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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to the podcast today. Back in studio, we've got border talk, a lot of border talk,

00:00:06.940 reparations for gay people, concentration camp rumors, and Bitcoin. We got Bitcoin hitting 11,000

00:00:15.160 over the weekend. Biden comparing the Trump election to the MLK assassination, Biden on

00:00:21.660 segregation, and Booker trying to take him on. And yet we found something that Booker said just

00:00:28.660 this weekend that we thought, wow, pot, meat, kettle. And Aaron Watson, who has his next album out,

00:00:36.520 Red Bandana. It's fantastic. He's with us as well, all on today's podcast.

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00:01:41.500 president. Last night he did his first Spanish speaking interview. He didn't speak Spanish,

00:01:50.420 neither did the interviewer, but it was for, I think, Telemundo. It was, it was incredibly unfair.

00:01:57.360 It's everything that you would expect. Okay. Why are you ripping families apart? No, I stopped it.

00:02:03.540 I stopped it. It was Obama. We're not talking about Obama here, sir. Yeah, but I stopped it.

00:02:09.400 It was Obama. We're not talking about Obama here, sir. I mean, it's that kind of stuff.

00:02:13.680 So it's just so frustrating. I just, I endured it once. I don't want to have to endure it a second

00:02:19.780 time. Although he did a really good job. He kept his cool the entire time. He just kept restating the

00:02:28.580 facts. I thought he did an excellent job on that last night. And the media is so convinced that

00:02:36.740 they're right on this. And I don't think they are. I think people are seeing, and I mean, Hispanics 1.00

00:02:42.700 and everybody else, people are people. We all want secure jobs, secure neighborhoods, safe places for

00:02:49.720 our families. When he got into, well, you said that MS-13 members are coming over, but there's a lot of

00:02:58.720 other people. Yes. But mixed in those people, if it's one in a hundred, that's too many. We don't know

00:03:06.200 who these people are. I think that actually works for the average person. And I'm not talking about,

00:03:14.340 man, I've been traveling the country here this summer. And I just don't think people are playing

00:03:20.980 the politics game, like talk radio plays it, like certainly like the media plays it. We're hyper

00:03:27.920 focused on this, but the average American is pretty much done. And they're just watching it,

00:03:34.700 you know, from a distance. And if he can remain calm and cool as he did, uh, all the way through,

00:03:43.520 he's, he's going to make an impact because this is getting worse and worse and worse.

00:03:52.080 And the Democrats, this, this compromise with Nancy Pelosi that they announced this weekend,

00:03:56.900 do you see that still on the border? Yeah. Yeah. He announced he was going to do these raids.

00:04:01.940 And then he said at request of Democrats, I'm going to delay the raids for a couple of weeks to see if

00:04:06.320 they can work something out. So she did, she worked something out. Uh, she's going to provide all of

00:04:13.040 the funding so they can, you know, move on and, uh, help communities deal with all of these,

00:04:19.460 but nothing for actual security. Just, yeah, we'll help get these people out and on their feet.

00:04:25.980 No, that that's, that's, that's not what we were asking for. And I think that, um,

00:04:32.640 I think that the average American is going to see through this game. And I think the Democrats

00:04:38.180 almost, I think they want him to act through executive order there because, because they're,

00:04:45.320 they're not acting reasonably here at all. And I really think that they want him to take this on.

00:04:52.080 And quite honestly, I'm at that point, Mr. President, just, we're going to lose our country.

00:04:57.760 We're going to lose our country. You can't have this kind of influx. 1.00

00:05:02.740 I find it interesting to the way the media looks at this, because if you go back to,

00:05:07.200 let's say when Republicans were saying, we don't want Planned Parenthood funded. Okay. And then

00:05:12.540 they, they quote unquote, shut down the government. And the focus was constantly on the victims,

00:05:18.500 right. Of, of this, of the shutdown. The people who didn't have their, you know,

00:05:22.580 the military people didn't get their paychecks. And like, they went through every case they could

00:05:26.760 to try. And when, you know, when the military paychecks came, then it was another thing. It was always

00:05:30.560 some desperate person who was being affected by the Republicans. And the, the idea was, you know,

00:05:38.280 Republicans should just get past this little thing they have with funding abortion and give the money 0.82

00:05:43.460 to the people who need it. Well, look at this situation. Tell me it's not the exact same thing,

00:05:47.680 right? Like Republicans are asking, saying like, look, give us money to deal with all of these asylum 1.00

00:05:53.720 claims and all these illegal immigrants that are crossing. You keep saying that, you know,

00:05:57.760 we're detaining them in this, you know, horrible, inhuman way. Well, we need more money to deal

00:06:03.560 with them as everybody has noted that the numbers are up in incredible amounts. So they've asked for

00:06:10.160 it. They've asked to take care of the problem. Democrats are identifying, right? That this,

00:06:16.320 this, you know, these detainments are not, uh, are not, you know, the, the best, right? They want to,

00:06:22.320 they want to improve them. So what do they say? What's the, what's the, is it, I mean,

00:06:26.860 if it was handled the same way, we'd say Democrats should get over the idea that they should not fund

00:06:32.580 this. And they're pushing all the politics that are difficult on Republicans and deal with the

00:06:37.700 actual victims here. No, this again, it falls on the Republicans as, as the problem. Republicans

00:06:43.700 aren't doing enough to, to help the illegal immigrants. And then they talk about whatever

00:06:48.780 Trump tweeted last week. Well, why, why don't the Democrats have to get over their ideological, uh,

00:06:54.820 upset with the president on this? Why don't they just have to give him the money?

00:06:59.040 So here's this very good point. Um, and we all know the answer. I think, um, that there's,

00:07:04.660 you know, there's, uh, there's no real honest broker on, on one side. Um, you know, what the

00:07:12.320 Democrats are now proposing is you have a leak in your bathroom and it's just pouring water out on the

00:07:20.820 floor. What they're suggesting is that they will help. They'll help. They'll help rebuild the walls.

00:07:28.680 They'll help, you know, uh, uh, rebuild the floor. Well, wait, I don't, I, I need help right now

00:07:36.760 shutting the water off. That's what we need. Shut the water off. Well, I'm going to make sure that

00:07:43.880 everybody can get in there and every, all the kids have boots. I don't want my kids having boots.

00:07:49.840 Shut the water off. That's the problem. And you know, it's, we can say that it's for whatever

00:07:59.320 reason, but here's the reason the Democrats are doing this. And I'm, I'm convinced of it. I don't

00:08:05.680 have, I don't have any evidence except past, uh, and, and past performance, uh, in exactly the same

00:08:16.020 situation over in Europe. All of the same people that are saying, open our borders, open our borders,

00:08:21.800 open our borders are the ones who said, you got to take on this, all these migrants. You have to 1.00

00:08:28.160 take them on. You have to take them on. And people like me were saying, you can't take them on. You

00:08:33.480 can't just have open immigration. You're going to have all kinds of problems. You're going to have,

00:08:40.080 you're going to have more rapes, more violence. Some of these people are good. Some of these people

00:08:45.060 aren't good. You're going to get extremists that are coming across your border. You can't do that.

00:08:51.960 You're also going to upset all of the people who feel like they're not being listened to.

00:08:56.380 So what's happening now in Europe, Europe is being torn apart.

00:09:02.200 And what, what are the people in France talking about? What are the people in Germany talking

00:09:08.080 about? What are the, what are the people all over Europe talking about in Spain, in Greece,

00:09:14.960 direct elections, full democracy, no republics, one man, one vote, full democracy. What are they

00:09:24.360 doing here? They're trying to get rid of the electoral college. What, what the left is trying to do

00:09:31.500 right now is bring the world to a place to where you have true democracy, which is majority rules.

00:09:42.500 Now in Germany, they're afraid because it's the Uber right that is asking for direct democracy.

00:09:50.120 Because the, the, the, the right is the one saying, you know, you brought all these migrants in and now 1.00

00:09:58.720 everything's going to hell and you're telling us to shut up. We can't talk about it. Well, we're tired

00:10:04.800 of listening to you. You have the power. You've had it too long and you're, you're trying to shut us up.

00:10:11.240 And you're, you're letting all these people in and they're changing Germany, not for the better. 1.00

00:10:17.880 They're not adding, they're bringing their stuff and then telling us with your help, exactly how we're

00:10:25.560 supposed to live. We've had it. So in Germany, the left is very afraid of direct democracy. They're

00:10:35.460 trying to stop it. In France, they're not trying to stop it. So what's happening here? Well, we have

00:10:42.700 our, our migrant caravans, just like you had the migrant boats going up into Europe. They know this

00:10:52.900 destroys a country. They know it. They see it happening now in Europe. That's why they're trying

00:11:01.580 to keep our borders open. They know that it will divide us even more. They know that it will cause

00:11:08.100 chaos. They know that it causes political unrest. I know that sounds like a crazy charge to make.

00:11:15.360 I know that. And I expect everyone on the left and in the media, if they would ever cover anything,

00:11:22.100 they would cover that as a crazy conspiracy theory, et cetera, et cetera. But give me another reason.

00:11:28.600 Because this is not compassion. What you're doing, chaos is never compassionate. Never.

00:11:39.840 You must have triage. If you said, you know what? We got to get rid of triage. Everybody is hurting.

00:11:47.060 We got to get rid of triage. That's what they're saying. The United States is the hospital

00:11:52.280 and they want to get rid of triage. Just everybody needs to get to a doctor. Well,

00:11:59.700 what's that going to do to the hospital? More people will die because of that. More chaos. And

00:12:08.680 in chaos, you cannot heal anything. So tell me exactly. Give me a better explanation because

00:12:16.380 I don't buy compassion. Chaos, as I have told you for 15 years, is the operative word of the future.

00:12:28.380 What do we have going down on the border? Chaos. Anything that encourages chaos, run from.

00:12:35.980 Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray

00:12:51.160 Unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. Hello, Pat.

00:12:57.080 Hello, Glenn. You have a list of three things that Democrats are very upset about.

00:13:03.640 Yes, because they're policy turnarounds by President Trump. Oh, really? Yeah. And so he's

00:13:08.960 receiving some pretty heavy criticism because, you know, he was going to attach tariffs on Mexican

00:13:19.640 products and he didn't because they complied with what he wanted them to do. Then he was going to

00:13:26.520 attack Iran and pulled out of that at the last minute because he had heard that 150 people were

00:13:33.620 going to be killed in that attack and he thought it was disproportionate. Then he announced that ICE

00:13:40.320 was going to begin deportations this week and he delayed that. And this is causing America to just

00:13:49.200 be a laughingstock now. Is it? Is it like a red line in the sand? It is. Yeah. A little bit like that.

00:13:57.140 Yeah. And it's a national security issue, in fact, because people just don't know where we stand on

00:14:05.540 anything. We know exactly where he stands. I know exactly where he stands. Mexico. Tariffs. It worked. 0.59

00:14:13.040 Cooperate or I'll give tariffs. They cooperate. No tariffs. The next one. Iran. Iran. The attack. 0.99

00:14:21.700 We're going to put a stop to this. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 150

00:14:29.260 people that's may not be worth an even exchange for 130 million dollar machine that you would think

00:14:37.920 that liberals would love. Would love. Because that shows compassion. That is honestly the best

00:14:46.100 message I have heard a president send on any kind of military action. You know, it's either weak

00:14:55.240 or it's too strong. This guy is like, look, we could pound you in the sand, but not a single life was

00:15:03.120 lost on our side. And so I don't want to do anything that's going to cause you to lose life

00:15:07.560 because I don't think that's fair. And I think that's what do they call it? Even response when

00:15:13.420 they say it's proportionate proportionate response. That's what they're always at. This is way out of

00:15:18.440 proportion. And that's what they would have been saying. Yes. Had we done it? Yes. I actually like

00:15:24.140 this this call from the president. And I have to tell you something. I am sick and tired of the press

00:15:31.040 wanting it both ways. They were the day before. This guy is reckless. He just wants war. He's just

00:15:37.940 rushing into everything. That's what they were saying up until he he changes his mind. Then it's

00:15:44.960 he's reckless because nobody knows how to view him. You know, he's he drew a red line in the sand.

00:15:53.100 And now what do our allies think? Now what does Iran think? Because they know they can cross that red 0.98

00:15:59.240 line and not get any punishment. Oh my gosh, I can't take it. I can't take it. There's no way

00:16:04.320 he can win. No, there's no way. And what was the third one? The third one was was the ice deportations 0.81

00:16:08.880 this week. Since when are they for deportation? Since when do they want ice to follow through with

00:16:14.740 deportation? Plus, the the other thing that we found out is the acting director of ice said that

00:16:21.000 because of the of the leak that they were going to start the deportations, the ice agents would have

00:16:27.200 been in danger this week. And they went to Trump and told him that. And he didn't want to put the

00:16:32.840 ice agents in danger. And the ice, the acting director of ice says that's why he delayed the

00:16:40.360 the deportation move. Because they knew essentially people knew it was coming. Yeah, they knew it was

00:16:44.520 coming. There are some, some of them are not maybe people who are just here for a better life. Some

00:16:49.920 of them are criminals. So warning them that this is about to happen, probably not the best could have

00:16:55.100 been dangerous for them. Right? Yeah. So he delayed it. I mean, even if you don't necessarily

00:16:59.380 follow the exact, you know, storyline of the Trump administration, right, where you're, you know,

00:17:04.200 like where these things, you know, he makes these big threats, and they always work out. At the very

00:17:08.140 least, you have the media knows this dance, right? Trump comes out and he makes a broad, a bold statement

00:17:14.160 about some policy. And then he, he use, he's using it, obviously, as a negotiation tactic. And you,

00:17:22.140 they all know this, like they act, they take whatever is the worst interpretation of whatever

00:17:28.300 he says, and apply it to that moment. So like, okay, it's deportations. Well, he's the worst person

00:17:33.060 in the world. He can't, he wants to get rid of all Hispanics. Oh my gosh, this guy's basically Hitler. 1.00

00:17:39.480 And then he says, all right, I'm not going to do it. And then it's like, well, this guy can't make

00:17:42.360 his mind up. What is wrong with him? I mean, I thought we needed these deportations. It's, it's great. 1.00

00:17:48.680 Almost to the level where they're going to start arguing for the deportations. I love the, I love

00:17:53.180 the, the access to where they absolutely are convinced that he's Adolf Hitler with concentration

00:17:59.840 camps and he's Adolf Hitler. Look how much he hates immigrants. And yet he's the one going, it's the

00:18:05.780 lowest unemployment rate for Hispanics in the history of America. And I, and I remember Adolf Hitler 0.88

00:18:14.160 saying, it's the lowest unemployment rate for Jews. Yeah. I mean, he didn't say, no, 0.60

00:18:20.880 that wasn't his priority. Look at what's happening. And they just dismiss all of that. It's, it's,

00:18:27.360 it's honestly, it's like fighting with a five-year-old where the five-year-old you're, you,

00:18:33.060 you see there, you see what the five-year-old's excuse is going to be. You see exactly what they're

00:18:38.600 going to say long before, cause you were five once and, and they keep making this excuse and

00:18:44.200 then keep changing their reasons for why it's just eventually like you're five. Okay. I'm not

00:18:51.260 even arguing with you anymore. That's where the president just needs to be. I'm just, I'm not

00:18:55.900 even arguing with any of you anymore. Cause I think he's there. It's kind of funny. I think,

00:19:00.900 I think he's kind of there and, and he, he doesn't really, and he shouldn't care what the Democrats,

00:19:06.640 because he's never going to please the Democrats. This, this was a game that George W. Bush kind

00:19:11.040 of got caught up in. He, he, he started to try to please the other side of the equation too.

00:19:17.540 No, no, no, no. Hang on just a second. It's not that you try to please. It's that you try to appeal

00:19:23.080 to the reasonable people on the left, but the people not on the left, but in the democratic party,

00:19:30.380 because I tried to do this. Just, I'm not trying to, I'm not going to appease. I'm not going to

00:19:35.700 change, but I, I will try to appeal to the reasonable people out there, but the reasonable

00:19:42.460 people never stand up. No, they just never stand up. Yeah. So it does no good. It does

00:19:47.800 no good appeal to does no good. It didn't do any good for Bush. They hated his guts even more

00:19:53.100 when he tried to appeal to him. And the same is true for Trump. He can't win that war.

00:19:57.960 The idea that he is the most anti-gay president ever. I'm so sick of this. He's the only pro-gay 1.00

00:20:06.880 marriage president to ever be elected because every other president, every other president

00:20:12.880 was against it when they were first elected. And he wasn't like, because I've run it, I better

00:20:17.860 say this. No, no, it was years ago. Years ago. Years. He's always been gay friendly. I don't know

00:20:23.860 what you people are talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah. I mean,

00:20:28.480 obviously the, you know, he's not Elizabeth. Is it Elizabeth Warren that now has come out

00:20:32.440 with this? Yes. Reparations for gay people because they didn't get their gay marriage 0.93

00:20:36.540 ruling fast enough. That's a fascinating one. Uh, but like, you know, this is, there's another 0.93

00:20:40.000 story that's been going to buy everybody toasters. I don't know. You like a wedding

00:20:44.100 presents. Yeah. It's interesting because they didn't get tax breaks all this time. She's

00:20:49.860 saying that they should get now the tax breaks from marriage, which has never been something

00:20:54.200 the Democrats have ever liked anyway, but apparently, uh, now they do because it applies. I don't

00:20:59.380 even know. I can't even understand. This is why I, I am against tax breaks for marriage

00:21:03.660 entirely. Oh yeah. Stop it. The government shouldn't be in it. Shouldn't be in it at all. Um, so there's

00:21:08.560 this viral video that went around on the left this weekend about how, uh, the Trump administration

00:21:14.160 is trying to prevent and arguing a court that, uh, that detained immigrants should not get soap

00:21:21.580 or toothpaste because that's not the government's role. And of course this is, this is, this is a

00:21:26.820 concentration camp. I mean, even, even in concentration camps, we give soap and toothpaste

00:21:30.660 and there's people like coming out and saying, I was detained by Syrians and they gave me toothpaste.

00:21:35.080 This is unbelievable. Well, what they don't include in the context of this, this video is of course

00:21:41.720 that the Trump administration, the government lawyer now in the Trump administration is arguing

00:21:45.280 a case that was brought up in 2015. It's an Obama administration case that it's just continued

00:21:51.940 into the Trump administration. And the government's position is not that they should not give soap

00:21:58.280 or toothpaste. It's that it's not a specific violation of the Flores agreement. We've talked

00:22:03.660 about that before over the years, which is one of the things that set up this idea. So they

00:22:07.900 are trying to talk about a very specific legal thing. It gets tossed out there as if it's this

00:22:12.260 Trump violation, but the violation actually occurred during Obama doesn't stop every one of your dumb 0.99

00:22:17.620 friends from sharing it though. With, you know, with the context of the left that has no idea 0.99

00:22:22.560 that this was an Obama problem. This is not a Trump problem. The Trump argument is coming as a

00:22:27.660 continuation of a case that started during the Obama era, but it just doesn't matter. And I don't know,

00:22:34.200 like we used to, you, you kind of come up with this. Well, maybe we'll come up with a logical

00:22:38.500 reason. And these people will understand that they're being misled, that they'll see the truth,

00:22:43.500 that they'll see the facts. And that's no such thing. It just seems hopeless. I mean, they just

00:22:47.340 don't care about it. They care about signaling whatever's inside that makes them feel like

00:22:52.520 they're superior to your Neanderthal grandpa. Who's that, you know, horrible white conservative that 1.00

00:22:58.920 we all have such distaste for. And they have this, like, that is the motivation. The motivation is 0.99

00:23:04.100 never the truth. The motivation isn't for these immigrant families. It's the last thing in the 1.00

00:23:08.160 world they cared about as evidence that this thing happened during the Obama administration and none

00:23:12.140 of them even know it. Like, how could you have clearer evidence that they don't care about these

00:23:18.060 immigrant families? They don't care. It's just a little piece of the puzzle to allow them to show 1.00

00:23:24.860 their friends that they're better than everybody in, let's say, this audience. And that's the goal.

00:23:30.840 The goal is not the truth. The goal is not to help a family. The goal is not to protect a woman's 0.74

00:23:35.180 right. None of these things have anything to do with the reasoning behind it, which is just

00:23:39.720 signaling their virtue to everyone else. And that's what's gonna, that's, that eventually just comes

00:23:45.040 undone. That just eventually comes undone. I have a, I have a, something I, I got from the New York

00:23:51.600 Times, the Daily. Uh, they sent a reporter over to, uh, Germany because they're now, uh, in Germany

00:23:59.440 looking for direct democracy. And that just goes to mob rule. That's just majority rules. And, uh,

00:24:08.940 do they not understand that? Do they not know that? Uh, we, we, we went over to Germany to talk to some

00:24:15.800 of these radicals that are trying to get majority rules. Oh, you will not believe this. I'm, I'm

00:24:23.600 listening to it and I'm thinking these people are so stupid or so dishonest. I'm not sure which one 1.00

00:24:30.620 it is. Is there a combination of the two that could be at play here? Could be, could be just so stupid

00:24:35.960 that they don't see. And, and, and, and at one point the guys are like the, the, the New York 1.00

00:24:40.780 Times reporter is saying, well, uh, what about, uh, the death penalty that this is very controversial

00:24:46.100 in, uh, Germany death penalty. Uh, if you're against it, apparently because of Hitler, nobody's 0.73

00:24:52.780 for the death penalty over there. So they took the most crazy thing that everyone is for. Okay. No

00:24:59.320 death penalty and said, what happens if people just voted for, uh, uh, the death penalty and the guy 0.96

00:25:06.060 from the group that wants, you know, direct democracy said, well, that's ridiculous. We'd 0.95

00:25:11.360 never do that. And then the New York times is like, well, how do you know that they wouldn't do

00:25:17.140 that? I mean, are you, you're saying that you understand your group so much that they will

00:25:22.780 never go that way. Cause remember, once you have majority rule, the majority could rule on anything

00:25:29.860 and you can't, you can't, uh, necessarily stop it. Then you won't be. Hello. Hello. Isn't that what

00:25:39.100 you're doing here in America? Yeah. But our side wouldn't be crazy. Oh, okay. It's really nuts.

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00:26:15.320 Let me get to, uh, Joe Biden. Uh, here's some, uh, audio of, uh, of Joe Biden, uh, saying that

00:26:24.200 the Donald Trump election night was a little like something else in history. Listen,

00:26:29.680 people get out of jail. The idea, we give them 25 bucks and a buck, a bus ticket to go under a

00:26:34.560 bridge. So they, but they don't qualify for public housing. They don't qualify for food. They don't

00:26:38.800 qualify for, for, uh, um, Pell grants. That's crazy. We should be doing the opposite. You know,

00:26:44.620 Rev, you've been calling and I've been calling for a long time. There should be job training in

00:26:48.300 prisons, not training people how to be criminals. There's so much we can do and it's within our capacity

00:26:53.560 to do it. That's the interesting thing. And I think what's happening now, as I think that, uh,

00:26:59.560 Donald Trump may have reawakened the sensibilities in this country to say, whoa, maybe we can do this

00:27:06.960 now. Just like our generation was awakened when Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. A lot,

00:27:12.120 whole generation said, I'm back in, man. These millennials, they get it, right? Yeah. And now

00:27:16.960 they want to get in. They get it, man. They get it. These millennials, they get it, man. Wow, man.

00:27:24.920 It's like when our generation, man, woke up, man, you know, man. Cause I, I really hate the,

00:27:33.960 you know, the argument that you should get in trouble for comparing things. Like they'll always be

00:27:39.340 like, Oh, you know, going back compares, you know, Nancy Pelosi to Nazis and like, and you'll be like,

00:27:45.940 okay. And you're like, well, what's, what did he say? And he said, well, I don't think that you

00:27:50.480 should have this policy because you know, one of the reasons why, I mean, this has happened before,

00:27:54.060 like this is the first step down this road and, and we shouldn't go down the road anywhere near

00:27:58.340 these things. And, you know, like, like you're making an analogy. And of course, when you're making

00:28:03.660 a point, right, one of the things you do is go to the most extreme level of that, right? Like it's

00:28:08.020 to set the precedent that the argument is theoretically possible, right? Like, you know,

00:28:13.180 if you were to say, well, I don't want any government intervention, right? I never want war. Well,

00:28:16.840 what about world war two? Right. That doesn't mean you're comparing whatever conflict you're talking

00:28:20.700 about now to world war two. You're trying to set the precedent that in theory, you might be for war

00:28:24.900 actually. Right. And I, so I usually hate that argument here though. He really is just comparing it.

00:28:30.240 He's saying there are certain things in our history that get people started and this should

00:28:36.740 be considered on the same level, right? He's saying people, people are going to assassination.

00:28:40.960 Now think of this, think of this. My, my father told me, I asked him one time,

00:28:45.440 what were the 1960s like that? And he said, well, they were different because the vast majority of

00:28:53.220 people were still, you know, on a sane side. And so we kind of all stood around watching our

00:29:00.160 television sets going, this is crazy. What's happening to our country. Um, he said, it wasn't,

00:29:06.180 it wasn't as universal, uh, as it looked now he's giving a Pacific Northwest kind of analogy for him,

00:29:13.420 uh, which didn't have a lot of, a lot of that. Um, but he, he even talked about, he said, when

00:29:20.360 Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were shot and Malcolm X, he said, we thought the whole world

00:29:25.820 was coming undone. He said, it just felt like everything was coming undone. Now he's just put

00:29:33.260 the assassination of Martin Luther King, the civil rights icon and Robert Kennedy, another icon,

00:29:46.560 the assassination of those two into the same category as Donald Trump winning an election

00:29:56.000 as saying, that's as shocking. And it shocked the system. Do you really think that it was as

00:30:05.720 shocking as Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy's assassination? And by the way, what did those

00:30:13.160 assassinations do? Between that and what happened at Candlestick Park? Uh, the left kind of fell apart.

00:30:21.540 The left kind of fell apart. It was kind of the beginning of the end of the radicalized movement

00:30:28.940 because people had had enough. It had enough. So is, are you implying that when you woke up,

00:30:38.760 because what he's saying is people woke up to that and they decided to stand up, be more active,

00:30:43.760 be more active. No, actually normal people stood up and said, yeah, okay, we got to stop this. This

00:30:53.220 is, this is craziness. What's going on. The civil rights act was already moving forward. The civil

00:30:59.160 rights act was done in 1964. So we had already moved that, that barrier. We were moving forward.

00:31:06.560 And the people led the politicians on that as well. Correct. Correct. And it didn't take the

00:31:11.000 assassination of Martin Luther King or Robert Kennedy. That happened four years before they

00:31:16.500 started shooting people. I mean, the best version of his point is essentially you get to this idea

00:31:22.020 that things are good racially, right? And things are fine. And then there's an assassination and

00:31:28.420 you're like, wow, people really do hate, you know, minority figures. And then you have another

00:31:33.540 assassination. People really do hate, uh, other people. And then this is kind of what I think

00:31:38.000 he's saying, which is we got lulled into sleep by the wonderful Obama years. And this is coming

00:31:44.180 from Joe Biden. Um, and then we realized that, oh, wow, we haven't passed these race issues. Donald

00:31:49.700 Trump got elected. And so we need to get active again. Of course we had, you know, we, and we pointed

00:31:55.800 this out at the time, the Obama election came at a time where I think we had really had moved

00:32:05.200 past a lot of those things. Not because of Obama's election, because people don't care. People

00:32:09.360 don't care what your stupid skin, your skin color, who cares? Like how anyone could make 1.00

00:32:13.940 a decision based on that. And anyway, by the way, that includes, um, things like affirmative

00:32:19.440 action and all of these other things, but you don't make, uh, you don't make decisions

00:32:23.980 based on skin color. Thought it was something we all agreed on. And then Obama gets into

00:32:28.300 office and it's the constant focus. He's constantly highlighting racial divides. He spends eight

00:32:35.760 years telling us how much white people hate black people when I, I don't know. I mean, I'm not 0.93

00:32:41.460 saying there's no racism. Of course there is, but like generally speaking, I mean, uh, you

00:32:45.740 know, I don't have, I mean, I don't see it and I should see it. I'm in, I'm a conservative

00:32:51.060 in Texas. Shouldn't I see racism all the time? And you know, you talk to, uh, we have David

00:32:55.740 Harris on, on, uh, uh, news and why it matters today. And he made this point yesterday. It's

00:33:00.080 like, we're not victims here. He's African-American. If you don't know him and he's like, we stop

00:33:04.180 calling us victims. Stop making us out to be victims. We don't need reparations from

00:33:08.660 you. We need to be able to do the things that we want to do. We need to be able to live

00:33:12.800 our lives without your involvement in them. If we don't want your involvement in them, we

00:33:16.680 don't need the government getting in our way. And you know, that is, I think where

00:33:20.960 the average African-American is right. Like we want to be able to do our thing stops, you 1.00

00:33:26.900 know, getting in our way. And yet this is constantly highlighted by the media. It is

00:33:31.460 like, as if the only thing that anyone cares about are racial divides to the point that even

00:33:37.020 Joe Biden is on the wrong side of it on the democratic party, that even Pete Buttigieg is on

00:33:41.860 the wrong side of it. You can't even be a liberal white person who says every single

00:33:48.400 one of these arguments is true and, uh, and push for basically reparations. That's not

00:33:55.900 even enough. There's nothing that's enough. And that's the lesson here is like, you

00:33:59.480 can't, these are the, the, the extreme elements of these movements are not able to be reasoned

00:34:04.720 with them. Wow. That monologue was almost, I feel like we just witnessed the

00:34:09.320 crucifixion, crucifixion of Jesus Christ there. I don't know. That hatred was just crazy. I

00:34:15.960 think you'll see the results of, of that as the storm clouds gather.

00:34:24.260 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:34:26.480 Hi, it's Glenn. If you're a subscriber to the podcast, can you do us a favor and rate us on

00:34:41.540 iTunes? If you're not a subscriber, become one today and listen on your own time. You can subscribe on

00:34:47.460 iTunes. Thanks. Mr. Aaron Watson is joining us now in case you don't know, uh, Aaron and you're a

00:34:55.120 country music fan. Where have you been? Aaron Watson is the most successful independent artist.

00:35:02.440 I think of any genre of all time. Definitely. I like that. I like this. I'll go with that. Yeah.

00:35:08.940 Is it just country or is it any? I like the, I like just saying any genre. That sounds so much

00:35:14.540 better. Doesn't it? Doesn't it? You could throw worldwide. Yeah. Worldwide. Universal. I don't

00:35:20.000 know. Yeah. I think, but I think you are. Thank you. I think you are. It's good to see you. Good to

00:35:24.440 see you. Thanks for having me. You've been working hard getting this, uh, new CD ready. It's called

00:35:29.100 red bandana. Yes, sir. And, uh, I listened to all of it. I, I called you what? Four weeks ago. Yes. Yeah.

00:35:36.140 You released a couple of songs. I used to be a program director of music stations. Uh, and,

00:35:43.000 um, I, I was fairly good at picking, uh, hits. Uh, I don't know if I could do that anymore,

00:35:50.300 but I heard a song on this, uh, CD when you only replaced, you know, they only released

00:35:56.060 a couple. Uh, I think it's called kiss that girl. Goodbye. Yeah. I think it is a smash.

00:36:03.760 Thank you. If people will play it on radio, if they'll play it, it's a smash. Thank you.

00:36:09.220 Can we play just a little bit of, uh, kiss, kiss that girl. Goodbye. 1.00

00:36:12.620 Well, it's pretty much understood. Rainy days are just no good for leave and no need mixing misery

00:36:29.620 and jam. So it goes for icy days, heartache, slick highways. No time to wait. You're gonna break

00:36:36.980 if you bend and bend again. But a fresh new start will warm your heart like the sun breaking

00:36:44.340 through a cloudy sky. If ever was a good day, it's today. That boy, kiss that girl. Goodbye.

00:36:52.480 Just like a red-eyed flight. Two taillights in the night. Gonna spread the wings and fly.

00:36:58.120 That boy, kiss that girl. Goodbye. Just like a westbound train. You're drinking cheap champagne.

00:37:04.360 Got no more tears to cry. You're long gone like a whisper in the wind. That boy, kiss that

00:37:11.700 girl. Goodbye. That is, that is, that is the hook of the year. Thank you. I mean, that

00:37:17.640 is amazing. Great. You know, my, my daughter, she's nine. And when she was listening to the

00:37:22.400 album, I said, girl, what do you think the first single should be? And she was like, um,

00:37:27.300 kiss that girl goodbye. So she was in that girl. She's right. Oh, she's absolutely right. You'll

00:37:34.640 sing that all day. I heard that the first time I, my wife and I were in the car driving

00:37:39.720 and we must've played it six times in a row. I love it. I love it. It was just great. You

00:37:43.440 know, it, I've had, I had so much fun making this album. I really feel like as a songwriter,

00:37:48.660 I'm catching my stride. I think so too. And I poured my heart into all 20 of these songs.

00:37:54.380 Some of them are lighthearted like that one right there. That's lighthearted. It's fun.

00:37:58.800 There's may I just say, first of all, you're the first person to put 20 songs on a CD all

00:38:05.200 penned by you since Alan Jackson Jackson. Yeah. Okay. So nobody does this. This is, I'm a fan of

00:38:13.420 yours. I listened to your albums. I know you've, you've been around forever, so I don't know

00:38:18.240 necessarily all your old stuff, but I know your last four. Yeah. This is different somehow. This

00:38:24.860 one's different and I think better. I think it's your best one yet. Thank you. Um, but I noticed

00:38:30.160 that there is, there's two, there's two sides to this. Yeah. Uh, one is, uh, one is just fun,

00:38:37.680 just fun, lots of fun stuff. And others are really deeply feel personal and heartfelt,

00:38:46.600 even a different sound in, in some ways. Am I right? You're right. You're right. What happened?

00:38:53.600 I think as I've gotten older, I'm, I'm more confident letting people know that I don't have

00:39:01.560 it all together. And, um, can we go to a song? Cause you just said, let me see. It is trying

00:39:09.220 like the devil. Yeah. Let me just, let me just play a little bit of this and I want you to

00:39:14.560 listen to the lyrics because I think it's, I don't know what you were thinking, but it's

00:39:21.100 an interesting set of lyrics.

00:39:22.820 Well, that golden halo doesn't go so well with my red bandana and blue jeans.

00:39:33.740 God knows when I'm good, I'm good. And when I'm good is seldom. So it seems.

00:39:41.580 So they say fools play with fire. I'm trying my best to not get burned. 0.96

00:39:47.580 While I soak myself in gasoline, one more thing. By now I might have learned, but I've never

00:39:57.240 learned. No, I'm not the man they think I am. It weighs heavy on my heart and mind.

00:40:06.880 Yes, I stumble every step along the way. Like a one-oh who can't walk the line. 0.99

00:40:12.800 So what were you thinking when you're writing this? Why did you, this is a, you know, the

00:40:36.620 next verse goes, so beware of broken glass. Should you stare into the window of my soul

00:40:43.600 and judge me not? I only bear it all. So, you know, that you are not alone. And I think everybody,

00:40:52.820 my wife, she's amazing. She's the closest thing to perfect that I know. She never gets mad. 1.00

00:41:01.160 I've never heard her say one harsh word.

00:41:04.560 You've never loaded the dishwasher then? Well, because I've, every time I load the

00:41:09.620 dishwasher, I get a harsh word. That's not the way you don't put this on the bottom and

00:41:14.360 you don't put this on the top. Yes. That, okay. All right. Excluding that. All right. Okay.

00:41:18.480 I thought that was just assumed with every man. All right. Good. I thought so too, but I 0.51

00:41:22.380 thought maybe she was the freak in the, the unicorn, the unicorn. Right. Um, I wanted to write

00:41:29.520 a song. I don't know if I was feeling depressed. I don't know if I was tired, but I I'm, I'm

00:41:40.260 very much, I like to write how I feel. And I've always been like that, but I've only shared

00:41:46.340 usually the positive moments on albums. And I think that's in some ways taken the heart

00:41:52.280 out of some of my earlier albums. This, this song, trying like the devil. Um, there was

00:41:59.860 a local boy who committed suicide. He was one week away from becoming an Eagle scout and

00:42:07.600 his, everyone just said they never knew that this boy was experiencing such pain, pain. And

00:42:15.520 his dad put something on Facebook that just said, I wish people would be more, uh, open

00:42:20.920 and honest about their struggles. I wish celebrities and singers would, would, would be more, would

00:42:28.860 be more honest on social media, not just put forth this fake, perfect imagery, you know?

00:42:37.720 And, and I wrote that song because I was like, you know what? People need to understand that

00:42:41.840 like, I try to be a good husband and I try to be a good dad, but I fall short, but I keep

00:42:52.540 trying. And I think that's the biggest thing is you've got to keep trying. And I put this

00:42:57.580 song out and then two weeks ago we played the Grand Ole Opry and a, a soldier, uh, and he

00:43:05.760 and his wife came to see me play and he said he struggled with PTSD and he has had, uh, he

00:43:11.700 he said, I have suicidal tendencies is what he said. And he said this song, trying like

00:43:16.300 the devil. I listened to it every morning and it gets me in the right frame of mind

00:43:21.800 that like, it's okay. I'm not alone in this. Cause I think that's what I think we all want

00:43:28.260 to be viewed as something spectacular and we all want to, we want everyone to know that

00:43:33.860 we have it all together. But I think, but we don't. And I think being honest and going,

00:43:40.020 you know what? I don't have it all together. I, you know, when people are like, you know,

00:43:45.400 you know, you're Aaron, you're a Christian, you have it all together. I'll go, first of

00:43:48.540 all, I am so messed up that I need Jesus more than most. So let's just set, let's set the

00:43:54.840 bar really low for me. But I poured my heart into this record and there's, there's lighthearted

00:44:00.860 moments, but then there's moments where it's like, I need to be honest with my fans.

00:44:06.700 I need to share my heart with them. They deserve that. They deserve something that's real. If it's

00:44:11.980 truly going to be music with meaning, then it needs to be the whole heart.

00:44:16.640 We're back with, uh, uh, Aaron Watson. Do you want to, do you want to explain this song first

00:44:21.080 or play it first?

00:44:22.440 I'll explain it. Uh, the songs call 58 and it's a tribute to, uh, the 58 men and women

00:44:30.340 that were killed at the, um, route 91 festival in Las Vegas. Um, a few years back, we played

00:44:39.000 that fifth festival, uh, the year before the shooting. And, um, I was home that night, that

00:44:48.360 Sunday when I heard about the shooting and I had friends there and, uh, just heartbreaking.

00:44:54.780 And then a few months later we played national finals rodeo back in Vegas. And some of the,

00:45:01.280 some of the people who had been injured came out to my show. And of course you and I've talked

00:45:06.900 about this. I have that, I have that song blue bonnets that I wrote about my daughter,

00:45:11.800 Julia, that my wife and I lost. And this person who had been injured at the festival who also

00:45:17.700 lost a friend there. Um, she said, your song blue bonnets has really helped me. She goes,

00:45:25.760 I really wish you would write a song for the victims and their families. And I said, okay.

00:45:32.200 And I thought about like, gosh, how do you write a song like that? But then the next day

00:45:36.880 I woke up with some, with an idea of this, this song that could be called 58. That would

00:45:42.940 be short, meaningful, and only be 58 seconds long. Just, I wanted to end the record, letting

00:45:51.540 those people, those families know that like, we still remember them. We're still thinking

00:45:57.360 about them.

00:45:57.980 Listen to this 58 seconds long. It's called 58.

00:46:01.040 58, lost their lives. Mothers and fathers, husbands and wives. 58, every daughter and son left a

00:46:23.640 long trail of tears, a long 91. 58, got wings way too soon. Waltzing across stars and moon. 58, angels

00:46:44.640 singing along forever missed. This is your song.

00:46:54.940 Your album is, uh, the, the album by the way is red bandana. Um, and, and his name is Aaron Watson.

00:47:01.540 And it is, it's, it's a great, if you like Aaron Watson, this is the best he's done, I think.

00:47:07.740 Thank you. Uh, and, uh, we're having him on because radio, uh, doesn't play Aaron Watson

00:47:14.940 very often because, uh, he doesn't have a record label. And so he's kind of the guy who

00:47:21.460 wouldn't change, wouldn't wear the skinny jeans and wouldn't sing the songs that somebody else

00:47:27.240 wrote. He said like, I know I'd rather just play in a, I'd rather play in a honky tonk someplace,

00:47:31.260 uh, then, you know, get rich and get famous playing somebody else's songs. Uh, and you

00:47:37.880 kind of address this in the song dark horses, which you've addressed before, but it's different

00:47:44.640 this time. It's not about you. Well, you had a big influence on the direction of this album.

00:47:51.120 And I've told you a little bit about this. Well, we had dinner, we had dinner and I had told you

00:47:57.000 about what I was thinking and you said, Aaron, I get it. You're the underdog. You're an unsigned

00:48:03.180 artist. You're independent. You know, because I'm independent, it's difficult for me to get played

00:48:07.840 on mainstream radio. Now we've had some top 40 hits, but it is, it is difficult. Um, you know,

00:48:14.560 we don't get nominated for awards because I'm independent. It just, it just is what it is. And

00:48:18.980 I'm okay with that. So there is that underdog mentality that I always kind of have to embrace,

00:48:25.220 but you said, listen, you've charted albums. Number one, you you've, you've done things

00:48:30.160 that have never been done before. You know, you are, you are the, you said, I think you

00:48:36.160 said you are like the people's champ. You're showing them that despite the industry telling

00:48:44.200 you, you can't, you're proving them wrong. And you were like, you need to write songs that

00:48:49.680 inspire these people that, that don't talk about how difficult it is for you.

00:48:55.220 You're doing, you're living the dream. You're defying gravity, show these people, inspire

00:49:00.960 these people. That's why they support you is because they believe in you.

00:49:05.240 I have no recollection of saying that I might've been hammered, uh, even though I'm an alcoholic,

00:49:09.660 but I don't remember saying that, but I, uh, I will tell you when I heard dark horses,

00:49:15.620 I cheered because I thought this is a kind of song that everybody needs to hear the lyrics.

00:49:23.720 This is the one we're kicking off the show to the new show. This is like, this song goes

00:49:29.340 out to everyone who's dreaming. It's like, get out there, work your butt off, earn it. Don't

00:49:35.720 give up. If you know what, get ready. They're going to tell you you're not good enough. Get

00:49:40.500 ready. You may not get into the college you want. You may not get this that you want right

00:49:45.700 off the bat. Whatever your dream is, you need to get ready because it's not going to be easy.

00:49:51.320 Get ready and get out there and work hard. Listen, listen to dark horse.

00:49:57.700 Yeah. This one goes out to the dreamer. Always out there Raymond. Hi, don't you let them clip

00:50:02.640 your wings. I'll say that you can't fly. This one goes out to the loser losing time and time again

00:50:08.380 and time again keeps on believing that someday they're going to win. When nobody knows your name,

00:50:14.140 nobody knows your face. Everybody counts you out long before you start that race. You can let 0.99

00:50:19.760 them place their bets. Let them laugh and drink their wine. Let them eat their words when you're

00:50:24.320 first to the finish line. There's your day in the sun. You're rolling like a young gun. Now it's your time

00:50:31.380 to ride. Let your dark horse run. They can't measure your heart. They can't tear you apart.

00:50:37.320 You'll finally catch in your stride. Let your dark horse run. Through the fire. Far the wire. You're a

00:50:44.100 runway train. There's no turning back. This one goes out to the girls. Go show the world you can. Never

00:50:50.960 let them hold you back just because you want a man. This one goes out to those underdogs who aren't afraid

00:50:56.860 to bite. Change your game. Break the chain. Get off that porch and fight. So change your day in the sun.

00:51:03.620 You're rolling like a young gun. Now it's your time to ride. Let your dark horse run. They can't measure

00:51:09.820 your heart. They can't tear you apart. You'll finally catch in your stride. Let your dark horse run.

00:51:16.060 Through the fire. Far the wire. You're a runway train. There's no turning back. Let your dark horse run.

00:51:22.700 This is from the new CD that is out. It's called Red Bandana by Aaron Watson. It is... I don't know if

00:51:32.300 I'm the only one that feels this way, but there are albums that I will always associate with summer.

00:51:37.120 Yeah. There are things that I will always associate with summer when you had the windows down and you've

00:51:43.260 got the stereo cranked and you're just singing at the top of your lungs because no one can hear you.

00:51:48.840 Yeah. That's this kind of album. Man, that is a great compliment. I wanted this to be something

00:51:55.260 that people could enjoy. It's cinematic. It is. I actually thought that. I did crazy things like

00:52:04.020 I recorded my grandmother's wind chimes. I recorded the train that passes by the ranch.

00:52:08.880 I recorded my dad's AM fuzz radio. Hang on. More on that.

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