The Glenn Beck Program - February 21, 2024


Best of the Program | Guest: Steve Krakauer | 2⧸21⧸24


Episode Stats

Length

43 minutes

Words per Minute

169.05574

Word Count

7,375

Sentence Count

737

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

Glenn and Stu make a $1,000 bet on who's going to be the next president, and it's not Michelle Obama. Then, the guys talk about a horse on the highway, and why they don't have guns.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Well, I think I got $1,000 richer.
00:00:32.860 Now it's $2,000, our bet on is Joe Biden going to be the candidate?
00:00:39.440 And if not, is it Michelle Obama?
00:00:42.740 I say yes, he says no, we made a $1,000 bet.
00:00:47.200 I mean, he's just crazy, flush with cash, just willing to give me another $1,000.
00:00:52.320 You're the one that tried to raise the stakes here.
00:00:54.620 That was you doing that, not me.
00:00:56.340 That's not the way I remember.
00:00:56.980 I don't feel good about it, I'll be honest about it.
00:00:59.320 Like, my brain tells me it's a good bet, but my heart does not feel...
00:01:03.060 Okay, $3,000.
00:01:04.580 I don't think...
00:01:04.960 I mean, your brain, you don't listen to your heart, you listen to your brain, right?
00:01:08.040 I've already listened to it, to the extent we're at $2,000 already.
00:01:12.620 At some point, Lisa's going to call in and go...
00:01:15.300 Stop saying yes to things.
00:01:17.500 You know, I could have bought like a quarter of a purse by now.
00:01:20.400 Right.
00:01:20.580 But anyway, great program for you today.
00:01:25.460 We have Steve Krakauer on.
00:01:28.260 What else did we talk about?
00:01:30.440 No idea.
00:01:31.500 I mean, it was very bad.
00:01:33.300 Well, a horse on the highway.
00:01:34.480 Oh, a horse.
00:01:36.740 We talked about that quite a bit.
00:01:38.460 A horse on the highway.
00:01:39.840 This is a show you just don't want to miss.
00:01:41.560 Brought to you by Burn It Technology.
00:01:43.520 Now, Stu, did we lay any money down on the shooting that we...
00:01:47.580 We did not, no.
00:01:48.760 We did not.
00:01:49.000 There was no...
00:01:49.420 See, but again, that was my brain.
00:01:50.620 I know you're a better shot than I am, so I did not bet anything on our Burn It Shooting
00:01:54.400 Expedition.
00:01:54.900 Yeah, so we did...
00:01:55.720 We should get those tapes so we can play them and show everybody.
00:01:58.880 I thought I did pretty well.
00:02:00.240 You actually did.
00:02:00.940 I was actually...
00:02:01.600 I mean, it was so easy to use.
00:02:03.080 Yeah, for somebody who's completely incompetent, it's great.
00:02:06.000 Yeah, again, he said...
00:02:07.020 They're like, oh, we're going to do this course where you go around and you shoot all these
00:02:09.420 targets.
00:02:10.220 I'm like, oh, this is perfect because I'll just run between the targets and easily be able
00:02:14.520 to defeat Glenn, because, you know, he's like a sloth.
00:02:16.720 And, you know, it takes like 20 minutes to go five feet.
00:02:19.620 Yet you still...
00:02:20.600 Yeah, but you put the targets right next to each other.
00:02:22.820 You had to take two steps.
00:02:23.860 I didn't put the targets there.
00:02:25.260 Well, they did.
00:02:25.960 The Burna people did.
00:02:26.620 You what?
00:02:26.880 You think they're on my side?
00:02:28.300 Yes, of course they are.
00:02:29.660 Of course they are.
00:02:30.240 You learned some lessons.
00:02:31.360 Now, Burna.
00:02:32.160 Burna technology.
00:02:33.300 It is just like...
00:02:35.120 I mean, it's just like a gun.
00:02:36.760 Looks like a gun.
00:02:37.940 Shoots like a gun.
00:02:38.780 But no kickback.
00:02:39.680 No sound.
00:02:41.200 And they come with their own little target tent thing that you can do, you know, at your house.
00:02:45.880 And they're really, really great for less than lethal situations.
00:02:56.240 You know, when you pull out your gun, you're going to want to kill them.
00:02:59.200 And that's why I like to not have guns around when I'm around Stu.
00:03:04.360 Because, you know, the tear gas is fine.
00:03:07.320 I don't want him...
00:03:08.360 Well, I don't want to be charged with his murder.
00:03:12.400 So, that's why I have Burna.
00:03:14.560 And my family has Burna.
00:03:16.000 Stu has Burna.
00:03:17.560 We have them in our homes.
00:03:18.920 They are a great alternative to a lethal gun.
00:03:22.560 Burna.
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00:03:49.160 So, yesterday, I think that was...
00:03:52.620 It was an important day for those who are fighting for the republic.
00:03:56.520 I have often told you, you need to know who is standing by your side.
00:04:03.320 And most people know that my former Fox News colleague, Tucker Carlson, went to Russia to interview Putin.
00:04:11.020 Something that everyone, every journalist would love to do.
00:04:17.520 But nobody can get an interview.
00:04:19.040 But he did.
00:04:20.160 Aha.
00:04:21.600 Why did he get the interview?
00:04:23.760 I think it's because he's pro-Putin.
00:04:28.140 The media and the left, as well as the Lindsey Grahams of the world, gave birth to a whole litter of kittens when it happened.
00:04:36.620 But those who know and have gone to really get to know Tucker and have grown to trust him as a defender of American ideas and ideals,
00:04:48.460 began to question some of the things that happened while he was there.
00:04:52.500 Now, I didn't question him, but it left a, I don't know, a lingering doubt, okay?
00:05:04.120 The things that he talked about with the grocery stores and the subways.
00:05:08.080 They're clean and nice.
00:05:09.420 Yeah, I got it.
00:05:10.920 Now, people pointed to that and said, that's proof Tucker not only loves Putin, but he wants an authoritarian state here so we can have clean subways.
00:05:20.940 Is that what he was saying?
00:05:23.860 I personally think he's too smart for that.
00:05:26.700 He knows who Durante was.
00:05:28.540 Durante was a New York Times reporter.
00:05:30.480 He was a communist, or at least a very big communist sympathizer, who was working for the Times, went to cover Russia,
00:05:37.600 and knowingly helped Stalin cover up the murder of about 8 million Ukrainians.
00:05:43.280 A little something called the Holodomor.
00:05:46.240 He wrote lovingly about the clean streets and the subways,
00:05:50.820 and how this planned economy and planned state functioned with perfection, and everybody loved it.
00:05:57.260 Tucker knows history.
00:06:00.480 He's no Durante.
00:06:02.460 He loves his country.
00:06:05.740 So what gives?
00:06:07.280 What was he saying?
00:06:10.120 He's not on Putin's side at war or peace, but yet he doesn't seem to condemn him.
00:06:16.600 What is he advocating?
00:06:17.680 When he shows us the subways, is he telling us that we need, I don't know, to bring back law and order,
00:06:24.540 and we need a strong man to clean up the streets?
00:06:27.860 Or does he believe the Declaration, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights is the way to fix our country?
00:06:35.340 I found my answer.
00:06:37.660 And while it's the latter, there's more.
00:06:40.700 So let's start with the shopping carts and the subways and the state, how great they were.
00:06:48.740 Cut one.
00:06:50.060 Let me now go to some of the criticism of you that, you know, Jon Stewart just did a piece.
00:06:55.300 I don't know if you've seen it on you, but yeah, I never watched them either.
00:07:00.960 I know.
00:07:01.500 So, you know, you went in, you said Moscow is clean.
00:07:05.600 The subways are wonderful.
00:07:08.000 Look at the chandeliers.
00:07:08.900 Well, you, I know you, Tucker, you're smart enough to know who built those to look like that and why.
00:07:16.720 And Durante went over.
00:07:18.900 I said it in the piece.
00:07:21.220 So Walter Durante denied the existence.
00:07:24.160 He was a New York Times correspondent in Russia in the 30s.
00:07:26.860 He denied, of course, the Ukrainian famine, which was Stalin.
00:07:32.500 That's exactly right.
00:07:33.380 And he denied that the show trials of 1937, 38, that the terror was was happening.
00:07:41.200 So those were lies.
00:07:44.020 OK, he told lies.
00:07:45.440 And that's why his Pulitzer Prize was pulled from him posthumously.
00:07:48.600 I told the truth in order to shame our leaders.
00:07:52.800 That subway station I showed was built by Stalin in 1939.
00:07:58.200 Joseph Stalin, probably the worst person in human history.
00:08:01.060 That was over 80 years ago.
00:08:03.260 And it's still in perfect shape.
00:08:04.940 OK, that's the point.
00:08:06.260 Look at what Moscow has and compare it to what we have.
00:08:10.280 So you have to ask yourself, like, no, this is this is an indictment of our leaders.
00:08:16.700 And I would recommend to every single one of your viewers and listeners, if you can go spend a week in Moscow, not because you love Russia, but because you love your own country.
00:08:26.260 And compare that city, the largest city in Europe, 13 million people, compare it to the city that you live in or the city near you, which is in better shape.
00:08:32.820 So so actually it's an indictment, it's a radicalizing indictment of our rapidly declining standard of living and the horrible mismanagement of our leaders.
00:08:44.860 Why don't we have a subway like that in any American city with no crime?
00:08:49.840 Like, what is this?
00:08:51.080 So I I went on to talk to him about this and I said, well, wait, I mean, that's because a dictator.
00:08:57.300 There's no there's no drug problem in China because you can just execute them on the spot.
00:09:02.820 Right. So what are you saying?
00:09:05.540 And again, he reiterated, I'm showing those things because I think Americans should be pissed off that this country, which we're told is on the brink of collapse.
00:09:19.260 It's still together.
00:09:21.400 What's our excuse?
00:09:24.140 Why is it not together here?
00:09:27.060 And he was saying, I want to shame our politicians and wake the American people up, saying we used to have clean streets.
00:09:35.820 We didn't need a dictator.
00:09:37.840 We did it because it was the right thing to do.
00:09:40.400 And we didn't have leadership that was leading us down this path of more and more chaos and drugs and crime and decay.
00:09:49.760 So did you get the sense because, like, the reason Russia has that and has been able to maintain it for 80 years, right, is because they have certain policies they've implemented.
00:10:00.320 You mentioned, obviously, the crime part of this, right?
00:10:02.120 They are very, they're very, they're difficult on people who break their rules.
00:10:05.760 But also, like, another part of that policy is centralized government spending money on, prioritizing spending on government institutions to make them pretty.
00:10:17.180 Yes.
00:10:17.660 And secondarily, making sure, focusing money on cities where foreigners come to visit, as opposed to rural areas where they let people.
00:10:26.540 Right.
00:10:26.940 So he's not asking for those policies, obviously.
00:10:30.280 He believes we've already had that.
00:10:32.960 He was saying, we had gleaming cities.
00:10:36.300 We had beautiful cities.
00:10:37.900 We still do.
00:10:39.420 But he went in to talk about how now you've got a gigantic homeless village in front of Union Station, which is one of the most beautiful train stations in the country.
00:10:51.240 And it's right across the street from the Capitol.
00:10:53.940 He's like, that's not money.
00:10:55.900 So that's policy that is driving this.
00:10:59.140 It's maybe even more than that, priorities, right?
00:11:01.720 Like, because we certainly, if we're building turtle tunnels, right, we certainly have the money to be able to maintain these buildings.
00:11:10.860 We're choosing other priorities.
00:11:13.160 Is that sort of his?
00:11:14.360 His thing is, we're not choosing, the people aren't choosing them.
00:11:18.260 The government, the government, the government and the, you know, whatever you call this ruling class, they are actively trying to destroy our cities and our country by saying, don't enforce crime.
00:11:34.520 Let drugs prevail.
00:11:36.660 Let people out on bail that are violent.
00:11:40.960 Let them do whatever they want.
00:11:43.080 Don't question.
00:11:43.860 And so it's not necessarily a praising of Russia.
00:11:47.240 It's a criticism of our policies.
00:11:49.500 It's an excoriation of our policies, of not even our policies, our politicians who are intentionally destroying our nation.
00:11:58.260 He's like, it doesn't have to be this way.
00:11:59.800 And we all know it.
00:12:01.120 And we all have to get pissed off about it to stand up and say, enough is enough.
00:12:06.560 Yeah.
00:12:07.360 Okay.
00:12:07.960 So I pushed him on this hard.
00:12:09.960 I mean, you listened to it, right?
00:12:11.140 Yep.
00:12:11.360 Pushed him hard on this because I wanted to know.
00:12:15.880 So I think it's important to be very clear on what we are advocating because everybody will make you, will put words into your mouth.
00:12:27.180 And it's important on some subjects because there are those who love America and love the Lord that are currently being called Christian nationalists, and that's not who they are.
00:12:40.100 But there are Christian nationalists that are advocating things, and it is important to understand, are you this or are you that?
00:12:49.000 If you're looking to get the church directly involved in the state and the government to rule, then that is un-American.
00:12:57.860 That's Christian nationalism.
00:12:59.400 However, if you believe our values come from the teachings of the Bible and you refuse to check those values at the door of your public office, why?
00:13:11.920 Why would you do that?
00:13:13.220 Every day I walk through the door, I'm just as much Christian on the outside of this door as I am on the inside of this studio.
00:13:21.640 I don't check my values because it makes me who I am.
00:13:27.400 I don't, I, you know, you just don't want some Christian tyrant as the CEO.
00:13:33.300 I don't want him coming in here saying, you need to talk about Jesus some more.
00:13:37.120 I don't want that.
00:13:38.260 And I certainly don't want that in a government.
00:13:40.460 The problem is the hour is growing late, and we have to reconnect with the truth quickly and with what we learned as kids.
00:13:52.340 Christ-like love, forgiveness, and then the backbone to say, crucify me.
00:13:59.220 I don't care.
00:14:01.120 This is true.
00:14:04.440 That's what I think he is saying.
00:14:07.180 That's what I'm saying.
00:14:08.180 And I think that's what he's saying.
00:14:10.060 Without a strong moral code of ethics and decency and fact-based truth, you have no civilization to fight for.
00:14:19.620 That's clear.
00:14:21.740 I want to give you one more question before the break.
00:14:24.600 So I asked him, I pushed him and pushed him, and he said, you know, I'm really having a hard time not using the F word here.
00:14:30.540 And I finally got to a place to where I think I understood what he was saying, but I just wanted to be clear.
00:14:41.260 And if you happen to be watching the blaze, watch his reaction, because it's 100% genuine.
00:14:47.640 Watch.
00:14:47.860 Where the sticking point is in America right now is there's a lot of people on the right and the left that are both saying, screw the Constitution.
00:14:58.060 We need a radicalized leader.
00:15:00.600 When you look at Orban, I think Orban is great for his country.
00:15:06.240 That's not our system.
00:15:07.800 I think, you know, Moscow might be great, love to visit.
00:15:12.240 That's not our system.
00:15:13.500 So I think, and I believe you are, you've already said this, but I want to make sure it's very clear on the record.
00:15:21.860 The only path forward for America is through the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution.
00:15:31.300 Correct?
00:15:33.200 Of course.
00:15:34.600 And by the way, I should just be very, very clear.
00:15:37.500 If I was, I'm like the one person on the planet, you don't need to guess about my motives.
00:15:42.180 I'll just say them.
00:15:43.840 And if I was advocating for a different form of government or for authoritarianism, for a strong man, I would just say so.
00:15:51.260 I would have no shame in saying that because I really believe that it's within my rights to say what I think.
00:15:56.460 If I, I've been called a racist.
00:15:58.000 If I was racist, I would just say it.
00:15:59.220 I would just say it.
00:15:59.840 But I'm not.
00:16:00.660 And I'm not advocating for that.
00:16:01.980 I'm advocating to return to America of, say, 1993.
00:16:06.500 How radical?
00:16:07.040 Is that really radical?
00:16:08.160 No, I don't think that's very radical.
00:16:09.620 In fact, I think we should be demanding it.
00:16:11.120 And if there's one thing that I will fault Americans for, it's low expectations.
00:16:14.820 You should not put up with this.
00:16:16.200 You should not allow them.
00:16:17.380 The governor of Texas should not allow millions of people to cross his border.
00:16:21.920 And I don't want to hear, you know, the excuses.
00:16:24.420 And I don't want to hear the excuses for why it's okay to have tens of thousands of people dying on the street or sleeping on the sidewalk in tents handed to them by the Episcopal Church forever.
00:16:35.480 Like, that's not acceptable.
00:16:36.820 It's not okay for my kids to use drugs at the breakfast table.
00:16:39.580 I'm not going to have a debate about it.
00:16:41.120 No is the answer.
00:16:42.220 I'm within my rights as a father to say that.
00:16:46.180 The U.S. government is within its statutory rights as a government to say that.
00:16:50.440 We don't need more laws.
00:16:51.440 We have the laws.
00:16:52.700 They're not being enforced on purpose.
00:16:55.080 And to your point, why?
00:16:56.980 And, of course, the reason is because people will lose faith in liberal democracy.
00:17:00.680 Right.
00:17:00.860 And they will welcome a strong man.
00:17:02.720 And that's exactly what this is about, is the left, and not just the left.
00:17:06.680 I would say that the quizzling right on Capitol Hill, for whom I just have boundless contempt, they're in on this as well.
00:17:14.840 Yes.
00:17:15.120 People are just going to give up.
00:17:16.280 They're not going to vote.
00:17:17.620 They're going to steal the elections just as they stole the last one, which they did.
00:17:21.360 Sorry.
00:17:22.280 And they're going to steal the next one.
00:17:23.680 And people are just going to be like, you know what?
00:17:24.480 I don't even care.
00:17:25.140 I just totally give up.
00:17:25.980 This is crazy.
00:17:26.640 Just get the bums off my street.
00:17:28.600 Some guy just exposed himself to my daughter.
00:17:30.980 My nephew just died of a fentanyl OD.
00:17:32.600 Make it stop.
00:17:33.640 Make it stop.
00:17:34.280 You can have all the power you want.
00:17:35.500 That is absolutely what they're going for.
00:17:38.400 And I don't want that.
00:17:39.360 I want to live in the country we lived in in 1993 or 1985, not ancient history.
00:17:44.440 Post-Civil Rights Act, we can do that.
00:17:46.520 Let's do it right now.
00:17:47.440 That's my point.
00:17:48.720 I don't think you could be any more clear on that.
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00:19:02.760 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and don't forget, rate us on iTunes.
00:19:08.280 You know, every day we talk about things that I never thought I'd talk about.
00:19:12.860 I never thought that would be something I had to discuss or think about.
00:19:19.700 Now, Sarah, our board op, is from Philadelphia, and I just want to check with you, because
00:19:28.180 maybe this is normal in Philadelphia.
00:19:30.060 Let me show you what happened yesterday.
00:19:36.020 Cut 15.
00:19:37.560 Philadelphia.
00:19:39.460 That is a horse galloping down the interstate.
00:19:45.940 Interstate 76.
00:19:48.100 Just all by itself, no saddle, just a horse galloping down the freeway.
00:19:52.800 What?
00:19:53.520 Is that a normal thing in Philadelphia, Sarah?
00:19:57.420 I wouldn't be surprised.
00:19:58.800 I wouldn't be surprised.
00:19:59.540 Okay.
00:20:00.080 All right.
00:20:01.220 I've never seen that before.
00:20:02.360 Have you ever seen that before?
00:20:03.260 No.
00:20:03.380 I drove down that road many times when we lived there, and no, never saw a horse.
00:20:06.380 I haven't seen that anywhere.
00:20:08.200 I mean, I live in a place where, honest to God, there's a rancher who has a buffalo ranch,
00:20:14.660 and buffalo can just walk through, you know, the barbed wire.
00:20:18.920 It's on their face, and they're like, I don't care, and they just keep walking.
00:20:22.440 And once in a while, the town will have to call and say, your buffalo is in the middle
00:20:26.760 of the street.
00:20:27.420 And they'll say, I know.
00:20:29.100 Well, he'll come back home.
00:20:32.200 That's what you do.
00:20:33.260 Okay.
00:20:33.540 So I understand that.
00:20:34.900 I've never seen a horse galloping down the freeway before.
00:20:39.500 Hello?
00:20:40.920 Something just isn't right.
00:20:43.380 Do you play that again for me?
00:20:45.480 I saw this last night, and I thought, can you play it?
00:20:49.340 There it is.
00:20:49.860 Yeah.
00:20:52.680 Now, that's somebody with their phone outside of their window on the driver's side just
00:20:59.220 going, I can't.
00:21:01.900 Am I seeing this?
00:21:03.160 I have to film this, because I don't think anybody's ever seen that before.
00:21:06.580 Keeping up nicely with the traffic, though.
00:21:08.340 Those are quick animals.
00:21:09.700 Yeah.
00:21:09.920 I mean, that was like, I think that was an expensive horse.
00:21:12.080 Well, it was, I mean, it's that close to Philadelphia.
00:21:15.080 You know, you don't keep one in a, you know, a walk-up, you know, apartment, you know.
00:21:20.220 That would be a strange choice.
00:21:21.500 It would be a strange choice.
00:21:23.320 So I would imagine that's it.
00:21:24.580 But again, you also don't keep it on the highway.
00:21:25.920 So who knows what's going on?
00:21:27.320 Right.
00:21:27.760 Right.
00:21:28.240 I mean, how did they find the on-ramp?
00:21:30.200 You know, it's a horse.
00:21:31.460 How did he find the on-ramp?
00:21:32.140 Really fascinating.
00:21:32.860 I don't know.
00:21:33.420 There's a lot of questions on that one, but I don't think we're going to get to them.
00:21:38.200 Now, let me show you some of the other things, and let's see if you can tie together what I'm driving at.
00:21:46.760 Okay?
00:21:47.200 There is a method to the madness on the things I'm going to show you.
00:21:50.880 These are things I just saw last night.
00:21:54.860 This isn't like, yeah, well, I saw this a month ago, and I've been saved.
00:21:59.000 These are things that I spent 20 minutes just scrolling and going, well, that one, that one, that one.
00:22:07.160 Okay, so let's start with Cut 12, please.
00:22:10.780 For all the New Yorkers in New York City, please pay attention to what I'm about to say.
00:22:16.640 I, now, this morning, got a list from my controller to tell us the tax annual assessments and values.
00:22:24.780 This happens every January to February.
00:22:27.160 I got mine just on a few of our properties, just a few of them.
00:22:31.900 Every single one of them are going up.
00:22:35.760 Some of them are going up from 10% to 15% all the way up to 60%, 75%.
00:22:41.180 You have no clue what this means to this industry.
00:22:44.840 You have no clue what this means to every average New Yorker.
00:22:50.040 Everybody in New York City is affected.
00:22:54.360 Because I have stores here, supermarkets here, that they're going to go up $12,000 to $14,000.
00:23:00.640 I got a part, I got small three-family buildings in Red Hook going up $9,000.
00:23:07.040 Increase on top of the $30,000 that I'm paying.
00:23:10.880 That's crazy.
00:23:12.580 That's crazy.
00:23:13.460 Okay, so everybody's playing a lot more.
00:23:17.580 That's weird.
00:23:19.420 Cut 13.
00:23:21.920 This is one about the hotels in New York.
00:23:24.560 Here is the Rowe Hotel.
00:23:25.920 This is one of the five hotels that has been transformed into a shelter.
00:23:28.960 We're going to walk in there and see what kind of operation they're running inside.
00:23:31.700 This is a really nice hotel.
00:23:37.080 How's it going?
00:23:39.760 Oh yeah, we were just checking out the hotel.
00:23:41.780 Oh, the hotel is closed.
00:23:42.960 The hotel is closed.
00:23:43.900 But there's a ton of people in here right now.
00:23:45.900 Yeah, because it's a shelter.
00:23:47.940 Oh, you guys are...
00:23:48.540 Not a hotel.
00:23:49.760 Shelter for the migrants coming in?
00:23:50.860 Yeah, yeah.
00:23:51.700 It's no longer open to the public.
00:23:53.740 It's closed to the public.
00:23:54.940 How many floors is it?
00:23:56.820 30.
00:23:57.180 30 floors.
00:23:58.320 30.
00:23:58.660 Is it full?
00:23:59.420 Is it full?
00:24:00.780 Yeah.
00:24:01.000 You guys aren't allowed to talk about it?
00:24:02.280 No.
00:24:03.080 Why is it like such a big secret, do you think?
00:24:05.220 I don't know.
00:24:05.820 We just follow orders.
00:24:07.820 When hotels such as the Row Hotel close until further notice, they sign the contract with
00:24:12.300 an outside source saying that they will pay the rent in order for them to house the migrants.
00:24:16.860 And the hotels love it because it is guaranteed money every single night.
00:24:21.020 And at a rate of $200 per night at the Row Hotel and with 1,331 rooms, that is $260,000
00:24:27.720 a day, $1.8 million a week, and $7.2 million a month.
00:24:31.840 And all that money is guaranteed.
00:24:35.820 $7.2 million a month for one hotel.
00:24:42.620 One hotel.
00:24:47.180 Who's writing that check again?
00:24:49.620 Isn't that kind of important?
00:24:50.940 Who's writing that check?
00:24:53.280 One month, $7.2 million.
00:24:58.860 Oh, that makes me understand the other guy who's like, look at our assessment on our building.
00:25:04.960 Bada bing!
00:25:06.800 Up 75% tax!
00:25:09.920 Bada bing!
00:25:12.800 Okay.
00:25:13.600 All right.
00:25:14.560 So, can we just play the horse running down just because I need to...
00:25:18.240 Oh, there he is running out there.
00:25:19.820 Uh, now let me show you, uh, can we take cut six, please?
00:25:30.780 Cut six.
00:25:31.180 The city of Buffalo and some of those first-ranked suburban areas are having double-digit car thefts
00:25:37.360 in a week, sometimes in a day.
00:25:39.280 People are stealing cars at a record rate.
00:25:43.040 There's no consequences, accountability, repercussions.
00:25:47.440 Hmm.
00:25:47.940 Hmm.
00:25:48.540 And there's a problem, CNN says, with homelessness.
00:25:51.360 Uh, cut seven, please.
00:25:52.680 The number of people experiencing homelessness in a single night went up 12% in the United States in 2023.
00:25:59.480 In part, because COVID programs preventing evictions and housing losses came to an end.
00:26:06.980 Wow.
00:26:07.480 A quarter of those people were unhoused for the first time in their lives.
00:26:12.540 How many people fell into homelessness during COVID?
00:26:15.240 Before COVID, there were probably about 20,000 or 30,000 people.
00:26:19.440 Now it's 46,000.
00:26:21.140 Hmm.
00:26:21.860 Hmm.
00:26:22.060 Um, here is, uh, here, I think this is Curtis Sliwa, just standing on 3rd Avenue, which,
00:26:31.540 when I lived in New York, you can't, you can't stand in the middle of the street.
00:26:37.200 Here he is on 3rd Avenue.
00:26:38.180 This is something you'll never see in the middle of a day.
00:26:41.800 3rd Avenue in New York City.
00:26:44.700 This is the future when everybody leaves and heads to Florida.
00:26:48.820 They're on their way to Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina.
00:26:53.720 Look, there's nobody back there because they've all fled the city and it'll be a city only of
00:26:59.100 criminals, homeless, emotionally disturbed, and migrants.
00:27:02.680 I am Nostradamus.
00:27:04.480 I see what's coming in 2024.
00:27:08.740 Vast sea of emptiness.
00:27:11.300 Well, that's good.
00:27:12.560 Uh, that's good.
00:27:13.500 So let's see, we have too many migrants coming in, uh, more migrants, the collection of migrants
00:27:23.420 that have been added to our country in the last three and a half years, equal the population
00:27:28.560 of 38 states in America, equal or above the population of 38.
00:27:36.320 We only have 50 states.
00:27:38.140 I just want you to know that.
00:27:39.120 We only have 50, 38 of them are now smaller than the people we have let in.
00:27:49.620 That's in the, I mean, I just, Hmm, that's interesting.
00:27:53.160 And then we have some really real, I mean, we have some real problems and I'm glad that
00:28:00.360 we're dealing.
00:28:00.920 What are we focused on?
00:28:02.500 Go ahead.
00:28:03.360 The woman who runs the bullying internet account libs of TikTok was given a spot on
00:28:09.900 the Oklahoma library board, the statewide board.
00:28:14.440 She is not from.
00:28:15.520 Now, can I just stop for a second?
00:28:18.100 This is a man in a dress who clearly has, I mean, maybe it's his first day with the makeup.
00:28:24.780 You know, I don't like it.
00:28:26.120 I don't, I don't.
00:28:28.180 I think it's a little, and you might want to shave, uh, just a little bit.
00:28:32.660 And the low cut, you know, dress there is nice, but again, maybe you could shave just
00:28:38.280 a little.
00:28:38.820 Anyway, this guy is having a serious conversation about what's acceptable in libraries and people
00:28:48.200 are just watching it going, well, he's making a good point.
00:28:52.000 He's not, how?
00:28:56.320 Play the damn horse running down the.
00:28:58.200 Yeah.
00:29:02.660 How about this one?
00:29:08.120 Cut 17.
00:29:08.800 I'm so glad someone's finally asking this question.
00:29:15.040 My problem is that I'm too hot, too successful in my career.
00:29:19.160 I make too much money.
00:29:20.260 I have too many amazing friends and family, too many cute clothes.
00:29:24.140 Do you know how hard it is to choose an outfit each day?
00:29:26.680 I also have so many amazing and hot people sliding into my DMs every day.
00:29:30.540 Again, it's a, it's a man with boobs.
00:29:34.220 It's a woman with a beard.
00:29:36.020 I, I don't, I don't, I have, I don't know.
00:29:39.860 You've never had to deal with problems like that, that you're too hot.
00:29:42.540 People always slipping into your DMs.
00:29:44.340 No.
00:29:45.000 This person has to deal with that every day.
00:29:46.620 Every day.
00:29:47.100 Do you know how hard it is to pick out a, you know, set of clothes every day?
00:29:50.380 Must be difficult.
00:29:50.860 No, I have no idea.
00:29:51.660 I wear the same clothes.
00:29:52.920 I've been wearing them since the third grade.
00:29:54.600 What the hell is wrong with you?
00:29:58.660 I swear to you.
00:30:00.560 I mean, this story makes more sense than any other story I've seen today.
00:30:07.260 Oh, wow.
00:30:07.900 Look, a horse running down the highway in Philadelphia.
00:30:13.420 When that becomes like, eh.
00:30:17.180 That is the most sensible story we've talked about in this segment.
00:30:20.120 It is.
00:30:21.080 It is.
00:30:21.880 Sometimes horses run down the highway.
00:30:23.700 Now, I would just like to point out, and maybe I've been in a coma, so I don't remember
00:30:29.860 it, but sometimes you wouldn't remember a coma, and you're all being nice to me, and
00:30:33.540 you're like, don't say anything to him, just, he's forgotten that he's been in a coma for
00:30:37.500 400 years, and we were in, I don't know, some cryo-freezer?
00:30:42.020 I don't know how this happened, but maybe I've been in a coma, but from where I'm sitting,
00:30:47.940 none of this is normal.
00:30:50.300 May we just all take a moment and go, none of this is normal.
00:31:00.140 This is not the way a civilization behaves.
00:31:05.640 Am I alone in this?
00:31:11.500 I don't.
00:31:12.160 I mean...
00:31:13.160 Apparently so.
00:31:14.360 Apparently, yes.
00:31:15.260 Apparently so.
00:31:17.300 By the way, the horse is okay.
00:31:19.180 The horse is...
00:31:19.840 Yeah, horse is okay.
00:31:20.860 We have an update.
00:31:21.180 That would be the thing.
00:31:21.740 Out of this monologue, that is what somebody, you know, would...
00:31:24.980 Well, what happened to the horse?
00:31:26.300 I was...
00:31:27.080 It's those damn cars and those SUVs.
00:31:29.560 I don't know what they're doing there.
00:31:31.100 They're killing the planet.
00:31:32.360 Have you heard about the big umbrella that we want to put in space?
00:31:35.900 Don't put big umbrellas in space!
00:31:38.960 Are you out of your minds?
00:31:43.420 Oh, man.
00:31:44.320 I just...
00:31:44.820 If I was in a coma, I want the doctors to know, put me back into the coma, please.
00:31:52.560 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:32:01.100 Steve Krakauer, who used to work here, and you...
00:32:05.960 And where were you working before you worked at the Blaze?
00:32:09.020 Before here, I was at CNN.
00:32:10.220 So, yes, I was at CNN for about three and a half years.
00:32:12.820 It was a very different CNN, I have to say, back in 2010 to 2013 when I was there.
00:32:17.380 Yeah, well, I had just left there, and it was...
00:32:20.120 Right.
00:32:20.340 I mean, it was still the same, but it was not out of control.
00:32:23.200 Right.
00:32:23.700 Right.
00:32:23.880 The guardrails were on.
00:32:25.500 Yeah, I mean, they wouldn't crucify you in the hallway with literal nails.
00:32:29.860 I think they would now, but...
00:32:31.940 And then you came here, and you were working at the Blaze for a long time.
00:32:35.140 Yeah.
00:32:35.260 You've moved on.
00:32:36.300 You left...
00:32:36.980 You left us.
00:32:38.300 And you left us for somebody better looking and more talented.
00:32:43.220 You went to work with Megyn Kelly.
00:32:45.600 Yes.
00:32:45.780 But you also have your own thing.
00:32:48.480 You've written a book.
00:32:50.400 This came out last year.
00:32:52.000 Last year, yeah.
00:32:52.340 Okay.
00:32:52.640 It's been republished now in paperback.
00:32:54.980 It's called Uncovered, How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People.
00:33:01.340 You've been watching the media for a long time and watching politics and how it's been covered.
00:33:06.060 There's something...
00:33:06.980 There's a replay of sorts, I think.
00:33:09.300 And I know you wrote about this in the book, but I want to see what you...
00:33:14.000 If you believe it ties back in, and that's the Bernie Sanders getting the shaft from the DNC in 2020.
00:33:20.560 Yeah, absolutely.
00:33:21.760 And I think you can...
00:33:22.720 I write in Uncovered about the way Bernie Sanders got the shaft in 2016 as well, and then again in 2020 by the DNC.
00:33:28.820 We saw this incredible moment.
00:33:31.000 And they actually made a point of this when they covered this in the New York Times of saying, you know, Bernie Sanders was really kind of coasting to victory.
00:33:38.500 He had won huge in New Hampshire.
00:33:39.860 That was in 2016, right?
00:33:41.560 Well, in 2016, and then again in 2020.
00:33:43.480 You know, he won Nevada.
00:33:44.520 And then there was this moment where Pete Buttigieg, who was doing pretty well in his campaign, and Amy Klobuchar, all of a sudden, they all dropped out.
00:33:52.940 They all got behind Joe Biden in this final push to stop Bernie Sanders, stop the big upstart, the progressive, the anti-establishment candidate on the Democratic side.
00:34:03.340 But what was different in 2020 and what I write about in Uncovered versus 2016 was it was also the media.
00:34:09.020 I went back and I looked at some of that MSNBC coverage.
00:34:11.600 Joy Reid, Chris Matthews, they were going so hard against Bernie Sanders, but not just against Bernie Sanders, but against his own supporters.
00:34:19.600 And they were rallying the rest of the Democratic Party and saying, you know, you have to get in line.
00:34:24.280 CNN, this incredible moment, I have to say they kind of created the story of Bernie Sanders having this sexist moment with Elizabeth Warren.
00:34:33.340 Where he said, oh, a woman can't become president.
00:34:36.160 And then it was that story gets published by CNN.
00:34:38.720 And then that night is the CNN debate where Elizabeth Warren could then attack Bernie Sanders over it.
00:34:43.440 So there were all these little moments where the corporate press was essentially working in collusion with the DNC to stop Bernie Sanders.
00:34:50.860 And I believe that we've seen a playbook for this.
00:34:53.480 And now we fast forward to 2024.
00:34:56.020 At the time, that was in support.
00:34:57.880 We're seeing it again.
00:34:58.380 Yeah, it was in support of Joe Biden.
00:34:59.680 And now we see potentially, I think, the drip, drip, drip happening as reclined podcast last week.
00:35:05.100 Certain stories.
00:35:06.120 If Joe Biden were to step aside, here's how they could replace him.
00:35:10.260 We're starting to see this happen.
00:35:11.660 And I think that if we really start to see media stories, places like CNN, places like MSNBC,
00:35:17.500 start to talk about what's really going on behind the scenes at the White House or potentially some,
00:35:23.180 maybe some big Hunter Biden investigation, then we start to know they're done with Joe Biden.
00:35:27.340 They're ready to move on.
00:35:28.200 You know that's coming.
00:35:29.940 They started going after Dr. Jill.
00:35:32.200 Yeah.
00:35:32.360 You know, just this week, that she's really the force behind him staying because she wants vengeance.
00:35:39.920 That was the word, vengeance.
00:35:42.560 I mean, I don't know who's really crossed Dr. Jill, but okay.
00:35:47.620 But she wants vengeance.
00:35:48.820 And I thought that story would not have come out in 2020.
00:35:51.840 There's no way.
00:35:52.780 No.
00:35:53.040 There's no way.
00:35:53.640 They are now going after her and just sending a subtle signal.
00:35:59.300 We'll we'll continue to do that.
00:36:01.380 You really want to surrender.
00:36:03.340 Yeah.
00:36:03.700 Yeah.
00:36:03.860 I don't think the story would have come out in 2023.
00:36:06.060 I think that the the her report, the special counsel report was a big moment.
00:36:10.540 And we we've seen the polls.
00:36:12.180 I mean, you know, 86 percent of Americans, including most Democrats, think that Joe Biden's too old to run.
00:36:17.960 If this is really going to continue down this path.
00:36:19.940 And I do think that the State of the Union coming up next month is a big pivot point.
00:36:24.160 If Joe Biden is able to sort of be OK on that big stage, maybe the rest of the Democratic establishment, the elites on the Democratic side and the media stays behind it.
00:36:34.780 But if he doesn't, if he stumbles, I think we're going to see the floodgates open.
00:36:38.680 And we've seen, you know, like I've read and uncovered the media on the left has tremendous power to sway their base.
00:36:45.120 And if they really get behind it, it's over.
00:36:47.940 Joe Biden will have to step aside, even if he says, I can do the job.
00:36:51.580 It appears the American people thinks I think I can't.
00:36:54.080 And then we start to open the idea of, OK, what happens next?
00:36:56.700 Is it Harris?
00:36:57.600 Is it Michelle Obama?
00:36:58.820 Who steps into that?
00:37:00.220 There's no way it's Harris.
00:37:01.380 I don't think it's possible.
00:37:02.760 Yeah, I think that's more likely than Obama.
00:37:05.080 Still, I do.
00:37:06.120 I mean, you really?
00:37:07.000 I do.
00:37:07.500 I mean, again, she's terrible.
00:37:08.840 And there's no reason to believe she's absolutely unlikable job.
00:37:12.580 It's totally true.
00:37:13.520 Everything you're saying is true.
00:37:14.520 It still would be difficult, though, to just replace her.
00:37:19.440 I mean, just to skip over her, Michelle Obama would be the one figure you could see that happening with because they could justify, well, it's an Obama.
00:37:26.560 It's a black woman.
00:37:27.700 We can do this.
00:37:28.840 But it'll be hard to skip over.
00:37:30.540 I don't think Gavin Newsom is a realistic possibility.
00:37:33.280 I don't.
00:37:33.620 It's against my point.
00:37:34.480 I think Michelle Obama, Kamala, but I think is, I mean, she's just unlikable.
00:37:42.520 Susan Rice.
00:37:43.820 It has to be a black woman.
00:37:45.860 It has to be a black woman if you're not going to go with Kamala.
00:37:50.040 This is why I think it's so important for a really discerning viewer and reader to look at what the media is putting out there.
00:37:56.340 They are in the know on a lot of these things.
00:37:58.820 There was an Axios piece recently about kind of behind the scenes of the Biden administration that essentially propped up Susan Rice as this really key figure who she knew so much more than Kamala Harris on the border.
00:38:09.280 She was really taking it to Alejandro Mayorkas behind the scenes, maybe planted by the Susan Rice people to kind of position her as a potential savior there as well.
00:38:18.200 Is she running the way?
00:38:19.180 Is she the one that's the point person at the White House?
00:38:21.480 I think that she was a part of that Obama-Biden blob that was part of it.
00:38:27.600 She has now stepped aside.
00:38:28.720 She is, last year, it was, you know, essentially removed.
00:38:32.200 But you look at the people, Anita Dunn, Susan Rice, a lot of these holdovers from the Obama years.
00:38:37.060 I mean, a lot of people have described the Biden administration as the third Obama administration, right?
00:38:41.320 I mean, that's essentially what we're getting.
00:38:42.700 And, you know, they say, they mock that now, but that came from the New York Times even in 2020.
00:38:48.380 You know, they say it was a shadow.
00:38:49.480 For him, basically.
00:38:50.840 They were basically arguing on behalf of Biden, essentially.
00:38:54.480 This is, don't worry, it's a third Obama administration.
00:38:56.620 But there was also somebody who was taking it apart and saying, you know, had been taking it apart and saying, well, you know, everybody thought that was crazy.
00:39:07.640 Look at who he has now in the White House.
00:39:10.040 It's all Obama people.
00:39:11.440 Right, right.
00:39:11.960 And Obama's the only one that hasn't moved away from D.C.
00:39:14.780 No president has ever done that.
00:39:16.600 I know, I know.
00:39:17.460 And to your Michelle Obama point, recently on Jay Shetty's very highly rated podcast, why?
00:39:23.760 She wasn't there to promote anything, but she's there talking Trump, talking politics.
00:39:27.340 So you start to get these seeds and you wonder what is really behind it.
00:39:31.300 And I do think that what's most interesting about this current moment that we're in is Biden is, you know, part of the blob.
00:39:39.760 He's not the Bernie Sanders type.
00:39:41.100 He's very much part of the establishment.
00:39:43.420 And whoever's running that White House is part of that also.
00:39:46.440 So the corporate media, I have quotes on the record in the book about people saying how the people that are covering the Biden White House have spent decades working and essentially having cocktail parties with the people in the White House.
00:40:00.240 They know these people extremely well.
00:40:02.160 It's not necessarily they're all colluding together, but they go to their each other's kids soccer games.
00:40:05.920 They're part of that Acela media in New York and D.C.
00:40:10.740 So you're going to get the signs in the media.
00:40:13.160 It's inevitable.
00:40:13.820 If that's where the Democratic Party wants to go, it will be fed through the corporate media.
00:40:18.740 So it feels like that already, but it's not.
00:40:21.780 But it's.
00:40:22.220 It doesn't seem sure footed yet.
00:40:26.240 And you're saying it's going to be the possibly I think if I'm diagnosing your bet with Stu, I think it's probably 50 50 still.
00:40:36.560 I think it's 50 50.
00:40:37.800 Would you like to like to double the bet?
00:40:40.420 We already have even odds of this bet.
00:40:42.780 I know.
00:40:43.100 Would you like to double it?
00:40:45.040 Want to make it two thousand dollars?
00:40:47.020 Not just a thousand.
00:40:49.040 I mean, the problem is percentage of income.
00:40:50.720 I'm the one getting screwed here.
00:40:51.980 Right.
00:40:52.240 Like we all understand.
00:40:53.460 Now we're a socialist.
00:40:54.660 Now we have to be all equal.
00:40:56.760 I mean, here's the thing.
00:40:59.080 And let me just let me talk this out in my head as we're going through this.
00:41:01.700 One of the arguments that I because I think Kamala Harris is she's still the most obvious choice.
00:41:06.800 It would be difficult to overlook her.
00:41:08.140 One of the reasons why I felt like Biden would stay in place is because.
00:41:13.240 If Kamala, who comes into power, becomes the candidate, she has her own people.
00:41:19.660 Right.
00:41:19.760 And all those people who are with Biden now are like, we're going to lose our gig if Kamala is the person because Kamala, there's they're totally they have totally different circles.
00:41:29.300 The Michelle Obama point, though, is a good one here because they are sort of the same circles.
00:41:33.560 Like some of them are Biden loyalists, the Antony Blinkens of the world.
00:41:36.940 But a lot of them are sort of Obama affiliated.
00:41:40.600 So, I mean, it makes me hesitant.
00:41:43.440 But I mean, again, she said over and over again, she doesn't want to do it.
00:41:47.640 All right.
00:41:49.360 Two thousand.
00:41:49.820 Let's do it.
00:41:50.120 Two thousand.
00:41:50.560 Two thousand.
00:41:51.060 Two thousand.
00:41:51.580 We're updating it.
00:41:52.100 Two thousand.
00:41:52.620 That's good.
00:41:53.280 I think it's it's what you've got the bed in now.
00:41:56.320 So it's done.
00:41:56.920 OK.
00:41:57.080 But but I think we're going to learn a lot more in the near future.
00:41:59.840 I think we're we're the fact that the train is out the stage now, right?
00:42:03.720 It's moving.
00:42:04.420 We're watching it happen in the press.
00:42:06.780 Now we start to see whether it's going to continue.
00:42:09.040 Nothing like this has ever been done before.
00:42:11.620 No.
00:42:11.900 OK.
00:42:12.380 This will be complete.
00:42:14.440 It'll be a horse on the highway.
00:42:18.380 OK.
00:42:18.900 Yeah.
00:42:19.520 I don't know if you saw this, but go ahead and play.
00:42:22.460 This is on.
00:42:23.340 I think it's I-76 in Philadelphia.
00:42:26.400 I can't stop watching it.
00:42:27.380 I've seen it 25 times this morning and I still watch it every time.
00:42:29.880 Because you've never seen it before.
00:42:31.520 It's a horse on the highway.
00:42:34.520 OK.
00:42:35.680 And that's what this will be.
00:42:37.280 Right.
00:42:37.500 Can you walk us through on on what has to happen?
00:42:41.960 I mean, I mean, they could could they do that in the in the Republican Party?
00:42:48.160 Yes.
00:42:48.800 In theory, they could.
00:42:50.540 OK.
00:42:50.780 So hang on.
00:42:51.400 Explain.
00:42:52.020 Explain both of those to me here in just a second.
00:42:54.580 The name of the book is Uncovered Uncovered by Steve Krakauer.
00:43:00.040 You can get it wherever you buy your books or you can go to his website.
00:43:05.020 Read Uncovered dot com.
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