The Glenn Beck Program - January 04, 2022


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Jason Whitlock & Bethany Mandel ｜ 1⧸4⧸22


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Glenn Beck and Pat Gray talk about a new law professor who wants to change the U.S. Constitution. Also, they talk about the upcoming election and compare it to the tea party movement in 2016 and ask if the two are similar or different.

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00:00:00.000 Stu, I think today's podcast was riveting from start to finish.
00:00:04.760 Not a second was wasted.
00:00:07.380 Well, I would disagree.
00:00:08.940 The 4,218th second I thought was trash.
00:00:12.380 But other than that, it was good.
00:00:13.280 It was really good.
00:00:15.220 Great program today.
00:00:16.720 Gets a little deep into the COVID philosophy of where we are,
00:00:21.700 what's really coming with Omicron.
00:00:23.680 Also, we talk about the upcoming year and compare this to the red wave that we saw with the tea party.
00:00:34.680 Are they the same or is this one different?
00:00:37.680 Today's podcast.
00:00:45.940 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:00:50.120 Pat Gray is joining us now from the Pat Gray Show.
00:00:55.840 You just finished up your broadcast on Blaze TV.
00:01:01.580 And you can hear the podcast in Pat Gray Unleashed, wherever you get your podcasts.
00:01:06.220 Big story of the day to you.
00:01:08.060 I love the fact that it's finally happening.
00:01:10.680 There's a law professor at the University of Miami who is proposing some much needed changes to the U.S. Constitution.
00:01:19.020 Okay, good.
00:01:20.120 Which, as you know, is old and outdated and just irrelevant.
00:01:27.340 Irrelevant.
00:01:27.900 Yes.
00:01:29.060 Rights have changed.
00:01:30.400 So much.
00:01:31.060 Yeah.
00:01:31.260 And so have people.
00:01:32.320 Right.
00:01:32.600 And the founders couldn't have foreseen any of that.
00:01:35.240 No.
00:01:35.560 Uh-uh.
00:01:35.940 So, I think this is great.
00:01:39.640 You know, it's like-
00:01:40.180 What is he proposing?
00:01:41.740 She. 0.93
00:01:42.340 She. 0.93
00:01:42.780 She. 0.93
00:01:43.000 She is proposing, Marianne Franks, law professor at University of Miami.
00:01:48.260 Uh-huh.
00:01:48.740 Uh-huh.
00:01:49.040 Proposing a couple of changes to the First Amendment, which should read,
00:01:52.940 every person has the right to freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly, and petition
00:01:58.020 of the government for redress of grievances, consistent with the rights of others to do
00:02:03.140 the same, and subject subject to responsibility for abuses.
00:02:07.660 All conflicts of such rights shall be resolved in accordance with the principle of equality
00:02:13.380 and dignity of all persons.
00:02:15.540 Amen.
00:02:16.120 Oh, man.
00:02:16.920 Finally, somebody said.
00:02:18.280 Finally.
00:02:19.300 Finally.
00:02:19.880 Finally.
00:02:20.500 Under this oppressive constitution as currently written, you couldn't say that.
00:02:24.860 You couldn't.
00:02:25.480 You couldn't.
00:02:25.620 No, you could not.
00:02:26.580 Right.
00:02:27.700 Then in the Second Amendment-
00:02:29.780 What a surprise.
00:02:30.600 The Second Amendment.
00:02:31.460 Yeah.
00:02:31.900 First and second.
00:02:32.600 The Second Amendment, the gun situation has been eliminated.
00:02:38.620 Wait.
00:02:39.140 And instead, we're going to talk about protecting reproductive health.
00:02:43.860 Oh.
00:02:44.500 Yeah.
00:02:44.700 Well, that's what the founders intended.
00:02:46.720 Yes.
00:02:47.040 If they would have seen this society.
00:02:49.260 Exactly.
00:02:49.880 So the way it's changed.
00:02:51.040 Amending the Second Amendment to be about abortion?
00:02:53.460 To be not the Second Amendment, yes.
00:02:55.180 It's going to be about abortion now. 0.91
00:02:56.560 Okay.
00:02:57.080 All people have the right to bodily autonomy consistent with the right of other people to
00:03:02.640 do the same, including the right to defend themselves against unlawful force and the
00:03:07.380 right of self-determination in reproductive matters.
00:03:11.400 Okay.
00:03:12.220 Thank you.
00:03:12.960 Good.
00:03:13.400 Good.
00:03:13.620 I'm so glad.
00:03:14.080 So we can kill our babies, but we can't stop somebody from killing us.
00:03:19.160 Right.
00:03:19.540 Okay.
00:03:20.080 All right.
00:03:20.420 I got that.
00:03:20.980 That is really-
00:03:22.180 Yeah.
00:03:22.640 It's really good.
00:03:23.180 It's important.
00:03:23.920 And it's like Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, you shouldn't look to the U.S. Constitution if
00:03:30.620 you're writing a new one.
00:03:31.860 And that's what kind of this is all about.
00:03:33.620 But she suggested that we go with much more recent documents like Canada's.
00:03:40.160 And Canada's not having a problem at all.
00:03:42.180 Not a problem.
00:03:43.040 No.
00:03:43.180 No.
00:03:43.880 Iceland just redid theirs on Twitter.
00:03:47.080 Twitter.
00:03:47.500 Yeah.
00:03:47.540 That's why there's all kinds of LOLs in the Constitution.
00:03:50.640 Now, it is an emoji-based Constitution.
00:03:53.020 It is.
00:03:53.500 Yes.
00:03:53.800 I like that.
00:03:54.200 I like that.
00:03:54.920 I like that.
00:03:55.480 I like that.
00:03:56.020 And with the emojis, you kind of understand better what the original intent was.
00:04:00.260 Right.
00:04:00.600 Because if you see a smiley face, you know they're happy about it.
00:04:02.880 Correct.
00:04:03.200 Right.
00:04:03.740 Or the crying.
00:04:04.620 Like, they're crying laughing.
00:04:05.740 That means they don't want that thing in there.
00:04:07.840 That's-
00:04:08.160 Right.
00:04:08.640 This is a joke clause.
00:04:09.720 May I change the subject to Betty White?
00:04:17.140 Betty White-
00:04:17.840 That is a change of subject.
00:04:18.920 That is a change.
00:04:19.060 It is.
00:04:19.440 That's pretty drastic.
00:04:20.660 Well, she was old, dusty, and irrelevant.
00:04:23.060 You know what I mean?
00:04:23.780 That's what they-
00:04:24.360 Change was about to come.
00:04:26.440 And it was way overdue.
00:04:28.780 Way overdue.
00:04:30.220 Betty White, I don't know about anybody else, but when she died, we started watching the Golden
00:04:33.920 Girls.
00:04:34.160 And I haven't seen the Golden Girls since they were on originally.
00:04:38.260 You know what I mean?
00:04:38.760 I mean, once in a while, I'd catch a rerun, but not really.
00:04:42.520 Sure.
00:04:43.860 Just turning it on and hearing this brought back so many-
00:04:52.820 It was weird.
00:04:54.280 I said to Tanya, are you like, does this affect you, this theme?
00:05:00.460 And she's like, yeah, I can't exactly describe it, but it feels like home.
00:05:06.100 You know what I mean?
00:05:06.960 Yeah, it's great.
00:05:07.800 Oh, it is so amazing.
00:05:09.840 And I watched it, and that was funny television.
00:05:14.940 It was?
00:05:15.400 It holds up?
00:05:15.760 Funny?
00:05:16.260 It does.
00:05:17.080 It does.
00:05:17.760 It holds up.
00:05:18.720 Really?
00:05:19.260 Funny television.
00:05:19.800 Yeah.
00:05:19.860 I was never a fan of it back in the day, but-
00:05:23.080 Oh, it was funny.
00:05:24.200 Did you?
00:05:24.480 Yeah, I was.
00:05:24.900 Yeah?
00:05:25.120 I was.
00:05:25.480 I used to like it, too.
00:05:26.320 I watched the reruns, I remember.
00:05:28.160 You know, I mean, again-
00:05:28.740 Penny White was just to scream. 1.00
00:05:30.280 Yeah, she was, her role was just, she was dumb, right? 0.99
00:05:33.060 She was dumb. 0.95
00:05:33.660 She was the ditz, essentially, of the group. 0.51
00:05:35.940 Right.
00:05:36.940 And then you had-
00:05:37.700 Her, Bea Arthur, and Estelle Getty.
00:05:39.780 I wasn't a fan of, what's her name, the other one?
00:05:43.100 Rue McClanahan.
00:05:43.900 Yeah, Rue McClanahan.
00:05:44.960 I wasn't a fan of that character, but I-
00:05:47.300 She was the one that was always having sex with everybody? 1.00
00:05:49.080 Everybody.
00:05:49.620 Yeah.
00:05:49.860 Yeah, everybody.
00:05:51.160 Everybody.
00:05:52.380 I saw a quote from-
00:05:53.800 That's right.
00:05:55.000 I saw a quote from Betty White.
00:05:57.200 She said, my answer to anything under the sun, like, what would you have not done in the
00:06:02.520 business that you've always wanted to do?
00:06:04.580 And she said, Robert Redford.
00:06:10.800 She was really funny.
00:06:12.480 She was hysterical.
00:06:13.280 She was a delight.
00:06:14.400 I mean, you can't not like Betty White.
00:06:16.680 Yeah, that's one of those rare things that I think unites everybody.
00:06:20.480 And she was one of those celebrities.
00:06:22.880 I have no idea what her political background was.
00:06:25.260 Yeah, I don't either.
00:06:25.780 I don't care.
00:06:26.580 No idea.
00:06:27.400 That went away.
00:06:29.480 They stopped caring about appealing to all of the country.
00:06:33.680 There is this thing, too, that happened with her, where you just can't pre-plan a 100th
00:06:38.700 birthday party.
00:06:39.680 You just shouldn't do it.
00:06:41.240 It's not a good idea.
00:06:42.760 Sad.
00:06:43.280 You certainly shouldn't announce it months in advance.
00:06:46.180 And in the article, they said she was in good health.
00:06:49.480 Yeah.
00:06:50.120 I mean...
00:06:50.600 And then, like, two days later, she's gone.
00:06:52.320 At 99 years old, and...
00:06:54.180 I mean, it looks...
00:06:54.500 It can go fast.
00:06:55.180 It can happen.
00:06:55.580 I went to a movie this weekend.
00:06:58.500 This is like three or four days, seemingly.
00:07:00.860 I guess a couple days, it seemed after, you know, she wound up dying.
00:07:04.460 And they were still running the commercial for her... 0.98
00:07:08.000 Join Betty White for her 100th birthday party!
00:07:11.760 Oh, that's unfortunate.
00:07:12.480 It's like, I don't know.
00:07:14.040 Oh, no.
00:07:14.540 People, no.
00:07:15.320 That's not good.
00:07:15.800 That's not good.
00:07:16.520 I guess they were doing a Fathom event, which is one of these in-theater events.
00:07:19.940 And I assume it may be adjusted at this time.
00:07:25.080 It's going to be kind of sad.
00:07:26.000 Yeah.
00:07:26.340 I mean, maybe use it as a memorial or something.
00:07:28.240 But I don't think we're going to be joining her, unfortunately, on that particular adventure.
00:07:32.360 No, if you bought tickets for that, it might turn out to be kind of a different kind of mood.
00:07:37.660 Yeah.
00:07:38.020 Yeah.
00:07:38.400 Yeah, a little different vibe there.
00:07:39.680 Maybe.
00:07:40.500 You know, she said that...
00:07:42.020 She said exactly the same thing my father said.
00:07:45.880 I'm still a teenager in my mind.
00:07:48.740 That's what I say all the time.
00:07:50.440 Me too.
00:07:50.860 Seriously.
00:07:51.300 I'm 18 in my head.
00:07:52.740 Yeah.
00:07:53.120 Yeah.
00:07:53.520 And it's not until you see yourself in the mirror that you're like, holy crap.
00:07:57.360 If I'm not 18 on the outside.
00:07:58.960 Right.
00:07:59.820 Right.
00:08:00.280 It's weird, isn't it?
00:08:01.540 Yeah.
00:08:02.140 And you...
00:08:02.740 It is weird.
00:08:03.960 It plays such a game with you because, especially as you start to get to the top of the food chain,
00:08:10.980 you know, as the people who always were at the big person's table and you were at the little
00:08:16.800 kiddies' table, and now you find yourself, you know, closer and closer to the end of the
00:08:21.900 table as the patriarch, you're like, oh my God, I'm next.
00:08:25.980 I mean, it's weird.
00:08:28.880 It is very weird.
00:08:30.500 I mean, you notice it from everything from the table for sure, but also bending down
00:08:34.580 to pick something up.
00:08:36.120 I was on Instagram, I don't know, a while ago, and I was going through and, you know,
00:08:40.380 they start serving you ads for, I guess, things that they think you want.
00:08:44.080 And they were serving me ads for shoes you don't have to bend down to tie.
00:08:48.080 And I was like, this is insulting.
00:08:51.660 Click, click, click, and bought two pairs.
00:08:53.900 They're fantastic.
00:08:56.800 I don't have to bend down ever.
00:08:58.200 They slipped right on and they just hug the back of your ankles.
00:09:01.160 They're awesome.
00:09:02.120 What are they?
00:09:02.820 Are you wearing one now?
00:09:04.360 Yeah.
00:09:05.020 Yeah.
00:09:05.480 Actually, I have to be.
00:09:06.060 It reminds me of one of the first episodes that we watched of Golden Girls.
00:09:11.760 She meets a foot doctor and Betty White says, have you ever met Dr. Scholes?
00:09:22.000 Is that shoes?
00:09:23.660 Oh, yeah, that's pretty good.
00:09:24.960 It doesn't look like an old person shoe.
00:09:26.380 No, it doesn't look like an old person shoe.
00:09:26.860 But this is an old person telling you that. 0.94
00:09:28.980 So.
00:09:29.100 That's a good point.
00:09:29.980 Yeah.
00:09:30.260 But they're fantastic.
00:09:32.020 Kizik, I think they're called.
00:09:33.180 Yeah.
00:09:33.420 And I love them.
00:09:34.240 I am looking for shoes like that.
00:09:36.360 And they're on it.
00:09:37.440 Me too.
00:09:37.960 And you put them on and they just slip right on.
00:09:39.980 They slip right off.
00:09:40.540 They're perfect for your reports.
00:09:41.340 I like that.
00:09:41.620 Have you tried the new sneakers that have the little thing on the back, the tab on the
00:09:46.760 back that you just hold on the shoe strings don't do anything?
00:09:50.940 No.
00:09:51.580 Oh.
00:09:52.300 Yeah.
00:09:52.860 Yeah.
00:09:53.280 I usually wear them every day.
00:09:54.760 And today I'm not wearing them.
00:09:56.300 They're fantastic.
00:09:57.960 They're fantastic.
00:09:58.540 You just hold on to the back of them.
00:10:00.620 You put them in and they slip right on.
00:10:02.540 You don't have to tie your shoes.
00:10:03.480 We are the laziest people in the history of the planet.
00:10:05.680 Oh, yeah.
00:10:06.240 Oh, God.
00:10:06.740 Yeah.
00:10:06.880 Because those aren't made for old people. 1.00
00:10:08.780 That's a new fashion thing, I think.
00:10:11.720 Right.
00:10:12.280 That's how I think of it, too.
00:10:13.400 Right.
00:10:13.900 That's how I convince myself of getting old as well.
00:10:17.120 Sure.
00:10:17.740 Because, you know, like, it just comes to a point of what year is this?
00:10:21.200 Do I really need to bend down to pick things up?
00:10:23.760 They should rise to me.
00:10:25.700 Everything should just come up to the level that makes me comfortable.
00:10:29.340 Right.
00:10:29.720 This is America.
00:10:30.780 It's 2022.
00:10:32.620 We were supposed to have flying cars.
00:10:34.080 Do you remember?
00:10:34.980 I can't get shoes.
00:10:35.300 I shouldn't be tying shoes.
00:10:36.860 When we hit 2020, or no, sorry, 2000, the year 2000, I remember thinking, the year 2000
00:10:43.640 was a joke.
00:10:45.140 Growing up, it was like, oh, what happened in the year 2000?
00:10:47.820 It was an absolute joke.
00:10:49.320 Then I remember 2001, and thinking how much change will come by 2020, and me going, will
00:11:00.840 I still be alive in 2020?
00:11:03.260 You know what I mean?
00:11:04.120 Mm-hmm.
00:11:05.240 Now, we're on our way to 2030.
00:11:09.020 Yeah.
00:11:09.280 I mean, I remember you have all these, like, things you've been talking about for as long
00:11:12.540 as I've known you.
00:11:13.140 By 2030, X, Y, and Z is going to happen.
00:11:15.380 It's like right around the corner.
00:11:16.680 It is.
00:11:17.060 Like, all those changes, and you see a lot of them happening.
00:11:19.980 I mean, the automatic driving car was a big one, I remember.
00:11:23.400 And, you know, it's-
00:11:24.800 And the job losses.
00:11:25.820 Have you seen the job losses of what's coming?
00:11:29.560 Now, you know, regular reporters are starting to talk about job losses.
00:11:35.700 Because of robots?
00:11:37.440 Yeah, or AI, just being so good that it will take, and I want to talk about this later this
00:11:43.680 week, but it's really important that you understand what is coming, and you understand for your
00:11:51.240 children.
00:11:51.820 Because going to college right now for some of these degrees is ridiculous.
00:11:56.380 It's ridiculous.
00:11:57.100 By the time they get out of college, for instance, accounting.
00:12:00.760 By the time they go through college, if they're going for four years, it's-
00:12:04.420 It's- it's- we're in the last few years of that.
00:12:08.640 I mean, somebody's going to have to oversee it, but you're not going to have accounting-
00:12:11.980 accountants like we have.
00:12:13.160 That- that is a- that's a dead-end job.
00:12:15.920 An accountant?
00:12:16.780 Yes.
00:12:17.380 Why?
00:12:18.340 AI will be able to do all of it.
00:12:21.220 AI will be able to- to balance all the books, make sure everything's-
00:12:24.820 AI is going to be taking any of those little menial-
00:12:29.040 You're saying more like on the- an accountant makes all sorts of important decisions, though,
00:12:33.840 and that are- that have the nuance of human life, right?
00:12:37.340 Right.
00:12:37.680 And so there will be somebody-
00:12:39.440 So there's- there's still jobs there, but they're different.
00:12:41.160 There'll still be jobs, but they are different-
00:12:43.020 And less.
00:12:43.920 And fewer.
00:12:45.420 Much, much, much, much less.
00:12:47.380 The thing that you have to focus on is your emotional quotient.
00:12:53.660 The thing that AI won't be able to reproduce is connecting with the individual.
00:12:59.880 For instance, doctors.
00:13:01.600 Doctors are not going to be the source of information. 1.00
00:13:04.660 They're not going to be the ones that say, you've got cancer.
00:13:07.800 Actually, they will be the ones saying to you, you've got cancer, but they will not be the
00:13:13.040 ones diagnosing.
00:13:14.080 They'll just take- you'll go in, they'll take all of it.
00:13:16.660 They'll feed it into the machine.
00:13:19.420 The, the AI will diagnose, tell you exactly what to do, give you all the information,
00:13:25.360 but you don't want a machine doing it because it won't have any personal skills.
00:13:31.300 So the doctor is just a go-between between the AI and the patient saying, listen, I want
00:13:37.400 to break this to you.
00:13:38.680 Wow.
00:13:39.540 That's- instead of doing that, you need like adorable little children.
00:13:42.360 Like, they'll be like, you have cancer, daddy.
00:13:45.120 You know what I mean?
00:13:45.600 It just sounds better coming from a cute kid.
00:13:48.200 You don't want some weird doctor telling you-
00:13:49.680 No, it sounds crazy, do you think?
00:13:51.960 Awful.
00:13:52.180 Like a horror movie.
00:13:53.280 Really?
00:13:53.740 Yeah.
00:13:54.200 Yeah.
00:13:55.240 No, you've got cancer, dad.
00:13:57.620 Guess what?
00:13:58.240 Doesn't that sound creepy?
00:13:59.260 It's creepy.
00:13:59.920 Well, when you do it, you're not a kid.
00:14:05.080 Wow.
00:14:05.540 That sounds like something from a horror film.
00:14:07.300 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:14:16.220 All right.
00:14:16.900 We have Bethany Mandel on, and I want her to tell the story.
00:14:21.940 Hi, Bethany.
00:14:22.460 How are you?
00:14:23.860 I'm good.
00:14:24.760 I'm good, Glenn.
00:14:25.440 How are you?
00:14:25.980 I'm great.
00:14:26.820 It's good to have you on.
00:14:27.940 I saw your text or your Facebook post last night.
00:14:32.380 I don't remember what it was.
00:14:33.500 About nine o'clock at night.
00:14:35.540 And you have done The Heroes of Liberty.
00:14:38.900 It's a book series.
00:14:40.880 And you've published them.
00:14:41.940 You're an independent publisher.
00:14:44.020 And apparently, you were labeled disruptive content by Facebook.
00:14:51.300 And you were permanently suspended, as of yesterday, by Facebook.
00:14:59.320 Yeah.
00:15:00.120 So, leading up to the sort of mad dash of Christmas shopping,
00:15:04.340 we had received a message from Facebook saying,
00:15:09.060 you have to clean up your act. 0.69
00:15:11.560 You have to post better ads, or we're going to suspend your account.
00:15:14.860 And we replied and said, what exactly are we in violation of?
00:15:19.040 We don't understand.
00:15:20.460 And then they replied and said, this is your final notice.
00:15:24.240 You're in violation, and your account has been permanently suspended.
00:15:27.160 And so that meant a few things.
00:15:28.480 We couldn't post ads anymore, which was a massive source of revenue.
00:15:32.360 And we put a lot of our marketing budget,
00:15:34.360 I would say the vast majority of our budget, into those ads.
00:15:37.140 But also, we had spent a lot of money and time cultivating a community on Facebook and Instagram
00:15:42.880 so that we could tell people about our books.
00:15:46.000 And they wouldn't let us access to those accounts.
00:15:48.180 And so they appeared like they were still active, but we weren't able to access them.
00:15:54.320 So there was just no recourse.
00:15:56.760 There was no human being that we could talk to.
00:15:58.640 We know that a human actually shut us down, but there was no way for us to talk to them 1.00
00:16:04.320 to sort of appeal in any way.
00:16:07.280 And it felt like we were hostages.
00:16:09.780 You know, we're paying them thousands of dollars, and there's nothing you can do.
00:16:14.560 And so we made us think about it, and it became a story on Fox News, on Fox Business.
00:16:19.720 And then at that point was when they contacted, not us, but several members of Congress and told them
00:16:27.500 that we were reinstated.
00:16:30.460 They've never actually contacted us or told us.
00:16:33.380 And I mean, it really does feel like we're hostages because we got a call from, you know,
00:16:37.200 government representatives saying we can go free.
00:16:39.500 The jail cell is open.
00:16:40.700 That's crazy.
00:16:41.740 We were never told that.
00:16:42.880 So the disruptive content, tell me about your content.
00:16:48.560 So it's super wholesome and really, like, we're not even political.
00:16:52.600 We're very patriotic and packed with American values.
00:16:57.780 The pictures in our books are stunning, and we have a lot of those pictures in our ads.
00:17:02.680 And, you know, all we're doing is trying to sort of teach children about heroes that we consider heroes.
00:17:11.500 Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, and Amy Coney Barrett are the three first books.
00:17:15.200 And we had a lot of comments on those ads saying heroes of fascism, and I want to burn these books,
00:17:23.940 especially with John Barrett, and Ronald Reagan is a war criminal.
00:17:27.640 And we think that those people reported our content, and that report got to a woke Facebook employee who agreed with them.
00:17:36.560 They agreed that Ronald Reagan is a war criminal, and so they shut us down.
00:17:40.700 You know, this is what I told Mark Zuckerberg.
00:17:44.460 He said maybe, well, others said maybe we should have, you should have quotas where you hire a certain number of conservatives.
00:17:54.000 I don't think that's a good idea.
00:17:56.500 I hate quotas.
00:17:58.160 However, the solution has been you just have to get out of a bubble.
00:18:02.400 You do have to hire people that don't all think in lockstep, because that would never happen in a company where you had that debate,
00:18:12.160 a healthy debate going on inside where people would say Ronald Reagan was a fascist,
00:18:19.660 and we're going to listen to the person who just said we should burn these books?
00:18:24.240 Come on.
00:18:24.740 It's extremely authoritarian, and this is the less now.
00:18:29.980 It's authoritarian, and they're book burners.
00:18:32.420 They're against the First Amendment.
00:18:34.060 It's everything against what we built our country on, and this is so much of why we wanted to do these books for kids,
00:18:40.060 because we don't want our kids to turn out like these people.
00:18:43.460 And, you know, it's happening in our schools, and this is sort of our way of changing the narrative that kids are hearing about our country and about morals and values at home, you know, the 15 minutes before bedtime.
00:18:57.140 So these books are aimed at what age?
00:19:02.200 It's around 6 to 12.
00:19:03.940 I have five children who span those ages, and my 4-year-old definitely gets something out of it.
00:19:10.240 My 8-year-old loves them.
00:19:11.780 And I've heard from folks that their young teenagers like them, too.
00:19:14.400 But I think the sweet spot is between ages 6 to 12.
00:19:17.780 Okay.
00:19:18.360 And how do you get them?
00:19:21.240 Heroesofliberty.com.
00:19:22.440 And if people want to use a promo code, we activated Blaze for your listeners.
00:19:27.220 Oh, wow.
00:19:27.620 Okay.
00:19:29.780 Heroesofliberty.com.
00:19:30.940 Use the promo code Blaze.
00:19:32.080 Well, I can't wish you enough luck.
00:19:36.880 What are your next titles that are coming out?
00:19:40.520 Yeah, so we're doing John Wayne coming out in February, and we're going to have a subscription sort of service so that people can use that.
00:19:49.480 Smart.
00:19:49.580 And also Alexander Hamilton and Margaret Thatcher.
00:19:54.020 And we're sort of trying to do the subscription so that we're not indebted to big tech and sort of on the hook to be at their mercy so we can just send books directly to people without having to market every single month and pray that they don't cut us off again.
00:20:11.720 Because we don't know.
00:20:12.800 They've never told us if we are on thin ice or not.
00:20:15.240 I have to just tell you from experience, you really cannot build your business around Facebook.
00:20:22.780 You cannot do it.
00:20:24.140 I mean, they built an app for people like me, and I think I was one of the first people to have it, the creator app.
00:20:32.500 Do you remember this, Stu?
00:20:34.180 And it would, the algorithm would change so my content would be pushed out faster.
00:20:42.560 And we built a large audience on Facebook, and I really have very little connection to my Facebook audience now.
00:20:50.740 People that signed up and want to follow me, they're not getting my posts.
00:20:58.080 So you cannot build your business on Facebook because they will come and shut you down.
00:21:04.400 And they don't really mind.
00:21:06.180 If this wouldn't have gotten to Congress, they wouldn't have cared.
00:21:08.880 Yep.
00:21:09.440 That's exactly right.
00:21:10.220 And, you know, we know that because when we were told, well, first of all, we were never told.
00:21:16.520 But when it became known that we were released from Facebook jail, they didn't tell us.
00:21:21.880 They told several members of Congress, and they told Britt Hume at Fox News and Mary Catherine Hamm at CNN.
00:21:27.920 They replied to their tweets, and then they contacted members of Congress.
00:21:32.120 They have our contact information.
00:21:33.820 We've paid them tens of thousands of dollars.
00:21:35.400 They could reach out to us, but they didn't, and it's because they cared more about the narrative and about the optics than they cared about actually doing right by their customers.
00:21:45.200 Yeah, they didn't change their belief that you were – well, what do they call you, a disruptor?
00:21:50.620 Disruptive content, but I like disruptor better.
00:21:53.020 Yeah.
00:21:53.220 You are a disruptor, and a disruptor of the left and what they're doing, and more power to you.
00:22:02.220 Bethany, thank you so much.
00:22:03.400 I appreciate it.
00:22:04.560 Thank you so much, Glenn.
00:22:05.500 I really appreciate it.
00:22:06.540 You bet.
00:22:08.820 This is the best of a Glenn Beck program.
00:22:16.300 All right, we have Jason Whitlock on with us.
00:22:18.280 Hi, Jason.
00:22:18.740 How are you?
00:22:20.140 Glenn, how are you?
00:22:21.200 Happy Tuesday.
00:22:21.900 Hey, thank you very much.
00:22:23.220 I don't remember what episode it was that I watched, but I was on vacation, and I was staying away from the news, but I thought, I'll watch Jason Whitlock, because it's kind of news, but, you know, it's more spiritual and everything else.
00:22:35.100 You've got a great show, Jason.
00:22:36.720 Really great show.
00:22:37.660 Thank you.
00:22:38.120 I appreciate it.
00:22:39.000 I enjoyed the opportunity to fill in for you a couple weeks ago.
00:22:42.860 Wait a minute.
00:22:43.380 They let you fill in for me?
00:22:44.680 Yeah, they did.
00:22:45.480 Holy cow. 0.89
00:22:46.420 We'll just let anybody off the street now.
00:22:49.560 Jason, I wanted to talk to you about Aaron Rodgers.
00:22:53.860 There's a couple of things.
00:22:55.500 He was, if I'm not mistaken, a hero of the left for a while, because didn't he leave Christianity? 1.00
00:23:02.600 I think so.
00:23:03.980 And, you know, I think he went to school at Cal Berkeley, you know, and so they loved him on the left.
00:23:10.020 He was, you know, he fit part of the left narrative, but now I think he's starting to go the other way.
00:23:19.180 I don't know if you saw this last night, Glenn, but he was on the ESPN Monday Night Football broadcast, and the book Atlas Shrugged was behind him.
00:23:29.120 I think he pointed to it and made reference to it.
00:23:30.940 Oh, my gosh.
00:23:32.220 Not Atlas Shrugged.
00:23:33.900 Oh, my gosh.
00:23:35.080 That's such a controversial book.
00:23:37.840 I mean, hasn't everyone read Atlas Shrugged?
00:23:41.660 Well, Aaron Rodgers has, and I think it may explain what's going on with him.
00:23:47.820 So what is going on with him?
00:23:50.780 Oh, I think the same thing that's going on with everybody.
00:23:55.020 You know, the Great Reset is actually a great awakening for smart people.
00:24:00.920 And people are just starting to wake up, and the vaccine mandates and just all the other lies that are being forced down our throat are making people start to question themselves
00:24:11.240 and question the beliefs they had just adopted because that's what everybody thought.
00:24:17.160 But the vaccine deal, and I didn't understand this initially a year ago, but it's so personal, and it affects everybody.
00:24:25.340 And so it's similar to the military draft, because anybody, any man, could be drafted at some point.
00:24:34.160 And if you remember, Muhammad Ali, because he got drafted and it affected him personally, he then was forced to take a bold stand,
00:24:44.700 and people that agreed with Ali jumped behind him and blah, blah, blah.
00:24:49.700 That's what I think is happening with Aaron Rodgers.
00:24:52.180 He's been forced, because of these vaccine mandates, he's been forced to take a bold stand,
00:24:57.780 and people who have had nobody speak for them with a large platform in the mainstream popular culture.
00:25:07.340 He's kind of been forced to be that guy, and he's starting to, I think, enjoy being in that position and embrace that position.
00:25:16.840 And he's turned into my favorite NFL player because of it.
00:25:21.740 I will tell you that I think we're seeing heroes, and I want to be careful on this, we're seeing people of real courage stand up.
00:25:32.180 You know, Colin Kaepernick acts, you know, and the press makes it seem like he's so courageous.
00:25:37.180 It's not courageous to stand up and say the things that everybody in power believes, you know,
00:25:43.660 and you're questioning the little guy, not the big guys.
00:25:46.860 That's not courage.
00:25:48.360 It might be what you believe, but it's not courageous.
00:25:52.980 Courage comes from saying the things that could very possibly destroy you or your career.
00:25:59.780 And that's the position some of these guys are taking, and we're seeing more and more of them,
00:26:06.660 which is, and they're not necessarily the people I would agree with.
00:26:10.780 I don't have to agree with you to say that's a courageous move.
00:26:15.900 Well, Colin Kaepernick really didn't risk any wealth or real scorn because, just like you said, he's taking on the police.
00:26:27.520 The police are actually working class people doing what they're told by politicians, lawmakers, the government.
00:26:35.320 And so he's not taking a stand against the real power, lawmakers, and the government.
00:26:41.300 He's taking on the middleman who's just doing what they're told to do.
00:26:46.040 And there's just no real risk.
00:26:48.460 Because the thing that athletes and popular figures are most concerned about, how are they perceived in social media?
00:26:56.960 And this Colin Kaepernick stance has enhanced his brand in social media, which seems to be the most important currency public figures have.
00:27:05.480 Whereas Aaron Rodgers is receiving a lot of scorn over social media.
00:27:11.780 He's certainly defined what the globalist and what the government and everybody else wants.
00:27:18.200 Everybody else wants you to take the jab, but don't question it.
00:27:21.980 Everybody else did it, so you need to do it.
00:27:24.380 There's real risk in what Aaron Rodgers is doing.
00:27:27.640 And even though he was forced, and there have been other athletes, the NBA player Kyrie Irvin, who wasn't forced.
00:27:36.020 I mean, he just took the stance, I'm not taking a vaccine.
00:27:38.820 They basically have booted him out of the NBA.
00:27:41.640 He's now coming back in because of this Omicron thing.
00:27:45.600 And then there was Cole Beasley, a wide receiver for the Bills, who's been kind of outspoken.
00:27:49.940 But to see someone of Aaron Rodgers' success level, importance to the NFL, he's basically defined his league and popular groupthink opinion by taking the stance that he did.
00:28:04.440 And I think it is pretty courageous.
00:28:07.360 When he says, if science can't be questioned, it's not science.
00:28:11.660 I think we are finally getting to a point to where the principles are so clear.
00:28:19.000 We're not arguing about policies, really.
00:28:21.240 We're arguing about principles.
00:28:22.860 Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:28:24.520 You make, as a government, you make us run ads, pharmaceutical companies run ads,
00:28:31.140 where at least 20% of the 60 seconds is disclaimers on all of the things that are not going to happen to you, but could.
00:28:41.660 And on this, we can't even talk about the things that might happen to you?
00:28:47.320 That doesn't make sense.
00:28:49.140 It's illogical, and that's where I think this journey that Aaron Rodgers is on is going to return him to his faith.
00:28:59.600 Because any time you start seeking truth, what you're really seeking is God.
00:29:06.060 And he may not know that right now, but he's going to get there.
00:29:11.980 And so I am proud and just want to be supportive of him.
00:29:16.040 And, you know, look, he won't be perfect.
00:29:19.120 None of us are.
00:29:20.020 He may, you know, say some things I disagree with.
00:29:23.840 But as long as he keeps seeking truth and then responds to that truth by stating truth, I'm going to support the guy.
00:29:32.840 Yeah.
00:29:34.060 How is your attitude?
00:29:35.600 I know right before we spoke, I think on your show, before the holidays, and you were a little depressed.
00:29:42.940 My attitude is better because I'm starting to think the Great Reset is actually causing a great awakening.
00:29:53.760 And I do think it's because of this vaccine and just how illogical our approach has been, how it's just shaking and waking people up.
00:30:05.380 And it has me a tiny bit optimistic that the actual right side is going to win.
00:30:12.940 And I don't even mean that in a political sense.
00:30:15.220 No, I know.
00:30:15.560 I'm going to say people that love freedom are actually going to win.
00:30:19.820 Yeah.
00:30:20.320 I agree with you.
00:30:21.480 Jason, thank you so much.
00:30:22.640 God bless.
00:30:23.540 Thank you.
00:30:24.160 God bless.
00:30:24.660 Go ahead.
00:30:25.180 You bet.
00:30:25.680 Bye-bye.
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