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Bill O'Reilly joins us to wrap up the year with his final news review of the year. Plus, we talk to a happy elf about his plans for the new year, and find out what s going on at the North Pole.
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all right welcome to the podcast it's our last show of 2020 ah we've reached the end almost we'll
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see if the whole world blows up before the end of the year uh today is great show uh we have bill
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o'reilly joining us to kind of go over a final news review of the year uh we have pat gray on
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with his typical holiday cheer exactly what you'd expect uh from pat uh and uh we have uh tommy
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vex on as well a really cool story about how he's uh come along from uh the the left of the side of
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things to uh the right side of things and and his transformation story is really interesting as
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well i think you'll like it uh make sure you go to um glennbeckmerch.com if you want to pick up a
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last minute christmas gift or stewdoesmerch.com is there as well i think you'll uh like a lot of the
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ridiculous nonsense that we have and i always think there's a great path for a last minute christmas
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gift when you realize you didn't get the person anything you could just go to the website buy the
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thing get it shipped and then just print out a picture of it and put it in a card then it'll look
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like you thought about it and we screwed it up we'll take responsibility we'll tell you hey i'm so
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sorry we screwed up the shipping it's our fault we'll take full responsibility blame us uh glennbeckmerch.com
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here's the podcast you're listening to the best of the glennbeck program
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do we have the connection up i didn't expect this i didn't think we would actually get this but we
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are we now have a uh live satellite connection i don't even know how good it is there may be some
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delay uh to the uh north pole we go now to i don't know who we're even speaking to who is this
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ah it's an elf yeah it's good to talk to you are you excited about christmas this year little boy
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well i'm not a little boy but uh yeah i am i and it's sorry are you excited for christmas this
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year overweight old man i mean i don't think that was necessary but yes and it's talking to a happy
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elf you know kind of makes things even better well i hope you enjoy this christmas because it's the last
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one excuse excuse me it's the last one i'm tired of this crap over and over again this fat guy keeps
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telling us what to do all year and basically keeps us in indentured servitude and what do we do we sit
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here and we serve and we serve and we serve we get paid jack and then i have to make toys for your
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stupid snot nose kids i'm sick of it uh is there another elf i can talk to oh oh am i am i bringing
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too much truth is that what i'm doing instead of bringing more crappy stuff that we actually bought
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in china and i didn't even make wait in your stockings instead i'm bringing some truth okay that's
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what i'm doing okay um you seem like an unhappy elf or i mean is there a happy elf i can first of
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all i don't even know your name uh is it like jingle or jangle carl
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you're carl carl the elf yeah okay is there a is there like a supervisor right every year we have
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is there a supervisor i can i'm sick of the media i just i can hear you carl what hey happy christmas
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yeah yeah uh is there like a supervisor i can talk to or somebody you need a supervisor do you
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maybe instead we'll give you our new elephant representative we just elected her uh well
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technically we elected some really old guy who says he's a moderate but in reality we reelected
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uh a socialist basically that's going to step in in a few months you want to talk to her
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well well that sounds familiar uh uh yeah could i talk to her no is she uh is she around no you can't
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she's not around no no no not at all no because you are sitting here in judgment of us uh in the
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north pole we see how you look at us because we're minorities we might be a slightly different
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size uh and you have to continually point out that we're not normal we're different than you
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well i'll tell you what uh we just built a north pole autonomous zone and our rules apply here
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your rules apply so what what what what exactly are your rules this by the way this is not turning
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into the the christmas interview we hope rule one you come near us we shoot you
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it is is santa around could we speak to santa no santa is not around in fact there's gonna be no
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christmas toys this year get used to it boys and girls here's what happened last year we usually are
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stocking we get the stockings out we're stuffing the stockings this year we were stuffing ballot
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boxes this is this is how i know that there was election fraud this year because there's no way
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donald trump got that many votes we were flying around the earth picking up all the votes for trump
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and bringing them back here and lighting them on fire hold hold it just a second you so there is
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election fraud you say trump didn't get as many votes yeah he was probably working with the russians
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or something on it i don't know i always saw it on cnn and the point is that i know for a fact we were
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taking out santa slate the reindeer super liberal and we were taking they were happy to do this they
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flew us around the earth we went in through all these little ballot box locations we took them back
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a christmas fire needed to be built anyway why not build it with trump ballots
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okay but was santa involved with it does he know that you were taking the reindeer out and well
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santa mantle he's really kind of a he's a judgmental bastard frankly but he is at least pretty much a
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socialist i mean we're giving away stuff all the time so he's kind of on board with it bottom line is
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he's still white so we're gonna get rid of him soon uh okay yeah there's nobody else i can well
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is there anyone else now well i could get you could talk to my new girlfriend her name's fang fang
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i gotta i gotta be even really receptive to my advances which is odd most women are not interested
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in me but fang fang's all in it's interesting i'm an elf and i'm still bigger than her last boyfriend
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okay carl we're the only ones okay up here at the north pole that are better at spying on americans
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than the chinese so this whole thing works out well all right thank you thank you thank you carl carl the
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elf from the north pole wow uh oh it's not a completely surprising fact about eric swalwell that
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we learned there towards the end the elves are taller taller or bigger
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oh christmas cheer good good i'm glad we have some christmas cheer this year
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yeah uh by the way did you see uh did you see did you see the uh uh the uh poon fang dossier letter
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the what now the fang fang hmm uh i found this on american greatness uh and it's a letter from
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fang fang to the ministry of state security of china uh it says uh party comrades the american
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website exios has published an extensive essay on our espionage operations in the united states
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according to the essay a chinese national name fang fang or christine fang you know
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it's like i guess it's better not to have two fangs yeah i like that it's like when you call a uh a call
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center for customer service and it's like my name is richard fang it's like she's either she was
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fang fang and she's like no it's christine fang do you believe that eric no the problem is the word
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fang if you got fang in your name you should change it anyway uh uh so the christine fang targeted up
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and coming local politicians in the bay area and across the country who had the potential to make
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it big on the national stage well it was swalwell that's a different story since american media have
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picked up on the story i want to set the record straight i indeed did operate as the article
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explains and my primary target was eric swalwell formerly a low-level prosecutor city councilman
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and a man of vast ambition who in fact ran for president united states i was able to access his
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organization and help him raise money for his 2014 run for congress for the source of these funds and
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how they were laundered i'll refer you to the ministry of state security file to my great delight
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house speaker nancy pelosi put representative swalwell on the house intelligence committee
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where he enjoys access to the most most sensitive secret information i'll refer you again to the
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classified files concerning our access to this information but be assured that representative swalwell
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was one of our greatest victories as you know swalwell was one of the loudest voices against our main enemy
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donald trump accusing him of crimes with no evidence whatsoever on the other hand swalwell has faithfully
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repeated our propaganda practically word for word and i find no case where he openly disagrees with our
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position criticizing our human rights record never never has he spoken a word
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swalwell has been silent about the sexual relations we indulged in but let me clarify the man holds a vast
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conceit of himself so as the americans say getting next to him was easy swalwell wanted to perform
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several acts not fully covered in my original training yes they were very distasteful not to say
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not to say uh uncomfortable as well but on the political side of the american uh the american was
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uh soon doing everything i wanted the various american mayors i i courted were easier conquests and in time
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they also might yield considerable benefits as the article pointed out the american federal bureau of
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investigation gave swalwell a defensive briefing in 2015 but that was long after i safely returned to our
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homeland swalwell remains on the intelligence committee where he serves as a valuable asset he blamed the
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axios report on president trump which made all of us at the ministry uh laugh really hard as i note here in my
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report fbi gave a similar briefing to diane feinstein uh but not before one of our agents had been on her
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staff for 20 years sometimes attending consular functions on the senator's behalf so far they have not been
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disciplined as my report recalls the communist party was the creation of the soviet russians in the united
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states and uh they ran candidates in american elections from 1920 to 1984 when gus hall and angela davis
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served as the cpus a candidates the prc needs no such operation as the democratic party is serving our
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purpose as well i had no direct role in operations uh during the american election which has uh hunter
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uh biden's father uh he positioned to occupy the white house he did enough for us i agree with the
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ministry leadership that president biden stands to be our biggest asset as we strive to expand our already
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considerable influence and to that end i may refer party comrades to my full report for possible mss
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operations under the biden administration our ultimate victory is just ahead uh and our schedule
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is ahead as well and virtually assured respectfully fang fang
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it is amazing when you look at this and you couldn't write it no one would believe it and
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the part that is so unbelievable is the new york times still has not found any of this news fit to
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print how's that possible they they spent years telling us that uh any kind of foreign influence would be
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just disastrous oh my gosh did you see what he did with russia china how is this china news not news
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to the new york times oh i'm sorry that was a rhetorical question you didn't really actually
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start to answer that did you i'm sorry we all know the answer to that the best of the glenn beck program
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kind of like disneyland is the happiest place on earth this holiday season i have to just tell you
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and remind you really bill o'reilly the happiest person on earth hello bill o'reilly i fell down
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twice on the ice this morning i'm not the happiest guy
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twice because the terror was pulling the leash all right yeah i'm lucky i'm not in traction here
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uh but here's a happy note deck here's a happy note i want to thank you and stew for giving
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killing crazy horse to all your friends as christmas gifts that was very very nice of you to do you're
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welcome oh i didn't know that you would recognize that i bought an extra book for all of my friends
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you know i should say i bought a book for all of my friends from number 20 to number 10 i called them
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and they said hey beck just ordered a whole bunch of killing i know horses and i i did it's a great
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it would be a great christmas gift not as good as some of my books but it would be a great christmas
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gift well you're killing crazy horse now i wouldn't recommend that but i mean there might be some people
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out there uh so so bill i want to take i want to take you first tell me the events of the week
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donald trump let's start there where are we uh a message of the day on billoreilly.com and i told
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everybody that the president is very uncharacteristically isolating himself so he had a
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couple of parties at the white house for the big fat cat donors he didn't even show up to those parties
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um i understand from people who do this every day that you know he's a little withdrawn and i
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understand uh he believes that the culmination of five years um in a dubious election um and he
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believes that uh he got hosed every every way you could get hosed and that's his frame of mind going
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into the christmas week i was there uh last friday with my daughter at the christmas party we were
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actually in the west wing um before the party started and uh uh caught a glimpse uh of the
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president in the oval with uh mike pence and meadows uh as he was being uh briefed uh on the supreme court
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it it didn't go well it didn't go well no as you could imagine you know and he's a pretty
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resilient guy i'd known him you know for 30 years and and you know he bounces back pretty well but i
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think this has really shaken him because he sincerely believes that he won the election that's not you
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know posturing or he doesn't have any self-doubt he believes that he won it and that it was taken
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from him by these forces who for five years tried to destroy him so let me let me be very
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careful on what i say here um i believe that as well but i haven't seen the evidence to back that up
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in a way that would be would would transform things you know there there hasn't been knockout punches
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there's been some some things revealed but it hasn't uh so far it it always seems like okay well
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that's a good point and i see that and that might be but is it so i believe that he did win the
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election if it was if it was honest i just don't think it was honest yeah i know i don't say to my
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listeners and viewers that donald trump won the election i don't do that because it's impossible
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to ascertain the level of corruption we know there was corruption that is a fact but we don't know
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the level however here is the salient statistic in three states i think it's nevada wisconsin
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and michigan no not michigan nevada wisconsin and georgia there you go donald trump lost those three
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states by a combined 44 000 votes had he gotten those electoral votes the whole thing would have been
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different so that's not a lot of votes and you can i know and level you can and if you look at
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what was that well i was going to say it isn't a lot of votes and between the dead people and uh the
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illegals in arizona you very very very durable doable last night on uh the no spin news on bill
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riley.com we had a guest in las vegas who said in the state of nevada they give driver's licenses
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to undocumented people and once you get a driver's license in nevada you can request to be registered
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to vote and they'll they'll do it even if you're not a citizen in nevada now we try to check this out
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it's murky but it's absolutely possible that happened at a pretty grand scale
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now right illegal undocumented people are being allowed to vote in california and arizona and
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nevada who are they going to vote for a guy building a wall who's tough on illegal immigration
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or a guy like biden who's going to give undocumented people free health care who are you
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going to vote for so right this these things add up but what has to happen now is a special counsel
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we talked about this last week that has to do forensics on the questionable voting machines
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and has to analyze the mail-in votes in a very precise mathematical way to say listen
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in detroit maybe 10 voted for donald trump and 90 voted for joe biden mail-in but in the next
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county over which is demographically pretty similar to detroit it was 70 30 or whatever it is so you
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could prove that there was an anomaly word of the day anomaly correct in various places so so you're
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never you're never going to be able to overturn an election the spring court will never do it
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based upon affidavits and anecdotes you need to have a hard core forensic and analytical investigation
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and that takes time i i agree with you i i think the problem with this case is you can't you can't
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prove your case fast enough um but i i i believe and i talked to rudy giuliani about this yesterday
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if you will uh if he'll appoint a special counsel um right now because biden's not going to do it
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but if that's right ronald trump appoints a special counsel it may take a year he can't do it because the
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president can't appoint a special counsel it has to be done by the attorney general so the new attorney
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general well bar could do it bar's got four more days all right he could do bar bar is a waste of
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skin if he has if he won't do this what has that guy done what has he done i'm screaming at the top of
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my lungs and here's what else i screamed joe biden should be calling for this every local american
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should want to know if there was cheating in a presidential election everybody it doesn't matter
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who won or lost we've got to have when it came to the integrity and our when it went when it came to
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the uh when it came to looking into joe uh to uh uh donald trump with russia and ukraine
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i'm all for it let's look into it but let's actually look at the facts when we started doing our
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own investigation and found the facts there wasn't anyone who wanted a trial in the senate where you're
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calling witnesses more than me i want it if you're innocent of those things you want the trial
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give it to me give it to me i'm going to prove that it was you that did it not me if joe biden
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it was is so convinced a special counsel because there is absolutely no way constitutionally once
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he is sworn in as president there's nothing in the constitution that allows you to remove an
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administration and go back to the old administration because of voter fraud it's not covered there's no
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there's no trigger for that no you you're not he has nothing to lose out of there he's not going
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to get out of there but you can put people in prison number one who did this and number two
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maybe in four years we'll have an honest election wouldn't that be nice correct so yeah because i don't
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trust the one we're going to get in georgia in four weeks yeah i don't know all i know is there are
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literally thousands of poll watchers down there so you know it's going to be very very difficult to
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cheat with all of those eyes down there but uh there there there's more there so far there's more
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absentee ballots coming in than the uh presidential election the the absentee ballots are yeah in
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georgia yep 1.2 million mail-ins were requested for this senatorial race 1.2 million and about 300
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000 have showed up so all right what are you going to do if congress doesn't pass a national
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fair election standards act which it won't as long as nancy pelosi is the speaker of the house
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all right we're always going to have individual states screwing up always all right and that's
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just look with all this high-tech stuff that we have now and all of the the change in our society
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our government has not kept up with this back no we have blockchain we should there should be no
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question no question with the technology that we have no question on the uh the validity of the vote
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this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank you for listening
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i want to introduce you to somebody uh tommy vexed he's the lead vocalist of bad wolves
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uh co-host of deviant gentleman podcast he happened to be in dallas today uh and i wanted him on the
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show and unfortunately i'm not there but he's at the studio tommy i have to tell you i i watched
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one of your videos i don't remember what you were explaining but you're using um uh you're using pens
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oh the hot marker video yeah yeah yeah yeah i instantly became a fan i thought this guy knows
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how to uh break down an argument and make it so crystal clear that's that is a real skill
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well the that the way that that happened was i was actually i was at my friend matt's house and he
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has three daughters and they're they're young and and basically they were asking me what's going on
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and so i i was like okay i'm like all right kids and he filmed it and then it went out and i was like
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well there we go so it caused a bit of controversy for me yeah i bet it did i bet it did also a a fan of
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the uh what was the cranberry song uh zombie that you you did the cover oh so great thank you thank you
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anyway um i want to get you on i want to talk to you and we have only about eight minutes here so it's
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gonna suck i'd love to have you back for a podcast you you text uh what earlier this week
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there are no political parties anymore there's just insanity and patriots pick a side
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yeah tell me about it well i mean it's it's uh you know my experience has been a similar experience
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to many people uh over over the past five years i think a lot more over the course of 2020 and um
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i think that i'm someone who i grew up identifying as democrat i was raised that oh we're poor so we're
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democrat and uh you know rich people are republicans and that was kind of this ideology that
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that i was taught as a kid and so that was just how i voted and that became the identity form of my
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politics and then you know as i've gotten older and started to pay more attention you can see that
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uh things have either things have changed or they were never the way that they were explained
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uh to me in the first place and 2020 we've seen a lot of what's that which do you think it is
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well i think that i think the extreme measures that the the democratic party has gone to kind of
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institute totalitarianist government lockdowns and the fear-mongering of the media and you know it's
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pushed everyone from from people who are liberal to the you know to moderates to libertarians all pushed
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everyone to the right end of the pool like i said on on uh i was saying this the other day it was like
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if you were in a long pool and in a public pool and and the democrats somebody pooped in the in the
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left side of the pool and everyone just came running to the right that's kind of what's happened you know
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yeah it is and it is and it's what i think it comes from a fundamental misunderstanding
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everybody tries to use the european scale left and right in america is not uh liberal and conservative
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um it because over in europe it's either nazis or communists here in america the left and right scale
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is total government zero government and the the farther you go to zero government you'll you know
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you'll get into the democrats i mean sorry the republicans and then the libertarians and then
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probably towards anarchy and the no government people you go the other way and it's people that
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want more and more government you will find some of the republicans some of the many of the democrats
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and then the communists and nazis that's that's the choice in america freedom or no i even think that
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the radicals that want no government they seem to be have been weaponized by the left as well
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that somehow yes i think antifa which is like anti-fascist but they believe in using fascist
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techniques to back combat in a in imaginary fascism uh they're they're fighting on the side of the left
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and i think one of the the most hilarious things that i've witnessed this year is you know the the riots
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and the looting and all this stuff and people accusing trump of being a dictator and just the
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the american privilege of not understanding that if you truly lived in a dictatorship the military
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would just kill they would just fire on all of these civilians who are rioting and protesting and
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that's you know people don't realize like i travel all over the world that's my job i'm nine months out of
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a year i'm i'm traveling and about half that time is spent overseas and you can't do that you can't do
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that in south america you can't do that in in in russia no they're not you know it's and and forget you
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know forget about china but you know i don't want to say that i don't want to get a shadow man look at
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just yeah look at just the the recent events in our lifetime from tianaman square to venezuela to
00:32:18.060
egypt running people over with the government tanks that's a dictatorship they don't care well yeah it's
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i i also say too like if if you were in a dictatorship the the media is not allowed to
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to uh talk ill about the standing dictator yeah so basically the mainstream media
00:32:43.320
is all the proof you need to understand that we do not live in a a communist dictatorship
00:32:51.340
under trump as the president and if we are not allowed to criticize joe biden if he winds up in the
00:32:58.500
white house which is still it's like this everything's still up in the air because there's so much
00:33:02.740
misinformation and and and the truth is so uh obfuscated if we're not allowed to criticize him
00:33:10.720
then you'll know where we're at yeah that is truly i don't understand what people are saying
00:33:17.500
uh we have freedom of speech but you have to shut up that's not freedom of speech that is
00:33:24.120
a dictatorship you can talk ill about one side and say nothing about the other when that has
00:33:31.660
complete control you're you're done as a nation you're you're living in california sorry for that
00:33:38.100
um which is a we had a good run which is a state yeah i know which is a state i've always wanted to
00:33:45.480
live live in i grew up in rainy seattle and i always wanted to live in southern california and uh just
00:33:54.220
i've had opportunity after opportunity can't bring myself to it because the regulations and everything
00:34:00.700
else is so anti-business but now there's something super special going on where they are just destroying
00:34:08.920
all businesses what is the feel in california because i i sense that there is a
00:34:15.940
uh there there's there's a a big uh collection of people both left and right traditionally as it
00:34:26.640
traditionally knows democrat and republican that are done with this and they're they're going to
00:34:31.700
stand up soon they're going to stand up they already are well yeah i mean it's already happening
00:34:37.000
where you know you see so i i lived in la for almost 14 years uh i ended up in venice uh where i always
00:34:45.180
wanted to live and you know in 2020 the riots happened they shot a police officer on my corner
00:34:51.260
a homeless lady defecated in front of my home that is not it's not a cheap place to live and i was like
00:34:57.820
yeah i'm done and i don't know why i'm holding on and a lot of people in the entertainment industry
00:35:02.500
are holding on to this idea you have to be in la and it's not true it's the rent is too high
00:35:08.960
the homeless they're not helping these people these people are either mentally ill they're addicts
00:35:15.160
they're down on their luck they need actual help and so uh it's it's you're you're you're basically
00:35:22.740
paying crazy property tax you know crazy income tax and then you you move to these neighborhoods that
00:35:29.980
are you know it's on the same street of google you got people shooting meth in front of the building
00:35:36.240
and it's you know so i don't know if i don't i don't know if you've seen anything about the
00:35:42.180
the drug laws in spain um but spain was having horrible horrible drug problems and they started
00:35:51.480
uh from from scratch and they said okay what we're doing clearly is not working so let's stop spending
00:35:59.820
money on trying to stop drugs from coming in let's end the drug war let's legalize everything
00:36:08.040
uh and then instead of spending all that money on a drug war let's go find the people that actually
00:36:15.400
want the help their their deaths from drug overdoses their problems from drugs have almost gone away
00:36:24.240
and it's it's remarkable we have a an opportunity in front of us to actually reset to some libertarian
00:36:34.360
values and give that a whirl but nobody's talking about that everybody's talking about bigger
00:36:39.300
government a bigger solution and we'll fix it globally well the government the government has
00:36:45.160
failed to do so you look and when you look at san francisco and you look at los angeles you know and
00:36:49.980
i myself i've been in recovery i've been sober for over 11 years and uh thanks and i and uh i don't
00:36:57.980
believe you deserve an award for running out of a burning building but it wasn't working out nobody
00:37:03.060
nobody gets into recovery on a winning streak but but i understand i understand addiction
00:37:08.660
alcoholism as defined as a disease and it'd be and it it's a health crisis we're dealing with an
00:37:15.280
opioid crisis in this country that people aren't talking about and more people have died in the past
00:37:21.160
three years of opioid overdose than the vietnam war casualties on both sides you know and so i was i was
00:37:28.260
actually a part of a film called snow babies that my record label released and it was uh we had a song
00:37:34.240
called sober on there that was the lead track and that movie really attacks the accessibility of opioids
00:37:42.000
to uh adolescents and and teens and how devastating it is for our children uh tommy i'm sorry we have to
00:37:52.380
cut this loose i i couldn't let you be in town and not have you on the show um but i uh i'd like to
00:37:58.620
invite you back for a podcast oh i'd love to spend an hour with you oh that'd be great your your backstory
00:38:05.340
is fascinating absolutely fascinating it's a whirlwind tommy thank you very much yeah thank you for
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having me all right you bet yeah tommy vexed you can uh follow him at t vexed