The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Bridget Phetasy, Steve Earnest, & Capt. Casey Murray ｜ 10⧸28⧸21

00:00:00.140 Oh my gosh, Stu! Was this a great show or what for the podcast?

00:00:04.960 Probably the greatest show of all time, Glenn.

00:00:08.280 You don't sound like you actually mean that.

00:00:12.120 I believe in this podcast, Glenn.

00:00:15.420 It was a great show. We talked about global warming. We talked about suicide.

00:00:19.740 We talked with British... British? Why do I keep saying that?

00:00:24.140 We talked to Bridget Phetasy today. Right. Yeah.

00:00:26.840 Podcaster extraordinaire.

00:00:28.600 Yeah, and we talked to her about what it's like in California.

00:00:32.660 It's a crazy town.

00:00:35.060 And also her evolution as somebody who hadn't been around here in Texas since 2018.

00:00:44.620 She's been in lockdown in California.

00:00:47.340 We talked to her about that and what's happening with our kids and mental health.

00:00:51.020 All on today's podcast.

00:00:58.600 You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:02.440 All right. So the vaccine mandate for Southwest Airlines has been held up.

00:01:12.120 A federal judge has rejected the pilots challenge.

00:01:16.600 We have Captain Casey Murray on.

00:01:18.760 He's the president of Southwest Airlines Pilots Association.

00:01:21.380 He's been on with us before.

00:01:23.500 Captain Casey, how are you, sir?

00:01:25.980 I'm doing well, Glenn. How are you?

00:01:27.720 Well, good.

00:01:29.300 I was better, you know, until I heard that Southwest Airlines can continue, according to a federal judge, with their vaccine mandate.

00:01:39.360 So what does this mean to you guys?

00:01:43.700 Well, we were disappointed as well, but more so disappointed in Southwest.

00:01:49.800 We, you know, we were forced to reach out to the federal court system to force Southwest to come and talk to us about numerous items.

00:02:00.920 We had actually filed in August a status quo lawsuit over several issues that the company wasn't bargaining with us on, coming to the table and meeting and discussing.

00:02:12.740 And then we filed a TRO when they announced the mandate to stop that.

00:02:19.180 But again, to come and sit down and let's talk about the issues surrounding it.

00:02:26.360 And they still haven't done that.

00:02:28.160 And they've also said now with this that the mandate is going forward, but they won't fire any of the pilots that refuse to get it.

00:02:39.880 So what does that mean?

00:02:42.300 Well, that's a great question.

00:02:45.180 We've seen some initial responses from them that pilots could apply for exemptions.

00:02:54.460 And if they were granted, some of them would be given leave with no pay.

00:03:02.100 So, so again, and they've kind of backed off on that now, but we still don't have anything in writing and it's constantly changing.

00:03:11.540 They came out with a, a, and the judge spoke to this.

00:03:15.880 They came out and said, Hey, we will pay the sick time.

00:03:19.080 We will pay you for, for getting the vaccine.

00:03:23.120 But that has changed six times since that announcement came out.

00:03:28.860 And so we have nothing in writing and, and, and, and we have Gary Kelly's word who, by the way, is, is going to be stepping down in February.

00:03:37.540 So he's the one who said no one will be fired, but, but what happens in March and April?

00:03:43.260 Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:03:43.940 Hang on just a second.

00:03:44.840 If you, if you can't work because you haven't gotten the vaccine, you know, there's something that I find amazing that happens with the teachers unions in New York city.

00:03:55.880 If you are deemed a pedophile, they can't fire you.

00:04:00.700 So they just put you in a room with other pedophile teachers and you just sit there and you do nothing every day, but you're getting paid. 0.92

00:04:08.640 I mean, if you're a pedophile, I guess that's a pretty good gig for you. 0.77

00:04:13.840 But if you're a pilot, nobody wants to sit around in a room and do nothing. 0.58

00:04:17.920 What are they going to do?

00:04:20.520 Well, that's, that's the question.

00:04:22.820 And again, we haven't been able to sit down and have discussions with him, with them.

00:04:26.960 You know, we're the, the judge ruled and, and, and that is what it is.

00:04:32.520 And, and, and we're looking at our steps now moving forward.

00:04:35.560 But, but again, all we've asked for this whole time is for Southwest to, to stop these unilateral decisions, these unilateral, you know, policies without sitting down there.

00:04:48.380 They're, they're marching all over our, our contract.

00:04:51.200 And I'm really, you know, concerned with the ruling and how Southwest is, is really undermining what the RLA actually stands for, the Railroad Labor Act.

00:05:01.420 Well, I would encourage anybody that, well, I mean, I don't know what you do now.

00:05:07.060 I was going to say, I encourage anybody who has the money.

00:05:09.040 I mean, Southwest is a great deal.

00:05:11.580 And a lot of people don't have the money to fly, especially some of the prices are outrageous now.

00:05:16.640 Uh, but if you have the money, don't fly on Southwest, um, because they, at least, I guess, haven't really made the decision officially yet.

00:05:24.900 Um, I, I have to tell you, um, Casey, I'm, I'm really concerned.

00:05:28.920 This vaccine mandate, uh, goes into full effect across the nation on November 22nd.

00:05:35.760 And we have 60% of, uh, of, uh, DHS or what are the TSA that hasn't been vaccinated yet.

00:05:44.440 Now that's a, that number is a couple of weeks old, so it might be closer to 40% now, but you're going to, you're running out of time.

00:05:51.420 And when that goes into effect three days before Thanksgiving, I think these airports are going to be nightmares.

00:06:01.540 Um, yeah, let me go back to where you said, don't fly Southwest.

00:06:06.140 I, uh, I, you know, we're definitely not there.

00:06:09.020 Southwest is, is relying on, on, on all of the frontline employees and, and they're doing a great job.

00:06:15.040 Everybody, our pilots, the most productive out there, our pilots will get our passengers to where they need to go.

00:06:20.780 Um, but, but I am disappointed in Southwest.

00:06:24.020 And I do think that moving forward, a lot of what the, the, the lawsuit, not just, um, on the mandate front, but, but the lawsuit was, was to, to kind of streamline and, and get us talking and, and make sure that a lot of the issues we're seeing with Southwest operationally get corrected.

00:06:44.280 Um, so I have a lot of confidence in, in, in the frontline employees, um, getting our passengers to where they need to be, but it's, it's, it's critical for Southwest to, to make some changes and to correct a lot and make sure that, that what happened over, over October 8th, that meltdown, the meltdown over the entire summer, uh, doesn't occur again.

00:07:06.900 Yeah. Um, can you respond to the, uh, TSA thing? Uh, you, you have confidence that Thanksgiving's not going to be an absolute nightmare?

00:07:16.060 Um, Thanksgiving is going to be a challenge, uh, talking about specifically to TSA, um, and a, a lot of what's going on with vaccinations and mandates.

00:07:27.560 We, um, you know, that's, that's part of our issue is, is, is, uh, Biden has come down and made this pronouncement that is affecting us.

00:07:37.620 Uh, but it's, it's not affecting everyone. And, and, and none of the results that they're looking for are uniform.

00:07:46.340 And so, um, what is going to happen? That's a big question. Um, um, Southwest is, is preparing for, for, um, Thanksgiving and the holidays.

00:07:57.540 And, um, and like I said, our, our employees, just like this summer, when we weren't really given the tools to, to do what we needed to do, uh, came through admirably.

00:08:07.540 And, and we will, again, all the employees of Southwest, you know, really disappointed in management.

00:08:12.880 Casey, um, I think everybody knows the spirit of Southwest and the employees and you guys are, you guys do a great job.

00:08:18.640 You really do. Um, but people are really getting sick of this. Our, I mean, our doctors are being fired.

00:08:24.720 Our policemen are being fired. Our firefighters are being fired. Now, you know, the people who make our lives, uh, you know, uh, really kind of easy, not the TSA, but the airlines being able to go and see our family and go travel.

00:08:40.860 And now that's, you guys are being fired for it. America is right at the edge of saying enough is enough.

00:08:47.380 And, uh, it would be certainly great to see somebody like Southwest airlines stand up and say, Hey, you know what?

00:08:54.740 We are the airline of the little people and we do care about the little people and we don't look at our employees like little people.

00:09:03.040 And we don't look down on our, uh, on our, uh, our, uh, ticket buyers as little people either.

00:09:09.260 We're part of you. We serve the people.

00:09:13.220 And, uh, I just, I, there's a huge market for that.

00:09:16.840 If anybody has the fricking balls to do it, and I would hope that Southwest would, uh, I hope Southwest would get that message and hear it.

00:09:26.120 Captain, thank you so much. 0.91

00:09:28.380 Thank you.

00:09:29.340 You bet.

00:09:30.060 Captain Casey Murray, uh, from Southwest airlines, uh, pilots, we are behind you.

00:09:36.120 You just have to, you just have to let us know whose side are you on?

00:09:41.840 Whose side are you on?

00:09:43.460 And how can we help you?

00:09:46.840 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:10:04.500 All right.

00:10:05.400 Uh, get some, uh, get some duct tape right now.

00:10:09.040 I'm going to wait.

00:10:10.140 I'll stall here for a bit, but you got to get some duct tape because you got to wrap it around your head because your head's going to explode.

00:10:15.000 And, uh, when it does, it's not going to, the duct tape won't stop your head from exploding.

00:10:20.220 You just have to wrap your head tightly in it.

00:10:22.380 Uh, and then at least you'll have all the pieces when you get to the, you know, emergency room and they look at you and go, Oh, have you been vaccinated?

00:10:30.460 And you're like, my head is exploded.

00:10:33.120 They're like, I know, but have you been vaccinated?

00:10:35.500 Anyway, after that argument, they'll have all the pieces to put your head back together.

00:10:39.980 So grab the duct tape because here we go.

00:10:42.520 Last year, current, uh, students and alumni of the coastal Carolina university department of theater gathered together to fight racial injustice.

00:10:52.800 And they created a list of demands for the faculty and the administrators.

00:10:57.240 I love that.

00:10:58.260 I love people who have a list of demands.

00:11:01.220 According to the students website, um, and you can see it at CC youth theater.com.

00:11:07.920 Here are just a few of the things they demanded extensive and reoccurring diversity, equity, and inclusion training for faculty and staff with disciplinary consequences.

00:11:18.820 If not upheld, I love you already as a student department wide ban on phrases like colorblind casting.

00:11:27.520 Wait, what?

00:11:29.540 Oh, a requirement to hire two people of color faculty or staff members by 2025 and a public apology to all people of color students for all of the inequity, inequity, inequity and trauma that they have experienced. 0.60

00:11:47.680 Oh my gosh.

00:11:48.660 Who's got a boo-boo? 1.00

00:11:49.760 Let me get a bandaid.

00:11:51.280 Well, the faculty complied.

00:11:53.940 Wrong answer.

00:11:55.560 The students have now been running the show and now these same theater students are refusing to go to class until our next guest, Professor Steve Ernest is fired.

00:12:07.460 Now, why should he be fired?

00:12:11.760 Dare I even tell the story?

00:12:13.860 It boils down to this.

00:12:17.120 Yes.

00:12:17.480 And I'm going to say it.

00:12:18.280 He wasn't outraged enough.

00:12:20.200 Here's what happened.

00:12:21.620 A guest artist at the university met with two students after a class.

00:12:27.380 One student said she felt so isolated as a person of color and wanted to get no to get to know more non-white students.

00:12:34.540 The guest artist suggested, well, you might want to make a group of non-white students that you can get together and you can talk about it.

00:12:40.960 So they proceeded together to write down the names of non-white students in the theater department on the board while they brainstormed ideas.

00:12:49.380 Well, they forgot to erase the board after they left and the next class of actors entered the room.

00:12:56.980 Now, when I say actors, what I mean at primed revolutionaries, really, they saw the list and they were outraged.

00:13:04.280 They staged a protest, refusing to go to class to show their disgust.

00:13:08.740 There is a list of all of the minorities, all of the people of color in the theater department on the board.

00:13:17.480 Now, you may have noticed that our next guest hasn't even entered the story yet.

00:13:21.040 So when it comes to light that it was all a misunderstanding, the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee wrote to the theater department students to apologize to them for how they may have been affected by this incident.

00:13:33.920 Again, the incident being that students' names had been written on a board.

00:13:38.340 So now Mr. Steve Ernest comes in and he replied to the email from the committee saying, sorry, but I don't think this is a big deal.

00:13:47.680 Well, I'm really sad that people get their feelings hurt so easily and they're going into theater.

00:13:52.860 Ha ha ha!

00:13:54.880 Yes, because you're going to get your feelings hurt all the time in theater.

00:14:01.280 But he can't say that.

00:14:02.520 For this, the students protested again, boycotted their classes, calling for him to be fired.

00:14:08.040 On September 20th, the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts Department told Mr. Ernest not to come to class to send her his syllabus.

00:14:15.040 He was suspended from teaching.

00:14:18.500 He joins us now, along with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and their Faculty Legal Defense Fund to push back against the university who seems to be working towards his termination.

00:14:32.260 Steve, how are you, sir?

00:14:34.480 I'm amazed at your storytelling ability.

00:14:37.740 That was kind of wonderful.

00:14:39.500 I wanted to hear you more.

00:14:41.480 Well, thank you.

00:14:42.220 So, Steve, did I get that story right?

00:14:47.640 Absolutely.

00:14:48.480 Spot on and well told.

00:14:51.940 Yeah, unfortunately, everything that you said was true.

00:14:57.160 And your email was not about, oh, who's got a boo-boo, like my email would have been.

00:15:05.800 But your email was, you guys are going into theater.

00:15:08.480 You can't be this raw.

00:15:11.360 Correct?

00:15:12.620 Yes, absolutely.

00:15:14.060 And, you know, I mean, no one is more supportive of students than I have been.

00:15:17.960 And it was just, you know, guys, move on.

00:15:20.780 Let's focus on what you need to be doing right now in your training and not all of these.

00:15:27.840 You know, and this is not the first situation like this.

00:15:31.660 And, you know, we all want diversity, equity, and inclusion.

00:15:36.220 But, you know, this has just been pushed too far.

00:15:39.800 Can you tell me why they wanted a department-wide ban on phrases like colorblind casting?

00:15:44.780 That one I didn't really understand.

00:15:49.620 I mean, you know, we've been doing this for two decades now.

00:15:54.780 You know, colorblind casting and casting of people, you know, of color in, you know, nontraditional roles in Shakespeare has just been, it's been very common in the theater.

00:16:06.240 You know, I came from California to South Carolina at a school where I taught 30% white people.

00:16:13.400 You know, colorblind casting was just, we didn't really even factor that ever into the situation.

00:16:19.040 You know, I mean, and it is funny because, you know, we've been doing this for two decades.

00:16:25.600 Orson Welles did it with Shakespeare in the 1920s or early 1930s where it was an all-black cast of Othello except for him.

00:16:37.180 And now he gets hammered because he put blackface on to play that. 0.93

00:16:43.740 Oh, my gosh. 0.93

00:16:44.560 He did an all-black cast except for one white cat.

00:16:48.460 Yeah, yeah, in the 1920s or 30s, I mean, just never anything is enough.

00:16:55.140 It's just never enough.

00:16:57.440 So what's happening now?

00:17:00.680 You're with FIRE, and they're representing you, right?

00:17:05.740 Yes.

00:17:06.660 And, you know, nothing's really happening.

00:17:10.680 You know, there have been a few meetings that I was not in attendance of with lawyers.

00:17:16.500 And, yeah, I've been told that they want me to resign or they'll terminate me.

00:17:23.000 But I don't really know the reason other than what we have in front of us here.

00:17:29.720 So, yeah, it's just been just a time of me doing not very much, working on a few projects of my own and just waiting.

00:17:39.440 Wow.

00:17:39.580 So let me ask you, the mob mentality on the university campus, have they just taken over our universities?

00:17:49.480 Yeah, we're starting to see that.

00:17:53.660 You know, and it's not only at Coastal Carolina University.

00:17:56.880 And this was a, you know, we don't have these kind of incidents there.

00:17:59.800 I don't know of many ever.

00:18:02.840 But we are seeing this, you know.

00:18:04.720 And not only, I've been fortunate enough not only to meet FIRE, but also Counterweight, which is another organization like this that protects free speech, though more on an international level.

00:18:16.700 And this is happening in England.

00:18:18.740 This is happening in France.

00:18:20.000 This is happening in countries all around the world now at institutions of higher education, where the mob mentality is demonstrating against this faculty member or that for whatever type of language that they've used and hurt feelings and this kind of a thing.

00:18:37.780 So, you know, it's something that I'm really intent on stepping out there and slowing down and getting people just to come back to reason.

00:18:47.700 So, but if you can't do it there, I mean, there's I really believe, Steve, there has to be almost a parallel economy because things are going so crazy now that I don't know where to send my kids to college.

00:19:04.460 You know, I'd rather have them not go to college and just find different ways to teach them the things they need to know, because it's all seemingly almost all indoctrination.

00:19:16.860 It has nothing to do with higher education.

00:19:21.340 And having been in it for 30 years, I can say that there has certainly been a move in that direction.

00:19:28.080 You know, and a lot of people feel just the same way that you do, that these are just, you know, liberal training boot camps now with very little to do with intense subject subject of the study matter or to learn discipline.

00:19:45.060 And other things like this that that that we learned, you know, back in the day.

00:19:51.300 Steve, I can't tell you my my professor.

00:19:57.040 I was in high school and we had a doctor of theater who taught us.

00:20:02.420 I was I went to an art school and he was amazing.

00:20:06.960 Dr.

00:20:07.540 Beeth. 0.92

00:20:07.900 He changed he changed my life and and opened me up to so many things.

00:20:12.840 I happen to know one of your students because I just hired her.

00:20:17.140 I think she's absolutely brilliant and she raves about you.

00:20:20.300 And I would love to know if if you don't get this job back, you know, if there's anybody who's looking for a theater professor, I'd love to be able to pass it on because my daughter wants to be in theater.

00:20:35.840 Um, and luckily I happen to know some really good people that, uh, you know, were very successful in in that, uh, arena that are not part of this liberal cabal.

00:20:50.440 And so she's learning from those people.

00:20:53.300 But when she goes to college, I know what she's going to face, especially in theater.

00:20:57.560 It's always been a little crazy.

00:20:59.400 You have to be a little crazy to be in theater in the arts.

00:21:02.440 Um, and you know, I, I think people like you who are willing to stand up and say, look, I, we, I'm not a racist. 0.75

00:21:09.520 We all want to get along.

00:21:10.820 We all want, you know, fairness, et cetera, et cetera, and equality.

00:21:14.280 But none of this nonsense is happening in the classroom.

00:21:17.900 None of it.

00:21:18.400 We're here to learn about this topic.

00:21:21.460 And, uh, if you, if you don't go back, I'd love to help you find a job.

00:21:26.020 That would be, you know, and I think a lot of this maybe have to do with a, what I call pandemic frustration.

00:21:32.560 Some people out in California have, have asked me if, if this is not part of that, uh, who are in theater, who are professors of theater in California, because the world of theater has been literally shut down for two years.

00:21:44.280 You know, we've been hit hard as, as any industry.

00:21:47.140 And so there's been a lot of frustration out there and, and just an unusual amount of hatred going on just because of, of what, what the future holds out there.

00:21:57.460 It is.

00:21:58.260 I would hate to be a student at this time in the world because they're being told the lies that you'll never make it, uh, that, uh, the world is going to, you know, burn itself out in 20 years.

00:22:11.120 I mean, the, the, it is such a bleak picture, uh, that the, I think the lies that are being told about America and, and the globe, I w I would hate to be a student now.

00:22:23.920 I don't know.

00:22:24.740 I don't know how you would get up every morning and say, Hey, I've got a bright future ahead of me.

00:22:29.660 Steve, thank you so much.

00:22:31.700 I really appreciate it.

00:22:33.060 It's been wonderful talking to you.

00:22:34.340 Thank you so much.

00:22:35.440 Uh, theater professor at coastal Carolina university facing termination over racism charges because he said, who's going to boo boo, except he said it better than that.

00:22:51.400 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:22:53.840 One of my favorite people, she kind of feels like a sister of mine, uh, Bridget Phetasy, host of walk-ins welcome the podcast.

00:23:14.260 And, uh, and she's a fantastic writer.

00:23:18.120 She used to be, you would consider yourself very, very liberal progressive in the past. 0.91

00:23:22.920 Yeah.

00:23:23.120 Oh yeah.

00:23:23.620 Yeah.

00:23:23.780 You would hate me.

00:23:24.500 Right.

00:23:24.800 You probably did.

00:23:25.620 Yeah.

00:23:25.900 Yeah.

00:23:26.720 You didn't need to say it that way.

00:23:29.440 It seemed like there was a change built into that either.

00:23:31.660 It's like, yes, yes, I do.

00:23:33.100 I used to.

00:23:34.120 What are you talking about?

00:23:35.700 Um, and you had an awakening.

00:23:38.300 You haven't been in the studio for since 2018 because you've been in California lockdown.

00:23:43.420 Yes.

00:23:44.020 Yeah.

00:23:44.460 How's that been?

00:23:45.680 You're still in lockdown.

00:23:47.020 No, it's still, it's still just, it's opening up, but it's still, it's weird.

00:23:51.660 I didn't even realize until I was in Texas, how much Stockholm syndrome sets in, even for

00:23:58.320 someone like me, who's pretty free and not, I never really, my husband was in, he worked

00:24:04.940 in a grocery store through the whole pandemic.

00:24:06.500 So he was coming and going and working and never stopped working.

00:24:09.960 And so we didn't get that weird being locked down.

00:24:13.700 We didn't have the luxury of not being, you know, interacting with other humans.

00:24:18.080 And so it was pretty normal.

00:24:21.300 And then we just kind of rolled with all of it.

00:24:24.540 And then I came here and I was like, oh, I feel so free.

00:24:27.480 And I feel happy.

00:24:29.540 I feel excited.

00:24:31.020 I see a path forward in life.

00:24:33.820 I don't feel like I'm living in a dying state that's on hospice.

00:24:38.180 It's so weird.

00:24:38.840 Living in Texas, unless I'm going to Florida, I feel exactly the opposite.

00:24:43.360 Every time I travel someplace, I'm like, good God, how do people live here?

00:24:47.220 What is this?

00:24:48.040 Yeah, it is.

00:24:48.780 And I'm not the kind of person that I still have been living my life, but I guess just

00:24:54.440 not being aware of how bad things look around me.

00:24:58.100 Not, I realized I don't really want to leave my house because I don't want to see how bad

00:25:02.840 it looks.

00:25:03.280 And it really is tragic what's happened in San Francisco, LA.

00:25:07.320 Anyway, and it gets worse.

00:25:08.880 I've heard that it is.

00:25:10.160 It's tragic.

00:25:11.220 I've heard that it is beyond your imagination bad.

00:25:13.880 Yeah, it's not.

00:25:14.800 It's really just, and there's no, there's no stop to it.

00:25:19.240 There doesn't seem to be any stopping the process.

00:25:23.020 There's no.

00:25:24.260 Well, you had that whistle stop.

00:25:25.740 You had that.

00:25:26.480 It was called Larry Elder.

00:25:29.220 That might have changed things.

00:25:30.600 Yeah, that wasn't.

00:25:31.580 I mean, the minute he got the nomination, or he was the front runner, I think it became

00:25:37.140 less of a referendum on Newsom and more of a referendum on Trump.

00:25:40.760 So that was the best thing that ever happened to Newsom.

00:25:43.260 Yeah.

00:25:43.740 Because all of a sudden it was like, well, we don't want another Trump.

00:25:48.140 And it was very easy for them to pivot.

00:25:49.440 They're going to say that about anything. 0.73

00:25:50.300 They said that about Mitt frickin' Romney.

00:25:52.580 Of course. 0.84

00:25:53.500 Who is the most milquetoast oatmeal I've ever seen in my life. 0.98

00:25:58.760 He was the devil.

00:26:00.120 Yeah, so Newsom is a, and you know, people seem to be, they seem to be okay with all

00:26:07.480 of it.

00:26:08.160 And it's a lot of neuroticism.

00:26:11.300 There's just so much fear, and there's just fear everywhere in America, but it's not the

00:26:17.480 same level as in a lot of these liberal cities that I've been in.

00:26:21.680 There's fear here, but it is.

00:26:24.800 Fear of Californians moving here.

00:26:26.480 Yeah, it really is.

00:26:28.260 I mean, we check you at the gates now.

00:26:31.300 You know, Hawaii had just started using these robot dogs.

00:26:34.800 Oh yeah, I saw those.

00:26:35.980 Yeah.

00:26:37.180 I mean, you bring one of those robot dogs to Texas, and I think you would have a hard

00:26:41.780 time keeping that robot dog walking.

00:26:44.740 It's just target practice in Texas.

00:26:46.180 Yeah, it would be.

00:26:47.160 It would be.

00:26:47.520 They'll put cans on top of it.

00:26:49.120 It's a moving target.

00:26:50.360 Yeah, and they're going to, you know, look for COVID-19, and these little robots are

00:26:55.280 out.

00:26:55.560 I mean, this is like a movie.

00:26:57.360 I know.

00:26:57.780 We live in, it's, I was thinking about the last time I was here and how it was weird.

00:27:01.980 It was already weird, but it's got, we're through the, fully through the looking glass

00:27:07.400 that's in the looking glass.

00:27:08.900 Yeah, you were, the last time you were here, it was weird because there were very few people

00:27:14.340 like you that were waking up, and you were really still at the very beginning, you're

00:27:19.440 like, I'm kind of uncomfortable.

00:27:21.900 I don't know exactly if I should be seen with you.

00:27:25.460 You know, it was.

00:27:25.800 It wasn't even that.

00:27:26.680 I just also had never done media.

00:27:28.660 You know, I think my first media hit was with Ben Shapiro in 2018.

00:27:32.280 So, in October of 2018, right before the midterms, that was when I did my first media hit ever

00:27:41.260 in my life, and I, so I did get kind of thrown into the space, and then not only am I thrown

00:27:47.340 into the space, I'm thrown into the space with Nazis, in quotes. 0.53

00:27:51.760 Yeah.

00:27:53.280 Yeah.

00:27:54.520 Yeah.

00:27:54.920 And it was very, you know, even as I look back, it was very, and like you said, there

00:28:00.020 wasn't, there weren't, we've seen a huge, large portion of people who have been refugees

00:28:06.500 from the left.

00:28:07.640 Yeah, there is something happening.

00:28:09.300 I mean, the Let's Go Brandon theme, you know, the deal, the song, you know, now thwarting

00:28:15.280 Adele for the top of the charts, Dave Chappelle.

00:28:20.940 Yeah.

00:28:21.140 I mean, I don't think anyone but Dave Chappelle could survive what he's doing, but it shows 0.97

00:28:28.740 how ridiculous they are. 0.94

00:28:31.680 You didn't watch the special. 0.99

00:28:33.540 If you think that's who he is, you didn't watch it.

00:28:37.160 Yeah.

00:28:37.760 Or they did watch it, but they still want him to be that.

00:28:41.600 How, yeah.

00:28:42.280 How, though?

00:28:42.860 How do you make him, if you watch, did you watch it?

00:28:45.120 I did, of course.

00:28:45.600 Okay, you saw the ending?

00:28:46.800 Yeah, of course.

00:28:47.300 How?

00:28:47.720 How?

00:28:47.960 How is this guy a hater?

00:28:49.480 Yeah, I think people see what they want to see, though, in many instances in life, and

00:28:56.520 I think that if you are committed to the idea of Dave Chappelle being a transphobe, for example.

00:29:04.380 So that whole story was a lie?

00:29:06.220 Not a lie.

00:29:06.760 You listen to it, you cry.

00:29:08.920 You have to be dead inside not to cry.

00:29:10.840 Yeah.

00:29:11.340 I mean, I think the criticism that I've read and heard is that it was like saying, oh,

00:29:18.700 this is, you know, I have a black friend.

00:29:20.520 It was him saying, like, I have a trans friend. 1.00

00:29:23.060 Oh, shut up. 1.00

00:29:25.240 Jeez, shut up. 1.00

00:29:27.020 I mean, it was, I think it's good, though, to see Netflix backing him. 0.99

00:29:30.900 That was really even more important than the, he backed him.

00:29:33.780 And then it sort of backed out a little bit.

00:29:36.140 He did it.

00:29:36.880 I was saying this.

00:29:37.680 People are like, he caved.

00:29:38.960 I'm like, no, he didn't.

00:29:39.920 If you read the actual statement, he basically said, I should have been led with humanity

00:29:45.280 and then told them to go kick rocks.

00:29:47.320 And I'm still telling them to go kick rocks and we're not taking it down.

00:29:50.940 This is a multi-step process, though, Bridget.

00:29:52.940 I mean, the Washington Redskins, for years, said they would never change the name.

00:29:58.060 And then they changed the name.

00:30:00.100 Yeah, but they didn't.

00:30:00.860 The Cleveland Indians.

00:30:01.560 No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:30:03.200 I think the, and now they may be all, this may be all wet on this, but I think the Washington

00:30:09.820 football team was brilliantly selected because people still call them the Redskins.

00:30:17.020 Yes, I agree.

00:30:17.740 They didn't change the name and they have the ability because the Washington football team

00:30:23.100 is the worst thing ever.

00:30:24.960 No one can say it.

00:30:25.620 And so they're just like, this is going to end soon.

00:30:28.160 I mean, you know, Hitler was eventually exposed.

00:30:31.720 It's going to go back to normal at some point.

00:30:34.660 Keep the Redskins stuff in a warehouse.

00:30:36.800 We'll sell it maybe 20 years down the road.

00:30:38.600 I'm just saying that there is a long history of, I mean, I think Chappelle is the only guy

00:30:44.660 I can think of that, that maybe is able to survive this, but we've seen so many people

00:30:49.100 that, that it starts, that little ball starts rolling and eventually they, they, they fail.

00:30:54.540 I think it's different this time because you have average people standing up now.

00:30:59.500 You know, it's not just, you're not just standing out alone.

00:31:02.240 You know, this, this thing that's happening in the school districts is so critically important.

00:31:09.100 These parents standing up and saying, uh, excuse me, no, these are my children.

00:31:13.840 Yeah.

00:31:14.220 A lot of people want to make it out like it's right wing media that's brainwashing all these

00:31:19.380 parents.

00:31:19.900 And I think people underestimate that the pandemic in this instance was an opportunity to reveal.

00:31:29.300 Yeah.

00:31:29.720 Parents were seeing what was being taught and hearing it.

00:31:32.540 And they're like, wait, what?

00:31:33.920 Yeah.

00:31:34.480 What did your teacher just say?

00:31:35.940 What are you learning?

00:31:37.100 Yeah.

00:31:37.300 Why aren't you learning math?

00:31:38.760 Right.

00:31:39.100 And it's, it's crazy because I don't think like when, um, Obama went on the campaign trail

00:31:46.580 this last week and he was like, you know, just drummed up, you know, uh, uh, nonsense come 0.95

00:31:51.560 from, and you're like, shut up. 0.99

00:31:53.580 The fake culture war. 0.99

00:31:54.400 Yeah.

00:31:54.760 The fake culture war thing.

00:31:55.780 What a, I mean, coming from him, that's rich.

00:31:58.380 Right.

00:31:59.000 Isn't it rich?

00:32:00.200 Yeah.

00:32:00.600 How did you feel about Glenn's Obama impersonation there?

00:32:02.820 Do you think that was pretty good?

00:32:03.880 Okay.

00:32:04.340 No, I just, I'm horrible at impressions.

00:32:07.640 Yeah.

00:32:08.340 Anyone can do something moderately.

00:32:10.280 So I'm impressed.

00:32:11.620 Let me, um, let me be a little harsh.

00:32:15.520 Yes.

00:32:15.820 About you.

00:32:16.740 Okay.

00:32:17.540 Here we go.

00:32:18.040 During the pandemic, you were, I didn't know how, I didn't know where you were on some

00:32:24.880 of the authoritarian kind of stuff.

00:32:27.780 You know what I mean?

00:32:29.660 So did you change?

00:32:32.060 Is there, what happened?

00:32:33.040 I wrote a piece about this, about just things that I got wrong in general in 2020.

00:32:38.940 And I think at the beginning, I didn't, I heard everybody being like, they're not going

00:32:44.800 to take this power away.

00:32:45.980 And this is my kind of naivete, I guess, as coming from the left is I was like, yeah, two

00:32:53.400 weeks to just like chill things out and let the hospitals catch up.

00:32:56.740 We didn't.

00:32:57.120 And I think, I have to tell you, I was there too.

00:32:59.480 We didn't know.

00:33:00.660 Everyone knows now.

00:33:01.940 We didn't know.

00:33:02.980 And it was bad.

00:33:03.760 They were freaking welding people into houses in China.

00:33:06.740 So I agree.

00:33:07.380 I was very much like, all right.

00:33:09.740 And I can't, I've come out and said, I mean, and I saw guys like Jesse Kelly who were like,

00:33:14.320 you don't do this.

00:33:15.280 This is insane.

00:33:16.740 And it felt hyperbolic to me.

00:33:18.980 And oh boy, that's really what's like traumatized me.

00:33:23.280 I was thinking about this the other day, you know, and they're like, we're just going to

00:33:26.120 do a vaccine passport.

00:33:27.740 We're just going to do a mandate.

00:33:28.760 I'm like, no, I don't trust you guys with anything anymore.

00:33:31.380 Anything.

00:33:31.860 Ever.

00:33:32.380 You lost all your credibility.

00:33:33.880 And then shredding the credibility.

00:33:35.660 I mean, being in LA during the protests slash riots.

00:33:39.240 Oh my gosh.

00:33:40.480 That was crazy.

00:33:42.260 Craziness.

00:33:43.040 I mean.

00:33:43.560 Do your neighbors notice that?

00:33:47.160 They really, they do.

00:33:49.520 But most of, I think, I do think a lot of the people who left are generally center right

00:33:55.060 and maybe Republicans who left these, you know, people worry that it's all people, liberals

00:34:00.540 coming to these red states, but the numbers aren't really showing that.

00:34:03.940 I would tell you right now, the Californians that I met, some of them are more conservative

00:34:08.720 than the Texans that have grown up here.

00:34:10.820 Yeah.

00:34:11.560 The, you know, I would say the same to you.

00:34:15.800 Get the hell out.

00:34:17.060 Oh yeah.

00:34:17.380 I mean, if you, if you don't agree with what the left is doing right now, these are

00:34:24.140 really bad guys.

00:34:25.560 Yeah.

00:34:25.940 You know, the people who are leading some of these charges, they do believe in, they

00:34:31.160 have a right to do whatever is good for the collective.

00:34:33.400 That's really dangerous.

00:34:35.160 Yeah.

00:34:35.440 So that was, I mean, I don't, I guess it was, I think in the early days we were like, what's

00:34:40.460 the problem?

00:34:40.980 And then quickly it became, I became aware that this, the people who I believed were being

00:34:48.160 hyperbolic and fear mongering were actually correct.

00:34:52.480 And then just seeing the fallout.

00:34:54.880 And, and of course, as we learn more about the virus and what was actually going on.

00:35:00.160 So I think as more knowledge came out, but really, I really think that just having everybody

00:35:05.860 locked down, telling everybody they couldn't leave.

00:35:08.780 Then, then you had these kinds of Patriot protests and then watching everybody pivot and say,

00:35:16.200 Oh, like you had epidemiologists coming out and saying that you can go protest in a pandemic

00:35:21.860 because racism is the real virus.

00:35:24.440 And now you have thousands and thousands of people in the street.

00:35:27.120 And that just, I think it broke.

00:35:29.020 How do you even explain the border?

00:35:30.680 How do you explain the border?

00:35:31.800 You're not even testing them for COVID.

00:35:34.060 You're releasing them.

00:35:35.240 They don't have to wear a mask.

00:35:36.660 They don't have to get double vaccinated.

00:35:39.080 It makes no sense.

00:35:40.640 I mean, it is so clearly a lie.

00:35:43.660 Yeah.

00:35:43.800 And it's almost, that's almost an invisible story.

00:35:47.000 If you don't watch anything outside of MSNBC, CNN, unless they're forced to cover it, they're

00:35:53.820 not really covering it.

00:35:55.300 So people don't even really know about what's happening.

00:35:58.940 It's, it's, it's, yeah.

00:36:00.380 That's so, I mean, fair, fair to push me on that.

00:36:02.900 I, I definitely, well, I don't think, I mean, cause I was the same way when it was 15 days

00:36:07.460 to, to flatten the curve.

00:36:09.260 I thought that was reasonable.

00:36:10.600 I thought it was shocking, but I thought it was reasonable because we didn't know what

00:36:14.440 we were dealing with yet.

00:36:15.700 But the minute we started to see and we're like, okay, okay, wait a minute.

00:36:20.120 Those all, that all should have gone away and you can't close the economy for three months.

00:36:26.360 You just can't.

00:36:28.340 And it was a, it was a mistake.

00:36:30.440 I mean, the real way to handle it, I think was the way Sweden or the Amish did. 0.86

00:36:35.120 Many, and many States were open when I was in Texas a year ago, they were open.

00:36:40.220 So there are places that have been pretty open since that summer.

00:36:43.460 Yeah.

00:36:43.620 And the one that leads the nation in the least amount of COVID new COVID cases is now Florida.

00:36:51.260 Yeah.

00:36:51.920 Yeah.

00:36:52.280 I mean, after they had the highest number, that again goes to herd mentality kind of thinking.

00:36:59.360 I mean, isn't it just cause they have a lot of olds, a lot of olds.

00:37:02.440 There's a lot of olds there.

00:37:03.480 This was what we're told.

00:37:04.760 Yeah.

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