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The story of the Iowa superintendent that has the left just freaking out about ICE. The deportation order came from the Biden administration. Also, some good news to take with you into the weekend. And Brigid Phetasy joins me on the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
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superintendent that has the left just freaking out about ICE. ICE just scooped
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him up in the middle of the night. He's a good man. Yeah. Yeah. The deportation
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this guy. Also, some good news to take with you into the weekend. And Bridget
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You know, I said, I think two days after Charlie Kirk had died, um, I wonder who's
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going to be the first to name a street like Martin Luther King Boulevard or Cesar Chavez.
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Boulevard after Charlie Kirk. Um, and we have one now, uh, highway, uh, has just been renamed
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as the Charlie Kirk, uh, highway, Charlie Kirk Memorial highway. It has been approved by
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the Lake County commission in Florida. Uh, it's a section of wellness way from us 27 to
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the orange County line. It's just, I think, uh, West of Orlando. Uh, and it's just in
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one County because it had to be done County by County. But, um, yesterday on social media,
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Governor Ron DeSantis announced this is the first County that would recognize the life
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and legacy of Charlie Kirk. And it's installed in Florida. Once again, Texas, Texas, what's
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wrong with you? Uh, but, uh, Florida leading the way again. And I hope that this happens in
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County after County and city after city. If you're living in a conservative city, why you
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wouldn't change a name of a street or your section of the highway into the Charlie Kirk
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Memorial, uh, Charlie Kirk, Kirk Boulevard. It should happen, uh, in, in every state, in
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Really good news. Yeah. It's, it's important. It's such a fascinating thing that's going on
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with trying to fight for the, the sort of legacy of Charlie Kirk. There's this battle going on,
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which is, has a lot of dark corners to it, uh, that aren't great. But I think, you know,
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remembering, uh, who he was in, in a way that just says, this is a guy who spoke up for what
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he believed in. He tried to do politics the right way. He tried to get in front of people
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and debate them and have conversation. And the, he also tried to persuade them. That was what he
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was trying to do. Persuade people. That is what you're supposed to do in this world when it comes
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to a politics. And he did it, he did it and he did it well. There's a story in, uh, the show prep
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today. Just, I don't want to spend any time on it except for this that talks about, you know,
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it's from the left point of view and they say, well, the right has their George Floyd and their
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hero worshiping Charlie Kirk. No, no, don't compare Charlie Kirk to George Floyd. George,
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George Floyd, uh, died. I mean, I believe the autopsy says because of drugs. Um, and I'm not
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dismissing the cop that, you know, the way he acted, uh, I think it was horrible the way he acted,
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et cetera, et cetera. But this was a guy who was not a good example for our children that should not
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be hero worshiped. Should people, people should say cops should never behave that way. But George
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Floyd was not a hero the way he lived his life. I don't want, you want your kids acting like George
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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
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with race, nothing. And it has nothing to do with the cops, the cops. Fine. That should never happen.
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It's horrible. Charlie Kirk. I want my kids to be self-educated, to be relentless pursuers of
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education and truth. I want them to be Christlike. I want them to debate openly and kindly. I, I, yeah,
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I want, I mean, our nation would be much better off if we had kids looking up to Charlie Kirk and
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going, that's who I'd like to be. What would society be like if, if the society said, you know
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what, George Floyd, that's who I want to be. It's, I mean, it's a pretty different society.
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So please don't, don't say that we found our George Floyd. No. And don't try to make me feel
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bad for looking at Charlie Kirk as a hero. I think he was. And so are they, and are they saying that he,
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is a hero or are they, they demeaning what George Floyd was? I'm, I'm confused as to which way they're
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going here because we were told George Floyd was a hero and we're told that Charlie Kirk is a hate
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bonger. So I don't know which way they're going with that. Part of me wonders. I don't think they
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really do either. Yeah. I don't think they do either. Again, you know, people just say things.
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There's, there's a, there's a need for it to fill up the internet. So people just say things,
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but that's a, that's a stupid take. And by the way, we're not burning down any cities over it.
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I've noticed. Let me, uh, let me also give you another name of a hero that everybody should
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know. Everybody should know the name Lydia Kaiser. This is a hero. Do you know who she is?
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Lydia Kaiser. She, did she discover the bun? Is it? No, she wasn't the Kaiser role. No,
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no, no. Um, I'll give you a hint. She's just been able to return to school, uh, at Annunciation
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Catholic, uh, church in Minneapolis. Yeah. This is a great story. I didn't know her name,
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but this is a great one. Yeah. 12 years old. She's the girl that shielded a friend and was shot
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instead of her friend. Okay. She shielded them. What happened to her is she's, she gets, uh, wounded
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and she's had to have three different brain surgeries to be able to survive what she saw.
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Um, her family says she's going to need ongoing care for the foreseeable future, but she is a brave
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little fighter. She's feeling stronger every day. Um, there's a GoFundMe account set up for the Kaiser
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family, um, to help them, you know, with the brain surgeries and everything else after the shooting,
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GoFundMe just, uh, I think it's GoFundMe. Hang on just a second. Uh, it's GoFundMe.com
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help Lydia and the Kaiser family. Awesome. Okay. Um, but you can give to that fund. I think that's
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great. So there's good news. This hero, that's, that's what I want my kids to have as heroes. I
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want my kids to be able to look at go. Wow. At 12, she's putting her body in front of her friends.
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Amazing. Let me give you another good story. GoFundMe. Look at the money that GoFundMe has
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raised. Do you remember the time when, I don't even remember the name of the, the, the,
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you know, charitable fundraising, uh, website that you could go use and they kept kicking people off.
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Remember up in Canada, they were like canceling you and tracing, you know, who those people were
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and trying to turn them in. Do you remember what it was the name of that? Doesn't matter. But
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GoFundMe came out because they were like, no, we, we're, we're not going to, we're not going to do
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any of those things. You want to raise money for conservative causes. You can do that. You can do
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that here. Um, that's another big thing. You know, that's, it's like when Twitter, when Twitter went
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to Elon Musk, look how much changed. GoFundMe, look how much has changed. Look how much good
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we have as people have done. Let me give you another piece of good news. I told you about this
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yesterday, but let me read. My name is Dave. Like all of you, I was shocked by the murders at the LDS
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Chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan on September 28. One of the families that suffered a terrible loss
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on that day was the family of Thomas Jacob Sanford, the shooter. Sanford leaves behind a wife and
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children who must be grieving. They face financial hardship and psychological trauma as a result of
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this week's horrifying events. On top of that, one of Sanford's sons deals with serious medical
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challenges that require ongoing care treatment and specialized support. In the past, the family
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has attempted to raise funds for him, uh, without a lot of, uh, response or help. I have no connection
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to the Sanford's yada yada. I'm just an ordinary member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
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saints. James teaches us in the Bible that pure religion and undefiled before God and the father
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is this to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction. The purpose of this give send go
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is to do that. Every donation will go to help provide for the Sanford family daily needs, provide
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for ongoing medical treatment and create some stability in a time when heartbreak and upheaval
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is at the fore. Thank you for your kindness, your compassion, and willingness to lift up those who
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are suffering. Uh, they have now raised, I think it's 400, uh, $400,000, something like that.
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350. I can't find it here, but another amazing thing that you, we wouldn't even have considered,
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you know, when, when, when George Floyd went down, you know, nobody was raising money for the families
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of the cops. Well, those are the bad guys, right? Nobody raised any money on that side. The victim
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side, nobody said anything about their families and that's fine. We don't do it to compare, but
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I'm just, I am proud to be, uh, a part of people like this. Uh, so some good news on both of those
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things and the Charlie Kirk highway. I didn't want your Friday to go by without giving you some things
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that are like, you know what? We're making progress. And Barry Weiss, I think that story is possibly one
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of those things too. We're making real progress. I totally agree with that. It's very easy to get
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down on and realize, uh, you know, worry about all the things that are going on in the world.
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There's plenty of bad ones, but can you just think about where we were just a few years ago? I mean,
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you know, they weren't, we were watching men in dresses in makeup commercials and, you know,
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it's not to say that none of that stuff goes on. It still does at some level, but a lot of it has
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been cleared out a lot. You know, American Eagle came out and said they had a million new customers.
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I mean, again, you run an ad, you hope to sell a few pairs of jeans, a million new customers
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because they just said, Hey, you know, it would be a good idea. We should just put someone who is a
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attractive in our clothing. Uh, you know, like, I think that that was controversial.
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Yeah. I mean, the world is going to look back on all of those TV shows, all of these things,
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they're going to look back. That's going to just seem that is forever preserved. And when the world
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comes back to normal, when it comes back to common sense, it's going to look insane. Our children and
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our grandchildren are going to go, what the hell were you thinking? Yeah. And we're going,
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it's interesting because I think of, you think of go back to the past, like 40 years of, uh, of life.
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There have been, you know, bits and pieces, you know, things that have happened, but there haven't
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been like arrows that are in my mind, totally have defined, like have been so incredibly strange
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looking back on them. And in the last five years, I think we've had two of them. One is the COVID era,
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which is like, wait a minute, what were we doing? We weren't going out to restaurants. Like we
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couldn't go outside. They were putting sand in skate parks and you couldn't go in the ocean. And
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think of all the crazy things we lived through in 2020 and into 2021 in some areas. And then the
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era, the era that followed that, which, you know, I don't know if you want to define it as that,
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whatever the woke air peak wokeness, whatever that was, where, you know, the example that pops into
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my head all the time is the national hockey league tweeting trans rights are human rights
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and trans women are women. Like what the hell? You're a hockey league.
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So let me go, let me add another one right now. Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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This is another one that we have not lived in. We have not lived this in my lifetime. I mean,
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I was four when Martin Luther King died. Uh, so I don't remember. Um, but you know, you're not,
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you're, you're younger than I am. You didn't live through anything like this. Yeah. So there's three
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things that the first one COVID we swore would never like a month before I said, well, that'll
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never happen in America. It was happening in Italy. I said, Oh God, can you imagine that ever
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happening here? And then two weeks later it was, it was happening. It was happening. So we experienced
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that. We said, it'll never happen. Then the, the trans stuff and you know, guys in dresses
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dancing in first grade and preschool and all of that stuff and parents taking their kids
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to do, it was like, what, what the hell is that? Never happened before. Never happened.
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Now this, I mean, we're in five years, five years. Well, this is sort of the question that
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was leading up to, and we, and this is a longer conversation than we have time for right now, but
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maybe you've put thought into this. Have we moved into a time where it's going to be nonstop stuff
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like this, where we swing wildly from era to era to era to era. And it's not like it was. I mean,
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part of me thinks, you know, the world, you talk about it with Jonathan Haidt in your podcast,
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the world that we currently live in, I think might fuel these sorts of wild changes from one side
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to the other, the pendulum swinging wider and wider and wider. Uh, and that it's a scary prospect,
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honestly, because I don't think we handle those things very well. That question will be answered
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in the next election with Congress. And then the next presidential election, I think if we can stay
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on this path for another six years, Donald Trump told me it would take 12, but you know, at least six
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years, we have a chance of being the, we have a chance of being the, the last outpost of sanity
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Now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget
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rate us on iTunes. My good friend, Bridget Phetasy. How are you?
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How are you? First of all, just wanted to say, I'm so sorry for your loss, you and Stu and everybody
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at the blaze. No, you're all, it's not that far out. Um, and I just wanted to say, I'm sorry.
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Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Um, but I'm, I'm good. You know, life is crazy.
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I know. Every time I talk to you, something new has happened where I'm like, that's not
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the Bridget. I know. I'm anxious to hear where you, where you stand on this Riyadi, uh, comedy
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festival. Oh, it's so interesting. Isn't it? It reminds me, I just keep thinking of that
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Ricky Gervais monologue that he did years ago, where he said, if ISIS started a streaming
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service, you'd call your agent. I mean, it becomes more relevant somehow every year that
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monologue that he did. And I don't know, I think comedians got too rich and maybe we all
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need to just, I mean, I'm not rich like them, but maybe, maybe comedians in general just need
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to go back to being kind of viewed as dumb losers again. I think, I think some of these
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guys are out over their skis a little bit and, um, they, they got really huge and, and
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now, I don't know, maybe this is a challenge for them to push the limits because they can say
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whatever they want in America. So going to Saudi is like, Ooh, a little dangerous, a little
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titillating. I don't know. They all had to sign, they all had to sign documents that they wouldn't,
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you know, make fun of religion. They wouldn't make fun of Saudi Arabia, wouldn't make fun of
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the Royal family, et cetera, et cetera. You know, my, my thought on this, my thought on this, if,
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if we went to these same comedians and said, Hey, we'll pay you the same amount of money,
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we want to do a Washington DC Trump comedy, uh, uh, you know, weekend, would these guys have
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say signed the same exact thing? No, they wouldn't have, they wouldn't have. And everybody would
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have been out of their mind, crazy on the left saying, look at Donald Trump wants to shut people
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down, wants to shut down anybody. You can't make fun of his family. Well, that's it's impossible.
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He's not going to do none of these comedians would have done that. None of them.
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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
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of money that you could have paid me to do that only because I think if I'm, first of all, if I'm
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somebody out there who's screaming women and screaming about the rights of women and what,
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how we should be fighting for people like the women in Saudi Arabia who have real, no real voice or
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as many rights as we do, then it would be very hypocritical for me to go stand on that stage
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and say whatever I want. I also think they're not getting, they're getting paid to legitimize
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these people. They're getting, that's what they're getting paid. The quotes that are coming out of
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there, every quote I see, I was like, wow, the Saudis got their money's worth. Like, oh,
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the Royals loved it. It's just like, if you're trying to, trying to justify your appearance in
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Saudi Arabia, the, the quote, the Royals were very happy is not great coming out of your mouth.
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Yeah. And I, I, uh, I, I love the fact again, Chappelle said, you know, he's, you know what?
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America hasn't killed people. Yeah. The, the Saudi princess killed has killed people. What we
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haven't, you know, please give it a rest because you, you don't just write it off like that in
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America. You know what I mean? You don't just like, oh yeah. So what? Our government has just
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killed a few people. You don't, but you're going to do it here because you're getting a big paycheck.
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Yeah. We, I hear this argument a lot. Oh, how is this any different than the government? If this is,
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this is, I can't, you can't fix that kind of stupid. I can't even, I won't even,
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even deal with it because it's like listening to a 19 year old in their first year of college who
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just smoked the box. Like, okay, Saudi Arabia and America are the same. Tell me more about your
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enlightened anti-American thoughts. Like, all right, go, go live in Saudi Arabia then. Like,
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let me know how that works out for you. I have, when try making fun of the Royal family,
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try making fun of the journalists or, or anything that they said that you can't make fun of.
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Go, go, let me know how that works out for you. And something more than the three days that you spent
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there viewing. I mean, a lot of it was, it was, it's still like, oh, we, we, they have McDonald's
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and Starbucks. This was some of the quotes coming from Bill that I was kind of like, yeah, so this is
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like Tucker eating McDonald's in Russia. Like, okay. We, that doesn't mean that these places are
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the same. I don't know what's happening. Coca-Cola was, Coca-Cola was served, uh, to the Nazis in
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Germany up until like 1942. You know, Hey, we're just like you. No, no, you're not. No, you're not.
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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
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
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who I, I don't, I think for some of these guys, it did real damage to their brand or whatever.
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
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
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,
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
00:30:42.980
culture. You know, we're, we're to go ahead, go to little Somalia. I don't want that culture.
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.
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,
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
00:43:05.500
she's running for U S Senate. What better way to qualify you for a Senate run than this particular
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
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
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
00:45:11.800
would have done when common sense actually existed. Does it exist in Iowa anymore? We'll see.
00:45:24.820
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