Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Salena Zito & Alex Stein ｜ 10⧸28⧸22
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Summary
Sen. Rand Paul responds to the attack on his ex-wife, Nancy Pelosi, and calls for her immediate return. Glenn and Selena Zito respond to the assault on Rep. John Fetterman, who was left in critical condition after being pepper-sprayed in his home.
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This Nancy Pelosi thing is really scary, isn't it?
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Rand Paul's response to see if I can find it here.
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Yeah, he said, so basically, he said about the, so Nancy Pelosi's husband was assaulted
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We don't have any of the details on it yet, but everyone's just kind of saying the same
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thing that you should say, which is, hey, God, that's terrible and it should not happen
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to anybody, no matter what, you know, whether you agree with them or not.
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Unlike Nancy Pelosi's daughter, who celebrated my assault, I condemn this attack and wish
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And he links to the tweet where Nancy Pelosi's daughter said Rand Paul's neighbor, who assaulted
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him, was right for assaulting him, which was eventually, actually, one of the very few
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examples of pre-Elon Musk Twitter censorship against the left.
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They actually deleted that tweet because it was someone endorsing an assault.
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Things like this, if, I mean, I hate to even say this, but I hope it was just some crackhead
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But how does somebody as rich as the Pelosi's and as high profile as the Pelosi's not have
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Certainly not sufficient security if they have any.
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Anyway, we pray for the Pelosi's and pray for the Republic as well.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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I sound like I have a Tallulah Bankhead thing going.
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That's called spending a lot of time on the road and talking to a lot of people.
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You're the Washington Examiner National Political Reporter.
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You're also a columnist for the New York Post and the co-author of The Great Revolt, which
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You get it because you actually talk to people.
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You wrote an amazing article that has just come out, the painful story on how John Fetterman
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But I first want to get your reaction on what are people saying?
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I drove all the way out to the debate from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg.
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I got there, realized that the only people I would be watching the debate with was other
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And I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to learn anything here.
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They drove all the way back halfway across the state and stopped in a bar and just sat back
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And I think the most powerful thing about watching those reactions was the watching the realization
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on their faces that they had no idea that John Fetterman was in this bad of a condition.
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Well, they understood because he would do a rally here and there, spoke a couple times.
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They understood there was somewhat of a problem, but they didn't.
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They thought it was speech-related as opposed to cognitively related.
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And when he was put in a position where he had to answer questions and provided all the
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tools available to him and he still struggled, they now realized nobody has been telling them
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All the other reporters have just omitted that this is an issue.
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And so as they were talking among each other, they were really frustrated and angry at my
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profession for not demonstrating exactly what the problem is and being honest about what
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But also really mad at other Democrats like Senator Bob Casey, who has stood on the deist
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with him in about a half a dozen events, maybe more, and talked about how terrific shape
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And he even had the audacity to go on national news after the debate and said he did a terrific
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Then you add that with the Philadelphia Inquirer saying that he won the debate and CNN saying
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And you add all that together and there's this sort of invisible and quiet thing going
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on with voters saying, y'all are gaslighting us and we're tired of it.
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So is it going to change the way people, we are so set in our camps now that I wonder if
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Look, one of the things that was so important about the book, The Great Revolt, it was that
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it was understood, this coalition and this conservative populist coalition that formed long
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before Donald Trump ever stepped on the stage and remained intact.
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What people did not talk about was that there was a significant red wave down ballot in the
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congressional races, in the statewide row office races, in the state house, in the state
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That coalition remained together, once again proving that this was not about Trump, but
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it was about their lives, their communities, how they are impacted.
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And I think that remains to be the underlying or the story that is consistently missed in
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The other day, did you see the Kentucky coal miner who came to went to the back about a
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That, by the way, that's something I see all the time.
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To me, that was like, yeah, I mean, that's what people do.
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But it ran, that image started to be shared across social media at the exact same time
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that the Washington Post wrote a story that said why rural Americans are so angry and resentful
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These two moments together of how my profession does not understand the very people that they're
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That coal miner was not angry and resentful that he had to go to the game like that.
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He was appreciative that he had a job to go to and the ability to leave that job and go
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So, so you bring up in your, so wait a minute, before I go onto this, the polls show that Oz
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I would, in normal times, I would have expected that to be six, seven, eight.
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Is there going to be enough space between them?
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Look, here's the, here's the challenge for Fetterman.
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And by the way, I would say it's been a challenge.
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Dr. Oz, who I was incredibly skeptical of, uh, in, in the beginning when he first announced
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he was running, has actually proved and matured as a very good candidate.
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Someone who goes into those places, as I call, um, uh, the middle of somewhere and, and talks
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I have logged on thousands of miles on the back roads with Oz, watched him in rural areas,
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watched him in, um, in majority minority areas, just listening to voters where, by the
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And, and he's actually doing it because he wants to understand what the issues are.
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So that was a long way of telling you that I have always thought that John Fetterman was
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Remember he was up 12 percentage points, but he also has no ability to gain voters.
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And it's not just based on his, um, on his illness.
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Uh, you know, I, I've been doing, I don't know if anybody's reading it, but I've been
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reporting that as mayor, the whole sort of elevated story that you saw in the Rolling
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Stone and the Atlantic and New York times, these glossy, beautiful pieces about how he
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saved this, this, um, borough in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
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Crime went up, population declined, and the heart and soul of that town, the hospital where
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there was the only sit down restaurant for people to go to in the cafeteria was, was torn
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I hope people go to selenazio.com and read the reporting that I've been doing.
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I know I'm not on social media, but, but that reporting has been, it's been there for months.
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I saw the, uh, I saw the story, um, on that when it came out and how do the people of the
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town feel when they're hearing, Hey, he saved our town.
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Well, that was the beauty of that, of that story.
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That wasn't me telling everyone that that was them saying that they talked about how their
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They talked about the, of the people that have fled to get out of there because there's
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And they talked about it always being just about him and never about them.
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And they talked about him going after one of their neighbors, a, um, a young black man
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who was jogging and he put a shotgun to his chest and kept him there because he thought
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And, and by the way, that young man's life has been destroyed.
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That young man's life has been destroyed and he has never been apologized to, or the
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kind that he went up to a local bar, a nightclub owned by way by a black entrepreneur and changed
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the wording on the sign at two o'clock in the morning.
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And a camera caught it, um, saying that it was closed and not open because he deemed
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These are the stories that people of radical tell you, not the stories, not me saying this.
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That's why I think that reporting is so important.
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Let alone that he didn't pay his taxes in his poorest school district in one of the poorest
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And, you know, it, it, it, it, it, it frustrated me every time all these glossy stories were put
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out there, you know, with him standing in front of a steel mill.
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Uh, at the same time, his parents were paying for his education.
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Karl Marx was a horrible human being that never paid a dime of his own way.
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He lived off his parents and then his family for his whole life.
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I can't even imagine not wanting to have purpose in your life in that way, other than
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the purpose of power, which is what I believe that it is.
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So we're talking to Selena Zito, uh, because Selena Zito.com is her web address, but she writes
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for the New York post and also the Washington examiner.
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When in 2016, when you nailed what was happening, you were the only one that the media went, how
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You went to work, um, for CNN as a contributor there.
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And I know you, Selena, I know you probably walked in at first hoping that people will actually
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Um, and then they didn't, um, and thus they're down the toilet even more.
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Well, why are they not looking, why are they not exposing things like Fetterman?
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Are they afraid, uh, or are they afraid of being, uh, ostracized by their own, uh, their
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own group or is it, is it that they just won't do it because they're on the bandwagon?
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Oh, so I have an entire chapter about this in my book.
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And I think that it's probably the one that people should really, really read.
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And the problem with my profession is the same problem that you see in corporate America,
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in, um, major news organizations, but also in institutions and governments, but also even
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in, um, sports organizations in that the people in the boardrooms, um, are all come from the
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same, they all live in the same super zip codes.
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The wealthiest counties in the country, uh, they all went to the same great schools.
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Now they may have come from Iowa, but they left that far behind once they got to DC or
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And, and so what happens is when they go to, whether it is write a story or do a commercial
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or make a boneheaded decision like the NFL did and, and, um, uh, let Colin Kaepernick,
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um, do whatever he wanted, despite having a contract that said, you cannot do this is because
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they don't, they are so disconnected from the people who read their stories, who buy their
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It began at the same time where more companies kept buying up smaller companies.
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So there's less co local connection to the people who buy your products.
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Um, but also, um, local news organizations started to shutter.
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Uh, and, and so people had to gravitate to buying their items and, or reading their news
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They don't know anyone that sits in a pew every Sunday.
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They don't know anyone that says a prayer before dinner.
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Um, and, and so because of that, when they plop into a place, they, they seem like a freak
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They look at the people and say, y'all are a freak show.
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I mean, she was just beat up by everybody from NBC.
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Did everybody who was covering this know clearly what, how bad Fetterman was?
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I was still, I was watching them watch the same things I'd seen.
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Sasha Burns is a very good reporter and I will sing her praises forever because she
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has kept on that story and she continues to keep on the story.
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And I think it's interesting that it's a young woman and a 63 year old grandma that only have
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In 10 seconds, Fetterman going to win or, uh, Oz?
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I think it ends up, I think it ends up being Oz.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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And, uh, he, this is what it says on my, my sheet here from my producers.
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Uh, a comedian attempts to convince Glenn to endorse John Fetterman.
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And I know you're doing this just because you think Fetterman in office would be fun.
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And I, I also want to point out something else.
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I had a correction issued from vice magazine, which had said correction in a previous article.
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Uh, Michael Malice was identified as a comedian, right?
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So I am not, I don't find you funny at all, Michael.
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Well, that's why I'm on this show where humor goes to die and common sense.
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So why, why are you going to try to convince me to vote for, uh, John Fetterman?
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I don't think I'm not going to convince you to vote for him because you're not in Pennsylvania,
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but I will convince you that it's a good thing that he defeats Dr. Oz.
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And for a couple of reasons, would you agree with me that it is a superior situation for
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America that we went Obama, Obama, Trump than if we had gone Obama, Romney, Romney in the
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So if you went back in time to 2012 and you told yourself, Glenn, quit now, you're going
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But other than that, you should prefer, and get rid of Stu because he's out of control,
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but you should prefer that Obama take this election because it's going to work out in
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the long-term, you would have thought you were crazy, but that would have been the correct
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So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, no.
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I stopped, I stopped trying to figure out long-term strategies after Trump because I
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realized, you know what, it's got, it'll, it'll all work out for the best.
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And you'll never convince me that the next right thing is to have John Fetterman in.
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And this is why, because the only power the Republican base has over the Republican party
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We saw it in 2016 where establishment candidate after establishment candidate was the stop
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We're seeing it now in 2022 where Mitch McConnell is pulling money from New Hampshire when Boldich
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has a chance against Maggie Hassan if it's a wave election and he's putting into whatever
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North or South Carolina, which is definitely going to go to Republican because Mitch McConnell
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That's going to be more loyal to him than towards the Mago wing and to the American people.
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So if you are going, hold on, let me just finish.
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If you're going to take losses somewhere or other, it's better to have that loss be a Democrat
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who can't even talk than let's suppose a Barack Obama who's charismatic or Nancy Pelosi,
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Except I don't think he would serve out his full term and that might put his wife in the
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It's fine, but the point is, Oz Woods, if you are in the debate stage saying that your
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goal is to work with the Democrats and your goal is to tighten up background checks, you
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know perfectly well how this person is going to govern.
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But this is, wait, your point being that the anti-Trump candidates, right, were the establishment
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people, but this is, this is Trump's pick, right?
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John Fetterman in office would be very, very bad.
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Because you want someone who's good at being a Democrat?
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If he's going to, if we have to have an incumbent Democrat, one that is terrible, like in some
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ways would be preferable because maybe they'd be easier to beat.
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This is also a strategy that's been attempted by the Democrats multiple times and it has not
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Yeah, we got John, we have, we have Joe Biden on the same strategy.
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I don't want another incompetent person in there.
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Would you rather have Obama in the White House right now than Joe Biden?
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I mean, isn't it a good thing that Dianne Feinstein, according to the New York Post,
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was told three times by Chuck Schumer that she has to retire and she agreed three times
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and three times she forgot about the conversation?
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Isn't it a good thing when the Democratic Party is regarded as a laughingstock as
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Jon Stewart made the Bush administration for eight years instead of some organization
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These are all good things if it's not a good night on election night or a bad election day
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on the next morning, having you on saying these things will go, you know what?
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Is there any situation where you would prefer that the Democratic candidate win over the
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I think this, and this is speaking for myself here, I usually am incredibly...
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This particular election, I'm more partisan than normal because I want there to be an ability
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The fact is, like, Dr. Oz, as I've stated a thousand times, is not the candidate that
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However, these votes matter, and the fact that we may have Supreme Court justices that
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they're going to be able to push through and things of that nature, I think, are really
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Then you're looking at a potential filibuster-proof majority in 2024.
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So despite you just saying you're not a partisan, you're saying the only...
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Just to be clear, the only times you're comfortable with a Democrat taking a seat is if there's
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Like, if Joe Lieberman decided to run, I'd be like, you know, okay, he's pretty good.
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He voted for Obamacare just because he, like, criticized the Democrats.
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I at least agreed with him at times, and he did have his own mind up until Gore.
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I'm going to say why Fetterman is good on some things, and you're not going to disagree with
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The only time there's an effective anti-war coalition in Congress is when you have a Republican
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president, and that's when the Democrats become anti-war.
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In every other circumstance, both parties are tripping over themselves to support imperialism
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and the war state, and that's one thing Fetterman would be good for.
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I mean, again, we have Democrats in office now.
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They're all throwing how many billions of dollars a day?
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Like I said, if you had a Republican president, that's the only time there's an anti-war coalition
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Republican presidents have led many, many wars, right?
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Right, and the only time they have opposition is with the left wing of the Democrats.
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Well, but having opposition, but the war still happens, isn't a positive if you're against
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No, no, no, but what he's saying is if we had...
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And I don't think the same would be true with Donald Trump, and I think this is changing.
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I think there are a lot of conservatives are actually changing.
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You're not learning your lesson because you keep voting in RINOs, and Oz is the king of that.
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He had never stood up for conservative principles on his show once.
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He's Oprah Winfrey's puppet, and Oprah Winfrey single-handedly got Barack Obama the nomination.
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I'm surprised Oprah Winfrey has not come out and helped Dr. Oz at all.
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She has to support Biden or else she wouldn't be black.
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I always forget that you're not really black, Clause.
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It was really sad, but it made me also angry to watch the debate.
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It was extremely funny because he opened up the debate by saying, hello, good night, and
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But his wife blocked me because she's like, oh, John Fetterman said, I don't remember the
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I said, he doesn't remember anything, you sadistic witch.
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It is despicable that his family and his team put a broomstick up his bum and put him in
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front of that mic when any other candidate could have served that purpose because they're
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So, even if he can't even talk, it doesn't really matter.
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We saw that with Storm Thurman at the end when he was literally 100 years old.
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They keep saying, oh, it's a threat to democracy.
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They'll take them brain damaged, you know, on a stretcher, almost dead.
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Wait, wait, they, Stu just said he will support the Republican in any circumstance until they're
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What I said was, I'm not a partisan, which, by the way, true, I'm not a registered Republican
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My point is, only in this election, what I'm rooting for, not necessarily what I'm voting
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Freaking the end of Democratic control of the Senate.
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This should not be a controversial viewpoint on this particular program.
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I am with him on this because we are at the end of the Republic.
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I'd like to, before we burn it down, I'd like to see, can we get it on the track enough
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and find, you know, find an Elon Musk that will come in and go, yeah, we're firing all
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I am just shocked that we got Stu to admit on air that he's a member of Andrew Yang's
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You come up and you just stir it all up and then you leave.
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This is why John Fetterman's wise wife blocked you.
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By the way, real quick, what do you think the changes are going to mean?
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Yes, I think that for a long time, corporate journalists and academic professors who were,
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I, you know, refer to as members of the enemy class, they were taking loss after loss after
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loss on Twitter because for the first time they had accountability.
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They're not in their offices where they kind of protected against criticism.
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And now without having that shield in front of them, they're really going to have a come
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to Jesus moment with their depravity and malfeasance.
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And it's going to be absolutely glorious to watch them throw tantrums for the next couple
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So does on Monday, he said the change, some changes are going into effect.
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The first changes, Babylon B, Donald Trump, who's back?
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I hope Trump, I hope Trump waits until after the midterms, because this is just going to
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give the Democrats an issue and distraction from inflation and abortion and all this unspending.
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I really hope he has that presence of mind to keep his mouth shut just for another two weeks.
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I'm like, we're not going to get any real work done.
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He's just going to play contrarian just to get us all going.
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All of the Blaze hosts, the biggest Blaze hosts are going to be there with our coverage.
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We have Dave Rubin, Jason Whitlock, Stu, Pat, everybody.
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Between him and Malice, if I lose control of the night, it will be these two to blame.
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The following Wednesday, a week later, I'm doing a special show on targets of tyranny.
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If you would like to be a part, we never open up the Chocolate Factory anymore.
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If you want to be a part of that broadcast, you have to email now.
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It'll be in the evening, Saturday, November 12th.
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I never know what's going to happen with Alex Stein.
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It's an honor and a privilege, but then you've got a gala going on here, so the place is wild.
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You've got 10 different people running in and out with chairs, Superman outfits.
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We told them that they had to wear the Superman outfit to be able to bring the chairs in.
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He is a Blaze TV contributor, primetime 99, Alex Stein.
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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.
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What you're saying is absurd, and everybody just acts like it's not.
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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.
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I'm just basically mixing absurdity and reality, and in the culture we live in today, you can't tell what is what.
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You were going to give a talk with, what's his name?
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And it was a pretty, this girl, she'd been practicing.
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I just want to say, you guys are a poor representation of the youth of our nation.
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I have a big booty that's been in the ass here.
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It was just the mic was a little too close to my mouth, but yes.
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If I'm in Kabul, Afghanistan, I'm sorry if the audio is not perfect, Stu.
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Okay, so you were at Penn State, and they wanted you not to be at Penn State.
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They don't understand freedom of speech at all.
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But no, I am going to file a civil rights lawsuit against Penn State University, because
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they said they had a lot of kickback, Glenn, before the event, saying, oh, it should be
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And the university administrator said, oh, well, we're going to go on with it.
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So they're held to a different standard than these private colleges.
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Once they shut it down, that made them liable to a lawsuit.
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When you're in that group, Glenn, you're a fascist.
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And I think Benito Mussolini defined fascism as the merger of corporation and state.
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I don't want corporation and state together at all.
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It's Saul Alinsky's rules for radicals, where you accuse the enemy of doing what you're
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And this is a clear-cut example of these kids being confused and not even knowing.
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Once it catches up to the bumper, it doesn't know what to do with it.
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And we used to say, yeah, we'll wait until they get into the real world.
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And everybody says they're for freedom of speech.
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But there's a good, now I believe, majority of people under 40 that are saying, yeah, but
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I mean, some free speech should put you in jail.
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And if you look at on Twitter right now, now with Elon Musk taking it over and giving us
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the impression that we're going to have free speech, people are going nuts.
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But then the people on the left gland are melting down.
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And that's where I'm like, why are these people, these blue check marks, afraid of letting
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And that's the problem is they don't want you to be able to say how you actually feel.
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The next few weeks, really, on Twitter, because I just have this great urge just to go, Iver
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Um, and, you know, people will push the boundaries of free speech, which, you know, there has
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Well, my favorite is a guy, or excuse me, a woman, Rachel Levine.
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And Rachel Levine, who was born Dick Levine, and if you say Rachel Levine is a man on Twitter,
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As a matter of fact, the Babylon Bee, that's why their account got suspended for just saying
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I mean, Rachel Levine, although she's one of the most beautiful administrators we've
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I don't know if that's how he said it, but if you say that on Twitter.
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You're sharper than me, Glenn, but I'm just saying, it's just, you can't even point out
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So when you say the Ivermectin, you say the sudden adult death syndrome, you say any of
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that type of stuff on Twitter, you're subject to removal.
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At 11 o'clock, he tweeted last night, the bird has been freed.
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Well, you know, and I take it back to the midterms, too.
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It's like, you know, now that they give us the impression that we have free speech, oftentimes
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It's like we see, potentially, we're going to have a red wave in the coming up election,
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but because of all the legislation that the Biden administration has put in for the past
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two years, we can't even get in office and change everything.
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So that will all lay on the laps of conservatives.
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So when the economy crashes and everything goes to crap, they're going to say, well, you
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You know, this is all the Republican conservative problem.
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They've been denying that we're in a recession.
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They've been denying that there's any kind of problems.
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I'm telling you, if you give the Congress and the Senate to the Republicans, it's going
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I mean, the idea that anybody can buy a single family home, people can't.
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So, you know, people are struggling right now and they're asking for help.
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But all they can do is give an 80, 80 more billion dollars to Ukraine.
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I mean, it's just absurd that these people, they don't want to help us.
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I think everything they're doing is a controlled demolition of the American system, especially
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the idea that why are they taking us off energy independence?
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The oil and gas industry can lift up this entire world.
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Why are we not taking advantage of the things that would make our country, which was the
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I quit drinking when I was 31 and that was the biggest change in my life.
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That was, and everybody out there, I'm not trying to be a, you know, a negative Nancy.
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I know everybody wants to have their fun, but alcohol and drugs is a lifestyle that will
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only make you more depressed and it will only ruin your life.
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And once you can take a step back, because you can't see it, you know, you can't see the
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If you're out there and you're struggling, take a break, take a month off, take a couple
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But, you know, in society with the fentanyl and the drug crisis, everybody has a problem
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So I think, sadly, the drug problem is only going to get worse.
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I was reading Ryan Holiday's new book, which is about discipline.
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And one of the things he talks, because he doesn't drink at all, and he talks about how
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the best way to make a decision as to whether you should continue a habit that's questionable
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to you, is to think about it as, if it came out today and you knew everything about it,
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Like, if alcohol was released in stores tomorrow for the first time, with all the information
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that we already know about it, would you start drinking tomorrow?
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No, but I think that's a really wise way of looking at that, because, you know, most of
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these things, they become, like, drinking is cultural, right?
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Like, I, you know, I drink certainly a little bit more than you guys at this point, but
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You know, I'm not, but a social drinker, I'll have a drink or two if we go out to dinner
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or whatever, and often you go out and it just feels like, all right, everyone else is ordering
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You know, he just came to that point where he was like, you know what, I don't care anymore.
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I'm not going to be embarrassed about not ordering a drink.
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Oh, I think you guys are on the other side of this, where maybe, you know, you've had a,
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Glenn certainly, I don't know, you know, Alex as well, but, like, you had a real problem
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In fact, I mean, look at what it made you today.
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So, you had that and you came on the other side and you said, hey, all right, like, now
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I can look at this and see how absurd these things were.
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Because you went through that pain, most people don't go through that pain.
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And I never had any, never had any negative consequences from drinking other than a couple
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Uh, so, like, you get, but you realize it's just a dumb decision overall.
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It doesn't make, it doesn't give you any long-term prospects of, of growth per se.
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It's just something we do because it's culturally there.
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If I would have bought stock in Jack Daniels or Maker's Mark, I would have made a lot of
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I'm convinced I, just me alone, drove that company.
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Well, to your point, Stu, and I always say this, you know, and I stole this from Charles
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I'm not a role model, so I don't want to give anybody necessarily advice.
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But the first piece of advice I will give everybody as I say that, do not worry about
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Even your person that's probably, you know, they say, you know, what is your biggest fan
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is a stranger and your biggest, you know, enemy is probably somebody real close to
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So, worrying about the opinions of strangers, just be yourself.
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You know, I saw, I saw an interview with Larry King right before he passed away and they
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said, what is some advice for future broadcasters?
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And I think that, you know, you could extrapolate that for everybody.
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That doesn't mean be a jerk or, you know, be an a-hole, but just be yourself and be
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And I will tell you that, especially with drinking, I don't know if you were like this,
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Most of your friends, they like you the way you are.
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And when you say, hey, I'm cleaning up, but you do whatever you want.
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It's a scarlet letter for whatever reason, because you're not on the same level.
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Well, I'm headed to Florida, but I got another speaking engagement in the spring at University
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of Tennessee under the same group, Uncensored America.
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I'm sure the, you know, I'm sure the college kids will be out in full force with their pitchforks.
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But at the same time, Glenn, you know, people say, oh, it's so scary.
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So for me, it's like, if I could do this every weekend, Glenn, I'm ready to get on the plane.
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Only because, you know, you look at all those kids, you see every single one of them.
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Well, the only person more insane than those kids was me, Primetime 99, Alex Hines.
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The only person liked the debate more than any conservative is Dr. Oz.
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I think that took great restraint from Oz because Fetterman was a jerk from the get-go.
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He's not only having a hard time processing things.
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The one thing, he's a lot like my grandfather, my dad's father, who was a jerk in real life.
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And then when he had a stroke, he was just mean.
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And his wife, Jersey Giselle, she's not very likable either.
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But, you know, what I've noticed on Twitter now with all the blue check marks, they're saying,
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if you tease Fetterman, they're saying, oh, you cannot make fun of, you're an ableist.
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And now we need more stroke victims, you know, in politics.
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It's just, you know, there's a big elephant in the room.
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And if we point to the elephant, you're racist or you're bigoted.
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What does it tell you about the Democrats that they already have Feinstein?
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They have Nancy Pelosi, who is, you know, arguably not there.
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I mean, they say they believe in the individual and democracy.
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I think they would line up a whole bunch of zombies if they would just vote the way everybody
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Did you see the runway footage of Chuck Schumer talking to Joe Biden?
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And he said you could, you know, hear him wording that the debate didn't hurt us that
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These people do not care about these actual candidates.
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I mean, if they would, they would put the best candidate forward.
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But the fact that John Fetterman is, you know, one of the most important Senate seats in Pennsylvania
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and he is their best choice, that's just kind of a shocking, sad realization that Lurch
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I really think he looks like Frankenstein from Young Frankenstein.
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I really, if Gene Wilder was around, maybe somebody can do this just, you know, with Photoshop.
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But I'd like to see Fetterman dressed in the tuxedo on stage doing Putting on the Ritz from
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And Glenn, one of the movies that was shot here was Adam's Family Values, which is a
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And he looks like a character out of Adam's Family Values.
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I mean, the guy, his tie wasn't, I mean, how do you even consider a guy who lived until
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Well, and I brought up, this was too, how did he even become the lieutenant governor?
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In the town that he was mayor, they lost 40% of their population.
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So, I mean, the guy is, and it's similar to Beto O'Rourke.
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I mean, these people, they can lose elections and somehow they fail upwards.
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He's always talking about gun violence and all the things he did.
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Dr. Oz never did anything to stop gun violence.
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I lived in a small town growing up that was like 10 times that size.
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Like, well, how- there's no gun violence there.
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What- what- how much gun violence was there in this town?
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Well, I know that there was a black man running through his neighborhood.
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He didn't have a gun, but Fetterman did and held him at gunpoint.
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Well, and speaking of gun violence, I think if Paul Pelosi might have had a gun, his situation
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would have been a little better in San Francisco.
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We all know what's happening on Twitter where every Republican that has ever been born is
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Yeah, but like, in reality, like, how is this- how is there not more protection on Nancy
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Even if she was not famous, she's very, very wealthy.
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You should have some security there to protect yourself.
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These are the same people that said January 6th is worse than 9-11.
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Yeah, if they believe that, she would make sure.
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If they believe that, then she would be protected as if her house was Fort Knox.
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So, make sure to tune in, guys, because we're going to be going insane for the Ukraine.