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Summary
Glenn and Stu talk about infanticide in France, the Warren vs. Trump debate, and why a woman should not be allowed to have sex with a stranger in her hotel room. Also, a story about an employee who was in a car accident on a business trip and the company refused to pay compensation.
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Hello, podcasters. It's time for today's podcast and a good one. In fact, I don't even know where
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to start on this one. Well, we started with France and France. Try being a businessman in
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France. If you think we're screwed up, try being a businessman in France. The story we lead with
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today is fantastic. We also talk about infanticide and the things that nobody in the media is
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talking about. Nick DiPaolo is on with us today. Very, very funny. We hired a couple of listeners
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to watch tonight's debate because, honestly, we just can't do it. We just can't do it.
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We have other things we're doing for the show tomorrow. I'll be watching the NFL game to see
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if anyone knows. I'll be going to my son's school to parent-teacher meeting. About education because
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you're going to talk about education tomorrow. Exactly right. That's what I'm going to do.
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Right. Also, probably, I think, the most important break that we have done on this show in I don't
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know how long. I have a feeling on this. It just kind of came out and it threw a discussion with
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with Stu and it just feels absolutely right. How Donald Trump could lose the election if Warren
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becomes the candidate. It's kind of a it's it's it's a horror show. It's a horror version of American
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horror story. Yeah, it's a horror show, but you must listen to it. It's all on today's podcast.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Now, imagine you're coming home, Stu, and you're coming from a business trip. Okay, you went you
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went someplace and you were there on business. And you were like, honey, damn this corporation.
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I, I, I, I, I broke my leg. And I was working. And you're like, where I mean, you're still you work
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at an office, you sit behind a I broke my leg. And there was laws on a business trip. Okay, okay.
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And then she found out that you were water skiing. What would your wife say?
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And my business isn't you're not your business is what you do. Okay. And there were no cameras or
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anything else. You were just out on a boat with a group of people, hot people, water skiing, hot
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people, hot people. Okay. She may be a little suspicious that something else was going on. Right.
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And would she say, really, that's the company's problem? Would she, would you, you're like the
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company. And did the company ask you to go water skiing? No, it is my free time. Yeah. No,
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no, she wouldn't in France. Here's what happened. An employee died on a business trip. And the
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family is suing the company and the courts just ruled. Yes, that is a that that's a responsibility
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of the company to make sure that their people are protected. Here's what happened. He was
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an employee that had a heart attack while having sex with a stranger in his hotel room.
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Um, the firm, they'd have, my wife would have more of a problem with that than the water
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skiing. Yeah. Well, I didn't want to give you something so insane. Right. Right. I mean,
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we, my wife would have a problem with the water skiing, you know, somebody coming in and going,
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and I, I, I, I, okay. I broke both my legs because we're having this crazy sex. I don't think my
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wife would say, okay. No. And she wouldn't say that damn company. She'd say, I'm leaving.
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I'm glad. Right. Glad this happened to you. Right. And I only have to break two arms. I don't
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have to break all four limbs. It saves me some time. It saves me time. Right. So, uh, the family
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said that they were entitled to compensation, compensation, uh, because that was a workplace
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injury. And so the company said, no, that's not a workplace industry. I don't know if you know,
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but he was in his hotel room at night. We had finished work and he picked up a stranger in the
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bar and it was so good. No offense to rub it in here, but it was so good that he had a heart attack
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during it. Is it, uh, well, I mean, I guess he wouldn't have been at that hotel if not for the
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work assignment. Uh, well, that's what the judge said. Oh my God. That's what the judge said. The
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employer is responsible for any accident occurring during a business trip. He wouldn't have been there
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in a quote, extramarital relationship with a perfect stranger. Had he not been asked to go
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on the business trip? Oh my God. That's amazing. God bless America. If you think we're insane,
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we're not fully there yet. You don't think that could happen in the United States? No,
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please don't wreck. I just, I don't have, I do not have a case to bring to you, but we can look.
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I've got the debate tonight. I'm trying to build myself up with a lot of hope and a lot of good
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things so I can watch the debate and last maybe two minutes before my head explodes. I'll say
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though, I think it's a good idea to, if you're going to commit a crime in France, wait till you're
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on a business trip. Like if you were to go and murder someone, wouldn't the company be responsible
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for that murder? I didn't do it. I was on a business trip. I was at a quality in and I just
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murdered somebody at the bar. But I mean, if I wasn't working for this company, I would never
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have been at the quality in. I robbed the bank, but I was only in town that one night because
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business told me to go there. As long as you could show it's not premeditated, I think you're
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clear. I think you are. I like it. It was, this bank was a total stranger to me. I'd never
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seen that bank before. I had no idea. Just an extramarital robbery with another bank.
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If the debate moderator today were to say, if a person were to go and have sex on a trip,
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a business trip, who should be responsible? You have to believe at least eight of the 10
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people are saying it's the company's fault. Who's there tonight? I will tell you exact
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number of how many people, how many people would say yes. You have Joe Biden. He would say,
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ooh, he's tough. Come back to him. Okay. Bernie Sanders. Yes. Company's always at fault for
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everything. Yes. You know, Elizabeth Warren. Yes. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Pete
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Buttigieg. Somehow or another, the banks would be involved if Elizabeth Warren was, was. That's
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true. Yeah. The banks are always. It would be the company, but really the companies were,
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were driven by the, by the banks to do it. Pete Buttigieg. Yeah, I think he'd do it.
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But he'd put it in a way to where everybody would kind of go like, yeah, that's kind of common
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sense. That's just the average everyday Joe saying that. You think he's not to me, average
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everyday Joe. He's like McKenzie consultant, right? Like he's, he's, he speaks in that way
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that we've been in those meetings before with like those high level consultants and they lay
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it all out and you're like, I don't think they said anything there. Like that was a lot of,
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a lot of syllables, but I, yes, yes, yes. The syllable to content ratio is very, I didn't
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say he meant it. I said, I mean, that's what he's good at. He's good at, he's good at just
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talking around things where you're like, I don't know. I don't know what he said, but I kind of
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feel good. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Uh, Kamala Harris. Uh, Kamala. Yeah. Yeah. She's in. Yeah.
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She's in Bob Frank O'Rourke. Oh my God. Oh yes. He's in because Bob Frank is in ultimate
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campaign desperation mode and will say anything. He might even say we F bomb on the stage tonight.
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I'll be shocked. Is that not incredible? I'll be shocked, dude. We got it. You can use the F
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word. I mean, they all love it. They're all so proud of themselves when they can say, because
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Donald Trump in a private meeting said S whole countries. And so now they all got to get to say
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the full word because it's news in quotes. And so they all come on, you know, Donald Trump
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said, and he says the whole word. No, but, and then now Bob Frank is saying the F word
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everywhere. Right. Um, because he's so desperate for attention. His Hispanic priest, uh, Patrick
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O'Malley, father Patrick O'Malley. Oh, very, very Hispanic. He's very upset that, that his
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young altar boy was used, is using the F word like that. Uh, and Patrick O'Malley created
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salsa Verde, if I'm not mistaken. Oh yeah. Very Hispanic. Very Hispanic. Triple Hispanic. Yeah.
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Yeah. Trip Spanish. Yeah. Is his, is, is his official term. Um, how about Cory Booker? Uh,
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yeah. Cory Booker. Cory Booker's a pandering machine. So he's going to pander no matter what
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is said. Yep. Yep. Yep. Uh, he actually was bashing Trump about the bill that they did together on,
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on, on criminal justice reform. He's like Chrissy Teigen, uh, the model, uh, slash wife of someone
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who's accomplished things has, uh, wrote some really nasty thing with all sorts of swears and
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stuff at Donald Trump. Um, and, and she, he came out and he's like another example of, uh,
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Donald Trump targeting minority women. It's like, wait a minute. She was calling him like all sorts
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of swears. And, and, and I don't even think he named her. She came back with some really like
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vile rant against it. And she's like, he's like, I'm on team Chrissy.
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Oh, wait. Chrissy Teigen is now a victim of something. Yes. Chrissy Teigen is apparently
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the victim. Her poor multi-million dollar status. I did it. Really? And she's a minority?
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I don't know. I honestly don't care. I don't either. I don't know why everyone else is so
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obsessed with this. Like who cares what her skin color is? I don't get it.
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And next thing you know, you're going to be saying, no, the company's not responsible for
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that extramarital affair heart attack. So we have three more. I think we named seven so far. So we
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have Julian Castro. Yes. Uh, Amy Klobuchar. I don't even know that. Yeah. Yeah. No, I did.
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Not really relevant. And Andrew Yang. Yang would say no. Yeah. Yang would say no. And I think Biden
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would just, it would just have to look at everybody else. And if everybody else was saying
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yes, then he'd say yes. And then he'd probably flub six, seven sentences in a row. Yeah. He'd
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pronounce yes as. Okay. I think that's a yes from Joe Biden.
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Pat is here from the Pat Gray radio roundup, otherwise known as Pat Gray unleashed point point
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of personal privilege. Uh, he, him, his. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Um, Pat is the host of that
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podcast, which you can hear live as he records it, uh, every morning, uh, right before this
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one, or you can download it at your discretion. Uh, and, uh, you can find that wherever you
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get, uh, podcast or on blaze tv.com. Pat. Yes. Let's talk about the craziness in Philadelphia.
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Yeah. Uh, Philadelphia is acting police commissioner and people are calling for her to resign. Um,
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because 25 years ago she wore a t-shirt. Yeah. And, but she wore a t-shirt. Here's what the
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t-shirt said. Are you ready for this? Yeah. Now she's a police commissioner, police commissioner
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in Philadelphia. Right. And she wore a t-shirt and it said, LAPD, we treat you like a King.
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Of course, that's not funny at all. Oh, it's not funny at all. No. And, um, Rodney. Yes. Yes. Oh,
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I never thought of that. Yes. A little double on ton perhaps there. Yeah. And so they're demanding.
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So she came in, she came in to work, what, last week and was wearing that? No, no, no. Just the,
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a, a photo surfaced of her from 25 years ago. From 25 years ago. In which she had the t-shirt on.
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Huh. Huh. And now she, you know, they're, they're demanding that she resign because of it.
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Yeah. I mean, you're not going to be able to, uh, you better start deleting your Twitter feed
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right now. Our kids are doomed. No Facebook pages. Uh, be careful of your, uh, of your wardrobe.
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I mean, yeah, you're, our kids are going to be, our kids are. Look at what people say on Twitter
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all the time. All the time. And you know what? Here's the thing. How, when you're a kid,
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when you're a 15 year old boy, you're not saying things necessarily that you believe you're saying
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them because you know, you can get a rise out of people. Oh yeah. Yeah. Cause it's just antagonizing
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when you're a 15 year old boy. You don't know what you believe, right? You don't know what you
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believe. And it's not, and it's not hatred. I mean, it could be, you know, I saw it. I saw Jeff,
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uh, what's his name Bowers, uh, and the way he was, you know, beating up on those other kids and
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he had real hatred in his heart. So Stephen King tells the truth. Uh, but for the most part,
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yeah, mostly kids are just saying things that. Yeah. You can go back and find any incentive,
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insensitive joke from a kid at 15 years old. It's usually made because they think it's going to
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piss a bunch of people off. It's not made because they have a deep seated ideology. Oh, you know,
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like, it's just like, and when you're not supposed to say, let me say that. Right.
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And when you're young, especially with comedy, when you're young, you don't cut funny. You don't
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cut funny. That was literally our theme really for the show when back in the day, back in the day,
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you don't cut funny. You don't cut funny. Is it funny? Don't cut it, but it's really offensive.
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Is it funny? Yes. Don't cut funny. That was my, that was the first thing I told everybody that
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came to work for me on the show. Don't cut funny. You leave it in. Don't cut funny. Now,
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if it's not funny, you know, we were never, I, we didn't invent, you know, the claptor that
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hadn't been invented yet. Like, ah, not funny, but I'm laughing in approval now. I mean, how are
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our kids going to survive? The only hope is saturation. I think for kids today, think about
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this way. I was, I was reading, going back through, we were talking about history yesterday and I was
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clicking around through a bunch of stories and went down some wormhole. And there was a story about
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Dan Quayle and Dan Quayle. They found, they actually found the potato kid recently.
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Do you know this? They went, they found the potato kid. Yeah. They found the potato kid.
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Wait, wait, wait. For anybody who doesn't know this story, he's a child that Dan Quayle had kept in a,
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in a dark box underneath his refrigerator sink with the potatoes. It was a horrible, horrible thing
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when we found this out. And it was initially because Dan Quayle impregnated a potato.
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Right. Um, so it was a very strange story. But the potato has a lot of eyes and he couldn't take
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the way the potato was looking at him, but that's a different story. Yeah. There's a lot of
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justification for what he did and we're not going to get into it now. Um, but so he, if you remember,
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of course he went up and, and the kids spelled the word potato correctly and he added on the E and
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there was a back and forth about how it used to be spelled. Which by the way, it used to be spelled
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that way. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, there's a long story, but I mean, it basically, I mean,
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Quayle made the point essentially that it ruined his life. I mean, it certainly ruined his career.
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Um, and was a, it really dramatically affected his life in a terrible way. We have politicians
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that misspell words a hundred times a day on Twitter and no one even bothers noticing,
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right? At some point there's a saturation of these things where people just don't care anymore.
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And maybe we'll get to that point with our kids. They all have so much crap on their, on their back.
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It's all said so many offensive things on Twitter over the years that you can't hire anybody. Right.
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Yeah. So no one cares. Unless it's the algorithm that does it. If it's the algorithm and the algorithm
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has been written by somebody who has an agenda, it will only silence those people. It's doing it now.
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We're doing it in real time. It's only silencing. Yeah. Yeah. And for instance, uh, let's take this.
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You want to talk about saturation, the saturation of the story two years ago, that, um, Planned Parenthood
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was selling body parts. Okay. Everybody was talking about it. And what did the media say?
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Not true. Not true. This is made up. That's edited videos, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right.
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Now we have Planned Parenthood admitting in a court of law and the people that were procuring
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it, admitting under oath that yes, they were selling them. And the company that was procuring
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them testified that they were taking beating hearts out of intact bodies. So the child was
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born and killed after birth. That's now under oath in a court of law. Nobody's talking about
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it. Nobody cares because it's, it's kind of like, I don't know. Yeah. We missed that boat.
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Yeah. It's not going to get back on it now. Yeah. You're not going to get on it. So if
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you, if you just saturate it with something, when you turns out to be true, it doesn't matter.
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Caliphate. Caliphate. Yeah. Yeah. You sat there getting beat up for three years about how a
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caliphate might be coming. And then all of a sudden there was a caliphate. And there was a
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caliphate. And then like the New York times just starts a podcast called caliphate. I know
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like they would, these people are out there criticizing you like crazy for years. They're
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like crazy conspiracy theorist, all of these things. And then they go make all this money on
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a, I know, I know, I know. But that's what happens. Yeah. That's what happens. So I was reading
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an article the other day that was titled Dave Chappelle will save the nation. And I, and
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when I read it, I thought, yeah, you know what, if he survives this, he might save the
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nation. Have you seen, have you seen Nick DiPaolo? No. Nick DiPaolo is not on Netflix.
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I mean, he's, he wrote for Chris Rock. The guy is really, really funny. And one of those
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comedians that all those guys respect and admire. John Stewart on his last show said,
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I'm, I'm, this was a joy and I can't wait to go back and be on stage with people like Nick DiPaolo.
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And he was named another comedian. He named another comedian, two comedians. So, I mean,
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Nick is really, really good, but he's not doing, you know, the Netflix special because he's on the
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other side, but he is, you think if you think that, uh, um, what's his name that you just said,
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Chappelle is politically incorrect. Go on YouTube and, uh, look for, uh, Nick DiPaolo.
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Really? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. It's like, I watched him and I'm like, how is he getting away with
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he's coming up in a few minutes. How is he getting away with saying all of these things? And it's
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because he's funny. He's very, very funny. You don't cut funny. Right. And I think we're at that
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point to where people don't care anymore. They're, they're starting to, I've never seen a funnier
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routine than Dave Chappelle's. I mean, that, that is an hour and 10 minutes of just absolute
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brilliance. And Netflix is, does take some chances with this stuff. Yeah, they do. And he, he's not
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really, I wouldn't call that a left wing routine either, because every time you think he's going
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there, he, there's a little twist and it hits both sides. But so, but he, and it's, but it's
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also not a right wing routine. No, it's not at all. I think people, conservatives are like,
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oh, well, finally someone's saying some conservative things. Really? He's just making observations
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about the world and not caring which side it falls on. Right. And that is like a, it's a
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superpower these days. It is. I mean, Bill Burr has a, as a special up there now, which is
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getting the same type of buzz as the Chappelle one. They just launched it. I'll tell you, there
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is, there is a chance that comedy saves the country, saves the country. Yeah. I mean,
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you know, it, it, there is that possibility. We lost all sense of humor and, you know, we've
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talked about it for years. How do you write something crazier than what's happening? You
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know what I mean? And it's just the observations that no one is willing to say anymore that are,
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that are true and funny. Because it used to be, if you were joking about something,
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you were kind of left, let off, off the hook. Right. You, you didn't lose your job if you were
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joking about something and clearly people knew you were joking about it. Well, that doesn't apply
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anymore at all. The t-shirt at all. Right. LAPD treats you like, that's a joke. That's clearly
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not serious. That's a joke. No one should get fired for that. Right. Particularly. I mean,
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I guess if she was the police commissioner today, maybe it would be a bad idea.
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Yeah. She was wearing it today. 25 years ago. Right. I'm meeting with the police commissioners
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in Los Angeles and I thought I'd wear this t-shirt to greet them. That might be a problem. Yeah. Not
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Hey, it's Glenn. And I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day
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with or start your morning with. And that is the news and why it matters. If you like this show,
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you're going to love the news and why it matters. It's a bunch of us that all get together at the end
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of the day and just talk about the stories that matter to you and your life. The news and why
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it matters. Look for it now, wherever you download your favorite podcast. Ladies and gentlemen,
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from the comfort, I believe, of his own home in Georgia, it's Nick DiPaolo.
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How are you? Not my home. I have an actual studio. You have an actual studio. I'm doing very well.
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Yeah. Good. So, uh, can I, yeah, go ahead. Physical, physical appearance since,
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since O'Reilly days says, I love it. You got the white hair, the goatee. Let me just,
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You know, it's really, you know, it's, it's really horrible. My, my family has white hair
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for very young. My sister started getting theirs at 30. I was the last to get it. And I always wanted
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it because my grandfather had it, but I've turned into my grandfather. And if that's not bad enough,
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I do look exactly like Colonel Sanders. It's not cool. It's not popular with the women.
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Well, the white shirt and the black tie is not helping. I mean, put a, put a bolo tie on there.
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Right. Okay. All right. As you have pointed out, Glenn, though, you are fatter than Colonel Sanders.
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Yeah. When I actually looked at a picture of Colonel Sanders, I am in worse shape than the guy who
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was selling fried chicken out of the trunk of his car. Yeah. But he does P90X three times a week.
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How you doing, Nick? I'm doing good. How you doing? You look, you look good.
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That's really not necessary. No, sure. Sure. You didn't mean it that way. So Nick, let me,
00:22:59.340
let me ask you tonight is the, tonight is the, the, the democratic debate, debate in Houston.
00:23:05.880
It's tonight. It's tonight. It's tonight going up against football. Gee, I wonder who's,
00:23:09.840
who's going to win in the ratings. What are your thoughts? What are your thoughts on Joe Biden?
00:23:17.160
Well, he's Joe Biden's out of his mind and he has no business. He, he has no business being in the
00:23:25.380
race. I mean, I can't believe he's still in the lead. Yeah. This guy, he doesn't even know what state
00:23:30.340
he's in. He's a, well, I, I love, I love here coming to New Hampshire. It's one of the most
00:23:34.500
beautiful States. Just, just look around the rock mountains. Uh, you got the smoky mountains and
00:23:39.300
I'll tell you, I love Denver. He, I can't believe. So, so, but is he, is he the guy that is doing
00:23:45.980
well just because everybody else is nuts? I mean, go through them. Bernie, Bernie Sanders.
00:23:52.140
Well, he's a Jew living in Vermont. Do I have to say any more?
00:23:55.620
I don't know. I mean, I don't know what that means. Exactly. Well, I, you know, he, he hates
00:24:01.780
the 1%, everything 1%. They're getting all the tax breaks. They're getting all the money. Uh, I,
00:24:06.700
I, I hate 1% milk. Uh, I graduated top 1% of my class. I don't like that. And, uh, I, why do you,
00:24:13.440
why do you live in, uh, Vermont, Bernie? Well, I, I love Subarus. I love women in flannel. I love covered
00:24:17.980
bridges and, uh, healthcare. He, he's, first of all, he talks like, uh, like me. I'm from Boston. He,
00:24:24.560
he puts ours on words that, whether, you know, I'll have a vodka and tonic and, uh, I have to
00:24:29.500
head, I'll be touring in Nebraska and, uh, and, uh, and, uh, you and the, and the butter and, uh,
00:24:35.420
damn it. I wrote the bill, damn it. I like, I like the spunk. I gotta be honest with you. I,
00:24:41.400
I like he's crazy, you know, his politics, forget about it. You made a good point though. There's so
00:24:45.820
far left. And if I was Bernie, I'd be PO'd because, uh, Liz Warren is just, uh, you know,
00:24:51.760
rehashing his ideas. He had the nerve to come out and admit he was a socialist. And now she's just
00:24:57.120
trying to steal his thunder. Uh, but, uh, ours on the word where there should be ours. Yes. And
00:25:05.240
adding them where they're, they don't exist, but that's what Brooklyn people do in Boston people.
00:25:10.080
But how about, how about, go ahead. No, go ahead. Go ahead. Well, cups of coffee in me. Uh,
00:25:15.280
how about the fact that he doesn't understand money? He, he says, I don't understand why we,
00:25:20.160
we can't pay peaches like ballplayers. Uh, we do. We, we pay him like double a ballplayers.
00:25:29.500
But I mean, he doesn't understand that a Bernie, let me explain it to you. When you can get 20
00:25:34.000
million people to tune in to a science teacher, rubbing a balloon on a kid's cardigan, uh, to teach
00:25:39.600
electricity and then sell 12,000 beers at 10 bucks a pop. And then we can pay him. Look, there's only
00:25:45.340
one type of teacher who should get paid like a pro ball player. And that's the, uh, young female
00:25:50.160
teachers who sleep with their 14 year old boy students. I will actually take them to, I will
00:25:56.900
actually represent them in arbitration. I'll go right into the principal's office and say,
00:26:01.540
Mrs. Johnson deserves another $200,000 a year. Well, why is that? Well, she slept with half the
00:26:06.660
basketball team last month. And, uh, look at her numbers. She's having a great year.
00:26:10.160
I don't think that's helpful. I don't, I don't think that's helpful. Uh, so, uh, what do you,
00:26:16.620
what do you make of Pete Buttigieg? I hate him more than Hillary. That's all I have to say about
00:26:21.840
that. This guy is a, he is a smarmy little sanctimonious, holier than thou. I can't stand
00:26:30.400
this guy. And, and he's on this whole, I mean, he, he passes himself off as this, you know,
00:26:36.100
religious, whatever. And now he's quoting the Bible. He says in, inaction on, you know, climbing,
00:26:42.880
uh, on inaction on, uh, you know, uh, climate change is a sin, he says. So what are you,
00:26:50.260
what are you going to go into the confessional? Bless me, father. If I have sinned, I, uh,
00:26:54.240
I have a sexual thoughts about my neighbor's wife. I murdered a person 20 years ago and I am not
00:26:59.300
using paper straws. I mean, come on. I was just in, uh, Los Angeles last week and they handed,
00:27:09.740
you know, you, I asked for a straw. They don't even give you a plastic straw. I mean,
00:27:13.620
you have to ask for it and then they don't give, they reward you with this paper straw that I hated
00:27:19.300
those when we, well, they were passing out milk when I was in school. They're horrible. They're
00:27:25.160
horrible. You want, you want me to believe that Hollywood stars are snorting coke with paper
00:27:30.100
straws? I mean, come on. Matthew McConaughey has 19 paper cuts in his left sinus. Come on.
00:27:37.420
It's all belong. Just don't get rid of the crazy straws. That's all I ask.
00:27:41.000
There's a, there's a couple of things that I saw today. There was a story about a 77 year old guy
00:27:47.380
who's being released from prison because Trump has said, this is ridiculous. He was digging
00:27:52.540
a trench around his property because he was afraid of, uh, of fires. Uh, and he dug a trench
00:28:00.620
and he, he kind of made a little moat. He took a, like a two foot stream and channeled it in so that
00:28:08.100
water was around his property and the EPA threw him in jail. He's 77 threw him in jail. I didn't know.
00:28:15.580
I didn't, I didn't know Bernie owned a shovel. Yeah. Yes. Well, then he's not in jail. Uh, but Trump has
00:28:21.660
just, has just let him, uh, let him out. Uh, and now, well, that is, well, that's good. Now the EPA
00:28:29.980
is saying that they want to eliminate all animal testing.
00:28:35.680
Look, I said this on a special years ago. I said, uh, as far as animal testing, you know,
00:28:41.740
if, if hooking a monkey's brain up to a car battery is going to save somebody from dying of AIDS,
00:28:46.380
I have two things to say. The red is positive and the black is negative. Okay. If you don't want
00:28:53.740
to use animals, let's replace the, let's, let's replace the animals with career politicians.
00:28:59.180
Let's, uh, let's, let's, let's pump some chemicals and solvent into Gerald Nadler and see how he does
00:29:05.220
after a week. Are you smoking? No, I am. He just reacts like normal human beings do when they walk
00:29:15.480
up a bunch of stairs when he laughs, like that's the physical activity. Yeah, no, this is, this is a,
00:29:20.740
this is quite a workout for me. All right. It sounds like you have tuberculosis hanging out on the
00:29:25.460
Mexican border. Yeah, I, I, I have been, I'm living in Texas now, by the way, you're living,
00:29:30.040
you moved to Georgia. Yeah. How do you, how do you like it? I love it down here. I, I moved to a,
00:29:37.440
you know, a very red state. And, uh, first thing I did when I got down here, I wanted to be Southern.
00:29:42.660
So I bought a handgun and I put it on my lap and I went through Chick-fil-A drive-thru and I thought
00:29:49.480
I was going to scare the person in the window. Didn't even phase them. They're like, what do you got?
00:29:52.980
Let's say I had a 38 snub nose. That's a 642 lightweight, ain't it? Yeah. I shot, I shot,
00:29:58.500
I shot my stepdad with that. He was trying to mess around with my sister on the 4th of July.
00:30:02.360
And I'm like, that's a nice story, Diane. Anyways, can I get some ketchup?
00:30:06.580
How many, how many shows a year do you do, Nick? How, how, how often are you out on the road?
00:30:11.920
Not as much as I used to be, Glenn. And that's the whole idea. I, I just hate the road, you know?
00:30:17.780
Uh, so I used to do 30, 35 weeks a year when I was, you know, young and single and chasing women and it
00:30:24.080
was fun. And, uh, you know, but, uh, after your eighth time back to Cleveland, you know,
00:30:29.360
how many times can you visit the bowling hall of fame? And, uh, so I probably, I don't know,
00:30:35.620
probably it's probably around 15 weekends. So have you been, have you been affected by this,
00:30:42.920
this, this quashing of comedy over the last 10, 15 years?
00:30:49.280
I, well, yes and no. I mean, I'm sure I didn't do myself any favors like landing gig gigs, uh,
00:30:57.180
as far as TV and actual Hollywood show business. That's the thing you don't know. Uh, but,
00:31:03.380
but as far as live performances, I, I, I came out of the closet as a righty on tough crowd in like
00:31:09.420
2002. I was, uh, you know, I was spewing the term cultural Marxism on that show,
00:31:15.340
which was a brilliant, brilliant idea by me. I have $11 in the bank. I'm on national TV.
00:31:21.200
You know what I mean? Everybody gives Dennis Miller and Schwarzenegger credit for being righties.
00:31:25.640
I'm like, yeah, well they had 70 million in the bank when they, uh, so, but, so I, I got,
00:31:30.660
I got pigeonholed as a conservative. I'm not, I'm a comedian who happens to lean right in, in,
00:31:35.740
is, and so, so people came out and, and thank God Trump came along. Uh, so, you know, but,
00:31:42.120
but yes and no, I, I, a few people walk out of my shows all the time.
00:31:45.880
Well, it may not be for your politics. I mean, you are, you are my clothing. Yeah. I mean,
00:31:53.460
you are, you are, you say everything, uh, you say everything. Let, let me ask you what your,
00:31:58.860
your thought is on the Dave Chappelle special. I absolutely loved it. Dave Chappelle. And I've
00:32:06.240
said this, okay. And I know him, I like him as a person. I honestly, I don't think Richard Pryor
00:32:12.540
or Chris Rock have anything on Dave Chappelle. I think he's a genius. I have written for Chris Rock.
00:32:18.520
I wrote for Chris Rock and, uh, I, Chappelle is just, he's like a jazz musician. He's smooth.
00:32:25.840
Yeah. He's smart. He's concise. That being said, my only problem is people are coming out there and
00:32:32.820
people on my side going, he, boy, he's fearless. Well, he, first of all, he's a famous black guy
00:32:38.060
with a hundred million in the bank. What's he got to, what's he got to lose? I'm fearless.
00:32:43.900
I'm a 57 year old white guy. I've been saying this stuff forever. That's why I'm doing a show
00:32:50.060
in the back of an Applebee's right now. But that special was tremendous. And I'm glad somebody that
00:32:57.540
that's famous and has that many people watching, but the message, but I, but I've been preaching
00:33:02.160
that. And if you watch my special breath of fresh air, I touched on basically the same things Dave
00:33:07.620
Chappelle did. His came out a few months after mine, we touched on the same subjects. People should put
00:33:12.600
them side by side and go, and this is how it is for a white guy. So I just don't like that. They're
00:33:17.040
going, Oh, he's fearless. A famous black guy in show business has never gotten trouble for anything
00:33:21.960
other than OJ in a couple of extreme cases. But I mean, uh, he's not going to get trouble for
00:33:27.360
anything he says. And, uh, so you don't think this cause he has gotten pushback. Yeah. Pushbacks
00:33:34.100
one thing, but being canned or being, you know, put under the radar for the rest of your showbiz
00:33:38.760
career is another thing. And, uh, that that's never going to happen, uh, to ship. I use this
00:33:44.640
example. Remember Tracy Morgan, his wife was pregnant. He actually came out and said, if
00:33:49.620
my baby's gay, I'm going to kill it. He actually said that. And, uh, you know, six months later,
00:33:55.620
he has a new, uh, series on TBS. I mean, you know what I mean? Yeah. Tell me a white guy
00:34:01.680
that could say something that outrageous and not be banned from the planet. So I, I, I, but he's
00:34:07.080
a genius. Chappelle's a genius. And he's in my top five easy. And I suggest everybody
00:34:12.500
watch that special, but I then, then watch mine and I'm not comparing myself to him as
00:34:16.800
a comedian cause he's tremendous. Uh, but you know, you're going to see the point of view
00:34:21.520
from a white, straight 57 year old white guy. And, and, and he has a little more leeway
00:34:27.880
to say stuff that I do, even though I cut loose. You, you do cut loose. He is, um, you know,
00:34:33.000
I think he's being, um, uh, people are assigning things to him that he didn't necessarily say
00:34:39.380
his, his jokes. Um, many of them take you a minute before you say, wait, wait a minute.
00:34:46.400
Did he say that? Or did he say this? He's, he's making a point, but you can't really pin
00:34:52.740
him down. He's just willing to say things, but I don't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't say that
00:34:59.540
he's for instance, you know, pro-life, but I don't know that he's pro-abortion either.
00:35:04.940
I don't know where he stands. Uh, which I think is part of the genius of the way he's,
00:35:13.160
Yeah, I do. It's funny you say that cause the next hour I'm working on, I have about 10
00:35:18.460
minutes on abortion and you won't know where I stand either. You know, I, I look, I can't
00:35:24.180
say I, people assume I'm pro-life cause I lean right in my politics. Uh, but I'd be a
00:35:29.300
hypocrite to say that because when I was young, I got a few girls pregnant and I was
00:35:32.980
glad to have planned parenthoods or I don't know, Midas mufflers. I can't remember where
00:35:37.200
they used to do that stuff. Beautifully put, Nick. Beautifully put.
00:35:41.820
Yeah, I have like, get her up on the jack. I, uh, I have no way to know.
00:35:46.920
He's playing at the Vatican next week. Just, uh, get your tickets now.
00:35:51.360
But, but you're right. He sort of has the, uh, Michael Jordan, remember Michael Jordan's
00:35:55.360
quote? They said, why don't you ever talk politics? And he says, because both Republicans
00:35:58.920
and Democrats buy sneakers and, uh, it's sort of Chappelle sort of, but he, I, but I don't
00:36:04.620
think he's doing that intentionally. I mean, he's, that's how he thinks he's looking at both
00:36:08.420
sides fairly and you don't see that from too many comics. And that, that, that was the
00:36:12.680
genius of it that you, like you said, you could pin him down and it's really funny on
00:36:17.280
And look, Netflix is Netflix, but let's not downplay the success of a breath of fresh air.
00:36:20.840
I mean, you're at 800,000 views now on YouTube. You can watch it for free. I mean, it's,
00:36:24.940
it's done really well. People are, have a thirst for this right now.
00:36:28.940
That's, that's exactly right. They do have a thirst for it. I'm lucky, uh, Trump came
00:36:33.420
along. Um, because yeah, I'm, I'm brutally honest about it.
00:36:37.840
So wait, so wait, wait, wait, is it Trump or is it that people are starting to see the
00:36:43.740
effects in their own life? You know, everybody wants to be nice. You know, I don't say that
00:36:48.320
they're handicapped. It makes them feel bad. Okay. I don't want to, but then you get to a
00:36:53.720
point to where you're like, shut up, shut up. This is affecting my life. There's a six
00:36:59.060
foot four guy in a dress that's now wrestling my daughter in female wrestling. Shut up.
00:37:06.660
And so I think they're just, this is played out long enough to where people are seeing
00:37:11.860
it affect their, their own life in a negative way.
00:37:15.980
Well, that's some of it, but, but when Trump, look, this is when I, and again, folks, keep
00:37:21.220
this in context. I'm a comedian. I have a much darker sense of humor than you do, but
00:37:25.040
this, this is what I swear to God. And I said, I'm going to vote for Trump. And I'm laying
00:37:29.060
on the couch. I'm half asleep. I got one eye open. Remember he went after the, uh, physically
00:37:33.520
challenged reporter for New York. Yes. I look over the TV and I see Trump. And I said, where
00:37:38.880
do I pull the lever? This guy does not give a crap. This is my guy. And you know what?
00:37:45.120
He, he's been great for me because he's calling the media out on the PC bull crap. And, uh,
00:37:51.700
and yes, like you said, uh, just through the way things are evolving, people have had enough,
00:37:56.320
but, but I love that, uh, he, he would say anything I'm watching them do a rally the other
00:38:02.180
day and they throw a heckler out. And as they're throwing the guy out, Trump goes, that guy has
00:38:06.980
a weight problem. The best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:38:21.680
Sujo John is his name. He's a nine 11 survivor and a founder of something called you can free
00:38:28.680
us. Uh, he has an amazing story. Welcome Sujo. How are you? Great. And good to be back with
00:38:35.500
you. Um, I, I want to, I want to take the radio audience through your story a bit. First of all,
00:38:40.820
you were living in India and had moving to America always been a part of your plan or your dream.
00:38:47.560
And if so, why? Great question. A lot of reasons, the why America, you know, even for those, uh,
00:38:54.460
from halfway around the world, America always stands out as this amazing place where dreams and dreamers
00:39:00.080
collide. And if you have a dream somewhere within you in some part of the world, everybody wants to
00:39:05.440
come to this country. And that was part of me. And my view of America was through the lenses of
00:39:09.720
television, movies, and arts. And then growing up in India where, you know, as, as Christians,
00:39:14.320
you're a minority. I just knew that America is that place that's been founded on Judeo-Christian
00:39:18.520
principles. So that was another big reason why I wanted to come here. And everything that America
00:39:23.320
stands for is, is, is very appealing and drawing to people on the other side of the world where they
00:39:29.040
want to build their dreams. And in this country, it's not about your pedigree. It's not about your
00:39:33.300
last name. If you can add value, you can make something out of your life in this country.
00:39:38.360
I don't think there's any country in the world that provides that foundation. Go ahead.
00:39:42.580
It's so good to hear this from people who actually know, cause we have lost our way so far. We, we just,
00:39:48.700
we don't see the uniqueness of America when you're living in it. So you come to the United States in
00:39:55.220
February of 2001 and you find yourself a pretty good job. Uh, you are working on what floor of
00:40:05.620
So Glenn, I came with $50, two bags and tell people loaded with a lot of dreams. And of all the places
00:40:11.300
I find work on the 81st floor of the North tower of the world trade center.
00:40:19.020
I'm doing marketing for a telecommunications company. My, my dream was to, to start actually
00:40:24.340
a data center to get into the telecom world. And, uh, so I was building my steps towards that and
00:40:30.280
trying to understand what life is all about in America. What does true capitalism mean?
00:40:35.640
Because growing up in India, you know, although they believe in capitalism, it's not quite a capitalist
00:40:40.100
economy. And I was just so excited to come to the, of all the places in New York city, I mean,
00:40:44.960
almost like the nuclear reactor of capitalists around the world that have created the wealth,
00:40:49.780
which, which not only helps people have a better life, but solves problems around the world. So
00:40:54.600
that was my goal. And my wife also works there. She was working on the 71st floor of the South
00:41:00.100
Tower of the world trade center. So both of us at offices at the world trade center.
00:41:06.620
She was four months pregnant, Glenn. And that was an exciting season in our life as we are getting ready
00:41:10.980
for our baby to arrive, our first child. And, and, uh, and then life takes such an incredible
00:41:18.780
And you feel like on September 11th, you're there. What time in the morning did you get there?
00:41:24.800
I got a little past seven 30 that morning. I would start work usually a little earlier around eight.
00:41:29.220
So I was, I was early that morning, seven 30. And Glenn, uh, you lived in New York. You remember
00:41:34.720
it was a clear cloudless day, beautiful day. Uh, and then everything would change forever.
00:41:40.720
Uh, so you're there and you, before the plane hits, just literally a few minutes before it hits,
00:41:47.680
you sent an email to a friend who went to church with you.
00:41:52.660
Yes. Uh, you know, I was, like you mentioned earlier, I was empty on the inside. I used to,
00:41:58.780
you know, then, you know, this, and a lot of people listening to, you know, this life is not just about
00:42:02.800
consumption. And sometimes we get wrapped up in stuff junk. I call it the junk and the funk, uh,
00:42:09.500
around us. And we think life is all about the next new thing, the next new toy, the next new gadget.
00:42:14.460
And sadly, that was me in America. I could, I could, I could reach things that money could get,
00:42:19.900
but then there was a hole in my heart. And I knew my purpose for which God sent me
00:42:23.660
to this great land was not just to make money. There's something more. And I felt like I was
00:42:28.400
almost losing that, uh, losing that mission, losing the plot. So I wrote an email to my friend
00:42:33.040
saying, I know there's a call of God upon my life. I've been chasing stuff in America. I want
00:42:37.800
to be chasing that which is on God's heart. And I sent that at eight or five in the morning from
00:42:42.360
the twin towers. You don't know that your wife, um, is running late if I, if I remember right,
00:42:52.080
and not in her office, which tower was hit first hers or yours? Uh, my tower was hit first. The North
00:43:00.020
Star Wars hit first, this incredible explosion, uh, that almost rips the building, uh, American
00:43:06.540
flight 11, a Boeing 767 with 440 flying at 440 miles an hour, carrying 10,000 gallons of jet fuel.
00:43:17.460
The plane literally struck about eight to eight, nine floors above us, but part of the wing of the
00:43:22.600
plane rips through our floor. Uh, as all of, as everyone who's seen those images, they would know
00:43:26.980
that the plane went in an angle into the building. Yeah. So we, so there was fire that got, that got
00:43:32.820
started around us as jet fuel dumps its way all throughout the building. And did you see the plane
00:43:39.760
coming toward the building? I didn't see the plane, but someone on my floor saw the plane. Everything
00:43:44.600
happened so fast, but we felt this incredible explosion, the building rattling, and we knew as
00:43:49.560
a plane, what else could hit you at that height? But all of us, Glenn thought it was a small commuter
00:43:54.240
plane, uh, probably a pilot, uh, you know, uh, had a, had a cardiac problem or something and crashed
00:43:59.960
the plane. Nobody knew it was a big jet plane and nobody knew that it was actually a terrorist attack,
00:44:05.260
that it was intentionally flowing into the building. So did you start to get out then?
00:44:11.240
Yeah, we fought our way to the fire on the jet fuel and started running down. And, uh, and that's when I
00:44:16.180
passed all these brave firemen and policemen, these incredibly brave men and heroes of our country.
00:44:22.700
Uh, we were going down and they were going up. So we high-fived them saying, you guys are the real
00:44:27.680
heroes. Uh, we had no idea that would be the last time America would be seeing these brave men.
00:44:33.120
So we started running down and I'm running down with a very heavy heart. Phones aren't working.
00:44:37.540
I can't reach my wife. So I come down 81 floors. I reached the plaza level. And, uh, from there,
00:44:43.480
we were told, go down one more level to the concourse level. And I'm walking towards the South Tower
00:44:48.420
to be looking for my wife if she has not gone up. And that's when the South Tower collapses around me.
00:44:56.280
Wow. Um, and so it, I mean, I would imagine it was, uh, a little terrifying with everything
00:45:04.200
falling around you that you felt like you might get hit by things or were you far enough away?
00:45:10.420
No, I was actually almost right in front of the building. And it was an amazing story of God's
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deliverance. I'm 20 feet away from the building. I made my way to the revolving doors of the towers
00:45:20.800
that take you literally in front there. And that's when the ground starts shaking, the glass is
00:45:25.120
shattering. And I'm with 15, 20 people. And we started crying out and we were on top of each other.
00:45:30.680
And I started preparing them. I told them we're going to die. And I told them, call upon the name of
00:45:34.920
Jesus. We knew time was short and we started praying our last prayer, thinking we were going
00:45:39.840
to die. So I was buried in that debris at that moment. I was in about a pocket of about three
00:45:44.960
feet of soot and ash. The steel was the only thing that really survived. Everything was
00:45:49.160
pulverized into ash and dust. And the first building, when it got, uh, when it, when it came down,
00:45:54.620
the front facade of the building stood up for a while and that I was, I was right there. So that's
00:45:59.580
probably what saved my life. And everything went as if, uh, like in a, in a way a mushroom is,
00:46:04.380
it just went, uh, past us. So that protected me. But then I was buried in debris and I was pulled
00:46:10.260
out by a man, an incredibly brave FBI agent. And as he pulled me and I pulled him, uh, we both told
00:46:16.720
each other, we're going to die. He said he was the FBI. And I told him, do you know where you're
00:46:21.240
going? He said, yes, I know my savior. And we thought we were going to die choking all the soot on
00:46:25.920
the ash. And that's when a red light flashes and we started crawling away. And that light leads us out
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of the pit. Uh, the man says, I got to go back, runs into the North tower, which was still standing.
00:46:37.400
Uh, the ground shakes, the North tower goes down. This brave American hero died that day.
00:46:44.340
Yeah. His name is Lenny Hayton, uh, who was left behind four children. Uh, he was a bomb technician
00:46:49.280
for the FBI. Uh, the, actually the only active FBI agent to have died that day. Just, uh, his story
00:46:55.020
is just incredible. I've had a opportunity to meet his wife and, and just to know about
00:46:59.520
his life. Uh, another story of another man who, who could have avoided that place. Uh,
00:47:05.480
but he felt so driven by love for his country and fellow human beings and the call of duty
00:47:11.680
that just made him race and run back into the towers to look for more people. And Glenn,
00:47:16.700
I just want to say something here. That's what makes America great. I, you know, when people
00:47:20.260
talk about make America great, I say the people of America, great America, great. It's not
00:47:24.860
our money. It's not our building. It's not our technology. Uh, the fact that there are people
00:47:28.800
that are willing to love on their neighbor, there are, there are people that care for this country.
00:47:32.720
And I've, I've, I've, I've, I've seen you on television, met you in person. And I know beyond
00:47:38.720
what you do in the media, it's, it's a true love that you have for America that makes people
00:47:43.620
like you speak up on issues, people that want to protect this country, knowing what's about to
00:47:48.260
happen. And for me, who's come from India, that's what I love about America. The great American
00:47:52.660
spirit that is deeply interested in everyone that calls themselves an American.
00:47:58.340
Sujo, when I'm going to take a one minute break and then I'm going to come back. And I want you
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to tell people what happened afterwards. Um, because that was a big change in your life. Uh,
00:48:10.000
the ground shook literally, uh, and figuratively, and you have gone on to do some remarkable things.
00:48:16.420
And I, I want to hear the second part of your life now, you know, uh, Sujo and I were talking,
00:48:23.040
um, yesterday he was on television. So we were talking just the other day about, uh, the thing
00:48:28.900
that he's working on. And we both believe that, um, the only way that we're going to save this nation
00:48:37.000
and save freedom of mankind is if we put into action, the things and the, and really the, um,
00:48:45.200
the covenant that our pilgrims and George Washington and Abraham Lincoln made with God.
00:48:51.300
And that is, we will serve you. And the best way to serve God is, as Benjamin Franklin said,
00:48:56.440
was to serve your fellow man. The one thing that we can all agree on now and not argue about is
00:49:03.480
slavery is horrible and needs to be stopped. And it's worse today than it's ever been.
00:49:09.760
So here's this guy who's chasing the almighty dollar in the world trade center. They come down
00:49:15.260
and Sujo, you believe that you were, you were directed, uh, and, and saved you and your wife
00:49:24.200
saved that day to be able to do something different than just making money. Absolutely, Glenn. And, um,
00:49:31.340
I felt God calling me into this and the fact that I was rescued, that someone, uh, you know,
00:49:36.280
who rescued me gave up his life. And that's the story of the gospel narrative. God sends, look,
00:49:42.000
God sends his son to look for broken people like us. And the fact that heaven rescued you and me,
00:49:47.720
uh, compels us, our faith compels us to look for people. And the message of Jesus was he came to set
00:49:53.100
the captives free. And there are people spiritually captive and there's also physically captive. So
00:49:58.440
I got exposed to this problem, Glenn, about modern slavery, how there's 41 million people
00:50:03.720
in slavery. And when I saw the conditions, and I know you've seen it in different parts of the world
00:50:08.340
where women are kept in cells and cages. I, I remember being, I remember being in a red light
00:50:13.340
district, 37,000 sex workers and women kept in these cages, three feet by six feet. I felt in that
00:50:19.420
moment, something common with those girls. Uh, I felt like I know what it is to be trapped.
00:50:23.620
And if someone came and rescued me, perhaps God is tapping on me to rescue these women and children
00:50:29.800
on his behalf. And, and I saw that in India and I come back and I knew America is a place where
00:50:34.840
people are generous. And I came and started talking about this problem. And we started this nonprofit
00:50:39.140
called You Can Free. And this has become my life calling. This has become my mission. Uh,
00:50:44.760
and this is a problem in America. It's a problem in the Middle East. It's a problem in Asia,
00:50:48.020
a global problem. Every zip code, our children are vulnerable. And so that's been our mission,
00:50:53.860
uh, looking for women and children who are trapped in sex slavery, but beyond sex slavery,
00:50:59.040
children also, uh, trapped in, in labor trafficking. And I'm excited. You have a passion, Glenn. I have
00:51:06.600
with Nazarene Fund and what you've done and, and helping Christians flee from, from, um, from war-torn
00:51:12.300
countries where they're under the threat of ISIS. And I'm so excited that we get an opportunity to talk
00:51:17.860
about this and also work in the future on a problem that is one of the greatest evils of our
00:51:22.260
times. If we don't engage right now in this problem, a generation that's coming up behind us
00:51:28.140
will say, why did you not do enough? I want to share something with you. I, you know, you also may
00:51:33.660
have been in these places around the world. There've been horrors of the past. I remember being in Elmira
00:51:37.980
Castle in Ghana and they tell you about a slave trade. I've been in places where Hitler ran wild and,
00:51:43.040
and wiped up millions of Jews. And we, we stand in those places and we question and we ask,
00:51:49.200
why did people not do enough? And, and so this is our problem in our world and we've got to do
00:51:55.280
whatever we can. Uh, there is a cry rising from the brothels of the world. There is a cry rising from
00:52:01.660
children and women. And the question is, are we, are we listening to that cry?
00:52:05.720
You know, it's amazing to me. The New York times just started selling something called a 1619. And
00:52:10.740
it's a, it's a podcast, a serial that they're doing on the year 1619. They say that's the year
00:52:16.240
of really America's founding. Cause that's when race, uh, that's when, uh, slavery, uh, was brought
00:52:21.260
here, but our pilgrims came in 1620. Uh, and it's the 400th anniversary of our pilgrims the, the year
00:52:28.100
after. Um, and, uh, you know, you can either look back and blame everything on that. And I don't know
00:52:36.540
what you're gaining out of that, except more anger and frustration and you're not lifting anybody up.
00:52:41.460
Um, instead we should be looking towards today because I can't do anything to change what people
00:52:48.260
did in the past, but I don't want to be remembered as the people in the past that did nothing and were,
00:52:55.100
you know, involved in cakes and circuses and this problem is real. And if we can come together
00:53:00.720
and solve the problem today, it will solve the problems of the past. It will heal those wounds.
00:53:09.860
So well said, and I want to say something, it may not be politically correct. I just want to tell
00:53:14.920
your listeners that's listening to you, uh, listening to us Glenn right now, uh, don't get discouraged
00:53:19.660
when liberals beat you about, about the problem of slavery of the past. If those people care so much
00:53:24.880
about things that happened in the past, I want to encourage them, come join people like us in the
00:53:30.680
fight of this problem that's happening right now. I don't know of any country in the world, Glenn,
00:53:35.960
that has shed its blood on the issue of slavery. I looked up the numbers the other day. It's almost
00:53:40.620
600,000 people, under a million Americans got killed in the civil war. So America's paid the price
00:53:46.820
with blood on the issue of slavery. Um, and, and, and as we all are aware of, and somehow this history
00:53:52.780
is now being passed down and there are people who come up and talk about the past and say, we have
00:53:57.220
to get involved in repatriation for a small group of people that caused this problem. That was a global
00:54:02.600
problem. But how about a problem right now in our streets? How about a problem right now around the
00:54:07.320
world when you and I and everyone who has, who cares about this problem right or left can be part of a
00:54:12.880
great solution. Thank you, Sujo. Sujo John, I, I, I encourage you to check out his organization
00:54:18.780
and help where you can. It's you can free dot us, you can free dot us, check him out and join the
00:54:28.680
fight. Join the growing numbers of people who are saying, you know what, let's deal with real problems.