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00:00:00.140 Stu, I know you're practically at the Super Bowl in your head right now.

00:00:04.280 There's a little bit of that going on.

00:00:06.240 I'm struggling to care about the State of the Union tonight.

00:00:09.600 So now, really?

00:00:11.640 Yeah, I'm really trying hard.

00:00:13.520 Yeah, that's unusual.

00:00:14.660 Well, good thing is, we're not really going to be talking about the State of the Union tonight.

00:00:18.680 Live Blaze coverage of that. 0.99

00:00:22.100 We're going to be roasting the president and all the clowns. 0.99

00:00:25.720 We want to make fun of them because that's the only way to make this watchable. 0.97

00:00:28.860 So, blazetv.com slash S-O-T-U, if you use the code S-O-T-U, you'll save 20 bucks.

00:00:34.680 Now, it is your birthday, I think, on Thursday.

00:00:37.020 Thursday, yeah, it's your birthday.

00:00:38.380 And you said for your birthday, you want...

00:00:42.100 The Eagles to win the Super Bowl, yes.

00:00:44.240 Now, that's on Thursday.

00:00:45.980 My birthday is Friday.

00:00:47.880 Right.

00:00:48.420 And I want the 49ers.

00:00:50.660 Really?

00:00:51.140 Not 49ers.

00:00:51.840 Wow, because that would be fascinating.

00:00:53.180 It would be two NFC teams in there.

00:00:54.860 One of them already lost in the playoffs.

00:00:56.400 They're both wearing their red costumes.

00:00:58.860 Okay?

00:00:59.420 That's true.

00:01:00.040 They are.

00:01:01.380 They're adorable red costumes.

00:01:04.900 And I want the Chiefs, so we're going to have to see who God loves more.

00:01:10.620 Well, it's unfair because I can make my birthday wish and then you can preempt it with another

00:01:15.300 birthday wish.

00:01:16.200 Yes.

00:01:16.940 Yes.

00:01:17.460 That preempts the Super Bowl after mine.

00:01:20.680 So, that's not fair. 0.98

00:01:21.580 That sucks for you. 0.97

00:01:22.540 Yeah. 1.00

00:01:22.960 Sucks for you. 0.99

00:01:23.820 I'll load up on the Chiefs, apparently. 1.00

00:01:25.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:01:26.260 All right.

00:01:27.600 So, we'll have all of this really good Super Bowl talk coming later this week.

00:01:33.160 Yeah.

00:01:33.400 My in-depth analysis, but not today.

00:01:36.020 Not today.

00:01:36.740 Not today.

00:01:37.600 We start with Shakespeare and also one of my favorite authors, Edgar Allan Poe.

00:01:47.460 So, what would they have written had they been, you know, writing for the New York Times

00:01:54.200 or a conservative talk show host?

00:01:56.660 What would they write today?

00:01:57.900 And there's a reason we start there.

00:01:59.620 Um, and, uh, and the show goes really pretty much downhill from the bar.

00:02:03.840 It really does.

00:02:04.860 Quickly.

00:02:05.380 Really.

00:02:06.320 If there was one show you had to skip, it would probably be Stu's podcast.

00:02:10.980 Not this.

00:02:11.480 Wait.

00:02:11.680 Why would you?

00:02:12.740 So, uh, we begin.

00:02:13.940 Wait.

00:02:13.960 We actually are skipping.

00:02:14.820 We're getting preempted for this special tonight.

00:02:16.540 So, they are.

00:02:17.560 I have no new episode coming out today.

00:02:19.580 Special.

00:02:20.720 Oh, okay.

00:02:21.200 So, maybe just watch your segment.

00:02:24.420 And then go home.

00:02:25.280 Call it a day.

00:02:25.660 That's fine.

00:02:26.180 It's not gonna get any better.

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00:02:31.840 Um, uh, news of the day.

00:02:33.820 Uh, and the future of the Republican Party.

00:02:36.680 All on today's podcast.

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00:03:55.580 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:03:57.580 I'm wondering what we're going to hear from the president tonight on China, if anything, on the balloon.

00:04:04.540 I doubt.

00:04:05.400 I mean, unless he's like, Trump!

00:04:10.400 Trump!

00:04:11.200 You know?

00:04:11.920 Because that's a good case.

00:04:13.460 That sort of insightful analysis will be there.

00:04:16.380 Now, the president and the Pentagon and everybody else, they knew about the balloon.

00:04:22.340 He decided not to tell anybody about the Chinese balloon because he didn't want it to mess up their global warming conversation that they were going to have last weekend with China.

00:04:35.240 Unfortunately, just a regular citizen looks up and like, what's that?

00:04:40.380 takes a picture of it, and the Chinese spy balloon is now out in the open.

00:04:47.260 The picture goes viral everywhere, and the Pentagon has to admit, oh, that's a spy balloon.

00:04:58.280 The guy who did it lives in Montana.

00:05:01.840 His name is Chase Doak, and he is with us now.

00:05:04.600 Chase, how are you?

00:05:06.300 I'm doing all right.

00:05:07.120 So, when you looked up in the sky, and you saw the balloon, what did you, you just thought it was just a regular weather balloon, or what did you think?

00:05:18.660 I honestly had no idea what to think.

00:05:22.140 I knew that we had a ground stop in place, so there were airspace restrictions at our airport, and outside of my office window, I looked straight out onto the airport.

00:05:35.420 You probably don't know much about the Billings Airport, but we have cliffs here in town.

00:05:40.860 You are on top of a butte, and I've been there, my friend.

00:05:47.240 The Becks are rampant in Billings.

00:05:50.680 Anyway, go ahead.

00:05:52.420 Yeah, so I just happened to be looking out because I wanted to see what was going on.

00:05:56.380 I thought there might be a military exercise, or somebody important might be flying in, and it turned out that it was just this thing in the sky, and I had no idea what it was.

00:06:07.120 So, they had closed the airport, or restricted the airspace.

00:06:11.800 Was it because of the balloon?

00:06:14.740 Yeah.

00:06:15.360 Yeah.

00:06:16.040 Yeah.

00:06:16.400 It was pretty easy to put two and two together.

00:06:18.920 Yeah.

00:06:19.560 Really?

00:06:20.180 Huh.

00:06:21.000 And so, were you surprised when your discovery, really, I mean, this is being compared now to Sputnik?

00:06:32.140 Did you know that?

00:06:33.220 Yeah.

00:06:33.860 That this is a Sputnik moment?

00:06:35.360 Yeah.

00:06:36.220 I have heard that.

00:06:37.640 But, you know, it's still pretty surreal for me, but I didn't know when I was taking the photo that it was going to lead to something like this.

00:06:46.840 Sure.

00:06:47.920 Sure.

00:06:48.680 You're like, I bet this will bring down the fires of hell around my head.

00:06:53.060 Have you had any pushback on it?

00:06:56.220 Have you gotten any heat?

00:06:58.940 Not really.

00:07:00.040 I mean, for the most part, people who have corresponded with me have been pretty supportive and pretty excited about it, to be honest.

00:07:07.660 So, the story that I have read said that you thought at first it might be a UFO or a star or something.

00:07:15.840 Is that true?

00:07:17.720 Yeah.

00:07:18.380 Yeah.

00:07:18.660 I thought, you know, at best I might get a good shot of a UFO that would end up in a Stephen Greer documentary in a few years.

00:07:28.260 Well, you got a lot more than that.

00:07:30.820 And you took the picture from your office or your driveway?

00:07:34.820 Well, I took the initial picture from my office, and then I kind of rushed out to my car because I had my camera in the trunk of my car.

00:07:44.240 But the lens I had was just too short to get anything good.

00:07:47.320 So, I actually called the photo editor at the local paper, the Billings Gazette, Larry Mayer is his name.

00:07:53.680 And I worked with him for about 10 years with that paper.

00:07:56.000 And I knew he'd have a big lens, so I had him look up.

00:08:00.260 He's also a pilot, so I thought he might know what it was.

00:08:03.000 But he had no idea either.

00:08:04.860 And then I just rushed home as fast as I could to get my big lens on my camera.

00:08:09.160 Was it hard to see?

00:08:14.060 No, you could see it with the naked eye.

00:08:16.980 And it was still broad daylight, so seeing a bright spot in the sky.

00:08:22.500 And it was circular.

00:08:23.880 It didn't look like a point of light.

00:08:25.720 It looked like a circle.

00:08:27.740 It was very easy to spot.

00:08:30.820 How did they think they would get away with keeping this quiet?

00:08:34.720 I have no idea.

00:08:35.800 It was just so brazen.

00:08:36.800 It's so amazing, so amazing.

00:08:39.100 Well, thank you.

00:08:39.920 I just wanted to talk to just an average Joe that you changed history.

00:08:46.080 I don't know if you really had to sunk in, but I've made a point of trying to call people now that have impacted history in real time.

00:08:59.620 And they may not know about it.

00:09:00.980 And ask them this question.

00:09:02.380 Would you do me a favor and write out in your own words what you saw and everything else in your own handwriting and sign it for me so we can put it in our museum and our vault?

00:09:15.360 Yeah, I would absolutely be happy to do that.

00:09:18.180 Yeah, that's great.

00:09:19.180 Thank you so much.

00:09:20.140 I really appreciate it.

00:09:21.100 Chase, keep up the good work.

00:09:23.100 Yeah, thank you, Glenn.

00:09:23.920 You bet.

00:09:24.180 Bye-bye.

00:09:24.400 That's kind of cool.

00:09:26.140 It's really cool.

00:09:26.980 It's really cool.

00:09:27.480 I think you're just looking up in the sky and you can change.

00:09:31.040 Because, I mean, I guess eventually maybe we would have noticed it, but I don't know.

00:09:34.320 I don't check the sky for balloons that often.

00:09:36.700 And they seemingly wanted us not to see this.

00:09:40.540 Yeah, that was their approach.

00:09:41.840 Their plan was that it would just drift over the country and nobody would say anything about it.

00:09:49.740 That is just this.

00:09:51.100 It's incredible.

00:09:51.420 I mean, it shows you what a dream world that our president is living in.

00:09:56.180 Yeah.

00:09:56.540 And by the way, you know, he gave the order on Wednesday to shoot it down, but they didn't shoot it down until Saturday.

00:10:03.860 There's a question.

00:10:05.060 Why?

00:10:05.800 Why would they delay?

00:10:07.040 They kept saying, you know, it was going over people and they didn't want it to fall on people.

00:10:11.960 But it is.

00:10:12.400 It's kind of a weird explanation.

00:10:13.960 That's really weird.

00:10:14.720 I mean, even the people in Montana were like, there's seven people per mile, per square mile in our state.

00:10:19.960 You can shoot it down wherever you want.

00:10:21.480 Yeah. 0.93

00:10:21.940 Yeah.

00:10:22.280 And usually when the president says, I'll shoot something down, you know, you shoot it down.

00:10:27.960 But maybe that's just me.

00:10:31.340 Also, that's about a $10,000 balloon.

00:10:34.340 Uh, and, uh, we used, uh, a million dollar rocket.

00:10:39.760 That was a weird thing too.

00:10:41.320 Why a missile?

00:10:42.880 Like, I mean, again, I, I know I'm familiar with balloons.

00:10:47.360 Yeah.

00:10:47.580 Are you?

00:10:47.980 And typically when you put really any hole in them, they're going to come to the ground.

00:10:52.140 Yeah.

00:10:52.760 You think really blowing it up to a zillion pieces.

00:10:55.660 It was a cool firework show. 0.84

00:10:57.140 I mean, you could have taken a biplane and just maybe shot it with a shotgun. 0.77

00:11:00.620 I mean, I mean, it was an average guy who just was standing outside going, what the hell is that? 0.99

00:11:07.820 I'm kind of surprised there wasn't another average guy with a plane that just was like, ah, screw it.

00:11:11.580 I'm going up there.

00:11:12.280 I mean, it was pretty high for a biplane, I would assume.

00:11:14.560 Uh, but I guess the, one of the big, your head might've popped.

00:11:17.020 Yeah.

00:11:17.460 Yeah.

00:11:17.740 One of the big issues was the international waters.

00:11:20.740 They wanted to get it off the waters or off the land, but they only have what, 12 miles.

00:11:26.300 So they had to knock it down almost immediately.

00:11:28.680 And I will say at least they did it during, during the day.

00:11:33.240 It would have, I would have been really annoyed if we had this whole balloon thing and we didn't even get to see it explode.

00:11:37.220 And, and at least we got that out of this.

00:11:39.460 That's the only thing I can say on the podcast.

00:11:41.800 At least we got that.

00:11:42.780 They should have filled it with like, you know, either blue or pink dust and made it a gender reveal of some sort. 0.99

00:11:51.140 That would have been cool.

00:11:52.060 That would have been cool.

00:11:52.720 Or a rainbow.

00:11:54.160 Ooh.

00:11:54.480 Yeah.

00:11:55.020 Anyway, um, there's a story in the New York times today.

00:11:58.700 Um, that is, I mean, it is, it's good to know the truth on things, you know,

00:12:06.360 and thank God the New York times is there.

00:12:08.800 The New York times, uh, is reporting on Joe Biden's prep now for the, uh, state of the union.

00:12:15.320 Uh, I just, I just got to read it verbatim because it's just amazing.

00:12:18.780 As president Biden prepared to deliver one of the biggest speeches of his presidency,

00:12:23.120 he met with a close group of aides at the white house to read drafts aloud from top to bottom.

00:12:29.160 He practiced in front of teleprompters at camp David,

00:12:32.400 making sure the language was relatable and clear and in quiet moments ahead of the state

00:12:40.260 of the union address on Tuesday evening, he marked up his speech with subtle lines and

00:12:45.800 dashes that he has long used to signal, take a breath, pause between words or steer through

00:12:52.820 a tricky transition.

00:12:54.080 Well, Mr. Biden is the first modern president to have a stutter.

00:12:59.040 Oh my gosh.

00:13:00.000 We can, we start, do we have the star spangled banner or anything we can play by?

00:13:04.500 He's the first modern president to have a stutter, which he's navigated since childhood

00:13:10.160 and still speaks of in emotional terms.

00:13:13.820 The main ideas in his speech will be true to the themes.

00:13:17.360 Mr. Biden has espoused throughout his career, working together, asserting America's leadership

00:13:22.200 in the world and giving the working in middle classes a leg up.

00:13:26.080 It's a continuation of the bottom up middle out philosophy that he has honed over his last

00:13:32.400 century, half century in politics.

00:13:36.200 Quote, this is truly a guy who's been remarkably consistent over a long career, both in the values

00:13:44.660 he brings to the job and the way he articulates those values, says Jeff Nussenbaum, former White

00:13:51.560 House speechwriter.

00:13:52.500 When you're writing for Joe Biden, you're a session musician for a band that has already

00:13:58.420 released 20 albums.

00:14:00.480 And there's a reason behind the consistency.

00:14:04.140 Joe Biden has to say the same thing a thousand times before the world catches up to him.

00:14:12.000 Is that what we're doing?

00:14:13.160 We're catching up to Joe Biden.

00:14:15.240 Yeah, it is.

00:14:16.180 It is.

00:14:16.620 It is.

00:14:17.680 Preparations for Mr. Biden's State of the Union speeches began weeks in advance.

00:14:22.060 Several aides described the process in which the president demands that sentences be written

00:14:27.840 clearly.

00:14:28.860 No acronyms.

00:14:30.320 Yeah.

00:14:30.800 What a heroic effort.

00:14:32.160 It is.

00:14:32.680 And he stutters.

00:14:34.280 Yes, he does.

00:14:35.180 And illustrate his legislative accomplishments in terms that real people can understand.

00:14:40.580 He doesn't write them.

00:14:41.580 He demands that they be written that way.

00:14:44.960 In a way that he can actually read them.

00:14:46.940 He spends weeks working on each speech with his writers, reading over and over and over

00:14:52.540 again, top to bottom and out loud.

00:14:55.120 At Camp David last week, the group assisting Mr. Biden in his final preparations were there.

00:15:03.080 Mike Donilon, Bruce Reed, Anita Dunn was there.

00:15:09.520 Vinay Reddy.

00:15:10.500 But Mr. Donilon, Mr. Reed, Mr. Reddy, along with the president, are early engines of the

00:15:17.860 process, according to several White House officials.

00:15:20.900 Early outlines for the speech began in November.

00:15:24.420 Mr. Donilon, 64, often credited as the aide who has the best understanding of Mr. Biden's

00:15:31.660 voice and of the president's interest in constantly returning to his humble roots.

00:15:37.200 is the guy who helped shape his 2020 campaign message, which was David.

00:15:50.300 That was great.

00:15:51.540 No, it's not done.

00:15:52.260 David Axelrod, Mr. Mr. Obama's chief strategist, praised Mr. Donilon's talent, calling him the

00:15:58.140 keeper of the narrative.

00:15:59.900 When Mr. Biden elevated to a senior advisory role, this is the narrative that has 60% of

00:16:06.800 people saying he's accomplished little or nothing.

00:16:09.220 He's the keeper of that.

00:16:10.400 Wow.

00:16:10.820 He is the keeper of the narrative of you can't blame me for Afghanistan or you can't blame

00:16:17.240 me.

00:16:17.540 I didn't do anything wrong with the secret documents.

00:16:20.460 Is he the keeper of the narrative that has produced members of his own party at the rate

00:16:25.420 of 57% saying they don't want him to run again?

00:16:28.200 That narrative, that's the narrative that's getting this treatment in the New York Times?

00:16:32.120 That's the bad narrative.

00:16:33.500 This is the good, this is the true narrative from the New York Times.

00:16:36.520 The true narrative.

00:16:36.880 If this isn't Pravda. 0.99

00:16:39.760 Oh no, it's pathetic. 1.00

00:16:41.600 It's pathetic. 1.00

00:16:43.040 It's a total puff piece. 0.99

00:16:44.520 Does anybody, does anybody still, if you read the New York Times, I used to read the New

00:16:48.920 York Times and there were things in there you're like, okay, all right.

00:16:52.360 But there were also good stories in there.

00:16:54.060 Do you, did anybody in this audience, did you actually read the New York Times and think

00:17:00.060 that, you know, I can tell the difference between the propaganda and stuff and now it's

00:17:03.700 just Pravda?

00:17:05.280 Oh, it's, it's so hard to sort through now to find anything of value in that paper. 0.92

00:17:09.400 I mean, it's just ridiculous. 0.95

00:17:11.800 Honestly, this is what you find when you're looking for value, which is ridiculous nonsense 0.97

00:17:16.560 that we can come on here and mock.

00:17:17.960 That's, that's what I, that's what I mine out of that paper now.

00:17:21.680 Yeah.

00:17:21.860 It's very, it's very rare you find something really insightful.

00:17:25.540 Occasionally they have it and that's what's really frustrating because they have so many

00:17:30.360 resources and so many reporters and so much of an opportunity to actually do great journalism.

00:17:37.580 They just choose not to do it almost all the time.

00:17:41.380 All right.

00:17:41.680 Let me tell you about, you don't want to hear the preview of the speech tonight?

00:17:45.020 Oh, I do want to hear the preview.

00:17:46.020 Preview here.

00:17:46.460 I think it's going to be pretty good.

00:17:47.620 Okay, good.

00:17:48.620 It's a rehearsal?

00:17:49.300 Yeah, it's a little bit of a rehearsal.

00:17:51.460 Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States of America.

00:17:56.540 And, and the re-advent, re-app, the re-calibration.

00:18:04.240 Wow, that's really good.

00:18:06.180 It's going to be good.

00:18:06.900 It's going to be good.

00:18:07.840 It's going to be good.

00:18:08.320 He should have put one of those little hyphens or slashes there on the paper.

00:18:12.360 Take a breath.

00:18:13.480 Take a breath.

00:18:14.760 There's multiple syllables coming up.

00:18:20.720 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:29.120 Andrew Angieski, welcome to the program, Adam.

00:18:31.800 How are you, sir?

00:18:33.000 It's great to be here, Glenn.

00:18:34.180 Thanks for having me on.

00:18:35.860 I'm glad to have you on.

00:18:37.200 You are the CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com, and I think you would be one that would agree with me.

00:18:46.120 There is no State of the Union in a few years if we don't fix what's going on in our schools with our kids.

00:18:53.780 Well, absolutely.

00:18:55.940 We have no idea.

00:18:57.180 We need to start policing the content of what our children, held captive in the classroom, are being fed to them.

00:19:03.620 So our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com, over the course of the last 30 days, we've uncovered quite a story of how the Newsoms, Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, are using taxpayer dollars through her film and curriculum nonprofit to promote radical ideologies in our public schools.

00:19:23.520 So this film, and you're going to describe it here in a second, it has now been seen by 2.6 million students, 11,500 classrooms, 5,000 schools, and in all 50 states.

00:19:50.160 Yeah, look, Glenn, yours is a family program.

00:19:55.180 This content is deeply disturbing.

00:19:57.180 I'm super uncomfortable talking about the details of it.

00:20:00.620 The best way to describe it is, in two of these films, it is a pipeline to porn in the public schools.

00:20:08.580 And for all the details, I invite the millions of people in your audience to come to OpenTheBooks.com, read our investigation.

00:20:14.820 It's right there on the homepage, and click the links.

00:20:17.640 You have to educate yourself on what your children in the classrooms are seeing.

00:20:22.800 And viewer discretion is advised.

00:20:25.380 The best way I can simply describe it, when you click the links in the study, is that this is triple X-rated content.

00:20:33.260 You're going to see women who are naked or nearly naked being slapped, handcuffed, brutalized, and still photos taken from pornography videos.

00:20:44.200 And Glenn, if that wasn't bad enough, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who produces these films, directs these films, she includes the website addresses to the porn sites, where students, when they leave the classroom, it is a roadmap to them for further exploration.

00:21:00.760 You know, where's anyone that is standing up for women in the first place, being slapped around S&M, handcuffs?

00:21:14.080 This is what we're showing, not only to our children, but we're now endorsing it with public figures, and you'll get into this, with public figures, giving their endorsement of this kind of behavior.

00:21:28.820 And what does that do to our young men?

00:21:32.380 What does that do to our women? 1.00

00:21:34.860 This is, it's evil.

00:21:38.100 It's the only, looking for another word, couldn't find one.

00:21:41.080 It's evil.

00:21:41.980 It's evil.

00:21:42.640 Yeah, it really is.

00:21:43.820 And that's why I say that parents, fathers, mothers, you need to police the content in your local classrooms.

00:21:50.300 As you pointed out at the top here, that this content is in 5,000 schools in all 50 states.

00:21:58.740 2.6 million of the students have reviewed this in 11,200 classrooms.

00:22:05.560 And although we, you know, for months we reached out to the Representation Project, this is Jennifer Siebel Newsom's nonprofit, and we can't get a response.

00:22:13.120 They will not respond to any of our questions, asking for their side of the story, asking for further context, their response to what we've uncovered in their films.

00:22:22.380 But what they did do, just a couple of days ago, the executive director of the nonprofit tweeted out that although they're happy that their films have received greater scrutiny over the course of the last couple of weeks because of our exposure,

00:22:35.980 she pointed out they're proud that they've been seen over 30 million times online and in the classroom.

00:22:43.020 So, look, this is a real problem, Glenn.

00:22:45.340 Parents need to get engaged. 0.62

00:22:46.580 We need to start policing the content in our classrooms.

00:22:49.720 You know, how do you do that?

00:22:52.180 Because you really, you stand up, and then you stand up in the school board meetings, you stand up, PTA, and you go to the school.

00:22:59.820 And, I mean, I've had these conversations.

00:23:02.080 What exactly are you showing?

00:23:04.480 Is any of this stuff being done?

00:23:07.240 And, you know, in a non-Christian school, but even in some Christian schools, I wonder if you're really getting the truth. 0.92

00:23:17.060 And you're, you know, they are many times not telling you the full story or the truth, or they define things differently than you do.

00:23:28.780 And so, how do you police it in the classroom?

00:23:31.980 It's a three-step process, Glenn.

00:23:35.480 Number one is you have to ask the teachers for copies of the curriculum as early as kindergarten.

00:23:43.920 So, kindergartners with Jennifer Siebel Newsom's curricula, they're being taught that gender is fluid, it exists on a spectrum, 1.00

00:23:53.420 and that you can mix and match different parts of boys and girls.

00:23:57.200 And so, there are as many genders as there are people in the world. 0.55

00:24:01.040 I looked up that number.

00:24:02.040 There's 8 billion people in the world.

00:24:04.360 So, there's up to 8 billion genders that kindergartners through fifth graders are being taught that, you know, and it's just not true.

00:24:12.560 There's two.

00:24:13.540 So, you have to start.

00:24:14.480 You have to ask.

00:24:15.400 Number one, you have to ask the teachers for the curriculum.

00:24:18.180 Number two, the second step, says who with what proof.

00:24:22.520 File an official Freedom of Information Act sunshine request in your state with your school district to get an official copy of the curriculum.

00:24:30.040 You know, if you see that the teachings, you know, are what we're talking about or something similar,

00:24:36.600 you have to bring it to public comment at a board meeting.

00:24:39.300 You have to ask questions and hold the school board accountable.

00:24:41.880 Oftentimes, the school board will not answer your questions.

00:24:44.620 So, you have to network up to 50 to 500 of your friends and family in the community into those school board meetings.

00:24:50.200 That creates a media event.

00:24:51.760 That shines the white-hot spotlight on what's going on in our schools.

00:24:55.960 And eventually, you just got to win school board elections at the end of the day.

00:24:59.660 Okay.

00:24:59.960 So, what is the name of these films?

00:25:03.900 What are we looking for?

00:25:05.100 So, there's four films that Jennifer Siebel Newsom has produced through her nonprofit called The Representation Project.

00:25:13.180 And in our study, we list out all four films.

00:25:16.080 The worst one, which has the most pornography for 15-year-olds plus, is called The Mask You Live In.

00:25:24.340 And that's the one where I describe the sexually explicit curriculum that's appalling and profane.

00:25:30.740 There's also films that are shown to 11-year-olds.

00:25:34.540 And these are not appropriate either.

00:25:36.460 But they say that age-appropriate material includes, for example, an upside-down animated stripper with tape over her breasts.

00:25:47.620 This is for middle school.

00:25:51.840 What is the – I'm going to get to the money here in a minute.

00:25:55.920 But what is the objective here, honestly?

00:25:59.240 Because nobody thinks – nobody, nobody actually believes this is healthy for little children to see.

00:26:09.320 Well, it's interesting you bring up that point.

00:26:11.420 Here's their justification.

00:26:13.520 This number may be inflated, but it's the number they use.

00:26:15.920 They say that 34% of all youth, when they go online, they see unwanted pornography.

00:26:22.700 And so their solution to this –

00:26:23.900 I believe that.

00:26:24.920 Their solution to this is to feed 100% of the youth captive in the classroom the pornography right there.

00:26:32.520 We think it's appalling, disgusting.

00:26:34.560 No governor of the 50 states should be involved in anything like this.

00:26:37.940 And, you know, that's why it's up to parents to police that content.

00:26:43.440 Good heavens.

00:26:44.840 Okay, so now talk to me about the money.

00:26:48.020 Well, Glenn, I'm from Illinois.

00:26:50.340 It is the Super Bowl of corruption, as everybody understands.

00:26:53.580 And in Illinois, we're used to our politicians double-dipping the public trough. 0.94

00:26:58.040 Well, what we found here with the Newsoms is they're not double-dipping.

00:27:02.180 They're not triple-dipping.

00:27:03.260 They're quadruple-dipping taxpayer dollars.

00:27:05.680 So, first off, Governor Newsom engaged in a highly unethical practice of soliciting state vendors, up to 1,000 of them, for campaign cash.

00:27:17.340 Those 1,000 state vendors gave his campaign fund $10.6 million.

00:27:21.980 And while he was doing that, we found that his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, was soliciting state vendors for donations to her nonprofit,

00:27:30.600 this film and curriculum nonprofit, to cover the operating costs.

00:27:33.760 So, state vendors gave five- and six-figure donations to the nonprofit.

00:27:39.240 Okay, so Jennifer Siebel Newsom has received in salary from the nonprofit over the last decade $1.5 million. 0.90

00:27:45.560 The nonprofit, which produces the films and curricula for schools, up to 5,000 schools, has received, on license fees, of licensing the films and curricula, up to $1.5 million on license fees.

00:28:00.320 That's taxpayer dollars.

00:28:01.840 She gets a second bite at those taxpayer dollars with her for-profit company called Girls' Entertainment. 0.83

00:28:07.260 Girls' Club Entertainment.

00:28:09.360 And Girls' Club Entertainment contracts with her nonprofit.

00:28:13.220 The nonprofit has paid her for-profit $1.6 million.

00:28:16.960 So, do the math.

00:28:17.680 Can I tell you something?

00:28:18.540 $3 million.

00:28:18.840 As somebody who runs a nonprofit, the red line with me is,

00:28:26.780 I can pay the nonprofit anything, but there is never a dime that should ever come back this direction for anything.

00:28:37.200 If I want them, you know, to, if I want to lend my studio space, I can't charge them.

00:28:43.660 I can, but I never charge them rent because I don't ever want the appearance of anything like that.

00:28:50.740 But for her to charge her own nonprofit and make money off of those taxpayer dollars is grotesque. 0.62

00:29:00.580 Amen.

00:29:01.360 They've blurred all the lines between for-profit, non-for-profit, salary, license fees.

00:29:07.060 And here's the fourth way they quadruple-dip the taxpayer dollar.

00:29:11.180 Two of the films star her husband, the governor, Gavin Newsom, and promote his cult of personality, his political future.

00:29:17.380 He's held out as the model public servant and the hero.

00:29:20.740 Unbelievable.

00:29:22.580 Unbelievable.

00:29:23.960 There was something that the CEs portrayed as hero.

00:29:28.280 Paired curricula with the films, promote, prompt kids to discuss Newsom's comments and urge them to vote,

00:29:35.640 gather friends to vote for similar politicians who support, quote, a care economy.

00:29:42.600 Yeah.

00:29:43.300 So, look, somebody on the last election cycle, this is, you know, look, openthebooks.com.

00:29:48.860 We follow the money.

00:29:49.920 We're nonpartisan.

00:29:51.480 We light up Republicans, like in the latest omnibus spending bill.

00:29:55.200 You know, Republicans were some of the biggest earmarkers.

00:29:57.380 We had a field day with them showcasing them for participating and earmarking the currency of corruption in Congress.

00:30:04.240 But, look, when you follow the money right here on the Newsom's in California, that's where we get this investigation.

00:30:11.400 And somebody should have filed a, you know, an election campaign violation.

00:30:16.620 You got a nonprofit charitable educational organization set up under IRS section 501c3.

00:30:23.700 And they are drawing the line between, you know, cultivating activists out of the classroom and urging people to vote for politicians that espouse the same principles as Governor Gavin Newsom, who appears in the curriculum and the film.

00:30:39.880 So, unbelievable.

00:30:40.560 Adam, thank you for everything you guys do.

00:30:43.420 And I know you do take on all sides.

00:30:46.180 And I thank you for that.

00:30:47.240 I am so sick of one side calling the other, you know, the kettle and black.

00:30:53.620 And it's just it's it.

00:30:55.120 It we're not getting anywhere.

00:30:57.800 The evil is everywhere.

00:30:59.820 And we have to take and pay attention to our kids first.

00:31:04.080 Thank you.

00:31:04.920 By the way, please go to open the books dot com.

00:31:09.580 Open the books dot com and read this story and then track it down.

00:31:14.220 It's in all 50 states.

00:31:16.680 Eleven thousand five hundred schools.

00:31:18.760 So make sure it's nothing.

00:31:21.540 Nothing like this is happening in your school.

00:31:25.120 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:31:34.660 In a world where there is no trust of anything, even formally trusted institutions, you really have to do your homework and watch people's not just their words, but their actions.

00:31:47.640 The actions always speak louder than their words.

00:31:49.580 We have been working with the Heritage Foundation, wall builders and I, along with the Heartland Institute all over the country on ESG.

00:32:01.380 And there was a an understanding that was growing, unfortunately, that that the Heritage Foundation and and what we were trying to do were sort of going in opposite directions on ESG legislation.

00:32:20.700 And it was hurting the whole anti ESG movement.

00:32:26.460 And I got Kevin Roberts on the phone.

00:32:29.140 He is the new president of the Heritage Foundation.

00:32:31.920 He is he was the chief executive officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which is why I initially was like, OK, there's got to be a misunderstanding here.

00:32:43.280 Let's get him on the phone.

00:32:44.140 And what could have been real contentious conversations happened between a group of people really led by Kevin who believe in the Bill of Rights and want to do the right thing and understand we all can't do the same thing.

00:33:01.800 Or we all need each other to cover up or to cover all of the bases and things like ESG.

00:33:08.660 So I just wanted to thank Kevin for his his hard work and his time that he has spent to really understand what is going on on the lowest of levels and being able to help and then support what he believes in.

00:33:26.520 Kevin, welcome to the program.

00:33:28.500 Well, Glenn, thanks so much for having me.

00:33:30.540 Thanks so much for for your kindness in that comment and also in the conversations we've had about this this issue of confronting ESG.

00:33:38.500 And then what I've learned from leading a couple of schools and certainly in policy work, always wanting to work in coalitions with friends like you who also want to sustain the Bill of Rights.

00:33:49.120 Yeah.

00:33:49.320 Is that when you encounter those those potential tensions to stop, have a private conversation if possible, which is what you initiated and realize, oh, gosh, this this is how we can make an adjustment to make sure that friends remain friends.

00:34:03.160 But most importantly, as you and our friends of all builders would say to to go stop the problem, the scourge of ESG.

00:34:11.820 So most of all, heartfelt from all of us at Heritage for everything you're doing to lead that effort.

00:34:18.120 Well, thank you.

00:34:18.580 I will tell you that you are doing something now that I talked about last week at Heritage that I'm really excited about.

00:34:28.400 And some people might roll their eyes and go, geez, is this another white paper or is this a bunch of, you know, the rhinos getting together and developing policy? 0.79

00:34:38.480 What excited me is, A, I know you and B, I am seeing for the first time from anybody on the right with some with some decent leverage, a a willingness to develop a very strategic plan for whoever the next conservative president is.

00:35:02.920 And and and this is something the the Democrats do all the time, they have everything written before they even get into office.

00:35:11.840 They have a strong plan and that's why they can hit the ground running.

00:35:17.200 You guys are doing that now, right?

00:35:19.920 Well, we are. And I'll just say not not that I deserve the credit for this.

00:35:24.920 I was just the the initiator of it. Some really smart people came came around to it.

00:35:29.420 But to your point about the skepticism that people in your audience, a lot of friends of mine, family members of mine, I know that.

00:35:36.420 Well, I have one would have about a D.C. headquartered organization heading up this effort.

00:35:42.260 I get it. And in fact, one of the reasons I took the job at Heritage, in spite of the fact that I wanted to stay in Texas, is because I wanted to correct that.

00:35:50.820 And the reason is Heritage has so much credibility, so many resources, frankly, and we're so connected to the everyday American.

00:35:58.920 You know, we're supported by several hundred thousand people each year outside D.C.

00:36:03.740 We are decidedly not of D.C., all of that to say.

00:36:06.620 The most important thing that we could be doing for the republic right now at Heritage is convening a wide group of people across the conservative movement, across the country.

00:36:17.720 This is there's not a rhino involved in this effort to create what I might say is an administration in waiting. 0.87

00:36:24.560 And to put it succinctly, Glenn, this is the set of policies that need to be initiated.

00:36:29.480 These are not only finding the people to go into key positions, and by that I don't mean a few hundred at the secretary or cabinet secretary level, but several thousand who can populate the administration, but also the playbook that will not just be for the first hundred days, but we're going, this is not an exaggeration, my friend, we're going minute by minute.

00:36:52.200 The president, whoever he or she is, takes the oath of office, scurries back to the White House, and minute by minute, these are the executive orders to roll back the damage of the Biden regime.

00:37:03.100 Okay, so we know that we can't, that's one of the things that happens at the last gasps of a republic, historically speaking, is it has wild swings back and forth from the right to the left, from the right to the left, and it's all edicts.

00:37:18.520 And that, a republic can't last very long with that and have credibility.

00:37:23.880 So, I'm hoping that this also includes a bunch of people like, let me throw Bain Capital out there, the kind of people that come in to turn a company around but end up just, you know, firing almost everybody and then selling it off for parts.

00:37:43.160 Are we, is there a plan to shut these administrative behemoths down?

00:37:51.120 Absolutely.

00:37:51.800 There's not only a plan to do that, but that's really the core of the plan because, I'll just give you an example.

00:37:58.220 In a couple of months, as part of this effort, which we call Project 2025, Heritage and the 50 other conservative organizations, none of them swampy, who've been working on this, nearly 400 policy experts, none of them swampy, we're going to issue the book of policies that the administration needs to issue.

00:38:18.560 The point to your question, Glenn, is that all of that is immaterial if we don't, first and foremost, do what you were just describing, which is, and even before the first minutes of power, preparing for this during the transition, identify those clowns who need to be thrown out.

00:38:36.860 But to replace them, every single one of them, with men and women who are ready to take the country back.

00:38:44.020 You see, that's the missed opportunity in the first months of the Trump administration.

00:38:48.480 And I don't mean that as a gratuitous criticism of the former president, whose inclinations were heroic.

00:38:55.360 It's just that D.C. inertia overtook that particular phase.

00:39:00.440 And so this is the solution to it.

00:39:02.460 But, you know, the people I can name are people at Heritage, like Paul Ray, who is the anti-regulatory czar under Trump, did a heroic job.

00:39:10.920 Paul is vital to this minute-by-minute playbook of getting rid of the people who, frankly, are abrogating our freedoms.

00:39:17.860 So let me re-ask, Kevin, just to clarify.

00:39:21.900 I'm talking about things like shutting down the Department of Education.

00:39:26.460 Yes.

00:39:27.680 Are you guys talking about those kinds of things?

00:39:30.040 We're not just talking about it.

00:39:31.360 We have the plan.

00:39:32.000 And, in fact, literally sitting on my desk is the draft of that plan.

00:39:36.620 And I'll be reading through that today.

00:39:38.660 And so let me be really, really blunt.

00:39:41.160 We will eliminate the Department of Education piece by piece, block by block.

00:39:46.400 It has to be part of the next administration in the first term.

00:39:50.120 We also, as I know is a big interest of yours, are going to upend the Department of Justice.

00:39:55.600 And our plan for the Federal Bureau of Investigation is to select all, delete, and start from scratch.

00:40:01.360 Wow.

00:40:01.620 That gives you a sense of the vigor of this plan.

00:40:05.240 So is this going to be something that will be able to be adopted and talked about and given to people so they can, say, hold the president, whoever it's going to be, accountable and say, we want you to do this if you win?

00:40:22.360 Absolutely.

00:40:22.980 Absolutely.

00:40:23.900 In fact, Glenn, historically, what Heritage and the conservative movement have done is issue this plan sometime after Election Day.

00:40:31.200 Which is, I mean, it was better than nothing.

00:40:35.460 But we're two years ahead.

00:40:37.540 And so the very reason that we're issuing this plan or parts of the plan in April of this year is precisely so that two things can happen.

00:40:47.220 Number one, Americans, everyday Americans, can be part of this and talking about it, asking people who want to be their elected officials about it.

00:40:55.340 But secondly, to the heart of your question, when we start having debates among the Republican presidential aspirants, they're talking about that plan.

00:41:04.360 The plan becomes the very reason that we, as Republicans, will nominate someone.

00:41:10.580 You hold your PhD in American history from the University of Texas.

00:41:17.420 I think you have a master's at Virginia Tech, bachelor's of history, University of Louisiana.

00:41:23.920 So you know history.

00:41:26.380 I do.

00:41:27.220 I know early American history in particular.

00:41:29.280 Where are we in the cycle of history?

00:41:32.400 We are a couple of chapters away from writing the epilogue of the American Republic.

00:41:42.080 And I'm not willing, if in fact we have to write that epilogue in our lifetimes, to go down without a fight.

00:41:50.480 Without a fight.

00:41:51.180 And instead, because of my faith, I'm cautiously optimistic that if men and women of faith in God, in the American Republic, are willing to fight, we're actually going to write several chapters in the next couple of decades before we have to write the epilogue.

00:42:09.200 That's what the plan is about, in that you hear, Glenn, my cautious optimism, but also my realism that having studied history and the history of republics and knowing that, as you said, we're in this swinging of the pendulum from left to right, the time is finite.

00:42:27.440 And I am not willing to leave anything on the field for my kids, if we were to have grandkids, but most of all, for the men and women alive this day who've sacrificed so much for you and me to be able to do what we do.

00:42:42.620 We're talking to Kevin Roberts.

00:42:43.580 Kevin Roberts, he was named the president of the Heritage Foundation in 2021, and he is looking for a new heritage, take all the best things from the Heritage Foundation and conserve them and get rid of all the worst things about heritage.

00:42:59.720 And so far, I'm really impressed by what you do and just how you are behaving as somebody in charge of something like this.

00:43:11.300 Let me ask you one more question.

00:43:12.760 I'm doing a lot on AI this week.

00:43:15.200 I have a special on AI tomorrow.

00:43:17.220 AI, we are in this revolution right now.

00:43:20.520 I've been talking about it for 30 years and saying someday the day is going to come.

00:43:24.480 Well, the day is here now, and it's going to start accelerating rapidly.

00:43:30.160 And big tech and government in these public-private partnerships, how are you thinking about AI and the public-private partnerships with big tech?

00:43:40.520 Well, AI scares the daylight out of me.

00:43:44.420 I mean, color me a conservative or even a troglodyte.

00:43:46.980 But the point is there's got to be a policy response.

00:43:50.060 And so probably the first thing that I initiated at Heritage that surprised some people, including some friends on the right, was saying that big tech is an enemy of the people.

00:44:00.480 And in particular, big tech, in collusion with big government, are working against the American people.

00:44:07.340 And so what Heritage does is not just talk about things but actually do them.

00:44:11.200 We've been working very closely with the House Republicans and a few Senate Republicans on shattering that.

00:44:16.640 There has to be a reckoning among conservatives in Congress, Glenn, about the threats posed not just by big tech but in particular this AI effort.

00:44:28.140 And I'm really grateful because the best pressure is the pressure that comes from the outside, that you're spending so much time and your own credibility fighting against that as well.

00:44:36.660 Thank you so much, Kevin.

00:44:38.280 I appreciate it.

00:44:39.220 Let us know how we can help.

00:44:41.040 And, again, thank you for everything the Heritage Foundation is doing.

00:44:45.340 You're great partners.

00:44:47.220 Thank you.

00:44:48.080 Thanks, Glenn.

00:44:48.580 Thanks a lot.

00:44:49.560 Thanks a lot.

00:45:14.120 Bye.

00:45:16.180 Thanks a lot.

00:45:16.960 Bye.

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