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00:00:00.000 This Nancy Pelosi thing is really scary, isn't it?

00:00:03.600 Really scary.

00:00:04.480 You see Rand Paul?

00:00:06.800 Rand Paul's response to see if I can find it here.

00:00:09.660 He responded like an adult.

00:00:11.960 He did, but he also made a point with it.

00:00:16.480 Did you?

00:00:16.800 Yeah.

00:00:17.940 Yeah, he said, so basically, he said about the, so Nancy Pelosi's husband was assaulted

00:00:24.260 in their home.

00:00:25.260 We don't have any of the details on it yet, but everyone's just kind of saying the same

00:00:28.840 thing that you should say, which is, hey, God, that's terrible and it should not happen

00:00:32.460 to anybody, no matter what, you know, whether you agree with them or not.

00:00:36.140 He writes, no one deserves to be assaulted.

00:00:38.620 Unlike Nancy Pelosi's daughter, who celebrated my assault, I condemn this attack and wish

00:00:43.160 Mr. Pelosi a speedy recovery.

00:00:44.720 And he links to the tweet where Nancy Pelosi's daughter said Rand Paul's neighbor, who assaulted

00:00:50.700 him, was right for assaulting him, which was eventually, actually, one of the very few

00:00:56.080 examples of pre-Elon Musk Twitter censorship against the left.

00:01:01.280 They actually deleted that tweet because it was someone endorsing an assault.

00:01:04.740 Yeah, really, really bad.

00:01:06.600 And this is a threat to our democracy.

00:01:09.260 Things like this, if, I mean, I hate to even say this, but I hope it was just some crackhead 0.96

00:01:17.500 that was just whacked out of their mind.

00:01:19.820 But how does somebody as rich as the Pelosi's and as high profile as the Pelosi's not have

00:01:27.240 security at their house?

00:01:28.880 How does that happen?

00:01:29.940 Certainly not sufficient security if they have any.

00:01:31.900 No, not at all.

00:01:33.440 Anyway, we pray for the Pelosi's and pray for the Republic as well.

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00:02:50.160 Let's go to Selena Zito. 1.00

00:02:52.460 Hello, Selena.

00:02:53.100 How are you?

00:02:54.260 Hello, Sunshine.

00:02:55.720 How are you?

00:02:56.420 Very good.

00:02:57.300 You sound tired.

00:02:58.700 Been working hard?

00:02:59.520 I sound like I have a Tallulah Bankhead thing going.

00:03:05.320 That's called spending a lot of time on the road and talking to a lot of people.

00:03:09.480 Yeah.

00:03:09.700 Thank you for that, by the way.

00:03:11.860 You're the Washington Examiner National Political Reporter.

00:03:14.560 You're also a columnist for the New York Post and the co-author of The Great Revolt, which

00:03:19.400 explained what happened in 2016.

00:03:23.320 You get it because you actually talk to people.

00:03:27.220 You wrote an amazing article that has just come out, the painful story on how John Fetterman

00:03:33.920 arrived at Tuesday night's humiliation.

00:03:36.100 I read it on the air just last hour.

00:03:39.400 I want to get to that.

00:03:40.280 But I first want to get your reaction on what are people saying?

00:03:45.840 What are the voters saying?

00:03:47.100 What's really happening on the ground there?

00:03:49.100 Well, you know, it's a funny story.

00:03:53.480 I drove all the way out to the debate from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg.

00:03:57.780 I got there, realized that the only people I would be watching the debate with was other

00:04:04.000 reporters.

00:04:04.540 And I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to learn anything here.

00:04:07.140 They drove all the way back halfway across the state and stopped in a bar and just sat back

00:04:16.220 and observed people watching the debate.

00:04:19.120 And I think the most powerful thing about watching those reactions was the watching the realization

00:04:27.980 on their faces that they had no idea that John Fetterman was in this bad of a condition.

00:04:35.960 Well, they understood because he would do a rally here and there, spoke a couple times.

00:04:42.320 They understood there was somewhat of a problem, but they didn't.

00:04:46.420 They thought it was speech-related as opposed to cognitively related.

00:04:52.600 And when he was put in a position where he had to answer questions and provided all the

00:04:58.780 tools available to him and he still struggled, they now realized nobody has been telling them

00:05:06.680 this.

00:05:07.580 I mean, I have.

00:05:09.080 Dasha Burns has. 0.87

00:05:10.500 But that's about it.

00:05:11.920 All the other reporters have just omitted that this is an issue.

00:05:17.820 And so as they were talking among each other, they were really frustrated and angry at my

00:05:26.060 profession for not demonstrating exactly what the problem is and being honest about what

00:05:33.180 they've seen over the past couple months.

00:05:35.960 But also really mad at other Democrats like Senator Bob Casey, who has stood on the deist

00:05:44.020 with him in about a half a dozen events, maybe more, and talked about how terrific shape

00:05:51.940 he's in.

00:05:53.040 And he even had the audacity to go on national news after the debate and said he did a terrific

00:06:00.480 job.

00:06:01.140 Then you add that with the Philadelphia Inquirer saying that he won the debate and CNN saying

00:06:07.520 he won the debate.

00:06:09.100 And you add all that together and there's this sort of invisible and quiet thing going

00:06:16.160 on with voters saying, y'all are gaslighting us and we're tired of it.

00:06:20.580 So is it going to change the way people, we are so set in our camps now that I wonder if

00:06:29.560 anything would change anybody's mind?

00:06:33.100 Yeah, absolutely.

00:06:34.700 Will this change their mind?

00:06:36.900 I saw it.

00:06:37.640 I saw it happening in real time.

00:06:39.840 Look, one of the things that was so important about the book, The Great Revolt, it was that

00:06:44.700 it was understood, this coalition and this conservative populist coalition that formed long

00:06:52.020 before Donald Trump ever stepped on the stage and remained intact.

00:06:57.460 You look at Pennsylvania in 2020.

00:07:00.120 So what happened?

00:07:01.280 Joe Biden won.

00:07:02.320 Joe Biden won barely.

00:07:03.620 What people did not talk about was that there was a significant red wave down ballot in the

00:07:11.380 congressional races, in the statewide row office races, in the state house, in the state

00:07:17.100 Senate.

00:07:17.900 That coalition remained together, once again proving that this was not about Trump, but

00:07:26.520 it was about their lives, their communities, how they are impacted.

00:07:29.860 And I think that remains to be the underlying or the story that is consistently missed in

00:07:39.040 in reporting.

00:07:40.940 And I'll give you an example of that.

00:07:43.260 The other day, did you see the Kentucky coal miner who came to went to the back about a

00:07:47.460 watch?

00:07:47.640 Yes.

00:07:48.720 Yes.

00:07:49.260 Okay.

00:07:50.360 That, by the way, that's something I see all the time.

00:07:53.340 To me, that was like, yeah, I mean, that's what people do.

00:07:57.420 But, you know, everyone was like, oh, my God.

00:07:59.640 But it ran, that image started to be shared across social media at the exact same time

00:08:08.780 that the Washington Post wrote a story that said why rural Americans are so angry and resentful

00:08:16.280 and why they're voting Republican.

00:08:19.000 And I thought, this is the perfect example.

00:08:22.000 These two moments together of how my profession does not understand the very people that they're

00:08:29.100 covering.

00:08:29.900 That coal miner was not angry and resentful that he had to go to the game like that.

00:08:34.100 He was appreciative that he had a job to go to and the ability to leave that job and go

00:08:39.540 sit in a basketball game.

00:08:41.060 Yeah.

00:08:42.820 So, so you bring up in your, so wait a minute, before I go onto this, the polls show that Oz 0.75

00:08:49.980 is now up two to three points.

00:08:52.340 I would, in normal times, I would have expected that to be six, seven, eight.

00:08:56.240 Um, but who knows?

00:08:59.700 Um, are, are, what are you thinking about?

00:09:03.060 Is Fetterman going to win?

00:09:05.560 Is there going to be enough space between them?

00:09:08.500 Look, here's the, here's the challenge for Fetterman.

00:09:12.540 And by the way, I would say it's been a challenge.

00:09:15.160 I've been reporting this since mid-September.

00:09:17.780 Dr. Oz, who I was incredibly skeptical of, uh, in, in the beginning when he first announced

00:09:25.180 he was running, has actually proved and matured as a very good candidate.

00:09:31.500 Someone who goes into those places, as I call, um, uh, the middle of somewhere and, and talks

00:09:39.160 to the voters that nobody thinks about.

00:09:41.580 And he listened to them.

00:09:42.740 I have logged on thousands of miles on the back roads with Oz, watched him in rural areas,

00:09:49.840 watched him in, um, in majority minority areas, just listening to voters where, by the

00:09:56.120 way, no other reporter would be.

00:09:58.320 So he's not there to get a photo op.

00:10:00.960 No one's there.

00:10:01.820 I'm there.

00:10:02.780 And, and he's actually doing it because he wants to understand what the issues are.

00:10:07.880 So that was a long way of telling you that I have always thought that John Fetterman was

00:10:14.480 losing voters incrementally, but losing them.

00:10:19.340 Remember he was up 12 percentage points, but he also has no ability to gain voters.

00:10:24.800 And it's not just based on his, um, on his illness.

00:10:31.020 Uh, you know, I, I've been doing, I don't know if anybody's reading it, but I've been

00:10:35.840 reporting that as mayor, the whole sort of elevated story that you saw in the Rolling

00:10:43.240 Stone and the Atlantic and New York times, these glossy, beautiful pieces about how he

00:10:47.820 saved this, this, um, borough in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

00:10:51.860 I've been covering him since 2005.

00:10:54.840 He didn't say that town.

00:10:57.320 He was barely ever there.

00:10:59.780 He didn't attend the events.

00:11:01.900 He really had very little power to begin with.

00:11:05.820 Crime went up, population declined, and the heart and soul of that town, the hospital where

00:11:12.740 there was the only sit down restaurant for people to go to in the cafeteria was, was torn

00:11:20.620 down.

00:11:21.440 I hope people go to selenazio.com and read the reporting that I've been doing.

00:11:26.580 I know I'm not on social media, but, but that reporting has been, it's been there for months.

00:11:33.080 I saw the, uh, I saw the story, um, on that when it came out and how do the people of the

00:11:40.140 town feel when they're hearing, Hey, he saved our town.

00:11:44.280 Well, that was the beauty of that, of that story.

00:11:46.980 That wasn't me telling everyone that that was them saying that they talked about how their

00:11:52.700 town didn't get better.

00:11:53.920 They talked about no jobs coming in.

00:11:56.220 They talked about the, of the people that have fled to get out of there because there's

00:12:01.260 no hope and there's no opportunity.

00:12:03.580 And they talked about it always being just about him and never about them.

00:12:09.040 And they talked about him going after one of their neighbors, a, um, a young black man

00:12:15.060 who was jogging and he put a shotgun to his chest and kept him there because he thought

00:12:20.620 he was some sort of, um, yeah.

00:12:24.660 And, and by the way, that young man's life has been destroyed.

00:12:29.560 That young man's life has been destroyed and he has never been apologized to, or the

00:12:35.520 kind that he went up to a local bar, a nightclub owned by way by a black entrepreneur and changed

00:12:43.560 the wording on the sign at two o'clock in the morning.

00:12:46.160 And a camera caught it, um, saying that it was closed and not open because he deemed

00:12:52.260 it unworthy to be opened in the town.

00:12:55.760 These are the stories that people of radical tell you, not the stories, not me saying this.

00:13:01.580 This is them saying this.

00:13:02.680 That's why I think that reporting is so important.

00:13:05.500 Let alone that he didn't pay his taxes in his poorest school district in one of the poorest

00:13:12.300 school districts in the state.

00:13:14.000 He didn't pay the school tax.

00:13:16.260 And, you know, it, it, it, it, it, it frustrated me every time all these glossy stories were put

00:13:23.060 out there, you know, with him standing in front of a steel mill.

00:13:26.400 Uh, at the same time, his parents were paying for his education.

00:13:31.600 I mean, paying for his family's lifestyle.

00:13:34.640 It's, you know, it's amazing to me.

00:13:35.800 He reminds me of, in, in many ways, Karl Marx.

00:13:40.440 Karl Marx was a horrible human being that never paid a dime of his own way.

00:13:46.480 Uh, he, he practically bankrupt his parents. 0.94

00:13:50.260 He lived off his parents and then his family for his whole life.

00:13:55.160 Never really accomplished anything.

00:13:57.900 Oh my gosh.

00:13:59.540 That's, that's astounding.

00:14:01.180 I can't even imagine not wanting to have purpose in your life in that way, other than

00:14:07.040 the purpose of power, which is what I believe that it is.

00:14:11.660 This has always been about.

00:14:13.280 Okay.

00:14:13.840 So we're talking to Selena Zito, uh, because Selena Zito.com is her web address, but she writes 0.99

00:14:19.520 for the New York post and also the Washington examiner.

00:14:22.840 When in 2016, when you nailed what was happening, you were the only one that the media went, how

00:14:30.020 did she get this so right?

00:14:32.100 Um, and you wrote a book about it.

00:14:34.040 You went to work, um, for CNN as a contributor there.

00:14:38.720 And I know you, Selena, I know you probably walked in at first hoping that people will actually

00:14:46.000 listen and get it.

00:14:47.060 Um, and then they didn't, um, and thus they're down the toilet even more.

00:14:52.920 Well, why are they not looking, why are they not exposing things like Fetterman?

00:14:59.960 Are they afraid, uh, or are they afraid of being, uh, ostracized by their own, uh, their

00:15:08.440 own group or is it, is it that they just won't do it because they're on the bandwagon?

00:15:14.800 Oh, so I have an entire chapter about this in my book.

00:15:19.040 And I think that it's probably the one that people should really, really read.

00:15:24.100 Um, it's called a culture craving respect.

00:15:27.180 And the problem with my profession is the same problem that you see in corporate America,

00:15:34.900 in, um, major news organizations, but also in institutions and governments, but also even

00:15:41.900 in, um, sports organizations in that the people in the boardrooms, um, are all come from the

00:15:50.460 same, they all live in the same super zip codes.

00:15:53.080 What do I mean by super zip codes?

00:15:54.300 The wealthiest counties in the country, uh, they all went to the same great schools.

00:16:00.020 Now they may have come from Iowa, but they left that far behind once they got to DC or

00:16:04.820 New York.

00:16:05.780 And, and so what happens is when they go to, whether it is write a story or do a commercial

00:16:14.060 or make a boneheaded decision like the NFL did and, and, um, uh, let Colin Kaepernick,

00:16:20.860 um, do whatever he wanted, despite having a contract that said, you cannot do this is because

00:16:27.560 they don't, they are so disconnected from the people who read their stories, who buy their

00:16:34.260 tickets, who sit in their seats.

00:16:36.280 That is the larger problem, right?

00:16:38.820 That's where the problem begins.

00:16:40.500 It began at the same time where more companies kept buying up smaller companies.

00:16:46.600 So there's less co local connection to the people who buy your products.

00:16:51.920 Um, but also, um, local news organizations started to shutter.

00:16:57.660 Uh, and, and so people had to gravitate to buying their items and, or reading their news

00:17:04.400 from places that don't know them.

00:17:07.740 They don't know anyone that sits in a pew every Sunday.

00:17:10.800 They don't know anyone that says a prayer before dinner.

00:17:13.780 They don't know anyone that owns a gun.

00:17:15.540 They don't know anybody else who used a gun.

00:17:17.180 Um, and, and so because of that, when they plop into a place, they, they seem like a freak

00:17:26.200 show.

00:17:26.860 They look at the people and say, y'all are a freak show.

00:17:30.080 I have one minute.

00:17:31.180 I have one minute.

00:17:31.760 The reporter that her job was threatened.

00:17:34.940 I mean, she was just beat up by everybody from NBC.

00:17:38.160 Yeah.

00:17:38.680 Yeah.

00:17:39.140 Um, is, and she folded. 0.94

00:17:42.300 Was that a message?

00:17:43.600 Did everybody who was covering this know clearly what, how bad Fetterman was?

00:17:50.600 Yes, they did.

00:17:51.980 I was still, I was watching them watch the same things I'd seen.

00:17:56.740 They knew they always knew.

00:17:58.640 Sasha Burns is a very good reporter and I will sing her praises forever because she

00:18:04.780 has kept on that story and she continues to keep on the story.

00:18:08.760 I would, I would keep an eye on her.

00:18:10.740 And I think it's interesting that it's a young woman and a 63 year old grandma that only have

00:18:15.400 the nerve to write this stuff.

00:18:16.700 Okay.

00:18:17.080 Well, one last question.

00:18:18.020 In 10 seconds, Fetterman going to win or, uh, Oz?

00:18:22.340 What?

00:18:22.840 I think it ends up, I think it ends up being Oz.

00:18:25.400 Oh, I hope you're right this time.

00:18:27.880 Uh, thank you so much, Selena.

00:18:29.540 God bless.

00:18:30.140 And we'll follow your reporting.

00:18:31.580 SelenaZito.com.

00:18:32.660 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:43.800 I love Michael Malice.

00:18:46.180 He is the host of the podcast.

00:18:48.220 You're welcome.

00:18:49.960 And, uh, he, this is what it says on my, my sheet here from my producers.

00:18:56.340 Uh, a comedian attempts to convince Glenn to endorse John Fetterman.

00:19:03.220 Go at it, Michael.

00:19:04.800 And I know you're doing this just because you think Fetterman in office would be fun.

00:19:10.760 No, that's not correct.

00:19:12.100 That's not true.

00:19:12.820 And I, I also want to point out something else.

00:19:15.200 I had a correction issued from vice magazine, which had said correction in a previous article.

00:19:21.980 Uh, Michael Malice was identified as a comedian, right?

00:19:25.060 So I am not, I don't find you funny at all, Michael.

00:19:28.440 Well, that's why I'm on this show where humor goes to die and common sense.

00:19:33.880 All right.

00:19:34.380 All right.

00:19:34.800 All right.

00:19:35.880 So why, why are you going to try to convince me to vote for, uh, John Fetterman?

00:19:42.080 I don't think I'm not going to convince you to vote for him because you're not in Pennsylvania,

00:19:45.040 but I will convince you that it's a good thing that he defeats Dr. Oz.

00:19:48.180 And for a couple of reasons, would you agree with me that it is a superior situation for

00:19:53.020 America that we went Obama, Obama, Trump than if we had gone Obama, Romney, Romney in the

00:19:59.380 elections?

00:20:00.080 Yes.

00:20:01.300 So if you went back in time to 2012 and you told yourself, Glenn, quit now, you're going

00:20:07.440 to be a mess in 10 years.

00:20:08.440 But other than that, you should prefer, and get rid of Stu because he's out of control,

00:20:12.900 but you should prefer that Obama take this election because it's going to work out in

00:20:18.360 the long-term, you would have thought you were crazy, but that would have been the correct 0.99

00:20:22.020 result, right?

00:20:22.880 Okay.

00:20:23.120 So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, no.

00:20:25.540 I'm leading the, you're on the road, sir.

00:20:28.220 No, I, could I, may I speak?

00:20:32.660 Yeah, it's, yeah, go ahead.

00:20:33.860 All right.

00:20:34.220 I stopped, I stopped trying to figure out long-term strategies after Trump because I

00:20:44.980 realized, you know what, it's got, it'll, it'll all work out for the best.

00:20:50.180 Just do the next right thing.

00:20:52.340 And you'll never convince me that the next right thing is to have John Fetterman in.

00:20:57.920 I can convince you very easily.

00:20:59.460 And this is why, because the only power the Republican base has over the Republican party

00:21:03.700 is to refuse to put rhinos into Congress. 0.90

00:21:07.000 That is their only power.

00:21:09.180 We saw it in 2016 where establishment candidate after establishment candidate was the stop

00:21:14.720 Trump candidate.

00:21:16.060 We're seeing it now in 2022 where Mitch McConnell is pulling money from New Hampshire when Boldich

00:21:21.040 has a chance against Maggie Hassan if it's a wave election and he's putting into whatever

00:21:25.280 North or South Carolina, which is definitely going to go to Republican because Mitch McConnell

00:21:29.460 wants that vote.

00:21:30.800 That's going to be more loyal to him than towards the Mago wing and to the American people. 0.73

00:21:34.860 So if you are going, hold on, let me just finish.

00:21:37.120 If you're going to take losses somewhere or other, it's better to have that loss be a Democrat 0.96

00:21:42.920 who can't even talk than let's suppose a Barack Obama who's charismatic or Nancy Pelosi,

00:21:48.620 who is a good parliamentarian.

00:21:52.020 Okay.

00:21:52.600 Except I don't think he would serve out his full term and that might put his wife in the 0.97

00:21:56.800 driver's seat.

00:21:57.280 It's fine, but the point is, Oz Woods, if you are in the debate stage saying that your

00:22:05.240 goal is to work with the Democrats and your goal is to tighten up background checks, you

00:22:10.140 know perfectly well how this person is going to govern.

00:22:12.900 But this is, wait, your point being that the anti-Trump candidates, right, were the establishment

00:22:18.900 people, but this is, this is Trump's pick, right?

00:22:21.440 This is Trump's guy.

00:22:22.320 Trump endorsed Romney twice.

00:22:24.940 Trump only cares if someone returns his calls.

00:22:30.760 Oh, silence.

00:22:31.680 Exactly.

00:22:32.040 You have nothing to say.

00:22:32.860 Okay.

00:22:33.080 Well, I have a lot to say.

00:22:34.760 John Fetterman in office would be very, very bad.

00:22:36.640 That's what I would say.

00:22:37.400 Would be very bad.

00:22:38.080 Would be very bad.

00:22:39.440 Why do you want a competent Democrat?

00:22:42.100 Because you want someone who's good at being a Democrat?

00:22:44.320 No, no, no.

00:22:45.860 If he's going to, if we have to have an incumbent Democrat, one that is terrible, like in some

00:22:50.640 ways would be preferable because maybe they'd be easier to beat.

00:22:53.720 This is also a strategy that's been attempted by the Democrats multiple times and it has not

00:22:57.740 worked out particularly well.

00:22:58.680 Yeah, we got John, we have, we have Joe Biden on the same strategy.

00:23:02.400 I don't want another incompetent person in there.

00:23:05.360 Would you rather have Obama in the White House right now than Joe Biden?

00:23:08.040 Uh, no.

00:23:12.080 Oh, interesting.

00:23:13.940 It's hard to think about that.

00:23:15.320 Yeah.

00:23:15.680 I mean, isn't it a good thing that Dianne Feinstein, according to the New York Post,

00:23:19.240 was told three times by Chuck Schumer that she has to retire and she agreed three times

00:23:23.760 and three times she forgot about the conversation?

00:23:25.800 Yes.

00:23:26.100 Isn't that a good thing?

00:23:27.140 Yes, it is.

00:23:28.300 It is.

00:23:28.920 But I...

00:23:30.100 Isn't it a good thing when the Democratic Party is regarded as a laughingstock as

00:23:33.460 Jon Stewart made the Bush administration for eight years instead of some organization

00:23:37.580 that people can look up to and admire?

00:23:39.720 Look, Michael, Michael, listen to me.

00:23:42.620 Listen to me.

00:23:43.300 These are all good things if it's not a good night on election night or a bad election day

00:23:51.500 on the next morning, having you on saying these things will go, you know what?

00:23:56.540 You're right.

00:23:57.140 It is a good thing that Fetterman is in there.

00:24:00.100 You're right.

00:24:00.800 It's save that.

00:24:02.360 Save that.

00:24:03.860 Because I'll need that.

00:24:05.260 Is there any situation where you would prefer that the Democratic candidate win over the

00:24:10.840 Republican candidate?

00:24:13.620 I think this, and this is speaking for myself here, I usually am incredibly...

00:24:19.340 I hate partisanship.

00:24:21.080 This particular election, I'm more partisan than normal because I want there to be an ability

00:24:27.980 to stop what they are doing.

00:24:30.620 The fact is, like, Dr. Oz, as I've stated a thousand times, is not the candidate that

00:24:36.240 I want as a Republican senator.

00:24:38.800 However, these votes matter, and the fact that we may have Supreme Court justices that

00:24:44.180 they're going to be able to push through and things of that nature, I think, are really

00:24:47.300 important.

00:24:47.980 So control of the Senate matters to me.

00:24:49.720 If we can get up to 54, 55 senators...

00:24:53.280 Then you're looking at a potential filibuster-proof majority in 2024.

00:24:57.040 Yeah.

00:24:57.280 So I do think there are reasons for this, yes.

00:24:58.920 So despite you just saying you're not a partisan, you're saying the only...

00:25:02.280 Just to be clear, the only times you're comfortable with a Democrat taking a seat is if there's

00:25:06.400 60 Republicans?

00:25:07.800 No, no, no.

00:25:08.440 I'm comfortable with a Democrat.

00:25:11.240 Like, if Joe Lieberman decided to run, I'd be like, you know, okay, he's pretty good.

00:25:16.640 Is he?

00:25:17.720 Joe Lieberman...

00:25:18.500 He voted for Obamacare just because he, like, criticized the Democrats.

00:25:21.500 You're happy with Joe Lieberman?

00:25:22.780 No, that's the older Joe Lieberman.

00:25:25.840 He was good on some things, right?

00:25:27.220 He was good on some things.

00:25:28.540 I at least agreed with him at times, and he did have his own mind up until Gore.

00:25:36.060 I'm going to say why Fetterman is good on some things, and you're not going to disagree with

00:25:40.040 me.

00:25:40.300 All right.

00:25:40.540 The only time there's an effective anti-war coalition in Congress is when you have a Republican

00:25:45.880 president, and that's when the Democrats become anti-war.

00:25:49.040 In every other circumstance, both parties are tripping over themselves to support imperialism

00:25:54.060 and the war state, and that's one thing Fetterman would be good for.

00:25:57.760 I don't think... 0.99

00:25:58.900 I think he's going to suck on everything. 1.00

00:25:59.440 I think he's going to suck on everything. 1.00

00:26:00.740 I mean, again, we have Democrats in office now. 0.99

00:26:02.700 They're all throwing how many billions of dollars a day?

00:26:04.460 Like I said, if you had a Republican president, that's the only time there's an anti-war coalition

00:26:09.180 in Congress with...

00:26:10.180 Yes, I know.

00:26:11.000 Republican presidents have led many, many wars, right?

00:26:13.700 Right, and the only time they have opposition is with the left wing of the Democrats.

00:26:17.720 Well, but having opposition, but the war still happens, isn't a positive if you're against

00:26:21.960 the war.

00:26:22.280 No, I know, but what he's saying...

00:26:22.560 No, no, no, but what he's saying is if we had...

00:26:25.060 And I don't think the same would be true with Donald Trump, and I think this is changing.

00:26:29.080 I think there are a lot of conservatives are actually changing.

00:26:32.900 I agree with you.

00:26:33.620 Where they're like, what...

00:26:35.380 Can we learn our lesson here?

00:26:37.740 This doesn't work.

00:26:39.740 Get out of these.

00:26:41.000 You're not learning your lesson because you keep voting in RINOs, and Oz is the king of that. 0.97

00:26:46.240 He had his show for 10 years.

00:26:47.700 He had never stood up for conservative principles on his show once.

00:26:50.440 He's Oprah Winfrey's puppet, and Oprah Winfrey single-handedly got Barack Obama the nomination.

00:26:56.540 It would be nice if...

00:26:57.700 I'm surprised Oprah Winfrey has not come out and helped Dr. Oz at all.

00:27:01.480 It wouldn't help.

00:27:02.600 Well, she supports...

00:27:03.740 It would help in Pennsylvania.

00:27:04.940 It's a purple state.

00:27:06.140 What's that? 0.76

00:27:07.060 She has to support Biden or else she wouldn't be black. 0.96

00:27:09.020 That's true. 0.91

00:27:09.720 Ah, you're right.

00:27:11.000 You're right. 0.69

00:27:11.880 I always forget that you're not really black, Clause. 1.00

00:27:14.860 Right.

00:27:16.240 It's in the Constitution if I'm not mistaken.

00:27:21.080 So, Michael, let me ask you this.

00:27:24.240 Yeah.

00:27:25.460 What were your thoughts when you watched him?

00:27:28.140 Because it wasn't funny at all.

00:27:31.180 It was really sad, but it made me also angry to watch the debate.

00:27:36.240 It was extremely funny because he opened up the debate by saying, hello, good night, and

00:27:42.420 this shaved Chewbacca that they put...

00:27:45.960 But his wife blocked me because she's like, oh, John Fetterman said, I don't remember the

00:27:50.200 Statue of Liberty. 0.99

00:27:50.840 I said, he doesn't remember anything, you sadistic witch. 1.00

00:27:53.340 It is despicable that his family and his team put a broomstick up his bum and put him in 0.99

00:28:01.660 front of that mic when any other candidate could have served that purpose because they're 0.94

00:28:05.120 not really voting for Fetterman.

00:28:06.280 You're voting for a Democratic vote, right?

00:28:07.960 Like, you don't really need...

00:28:09.260 The staff will run the Senate office.

00:28:11.940 So, even if he can't even talk, it doesn't really matter.

00:28:14.420 We saw that with Storm Thurman at the end when he was literally 100 years old.

00:28:17.260 Yeah.

00:28:17.480 You're seeing that with...

00:28:19.800 What's your name?

00:28:20.320 You were just talking about in California.

00:28:22.860 Yeah.

00:28:23.180 You're seeing the same thing.

00:28:24.500 That is the biggest threat to democracy.

00:28:29.300 They keep saying, oh, it's a threat to democracy.

00:28:31.160 They don't actually care about deliberation.

00:28:35.020 They only want people in there. 0.93

00:28:37.020 They'll take them brain damaged, you know, on a stretcher, almost dead.

00:28:42.000 Wait, wait, they, Stu just said he will support the Republican in any circumstance until they're

00:28:46.820 That is not what I said at all.

00:28:48.800 What I said was, I'm not a partisan, which, by the way, true, I'm not a registered Republican

00:28:53.640 or Democrat.

00:28:54.320 I vote a third party all the time.

00:28:56.560 My point is, only in this election, what I'm rooting for, not necessarily what I'm voting

00:29:01.460 for, what I'm rooting for...

00:29:03.420 Is an end.

00:29:03.920 Freaking the end of Democratic control of the Senate.

00:29:07.560 This should not be a controversial viewpoint on this particular program.

00:29:12.000 It's not.

00:29:12.720 Hang on, just a sec.

00:29:13.440 I am with him on this because we are at the end of the Republic.

00:29:19.780 And I know that makes some people happy.

00:29:22.820 It doesn't make me happy.

00:29:24.600 I'd like to, before we burn it down, I'd like to see, can we get it on the track enough

00:29:30.660 and find, you know, find an Elon Musk that will come in and go, yeah, we're firing all

00:29:36.880 you people.

00:29:38.240 I am just shocked that we got Stu to admit on air that he's a member of Andrew Yang's

00:29:42.820 forward party.

00:29:45.440 This is where you're an anarchist.

00:29:47.740 But here we are.

00:29:48.560 This is where you're an anarchist.

00:29:50.360 You come up and you just stir it all up and then you leave.

00:29:54.300 This is why John Fetterman's wise wife blocked you.

00:30:02.120 By the way, real quick, what do you think the changes are going to mean?

00:30:05.660 Anything substantial with Twitter?

00:30:08.280 Yes, I think that for a long time, corporate journalists and academic professors who were,

00:30:14.360 I, you know, refer to as members of the enemy class, they were taking loss after loss after

00:30:18.760 loss on Twitter because for the first time they had accountability.

00:30:21.260 They're not in their offices where they kind of protected against criticism.

00:30:25.540 And now without having that shield in front of them, they're really going to have a come

00:30:30.700 to Jesus moment with their depravity and malfeasance.

00:30:33.060 And it's going to be absolutely glorious to watch them throw tantrums for the next couple 1.00

00:30:36.200 of years.

00:30:36.360 So does on Monday, he said the change, some changes are going into effect.

00:30:40.400 The first changes, Babylon B, Donald Trump, who's back?

00:30:45.720 I hope Trump, I hope Trump waits until after the midterms, because this is just going to

00:30:50.040 give the Democrats an issue and distraction from inflation and abortion and all this unspending.

00:30:55.020 So we can worry about Trump on November 9th.

00:30:57.660 I really hope he has that presence of mind to keep his mouth shut just for another two weeks.

00:31:01.880 Michael Malice.

00:31:02.720 Thank you so much.

00:31:03.380 Appreciate it.

00:31:04.320 Michael.

00:31:04.480 It was a pleasure, guys.

00:31:05.100 The host of Vogue Fairman.

00:31:05.580 The host of Vogue Fairman. 1.00

00:31:07.740 He's such a jerk. 1.00

00:31:09.280 He is such a jerk. 1.00

00:31:11.000 He just loves to stir it up. 1.00

00:31:13.080 He's going to be on the coverage.

00:31:15.600 And I'm like...

00:31:16.100 Oh, it's going to be fun.

00:31:17.020 Yeah.

00:31:17.540 I'm like, we're not going to get any real work done.

00:31:20.700 No.

00:31:20.900 He's just going to play contrarian just to get us all going.

00:31:25.700 But anyway, we're going to have a lot of fun.

00:31:28.580 All of the Blaze hosts, the biggest Blaze hosts are going to be there with our coverage.

00:31:33.820 You don't want to miss it on election night.

00:31:36.200 We have Megan Kelly.

00:31:38.180 We have Dave Rubin, Jason Whitlock, Stu, Pat, everybody.

00:31:44.660 Sarah Gonzalez is going to be there.

00:31:45.180 Sarah Gonzalez.

00:31:45.980 Also, primetime 99, Alex Stein.

00:31:49.160 Who is...

00:31:50.260 Between him and Malice, if I lose control of the night, it will be these two to blame.

00:31:57.400 Because they...

00:31:58.380 You never know what they're going to say.

00:32:02.040 Also, just a quick reminder.

00:32:04.180 The following Wednesday, a week later, I'm doing a special show on targets of tyranny.

00:32:10.520 How to survive being an enemy of the state.

00:32:12.940 This is an amazing show.

00:32:15.120 We're going to have a small audience.

00:32:17.900 If you would like to be a part, we never open up the Chocolate Factory anymore.

00:32:22.980 If you want to be a part of that broadcast, you have to email now.

00:32:26.640 It is for Saturday, November 12th.

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00:32:36.900 And I'll welcome you into our studios.

00:32:42.720 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:51.300 Alex Stein is here.

00:32:52.660 I never know what's going to happen with Alex Stein.

00:32:55.080 It's already been a rough day.

00:32:56.640 What did you say?

00:32:57.680 It's been an adventure.

00:32:58.700 It's been an adventure ride of a show so far.

00:33:00.680 Already.

00:33:01.820 Well, today's Unorthodox 2.

00:33:03.120 It's an honor and a privilege, but then you've got a gala going on here, so the place is wild.

00:33:08.000 You've got 10 different people running in and out with chairs, Superman outfits.

00:33:11.440 I mean, it's nuts at the place right now.

00:33:13.880 We told them that they had to wear the Superman outfit to be able to bring the chairs in.

00:33:18.500 That makes sense.

00:33:19.400 It makes the chairs look really heavy.

00:33:21.180 So, Alex is the host of Conspiracy Castle.

00:33:26.560 He is a Blaze TV contributor, primetime 99, Alex Stein.

00:33:32.600 I just did something with you on television last week, and I played some of the clips of you where you go in, and you'll go into city council meetings, and I don't know how you pull this off with a straight face for as long as you do.

00:33:46.820 Because they're absurd.

00:33:48.500 What you're saying is absurd, and everybody just acts like it's not.

00:33:53.760 Well, I mean, we live in an absurd world, so people are having trouble deciphering what is real and what is fake, and my comedic hero is Andy Kaufman, so really I'm just kind of a hack.

00:34:04.240 I'm just basically mixing absurdity and reality, and in the culture we live in today, you can't tell what is what.

00:34:09.220 You can't.

00:34:09.800 You can't.

00:34:10.640 So, you were just up at a campus.

00:34:14.420 You were going to give a talk with, what's his name?

00:34:17.880 Gavin McInnes.

00:34:18.460 Yeah, Gavin McInnes.

00:34:19.780 And they actually spat on you.

00:34:23.680 Literally, Glenn.

00:34:24.460 Literally.

00:34:24.940 And it was a pretty, this girl, she'd been practicing.

00:34:28.280 That was not a first-time spitter.

00:34:30.920 Can we play the video here?

00:34:32.000 I just want to say, you guys are a poor representation of the youth of our nation.

00:34:37.760 Here we go!

00:34:39.100 Here we go!

00:34:40.200 Let's go!

00:34:41.360 Let's go, baby! 0.99

00:34:43.040 I'm so nervous!

00:34:44.700 Wow!

00:34:45.980 Wow! 1.00

00:34:46.940 Oh my gosh, you're just crazy. 1.00

00:34:49.100 You're a... 1.00

00:34:49.680 I am insane. 1.00

00:34:50.920 I have a big booty that's been in the ass here. 0.99

00:34:55.360 Why is there any big booty like this here? 0.99

00:34:58.060 What the f***? 1.00

00:34:59.140 You should have been aborted. 1.00

00:35:00.760 I should have been aborted! 1.00

00:35:02.740 This is so dangerous. 0.95

00:35:05.840 This is the future of our country.

00:35:08.300 I know.

00:35:09.420 These are the brightest bulbs.

00:35:14.000 Oh my gosh.

00:35:21.420 Oh my gosh, that was...

00:35:22.800 She had a lot of spit. 1.00

00:35:24.380 Yeah.

00:35:24.700 So she's... 0.98

00:35:25.320 She wants to get you an audio person.

00:35:26.860 Yeah, we do.

00:35:27.940 Yeah, the audio...

00:35:28.580 Well, no, no, no, it was crazy like that.

00:35:29.920 It was just the mic was a little too close to my mouth, but yes.

00:35:32.920 Yes, we did realize that.

00:35:34.660 We know what caused it.

00:35:36.140 The question is, why did you...

00:35:38.340 All right, you guys can troll me. 0.92

00:35:39.440 I'm the troll. 0.52

00:35:40.260 No trolling me.

00:35:41.320 The mic was not perfect.

00:35:42.460 I was in a war zone.

00:35:43.740 If I'm in Kabul, Afghanistan, I'm sorry if the audio is not perfect, Stu.

00:35:47.600 I apologize.

00:35:48.460 Okay, so you were at Penn State, and they wanted you not to be at Penn State.

00:35:57.800 They don't understand freedom of speech at all.

00:36:01.900 Are you going to do anything about it?

00:36:04.600 I mean, not the spitter.

00:36:05.620 I mean, the spitter is just...

00:36:06.760 No, she's a young kid. 0.97

00:36:07.840 I mean, I'm not going to go after her.

00:36:08.980 That would be punching down.

00:36:09.720 But no, I am going to file a civil rights lawsuit against Penn State University, because

00:36:15.160 they said they had a lot of kickback, Glenn, before the event, saying, oh, it should be

00:36:18.580 shut down.

00:36:18.960 It should be shut down.

00:36:19.700 And the university administrator said, oh, well, we're going to go on with it.

00:36:22.260 We believe in free speech.

00:36:23.260 We're state universities.

00:36:24.380 They're publicly funded.

00:36:25.440 They have federal money.

00:36:26.220 So they're held to a different standard than these private colleges.

00:36:29.900 Once they shut it down, that made them liable to a lawsuit.

00:36:32.820 But this is the problem. 0.95

00:36:34.040 When you're in that group, Glenn, you're a fascist. 1.00

00:36:36.900 You're a fascist. 0.99

00:36:37.960 I said, well, define a fascist for me. 0.89

00:36:39.700 And I think Benito Mussolini defined fascism as the merger of corporation and state.

00:36:44.500 I'm anti-establishment.

00:36:45.800 I don't want corporation and state together at all.

00:36:47.860 Don't either.

00:36:48.320 But these kids do.

00:36:49.420 So it's all projection.

00:36:50.860 It's Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals, where you accuse the enemy of doing what you're

00:36:55.780 actually doing.

00:36:56.400 And this is a clear-cut example of these kids being confused and not even knowing.

00:36:59.760 It's like the dog that chases the car.

00:37:01.280 Once it catches up to the bumper, it doesn't know what to do with it.

00:37:03.640 So this is the future.

00:37:06.720 And we used to say, yeah, we'll wait until they get into the real world.

00:37:10.800 That's over.

00:37:11.440 They are in the real world now.

00:37:13.060 And we're the ones having to change.

00:37:16.780 I saw a poll recently about freedom of speech.

00:37:20.320 And everybody says they're for freedom of speech.

00:37:22.580 But there's a good, now I believe, majority of people under 40 that are saying, yeah, but

00:37:29.700 I mean, some free speech should put you in jail. 0.97

00:37:32.960 Yeah, which is ridiculous.

00:37:34.100 And if you look at on Twitter right now, now with Elon Musk taking it over and giving us 0.75

00:37:38.520 the impression that we're going to have free speech, people are going nuts.

00:37:41.260 They're so excited.

00:37:41.900 But then the people on the left gland are melting down.

00:37:44.380 And that's where I'm like, why are these people, these blue check marks, afraid of letting

00:37:48.040 human beings say however they feel?

00:37:51.100 And that's the problem is they don't want you to be able to say how you actually feel.

00:37:54.200 Well, so today is going to be interesting.

00:37:56.420 The next few weeks, really, on Twitter, because I just have this great urge just to go, Iver

00:38:01.500 Ivermectin is the best.

00:38:03.480 Oh, yeah.

00:38:03.900 Um, and, you know, people will push the boundaries of free speech, which, you know, there has

00:38:11.680 to be responsibility.

00:38:12.800 With every right, there's responsibility.

00:38:15.240 Let's not do that.

00:38:16.220 That's not necessarily good for society.

00:38:18.360 Well, my favorite is a guy, or excuse me, a woman, Rachel Levine.

00:38:21.380 And Rachel Levine, who was born Dick Levine, and if you say Rachel Levine is a man on Twitter,

00:38:26.140 you can get kicked off Twitter.

00:38:27.140 As a matter of fact, the Babylon Bee, that's why their account got suspended for just saying

00:38:30.420 basically a fact.

00:38:31.500 I mean, Rachel Levine, although she's one of the most beautiful administrators we've 0.94

00:38:34.940 ever had, she's a man.

00:38:36.640 That's a dude, baby, as Austin Powers said.

00:38:38.460 I don't know if that's how he said it, but if you say that on Twitter.

00:38:40.740 It's a man.

00:38:40.940 That's a man, man.

00:38:42.260 That's it.

00:38:43.160 You're sharper than me, Glenn, but I'm just saying, it's just, you can't even point out

00:38:46.460 the elephant in the room.

00:38:47.360 So when you say the Ivermectin, you say the sudden adult death syndrome, you say any of

00:38:50.680 that type of stuff on Twitter, you're subject to removal.

00:38:53.880 Although that ends today, in theory.

00:38:56.120 Yeah, well, Elon Musk said.

00:38:57.560 We'll see.

00:38:58.260 Elon Musk said, the bird is free.

00:39:00.180 At 11 o'clock, he tweeted last night, the bird has been freed.

00:39:03.180 Well, you know, and I take it back to the midterms, too.

00:39:05.920 It's like, you know, now that they give us the impression that we have free speech, oftentimes

00:39:09.220 I think they can even censor us more.

00:39:10.900 It's like we see, potentially, we're going to have a red wave in the coming up election,

00:39:14.300 but because of all the legislation that the Biden administration has put in for the past

00:39:20.020 two years, we can't even get in office and change everything.

00:39:22.640 So that will all lay on the laps of conservatives.

00:39:24.800 So when the economy crashes and everything goes to crap, they're going to say, well, you 0.53

00:39:28.440 guys had all the control. 0.63

00:39:29.520 You guys did it all.

00:39:30.440 You know, this is all the Republican conservative problem.

00:39:33.040 I said this a couple of weeks ago.

00:39:34.780 You watch.

00:39:35.460 They've been denying that we're in a recession.

00:39:37.980 They've been denying that there's any kind of problems.

00:39:40.180 Jobs are fine.

00:39:41.620 We've all been saying, no, they're not.

00:39:43.680 This is going to get worse from here.

00:39:46.100 Now, Biden is already setting up.

00:39:49.940 I'm telling you, if you give the Congress and the Senate to the Republicans, it's going

00:39:55.420 to get worse.

00:39:56.440 Yeah.

00:39:56.560 And you look at our economy.

00:39:57.560 I mean, the idea that anybody can buy a single family home, people can't.

00:40:00.920 I mean, people can't afford their groceries.

00:40:02.260 People can't afford to fill up the gas tank.

00:40:04.660 So, you know, people are struggling right now and they're asking for help.

00:40:07.580 But all they can do is give an 80, 80 more billion dollars to Ukraine.

00:40:10.980 I mean, it's just absurd that these people, they don't want to help us.

00:40:13.260 I think everything they're doing is a controlled demolition of the American system, especially

00:40:17.520 the idea that why are they taking us off energy independence?

00:40:20.360 The oil and gas industry can lift up this entire world.

00:40:23.340 We could basically supply it.

00:40:24.660 Oh, I know.

00:40:24.800 Just here in Texas.

00:40:25.560 Why are we not doing that?

00:40:26.480 Why are we not taking advantage of the things that would make our country, which was the

00:40:30.680 most powerful country in the world?

00:40:31.700 I don't know if that's the case any longer.

00:40:34.340 How old are you?

00:40:35.320 35.

00:40:36.160 35 years old.

00:40:37.100 I was just sobering up when I was 35.

00:40:39.880 Well, you know, do you say that, Glenn?

00:40:41.280 That changed my life.

00:40:41.940 I quit drinking when I was 31 and that was the biggest change in my life.

00:40:46.240 That was, and everybody out there, I'm not trying to be a, you know, a negative Nancy.

00:40:51.420 I know everybody wants to have their fun, but alcohol and drugs is a lifestyle that will

00:40:55.100 only make you more depressed and it will only ruin your life.

00:40:58.520 Destroy it. 1.00

00:40:58.980 Just destroy it. 0.99

00:40:59.780 And once you can take a step back, because you can't see it, you know, you can't see the

00:41:02.720 forest for the big tree in front of your face.

00:41:04.380 If you're out there and you're struggling, take a break, take a month off, take a couple

00:41:07.980 weeks off.

00:41:08.440 But, you know, in society with the fentanyl and the drug crisis, everybody has a problem

00:41:12.160 they want to medicate.

00:41:12.980 So I think, sadly, the drug problem is only going to get worse.

00:41:15.700 I was reading Ryan Holiday's new book, which is about discipline.

00:41:18.380 And one of the things he talks, because he doesn't drink at all, and he talks about how

00:41:22.360 the best way to make a decision as to whether you should continue a habit that's questionable

00:41:26.740 to you, is to think about it as, if it came out today and you knew everything about it,

00:41:32.000 would you still make the decision?

00:41:33.720 Like, if alcohol was released in stores tomorrow for the first time, with all the information

00:41:38.560 that we already know about it, would you start drinking tomorrow?

00:41:41.520 Yes.

00:41:42.140 Yeah.

00:41:42.820 Margaritas are fun, Stu.

00:41:44.260 Don't everybody want to have a margarita?

00:41:46.080 Yes, I would.

00:41:47.020 No, but I think that's a really wise way of looking at that, because, you know, most of

00:41:50.840 these things, they become, like, drinking is cultural, right?

00:41:53.280 Like, I, you know, I drink certainly a little bit more than you guys at this point, but

00:41:57.940 not a lot.

00:41:58.560 You know, I'm not, but a social drinker, I'll have a drink or two if we go out to dinner

00:42:01.980 or whatever, and often you go out and it just feels like, all right, everyone else is ordering

00:42:05.880 a drink, I should order a drink. 0.91

00:42:07.580 And that's just dumb cultural pressure. 0.96

00:42:10.200 Penn Jillette said the same thing. 0.97

00:42:12.080 You know, he just came to that point where he was like, you know what, I don't care anymore.

00:42:14.400 I'm not going to be embarrassed about not ordering a drink.

00:42:16.900 Oh, I think you guys are on the other side of this, where maybe, you know, you've had a,

00:42:21.480 Glenn certainly, I don't know, you know, Alex as well, but, like, you had a real problem

00:42:26.640 with this.

00:42:27.080 It was ruining your life.

00:42:28.040 It was destroying your life.

00:42:29.120 In fact, I mean, look at what it made you today.

00:42:31.420 So, you had that and you came on the other side and you said, hey, all right, like, now

00:42:36.120 I can look at this and see how absurd these things were.

00:42:38.780 Because you went through that pain, most people don't go through that pain.

00:42:41.640 And I never had any, never had any negative consequences from drinking other than a couple

00:42:45.680 of bad headaches and a vomit or two. 0.94

00:42:48.260 Uh, so, like, you get, but you realize it's just a dumb decision overall.

00:42:53.740 It doesn't, it doesn't improve your life.

00:42:55.460 It doesn't make, it doesn't give you any long-term prospects of, of growth per se.

00:43:00.620 It's just something we do because it's culturally there.

00:43:03.520 If I would have bought stock in Jack Daniels or Maker's Mark, I would have made a lot of

00:43:08.100 money.

00:43:08.760 Buy stock in it all you want.

00:43:10.480 I'm convinced.

00:43:11.700 I'm convinced I, just me alone, drove that company.

00:43:15.820 Well, to your point, Stu, and I always say this, you know, and I stole this from Charles

00:43:19.200 Barkley in the 80s.

00:43:20.040 I'm not a role model, so I don't want to give anybody necessarily advice.

00:43:23.320 But the first piece of advice I will give everybody as I say that, do not worry about

00:43:28.060 the opinions of others.

00:43:29.220 That's what we try to do.

00:43:30.080 Nobody cares.

00:43:30.940 Even your person that's probably, you know, they say, you know, what is your biggest fan

00:43:34.160 is a stranger and your biggest, you know, enemy is probably somebody real close to

00:43:37.260 you.

00:43:37.380 So, worrying about the opinions of strangers, just be yourself.

00:43:40.920 You know, I saw, I saw an interview with Larry King right before he passed away and they

00:43:43.540 said, what is some advice for future broadcasters?

00:43:45.800 And he said, kid, just be yourself.

00:43:47.420 And I think that, you know, you could extrapolate that for everybody.

00:43:50.040 Just be yourself. 0.96

00:43:50.680 That doesn't mean be a jerk or, you know, be an a-hole, but just be yourself and be 0.99

00:43:54.360 unapologetically yourself. 0.99

00:43:55.320 And I will tell you that, especially with drinking, I don't know if you were like this,

00:44:00.180 but you didn't really have a problem with it.

00:44:01.960 Not necessarily drinking.

00:44:02.960 When I stopped drinking, misery loves company.

00:44:08.560 Nobody likes, you're good friends.

00:44:12.280 I lost most of them and I ended up with Stu.

00:44:16.120 This is not a commercial for sobriety.

00:44:18.660 Most of your friends, they like you the way you are.

00:44:22.960 And when you say, hey, I'm cleaning up, but you do whatever you want.

00:44:27.740 It doesn't bother me.

00:44:28.780 I'm just making this choice for me.

00:44:29.900 A lot of my friends, they weren't for it.

00:44:34.780 It's a scarlet letter for whatever reason, because you're not on the same level.

00:44:37.820 You're not the one getting intoxicated.

00:44:39.180 Yeah.

00:44:39.560 It's weird.

00:44:40.120 Yeah.

00:44:40.400 It's really, really strange.

00:44:42.100 So where are you going from here?

00:44:44.320 What's the next?

00:44:45.860 Well, I'm headed to Florida, but I got another speaking engagement in the spring at University

00:44:51.000 of Tennessee under the same group, Uncensored America.

00:44:53.160 So we'll see.

00:44:53.920 I'm sure the, you know, I'm sure the college kids will be out in full force with their pitchforks.

00:44:58.980 But at the same time, Glenn, you know, people say, oh, it's so scary.

00:45:01.840 It's really not that scary.

00:45:03.080 Getting, you know, people yelling at you.

00:45:05.120 I love, I love it.

00:45:06.860 You know, I love confrontation.

00:45:07.800 So for me, it's like, if I could do this every weekend, Glenn, I'm ready to get on the plane.

00:45:12.460 Let's go.

00:45:13.580 Primetime 99. 0.90

00:45:14.600 Let's yell and scream in my face. 1.00

00:45:16.160 Only because, you know, you look at all those kids, you see every single one of them. 1.00

00:45:19.160 You're like, oh, those kids are insane. 0.64

00:45:20.240 Well, the only person more insane than those kids was me, Primetime 99, Alex Hines. 0.97

00:45:24.020 So did you watch the Fetterman debate?

00:45:26.660 Oh, yeah.

00:45:27.240 I mean, it was embarrassing.

00:45:28.800 The only person liked the debate more than any conservative is Dr. Oz.

00:45:31.760 I mean, he's a real champion. 0.99

00:45:34.300 I think that took great restraint from Oz because Fetterman was a jerk from the get-go. 0.98

00:45:42.720 He's not only having a hard time processing things. 1.00

00:45:47.340 The one thing, he's a lot like my grandfather, my dad's father, who was a jerk in real life. 0.99

00:45:53.600 And then when he had a stroke, he was just mean. 0.99

00:45:57.500 And I kind of got that from Fetterman, too.

00:46:00.220 I think he's kind of a mean guy.

00:46:01.840 Oh, for sure.

00:46:02.460 And his wife, Jersey Giselle, she's not very likable either.

00:46:04.980 But, you know, what I've noticed on Twitter now with all the blue check marks, they're saying,

00:46:08.680 if you tease Fetterman, they're saying, oh, you cannot make fun of, you're an ableist.

00:46:12.080 You're an ableist for making fun of them.

00:46:13.880 And now we need more stroke victims, you know, in politics.

00:46:17.680 It's just, you know, there's a big elephant in the room. 0.86

00:46:19.580 And if we point to the elephant, you're racist or you're bigoted.

00:46:21.920 What does it tell you about the Democrats that they already have Feinstein?

00:46:29.440 They have Nancy Pelosi, who is, you know, arguably not there.

00:46:35.140 Saving reincarnated.

00:46:36.280 You have Joe Biden and now Fetterman.

00:46:40.000 I mean, they say they believe in the individual and democracy.

00:46:42.880 I don't think so.

00:46:43.880 I think they would line up a whole bunch of zombies if they would just vote the way everybody

00:46:48.060 told them to vote.

00:46:49.080 Well, that's obvious.

00:46:49.700 Did you see the runway footage of Chuck Schumer talking to Joe Biden?

00:46:52.540 And he said you could, you know, hear him wording that the debate didn't hurt us that

00:46:55.980 much.

00:46:56.480 These people do not care about these actual candidates.

00:46:58.840 I mean, if they would, they would put the best candidate forward.

00:47:01.440 But the fact that John Fetterman is, you know, one of the most important Senate seats in Pennsylvania

00:47:05.960 and he is their best choice, that's just kind of a shocking, sad realization that Lurch

00:47:11.520 is going to be running the country.

00:47:13.400 I mean, come on.

00:47:14.440 I really think he looks like Frankenstein from Young Frankenstein.

00:47:20.760 I really, if Gene Wilder was around, maybe somebody can do this just, you know, with Photoshop.

00:47:26.240 But I'd like to see Fetterman dressed in the tuxedo on stage doing Putting on the Ritz from

00:47:34.660 the movie Young Frankenstein.

00:47:36.420 Don't you remember?

00:47:37.220 Putting on the Ritz!

00:47:39.060 You don't remember?

00:47:40.180 Somebody look it up.

00:47:41.400 It is John Fetterman.

00:47:43.100 And Glenn, one of the movies that was shot here was Adam's Family Values, which is a

00:47:46.880 great movie.

00:47:47.340 And he looks like a character out of Adam's Family Values.

00:47:50.020 I mean, he literally looks like something.

00:47:51.320 He's definitely got a Lurch situation going.

00:47:52.700 Yeah.

00:47:52.980 I mean, the guy, his tie wasn't, I mean, how do you even consider a guy who lived until

00:48:01.400 what?

00:48:01.760 He was 40 or 50 in his parents' basement?

00:48:06.280 Well, and I brought up, this was too, how did he even become the lieutenant governor?

00:48:09.760 How did that even-

00:48:10.280 I don't know.

00:48:10.840 How did he become mayor?

00:48:11.640 In the town that he was mayor, they lost 40% of their population.

00:48:14.140 Their population went down to 1,700 people.

00:48:16.200 So, I mean, the guy is, and it's similar to Beto O'Rourke.

00:48:19.360 I mean, these people, they can lose elections and somehow they fail upwards.

00:48:23.320 It's insane.

00:48:24.040 I love him.

00:48:25.020 He's always talking about gun violence and all the things he did.

00:48:27.780 Dr. Oz never did anything to stop gun violence.

00:48:30.420 You were a mayor of a city of 1,700 people.

00:48:34.040 How much-

00:48:34.540 I lived in a small town growing up that was like 10 times that size.

00:48:39.060 Like, well, how- there's no gun violence there.

00:48:41.400 What- what- how much gun violence was there in this town?

00:48:43.840 Well, I know that there was a black man running through his neighborhood.

00:48:47.180 I know that.

00:48:48.180 He didn't have a gun, but Fetterman did and held him at gunpoint.

00:48:51.940 He stopped doing that.

00:48:53.680 That's true.

00:48:54.220 He did stop that one time.

00:48:55.760 Well, and speaking of gun violence, I think if Paul Pelosi might have had a gun, his situation

00:48:59.080 would have been a little better in San Francisco.

00:49:00.960 Either him or somebody around him.

00:49:02.440 I mean, like, that is a terrifying situation.

00:49:04.520 We don't know anything about who did it.

00:49:06.080 We all know what's happening on Twitter where every Republican that has ever been born is

00:49:10.060 already being blamed for it.

00:49:11.040 So, congratulations, everyone.

00:49:12.160 I apologize.

00:49:13.360 Yeah, but like, in reality, like, how is this- how is there not more protection on Nancy

00:49:18.140 Pelosi's home?

00:49:18.820 That's absolutely inexcusable.

00:49:20.500 Of course there should be. 1.00

00:49:21.400 There's- it only takes one idiot, right? 1.00

00:49:23.220 It only takes one person. 1.00

00:49:24.320 Even if she was not famous, she's very, very wealthy.

00:49:27.980 You should have some security there to protect yourself.

00:49:31.040 These are the same people that said January 6th is worse than 9-11.

00:49:33.460 So, I mean, come on.

00:49:34.380 If you're going to protect yourself from-

00:49:36.400 Yeah, if they believe that, she would make sure.

00:49:37.960 If they believe that, then she would be protected as if her house was Fort Knox.

00:49:42.940 Alex Stein, thank you.

00:49:44.800 Always a pleasure.

00:49:45.640 It's an honor and a pleasure.

00:49:46.900 It's good to have you here.

00:49:48.600 And you'll be joining us on election night.

00:49:50.720 Yes, sir.

00:49:51.260 I'll be there.

00:49:51.920 And we got some bits, some wild stuff coming.

00:49:53.980 So, make sure to tune in, guys, because we're going to be going insane for the Ukraine. 1.00

00:49:57.480 It'll be great.

00:49:59.360 Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:01.080 Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:01.660 Nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:02.960 Nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:03.960 Nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:04.320 Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:05.100 Nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:05.720 Nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:06.200 Nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:06.860 Nah, nah, nah.

00:50:07.780 Nah, nah, nah, nah.

00:50:09.220 Nah, nah, nah.

00:50:09.680 Nah, nah.

The Glenn Beck Program - October 28, 2022

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