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00:02:57.820 You know, I said, I think two days after Charlie Kirk had died, um, I wonder who's

00:03:04.360 going to be the first to name a street like Martin Luther King Boulevard or Cesar Chavez.

00:03:10.280 Boulevard after Charlie Kirk. Um, and we have one now, uh, highway, uh, has just been renamed

00:03:18.880 as the Charlie Kirk, uh, highway, Charlie Kirk Memorial highway. It has been approved by

00:03:25.600 the Lake County commission in Florida. Uh, it's a section of wellness way from us 27 to

00:03:32.220 the orange County line. It's just, I think, uh, West of Orlando. Uh, and it's just in

00:03:40.260 one County because it had to be done County by County. But, um, yesterday on social media,

00:03:45.420 Governor Ron DeSantis announced this is the first County that would recognize the life

00:03:50.520 and legacy of Charlie Kirk. And it's installed in Florida. Once again, Texas, Texas, what's

00:03:57.180 wrong with you? Uh, but, uh, Florida leading the way again. And I hope that this happens in

00:04:05.300 County after County and city after city. If you're living in a conservative city, why you

00:04:11.160 wouldn't change a name of a street or your section of the highway into the Charlie Kirk

00:04:16.880 Memorial, uh, Charlie Kirk, Kirk Boulevard. It should happen, uh, in, in every state, in

00:04:23.860 every state. So good news there.

00:04:26.260 Really good news. Yeah. It's, it's important. It's such a fascinating thing that's going on

00:04:32.140 with trying to fight for the, the sort of legacy of Charlie Kirk. There's this battle going on,

00:04:37.180 which is, has a lot of dark corners to it, uh, that aren't great. But I think, you know,

00:04:41.960 remembering, uh, who he was in, in a way that just says, this is a guy who spoke up for what

00:04:47.660 he believed in. He tried to do politics the right way. He tried to get in front of people

00:04:51.780 and debate them and have conversation. And the, he also tried to persuade them. That was what he

00:04:58.180 was trying to do. Persuade people. That is what you're supposed to do in this world when it comes

00:05:03.760 to a politics. And he did it, he did it and he did it well. There's a story in, uh, the show prep

00:05:09.200 today. Just, I don't want to spend any time on it except for this that talks about, you know,

00:05:13.840 it's from the left point of view and they say, well, the right has their George Floyd and their

00:05:18.180 hero worshiping Charlie Kirk. No, no, don't compare Charlie Kirk to George Floyd. George,

00:05:24.380 George Floyd, uh, died. I mean, I believe the autopsy says because of drugs. Um, and I'm not

00:05:34.080 dismissing the cop that, you know, the way he acted, uh, I think it was horrible the way he acted,

00:05:40.640 et cetera, et cetera. But this was a guy who was not a good example for our children that should not

00:05:46.800 be hero worshiped. Should people, people should say cops should never behave that way. But George

00:05:54.340 Floyd was not a hero the way he lived his life. I don't want, you want your kids acting like George

00:05:59.600 Floyd? You want George Floyd to be a hero for your kids? No, I don't. I don't. And it has nothing to do

00:06:07.380 with race, nothing. And it has nothing to do with the cops, the cops. Fine. That should never happen.

00:06:15.860 It's horrible. Charlie Kirk. I want my kids to be self-educated, to be relentless pursuers of

00:06:26.500 education and truth. I want them to be Christlike. I want them to debate openly and kindly. I, I, yeah,

00:06:34.480 I want, I mean, our nation would be much better off if we had kids looking up to Charlie Kirk and

00:06:40.740 going, that's who I'd like to be. What would society be like if, if the society said, you know

00:06:46.920 what, George Floyd, that's who I want to be. It's, I mean, it's a pretty different society.

00:06:52.700 So please don't, don't say that we found our George Floyd. No. And don't try to make me feel

00:06:58.200 bad for looking at Charlie Kirk as a hero. I think he was. And so are they, and are they saying that he,

00:07:03.760 is a hero or are they, they demeaning what George Floyd was? I'm, I'm confused as to which way they're

00:07:10.280 going here because we were told George Floyd was a hero and we're told that Charlie Kirk is a hate

00:07:16.620 bonger. So I don't know which way they're going with that. Part of me wonders. I don't think they

00:07:20.460 really do either. Yeah. I don't think they do either. Again, you know, people just say things.

00:07:23.500 There's, there's a, there's a need for it to fill up the internet. So people just say things,

00:07:28.460 but that's a, that's a stupid take. And by the way, we're not burning down any cities over it.

00:07:32.100 I've noticed. Let me, uh, let me also give you another name of a hero that everybody should

00:07:36.760 know. Everybody should know the name Lydia Kaiser. This is a hero. Do you know who she is?

00:07:44.500 Lydia Kaiser. She, did she discover the bun? Is it? No, she wasn't the Kaiser role. No,

00:07:51.060 no, no. Um, I'll give you a hint. She's just been able to return to school, uh, at Annunciation

00:07:58.700 Catholic, uh, church in Minneapolis. Yeah. This is a great story. I didn't know her name,

00:08:02.880 but this is a great one. Yeah. 12 years old. She's the girl that shielded a friend and was shot

00:08:10.940 instead of her friend. Okay. She shielded them. What happened to her is she's, she gets, uh, wounded

00:08:21.080 and she's had to have three different brain surgeries to be able to survive what she saw.

00:08:28.560 Um, her family says she's going to need ongoing care for the foreseeable future, but she is a brave

00:08:33.780 little fighter. She's feeling stronger every day. Um, there's a GoFundMe account set up for the Kaiser

00:08:39.200 family, um, to help them, you know, with the brain surgeries and everything else after the shooting,

00:08:45.120 GoFundMe just, uh, I think it's GoFundMe. Hang on just a second. Uh, it's GoFundMe.com

00:08:55.780 help Lydia and the Kaiser family. Awesome. Okay. Um, but you can give to that fund. I think that's

00:09:05.280 great. So there's good news. This hero, that's, that's what I want my kids to have as heroes. I

00:09:10.440 want my kids to be able to look at go. Wow. At 12, she's putting her body in front of her friends. 1.00

00:09:17.940 Amazing. Let me give you another good story. GoFundMe. Look at the money that GoFundMe has

00:09:25.440 raised. Do you remember the time when, I don't even remember the name of the, the, the,

00:09:31.120 you know, charitable fundraising, uh, website that you could go use and they kept kicking people off.

00:09:39.720 Remember up in Canada, they were like canceling you and tracing, you know, who those people were

00:09:45.040 and trying to turn them in. Do you remember what it was the name of that? Doesn't matter. But

00:09:49.720 GoFundMe came out because they were like, no, we, we're, we're not going to, we're not going to do

00:09:54.840 any of those things. You want to raise money for conservative causes. You can do that. You can do

00:09:59.920 that here. Um, that's another big thing. You know, that's, it's like when Twitter, when Twitter went

00:10:07.860 to Elon Musk, look how much changed. GoFundMe, look how much has changed. Look how much good

00:10:14.160 we have as people have done. Let me give you another piece of good news. I told you about this

00:10:20.820 yesterday, but let me read. My name is Dave. Like all of you, I was shocked by the murders at the LDS

00:10:26.420 Chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan on September 28. One of the families that suffered a terrible loss

00:10:32.780 on that day was the family of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the shooter. Sanford leaves behind a wife and

00:10:38.980 children who must be grieving. They face financial hardship and psychological trauma as a result of

00:10:44.320 this week's horrifying events. On top of that, one of Sanford's sons deals with serious medical

00:10:50.020 challenges that require ongoing care treatment and specialized support. In the past, the family

00:10:56.860 has attempted to raise funds for him, uh, without a lot of, uh, response or help. I have no connection

00:11:05.500 to the Sanford's yada yada. I'm just an ordinary member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

00:11:09.980 saints. James teaches us in the Bible that pure religion and undefiled before God and the father

00:11:16.200 is this to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction. The purpose of this give send go

00:11:22.860 is to do that. Every donation will go to help provide for the Sanford family daily needs, provide

00:11:28.080 for ongoing medical treatment and create some stability in a time when heartbreak and upheaval

00:11:33.480 is at the fore. Thank you for your kindness, your compassion, and willingness to lift up those who

00:11:38.520 are suffering. Uh, they have now raised, I think it's 400, uh, $400,000, something like that.

00:11:52.180 350. I can't find it here, but another amazing thing that you, we wouldn't even have considered,

00:12:00.960 you know, when, when, when George Floyd went down, you know, nobody was raising money for the families

00:12:08.120 of the cops. Well, those are the bad guys, right? Nobody raised any money on that side. The victim

00:12:15.400 side, nobody said anything about their families and that's fine. We don't do it to compare, but

00:12:21.720 I'm just, I am proud to be, uh, a part of people like this. Uh, so some good news on both of those

00:12:33.720 things and the Charlie Kirk highway. I didn't want your Friday to go by without giving you some things

00:12:39.340 that are like, you know what? We're making progress. And Barry Weiss, I think that story is possibly one

00:12:45.780 of those things too. We're making real progress. I totally agree with that. It's very easy to get

00:12:52.140 down on and realize, uh, you know, worry about all the things that are going on in the world.

00:12:56.320 There's plenty of bad ones, but can you just think about where we were just a few years ago? I mean,

00:13:00.820 you know, they weren't, we were watching men in dresses in makeup commercials and, you know,

00:13:07.900 it's not to say that none of that stuff goes on. It still does at some level, but a lot of it has

00:13:14.780 been cleared out a lot. You know, American Eagle came out and said they had a million new customers.

00:13:21.260 I mean, again, you run an ad, you hope to sell a few pairs of jeans, a million new customers

00:13:26.080 because they just said, Hey, you know, it would be a good idea. We should just put someone who is a 1.00

00:13:30.780 attractive in our clothing. Uh, you know, like, I think that that was controversial.

00:13:36.660 Yeah. I mean, the world is going to look back on all of those TV shows, all of these things,

00:13:42.000 they're going to look back. That's going to just seem that is forever preserved. And when the world

00:13:48.020 comes back to normal, when it comes back to common sense, it's going to look insane. Our children and

00:13:55.600 our grandchildren are going to go, what the hell were you thinking? Yeah. And we're going,

00:14:00.200 it's interesting because I think of, you think of go back to the past, like 40 years of, uh, of life.

00:14:06.420 There have been, you know, bits and pieces, you know, things that have happened, but there haven't

00:14:09.620 been like arrows that are in my mind, totally have defined, like have been so incredibly strange

00:14:16.500 looking back on them. And in the last five years, I think we've had two of them. One is the COVID era,

00:14:21.880 which is like, wait a minute, what were we doing? We weren't going out to restaurants. Like we

00:14:25.760 couldn't go outside. They were putting sand in skate parks and you couldn't go in the ocean. And

00:14:31.480 think of all the crazy things we lived through in 2020 and into 2021 in some areas. And then the

00:14:37.300 era, the era that followed that, which, you know, I don't know if you want to define it as that,

00:14:41.860 whatever the woke air peak wokeness, whatever that was, where, you know, the example that pops into

00:14:48.360 my head all the time is the national hockey league tweeting trans rights are human rights

00:14:54.540 and trans women are women. Like what the hell? You're a hockey league. 1.00

00:15:00.920 So let me go, let me add another one right now. Charlie Kirk's assassination.

00:15:08.880 This is another one that we have not lived in. We have not lived this in my lifetime. I mean,

00:15:15.240 I was four when Martin Luther King died. Uh, so I don't remember. Um, but you know, you're not,

00:15:21.540 you're, you're younger than I am. You didn't live through anything like this. Yeah. So there's three

00:15:26.300 things that the first one COVID we swore would never like a month before I said, well, that'll

00:15:33.120 never happen in America. It was happening in Italy. I said, Oh God, can you imagine that ever

00:15:37.100 happening here? And then two weeks later it was, it was happening. It was happening. So we experienced

00:15:42.740 that. We said, it'll never happen. Then the, the trans stuff and you know, guys in dresses 1.00

00:15:48.360 dancing in first grade and preschool and all of that stuff and parents taking their kids

00:15:53.800 to do, it was like, what, what the hell is that? Never happened before. Never happened.

00:16:01.700 Now this, I mean, we're in five years, five years. Well, this is sort of the question that

00:16:08.140 was leading up to, and we, and this is a longer conversation than we have time for right now, but

00:16:11.660 maybe you've put thought into this. Have we moved into a time where it's going to be nonstop stuff

00:16:18.800 like this, where we swing wildly from era to era to era to era. And it's not like it was. I mean,

00:16:26.160 part of me thinks, you know, the world, you talk about it with Jonathan Haidt in your podcast,

00:16:29.860 the world that we currently live in, I think might fuel these sorts of wild changes from one side

00:16:38.120 to the other, the pendulum swinging wider and wider and wider. Uh, and that it's a scary prospect,

00:16:43.580 honestly, because I don't think we handle those things very well. That question will be answered

00:16:48.720 in the next election with Congress. And then the next presidential election, I think if we can stay

00:16:56.940 on this path for another six years, Donald Trump told me it would take 12, but you know, at least six

00:17:06.040 years, we have a chance of being the, we have a chance of being the, the last outpost of sanity

00:17:14.580 in the free world. But if we don't continue down this path, we will swing so hard back the opposite

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00:18:49.820 Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget

00:18:54.440 rate us on iTunes. My good friend, Bridget Phetasy. How are you?

00:19:00.740 How are you? First of all, just wanted to say, I'm so sorry for your loss, you and Stu and everybody

00:19:06.660 at the blaze. No, you're all, it's not that far out. Um, and I just wanted to say, I'm sorry.

00:19:14.180 Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Um, but I'm, I'm good. You know, life is crazy.

00:19:20.140 I know. Every time I talk to you, something new has happened where I'm like, that's not

00:19:24.660 the Bridget. I know. I'm anxious to hear where you, where you stand on this Riyadi, uh, comedy

00:19:32.620 festival. Oh, it's so interesting. Isn't it? It reminds me, I just keep thinking of that

00:19:38.480 Ricky Gervais monologue that he did years ago, where he said, if ISIS started a streaming

00:19:44.180 service, you'd call your agent. I mean, it becomes more relevant somehow every year that

00:19:53.360 monologue that he did. And I don't know, I think comedians got too rich and maybe we all

00:19:59.280 need to just, I mean, I'm not rich like them, but maybe, maybe comedians in general just need

00:20:04.220 to go back to being kind of viewed as dumb losers again. I think, I think some of these

00:20:11.420 guys are out over their skis a little bit and, um, they, they got really huge and, and

00:20:18.200 now, I don't know, maybe this is a challenge for them to push the limits because they can say

00:20:24.920 whatever they want in America. So going to Saudi is like, Ooh, a little dangerous, a little 1.00

00:20:31.180 titillating. I don't know. They all had to sign, they all had to sign documents that they wouldn't,

00:20:35.720 you know, make fun of religion. They wouldn't make fun of Saudi Arabia, wouldn't make fun of

00:20:38.580 the Royal family, et cetera, et cetera. You know, my, my thought on this, my thought on this, if,

00:20:43.440 if we went to these same comedians and said, Hey, we'll pay you the same amount of money,

00:20:48.500 we want to do a Washington DC Trump comedy, uh, uh, you know, weekend, would these guys have

00:20:57.140 say signed the same exact thing? No, they wouldn't have, they wouldn't have. And everybody would

00:21:02.160 have been out of their mind, crazy on the left saying, look at Donald Trump wants to shut people

00:21:06.500 down, wants to shut down anybody. You can't make fun of his family. Well, that's it's impossible.

00:21:11.220 He's not going to do none of these comedians would have done that. None of them.

00:21:15.880 Yeah, it's, I'm, I'm not, I wouldn't have done it and I'm not wealthy, but there's really no amount

00:21:22.300 of money that you could have paid me to do that only because I think if I'm, first of all, if I'm

00:21:28.760 somebody out there who's screaming women and screaming about the rights of women and what, 1.00

00:21:33.240 how we should be fighting for people like the women in Saudi Arabia who have real, no real voice or 1.00

00:21:39.980 as many rights as we do, then it would be very hypocritical for me to go stand on that stage

00:21:46.300 and say whatever I want. I also think they're not getting, they're getting paid to legitimize

00:21:53.220 these people. They're getting, that's what they're getting paid. The quotes that are coming out of

00:21:57.760 there, every quote I see, I was like, wow, the Saudis got their money's worth. Like, oh, 1.00

00:22:03.240 the Royals loved it. It's just like, if you're trying to, trying to justify your appearance in

00:22:12.180 Saudi Arabia, the, the quote, the Royals were very happy is not great coming out of your mouth.

00:22:18.760 Yeah. And I, I, uh, I, I love the fact again, Chappelle said, you know, he's, you know what?

00:22:24.760 America hasn't killed people. Yeah. The, the Saudi princess killed has killed people. What we 0.95

00:22:29.960 haven't, you know, please give it a rest because you, you don't just write it off like that in

00:22:36.060 America. You know what I mean? You don't just like, oh yeah. So what? Our government has just

00:22:41.000 killed a few people. You don't, but you're going to do it here because you're getting a big paycheck.

00:22:46.300 Yeah. We, I hear this argument a lot. Oh, how is this any different than the government? If this is,

00:22:52.560 this is, I can't, you can't fix that kind of stupid. I can't even, I won't even,

00:22:57.540 even deal with it because it's like listening to a 19 year old in their first year of college who

00:23:03.220 just smoked the box. Like, okay, Saudi Arabia and America are the same. Tell me more about your

00:23:10.560 enlightened anti-American thoughts. Like, all right, go, go live in Saudi Arabia then. Like,

00:23:18.520 let me know how that works out for you. I have, when try making fun of the Royal family,

00:23:24.680 try making fun of the journalists or, or anything that they said that you can't make fun of.

00:23:31.500 Go, go, let me know how that works out for you. And something more than the three days that you spent

00:23:37.780 there viewing. I mean, a lot of it was, it was, it's still like, oh, we, we, they have McDonald's

00:23:45.260 and Starbucks. This was some of the quotes coming from Bill that I was kind of like, yeah, so this is

00:23:51.620 like Tucker eating McDonald's in Russia. Like, okay. We, that doesn't mean that these places are

00:23:59.480 the same. I don't know what's happening. Coca-Cola was, Coca-Cola was served, uh, to the Nazis in

00:24:07.020 Germany up until like 1942. You know, Hey, we're just like you. No, no, you're not. No, you're not.

00:24:14.740 That Coke bottle doesn't make you us. Um, I don't know. It's, I'm not sure what's going on. I, but

00:24:21.120 again, I, I am of many minds about this because I have been at venture capitalist events and the

00:24:28.480 Saudis have been there and I don't know why should Jared Kushner be allowed to make money with the

00:24:35.300 Saudis and not the comedians. Right. Like you said in the opening, I mean, I think it's funny how much 0.99

00:24:41.340 less the comedians got paid than the golfers pretty significantly. The golfers are getting

00:24:48.820 tens of millions of comedians are getting like hundreds of thousands to a million to sell their

00:24:55.020 soul out. And I don't know, that's just, that's also funny to me. I'm like, they, they offer the

00:25:00.780 golfers a lot more than you guys. You know, the, the thing with, um, uh, you said it earlier,

00:25:06.240 the hypocrisy, they, they don't understand. It's like they have, uh, they never listened

00:25:12.860 to that. One of these things doesn't belong song on Sesame street. I mean, with, with Jimmy

00:25:18.100 Kimmel, listen to what Shane Gillis said about Jimmy Kimmel's return. Listen, it was good to

00:25:22.820 see everybody stick up for him for free speech. And, uh, I'm just glad they were all there for

00:25:26.540 me back in, you know, he's my brother and being canceled now, you know, he was canceled

00:25:34.720 for what, what was that? 48 hours. Mine was a couple of years, but no big deal. What's

00:25:39.120 it? He had to hold tight, probably a very nice kind of modern house on the hills in LA. He

00:25:43.300 had to sit there and just, you didn't have to lay on a mattress in Queens with two snarky

00:25:48.780 roommates that were like, Oh, did you write that apology? Yeah, I could tell. Oh, Shane,

00:25:58.460 I love him so much. I just love him. Yeah. I mean, look, I, I, I also feel, and I said

00:26:07.440 this on will Kane when it feels like the world is ending and everything is coming undone.

00:26:14.140 I understand people just grabbing as much cash as they can. And look, some of these comedians

00:26:22.160 were not hugely famous and have been struggling for a long time. And like Shane mentioned, you're

00:26:29.040 sleeping on a mattress on the floor for many, many years before you even make it in comedy,

00:26:34.400 if you even make it. And, um, so I don't know, it's like, get that bag, but you're going to,

00:26:42.200 you're going to have to hear about this forever. This is, this is going to, I, there are people

00:26:48.000 who I, I don't, I think for some of these guys, it did real damage to their brand or whatever.

00:26:54.400 Um, some more than others.

00:26:56.520 Bridget, I, I'm of two minds on this because I get the criticism, uh, what we've been talking

00:27:01.800 about, like, you know, the stuff that Chappelle said and stuff like, I don't like it. And I think

00:27:04.920 it's kind of silly, but I also saw a lot of the, the, the, the pushback from like the high

00:27:10.300 minded, I'm better than all of you people, comedians that, and I, I, you know, I saw David

00:27:16.380 Cross did some of this and it's like, there's a bunch of people who did it and it's like a big

00:27:19.880 fan of David. Oh yeah. I loved it. I mean, I'm a Mr. Show junkie from back in the day, but like,

00:27:24.500 I, you know, I, it's just like, okay, I get it. I, but I don't understand why there is a double

00:27:30.800 standard for entertainers in this world. Like, you know, all, all sorts of American companies

00:27:36.620 sell, uh, sell products in these countries. Oh, you know, as you mentioned, tons of investors

00:27:42.200 do business in Saudi Arabia. I mean, Saudi Arabia is, you know, again, this is not the

00:27:46.580 Nazi regime. This is a, we're not at war with them. They're supposedly in some ways allies 0.86

00:27:51.400 of ours. And like, do the people of Saudi Arabia not get to laugh? Do they, do they not get to 0.96

00:27:56.320 go to comedy shows? Like, like they can't have a festival in their country where people come

00:28:00.920 and enjoy comedians? We saw, we've seen before. No, unless they're on giant Boeing planes that

00:28:07.960 seemingly every resident owns one. Right, right. But like, we've seen cultural outreach like this

00:28:13.820 before have positive influences. Glenn and I were talking about this before off the air and I checked

00:28:17.840 it after Glenn, we talked about it. You know, Billy Joel went over and did a concert in the Soviet

00:28:22.140 Union. This was before the collapse. It was four years before the Soviet Union collapse. Like it's, 0.68

00:28:27.980 I'm not saying that it's probably no more high minded than getting your bag. I get it, Bridget.

00:28:33.840 But like, isn't there a weird double standard when it comes to entertainers that they're supposed to

00:28:38.840 somehow, you know, I don't know, change the entire regime's mindset before they take a weekend gig?

00:28:45.620 I don't understand it. I, I, like I said, I'm of many minds about this because I, I think that

00:28:54.120 some of this, that that's all absolutely true. And I don't, I don't blame really any of these people

00:29:01.320 for taking the money and going at the same time. You also have to understand that you are a useful

00:29:08.320 idiot who's being used by a regime. That's, but, but understand that it's fine. It's, I don't think

00:29:14.960 it's the same as doing, here's why I don't think it's the same as doing business because business

00:29:20.180 people are smart enough to be behind closed doors and do all of this stuff in park city

00:29:26.480 where they all fly in on their private jets. Entertainers are their, their, their face is

00:29:36.840 their brand. Their jokes are their brand. Same with the golfers. Ultimately you're an athlete,

00:29:41.980 but you're also an entertainer. And I think that's why they get held to this unfair double

00:29:48.380 standard because they're actually quite poor compared to everyone else around them. These are

00:29:55.880 court jesters for the Kings, literally, literally. I will tell you, I will tell you that Jewish state

00:30:04.740 could have put on a comedy festival and paid them the same amount of money. And I bet you almost all

00:30:11.200 of those comedians would have turned it down because it's Israel. I mean, they would never,

00:30:15.100 they would never do it. They would never do it for, uh, for Donald Trump. If the government said

00:30:20.460 we're going to put on a comedy festival for the 250th anniversary, but you can't make fun of the

00:30:25.360 religion or the founding, uh, or the, you know, uh, Donald Trump family, they would never ever,

00:30:30.780 they would, they would cry bloody murder on that. And the last thing is I am really sick of,

00:30:36.220 of everybody else taking our culture and then giving us theirs. We seem to be taking all of the Saudi 1.00

00:30:42.980 culture. You know, we're, we're to go ahead, go to little Somalia. I don't want that culture. 1.00

00:30:48.620 I don't want it. You can keep that culture. You want to borrow some of ours and see and go. That's

00:30:52.280 great. That's the difference with Billy Joel. He went over cause they were starving for our culture.

00:30:57.220 They wanted to be more like us. They keep sending us all of their crap and saying, you take it.

00:31:03.980 Uh, no, no, you keep your stuff. I'd like to keep ours. You're streaming the best of Glenn Beck to

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00:31:16.400 Hello, Stu. How are you? Great. Glenn, how are you? I am really good. It's, uh, you know, it's Friday.

00:31:23.360 I thought we'd go over some of the big stories of the week. And one of them that we really haven't

00:31:27.000 had a chance to address this week is, uh, Ian Andre Roberts. He is at the beginning of the week,

00:31:33.400 he is that poor guy that ice is just going in. Here he is the superintendent of schools for Des

00:31:39.600 Moines public schools. He is, he is well known. He is well qualified. He's a upstanding member of

00:31:47.420 our community and ice just comes in guns a blazing, wearing masks, no indication of even who they are.

00:31:55.440 And they just take him. Yeah. Yeah. I've read that. I, you know, I love, you know, a sleepy city

00:32:01.740 is moved to protest for a beloved superintendent detained by ice. Dozens. Was that one of the

00:32:08.400 headlines? That was one of that was NBC news headline. Oh my God. Several dozen students gathered

00:32:12.500 at the state Capitol calling for his release, holding signs, reading radical empathy, a tagline

00:32:19.820 he frequently used. Oh my gosh. I love that. Uh, during, uh, during rush hour, people displayed

00:32:27.400 a banner from a bridge over the interstate reading free Dr. Roberts, uh, dozens of cars honked.

00:32:36.920 And you know, when cars honk, you know, it's a real cause. No, no, no. And you know, that's

00:32:42.240 showing your support. I'm willing to honk. That was the main thing that happened in Nazi Germany. 0.67

00:32:46.020 Uh, they, when the SS would roll into town, there'd be a bunch of people honking in protest.

00:32:51.140 And, uh, that's how you knew they were Nazis. Uh, there was a walkout of students. And then

00:32:56.260 you had Jackie Norris, who is a former, uh, Michelle Obama, uh, aid. Yeah. She's kind of

00:33:03.720 in the middle of this. She says, uh, you know, she wants to, uh, it's fitting to take a page

00:33:09.260 out of Dr. Roberts book and ask the community to engage in radical empathy. They kept saying

00:33:13.980 this over and over again, as we walk through the situation together, we do not have all

00:33:18.320 the facts, uh, during his time with our district, he has shown up in ways big and small. And

00:33:26.420 that's, that's, that's definitely true. That was, that was, that was, that was true. First

00:33:30.720 of all, um, I'm not sure he is a doctor. I mean, I know now what we have found out during

00:33:35.260 the week is he played doctor a lot, uh, in many ways, uh, you know, in the, you know,

00:33:41.820 the way you play doctor and the way that you just like, yeah, I, I graduated from MIT and

00:33:47.400 I got my doctorate here, here and here. I mean, listen to the guy. Um, let's see here

00:33:53.300 the, his credentials. First of all, he, he got, he was at Sloan school of management from

00:33:59.820 MIT, got an MBA from MIT. Then he also attended Harvard and Georgetown. Uh, he got his doctorate

00:34:08.940 degree from Baltimore's Morgan state university. Uh, and there was another one too, I believe

00:34:15.760 that he went to the deal. He didn't go to any of those schools and it didn't have any of

00:34:20.100 that. He came over from Ghana, uh, and, uh, was overstayed. His visa was here illegally

00:34:28.580 under the Biden administration. He was ordered to be deported under the Biden administration.

00:34:38.940 I mean, that's kind of, that's a tough, that's, that's a, I mean, that's a pretty high bar you

00:34:44.220 have to cross to be deported by Joe Biden. Uh, but he, uh, he wasn't because you know,

00:34:50.120 well, they're not just going to go out and get this guy. I mean, and he was busy. He had a lot of

00:34:54.820 things that he was, uh, working on. A lot of them seem to be women. Um, you know, he was up, 0.98

00:35:02.380 he was up, uh, doing his DEI, you know, uh, school board thing, uh, in Pennsylvania.

00:35:10.400 And apparently he was caught having sex with a female coworker on school property. Um, in his,

00:35:18.420 in his role as superintendent who was being a bad girl, uh, uh, the, the people up in Pennsylvania

00:35:28.940 described him as a sketchy figure and a pathological liar. And they felt that he had been hired there

00:35:36.040 because of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Um, now when he went to, uh, Des Moines, it's another

00:35:43.900 yep. DEI. He became the DEI guy. And, um, you know, uh, people up in Pennsylvania said,

00:35:53.680 I'm not sure he's a legal resident. And they ignored that because nobody wanted to see it up

00:36:00.020 in Pennsylvania. Nobody wanted to see because of DEI. Everybody was just like,

00:36:03.760 when he went to Des Moines, same thing. Um, he's a pathological liar. He just told

00:36:12.040 this person that he's married and has three kids, this person he told he has no kids and he's not

00:36:17.560 married. I mean, he's a pathological liar. He would lie about almost everything, but when they would

00:36:23.180 bring it up again, everybody in power would say, how dare you racist? I can't believe they ignored

00:36:31.380 everything that they had said. Okay. He hasn't been legally here since 2020.

00:36:37.840 Uh, he was arrested by ICE on September 26th. Why? Well, because he knew he was going to be deported,

00:36:49.140 uh, and, uh, he was found hiding in bushes. Oh my gosh. How degrading for him. How degrading for him.

00:36:58.400 Well, the school owned vehicle that he was driving contained a fixed blade hunting knife.

00:37:04.060 I'm not sure if he was a big hunter or not, a loaded Glock 19 firearm and $3,000 in cash.

00:37:11.420 Now, how did this illegal get a Glock, especially since he had already been arrested

00:37:18.720 in 2020 for possessing an illegal firearm? Did he not care about the law still? Did he not care

00:37:26.740 about the law? Is that what happened there? Some people are saying that. Um, but in reality,

00:37:31.660 uh, we don't really know if it was an illegal firearm because since he was illegal, all firearms he

00:37:38.280 would have would be illegal. There's no, there's no path, uh, to my, well, unless you're, I guess

00:37:44.020 maybe in Gavin Newsom's California. But is a legal firearm possessed by an illegal then because of the

00:37:48.860 double negative? I'm not a, I'm not a school superintendent. I don't know. Does it cancel it

00:37:54.180 out and suddenly everything is legal? Yeah. Yeah. That was one of those, uh, you know, PBS scholastic songs

00:38:00.140 about that. I'm pretty sure the double negative cancels your crime out. Yeah. I remember that

00:38:04.380 song. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, apparently when he was up in Mill Creek, um, as the superintendent

00:38:10.700 up in Pennsylvania, uh, you know, he was caught having sex, blah, blah, blah. The school district

00:38:15.160 was, was inundated. I'm quoting inundated by lawsuits forced to pay out over $400,000 in sex

00:38:22.480 discrimination settlements, uh, because he was promoting less qualified women over more deserving

00:38:29.140 men. Apparently, uh, that's, that's part of it. And you know, I think the sex thing with everybody

00:38:34.120 was, it was also a, a problem. Uh, they were in the process of negotiating a $250,000 settlement

00:38:40.400 with, uh, Melody Ellington, um, because she apparently was fired for constructive discharge.

00:38:50.120 Now that, now that's, that sounds like not real. That can't be real. No, it sounds like something

00:38:56.820 that you go see your doctor about. Uh, I think I have some constructive discharge here. Um,

00:39:03.440 constructive discharge. I didn't know what that was. Uh, had to look that one up. Um,

00:39:10.600 it applies to, I'm quoting, applies to situations when a resignation is involuntary.

00:39:17.400 Okay. Okay. Resignation is involuntary. That means you're being fired. I think when your

00:39:24.400 resignation is involuntary due to a hostile or intolerable work environment.

00:39:30.600 Right. Well, it could be like getting pressured into quitting, right? I mean, I think the,

00:39:34.780 the seeming accusation here is that he was trying to get rid of her for some other reason other than

00:39:40.880 her job, which again, we can considering all the other accusations against him, we can guess what this

00:39:45.520 revolved around. But does constructive discharge sound like some sort of PC thing that doesn't tell

00:39:53.540 you anything? Yes, it does. Yes. It just sounds like a bunch of nonsense. But if you think about

00:39:59.740 it, it's like, you know, uh, you know, you're getting rid of somebody for some reason that is,

00:40:05.800 you know, constructed, right? It's that, what was the term you used the other day? The, uh,

00:40:10.940 the, the false construct, the, uh, and you were like, I can't listen to anybody. Me being fired.

00:40:15.540 My, my resignation is a false construct, right? Yeah. That it is. That it is. And by the way,

00:40:21.460 that, that particular settlement, which was a quarter of a million dollars, a lot of money.

00:40:25.800 I mean, you wouldn't want to hire someone who's in the middle of that. That was being settled right

00:40:32.000 at the time he was getting the job in Des Moines. Like it was in the middle of the settlement when he was

00:40:37.260 like, ah, I'm going to go to Des Moines and get it, go to a bigger city and get a bigger job.

00:40:41.700 So my question is, how did he get this job? I mean, there is serious corruption in the vetting

00:40:51.900 in Des Moines and quite honestly, Mill Creek. Now Mill Creek, this is the one up in Pennsylvania,

00:40:58.460 Mill Creek said they followed a vetting and search process by a recruitment firm,

00:41:05.620 Ray and associates and the recruitment company didn't respond to the request for, you know,

00:41:11.980 information from, you know, journalists like us. Um, but the school district said we received all

00:41:17.880 clearances, including an FBI background check prior to Robert serving as superintendent. No

00:41:22.600 disqualifying events were identified. Okay. Well, that's weird because he had charges against him,

00:41:28.960 uh, you know, of a legal possession of a firearm that you would think schools would go,

00:41:34.160 that is a problem. But here's the thing, Ray and associates. And now this may mean nothing,

00:41:39.660 but me thinks there's something rotten in Minnesota. Uh, this rain associates, uh,

00:41:47.880 that did all the vetting on this guy is from Minneapolis and it just, it just could be my bias

00:41:55.240 on what's happening in Minneapolis and how Minneapolis is being run and how, uh, Minnesota is being run.

00:42:00.800 So I, I, I don't know anything about Ray and associates, but we will soon, we will be looking

00:42:06.460 into them. Um, I, I, it's, it's just this, this whole, uh, system of corruption. How do you

00:42:18.120 hire somebody like this? How do you clear somebody like this? The people in, um, uh, in Des Moines,

00:42:27.420 he shouldn't be the only one that's gone here who vetted him, who hired him?

00:42:38.180 Well, I love the, I love the story of, uh, our friend Jackie Norris, because, you know, if you

00:42:43.620 remember, she, former Michelle Obama aide was out there saying, you know, we need to show radical

00:42:48.140 empathy and all this. And then all this stuff comes out and you think, okay, she's got to be

00:42:53.380 what in hiding. She's probably resigned. Like there's this really embarrassing, uh,

00:42:59.360 well, what is she actually doing right now? She's running for U S Senate because of course 1.00

00:43:05.500 she's running for U S Senate. What better way to qualify you for a Senate run than this particular 0.97

00:43:12.040 scandal? None of this stuff matters to the left. None of this matters to the left. This is why you

00:43:19.560 must be a merit based society, because if you're just going to say, well, DEI, he's, he's good at

00:43:28.080 DEI, which apparently he wasn't good at DEI. Um, he's good at that. And you know what? We need a,

00:43:35.780 a hire that has his, you know, he's, he's a, an immigrant, he's black. He apparently is very,

00:43:43.080 very sexy. He's got all these degrees. Well, does he have all those degrees? Is, I mean, does,

00:43:49.100 I mean, pathological liar. You just hired him because he's settling a lawsuit for sex discrimination

00:43:55.300 and you still hire him. What is it? Because it doesn't matter. The crime doesn't matter.

00:44:02.760 His past doesn't really matter. Whether he went to these schools or not doesn't matter because

00:44:07.380 he's going to help us on this, the DEI thing until America comes to a place to where they can

00:44:13.680 recognize this is all a sham and you actually have to have real standards based on real merit,

00:44:20.820 this is going to continue to happen. And until people like Michelle Obama's, uh, what, what is

00:44:26.060 her name? And what state is she running for in Iowa? Um, Jackie Norris is her name. And she's running 0.95

00:44:32.360 for Senate in Iowa, Iowa. You're going to get exactly what you deserve. Unfortunately, so will the rest of

00:44:38.960 us because she's running for us Senate, but you're going to get exactly what you deserve until you 0.98

00:44:44.360 start saying, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. How did this happen? Who hired this person

00:44:50.220 and fire all of the people involved in this and fire all the people. There were teachers. There

00:44:56.220 were people on the school board. Apparently they were all saying, Hey, this is something's wrong here.

00:45:00.300 We should check into this. Those people should be elevated. And the people who told them,

00:45:05.360 ah, shut up and sit down. Those people should be fired. That's what common sense. Iowa people 1.00

00:45:11.800 would have done when common sense actually existed. Does it exist in Iowa anymore? We'll see.

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