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00:00:30.000 great podcast uh today you don't want to miss first we have jennifer sayon uh she was actually

00:00:35.180 at the uh white house correspondence dinner she's the woman remember she was with levi's

00:00:41.560 and then they started saying we're the uniform of the revolution and you know what we should make

00:00:46.800 all guys girls and she's like wait a minute hang on just a second um and she started her own

00:00:51.700 company well she happened to be just as a regular citizen as an invited guest at the white house

00:00:57.360 dinner uh you know the correspondence dinner on saturday and she has quite the story to tell

00:01:02.260 also we are being duped uh there is you know we're being we're being lied to and i mean both

00:01:10.200 the left and the right i shouldn't say that the democrats and republicans are being lied to

00:01:14.340 the uh republicans are now just starting to go down this trail where you have crazy right-wing

00:01:22.700 nutjobs telling you things, and it's pulling you away and pulling you into the fringes.

00:01:27.860 This has been happening for a long time on the left. I want to reset. I want to show you what

00:01:32.820 we actually should agree on and what we should be talking about and why we're not. Also,

00:01:40.640 Camille Foster, a libertarian, great, great guy. We talk about freedom of speech because,

00:01:49.180 You know, it's not real popular with kids today, those crazy kids. 0.99

00:01:53.280 And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for that dog and that shaggy guy in the mystery van. 0.94

00:01:59.720 But anyway, Camille Foster is going to join us as well, all on today's podcast. 0.60

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00:03:48.600 with us. Now let's get to work. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. I want you

00:04:03.440 to look at everything that is happening right now. You just go on to X or whatever and scroll down.

00:04:08.820 You scroll on your phone, turn on the TV, listen to the noise that you're hearing, maybe even in your own offices.

00:04:16.100 You will hear labels being thrown around all the time, fascist, traitor, threat to democracy, radical, yada, yada, yada.

00:04:25.380 And it is a really strange way to run a country, especially in a country that was built on argument and free speech.

00:04:35.400 That's what built us.

00:04:36.700 people on the left will say it was revolution no it's a very different kind of revolution

00:04:42.000 our declaration of independence is what made our revolution work where every other revolution in

00:04:49.260 the history of man ends poorly this one ended with the people who started it because they had

00:04:56.620 a very clear vision of what they were trying to build okay and we're sitting here

00:05:04.240 arguing about things that, you know, we're not, we don't, neither, neither side, I don't believe

00:05:15.520 that either side of the average American believe in some of these things, okay?

00:05:22.740 We should be laying our cards face up on the table and say, this is what I believe,

00:05:26.380 this is what it costs, this is why it's worth it, and argue about that. You strip all the names and

00:05:31.960 the labels off of it. The truth is we have real disagreements, serious disagreements. The country

00:05:38.900 is in bad shape. But the question now is, do we want it to come apart? Do we still believe

00:05:49.060 that it's worth saving? I am maybe perhaps too naive, but I happen to believe that most Democrats

00:05:57.100 do not get up in the morning and say, I just want capitalism dead. I want the president dead. 0.97

00:06:04.360 You know, I want a dictatorship. I want, I'd rather have China run things. I just don't 0.98

00:06:10.300 believe any of that. Okay. So what, why, what is it we should be talking about? I jotted some notes

00:06:19.760 down last night and I want to go over them on the things that we should be talking about to show you

00:06:24.660 that we're really not that far apart. Let's start with money. One side looks at the national debt

00:06:31.840 and says, uh, real danger, too much spending, too much borrowing, interest payment, eating away at

00:06:38.200 the future. It's going to collapse. And their answer is cut spending, limit government growth,

00:06:44.820 try to stabilize the dollar before it slips and crashes and burns. Okay. The other side doesn't

00:06:51.640 deny all of those things, they also see the same thing. They're like, we're never going to make it.

00:06:56.400 You cannot do this. But they see a government that still has room to act, especially in crisis.

00:07:02.240 They argue about, you know, pulling back will stall the growth, hurt working families,

00:07:07.400 weaken the safety net. So they still believe spend more, but maybe we spend less on defense,

00:07:13.640 whatever are those that different yes they're talking about higher taxes spending yada yada

00:07:23.700 manage the debt instead of slamming on the brakes we're all dealing with the same number this one's

00:07:29.880 math but what you learn when you look at this particular thing and this is a huge crisis

00:07:36.080 both the democrats and the republicans know i mean people who vote for them

00:07:40.780 they both know my side's not serious about debt okay they're not serious this this is this is

00:07:46.740 all bullcrap i know the debt is a problem my democratic neighbor knows the debt is a problem

00:07:51.760 shouldn't we be uniting on that one that both parties are lying to us about it right but that's

00:07:59.440 something that we actually all believe in and that's one thing that we say we're arguing about

00:08:05.360 hear me out let's talk about the border one side sees a system that is completely out of control

00:08:13.160 too many people crossing illegally too much strain on cities schools and hospitals they

00:08:19.540 they argue that law enforcement has to come first physical barriers stricter asylum rules

00:08:25.740 faster removals yada yada the other side and i'm talking about the honest people okay the other

00:08:32.500 side see an economic system under pressure. They see problems, laws that are outdated,

00:08:40.220 workforce needs immigration, enforcement won't fix it, blah, blah, blah. They push for legal

00:08:46.100 pathways reform, a structured system that still allows entry, etc., etc. Both sides are reacting

00:08:53.300 to the same problem, the same reality. What we have right now is not working, but they each have

00:09:00.940 different levers. But both sides are reasonable to a degree. I happen to disagree, but I can see

00:09:10.820 reason in the argument. Remember, I'm talking about the average voter. Energy. One side says,

00:09:19.980 we're sitting on resources. It'll make us dominant. Oil, gas, natural reserves. We should

00:09:26.000 dominate. We can use them. We can drill. We can drive prices down, reduce the dependence on 0.98

00:09:31.840 unstable regions, get out of the Middle East. Growth will come from abundance. It's a way to 0.98

00:09:38.040 be able to pay down our debt. It's a way to stop the endless wars. The other side says, well, no,

00:09:43.980 wait, wait, wait. Climate, climate, climate. Environmental damage. Long-term instability.

00:09:49.200 It's not the future. We're going to run out. They push for a transition. Even though it's messy,

00:09:55.380 renewable stricter controls okay one side is saying cheap energy now another one is saying

00:10:01.820 a different system later i don't agree with them but that's at least a conversation you can have

00:10:10.500 foreign policy how long is the united states going to carry the weight of the world endless

00:10:17.680 commitments endless conflicts endless bills why are we over in the middle east why are we over

00:10:23.480 with Ukraine. Pull back. Let the alliances step up. You know, let the allies do all of these

00:10:31.940 things. Choose our fights more carefully. The other side says pulling back creates a vacuum.

00:10:38.640 Vacuums get filled by countries that don't share our interests. They lean towards, no, 0.99

00:10:43.660 we got to be more involved, staying engaged, projecting power, prevent bigger conflicts later,

00:10:48.720 blah, blah, blah. Here's what's crazy about this. You know what? Most Democrats that I know

00:10:55.940 are actually saying more of what the Republicans are saying, which is, I don't want any of these

00:11:00.100 wars anymore. It's the big government people on both Republican and Democrat side that are still

00:11:06.520 pushing for more wars. They're still pushing for what the state department has been pushing for

00:11:10.920 a hundred years. But the average person is like, I don't want my kid dying in a war for what?

00:11:15.740 we're not that far apart crime and complete and policing one side sees disorder okay you can't

00:11:26.940 weaken the system like this you have police have been pulled back laws soften nobody is going

00:11:33.060 nobody's paying a price for there's no there is no consequence anymore and the answer one side

00:11:40.340 restore authority, fund the police, tighten the system down. The other side sees a system that

00:11:46.900 has overreached, has been a problem in the past, uneven enforcement, you know, lack of trust in

00:11:54.240 communities. And their answer is reform, oversight, changing how policing works, you know, and how

00:12:01.760 much there is of it. Okay. I don't agree, but we could have that debate. I could go through

00:12:10.840 safety versus fairness. Both sides claim to defend it. Healthcare. One side says free markets,

00:12:18.680 competition, privacy, you know, private innovation, less government control. The other

00:12:23.540 side says, no, more government control, you know, because we got to have access. We have to have

00:12:29.760 taxpayer funds in it, blah, blah, blah. The fight isn't whether healthcare matters. The fight is

00:12:35.560 who should control healthcare. Education, same thing. Parental authority, no. More state authority. 1.00

00:12:46.040 People pushing for school choice, local control, transparency. The other side says no. Institutional

00:12:51.160 structure, public system, standardized approaches, yada, yada, yada. Gender identity, medical

00:12:56.900 treatment, especially for minors. One side says this is serious life-altering decisions involving

00:13:04.200 children. Strict limits, parental control, caution. The other side says, well, they can be necessary,

00:13:11.080 but this side is saying follow the science, and yet as the science is coming in, they're not

00:13:16.540 following the science. Why? Technology. We're on pretty much the same page in some way. One side

00:13:25.720 is worried about censorship. I don't want the government having influence over these platforms.

00:13:31.140 I don't want them restricting information and conversation. I don't want it filtered by the

00:13:37.520 government. I'm worried about AI in the hands of the government and the Pentagon. The other side

00:13:43.600 is saying, well, but there's chaos spreading and we have to have, and foreign influence and

00:13:47.780 destabilization, we have to have some control. But that's a reasonable conversation. But is that

00:13:55.140 where it lives? Is that the conversation that we're actually having? I say no. All of these

00:14:03.360 things, elections, 80% of the population, both Republican and Democrat, are saying the same

00:14:10.640 thing. You got to have an ID. You got to have an ID. Reasonable people on the Democratic side

00:14:18.920 would say, yeah, but I want to make sure that we're not stopping people who can vote to vote.

00:14:25.980 But 80% say, but people who shouldn't vote, shouldn't vote. You could go down this list on

00:14:33.500 absolutely everything. And that brings us back to America because those are real arguments that we

00:14:41.260 need to discuss. They all have trade-offs. They all have consequences, but that's not what we're

00:14:47.240 arguing. Is it? Is it? We're not talking about those things. We're talking about how people are

00:14:56.020 not just wrong, they're evil, that they're Nazis, that they're fascists, that they want to round up 0.64

00:15:03.120 and put everyone in jail. Those are not real, okay? They're not real. They are with some, 0.92

00:15:10.880 But that brings me to the third group, because there is a third group, a third category that doesn't fit into this neat little two-sided argument of America.

00:15:24.880 There is a faction, and it's mainly on the left, but it is now growing on the right.

00:15:31.800 But the one on the left is active and organized, and they're not arguing about trade-offs at all, at all.

00:15:39.240 their goal is not better policies for working families under the american system it is to

00:15:46.460 overthrow the system itself capitalism the judeo-christian foundations of western life

00:15:52.220 the nuclear family as the core unit of society we're not talking about democrats we are talking

00:15:58.560 about radicals who have infiltrated the democratic party and convinced democrats that they're arguing

00:16:05.620 what I had just laid out. But they're not. Because the power structure behind there are working to

00:16:12.700 erode the roles of moms and dads, normalize gender confusion, accelerate medical interventions on

00:16:21.060 children, pursue the red-green alliance, you know, the tactical marriage between Marxism and Islamist 0.59

00:16:28.360 forces that will kill democracy outright. They align themselves with the World Economic Forum. 0.92

00:16:35.620 with the top-down global governance that treat national sovereignty as a joke, individual liberty

00:16:42.160 gone, traditional culture as obstacles to be managed or dismantled. And that's not just the

00:16:47.500 Democrats. There are a lot of big progressive Republicans that want that too. My point is,

00:16:55.940 the third group doesn't share the goal of the regular Democrat or Republican.

00:17:00.560 the millions of working people, the parents, the small business owners that just want a safer

00:17:07.360 street. They want to be able to afford groceries and good schools and have a fair shot.

00:17:14.260 We can disagree with one another on real issues unless you're trying to tear down the country

00:17:23.140 that gave all of us a shot in the first place. We can argue that this isn't working. We can argue

00:17:30.180 and say, hey, you know, the dream of America is fading fast if we don't have a conversation.

00:17:36.060 But we're not talking about compromises. What we're talking about is destroy the system.

00:17:42.380 The radical faction wants it destroyed. They see crisis as the opportunity to accelerate the

00:17:49.540 takedown. And that's why they pour every resource in convincing ordinary Democrats that Trump or

00:17:56.680 anyone else who resists is not just wrong, not just a conservative, but a Nazi who has to be

00:18:03.500 stopped at all costs, including street violence, assassination, whatever. Because once you can

00:18:11.340 convince one side or the other that the other side is Hitler reborn, you stop asking questions

00:18:17.000 about the actual agenda.

00:18:24.420 America, you've got to distance yourself

00:18:27.040 from people who are trying to convince you

00:18:32.280 this is all about, let's say, Donald Trump.

00:18:34.740 Why is it every society in the Western world

00:18:38.300 is going through exactly the same arguments?

00:18:41.420 Why is it all of our countries are being torn apart?

00:18:44.440 They don't have Donald Trump there.

00:18:47.000 So what's their excuse? Their excuse is whatever party is saying, hey, we should really

00:18:53.440 not go down this road of the Red-Green Alliance or the WEF. There's a third category that no one

00:19:02.060 is arguing. And if we can find our way to each other and say, I reject, I want the United States

00:19:08.900 of America to remain free, to remain under the Constitution. I believe in the Declaration of

00:19:15.280 independence. We have big problems, but let's fix those and restore it. Instead, too many people are

00:19:22.160 being convinced that destruction, that the destroyers are actually one of them. They're not.

00:19:30.780 You're either a restorer or a destroyer. I don't think that we're destroyers. I don't think the

00:19:39.200 average American is a destroyer. The destroyers are betting that we never figure this out.

00:19:47.640 You better figure it out quickly. Because I want to fix the country, and I think you do too.

00:19:55.540 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program, and don't forget, rate us on iTunes.

00:20:02.280 Camille, how are you? You're welcome. It's good to have you here. You live in

00:20:08.660 new york and california and i have to start with what the hell is wrong with you

00:20:15.800 necessity demands it at the moment i don't i don't quite live in new york but i am here

00:20:21.040 pretty much every single week now well they're charging you mill valley california charging you

00:20:25.580 yes i know that that is coming as well yeah um your overall sense of where the where this is

00:20:34.040 I mean, you look at New York and California, and nobody is saying, hey, this isn't working out well.

00:20:43.340 They're doubling down on all of this and now suggesting this is the future for America.

00:20:49.340 Well, both places have had really dysfunctional political systems and bad political leadership for a very long time.

00:20:56.400 California, I think, has a uniquely bad problem because it has this resource curse.

00:21:00.800 I mean, you've been to California.

00:21:01.940 I currently live there.

00:21:03.480 I live in the shadow of Mount Tam in Marin County.

00:21:06.220 It is one of the most extraordinary, beautiful places on planet Earth.

00:21:09.980 It is.

00:21:10.440 Authentically.

00:21:10.940 It is.

00:21:11.440 And the challenge is that there can be so many things that go wrong that people will be willing to tolerate.

00:21:16.760 Gas prices that will make your eyes water.

00:21:19.800 Everything costs more.

00:21:20.960 And now everything is under lock and key.

00:21:22.600 And it's been that way for like five or six years.

00:21:24.460 But the policies are burning the state to the ground.

00:21:27.140 Yeah.

00:21:27.680 It's making it a hellscape to live.

00:21:30.860 I mean, you know, I remember as a kid going to California and it was beautiful.

00:21:35.800 It was just beautiful.

00:21:36.740 California, I've wanted to live in California my whole life.

00:21:39.040 I won't because they're crazy. 0.99

00:21:41.280 They're crazy. 0.97

00:21:42.100 You can't afford to live there.

00:21:43.740 You can't afford to do business there or anything else.

00:21:45.860 But I love California.

00:21:47.840 Yeah.

00:21:48.120 And, you know, it's one thing to say, you know, but I want the weather.

00:21:52.120 And it's another to say, but look at what is happening around me.

00:21:56.060 It's a hellscape.

00:21:57.180 Yeah.

00:21:57.600 Yeah.

00:21:57.760 Well, it's, it's, I'm grateful to have been there.

00:22:00.480 There's so much about the place. And quite honestly, like the people in the culture in Marin that I've benefited from, my kids are in a school that I absolutely love. But to have a front seat to a lot of the political dysfunction, all of the things that go wrong, San Francisco is right across the bridge. I go there and you see the actual tangible consequences of bad policy.

00:22:20.540 Are people waking up at all?

00:22:22.420 I think so. Absolutely. There's been some turnover, at least in local government. I think you're going to see it there first. But the governor's race doesn't give me much, much hope that they're actually going to be making much, much better decisions.

00:22:33.280 I think J.D. Vance is going to come after all this corruption like crazy. I think Donald Trump said, you're going to be in charge of weeding out all the corruption. I think that is the 2028 plan to show the massive corruption that is happening.

00:22:48.600 Because if we really are in four years, if we've put $2 trillion into corruption, I mean, there's your answer to our debt problem.

00:22:59.540 Just cut the corruption.

00:23:02.000 Just cut the corruption and we would be a lot better off.

00:23:06.100 Hard to disentangle.

00:23:07.200 I think really hard to do from the top down.

00:23:09.180 I want to be optimistic in the same way I wanted to be optimistic about Doge.

00:23:13.220 I think it managed to make some cuts, but really not really.

00:23:16.600 Everybody knows. Everybody knows now why they had to get rid of it. Everybody.

00:23:21.120 If you don't know why the left went bat crap crazy and some on the Republican side, too, you send guys in with computers that know exactly what they're doing and they're looking.

00:23:34.040 I mean, this it's corruption is the is the biggest game in town. 0.55

00:23:38.600 I think corruption is part of it, but also just navigating the corridors of power in D.C., the kind of labyrinth of bureaucratic, like entrenched bureaucratic power.

00:23:48.580 Again, really, really difficult stuff to do.

00:23:50.640 You can't disentangle it very easily.

00:23:52.780 And so much of the funding is kind of truncated and tranched in these strange ways that are just hard to disentangle.

00:23:58.760 So today I've been kind of laying out an outline.

00:24:04.900 that i i have to believe that there are people on both sides of the aisle that love the republic

00:24:11.580 that don't want to see our president i don't care if it's joe biden or donald trump they don't want

00:24:17.080 to see him killed they don't want to see chaos they don't want a destruction of our constitution

00:24:22.140 they just want things fixed i think that's most americans yeah do you i think so i want to believe

00:24:27.320 that i want to believe that too i want to believe that too but we are so um i mean there are forces

00:24:34.520 the red green alliance is one of them that are intent on destroying us and and they have taken

00:24:43.420 in many of our uh universities taken the youth and our youth they don't even know what freedom

00:24:50.120 of speech is they don't think it should be protected that there is stuff that you shouldn't

00:24:54.980 be able to say which is insane coming from an american let's talk about jimmy kimmel because

00:25:01.200 Because today I got on, and Ricky was just telling me that my own insiders think that I'm wrong on this, and I don't think I am.

00:25:11.020 Jimmy Kimmel, I think if I was running ABC, I would fire him, but not because the government told me to.

00:25:18.920 I am absolutely dead. If the FCC started coming after ABC on this, I would lead the campaign against the FCC.

00:25:26.520 It is wrong. I don't like the, you know, I don't like the mob cancel culture or anything else. But there's got to be some standards. He has a right to say these things. ABC has a right to air these things. How do you balance free speech with decency? If your culture doesn't have decency, what do you have?

00:25:50.340 I mean, I think it has to be culturally enforced. And I think the Kimmel, the Kimmel situation and the timetable seems to be on Thursday. He makes a joke. Yeah. On Saturday, there's an attempt on the president. Correct. However, wait, wait, wait. But however, remember, the last time he was in trouble is because he was mocking Charlie Kirk being killed. You know what I mean? At some point, a decent person says, you know what, that's just off the table.

00:26:13.400 maybe not the jokes i want to make and i and i i can totally understand that but also comedy

00:26:17.300 is comedy and comedy is about saying things that people expect you not to say it is uncouth it's

00:26:23.880 unacceptable the the the trick is landing the punch appropriately and did he manage to do that

00:26:29.660 on thursday maybe by saturday that joke didn't make as much sense and if he were telling that

00:26:34.480 joke on monday that might color things differently but on saturday i mean on thursday it seems like

00:26:40.340 a joke about a younger woman married to an older man perhaps you don't find it funny you can always

00:26:46.440 turn the channel and plenty of people have already done that i know that's his excuse but i don't buy

00:26:50.520 that at all um uh so so how do we balance how do we balance this because i don't want government

00:26:57.220 but you know i i said earlier the good thing for abc because i've done i've done radio i'm 49 years

00:27:04.820 in radio now um next year will be my 50th anniversary wow and uh and so i remember at

00:27:11.420 13 years old having to take the fcc test yeah to be able to be on radio and one of the things i know

00:27:17.760 is the fcc it has certain guidelines but a lot of it is community standards right and so what's in

00:27:24.320 what's happening in an abc's favor is we don't have any community standards anymore it's almost

00:27:29.760 like there are no standards anymore how do we encourage standards to come back without

00:27:36.600 without forcing things without the government how do we do that how do we fix this hole yeah

00:27:43.580 just one i don't think the government can meaningfully enforce standards here in this

00:27:47.760 country you just cannot do it by fiat it has to be cultural in which case it's the people who

00:27:52.880 are listening to the show to the extent you're listening to something you hear it and you hate

00:27:56.540 it, and you only have contempt for that station, you can, one, vote with your feet and your

00:28:00.900 dollars and go elsewhere with your business, and that will actually cause some change eventually.

00:28:05.560 But of course, letter writing campaigns still matter. Of course, organizing online in different

00:28:09.420 ways still matters and has consequences. The question is whether or not what Kimmel did

00:28:14.180 actually rises to the level of something that's going to animate that kind of concern amongst

00:28:18.100 the public. And I do think that you can have people on the left and the right who are meaningfully

00:28:22.040 outraged by something happening even in times like these when people are so divided i will tell you

00:28:27.300 the one thing that used to scare the hell out of radio stations is because when you're up for a

00:28:32.500 license renewal you have to have a license renewal every i don't remember every five years or

00:28:36.160 whatever it is you have to keep all the letters that came in and then the fcc comes in and they

00:28:42.180 review all the letters and how did you respond to those because that's how they gauge community

00:28:47.300 standards are these local letters coming in about your local station and you can say um and i think

00:28:55.560 there was a station someplace that canceled kimmel for a while because they said our community

00:29:00.080 standards are different than los angeles or new york and so they canceled them and that was i'll

00:29:06.180 bet you specifically because if you get letters in your local market you have to respond to your

00:29:13.100 community standards. Or the FCC can say, you're not paying attention to your own community and

00:29:18.320 this has to be local. That's the one thing, that's the one caveat. It's not national,

00:29:25.100 it must be local standards. But I wonder, Glenn, what do you think? Because I look at what the

00:29:30.480 president has said and the first lady, and their response to it has probably animated more interest

00:29:35.620 in what he said on Thursday than anything that might have happened had they ignored it.

00:29:39.380 so I told a story earlier today, a podcaster said, you know, um, after Charlie died and Charlie was

00:29:47.760 a friend of mine and my daughter was probably 15 feet away from him when he died. Wow. And a

00:29:53.920 podcaster said, it's interesting, you know, Glenn loves Israel. Um, and, uh, and then his daughter

00:30:01.180 is just mysteriously that close. Okay. Like, like my daughter had something to do with his death.

00:30:08.260 I came home.

00:30:09.060 I said that to my wife and my wife stood up and said, where does she live?

00:30:12.660 And I said, we're not going to sit down, honey, sit down. 0.70

00:30:15.560 But that was the immediate reaction of a mother.

00:30:18.700 And I feel this way with Erica Kirk. 0.99

00:30:21.220 And I feel this way about Melania that, um, leave them alone, leave them alone. 0.90

00:30:28.560 You know, there's only so much a family can take. 0.65

00:30:31.080 And this family has been bludgeoned over and over and over again with this kind of stuff.

00:30:36.500 and nobody seems to care. So while I disagree with the president saying what he did, because

00:30:43.080 it carries the weight of the presidency, you know what I mean? Um, I kind of understand

00:30:49.580 it's different when it's about you, you know what I mean? That doesn't mean you act on that. And I

00:30:56.360 don't want the president to influence or anything like that. I don't want the government to do any

00:31:01.040 of that um but especially with melania i mean at some point what has she done to people what has 0.84

00:31:09.720 she done yeah i mean she hasn't been elected to office she's not running for anything and she's

00:31:14.100 perfectly reasonable and kind and nice she's not in everybody's face she's not you know hillary

00:31:21.000 clinton she's not talking about policies or anything else she's just yeah a first lady

00:31:26.300 leave her alone yeah not not a particularly divisive figure like the phrase that comes to

00:31:31.540 mind when i think about her is be best yeah yeah right it's not even innocuous right right that's

00:31:37.120 just good right right so what are your thoughts on that um on on which dimension of on on what

00:31:43.380 they said yesterday uh again i think i can i can offer i think you put it in the right context

00:31:49.740 at least with melania with she's speaking out publicly about this she has every right to she

00:31:54.640 is a private citizen and as much as she happens to be the president's wife she can say whatever

00:31:59.180 she likes and if she if she believes that this person ought to be terminated she can say that

00:32:03.760 too i do think however that it would serve her well and it would serve the interests of the

00:32:09.420 presidency in general and perhaps the country to to set some of that stuff aside so let me tell

00:32:15.820 you a story about what happened with me and barack obama okay um because it's the flip side of of

00:32:23.020 this okay you're streaming the best of glenn beck to hear more of this interview and others

00:32:27.860 download the full show podcasts wherever you get podcasts you know one of my favorite people

00:32:33.640 uh is jennifer say i don't know if you you know her by her name but she's the former

00:32:40.280 brand president for levi strauss she's the founder and ceo of xxxy athletics she has spoken out she

00:32:50.120 has taken a stand you know i i've always worn 501s i've always loved levi's 501s and they got

00:32:57.120 away from the cone mill and started making cheap denim and it's it's crap now but the good news is

00:33:01.920 it's five times more expensive um and um and so i started uh 1791 jeans just as a personal protest

00:33:10.880 we made the we made the denim at the cone mills we made them the quality that should be made by

00:33:17.240 Levi's because they came out and they said, we're the uniform of the revolution. Levi's, can you not

00:33:24.860 try to tear America down? Can you not try to put us into revolution? Anyway, they were going after

00:33:31.680 women, she and girls and girls sports. I don't remember what it was she said, but got all kinds

00:33:37.040 of pushback. And she's like, okay, no, thank you. And she started her own brand. I think this woman

00:33:42.600 is a real American patriot. I just love her. And one of the things I really love is she doesn't

00:33:49.800 spend her time, you know, on hate or anything else. She's just like, I'm just going to do

00:33:53.780 something better. And she started XXXY Athletics. And she's with us because she was at the dinner

00:34:00.660 on Saturday. She was, I think she was a guest of Daily Wire and she had never been before. She,

00:34:06.700 I mean, this is not her deal. Um, and it's her first time there. And Jennifer is here to tell

00:34:13.380 us exactly what happened and what, what she saw and what she felt. Jennifer, welcome to the program.

00:34:17.560 How are you? I'm great. Thanks for having me, Glenn. You bet. Um, okay. First of all, glad to

00:34:25.100 know you're okay. I read your, your tweets and your, your article and, uh, you know, I felt for

00:34:31.340 you um tell me you get there saturday um and you know you go through security what were your

00:34:39.680 thoughts but you know actually before you get to security tell me about the signs that you had to

00:34:45.520 pass yeah i'm gonna go back even before that because i got invited to be a guest at the daily

00:34:50.740 wire and i was honored but part of me glenn was like why am i going like this is not my deal to

00:34:55.640 your point i've been to all sorts of cultural events as the president of levi's i'd been to

00:35:00.320 coachella five times i've been to the grammys and the super bowl many times and i thought well let's

00:35:05.680 add one to the list you know that'll be cool and talking to people beforehand they're like

00:35:10.880 the worst thing that's going to happen is it's going to be kind of boring

00:35:14.180 ha i wish it had been boring yeah so it'd be nice i mean so i just thought well this will be cool

00:35:22.280 you know my husband said add it to your bucket list i said it's not on my bucket list and he

00:35:26.180 said it is now so i got dressed up it was raining yeah it was raining i had to walk part of the way

00:35:34.480 in the rain i looked like a drowned rat when i got there and there were protesters outside screaming 0.98

00:35:38.940 in my face you know pedophile um whatever free palestine zion is like all the you know murderer 0.97

00:35:47.080 you're complicit and yeah look i lived in san francisco for 30 years i'm used to people screaming 0.93

00:35:51.980 in my face so i just kept walking and i did i know a lot of people are saying there was no security

00:35:58.100 i did go through two metal detectors my purse was checked twice i did have to show my ticket

00:36:03.420 it is it was a little chaotic going in and i i did have a random thought i will admit like

00:36:09.420 oh i couldn't if i wasn't sort of obeying the order of events i did think to myself i could

00:36:16.060 get around this security but i went through because i generally follow rules um and i went

00:36:22.900 in by myself which was you know sort of nerve-wracking for someone i could i'm an introvert

00:36:28.260 i just wanted to find my party i did eventually uh find my friends uh from the daily wire we went

00:36:34.160 inside we were sitting you know we sat and hung out for like an hour and all of a sudden um you

00:36:40.480 know there was like uh it seemed like it was going to start you know people were taking their seats

00:36:45.360 that kind of thing. And suddenly, Glenn, there was just this commotion. There was screaming

00:36:48.980 and people start screaming, get under the table, get under the table. And, you know,

00:36:54.560 you never know how you're going to react in a moment like this. Everyone at the table was

00:37:00.680 pretty calm. Wait, staff ducked under our table with us. You know, I'm squeezing hands with a

00:37:07.160 woman I met, you know, 30 minutes before. And there was a lovely woman at our table who was

00:37:13.740 very common sort of narrating for us just stay down you're totally okay you're fine stay down

00:37:20.160 stay down she just kept saying you're okay you're okay and of course i'm in the back right by the

00:37:25.980 door so i'm thinking oh wow we did hear we did hear gunshot yeah i'm in like the nosebleed seats

00:37:32.300 right and i did hear loud gunshots and you have no idea is it right outside the door is it upstairs

00:37:39.940 on a different floor you really don't know and all I'm thinking is well I'm right by the door

00:37:44.440 like I'm easy collateral damage and I I had this moment of calm where I said well there's nothing

00:37:50.300 I can do if this is my moment this is my moment um if it's not I mean I literally this was all

00:37:58.320 going through my head because what are you doing under the table and I thought but if it's not

00:38:03.200 you know how ironic this is we're here to celebrate free speech and a free press

00:38:08.980 and somebody wants to destroy that and i'll never stop speaking up i mean it sounds crazy that i was

00:38:16.460 thinking about those things but it was that is exactly what i was thinking at some point it

00:38:20.380 got quiet one woman who was at my table and i we grabbed hands and we just ran out the door and we

00:38:26.340 found a side door and we spilled into an alley and we just walked and ran until it was quieter

00:38:33.480 and we didn't know what happened because we couldn't get self-service it was so crazy so

00:38:38.460 it was like an hour before we even knew what really happened that was it so

00:38:45.060 what are your thoughts about

00:38:48.560 public events now and being and being safe i mean turning point moms for liberty white house

00:38:57.840 dinner yeah the golf course i mean you know chuck todd said i'm never going to be around

00:39:03.160 the president because the president brings chaos around him and and i don't want to be killed

00:39:07.280 which i find super super brave of him um what are your thoughts on this what does this mean

00:39:13.800 going forward how do you as an average citizen not doing what yeah i do or others do for a living

00:39:20.200 yeah what are your thoughts well you know people say to me all the time because i don't do what

00:39:25.720 you do but i have my share of stalkers i i have open investigations with the local police just

00:39:32.200 because i say men can't be women which is the most insane thing on the earth that people you know

00:39:37.380 accuse me of genocide for that and people say to me all the time as i'm sure they say to you

00:39:42.520 they say you know you have to be very careful i mean what does that even mean

00:39:47.440 you know i mean obviously the president has the best security

00:39:52.220 possible charlie kirk had you know great security i just walk around i'm a mom i'm a business owner

00:40:00.000 i just walk around there's no being careful and so i guess in my mind i just go about my life

00:40:06.440 because there's not really anything what can i do i'm not gonna lock myself in my house i'm not

00:40:12.480 going to be quiet so I just go about my life and I hope that fate is kind and I'm certainly not

00:40:19.940 going to stop talking I'm definitely going back if there's a do-over for the dinner I'm probably

00:40:24.800 going to wear sneakers I say that sort of joking but not really um I hear someone laughing in the

00:40:30.960 background I'm not kidding yeah I mean I'll wear no Kevlar socks would be a good idea too

00:40:35.860 but I'm going back I mean what are you going to do I'm not it sounds so cliche I know

00:40:42.180 but you can't let the worst of us win you cannot do it you can't so you you were somebody who

00:40:50.440 you know you lived in san francisco and i don't know all of your politics jennifer and i don't

00:40:55.340 need to know your politics but i assume there's things in the past that we've disagreed on and

00:40:59.620 maybe we disagree on things now um so and you've lived in san francisco so you've worked with

00:41:05.220 people who were who were nor didn't hate the country just voted differently than what i would

00:41:10.660 vote for right right um but we are in this place i'm going to talk about this next hour about how

00:41:17.060 we're not even talking about the issues we're really not even discussing the issues what is

00:41:22.440 it going to take for people who vote differently than i vote to say okay enough of all of this 0.82

00:41:30.480 stuff i i want the country to survive i i you know i'm not for this marxist red green alliance 0.84

00:41:38.940 destroy burn everything down to the ground i want to fix the country and i want to be able to come 0.76

00:41:44.660 back together what is it going to take is there is there a chance of that happening well i'm an

00:41:52.000 optimist and i wouldn't do what i do i don't think you would do what you do and continue to speak out

00:41:57.100 if you didn't believe there was a chance of that you do it because you believe that you can be part

00:42:01.880 of making things better i believe that i can be do i think it's a long road do i think it took us a

00:42:07.240 long time to get here? Absolutely. Think about how long it's taken us to get here. When did the

00:42:12.600 whole idea of safe spaces start? I don't know, 20 years ago. The whole idea at the core of that

00:42:18.420 is that certain speech was so harmful that we had to cut ourselves off from it. Then it was

00:42:23.320 speech is violence. Then it was Trump is Hitler. Then it was I'm a genocider because I think men 0.96

00:42:28.260 can't be women. I mean, this is how we got here. And the only thing that will solve it is more 0.89

00:42:35.380 is more speech. And, uh, you know, I'm, I always do my best to be respectful. I will not kind of

00:42:41.620 fall prey to the same sorts of rhetoric, uh, but I will not, not speak the truth. And I just,

00:42:47.900 the only thing that protects my free speech is yours and vice versa. And so the answer cannot be

00:42:54.660 the, the answer cannot be that we stop speaking because then the lunatics win.

00:43:01.020 so where do you stand on like jimmy kimmel i i don't know if you heard my opening monologue but

00:43:07.220 i i don't want jimmy kimmel yeah you so you know where i'm i'm 100 with you i i'm 100 with you 0.90

00:43:15.620 look i think it's a stupid joke i think it's really unfortunate the jokes and quite frankly 0.79

00:43:20.940 the bullets only go in one direction right now you know it used to be saturday night live made 0.99

00:43:25.120 fun of everybody all politicians you know they made fun of everybody it's it doesn't work that

00:43:31.300 way anymore the jokes go one way they're not very funny um but i think the show should just tank on 0.98

00:43:38.660 its own accord um i don't think he should be taken off for stupid jokes i think people should not 0.67

00:43:45.020 watch it if they don't think he's funny i don't think he's funny um but i i don't think he should 0.95

00:43:51.040 be censored. Like I said, the only thing that protects my free speech is yours. And that does

00:43:56.760 include dumb jokes from Jimmy Kimmel. It does. You know, I stood up for Bill Maher when he was 0.99

00:44:04.840 taken off of ABC. This is right after 9-11. And he said, at least the Taliban, yeah, you remember?

00:44:12.120 At least the Taliban pilots, they had courage. We dropped bombs. They actually went in. Yeah, 0.68

00:44:17.240 Courage. And I found it one of the most offensive things. And I'm a new talk show host at the time. Nobody really knows what I believe. And I knew when I said it, this is going to cost me. It's going to cause all kinds of confusion. My audience will reject this. But I actually stood up for Bill Maher. And I said, ABC, what part of politically incorrect don't you understand?

00:44:38.640 this is a horrible horrible comment but that's what this show is by design and in the name

00:44:47.840 you know what i mean so it's in a it's in a completely it's in a completely different

00:44:53.180 category this is what the show is and i stood up for him and it cost me a great deal to stand up

00:44:59.620 for him. Um, but I, I, I, I just, uh, you know, I don't want any cancellation of speech, but we

00:45:08.220 have to find a way to where we have responsibility and, and just basic decency. I think that's what

00:45:16.140 this is about. This isn't just about violent speech with the Jimmy Kimmel thing. It's just

00:45:21.660 basic decency. You know, just, can you not just come out and sincerely say you've blown the chance

00:45:28.880 to do that but if he would have come out yesterday and just said really bad time unfortunate timing

00:45:34.440 you know really bad timing i can see why everybody is upset you know it's it was horrible and i'm

00:45:40.500 never going to go there again i'm not just these jokes do not have any place at all that's not the

00:45:47.100 way i meant it but just to make it clear i will never go anywhere near that again and none of us

00:45:52.280 should that would have solved an awful lot i completely agree but he doesn't feel that way

00:45:58.080 no he doesn't um i mean if you recall the last little dust up with him and now i'm going to

00:46:05.040 forget the specific details but even his apology you know he was suspended for a while i don't

00:46:10.500 know was it a week this is maybe a year ago maybe less his apology oh it was about charlie that's

00:46:16.440 right charlie kirk yeah yeah his apology was a non-apology he he doesn't feel that way glenn he

00:46:24.440 he he does wish that trump would die and he does look at melania and thinks she wishes and hopes

00:46:31.640 it too he you know he he can't apologize when he doesn't feel sorry feel it yeah jennifer i am i'm

00:46:41.540 so glad that you are well i i saw your post and i felt so bad for you because you're again you're

00:46:46.760 just you know somebody goes going you know to watch history happen and boy did you see it

00:46:50.960 but I'm glad you're safe.

00:46:52.480 Thank you for being on with me.

00:46:54.460 Thank you so much for having me.

00:46:57.000 You bet. Bye-bye.

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