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00:01:18.120 target walgreens making some drastic changes due to an increase in theft in san francisco

00:01:28.780 according to the california retailers association three cities in california are among the top 10

00:01:35.220 in the country when it comes to organized retail crime los angeles san francisco and sacramento

00:01:41.100 already they've been seeing the negative impact it's having in san francisco with stores permanently

00:01:46.500 shutting down or closing early because of theft at their stores

00:01:51.540 uh target has now acknowledged san francisco is the only city in america where they've decided to

00:01:58.360 close some stores early because of escalating retail crime people just come in and take stuff

00:02:03.780 and leave it's not like they're breaking in in the middle of the night they're doing this

00:02:09.620 during store hours often in broad daylight if anyone any company knows this i don't know how

00:02:16.120 target couldn't be the one because they were the one that was told when their buildings were burning

00:02:20.520 to the ground it's just property right they're being completely cleaned out in city after city after

00:02:25.620 city yeah you know it's just property don't worry about it and so now they're realizing insurance

00:02:31.540 right you have theft insurance which by the way i mean as any small business owner will tell you

00:02:36.740 your that doesn't work out that way you don't get like a hundred percent of your money back no

00:02:41.540 that's not how that works you have your roof uh replaced recently after the hail i did not no i did

00:02:46.680 not but i'm having mine replaced and it's uh insurance comes in and says yeah i'll give you about half

00:02:52.920 but of that what that's worth they don't say it's half but it is about half of what it will actually

00:02:57.280 cost that's great yeah plus my deductible so that worked yeah the insurance thing it's not ideal

00:03:04.820 so when you're telling these companies yeah just use your insurance first of all you shouldn't be

00:03:11.300 stealing stuff from them but we've gotten to the place where apparently that's okay uh for certain

00:03:17.140 people to steal things from a store it's true it's and it's i think it's an organized thing at this

00:03:22.240 point i'd love to hear if there's any uh small business owners who have gone through this at their if

00:03:26.480 they own a retail facility i know someone who was in a store and watch this happened where here in the

00:03:32.980 dfw area yeah and this is texas okay yeah where a group of four people came in to a store it was a

00:03:43.080 makeup store with garbage bags and walked up to the counter where all the displays were and took

00:03:48.840 their arms and cupped you know 50 to 60 like lip glosses and just shoveled them into the garbage bag 1.00

00:03:54.900 and did it about 10 times each and then walked out of the store oh my god with four garbage bags

00:04:00.380 filled with makeup thousands of dollars of makeup and stuff is freaking expensive believe me it goes

00:04:06.060 about two-thirds of my salary goes to it so were these uh were these people who are the greatest

00:04:11.680 danger we face in america white supremacists no i don't they were i will say this if they were

00:04:17.140 white supremacists they were really bad at it uh this particular group of uh ladies don't tell me 1.00

00:04:22.740 they were bipoc they are they bipoc people hey they were bipoc oh no uh this particular group black 0.98

00:04:31.280 indigenous people of color yes now it's interesting because you have to look at the incentives of such 0.98

00:04:37.920 a situation by the way 888-727-BECK if you happen to be a small business owner and i've seen this

00:04:43.640 happen or how i because i would love to hear how you're dealing with it yeah but you know the

00:04:47.540 incentive there's a situation is the the employees of a corporate retail establishment don't want to

00:04:54.820 get into an altercation they're trained to not get into an altercation yep they're trained to know

00:05:01.680 well don't say don't try to stop x y and z type of person because that's not you know there's

00:05:09.280 guaranteed signs all over the store saying how much uh black lives matter and how much uh we know 0.98

00:05:17.340 every every dumb left-wing slogan is pasted all over every one of these stores and as we've seen 0.96

00:05:24.520 even with like starbucks starbucks what was the controversy they didn't allow someone to go to 0.99

00:05:29.020 the bathroom and it became a national story yeah so if you try to stop someone you tackle a woman 1.00

00:05:35.500 with a garbage bag of makeup making it walking out the door what they're not going to what happens in

00:05:40.480 that situation you're on the news as the bad person right you're on the news as the terrible person

00:05:45.680 who didn't let this uh individual uh who abscond with thousands of dollars worth of your material

00:05:53.320 your product what are you going to do you're going to step back and you're just going to let it happen

00:05:56.860 and they're going to walk out the door and if they do get caught which they probably won't

00:06:02.120 probably the charges will be dropped right we've seen antifa that they burn down cities and and we have

00:06:10.520 the vice president of the united states begging for money to bail them out so why would you possibly

00:06:17.340 believe you're going to get in trouble over something like this and if they do get in trouble

00:06:20.660 what is it a fine a fine that is what one tenth of one haul from one of these stores so you're seeing

00:06:26.940 this all over the place there's a video that went viral last week or the week before a guy just walks

00:06:31.320 in fills his garbage bag with all sorts of stuff on his bike and just rides his bike out the front door

00:06:35.860 the store yeah there's no longer this you don't need to be oceans 11 anymore there's no you don't

00:06:42.240 need to have this incredibly intricate operation you walk in the front door like every other customer

00:06:47.580 with a garbage bag on display you fill it with the material you walk out the front door the same way

00:06:54.000 you came in you just ignore everyone telling you to stop it's not that hard you stop it's not that

00:06:58.640 hard no oftentimes people don't even tell you to stop they just yeah they just watch you go out the

00:07:03.800 door and like look if you're an employee you're making you know 13 bucks an hour and you're

00:07:11.100 thinking to myself i'm not going to get i'm not going to become an international story because i

00:07:16.180 stopped a bipoc individual from uh from stealing something or a hispanic individual or a white 0.98

00:07:24.040 individual i'm sure this is happening with all sorts of colors i mean it's just this particular story

00:07:28.620 happened to be that and i would think it's a lot harder to justify to corporate that you did

00:07:35.040 something in this situation the further down the oppression ladder you get right yeah we're seeing

00:07:41.260 this in story after story after story now the oppressed uh the formerly oppressed women the 1.00

00:07:47.140 formerly oppressed uh gays the formerly oppressed uh if you're not you know 12 different intersectionality

00:07:54.540 groups at the same time you don't even show up on these charts anymore i mean like poor women remember

00:08:00.240 when women were oppressed and now they're a forgotten class completely absolutely yeah yes they are uh as

00:08:09.340 indicated by the thing last week at the we spa in los angeles where the trans woman goes into the

00:08:18.000 bathroom and shows her uh wiener to little girls her we her i am i will say just the fact that you just 0.73

00:08:32.580 said those two words next to each other yeah that's a lot about our society it does doesn't it she shows

00:08:39.760 her wiener right uh it's not funny to no it's not funny and i what's not funny is

00:08:47.920 how you're identifying them as little girls without asking them what gender they are that's true so one 1.00

00:08:53.900 person one person goes to the counter and complains about that to the spa uh employees and that person

00:09:03.740 is the bad person because how dare you say she can't show her wiener to people in the bathroom how dare 1.00

00:09:11.620 you it doesn't and so she's the bad guy and uh everybody defends the person showing their genitalia 1.00

00:09:22.940 in the bathroom to little girls it's like okay we don't care about defending or protecting little

00:09:28.080 girls anymore or women for that matter we don't care about it nope in fact if you if you ask about it 1.00

00:09:34.540 or say anything about it you're a hate monger well this is absolute insanity over the weekend a few 0.91

00:09:41.860 people show up to protest uh that going on he calling it pedophilia because it is and antifa shows up 0.96

00:09:52.500 and starts beating these people uh one of them got slashed with a knife in the arm others were beaten to

00:09:59.960 the ground uh this this guy uh this asian guy just standing there and a woman runs up and kicks him 1.00

00:10:07.020 where he lives and he responds by hitting her in the head with a water bottle he's the one who gets

00:10:13.280 arrested and he's the one everybody's yelling and screaming about because you got these antifa people

00:10:19.720 that uh they're the aggressors and then if anybody you know is aggressive back towards them whoa

00:10:25.960 oh no no now they're the bad person yes that is how this works it is then they do it really well

00:10:32.060 it's amazing to see our society react to this stuff like you know targeted walgreens

00:10:38.040 are making decisions they believe are good for their bottom line right there and what they're doing is

00:10:45.320 we'd rather be closed there are seven elevens that are closing yeah now the original meaning

00:10:53.320 of seven eleven was seven days a week open eleven hours a day right that is what it initially 11 at

00:10:59.940 night i thought it was 11 hours maybe it was 11 a night it was something of that nature i thought it

00:11:04.660 was 11 hours a day which isn't all that impressive frankly it's not no maybe it was until 11 at night

00:11:10.700 but there was you know and now it's obviously but everywhere it's a 24 hour business yeah and they're

00:11:15.860 closing or at least closing not allowing people inside because the theft is so prominent i mean target

00:11:21.320 target and walgreens just closing their stores closing them because they see it as more of a

00:11:28.440 problem to remain open yeah the shoplifting is so bad they can't make money because of it because of

00:11:34.520 the shoplifting so they got it might as well just close that outlet which they did and normally what

00:11:39.080 your answer is i mean look if there are some levels where maybe you would close the store down i guess

00:11:43.320 i'm sure it's obviously happened before but it's becoming more common because you really the other way of

00:11:50.120 handling this is adding security people but the security people aren't allowed to do anything

00:11:55.560 yeah this this security guard says uh his name is kevin greathouse and he said that they're told

00:12:02.180 not to physically engage with those who shoplift he said it's going to be lawsuits obviously they

00:12:07.660 don't want ourselves or anybody else to get injured while we're out here attempting to make

00:12:12.280 these apprehensions and leave it to law enforcement carries with him a handgun a taser and pepper spray but

00:12:17.280 he's never used them on the other hand he says people shoplifting have at times threatened him

00:12:22.580 with a knife and he said i don't have any intention of getting stabbed for 60 worth of stuff well okay

00:12:29.200 so you can hire security guards but if you're going to tell them not to engage with anybody who steals

00:12:34.060 what good are they you're just wasting your money there's a video that another video that went viral

00:12:39.600 this weekend of a guy in new york in a place a place we certainly walked by a million times when

00:12:47.020 we lived in new york in one of these like penn station type hallways and like they're not pretty

00:12:51.320 and usually on the side there might be a homeless person uh sitting down so this guy he's he's sitting

00:12:57.160 there he's he's mopping he's mopping the floor and he's got his bucket there he's mopping the floor

00:13:01.780 he turns around he's mopping the floor and you see it all happen as soon as he turns his back he's

00:13:06.560 mopping the floor the homeless guy gets up walks over turns around sits down on the bucket and starts 0.86

00:13:11.660 taking a crap in the bucket oh now this guy turns around with heck with his mop oh man and it's like 0.99

00:13:19.720 what the damn you know swears quite a bit and goes up to the guy and goes get out get out of there the 0.99

00:13:25.280 guy is offended that he's tried to stop him in the middle of going to the bathroom in his cleaning 0.99

00:13:31.720 bucket and takes his mop and starts hitting him with him up yeah now there's tons of people all

00:13:39.400 walking around there this is in the middle of a high traffic area and he's he just goes he pushes

00:13:47.200 right through it and gets go right goes right back down sits on the bucket and goes for it in front of

00:13:53.220 everybody and i mean this is the state of our cities right now and i got news for you no republicans

00:14:01.920 running any of them right you know there's no republicans running any of these cities basically

00:14:07.060 at this point there's a couple but there's very very few and this is what has happened over and

00:14:12.180 over and over again these cities are just turning into they're disintegrating yeah like apocalyptic

00:14:18.240 scenarios this is the best of the glenn beck program

00:14:24.960 there's a new poll out that shows governor abbott with a 39 38 lead over matthew mcconaughey now

00:14:42.020 nobody even knows what matthew mcconaughey's policies are what's his agenda he hasn't even

00:14:47.920 declared are you a democrat or a republican nobody knows or an independent or an independent right who

00:14:53.100 knows which is probably what he run as because you know if you're anything but a left-wing kook

00:14:59.540 democrat uh you can't declare that if you're in hollywood right so he'd probably have to say

00:15:04.980 he's independent but uh 39 38 whereas mcconaughey months ago was way ahead of of uh abbott in a head-to-head

00:15:13.800 competition at least according to the polls now uh there's another republican who's probably not

00:15:20.200 well known outside of dallas and that's uh don huff hines he's got a big card dealership empire here

00:15:26.340 uh abbott leads him 77 to 12 so he's probably not a real threat uh but just entering the race

00:15:39.440 um is uh uh colonel west yeah alan west who former congressman obviously been very active in conservative

00:15:49.040 politics for a long time he's going to be running he was the chair of the texas republican party

00:15:53.840 for about 15 minutes yep uh not very long no uh but he's very well known and well respected i think in

00:16:01.780 the conservative community and i think he's actually in a poll that they just conducted a little bit ahead of

00:16:07.440 uh governor abbott interesting yeah it is he's a threat for sure i would think to abbott you know

00:16:13.300 of course our own chad prather here from blaze tv is running as well but this is a crowded field

00:16:19.020 and it's interesting because abbott is not like greg abbott is a guy who if you if you're not from

00:16:26.060 texas you might not have a huge um uh impression of of abbott it's interesting when i talk to people

00:16:33.020 outside of texas what i hear typically is oh i wish we had a governor like yours who didn't lock

00:16:40.140 down the whole time and has lifted all these mandates and all that it's the exact opposite

00:16:45.640 of what i hear from people in texas who are just angry at him forever having the mandates yes right

00:16:50.700 that's basically the way this breaks down you talked to i was talking to andrew wilkow also from

00:16:54.940 blaze tv our friend from up he lives in new jersey i think now his impression of how good of a job

00:17:02.420 uh greg abbott is doing is quite different than i think someone who's living in texas like he's

00:17:08.720 positive super they wouldn't let us out of our house for 14 months uh so we're we would love to

00:17:14.280 have anyone who would who would allow that i mean you know we i uh the everything closed down on

00:17:20.320 basically it was march 16th was march 15th or 16th was the day that you know trump did the

00:17:25.660 15 days to start the to stop the spread speech and that led to of course uh another month of

00:17:34.420 of slowing the spread so it turned into to the end of april where basically nationally we were shut

00:17:41.800 down for six weeks uh on may 1st i went out to a restaurant down the street from this facility

00:17:48.720 uh it was 25 capacity i don't even know if they hit 25 capacity at the restaurant i was at

00:17:55.860 but damn i was at it i was there shoveling food down my gullet isn't that where you contracted 0.62

00:18:01.640 covid as well not till later no okay i got at a restaurant in texas much later pat uh and i you 0.98

00:18:07.900 know you bring up a sore as a covid 19 survivor uh you you bring up a very sore subject there but

00:18:14.620 yes that uh it did happen it's not a terrible point by you right uh but yes it did happen and

00:18:21.640 it can happen i mean it's it definitely is a risk but again it was my choice to go out and shovel food

00:18:27.580 down my gullet in the middle of a pandemic i you know that's my choice and having covid 19 for you

00:18:33.000 was a lot like not having covid 19 right yes it was you had no symptoms it was asymptomatic for me i

00:18:39.260 was just basically staying home for 10 days yeah uh which was not fun i didn't necessarily enjoy it

00:18:44.180 our whole we did have some fun family times uh but you know when you really can't go out for any

00:18:48.700 reason yeah uh you know when you have it but still you know you get through those times my point

00:18:53.620 though with abbott though is that it was as compared to the nation he was definitely on the

00:18:57.980 leaning freedom side of the transaction however for texas you know that nothing but you know

00:19:04.720 perfection will do on these situations and and abbott has had some problems i mean he's he's you

00:19:09.820 know but some people just got unreasonably pissed at him there's like real like just done with him

00:19:17.740 i'm done with him forever yeah yeah no it's it definitely was a at least around now look i i work

00:19:24.140 at the blaze which a bunch of people who are very conservative and and very outspoken so i did hear

00:19:29.400 maybe more than the average texan did i mean and you look at it it's like they just did a poll on

00:19:33.720 greg abbott's approval rating within the republican party he has a 77 approval rating among republicans

00:19:40.760 you should be able to win that way if you have a 77 approval you should win it's amazing that he

00:19:45.660 has this many challengers when he when you have a 77 approval rating yeah though uh he's got some

00:19:50.600 challengers and some real ones like alan west is a real challenger alan west is a real is a real

00:19:55.740 challenger chad prather is really popular especially particularly in texas uh you know don huffein

00:20:01.740 has a lot of money i don't i don't know but again like it's it's a well-funded candidate is a big

00:20:07.780 challenge to a to a to a person in the poll i just saw uh prather was actually ahead 42 to 35 percent

00:20:17.120 over alan west and then i think um abbott was it 30 or somewhere in there he was actually in the lead

00:20:25.400 as far as republicans are concerned i mean it's interesting yeah i don't know what's going to

00:20:29.500 happen but i think these things are we're we're in the middle of a cycle to take it out of texas

00:20:34.160 here for a second we're in the middle of a cycle where there's a there's going to be a cycle here of

00:20:41.840 of of retribution essentially for what happened in the pandemic right i think we're seeing that on the

00:20:47.740 streets right now you know we're seeing that from in in political parties where if you didn't do

00:20:55.560 what your base thinks is the right thing you're going to be targeted and punished and no doubt

00:21:01.420 and taken during these primaries and people are going to try to exploit it yeah you know it was

00:21:08.320 like when we had a series of this you know after 2016 there were obviously the republican party was

00:21:13.980 sort of split on people who really like trump and people who didn't like trump and the people who spoke

00:21:18.620 out against trump had a lot of primary challenges from people who were very very pro trump uh you

00:21:26.560 know we're seeing that now happen with anyone who voted for like like the impeachment for example

00:21:30.820 or you know people who spoke out like uh you know obviously the most obvious one is liz cheney

00:21:36.220 right there are lining there's probably going to be 97 people right it's liz cheney in the next primary 1.00

00:21:42.840 because there's there's a dividing line there and i think the same thing is going to happen

00:21:47.060 with covid you know there's a lot of people some republicans did not go as far on the freedom

00:21:54.080 scale as many southern states did and it's also the reason why you're seeing people circle around

00:22:00.500 ron desantis as a guy who people like because they liked what he did during that period it was a test

00:22:05.900 pat right it was a test of your principles you know what is what do you do in a really difficult

00:22:10.920 situation do you still favor freedom or is it only when you're running for office and many of these

00:22:17.020 even republican governors are finding out like oh gosh maybe i should have been on the side of

00:22:21.960 freedom yeah because even look you're not people who tried to take that as like well if you're on

00:22:28.080 the side of quote unquote freedom you're trying to kill grandma and it's like well no when you're

00:22:32.540 outside of freedom you're letting people make their own decisions and look including grandma and that

00:22:38.960 also includes like how you're affecting others right i mean a pandemic is not just an isolated act we all

00:22:45.080 know that that's the problem with the pandemic but people have the the right to be able uh to to

00:22:53.380 take the risks that they feel are necessary and also take the responsibilities of actions that might not

00:22:59.900 be uh might not be so uh so thoughtful right i mean there's definitely more of those people too

00:23:07.340 so i think this is going to be one of those dividing lines that lasts for a very long time and we're going to

00:23:13.720 have no no choice but to deal with it especially when it comes to financial uh matters because our

00:23:21.180 country has spent so much money and when i say spent money what i mean is they printed it i mean i you

00:23:27.060 know it's like to say that they were spending money that existed before 2020 is is sort of sort of a false

00:23:33.880 way of looking at it i mean we've just done everything that we were terrified of as conservatives

00:23:38.620 all at once within an 18 month period and we still got three four five six trillion dollars to go here

00:23:45.180 they're going to spend more doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on this stuff and you just

00:23:51.700 have to believe there is a point that where there's a breaking point yeah yeah oh yeah and we don't even

00:24:00.160 have to print it anymore that's the beauty of it we just digitize it that makes it even more fun to

00:24:04.780 spend it is it's just a number numbers on a screen that's all it is it's a number we don't even have

00:24:10.000 to do the paper anymore so it's so easy to spend money now and nobody even bats an eye uh at a billion

00:24:21.120 dollars or 10 billion dollars or 50 billion anymore that doesn't that doesn't even phase people you don't

00:24:28.160 even think oh my gosh we're gonna spend 50 billion on that they don't care because it it's it doesn't

00:24:34.320 even have an impact until you get to trillions now we've become so used to hearing the billion

00:24:41.140 dollar figure it used to be millions and hundreds of millions then it was billions now you don't

00:24:47.680 you're not even phased unless you hear that we're going to spend a trillion dollars and even then

00:24:51.700 maybe not very much you're not you're not worried about it and this is not it wasn't that long ago

00:24:57.720 that the word trillion was poison yeah to even democrats if you remember going through the post

00:25:06.500 2008 recovery period barack obama gets elected he comes in big conversation he wants to spend 787

00:25:14.200 billion dollars uh on i think that was the that was the recovery one yes the stimulus right and then

00:25:20.820 he wanted it was obamacare they worked very hard to manipulate the numbers to keep it under one

00:25:25.300 trillion and the final cost was in the 900 billions now of course it wasn't actually in the 900

00:25:30.300 billions but that's how they presented it and the media of course went along with it but they

00:25:35.220 they thought if it hit a trillion the american people will revolt against it now the american

00:25:40.480 people still sort of revolted against it at least back then now not now they don't even care now they

00:25:46.660 don't even care now it's part of our culture and as we said as soon as this gets it becomes something

00:25:51.460 that is yours something you are owed it will never go away and that's where we are with obamacare now

00:25:56.720 obviously but at that time it wouldn't they didn't think it was going to pass remember they had 60

00:26:02.400 votes and they were doing this they had 60 votes in the senate and they were saying we can't get it

00:26:07.460 over a trillion dollars it will never get approved and now we're at the point we're like well if we

00:26:12.120 have 50 votes we can pass a five trillion dollar bill right and in the america yeah of course you can

00:26:18.540 you got 50 votes yeah sure go ahead no problem and to help you we'll take republican responsibility

00:26:25.660 for another trillion in infrastructure just to make your job a little easier just to make so you can

00:26:31.280 get that extra trillion you don't have to make it a six trillion dollar bill make it a five trillion

00:26:34.820 dollar bill we'll take the other trillion on with you and it'll happen so fast

00:26:39.540 this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:26:46.300 espn have a little issue again

00:26:59.040 espn is seemingly always having some issues lately uh but this one's kind of a non-issue to me i i mean

00:27:09.140 i don't did she did rachel nichols really do something really horrible yes she did she did 1.00

00:27:16.640 something absolutely horrible horrible pat okay tell me about it because i i was under the mistaken 0.98

00:27:22.300 impression that it wasn't that big a deal oh my what yeah yeah i was you bastard maybe i don't know 0.96

00:27:28.300 the full story apparently not okay so rachel nichols is a broadcaster for on espn she was one of she's 0.94

00:27:35.660 one of the main nba announced uh hosts of their you know their post game show or whatever pre-game

00:27:41.160 many many times yep very well known she apparently had an issue where she left on her microphone you 0.99

00:27:49.360 cannot do this in today's society that's for sure cannot and had a private conversation oddly with one

00:27:54.600 of like lebron james's advisors he has it i would have never guessed he had an advisor the way he acts

00:28:02.040 i mean i would have totally assumed he's a bad advisor yes whatever i don't it's a very strange

00:28:07.940 one maybe lebron ignores everything his advisor advises maybe that's possible i will say his

00:28:13.000 comments in here are pretty freaking interesting too as a side story uh in this in this conversation so

00:28:18.140 uh basically rachel nichols wants to be the lead uh anchor of the nba coverage and realizes after her 0.95

00:28:26.880 very long resume and lots of success and very well known realizes she's not getting the gig for 1.00

00:28:32.180 the 2020 nba finals now why would that happen i i don't know she seems to be highly qualified she

00:28:38.760 seems to be well liked by everybody uh i've never heard you know she never you hear bad occasionally

00:28:44.940 you'll hear from sports fans they don't particularly like female announcers as much uh they seem to like 0.95

00:28:50.360 her beth what's her face is a really good example of that beth what's her face beth what's her face

00:28:55.380 who does the play-by-play uh college football oh time have you not watched uh coverage i don't

00:29:01.500 remember but beth what's her face that she she's not not your favorite oh my no not my favorite and

00:29:07.120 that's been a a standard complaint from guys over the years right i mean we can admit that that's

00:29:12.460 been something that other guys not us not us have beth what's her face is fine now she's perfectly fine

00:29:17.760 so but rachel nichols has always been yeah she's one of the anchors that i thought has been highly 0.98

00:29:23.020 you know well respected sage steel is another one on on espn that i think people really like i

00:29:27.480 never heard a bad word about her female announcers can do great jobs and whatever so what's interesting 0.99

00:29:35.300 here is she's off camera she realizes she's losing this gig she's losing this gig to maria taylor now 0.97

00:29:41.320 maria taylor is an is a woman as well an african-american woman now think about you in

00:29:48.180 this situation for a second if you're rachel nichols you just lost your big prime time gig

00:29:53.200 right you're pissed off about it now people at times in those private conversations might say

00:29:59.580 stuff that you know like they don't necessarily have evidence of but they're you know expressing

00:30:03.160 frustration and especially if like she says it is it's in your contract that you're going to have

00:30:08.640 that gig right this is her gig especially be upset about yeah so here's what she says in a private

00:30:14.320 conversation she says i wish maria taylor all the success in the world she covers football she

00:30:19.280 covers basketball if you need to give her more things to do because you're feeling pressure about

00:30:23.920 your crappy longtime record on diversity which by the way i know personally from the female side of it 1.00

00:30:30.500 like go for it just find it somewhere else you're not going to find it from me or taking my thing away 0.92

00:30:36.820 end quote uh-oh this has been this is the type of thing at espn that it gets turned into an

00:30:44.000 international incident now what's fascinating about this is someone we don't know who who could it be

00:30:51.460 i don't know i don't have evidence as to who it was but i will say someone held on to this recording

00:30:59.580 for like a year and has now somehow gotten it to the new york times right around the moment maria

00:31:07.440 taylor is renegotiating her contact with espn now look who could it be it could be anyone in the whole

00:31:15.520 world it's like the guy uh in the netflix series i think you should leave with tim robinson tim robinson's

00:31:22.080 dressed up as a hot dog in a hot dog costume after a hot dog car crashes into a clothing store and

00:31:29.100 they're all looking around who did this and the guy in the hot dog costume is saying i don't know

00:31:33.460 who could it be it could be any of us it's you in the hot dog costume you were driving the hot dog car

00:31:41.620 now we don't have any evidence that she was driving the hot dog car in this particular

00:31:45.280 situation but it could be could be let's give us some scenarios could be one of someone who's uh

00:31:51.840 aligned with her could be someone random could be someone who just really cared about racial

00:31:59.000 justice pat could be someone with just a hardcore belief in racial justice who knows who it could

00:32:06.660 be but it's interesting that it's coming up particularly at this time uh when apparently

00:32:11.780 the the belief is that espn has offered maria taylor multiple millions of dollars but she wants 1.00

00:32:17.540 multiple millions of dollars more she wants something like eight million dollars a year 1.00

00:32:22.560 wow at least that's the uh that's the reporting going on right now i want that too i wanted to

00:32:28.140 i want that too can i just state that now i want that too i want eight million dollars a year what i

00:32:35.400 find to be completely fascinating about this story and first of all it falls right in to the pat gray

00:32:41.280 sweet spot of liberals eating their own because if you notice the comments from rachel nichols she's not 1.00

00:32:46.420 saying it's unfair to give someone a job they don't necessarily deserve because of their physical

00:32:52.800 characteristics she's saying that's fine they should just take away other people's jobs instead 0.96

00:32:57.900 of hers right right and she's also saying that uh she she was on this bandwagon already on the female 1.00

00:33:05.940 side of it so she's actually seemingly for people being promoted because of their physical characteristics 0.99

00:33:14.260 yep because she believes there's been some injustice against those people right so she's not against

00:33:19.560 she wouldn't say like i think i don't think she would summarize her position as i think the best

00:33:24.800 person should get the job no matter what their what their skin color or gender right that's not what 0.96

00:33:29.600 she's saying no she's saying women should get diversity hires maybe even uh she's saying the espn has a

00:33:36.540 bad record on diversity and they should be promoting black women to these roles just don't take my gig 1.00

00:33:42.940 i want i want that money not her give me the money give me the job she can take some white guy's job 1.00

00:33:51.320 is basically what she's saying and does espn have a bad record on diversity because i there are

00:33:59.420 approximately three white men who work at espn now i think uh at this point i mean i look i don't care

00:34:05.840 i really don't care either but i never if you're gonna say they have a problem with diversity there's

00:34:10.660 women and bipox everywhere on the network yeah there's like you said maybe three white people 0.99

00:34:17.400 left is that too many yeah i mean look at our own uh jason woodlock who works here uh at the blaze tv

00:34:23.940 now just started by the way his show's starting up i don't know if it started yet it's coming soon he's

00:34:27.440 got a podcast coming out and everything he's great great host when he was at espn they started uh

00:34:33.040 what was it the undefeated it was a it was basically supposed to cover the racial the intersection

00:34:39.040 of race and sports and jason was one of the people who started it and if you know jason and

00:34:45.760 his views on race and sports and that intersection they are not approved not espn by espn and that's

00:34:52.540 for sure and so he's you know certainly no longer there and they took it in a totally different

00:34:57.160 direction which was essentially if alexandria ocasio cortez ran a sports publication right like 0.99

00:35:03.480 that's what it is now um which is so weird because the average sports fan is not there yeah and the

00:35:09.240 average sports fan is not going to the site either right they don't it's it's more of a political move

00:35:15.280 now than something that could have been really interesting if you look back at some of jason's

00:35:19.700 work when he was there i mean some of it's fantastic he's always great jason but i mean like

00:35:24.780 it's it's fantastic so what i find to be fascinating about this story though is let's just play game

00:35:33.260 theory here for a second pat how would you win in this scenario okay how would you win we know

00:35:41.480 that rachel nichols is in trouble why because she said they were promoting maria taylor to this job 0.99

00:35:49.560 because she's a black woman right they're trying to just solve these diversity problems so they've 0.75

00:35:54.120 promoted a black woman into this role right yep what's fascinating about that is that this is

00:36:01.640 specifically the request from the left that you promote people because they are black women

00:36:09.020 right back in the day the position of everybody was hire the best person for the job don't notice

00:36:17.060 their skin color you shouldn't be noticing their skin color okay the new request is the opposite of 1.00

00:36:23.940 that it's you must notice their skin color you should give people who are let's say african-american

00:36:30.900 a leg up whether they are the best person for the job or not you have to give a black person the job 1.00

00:36:38.180 right we saw this with the um the lin manuel miranda movie that came out recently in in the heights i think

00:36:45.560 it was called where they got in trouble because they hired almost exclusively hispanic actors but not

00:36:52.560 dark-skinned hispanic actors are not dark-skinned enough so it wasn't about that the actors and the

00:36:58.120 singers and the dancers did a bad job or they weren't the most qualified is that they didn't have

00:37:02.960 dark enough skin to to please the woke crowd so what rachel nichols is saying and getting in trouble for 1.00

00:37:13.120 and accusing espn of doing is the exact thing the woke people are requiring so how could you possibly

00:37:23.200 win in this situation if you say they only put this black woman in this role because she's black 1.00

00:37:30.800 you're bad however the woke left is also saying you must put this black woman in this role because 0.99

00:37:36.880 she's black they're saying the both sides of the issue it's impossible to win first of all second 0.98

00:37:43.420 of all you shouldn't even be trying to win because it's uh you know anti-american uh to and i think

00:37:49.380 completely wrong to make decisions based on skin color it's a thing i've had for a while i've had this

00:37:54.220 weird inkling throughout my entire life that you should make approximately exactly zero decisions in

00:38:02.240 your entire life based on skin color that's kind of my philosophy where are you getting that kind of 0.93

00:38:07.980 nonsense there's a couple people brought it up who else would have felt like that yeah i know that's 0.77

00:38:14.320 ridiculous it's an outlier of a position to take it is now it is now who wants it you know uh mlk is 0.78

00:38:23.100 not welcome in the movement anymore yeah someone's you know there's this book anti-racist baby that 0.91

00:38:29.320 we've talked about a few times from ibram x kendi and it's basically a way to indoctrinate people

00:38:34.240 into this in babies literally babies into this hardcore left-wing woke ideology you know critical

00:38:42.480 race theory that's all involved in this even though it's occasionally denied um and someone uh asked uh

00:38:50.960 someone but i know hey like you know why don't you you know they posted something negative about

00:38:55.200 anti-racist baby um and they were like well why why don't you like why don't you what's wrong with

00:39:02.240 it being an anti-racist it's like well i prefer the way mlk went about it that's that's the problem

00:39:08.560 here i prefer the way mlk thought about it and i what what is what we have now is this idea that we

00:39:15.280 should discriminate against certain groups yes to try to even some score done by their ancient

00:39:20.900 relatives like that's what i call nuts yep and wrong and you know i'm not going to teach my kids

00:39:28.180 that i'm not going to teach babies that i think that's the wrong thing to teach them and it's it's 0.95

00:39:33.980 amazing to see espn try to figure out how to navigate this situation because one is saying you should be

00:39:40.180 woke for women the other person saying you should be woke for black women and espn should be saying hey 0.67

00:39:46.560 put the best host on the air who's the best host put them on the air and they can't even do that

00:39:50.680 can't do it anymore it's incredible

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