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00:00:00.000 Welcome to the podcast. Have a good Labor Day weekend. But before you do that, listen to this,

00:00:05.980 which is we have some interesting stuff from people who are calling in and trying to tell us

00:00:10.160 what their view of the world is. It's one thing I know Glenn is prioritizing this year is trying

00:00:14.060 to make sure that, you know, we hear your voice a little bit more often. And we're going to be

00:00:18.540 going into that with a bunch of callers today. Also, we'll talk about Dave Chappelle, his new

00:00:23.100 comedy special, which is really creating quite a stir for saying really obvious things, which is

00:00:29.520 kind of a funny, funny thing in our society these days. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants you to know

00:00:35.760 and teach you what capitalism is, because she, if she's nothing else, she's an instructor.

00:00:43.540 We also have some stuff on Mike Lee today, Tom Steyer. And of course, we have a little bit about

00:00:52.260 Joe Biden, who can't seem to get any of the stories straight that he's telling on the campaign trail.

00:00:57.900 All of that on today's podcast.

00:01:06.140 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:14.600 Here is here is the latest from CNN on Biden. He made a well, what would you call this?

00:01:23.460 He's made up a story, you know, did a story, but got all of the facts wrong.

00:01:32.160 I mean, again, from Joe, on the Joe Biden curve, this is one of the most accurate things he's ever

00:01:36.500 said in his entire life.

00:01:37.600 Right. No, let's take off the Joe Biden curve.

00:01:40.020 Well, because he actually did the stories about a soldier. He went to pin a medal on him. And the

00:01:47.620 soldier apparently said, you know, I don't want this. And don't even give me the medal because

00:01:52.840 the, you know, is fighting is, you know, brother in arms had already died, and he didn't feel good

00:01:59.520 about taking it. And it's kind of an uplifting story about, you know, the character of our of our

00:02:03.840 military. So all that happened. Like he did actually do it. He did it when he was a senator,

00:02:09.820 though, not the vice president. And this is something that has been repeated over and over

00:02:14.280 again. The Parkland thing was another example of this where he was not vice president when he said

00:02:18.520 he was vice president meeting with the Parkland kids. Of course, the shooting happened afterwards.

00:02:23.440 If he met with the Parkland kids about the shooting when he was vice president, what did he know?

00:02:28.060 And when did he know it? That's what I want to ask. So he has this. He's one of these guys that he was

00:02:34.180 plotting. I met with the Parkland kids, right? And we plotted this whole thing. He's he is one of

00:02:40.700 those guys that I just, you know, his brain is not the wires aren't connecting. And I think

00:02:47.080 everybody is saying and sees this. Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a five foot 10

00:02:57.240 vice president? Is that what you're saying? Sorry, quoting Mel Brooks. Listen to this. This

00:03:04.160 is Washington Post. One big question facing candidates and voters. Now, this is about

00:03:09.700 Joe Biden from Brian Stelter. One big question facing candidates and voters is whether President

00:03:16.580 Trump's routine falsehoods have changed the standards by which by which other presidential

00:03:23.160 aspirants should be judged. OK, OK, wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought this was about Joe Biden.

00:03:30.580 The Washington Post, the revelations about Joe Biden's completely botching, botching a war

00:03:38.480 story. Last Friday in the campaign trail in New Hampshire, the Democratic forerunner told a moving

00:03:44.820 but false story about a Navy captain who, despite his bravery, felt like a failure. The problem is,

00:03:51.300 except this is a quoting the Post, except almost every detail in the story seems to be incorrect.

00:04:01.720 More than a they spoke to more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign

00:04:08.320 officials to figure out what actually happened. They they concluded that, quote, Biden jumbled elements

00:04:16.700 of at least three actual events in the story of bravery, compassion and regret that never

00:04:23.800 happened. The bottom line is, in the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period,

00:04:30.000 the location, the heroic act, the type of metal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient

00:04:38.200 wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.

00:04:42.480 So bizarre. I mean, because like none of those and this is what's weird about Biden.

00:04:49.680 None of those things make the story better, right? The story isn't better because he's

00:04:54.180 vice president. The story isn't better because he's in a different location. The story isn't

00:04:57.920 better because it's one type of a metal over another type of a metal. He just doesn't seem

00:05:01.740 to remember anything. And again, it seems to come back to that same thing where there's

00:05:06.480 just like a a mental a normal mental brain function that occurs in your average person

00:05:16.720 is occurring in a different way in Joe Biden's head. And it's I think it's been like that

00:05:21.960 for a while. It just seems to be getting much, much worse. And the important thing here,

00:05:26.100 as far as Democrat voters go, has nothing to do with whether he ever tells another thing

00:05:31.140 that's true in his entire life, whether he ever tells another story that's true.

00:05:34.400 The issue with Democratic voters here is for them to figure out whether he is so far gone,

00:05:41.480 he's not going to be able to win this election. The second the Democrats believe these issues

00:05:46.640 lead to him losing to Donald Trump is when he's no longer the front runner.

00:05:51.240 He's he's Hillary Clinton. Yeah.

00:05:53.740 The minute they realize he can't he's Hillary Clinton, they will treat him like Hillary Clinton.

00:05:58.900 Now, Devon Cole from CNN notes, Biden made other several misstatements, not lies, misstatements

00:06:07.020 at the same New Hampshire event last Friday, including one about how many visits he made

00:06:12.100 to Afghanistan and Iraq. But two wrongs don't make it right. Now, listen to this.

00:06:19.240 How do you feel? This is about Biden. How do you feel about how this may relate to how you feel

00:06:25.540 about Donald Trump? Lots of progressives are all up in my Twitter mentions saying this Biden

00:06:32.220 story doesn't matter because Trump is a pathological liar and lots of conservatives are promoting the 0.92

00:06:38.400 Biden story for obvious reasons. Yeah, here's the obvious reason. I think he is mentally not fit 0.99

00:06:46.640 anymore. He's not the same guy that he was four years ago. He is stumbling over his own words.

00:06:54.500 He looks like he's beginning to go senile. And that's not conservative saying that. That's also a lot of

00:07:01.560 liberals saying that. But he goes on. But the bar should stay high, even if Trump constantly finds

00:07:09.260 his way to go lower and lower. Then he writes, here's the counter argument. Now, let me ask you

00:07:18.560 this. Have you heard them have a counter argument for Donald Trump getting things wrong ever?

00:07:28.780 Right. There's never been an excuse where they're like, look, what he probably meant here was this.

00:07:33.980 They actually jump on it the complete opposite way. They look for anything he says that's the

00:07:40.020 slightest bit off and then act as if he's making a major policy statement. You know, this goes back

00:07:46.240 to things like even going back to the very classic example from 2015, where he came down the escalator

00:07:52.080 and said, you know, look, we've got rapists coming across the border. Everybody who listened to that

00:07:57.500 speech could easily tell that what he is talking about is, are there some? Yeah. I mean, the answer to that

00:08:03.320 is, yes, there have been a lot of criminals that have come across the border. Everybody on earth

00:08:06.460 knows that. He wasn't saying everybody in Mexico is a rapist, right? He's saying that, look, we have a 0.59

00:08:13.260 problem with crime coming across the border. And most people were able to decipher that if they

00:08:16.760 were being honest. But if you go the other way and you just act as if the exact thing he says is a

00:08:22.640 major policy statement, it gets you a lot of clicks. You get a lot of outrage clicks. And that is what

00:08:28.560 the media has decided to do with this president. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. They will talk

00:08:36.680 down the economy and they are capable of doing it. They will never give the president the benefit of

00:08:44.780 the doubt. Now, look, if you want to understand this president, you watch what he does, not what he

00:08:53.920 says. They've known this since the 1970s with Donald Trump. Donald Trump is P.T. Barnum. Donald Trump

00:09:05.060 knows how to manipulate the press to be able to get coverage. Now, he should change that, but he's been

00:09:15.920 doing it his whole life. So you're asking him to teach an old dog new tricks. He doesn't feel

00:09:23.640 comfortable when people aren't talking about him. That's the way he's lived his entire life. And and we've all

00:09:32.380 known that he's hype. We've all known this. We all knew when we voted for him or, you know, when people

00:09:39.120 voted for him, that that's baked in. There's not a single person that I know that really, when it comes

00:09:49.840 down to it at the dead of night, doesn't know that Donald Trump just kind of is loose with the facts,

00:09:55.660 to put it kindly. It's not why they voted for him. They voted for him because he said, I will be your

00:10:04.120 president. And there are so many people in this country that feel like they've just been walked on

00:10:11.480 constantly. They feel as though, you know, I'm called a racist no matter what I do. And I'm not

00:10:20.200 a racist. And I've been called a racist for the last 15 years, at least by this media. They're not

00:10:28.920 going to give me a counter argument on what I really said. They're not going to give me the benefit of the

00:10:36.720 doubt ever. They're not going to they're not going to when I say something, they're not going

00:10:42.800 to make it about Barack Obama. You know, I heard a story today from NPR. They were talking about

00:10:49.520 these people who are in the streets saying, stop the coup, stop the coup. Well, I know where stop

00:10:57.640 the coup is coming from. This is the Boris Johnson story where he has suspended Parliament. Well, that's

00:11:04.820 not unusual. It's just two weeks longer than usual. It usually lasts about three weeks. It happens

00:11:13.680 every year. Longer ones happen many times once the prime minister takes over, a new prime minister.

00:11:22.040 He's asking for two more weeks than three. The Queen approves. Now they are in the streets and they're

00:11:30.020 saying this is a coup. Now, NPR reported this story as Londoners, people gathered in the streets.

00:11:39.780 They're very upset at Boris Johnson and what they claim is a coup. And then they played this whole

00:11:45.640 thing and they talked to one of the people. They never said these are Labour Party members.

00:11:51.260 They never said these are the socialist radicals. They never said any of that. Where if we were on

00:11:59.560 the street, we would immediately be branded as extreme right wing or a small group of people

00:12:07.540 who are very anti-government are protesting in the streets. That's the kind of coverage we get.

00:12:14.960 And that's why people elected Donald Trump. And the more the press continues to harp on him

00:12:24.140 unfairly in many cases, fairly in others. They harp on him and never give him the benefit of the doubt

00:12:33.160 and continue to call anyone who supports him a racist, a homophobe. I don't know how this guy's

00:12:40.380 a homophobe. He's the first guy to run on gay rights. Nobody else, Barack Obama, nobody else did

00:12:50.360 that. He ran. He had a gay speaker in a prominent position at the GOP convention. How is this guy

00:13:02.280 anti-gay again? I can't figure it out. I can't do the math.

00:13:06.600 Yeah, I think one of the issues here is that to understand Donald Trump, you have to know that

00:13:12.040 he sees the entire world and everything he does every day as a negotiation. So he's constantly in

00:13:17.820 the middle of a negotiation. And you could look at it and you could say, we should listen to every

00:13:22.380 word he says and freak out about it. Or you can look at his actions. For example, with North Korea,

00:13:28.780 he has said both, we are going to bomb the hell out of you and fire and fury is coming.

00:13:33.080 And also Kim Jong-un is a good guy. And we're going to negotiate and talk and I think we're

00:13:40.080 going to get to a wonderful solution. Which one of those is true? I mean, certainly not the fire

00:13:45.940 and fury thing. Donald Trump has a long history of wanting to avoid conflict internationally.

00:13:51.160 And as you've seen in the past few months, when they're firing missile after missile after missile

00:13:55.620 and he's just like, well, look, they're not violating the agreement. Everything's fine.

00:13:58.440 He obviously feels that he would rather avoid conflict. He's trying to negotiate with China.

00:14:04.800 There's another situation, right? He said over and over again, we're going to have a big trade war.

00:14:08.960 And he's also said, you know what? We should go to zero tariffs. Well, which one of those do you

00:14:12.480 believe? You could freak out every time if you're a protectionist and you're like, oh, he's going to

00:14:15.840 go to zero tariffs. Donald Trump's a bad guy. Why is he abandoning his principles on protectionism?

00:14:19.960 Well, he's not. Look at his actions. His actions are he's, you know, it's not a negotiation. He likes

00:14:26.040 tariffs. He's hiked them over and over and over again. Russia is another example, right? Over and

00:14:31.540 over again, people have said, well, he's way too kind to Russia. He said all these nice things about

00:14:35.500 Russia. What has his administration done with Russia? They've been way more harsh on Russia than

00:14:42.360 Barack Obama was. Over and over and over again, they've sanctioned them and they've done much more

00:14:47.240 pushing back against Russia than Barack Obama ever contemplated. So when you look at those things as

00:14:52.440 a whole, you realize that when Trump is speaking publicly, he's typically looking to to massage a

00:14:59.260 situation into an area where he wants it. Right. And a lot of that has been right to win. He wants to

00:15:05.360 win. And if he believes that winning is the is the trade war, he'll say what he believes at that time

00:15:11.220 that will that will give him an advantage in that negotiation. And if you see how

00:15:17.180 he negotiates for real estate deals, he plays hardball and then it's over. And then he's like,

00:15:25.540 that's my best friend. He is just negotiating and no one can see that. No, no. Everyone can see that

00:15:34.480 no one will give him the respect to be able to say the guy is one hell of a negotiator

00:15:41.880 because he scares the hell out of the other side. And you never know. He might do that. I don't know.

00:15:52.640 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:16:01.040 Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray

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00:16:10.380 OK, could we play the AOC audio that people are confused about capitalism?

00:16:17.180 People talk about, oh, my gosh, like socialism, this socialism, that. Let's talk about capitalism.

00:16:23.520 OK, let's what is capitalism? I think that capitalism and the idea of capitalism gets confused

00:16:30.460 by a lot of people. I think capitalism, a lot of people think about capitalism and they're like,

00:16:36.200 oh, capitalism, that means businesses. Right. That means a free market. Right. That means

00:16:42.740 that means competing for having different products compete on the market. Right. That's what capitalism

00:16:51.540 is. Right. That's not what capitalism is. You can have free market economies with many with

00:16:58.300 mixed economies, which mixed economies exist. You can have free market economies with democratic

00:17:06.040 socialist businesses. What on earth is a democratic socialist business? And a perfect example of that

00:17:11.620 is worker cooperatives. So worker cooperatives are, you know, if you ever go to Vermont or if you go

00:17:22.120 to upstate New York, there'll be grocery stores that are employee owned or they are cooperative.

00:17:27.420 Uh, which means that people, people own the shares and workers own the shares in the company. So

00:17:34.200 a more democratically quote unquote socialist business would have workers on the board of the

00:17:41.200 corporation. Uh, instead of talking or I'm going to be completely hammered because I can't take this

00:17:47.040 without alcohol. So it's really about democracy in the economy. Uh, I don't believe in government. It

00:17:52.940 does not mean government owns everything. Socialism does not mean government owns everything.

00:17:57.540 It does exactly mean that.

00:17:59.720 Now, now, now, now I think she is, she's got a cute little, uh, uh, uh, idea. Cause if you look at

00:18:10.300 cooperatives, cause they do these a lot, like they'll have a, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, team built,

00:18:17.580 uh, uh, the store, like a deli or something. And I hear about them all the time. Cause I'm reading

00:18:25.440 about how they always go out of business and you're like, why do they go out of business?

00:18:30.420 Cause it doesn't, it, it doesn't, uh, it doesn't work. Uh, that, that, uh, that's why now I'm sure.

00:18:37.560 I'm sure. Uh, I'm positive that, uh, some of them do work. I just don't know where they work.

00:18:47.240 Uh, the same thing with socialism. Now she says in there, you know, you, you could, you could have all,

00:18:53.480 you could have all, uh, there's a lot of varieties of socialism. Uh, and, and, and I looked it up in,

00:19:02.980 in Webster's dictionary and it's true. There are three kinds of socialism. And, and, and I think

00:19:10.380 she does, uh, she's right when she says people, people get confused. Uh, and so I did my homework

00:19:20.680 and, uh, uh, it makes a lot of sense to me when you go to Webster's and you look up, uh, socialism.

00:19:32.240 There's three definitions. One, any various economic and, uh, political theory advocating collective

00:19:43.740 or government ownership and admin, admin, um, and people running, uh, the means of production

00:19:52.460 and distribution of goods. So that's the really hard, hardcore, uh, uh, socialist, um, kind of thing.

00:20:03.240 That's where, Hey, that's not Sweden. I'll tell you that. And so maybe, maybe we, uh, maybe we

00:20:10.240 can find Sweden under number two. It's a system of society or group living in, in which there

00:20:18.160 is, well, uh, in which there is, uh, no private property. So that's not a sweet. Okay. Two has

00:20:29.580 a B and, uh, is to, to be definition to be, to be, to be a system or condition of society

00:20:39.460 in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state. Okay. So, uh, I don't

00:20:49.320 really know the difference between one and two, cause they both, they both suck. It must be 0.99

00:20:55.400 number three. Definition of socialism, uh, by Marion Webster, who I, I, I, I, I, I think

00:21:04.440 I dated, uh, Marion at one point, a stage of society in Marxist theory, transitional between

00:21:13.780 capital, capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and, uh, pay

00:21:25.360 according to work done. I don't even know what the hell that means, but it's got a spooky

00:21:30.480 word of communism in it. So it's probably, it's probably, it's probably, uh, I think AOC

00:21:37.960 is confused, very confused. This is absolutely outrageous how they are trying to redefine absolutely

00:21:51.740 everything. And she's a dope. She's an absolute, if I were BU Boston university, where she went 1.00

00:22:00.560 and she, she got her, um, uh, her degree in economics and world politics, I would be so humiliated.

00:22:12.560 I would be watching her. If I was a president to be you, I'd be like, Oh, how did she steal 1.00

00:22:21.180 her diploma? And did she actually ever go here? Cause if this is the kind of crap we're turning

00:22:28.960 out, we should all go to prison. Cause she's not very smart. 1.00

00:22:38.740 Maybe we have more co-op liquor stores. That's the way we solve the AOC issue. 0.63

00:22:44.200 I love that idea. There is not enough booze for Americans. If her kind are running the country, 1.00

00:22:53.900 there's just not enough booze. I love the, her really innovative point of, you know, there

00:22:58.240 are things called mixed economies and those exist. They do exist, you know, um, in every

00:23:02.620 country that's ever existed. Yes. They've all had mixed economies. Like, yes, it's true

00:23:08.420 that like, well, no, there's, there's pure communism. I mean, well, no, because even that

00:23:14.180 they kind of turn into, you know, there's a lot of oligarchs in, in communism. And there's

00:23:20.020 also black markets that pop up like crazy. There's no way to have a pure, uh, example

00:23:25.760 of these systems. These are theoretical systems. It's interesting though, that she applies the

00:23:30.900 purity only to capitalism, right? Like she's trying to make this case in which, uh, she 0.69

00:23:37.380 can be socialist, but not mean the definition out of the dictionary that you just talked

00:23:42.160 about. Um, but on the other hand, capitalism, well, that's not what you're thinking about

00:23:47.240 when you're talking about the free market. Well, that's a massive element of what capitalism

00:23:51.120 is. It's, I mean, the thing that's missing out of capitalism are the policies that you're

00:23:55.460 pushing for. The things like, you know, Medicare for all and the green new deal and, and, and

00:24:01.200 various other programs dating back, you know, half a century.

00:24:04.520 But what I love is she's, is she says, you know, what we're talking about here is, you know,

00:24:10.360 a mixed economy. You, you, socialism does not mean that the government runs everything.

00:24:16.900 Uh, I just gave you the three definitions of socialism in the dictionary and all of them

00:24:24.400 include ownership of the, you know, of the production lines. Your own green deal job says

00:24:33.780 it's a fundamental transformation of this economy. And it talks about the industries that will

00:24:41.980 have to be taken over by the government. How is that not the textbook definition of socialism?

00:24:50.700 Yeah. She's trying, she's trying to have the one with the gulags and stuff. She's trying to

00:24:55.380 have this little middle ground, which is like, well, what do you like? That's socialism. What

00:25:00.480 don't you like? That's capitalism. That is the extent of her knowledge on this topic. Uh, and

00:25:06.000 again, I think BU, when they gave her the diploma had already gone to the co-op liquor store a few

00:25:13.360 too many times because it does not seem to be that she understands any of these issues.

00:25:18.220 All right. I've sobered up a little bit and I want to, I want to take you to another story.

00:25:23.500 This is from the real clear politics on his August 20th Fox news show, Tucker Carlson detailed how

00:25:30.640 Senate antitrust subcommittee chairperson, Mike Lee transformed one of Google's harshest critics

00:25:37.600 into one of his most loyal defenders faster than you can say monopoly. From 2011 to 2015,

00:25:45.900 Lee pressed the federal trade commission to pursue antitrust violations against Google for its internet

00:25:52.240 search dominance, grilled its CEO, Eric Schmidt for the company's abuses and supported the European

00:25:59.240 Union's investigation into the search engine giant. After the FTC slapped Google on the wrist,

00:26:05.820 he said he would investigate the Obama white houses in proper interference with the investigation.

00:26:11.560 But now, according to Tucker Carlson, he has done a complete 180. As a possible explanation for the

00:26:19.080 flip-flop, Carlson pointed to investigation or to investments in YouTube. I'm sorry, in Utah by Google

00:26:27.160 and Facebook, along with Google's fundraising for Lee. The two-term senator declined an invitation to

00:26:34.620 discuss the issues on the show. Okay. Now, let me give you this from Mike Lee.

00:26:43.980 Mike is a friend of mine. Mike and I have spent lots of time recently talking about Google,

00:26:53.680 talking about how do you use the law without bastardizing the law, without creating a situation

00:27:03.620 which, at least as a constitutional conservative, I don't want. I don't want the government to overstep

00:27:12.360 its bounds. Once we do this, it's just going to happen over and over again. And Mike doesn't want

00:27:20.180 to overstep the bounds, yada yada. So I've been talking to him one-on-one recently about Google.

00:27:28.540 I am constantly talking to him about, look at what Google's doing here, look at what Google's doing

00:27:33.980 there. I have set up conversations with him and others, or at least offered those conversations,

00:27:41.780 whether they happen or not, I don't know. So he's passionate about it, and I know it. He knows

00:27:49.160 what's going on. So I immediately, yesterday when I saw that story, I immediately called Mike and said,

00:27:57.060 dude, what is this about? He sent this to me. Let me just read it to you.

00:28:05.480 The Tom Steyer-funded left-wing attack group CRU, which has sued President Trump more than 175 times,

00:28:15.940 recently spun off a new attack entity devoted to attacking conservatives over technology issues.

00:28:26.140 This new entity from Tom Steyer attacked Senator Mike Lee for allegedly changing his position on

00:28:34.120 antitrust laws due to lengthy, multifaceted campaign by Google and other big technology companies.

00:28:41.920 Now, let's just dissect this as we go along. Do you notice anything about that, Stu?

00:28:47.660 Anything important stand out to you? Well, usually there's not a lot of conservative attacks that

00:28:56.000 are foundationally based on a Tom Steyer attack group. Thank you. Thank you. So let's start there.

00:29:05.720 I'm going to take a one minute break and then just give us a little look at Tom Steyer's more than just

00:29:11.620 a candidate who's spent millions and millions of dollars to become president and just has been

00:29:18.080 excluded from the debate. He's more than just a two-time loser. He's a very powerful guy. And Stu 0.90

00:29:25.900 will explain who Tom Steyer is coming up in just a second. And then I'll tell you what Mike Lee was

00:29:33.320 really saying and really doing. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:29:54.160 Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray

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00:30:03.320 Well, welcome to Labor Day. Labor Day weekend. You know, as a kid growing up, Labor Day weekend

00:30:10.600 just meant the end of summer and white pants. Couldn't wear white pants anymore, white shoes,

00:30:15.880 which I don't even think is a fashion. There are no fashion rules anymore, I don't think.

00:30:21.700 Anyway, Labor Day, that's what it always meant to me that the Labor Day weekend, you would watch

00:30:26.960 the Jerry Lewis telethon and the next day you were going to school.

00:30:33.320 Oof. It was the end of your childhood summer times.

00:30:42.260 But you know, it actually was started by the Marxists, the socialists, to extol the power

00:30:52.080 of the unions and the workers of the world unite on Labor Day. But I don't think anybody thinks

00:30:58.380 of it that way. I guess some do. But almost every holiday, this is going to blow your mind,

00:31:03.720 almost every holiday that has come after probably 1880, 1890 maybe, has really been a socialist

00:31:15.260 kind of thing. And then they perverted the other holidays. Do you know that we didn't,

00:31:20.880 when during the founding, Stu, during the founding, you know, we didn't celebrate Christmas,

00:31:26.160 right? We celebrated Christmas, but you did. It was not a holiday. Did you know that?

00:31:33.040 I don't know that I knew that. Maybe I did at one point, but it didn't off the top of my head

00:31:37.500 ring a bell. Yeah.

00:31:38.600 Yeah. I mean, we didn't have national holidays. Wasn't really like a big thing at that point,

00:31:43.780 was it? No. But Christmas was always a holiday. I mean, Christmas. I mean, these were Christians,

00:31:49.100 but do you know why we didn't have Christmas? We didn't have Grinch. We didn't have it was.

00:31:55.680 Yeah. Right. Yes. Have you seen that documentary? Yes. It's really powerful.

00:31:59.940 All right. With George Washington as a who. We didn't have Christmas, not because it wasn't the

00:32:07.820 federal government's position, but because it was considered garish to on the day that Christ

00:32:15.240 was born, that you would take a day off and not work. Yeah. What did you do for it? You didn't do

00:32:24.020 anything, you know? Right. Right. Nor can you do anything for it. Right. You know, that should be

00:32:30.560 Labor Day. But anyway, so we didn't, we, we didn't do it because we thought it would be too

00:32:38.620 commercialized. It's, it was a very private thing. People worked and then they went home and they had

00:32:44.180 their Christmas meal. Do you know now when we did make Christmas a holiday? I did not know I had a

00:32:53.180 quiz today, but no, I don't know off the top of my head. Take a guess. When did Christmas become

00:32:58.360 something we celebrated by taking the day off? Last Thursday. I don't, I don't know. Shut up.

00:33:06.620 18, 1870. That's my next guess. 1870 or last Thursday. Isn't that crazy though? Yeah. I mean, 0.99

00:33:14.560 it's, it seems recent for something like that. Right. So we had in 1870, we adopted New Year's

00:33:22.960 Day as a day off the 4th of July Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. Even though

00:33:30.920 we already celebrated all of those, we didn't have the day off. And that was at the beginning. And

00:33:38.260 isn't it interesting? In 1858, Marx writes his, you know, manifesto. In 1870, Paris, the communist

00:33:49.840 riots are going on. And we're beginning to be influenced by Marxism and socialists. 1880 is

00:33:57.760 when we really start to go hard left because our people like Woodrow Wilson are coming back home

00:34:06.120 from school in, in Germany. And so they're picking up all of this crap. So listen to this. In 1880, 0.98

00:34:15.400 we get Washington's birthday. In 1894, when just before, uh, Roosevelt starts the progressive party,

00:34:23.760 uh, we get Labor Day. Then we get Armistice Day in 1936. That's to, you know, recognize, uh, you know,

00:34:33.600 the end of the war, uh, in, uh, 1968. That's changed to Veterans Day. Uh, in, in, uh, uh, during

00:34:45.580 the, uh, Roosevelt, uh, time, we changed Thanksgiving, which was meant to be really, really sacred.

00:34:53.740 Uh, and we celebrated from George Washington. We celebrated Thanksgiving Day, just no day off on it,

00:34:59.940 no holiday. Uh, and we celebrated it and we had it on the last Thursday of, of, uh, November.

00:35:09.280 But during the Depression, we bastardized it. We took this really sacred holiday and Roosevelt moved it

00:35:19.400 to the third Thursday so you could have a Black Friday and have shopping season last longer.

00:35:28.200 I mean, you want to talk about your gods. Columbus Day is 1968. MLK was 1983. It blows my mind that it was,

00:35:37.840 it wasn't until 1870 that it was a day off for things like Christmas.

00:35:44.520 How much we have changed as a nation. Now you could have taken it off. You could have given it,

00:35:51.540 you know, to your, your staff if you wanted to, uh, you could, you know, everybody was free to do

00:35:57.380 whatever they wanted. We didn't even have a standard flag. You could make a flag and you could put the

00:36:03.340 stars any way you want. You could do anything you want with the flag up until Woodrow Wilson.

00:36:09.200 We didn't have a national anthem until FDR. That's crazy how we have now become so nationalized

00:36:18.700 where we were the exact opposite a hundred years ago. All right. I want to talk to you a little bit

00:36:24.380 about the, uh, Dave Chappelle, uh, special on Netflix. Everyone tells me they're like, Glenn,

00:36:30.780 it is the funniest thing ever. It is so brilliant. It's blah, blah, blah. It is brave. It is funny.

00:36:37.820 It's foul in case you, you know, or, you know, offended by language. Uh, it is very foul. Um,

00:36:45.680 but I don't think it's, I think we are forgetting that this is the way comedy was 15 years ago.

00:36:56.180 You could make all of those jokes 15 years ago. Now him making those jokes that were perfectly fine

00:37:04.000 before are, are, is, is now suddenly cutting edge. And it, to me says a lot. It says that the left

00:37:13.140 has overplayed its hand, that even people like Dave Chappelle and, uh, what was the other one that

00:37:18.860 came out recently? Uh, you had mentioned Joe Rogan. Is that who you're at? Joe Rogan. Did you see that

00:37:24.460 one? I have not seen the Rogan special yet now. Oh my gosh. Is that funny? Really? Uh, the,

00:37:30.240 the Joe Rogan special is really, really funny in exactly the same way where he's just saying

00:37:37.400 whatever he wants to say. And he's just done with the, you know, the shunning society. I don't know

00:37:46.660 how these two guys make it, but they are leading the way back to sanity as comedy always should.

00:37:53.540 It should, it should just take on truth and show us ourselves in a, you know, uh, a parabolic

00:38:01.120 mirror. Sort of surprising though. I mean, you, because for a long time, right. Comedy pushed the

00:38:07.760 boundaries of criticizing traditions and, you know, religion and, you know, people who were too

00:38:15.280 stodgy and such. Right. And, um, that has been kind of the pattern. But don't you think that that's

00:38:23.180 what they're doing now? Well, that's what I was going to say. You hear them talk about it. It's

00:38:26.360 new truth. It's new puritanism. Your puritanism. It is like this idea that you have to line up. I

00:38:32.120 mean, Louis CK, who, uh, has been shunned from our society at this point. And there's a very funny

00:38:38.760 part. I don't think he's coming back. It's a very funny part of the Chappelle, uh, about the Louis CK

00:38:44.420 thing. Um, but he did a bit just recently basically saying exactly that, that, you know, people,

00:38:51.340 you know, when you talk about which pronouns you're allowed to be at, uh, um, called and people get

00:38:56.620 offended if they're called the incorrect pronoun, is that almost not identical to the way that we

00:39:03.540 have to refer to royalty? You know, you'd have to refer to a Kings and Queens and, and Prince and

00:39:10.180 Princess and, and all of that. And you're briefed before you meet them to make sure that you have

00:39:16.060 the right, the right pronouns. Right. Uh, I mean, that is a thing. It's, it's, it's because it's

00:39:24.800 from the left. Most comedians have avoided criticizing it, but there's been a few brave

00:39:29.720 ones and, and most of them are on the left. I mean, I think Dave Chappelle is certainly no right

00:39:34.260 wing figure. Neither is Louis CK. We've seen stuff like this from people like even like Patton

00:39:39.160 Oswalt, who's an incredibly left wing guy who's just, who came out and said, look, you know, I,

00:39:44.620 we're trying to help where we, I'm a progressive guy, but can you not yell at me every time I get

00:39:49.920 a pronoun wrong that you changed two days ago? I mean, these are, these are insane new standards

00:39:54.900 that are being put on, on, uh, on us. And comedians are really the ones that are, that lead the culture

00:40:01.600 as far as pointing out how ridiculously absurd they are. And you know, you got to cheer it on. I mean,

00:40:08.500 this is why I get annoyed when, uh, conservatives, and this does happen, criticize some comedian for

00:40:14.220 making a joke that's inappropriate or whatever. Like this is the, the ultimate bastion of free

00:40:19.140 speech. This is where it needs to exist more than any other place is comedy. You have to be able to

00:40:24.480 exaggerate and say ridiculous things and not have them be taken, taken like policy statements. 0.87

00:40:29.900 It's comedy. You have to be able to do those things. And it's beneficial for our society in

00:40:34.780 the long run that you have people who can do that and not be fired or canceled every time they come out

00:40:40.040 with the wrong joke. But they abandoned their post for the entire Obama administration. Totally. Um,

00:40:49.040 they were becoming organs of the left. That's all it was. There was no comedy. It was, they were going

00:40:56.080 for claptor. This, if you watch Chappelle's comedy, people will clap when he says something and he'll say,

00:41:04.540 Oh, shut up. I mean, he is, he is not going for claptor. In fact, he hates it. Don't, I mean,

00:41:13.700 when he said, you know, uh, it's impossible to be a celebrity now, it's impossible to do our job

00:41:20.540 because everything, you know, anything you say, if somebody, if I've said something 15 years ago,

00:41:26.720 you know, everybody wants you shut down and, and people start to clap like, yeah, that's right. 0.96

00:41:31.520 And he's like, shut up. You know who I'm talking about? You. I'm talking about you. 0.88

00:41:37.720 Because no one sees this in themselves, right? No one sees the annoying person who's trying to get

00:41:43.200 everybody fired in themselves. But I mean, that's why I tried so hard to avoid it. And I know we've

00:41:47.300 done that many times as well. I mean, you look at, uh, I mean, Sarah Silverman's a great example of

00:41:51.480 this. Sarah Silverman who came out and was the, through the entire administration, she's a complete

00:41:56.180 leftist. She's constantly criticizing everybody else. And then here she is. She did a bit back 1.00

00:42:01.940 in, gosh, it was 2006 or 2007 where she used blackface to make a point, by the way, a point

00:42:08.680 about woke racism. She was basically acting like an idiot and not understanding racism to point out 1.00

00:42:14.060 the evils of racism, right? That's the point of the bit. Then in 2014, she comes out and now is so woke 1.00

00:42:20.860 that she's critical of herself saying, wow, I, even though I was making the right point,

00:42:25.360 I shouldn't have done that. It was insensitive. And in 2019, five years later, she's losing gigs

00:42:32.420 because people are going, are pulling screenshots of her in blackface as if she was doing something

00:42:39.340 that was racist. And it's like, well, this is the society you've built. Do you not understand that?

00:42:45.100 You've put all of these rules up and applied them only to conservatives. And now conservatives at some

00:42:50.440 level are trying to apply to you. And the culture in general has now decided, well, now that's the

00:42:54.900 rule. When we decide 15 years afterwards, that something is completely wrong, we can retroactively

00:42:59.660 get justice by ruining your life today. And that can not possibly be a sensible standard for a

00:43:05.280 civilization to hold. When he was doing the Chappelle show, he was called into HR and they said,

00:43:12.000 Dave, you can't say the F word, you know, is in regard to gay homosexuals. And he, 0.93

00:43:20.440 he said, you can't, they can't, you can't use that. And he said, oh, okay. Oh, I don't care.

00:43:26.020 So he decided not to use it. And he said later, I thought, wait a minute, how come I can't use

00:43:32.140 that word, but I can use the N word and everybody's fine. Went back and she said, uh, well, because Dave, 0.99

00:43:40.200 um, you know, you're not homosexual. And he's like, well, I'm not an N word either. So wait a minute,

00:43:51.840 you're, you're implying that I am an N word. And that's why I can use that. You wouldn't want to, 1.00

00:43:58.780 I'm not, that's not who I am. You would not want to get an HR conversation with Dave Chappelle. That

00:44:03.280 would not go well for you. That's such a good point. Such a good point. We've all been saying

00:44:09.120 it, you know, wait a minute, this is a slam. It's either a slam or it's not. Well, they can say it

00:44:14.380 because that's who they, you're calling them that you as a white man is calling them saying, yeah,

00:44:20.640 they can say it because that's who they are. Oh my gosh. The blaze radio network

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