Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Michael Schellenberger (D-CA) join the show to talk about their campaigns. Glenn and Stu talk about the drag queen show in Dallas, TX, and the government is trying to get you to vote for gay marriage.
00:00:00.000Welcome to the podcast. Today, we talk to Senator Rand Paul. He's on the show to talk about his race, where he's running against someone who has released an ad with his head in a noose.
00:00:11.980Not Rand Paul's head, but in his own head in a noose. Just despicable.
00:00:18.080Then we have Michael Schellenberger on, who is running for governor of California.
00:00:22.660He's an independent running in this race. The primary is actually tomorrow.
00:00:25.720And what's interesting about him is, obviously, it's California. Democrats usually win in California. Blah, blah, blah. We know that.
00:00:34.120Well, Gavin Newsom's terrible, and we don't want him to win.
00:00:37.020Michael Schellenberger, however, is an alternative to Gavin Newsom from the sense that everyone in California who knows politics there is saying he's the one guy who can actually beat Gavin Newsom.
00:00:50.700He's an independent and but is sensible. You wouldn't agree with him on every topic, but there's a lot you do agree with him on.
00:00:56.500He's going to go through some of that today. Make sure to check out the subscribe and make sure to subscribe, rate and review to this podcast.
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00:01:35.520You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:38.860I think, I think the main issue here is why, why over and over again are the American people requiring drag queens to wait until four years old to dance in front of them?
00:04:26.860He's the former president of ABC news and a mastery, a master documentary storyteller who ran good morning America and nightline.
00:04:36.900And he has now joined the committee of un-American activities on January 6th as an unannounced advisor.
00:04:47.200Now, if you'll say to yourself, gee, um, making this into a prime time special and hyping it like this, um, and having an ABC producer and former president, uh, that ran good morning America.
00:05:29.240He also wants it to draw the eyeballs of Americans who haven't followed the ins and outs of the Capitol riot probe.
00:05:37.400So he says it's going to be a mix of live witnesses and pre-produced video.
00:05:44.180And at the end, you can vote on a special one nine hundred number.
00:05:50.400The committee has gained access to the official White House photographs from January 6th that have never been seen publicly.
00:05:58.720And we will open Donald Trump's vault.
00:06:04.480Geraldo Rivera will be there to open it up.
00:06:09.180Um, now there's I mean, I don't you know, I, of course, think this is a great idea, you know, to, you know, make our our hearings into a prime time made for TV special.
00:06:41.720He was the guy apparently that said Epstein, what Epstein stories?
00:06:49.140We don't need your stinking Epstein stories here.
00:06:52.660Uh, he was the guy that, uh, yeah, kind of buried that for ABC.
00:06:58.220Remember that being a kind of a problem.
00:07:03.300In a letter, ABC News president James Goldston, the guy that we were just talking about, uh, wrote they're deeply concerned that this victim in search of justice went to ABC News.
00:08:02.820...escalated criticism from many of the people who are around, have, were around Jeffrey Epstein when, of course, he was alive back in those days.
00:08:13.760Uh, those people seem to be highly critical of Elon.
00:09:33.400When, when, when you're on the plane more than Bill Clinton, that's saying something.
00:09:40.560That's, didn't he say too, he was like a smooth guy.
00:09:43.640Hey, he was just trying to get his hard drive fixed.
00:09:46.340Didn't, didn't he, didn't he say something like, I mean, cause he met him, he met with him even though some of the stuff had gone on.
00:09:53.780He continued to meet with him after a lot of those things were accused.
00:09:58.120And he also kind of, he almost complimented him as being like, he lives a crazy, crazy life.
00:10:06.380I mean, you know, while he's a wild guy, he's a wild and crazy guy, which, uh, I think was usually Steve Martin who would say that.
00:10:15.640But he, this, in this case, it was Bill Gates.
00:10:17.980And it does seem like a strange thing to say about a guy who's been accused and has already gotten in trouble for hooking up with underage girls at the time.
00:10:27.080Especially when your wife, Melinda, uh, is saying to you, stop it.
00:11:00.160I do think that he has something to, to answer to on this.
00:11:03.400And he does not seem to, uh, to really be interested in doing so.
00:11:08.000He did come out and say, oh, these meetings were a huge mistake.
00:11:10.880Uh, yeah, it's easy to say that, you know, when, uh, when the guy has hung himself in prison, allegedly.
00:11:19.260Uh, it's easy to say that now, but it doesn't seem like there's much, there's much scrutiny going on over that relationship other than by Melinda.
00:12:20.640He, he met with, I mean, this really would be an interesting thing to dive into and really look at closely, but he met with Gates multiple times, went to his condo multiple times, stayed late into the night, at least once.
00:12:33.480Uh, his quote was his lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing, although it would not work for me, said Mr. Gates in 2011, after his first get together with Mr. Epstein.
00:12:46.400Now, again, remember his townhouse is the one that has on the walls, like pictures of like naked underaged girls that are quote unquote art.
00:12:53.920Uh, which is again, you know, so does, so does Abercrombie, right?
00:13:22.340The, the, it lasted several hours, according to Mr. Gates' spokesperson.
00:13:27.920This is according, by the way, to the New York Times, who actually did cover this.
00:13:31.220I mean, they have looked at it, but it doesn't seem to have elicited the type of attention you'd expect.
00:13:37.020I mean, I'll give you an example of this.
00:13:38.740You know, Matt Gates, a Republican congressman, has also been accused of some, uh, you know, uh, ill-advised, uh, meetings with, with certain individuals.
00:13:49.240And that has been fascinating to the media.
00:13:52.080I mean, they've been constantly, now, Matt Gates is, you know, he's made some news.
00:13:56.120He's in the news occasionally, uh, because he's a big Trump supporter.
00:13:59.680But it's not like, you know, Bill Gates was the richest man in the world.
00:14:05.460That is basically serving 80% of the world's computer needs.
00:14:09.620He is, you know, obviously very prominent, uh, with his role in the, in, in trying to spread the vaccine across the world and has been, uh, you know, criticized for that.
00:14:27.980But the point being that, like, this is a guy that, that the media is typically fascinated with almost everything that he does.
00:14:34.580And why this has not elicited more criticism.
00:14:38.640I mean, even to the point where other politicians, there was a lot of politicians, Republican and Democrat, that met with Jeffrey Epstein back in the day.
00:14:47.080And, man, the lack of interest in the details of some of these meetings was fascinating before Epstein went to prison and hung himself, right?
00:14:58.200Like, this was fascinating going back years.
00:15:00.100We talked about it on this show probably close to a decade ago.
00:15:05.220And it never created any interest among the media.
00:15:09.840All of the news comes out about what actually happened at his condos and everything else.
00:15:14.760And still, it hasn't risen to that level for some reason.
00:15:20.160And I'm sure it has nothing to do with James Goldston, the former president of ABC News that is the one who killed the Epstein story.
00:15:27.460And now working on that very special, that very special episode of Criminal Intent, the January 6th House Committee on Un-American Activities.
00:16:38.420Now, in a historic victory for our commonwealth, I have become the first black Kentuckian to receive the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.
00:16:50.380If you don't have the Blaze TV and you're not watching this, this is a guy running against Senator Rand Paul, and he is speaking, but he's standing with a tree behind him and a noose around his neck.
00:17:06.760It is one of the most outrageous, salacious, and quite honestly, just wrong ad I have ever seen.
00:17:45.440It kind of reminds me of Jussie Smollett.
00:17:47.920It's sort of an attention getter, you know, based on a hoax based on a lie.
00:17:53.180He says in the ad, oh, that I blocked a bill on lynching, which is absolutely untrue.
00:17:59.200I actually worked with the authors of the bill for over a year to make sure that it punished actual lynching and didn't punish minor brush up against somebody, calling people names, graffiti, things like that.
00:18:12.180The way they had originally written the bill was Black Lives Matter, remember, painted graffiti on the church in Lafayette Square.
00:18:18.600That, under their original writing of the bill, would have been considered lynching and punishable by 10 years in prison for conspiracy to lynch by doing graffiti, which obviously is not lynching and demeans the horrific thing that happened in our history.
00:18:34.160So anyway, I just want to get the bill right.
00:18:35.800So we did punish people who actually did this horrific crime but didn't punish people, you know, who slapped somebody or did something.
00:18:42.000Even if there is a punishment, it's not the same as lynching.
00:18:44.680But for that, this guy really does the whole Jussie Smollett thing, puts a noose on himself, pretends as if he's being lynched.
00:20:12.260And so, I think when you, you know, think you're Jussie Smollett and put a noose around your head and start doing that, you distract from the real violent problems that we do need to work with.
00:20:22.620You know, we need to figure out how to get more stability, more fathers in the home.
00:20:27.180We need to figure out how to get more police patrols.
00:20:30.600You know, this guy that I'm running against also wants to defund the police.
00:20:37.380And then he somehow thinks that putting a noose around his head is going to be something that's of use to making or allowing for less violence.
00:20:49.800And not to minimize racism, I lived in Kentucky for a while, back in the 80s, and there was still problems with race.
00:21:00.320And I know you well enough to know you take race seriously.
00:21:05.900Let's talk about a couple of other things.
00:21:08.640This is really getting to me what we're doing in Ukraine.
00:21:13.720We just sent them more money than, I think, almost more money by about maybe $5 billion than the country of Russia spends in a year in their Department of Defense.
00:21:31.080I don't see any accountants going with it.
00:21:33.600And then we keep, like last week, we sent them another $700 million just out of the blue.
00:21:39.640And then we sent them a missile system that Russia came out today and said, if any of these missiles land in Russia, we will strike America's homeland with a nuke.
00:23:13.440You know, I ask one simple thing, that the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, who's been on the job for a decade,
00:23:19.640who's got a whole team and does a great job of trying to prevent people from stealing our money and stealing our weapons,
00:23:26.120I ask that he be put in charge of Ukraine.
00:23:28.580His team said they could immediately start doing it.
00:23:30.600They're used to dealing in a war zone and flatly rejected not only by Democrats but also by the hawkish leaders in the Republican Party
00:23:39.840who want to get us involved and really think that somehow this is going to be our war
00:23:45.220and they don't care where it goes from here and nobody's counseling caution as far as the possibility of this expanding into a much larger war.
00:23:55.980So, no, we should be worried about, not that, you know, the thing is, is we can all, I think we're unified in having sympathy for Ukraine,
00:24:03.000but at the same time, if you put missiles in there and they launch them on a Russian city and the war expands into Russia,
00:24:09.360you know, I think really the reaction of the Russians is unpredictable.
00:25:56.480But I'm with you on eliminating these departments.
00:25:59.480We have to, Rand, or we do not keep our freedom.
00:26:03.720What the administration is doing in weaponizing each one of these administrative arms is terrifying when you look at it all put together.
00:26:13.80047 different federal agencies have SWAT teams.
00:26:19.160So I'm not for gun control unless we're talking about controlling the guns of the government.
00:26:23.220And I think we've got too many people walking around with SWAT teams.
00:26:26.640Look, police, you know, need to have it in big cities where there's a lot of violence.
00:26:32.800But I don't think, you know, the Department of Education needs a SWAT team, and they've got one.
00:26:37.120I am growing, Mike, growing concern over the fact that the states have not put in any kind of legislation to stop what happened the last time we had COVID.
00:26:53.300Nobody is paying for any of the constitutional stomping that they did.
00:27:01.240And Fauci, nobody's asking any questions except you.
00:27:24.220But the thing is, is come November, we're going to be in charge of at least probably the House, hopefully the Senate, and there will be a thorough investigation.
00:27:32.560I will subpoena every last paper of Fauci's because I think he's not only been dishonest about funding the gain of function in Wuhan, I think there's been a cover-up.
00:27:41.220And I think there's been a misdirection campaign.
00:27:43.780The misdirection campaign is to get us to think about other things, but not to think about the root cause of where we got the virus.
00:27:50.120But his other biggest failing, the other reason he should be filed is simply that he never talks about treatment.
00:27:55.880If, you know, you can still get it if you've been vaccinated, what are you supposed to do?
00:27:59.560People need to know that you're supposed to get treatment within about five days.
00:28:02.580The treatments work best within five days.
00:28:04.580If you're getting sick and you're at risk, you need to get treatment within five days.
00:28:08.280And there are several treatments that actually do work and can save your lives.
00:28:11.900I still have people going in to get treatment.
00:28:13.760They're denied, saying, oh, you're not high risk, so we're not going to give you the antiviral pill.