The Glenn Beck Program - January 28, 2021


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Glenn and Pat discuss the latest in the latest Homeland Security alert for domestic terror, American Airlines banning people flying with locked guns in their carry-ons in the Baltimore area, and the recent shooting of a black man in Florida.

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00:00:00.000 Great, great podcast today. You don't want to miss a second of it. We start again with the Great Reset and what's happening in Washington, including the DHS alert for domestic terror.
00:00:13.260 We haven't had one of those since we took out Soleimani. Now they won't say what it's for.
00:00:19.320 We talk about that, a lot of time spent on the ins and outs of GameStop, what's really going on and how this is really not good for people who already feel disenfranchised.
00:00:32.360 You don't want to miss a second of today's show. All happening right here, right now.
00:00:43.440 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:00:49.320 So, uh, geez, where do we even, where do we even start today?
00:00:55.460 Um, uh, American, uh, airlines, meaning the airlines of America are now banning people flying with locked firearms, uh, in, uh, into the Baltimore, Washington area.
00:01:09.480 Uh, I know that American airlines, I flew Delta, uh, just recently and, you know, I took my gun apart, you know, told them that it was in the luggage.
00:01:18.860 It was locked. It was in a case. There were no, there's no ammunition. It's what the, you know, Department of Homeland Security insists on.
00:01:27.940 So fine. I follow the rules, put it in. Usually you just get a tag and, uh, then, you know, Department of Homeland Security or it goes through it, goes through it.
00:01:36.460 And you get a little note. Okay, great, great. I got it.
00:01:38.660 That's the usual process. That's the process I got on Delta. When I flew back, I flew on American Airlines. Oh, well, this is a different process.
00:01:49.920 Now American, and this was new, uh, at least to me. Now American has a new, a new thing because they just want to make sure that your gun's not lost.
00:02:00.360 Well, whose fault would that be? I've handed it to you. It'd be your fault.
00:02:03.760 So it has to go through all the way through the screening process downstairs in the bowels of the airport and head on its way to the airline before you can go through security yourself.
00:02:19.620 So you sit there for, I sat there for 45 minutes waiting before I could even get in line for security.
00:02:30.360 And, uh, why I personally believe what good does that do? It makes it such a hassle.
00:02:36.960 You don't want to do it. You're not going to do it. That's exactly right.
00:02:39.600 That's what's coming our way. Is there just going to keep making things more expensive, more difficult, a bigger hassle.
00:02:47.940 It's choice structure. It's Cass Sunstein and his choice structure.
00:02:52.860 You've got a choice. You can carry it, but you're not going to want to, right?
00:02:56.920 You're not going to want to, I'm going to nudge you a little bit.
00:02:59.040 Yeah. Just don't. Yeah. Just a, just a little bit, just a little bit.
00:03:03.540 Pat, what is the, uh, what is the thing that, uh, you saw today that you thought I have got to get this point across?
00:03:13.980 Uh, wow. Well, there were, there were several, um,
00:03:17.940 I, I love the, uh, Department of Homeland Security's new, uh, situation with the, the domestic terror threat that only involves people on the right, of course.
00:03:27.800 Well, no, no, they didn't say that.
00:03:29.240 No, no, they didn't say that.
00:03:30.600 Just people with, problems with immigration.
00:03:33.420 Okay.
00:03:34.040 Problems with the election.
00:03:35.500 Right.
00:03:35.860 Uh, problems with, uh, the, the system, uh, maybe problems with the, the COVID, you know, orders.
00:03:44.680 Yes.
00:03:45.140 Yeah.
00:03:45.820 And I, uh, you know, this is all based on the fact that they have no specific actionable information.
00:03:51.000 None.
00:03:51.220 None.
00:03:51.620 None.
00:03:52.000 Otherwise, what would happen?
00:03:53.220 They would raise the threat level.
00:03:56.060 So they've got no actual actionable threat involved here, yet they just want to throw out that, hey, everybody on the right is a problem now and a potential domestic terrorist.
00:04:08.520 I think it's, it's absolutely despicable what they're doing.
00:04:12.240 Did you hear the, did you hear about the guy in Florida that the justice department, uh, had a homeland security, uh, arrest yesterday?
00:04:23.100 Man in Florida was arrested for quote, depriving individuals of their constitutional right to vote.
00:04:29.620 Yeah.
00:04:30.580 Now he showed up at a polling place with an AR and a chainsaw.
00:04:34.480 So, I mean, I think the dude should be arrested.
00:04:36.620 That's not what happened.
00:04:37.540 That's not what happened.
00:04:38.320 No, that's, he didn't adjust at AR.
00:04:40.940 He did nothing like either of those things.
00:04:42.680 Well, that's right.
00:04:43.140 He had a suitcase nuke.
00:04:44.320 No.
00:04:44.760 Oh, what did he, oh, oh, he probably went with like the white Panthers and just intimidated people.
00:04:50.480 No, didn't do that at all.
00:04:52.160 No.
00:04:52.420 There's a story that's similar to that.
00:04:54.080 I should tell you sometime.
00:04:54.900 Yeah.
00:04:55.320 No, that's not what happened.
00:04:56.540 What did he do?
00:04:57.360 Uh, he made some memes.
00:04:58.760 He what?
00:05:00.100 He made some memes.
00:05:01.300 You mean little picture jokes?
00:05:04.520 Like little picture jokes on the internet.
00:05:06.060 Yeah.
00:05:06.460 On the internet.
00:05:07.200 Well, that's where I see memes.
00:05:08.580 What, what, what were the memes?
00:05:10.780 I don't know all the memes.
00:05:12.080 I know that the guy, you know, wasn't exactly someone you'd maybe want to invite over for a wonderful dinner with your family.
00:05:19.180 May I say out of the 350 million Americans, there's about 349 million.
00:05:24.920 I'm pretty sure I probably wouldn't want to invite over to my house.
00:05:28.620 That's about right.
00:05:29.660 Maybe a little higher.
00:05:30.560 Yeah.
00:05:30.700 Maybe a little higher than that.
00:05:31.940 But I'm, I'm just, I'm, I'm being generous.
00:05:33.980 Right.
00:05:34.240 Yeah.
00:05:34.480 Uh, but the idea that he committed a crime by making memes, it seems like, uh, that's, there's a free speech issue there.
00:05:43.960 No, no, no.
00:05:44.260 Because there's a law that says you can't stop people from voting.
00:05:47.800 Those memes told people to vote by text message, which you can't do.
00:05:54.880 And so a lot of people believe that apparently.
00:05:58.860 No.
00:05:59.080 Now, no, no, no, no.
00:05:59.960 Nobody believed it.
00:06:01.020 No, they've.
00:06:01.500 No one believed the meme.
00:06:02.140 They've been investigating this for four years.
00:06:06.760 Mm-hmm.
00:06:07.260 This is, this isn't something that happened in the last election.
00:06:10.400 No, it was 2016.
00:06:11.740 2016.
00:06:12.260 2016.
00:06:12.840 Why did they suddenly just, did they suddenly have a case?
00:06:17.680 Why did they?
00:06:18.780 I ain't going to guess it has something to do with the new administration.
00:06:21.080 I'm just going to throw that out there as a possibility.
00:06:23.080 You know, these files are kind of sticking around and everyone was like, this is dumb.
00:06:26.320 Should we really do anything with this?
00:06:27.540 No.
00:06:27.960 Is this a warning shot?
00:06:29.580 This coupled with a TSA yesterday, or not TSA, but a DHS memos describing domestic terrorists.
00:06:36.900 And then this guy for a meme, getting arrested?
00:06:43.180 What message are we supposed to take from that?
00:06:46.620 Don't do memes.
00:06:48.720 Do never meme.
00:06:50.260 Never meme.
00:06:50.900 I've told my son, don't you.
00:06:52.800 He sent me a meme that he made the other day.
00:06:55.640 And I'm like, don't, don't, don't.
00:06:57.640 And he, dad, it's harmless.
00:06:58.860 No, it's not.
00:06:59.320 Nothing is harmless anymore.
00:07:01.480 Don't.
00:07:02.400 No memes.
00:07:03.280 Nothing.
00:07:04.480 I'm going to cut all of your fingers off because then you can't type anything.
00:07:09.360 Stop it.
00:07:10.460 That might create a minor legal issue for you.
00:07:13.400 If you were to do something like that.
00:07:15.380 It was a lawnmower accident, your honor.
00:07:18.020 Swear to you.
00:07:18.840 And they'll say, no way this kid was ever mowing your lawn.
00:07:23.740 But no memes, no tweets.
00:07:25.820 Nothing.
00:07:26.320 No social media.
00:07:27.260 It would be a really, really good safety tip for all kids.
00:07:32.160 For all people.
00:07:33.320 For all people.
00:07:34.100 All people.
00:07:34.880 Everybody.
00:07:35.380 Well, you know what it would be?
00:07:36.500 It would be a nation of Pat Gray's.
00:07:38.180 Yes.
00:07:38.380 And that would be a good nation.
00:07:39.420 That would be a good nation, right?
00:07:40.240 It would be a good freaking nation.
00:07:41.340 Right?
00:07:41.720 We'd have no social media and lots of great cookies.
00:07:44.380 Thank you.
00:07:44.860 That's a good freaking nation right there.
00:07:46.520 Yes.
00:07:47.140 Yes, it is.
00:07:47.820 I can't live without it.
00:07:49.500 I can't live without it.
00:07:50.520 Without the memes and the tweets.
00:07:51.920 I can't.
00:07:52.460 I can't.
00:07:52.980 Yes, you can.
00:07:53.680 You can.
00:07:54.040 You can.
00:07:54.380 You can.
00:07:55.000 And it's really easy, actually.
00:07:57.020 Yeah.
00:07:57.260 It's really easy.
00:07:58.260 Because you, I would say my excuse is, you know, I got to do it for work.
00:08:01.420 You somehow don't do it for work.
00:08:03.400 I don't even do it.
00:08:03.440 No.
00:08:03.720 And you still survive, which is amazing.
00:08:05.920 That's right.
00:08:07.420 Yep.
00:08:07.800 I envy you so.
00:08:08.860 Yep.
00:08:09.560 I just, I don't, I mean, it's, it's, it's not what people make it out to be.
00:08:15.100 Can we, can we.
00:08:16.000 It's not that important.
00:08:16.680 Can we talk about another freedom of speech issue that I think is freedom of speech?
00:08:21.800 And that is the GameStop thing.
00:08:24.720 Oh, yeah.
00:08:25.220 Wow.
00:08:26.160 Okay.
00:08:26.400 So, that's pretty amazing.
00:08:27.500 So, GameStop is a company.
00:08:31.400 It's a brick and mortar gaming store.
00:08:34.220 Okay.
00:08:34.420 You got to go.
00:08:35.200 It's video games.
00:08:36.100 Right.
00:08:36.360 And most of them are in the mall.
00:08:38.500 Okay.
00:08:39.040 Yeah.
00:08:39.320 I know.
00:08:39.860 I've gone to some of them with my son.
00:08:42.540 All right.
00:08:42.880 So.
00:08:43.240 Oh, I have a nine-year-old.
00:08:44.320 So, I'm there 14 times a week.
00:08:45.560 Right.
00:08:45.860 Okay.
00:08:46.100 So, there is a business there, but a brick and mortar business, I don't know.
00:08:51.480 Well, the market, the hedge funds decided that there's no business there.
00:08:55.640 And so, they started shorting, betting against GameStop, if you will.
00:09:00.340 That's what shorting means in Wall Street.
00:09:02.600 Betting against it, saying that the stock is going to go lower and lower.
00:09:06.340 Well, somebody on Reddit realized the hedge funds have just sold 136% of the stock.
00:09:15.340 There's no way.
00:09:17.360 There's no way these guys can win.
00:09:19.820 I mean.
00:09:20.480 Yeah.
00:09:20.660 How do you sell more than all of the stock?
00:09:23.300 Correct.
00:09:23.780 You can't.
00:09:24.320 You can't.
00:09:25.080 So, they decided.
00:09:26.760 Somebody said, I'm going to buy it.
00:09:28.200 I'm buying $50,000 of it.
00:09:30.460 And everybody else.
00:09:31.780 And it's on Reddit.
00:09:32.560 It was an open forum.
00:09:34.120 Everybody else should buy it, too.
00:09:35.620 Well, I think he decided to buy a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of it.
00:09:38.360 Oh, was it?
00:09:38.900 Mm-hmm.
00:09:39.300 It started, I think, with 50.
00:09:40.620 Okay.
00:09:40.920 But he may have bought a lot more.
00:09:41.940 He was buying it.
00:09:42.680 He kept buying it.
00:09:43.980 He bought a ton of it.
00:09:44.960 It's not Chamath, is it?
00:09:46.580 Yes.
00:09:47.400 Is that who did it?
00:09:48.280 Mm-hmm.
00:09:48.480 He was not the originator of this theory.
00:09:50.440 He might not be the originator, but he wound up buying hundreds of thousands of dollars
00:09:53.720 worth of stock.
00:09:54.320 He's giving it away to charity now, which I think is kind of a cover your ass.
00:09:57.380 He made $500,000.
00:09:59.040 Yeah.
00:09:59.340 I can't tell you the name of the actual originator because the word F, the F word is in the middle
00:10:04.900 of the name.
00:10:05.320 Okay.
00:10:05.680 Okay.
00:10:05.860 All right.
00:10:07.380 So, all these guys were doing, really, is what hedge fund managers do over lunch.
00:10:12.580 Right.
00:10:12.880 Okay?
00:10:13.320 Right.
00:10:13.520 In secret meetings.
00:10:14.720 That's what they do.
00:10:15.660 Yeah.
00:10:16.200 They call them idea dinners.
00:10:17.900 Right.
00:10:18.540 So, you ran GameStop up, which is costing these hedge funds, what, billions or a billion dollars?
00:10:29.160 Is it over $1 billion?
00:10:31.340 Yeah.
00:10:31.600 I mean, yeah.
00:10:32.260 It's a lot.
00:10:33.160 It is more than that.
00:10:34.320 It's going to take down a couple of these hedge funds.
00:10:37.000 I'm telling you right now, I think this is the Bubba effect.
00:10:41.380 It is.
00:10:42.080 This is people who said, you know, these guys who are on Reddit, they're probably in their
00:10:47.720 20s.
00:10:48.260 They probably grew up at 2008.
00:10:51.160 They saw their parents get screwed.
00:10:54.220 And then what happened?
00:10:56.060 Then what happened?
00:10:56.680 They didn't get a bailout.
00:10:58.680 Then the Wall Street guys get rich, even though they were the ones that over leveraged everything.
00:11:05.760 Main Street gets screwed.
00:11:07.240 Then what happens?
00:11:08.240 Now they're in their 20s.
00:11:09.480 Maybe their parents survived last time.
00:11:12.060 But if they have a small business now, they're getting screwed by the government again.
00:11:16.460 And the government's going to bail them out.
00:11:18.860 Yeah.
00:11:19.860 I think this is just the chickens coming home to roost.
00:11:23.080 But I think these guys saw a legal way to make some money and screw the hedge funds at the same time.
00:11:31.840 And what's happening?
00:11:33.120 They're silencing them.
00:11:34.960 They're going to come out.
00:11:35.700 You don't lose a billion dollars and be that connected and don't have your friends in Washington come after, which is going to make the situation worse.
00:11:47.400 Meanwhile, GameStop stock went from about $15 to over $300.
00:11:54.460 I have to tell you, I hope that they have a way.
00:11:57.200 I hope that they've had a way to pull some of that money off of the table because they've been struggling.
00:12:03.080 But if they can reinvent themselves using this money, that's a blessing for them.
00:12:08.860 It's a good Texas company and good Texas people.
00:12:11.240 Yeah.
00:12:11.820 And they're located very close to our studios.
00:12:15.580 And they're armed, so please.
00:12:17.760 Help us.
00:12:18.440 They're not armed.
00:12:19.060 Oh, they're not?
00:12:19.740 No.
00:12:20.120 I thought they were some of those extremes.
00:12:21.360 They're in Texas.
00:12:21.600 They must be.
00:12:22.140 Yeah.
00:12:22.260 They're extremists if they're a Texas company.
00:12:24.340 Yeah.
00:12:24.580 By the way, it's up now to $3.85.
00:12:26.880 That's crazy.
00:12:27.440 $3.85.
00:12:28.020 Crazy.
00:12:28.380 I mean, it was $4 a share last year.
00:12:30.360 And the reason why these guys in the hedge funds can't get out is they can't.
00:12:34.380 Well, you have 140%.
00:12:35.780 They have to keep buying the spread.
00:12:40.740 They said it was going to go down to $2.
00:12:42.480 They have to keep buying every single stock, if you will.
00:12:48.280 And now they're borrowing all of this money to do it.
00:12:51.260 And I can't even imagine.
00:12:53.500 I mean, they think.
00:12:54.100 They certainly think in the forum and the subreddit, WallStreetBets, they think it's going to at least $2,000.
00:13:02.940 Oh, my gosh.
00:13:04.000 No way.
00:13:04.720 No way.
00:13:05.400 I have no idea.
00:13:06.120 I mean, I'm not getting involved in it.
00:13:07.540 No.
00:13:07.920 Wow.
00:13:08.520 No.
00:13:08.680 But I mean, they can't even do anything with it now.
00:13:10.480 They're saying that sites like Robinhood and several of the other trading apps, they're not even letting you trade the stock anymore.
00:13:17.200 You can sell it, but you can't buy it.
00:13:19.100 Jeez.
00:13:19.680 Now, I think people are really pissed off.
00:13:21.860 And they're saying, wait a minute.
00:13:23.580 How do these lawmakers who are doing this, these lawmakers go in with insider trading and become millionaires?
00:13:31.440 And you're not going to let Main Street do legal stuff and out in the open say, hey, I think we should all buy this.
00:13:39.580 Yeah.
00:13:39.840 I mean, I just think that is really wrong.
00:13:43.380 Pat, thank you so much.
00:13:44.780 Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, the podcast that you can hear on Blaze TV or wherever you get your podcast.
00:13:52.860 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:06.220 Dave Rubin, Blaze TV host, the Rubin Report, wildly popular author.
00:14:14.620 Don't burn this book.
00:14:16.320 Many people haven't.
00:14:18.540 Some have.
00:14:21.020 And welcome to the program, Dave.
00:14:22.740 How are you?
00:14:23.480 Glenn, it's good to be with you.
00:14:24.840 You know, in your promo there for me a minute ago, I realized that coming to a free state when you leave California, the way you talk about me, the way you look at me is as if I've escaped some sort of zombie apocalypse.
00:14:37.680 And it's actually not that far from the truth.
00:14:40.660 I pretty much have escaped the gates of hell.
00:14:44.420 Well, I said that because the last time you were here, we went out to dinner and you were you like walked into the restaurant like, I think, are we getting away with this or the police coming?
00:14:55.720 You said you all these people are.
00:14:58.100 And I didn't even think anything.
00:14:59.520 Yeah, you were there before me.
00:15:00.980 You were sitting at the table already.
00:15:02.440 You were you were doing a little reading.
00:15:03.940 Looked very happy.
00:15:05.240 Yeah.
00:15:05.600 You know, had your water.
00:15:06.720 You were good.
00:15:07.380 I got in there.
00:15:08.260 I mean, I couldn't believe it because that's how quickly they can change the world on you.
00:15:13.400 That's what I'm really focused on right now.
00:15:15.080 How quickly they can change the world in that one year ago right now we had, you know, there were a few people talking a little bit about, oh, there's this thing in China, this COVID thing in China, something's going on.
00:15:26.260 But basically.
00:15:28.460 Ten months ago is when this all started.
00:15:30.460 And think how drastically different the world is.
00:15:33.600 The entire ten months, the entire world, everything from our entire economic system to the way we literally leave our house or don't leave our house, the way we communicate with each other, the way that big tech, which was already.
00:15:45.840 Remarkably powerful, the way that it's become more powerful because it's becoming basically the only way we can communicate with each other.
00:15:53.160 That rapid thing that has happened to us in less than a year.
00:15:56.480 I'm completely fascinated by it because it's like, man, if you think, you know, a lot of people were like, oh, 2020 is over.
00:16:01.860 It's we're resetting now.
00:16:03.060 It's not the great reset.
00:16:04.520 That's coming, too.
00:16:05.320 But a lot of people like, oh, 2021, it'll settle in now.
00:16:07.800 No, we got by it and everything will be back to normal.
00:16:10.540 And it's like, man.
00:16:11.880 So I want to ask you about two things.
00:16:14.040 I want to ask you about what your liberal friends are saying about Biden now in California.
00:16:19.260 But at first, let's before we leave covid, Gavin Newsom, all of a sudden he found Jesus and he was like, we've all been healed and is is opened outdoor dining.
00:16:32.320 Yeah.
00:16:32.600 And next week, maybe some additional openings.
00:16:36.540 What was the what was the religion he found?
00:16:41.000 It's an abject load of B.S.
00:16:44.420 This guy is the worst.
00:16:45.760 When you think about what the worst sort of elitist politician who wants to live one way and have their their minions live another way.
00:16:52.980 It is.
00:16:53.740 He is the poster boy.
00:16:55.820 You know what I mean?
00:16:56.240 He's the you know, you know, the whole French laundry story. 1.00
00:16:58.720 Yeah.
00:16:58.760 I mean, 22 people went out to dinner, not social distancing, no masks.
00:17:03.180 Fifteen thousand dollars in alcohol.
00:17:05.660 I know you don't drink, Glenn.
00:17:06.680 Holy cow. 0.89
00:17:07.600 That's a lot.
00:17:08.180 And I listen, you know, I like wine, but that's fifteen thousand dollars for 22 people.
00:17:12.360 OK, so that's about seven hundred fifty bucks in alcohol per person, not even the meal.
00:17:15.400 OK.
00:17:16.120 Wow.
00:17:16.420 Look, look, it's just obvious what this guy has done, which is that this thing was political.
00:17:22.080 These lockdowns were political.
00:17:23.600 They wanted to take out Trump.
00:17:25.120 If the lockdowns made any sense, then the numbers in Florida and Texas would be exponentially higher than in places like New York and California.
00:17:33.280 And the simple truth is not only are they not in many cases, they're actually less.
00:17:37.000 It's just it's just that simple.
00:17:38.740 Like if you told me lockdowns work.
00:17:40.360 All right.
00:17:40.800 Well, let's look at it.
00:17:41.480 We got a lockdown place.
00:17:42.680 We got an open place.
00:17:44.240 It's as simple as that.
00:17:45.360 And and I've been to I'm here in Texas and I've been to Florida.
00:17:48.460 And guess what?
00:17:49.220 A lot of happy people.
00:17:50.240 You can see people smiling and going out and business as usual.
00:17:52.720 It's it's it's well, it's not business as usual to us.
00:17:56.700 Yeah.
00:17:57.100 What's happening in Texas is draconian.
00:17:59.380 Yeah.
00:17:59.660 I mean, we don't like what's happening.
00:18:01.100 So not of course, not business as usual in that sense.
00:18:03.380 I'm at the hotel now.
00:18:04.220 I still have to wear a mask and that sort of thing.
00:18:06.480 But relative relative to you and where you're living.
00:18:10.920 So is this is this because the election is over?
00:18:14.600 Or is this because the recall Gavin movement is actually probably going to happen?
00:18:20.920 I think it's both.
00:18:21.980 It's one is they got the result they wanted.
00:18:24.060 So the people that are all about unity now and everything else is like, well, we got what
00:18:27.960 we want.
00:18:28.400 So it's time to heal and unify, which, of course, we know if they didn't get what they want,
00:18:32.140 you think they'd be talking about unity and healing.
00:18:33.860 And if we suddenly were like, OK, unity and healing, they'd be saying, wait a minute,
00:18:37.420 the white supremacists are in charge of everything.
00:18:39.000 So so that's one level of it.
00:18:41.160 I think the other level is that he's really worried.
00:18:43.220 I mean, I think from what I understand, they have about one point three of the one point
00:18:46.260 five million signatures.
00:18:48.340 They want one point eight.
00:18:49.560 They want one point eight because they know there'll be all sorts of games played.
00:18:52.920 And as I was telling you during the break, you know, you have to sign its hand signatures
00:18:56.040 so you can't do it online.
00:18:57.340 So they also keep you locked in your house.
00:18:58.980 So it's harder to even find a place where you can go and sign the thing.
00:19:03.280 It's amazing.
00:19:03.800 They've got that this far in the middle of the shutdown.
00:19:06.120 I mean, it's incredible that there's this close with all of the rules to everybody could
00:19:10.740 vote.
00:19:11.060 They just send ballots out.
00:19:12.460 That's fine.
00:19:13.700 But to recall one of these cretins. 1.00
00:19:15.920 Right.
00:19:16.120 You can't do that.
00:19:16.840 It's strange.
00:19:17.360 They don't do the recalls by ballot.
00:19:20.960 I do think he will get recalled.
00:19:23.000 And what I would pray for is that somebody saying maybe a Rick Grinnell who, you know,
00:19:30.140 is from SoCal and was in the Trump administration and was our ambassador to Germany.
00:19:34.480 And he's a great guy.
00:19:36.080 He's a really great guy.
00:19:37.520 And a fighter because you're going to need it's not just that you need someone to come
00:19:40.740 in and be a little saner than Newsom.
00:19:42.860 The machine, when people talk about the swamp and the D.C.
00:19:45.560 machine and all that, the California machine is like, I mean, this is a one party state
00:19:51.340 of the extreme level.
00:19:53.460 So, well, it's not just you recall him and then suddenly things get better.
00:19:56.340 So what are your liberal friends?
00:19:57.720 I mean, because they've got kids, too.
00:19:59.240 They've got to be seeing the deterioration of their kids over a year.
00:20:02.400 Is anybody talking about like these labor unions for schools?
00:20:07.760 What the hell are you doing?
00:20:09.260 They don't want to go back to school.
00:20:10.460 Right.
00:20:10.700 And now Biden's telling them not to go back to school.
00:20:12.820 I mean, it's actually crazy.
00:20:14.160 Again, it was 10 months ago, almost a year ago, two weeks to flatten the curve.
00:20:19.260 Yesterday, Biden's telling us about 100 day federal mask mandate.
00:20:22.720 But this is what I mean.
00:20:23.960 Things are changing so quickly that we're forgetting what last week was like.
00:20:28.420 The Internet has done something to our brains and Twitter and the endless news feed and
00:20:32.680 the whole thing that we talk about all the time is doing something so that things happen
00:20:36.940 so fast that, you know, when George Orwell wrote about, you know, things getting put into
00:20:41.960 the memory hole, Trump will be memory hold.
00:20:44.780 Oh, yeah.
00:20:44.960 All of the all of the things that have happened over the years that don't fit the narrative
00:20:48.560 will be memory hold.
00:20:49.440 We forget.
00:20:50.280 So suddenly you're like, oh, well, why not?
00:20:52.400 A hundred more days of masks and a hundred more days of this.
00:20:55.120 And OK, and then guess what?
00:20:56.780 In a hundred days, they'll say, oh, you know, just now the UK strain actually morphed with
00:21:02.060 the Brazilian strain.
00:21:03.320 Right.
00:21:03.600 And I'm sorry, but you're going to have to live underground for three years and people
00:21:06.960 will go, OK.
00:21:08.020 I mean, I had it.
00:21:08.700 I was.
00:21:09.060 I don't think so.
00:21:10.060 You know, the people in where is it?
00:21:11.560 We're not going underground.
00:21:12.500 That would be nice.
00:21:13.080 Oh, yeah.
00:21:13.320 No, they're revolting.
00:21:14.100 Yeah, they're revolting.
00:21:15.300 Sweden.
00:21:15.980 The Swedes.
00:21:16.700 I know.
00:21:17.240 I mean, they don't do that.
00:21:19.720 No.
00:21:19.900 And if the Swedes are starting to stand up against their government, you've got something
00:21:25.540 going on in the world, something big going on.
00:21:27.940 You know, I was in Sweden a couple of years ago when I was on tour with Jordan Peterson.
00:21:30.920 And one of the things in.
00:21:32.020 Have you been to Sweden?
00:21:32.860 Yeah, I love it.
00:21:33.480 I mean, one of the things that's remarkable at Sweden is especially you're in the Stockholm
00:21:36.440 area.
00:21:36.740 It's so clean.
00:21:38.300 Everyone looks perfect.
00:21:39.880 They all look like they walked out of magazine.
00:21:41.240 Everyone looks like they just bought their clothes that morning.
00:21:44.000 So these are people, to your point, that are kind of satisfied with life.
00:21:47.780 Yeah, so the idea that you've got the people of Sweden now, and we're seeing this through
00:21:51.620 a couple of the Nordic countries.
00:21:52.800 I think it's happening in Denmark, too, that you have these people now revolting.
00:21:56.920 How far can you push people?
00:21:58.880 And it's and we're being pushed in every way.
00:22:00.680 I heard you guys talking about the GameStop thing.
00:22:02.800 Everyone.
00:22:03.380 So the average person that's now getting in the game is now being told they can't get
00:22:07.120 in the game.
00:22:07.640 Correct.
00:22:07.900 You're locked in your house.
00:22:09.040 Correct.
00:22:09.340 Big tech might take you out.
00:22:11.120 This this the great reset yesterday.
00:22:13.200 We were talking about how they say that you're going to have skin in the game because it's
00:22:19.460 stakeholder capitalism.
00:22:21.480 OK, and when you dig into it and you're like, OK, they say you're going to be a part of it.
00:22:26.520 You're going to get the benefits of it.
00:22:28.080 And finally, you'll get the benefits.
00:22:30.300 How do you get the benefits?
00:22:31.380 I'm not at the table.
00:22:32.400 I'm not I'm not even in Davos.
00:22:33.940 You won't even really show me everything that's going on.
00:22:37.380 And you're certainly not asking me for my opinion.
00:22:40.620 Well, they say because your representative government is is in place of you.
00:22:47.180 Glenn, you know, when somebody when somebody tells you how good of a friend they are all
00:22:50.760 the time.
00:22:51.240 Yeah, that pretty much means they're not a good friend.
00:22:53.900 That's pretty much what these people are doing when they're always we're looking out
00:22:57.160 for you.
00:22:57.880 I know you're not going to own anything, but you'll be taken care of.
00:23:01.120 We're going to give you universal basic income.
00:23:03.520 We're going to make your life better.
00:23:05.320 No, it's so fundamentally the opposite of what what anyone liberty minded should think,
00:23:10.660 which is just that give just give me a chance to live and get out of my way.
00:23:14.520 That's all I ask for.
00:23:15.820 That is all I ask for.
00:23:16.860 I think that's that's what most of your listeners want in life is just the opportunity.
00:23:21.780 It's the American dream.
00:23:22.920 Give me a chance to play in the game.
00:23:24.820 And now the system is saying no.
00:23:26.200 We back in in FDR's day, they perverted the American dream.
00:23:31.120 And they made it a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.
00:23:35.440 That's not the American dream.
00:23:37.040 The American dream was just leave me alone so I can make my own way.
00:23:43.240 This was the only place in the world you could do it.
00:23:46.400 And now we are worse than some countries over in Europe.
00:23:49.800 It is harder to do things here in America.
00:23:52.420 We've lost a lot of our liberty.
00:23:58.640 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:24:01.700 All right.
00:24:11.600 I want to play this audio from a parent in Virginia who has been going to his school board over and over and over again, calmly saying, stop it.
00:24:27.960 We have to have a plan to open the schools.
00:24:30.520 Here's what happened this week.
00:24:31.560 And it just went viral.
00:24:32.880 You should all be fired from your day jobs because if your employers knew that you were more inefficient than the DMV, you would be replaced in a heartbeat.
00:24:41.400 I literally just finished a conference call because I'm having to multitask to be here to address you guys.
00:24:47.380 You're a bunch of cowards hiding behind our children as an excuse for keeping schools closed.
00:24:52.260 You think you're some sort of martyrs because of the decisions you're making when the statistics do not lie that the vast majority of the population is not at risk from this virus.
00:25:00.820 The garbage workers who pick up my freaking trash, risk their lives every day more than anyone in this school system.
00:25:12.020 Figure it out or get off the podium because you know what?
00:25:16.540 There are people like me and a line of other people out there who will gladly take your seat and figure it out.
00:25:25.720 It's not a high bar.
00:25:28.200 Raise the freaking bar. 0.95
00:25:29.600 Now, as he was walking out, one of the school board members, and I want to quote this, one of the school board members said, please wipe this down the podium.
00:25:43.260 Wipe it down ahead of time.
00:25:45.260 We don't want anything to infect us.
00:25:48.360 Oh, my gosh.
00:25:49.540 Oh, my gosh.
00:25:50.520 These people are out of control.
00:25:53.080 We have that dad on the phone.
00:25:55.440 Now, his name is Brandon Amishan.
00:25:57.920 He is originally from New York.
00:26:00.760 They just moved out of New York to come down to Virginia, and he finds himself in this situation.
00:26:08.320 Brandon, welcome to the program.
00:26:11.380 Thanks for having me.
00:26:12.340 I actually grew up in Loudoun County and spent a lot of my professional career in New York before coming back because of COVID.
00:26:18.520 So I am, you know, a local here in heart.
00:26:23.500 So, Brandon, I noticed that you were calm, and then you got to the garbage, the garbage people that are picking up your trash, and you just exploded.
00:26:35.740 Did something happen that you saw like they weren't listening to you or not watching you, or did you just, was this just all pent up because of the number of times you've said this to them?
00:26:46.940 Yeah, I think it's a few things, right?
00:26:49.800 I don't really think this is a political party issue, right?
00:26:53.820 I don't really care if you're red, blue, green, or orange.
00:26:56.880 It's about the children.
00:26:58.040 And I have to give a shout out to my wife and mother and the many others who've actually been involved with getting schools open longer than I have.
00:27:04.400 I think, as you said early on, we've went numerous times and tried many different tactics, jingles, rhymes, you know, pleading to open schools.
00:27:14.840 But after, and you didn't see it in my video, but my five-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son spoke before us.
00:27:22.060 And, you know, I just had had enough.
00:27:25.320 And, you know, what I decided was I'd try to more stern tactic, which, you know, is obviously resonating.
00:27:32.300 But I just wanted them to pay attention because I didn't feel like they were paying attention.
00:27:37.580 I mean, I saw the video.
00:27:40.320 I don't know if they were looking at you, but I've seen this kind of video over and over again.
00:27:45.080 And these people sit behind the dais and they just are disconnected from it.
00:27:51.360 You speak and they're like, your time is up and then you have to leave.
00:27:55.140 And there seems to be, and I know this isn't true, but it seems to be that there's really no compassion and no science involved in this.
00:28:09.320 Did you feel that way?
00:28:10.660 Do you feel that way?
00:28:12.540 Well, yeah.
00:28:12.960 I mean, I think what got me fired up was my son, my eight-year-old son, you know, who's never really spoken publicly.
00:28:19.200 You know, he spoke on the virtual stuff before, but this first time in person, he, you know, he was, you know, he was shaking a little bit.
00:28:28.220 He was upset after he left because I felt like I was being judged.
00:28:31.500 And, you know, it's hard because these are our educators and our mentors and the people who are supposed to be examples for our kids.
00:28:38.360 And I've been numerous times and not once have I heard the school board say thank you to these children who are, look, there's adults who can't even stand up in front of people with confidence.
00:28:49.540 And just say, hey, thank you for your time, sir, or thank you, ma'am.
00:28:53.320 And let them know that you don't have to agree with them, but let them know that you're doing something that it is, you know, it is intimidating and scary.
00:29:00.260 And after months of doing this, I just, you know, kind of just triggered something.
00:29:06.080 It's interesting because the, I don't know if you remember the Norman Rockwell paintings of the Four Freedoms, but one is a guy standing up and it's the freedom of speech.
00:29:16.900 And are you familiar with this painting by Norman Rockwell?
00:29:20.500 Yes, yes, I believe so.
00:29:21.540 But he's standing up to a school board and in his pocket, it has the school board agenda in his pocket.
00:29:30.220 So it's clearly him standing up and saying, look, we need some changes in our school.
00:29:36.580 There's nothing more American.
00:29:38.700 And yet I don't know what's happening here, because as we were talking before you came on, the science is really clear.
00:29:46.660 There aren't any scientists that are saying, keep the kids home.
00:29:49.760 There's no science that shows that the kids or anybody is in real danger at school.
00:29:57.640 And the science also is on the side by keeping our kids out of school.
00:30:03.060 We're doing significant damage to our kids.
00:30:07.900 Why are they not doing anything?
00:30:11.940 Look, first and foremost, I think the vast majority of teachers, you know, want to be back in school.
00:30:17.820 I mean, they're in just as tough a situation.
00:30:20.600 My daughter's kindergarten teacher, they're not supposed to be college online professors.
00:30:24.240 So I think they're frustrated as well.
00:30:26.520 I think the CDC came out with guidelines recently that are that have shown or and this is the people who are the professionals within, you know, disease control,
00:30:35.300 saying that there are mitigating factors that you can do and the spread of this virus, albeit it's a horrible thing.
00:30:41.960 I don't discount that the spread of this virus can be mitigated through certain, you know, certain steps.
00:30:48.220 And I think it's like a 12 or maybe it's more than that 12 steps that have shown to be effective.
00:30:53.360 And I think all throughout the country, there are parents and I say this because, you know, I've been given a little bit of a voice as a conduit, if you want to call it.
00:31:01.860 But I'm just a dad who cares about my kids.
00:31:04.700 And there's fathers and mothers and caretakers all throughout the U.S. and world who care about that.
00:31:10.820 And I think, you know, parents are speaking out and they just want to they want to see solutions.
00:31:17.220 And if anything, they just want to see a plan and they want to see that plan attempted to be executed and not the goalpost moved.
00:31:24.920 So can you said, you know, there's a line of people out there.
00:31:29.860 A, why were they not in the committee room?
00:31:32.060 And and was it a line of parents that had the same kind of viewpoint that you did?
00:31:38.700 And has there been any movement?
00:31:42.320 Well, yeah, well, because of the guidelines, they only have the podium and, you know, it's 30 feet away.
00:31:49.640 It's a massive room.
00:31:50.400 I think in a normal environment, that room's filled with chairs and people can go in and speak.
00:31:55.760 They have you waiting out in the hall, you know, socially distanced.
00:31:58.520 And I'm out there with my my two year old, my five year old, my eight year old and my wife.
00:32:02.940 And there's other families with kids that, you know, it's not getting attention as much.
00:32:08.140 But there was a father with a special needs son who who spoke a minute or two before us.
00:32:15.480 And he signed up for both of them.
00:32:16.780 And he wasn't given the time to speak for his son, who is a non audible, you know, special needs student.
00:32:21.880 Well, you know, look, if you're if you're not willing to listen to your constituents, that was my point.
00:32:27.240 Right. Like I personally, I'm not running for office.
00:32:30.060 This is just a father who cares.
00:32:31.960 And there's other people who are out there who care as well.
00:32:34.740 But if you're running for office, do something.
00:32:37.880 And if you don't want to do something, there are people who will step up and do it.
00:32:42.300 Leadership is hard.
00:32:43.640 It's not easy.
00:32:44.460 It's not fun sometimes.
00:32:45.580 But leadership is what built this great nation.
00:32:50.580 And I think that, you know, if you don't want to if you're not up for the task, then let someone else do it, because people always forget there is someone who will step up.
00:32:59.980 Let me let me play that other father that you were just talking about.
00:33:03.600 Here's the audio.
00:33:04.280 He has trouble standing still for 30 seconds for speaking in front of you.
00:33:08.880 How can you expect him to sit in front of a computer every day, every hour, focus and get an education?
00:33:15.980 That's impossible.
00:33:17.680 Impossible for him and impossible for over 11,000 more kids who are special education with special needs in LCPS.
00:33:25.380 But instead, you decide to sweep his problems under the rug and focus on giving raises, new mascots, renaming athletic fields and a whole lot of PowerPoints.
00:33:38.020 Thank you, sir.
00:33:38.780 Across equity.
00:33:39.820 I'm the next speaker as well.
00:33:41.160 Sir, only one.
00:33:42.040 You can only sign up for one spot.
00:33:43.580 And I'm sorry.
00:33:44.740 Is your is your name?
00:33:46.580 You pin?
00:33:47.240 Yes.
00:33:47.660 So we'll count that.
00:33:48.800 And we appreciate you bringing your child.
00:33:50.560 You're saying he cannot speak for himself.
00:33:52.080 So I can't speak for him on his behalf.
00:33:53.480 You, sir, you're the one who said he cannot speak on his behalf.
00:33:57.320 Exactly.
00:33:57.720 So I spoke for his behalf till now, and I'm now speaking for myself.
00:34:01.840 If I could.
00:34:02.980 Sir, I can only allow one speaker one minute.
00:34:06.080 So I'm sorry.
00:34:06.720 You'll have to.
00:34:07.060 Well, I just have to say then, if you guys don't really vote for him, you're letting him down.
00:34:11.780 And a lot of.
00:34:12.140 So, Brandon, one minute.
00:34:17.860 How do you even make a point in one minute?
00:34:22.100 It's hard.
00:34:23.960 I mean, he was he was a couple of people before me.
00:34:25.940 Right.
00:34:26.200 And so I could hear him and they buzz you like there's a buzzer.
00:34:29.740 It's a loud thing.
00:34:30.900 You know, they really they want to make you know, make it known that you're out.
00:34:34.140 But look, I lived in New York for the last 10 years up until six months ago.
00:34:38.480 And, you know, it's a fast talking city.
00:34:40.120 I can talk pretty quick, but trying to get your point articulate, you know, articulate your point in 60 seconds is hard.
00:34:48.140 I even stumbled.
00:34:49.380 You know, you have a mask on, kids standing around like it's not easy.
00:34:53.420 And it's we as a society need to have some compassion.
00:34:57.780 And if we can't show as as educators and again, educators, mentors and, you know, school boards who are supposed to be the examples of that, if we can't have compassion, then then then who are we?
00:35:10.920 And again, I just care about the children.
00:35:13.620 Right.
00:35:13.920 This is about I'm about me.
00:35:16.620 This is about the children and getting them back.
00:35:18.740 And you mentioned earlier, the mental health side of this is so much worse than anyone sees.
00:35:25.360 Mike, no, that was a handicapped father.
00:35:28.200 Right.
00:35:28.720 I don't even know what he's going through.
00:35:30.460 My five year old daughter barely wants to sit in front of a screen. 1.00
00:35:34.240 Adults don't want to sit in front of screens for that long.
00:35:36.560 My eight year old's defeated.
00:35:37.940 Right.
00:35:38.640 They just want to make friends.
00:35:40.220 They're kids.
00:35:40.900 There's valuable seniors who didn't have graduations.
00:35:43.780 Third graders didn't have kickball or field day.
00:35:46.840 Like there are valuable life experiences that we are missing.
00:35:51.220 And there's just people who are not saying, here's a plan and let's execute it.
00:35:55.500 And if you don't want to go, don't go.
00:35:58.060 But for those who do, let them and let the teachers who want to go back, go back as well.
00:36:01.840 Amen.
00:36:02.240 Amen.
00:36:02.740 Brandon, thank you very much.
00:36:04.200 Brandon Michon from Virginia, the parent that stood up at his school board and I think spoke for a lot of us who are parents.
00:36:12.380 And I hope there are more of you standing up and I hope you've inspired people to stand in their own community.
00:36:19.660 Thank you, Brandon.
00:36:20.540 Thanks so much.
00:36:21.060 Na, na, na, na, na.