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An amazing story from a woman on the left who decided to get out of her shell because she hated the hatred and vitriol that she was hearing from the left. And she decided to go to a Trump rally. Plus, I don t know if you know this, but there s a hole in the sky where a tree once was and somebody is making some money.
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Well, it's the Friday podcast and a great podcast. We have Bill O'Reilly as usual.
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We have an amazing story from a Buttigieg voter who decided to get out of her shell because she
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hated the hatred and vitriol that she was hearing from the left. And she decided to go to a Trump
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rally. An amazingly brave article we share with you on the podcast today. Plus, I don't know if
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you know this, but there's a there's a hole in the sky where a tree once was and somebody's
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making some money. I know you heard that yesterday, but today, today, we've put our orchestral
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talents to the test to see if we could make this a hit.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I've been a Democrat for 20 years, but my experience made me realize just how out of
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touch my party is with the country at large. This is an amazing story written by a woman
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on the left or a Democrat. And I want to read it verbatim because it is awesome. Listen to
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this. I think those of us on the left need to take a long look in the mirror and have
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an honest conversation about what's going on. If you had told me three years ago I would
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ever attend a Donald Trump rally, I would have laughed and assured you that there was never
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any chance of that happening. Heck, if you told me I would do that three months ago, I probably
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would have done the same thing. So how did I find myself among an 11,000 plus Trump supporter
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rally in Manchester, New Hampshire? Believe it or not, it all started with knitting.
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You might not think of the knitting world as a particularly political community. I honestly
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have never even thought of it as a community, but, but you'd be wrong. She writes many knitters
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are active in social justice communities and love to discuss the revolutionary role knitters
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that have played in our culture. And I started noticing this about a year ago, particularly
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on Instagram. I knit as a way to relax and escape from the drama of real life, not to further
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engage with it. But it was impossible to ignore after roving gangs of online social justice warriors
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started going after anyone in the knitting community who was not lockstep in their ideology.
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Can you believe this has gone to the knitting community? Knitting stars, didn't know there
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were, but knitting stars on Instagram were bullied and mobbed by hundreds of people for seemingly
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innocuous offenses. One got, one man got mobbed so badly that he had a nervous breakdown and was
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admitted to the hospital on suicide watch. Many things were not right about the hatred and witnessing
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the vitriol coming from those I had aligned myself with politically was a massive wake-up call.
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Democrats have an ass kicking coming to them in November, and I think most of them will be utterly
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shocked when it happens. You see, I was one of those Democrats who considered everyone who voted for
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Trump a racist. I thought they were horrible, yes, even deplorable, and worked very hard to eliminate
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their voices from my spaces by unfriending or blocking people who spoke about their support of
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him, however minor their comments. I watched a lot of MSNBC and was convinced that everything he had
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done was horrible and that he hated anyone who wasn't a straight white man, and he had no redeeming
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qualities. But when I witnessed the amount of hate coming from the left in this small niche knitting
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community, I started to question everything. I started making a proactive effort to break my echo
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chamber by listening to voices that I thought I would disagree with. I wanted to understand their
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perspective, believing that it would confirm that they were filled with hate for anyone who wasn't like
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them. That has turned out not to be the case. The more voices outside the left I listened to, the more
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I realized that these were not bad people. They were not racist, Nazis, or white supremacists. We had
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differences of opinion on social and economic issues, but a difference of opinion does not make your
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opponent inherently evil. They could justify their opinions using arguments rather than shouting and
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the ranting that I saw coming from my side of the aisle. I started to discover, or perhaps rediscover,
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the hashtag walk away movement. I had heard about walk away when MSNBC told me it was fake and nothing
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but a bunch of Russian bots. But then I started to meet real people who had been Democrats and made the
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decision to leave because they couldn't stand the way the left was behaving. I watched town halls where they
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had differing minority communities, all available on YouTube, and I saw sane, rational discussions from
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people of different races, backgrounds, orientations, and experiences. I joined the Facebook group for the
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community and saw stories popping up daily of people sharing why they were leaving the Democratic Party.
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This wasn't fake. These people aren't Russian bots. Moreover, it felt like a breath of fresh air.
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There was not universal agreement in this group. Some were Trump supporters. Some weren't. But they
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talked and shared their perspective about shouting, without shouting, or rage, or trying to cancel each
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other. I started to question everything. How many stories had I been sold that weren't true? What if my
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perception of the other side is wrong? How is it possible that half the country is overtly racist? Is it
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possible that Trump derangement syndrome is a real thing? And that I had been suffering from it from
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the last three years? And the biggest question of all was this. Did I hate Donald Trump so much that I
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wanted to see my own country fail just to spite him and everyone who voted for him? Now fast forward to
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the New Hampshire primary, and we've all seen the politicians running around the state making their case.
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I've seen almost every Democratic candidate in person, and noticed that their messages were almost
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universally one of doom and gloom, not only focusing on the obvious disagreements with Donald Trump,
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but also making sure to emphasize that the country is a horribly racist place. Now I do believe that
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there are real issues when it comes to race, and that we as a society haven't reckoned with them yet.
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And while the 2017 protest in Charlottesville, Virginia led to a tragedy precipitated by real
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racists and real Nazis, real white supremacists, I started to see that those labels simply don't
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apply to most people who support Donald Trump. But with all of this, I was still reticent to even
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consider attending a Trump event. I don't believe that Trump's attitude is worthy of the highest office
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of the land. I abhor his Twitter. I vehemently opposed so many of his policies. But still,
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I wanted to see for myself. I'm not going to lie, I was very nervous. So I thought I'd start my day in
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familiar territory at an MSNBC live show in New Hampshire that was taking place a few blocks away
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from the rally. I decided to wear my red hat that looks like a Trump hat, but with one small difference.
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It says, make free speech again. Make free speech again. Or no, make speech free again. Sorry.
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The funny thing about that hat is that it is completely open to interpretation. When I wear
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it around left-leaning people, they think I'm talking about the right. When I wear it around
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right-leaning folks, they think I'm talking about the left. It's just another stark reminder of how
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much our own perspective and biases play in how we view the world. In chatting with the folks at the
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taping, I casually said I was thinking about going over to the Trump rally. Well, the first reaction
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they had was a genuine fear for my safety. I have never seen people I didn't know so passionately
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urge me to avoid all of those people. One told me that those people were the lowest of low.
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Another man told me that they had gone to one of Trump's rallies in the past, and he had been a
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target of harassment by large muscle-bound men. Another woman actually offered me her pepper spray.
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I assured them all that I thought I would be fine, and I'd get the heck out of Dodge if I got nervous.
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What they didn't know is that they weren't the only ones I had heard from who said they should be
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afraid. Some of my more right-leaning friends online expressed genuine fear at my going, not
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because they were afraid of the attendees, but they were afraid of people on the left violently
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attacking the attendees. This was a day after a man had run his car through a Republican voter
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registration tent in Florida. There was genuine fear that this would be repeated or that Antifa would
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bus people in from Boston for it. Just as I had shared those on the left, I told them that I thought
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I would be fine because we really don't have Antifa in New Hampshire, but I'm not going to tell you that
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it didn't get to me a bit. When everyone around you is nervous for your safety, it's hard not to
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question if they have a point. Well, I attended. I couldn't help but think if they could just see
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the world through the lens of the other for a moment or two. It would be a stark revelation that
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they don't know as much as they think they do. This was so different than any other political event
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I had ever attended. The energy around Barack Obama in 2008 didn't even feel like this. So I headed over
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for an hour and a half before the doors were scheduled to open, which was four hours before Trump was set to
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take the stage and a line already stretched a mile away from the entrance to the arena.
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As I waited, I chatted with folks around me and contrary to all the fears expressed, they were so nice.
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I was not harassed or intimidated. I was never in fear of my safety, even for a moment.
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These were just average everyday people. They were veterans, school teachers and small business owners
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who have come from all over the place for the thrill of attending this rally. They were upbeat and
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excited. In chatting, I even let it slip out from time to time that, yes, I was a Democrat.
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What else happened? And what did she finally discover? And what is she now sharing, I believe, at her own peril?
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Bill O'Reilly has got a lot on his plate today, but I want to start with his article that just
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came out a couple of days ago. What's left? He writes, after watching Friday's debate, it's obvious
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the Democrats have a conundrum. Joe Biden's campaign is falling apart. Bernie Sanders is
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leading. Michael Bloomberg is looming. And all of that is good news for President Trump. So Bill
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O'Reilly, let's start with this analysis. Let's start with say it ain't so, Joe.
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Uh, he does not seem to be able to articulate his vision, maybe because he doesn't have a vision.
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So for all the listeners of the Glenn Beck program, except for Stu, this is a little bit beyond, um,
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Joe Biden would like to do fill in a blank, fill it in, retire, retire.
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What? What? I don't know. Go home. No, he, he, oh, you mean politically? Yeah, nobody knows,
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but I think he is sending definite signals. I just want to go away. I don't want this job.
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I mean, have you ever seen anybody, you know, um, Hillary Clinton had this air that she
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deserved the job and you're just going to give it to her. Um, Joe Biden is, is almost out there
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every day. Every time I see him, I'm like, all he's saying to me is please don't vote for me,
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please. I don't want this job. Yeah. That was, uh, what the lying dog face pony soldier was all
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about. Now who in this whole world would come up with that statement? Is there anyone who would
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come up with a statement like that? So I'm, I'm going, you know, this is getting to be like the
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twilight zone. I think Rod Serling is writing his speeches standing in the corner. You're traveling
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in another dimension. Do you remember a comedian named Norm Crosby? Yes. Yes. Okay. I want people
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to Google Norm Crosby. That's Joe Biden. The late Norm Crosby is inhabiting his body. I am going to
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have to look him up again, but I think if I'm thinking of the same guy, I think you're right.
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I'll have to look him up. Yeah. That's who it is. Yeah. I said that the other day because nobody
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remembers poor Norm, but it's worth Googling him because that is what Joe Biden is. He's,
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he's inarticulate. We've always known that, but now it's beyond that. It's into a kind of, um,
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Saturday night live, but this is serious, uh, situation. So you say that Joe Biden doesn't
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have a message, but Bernie absolutely does. And what's his message?
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Well, Bernie Sanders is a dangerous man. I mean, everybody should know that, that he looks like
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a caricature up there and, uh, Larry David is playing him and all that, but he's a dangerous
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man. I mean, first of all, the guy comes out and says, Hey, whole country's racist. I mean,
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I was insulted by that. All right. I mean, I'm not a racist and I don't know any racist.
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The whole country is not racist. You're a liar. And that's a lie. That's not an opinion. That's a
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lie. That's number one. And then you looked at what he is telling you directly. The only good
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thing about Sanders is he does spell it out. Unlike Buddha judge, we'll get to in a moment,
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but Sanders spells it out. He goes, look, if you elect me, I am going to try to have the federal
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government run the economy. I am going to seize private property. I'm going to have an open border
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whereby no one will be asked for credentials to come to the United States. And I will withdraw
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every single American military person overseas, allowing anybody to do whatever they want.
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That's his platform. That's it. All right. And there's no, no, there's no comeback. That's
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what he wants to do. And then you get people going, Oh yeah, Bernie. Yay. Yay. Do you really
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want the country to vanish, to be vaporized? Because that's what he would do.
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Bill, um, do you sense that there is a lessening of enthusiasm on, uh, in, in the Democrat,
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I'm not talking about the party. I'm talking about the voters that they are waking up to this and
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they're saying, I don't want really any of this. Well, the television ratings are the only facts
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that I can point to, to bolster that theory. So you have a Fox news, which is now 95% pro Trump.
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All right. When you and I were there, it wasn't close to that as far as being a monolithic presentation.
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Well, they're just going crazy. I mean, they're doing great because every Trump supporter watches
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Fox news. The others are not doing well, even in big, big days, news days, like the New Hampshire
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primary, MSNBC and CNN are getting killed sometimes three to one in prime time. So the Democrats are not
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flooding in to watch important things like the democratic debates or the, uh, returns from the
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primaries or not. So then you can make a correlation. They go, not really excited. I don't think in the
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black communities, any of these candidates are really shaking it up. Do you, I don't, I don't know.
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I'm not part of a black community, but I haven't seen anybody that seems to be speaking to anybody,
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but those who hate America. Um, that's why the Bloomberg tape from Aspen in 2015. So bad.
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Yeah. Because even if you were an African American, um, that's all right. You know, I don't like Trump
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and, uh, I want as much democratic input as I can in, uh, Washington and maybe Bloomberg can beat Trump.
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But now, I mean, he got this guy saying, you know, all of these things, um, generalizing about
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young black males. And I'm not going to say that he was wrong in the sense that the policy of stop
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and frisk dropped a murder in the, in, uh, New York city, 80%, 80%. Wow. All right. So you can disagree.
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And I certainly understand that if you're a black citizen and you walk out to the street,
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you don't want a cop throwing you up against the wall. I can understand that, but it did save
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thousands of lives over a long period of time. But Bloomberg was celebrating throwing the African
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American youth against the wall. If you listen to the tape. Yeah. Not only celebrating the almost
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demanding it saying, you know, we don't stop, we stopped too many whites. You know, he was being
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analytical. Yeah. Well, he's also, but he's also a completely unlikable guy. I mean, you could say
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that about Donald Trump. He's, he's, he's, uh, you know, I really don't like Donald Trump. Well,
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there's something about Donald Trump that at times is funny. Like when he did the, uh, the tweet
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and I, I'm not a fan of his tweets, but, uh, you know, when he tweeted about, uh, governor Cuomo
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coming and he says, you know, it's time for New York to wake up and I'm going to talk to the
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governor about these things, yada, yada. Uh, as long as he doesn't bring Fredo, leave Fredo home,
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leave Fredo home. I mean, that is, that's funny. He has a sardonic sense of humor. Correct. Where
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Bloomberg doesn't, he's just straight out mean all the time. Well, I don't know about that.
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That might be unfair. I mean, I know, I don't know. I, I don't know. I, I would say that he's
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business like, and he's brusque. How about that for a word of the day, Stu? Brusque. Brusque.
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I mean, I don't see him as, as going, Oh, I'm going to really make people feel terrible today.
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No, he's, he may not be intentional. No, he may not be intentional about it. He's just, uh,
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he's brusque. He doesn't care. And he doesn't, he lives in his own little world. Yeah. And so
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it's not little by the way. No, I know. No, I know. Well, there's $60 billion. Right. And he has
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a lavish, lavish living quarters in Bermuda, in London, England, New York city and Boston. And that
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again, how are you going to sell that to Bernie Sanders supporters? So here's the analysis.
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Bloomberg now has been in, uh, basically embraced by the democratic media. If you're, uh, the
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wall street journal has the best now. Um, and I'll give you this and it's beyond any reasonable
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doubt. So the wall street journal's editorial page is conservative and traditional. Their
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news pages are liberal. After the tape broke, the headline in the wall street journal on
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Bloomberg was Bloomberg reiterates policing mistakes, regrets, policing regrets. That
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was the headline. It wasn't Bloomberg wants to throw black youth against the wall. No, no,
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no, no, no, no. Reiterates police regrets. I was, I mean, that was the headline of the
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story. Like, whoa, don't worry about it. You know, we're sorry. No, he wasn't sorry. He
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was having a good time. Wall street journal. You're not telling the truth. So how is this,
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how is the media who has been feeding Antifa and excusing Antifa and everything else while
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still being big government progressive Democrats? Uh, how, how are they going to, how are they
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going to ride this wave without being, you know, it's chaos. Look, the national press is
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now top down, which means executives and editors tell reporters what to write. All right. That's
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what's happening. And I, we have gone over this and over this and over this. It's happening
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everywhere, everywhere. There's not McClatchy newspapers folds because it's exactly that.
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Right. All right. McClatchy headquarters are telling the Miami Herald, Kansas city star,
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Charlotte observer, Sacramento be what to write. And you better write it or you're fired.
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And that, and the people know that. What is this? What is this headline on Bloomberg? This
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is ridiculous. Okay. So now what you have is a democratic media. They know Sanders can't
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win. They know it. So they're looking at four more years of Trump. So they're panicking.
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Well, what are we going to do? Who are we going to put in there? And I thought they might go
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to Buddha judge. And I want to talk about him after you take your break. All right. But they
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seem to be trying to go to Bloomberg and Bloomberg now can't get any African Americans and 20, 25%
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of Sanders supporters are never going to vote for Bloomberg. Never, never leave off the minority
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vote and the 25% of Bernie people. You can't win with them. Right. He can't win. Right. And the
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problem is it will, it will destroy the party by trying to, uh, throw in with Michael Bloomberg,
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every single leftist who, you know, at all thought that they could play footsie with the democratic
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party. They now, I believe almost thoroughly control them. And just because of their power
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and their status and their machinery, uh, what's going to happen when they start pulling that thing
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apart from the inside right now, we're on the phone with, uh, Bill O'Reilly giving a kind of a week in
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review with Bill. And we were talking about Pete Buddha judge and who Pete Buddha judge was or is,
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uh, and he's not a moderate. Where does he, where does he stand on, on foreign defense? Because he's,
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he is a, uh, a veteran. Yeah. And he makes a lot of, uh, hay out of that. He's a naval reserve served in
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Afghanistan for seven months and got a medal over there. And I applaud that. Yep. Me too. Okay. But he
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didn't, uh, didn't understand why Soleimani had to be smoked. No idea. Well, why do we do it? How did
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that help the country? Oh, I mean, one of the worst guys on the planet. Soleimani. Um, and then you go
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to the green new deal. He's down with it. Loves a green new deal. Got to have economic justice along
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with it. So Buddha judge is as radical left as Bernie Sanders without the socialist label.
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And I predict that the press will soon turn to Buddha judge. And just today, there's a column
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by a B Stoddard. Do you know her? You see her on TV once in a while? Yes. I know the name.
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All right. So here, here's, uh, here's what AB says. Mayor Pete is not, Mayor Pete has proven
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not only to be a compelling candidate with a resonant message, but an effective campaigner.
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Uh, what exactly is the resonant message? Do you, does anybody know? Well, what's the
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resonant message? I think quite honestly, I don't know if he actually talks about this very
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much, but I think what people get from him is, Hey, look, I'm reasonable and we all just
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need to come together. That's, that's, it's a, it's a hope and change kind of message without
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ever defining hope and change. Exactly. You know, um, eight years ago, I was in New Hampshire
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with Barack Obama and that famous incident where his body man tried to block my cameraman
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from shooting and I had to remove the body man. Um, but to Obama's credit, uh, he said that day
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that he'd do an interview with me and he did, but I sat there for speech after speech and it was hope
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and change, changing hope. I don't know who hope is, but when I meet her, well, I'm going to change
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her. It was crazy. Um, that's exactly what Buttigieg is. It was turn a page or whatever. I knew this,
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so we're going to do that. And, and then by the early old way, it wasn't so bad. And then
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I thought Buttigieg would say, well, yeah, but you and Ulysses Grant really screwed up a couple
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of things. Um, you know, that kind of thing. So yeah, he's the new young hip guy, but this woman,
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A.B. Stoddard, who has a national column, oh, resonant message. Yeah. What? What?
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All right, Bill, let me, let me change subjects. What's happening with the attorney general and,
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and Donald Trump with the tweets. Is this anything to worry about, or is this just friendly sparring
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back and forth? I don't think there's anything friendly about it. I think Barr is very worried
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that, uh, the media, which desperately wants to marginalize him before the Durham report
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turns out on FBI corruption. There, the media is going to say he's in a tank. Barr's in a tank.
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You can't listen to anything Barr or Durham. Anybody else says they're in a tank for Trump.
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Right. And that's what Barr is worried about. Right. And he doesn't want that label.
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And then Trump makes it very hard for him by tweeting out stuff, um, while investigations
00:27:35.280
and cases are underway. And here's how dopey it is. And I'll tell you why Trump does it in a minute.
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Trump didn't have to say a word. Let him give stone nine years, which is insane. When the average
00:27:48.940
rapist in America gets four and a half, you're going to give stone nine for lying. Go ahead.
00:27:54.420
The next day, Trump pardons him, right? Yes. And he says, I can't abide by this sentence. He doesn't
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have to tweet. He doesn't have to get involved. I don't do any of this. But the reason Donald
00:28:05.520
Trump does is still well knows after reading the United States of Trump is that the thing
00:28:11.960
that Donald Trump loves most in the world is money. But second is confrontation. He lives
00:28:19.620
for it. This is a stimulator for him. And so he has to get involved with everything.
00:28:28.220
And meanwhile, Barr and his guys are going, you know, they're going to kill us and they're
00:28:34.180
going to make us look like stooges. So we have to say, knock it off. Do you think that's what
00:28:40.680
happened? Is there any thought that this could be a little bit of theater? Like they both realize
00:28:45.560
this is the end goal. And if, if, if Barr comes out, he says in advance, look, I have to say this
00:28:51.200
thing to push this back off. So we have credibility when the report comes out, none of that happens.
00:28:55.680
No, because Barr is a very straight shooter. He doesn't play the theater game. He doesn't do
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any of that. He sees himself as Elliot Ness, tough law enforcement guy, doesn't want to be marginalized
00:29:13.320
by the perception that Donald Trump is telling him what to do.
00:29:19.180
Now, if this doesn't hurt the relationship, if, if Donald Trump doesn't get, um, you know, if he's
00:29:26.800
not angry, you know, how dare the, the attorney general tell me to stop my tweeting and to back
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off. If he doesn't get his backup, this actually works to the advantage because it, it separates the
00:29:40.340
two of them. But is Donald Trump when he says, Oh no, there's not, you know, Hey, I'm not offended
00:29:46.420
by what attorney general Barr said. Do you think that's true?
00:29:52.640
I don't know. I just look, all I know is you're the writer of the United States of Trump. What
00:30:01.140
No, but I'm not a mind reader. The United States of Trump is fact based. I don't speculate
00:30:08.460
Well, I thought you were, I thought you did. And I thought you were, once again, wrong.
00:30:15.940
Well, you're speculating general is the most important person in Washington. Does Donald
00:30:27.640
I listen, I'm going to sell my book now. I've already read it. I'm going to try to take
00:30:32.560
He will not, the president will not discipline himself. And therefore every day there's another
00:30:40.360
controversy. And, and that is, if he would stop, he'd win in a landslide, but I don't
00:30:49.760
know if he's capable of stopping because he loves confrontation that much.
00:30:55.140
Okay. Do you believe he should stop? I should, I believe he should stop tweeting some things
00:30:59.860
like, like this. Stop, stop. But do you think, would you take his Twitter, uh, you know, uh,
00:31:10.880
Well, you can only do that if you arrest him and put him in solitary.
00:31:15.420
Right. I know if you could in a perfect, I would do, and this is on Melania Trump in
00:31:21.520
the middle of the night, in the two hours that Donald Trump sleeps, I would sneak into
00:31:27.320
the room with, uh, a physician and put a giant cast on both of his hands.
00:31:39.340
All right. Let me play devil's advocate here. I am not a fan of his tweeting. I am not a
00:31:45.640
fan of the way he always shoots himself in the foot. It seems, um, and the way he handles,
00:31:51.600
uh, situations. However, if I were to look at this, uh, it is because of his tweets that
00:32:00.840
people, uh, that are his targets, for instance, the press blow themselves up. They just blow
00:32:08.020
themselves up because he tweets something. It starts this firestorm. He doesn't blink and
00:32:15.880
they prove him to be right. But it's exhausting for the country. So he doesn't need to do it
00:32:23.980
anymore. I'm not saying he should not do it ever when it's an egregious situation. He can
00:32:31.140
instantly respond to it, but you don't need. And the Roger Stone thing is a perfect example.
00:32:37.960
You didn't need to even bother with this. Just pardon the man after the sentence comes out.
00:32:42.740
All right. Last, last, last thing. Senate has passed a war powers measure aimed at, uh,
00:32:47.800
limiting president Trump and his ability to wage war against Iran. Your thoughts on this?
00:32:52.580
I don't have any thoughts on it because it's a bogus issue. Trump will veto it. It's not going
00:32:57.140
to happen. The only reason a few Republican senators voted for it is because they're worried about their
00:33:02.340
reelection. And, you know, guys like Rand Paul, they don't want any foreign intervention anyway.
00:33:10.500
Well, Lee, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't smear Lee like,
00:33:16.320
No, no, no. But you're saying that he doesn't like foreign intervention. And you know, that's
00:33:21.240
No, he doesn't like foreign intervention that is unauthorized by Congress. He doesn't like Yemen.
00:33:30.600
Whatever you want. That's why he voted against it. But it's a bogus issue because Trump will
00:33:36.500
veto it. And no, they don't have enough votes to override the veto. All right. So, you know,
00:33:41.040
it's just another one of these things that they'll blow up for two days and then it'll go away.
00:33:45.600
All right. Bill O'Reilly, what are you doing for Valentine's Day?
00:33:50.500
You know, I never talk about my personal life, but I will tell you that all the females in my orbit
00:34:14.080
Beck is a very generous man and the people in his orbit understand that.
00:34:20.200
Bill O'Reilly, thank you so much. I appreciate your calling in today.
00:34:24.540
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Yeah, the United States of Trump, out in bookstores.
00:35:22.620
And just when you're watching it, when you read the book,
00:35:32.800
Okay, well, that's why I wanted to ask you, you know, what do you think?
00:35:36.320
I was having breakfast this morning with the president.
00:35:40.320
We were talking about all these things, and it was me, the president, Melania.
00:35:45.540
We were having breakfast in bed, fully clothed.
00:35:48.520
You were in breakfast with the president just this morning.
00:35:59.840
I wanted to know what you thought he was going to do with, you know,
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I wanted to know what you thought he was going to do, what approach he would take.
00:36:36.320
I, I, I, I'm not going to take out my crystal ball.
00:36:40.540
But you said, you know, if you read the book, you'll know where you'll be able to.
00:37:04.120
You know, you ask him, well, what do you think?
00:37:19.560
What's he asking me questions about the future?
00:37:26.520
All the answers about what he's going to do are in there, but just don't ask me about
00:37:53.920
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And she has been making stuff that's all vegan.
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Did you just want to eat this and you ran out of time in the commercial break?
00:40:04.360
Because this doesn't have a point to it, does it?
00:40:12.960
And so I thought, if I'm promoting my daughter, even though she doesn't have a business and
00:40:17.840
you can't buy any of these, she just made them for the staff.
00:40:23.600
Like when Mercedes, they'll run an ad, it's not specifically for a car, it's just for
00:40:27.900
It's like the general Hannah brand is something you should be interested in.
00:40:31.960
Like it's not necessarily, she's not selling these things.
00:40:37.700
Like it's like a political candidate, but with no campaign.
00:40:40.740
It's like vote for Hannah, but there's nothing to vote for her on.
00:40:50.140
You know, you know what my girls did for my birthday?
00:40:54.340
So I have just this, I keep being told for two days.
00:40:59.700
I'm like, okay, well, you know, I got to do this.
00:41:10.780
You know, but maybe we get together for dinner or something.
00:41:14.400
So my girls, um, I have it on my schedule that I have to be, uh, finished with everything
00:41:23.200
and be in my office by four o'clock in the afternoon.
00:41:27.840
So I go in and they have, uh, set up the couches and everything in my office and a big screen TV.
00:41:36.580
And they went and they, they got, um, one of my favorite Hitchcock films, The Man Who Knew Too Much.
00:41:44.640
Uh, and they had a popcorn machine in there and a little candy counter.
00:41:48.860
And we sat, they printed these beautiful little tickets that were just, you know, said Mercury Theater, uh, Man Who Knew Too Much.
00:41:56.780
And the serial number on the end of the ticket was my birthday.
00:42:02.100
And I just sat on my couch with my two daughters and we just watched a movie.
00:42:13.480
They charged me 18 bucks to get in to see that damn thing.
00:42:22.560
I got a birthday present from the audience, by the way, uh, this week.
00:42:26.300
In that, my birthday was the day before yours, in case you don't know.
00:42:29.620
I'm a little younger, though, technically, if you look at the years.
00:42:32.980
Uh, but, uh, we, you know, the Stew Does America, the show, new show started.
00:42:45.920
And we were, we had, I mean, we'd gone really far.
00:42:48.600
I was, I'm not going to say I was, like, not thinking it would go as high on the charts as it did.
00:42:53.520
I mean, because that would show no confidence in myself.
00:42:55.660
But I was very surprised at how high it was going.
00:42:58.100
And then I was, I thought to myself, wait a minute, we're getting close to Michael Moore's podcast.
00:43:03.320
And Michael Moore is, like, a top 20 podcast all the time.
00:43:07.040
And I saw him at, like, number, like, 20 or 19 or something.
00:43:11.900
And we said yesterday, hey, like, if, go, go subscribe to this podcast so we can pass Michael Moore.
00:43:17.840
Which would just, think of how irritating that would be to Michael Moore.
00:43:24.100
And he's got to deal with this idiot ahead of him on the charts.
00:43:27.640
So, thanks to this audience, we have blown by Michael Moore.
00:43:36.800
And then there was another fat man ahead of him, Glenn Beck.
00:43:45.100
I mean, look, if you're having delicious cake balls like that, I can understand how that happens.
00:43:50.360
So, now, the Glenn Beck program is number 16 on the charts.
00:44:01.720
Now, I need about 100 times more people to do it because...
00:44:09.680
It takes so many people to be able to move, but if you're a new up-and-comer...
00:44:19.600
Oh, you've moved into the excuses category on iTunes.
00:44:32.820
I'm not giving away little pins with Nancy Pelosi.
00:44:38.300
All of the stuff that you need every day and an angry Bill O'Reilly every Friday.
00:44:43.680
But let me give you a little bit of a preview here, though.
00:44:54.040
At number nine, we have the 1619 podcast from the New York Times.
00:44:59.460
They're just manipulating and completely reversing all of American history.
00:45:03.260
By the way, Restoring the Covenant this July 4th in Gettysburg.
00:45:06.280
We have, I think on Friday or Saturday, we have experts that are going to be doing a deal debunking the 1619 project.
00:45:17.520
Yeah, because this is so crazy, so crazy that they are saying that that is the founding of America and it was all based on racism.
00:45:29.500
And just think of the New York Times, who's put all this effort into trying to change the history of the United States, has this massively successful podcast, and then Glenn Beck and Stu Does America pass him.
00:46:12.500
And number one is The Daily from the New York Times.
00:46:18.100
I mean, most of those we should be able to pass, blow right by.
00:46:31.360
What podcast does Chris Matthews have, and who is watching or listening to a Chris Matthews podcast?
00:46:55.080
I'm like, Chris Matthews cannot have a podcast that is in the top 20.
00:47:07.200
Although on the Chris Matthews timescale, new could be 1941.
00:47:10.120
He could have had that thing out for a very long time.
00:47:26.440
Subscribe to both the Stu Does America, the podcast, brand new show, really good.
00:47:35.860
We, we sure appreciate you listening every day.
00:47:39.920
There's a short version that runs, I think about an hour and then there's the full show.
00:47:46.160
Every podcast tells you you're supposed to rate and review it.
00:47:51.880
I haven't even rated and reviewed my own podcast.
00:47:54.000
You can say anything, you know, just, just rate, you know, give it a five-star rating and
00:48:05.000
This is all about algorithms and it helps you be discovered if you're up in the top
00:48:12.200
And so the more people that rate and review and subscribe, the higher it goes.
00:48:23.040
I'm going to put that on your podcast right now.
00:48:27.000
Just give it, make sure you give it a five-star rating.
00:48:39.340
I might just post all the it's great, whatever reviews we get on Twitter just because I feel
00:48:51.440
I think now we have some, there's some real momentum here.
00:48:53.940
I have to tell you, I told my staff yesterday, because we are working on the second Wednesday
00:49:15.740
There's just something about, there's just something about liking Hannah.
00:49:22.480
Yeah, everybody, that's a good, we should come up with a, it's like, almost like a campaign.
00:49:29.040
Anyway, so I was talking to the staff yesterday, because I was doing an interview with a guy
00:49:36.100
who is currently in lockdown because of the coronavirus.
00:49:53.340
And we had a conversation for about 40 minutes.
00:49:56.780
And we'll air all of that after the show on Wednesday night.
00:50:00.920
We'll make it available for the Blaze viewers as well.
00:50:06.560
And we are really, we're putting all of our resources into that one show a week.
00:50:13.220
You know, I'm giving all my daily commentaries and everything else, but I'm using all the
00:50:20.280
And as I said to my staff yesterday, we finished up some work yesterday for Wednesday.
00:50:24.900
And I said, I'm more excited for this show than I think I even was for Fox.
00:50:30.380
I haven't been this excited for a show in, I don't know, a decade, because it is just going
00:50:38.380
to be cutting edge, timely, every single week you're going to get everything you need to