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00:00:00.000 hey great podcast today you know for us little people i don't think the elites are gonna like

00:00:04.920 it we talk about the oligarchy the the coming together of corporations and uh and and government

00:00:13.480 that's what's really happening in our system we talk uh we talk a little bit about what's happening

00:00:19.800 in the culture war there is a warrior out there and his song has gone viral uh and his song came

00:00:28.820 out this weekend and now has three and a half million views he has 350 million views on youtube

00:00:35.580 uh and he talks a little bit about the song and also uh the culture that he fears we're slipping

00:00:43.220 into tom mcdonald is going to be with us uh on today's broadcast and so much more you don't want

00:00:50.380 to miss you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program

00:01:01.700 we are in a new red scare we are now hunting for the enemies within the federal government is is

00:01:16.520 actually having discussions about putting together a new truth and reality czar somebody who will tell

00:01:23.180 us what the truth is oh my gosh we've been through this before where people are silenced and they're

00:01:31.040 afraid to speak their mind it's happened really twice in america with the sedition act under uh john

00:01:39.060 adams and in the 1950s with the other red scare this red scare is about red states be afraid be very

00:01:47.880 very afraid the enemy is within well that's what they said back in the 1950s the communists are inside

00:01:54.620 the gates the enemy is within so they started the committee for un-american activities the mccarthy 0.96

00:02:01.340 hearings are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party

00:02:06.900 are you now or have you ever been a member of the republican party are you now or have you ever been a

00:02:15.900 supporter of donald trump it's the new red scare and how people can't see this fear that is being pushed by

00:02:26.480 the left isn't the same remember people lost their jobs just for things that they believed now people are

00:02:34.480 losing their jobs not for things that they believe just things that they might say

00:02:39.920 nick daly who's worked on my staff for a long time and i we um uh we put uh a song together it's not a

00:02:49.680 lyrical so well i just want you to listen to it and i would i would ask that you would pass this on we're

00:02:54.600 gonna put it on youtube later today um when when did we stop seeing the parallels the average american

00:03:04.040 can do very little they must depend upon those of us whom they send down here to man the watchtowers of the nation 0.97

00:03:12.480 and if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant in a department store

00:03:20.520 we're at a gasoline station you tell them they're not left

00:03:24.880 once again we honor that both the bosses we're performing a public duty

00:03:33.920 to protect and defend the constitution a public trust i am pursuing this investigation i've seen

00:03:41.680 firsthand donald trump's disrespect for facts in order to develop the facts it's really bizarre

00:03:48.260 when you think about how awol so many of these members of congress have gotten if we unless we

00:03:54.720 make sure that there's no infiltration of our government donald trump is a clear and present

00:04:00.020 danger to our country then just as certain as you sit there in the period of our lives

00:04:05.940 you will see a red world what i'm concerned about is the republican leadership in the house of

00:04:12.240 representatives the enemy the enemy is within the house of representatives what is the exact number

00:04:20.200 of trump supporters are supposed to be and the question is how are we going to really almost

00:04:26.020 deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of trump by cutting off their social media

00:04:31.940 first google and apple delisted parlor from their app stores then amazon cut the servers now house

00:04:40.280 democrats are trying to blame the free speech platform parlor this stuff related to big tech

00:04:46.660 censorship is the issue of our time will smith appearing to call for the country to purge itself

00:04:53.260 of donald trump's supporters we get to know who people are and now we get to cleanse it out of our

00:04:58.220 country there's a proposal to have a commission to investigate republican colleagues democrat senators

00:05:04.860 have filed ethics complaints against two of their republican colleagues uh the left is trying to push

00:05:10.780 these businesses to shame them and threaten them into shunning and silencing uh trump supporters and

00:05:18.780 conservatives they're pushing them to fire people even council culture is a wildfire that you cannot

00:05:26.380 contain if you pour gasoline onto it don't be surprised when it finally reaches you and you get burned every

00:05:33.100 business needs to stand up for every american otherwise eventually they'll come for you too

00:05:40.140 this is the glenbeck program they they have come for you they're coming for you they're coming for

00:05:49.980 anyone who disagrees with them or anyone who dares say something that might hurt their feelings

00:05:58.140 and there is no forgiveness none there is no redemption i was talking to somebody last night and he said

00:06:06.300 he said the the greatest motivate motivating force in all of life he said i'm convinced what motivates

00:06:16.140 people the strongest force out there what motivates people is not pain is not love

00:06:25.260 it's not greed it's not money it's it's redemption that everyone is on the path

00:06:34.620 looking for redemption something that they have done in their life that and the redeeming power is not just

00:06:44.220 a power of oh i forgive you redemption is this amazing thing that takes something really horrible

00:06:57.820 and turns it into something miraculous

00:07:03.660 so many people are struggling right now with feelings of of guilt of fear whatever it is that's

00:07:14.460 happening in your life it's happening in almost everybody's life

00:07:21.580 i've wrestled recently with man what have i missed with my children how have i

00:07:26.620 i after trying everything i could for the last 15 years doing everything i can

00:07:34.860 i still have problems with my kids and i i don't i don't what else and i feel like

00:07:43.260 gosh i really am a bad dad no i'm not no i'm not

00:07:48.140 these struggles happen in every child's life these struggles happen and if they can just stay on the

00:07:59.260 road long enough all of those mistakes will teach them brilliant things

00:08:04.780 they will be completely transformed because that's what redemption does but we're now in a society

00:08:14.620 that doesn't believe in redemption if you've ever said anything if you've ever done anything i don't

00:08:20.780 care how long ago it was you are not forgiven you will never be forgiven this goes against all human

00:08:29.900 nature jordan jordan jordan jordan peterson talks about god when he talks about jesus he always says i

00:08:37.260 i'm not saying that he really rose from the dead or didn't rise from the dead it doesn't matter

00:08:41.740 psychology wise psychologically it is really important that people have a redemptive story something

00:08:50.700 that gives them hope that they can move on from that so you don't have to believe it i do

00:09:00.060 you don't have to believe in the jesus story you don't have to believe he rose from the dead i do

00:09:07.660 but you do have to really to be able to survive as a society you do actually have to believe in

00:09:15.740 redemption so morgan wallen my wife would probably know who he is i i don't listen to country music like

00:09:24.300 she does he's a country star he currently has the number one uh album on the country charts for

00:09:33.660 billboard the hot 100 he has the number one album well he's been in trouble recently he was on saturday

00:09:42.780 night live and a few days before he was going to be on saturday night live a video surfaced of him

00:09:47.420 partying it up in a bar without a mask and kissing several women whoa not a not a star of the stage

00:09:56.860 and music doing that what so he was cut from the snl show given another chance a few weeks later but

00:10:04.620 that was the latest thing he had trouble and then and then sunday night we have no idea where he went i

00:10:14.380 don't really care um but he ended up early monday morning showing uh showing up at a friend's house

00:10:22.380 he and a bunch of other guys got together and uh they showed up at um

00:10:31.340 no it's actually his house showed up around his house around midnight and all of his friends were

00:10:36.300 there and they were honking and they were loud this happened in nashville the neighbors got pissed off

00:10:41.140 one of the neighbors began recording something and so morgan he is stumbling towards his house and

00:10:48.220 he tells someone to watch over a guy in his group he says take care of this p.s mother effer it's 0.74

00:10:55.220 beautifully put but he's talking about one of his friends and he's looking to another friend and said

00:11:00.780 take care of him then he goes to say yeah that's right take care of this p.s n-word well that's enough 0.87

00:11:10.620 that's enough now it doesn't matter that he said this to a friend and about a friend you can't use

00:11:19.240 that word other people can use the word you can't use the word you're a country artist we know what

00:11:25.440 you think you're white you're from the south we know what you think now this has happened to the 0.86

00:11:33.500 new york times the new york times has one of their their veterans time reporter um and this guy

00:11:42.360 donald mcneil he went down on a 2019 educational trip to peru along with a bunch of high school

00:11:51.240 students after the trip the students left reviews alleging that he used the n-word while on the trip

00:11:57.180 three other participants alleged that he made racist comments and used stereotypes about black

00:12:02.840 teenagers on the trip what did the new york times do well it said we you know we intended to fire

00:12:11.020 mcneil um but uh i mean he's an award-winning science reporter and yes he made offensive comments

00:12:20.020 but he didn't act in a hateful manner really hang on but morgan wallen did so he didn't lose his job

00:12:31.240 he said you know i just used extremely poor judgment oh okay okay well then all is forgiven right

00:12:38.500 except there is no redemption for morgan wallen here's what happened in the wake of recent events

00:12:50.600 big loud records has made the decision to suspend morgan wallen's contract indefinitely

00:12:56.560 republic records which distributes is uh is music fully supports big loud decision and agrees such

00:13:04.800 behavior will not be tolerated big loud's punitive action now comes with wallen's 30 track sophomore

00:13:11.420 album dangerous the double album which is number one on the billboard top 200 for the third consecutive

00:13:21.160 week this is not some nobody then in an unprecedented news the academy of country music announced it will

00:13:30.840 halt morgan wallen's potential involvement and eligibility for the 56th academy of country music

00:13:36.580 awards cycle the academy does not condone nor support intolerance or behavior that does not align

00:13:42.080 with our commitment and dedication to diversity and inclusion look out this is all about this is about

00:13:49.380 to be everywhere with the great reset shortly thereafter the rival country music association

00:13:56.440 the cmas announced it was also removing wallen's digital content from all of its platforms the

00:14:03.340 statement continued we support our country music partners for taking swift action we will confer

00:14:08.140 further with our board of directors to review additional measures and we'll continue to examine our

00:14:13.260 industry's inclusivity measures nobody everybody's running for cover nobody wants to stand up if you

00:14:20.900 don't stand up when they come for you there's not going to be anybody left to stand for you because if

00:14:25.620 you're a coward they'll be a coward they're all running for cover and i am not excusing morgan wallen's 0.94

00:14:32.420 use of that word i don't like that word i don't ever use that word i don't know people that use that word

00:14:39.780 and if they did i would say can you know i just don't i don't like that word can we can you not

00:14:44.140 use that around at least around me and if they were using it in a hateful manner they wouldn't be my

00:14:49.720 friend and they wouldn't hang around me it's a different world now he's obviously got some

00:14:57.560 drinking problems now i don't know if he's an alcoholic or if he just likes to drink but one way

00:15:02.860 or another you don't have the best judgment when you're smashed so i don't excuse this in any way

00:15:10.320 shape or form but really he's now up there with hitler we have to erase him we must make him pay

00:15:21.760 i don't know what world you're living in but in my world there's forgiveness for the guy with

00:15:31.700 students in peru and a guy with a drink in his hand in nashville i don't know what world you are

00:15:42.960 living in but i will not live in a world without redemption you're listening to the best of the

00:15:54.240 glenn beck program so last night if you're watching my special live on pluto or on the live

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00:16:42.680 and if you missed it last night i'll give you a little bit of recap but um it's a really important

00:16:48.500 show really important show and i'm going to give you a couple of the highlights from last night's

00:16:53.140 broadcast that i think you need to be aware of um you know because i've i've played the audio before

00:17:00.140 um but uh john carrey

00:17:04.500 has been talking to the world economic forum now he's our climate czar who just got in trouble because

00:17:12.060 you know he flew a giant what global express uh so uh you know so he could do his climate

00:17:19.000 work and added tons of carbon when asked about it he said well it's i mean i mean people like me

00:17:27.320 this is the only choice no it's not no it's it's really not well he's busy though no i know and we're

00:17:33.420 not it's not you know it's like you're not busy he is it's like waiting for doctors it really pisses 0.59

00:17:37.940 me off really i have to be there on time because the doctor is so busy i'm not right then you be on

00:17:44.340 time to doc it goes both ways be on time uh and we're all busy but they think that they're so

00:17:52.200 important they think that what they're doing is the most important thing and so and honestly

00:17:58.460 without them what would we do that's what they really believe so here's what joe uh here's what

00:18:07.700 joe biden's new um climate uh czar had to say uh at the world economic forum listen

00:18:16.640 are we expecting too much too soon uh from the new president or is he going to deliver first day

00:18:25.280 uh on this uh topics uh the answer to your question is no you're not expecting too much

00:18:31.660 and yes it will happen and i think it will happen with greater speed and with greater intensity than

00:18:39.100 a lot of people might imagine i will tell you this is true i told you about a story yesterday about

00:18:45.100 coca-cola and what they're doing with their attorneys uh i was just looking up some things i was googling

00:18:51.180 you know uh businesses associated in putting a can of coke on the shelf and i was trying to just see

00:18:57.800 how many how many businesses outside of the coke family well i found something uh that was really

00:19:03.420 interesting it was the distributor the coca-cola distributor in europe and it's about a hundred page

00:19:10.720 document and it is all the great reset they're already deep into this deep into this and they at one

00:19:20.680 point in this document they say to justify our business license we are doing x y and z in communities

00:19:30.220 to justify your business license wow that's what's coming now john kerry the climate czar that is now a

00:19:40.360 position that is on the national security council he was speaking at the world economic forum on biden's

00:19:47.500 intentions for the great reset the global plan to use coronavirus and climate change to change our

00:19:54.360 societies globally forever it is an oligarchy now the video was there was another video that i played

00:20:03.380 for you uh last night on tv it was tweeted out by the world economic forum then it was immediately

00:20:09.240 deleted uh after people started freaking out because i have up on the screen now the last phrase a frame of

00:20:16.040 it uh and it's about you know what life is going to be like in 2030 from the world economic forum

00:20:21.900 tells all kinds of scary things but then it says you'll own nothing and you'll be happy

00:20:26.760 and when you can think about that you can be like oh okay i'm going to be happy because i'm not going to

00:20:32.360 own a car i'll take an uber uh maybe i i won't even own clothes it'll be rent the runway

00:20:38.180 uh i won't own my own house you'll just be so much more free except the things that you're using are

00:20:48.280 not free you may not own them but who does if you don't own your house you have a landlord if you

00:20:57.220 don't own your car you have somebody that does and it will be these giant corporations that will own

00:21:04.380 everything and so you will always be renting from these people because you can't have private

00:21:11.320 property because there won't be private property anymore

00:21:14.400 global corporations and the global elite are merging into one is this what you want for your children

00:21:28.300 ownership shifting from the people to a co-op between big corporations and the government

00:21:35.680 used to be something the left condemned we all did it's it's where you get crony capitalism and it is

00:21:43.560 the reason why we hate government so much it's how a politician can never i mean he never holds up

00:21:51.240 real job he starts when he's young he has no money no so-called outside um interests no no other income

00:22:01.960 coming in and yet after 50 years an elected official somehow magically he becomes a multi-millionaire

00:22:08.180 and so does the rest of his family how does that happen well the rest of the world accepts it

00:22:15.180 eastern europe russia china that's just the way things work it's called an oligarchy and democrats are

00:22:23.100 helping to use the biden administration as the catalyst to shift power from you to them it's really

00:22:30.700 important that we explain this to our friends and family the excuse to merge these businesses in

00:22:36.840 government is the coronavirus and climate change but progressives see this is where i this is where i went

00:22:44.060 wrong progressives in the 1930s they were about marxism and we think it's about marxism but it's not

00:22:51.260 in the old days the progressives they use the great depression for their change and there's a reason

00:22:59.320 why the modern left idolizes fdr so much and it has nothing to do with winning the war it has everything

00:23:04.780 to do with the new deal he orchestrated a catastrophic change in the american experiment

00:23:10.780 you remember when doc told marty we can't go we can't go back and he took the chalkboard out and he

00:23:18.480 showed the timeline and it split off so this 1985 is not the same 1985 biff tanner biff owns the casino

00:23:29.340 he's married to your mother lorraine okay we can go back to the original timeline

00:23:39.300 marty couldn't but we can the original timeline was to form a more perfect union to set the maximum

00:23:50.180 amount of people free with the minimum amount of control to make sure that we took care of all

00:23:59.020 citizens and we viewed all citizens the same no matter their background no matter what family they came

00:24:06.780 from no matter their job no matter their wealth or their poverty everyone was joined the same and we

00:24:13.260 had the same rights well that was an experiment nobody had ever tried that before and we're not

00:24:20.380 doing it anymore and we haven't done it back in 1933 the great reset was sold here in america as the

00:24:30.460 national recovery administration it's the old nra not the gun one it's the old blue eagle private

00:24:39.020 businesses unions and government they all got together and they got together and we did our research on this and

00:24:47.980 we were amazed do you know why they got together all in the name of fairness and equity

00:24:55.340 equity not equality equity equality is we all have an equal shot equity means we all have an equal

00:25:05.960 outcome in 1933 he proposed a new public private partnership where the federal government was able

00:25:15.040 to tell business owners how much they could pay their workers what they could or couldn't sell

00:25:19.740 and they had price controls it was an unmitigated disaster supreme court later declared it unconstitutional

00:25:27.720 but much of it was snuck in and changed america because of the wagner act in 1935

00:25:33.580 but i'm not bringing this up because it's already been tried and already been put into place in many

00:25:40.440 places and this is why we have such problems i want to talk about plagiarism i want to talk about

00:25:47.680 how fdr engaged in plagiarism because somebody had already done this private business and government

00:25:57.400 thing and codified it in into law five years earlier than he proposed it it was called the national

00:26:05.520 council of corporations and it was established by benito mussolini

00:26:11.480 this public private partnership is fascistic it is fascistic now i don't want to get into terms like

00:26:26.760 socialism national socialism because socialists and communists and everything bernie sanders and aoc

00:26:33.140 and the democrat the democratic socialists of america they're the only ones that are actually fighting for

00:26:41.060 that everybody else is smarter and everyone else like john carrey and and and joe biden which i will

00:26:48.080 show you here in a minute they all know they're not working for national socialism they know they're not

00:26:53.540 doing that they are working for an oligarchy that's what they that's what they're actually building

00:27:00.700 where the elites fall into two classes the billionaire ceos and their corporations

00:27:05.940 and the government collaborators who also get rich off of those companies china is not a china

00:27:12.840 is not a communist country as we understand it it was a new model

00:27:18.220 so you have the elites in the government and you have the elites that say prove to me i should give

00:27:27.060 you a business license and if they comply with whatever those elites in the government say

00:27:32.460 well then they get that business license and of course you're going to have to share the wealth

00:27:36.260 just a little bit and help us out everyone else outside of those two classes you're a subject

00:27:41.720 you're a consumer for these corporations you will consume

00:27:49.160 1.3 billion people in china they don't it doesn't matter they could live die they don't care

00:27:56.300 they're just consumers

00:27:58.900 well we were on this timeline and what did we do we believed in small government the government

00:28:07.800 shouldn't get involved in business affairs well that all went out the window with fdr

00:28:12.040 with this private public partnership idea we believe we shouldn't get into foreign entanglements

00:28:19.460 not only did we change that in world war one and world war two we went we doubled down

00:28:26.560 because we had the bomb we never had a standing army ever because we had the bomb now we said whoa

00:28:34.460 whoa whoa we have got to build this gigantic military and we will be the policemen of the world but not

00:28:42.800 only that we're going to be the bankers of the world you're all going to use our currency you want

00:28:48.880 to talk about foreign entanglements you now have a global military and a global dollar

00:28:56.080 so we flushed that down and when we had the bomb now what we have to do is we have to get the elites

00:29:07.440 in universities to to to help us make new bombs we need them to do science for the war

00:29:18.680 department and we need the best economic minds in universities and we'll fund them

00:29:25.240 on how to spend spend spend and we need these great minds to advise our government on how to fix

00:29:35.240 problems in our society because government now has to heal all 0.82

00:29:40.380 we took all of these things and we institutionalize them we got off of the constitutional path

00:29:52.200 of the smallest government

00:29:54.900 that can hold safety for the biggest amount of free people

00:30:01.940 this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:30:06.980 tom mcdonald is a canadian hip-hop artist and producer currently based in the united states

00:30:14.620 uh he initially went viral with his song dear rappers in 2017 since then

00:30:20.140 he has independently produced released and amassed enough body of work

00:30:27.980 to uh to have 350 million views on his youtube channel alone millions of monthly listeners on

00:30:37.200 spotified and tallied hundreds of thousands of physical album sales most recently tom released fake

00:30:43.880 woke his fourth number one single in the u.s on itunes charts uh and it is now over what 3.5 million

00:30:54.060 views now tom welcome to the program mr glenbeck thanks for having me man you bet um so tom uh you know

00:31:03.300 this may come as a surprise to you uh i'm not really down uh in the rap scene all that often

00:31:11.460 uh but when my but when my circle of friends start sending me videos over the weekend as they did

00:31:18.620 uh and said you've got to watch this and listen to it uh it it says something about your impact on

00:31:25.560 culture i want to play just a little bit of your song here so we can talk about it and people know

00:31:29.780 what we're talking about sure here it comes we're ashamed to be american you should probably love it

00:31:35.060 because you have the right to hate it and not get stoned to death in public as children we were taught

00:31:39.040 how to walk and talk but the system wants adults to sit down and shut up cancel culture runs the

00:31:44.100 world now the planet went crazy label everything we say is homophobic or racist if you're white then 0.50

00:31:49.160 you're privileged guilty by association all our childhood heroes got me too to the rapist they

00:31:53.740 never freed the slaves they realized that they don't need the chains they gave us tiny screens we think

00:31:57.880 we free because we can't see the cage they knew that race war would be the game they need to play 0.92

00:32:01.900 for people to big teams they use the media to feed the flame

00:32:04.700 so the song is called fake woke and tom i i have to tell you i i just have to ask you some

00:32:17.740 questions says nobody trusts anybody anymore nobody is who they say they are anymore

00:32:21.980 sure uh kind of what your song is about you look scary

00:32:25.700 i do i do i do i think you look a little scary serial killer white power guy i don't know

00:32:34.560 but i'd like to have you ever killed anybody not not only on only on record okay all right um but i

00:32:43.360 just want to because you get a uh a rap no pun intended um of being anti-feminist uh racist i mean

00:32:52.320 i get all of those things too but i want to make clear that you're none of those things right

00:32:57.820 no absolutely not i mean man these are just like it just seems these days like everybody is so

00:33:05.460 polarized from one another if there's like a difference in opinion especially if it's

00:33:10.360 regarding race or something on the lgbtq spectrum or something like that if there's a difference in

00:33:16.080 opinion it's like one side is automatically just he's a racist he's homophobic he's anti-feminist 0.77

00:33:22.300 he's he's just labels that that people who i i think that they have a difference in opinion and

00:33:28.740 and instead of you know talking it out or or or understanding somebody else's perspective it's

00:33:35.120 they'd rather just throw labels and scream on the internet um you write your writing is really

00:33:40.320 brilliant you say i think it's crazy i'm the one who labeled as controversial cardi b is the role

00:33:45.540 model for 12 year old girls rappers pushing xanax at the top of the billboard but if i mention race

00:33:50.880 in a song i'm scared i'll get killed for it it's backwards i love this line it's getting

00:33:55.040 exponentially dumb more difficult to get a job than purchase a gun eminem used to gay bash and murder 0.99

00:34:01.500 his mom and now he doesn't want fans if they voted for trump yeah i said that for sure yeah

00:34:08.780 um your your lyrics uh are uh are not exactly cardi b lyrics i mean uh and it's it's hard to find

00:34:20.920 something that is controversial today but i don't think you're trying to be controversial maybe you

00:34:27.460 are um it seems to me this is coming from you and you're just stating the truth as you see it

00:34:35.100 is it do i have it right yeah i'd say that's accurate um a lot of people like to label this

00:34:42.300 stuff as controversial and stuff like that but um i think it's really just more an issue it's just

00:34:49.920 uncommon for people to especially in today's world um kind of honestly speak their feelings or their

00:34:58.740 opinions on stuff and i think it that that's so uncommon because people are scared of being

00:35:05.040 canceled or crucified on the internet um i think it's just so uncommon that when somebody uh steps

00:35:11.620 up and says those things i think a lot of people immediately um just start screaming oh he's being

00:35:18.280 controversial on purpose or she's click baiting us or whatever um and i think it's just that it's

00:35:23.280 they're just not used to um hearing people speak their minds um are you familiar with who uh morgan

00:35:31.660 wallen is the country artist so here's a country artist he is uh itunes what was oh i know who i

00:35:41.580 know who you're talking about yeah the really recent story he uh he's getting canceled because he

00:35:46.040 was drunk and it was screaming like a racial slur or something yeah he was he said about a friend who

00:35:52.500 i think was down on the sidewalk he looked at another friend about his friend and said uh take

00:35:58.580 care of that p ass mother effing uh n word so uh uh you know not something that i i you know i say or 0.97

00:36:11.200 want my friends to say but he wasn't being malicious and one way or another there are consequences for

00:36:17.360 everybody's action but he has been canceled he has zero airplay in america today his contract was

00:36:25.160 canceled uh uh spotify dropped him uh itunes music dropped him who else uh clear cumulus cumulus i heart

00:36:36.360 radio i mean it's uh you have any thoughts on that um i mean i think i don't think it's acceptable

00:36:48.840 sort of by anyone's standards ever to use that word regardless of its context i mean that's just my

00:36:57.640 personal feelings um especially like being in in hip-hop and immersed in black culture that's not 0.99

00:37:04.840 something that like i would never say that publicly in private it's just correct it's not not something

00:37:11.240 that i do um even when i'm singing rap lyrics by like my favorite rappers and i'm by myself doing

00:37:17.520 dishes in my kitchen i'm omitting those parts of the songs i'm just not comfortable personally with

00:37:22.200 saying that um so so i agree with you 110 i am exactly the same way i don't like that word um i

00:37:30.440 don't like it i don't like it used casually or you know obviously in hatred or whatever i don't like it

00:37:36.300 and he shouldn't have used the word but that being said though um i feel like i saw the post that i saw

00:37:44.740 last night was he had been cancelled and he had been dropped and stuff like that but i saw they

00:37:49.220 took over like five or six of the top 10 spots on um itunes charts yeah i find it interesting that

00:37:57.140 itunes music would make sure they don't play him on any of their stations but they'll still make 30

00:38:03.100 you know on on all of the sales of his music he's now eight of the top 10 14 of the top 20

00:38:11.380 uh he knocked me at a number one uh yeah he knocked well no this is is this uh all music

00:38:16.700 it's on the country chart on the country chart yeah okay okay okay um yeah like you know

00:38:23.380 man i think largely like the canceling that's going on right now is is ridiculous i think that if you

00:38:35.020 hear something that you don't like then you switch the radio station if you see something that you

00:38:39.820 don't like seeing you change the channel if you don't like what you're reading you close the book

00:38:43.420 uh all of this like canceling largely in my opinion is is ridiculous um sometimes i think that it's

00:38:51.920 kind of justified and i think that maybe in this instance it it is um but i also feel like these days

00:39:00.520 americans in north america are obsessed with what they don't like especially on the internet

00:39:08.040 so it's like you could release the greatest song in the world you could be the most pc person ever

00:39:14.380 um and you can have a righteous movement and your branding can be perfect you can be america's

00:39:20.440 sweetheart and get very very little traction um as a musician or right as an actor or whatever but

00:39:28.480 the second that you're doing things that ruffle feathers or uh tick people off um it seems like people

00:39:36.420 just flock to that and in their attempt to sort of exploit your mistakes and quote unquote cancel you

00:39:45.140 i think a lot of the times they just end up blowing those people up which might be might be part of the

00:39:51.020 case uh with this artist i know for sure that i've made music for a long time um that that weren't

00:39:58.180 about my you know personal opinions and i wasn't trying to intentionally ruffle feathers of people and

00:40:03.720 i made music for eight years and and had very little impact and the second i started saying

00:40:09.720 things that i was thinking privately um people that didn't like it ended up promoting me to such a

00:40:18.380 degree that i found my people at this point yeah we're talking to we're talking to tom mcdonald

00:40:24.140 currently holds the number one spot uh on itunes um uh he he has a uh new song out called fake woke

00:40:32.660 it it was released um over the weekend and has just been viral and just stormed the country um and

00:40:40.540 north america uh tom is the reason you do your own you are your own producer um you're an independent

00:40:50.380 artist you don't have anybody you're doing it yourself um i know another artist was the first to

00:40:56.800 i think go number one on the charts with his as an independent artist um and the freedom he it gives

00:41:05.220 him is remarkable is is do you think you'd be the same if you had to live in a box of a record label

00:41:14.140 i think i think it'd be night and day um not only is it more lucrative financially to do this stuff

00:41:23.320 independently um but i've maintained a hundred percent of my artistic integrity and i know for

00:41:30.920 pardon me i know for a fact that if i put my name on a line somewhere um my like i spoke a minute ago

00:41:40.720 about uh um being america's sweetheart that it's very easy in america to clean up a mess um

00:41:48.320 for example if you if you look at uh kim kardashian she she is she essentially um and my girlfriend

00:41:55.640 loves her and she's america's sweetheart and she essentially blew up off of having a sex tape 1.00

00:42:00.200 um and now she's america's sweetheart and i think that's a testament to in america no matter how dirty 1.00

00:42:08.220 and messy things get you throw enough money at it and uh you can clean it up and and rebrand the

00:42:14.360 whole thing and i'm pretty sure that something like that or i'm certain something like that would

00:42:18.820 happen if i sign to a label they're going to clean up everything they're probably going to erase all my

00:42:23.520 old music off the internet they're going to rebrand it i'm going to have very little say in uh what type

00:42:29.680 of music i'm making and i'll probably be jumping around in music videos uh singing about xanax and

00:42:35.360 talking to uh tom mcdonald uh he is the um he is the uh the mind and the talent behind fake

00:42:46.440 woke which has gone viral um and you can find him uh at uh his youtube channel youtube.com

00:42:54.880 tom mcdonald official fake woke is the song that he just uh just made um tom you you seem to have a

00:43:03.840 good handle on what america and possibly your canadian what canada is feeling too um what do

00:43:11.720 you see coming down the road i mean there there is this clash of the people that say shut everybody

00:43:17.240 up and those that say no let everybody speak their mind and figure it out life is messy

00:43:23.200 what how do you see this coming together uh it's you know if there's one thing that i've learned

00:43:32.220 about uh america in the six years that i lived here it's it's very unpredictable um so i i don't know

00:43:43.160 if i'm you know i feel like you guys are many degrees above me when it comes to sort of forecasting

00:43:51.840 political climates and stuff like that at the end of the day i'm just like some guy who rhymes words in

00:43:56.860 his phone about things that i see things that i see going on but i what i can say is like

00:44:02.340 it does kind of uh where i kind of feel i feel like a very slippery slope and what i'm scared about

00:44:11.440 is i mean i i remember when i was a kid i don't remember the exact details of it but i remember that

00:44:17.280 there was a band from russia um called pussy riot and they went to jail they went to jail for either 0.91

00:44:25.900 protesting uh putin or protesting policies or the russian government or something and i just

00:44:32.780 remember that they were put in prison or in jail rather uh for their sort of political views that

00:44:37.940 they expressed in their songs and um and i know that there's other places in the world where um

00:44:43.520 people don't have the right to stand up and protest and speak their mind especially if it's

00:44:49.500 negative things about their country um so you know that's what i immediately think of when i see like

00:44:56.900 the facts checking and the canceling and stuff like that it just worries me that we're going to

00:45:01.940 slide into some crazy hole where uh opinions become illegal you know what is amazing to me is the musical

00:45:10.460 artists i mean rock and roll punk rock attitude rap it's always been anti-establishment

00:45:17.800 now it's pulling for the establishment and you can't i mean punk is not punk rap is not rap anymore

00:45:26.680 you know what i mean that's exactly it man like i remember many years ago when i released my first

00:45:33.460 sort of uh song that was uh politically charged or speaking about just this the social um environment

00:45:41.020 in the states i remember my dad saying to me he said you know what thomas like um you may be

00:45:47.700 a rapper but you're making rock and roll right now because rock and roll has always been about

00:45:52.200 screaming the truth at the top of your lungs and less about the music so um as far as i'm concerned

00:45:58.460 like you're a freaking rock star so i've kind of carried that forward and like that's what i want

00:46:03.820 to do and it is worrisome to think that i might not have the freedom to do that uh sometime in the

00:46:11.660 near future that's a little sobering thank you so much tom mcdonald um follow him at i am tom mcdonald

00:46:20.420 uh and check out his uh his his work he is amazing he's scared the look he'll scare you when you look

00:46:27.300 at him um uh but you will love his music i think tom mcdonald thank you so much tom i appreciate it

00:46:34.860 keep it up thanks for having me glenn you bet

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