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Glenn Beck and Pat Gray discuss why Mitt Romney was booed at the Republican National Convention and why that could possibly be a good thing. Also, AOC is very happy with the Biden administration, which sounds like a good sign.
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Welcome to the podcast. Today, we talk about Joe Biden and his advice to America about
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masking. It's just your patriotic duty, man. Come on, man. And we'll get into his clip
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on that. Also, AOC is very happy with the Biden administration. That sounds like a good
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sign, doesn't it? Mitt Romney was booed at a GOP convention. And we go into why that
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could possibly happen. We'll get into all that on today's podcast. Don't forget to
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episode. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Pat Gray is joining us from Pat Gray Unleashed, the podcast that you can hear every day, Monday
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through Friday, here on The Blaze, right before this program airs live. Or you can pick it up
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later as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. All right. I want to start with some audio from
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Utah and the audio of Mitt Romney coming to the stage. Do we have it? Do we have it? We don't
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have it. Okay. I don't know how that happened. Let me reenact. I think we had that for my show.
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Is it not on my show's sheet? Thank you. You have to assume it was just glorifying and very
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positive. It was. It was beautiful. Other than the round booing, it was really warm and fuzzy. Yeah,
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it was quite ugly. It was quite ugly. This is the GOP convention in Utah. And everybody knows how I
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feel about Mitt Romney. You love him, right? Big fan. You adore him. Adore him. Love him. He's a
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Romney head. People call him a Romney head. He tours the country with other Romney heads. Yeah. You
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guys did that really good comedy tour together in 15. We loved it. We loved it. We loved it. Okay. So let
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me explain because I was seeing all kinds of articles about this and why Romney was booed and how rude it
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was and everything else. Um, for, for, for Mitt Romney and the GOP and everybody else to understand
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what happened. Mitt Romney, I'm sure is a nice guy. I've met him several times and he's always been
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kind and gracious, but I find him phony after, you know, after meeting with somebody for a few times,
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uh, when they're not a Senator, uh, when they're not a Senator, you can kind of see if they're phony
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or not as a politician, he's a politician. Now, normally that's not a bad thing, but we're at a time
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where people don't want politicians. Politicians are perceived as saying one thing, uh, but they
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actually believe and do something else. And they generally don't like the people who vote for them.
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They're elitists. Romney said, look, I I'm, I'm a Republican as they were still booing him. I'm a
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Republican. Yes. That's kind of the problem. It, I know this is a Republican convention, but that's
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kind of the problem. What does that mean? And so the, the GOP in Utah should wake up. You either have
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to split, which would be a horrible mistake, uh, or you need to recognize that the majority of people
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that were there that were booing, they're kind of booing the GOP as well. And here's why.
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What does the GOP stand for? Does it stand for the constitution? Because the constitution,
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small government trust the people to do it themselves. America first without being bigoted.
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That's what we thought Republicans stood for, but we don't believe that anymore.
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However, at the same time, you notice they didn't boo Mike Lee. Mike Lee got a standing ovation and
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no booze. Why is that? Mike Lee is not a flamethrower. He's not a bomb thrower. He's not,
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he's doesn't make fun of people. He's not like Donald Trump. Cause that's what they try to say
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about anybody who disagrees with people like Mitt Romney. He's Donald Trump. No, Mike is
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constitutional. Even when it goes against what he might wish could be true. See Mitt and GOP
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supporters, Mitt has spent the last few years calling half the country bigots, racists, and
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extremists. And, and he may not have used those words, but through his actions and his lack of
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defense and cooperation with the senior Senator from his state, Mike Lee, he demonstrates it all
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the time. And quite honestly, the GOP, half of it is tired of being called a racist, a bigot,
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or an extremist for believing in the constitution of the United States of America. That's it.
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That's all that was about. You disagree, patter? No. What are your thoughts? I agree completely. I,
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and that's, that's the right forum for what they did with Mitt Romney. They let him know at a
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political convention, what they thought of him. I don't like it when people on the right are doing
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that to him in public. That's the, you know, that's the Maxine Waters, uh, cost him on the
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streets, getting them in their face. And then when he got on that plane and people were yelling
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traitor at him, I don't like that. That's wrong. That's wrong. I don't like that either.
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When he's on the stage, I mean, but he's on the stage at the Republican convention. That's the
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time to let him know how you feel about him. So, and I, and I, it made me uncomfortable. I didn't
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like it, but that is the appropriate time to let him know exactly what you feel that and at the
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election booth, right? When he's in public, you just don't say anything. I mean, we have to remember
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what our moms all taught us. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all.
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Now there is an exception unless you do my job because this would be a one minute show, maybe a
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20 second show every day. Yes. Uh, uh, so you, uh, you know, we have to have common decency and that
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is the thing that I think, again, Mike Lee represents common decency. I mean, he can work
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with anyone. He can work with Bernie Sanders. How is he defined as a extremist and, and make no mistake
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in Utah, that's half of what the GOP calls him. They call him and believe he's an extremist, uh, you
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know, because they're still following an Orrin Hatch kind of philosophy. The Mike Leavitt,
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Orrin Hatch people are, are terrible to Mike Lee. Uh, they treat him like garbage. Yes. Yes. He's
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treated by garbage by surprisingly a lot of very powerful people in Utah. Um, let me, uh, let me
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play the audio. You have the audio now. Here he is walking out on stage.
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Now, you know me as a person who, uh, who says what he thinks and I don't hide the fact that I
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wasn't a fan of our last president's character issues. And I'm also no fan. Wow.
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Stop, stop. He's saying all the wrong things. He's antagonizing the crowd. Instead of saying,
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look, I, I take it, I wasn't ashamed, but I take it. I know a lot of people are upset
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at me. I get it. I get it. Go ahead. Let it out. Go ahead. He's like, aren't you embarrassed?
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What? I mean, it's just the elitist, uh, speaking. I think you get, you, you take it like a man
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on stage, you take it like a man and you say, I, I, I understand. I get it.
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I will say this in his defense. He had to know that was coming and he went anyway and
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he spoke anyway. And so, you know, he had to, he kind of had to, but, but he faced it
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and took it. And, uh, how did that decision work out for him?
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Yeah. Not well, maybe that was not very well, you know, he had to, maybe he didn't have to,
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but there's another side to it. Yeah. I mean, he still really believes he still really believes
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that he's, you know, uh, he he's on the right side and you know, maybe he is, I don't think so,
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but maybe he is. He still believes he's on the right side of, of, of history. Uh, and what is
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coming? He's still playing a long game. He thinks that, you know, people like people who follow Mike
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Lee are extremists and are going to fall by the wayside. I don't think so. I mean,
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I just don't think so. Um, you know, we believe we're the, the hope of freedom for the future.
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And I don't see anybody on this side sitting down. Uh, and, but he, you know, he, he believes
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that and what is what makes him even more infuriating? I, I, I wonder how he is going
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to fare in his next election. I mean, I don't think people are going to forget this. Oh, I think
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he loses that people will forget it. Yeah. I think he'll lose. Yeah, I do not to a Democrat
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maybe, but he'll be primary and lose to a Republican. Uh, that's what I think a Republican
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or a constitutionalist. Well, yeah, I mean, somebody on the right. Yeah. But Mitt Romney's
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on the right. So not really. I mean, somebody right. He was, he was the guy who said on that
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very stage, look, I've been the Republican my whole life. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. A Republican
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who was pro-abortion for some time in the nineties, if we would remember correctly, a Republican
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who had Romney care instituted in Massachusetts. That's not much of a Republican. I mean, that's
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really the main problem with Mitt Romney from the beginning is that he's not really on the
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right. He's not really terribly conservative. No, no, no. Hard to believe. And he started,
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he really kind of started out, uh, where Orrin Hatch was. And at least Orrin Hatch started
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out as a staunch conservative. I mean, he was Mike Lee for a while. Uh, and, uh, I mean,
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not quite as good, but he was Mike Lee for a while and then just went to hell in a handbasket.
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And it was the system that corrupted and the system is corrupting, uh, a lot of the GOP
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all around the country. And I was, uh, you know, I kind of, I guess maybe this is a theme,
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Pat. We were talking earlier. I, I, as a human being, I feel bad for Ted Wheeler intellectually.
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I don't really feel bad for Ted Wheeler. No, he brought this on himself. I mean, he, he condoned
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it for a year and now all of a sudden you've had enough. Oh, okay. Well, it's kind of late
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in the game for that. Yeah. And I kind of feel the same way about Mitt Romney. You know what
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I mean? Yep. I kind of, you know, he brought this on himself and intellectually, I have no
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sympathy, but as a, as a compassionate human being, oof, that was a, that was a tough one.
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I wonder if Mike Lee wondered what his ovation would be. Yeah. I'm sure he had some trepidation,
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but I wouldn't want to, could you imagine being the next speaker that is, you know, it's kind
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of, in some ways it couldn't get worse than that, but in other ways you have no idea what's
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I just want to, I want to read this story to you and show you the power of one, the power
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of one parent getting involved in calling another parent and another parent calling another parent
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and that parent calling another parent. It is the power of one. All of a sudden you have
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a tidal wave on your hands. This happened this weekend in South Lake, Texas. It's a small
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little town, conservative town, uh, and, um, affluent. The, the test scores show there
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is, and this is almost unheard of, if not unheard of entirely, uh, in America or any nation
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where blacks and whites perform equally as well on all of their final tests. That doesn't
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happen. Well, they wanted to transform, uh, the school and make it, make the school have
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more diversity. Now listen to the way this is written. Supporters of local candidates who
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oppose a school diversity plan rallied in South Lake, Texas over the weekend. Nine months after
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officials in the affluent Carroll independent school district introduced a proposal to combat
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racial and cultural intolerance in schools. Voters delivered a resounding victory on Saturday.
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Okay. So what was it? I mean, cause it sounds nice, right? They just, well, all they want
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is just a peaceful school. One that, you know, isn't racist and, uh, you know, admires cultural
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differences. No, that's not exactly what they wanted. In fact, the school board, um, put a
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presentation to game, uh, to, uh, into play, uh, for a teacher's retreat, they were given
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a preview of the kind of instruction they would be expected to oversee and carry out in a cultural
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competency regime. In the slides presented in this retreat, this is what caused the havoc
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in, in South Lake teachers and administrators who choose to treat students, parents, and colleagues
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equally, uh, equally regardless of their skin color or ethnicity were accused of cultural
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blindness, a state which in which differences are ignored and one proceeds as if differences
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don't exist. White privilege is being able to navigate daily life in the American culture
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without having to think about race. The administrators were encouraged to construct a white identity
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discussing what does it mean to you to be white and whiteness as well as naming some characteristics
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of white culture. Uh, then they went into white fragility. Uh, the presentation then went in
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against stereotyping, which says happens when you generalize about a person while ignoring the
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presence of individual differences. This is how bad it has to get before most white people notice
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burning crosses, swastikas, clan, the N word. Well, needless to say, the teachers went back and they
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were like, ah, I don't agree with this. Now this is in Texas. So a few teachers did object. Are those
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teachers in your school district? Cause I can guarantee you this is happening in your school. I guarantee you.
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So there's all of this stuff, uh, about systematic, uh, racist and racism and how you can't look at
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people all the same and treat them the same. It's treating people the same and looking at the, at them
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no differently. That has led to the good test scores. Uh, I believe in Southlake, one of the best schools and
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school systems in the country. So what happened over the weekend in an unusually bitter campaign
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that echoed a growing national divide over how to address issues of race, gender, and sexuality in
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schools, candidates in the city of Southlake were split between two camps. Those who supported new
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diversity and including inclusion training requirements for Carroll students and teachers
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and those backed by political action committees that were formed last year to defeat the plan.
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Holy cow. This paper is out of touch, right? Oh, it's NBC news. The local NBC candidates and
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voters on both sides described the election as a fork in the road for South, uh, Southlake,
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a wealthy suburb, 30 miles Northwest of Dallas. So goes Southlake, a local conservative commentator
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warned in the weeks leading up to the election. So goes the rest of America. In the end, the
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contest was not close candidates backed by the conservative, uh, family, uh, pack, which
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has raised more than $200,000 since last summer. Notice all of a sudden it's about money and
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an evil pack. Uh, those, uh, those, those, those people did really well. In fact, uh, Randy
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Robbins received 70%, 70.4% of the vote, his opponent, Sabrina Hakami received 29% of the
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vote in the city council place five election. Amy Torres Lep, uh, had 70% of the vote. Her
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opponent had 30 in the CISD school board race. Number four, Cameron cam Bryant received almost
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70% of the vote. His opponent 31% of the vote in the school board place. Number five, Hannah
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Smith received almost 70% of the vote. Her opponent, Ed Hernandez, 30% of the vote. Now
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here's what's interesting. Hannah Smith, she's a radical. I don't know if you know this, Stu,
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you pay attention to Southlake politics. I'm not sure, but, but Hannah Smith, oh, she's a radical.
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She's a Southlake lawyer who clerked for Supreme court justice, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
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There's a bad recipe for you. Yeah. There's a really bad, this she's, she won against Ed
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Hernandez, a business consultant. She's now on the school board. Oh my gosh. I might transfer my
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kids to, to, to, I might move to Southlake so I can get my kids into that. Can you imagine
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having her on the school board? That's fantastic. The reason why I want to bring this up is because
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the parents all stood together. They stood up, they were against the press. They were called names.
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Smith has received all kinds of threats. I mean, it's, it's been really, really bad,
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but they won and 70% came out against, because once you explain what they're teaching,
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nobody is for that. And this, I can guarantee you this or forms of this are happening in your school
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right now, because this is a national movement and it must be taken out of your school or you kids
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have absolutely no chance of survival. Yeah. The best thing that happened in this situation too,
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was all the national media attention. I mean, once people recognize what was going on there,
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it was easy to defeat, but it needs to be called out. You know, like Demi Lovato, the singer,
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we brought this up a couple of weeks ago, seemed to have like some, she went to high school in Texas
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and seemed to have some sort of high school rivalry with this town. And so posted the videos of these
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parents just like saying like, yeah, I kind of don't want my kids to like think about skin color
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all the time. You know, these sort of really rational requests from the parents, but they were
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all edited to kind of made, make them look like they were racists. And she tweeted it out to her
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multiple millions of followers and it became kind of this big story and all this back and forth went
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on. And, and, and that, that guaranteed the, the defeat of critical race theory in this town.
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Yeah. Well, that, and honestly, the school board members that voted illegally against the parents
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wishes, they, they did not have a hearing on critical race theory because they knew how it
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would go. So they've, they voted privately in secret to put it all in. Yeah. And once that was found
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out, I mean, two of them went to jail. It all goes back to, to this, this ridiculous, several years ago,
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there was a video of a couple of students who were singing along with a rap song and said,
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said the words in the rap song instead of, I guess, you know, because the N word doesn't rhyme
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with the word it was rhyming with. So apparently they, and I don't know the whole history that they
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may have been terrible videos. I don't know, but like a couple of students doing something dumb
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and the town felt like, Oh, well, our reputation is on the line. We need to take steps to show that
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we're aligned with Ibram Kendi for some reason. So, you know, this sort of stuff goes on around the
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country. And if it doesn't get pop stars tweeting about it and NBC news writing giant articles,
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trashing the town is racist. If those things don't happen, this, a lot of this stuff just slides by
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parents because you know, they don't, they do it behind closed doors. And unless a lot of attention
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gets, you know, uh, you know, put on it, they don't know. I really would like to talk to, um,
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the candidate running for the Beaverton school board, uh, in Portland, Oregon. She is standing
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up against critical race theory and comprehensive sexuality education. It might not go the same way
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as it did in Texas. It'll be fascinating to watch. Her name is Jeanette Schade or Schade S C H A D E
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shod. Um, and she is running by herself. Uh, you know, the school district says they're just doing
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culturally relevant teaching. Uh huh. CRT critical race theory, critical race theory, culturally relevant
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teaching. No, no. So if you call and say, are you doing CRT? Yes. Yes, we are. But ours is ours is
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culturally relevant teaching. Oh my gosh. These schools are just getting completely out of
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control, completely out of control. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really want
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to thank you for listening. By the way, another reason to be proud, um, SpaceX, the crew has returned
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to earth. Do we have the splashdown, uh, uh, video and audio here that we could play?
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It's there. It is. There's the splashdown of SpaceX, a private company going out in space.
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Okay. So now a private company has done this, but let me show you what the government of China has
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done. Please wait. What's about to fall from space? A bit of bad news for you. Some bad outer space
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news. It's kind of important. This week, China launched a rocket for its space station and that
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went great. The rocket is successfully in orbit, but the launcher, which is the size of a 10 story
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building accidentally also went into orbit and is, um, descending back to earth and no one knows where
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it's going to crash or what it's going to crash into. Yeah. Well, that's not quite true. And so
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this is, so this is the thing it was supposed to go up. It was, it's a booster. And, uh, like he said,
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size of a 10 story building, uh, it was supposed to go up into space, but they miscalculated a little
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bit. So it is technically in space in lower earth orbit, but it's decaying now and they didn't get it up
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far enough. So it's going to come back to earth soon and rest assured the Chinese are all over it.
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They said, we can't predict when, and we can't predict where it's going to hit, but we can rule a
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few places out. We believe it won't hit any place North of New York and any place more Southern than New
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Zealand. So, so no Antarctica, so no Antarctica ruled out, no Alaska, no Canada. Uh, of course
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their calculations were wrong in the first place. So I hadn't exactly been a banner year for Chinese
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science. I would say, uh, there's been a couple of issues people may have noticed that have cropped up
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from China over the past, uh, year. Yeah. If you follow, you have to follow some of the scientific
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journals that I follow. I know that this is a science based show and well, we're known for
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science on this program. Many awards. I being a doctor. Yeah. And we did a, if you missed it,
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a 47 part series last year on the inner workings of Chinese science, won multiple awards. Some people
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may have missed that series and don't know. Yeah. It's unfortunate, but kind of a crap heap year when
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it comes to their scientists kind of don't want to listen to them about anything right now.
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Yeah. I know. You know, I think the 10 story building that's going to be coming down to earth
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in flames, uh, that could just, you know, land on a neighborhood, you know, might not be the best PR
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thing for the, uh, Chinese space agency. I guarantee it will kill a lot less people than the last mistake
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they made. That one I'm pretty sure of. Well, I mean, unless it hits New York, remember it says
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no one, uh, no one, uh, North of New York. So that includes New York 10 story building falling from
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space. How many blocks are this serious? How many blocks could that take out that thing coming at an
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angle? Imagine it's coming down like, you know, Broadway, it would take how many, what kind of
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destruction would it do? And would Biden even say anything? It would be really interesting to be
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completely ignored. You know what? You know what? Now I'm really pissed. Now I'm, now I'm really pissed.
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I am going to tell Hunter that he should eventually get, get out of that Chinese, you know, space firm
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thing that he's doing that. I have no idea what he's even doing. Do you know, it's a hundred days
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in, he promised he would get rid of all of his shares, uh, in China still hasn't done it.
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Stunning. I'm stunned. Yeah, I know. I know. I can't wait for the, it's not really a real thing.
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Can't wait for the coming headlines of Republican Republicans pounce on Joe Biden, not commenting
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on half of New York City being wiped out by a Chinese building falling from space.