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00:00:00.660 Welcome to the podcast today. Wow. Great one. Great show. No, I was saying the great ones on the phone for me. Mark Levino. Oh, OK. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt. Go ahead. You did. Great podcast today, including going into the DeSantis versus Gavin Newsom debate, which was a debacle for Newsom and very good, I think, for DeSantis. I mean, it was a good night. Really good for DeSantis. He looked really good.

00:00:26.880 And I think it's the type of approach he can. He should be trying to create new opportunities where it can be, you know, it can be replicated because he he's good in those moments. He's better in those moments than he is in like a Republican debate. It's hard in a Republican debate to walk all the lines that you're trying to help some of these voters. He just on attack. And he's fantastic. I thought he was last night. We also have you have a big podcast out this weekend, Glenn, with a survivor.

00:00:56.880 From Israel, which is an incredible story. She she was there. She lived the horror for eight hours with terrorists every 30 minutes coming in with machine guns and grenades.

00:01:07.640 She survived at the bottom of a pile of dead bodies. You will not believe her story and what she says about the dead that were on top of. It's it's crazy. You've never heard anything like it.

00:01:26.820 Also on today's podcast, we tell you the clear and present danger that if we don't turn this around before the next election, it will be the end not only of just the republic freedom of mankind, but also free will.

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00:03:24.500 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:38.920 We have the latest on Elon Musk's work against censorship of social platforms.

00:03:44.600 It's getting ugly.

00:03:45.300 The end of the ceasefire.

00:03:47.760 It ended last night.

00:03:49.420 The United States is we are we're on the wrong side, guys.

00:03:54.040 We're on the wrong side.

00:03:55.420 But the ceasefire is over.

00:03:57.060 We'll get into that.

00:03:57.940 The clear and present danger that is happening and being exposed in Congress today.

00:04:06.820 The most this one is it.

00:04:11.460 I've always people are like, what's the biggest thing?

00:04:13.820 This is it.

00:04:15.160 If this isn't stopped, it does mean not only the end of the republic, but the end of free will.

00:04:23.180 And I'll explain later on in the program.

00:04:25.480 Also, we're going to cover the DeSantis and Newsom debate that happened last night with Sean Hannity.

00:04:31.900 But I wanted to start with something that was bigger, bigger in its scope, because sometimes.

00:04:38.920 Well, all the time when you listen to this program, it can kick you to the curb. 0.57

00:04:44.340 It can just kick you in the head repeatedly and repeatedly.

00:04:47.440 And you feel like everything is out of control.

00:04:50.920 Let me start with something that will give you perspective.

00:04:55.480 In 1978, at a time that was much like this one, see if this sounds familiar.

00:05:01.460 The country was in shambles, stagflation, despair, energy crisis, rampant crime.

00:05:09.260 People were hopeless, disillusioned.

00:05:11.820 They stopped believing in America.

00:05:14.740 They stopped believing that things will get better.

00:05:17.540 The greatest city, as was declared in the early 1960s, Detroit, had fallen from its perch.

00:05:27.520 The car industry, once the greatest in the world, was in shambles.

00:05:33.680 America was now being clobbered by a country in the Far East who were coming here buying our land and our landmarks. 1.00

00:05:42.540 Americans felt America was over.

00:05:46.860 Does that sound familiar at all?

00:05:49.400 So, at that time, 1978, one of the greatest American composers, Aaron Copland, joined with Henry Fonda just to remind Americans of who they were, where they came from.

00:06:07.020 Aaron Copland wrote, I mean, he's written some of the greatest American music of all time.

00:06:13.060 He had the Philharmonic, playing all of his beautiful music, and Henry Fonda took to the stage and spoke.

00:06:23.980 He spoke of the dark times and the hope of Abraham Lincoln.

00:06:31.400 I listened to that over the last few days.

00:06:35.200 And the feeling of 1978, because I remember hearing that when I was a kid, and the feeling of that time and the words that he was speaking rang true to me.

00:06:48.960 I don't have the license to be able to play the Aaron Copland thing with Henry Fonda, but you should look it up and listen to it.

00:06:56.260 Now, I don't have Aaron Copland backing me up, and I don't have Henry Fonda's voice or credibility, but I do have mine, and I do have my thoughts, and I do know history.

00:07:12.040 So, I took his speech as a model, and I wrote it anew.

00:07:19.100 Now, his told the story of Lincoln, but I chose the words of three presidents and one average citizen to tell the story of you and me and all of us who are lucky enough to dare call ourselves American.

00:07:36.560 In the early dawn of our nation, we stood at freedom's threshold.

00:07:48.300 That is what he said.

00:07:50.700 That is what George Washington said.

00:07:54.700 Citizens of a young nation, behold our path of freedom.

00:07:58.980 We, in this fledgling republic, carry the weight of a new world on our shoulders.

00:08:06.320 Our actions, humble or grand, will forge a legacy beyond our lifetimes.

00:08:13.400 The responsibility of freedom, the duty of honor, these are the burdens that we bear for future generations.

00:08:23.000 Let the standard of the wise and the honest guide us under the watchful hand of providence, he said.

00:08:32.100 This is what George Washington said.

00:08:35.220 In times of peace and uncertainty, our resolve must never falter.

00:08:42.020 The sacred fire of liberty, entrusted to the American people, demands our vigilance.

00:08:48.140 In this great experiment of government, our actions will echo through the ages.

00:08:56.480 Citizens of a young nation, behold the path of freedom.

00:09:03.880 That is what he said.

00:09:08.060 He was born in Virginia, a land of rolling hills and boundless skies.

00:09:13.400 And this is what he said.

00:09:16.600 This is what George Washington said.

00:09:19.660 Let us raise that standard to which the wise and the honest can repair.

00:09:25.180 The event is in the hand of God.

00:09:28.380 Duty, honor, country.

00:09:30.680 These are not mere words.

00:09:32.900 They are the foundations of a life well lived.

00:09:39.040 In stature and in spirit, he stood tall.

00:09:43.400 And this is what he said.

00:09:47.300 The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destination of the, the destiny of the Republican model of government are entrusted to the hands of the American people.

00:09:58.980 If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will only be because we destroyed ourselves.

00:10:06.980 A leader, a reluctant general, a president, a man of deep honor and integrity, a father of a country.

00:10:19.880 George Washington was a man of few but powerful words.

00:10:23.960 But when he spoke of duty and honor, this is what he said.

00:10:30.360 He said, labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

00:10:39.080 George Washington, the first president of these United States, forever etched in the annals of history.

00:10:48.040 In the winter at Valley Forge, this is what he said.

00:10:52.360 He said, perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

00:10:57.820 Let us, therefore, rely on the goodness of our cause and the aid of the supreme being, in whose hands victory is to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

00:11:16.460 Later, amidst the turmoil to end an ancient evil and try to right the nation's wrongs, a voice rose again, a beacon of hope amidst the sea of despair.

00:11:31.340 And this is what he said.

00:11:33.620 This is what Abraham Lincoln said.

00:11:37.240 Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge may speedily pass away.

00:11:45.240 Yet, if God wills that it continue until all of the wealth, piled by the bondsman's 250 years of unrequited toil, shall be sunk, until every drop of blood drawn with a lash shall be paid by another drawn with a sword.

00:12:04.800 As it was said 3,000 years ago, still it must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

00:12:15.740 He said, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us the right to see it, let us strive to finish the work we're in and bind the nation's wounds.

00:12:35.100 The storm passed, but our nation's wounds were deep.

00:12:42.320 This time it took a king to pull us back together.

00:12:49.640 Not like the kings of old who claimed God gave them the right to rule and be master over men.

00:12:56.920 This king, quietly, meekly, peacefully, became the servant of God and man.

00:13:02.860 Martin Luther King, who taught us to love and forgive and live up to our own ideals, to live as one, not seeing the color of skin.

00:13:15.520 Almost a century after that great and bloody war, evil in the heart of man dared showed its face again.

00:13:22.660 And this king joined Abraham Lincoln, as he too was crowned in glory as a martyr.

00:13:31.640 But this is what he said.

00:13:34.280 He said, when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,

00:13:42.660 they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

00:13:50.400 This note was a promise that all men, yes, black as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:14:02.580 And it is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

00:14:10.920 But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

00:14:16.360 We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

00:14:25.760 And so we come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

00:14:35.460 This is what he said.

00:14:38.300 This is what Martin Luther King said.

00:14:41.200 I have a dream today that all men can live together, live as one, and not be judged by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.

00:14:57.060 In the quest for freedom, we stand as one.

00:15:01.760 That is what he said.

00:15:04.480 That is what Ronald Reagan said.

00:15:06.780 In the quest for freedom, we stand as one.

00:15:11.220 Across the globe, wherever tyranny casts its shadow, here or abroad, it is the duty of every American to be a beacon of hope.

00:15:22.880 Our nation, conceived in liberty, carries the torch that enlightens the world.

00:15:28.520 In the face of oppression, we shall not waver.

00:15:34.000 Our resolve is strength, our unity, our shield.

00:15:42.120 Born in Illinois, who, like Washington, Lincoln, and MLK, never lost his God-given optimism.

00:15:51.780 Reagan had found it in his upbringing.

00:15:54.560 And he, too, dreamt of a world unchained.

00:15:58.380 And this is what he said.

00:16:00.900 This is what Ronald Reagan said.

00:16:02.820 Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

00:16:09.100 We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.

00:16:13.240 It must be fought for.

00:16:15.180 It must be protected.

00:16:17.060 And then handed on for them to do the same.

00:16:21.960 Standing firm, he looked beyond the horizon.

00:16:25.160 And this is what he said.

00:16:26.540 He said, evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

00:16:35.260 We are a nation that has a government, not the other way around.

00:16:42.460 This is what makes us special among the nations of Earth.

00:16:46.520 Ronald Reagan, once a Democrat, then a Republican, an American president and leader.

00:16:54.380 A man who saw America not just as a country, but as an ideal.

00:16:58.780 But when he spoke of Americans' duty, this is what he said.

00:17:06.620 He said, we must always remember.

00:17:08.960 We must always be prepared.

00:17:11.340 So we may always be free.

00:17:15.200 Our cause is noble.

00:17:18.000 And it is the cause of mankind.

00:17:20.620 In his words of the Brandenburg Gate, this is what he said.

00:17:27.120 Let us be a force for good, a force for freedom, a force that fights for peace and justice in a world too often scarred by the opposite.

00:17:36.860 And as the dream of freedom endures, its guardians emerge in new forms.

00:17:42.440 This is what Ronald Reagan said.

00:17:44.640 In the quest for freedom, we unite against darkness, the darkness of tyranny.

00:17:50.900 Our nation, a beacon of hope, stands resilient against the bullies of the world.

00:17:56.920 We inherit not just a land, but a legacy of freedom that we must defend with unwavering courage.

00:18:07.380 He said, let us be unafraid in the face of evil.

00:18:10.380 Our unity is our strength.

00:18:15.040 And in that strength lies the power to shape a world that cherishes freedom and justice.

00:18:20.440 Our destiny is not predetermined.

00:18:24.080 It is only crafted by our own hands, our hearts, and our unwavering spirit.

00:18:30.560 But in the symphony of our nation's history, these voices blend into a single, enduring melody.

00:18:42.720 From the foundations laid by the vision of Washington to the unyielding resolve championed by Reagan and the enduring hope of justice that was articulated by Lincoln.

00:18:58.240 Our journey is one of continuous striving.

00:19:01.000 We as a people have weathered the storms of change and stood as a pillar against the tides of oppression.

00:19:09.140 Together, these voices echo.

00:19:12.600 Our legacy is not merely in the battles won, but in the unrelenting pursuit of a world where freedom reigns supreme.

00:19:21.580 The spirit of America, resilient, bold, inspires us to uphold the ideals of democracy and humanity.

00:19:31.540 So in unity, we must affirm, as heirs to this great legacy, we must carry forward the torch of liberty.

00:19:42.300 Let us here and abroad be the keepers of this flame, a light that guides the world towards a brighter, more just future.

00:19:54.220 For in unity, in our courage, in our commitment to the ideals that have always defined us,

00:20:01.900 we will find strength to build a world where freedom, justice, and hope flourish for all.

00:20:11.440 Now, you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:20:15.540 Yesterday, there was a very important hearing in Congress on the weaponization of the federal government.

00:20:20.540 And I knew it would be a wake-up call about how close we are to living Orwell's 1984.

00:20:28.620 But in a surprising way, it was even more disturbing to me.

00:20:32.520 And, you know, in the super boring way that all government hearings are.

00:20:36.300 I'm going to spare you from having to watch all of it.

00:20:38.620 I have clips from it, and then go watch all of it.

00:20:42.820 I want to summarize what happened.

00:20:45.080 The hearing started with a speech from the Democrat ranking member about how there is absolutely, positively,

00:20:53.980 none, zero evidence that the government colluded with social media to censor people.

00:21:01.980 Okay, this was the first five minutes.

00:21:03.600 My eyes were ready to pop out of my head.

00:21:05.660 But this is old news.

00:21:07.560 We already know there's evidence.

00:21:09.520 We've already seen the Twitter files and everything else.

00:21:12.160 But then she continued on that theme.

00:21:15.400 And then the Democratic committee members decided to talk about,

00:21:20.260 instead of the government colluding with social media to strangle the First Amendment to death,

00:21:25.020 they didn't want to talk about that.

00:21:26.460 They wanted to talk about Donald Trump.

00:21:28.360 Seriously, they brought in a witness, a former Homeland Security and counterterrorism advisor to Mike Pence,

00:21:36.640 to talk about how Trump is literally Hitler.

00:21:40.640 In your testimony, you cited violent language, increasingly incendiary language,

00:21:47.960 being evoked by President Trump about his so-called enemies.

00:21:50.820 One of the words he used was vermin.

00:21:52.340 What does that echo in your mind?

00:21:55.700 Anyone else come to mind historically who referred to enemies of the state as vermin? 0.80

00:22:01.640 Yes, the horrible Hitler. 0.89

00:22:03.300 And Goebbels.

00:22:04.680 Yeah, and Stalin and probably Mao.

00:22:08.340 Not good people.

00:22:09.800 Not good people.

00:22:11.060 But here she is echoing what every Democratic member said,

00:22:14.300 other than that Trump is Hitler, 0.98

00:22:17.840 he wants to ban all Muslims, overthrow the government, 1.00

00:22:20.640 and he's going to start exterminating people. 0.99

00:22:23.760 Now, here's the second part of her testimony.

00:22:28.820 Weaponization of the federal government is a serious topic that requires sober analysis.

00:22:34.040 Unfortunately, what we see here today,

00:22:36.040 and what we have seen from this committee over the past year,

00:22:39.380 is instead a politically motivated fantasy detached from reality.

00:22:42.940 Members of this committee and their witnesses make grand and vague accusations about government censorship,

00:22:49.420 but those foggy allegations are refuted by the facts

00:22:51.820 that private social media companies moderating content on their own private platforms is not government censorship.

00:22:59.180 Oh my gosh.

00:22:59.860 It is those private companies exercising their own First Amendment rights

00:23:03.320 to rid their platforms of misinformation.

00:23:05.960 There is a treasure trove of documents.

00:23:09.660 You will not believe, when you go down this rabbit hole,

00:23:13.120 and you must, you must go down this rabbit hole.

00:23:16.520 When you go down the rabbit hole of what was released this week,

00:23:20.560 and I'm going to go into it here in a second,

00:23:22.460 you will see the actual documents and emails.

00:23:26.380 All right?

00:23:26.840 It was like watching two unrelated hearings playing over each other at the same time.

00:23:31.940 At one moment, there were witnesses talking about how our government is using psychological warfare

00:23:38.680 against its own citizens, and then boom, Trump is Hitler. 0.51

00:23:44.600 We live in two separate realities.

00:23:47.440 It's like half the country recently came from an alternate universe,

00:23:50.760 which got melded into ours in some cosmic storm, or I don't know,

00:23:55.540 maybe this is global warming or something.

00:23:57.440 And sometimes the portal rips open, and the two universes sit side by side, yet totally separate.

00:24:06.180 We're talking about how social media is colluding with the government.

00:24:11.440 This is not just censorship.

00:24:14.020 Colluding with the government, and the documents prove the U.S. intel and military industrial complex

00:24:23.340 to literally change the way people in America think.

00:24:28.700 They are operating government psyops on Americans.

00:24:33.820 This is brainwashing.

00:24:35.260 This is Manchurian candidate stuff.

00:24:37.960 This is Ray Bradbury.

00:24:41.740 I mean, this is the worst of the worst.

00:24:46.080 And they didn't want to talk about it.

00:24:47.800 This is a major issue, and we've got less than a year.

00:24:54.560 And if we don't solve this, we're done.

00:24:58.820 Now, I watched two men who both, I think, were both lefties.

00:25:03.660 They were both Democrats and lefties at one point.

00:25:06.920 But they are actual journalists, Michael Schellenberger and Matt Taibbi, former Democrats, debating

00:25:15.800 with a Democratic congresswoman who so helped me, was arguing that because there was only

00:25:21.680 35% of URLs labeled, removed, or soft-blocked, that that was evidence that there's no censorship.

00:25:29.600 And you could hear Matt Taibbi say, kind of under his breath, 35% of the First Amendment.

00:25:34.520 Okay.

00:25:36.700 But at the same time, Pence's former advisor was saying, the only weaponization of the

00:25:42.600 government we need to worry about is Trump, who isn't even in the government right now.

00:25:50.040 And since he's Hitler, you know, wouldn't it be best to get a hold of this government 0.97

00:25:55.140 censorship apparatus before your Hitler comes back? 0.97

00:26:00.720 I have to tell you, there was also this bizarre effort to equate free speech on the internet

00:26:07.500 with horrific crimes.

00:26:09.700 Listen to this. 0.67

00:26:10.280 This is one congresswoman, Democrat, asking Matt Taibbi if he was okay with having rape 0.94

00:26:16.540 live-streamed online.

00:26:19.980 Here it is.

00:26:20.860 Mr. Taibbi, yes or no, should social media companies allow rape and murder to be live-streamed

00:26:26.000 by terrorists on their platforms in order to create fear and incite violence?

00:26:29.160 I believe that would violate their terms of service, would it not?

00:26:32.620 So your answer is no, they should not be allowed to do that?

00:26:36.480 Live-streamed rape and murder?

00:26:37.920 No, I think that would count as speech that would be prohibited under their terms of service.

00:26:42.980 Good, good.

00:26:43.520 It's not speech.

00:26:45.120 It's crime.

00:26:46.940 It's rape and murder. 0.92

00:26:50.060 That's not speech.

00:26:51.940 I have to play one more clip of a Democratic congressman calling the whole thing a conspiracy,

00:26:57.080 but in doing so, actually explained what was happening oh so very well.

00:27:04.160 If we really want to talk about the weaponization of the federal government, we should talk about it,

00:27:07.720 and that's Donald Trump.

00:27:08.640 That's not this grand, crazy conspiracy of how the administration has utilized the social media companies

00:27:18.520 against whom the First Amendment does not apply in order to suppress speech.

00:27:24.820 Thank goodness many of the committee members recognize that.

00:27:28.920 So an agency funded and created by the government, a partnership funded and created by the government's

00:27:38.300 number one stated goal is to censor true information.

00:27:42.240 And whole narratives, whole ways of thinking.

00:27:44.900 That should terrify everybody, Democrat, Republican, Independent, young, old, anybody else.

00:27:49.640 This is so critical to understand in whole thinking.

00:27:55.700 This is not about the old censorship.

00:27:58.900 Twitter was censoring.

00:28:00.200 That's not this.

00:28:02.020 There is censorship.

00:28:03.900 But now we have added covert operations run and funded by the Pentagon, run by our military

00:28:12.260 industrial complex in public-private partnerships to destroy the lives, not only the narrative,

00:28:19.120 but to then destroy the lives of those who the government needs to be silenced, even if they know

00:28:26.980 it to be true.

00:28:28.780 Then active disinformation run by puppet voices and bots to get you to think a different way.

00:28:36.860 And it's not just about misinformation that's out there.

00:28:40.720 They want to block anyone on any narrative that might disagree with the government's narrative

00:28:48.740 and do that in advance.

00:28:52.080 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:54.520 Ladies and gentlemen, big breaking news.

00:28:56.340 Stop the music.

00:28:57.300 This is important that we report on this update.

00:29:00.000 Now breaking Dateline, Washington, D.C.

00:29:03.360 George Santos, a spell expelled from Congress.

00:29:06.620 Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

00:29:09.680 What?

00:29:10.540 Yeah.

00:29:10.780 George Santos, the person none of us had heard about like three weeks ago?

00:29:15.160 He's out?

00:29:16.160 Yeah.

00:29:16.500 I can't believe it.

00:29:17.620 Yeah.

00:29:17.920 I'm stunned to hear it.

00:29:19.460 Yeah.

00:29:19.800 I also didn't know who he was three weeks ago, so I'm not exactly all that riveted.

00:29:24.540 No way.

00:29:25.140 I knew who he was after his election because he was lying or something.

00:29:29.720 He immediately turned into the biggest story in the whole world.

00:29:33.100 This unknown congressman suddenly became the biggest story in the world, according to

00:29:37.860 the New York Times.

00:29:38.360 They're writing about him eight, ten times a day.

00:29:41.320 What did he say?

00:29:42.760 What were the lies?

00:29:43.900 He, well, allegedly.

00:29:46.280 Okay.

00:29:46.980 Allegedly.

00:29:48.020 Actually, a lot of the lies he admitted to, which was he said he worked at, I think it

00:29:52.840 was like Morgan Stanley or some big bank, and he didn't actually work there.

00:29:57.360 Okay.

00:29:57.680 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:29:58.740 So he said he had a job that he didn't have.

00:30:01.440 I think so, yeah.

00:30:01.980 So like if you said, I was a truck driver, and I used to drive these trucks, and I remember

00:30:08.460 driving these trucks, and you didn't ever drive trucks.

00:30:14.000 So it'd be kind of like that?

00:30:16.060 I guess, yeah.

00:30:17.080 You claimed to have a job that you didn't have.

00:30:18.620 Okay.

00:30:19.080 All right.

00:30:19.500 What other lie did he tell?

00:30:20.900 He allegedly lied to donors and said, and used their money that was supposed to go for the

00:30:26.400 campaign for things like Botox and OnlyFans?

00:30:31.040 What's OnlyFans?

00:30:32.760 It's like the way, well, I mean, it's a, you know, first of all, it's a very honest way

00:30:36.560 to make a living.

00:30:37.220 We should not look down on it at all.

00:30:39.020 Oh, is this the one where you perform for money or whatever?

00:30:42.140 Yeah, I mean, some use it that way.

00:30:45.000 You know, others, who knows what accounts for it.

00:30:47.420 Well, you don't know what he did.

00:30:49.020 He maybe went on some gambling trips, allegedly.

00:30:52.040 Okay.

00:30:52.580 All right.

00:30:52.840 Personal travel.

00:30:54.040 All right.

00:30:54.380 All right.

00:30:54.580 He allegedly lied to collect unemployment benefits.

00:30:57.260 This is all from the left-wing media here.

00:30:59.040 He allegedly committed identity theft.

00:31:01.400 He allegedly lied to Congress.

00:31:02.920 So it's, I mean, that's-

00:31:04.180 He reimbursed himself for loans he didn't make.

00:31:06.120 If all of those things were true.

00:31:08.080 He lied about where he went to high school and college and that he worked on Wall Street.

00:31:12.220 Okay.

00:31:12.340 If all of those things are true, it would be like, I took money in bribe money, called

00:31:19.800 it a loan, washed it through offshore accounts, had my son, you know, take that money and deliver

00:31:26.660 it and divide it up to the family, and then I got some of that money.

00:31:28.920 They wouldn't need nearly that bad.

00:31:30.440 That's a terrible analogy because it would not be that bad at all.

00:31:33.460 Okay.

00:31:33.760 What you're talking about would be much, much, much worse, especially if the person you were

00:31:38.620 talking about had some notoriety of some sort.

00:31:42.440 Like if he was an important person in our country.

00:31:44.720 All right.

00:31:45.120 And the person that used to drive a truck that he never drove.

00:31:49.240 There you go.

00:31:49.900 Okay.

00:31:50.160 Okay.

00:31:50.600 So I'm shocked that Santos is, you know, out.

00:31:55.940 Yeah, it was 311 to 114 was the vote.

00:31:58.100 I think they needed 260 or 280 to get him thrown out.

00:32:01.400 So he'll be thrown out to be doing a special election in New York eventually.

00:32:04.340 Remember the guy who was pulling the fire alarm to stop a vote?

00:32:10.400 Oh, yeah.

00:32:10.820 Okay.

00:32:11.080 He's still there.

00:32:11.680 He's still there.

00:32:12.460 He's totally fine.

00:32:13.320 The Republicans were just too much of wusses to throw that guy out.

00:32:17.660 Okay.

00:32:17.900 Something that you and I would go to jail for.

00:32:21.500 Yeah.

00:32:22.540 They couldn't bring themselves to throw him out.

00:32:25.660 Yeah.

00:32:25.740 I don't even know who this Santos guy is.

00:32:28.480 He came from nowhere.

00:32:29.400 No one knows who he is.

00:32:30.620 No one knew who he was.

00:32:32.520 He's a completely, completely invisible, but no, had no accomplishments.

00:32:39.540 He was not right.

00:32:40.520 He was, he had been in office for like a week.

00:32:43.340 Is there a chance?

00:32:44.260 And then made him into the biggest story in the country.

00:32:45.060 Is there a chance he's a Sasha Baron Cohen?

00:32:50.180 Yes.

00:32:50.900 I am a full believer in this theory.

00:32:52.520 I think this whole thing has been performance art.

00:32:54.060 I don't think George Santos exists.

00:32:56.000 I don't think he ever, I don't think.

00:32:57.980 Now he's a real person.

00:32:59.240 I'm not saying he's a fake AI person.

00:33:01.540 I'm saying he is an actor, an actor who has decided to do a big piece of performance

00:33:07.640 art where he's going to come out and make some big point.

00:33:09.340 He's about to reveal it.

00:33:10.440 Now that he's been thrown out of Congress.

00:33:11.600 You know who he sounds like?

00:33:11.960 You know who Stu sounds like right now?

00:33:13.460 And I'm just saying, lawyers, line up.

00:33:15.580 You sound a little like Alex Jones in your performance art.

00:33:18.880 It's true.

00:33:19.440 Hey, there's a whole other theory on that.

00:33:22.900 But let me give you this.

00:33:24.340 Tina Smith.

00:33:25.380 Okay.

00:33:25.660 Tina Smith.

00:33:26.220 She is a senator from Minnesota.

00:33:28.600 Yeah.

00:33:28.860 Okay.

00:33:29.600 She is on the Senate Committee on Health.

00:33:33.760 Okay.

00:33:33.900 Pretty important role.

00:33:35.500 Okay.

00:33:35.960 Yeah.

00:33:37.100 She decided to make a little purchase.

00:33:40.780 She bought some stock, $250,000 of stock in a company called Tactile Systems, which, you

00:33:48.980 know, everyone's been talking about tactile systems.

00:33:52.640 That's a no brainer.

00:33:54.380 Now, there's a Twitter account that goes through all the stock purchases of the families.

00:33:59.120 I love those people.

00:34:00.300 And see, are they making suspicious purchases?

00:34:03.340 They call it one of the smallest companies they've ever seen a politician buy.

00:34:08.020 company has almost no volume.

00:34:10.560 No one knew anything.

00:34:11.420 It was just this little, tiny, tiny company invested $250,000 in this company.

00:34:18.020 Since then, the stock has risen 43%.

00:34:21.840 Holy.

00:34:24.560 Now, that's, I don't know, strange.

00:34:28.380 Like, well, but she didn't have any knowledge or anything.

00:34:31.700 She was just a good speculator, right?

00:34:34.420 Right.

00:34:34.900 Maybe.

00:34:35.920 Who knows?

00:34:36.500 We don't have any evidence.

00:34:37.540 We don't know for sure.

00:34:38.620 That's just a little blip from a senator, not a random congressman who's been in office

00:34:44.560 for a day.

00:34:45.960 This is a senator in a purplish state.

00:34:49.780 This should be, you'd think, at least a story the media is asking questions about.

00:34:53.440 This Santos thing, you know what this is? 0.92

00:34:55.340 Persecution of a gay man and a gay congressman. 1.00

00:34:58.720 This is a gay man, gay congressman. 1.00

00:35:00.040 You're right. 0.99

00:35:00.760 This is, okay, so he's a, he comes out of nowhere.

00:35:03.520 No one knows who he is. 0.97

00:35:04.560 He's a gay Republican, gets elected, suddenly has all these very easily disprovable lies, 0.79

00:35:11.620 none of which come out until like a day before the election. 0.90

00:35:15.640 He is somehow then put on as the, basically the face of the Republican Party for two years.

00:35:26.020 I've never even heard of the guy.

00:35:27.640 He just becomes the face of the Republican Party.

00:35:30.300 Right.

00:35:31.120 And then gets thrown out of Congress.

00:35:32.300 Now, my understanding is Bob Menendez is still in the Senate.

00:35:36.160 He's still there.

00:35:37.480 He is.

00:35:37.960 This story's been going on for a decade.

00:35:39.760 The guy's still there.

00:35:40.640 Okay.

00:35:40.960 Let me help you make sense of the world.

00:35:42.780 Okay.

00:35:43.120 Okay.

00:35:43.460 Let me help you make sense.

00:35:44.720 Because I know that story doesn't make sense.

00:35:46.680 But this one does.

00:35:49.180 You know McDonald's has been in the news lately, having some troubles.

00:35:53.540 Right?

00:35:54.960 Well, yeah.

00:35:55.800 There's been some talk.

00:35:57.080 There's been some talk.

00:35:57.600 Well, they have announced today that they have been working on improving the Big Mac since 2016.

00:36:10.700 They are announcing today, after all of those years since 2016, how they've decided to improve the Big Mac.

00:36:21.800 Okay.

00:36:22.320 So this is big.

00:36:23.780 A big development on a Big Mac.

00:36:25.920 Yes.

00:36:26.480 Okay.

00:36:26.740 So, what they're going to do to the Big Mac, and I am not kidding you.

00:36:32.520 They've been working on it since 2016.

00:36:34.400 It's a long time.

00:36:35.080 What they're going to do to make it better is they're going to include two smaller cooked all beef patties.

00:36:48.360 So they're going to reduce the amount.

00:36:50.200 They're reducing the size of the patties.

00:36:52.520 They're adding more special sauce than fresh lettuce, cheese, and pickles.

00:37:00.180 Wait.

00:37:00.520 What was the lettuce before?

00:37:03.540 Well, apparently not fresh.

00:37:05.400 Okay.

00:37:06.280 Okay.

00:37:06.740 This is not.

00:37:08.360 They're not saying fresh.

00:37:09.360 They're saying fresher.

00:37:10.640 Fresher.

00:37:10.920 Because it came in a bag right before.

00:37:13.080 Like, they came in a sealed bag.

00:37:14.280 Sure.

00:37:14.580 And I doubt it does now.

00:37:15.740 I think they're going down to the farmer's market now.

00:37:17.700 Really?

00:37:18.080 To get it.

00:37:18.580 Yeah.

00:37:18.920 Locally sourced.

00:37:19.880 Love course.

00:37:21.080 Now, here's the big thing.

00:37:23.100 Yeah.

00:37:23.400 Here's the big thing.

00:37:24.180 You're saying to yourself, that doesn't sound necessarily like a good change.

00:37:27.060 Because you'd think you'd want to advertise making your beef patty bigger.

00:37:31.300 Bigger.

00:37:31.600 That would be something you'd be excited to announce.

00:37:33.060 I don't know if they're going to advertise that it's smaller.

00:37:36.880 Well, why do we know about it?

00:37:39.000 Well.

00:37:39.320 I mean, every other piece of shrinkflation, right, just happens.

00:37:42.000 They just do it and they don't tell you about it.

00:37:43.640 Why do we know about this?

00:37:44.500 Well, because they've got a big makeover coming from McDonald's.

00:37:49.120 Okay.

00:37:49.340 And so, you know, they're making 50 changes to their foods.

00:37:52.160 Ooh.

00:37:52.520 Okay.

00:37:52.760 Yeah.

00:37:52.860 And the first one is, hey, our namesake product.

00:37:56.880 We're going to make smaller.

00:37:58.000 We're going to make it worse.

00:37:59.120 And then.

00:38:00.000 No, this is the one that changes everything.

00:38:03.800 Okay.

00:38:05.260 They're going to take the burger buns.

00:38:07.340 Okay.

00:38:07.840 Okay.

00:38:08.820 They're going to continue to be round.

00:38:10.260 Whole grain.

00:38:10.560 Don't be crazy.

00:38:11.080 Is it going to be whole grain now? 0.88

00:38:12.060 No, no, no, no, no.

00:38:13.900 It's going to be still round.

00:38:16.260 Okay.

00:38:16.660 Because they want to keep that.

00:38:18.000 That's important.

00:38:18.980 And buttery.

00:38:20.780 Because they want to keep that.

00:38:21.860 Good.

00:38:22.340 Okay.

00:38:22.960 All right.

00:38:23.740 But the sesame seeds, I am quoting, the sesame seeds will also be more scattered to create

00:38:34.700 a more homemade look.

00:38:37.820 Wow.

00:38:39.140 They've been working on this since 2016.

00:38:41.000 How do I buy some McDonald's stock today?

00:38:43.520 Is that available?

00:38:45.660 That's scattered.

00:38:47.160 You come into my office as the CEO and you say, been working on this since 2016.

00:38:52.840 Here's what we're going to do.

00:38:55.220 I don't throw you out of my office.

00:38:57.100 If I'm in a high story building, I might throw you out the window.

00:39:00.760 That's what you came up with?

00:39:02.560 Scattered sesame seeds and smaller beef patties.

00:39:05.000 Boss, boss, boss, boss.

00:39:06.200 Listen.

00:39:06.620 It's going to be great.

00:39:07.220 It's going to throw the whole thing.

00:39:08.500 This is a whole new curve.

00:39:10.680 You know the sesame seed bun?

00:39:13.320 They're going to be distributed not as evenly on the bun.

00:39:19.460 Ooh.

00:39:19.980 It's going to look more homemade when it comes out of the chute, down the burger chute.

00:39:26.880 It's going to look more homemade.

00:39:29.280 That is bizarre.

00:39:30.640 Yeah.

00:39:31.020 Why would they?

00:39:31.700 Why would?

00:39:32.900 I mean, is it just a pitch to investors to say we're going to be saving money on these things?

00:39:37.100 And I mean, what could possibly be the reason they would tell people about this?

00:39:41.020 Uh, I don't know.

00:39:44.500 I don't know.

00:39:45.080 That's really strange.

00:39:45.640 Big Mac changes are happening after McDonald's ranked 13th among U.S. change with customers

00:39:51.460 calling their burgers desirable.

00:39:54.100 So remember, it used to be the Whopper or the Big Mac.

00:39:57.720 Mm-hmm.

00:39:58.020 Have it your way.

00:39:59.080 Now it's like, we don't want any of your ways.

00:40:01.720 Really?

00:40:02.320 Yeah.

00:40:02.860 You guys are way down on the pack.

00:40:05.480 I freaking love their food.

00:40:06.620 I don't care what people say. 0.56

00:40:07.860 I don't care.

00:40:08.320 I had Taco Bell last night.

00:40:09.840 It was delicious.

00:40:10.400 I'm sorry.

00:40:11.540 I don't, I, we can, I can sit here and complain about all capitalism chain restaurants.

00:40:17.120 There's two, look at every one of our, our areas now just looks like a giant strip mall.

00:40:22.560 Great.

00:40:23.160 I love it.

00:40:24.020 I love the fact that there's a freaking one of these restaurants on every corner.

00:40:26.700 It makes my life special.

00:40:28.280 I have to, I have to tell, I don't know if it's special.

00:40:30.660 It makes it special.

00:40:31.760 I love it.

00:40:32.680 It's, it's incredible.

00:40:34.300 How, how can a society achieve so many wonderful things?

00:40:38.100 I have to tell you.

00:40:39.080 Screw it.

00:40:39.220 But anybody who can make a filet of fish, which I doubt has any fish in it, tastes like that.

00:40:44.760 It's a miracle.

00:40:46.080 Thank you.

00:40:47.060 It's a miracle.

00:40:47.600 It is.

00:40:48.040 And the, that bun, which is now smaller, the whole thing is much.

00:40:51.980 And no sesame seeds on that bun.

00:40:53.120 And no sesame seeds on that bun.

00:40:54.380 It's just perfectly smooth.

00:40:55.620 Just like hold me.

00:40:56.300 Yeah. 0.98

00:40:56.740 You could roll that up like silly putty in your hand. 0.60

00:40:59.960 It's, they're fantastic. 0.92

00:41:01.660 And you know what?

00:41:02.840 They're freaking delicious.

00:41:04.000 And they're delicious.

00:41:04.980 I do.

00:41:05.540 I love it.

00:41:06.040 McDonald's breakfast.

00:41:07.680 Is delicious.

00:41:08.820 Is so good.

00:41:10.860 It is.

00:41:11.320 I love it.

00:41:12.320 It is probably made of heavy metal plastic.

00:41:14.580 I don't care.

00:41:14.720 But I don't care.

00:41:15.880 It's so good.

00:41:16.780 I don't.

00:41:17.360 I know.

00:41:18.000 I know.

00:41:18.380 I just, we, we, we live in a society where we have to say, well, I mean, it's probably

00:41:22.240 not even, who knows what.

00:41:24.240 Stop it.

00:41:25.020 It's great. 0.96

00:41:25.820 It's a great freaking achievement.

00:41:27.700 The fact that you can churn out food that's delicious, that gives people an opportunity

00:41:32.660 to eat at a low price that they don't have to prepare.

00:41:36.300 Surely somebody who would pay $12 for a Big Mac will pay $17.

00:41:41.120 Look, it might be $12 now, but every other place is $80.

00:41:45.700 So, you know, relatively cheap.

00:41:48.700 How about that?

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