The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Nicole Shanahan ｜ 9⧸3⧸24

00:00:00.000 A lot of people are saying that today's podcast is right up there with Deadpool and Wolverine, just without the violence, the costumes, the great acting, and the comedy.

00:00:12.620 But other than that, it is just like Deadpool and Wolverine.

00:00:16.460 You don't want to miss a second of it.

00:00:18.000 We have RFK's former vice presidential running mate, Nicole Shanahan. 0.94

00:00:27.240 She is such a blessing to the republic because she is explaining to Democrats why they have to get away from the Democratic Party.

00:00:38.980 It's not about policies.

00:00:40.880 It's all about principles.

00:00:43.120 That and so much more on today's podcast.

00:00:45.080 You don't want to miss a second of it.

00:00:46.280 Here it comes.

00:00:47.100 Let me tell you about Jace.

00:00:48.300 Literally every day we move closer to potential war with countries like Russia and China and even North Korea.

00:00:54.000 It's insanity.

00:00:55.080 There's a new report out that President Biden or whoever is signing for him these days signed off on a classified plan that is moving our nuclear strategy to focus on those countries.

00:01:05.260 Hey, that would be good.

00:01:06.660 That would be really good.

00:01:08.160 You know what would be even greater is if we didn't do nuclear war, but those countries all gathered together and said we're not shipping anything to the United States anymore because they make our medication. 0.70

00:01:19.360 Like 19 out of 21 critical medications all made by China.

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00:01:39.600 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:53.400 All right.

00:01:54.100 Let's say hello to Stupor Gear, our executive producer.

00:01:57.660 Hello.

00:01:57.840 So do you believe in global warming now, mister, after your house almost burned down?

00:02:03.400 No, no, I really don't know.

00:02:06.960 And my house was never in danger, thanks to the fire department up here.

00:02:10.480 But no, I really don't.

00:02:12.660 It's like this every summer.

00:02:14.860 You know what I mean?

00:02:16.660 It's like this every summer because it gets hot and dry.

00:02:20.620 No, no, no.

00:02:22.140 It's always we're in what's called the upper desert or high desert.

00:02:25.720 And it always is dry in August.

00:02:30.000 And and lo and behold, it was again this year.

00:02:33.920 So it was actually really frightening.

00:02:35.860 Do we have any of the video of it?

00:02:38.180 I took some video last night.

00:02:40.140 This is me driving up to it.

00:02:42.360 This is on my neighbor's land.

00:02:45.380 I mean, it's these flames are large.

00:02:48.080 Look at that.

00:02:49.160 Look at that.

00:02:50.440 Oh, my gosh.

00:02:51.360 It was terrifying, Stupor.

00:02:53.820 It really does.

00:02:54.440 That's the side of a hill.

00:02:55.720 Yeah, it looks like the type of footage you see on the news.

00:02:58.040 But when you hear an entire like, you know, thousands and thousands of acres have burned

00:03:02.380 down and everyone has to flee.

00:03:03.680 Like, that's what it looks like.

00:03:04.860 It was frightening.

00:03:06.360 It was frightening.

00:03:07.360 Thank God we didn't have high winds last night.

00:03:09.740 We always have.

00:03:10.840 I mean, last week we had 30 to 50 mile an hour winds up here the whole week.

00:03:15.300 If that would have happened, it would have burned down the whole valley.

00:03:20.520 But look at that.

00:03:21.420 It is just those were 30 to 40 foot flames.

00:03:25.720 James, at one point.

00:03:28.040 And you could feel, look how far away I am.

00:03:30.460 I got out of the truck and you could feel the heat.

00:03:33.800 It was terrifying.

00:03:36.840 Then we went down and here, just run up the audio on this, would you?

00:03:40.860 These are the firefighters.

00:03:42.840 They backburned.

00:03:44.580 Here come the firefighters out of it now.

00:03:46.780 They backburned it and it is, it looks fairly under control.

00:03:52.160 They think it's out.

00:03:55.840 Thank God.

00:03:57.300 Good job, Oneida Fire Department.

00:03:58.640 I mean, they had bulldozers out and water trucks out.

00:04:04.660 I mean, so fast.

00:04:06.600 It was really remarkable.

00:04:08.480 The Oneida Fire Department.

00:04:10.100 Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

00:04:12.860 Thank you.

00:04:13.520 Thank you, the birds and the bees and the deer and all of the animals.

00:04:19.960 Thank you.

00:04:20.940 They thank you.

00:04:23.920 Ah, it was weird.

00:04:25.440 Anyway, speaking of things burning down to the ground, how about the Constitution?

00:04:29.680 The New York Times just released an op-ed, the America's Constitution is sacred, but is

00:04:43.420 it also the biggest threat to our politics? 0.58

00:04:46.360 Bum, bum, bum!

00:04:48.960 Yes, it actually is a threat to our politics.

00:04:53.320 Yes, as it should be a threat to our politics.

00:04:57.500 The United States Constitution is in trouble after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.

00:05:04.000 Really?

00:05:04.680 Is that when it became in trouble, Stu?

00:05:06.720 I mean, I'm just, I'm thinking back, I'm thinking back, you know, a little bit before

00:05:12.540 Donald Trump, like, I don't know, Woodrow Wilson, and I've been thinking the Constitution

00:05:18.600 has been in trouble since about then.

00:05:20.680 Maybe it's just me?

00:05:22.760 Yeah, that doesn't seem like it was a little bit earlier, considering, you know, the words

00:05:26.480 of Woodrow Wilson who try to basically do to the founding documents what happened to that

00:05:33.180 neighbor's mountain.

00:05:35.300 Like, just light it on fire and watch it burn. 0.78

00:05:37.740 Yeah, yeah. 0.68

00:05:38.480 I mean, that was it.

00:05:39.620 By announcing his desire to throw at Donald Trump, to throw off constitutional constraints

00:05:44.200 in order to satisfy his personal ambitions, Trump was making his authoritarian inclinations

00:05:49.480 abundantly clear.

00:05:50.420 Now, let me ask you, who is the one that is currently talking about the redesign of the

00:05:58.280 Supreme Court?

00:06:00.080 I mean, by the way, I just want you to know, that's what dictators always do.

00:06:04.960 That is the last step to a banana republic. 0.91

00:06:07.520 That is the point of no return when you have the president or the prime minister or whoever

00:06:13.300 change the makeup of the Supreme Court.

00:06:16.320 That's the last straw.

00:06:18.900 Now, which one of those is doing that?

00:06:21.160 Glenn, we're just talking about a return to normalcy.

00:06:24.060 That's all that is.

00:06:25.080 That whole renovating the Supreme Court into something that has never existed is a return

00:06:30.160 to normalcy.

00:06:31.180 Yeah.

00:06:31.880 May I ask you, Stu, isn't this exactly the same thing they did with Joe Biden?

00:06:39.660 They ran him and he didn't talk to the press.

00:06:42.860 He never was in front of people.

00:06:44.440 He was in his basement when he was out.

00:06:47.600 He was always on prompter.

00:06:49.840 And then they just made the case that he was normal.

00:06:53.560 He was just like you.

00:06:54.780 He was for all the things you were for, just a return to normalcy.

00:06:58.820 That's exactly what they're doing again.

00:07:02.360 America, come on. 1.00

00:07:04.080 Yeah.

00:07:04.280 Really?

00:07:04.940 Yeah, of course.

00:07:05.880 And, you know, Glenn, it's important to understand this return to normalcy just pervades this

00:07:09.880 throughout the entire campaign.

00:07:12.640 Like, for example, the return to normalcy of having debates that go through the Presidential

00:07:19.540 Commission on debates.

00:07:22.000 Remember that whole thing?

00:07:23.080 That's now basically defunct because the President of the United States decided he was going to

00:07:27.440 be cocky and cancel one of the debates, leave the normal format, and then taunt his opponent

00:07:34.860 about it and lose so badly that he had to end his political career.

00:07:40.180 And then the person who took over for them not only didn't go back to the commission and say,

00:07:46.120 hey, let's start this up again.

00:07:47.140 Let's do three of these things.

00:07:48.180 No, no.

00:07:48.820 She just had the one that was already there and then tried to change the rules of that 0.69

00:07:53.460 and then also taunted her opponent in the debate. 1.00

00:07:57.420 Let's see if she shows up because that would be, I think, the most normal thing possible.

00:08:01.720 Yeah.

00:08:01.900 Well, you forgot the most normal part of that story, and that is getting the nomination without

00:08:07.520 a single vote cast for her.

00:08:09.300 Normal.

00:08:10.180 It's normal, guys.

00:08:11.720 Totally normal.

00:08:12.900 Constitutional and totally normal and really what people are demanding.

00:08:19.500 Anyway, it's no surprise then that liberals charged Trump with being a menace to the Constitution,

00:08:25.020 but his presidency and the prospect of his re-election have also generated another very

00:08:30.360 different argument, that Trump owes his political assent to the Constitution, making him a beneficiary

00:08:38.200 of a document that is essentially anti-democratic.

00:08:42.660 Wait.

00:08:44.920 Wait.

00:08:46.620 Wait.

00:08:47.060 You say we're a democracy.

00:08:47.700 You say we're a democracy, okay?

00:08:50.640 You say we've always been a democracy.

00:08:53.280 What would make us a democracy would be the Constitution, but we're not a democracy.

00:08:59.840 The Constitution says we have democratic attributes, but we are a republic.

00:09:05.460 And now you're calling this an anti-democratic document?

00:09:12.920 I mean, after all, Trump became president in 2016 after losing the popular vote but winning

00:09:19.820 the Electoral College.

00:09:20.920 Oh, my gosh.

00:09:23.240 Oh, my gosh.

00:09:23.780 You're not going to believe this, Stu.

00:09:26.640 He appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, Article 3, two of whom were just confirmed

00:09:31.920 by senators representing 44% of the population, Article 1, whose three justices helped overturn

00:09:37.620 Roe v. Wade, a reversal that most Americans disagreed with.

00:09:41.440 Eminent legal scholar Edwin Chemerinsky.

00:09:44.660 Yes, I love Erwin Chemerinsky.

00:09:49.400 They put him in place a long time ago.

00:09:51.600 He is great.

00:09:53.280 He's an eminent scholar, and he's worried about opinion polls showing a dramatic loss of faith

00:09:57.880 in democracy.

00:10:00.300 There's never been any faith in democracy!

00:10:04.500 He writes in his new book, No Democracy Lasts Forever.

00:10:08.440 No, in fact, that's why we're not a democracy, and that's why our Constitution has lasted.

00:10:12.880 When the average Constitution of the world lasts 17 years, ours has survived since 1781.

00:10:24.620 I don't know, a little longer than 17 years.

00:10:29.800 Anyway, no democracy lasts forever.

00:10:33.200 It's important for Americans to see that the failure stems from the Constitution itself.

00:10:38.060 Oh, really?

00:10:39.640 Yes, Mr. Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law School.

00:10:44.020 Of course.

00:10:45.960 That's Kamala Harris' hometown, by the way. 1.00

00:10:47.780 I just want to point that out.

00:10:48.580 It's not Oakland.

00:10:50.080 No, it's Oakland.

00:10:50.940 She told me it was Oakland.

00:10:51.720 I know she's a daughter of Oakland, but actually she grew up in Berkeley and Montreal,

00:10:57.140 and then went to Howard University, and then went to San Francisco.

00:11:01.580 So, you want to talk about a path to the normal middle.

00:11:07.340 She's a red, white, and blue person.

00:11:09.260 She, like, screams Constitution in small-town America from Berkeley, California. 0.99

00:11:14.440 Just a heavy emphasis on the red.

00:11:17.200 So, what are you saying?

00:11:22.120 Red, white, and blue.

00:11:24.920 That's who she is? 0.66

00:11:26.080 Red, white, and blue.

00:11:28.480 Yes, she's all-American.

00:11:30.040 Anyway, he says, Americans have a problem with the Constitution.

00:11:39.400 And Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Political Law School, seemed to place considerable faith in Constitution,

00:11:46.520 pleading with federal progressives in this book, We the People, not to turn backs on Constitution or the courts.

00:11:53.020 But, by contrast, no democracy lasts forever.

00:11:57.220 Markedly pessimistic.

00:11:59.300 Asserting that the Constitution, which is famously difficult to amend,

00:12:04.240 it's difficult to amend?

00:12:05.860 Those should be walk-in park.

00:12:09.160 They should be able to, like, Mama makes apple pie. 0.99

00:12:12.660 When she makes that apple pie, she puts it on shelf, and some neighbor can come and just get it. 1.00

00:12:21.300 I see it in American cartoons.

00:12:23.420 And it should be that easy to amend Constitution.

00:12:27.340 But it's not.

00:12:28.600 It's very difficult.

00:12:30.620 And he says, what would need to happen is a new constitutional convention.

00:12:35.460 And in the book's more somber moments, which I wrote, I entertain possibility of secession.

00:12:44.440 Vladimir Putin, not for secession at all.

00:12:48.200 No.

00:12:49.020 He loves the Constitution of the United States.

00:12:53.600 And West Coast states might form a nation called Pacifica.

00:12:59.240 Red states might form their own country. 0.81

00:13:01.800 But he hopes that any divorce, if it comes, will be peaceful.

00:13:08.160 Okay.

00:13:08.580 So, hang on just a second.

00:13:10.120 So, this guy's from Berkeley, and he's talking about Pacifica.

00:13:12.860 Where have I heard this before?

00:13:15.300 Where did I hear this before?

00:13:17.600 I remember.

00:13:18.760 Do you remember before the 2020 election, Stu?

00:13:21.520 The Democrats had some group together that was going to save America, remember, in case Donald Trump won.

00:13:28.480 And one of the things they said was, we will have California break up West Coast into Pacifica, California, parts of Oregon, maybe parts of Washington State would become Pacifica.

00:13:44.840 And that we would break away.

00:13:46.820 And if they didn't want us to break away, then we demand that Trump add two states.

00:13:54.800 One would be Washington, D.C.

00:13:57.820 And the other one would be make a state out of Puerto Rico.

00:14:02.580 How I remember that now.

00:14:05.200 Gee.

00:14:06.340 And what was their problem?

00:14:07.420 Oh, their problem was the Electoral College, which is weird because he just didn't mention the Electoral College.

00:14:14.480 The prospect of secession sounds extreme, he says.

00:14:18.840 But in suggesting that the Constitution could hasten the end of American democracy, Chemerinsky is far from alone.

00:14:27.360 Lots of people.

00:14:28.660 I've got Boris and Natasha say same thing.

00:14:32.720 The argument that what ails the country's politics isn't simply the president or Congress or the Supreme Court,

00:14:39.140 but the founding document itself, right?

00:14:44.160 That's been our problem for the last 250 years.

00:14:48.460 The longest running constitution in the longest running republic in human history.

00:14:58.720 And that's our problem.

00:15:00.180 All along, that's our problem.

00:15:02.380 It's not like we haven't had a good run of success here.

00:15:05.400 You know, it would be one thing if, like, we were – there was an area of outer Mongolia that the entire United States looked like,

00:15:12.460 and we were a little disappointed in the progress we had made.

00:15:15.680 But, like, it's kind of the most advanced country ever, you know, developed.

00:15:22.760 It's overseen this incredible, you know, all these incredible innovations.

00:15:30.420 Yeah, go ahead.

00:15:31.180 Have you looked at Aurora, Colorado?

00:15:33.580 That's the Constitution's fault.

00:15:36.060 Oh, when the Venezuelans are taking over the apartment complexes? 1.00

00:15:39.260 Yes.

00:15:39.840 Okay.

00:15:40.420 Yes.

00:15:40.800 That's how is that?

00:15:41.740 Constitution's fault.

00:15:42.860 Why?

00:15:43.340 How's that?

00:15:43.860 Constitution?

00:15:44.660 Yeah.

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00:17:11.760 Now back to the podcast.

00:17:13.180 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:17.620 Welcome to the program, Nicole Shanahan.

00:17:20.460 We're thrilled to have you on, Nicole.

00:17:22.480 How are you?

00:17:23.620 Hi.

00:17:24.160 I'm very good, Glenn.

00:17:25.280 How are you doing?

00:17:26.540 I'm good.

00:17:27.280 You know, I'm excited to talk to you for multiple reasons, but we're not going to really talk about policies because I'm sure we disagree a lot on policies.

00:17:39.180 But there is a bigger umbrella that we both really agree on, and that is the Bill of Rights and what is happening to our country right now.

00:17:51.920 Can you take us from where you were when you first signed up with RFK, and what changed you to the point to where you're now saying, yeah, I mean, Robert is right.

00:18:05.900 He should be running with Trump.

00:18:07.320 Yeah, you know, I have been, I'm a lifelong California Democrat, liberal.

00:18:16.360 I've worked really hard over the last 15 years of my life to try to do the right thing, create, you know, a merit-based society.

00:18:28.100 I do it with a lot of love.

00:18:30.800 I do it with a lot of desire.

00:18:32.660 And I do it with a lot of science as well.

00:18:35.540 I'm an AI developer in Silicon Valley, affiliated with Stanford now for over 10 years, went to law school in Silicon Valley, was an IP lawyer, an entrepreneur.

00:18:47.560 So I, you know, was very comfortable within the Democratic Party for many years.

00:18:54.680 But I have to say something happened in 2016 that started a cascading series of events that has led to a morpheus in the Democratic Party that make it immoral.

00:19:12.820 And in my opinion, unprincipled, lacking honesty, lacking transparency, lacking competence, and they feel entitled to throw away very, very important principles, principles like the Bill of Rights, principles like, you know, our First Amendment, free speech, principles like not using sabotage in democratic processes.

00:19:38.860 And they feel entitled entirely.

00:19:42.860 And I've done this investigation.

00:19:44.140 I did this investigation prior to leaving the party because I tried to reform the party.

00:19:48.740 I tried for years to find someone at the DNC.

00:19:52.780 You know, they gutted, you know, any real leadership at the DNC.

00:19:56.120 They put in a guy who's just, you know, they don't even bother to talk to the official leadership at the DNC because they think it's irrelevant.

00:20:05.220 It's just a carry-along program now.

00:20:08.340 It's just a carry-along group that just is almost an administrative pocket for the Pelosi contingent.

00:20:18.920 And so I saw it falling apart from the inside with a great deal of concern.

00:20:25.160 And, you know, at some point as a donor, they kind of just push you into a corner and they say, well, if you don't want Donald Trump, you have to support us.

00:20:36.280 And that's their bottom line.

00:20:37.520 That's all they have left as a policy is not Donald Trump.

00:20:42.040 And my last response in the weeks before I left the party was, that is not a policy.

00:20:48.980 That is not leadership.

00:20:51.200 You can't run on a platform of not Donald Trump.

00:20:56.000 And, you know, go on.

00:20:57.980 It amazes me that so many people are willing to say to the person who was the lowest-ranked vice president, really despised by the people.

00:21:15.040 She couldn't hold anybody in her office.

00:21:17.880 Her policies were all upside down for America in 2020 when she was running for president. 0.99

00:21:24.740 And now people are saying, oh, she's the greatest.

00:21:29.640 Oh, she's great. 0.89

00:21:30.520 They don't care about the policies.

00:21:32.480 They're voting for an oligarchy.

00:21:34.540 They're voting for a machine.

00:21:36.660 They don't care.

00:21:39.060 Yeah.

00:21:39.620 And, you know, I think the thing that makes me really sad is that they're using these wonderful American sensibilities and they're abusing them to manipulate their voter base.

00:21:52.420 And, you know, she's a woman of color.

00:21:57.100 She, you know, is selling that for everything it's worth right now. 0.90

00:22:03.520 And that, to me, is the kind of thing that goes against the very liberal principles that I was raised with.

00:22:11.700 I was raised with, you know, yes, we should have a social net.

00:22:16.540 We should not be racist.

00:22:19.300 We should fight for the underrepresented.

00:22:22.340 But that is not what this is.

00:22:24.360 This has morphed into something else entirely that tells people that it doesn't matter how incompetent you are.

00:22:37.560 If you can check a box of a minority on a sheet, that is enough. 0.99

00:22:43.240 And you should be celebrated for that fact.

00:22:47.440 And that, to me, is really sad.

00:22:50.740 And that's why when people say, oh, the Democratic Party is all of these liberal progressives.

00:22:55.920 That's not what that is.

00:22:57.520 That is actually a form of racism, in my opinion, because it creates a hierarchy based on race.

00:23:05.560 Yes.

00:23:06.040 It goes against everything Martin Luther King taught.

00:23:09.940 Everything that Martin Luther King taught.

00:23:12.240 Everything.

00:23:12.940 And all of the things I was raised on in Oakland as a little girl coming up.

00:23:17.380 And I'm a, you know, I'm a brownish woman.

00:23:20.260 Like, I have, I grew up in Oakland and Oakland public school systems.

00:23:25.860 And I was in a very multicultural place.

00:23:29.280 And these are not the principles I was raised with.

00:23:31.740 So this is coming from someplace else.

00:23:34.100 And it does ring more closely to what my mother grew up in, with in communist China, which is this single narrative totalitarianism, which uses phrases and slogans and really kind of a form of cultural brainwashing to really solidify power.

00:24:01.000 So talk to me about, because I look, I really don't mind.

00:24:08.360 There's opposition in all things and we should be having debates.

00:24:12.120 I don't want my way or the highway.

00:24:13.480 And I'm perfectly willing to accept that America might disagree with me and go another way and vote for another candidate.

00:24:20.080 If we're actually talking about, you know, if we're not lying to each other, you know, we're not, you know, just operating with chaos and confusion or, you know, rigging the system.

00:24:40.100 But that's, I think, what's happening.

00:24:42.740 And I don't know how, Nicole, we can, can reach out to our, you know, our neighbors.

00:24:51.160 I believe Democrats are good people.

00:24:52.800 I think some of them are bad, just like some Republicans are bad.

00:24:55.600 But, but the average person that lives, you know, on my street, that is, that votes differently, I don't think they want totalitarianism.

00:25:03.940 I don't think they want another war.

00:25:06.140 How do we talk to them to get them to wake up and go, wait a minute, this is not what they say they are.

00:25:15.600 This is, this is not the Democratic Party anymore.

00:25:19.100 Yeah, I had, you know, I'll just be honest with you, Glenn, like, my lived experience now running for office with RFK Jr.

00:25:31.880 as a third party and seeing how low the Democrats went and how they qualified their behavior with these beliefs that, you know, some of them know are just not true.

00:25:44.620 Like, let's talk about what Rachel Maddow said about if Trump wins, he will be a dictator and he will send people like me to camps.

00:25:54.580 That's some, that is a big statement for someone on the mainstream media to say, this is not a joke.

00:26:02.780 And so people who respect the mainstream media are watching this and taking it as truth.

00:26:09.520 And it really, so, you know, I feel like my job has been trying to take statements like that and unpackage them for the, for the Democrats who are listening to that and only receiving their news through these channels and telling them, I'm really sorry you believe this.

00:26:31.580 It's a scary thing to believe.

00:26:33.580 I know you believe it fully in your being right now, but she's lying to you.

00:26:38.260 This is the best of the Glenn Beck podcast.

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00:26:45.580 Hello, Americans.

00:26:46.800 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:26:48.320 Tucker Carlson is taking his show on the road.

00:26:50.960 According to NBC News, he starts this weekend with nothing but a bunch of far right provocateurs.

00:27:01.640 That's why it began.

00:27:04.140 When I think far right, I think Russell Brand.

00:27:06.900 Don't you?

00:27:08.260 Uh, and, uh, Russell Brand is kicking it off.

00:27:11.280 Um, I think in Phoenix this Wednesday and then Tucker and I are going to be in Salt Lake City.

00:27:18.280 And of course I'm a far right, uh, pundit, uh, conspiracy theorist.

00:27:22.320 Uh, and, uh, it's extremely disturbing what Tucker is doing.

00:27:26.160 And, uh, uh, I'm so very proud to help him with that extremely disturbing, uh, uh, project that he's working on to, you know, restore actual freedom to America.

00:27:37.580 Uh, I'll be with him in Salt Lake.

00:27:40.020 You can get your tickets now.

00:27:42.680 I don't really know where, I think it's, is it tuckercarlson.com?

00:27:47.560 Is that his website?

00:27:48.920 Check it out, Stu, would you?

00:27:50.260 I think it's tuckercarlson.com.

00:27:51.700 But, uh, I hope to see you, uh, on Saturday in Salt Lake City.

00:27:57.560 And then I'm coming home, Stu.

00:27:58.780 Then I'm, I'm done with the ranch.

00:28:00.220 I'm done with the ranch.

00:28:01.020 A little fire.

00:28:01.860 That's all it took.

00:28:02.820 Just a little forest fire.

00:28:04.560 Wuss. 0.94

00:28:05.220 Total wuss. 0.95

00:28:05.960 Just running away from all the danger as usual. 0.92

00:28:09.740 We kind of hoped you were up there for a little bit longer because I think we're going to get, next time we set a fire there, we're going to, we're going to be a lot better at targeting your house.

00:28:17.200 But, uh, I, I'm a little.

00:28:19.580 And we're going to lock all the doors from the outside, Glenn.

00:28:21.860 But don't worry about it.

00:28:22.860 Don't worry about that.

00:28:23.500 We'll be like, like China during COVID. 1.00

00:28:24.960 We're going to weld you into your home.

00:28:26.960 Right.

00:28:27.300 Um, do, are you a little disturbed at some of these hardcore right wingers though?

00:28:31.300 I mean, you know, for example, Tulsi Gabbard, you want to talk about a hardcore right, hardcore right winger.

00:28:38.720 So right wing.

00:28:39.980 Yeah.

00:28:40.280 That she not only endorsed Bernie Sanders at one point, but actually ran for president in a democratic primary against the, the, against Donald Trump.

00:28:48.980 She's, you know, she's like, it's not just an open flat scale.

00:28:53.060 It's more of a circle.

00:28:54.240 And she's so far right that she's almost left.

00:28:58.600 Yeah.

00:28:58.800 Yes.

00:28:59.160 It's weird.

00:29:00.220 It's almost, almost.

00:29:02.020 Yeah.

00:29:02.580 But, uh, she's going to be there spreading her lies. 0.95

00:29:05.360 I was with her this weekend.

00:29:06.440 I just love her.

00:29:07.620 I just think she's great.

00:29:09.060 Have you ever heard of a group?

00:29:10.540 Uh, cause I was with the moms for Liberty, um, this weekend and Donald Trump, uh, spoke on Friday and he was absolutely fantastic.

00:29:21.160 Uh, we have to find this video and see if we can play it or promote it.

00:29:25.780 Maybe it's on YouTube.

00:29:26.640 Um, but he did an interview, uh, on the stage at moms for Liberty and it was so good.

00:29:33.440 It was the best I've ever heard.

00:29:34.860 Everyone who saw him said, I wish every American who hates him could have watched this because he was so comfortable in his skin.

00:29:42.800 He wasn't blasting everybody.

00:29:44.900 He was just talking.

00:29:47.020 Uh, and it was really, really good.

00:29:50.100 Um, then Tulsi spoke, uh, the next day and she's fabulous as always. 0.90

00:29:55.080 I think too, uh, part of this has been because Trump has done a lot of really long interviews and you can pull out a couple of things he says that, you know, he obviously has fun with it.

00:30:06.060 He gets, he gets a little insulting at times.

00:30:07.940 He does that stuff and that's the stuff that, that leaks out of there.

00:30:10.540 But for the millions of people who actually watch these podcasts and pay attention to these things, like, I think they're getting a totally different impression of Trump right now.

00:30:17.980 And when you compare it to what you're getting from the other side, which is one interview in 60 plus days with an interview buddy, like, I don't know.

00:30:30.020 Again, return to normalcy.

00:30:31.760 Which one's more normal?

00:30:33.120 The one who's really talking about the things he believes, who has his vice president on every Sunday show, every weekend, the one who's doing like lengthy interview after lengthy interview, or is it the person that's completely hiding from the public and who has not done an interview?

00:30:46.920 And I still think this is extending.

00:30:48.940 People are like, oh, well, he, she wasn't doing an interview for 40 days.

00:30:51.720 No, it was more like 60.

00:30:52.740 She hasn't done an interview since the CNN debate night.

00:30:56.100 That night was the last time she actually did an interview.

00:30:58.520 And I don't count what she did with Tim Walls.

00:31:00.960 It's not an interview when you're not by yourself.

00:31:04.360 Be, be, you're supposed to be president of the United States.

00:31:08.220 You can't do an interview by yourself.

00:31:10.540 Step up.

00:31:11.700 Well, he's such a teddy bear though.

00:31:13.840 He's such a Midwestern teddy bear, you know?

00:31:16.180 Well, he's like a, he's like a swimmy.

00:31:18.880 He, she, like they threw Kamala into the deep end and she made sure they had Tim Walls swimmies on. 1.00

00:31:23.700 It's, it's embarrassing.

00:31:25.260 She's trying to be president of the United States. 1.00

00:31:27.940 Yeah.

00:31:28.760 Hey, have you heard of this group?

00:31:30.940 I met the founder this weekend.

00:31:34.540 I just absolutely love her.

00:31:37.060 This group called Gays Against Groomers. 0.55

00:31:41.280 Gays Against Groomers? 0.99

00:31:41.980 I don't think I have, no.

00:31:43.480 Oh my gosh.

00:31:44.380 Everybody should know these people.

00:31:46.180 I mean, they are fantastic.

00:31:49.400 They are gay people who are like, okay, enough is enough here. 1.00

00:31:53.720 This is grooming. 0.99

00:31:55.640 You know, no, that none of this should be in schools.

00:31:59.660 None of this should be talked, talked about.

00:32:02.080 It's, it's abuse.

00:32:03.480 It's grooming kids.

00:32:04.880 And they're again, they stand with us on absolutely everything when it comes to kids and what's happening in our schools.

00:32:12.680 Absolutely everything.

00:32:13.740 And they are, they found themselves in a position, and they don't really care, of being a pariah.

00:32:20.640 They're, they're not welcome, you know, in most places on either side.

00:32:25.860 The left absolutely hates them.

00:32:28.240 The founder, the founder, I think she's been debanked.

00:32:32.260 They can't use Facebook and she can't use Facebook. 0.79

00:32:36.880 Facebook, Instagram, Elon put her back up on X.

00:32:42.340 I mean, the whole thing has been just silence these people.

00:32:46.720 They can't get any sponsorship money.

00:32:48.800 So, they're not rich people, and they're paying for everything themselves, and all they're doing is just standing up for our kids.

00:32:57.000 It is, I want to have them on the air, because I think you should know about them.

00:33:02.000 I mean, anybody, I will stand with anyone who will stand up for our children and our Constitution, and quite frankly, common sense.

00:33:09.660 I mean, there's some things that we disagree with, but not really much that's, like, critical right now to solve.

00:33:20.860 They're amazing.

00:33:22.060 They're amazing.

00:33:23.160 Isn't that more consistent, too, with, and who knows, maybe we're out of the mainstream here, but, like, isn't that much more consistent with the gay people that you know?

00:33:31.540 Yes.

00:33:31.640 They're just like, okay, like, you know, we obviously have different ideas of what, you know, what we do in our private life, whatever. 0.64

00:33:37.340 But, like, we don't want people to be hanging out their genitals at, you know, story hours. 0.60

00:33:46.700 Like, that's not, I don't think that's the norm for gay people. 0.94

00:33:51.180 Yeah, I don't think so either.

00:33:52.320 I think every gay person that I know should be joining this group. 0.86

00:33:59.080 Because every gay person I know is normal except, you know, who they sleep with. 1.00

00:34:04.160 It's, you know, not normal for me in my life and, you know, my friends.

00:34:08.520 But they're normal.

00:34:10.580 Everything else, you know, it's like, hey.

00:34:13.580 And they're not bad people.

00:34:15.520 And I could live next door.

00:34:17.440 And we could have great times.

00:34:20.400 Because who they sleep with is up to them.

00:34:23.560 That's between them, their partner, God, whatever.

00:34:27.160 Not my business.

00:34:28.320 And these people are just great.

00:34:31.360 I just fell in love with them.

00:34:33.440 Just fell in love with them. 0.97

00:34:35.760 So if you're gay, would you join them? 0.99

00:34:38.460 Would you even look? 0.95

00:34:39.360 Do they even have a, I mean, I wonder if they even have a website.

00:34:43.300 These people have come under attack like nobody's business.

00:34:46.420 And they're, you know, imagine, imagine being a gay person in today's world where everything is just 100%. 0.97

00:34:59.740 Hey, you know what? 0.99

00:35:01.360 We should put our genitals right in front of children. 1.00

00:35:05.220 And you're against that.

00:35:07.020 You know, Glenn, as I said, I was not familiar with this group.

00:35:09.500 And I just said, you know, you mentioned what's their website.

00:35:11.240 So I Googled them and the top, there's like a Wikipedia hit there, of course.

00:35:16.200 But then there is the, of course, before their own website is this.

00:35:22.120 Gays Against Groomers is a chapter-based organization that amplifies dehumanizing anti-trans rhetoric.

00:35:28.580 Yeah, that's what they were all about.

00:35:29.760 Anti-LGBTQ plus stereotypes by falsely claiming that LGBTQ supporters of trans rights are dangerous to society, 0.96

00:35:37.740 including equating gender-affirming health care with pedophilia and calling trans people a bloodthirsty terrorist cult.

00:35:45.980 It directs online harassment and intimidation campaigns targeting LGBTQ people and events, including drag shows, hospitals, and libraries. 0.76

00:35:54.980 The group's members have associations with other extremist groups.

00:35:59.180 Probably Nazis. 0.93

00:36:00.280 Trade in racist and anti-Muslim rhetoric and advocate gender-affirming care bans and banning LGBTQ books and ideas from public schools. 0.81

00:36:11.420 Shockingly, they are on the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, hate groups. 0.95

00:36:16.720 The only gay people who could possibly find their way onto a hate group.

00:36:21.880 Congratulations, you found the one group, Glenn. 1.00

00:36:24.020 Well, I will tell you, what's shocking to me is that they didn't include the fact that I believe they're making Zyklon B right now to kill all the Jews. 0.77

00:36:34.080 Wow, yeah, maybe I have to scroll down a little bit to find that.

00:36:38.060 That might be the third story when you Google their name.

00:36:41.600 Gays Against Groomers, these people are so great. 1.00

00:36:44.460 Just so great.

00:36:45.380 I believe their actual website is gaysagainstgroomers.com, in case you happen to be interested.

00:36:50.120 Yeah, okay, okay.

00:36:53.680 All right.

00:36:55.680 Let me see.

00:36:56.360 I was going to talk about something.

00:36:57.600 Oh, yeah.

00:36:58.340 By the way, the people who are for democracy, okay, they're absolutely for it.

00:37:06.220 Next hour, we're going to show you what they're doing to Elon Musk, and I'm going to tell you a story about what's happening in Brazil.

00:37:13.080 This is quite possibly the most important story that is out right now because our government, our State Department, is helping Brazil ban an American citizen and showing them how to stop freedom of speech.

00:37:32.220 It's amazing what we're doing, but we're going to get into that.

00:37:36.500 But remember, they just love democracy.

00:37:39.000 Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Democratic member Minnesota Governor Tim Walz began their bus tour, kicking off their outreach to voters following the Democratic National Convention.

00:37:49.900 The Democratic campaign Saturday was called out for barring post-gazette reporters from the announcement and parts of the Democratic National Convention.

00:38:02.080 As of this writing, they also have banned them from all future events where they have the ability to control access.

00:38:08.340 So the great thing is, is they're barring any newspaper or any journalist from covering them if they don't like them, which I don't think is what dictators do.

00:38:23.860 I mean, dictators bar them and then kill them, but they haven't killed any reporters yet.

00:38:30.140 You know what I'm saying, Stu?

00:38:31.480 I mean, this is so overblown.

00:38:35.520 Okay, so they're, they're, they're, they're banning reporters.

00:38:41.160 Okay.

00:38:42.840 I mean, look, I think if you look at it, they are allowing journalists to stay alive, to continue to do their job occasionally.

00:38:53.200 I mean, that is a, that is a gift from our government.

00:38:57.160 All rights are gifts directly from our government.

00:39:00.620 That's how our society is ordered.

00:39:02.820 And thank, thank God it is for these, the benevolent people in our U.S. government to allow us to do these things like speak freely.

00:39:11.220 Wow.

00:39:11.540 It's, it's such a miracle.

00:39:13.860 Yeah.

00:39:14.900 Apparently the union is involved in part of this, but denying access to disfavored press as a favor to political allies just further, further institutionalizes the new normal.

00:39:25.340 I love that, the new normal, uh, where application of all principles depend on whether you're a friend or an enemy.

00:39:32.940 Today, the Harris-Waltz campaign considers the Post-Gazette to be its enemy.

00:39:37.020 That's the Pittsburgh paper, by the way, and denies us the right accorded to others.

00:39:41.620 Tomorrow, who's next?

00:39:43.960 I don't know.

00:39:45.240 Everybody who disagrees with them.

00:39:47.120 That's who.

00:39:47.580 But remember, they're very, very, very pro-freedom, pro-free speech, pro-the Constitution.

00:39:56.180 They love it.

00:39:57.300 And, of course, a big fan of democracy.

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