The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Bridget Phetasy ｜ 7⧸1⧸19

00:00:00.000 Well, today is a podcast that could get somebody killed, or at least milkshaked.

00:00:08.160 It is Bridget Phetasy joining us on the podcast today.

00:00:12.500 You don't want to miss Bridget.

00:00:14.460 If you know who she is, you'll definitely listen.

00:00:17.440 If you don't, you need to.

00:00:19.400 She's very, very funny, outspoken, and somebody who is finding herself now looking at the left,

00:00:25.440 which she's always been a part of, going, I know, I'm not sure, I don't know where I belong anymore,

00:00:31.620 which I think is happening to so many Americans.

00:00:34.700 Also, we talk about law and order in Portland, Oregon, and how bad things are.

00:00:40.900 We get an update on Andy Ngo as well.

00:00:46.300 So, all part of today's podcast.

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00:01:37.320 So, what's solid anymore?

00:01:43.440 Remember I told you that everything, everything that was liquid would be solid

00:01:47.300 and everything that was solid will be liquid someday?

00:01:51.120 Well, isn't that it?

00:01:52.280 I mean, what are the rules anymore?

00:01:55.120 What are the laws?

00:01:56.840 If we don't enforce our laws, do our laws matter?

00:01:59.400 In Portland, they don't.

00:02:02.140 A Portland area reporter known for his coverage of far-left violence has been injured

00:02:07.320 in an attack by alleged members of Antifa, leaving him hospitalized with a brain bleed.

00:02:13.740 If you know who Andy Ngo is, pray for him.

00:02:20.080 Send your thoughts and prayers.

00:02:21.920 He would appreciate them.

00:02:24.340 He's in the hospital today for a brain bleed.

00:02:29.660 He is an editor at Quillette, which is, if you haven't gone to Quillette.com, you should.

00:02:34.020 It's really, really good.

00:02:35.340 It's classical liberalism.

00:02:38.900 It's being described everywhere as a conservative website, which is not what it is.

00:02:43.280 It's not.

00:02:43.460 It's really not.

00:02:44.120 Well, it is if you want to define conservatives as constitutional.

00:02:54.260 Constitutional conservatives are classical liberals.

00:02:59.860 They are people that you're not always going to agree with, and sometimes they don't even agree.

00:03:04.840 They're like, I hate to say this.

00:03:06.400 I don't want this to be true, but if we like freedom, we have to support this.

00:03:11.160 And a lot of times it's aligned with our Constitution, but it was started by an Australian.

00:03:15.300 It's not even an American publication.

00:03:17.240 Correct.

00:03:17.560 Correct.

00:03:18.620 Anyway, so he is one of the editors at Quillette, and he's also the host of the podcast,

00:03:23.940 Things You Should Know.

00:03:25.420 He was reporting on the Antifa Street demonstrations in Portland on the 29th of last month,

00:03:33.500 and that's over the weekend.

00:03:35.160 He was in Portland.

00:03:37.420 He was on the streets.

00:03:38.540 There was another big protest down in the park, and he was filming the police taking bats away from people.

00:03:44.680 You can't have any bats in the park.

00:03:47.020 All of the people that were there, he was documenting.

00:03:51.220 For instance, I love this.

00:03:53.140 The Satanists of Portland were there.

00:03:59.100 Their little group and their little logo was out in the park.

00:04:01.960 All kinds of different groups, including a lot of communist flags, red flags.

00:04:09.900 The Democratic Socialists were the organizers of it.

00:04:13.800 And they were selling milkshakes, so you could milkshake somebody.

00:04:18.120 And, by the way, the...

00:04:19.100 Vegan milkshakes.

00:04:19.840 Vegan milkshakes, which apparently are now including a little bit of concrete in them.

00:04:24.840 Quick drying.

00:04:25.300 Yeah, so, you know, no big deal.

00:04:27.240 A little concrete, a little milkshake.

00:04:29.020 How could that hurt anybody?

00:04:31.720 So Andy is standing there, and all he's doing is filming.

00:04:36.840 And he says, I've watched all of the videos from him, and he starts to say,

00:04:41.700 people are following me.

00:04:42.800 They're trying to block me.

00:04:44.600 They harass him.

00:04:45.920 He leaves several times.

00:04:47.440 Goes over to the police, and he says, look, I'm being harassed.

00:04:51.140 Are you guys going to do anything?

00:04:52.860 Nope.

00:04:53.500 They do nothing.

00:04:54.900 He goes back.

00:04:55.980 He comes back.

00:04:56.720 I have evidence.

00:04:57.820 I'm being harassed.

00:04:59.660 Are you going to do anything?

00:05:01.120 No.

00:05:01.780 He goes back.

00:05:02.720 This time, in the middle of the street, they take their signs, the wood signs,

00:05:08.720 because they don't have any bats.

00:05:10.540 They take anything that they have.

00:05:12.480 They start hurling things at him.

00:05:14.640 Of course, milkshakes.

00:05:15.900 Then some sort of a chemical is thrown into his face.

00:05:20.200 They beat him with the wood signs.

00:05:22.700 And he's bleeding from his ears.

00:05:25.640 He's bleeding from his eyes.

00:05:28.180 And they do nothing.

00:05:31.640 The police do nothing.

00:05:34.980 He's now in the hospital with a brain bleed.

00:05:39.100 We hope that he is doing well.

00:05:43.620 We hope that he is doing better.

00:05:44.980 It was my understanding last night that he was out of the hospital, but I heard just about an hour ago that it looks like he is still in the hospital.

00:05:54.420 We'd love to talk to him when he is able to talk.

00:05:59.320 But watch the video.

00:06:02.560 It's pretty shocking.

00:06:04.980 It's amazing that that's happening in an American city.

00:06:08.420 And that the police and the mayor seem to have absolutely no concern.

00:06:12.220 I mean, I am sure the police want to step in on these cases.

00:06:15.140 We've heard from them before.

00:06:16.780 But the mayor has a very specific ideology that allows this.

00:06:22.820 If you're living in Portland or anywhere in Oregon and you have seen this, can you just call us and tell us how are people dealing with this?

00:06:30.600 I mean, how do you go to Portland?

00:06:34.220 How do you work in Portland with this?

00:06:37.040 Are you in fear?

00:06:39.280 You know, it's amazing to me.

00:06:40.760 We should put this up for this weekend.

00:06:43.380 We just started our museum this last weekend, and I'll talk to you about it.

00:06:48.820 And it's all about freedom.

00:06:51.080 And there's one place in the center of our atrium that is really pretty shocking.

00:06:55.440 It has Klan members and the Klan outfits with the hoods and the hanging tree.

00:07:03.280 And behind that is the hanging cage with the orange jumpsuits.

00:07:11.200 And these are jumpsuits from slaves, ISIS slaves, that we actually freed. 0.77

00:07:17.760 And so these are actual jumpsuits from people that were taken by ISIS.

00:07:22.340 And next to it is an actual ISIS uniform and gun belt and everything else that was taken from an ISIS member, both wearing masks.

00:07:33.740 The same thing is happening with Antifa.

00:07:36.940 Now, why the mask?

00:07:40.120 Is it because they don't want to get caught?

00:07:41.940 They don't want people knowing who they are?

00:07:43.680 No, masks are used by people like this because they want to make sure that you don't know who they are, not for fear of trouble, because, as you know, they're not getting in trouble in Portland, not for fear that you will know who they are.

00:08:01.260 But they want to be able to blend back into society so you never know if that's the guy that was trying to beat you up.

00:08:09.860 Was that the guy that came into my house and took my husband and lynched him in a tree?

00:08:17.760 I don't know because all I saw is his eyes behind the white mask.

00:08:21.800 Is that the person that came and was rounding up all the Christians in our community and beheaded them? 0.92

00:08:28.560 I don't know because all I saw were his eyes in the black ISIS mask.

00:08:33.420 Is this the group of people that were hassling and beating up Andy Ngo?

00:08:41.740 Well, we're not really sure because all we saw were the eyes.

00:08:46.500 They want to blend into society so they never they never reveal you never know if you're safe.

00:08:56.380 Is this person at the store that's working behind the counter?

00:08:59.880 Are they actually Antifa?

00:09:03.240 This is about fear and intimidation.

00:09:06.080 And that is as un-American as you can get. 0.65

00:09:11.000 No one in America should be afraid.

00:09:14.020 Especially when the police can do something about it.

00:09:21.180 Was it good?

00:09:22.560 Was this a good thing?

00:09:24.020 When people were making Martin Luther King afraid?

00:09:27.540 When they were throwing things through his window?

00:09:31.600 When they were burning down black businesses? 0.62

00:09:34.940 Was that a good thing?

00:09:36.200 Is it a good thing that they're just taking people?

00:09:43.740 For instance, the guy in the wheelchair?

00:09:47.380 There's a right by the park.

00:09:49.340 There's this this apartment complex where the elderly live.

00:09:54.120 They're scared to come out of their houses.

00:09:56.040 Is it okay for people who had food carts that had been there forever?

00:10:02.960 That their business is destroyed?

00:10:08.120 How can we possibly have freedom if there is no security?

00:10:13.960 See, here's the thing.

00:10:15.380 We all got together in a pact.

00:10:17.660 And this happened long, long time ago.

00:10:21.700 We were all just kind of together.

00:10:24.300 And yet we were all responsible for our own farm or whatever.

00:10:29.460 And when we would be raided, there would be nobody there to help.

00:10:35.580 When we would be in town, our families could be molested.

00:10:40.280 When we had something go wrong, we had nobody except our neighbors.

00:10:46.340 And so what we did is we became more and more specialized as we said,

00:10:51.900 you know what, I'll grow the wheat, you make the bread.

00:10:55.840 So I didn't have to do everything in my life?

00:10:58.720 You know, I'll make the wheat and I'll trade you wheat if you'll help build the barn.

00:11:03.000 As we started to do those things and we busied ourselves in our own world to be able to exist,

00:11:13.120 we needed to hire people to watch over the things because we couldn't do that,

00:11:20.240 keep the bad guys away and be a farmer and be a logger or, you know, a miller, a shopkeeper.

00:11:31.200 So we hired somebody to do that.

00:11:34.720 And we hired a mayor to make sure that was happening.

00:11:38.800 Now the mayor of Portland is not doing that.

00:11:42.100 This mayor is not protecting American citizens.

00:11:46.520 The police are not protecting American citizens.

00:11:51.560 They are allowing American citizens who are fully in their right to drive down the street.

00:11:58.500 You see the woman who was trapped in her car, Antifa surrounding her, yelling at her, spitting on her.

00:12:05.100 Why? Because she was just driving down the street.

00:12:07.820 They took control of the streets again.

00:12:12.920 Is that America?

00:12:16.820 And by the way, the media is doing, no, I was going to say they're doing nothing.

00:12:21.520 No, they're doing worse than nothing.

00:12:22.900 Let me give you a flashback of Chris Cuomo.

00:12:26.280 Here he is on CNN talking about Antifa.

00:12:29.620 You can talk about Antifa.

00:12:31.080 I've watched them in the streets protesting in different situations, okay?

00:12:34.540 There are certainly aspects of them that are true to a cause.

00:12:38.340 That is a good cause.

00:12:39.360 They want social justice.

00:12:40.400 They want whatever they want in that context.

00:12:42.480 You tell me when that has ever happened.

00:12:44.640 You tell me when that has ever happened with neo-Nazis.

00:12:48.420 Where they have ever been doing the right thing.

00:12:49.700 Antifa is not a good cause.

00:12:51.360 Antifa does not have good aims.

00:12:53.340 Antifa wants power, wants political power taken through force. 0.99

00:12:58.840 That's what Antifa is all about.

00:13:00.460 I mean, they are the inheritors of Nazis. 0.92

00:13:03.660 That's what the media is doing.

00:13:05.960 They're not covering Andy Ngo.

00:13:07.960 And if they do, they'll make him into some right-wing kook.

00:13:13.620 Portland.

00:13:14.900 Oregon.

00:13:16.160 You better stand up.

00:13:17.280 And federal government.

00:13:20.100 Isn't it time you demand what Ted Cruz is demanding?

00:13:24.280 Action being taken against these mayors and anyone else who won't enforce the law.

00:13:33.940 This is a corrupt system.

00:13:36.480 And people, Americans, who are not dressed in black, who are not afraid to have their face being seen.

00:13:46.500 Those Americans need protection and they need it now.

00:13:49.220 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:13:59.980 Hey, it's Glenn.

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00:14:08.960 Hello, Melissa.

00:14:12.120 Hi, Glenn.

00:14:13.100 Hi.

00:14:14.320 Hey, how's it going?

00:14:15.540 So, it's good.

00:14:17.420 Good.

00:14:17.720 I'm not in Portland, so it's good.

00:14:19.840 Where are you now?

00:14:22.360 I'm actually in Texas.

00:14:23.700 I came to see your museum yesterday.

00:14:26.940 Oh, wow.

00:14:28.040 What did you think?

00:14:29.040 So, it was awesome.

00:14:30.820 Good.

00:14:30.960 It was fantastic.

00:14:31.920 Good.

00:14:32.780 But we've lived, I've lived in Portland since I was 10, and we sold our house in December because we couldn't take it anymore.

00:14:38.840 My daughter is nine.

00:14:40.400 She's not safe there.

00:14:41.980 It's bleeding out of Portland now.

00:14:44.440 We were living just outside the city of Portland and southeast Portland, and it's crazy.

00:14:50.640 It's nuts.

00:14:51.400 We got robbed.

00:14:52.260 Police won't even show up.

00:14:54.760 We don't go into Portland.

00:14:55.900 We avoid it like the plague.

00:14:58.000 What?

00:14:58.760 You take your life into your hands.

00:15:00.000 Well, this is a great American city.

00:15:03.960 Portland is a beautiful city.

00:15:06.740 I love it.

00:15:07.500 What is the mayor thinking?

00:15:11.340 I don't have any idea what that man is thinking.

00:15:14.580 I didn't vote for him.

00:15:16.480 I don't understand him.

00:15:19.020 People are dying.

00:15:20.300 People are getting beaten.

00:15:21.320 People's cars are getting beaten.

00:15:22.660 You can't even drive in the street without Antifa beating your car.

00:15:26.740 Were people around you, were the neighbors, all cool with this?

00:15:34.260 No.

00:15:34.940 They are?

00:15:35.620 No one knows what to do, though.

00:15:36.940 They're not?

00:15:37.440 They're not cool with it.

00:15:38.200 Okay.

00:15:38.640 All right.

00:15:38.880 No.

00:15:39.520 But nobody knows what to do because you've got the mayor allowing it.

00:15:44.380 What do we do?

00:15:45.700 You can't protest Antifa because they'll go strictly to violence right away.

00:15:50.300 You can't.

00:15:50.740 What do you do?

00:15:51.260 All right.

00:15:54.360 Thank you, Melissa.

00:15:56.040 I'm glad that you were down here at the museum this weekend.

00:15:59.080 Let me go to Hannah in Oregon.

00:16:01.480 Hello, Hannah.

00:16:03.020 Hi, Glenn.

00:16:03.780 Hi, Stu.

00:16:04.380 Thanks for taking my call.

00:16:05.700 Sure.

00:16:07.440 So I don't live in Portland, but I'm about to head in there for work today.

00:16:11.780 I work in downtown Portland and have for a couple of years actually in news.

00:16:14.780 And I was working during last year's protest between Antifa and, at that time, Patriot Prayer

00:16:20.420 when it turned into a riot.

00:16:22.780 And it's just crazy.

00:16:24.320 Luckily, most of their protests are on the weekend, so I don't know that it impacts a

00:16:28.760 great number of commuters.

00:16:30.560 But when it does, it's like everything shuts down.

00:16:33.200 They shut down the streets.

00:16:34.960 Police have to come out and, like, fire.

00:16:38.520 What are those projectiles?

00:16:40.280 The rubber bullets?

00:16:41.240 Yeah, it's just, it seems like something you wouldn't see in America.

00:16:46.960 How do you and other people in Portland feel about this?

00:16:52.200 Is this, are people, like our last caller just said, they don't like it, but what are

00:16:56.980 you going to do about it?

00:16:57.880 Or are most people in agreement with the ideas, at least, of Antifa?

00:17:06.940 I think the latter, for sure.

00:17:09.060 Um, I think most people who live in Portland don't like that this is what their city is

00:17:13.460 like, but they're more politically on Antifa's side. 0.94

00:17:17.760 So I think it's hard for them to figure out how they feel about it.

00:17:21.260 Unbelievable.

00:17:22.060 Are you safe when you go downtown?

00:17:25.500 I mean, I would, I would say so.

00:17:27.860 I don't feel unsafe, but it's definitely, you know, you have to deal with a lot of things

00:17:31.420 that you might not want to, like protesters yelling at you with bullhorns and stuff.

00:17:34.880 Wow.

00:17:36.220 Uh, what a great place to live.

00:17:37.840 Hannah, thank you so much.

00:17:39.080 At least you didn't get hit in the head with a crowbar, like the old guy who's just walking 1.00

00:17:43.340 down the street.

00:17:44.360 Yeah.

00:17:44.700 Or Andy Ngo, who's in the hospital for a brain bleed today.

00:17:48.720 If you live in, if you live in Portland or you've just left Portland, we'd love to hear

00:17:54.160 from you, uh, on what, what is really, what is it like to live in a city that seems like

00:18:01.520 a third world country now where there is no control of the streets, uh, and the mayor is

00:18:08.420 in with the bad guys.

00:18:09.540 We go to Jay in Ohio, just left Portland.

00:18:13.400 Hello, Jay.

00:18:14.340 Hey, good morning, Glenn.

00:18:15.740 I actually left about seven years ago.

00:18:17.380 I live in Ohio now where I grew up and I spent 19 years in Portland.

00:18:21.260 Downtown used to be the destination for everybody.

00:18:24.580 It was clean.

00:18:25.380 It was fun.

00:18:25.980 It was safe.

00:18:26.560 It was beautiful.

00:18:27.680 It's sketchy and scary.

00:18:29.560 Now I still work for a company that's based in downtown Portland.

00:18:32.340 So I'm back there several times a year.

00:18:34.040 I left about the time that the Occupy movement was going on and I started carrying police

00:18:40.480 grade pepper mace.

00:18:41.540 I didn't want to carry a gun because I was afraid I might, you know, use it and then have

00:18:45.640 it used against me since the law isn't on the side of good people in Portland, but it's

00:18:50.580 bad.

00:18:50.940 People are pulling their businesses out of downtown Columbia sportswear pulled out their flagship

00:18:55.840 store because of all this stuff.

00:18:57.940 And the mayor was supposed to be the agent of change.

00:19:01.240 And I follow Portland politics pretty closely.

00:19:04.040 He got intimidated as soon as he got in office by the, uh, the Antifa and the homeless coalition.

00:19:10.880 And he's done absolutely nothing to make that city safe since then. 0.89

00:19:15.160 So is he, is he with them or is he just a coward? 0.95

00:19:19.240 I think it's both. 0.99

00:19:20.220 I think he's slightly with them, but he's mostly a coward.

00:19:23.300 They actually went to his house and protested and threatened his family. 0.97

00:19:27.020 And the moment they did that, he turned into a complete coward and has done nothing but 0.93

00:19:31.660 kowtow to the violence and the mobs that, that take on the portal. 0.92

00:19:35.660 I've been there on a couple of weekends when that stuff is going on.

00:19:38.320 It is flat out scary, scary enough as it is.

00:19:41.740 I mean, you can't walk down the street without some homeless person.

00:19:45.120 And there's a lot of homeless by choice in downtown Portland, harassing you hard.

00:19:50.280 And I'm six foot three and 215 pounds and I'm scared.

00:19:54.300 Wow.

00:19:55.540 Wow.

00:19:56.100 Thank you, Jay.

00:19:56.960 I appreciate it.

00:19:57.760 Alan in Florida also left Portland.

00:20:01.180 Uh, hello, Alan.

00:20:02.180 Thanks Glenn for your time.

00:20:04.380 Um, um, yeah, I left 11 years ago.

00:20:07.480 I went to a, uh, event that is quite common and I was threatened by a fellow.

00:20:14.940 All he did was learn that I had conservative values and he threatened me.

00:20:20.620 And, um, what finally broke the camel's back is I found out it was on the news about how

00:20:28.120 Portland and Seattle were competing with each other to see who could get the most child 0.97

00:20:35.400 prostitutes. 0.99

00:20:37.360 Jeez. 1.00

00:20:38.920 And that was the final straw.

00:20:41.180 I says, that's it.

00:20:42.120 I'm getting the hell out of here because it, I mean, those people are dangerous.

00:20:46.720 Um, if they're going to encourage child prostitution and what they were doing is that I would lived

00:20:53.880 in Canada for three years, right in the British Columbia area.

00:20:56.740 And they were showing videos on the TV at night about trucks pulling up to the American border

00:21:04.120 and dropping off 10, 15, 20, 25 people at a time to run across the border.

00:21:10.020 And they're Asians primarily.

00:21:12.720 And the Asians have swamped the entire government of Washington state. 1.00

00:21:17.900 They've swamped it.

00:21:19.580 People I know who work for the government there, they say, you can't believe what those people

00:21:23.480 have done.

00:21:23.980 And that was because of the, the one governor that they had there who was an Asian.

00:21:28.460 And I mean, he just took the people out of power and put his people in.

00:21:32.980 Yeah.

00:21:33.240 Well, it, I mean, I think we crossed a, we crossed a line here at some point where I'm

00:21:39.300 not really sure we, we agree on things.

00:21:42.640 I know a lot of Asian people who are wonderful.

00:21:46.280 Uh, I don't, I'm not sure what, where you're going with that.

00:21:50.280 Thank you.

00:21:51.300 I thought that agents at first, I was like agents, what are agents doing in this?

00:21:55.640 Uh, I misunderstood that.

00:21:57.080 That was an odd turn.

00:21:58.720 If they are dropping illegals.

00:22:01.340 Well, I mean, look, uh, I don't know how to deal with that.

00:22:07.860 Again, this is, these are like, if people are doing things that are wrong, uh, like committing

00:22:12.640 crimes or violating laws, that's the, the issue here really doesn't, it's not really

00:22:16.980 race.

00:22:17.460 It's not really race.

00:22:18.540 Um, this is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:22:31.340 Hi, it's Glenn.

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00:22:46.540 Thanks.

00:22:46.860 Bridget Phetasy is working once again.

00:22:49.420 She was, uh, working at, uh, Playboy magazine for a while.

00:22:53.720 She is, she is a controversial woman and a really, I think, important voice that you

00:23:01.320 need to hear.

00:23:02.180 She grew up.

00:23:03.120 She thought she was a liberal.

00:23:04.460 She, I'm not sure she thinks she's, she doesn't know what she is.

00:23:07.220 I think at this point, at least last time I talked to her, uh, but she's on a fascinating

00:23:11.540 journey.

00:23:12.500 Uh, and she has seen the underbelly of the left and, uh, doesn't like it.

00:23:17.660 She's now a contributor writing, uh, writer at Mel Dame, the Federalist.

00:23:21.420 I'm trying to convince her to come to work here with us. 0.82

00:23:24.120 Uh, and she's back in the studio.

00:23:26.300 Bridget, how are you?

00:23:27.360 I'm great.

00:23:27.920 Thank you for having me.

00:23:28.900 Yeah, good.

00:23:29.580 That's a good.

00:23:30.180 That might be my only option to work here soon.

00:23:33.100 So, well, it's usually.

00:23:34.740 After this.

00:23:35.180 Yeah.

00:23:35.700 Yeah.

00:23:36.560 Usually it is, uh, usually it's the last place you work.

00:23:39.740 Uh, not necessarily by choice.

00:23:45.100 So, um, uh, Bridget, first of all, for anybody who doesn't know you, describe yourself.

00:23:51.740 Yeah.

00:23:52.360 We're, you know, who you, who you are.

00:23:55.420 Uh, so I was, I was born on the East coast.

00:23:58.400 I moved every year and a half.

00:23:59.980 Um, that's a very long story.

00:24:01.800 We're not sure why.

00:24:03.040 Um, my people ask me if I'm military, but I don't think I was.

00:24:08.960 My dad was in Russia, like every year and a half, um, we, every two weeks.

00:24:13.580 And we, we moved every year and a half.

00:24:15.800 Your dad was in Russia.

00:24:17.640 He's probably going to kill me for talking about that.

00:24:19.900 Do you know what your dad did?

00:24:21.560 Was your dad like. 0.98

00:24:22.660 It was dirty.

00:24:23.220 I was in the, uh, import export business.

00:24:26.280 Yeah, pretty much.

00:24:26.880 Yeah.

00:24:27.200 Okay.

00:24:27.760 All right.

00:24:28.320 And I was the new girl at Skulls and I'd raise my hand and they'd, the teacher would

00:24:32.160 say like, what does your dad do, Bridget?

00:24:33.880 And I'd say, Oh, he buys and sells Russian technology.

00:24:37.060 And you're like, okay, what years were, was, uh, gosh, I was born in 78 and pretty much

00:24:46.580 until weirdly Russia opened up.

00:24:49.800 So this might be something you might want to have a conversation with.

00:24:56.560 I have.

00:24:57.060 And supposedly it was, it's just me being crazy.

00:25:00.640 I've seen this movie, Nicholas Cage.

00:25:02.060 Yeah.

00:25:02.320 Yeah.

00:25:03.140 When we all, we saw true lies with them and we were all looking at him.

00:25:07.060 Like, uh, dad.

00:25:10.200 Okay.

00:25:10.520 So dad was a, some sort of a Russian smuggler.

00:25:13.600 What did mom do? 1.00

00:25:15.120 Uh, she was a stay at home mom.

00:25:16.400 I'm the oldest of five.

00:25:17.500 Was her name Natasha?

00:25:18.920 No.

00:25:19.820 Okay.

00:25:20.460 Um, I did, I was married to a Belorussian for five years and when he was, he was like,

00:25:26.100 Bridget, your dad was a spy.

00:25:27.620 Um, but yeah, he, um, we moved a lot.

00:25:33.740 I'm the oldest of five.

00:25:34.740 I come from a big Irish Catholic family.

00:25:36.880 My dad's one of 10.

00:25:38.240 I have 26 first cousins, but because I moved so much, I had the opportunity to be exposed

00:25:43.360 to all parts of America in particular.

00:25:46.720 And I, I actually hated it growing up.

00:25:49.940 And I used to say my parents should have just named me new girl because nobody ever knew

00:25:54.080 me.

00:25:54.980 They were like, Hey, new girl.

00:25:56.740 And I, that, but it also gave me, I think tools that I didn't realize I was developing

00:26:03.280 because you're always the outsider looking in and you, it's uniquely prepared me for this

00:26:10.460 moment.

00:26:10.900 I find myself in not knowing who I am or what I am, um, looking, I feel like at all of the

00:26:19.380 tribes.

00:26:20.240 So that's, I'm used to kind of observing, observing the tribes from the outside.

00:26:25.080 Are you sick of the tribes?

00:26:26.740 Yeah, I, I am.

00:26:28.220 I am too.

00:26:28.920 I don't, I mean.

00:26:31.020 I think that, I think I would love to see one big tribe and that is the American constitution

00:26:36.640 tribe, which would include pretty much everybody.

00:26:40.200 Yeah.

00:26:40.500 As long as you agree that, Hey, everybody can have their own opinion, their own life, do

00:26:44.400 their own thing.

00:26:45.360 Just don't jam it down my throat.

00:26:47.300 Let's live together.

00:26:48.340 Why can't we be a part of that tribe?

00:26:49.660 What happened to that tribe?

00:26:51.080 I don't know.

00:26:51.560 It's weird.

00:26:52.200 You were asking how people live in Portland.

00:26:53.820 So I've worked in Oregon and Southern Oregon and I have a lot of friends in Portland and

00:26:58.380 they have kids and they don't even know what's going on with the, with the Antifa stuff because

00:27:02.880 it's in, well, they know from the news, but it's not, it's not in their neighborhoods.

00:27:07.700 It's not like it's spilling out into the streets everywhere.

00:27:10.840 So my friend said, I asked him yesterday and he's like, I didn't even hear about it.

00:27:15.160 You don't even know this stuff is going on unless you just avoid that part of town, I

00:27:18.580 guess.

00:27:19.480 But I, I feel like Portland has become kind of ground zero for the extreme wings of these 0.99

00:27:27.280 tribes.

00:27:27.720 The most extreme are kind of playing out their little cosplay fantasies on the streets to

00:27:34.460 the tune. 1.00

00:27:35.100 It's so dumb. 1.00

00:27:36.000 I mean, I can't, I, I think it's so dumb, but now it's getting not so dumb. 1.00

00:27:41.440 Yeah. 0.98

00:27:41.800 It's dangerous.

00:27:42.720 It's still dangerous.

00:27:43.720 Yeah. 0.92

00:27:44.140 It's getting dumber by the minute, but it's just getting more dangerous. 0.91

00:27:47.280 That was the thing this weekend. 0.81

00:27:49.120 What happened, it was chilling for somebody like me who doesn't always, you know, write

00:27:53.460 in lockstep, seeing a lot of blue check journalists who are affiliated with places like the Huffington 0.73

00:28:00.800 Post and the New York times, mainstream organizations, justifying the assault of this journalist.

00:28:08.600 Well, um, um, Eric Weinstein wrote this today.

00:28:13.100 I love Eric.

00:28:13.680 Hi, Eric.

00:28:14.500 He's great.

00:28:15.240 He's great.

00:28:15.960 He's not here.

00:28:16.620 He's just saying, we keep him in a box.

00:28:18.960 He's in the other room.

00:28:21.900 So he wrote this quote, a contributor to the wall street journal was attacked on video

00:28:26.600 by, uh, Antifa demonstrators where police were back where police backed away.

00:28:31.920 Hospitalized was suspected brain injury after caustic chemicals were allegedly thrown in his

00:28:36.520 face, disguised by domestic terrorist as a milkshake.

00:28:40.760 He says, where is this story?

00:28:42.740 Because the one I read is this members of groups opposed to fascism.

00:28:48.960 Clashed with far wheat right proud boys in Portland demonstrations in which a conservative

00:28:54.460 journalist for a right wing website.

00:28:56.960 Quillette was injured.

00:28:57.960 Now, those are the same stories.

00:29:02.220 And you know, that's exactly how it's being reported.

00:29:05.600 If it's being reported.

00:29:07.020 It's always framed as clashes.

00:29:08.800 Yeah.

00:29:09.240 Yeah.

00:29:09.520 Yeah.

00:29:10.200 And right wing, you know, conservative.

00:29:13.840 And these are people who are just against fascism. 0.95

00:29:16.320 They are fascists.

00:29:17.780 How do they not see that? 0.97

00:29:19.460 I'm going to get milkshaked when I go back to LA just for sitting here and talking to you.

00:29:23.800 Can I tell you something?

00:29:25.360 Please.

00:29:26.580 Um, I love strawberry, fresh strawberry milkshakes are delicious.

00:29:31.480 You know, I don't mind it.

00:29:32.720 I don't mind it.

00:29:33.340 Try, try to aim for my mouth. 0.99

00:29:35.700 Please.

00:29:36.800 It is chilling though.

00:29:39.560 To, to the political violence.

00:29:41.520 Where does that end?

00:29:42.720 Exactly.

00:29:43.400 When you're trying, when you're saying it's okay to throw a milkshake, it's okay to spit

00:29:47.400 on people.

00:29:48.220 It's okay to.

00:29:49.500 Well, but what do you, I mean, we have a, as you probably noticed when you walk through

00:29:53.520 and right out of the dressing room area, you know, it was, you know, the Klan and, 0.58

00:29:58.920 uh, and.

00:29:59.900 I, yeah, I was a little, I was like, what's happening?

00:30:03.440 We should be clear.

00:30:04.340 We didn't rent them space.

00:30:05.520 There's a museum going on.

00:30:06.540 There's a museum going on.

00:30:07.800 So you're coming through.

00:30:08.900 But as you're, you're looking at this, I gave tours, uh, this weekend, uh, of this museum

00:30:14.640 and it's so clear what's, what's happening right now. 0.96

00:30:19.820 And anytime anyone says, shut up.

00:30:24.060 Anytime anyone says you don't have a, uh, a right to have that point of view, anytime 0.86

00:30:32.380 anybody is beating somebody to get them to shut up, you've got a problem.

00:30:36.800 Yeah.

00:30:37.400 You have a real problem.

00:30:38.040 And I think Antifa is strengthened not only by in Portland, the, the, uh, the mayor's office,

00:30:45.720 but by all of the journalists, by all of the people who say, well, I didn't even know

00:30:50.280 it.

00:30:50.440 I didn't see it going on.

00:30:52.180 I don't pay attention.

00:30:53.140 You need to pay attention.

00:30:54.380 Our country is in trouble right now.

00:30:57.040 And it's also strengthened by this concept that you don't have a valued opinion.

00:31:05.660 You had a valued opinion until people, until you started staying up, standing up going,

00:31:10.380 wait, I don't agree with that.

00:31:11.680 I don't agree with everything that I was saying on the right.

00:31:13.900 I don't agree with everything that I was saying on the left, but I got to take a stand here 0.94

00:31:17.440 because this is ridiculous. 0.95

00:31:18.720 Look at what you're doing. 1.00

00:31:19.400 Once you said that you're no longer a human.

00:31:23.660 No, I'm now I'm an outright.

00:31:25.580 I'm the outright.

00:31:27.360 That's yeah.

00:31:29.340 It's, it's a little disconcerting to see what, what is really worrisome to me is just the

00:31:37.280 justification of it that I'm seeing from people with very large platforms of this is okay,

00:31:43.380 because you want to talk about a slippery slope.

00:31:45.660 And when I was on your podcast, we talked about this.

00:31:48.580 This is the kind of stuff that does lead to self-censorship.

00:31:51.540 If you see a journalist get beat up for covering Antifa in a way that isn't the way the mainstream

00:31:58.120 covers it and then you see those journalists saying, well, actually, if you in the good faith argument

00:32:05.840 is that they believe if I believe I'm fighting Nazis, of course you, you should be fighting Nazis. 0.80

00:32:13.720 But the problem is that that word fascist has been so it's this coverall for anyone that disagrees with you.

00:32:20.940 It's been the, the meaning of it has been destroyed as well as Nazis. 0.75

00:32:24.540 So now when every, and we've talked about that, I mean, Dave Rubin and I were saying this, it's like,

00:32:29.720 if only anyone was saying this is bad, because now when you're saying speech is violence,

00:32:34.980 it gives people the right to be violent for speech.

00:32:39.400 And that's, that's insanity.

00:32:42.600 It's, I, it's so hard for me to believe that it's happening.

00:32:47.420 But if you look again at history, and this is, this is where we have to look for patterns.

00:32:52.640 The only reason to learn history is so you can see patterns.

00:32:56.100 And once you recognize the pattern, it may not, it, it's never going to look the same.

00:33:00.660 Again, history doesn't repeat itself.

00:33:02.100 It rhymes.

00:33:03.340 So it looks a lot like, but it's not exactly.

00:33:08.900 So burning books, history rhymes.

00:33:12.760 We're not burning books, but we are taking books out of libraries.

00:33:16.820 We are deleting voices and their opinions online.

00:33:20.800 There's just no actual burning of everything that Steven Crowder or, or the Weinsteins have done.

00:33:27.380 They've just been banned and relegated and put behind a digital wall.

00:33:31.400 So history, no, they're not burning books.

00:33:33.940 It rhymes.

00:33:35.380 They're mobbing people before they even get published.

00:33:38.420 You can't burn a book if it never gets published.

00:33:40.580 Exactly right.

00:33:41.080 So it's not even, you don't need to burn the book.

00:33:43.660 Just mob the author until they retract their book from publication because they're, and then have to apologize.

00:33:50.440 Right.

00:33:50.840 And when you look at, well, I want to take it, I'm going to take it one more place.

00:33:53.900 I'm going to take it someplace really dangerous.

00:33:56.860 Let's talk about, let's talk about what was the purchase.

00:33:59.860 What was the purpose of lynching people?

00:34:02.280 Oh boy.

00:34:03.700 And Bridget has a lot to say about this. 0.52

00:34:06.740 I'm like, what's going on?

00:34:08.680 This is definitely what I'm going to end up trending on Twitter, which I've been trying to avoid.

00:34:13.900 Well, we're going to try to change that for you.

00:34:15.860 Oh, thanks, Glenn.

00:34:16.860 Bridget Fetis will come up in 60 seconds more with Bridget. 1.00

00:34:21.440 Okay.

00:34:21.740 So let's, so let's talk about just lynching for just a second.

00:34:24.500 Obviously.

00:34:24.980 Bridget, you were for it, right?

00:34:26.600 Everybody knows.

00:34:27.420 Wow, you're trending on Twitter. 0.99

00:34:32.640 The, the whole point, the whole point of lynching was not to kill black people. 0.99

00:34:42.920 It was to intimidate all other black people and white people. 0.88

00:34:48.220 You know, there were between 18, how was it, 1880 and 1964, there were about 5,000 lynchings,

00:34:59.680 right around 5,000 lynchings of Americans.

00:35:02.980 Three quarters of them were black.

00:35:05.840 The last quarter of them were white.

00:35:08.120 White people who were defending.

00:35:09.720 Defending and helping and standing up. 0.99

00:35:12.100 The idea was to intimidate, to kill those people, doing it publicly. 0.92

00:35:17.240 Many times they were announced in advance. 0.99

00:35:19.380 Hey, we're having a lynching.

00:35:21.180 People would come with picnic baskets.

00:35:24.480 Now, those people who didn't come with picnic baskets to watch these lynchings,

00:35:29.340 those were the people that, you know, the, the, the mask over the Klan was trying to intimidate

00:35:37.800 and the, the lynching was trying to intimidate. 0.95

00:35:40.900 Shut up, sit down, don't get involved. 0.98

00:35:45.020 Well, that's the problem. 1.00

00:35:46.660 Too many people are, are either uninformed, willful ignorance, or they just don't want to

00:35:53.080 get involved because I think they don't know what to do.

00:35:57.160 I'm, I'm with the don't want to get involved.

00:35:59.380 Yeah.

00:36:00.600 But you are.

00:36:01.700 I know.

00:36:02.140 Here I am.

00:36:02.740 Yeah, you are.

00:36:03.700 You just told me, I said, I said to you beforehand, cause you are nervous about it.

00:36:08.320 Um, because you are a target.

00:36:10.700 Uh, and, uh, I said to you before it went on, I said, you don't have to come on.

00:36:15.120 I know you did.

00:36:15.940 That was nice of you.

00:36:16.840 And you said, I said, just because I'm afraid of something doesn't mean I'm not going

00:36:21.060 to do it.

00:36:21.620 And I do think it's important to have conversations.

00:36:24.560 And I think a way to fight the idea that you can't talk to somebody who's an alt-right

00:36:31.660 figure.

00:36:32.460 Yeah.

00:36:32.940 Like Glenn Beck.

00:36:33.460 Me?

00:36:34.080 Like Stu.

00:36:34.880 Like Stu.

00:36:35.560 I'm a big alt-riter.

00:36:36.600 Yeah, that's me.

00:36:38.280 You know, it's crazy is we've been standing against the alt-right before it was even called

00:36:42.820 the alt-right.

00:36:43.580 I see the position that people like you and Ben Shapiro, because I, I, I keep an eye on

00:36:50.560 the far right just to see what they're up to.

00:36:52.560 And it's interesting to me when you guys are constantly getting it from, from both sides.

00:36:58.460 Yeah.

00:36:58.660 It's kind of a lonely place to be, kind of a lonely place, but it's a great place to be

00:37:03.680 because you are with people like Dave Rubin, the Weinsteins, you're with you, you know, it's

00:37:10.100 a, it's a, and it's a growing, there was time that it was just kind of like, hello, hello,

00:37:14.560 hello, nobody around, but now it's starting to be filled with really quality people.

00:37:22.880 I think they're seeing, I think a lot of people are burned out on the tribalism.

00:37:27.720 And when you get out into America, if you're not on Twitter and the media, you're not necessarily

00:37:33.760 exposed to the level of vitriol and tribalism that we are.

00:37:38.460 I think that James Lindsay was recently posting a study about how actually you're radicalizing

00:37:44.020 yourself if you're on social media a lot and Twitter in particular.

00:37:48.240 And I have conversations, my, one of my patron levels is speaking to people.

00:37:54.040 And it's, I realized recently that I have, there's 21 at that level, 18 of them, every

00:38:01.440 single person's in a different state.

00:38:03.340 And there, many of them are in swing states who didn't vote for Trump.

00:38:07.340 And I've been asking them how they feel about the election coming up.

00:38:11.320 And I don't, I keep screaming at the left.

00:38:14.380 I've been, that was kind of how I ended up in the middle was saying, you guys are pushing

00:38:18.400 people away.

00:38:19.140 You're pushing voters who are moderates out of your party, just because if you dare to

00:38:24.220 speak out and say, Hey, this is maybe crazy.

00:38:28.260 You're now labeled a conservative or alt-right or worse.

00:38:31.680 And a lot of these, the other thing that I noticed and talked to my, um, people about

00:38:37.880 was that they were all of this kind of chicken littling that occurred, the economy is going

00:38:43.180 to collapse.

00:38:44.220 We're going to be in world war three.

00:38:45.800 It hasn't yet doesn't mean it won't, but because that didn't happen, a lot of these people

00:38:50.200 who didn't vote for Trump or might've been squishy about it are now like, well, it's not

00:38:56.960 that bad, I guess.

00:38:58.340 And seeing that the left is now fully, you know, barreling towards socialism and, and,

00:39:04.760 and ways that are not even covert.

00:39:09.440 Yeah.

00:39:10.080 I just think that, and that's what I was saying at this point that I feel like the entitlement

00:39:15.460 of the vote is what, why don't you care about losing somebody like me?

00:39:19.640 I'm a registered independent.

00:39:21.120 Why don't, why don't you care?

00:39:22.520 That's a question I have because now I'm just labeled racist and that's a certain level

00:39:28.040 of entitlement to just say, well, vote for us or you're racist.

00:39:32.200 So I need to take a break, but when we come back, let's go there because I can't figure

00:39:38.720 it out.

00:39:39.760 I can't figure out, are they just living in such a tight little bubble that they just

00:39:47.240 think everybody thinks the same way as they do or, or what, what is their plan?

00:39:52.380 And we'll get to that with Bridget Phetasy, who is, uh, hopefully going to be trending 1.00

00:39:56.940 on Twitter today for just being on this program coming up in a second.

00:40:05.240 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:40:07.500 It's an amazing weekend here at the, uh, Mercury studios.

00:40:21.140 We opened the doors again.

00:40:22.200 I felt a little like Willy Wonka opening up the back door, welcoming the first guests,

00:40:26.540 uh, through, uh, the Mercury studios.

00:40:29.120 We did 12 score and three years ago, the unfinished promise of unity.

00:40:34.120 We have the Gettysburg address here.

00:40:37.520 We have the emancipation proclamation, the 14th amendment.

00:40:41.940 You can see them firsthand in Lincoln's handwriting.

00:40:46.160 It's, it's amazing to sit there and look at these things.

00:40:50.340 And we urge you to come and, uh, and, and reflect on what freedom really means and how freedom

00:40:58.600 sometimes is, is hard fought.

00:41:01.280 And what is our responsibility today? 0.96

00:41:04.140 You know, you can talk about, oh, our founders, they were screwed up. 0.55

00:41:07.100 They didn't do this. 0.97

00:41:07.820 They didn't do that.

00:41:08.780 They, they should have done more on slavery.

00:41:10.760 Okay.

00:41:10.980 That's cool.

00:41:11.480 We can debate that all day long and we can look at it.

00:41:15.040 And we do in the museum, we show you, uh, the different things that they were debating

00:41:19.400 at the time.

00:41:20.320 Uh, but shouldn't, aren't we writing history ourself today?

00:41:25.720 What is, how's history 250 years from now, are people going to go, you know, those people

00:41:31.720 in 2018, boy, what was wrong with them?

00:41:35.180 I mean, they knew their phones were being made by slaves in China. 0.55

00:41:38.400 They knew, they knew that North Korea had actual concentration camps, but they didn't

00:41:43.980 do anything about it.

00:41:45.240 What, what was wrong with them?

00:41:47.320 Yeah, they're probably, they're like us.

00:41:48.880 They're going to say those things.

00:41:50.480 So what are we doing today?

00:41:52.400 Join us for independence day, July 4th.

00:41:55.360 I'm going to be, uh, giving tours and I'd love to have you on our tours.

00:41:59.520 I'd love to meet you and shake your hand, say hello and, uh, walk you through 12 score

00:42:04.220 and three years ago.

00:42:04.980 It's here at the Mercury studios in Las Colinas, Texas.

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00:42:09.680 Uh, bring your family.

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