The Glenn Beck Program - August 24, 2023


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Salena Zito & Seth Dillon ｜ 8⧸24⧸23


Episode Stats

Length

43 minutes

Words per Minute

173.43903

Word Count

7,599

Sentence Count

693

Misogynist Sentences

17

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

Glenn Beck is joined by puppets of all kinds, puppets in the audience, puppet masters, the puppets on stage, and then Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump's Twitter filer? Oh my gosh, the truth is out there.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today's program, puppets of all kinds. Puppets, puppet masters, the puppets on stage, yesterday the debate, and then the Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Twitter filer, or X-Files.
00:00:18.800 The X-Files.
00:00:21.180 Oh my gosh.
00:00:22.000 The truth is out there.
00:00:23.820 Anyway, we cover all of this and so much more on today's podcast, brought to you by Preborn.
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00:02:19.720 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:27.160 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:29.540 Pat Gray joins us, and I'm also surrounded by puppets, because this is an amazing, amazing audience.
00:02:36.680 I just want to, you happen to be watching us on Blaze TV.
00:02:42.080 Let me just share some of these puppets that are behind me, and I feel awkward because they're staring at me.
00:02:50.420 This comes from Andrew Olson, and he said, Glenn, I dropped all other work projects.
00:02:59.740 I took two days off from my job, and for the past 48 hours, I've worked building these four puppets.
00:03:05.680 Trump, Chris Christie, Mike Pence, and DeSantis.
00:03:09.400 I wish I had time to build all eight, but I'm going on vacation, so I could only spend two days, and they are amazing puppets.
00:03:19.260 Yeah, those are like professional puppeteer type puppets.
00:03:22.780 And then I got this one in from Valerie, Valerie Perkins.
00:03:27.640 She said, I'm one of the grandmas you mentioned that can make anything out of anything.
00:03:34.240 She said, I made only, I only had time to make one puppet.
00:03:38.360 Now, remember, we asked, I think, on Tuesday for puppets.
00:03:41.660 This woman knitted Donald Trump.
00:03:46.320 That's really good.
00:03:47.600 That is amazing.
00:03:50.080 Incredible.
00:03:50.600 I got these in, which are amazing.
00:03:56.000 This is from a woman named Sally Sawyer, I think.
00:04:03.020 Yeah, Sally.
00:04:04.080 She's an amazing artist.
00:04:05.200 But look at these.
00:04:06.300 These are bagged puppets.
00:04:08.380 Oh, wow.
00:04:08.880 That's Chris Christie.
00:04:12.720 I'm not sure who that one.
00:04:15.400 Barack Obama?
00:04:16.220 It might be.
00:04:17.480 Here's Nikki Haley.
00:04:19.160 All right.
00:04:20.600 I don't know.
00:04:24.780 Maybe.
00:04:26.280 I don't know.
00:04:27.220 I don't know.
00:04:28.040 Tim Scott, maybe.
00:04:29.000 Mike Pence, clearly.
00:04:31.440 Look at Vivek.
00:04:32.940 Oh, there you go.
00:04:34.160 That's a nice suit.
00:04:35.780 This is Tim Scott.
00:04:38.820 That's good.
00:04:39.800 Yeah.
00:04:40.040 And then this one is good.
00:04:41.080 This is Mike Pence.
00:04:42.880 Dear Glenn Beck, my mom listens to you every morning.
00:04:45.300 I heard about your presidential puppet need.
00:04:48.020 I wanted to send mine.
00:04:49.520 Here's Mike Pence from Barrett in Big Timber, Montana.
00:04:56.220 That's awesome.
00:04:57.260 Yeah.
00:04:57.560 He loves me.
00:04:59.080 That's great.
00:05:00.320 Wow.
00:05:00.720 And there's so many more, but we can get into it later.
00:05:04.140 What was the big thing that stood out to you last night, Pat?
00:05:10.100 A couple of things stood out.
00:05:11.980 Nikki Haley sucks.
00:05:12.840 And so does Mike Pence.
00:05:16.380 Not a fan of either one of them.
00:05:17.760 They're still enmeshed in warmongering.
00:05:21.340 I don't understand it.
00:05:23.020 Have you guys not progressed at all to say, okay, we've been at war long enough and we've
00:05:29.660 been in enough places around the world and we've policed the planet long enough?
00:05:33.900 Let's stop.
00:05:34.280 And it doesn't really work.
00:05:35.020 It doesn't work.
00:05:35.940 No, it doesn't work.
00:05:36.540 We've tried it that way for about 150 years and it's not working.
00:05:41.660 Well, we can do it all.
00:05:42.900 We can have the border and fight Canada and Mexico if we want to.
00:05:48.220 We're going to start something in the Congo and we can definitely fight for Ukraine.
00:05:53.280 Let them fight their own battles.
00:05:55.060 Let them fight.
00:05:55.780 Well, I mean, we can do, we could do a lot and still fight Canada.
00:06:00.760 That one I do agree with.
00:06:02.100 You're right.
00:06:02.520 Yes, that one we support.
00:06:03.980 That is a good point.
00:06:05.740 Because it's not a terrible line that Pence brings up from a line perspective.
00:06:09.640 He's like, you know, we're the greatest country in the world.
00:06:11.540 We should be able to do more than one thing.
00:06:12.680 You have a bad view of our country.
00:06:14.600 Oh, I hated that.
00:06:15.360 First of all, he said it at the Iowa thing.
00:06:17.060 We'd already heard it, but it's the exact same line.
00:06:20.200 But secondly, like, actually our country can't do either of the things one at a time.
00:06:24.780 No.
00:06:24.960 We can't do any of these things.
00:06:26.820 We can't do the most basic thing in the world that a government's supposed to do.
00:06:29.800 And we're sending them money we don't have.
00:06:31.220 Yeah.
00:06:31.440 And I thought he also sounded really out of touch when he was going up against Ramaswamy, who was like, look, we are having bad times in America.
00:06:39.780 And we've got to recognize that we're not the America we once were.
00:06:44.780 And we have to we have to soul search and rediscover who we are.
00:06:49.840 He said it's not morning in America.
00:06:52.140 Yeah.
00:06:52.400 While I get what he's going for there.
00:06:54.040 That's it.
00:06:54.480 It felt a little shocking to hear that.
00:06:56.280 It's true.
00:06:57.080 It's true.
00:06:57.340 Everybody knows it.
00:06:59.320 Mike Pence was just like, oh, you're saying the American people are bad.
00:07:03.900 No, that's not what he said.
00:07:05.340 No, it's not what he said.
00:07:06.320 I will say, though, and this is the thing I did appreciate about the debate last night.
00:07:10.060 Yeah.
00:07:10.660 That what you're talking about, Pat, is a serious policy difference in the party.
00:07:14.680 And it's good that they talk those things out.
00:07:17.040 Yeah.
00:07:17.240 Like, that was actually some substance, some some sort of depth.
00:07:22.660 Yeah.
00:07:22.860 One person who really thinks this is good.
00:07:24.460 One person who's really think this is bad.
00:07:26.100 Let them argue it out.
00:07:26.780 That's how this is supposed to work.
00:07:27.720 So let's reenact because Fox will not this first time in my career.
00:07:32.220 I've done this 45 years, I think something like that.
00:07:36.960 It's a long time.
00:07:37.540 And every four years, this broadcast is usually as somebody that has been up all night pulling all the clips.
00:07:46.320 We're not pulling any clips because we can't.
00:07:49.080 And you'll see it on TV.
00:07:51.220 Fox has hidden this debate.
00:07:54.020 CNN is not really playing any clips.
00:07:56.240 CNBC, MSNBC.
00:07:58.600 No one is playing clips because Fox is there saying, we'll sue you.
00:08:03.020 Three minutes.
00:08:03.700 Why would you do that?
00:08:04.920 And it can't be in your archives.
00:08:07.300 Right.
00:08:07.520 So after a week, you can't play it ever again.
00:08:09.960 Right.
00:08:10.200 So any show that plays a single clip.
00:08:13.060 You have to delete that part of the show.
00:08:14.340 Yeah.
00:08:14.660 It's impossible.
00:08:15.500 And, you know, most executives and media are just saying, OK, they're crazy.
00:08:20.520 Zero minutes.
00:08:21.360 Don't do any of it.
00:08:22.180 Right.
00:08:22.320 And quickly, as you're putting your puppets on, I would just point out, too, can we spread the blame a little bit for this?
00:08:30.400 Yes.
00:08:30.700 Fox deserves the blame for not spreading these around.
00:08:33.540 I'm not taking any blame away from them, per se.
00:08:35.960 But I want to add additional blame here to the RNC for allowing this.
00:08:41.120 You're right.
00:08:41.580 Oh, you shouldn't.
00:08:42.220 Next time you go to Fox, you say, you don't get this debate unless people get to see our damn candidates.
00:08:47.520 Yeah.
00:08:47.660 What was the whole point of this?
00:08:48.840 Yeah.
00:08:48.980 To introduce these people to America.
00:08:50.280 And I understand why Fox wants to steal it all for themselves so that they can have this, oh, it's going to be an exclusive and no one else gets to see it.
00:08:56.920 I get that from a self-interest point at some level.
00:08:59.620 But, like, that's not the self-interest of the RNC.
00:09:02.420 No.
00:09:02.640 You know, here's what you do.
00:09:04.460 What we did when we did the summit, we had the summit.
00:09:08.720 It went all day.
00:09:10.000 It was behind the paywall all day.
00:09:11.740 But you could take.
00:09:12.540 We paid for the broadcast.
00:09:12.960 We paid for the broadcast and everything else could be taken.
00:09:16.400 So you saw that even if you didn't see our broadcast.
00:09:18.680 You saw those clips.
00:09:20.280 Everywhere.
00:09:21.300 Everywhere.
00:09:22.040 And why not?
00:09:22.960 It's only good for you.
00:09:24.420 I know.
00:09:24.840 It's good for Fox for us to play the clips.
00:09:27.500 Hey, here's what happened in the debate on Fox last night.
00:09:29.960 I mean.
00:09:30.940 It is hard to take you seriously with a pink puppet on your hand.
00:09:33.800 Oh, you like my Nikki Haley puppet?
00:09:35.960 Nikki Haley puppet.
00:09:36.460 Yeah.
00:09:38.220 Warren, if you love Vladimir Putin so much, why don't you marry him?
00:09:43.740 You could tell it's Nikki Haley because it's the only feminine pink puppet.
00:09:48.120 Right.
00:09:48.280 Which she, by the way, made sure she pointed out to us over and over and over.
00:09:52.620 We got that you're a woman.
00:09:54.120 We can see it.
00:09:55.200 I know half of the country can't notice the differences.
00:09:57.700 Excuse me.
00:09:58.540 How contrived was that line?
00:09:59.840 I hate that.
00:10:00.720 How contrived was the line?
00:10:02.380 And she, you know, should they be preparing that for a month and sneak this in when you can?
00:10:07.860 Yeah.
00:10:08.220 That if you want to talk about something, you ask a man.
00:10:11.720 If you want something done, you ask a woman.
00:10:15.640 Like me.
00:10:19.820 All right.
00:10:20.640 Even though I'm a rhino and a war monger.
00:10:24.180 What is the audience you're playing to with that line?
00:10:26.560 I don't know.
00:10:27.060 Maybe if you're in the general election, you think it's going to win people over.
00:10:31.200 But like what?
00:10:31.700 This is a party that's completely aligned against identity politics.
00:10:35.920 And you come out and your big point is I've got a girly part.
00:10:40.360 Like, what is that?
00:10:41.740 I don't understand that at all.
00:10:43.200 Again, I don't have anything against Nikki Haley.
00:10:46.260 I just don't understand that.
00:10:47.360 I didn't need her until last night.
00:10:48.900 Now I do.
00:10:49.680 Now I do.
00:10:50.700 Hold on just a second.
00:10:51.740 I need to add something to the constitution of our program, Sarah, if you'd write this
00:10:55.220 down in the rule book.
00:10:56.120 I don't want anyone to ever refer to Nikki Haley's girly parts.
00:11:01.740 Wait, that made the constitution?
00:11:03.040 Is there a method process on this?
00:11:04.860 Wow.
00:11:05.160 No, it's, yeah.
00:11:06.140 That was an egregious offense.
00:11:07.800 I had several other words I was going to use.
00:11:09.920 You should be happy I went that direction.
00:11:12.020 Now I feel a little weird as I'm holding a puppet on my hand, a Donald Trump puppet,
00:11:15.980 and I'm pointing with Donald Trump's nose to Sarah, but did you guys see the Tucker Carlson
00:11:24.180 interview?
00:11:25.680 I did not.
00:11:26.180 I loved it.
00:11:26.480 You watched it?
00:11:27.160 Did you really?
00:11:27.780 I watched it as well.
00:11:29.260 I thought it was.
00:11:30.740 I thought it was really good.
00:11:31.780 I thought they were both genuine.
00:11:34.000 Yes.
00:11:34.100 Tucker is very genuine.
00:11:35.100 And bold.
00:11:35.720 Yeah.
00:11:35.900 I mean, for when Chris Wallace came up.
00:11:39.860 Oh, that was good.
00:11:40.660 And Trump said, I don't think that's a friend of yours.
00:11:42.640 And Tucker said, no, no, he's not a friend.
00:11:46.000 I mean, that's just honesty that you don't normally get.
00:11:48.840 Yeah.
00:11:49.300 And then for him to call him, what was it?
00:11:52.340 He called him a bitchy little man.
00:11:55.320 Wow.
00:11:56.460 I like, I just, I found it brash and bold.
00:12:00.200 Well, I like the part where Tucker said, I mean, why wouldn't they just kill you?
00:12:07.720 And Donald Trump's like, don't.
00:12:14.000 Was there a tough moment at all for Trump in there?
00:12:16.220 Did he get a tough question about any of the.
00:12:18.320 It wasn't.
00:12:19.540 No.
00:12:19.900 It wasn't that type of interview.
00:12:20.920 Hardball stuff.
00:12:21.840 Okay.
00:12:22.160 No.
00:12:22.600 I mean, again, I think they are aligned on most policy issues.
00:12:26.180 I wouldn't expect it to be some hit job, but I was sure.
00:12:28.620 I was interested to see if he'd push him on something like, you know, the vaccine or vaccine
00:12:32.960 or something like that.
00:12:33.800 No, he pushed him, believe it or not.
00:12:37.120 To get to that.
00:12:38.440 Why aren't they going to put a bullet in your head?
00:12:41.040 Question.
00:12:41.620 He pushed him on Epstein.
00:12:43.180 Right.
00:12:43.540 The Epstein.
00:12:44.140 It was really weird.
00:12:45.560 Did Trump say he.
00:12:46.860 No, Trump said he didn't believe it.
00:12:48.060 But Tucker absolutely said he was killed.
00:12:50.740 He was murdered.
00:12:51.440 Trump said he was not.
00:12:52.740 No, not necessarily.
00:12:53.820 He said, I don't know.
00:12:56.140 But I don't kind of had so.
00:12:57.720 I think it could go either.
00:12:59.020 I got the impression he didn't.
00:13:00.420 He didn't think it all.
00:13:01.560 Yeah.
00:13:01.720 Yeah.
00:13:01.780 Because he was like, I don't think so.
00:13:03.800 I, you know, I don't know.
00:13:04.920 I just think it was a very sloppy, sloppy situation.
00:13:10.160 Yeah.
00:13:10.760 That's one way of putting it.
00:13:12.240 He also did talk about Bill Barr on how Bill Barr was a coward and he was afraid of impeachment.
00:13:18.240 And that's why he just kowtowed to everybody else.
00:13:23.340 So, you know.
00:13:24.820 Interesting.
00:13:25.460 Yeah.
00:13:25.760 It was.
00:13:26.460 It was better than the debate, I think.
00:13:28.240 Really?
00:13:28.520 I think Trump was a winner last night.
00:13:30.120 I think that's a very fair piece of analysis because no one.
00:13:33.600 I liked DeSantis.
00:13:34.680 I liked Vivek.
00:13:36.760 Vivek.
00:13:37.360 Vivek.
00:13:38.020 Like cake.
00:13:38.700 Or, according to my audience, like fake.
00:13:41.340 Yeah.
00:13:41.640 There's definitely a lot of pushback on the Vivek thing.
00:13:43.760 It's a very.
00:13:44.180 He's very polarizing.
00:13:45.660 Like, I don't know why either.
00:13:46.240 People either love him or hate him.
00:13:47.540 Yeah.
00:13:48.040 Which is interesting.
00:13:49.600 You know, again, like we come from such a different experience here with Vivek.
00:13:53.860 Like.
00:13:54.120 We've known him long before he would.
00:13:55.960 Yeah.
00:13:56.320 This audience knows him.
00:13:57.580 He was on the show 10 times before he announced he ran for president.
00:14:00.800 Probably talking about his books and everything else over the past five years.
00:14:04.020 So, like, we know this guy.
00:14:05.960 And I think, like, the American people who watched him were going through two different experiences.
00:14:11.580 People, like, who were watching The Blaze and are informed on this guy.
00:14:14.020 And I've heard him talk a million times.
00:14:15.460 I think watched that and were like, eh, not his best performance.
00:14:19.140 I think he was.
00:14:20.440 Like, I think he.
00:14:21.120 It wasn't his best.
00:14:21.820 He had some.
00:14:22.480 Some of those back and forth.
00:14:23.520 I thought he killed it.
00:14:24.300 Did you really?
00:14:25.000 Yeah, I didn't.
00:14:25.420 I didn't think so.
00:14:26.060 I don't think anybody killed it.
00:14:27.380 I thought he and the assistant stood above.
00:14:29.820 The Blaze audience poll had him at about 60% as the winner.
00:14:33.380 As the winner.
00:14:33.960 And the next closest was DeSantis, like, at 37%.
00:14:36.760 Part of that, though, I think, was that he dominated the stage.
00:14:39.540 I mean, they were all firing at him.
00:14:41.440 He was going back.
00:14:42.140 But some of those, he even seemed to lose.
00:14:44.640 Like, I thought Chris Christie's, hey, you're repeating Obama's lines, was actually a good slam on him.
00:14:50.740 I mean, it was, hey, oh, who's the skinny guy with the funny name?
00:14:54.140 Like, who's the skinny guy with the funny name?
00:14:57.340 Like, what kind of.
00:14:58.960 Works with the puppet.
00:15:00.300 It does work with the puppet.
00:15:01.660 I thought that was a bad exchange.
00:15:03.860 Some of the other stuff I thought he actually sort of lost.
00:15:07.020 And while he was good and he made a big impact, I thought for someone, for people who knew him and, like, he was really good in Iowa.
00:15:16.300 To the point of, like, he blew the room away.
00:15:18.560 I mean, he owned the room when he was there.
00:15:21.020 With this, I thought he was up and down.
00:15:23.060 I've heard many people say to me, he felt a little like, car salesman, I'm giving you a 1999 Acura.
00:15:30.400 It was that type of thing.
00:15:31.780 Which I've never taken, I've never seen that from him before.
00:15:35.040 I've never felt that way before.
00:15:36.500 On the other hand, for people who had no idea, the overwhelming majority of people who had not paid attention to him and never seen him before, maybe never even heard of him before.
00:15:46.160 I think they got the impression he was the front runner.
00:15:48.560 Yeah.
00:15:48.760 Everyone was attacking him.
00:15:49.900 But then, he came off, I think, his awareness, he was taking a lot of people from zero to 60 last night.
00:15:56.880 Yeah.
00:15:57.180 And that, I think, worked really well.
00:15:58.580 I think he had the most impact in the debate last night, moving his position.
00:16:02.320 The only thing that he could have done better, I think, is when Christie was saying, I've had enough of you.
00:16:07.080 I've had it.
00:16:07.700 Well, you've had enough cheeseburgers, too.
00:16:09.400 Yeah.
00:16:09.580 That doesn't stop you.
00:16:10.440 That is true.
00:16:11.040 From stuffing more down your fat face.
00:16:12.720 Yeah, that's not really his style.
00:16:14.460 But that's not really his style.
00:16:14.680 No.
00:16:15.180 No, it's not his style.
00:16:16.420 Right.
00:16:16.800 We invest in a lot of things as we go through life.
00:16:19.480 The gastric bypass was not a good investment for Chris.
00:16:22.120 It didn't work.
00:16:23.020 It just didn't work out.
00:16:23.740 Did he have one?
00:16:24.660 He had one, and he lost a ton of weight.
00:16:26.520 Wow.
00:16:26.980 And he just put it all back on.
00:16:28.640 Wow.
00:16:28.920 That's sad.
00:16:29.340 It just didn't work out.
00:16:30.480 Oh, boy.
00:16:31.040 You know, sometimes things...
00:16:31.940 I better not tell you about my gastric bypass that I had.
00:16:34.340 Oh, wow.
00:16:35.560 Is that...
00:16:36.320 Wow.
00:16:36.520 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:16:44.380 We have Selena Zito with us now.
00:16:46.840 Selena, where'd you watch the debate last night?
00:16:50.120 In a bar.
00:16:51.600 In a bar.
00:16:52.220 Okay.
00:16:52.740 All right.
00:16:53.260 Not because of the alcoholism.
00:16:54.720 I think that's under control.
00:16:57.340 But I wanted you on today because you're an observer of people,
00:17:02.440 and you have called the last couple of elections exactly,
00:17:10.180 and we're entering really difficult times.
00:17:15.020 How did the people react last night to the debate?
00:17:19.440 You know, people were really excited.
00:17:23.580 And I think that...
00:17:25.100 And not I think.
00:17:26.680 It's after conversations with them during and after
00:17:29.880 and sort of watching their reactions.
00:17:32.440 It is that they understand that this next generation
00:17:37.640 of conservative populists,
00:17:42.280 because that's basically what was on the stage, right?
00:17:45.360 This new formation of the Republican Party,
00:17:48.440 which can be nothing...
00:17:49.820 Which is conservative populism.
00:17:52.100 They felt that they had a grasp of important policy issues.
00:17:59.780 They were each to a degree in a different direction,
00:18:03.140 but basically in the same line with them.
00:18:06.640 And people were really excited last night,
00:18:09.880 because they got to see people...
00:18:11.880 Most had governing experience,
00:18:17.080 but also had a willingness to punch back
00:18:20.640 and not take it in the same way
00:18:23.720 that perhaps a Mitt Romney would handle being attacked, right?
00:18:29.440 How was Mike Pence received?
00:18:34.040 With respect.
00:18:36.720 You know, people, whether...
00:18:39.200 He was nowhere on the chart for anyone's pick.
00:18:43.340 Yeah.
00:18:43.640 However, there is a deep respect for Mike Pence.
00:18:47.140 People look at him as a man who has served this country
00:18:50.080 and did a good job while he did it
00:18:54.720 and believed, even whether they still loved Trump or didn't,
00:19:00.380 believed he did what he was supposed to do on January 6th.
00:19:04.320 No matter how hard that decision was,
00:19:06.540 no matter how much pressure that he faced,
00:19:08.960 they believed doing the right thing is not always easy,
00:19:13.320 but something you have a duty to do.
00:19:15.600 But he was perceived last night
00:19:19.220 as just not a factor, though, in this election.
00:19:24.480 No, no, I wouldn't say that he was a factor.
00:19:27.920 Yeah.
00:19:28.280 In terms of a choice.
00:19:30.720 Right.
00:19:31.000 However, I think what he had to say was important.
00:19:37.820 And, you know, there are a lot of conservatives
00:19:41.640 that are concerned about saying out loud
00:19:46.100 how they felt about what happened on January 6th
00:19:49.500 in either direction,
00:19:51.380 whether they thought that it was important,
00:19:54.920 whether they thought it was overblown.
00:19:57.840 You know, no matter what you say about January 6th,
00:20:00.500 if you're conservative, you are going to get bashed.
00:20:03.680 So they thought that Pence at that moment
00:20:07.080 maybe spoke on both sides of it
00:20:10.200 in a way that was comforting to them.
00:20:15.140 So there is, I think there were maybe,
00:20:19.140 definitely two, but maybe three players,
00:20:22.180 if you put Nikki Haley in there,
00:20:24.880 that made some ground.
00:20:29.280 So tell me about Nikki Haley, Vivek, Ramaswamy,
00:20:33.480 and DeSantis.
00:20:35.420 What was the reaction?
00:20:37.200 Yeah, those three, when I walked out of that bar,
00:20:40.920 those were the three that people really liked.
00:20:44.460 They liked, what they liked about Haley
00:20:46.880 and what they liked about DeSantis
00:20:48.620 is that they've proven track records
00:20:51.480 of good governing, right?
00:20:53.940 Governing as conservatives.
00:20:55.760 That's important.
00:20:57.060 They also punch back.
00:20:58.940 They like that.
00:21:00.700 They may not always agree
00:21:01.960 with what they punch back with,
00:21:03.520 but they liked that they aren't milquetoast,
00:21:06.620 that they aren't, you know,
00:21:07.960 they are the same people
00:21:10.120 that would stand up for a Supreme Court nominee
00:21:13.080 in the way that Trump did
00:21:14.820 when his Supreme Court nominees
00:21:18.140 were under attack, right?
00:21:20.000 Yes.
00:21:20.420 They would look at them as,
00:21:22.280 those two as being capable
00:21:26.900 and competent to do that,
00:21:29.600 but also fiery enough.
00:21:31.760 And in terms of Ramaswamy,
00:21:33.880 well, he, you know,
00:21:36.620 I was the first person,
00:21:38.460 I'm the one that actually broke the news
00:21:40.140 that he was running.
00:21:41.080 I sat down with him in his home
00:21:42.800 in Columbus, Ohio,
00:21:44.120 and interviewed him
00:21:46.760 the day before he announced.
00:21:49.720 And so he was,
00:21:50.940 but he still had only been soundbites, right?
00:21:53.880 People didn't see him interact.
00:21:57.440 People didn't see, you know,
00:21:59.060 what he was all about.
00:22:00.320 And they got a taste of it.
00:22:02.260 And it was a pretty divided room
00:22:05.300 on some of the things that he said.
00:22:09.660 They liked his aspirational ideas.
00:22:17.360 They liked his youth.
00:22:20.520 They liked his willingness to punch back
00:22:23.840 against the establishment of both parties.
00:22:26.900 But they're not quite sure totally on substance.
00:22:32.060 And not that he's not substantive,
00:22:34.280 but on all things,
00:22:36.000 they're not sure yet
00:22:37.500 if he has the maturity to be,
00:22:40.100 or either that,
00:22:41.420 the wisdom to surround himself
00:22:43.920 with people that would make him good
00:22:48.880 at the job of being president.
00:22:50.580 Because when you're president,
00:22:52.300 you know,
00:22:52.540 Reagan was a perfect example of this.
00:22:55.340 The things that you are weak at,
00:22:57.560 you have to make sure
00:22:58.640 you surround yourself
00:22:59.880 with competent people
00:23:01.160 that can help guide you,
00:23:04.820 not tell you what to do,
00:23:06.620 but guide you
00:23:07.920 out of dangerous territories.
00:23:10.400 So who was the big winner last night?
00:23:14.100 I think Republicans were.
00:23:17.940 I think they had,
00:23:19.540 you know,
00:23:20.080 that,
00:23:20.520 and this is based on watching people.
00:23:23.360 Everyone that left that event
00:23:25.060 was very happy.
00:23:27.180 Everyone that left that,
00:23:28.920 that bar was happy.
00:23:31.480 And for anyone who thinks
00:23:35.240 that conservatism is dying
00:23:37.720 or the Republican Party was dying,
00:23:39.980 this was mostly young people.
00:23:42.860 And these were people,
00:23:44.880 you know,
00:23:45.260 that are professionals,
00:23:46.220 that are,
00:23:46.900 you know,
00:23:47.200 in their mid-30s,
00:23:48.860 in their mid-40s,
00:23:50.220 which I now consider young.
00:23:51.840 And just were very excited
00:23:58.940 about their choices.
00:24:00.600 Yeah.
00:24:01.040 I think the important thing
00:24:02.980 to remember
00:24:03.640 is,
00:24:05.640 is that voter,
00:24:07.000 we tend to forget
00:24:08.160 that voters rarely,
00:24:11.320 whether it's in politics
00:24:12.840 or in their personal lives,
00:24:15.280 look in the rear view mirror.
00:24:17.800 They always look forward.
00:24:20.120 Just think about the problems
00:24:21.640 that you face in life.
00:24:23.580 If you stay stuck in the past,
00:24:25.720 you tend to not be successful.
00:24:27.980 You tend to not be able
00:24:29.300 to move on in your personal life,
00:24:30.980 whatever,
00:24:31.520 whatever the issue is.
00:24:33.380 But,
00:24:33.820 but people that are aspirational
00:24:35.560 tend to move forward.
00:24:37.440 And,
00:24:38.000 and so while all of,
00:24:40.040 everyone that was there
00:24:41.360 voted for Trump,
00:24:43.340 they're not as glued to it
00:24:46.440 as you,
00:24:47.620 as you,
00:24:48.180 what you sort of hear about
00:24:50.960 in,
00:24:52.020 in the national news,
00:24:53.320 right?
00:24:53.640 The national news has a narrative,
00:24:55.920 blah,
00:24:56.120 blah,
00:24:56.260 blah.
00:24:56.520 But I think,
00:24:57.540 I think this is a very open race.
00:24:59.600 It doesn't mean that Trump's
00:25:00.820 not going to win it,
00:25:02.140 but I also think that,
00:25:04.020 that we should pay attention
00:25:05.600 to everyone.
00:25:06.500 So I agree with you,
00:25:10.920 but strangely,
00:25:13.500 because I think Trump,
00:25:15.860 when he was talking to Tucker,
00:25:17.180 there was a point towards the beginning
00:25:19.260 where they were just talking about,
00:25:20.700 you know,
00:25:21.120 2020 and the election results
00:25:23.420 and all of that.
00:25:24.080 And I thought that that's not,
00:25:26.460 if we focus on that,
00:25:29.600 and it's important to figure out
00:25:32.040 exactly what happened
00:25:33.280 and make sure that we correct those things,
00:25:35.620 but that's what the GOP
00:25:36.700 should be doing right now.
00:25:38.560 But if we are,
00:25:39.760 if we are being dragged back,
00:25:42.240 then we,
00:25:44.740 we lose the future of,
00:25:47.960 of the country.
00:25:49.600 And that is,
00:25:50.640 that's right.
00:25:51.180 But everybody is very,
00:25:52.800 very loyal to Donald Trump.
00:25:54.300 I'm loyal to Donald Trump
00:25:55.700 for what he's going through.
00:25:57.040 He doesn't have to go through this.
00:25:58.840 He's going in today
00:26:00.500 to,
00:26:02.440 to get a mugshot and fingerprint.
00:26:04.500 I mean,
00:26:04.660 this is historic
00:26:05.680 what they're doing to this guy.
00:26:07.340 Do the people that support him do,
00:26:10.600 will they even consider somebody else?
00:26:16.440 Yeah,
00:26:17.200 they will.
00:26:18.760 It's really interesting nuance.
00:26:21.300 And,
00:26:21.400 and,
00:26:21.720 and,
00:26:22.860 and again,
00:26:23.680 I don't mean to come across as saying that
00:26:26.740 I don't think Trump will win.
00:26:29.180 Yeah.
00:26:29.400 I,
00:26:29.780 I,
00:26:30.140 I,
00:26:30.420 I'm not trying to give that impression,
00:26:32.820 but I,
00:26:33.840 I think it's important to understand
00:26:36.520 that voters can be willing
00:26:39.040 to just be
00:26:41.040 extremely outraged
00:26:43.760 at what Trump is going through,
00:26:45.320 be extremely happy
00:26:47.440 with the policies
00:26:48.820 that he set forward
00:26:50.120 and still
00:26:51.480 not
00:26:52.700 want him
00:26:54.780 to be the nominee.
00:26:55.760 there is
00:26:57.020 a portion of that.
00:26:58.360 And I think it's important
00:26:59.680 to pay attention
00:27:00.680 to those
00:27:01.940 voices.
00:27:02.860 And I think
00:27:04.000 part of the challenge
00:27:05.460 that Trump faces
00:27:06.720 right now,
00:27:07.380 and,
00:27:07.640 and,
00:27:07.740 and this is really
00:27:08.760 to your point,
00:27:09.620 and I'm so glad
00:27:10.740 that you made this,
00:27:12.240 um,
00:27:13.000 is to not
00:27:13.940 constantly talk
00:27:15.220 about 2020.
00:27:16.100 We have to remember,
00:27:18.300 we have to remember
00:27:19.720 that 2020
00:27:20.860 was probably
00:27:22.500 the worst year
00:27:23.740 for,
00:27:24.200 in everyone's lives.
00:27:25.620 If they didn't lose
00:27:27.160 a loved one
00:27:27.880 or a friend
00:27:28.740 or a co-worker
00:27:29.820 or a childhood friend
00:27:31.440 or,
00:27:32.440 and,
00:27:32.600 or,
00:27:32.820 and,
00:27:33.100 or their profession
00:27:34.460 wasn't dramatically changed.
00:27:36.220 Yeah,
00:27:36.500 or their job
00:27:37.100 or their business.
00:27:38.320 Their job
00:27:39.060 or their business
00:27:40.140 or their children
00:27:41.360 haven't fallen behind
00:27:42.880 or their finances
00:27:44.300 haven't taken a hit.
00:27:46.160 Re-litigating
00:27:47.100 that race,
00:27:48.020 and by the way,
00:27:48.540 that race was just
00:27:49.640 absolutely horrible.
00:27:51.980 Re-litigating
00:27:52.980 that race
00:27:53.980 means that
00:27:54.580 we are forcing
00:27:55.820 people
00:27:57.060 to re-live
00:27:58.760 2020.
00:27:59.940 Mm-hmm.
00:28:00.940 And that,
00:28:02.240 that is
00:28:03.420 his challenge.
00:28:05.380 He,
00:28:05.740 one of
00:28:06.380 Donald Trump's
00:28:07.360 greatest gifts
00:28:08.440 in 2016
00:28:09.420 was his aspiration.
00:28:12.320 Yes.
00:28:12.640 Right?
00:28:13.380 People missed,
00:28:14.960 reporters missed
00:28:16.120 what
00:28:17.340 make America
00:28:18.740 great again
00:28:19.860 meant.
00:28:20.960 It meant
00:28:21.440 being part
00:28:22.420 of something
00:28:23.000 bigger than themselves.
00:28:25.040 The reporters
00:28:25.780 called it
00:28:26.340 nationalistic,
00:28:27.400 racist,
00:28:28.100 bigoted,
00:28:28.720 whatever.
00:28:29.700 You know,
00:28:30.080 just add an ist
00:28:31.180 at the name
00:28:31.860 of the end
00:28:32.760 of a word
00:28:33.260 and that's
00:28:33.780 what they called it.
00:28:34.860 What they missed
00:28:36.140 was that it was
00:28:37.100 aspirational.
00:28:38.020 So he was always
00:28:38.940 talking about
00:28:39.720 going forward,
00:28:41.100 going forward,
00:28:41.820 going forward
00:28:42.800 together.
00:28:44.240 And his problem
00:28:45.340 right now
00:28:46.300 is that he
00:28:47.120 talks too much
00:28:49.640 about 2020
00:28:50.600 and he talks
00:28:51.940 too much
00:28:52.600 about himself.
00:28:54.380 That is the
00:28:55.120 challenge that he
00:28:56.020 faces.
00:28:56.460 Yeah.
00:28:56.740 And that's a
00:28:57.420 tough challenge.
00:28:58.200 I mean,
00:28:58.440 especially when
00:28:59.120 they are trying
00:28:59.700 to put you
00:29:00.100 in jail.
00:29:01.180 That's really
00:29:02.020 hard.
00:29:03.120 Selena.
00:29:03.540 I completely
00:29:04.580 agree with you.
00:29:05.740 Thank you.
00:29:06.160 That is what
00:29:06.960 voters told me.
00:29:08.180 Thank you so much.
00:29:09.120 I appreciate it.
00:29:09.660 We'll talk again soon.
00:29:10.960 All right.
00:29:11.280 Good to talk to you.
00:29:11.820 Sounds great.
00:29:13.180 You're listening
00:29:13.920 to the best
00:29:14.620 of the Glenn Beck
00:29:15.320 program.
00:29:17.220 Seth Dillon
00:29:17.920 is with us.
00:29:18.540 He is the CEO
00:29:19.680 of the Babylon Bee
00:29:20.920 and wanted to get
00:29:22.600 him in today
00:29:23.180 to talk a little
00:29:23.780 bit about the
00:29:24.680 debate and where
00:29:25.660 we are.
00:29:26.240 What did you think
00:29:26.720 of the debate
00:29:27.260 last night?
00:29:29.880 Well,
00:29:30.380 I went on the
00:29:30.800 internet
00:29:31.120 where people
00:29:32.720 tell me what
00:29:33.140 to think.
00:29:33.760 Yes.
00:29:34.440 Yes.
00:29:35.340 Yeah.
00:29:35.860 So what did
00:29:36.340 they tell you?
00:29:37.700 What did they tell
00:29:38.140 me to think?
00:29:38.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:39.200 Well, I will say
00:29:40.520 this.
00:29:40.760 I don't know
00:29:41.320 how to judge
00:29:41.840 how someone
00:29:43.560 won a debate
00:29:44.340 like this
00:29:44.880 because there's
00:29:45.640 so many people
00:29:46.060 on stage
00:29:46.700 vying for
00:29:47.320 attention
00:29:47.700 and sometimes
00:29:48.200 the person
00:29:48.640 who gets
00:29:49.020 the most
00:29:49.380 attention
00:29:49.860 is the winner
00:29:50.820 even if they
00:29:51.280 didn't do
00:29:51.620 the best.
00:29:52.600 Right.
00:29:52.700 I feel like
00:29:54.440 that was
00:29:54.660 probably
00:29:54.980 Vivek
00:29:55.460 because
00:29:55.880 I mean
00:29:56.880 it seemed
00:29:57.960 like it was
00:29:58.380 like Pence
00:29:58.940 and Vivek
00:29:59.360 going at
00:29:59.760 it like
00:30:00.040 half the
00:30:00.420 time.
00:30:00.920 Right.
00:30:01.300 There was
00:30:01.540 a lot
00:30:01.880 of back
00:30:02.480 and forth
00:30:02.820 between
00:30:03.140 them.
00:30:04.020 And Pence
00:30:04.680 was kind
00:30:05.200 of creepy.
00:30:06.040 Yeah.
00:30:06.660 Yeah.
00:30:07.120 At the
00:30:07.700 beginning
00:30:08.040 very smiley
00:30:09.140 like excessively
00:30:10.120 smiley
00:30:10.760 and
00:30:11.940 then went
00:30:12.600 a little
00:30:12.860 dark.
00:30:13.400 Yeah.
00:30:13.760 And that
00:30:14.000 kind of
00:30:14.420 that was
00:30:14.920 a little
00:30:15.100 weird for
00:30:15.420 me.
00:30:15.640 Yeah.
00:30:15.880 But I
00:30:16.160 mean look
00:30:16.800 to your
00:30:17.980 comment it
00:30:18.340 was his
00:30:18.640 first time
00:30:19.280 and he
00:30:19.660 handled
00:30:19.880 himself
00:30:20.160 very well.
00:30:20.680 Yeah.
00:30:20.900 I think
00:30:21.560 he really
00:30:21.960 did but
00:30:22.580 I don't
00:30:23.680 know how
00:30:23.860 to pick
00:30:24.100 a winner
00:30:24.360 in these
00:30:24.660 things.
00:30:25.100 I don't
00:30:25.340 know.
00:30:25.800 I think
00:30:26.000 whoever we're
00:30:26.480 talking about
00:30:27.060 the most
00:30:27.440 whoever people
00:30:27.980 are either
00:30:28.560 attacking or
00:30:29.320 praising the
00:30:29.740 most is the
00:30:30.180 winner of the
00:30:30.540 thing.
00:30:30.820 And so you
00:30:31.060 just have
00:30:31.260 to kind of
00:30:31.460 see who's
00:30:31.760 trending on
00:30:32.200 Twitter I
00:30:32.540 guess.
00:30:32.960 So X.
00:30:34.280 Yeah.
00:30:35.840 Like that's
00:30:36.420 going to catch
00:30:36.840 up.
00:30:38.380 Who was the
00:30:39.200 official winner?
00:30:39.980 Yes.
00:30:40.340 Daily Mail came
00:30:40.980 out with the
00:30:41.260 first what I've
00:30:41.740 seen scientific
00:30:42.380 poll for what
00:30:43.000 that's worth.
00:30:43.880 Who had the
00:30:44.540 best debate
00:30:45.060 debate performance?
00:30:46.160 Number one
00:30:46.500 was Vivek
00:30:47.080 Ramaswamy 28%.
00:30:48.700 Ron DeSantis
00:30:49.560 number two
00:30:50.080 27%.
00:30:51.220 Mike Pence
00:30:52.020 was number
00:30:52.340 three 13%.
00:30:53.880 I think I'm
00:30:54.700 not surprised
00:30:55.220 by that.
00:30:55.520 I mean because
00:30:55.780 to your point
00:30:56.300 he was aggressive.
00:30:57.560 He was very
00:30:57.960 aggressive and
00:30:58.540 engaged.
00:30:59.000 You know he
00:30:59.260 got in the
00:30:59.700 middle of it
00:31:00.100 and you know
00:31:00.500 his views I
00:31:01.020 don't think
00:31:01.260 are exactly
00:31:01.700 aligned with
00:31:02.260 voters right
00:31:02.840 now in the
00:31:03.400 party but he
00:31:04.380 was aggressive
00:31:04.960 and he he was
00:31:05.940 in the middle
00:31:06.300 of those those
00:31:07.080 those fights.
00:31:07.840 He had some
00:31:08.380 good points
00:31:09.000 mixed in there
00:31:09.720 and for a guy
00:31:10.740 who was really
00:31:11.240 not made any
00:31:11.780 noise at all
00:31:12.660 and all you're
00:31:13.980 talking about is
00:31:14.380 turning up the
00:31:14.780 volume a little
00:31:15.280 bit right?
00:31:15.740 He was so
00:31:16.380 active had
00:31:16.920 there been a
00:31:17.320 fly on his
00:31:17.860 head it
00:31:18.260 probably would
00:31:18.800 have flown
00:31:19.200 off.
00:31:21.520 Questionably.
00:31:22.320 Tim Scott was
00:31:23.200 next at eight.
00:31:23.760 That one was
00:31:24.180 strange because
00:31:24.660 I didn't think
00:31:25.040 he made he
00:31:26.000 didn't really
00:31:26.520 seem to stand
00:31:27.180 out at all
00:31:27.620 to me.
00:31:28.340 Nikki Haley
00:31:28.860 7% Chris
00:31:29.980 Christie for
00:31:30.740 Doug Bergamentum
00:31:32.280 at three and
00:31:33.360 Asa Hutchinson
00:31:33.960 at two.
00:31:35.120 Poor Asa.
00:31:37.080 Oh man I
00:31:38.000 wish we had the
00:31:38.600 transporter from
00:31:39.460 Star Trek because
00:31:40.120 I would have
00:31:40.460 beamed a lot
00:31:41.400 of them right
00:31:41.920 back up.
00:31:43.720 So you also
00:31:44.760 have
00:31:45.240 the book
00:31:46.640 about gender
00:31:47.560 the Babylon
00:31:48.000 be guide to
00:31:49.320 gender.
00:31:50.700 Not a single
00:31:51.720 question about
00:31:53.340 this.
00:31:53.840 No that was
00:31:54.560 shocking.
00:31:55.220 Not one.
00:31:55.600 I noticed that
00:31:56.340 not one.
00:31:56.980 Well you've got
00:31:57.480 Fox running the
00:31:58.300 thing right?
00:31:59.200 And Fox has
00:31:59.980 been under some
00:32:01.020 fire recently from
00:32:02.120 the right for
00:32:02.680 being kind of
00:32:03.400 like squishy or
00:32:04.880 possibly even like
00:32:06.000 pro trans on some
00:32:07.220 issues.
00:32:07.700 Yeah.
00:32:08.840 So I was not
00:32:10.220 really surprised by
00:32:11.300 it but I was
00:32:11.800 disappointed that I
00:32:12.540 mean it's like
00:32:13.040 that's like the
00:32:13.760 cultural issue of
00:32:14.800 our time right
00:32:15.420 now.
00:32:16.000 It's the reason
00:32:16.460 we wrote this
00:32:17.060 book.
00:32:17.940 Well does this
00:32:18.480 help us define a
00:32:19.960 woman?
00:32:21.520 Because I you
00:32:23.800 know there's there
00:32:24.640 is a test in here.
00:32:25.760 Listen we are not
00:32:26.740 biologists.
00:32:28.360 Right.
00:32:28.680 So this you can't
00:32:29.600 know.
00:32:30.760 So we wouldn't be
00:32:31.660 qualified to give you
00:32:32.900 a definition of
00:32:34.100 woman.
00:32:34.720 Yeah.
00:32:35.120 Well your test still
00:32:37.260 not sure if you're a
00:32:38.640 woman take the test.
00:32:39.720 Are you always
00:32:40.940 cold?
00:32:42.300 No.
00:32:43.060 No.
00:32:43.420 I am always
00:32:44.160 cold though.
00:32:44.900 Yeah.
00:32:45.760 Has a human ever
00:32:49.160 popped out of you?
00:32:50.620 No.
00:32:51.580 I don't think so.
00:32:52.960 Right.
00:32:53.400 Yeah.
00:32:53.640 Okay.
00:32:54.120 Have you ever
00:32:54.600 decorated a bed with
00:32:55.740 six or more pillows?
00:32:57.520 I refuse to answer.
00:32:59.460 Can you tell the
00:33:00.340 difference between
00:33:00.960 cream white and
00:33:02.240 rustic farmhouse
00:33:03.420 white?
00:33:04.220 Oh yeah.
00:33:04.620 I refuse.
00:33:05.360 Definitely can.
00:33:06.100 Glenn's got two
00:33:06.720 points so far.
00:33:07.360 Yeah.
00:33:07.600 Have you ever
00:33:08.940 run into a curb in
00:33:10.880 the past 24 hours?
00:33:12.820 Be honest Carol.
00:33:15.180 Do you bleed like
00:33:17.020 for an extended
00:33:18.100 period of time at
00:33:19.340 regular intervals?
00:33:25.460 Does it take you
00:33:26.600 over three hours to
00:33:27.660 decide what you want
00:33:28.680 to eat?
00:33:29.740 Are you currently a
00:33:30.840 member of at least
00:33:31.780 three pyramid schemes?
00:33:34.280 Again this is just
00:33:35.320 this just allows us to
00:33:36.180 draw general inferences
00:33:37.400 though but because
00:33:38.080 we're not biologists
00:33:38.860 we can't say
00:33:39.480 definitively.
00:33:40.460 Of course.
00:33:41.180 This quiz will give
00:33:41.880 you a good idea.
00:33:42.980 Right.
00:33:43.220 Do you find simple
00:33:44.280 movie plots hard to
00:33:45.780 follow?
00:33:47.160 Do you frequently
00:33:48.260 describe your emotional
00:33:49.420 state as fine when
00:33:51.040 you're not in fact
00:33:52.480 fine?
00:33:53.300 Is your Starbucks
00:33:54.040 drink order anything
00:33:55.800 other than black
00:33:56.660 coffee?
00:33:57.560 Do you listen to
00:33:58.300 Harry Styles?
00:33:59.340 Do you know who
00:34:00.060 Harry Styles is?
00:34:01.380 That's great.
00:34:02.360 That's great.
00:34:03.260 So we had this
00:34:03.920 problem you know for
00:34:05.140 most of human
00:34:05.780 history we didn't
00:34:07.860 have science we
00:34:08.760 were all a bunch of
00:34:09.380 bigots and we
00:34:10.260 thought that there
00:34:10.740 were just men and
00:34:11.480 women and then
00:34:12.400 science was invented
00:34:13.360 very recently and
00:34:14.180 they determined that
00:34:14.980 men can get pregnant
00:34:16.320 and that women can
00:34:17.200 suffer testicle
00:34:17.960 injuries and so
00:34:19.560 once scientists
00:34:20.220 discovered that it
00:34:21.200 opened up this
00:34:21.820 huge you know
00:34:23.200 awesome opportunity
00:34:25.000 to explore the
00:34:26.200 gender spectrum and
00:34:27.380 how truly infinite it
00:34:28.860 is.
00:34:29.100 Yeah I was really
00:34:29.720 happy that Nikki
00:34:30.520 Haley multiple times
00:34:31.600 pointed out that she
00:34:32.380 was a woman because
00:34:33.180 how else would we
00:34:34.180 know?
00:34:34.860 As onlookers we
00:34:35.820 wouldn't know she
00:34:36.360 was the only female
00:34:37.080 candidate but she
00:34:37.840 pointed it out like
00:34:38.680 every three or four
00:34:39.440 words.
00:34:39.720 She had to say it.
00:34:40.280 Right yes.
00:34:40.780 But is she a
00:34:41.340 biologist?
00:34:42.020 Does she know?
00:34:42.840 Does she even know?
00:34:44.340 That's a great point.
00:34:44.960 I mean.
00:34:45.240 Well that's a I make
00:34:46.900 that reference because
00:34:47.720 I mean this was that
00:34:48.660 that that's comes from
00:34:50.080 the Supreme Court
00:34:51.080 nomination.
00:34:52.860 You've got a
00:34:53.220 situation where you've
00:34:53.860 got somebody getting
00:34:54.340 confirmed to the
00:34:55.080 Supreme Court saying
00:34:55.820 I cannot define what a
00:34:57.600 woman is.
00:34:58.420 That's how insane we've
00:35:00.000 become.
00:35:00.640 I think too.
00:35:01.200 That's how insane we
00:35:02.020 become and so to
00:35:03.100 satirize it you really
00:35:04.100 don't have to satirize
00:35:05.380 this stuff.
00:35:06.020 No you don't.
00:35:06.400 You really just have to
00:35:07.340 hold it up there and
00:35:09.000 say look how absurd
00:35:09.980 this is.
00:35:10.820 And that's kind of what
00:35:11.580 this book does.
00:35:12.500 We're not we don't
00:35:12.960 really have to go much
00:35:13.680 further than the
00:35:14.740 Democrats.
00:35:14.920 Well you can't.
00:35:15.520 Yeah.
00:35:15.780 You can't.
00:35:16.380 Where else do you go?
00:35:17.680 Right.
00:35:18.160 Right.
00:35:18.560 I tell people all the
00:35:19.560 time they think our job
00:35:20.520 is easier than ever
00:35:21.300 because the world is so
00:35:22.640 crazy and I say imagine
00:35:24.260 if your job is to write
00:35:25.360 jokes that are funnier than
00:35:26.320 what Democrats are doing
00:35:27.160 in real life.
00:35:27.800 That's your job.
00:35:28.840 It's impossible.
00:35:29.440 Good luck.
00:35:29.880 That's why you guys keep
00:35:30.680 predicting the future.
00:35:31.640 Right.
00:35:31.740 Like you keep writing
00:35:32.700 these fake articles and
00:35:33.820 then they come true like
00:35:34.680 six months later.
00:35:35.700 Yeah.
00:35:36.080 Yeah.
00:35:36.440 Yeah.
00:35:36.660 We have a lot of those.
00:35:37.480 There are times when I
00:35:39.380 honestly look at something
00:35:41.080 and laugh because I think
00:35:42.200 it's you.
00:35:43.000 Right.
00:35:43.320 And then I'm like oh dear
00:35:44.980 God no.
00:35:46.080 This is real.
00:35:47.120 Well we just there's just
00:35:47.940 that I think it was New
00:35:49.020 York Times op-ed about how
00:35:50.040 elections are bad for
00:35:50.940 democracy.
00:35:51.700 Yeah.
00:35:51.940 Or something like that.
00:35:52.680 We had made a joke
00:35:53.440 about that and that's
00:35:54.320 another one of those ones
00:35:55.160 that came true.
00:35:55.900 It's just yeah it's
00:35:56.820 wild.
00:35:57.180 So are we are we close
00:35:59.040 to the end yet?
00:35:59.780 I mean end of the insanity
00:36:01.360 not end of the country or
00:36:03.080 anything else but are I
00:36:04.160 mean there are some for
00:36:05.440 instance comedy is coming
00:36:07.760 back.
00:36:08.600 Yeah.
00:36:08.720 And it's coming roaring
00:36:09.720 back.
00:36:10.480 Yeah.
00:36:10.660 I think you're seeing
00:36:12.660 things that just three four
00:36:14.380 years ago you would have
00:36:15.220 never seen.
00:36:16.600 Right.
00:36:16.860 Never seen.
00:36:18.240 Well when you in comedy
00:36:19.720 you're saying.
00:36:20.300 Yeah.
00:36:21.100 I do appreciate that there
00:36:22.880 and I think a big part of
00:36:24.220 the shift will be when
00:36:24.980 comedians start taking this
00:36:26.320 stuff less seriously and
00:36:27.280 actually joke about it.
00:36:28.160 This is one of the
00:36:28.600 problems that we've had
00:36:29.400 from my perspective doing
00:36:31.040 humor and satire is there
00:36:32.820 are so so many of these
00:36:33.900 comedians especially the
00:36:34.700 late night talk shows stuff
00:36:35.900 like that is just propping
00:36:37.060 up the popular narrative and
00:36:38.180 not challenging it.
00:36:38.920 They're poking holes in it.
00:36:39.920 It's almost propaganda.
00:36:41.120 It's it is propaganda and
00:36:42.660 propaganda is not funny.
00:36:43.860 No.
00:36:44.340 But then you've still got
00:36:45.220 guys like Bill Maher for
00:36:46.180 example who I disagree with
00:36:47.260 on almost everything.
00:36:48.860 He did a monologue on the
00:36:49.860 whole gender issue and
00:36:50.740 talked about how crazy it
00:36:51.740 was.
00:36:52.040 He joked about how when he
00:36:52.980 was a kid he wanted to be
00:36:53.780 a pirate.
00:36:54.300 Thank God no one scheduled
00:36:55.140 him for peg leg surgery and
00:36:56.800 eye removal.
00:36:58.100 And that was funny.
00:36:59.540 And that those kinds of
00:37:00.900 jokes people don't
00:37:01.860 understand the power of
00:37:03.060 comedy to undermine these
00:37:04.460 bad ideas and make them
00:37:06.180 seem absurd.
00:37:07.000 And I it's been my
00:37:07.980 contention for a long time
00:37:08.820 I've said this for a long
00:37:09.500 time that the absurd has
00:37:10.520 only become so popular and
00:37:11.980 sacred where you can't
00:37:12.860 even criticize it because it
00:37:14.720 hasn't been mocked
00:37:15.540 enough.
00:37:15.800 Well that is the one
00:37:17.960 thing that dictators and
00:37:19.760 authoritarian figures hate
00:37:21.940 the most.
00:37:22.580 Yeah.
00:37:22.900 Being mocked.
00:37:23.700 Yeah.
00:37:23.920 Because once once they
00:37:25.240 mock you I mean look at
00:37:26.500 look at how popular comedy
00:37:28.520 was when they were mocking
00:37:30.500 the right.
00:37:31.660 Right.
00:37:32.140 And and you had John
00:37:33.560 Stewart you had all these
00:37:34.540 people mocking the right
00:37:36.060 mocking our society.
00:37:37.720 It was very effective.
00:37:38.600 Worked.
00:37:39.040 Extremely effective.
00:37:39.860 Absolutely worked.
00:37:40.560 And then all of a sudden
00:37:41.340 all those shows went
00:37:41.940 away.
00:37:42.580 Well it's working in the
00:37:43.360 other way now where
00:37:44.100 they're all in support of
00:37:45.740 the narrative and the
00:37:47.060 powers that be and so
00:37:48.420 they're not challenging
00:37:49.200 it and so that just allows
00:37:50.340 them to maintain their
00:37:51.160 power instead of
00:37:51.920 undermining it.
00:37:52.820 And the comedian's
00:37:53.360 primary job really besides
00:37:55.060 making you laugh which is
00:37:56.460 really rule number one is
00:37:58.100 to is to speak truth to
00:37:59.340 power.
00:37:59.780 Right.
00:38:00.060 Just doing it through
00:38:00.740 humor and mockery and
00:38:01.800 making fun of them poking
00:38:03.220 holes in the popular
00:38:04.020 narrative.
00:38:04.640 So I think I think if we if
00:38:06.500 we do that if we start
00:38:07.740 seeing comedians do that if
00:38:09.020 people start to really
00:38:09.700 wake up especially now
00:38:10.780 that kids are involved in
00:38:11.880 all of this you see
00:38:12.940 parents waking up and
00:38:14.000 speaking up about these
00:38:14.840 things if people actually
00:38:16.200 get the courage to start
00:38:17.260 challenging this stuff and
00:38:18.240 pointing out how crazy it
00:38:19.320 is and I think we do the
00:38:20.880 pendulum does swing back
00:38:21.680 the other way.
00:38:23.900 How much of that do you
00:38:24.920 believe?
00:38:26.280 Well it all depends on if
00:38:27.680 that actually happens.
00:38:28.920 If it actually happens
00:38:30.060 yeah I think we make a lot
00:38:30.960 of progress.
00:38:31.600 Yeah.
00:38:31.820 Otherwise we'll be the the
00:38:32.940 lone lunatics who seem like
00:38:34.660 lunatics who are still saying
00:38:35.740 that two and two make four.
00:38:36.900 Yeah.
00:38:37.040 Um the um is your job at
00:38:42.140 all kind of depressing
00:38:44.700 because you're pointing
00:38:48.000 these things out and you're
00:38:49.540 I mean comedy is fun.
00:38:53.540 Yeah.
00:38:53.700 You know it's fun.
00:38:54.340 It's hard work but it's fun.
00:38:56.720 Um but when you're writing it
00:38:59.080 and then you see it come
00:39:00.360 true if you ever sit around
00:39:02.880 with everybody going oh god
00:39:05.280 man what I mean it is
00:39:07.300 disconcerting when the jokes
00:39:09.420 come true.
00:39:10.660 It is.
00:39:11.340 I mean we do get a laugh
00:39:12.400 out of it.
00:39:12.900 It's always a it's we have
00:39:14.520 this list we have a
00:39:15.180 spreadsheet where we're
00:39:15.740 tracking the fulfilled
00:39:17.060 prophecies and there's
00:39:18.100 nearly a hundred I think
00:39:19.160 we're at like 97 or so
00:39:20.400 like we're about to get a
00:39:21.380 hundred of these.
00:39:22.560 We're over the course the
00:39:23.140 last the B was started in
00:39:24.440 2016 so we didn't have a
00:39:26.220 lot of them early on but
00:39:27.200 lately it's been ramping up
00:39:28.400 and they're coming true more
00:39:29.300 and more quickly.
00:39:30.480 Sometimes we'll publish an
00:39:31.400 article and within a matter
00:39:32.160 of hours it comes true and
00:39:33.800 it's reported in the
00:39:34.460 headlines so that is
00:39:36.620 disconcerting.
00:39:37.520 Can we get that list?
00:39:38.380 I'd love to go over that.
00:39:39.260 Oh yeah yeah like right
00:39:41.000 now?
00:39:41.780 Well no no.
00:39:42.240 Okay at some time.
00:39:43.480 Yeah.
00:39:43.820 But yeah it's a
00:39:44.600 spreadsheet I think I have a
00:39:45.440 link to it in my in my in my
00:39:47.280 bio I have like the link
00:39:48.260 tree and there's a link to
00:39:49.520 it in there someone could
00:39:50.240 pull it up if they wanted
00:39:51.080 to but yeah but yeah we
00:39:52.060 have a lot of we track them
00:39:52.900 in a spreadsheet so it's
00:39:54.340 insane.
00:39:54.940 It is disconcerting it is
00:39:56.340 some somewhat depressing that
00:39:58.420 the people think that they
00:40:00.480 often criticize us our jokes
00:40:01.760 are too close to reality and
00:40:02.880 that's why people believe
00:40:03.660 them and that's not the
00:40:04.360 case it's that reality is
00:40:05.460 too close to satire.
00:40:06.740 Correct.
00:40:07.120 And that's why people
00:40:07.980 believe our jokes because
00:40:09.000 the real headlines you
00:40:10.720 remember the headline from a
00:40:11.640 couple years ago I think
00:40:12.480 this is a great example of
00:40:13.420 how shark attacks are being
00:40:15.660 rebranded as negative
00:40:17.120 interactions because it's
00:40:18.420 like stigmatizes the
00:40:20.000 sharks as these violent
00:40:20.960 creatures like that is
00:40:22.540 comedy.
00:40:23.380 It's comedy but that's in
00:40:24.560 it's in the New York Post
00:40:25.560 it's a real headline and
00:40:27.060 so like those kinds of
00:40:28.000 things it's just you laugh
00:40:29.820 or cry Glenn I don't know
00:40:30.820 I mean I know I think
00:40:31.860 you're gonna I think we're
00:40:33.300 going to come back when
00:40:34.780 we're past this emotionally
00:40:36.300 yeah and we're you know
00:40:39.560 away from it and we've
00:40:40.980 hopefully you know
00:40:42.120 rediscovered the truth the
00:40:43.520 truth will be rediscovered
00:40:44.940 it's just whether we
00:40:46.020 destroy ourselves
00:40:47.020 completely right before we
00:40:48.980 rediscover rebuild from the
00:40:50.400 ground correct but we'll be
00:40:52.000 rediscovered and when it
00:40:53.000 does people will look back
00:40:54.320 at this time I mean this they
00:40:56.000 will write about this period
00:40:57.700 of of history in so many
00:41:00.740 different ways the I think
00:41:02.380 the destruction the way the
00:41:04.260 left has pulled this off is
00:41:06.540 brilliant yeah it's something
00:41:08.480 happened quickly too I
00:41:10.000 mentioned Bill Maher a minute
00:41:11.160 ago Dennis Prager was on
00:41:12.760 Bill Maher show a few years
00:41:13.800 ago you remember this clip
00:41:14.780 from like what is it 2018 I
00:41:16.220 don't know when it was not
00:41:17.240 that that not that long I
00:41:18.360 think it was and he was
00:41:19.140 talking about how they were
00:41:19.940 starting to put tampons in the
00:41:21.200 boys restroom and Bill Maher
00:41:23.260 and his audience thought that
00:41:24.320 was hysterical you're out of
00:41:25.460 your mind you're making that
00:41:26.500 up it's not really happening
00:41:27.760 I mean that's how quickly
00:41:30.120 it's it's gone so tell me
00:41:31.680 when when you've who's this
00:41:34.280 book targeted to me or is
00:41:36.480 this is this a book that
00:41:37.920 because I I really I want to
00:41:40.000 ask the people who have gone
00:41:42.200 down this road where I've got
00:41:43.940 to have tampons in the boys
00:41:45.120 room yeah you would have
00:41:48.540 thought that was insane in
00:41:50.380 fact you know the the clip
00:41:53.260 that you're talking about they
00:41:54.520 did all the Democrats in the
00:41:55.860 room thought it was crazy all
00:41:56.920 of them thought it was crazy
00:41:57.820 yeah there's no new evidence
00:42:01.020 that has been you know we
00:42:02.620 haven't found hey look at
00:42:04.360 this you know it's a
00:42:06.120 removable penis on right you
00:42:08.040 know on old bones that we
00:42:09.580 found right nothing has
00:42:11.240 changed right except people
00:42:14.060 have just told you that you
00:42:16.540 have to say these things and
00:42:18.160 this is the new science yeah
00:42:19.740 do do you think people will
00:42:22.740 pick this up and maybe maybe
00:42:26.440 go second guess it yeah I
00:42:29.160 think they might so one of
00:42:30.360 our most popular articles ever
00:42:31.820 was about how a motorcyclist
00:42:33.340 identified as a bicyclist and
00:42:34.800 set a world record and it went
00:42:36.460 crazy viral it got like six
00:42:37.980 million or eight million shares
00:42:39.120 or something like that on
00:42:40.120 Facebook and I got a stream of
00:42:42.940 emails a steady stream of
00:42:44.160 emails from people no joke
00:42:46.280 emailing me straight face
00:42:47.820 saying I didn't really
00:42:49.320 understand the men and women
00:42:50.520 sports issue what the issue
00:42:52.400 is I thought it was all about
00:42:53.200 tolerance and acceptance until
00:42:54.320 I read this article it like
00:42:55.720 made it clear for me how crazy
00:42:57.580 this is it really does
00:42:59.160 actually have an impact on
00:43:00.560 people's thinking you draw out
00:43:01.860 the absurdity of it that way by
00:43:03.820 putting it in a humorous
00:43:05.160 context so I don't know can you
00:43:06.820 hand this book to a liberal
00:43:08.060 Democrat who's on board with
00:43:09.680 all this stuff and they will all
00:43:11.440 of a sudden renounce all of it
00:43:12.700 I don't I don't know that
00:43:13.560 that's necessarily the case
00:43:14.720 but I'm gonna leave one in
00:43:16.140 but a reasonable person
00:43:17.280 reasonable person reading
00:43:19.060 through this I think will
00:43:19.840 find a lot of it funny and
00:43:21.120 they'll find it funny because
00:43:22.020 it's true yeah and like you
00:43:23.500 said the truth you can't you
00:43:25.020 the truth will assert itself
00:43:26.840 yes at some point yes and you
00:43:28.700 can't overcome that yeah
00:43:30.100 thanks so much for being here
00:43:31.780 Seth the name of the book is
00:43:33.440 Babylon be guide to gender it
00:43:35.480 is pre-sale right now
00:43:37.060 comprehensive handbook to men
00:43:39.260 women and the millions of new
00:43:41.620 genders we just made up
00:43:43.320 from Babylon be thanks Seth
00:43:45.780 appreciate it thank you Glenn
00:43:46.680 you