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So he's deep into the transphobia, deep into it.
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And he made the mistake of saying, well, the David Chappelle show is too popular to take it down.
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You can't say it's on there because people like it.
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You mean everybody doesn't agree with us that it's offensive and nasty?
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Now, they did get, you know, they did have the one employee that gave out the information
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of how much Chappelle made and some of the contractual information.
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They said, no, you can't be giving out internal information.
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It'd just be nice if everybody wasn't so sensitive.
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Now, everybody is so easily crushed or offended.
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I mean, can we not just grow up a little bit and toughen up a little bit?
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I mean, the things that we're all going through right now, white people are fair game at this
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So maybe others should have thicker skin as well.
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I don't disagree with that, but I just heard you get a little upset over hashtag bike back
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to Utah that the Baylor fans were saying to the BYU fans.
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This was amazing to me the other day when John Gruden got fired.
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Okay, this is his personal private email that he sent to people who are his friends, right?
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And one of them mentioned there was an insult for blacks.
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I mean, he was saying things he shouldn't have said.
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But on the other hand, we shouldn't have heard any of it.
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It wasn't intended for anybody else's consumption.
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And, you know, Goodell got butthurt when he saw his name in a couple emails, so that's
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Well, when you're done looking at the Washington football team emails, we're going to look
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at the other 650,000 emails to find out if anything more bad was said about me.
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But let's look at every single coach's private emails to everybody.
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But on that day, because he was so crushed, Carl Nassib, who is a defensive, I think he's
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But because Gruden said something about homosexuals in general, he had to take the day.
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Plus, you play in the National Football League.
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In fact, one of his teammates said he was allowed to go home and grieve in his own way.
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He's grieving over an email that John Gruden wrote about somebody else.
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I don't care if you're in the cis community, the straight community, the LGBTQIA2 plus community.
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And at one time, he sent a picture, or at least was on an email chain, where pictures showed up of topless females.
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Now, one of the people on that email was Ed Droste.
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So, big surprise that that email chain was there.
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I don't know how many people got a personal day because of that email, but.
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Between this and the Baylor thing, I don't know if I can get through the show.
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Glenn was just talking about one of his commercials about the warm glow of the fire.
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When it gets down to 85 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, you need that fire to take the
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It's going to warm up this weekend, though, because it's going to be in the upper 80s this
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So, you maybe won't need the fire on Saturday, but for today at 85, you never want to fire that
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So, autumn just isn't the same in Texas, is it?
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I mean, I lived in Florida for a bunch of years, and we didn't necessarily have it in
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You were talking about the Thomas Jefferson statue.
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I love the quotes from the congresspeople and the assemblymen who were, you know, are all
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The husband and wife team, the Barons, Councilman Inez Barron, she was saying that we're not
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being revisionist, we're not waging a war on history, we're saying that we want to make
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Has anybody ever hidden the fact that Thomas Jefferson had slaves?
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And hubby, hubby assemblyman Charles Barron, when we remove this statue, we're making a
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step in the right direction for erasing honoring of those who murdered and raped us.
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Okay, Thomas Jefferson did not murder or rape anyone, nor did he have a bunch of children
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Yeah, the DNA test, you know what that showed back in 97 or 98?
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And more like, much more likely, either his brother or his nephew.
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Thomas Jefferson, at the time, nobody believed it because his contemporaries knew him and
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And they tried to slander him with that back then.
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And nobody, it didn't take hold back then because they knew he wouldn't do that.
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Right, it was some campaign and they were putting it in the town newspaper or whatever, trying
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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were, of course, really close friends.
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I think it was 15 or 18 years later, they started writing back and forth to each other.
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To the point where, you know, they died on the same day.
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And John Adams' last words were, Thomas Jefferson lives.
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But Thomas Jefferson had died an hour before that.
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The 50-year anniversary of the United States of America.
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That's some kind of divine thing that happened there.
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Couldn't be there about the same age and live the same kind of life and travel.
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And they just happened to die on July 4th, 50 years later.
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But to me, what we need to do is start calling this what it is.
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Because everything that they don't like that is, you know.
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So let's just start calling this founders phobia.
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And because they can't live up to them, they have to bring them down to their level.
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And then, you know, you can't insist that they be any better than they are.
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And it discredits the Constitution and our founding documents because these are the people who are responsible for them.
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So don't tell me about the Constitution that was written by a bunch of white, rich slave owners so that they can throw that out all the time.
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You know, because obviously, instead of looking up, it's easier to tear down.
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Because, I mean, we see, there was just an article the other day about Americans.
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You know what you need to do is lower your expectations.
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That's what you need to do is lower your expectations.
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Okay, we all got spoiled by the supply chain thing.
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Just get used to not having things on the shelf.
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Get used to not having food in the pantry and thus on your table.
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Get used to not making as much money as you used to.
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Get used to America just not being quite right.
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And then you won't be disappointed when things get even worse.
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Probably a little worse before they get better.
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But the good thing in that statement is they will get better.
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I love how we're already, we're already, originally it was, wow, we'll get that supply chain bottleneck
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Maybe you can clean that up by the end of this year.
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You might have a shortage of a few things, but you don't really need them anyway.
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Because there's not any trees anymore, thanks to climate change.
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Maybe your neighbors have recycled some paper towels or some toilet paper you guys can share
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Don't think there's going to be new, fresh merchandise around.
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Well, you're spoiled because this hasn't been a third world nation until recently.
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And now you're just going to see what it's like to be a third world nation.
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Now, America's chickens are coming home to roost.
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And, you know, as a small business owner myself, I see the effect it's having.
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Because there are ingredients for our cookie company, which, by the way, we do have the cookies in stock right now.
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Is there a way that someone could order those cookies?
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You could go to Keksi.com, K-E-K-S-I.com, and order delicious cookies.
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Like, we've got the pumpkin right now, you know, for the pumpkin spice thing, because everything has to be pumpkin spice.
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Next time I'm in a McDonald's parking lot, I'll log on to Keksi.com.
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And maybe try the, I highly recommend, the cinnamon roll cookie.
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Yeah, that was, I have actually eaten the cinnamon roll cookie.
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I recommend you, in fact, giving it to me is what I recommend more than anything.
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But, anyway, we've already noticed that there are some ingredients you just can't get.
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It takes a much longer time to get them than it did before.
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The good news is, with a lot of those products taking longer to get, is that they cost more, too.
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Yes, you've got the inconvenience of waiting a long time for them when you need them right now.
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Quit your wine at, you're getting it, aren't you?
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Well, it's a, I mean, people, it's a supply thing.
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I thought it was supposed to work the opposite way.
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Now, I realize that's old school American thinking.
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But, if I don't lower my expectations, I thought that when the demand was up on something, the price went down.
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So, if the supply is not meeting the demand, then the price would obviously go up.
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And less demand, then the price should go down.
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And, of course, in the past, we've heard that's a really, that's a good thing.
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Sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food.
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In other countries, people don't line up for food.
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The rich get the food and the poor starve to death.
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Yeah, food lines, those are, that's a really good thing.
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Well, yeah, to communists, that is a good thing.
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Have you noticed that Jon Stewart and Bill Maher and even Russell Brand,
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some of these really famous, extreme left-wing guys are making some actual sense lately.
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I think the left has gone so far left that if you have any common sense in your body left,
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It's like, okay, I've got to say something now.
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Jon Stewart on CNN the other day talked about how stupid some of the things are that they're doing,
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and especially in California where they've done the gender-neutral toy law.
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Most of those new laws are supposed to kick in in the next couple of years.
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If you have a department store that sells toys,
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you must have a gender-neutral section where they're neither for boys nor girls.
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There's a debate going on right now in the Democratic Party about how to appeal to voters in 2022.
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There are a lot of social issues getting a lot of attention.
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Governor Gavin Newsom in California just signed a law requiring gender-neutral toy sections in stores.
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There's obviously a lot of debate across the country.
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Not all of it well-informed about critical race theory and how race is taught in schools.
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Do you have concerns about how these debates are taking place?
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Obviously, I'm not talking about how they're depicted in right-wing media
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because it doesn't matter what the Democrats do or liberals do.
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But there are a number of independent voters who might not understand what's going on.
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I mean, there are a lot of things a lot of people don't understand.
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And it's something's either right and common sense.
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I mean, I do think there are ways to accomplish some of these goals
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in ways that – but you can't govern to the lowest common denominator.
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You can't – I think one of the difficulties – and again, it's with the way that the lens through which we view everything
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is based on and what will that mean for the midterms.
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I saw a great headline in Politico as Afghanistan was descending into chaos in that final week.
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And the headline in Politico – this was the top-line headline, the one with the 40-point font,
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So it said, why Afghanistan may not matter in the midterms.
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Isn't that – like, how many times have you seen stories about the battle over masks?
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That's the Karen yelling in the store and the people throwing them out and all that.
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And how many stories have we seen about the efficacy of masks or the why or the actual – like, there are some,
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but the overwhelming majority of stories seek to expose the conflict lines.
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There isn't anything to the degree of that sometimes activists on the left risk –
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Okay, we don't have time for the whole long-winded Jake Tepper –
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Stewart goes on to talk about the gender-neutral story.
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Why are we talking about something that's stupid?
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You can't govern to the lowest common denominator, yeah.
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He also said, hey, maybe it's time to stop bashing Trump all the time and demonizing Trump all the time.
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This guy hasn't been in the White House for almost a year now.
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Well, he's getting bludgeoned by the left for that.
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Never thought I'd say that, but Jon Stewart's making some sense.
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Is your show, it's not on, it's not actually video.
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I'm not charging people to see Chew and the Fat.
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I don't want to have to fight with you about this, all right?
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I think it's great that you care so much about, you know,
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the people who want to view your show or listen to it,
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that you've fought hard to keep that price down.
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I mean, the latest ratings that have come out are unreal for them.
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The primetime lineup, which obviously Tapper is part of it
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that we just watched with Jon Stewart, 661,000 people.
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Brian Stelter being one of the bigger douchebags around,
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He had the lowest rated week of the year in 2554 demo.
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No, there's no new Golden Girls being produced right now.
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I mean, there might be one or two still alive, right?
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It's not worth the electricity you're spending.
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you know, and the primetime sounds, you know...
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Now, this was, of course, the WNBA final featuring the...
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I don't know why, because I'm so excited every time the WNBA finals are on.
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But it was the Chicago Sky versus the Phoenix something or others.
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They went kind of the Washington football team direction for some reason.
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And so the Chicago Sky won and had a massive celebration.
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What you're seeing, if you're not watching the radio show on Blaze TV, is a bunch of trucks
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driving down the road with the Phoenix Sky team and...
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People in the parade outnumber people watching the parade by about 1,000 to 1.
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Can't they have the celebration, like, at the park or wherever they play?
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Wherever the NWNBA plays, it just so it looks like they've got a...
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So when 10 people show up, it looks like, oh, there's a lot here.
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That's what they should do, but that isn't what they did do.
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Because they have to be equal, and we're all about equity.
00:44:35.720
So when the Bulls won their championships, plural, I remember those parades.
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Are you saying there were more people at the Chicago Bulls?
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The NBA makes something like $9 billion a year.
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The WNBA makes something like $50 million a year.
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The fact is, I'm not that interested in the NBA anymore.
00:46:12.920
You find it hard to believe the WNBA has revenue of $60 million?
00:46:38.580
But, you know, it's the same with the women's soccer thing.
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You know, they keep claiming they should make as much as the men because we're more successful.
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And even the U.S. Soccer Association is not saying that.
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They're not saying, hey, look, we'll pay you the same when you bring in the same revenue.
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This is Campus Reform going out to the campus of the University of Florida on game day asking about diversity quotas.
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Talking first about diversity just in general, do you think diversity should be a factor in hiring decisions and in college admissions processes?
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Probably, they should probably have diversity quotas for, like, college admissions and a bunch of other things.
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I think they already have quotas, though, but, like, those are definitely a good thing.
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Yeah, everyone should have an equal part in anywhere, really.
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As a first-generation college student from a Hispanic household, it's very important.
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Should we develop diversity quotas for, you know, the workplace or for college admissions?
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How they usually work is if a population is 35% Hispanic, then the school in that region, I guess, would also have to be 35% Hispanic in its student population to reflect the demographics of the larger community.
00:48:30.140
Yeah, Sam, I think it definitely should be taken into account.
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There should be more diversity in basically every single field.
00:48:35.280
So what about diversity quotas on sports teams, college sports teams?
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That's something that's a little bit different.
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College sports is about getting the best players for your team, and I don't think we should focus on which race or ethnicity to get.
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I think the diversity quota for any sports team, it doesn't make much sense.
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Just let the skill shine, and whoever's the best player deserves to be on the team.
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Obviously, with sports, it's talent first over here.
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I did some research about the demographics here at UF.
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We're going to put this into, like, a hypothetical situation.
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19% are Hispanic, 8% are Asian, 5% are African American.
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If we were to apply that quota to the offensive lineup for the Florida Gators football team,
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I mean, I guess you could say, like, more skilled people should get into schools, too.
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I guess what I said could kind of be probably both.
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And if we recruited based on diversity, then we'd probably be worse.
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If they're the best players fit for the job, then they deserve the spot.
00:50:14.540
I don't necessarily think that it's a bad thing that these people are just better at the sports that they play.
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When's the last time you saw a prominent Asian in football?
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Does this kind of change your mind about diversity quotas in other sectors, like the workplace, like college admissions?
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If we're talking about being the best in sports, shouldn't we also be talking about being the best in the workplace, being the best company, being the best college, the best university, regardless of anyone's race?
00:50:47.520
If you're recruiting athletes based on their skill level, maybe you should.
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I think it was a lot of students based on their scores and their, like, academic merit more so than diversity.
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Yeah, a little bit, because I just, I didn't think about it being a part of it.
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I mean, I guess they are a part of the schools, but not sports.
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Make a good argument for why my reason for school would be the same for sports, basically.
00:51:13.160
I think I really didn't think about diversity too much in, like, college admissions or workplace.
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I don't necessarily think quotas are the way to go.
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I feel like that's just counterintuitive to feel obligated to admit anybody or do anything.
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It doesn't really matter what a person's race is, who they are, whatever.
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It's got the complete opposite of what I just said to you.
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You know, it's interesting when you think about a problem, the difference that can make.
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Well, some professor or teacher is just telling you that diversity is good.
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And so you instantly believe it without putting one second of thought into it.