The Glenn Beck Program - March 10, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Sen. Mike Lee & Helen Raleigh ｜ 3⧸10⧸21


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39 minutes

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159.56096

Word Count

6,280

Sentence Count

521

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

8


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Transcript

00:00:00.000 Tonight on our Wednesday night special on Blaze TV, I talk about education and history
00:00:05.000 and what you can do to actually change things in your neighborhood and how important it is to be
00:00:11.860 educated and absolutely involved on the local level. Today on the podcast, we talk a little
00:00:19.580 bit about that. We talked to a couple of people that have actually made a difference. We talked
00:00:23.520 to the head of Hillsdale College, which is just dirt strong. Probably the only university
00:00:30.880 in America that I actually feel comfortable that my kids will not encounter indoctrination.
00:00:36.420 We talked to him because he was part of the 1776 Commission, which, of course, was one of the
00:00:43.140 first things. I don't think that Biden even made it to the White House before that thing was erased
00:00:49.660 off of the White House website. They called it all kinds of names. And it's important that you
00:00:56.720 understand what's actually in that 1776 project. We also talked to a mom who is very upset. She
00:01:05.480 grew up in China. She didn't have Dr. Seuss, but she did tell us how things worked in China
00:01:11.420 and why we need to stand up today. Also, Mike Lee is on talking about all the nonsense out of
00:01:18.460 Washington. Stu looks at the Asian American violence. And unfortunately, we didn't get
00:01:26.100 to Andrew Cuomo. Forget about it. All on today's podcast. And don't miss a big night on BlazeTV
00:01:33.080 tonight. BlazeTV.com slash Glenn. Promo code is Glenn. Brand new Stu Does America at 8 p.m.
00:01:38.560 Eastern, followed by brand new Glenn TV at 9. Don't miss either. And don't forget to subscribe
00:01:43.800 to this podcast and Stu Does America as well. Here's the podcast.
00:01:53.920 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:02.020 So today is the day that here in Texas, they've lifted all of the COVID restrictions. We're back
00:02:08.760 to the way we were a year ago. A year ago. We've opened the doors of the Mercury Studios.
00:02:16.600 It's a little like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, except no one in a crowd outside waiting
00:02:22.460 to get in. I'm surprised. Everyone hasn't rushed back in. Right. It's like, well, what?
00:02:28.520 Yeah, everyone complains about, I can't go out. I can't go out. I think this is going to be
00:02:31.940 the exception. People are going to be like, I kind of like working at home. Yeah. I kind of
00:02:36.040 like working at home. So I think that's the way this is going to happen. But I mean, Maryland
00:02:40.980 just announced they're going to reopen everything here coming up, I think on Friday. Connecticut
00:02:45.960 has announced it. Mississippi. Oh my gosh. Why are they trying to kill people? I know. They're
00:02:51.140 just irresponsible. New York Times has a list of mostly open, mixed, and mostly closed businesses.
00:02:56.880 And now there are currently no more states in mostly closed. There are only one, two, three,
00:03:02.220 four, five, six, seven, eight, I think nine, eight states that are still in mixed and everything
00:03:09.560 else is quote unquote mostly open. And what's crazy is this has gone against what the progressives
00:03:15.060 have wanted. I mean, people are starting to open things back up. And every time, at least
00:03:20.340 when a red state does it, you're condemned. Yeah. There's this dumb thing that happens
00:03:25.400 and when a red state does it, they're condemned. I mean, Texas got just slaughtered in the media
00:03:30.720 because they're opening up to 100%. Right. No one seemed to notice. In fact, a lot of people
00:03:35.340 that I know, because I grew up in Connecticut, were very critical of Texas for their reopening,
00:03:41.000 didn't seem to notice the next day when Connecticut announced basically the same thing.
00:03:45.620 So let me switch subjects here because I think this is really exciting. The House has passed
00:03:50.040 Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Ooh, this has got to be good. It's protecting something. It's a right.
00:03:55.980 Well, we have a right to organize and petition our government. You know what I mean?
00:03:59.680 So do we need an act for it? Because I think it's in the Constitution already.
00:04:02.580 I think we can. I think we can organize. We have a right to organize. We have a right to
00:04:07.320 come together and oh, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, that's to say things
00:04:13.520 against the government. We don't have that right. Right. They were taking that right away. You can't
00:04:18.220 get together. You can't get together. You can't congregate. You can't. I mean, that's really
00:04:23.260 dangerous stuff. You're a radical if you want that. However, if you want to have a union.
00:04:31.900 You're you're set. If you don't want to have a union, it kind of sucks for you.
00:04:38.660 The House passed the Protecting the Right to Organize, the PRO Act, a bill that would
00:04:45.320 substantially amend existing U.S. labor law in a 225 to 206 vote Tuesday evening. Five Republicans
00:04:53.780 voted with the Democrats in favor. One Democrat voted with Republicans against it. It is a wish
00:05:01.660 list for union leaders. If you didn't know who controlled the union, I mean, who controlled the
00:05:07.720 Democratic Party? You certainly do now. It is. It's amazing. The ranking member of the House
00:05:19.500 Education and Labor Committee added that unions have pushed the bill to stop declining union
00:05:27.120 membership, which has taken place over the last 60 years. It forces unionization of workers who
00:05:34.580 don't necessarily want to join a union or pay union dues. Republicans proposed a series of
00:05:40.260 amendments to the PRO Act, which were rejected by the Democrats. One rejected amendment proposed
00:05:45.940 would have required unions with a president or vice president who has been convicted of a felony
00:05:53.400 within the last three years to file more detailed financial disclosures with the Department of
00:06:00.360 Labor. So that one was going too far. You don't you don't want to have to actually ask somebody
00:06:07.680 who's been convicted of a felony in the last three years. Right. Four years ago, you could have
00:06:15.840 murdered an entire group of schoolchildren. Right. With bowling balls. But three as long as it's not
00:06:21.360 within the last exactly right. That's exactly right. And listen, that didn't pass. Thank goodness. So
00:06:27.340 you could have murdered a bunch of schoolchildren with bowling balls yesterday and you don't have
00:06:32.680 to answer any questions. Yeah. The PRO Act is a compilation of various policy changes that the labor
00:06:40.320 unions support, which would make it easier for unions to organize private sector employees. The bill would
00:06:47.500 remove workers' ability to vote against unionization, listen to this, via secret ballot elections.
00:06:55.480 So when they're voting, should we have a union or not? You have to do you have to stand up and go,
00:07:01.280 I'm against the union thugs. It's going to work out well for you. I mean, that's crazy.
00:07:08.180 That is crazy. A secret ballot is one of the main cornerstones of America. I'd like a horse head in
00:07:16.540 my bed. Thank you. I'd like to just give the address of my children's school right now.
00:07:24.000 It gives the National Labor Relations Board, not the workers, a final say in the decision to unionize
00:07:30.760 a workforce. The PRO Act would also nullify the right to work laws that exist in 27 states.
00:07:39.600 So we have a right to work law.
00:07:44.080 Not anymore. I mean, that's really bad. You see over and over again that the right to work
00:07:49.520 states outperform every time unionizing states every time over and over again. I mean, I have just a,
00:07:54.800 I mean, a quick story. Uh, in fact, to the first time I met Don Imus, uh, I was 18 years old and I
00:08:02.560 was up at WNBC in New York and I had come from WNBC. Where was I at the time? I think it was in
00:08:10.940 Washington WPGC and it was not a union radio station. And I go to WNBC where my friend was
00:08:18.620 working and he, it was still a music station at the time. And they had him in one booth just to say
00:08:27.280 66 WNBC. This is, you know, whoever that's what he did. They had a member of the musicians union.
00:08:38.700 It was the only person that could touch the records at the time. They were still playing records.
00:08:43.400 The only one that could touch the record was a member of the musicians union. And he would touch
00:08:51.960 the record and grab it. And then he would put it on the turntable. Then a second person, which was a,
00:08:59.820 uh, uh, member of the, what was it? Technicians union. He could actually put the needle on the,
00:09:08.880 uh, record and cue it up. Then you'd have your board op, start the record.
00:09:15.760 And the jock was in a different, in a different room. And all he would do is talk. Okay. So you
00:09:21.280 had in a job that I was doing myself, you had to have four people do, and they didn't, they couldn't
00:09:27.140 even turn their microphones on. No, they couldn't. That had to be the board op to do that. Yes. I mean,
00:09:31.100 that is incredible. Incredible. Incredible. What happens to like when the technician is putting
00:09:36.700 the needle on the record and he mistakenly touches the record, does he spontaneously combust? How does
00:09:41.380 that work? I don't, I don't really know, but they were very, very serious about it because I was
00:09:45.980 mocking it. And, uh, he was like, don't mock it. Yeah. Don't mock it. Don't mock it. I'll be dead by
00:09:50.480 tomorrow. Cause it's protecting jobs that didn't need to exist. So it started, the radio union started
00:09:57.080 because they started replacing orchestras. You know, they would have singers come in and bands come in and
00:10:04.760 everything else. So all of those musicians lost their jobs soon as the record came in.
00:10:10.820 And so the union said, you can't play records. What are you talking about? Of course, we're going
00:10:15.120 to play records. It's cheaper. It's better. It's consistent. No, it can't do that. Look at all
00:10:20.740 the musicians that are going to be put out of work. Well, yeah, it's called progress. Okay. Well then
00:10:26.080 if you're going to do that, we're going to organize, they organized and said musicians, union members
00:10:32.040 had to be the one that moved the record. Okay. So former musicians were like, yeah, I used
00:10:38.900 to play the horn. Now I'm just doing this. Unbelievable. Okay. The second story, we were
00:10:44.720 in New York and we were building a studio and it took us how long to build the studio? We
00:10:51.320 had 20,000, 16,000 square feet total and about 8,000 of it was studio space. We built one, two,
00:11:03.860 three studios, but the walls were already up. Okay. It was already a radio station. All we had to do
00:11:09.300 was just, um, put some sheet rock up, change the look of everything, you know, do some painting and
00:11:16.640 wallpaper or some lights, drop the consoles into the things that were already there. Uh, and it
00:11:23.460 took us about a year and it was the biggest pain in the butt ever. And everything was waiting for
00:11:31.040 the unions. Sorry. Can't touch that. No, I just, I was wondering if you could just, I mean, could you
00:11:36.360 just plug that in? Cause we're ready to go. If you, um, sorry, different union, I'll plug it in. Nope.
00:11:41.920 Can't do that. Can't do it. And if it is plugged in, you're fined. Okay. We came down to Texas,
00:11:49.440 a right to work state. We took an 80,000 square foot studio and we built the sets. We, uh, hung the
00:11:59.840 lights and we made it into a digital broadcast studio. It was a film studio. We built a digital
00:12:07.180 broadcast center. And we did the first draft in a week, in a week we had nothing. And in a week
00:12:18.380 we had a studio. That's the difference between unions and a right to work state. Now here's the
00:12:26.700 really bad part. You don't get to choose anymore, whether you like to join a union or not. All of
00:12:33.140 this is based on that horrible, horrible, uh, labor law in California for the, um, the, uh, what do you
00:12:41.540 call it? The, I can think only think of bit economy, but it's not, it's the, uh, gig economy,
00:12:47.160 gig economy, uh, the gig economy. Remember California took it apart and they passed a law that said,
00:12:54.600 no, no, no, you can't, you have to have a 40 hour work week. You can't do a bit economy
00:12:58.400 because it's, it's just too bad for people. It's just horrible. Well, no, in fact, it was
00:13:04.760 so disliked by the public that California had a referendum and they voted against it. So they put
00:13:12.500 it in and then the people rose up and said, no, you're not saying no to a gig economy. And the stats
00:13:21.520 on a gig economy are astounding. And that's what they're going after. They're not only going after
00:13:28.100 all the mom and pop businesses. They're not only going after our economy. They're not only trying
00:13:33.400 to help the unions because they've had a 60 year decline because everybody knows how much they suck.
00:13:39.980 I mean, I wouldn't, I mean, look, I'm not saying that the mob exists. If it did, it would be great,
00:13:51.600 but I'm sure it doesn't. That's that thing for the movies, right? The mob, that's not a real sure
00:13:56.880 that that's not. If it did exist, we'd be for it. Yes, we would absolutely be for it. We'd love it.
00:14:02.220 And we think they are great guys doing a good job for America. I love them, but they don't exist.
00:14:07.260 They don't exist at all. So anyway, we'll tell you about the stats and what this is really going
00:14:13.140 to affect. It's going to reach in to you. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:14:26.880 This is the Glenn Beck program tonight at nine o'clock only on blaze TV.
00:14:37.760 We are going to talk to you a little bit about history. History is under attack and we're going
00:14:43.020 into civic action history where the names of the places and everything that doesn't mean anything.
00:14:50.620 It's all about action and kids love to take action. Civics action is coming to your school if it's not
00:14:59.100 already there. And that is how to protest, how to march in the streets. Our kids are being
00:15:04.900 indoctrinated and they're not learning history. The new AP US history standards do not include Hitler
00:15:13.660 or the Holocaust and paint America as the bad guys in World War Two because they only pick it up at the
00:15:22.240 dropping of the atomic bomb. We set that correct for your kids today and we show you how powerful
00:15:29.020 that bomb was. We've got a couple of items that were actually in the blast of Hiroshima new to the
00:15:35.680 vault and it is it's amazing. You don't want to miss tonight because we're going to show you what you
00:15:41.520 can do. And speaking of that, there was a great article out yesterday that I read and I thought it was
00:15:48.140 really, really well done by somebody who knows. Her name is Helen Raleigh and she was born in China
00:16:00.300 and lived in China for a while. And what she talked about how to fight this, what this cultural
00:16:08.400 revolution. She's lived through one before and I wanted to get her on. Hi, Helen. How are you?
00:16:15.340 I'm good. How are you, Glenn? I'm very good. So can you just tell the story about what you wrote
00:16:20.860 yesterday in The Federalist? Sure. So this is the one about canceling Dr. Seuss, right? Yes, yes.
00:16:29.700 And it's really heartbroken for me to read that Dr. Seuss was canceled on his birthday.
00:16:36.020 I shared my experience of growing up in China. I never had the quality, great children's
00:16:42.860 literature. I shared the story I read as a child. The children's literature was available
00:16:50.020 was about condemning a beaten landlord, landowner to death. And it was the rooster crows at midnight.
00:16:58.500 Can you tell that story a bit? Sure. So the rooster crows at night was a children's original for children, actually.
00:17:07.600 It was about this evil landowner that he was very cruel to everybody, the laborers who worked for him.
00:17:15.120 And thanks to the Communist Party who liberated all the poor people, they took the land and the livestock
00:17:21.780 stuck away from him and distributed to all the poor people. So all the poor people were happy.
00:17:26.860 And then one night in the midnight, he tried to steal a chicken from the poor people because he didn't have any.
00:17:33.360 The story did not say that. And then the children caught him. And the children who caught him,
00:17:39.200 and there was a picture in the storybook. It's a black and white picture show the children who have
00:17:44.400 all pointed this shiny spear at him. And he was just knelt down on the ground, head dropped,
00:17:51.620 hand tied on his back. It looks like really, you know, completely defeated. And the author who were
00:17:59.280 interviewed after the story became really popular, the author was interviewed, he mentioned this was a
00:18:05.800 real life story. And the landowner who was caught after struggle session, he was beaten to death.
00:18:12.360 And that's the story I read when I was a child in China.
00:18:16.380 That's a warm story. And you, when you came to America, you knew about Dr. Seuss,
00:18:21.680 but it wasn't until you, until you had a child and you started reading that you
00:18:27.360 read Dr. Seuss for the first time. And what was that experience like?
00:18:32.380 It was very refreshing because I found that I'm trying to fill out a missing chapter in my own
00:18:39.720 childhood. And then I was making it up, you know, during my adulthood, because there was no reason
00:18:45.320 for me to even thought about reading it until, you know, I was about to become a mother. And I just
00:18:51.380 love the colorful pictures. I love the simple words, but they rhyme. And I love the joy. And I just,
00:18:59.080 listen, even though this Dr. Seuss book is written in simple words, but they have a deep meaning,
00:19:04.720 if you really think about it, you know, like the thing about, if you'll keep your eyes shut,
00:19:09.060 you will see nothing. You know, that's perfect for today's cancel culture. If you keep your mind
00:19:13.920 shut, if you keep your eyes shut, you will see nothing. You will learn nothing. And I wish more
00:19:18.620 of us will read his book instead of banning his book.
00:19:21.940 Well, so what do you say about, um, cause people say this is not the cancel culture. Um, but it is
00:19:28.660 when eBay refuses to sell, um, a used copy of the book, I think. Um, but what do you say that it was
00:19:36.580 the, the family that, that said, I don't, we don't want to print these books anymore. They own the
00:19:41.560 copyright. So is it cancel culture or is it just, what, what is it exactly? Because there are really,
00:19:49.000 uh, negative stereotypes of Chinese people in, I can't believe I saw it on Mulberry street.
00:19:56.400 Right. But let's just unpack this a little bit. First of all, it was not Chinese American immigrants
00:20:05.160 who raised any questions about that. You know, we cannot use today's moral standards to judge
00:20:12.200 things that happened, you know, take place with their historical context. You will do that. There's
00:20:17.560 nobody's perfect. We're going to cancel all the valuable things ever, ever been created because
00:20:23.560 there's nothing going to be perfect enough. And I think that that's why this cancel culture is
00:20:27.800 really, uh, it's a culture is a left, uh, left. It's a cultural revolution. And it's not gonna stop
00:20:34.040 by bending a few books or tear down a few statues. It's, it's, it's a, it's a movement to really cancel
00:20:41.480 the Western civilization. The, the bending of field books, pulling down the field statues is just,
00:20:46.840 just the beginning. That's why I mentioned in my piece, I see the parallel between what's
00:20:51.080 happening in America, really in the Western civilization today is really parallel to what's
00:20:56.600 happening in China during the cultural revolution. It's about a total destruction of the old world.
00:21:03.400 So the, uh, book map can create a ideologically purified new world. That's why I find this whole
00:21:10.920 banning of books and also eBay preventing you from even trading about it. They're trading a book
00:21:16.680 voluntarily. That is really problematic. You know, uh, the, the Dr. Seuss enterprise, they only
00:21:23.880 stopped the publishing of books because the book map complained about those books. It was not,
00:21:29.480 the complaint was not filed because the Asian people complained. It was filed because the woke
00:21:34.280 mob decided that they are going to cancel Dr. Seuss book. And they're going to start with the most
00:21:39.640 problematic ones. And it's going to go down from there. They're never going to stop until they
00:21:44.440 canceled everything. You, uh, you've lived through it. You saw the cultural revolution with,
00:21:49.000 with Mao and people say that that's crazy, that it would never happen here. But I contend that,
00:21:54.920 you know, it starts with suggestions. Then it moves to shoving people, shouting and shoving.
00:22:01.960 And when you've shouted and shoved everybody that you can, the only thing left is to shoot.
00:22:08.760 Is that crazy to think that that kind of thing, that this is just going to continue until you,
00:22:14.520 I mean, what are you going to do with the rest of the people that refuse to go along?
00:22:18.600 How does this end if we don't wake up?
00:22:22.680 Well, if we don't wake up, it's going to end just like the cultural revolution. It's going to be a
00:22:26.840 total destruction of the Western civilization. And you're absolutely right. The true,
00:22:32.760 the trajectory is the woke mob first going to pick something that we all agree that's problematic,
00:22:38.600 right? Like the Confederate statues, like the Dr. Seuss book with the racial stereotype drawing.
00:22:44.600 So they're going to pick something that's problematic to begin with. Then most of us will
00:22:48.680 say, yeah, you know, we can accept those things maybe not correct. But again, they will not stop
00:22:54.360 there. Because if you listen to their speeches, if you look at their writings, they are deeply hostile
00:23:00.280 to the entire Western civilization. Because they believe this civilization is inherently,
00:23:06.120 irredeemably racist and oppressive. So they're going to start with statues, they're going to
00:23:12.040 start with a few books, but they won't stop until this whole civilization is being destroyed.
00:23:17.960 And if there are people who don't wait to go along, that's what happened in cultural
00:23:24.200 revolution is eventually you're going to have to use blood to purify the ideology. So that may
00:23:32.040 happen you will continue down this road. And people already losing jobs left and right, losing the
00:23:37.400 livelihood today in America, because they said something or wrote something that, you know,
00:23:43.400 the woke mob do not like, and they will condemn them, drive them out of the marketplace. That's
00:23:49.320 happening here right now. Before I change subjects on you, I just want to point out that
00:23:53.880 it's not only that they're going to wipe out the culture, they wipe out your, even your personal
00:24:03.960 history. Helen, as she was reading about this evil landowner, and how he was surrounded by kids,
00:24:11.560 and all landowners are evil. It wasn't until later in life that she learned that her great
00:24:18.520 grandfather was a landowner, and that book was preaching against him as well. She didn't know
00:24:26.120 that. Let me just hit one more thing with you before you go. Next hour, we're going to talk about
00:24:31.720 this trend, they're saying, of white supremacists that are beating up Asians. And it does not ring true
00:24:42.360 to me. We can't find anything that seems legitimate on this. Do you have any insight on is this happening
00:24:51.400 where, you know, Donald Trump fans are are beating up Asians?
00:24:59.000 Well, so there's definitely a rise of hate crimes against Asians since last year. So it's a complicated
00:25:06.840 last year. Most some of the complaints, I should say related to the Coronavirus, the pandemic, the fear.
00:25:14.760 But but this year, particularly in some of the most progressive cities in the United States,
00:25:20.600 like San Francisco and New York City, there are several very vicious, vicious attacks against the
00:25:27.240 Asian, especially the Asian seniors, unprovoked attack against the Asian. It's crazy.
00:25:32.120 And also, yeah, those perpetrators, they were not white. They were non Asian, you know, minorities,
00:25:39.720 let me just put it that way. They were not white. But the activists that now and the mainstream media
00:25:45.160 try to portray this very vicious attack happened recently, somehow was driven by the white nationalism.
00:25:53.480 There's just a disconnect there. And I think I wrote another piece for the Newsweek on this,
00:25:59.000 you know, related to this subject. Because when you are not waiting to identify the true root cause of
00:26:06.360 a hate crime, you're going to cause the government to misallocate resources and not not not able to
00:26:13.800 protect the Asian communities, you know, effectively and efficiently. So I wish more people will speak
00:26:19.400 up. The Asian community have have spoken up against the critical risk theory. And I wish more people will
00:26:26.440 have the courage to speak up identify the root cause of this. The Asian community has made a huge
00:26:32.680 difference on critical race on the West Coast. And Helen, thank you for everything that you do. And thank
00:26:39.480 you for your courage for standing up. I know it's not easy. But thank you for your example. Appreciate it.
00:26:47.560 Thank you. Thank you for having me.
00:26:54.680 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:26:57.160 All right, let's let's go to our good senator, Senator Mike Lee, who's got to be tired by now, honestly.
00:27:23.320 Senator, how are you, sir? I'm doing great, Glenn. Good to be with you. But you know,
00:27:30.920 nothing is more invigorating for a tired man than going on the Glenn Beck Program.
00:27:34.600 Yeah, that's it's got to be a highlight of your day, Mike. So, Mike, I want to we have to talk
00:27:40.280 about several things. First of all, the For the People Act, is that thing going to pass in the Senate?
00:27:46.040 No. And if they try to do it, it'll be over my dead body.
00:27:53.160 Don't say that it might be. This thing not only renders major parts of the Constitution
00:27:58.760 superfluous, it renders the people superfluous. It consolidates government in Washington,
00:28:05.960 it makes it impossible for states to require a voter ID. It makes it impossible for states to prohibit
00:28:15.160 someone from showing up on the same day and registering to vote on the same day that they vote.
00:28:20.360 And it requires at least 15 days of of early voting. It makes the verification process
00:28:29.640 almost impossible to comply with. And if there's if there's one part of it that caught my attention,
00:28:34.920 there's even a part of it that can be read to suggest that they're going to start allowing
00:28:38.840 17 year olds to vote, which, you know, I would have loved because in the fall of 1988,
00:28:47.800 George Robert Walker Bush was on the ballot. I was the president of the Teenage Republican
00:28:52.200 Club High School in Provo, you know, like all the cool kids.
00:28:56.040 Yeah, you were cool from the beginning.
00:28:58.440 I actually wrestled with the idea of wishing I had a fake ID just so I could vote. But I knew that
00:29:03.480 wouldn't be right. So I do it. Yeah. Well, there's the crime. The Mike Lee crime spree finally comes
00:29:09.720 out. So, Mike, but I want to be clear. I didn't do it. I just I just I know. I know. I know. So,
00:29:15.400 Mike, it's not going to pass any form of it. Well, look, they're going to try. If if if for the
00:29:26.200 filibuster, they would pass this and they would probably pass it tomorrow. They're still going
00:29:29.960 to try to pass it. I'm not sure when they're going to try to bring it to the Senate floor.
00:29:34.840 But I'm confident that they're going to try to get around the filibuster.
00:29:38.600 So do you have any you have any confidence anymore in Manchin? Now he's starting to like,
00:29:43.240 well, I mean, you know, there's some nuance there.
00:29:47.080 Yeah, I worry a little bit about the fact that he is now targeted for immense pressure to be brought
00:29:53.640 down on him and that he's in a position now of wanting to accommodate Democratic leadership
00:30:02.760 whenever he can. And that worries me a little bit because there are a lot of tricks they can play.
00:30:07.640 There are a lot of things they could do to convince him. Oh, no, we're not nuking the
00:30:11.400 filibuster. This is just a minor technical correction. We're not nuking the filibuster.
00:30:16.120 All we're asking you to do is take a walk, be out of the room while we have Vice President Harris
00:30:21.000 a rule that 51 votes somehow satisfies the cloture standard and then just just don't join the
00:30:27.640 Republicans in voting to appeal the ruling of the chair. That sort of thing can chip away at
00:30:32.440 the filibuster and effectively nuke it without ever requiring Joe Manchin to vote affirmatively to do
00:30:37.720 so. OK, so this is this is the changing of the voting system. It is it becomes almost irrelevant in
00:30:47.560 my in my in my opinion and very unconstitutional. The federal government does not have a right to
00:30:53.480 do any of this according to the Constitution. Now, let me switch to another topic. Biden has just said
00:31:00.920 that he is encouraging the Senate and the House to pass the pro act. And that is the I mean, you want to
00:31:14.200 talk about a pro union giveaway. That's it. Tell me what you know about the pro act.
00:31:22.120 I know very little about the pro act. I can imagine that it probably has something to do with card
00:31:27.960 check. They probably want to take away the ability of workers to cast a private ballot.
00:31:33.960 It absolutely does easier. OK, it goes a lot further than that. But it does have that in it.
00:31:41.000 Yeah. I mean, look, workers have have got the right to form organizations and but we've got
00:31:48.840 established laws that govern the process of workers making that decision. And it's important that workers
00:31:55.640 be given the chance to cast their votes with a secret ballot and not being watched by by people
00:32:03.480 who might impose consequences on them if they don't vote the way they want to. That's a pretty fundamental
00:32:08.440 part of our labor law system. And if they want to undo that, perhaps they just want to empower the
00:32:15.240 unions, not necessarily the workers they represent, but the union bosses. That's not cool.
00:32:20.120 So it also it also gets rid of the gig economy. And it says it's protecting those people. But
00:32:27.160 basically, it's you know, it's redoing what happened in California. And the people went nuts when that
00:32:34.760 happened. So so he wants us to go back to the era of having to sit in smelly taxi caps. Yes. I mean,
00:32:42.760 that is absolutely absurd. He might as well require us to go back to the era of the eight track cassette
00:32:52.520 tape and the era of the tinfoil TV dinner. I mean, look, there are a lot of things that we've moved
00:32:58.920 beyond as a society. And the old pre gig economy is not something any of us are anxious to go back to.
00:33:05.160 But I can understand why someone wedded to big labor bosses, as opposed to the workers
00:33:12.040 those people represent, would want to shun technology like the plague. It would want to
00:33:19.160 deprive society of the many benefits associated with it. It's tragic, but sadly, not that surprising.
00:33:26.200 Mike, you don't have to answer this, because I do want to talk to you about
00:33:30.680 the the covid relief bill as well. You have been so strong on this.
00:33:37.480 And we're now at 30 trillion dollars of debt. But I do want to ask you tomorrow,
00:33:43.400 the president is going to have his first press conference. And there's been some disturbing
00:33:48.920 video recently. Do you have any first hand knowledge that that he's OK?
00:33:56.920 I don't. I don't. But, you know, I haven't had any interaction with him since he was sworn in as
00:34:05.560 president. So I don't have any first hand knowledge of that or any knowledge beyond what
00:34:11.560 anyone could see on TV from day to day. And the the benchmark against which one would compare that
00:34:17.880 is relatively small because his TV appearances have been relatively short, relatively scripted
00:34:23.880 and in relatively controlled environments. So, yeah. Well, there is precedent speculation.
00:34:29.560 There is precedent on this when people from the opposing party and his own party went to check on
00:34:38.520 Woodrow Wilson. He had had a stroke and he hadn't been seen for a year. And his wife was actually signing
00:34:45.000 all of the bills. And, you know, it's just there is a there is historical evidence that sometimes
00:34:53.480 people hide how sick the president is if if it's a problem. And I hope that's not happening.
00:35:00.600 All right. Talk to me. I certainly don't think that's happening. We've seen some clips of them out
00:35:04.760 talking to people and, you know, just in relatively short spurts. Right. I don't think that's happening
00:35:09.880 either. I just but it if it's progressing, it could happen. All right. Talk to me. Talk to me
00:35:17.160 about a thirty trillion dollar debt. And your comment, I thought, was great on this. It's not
00:35:24.120 like Republicans can say, hey, we did everything we could. They're part of the problem.
00:35:31.240 Yeah. Well, first of all, we went on a massive spending spree over the last year and really over
00:35:37.720 the last four years. Republican spending has not exactly been a model of restraint.
00:35:47.000 This one takes it to a new level. This one makes an art form out of using covid is the ultimate excuse
00:35:55.080 for getting away with anything you want, even if it's hurting other people. So about two trillion
00:36:00.520 dollars that was spent. Very little of it actually was tied to covid. And this comes about, by the way,
00:36:08.040 at a moment when it'll take us up to a thirty trillion dollar debt comes about at a moment
00:36:13.000 when we're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines are coming out. Immunity is
00:36:17.880 building. Infection rates, hospitalization rates, death rates are going down. We're spending two
00:36:23.160 trillion dollars extra in the name of covid. But very little of that actually goes to covid. In fact,
00:36:28.760 less than one percent of that bill crazy goes to vaccine production and distribution.
00:36:34.840 So what the heck is it then? Well, fourteen hundred dollar checks and then you got your
00:36:39.640 three hundred and seventy five billion dollars going to state and local governments,
00:36:43.800 which, by the way, are roughly on par with where they were expected to be revenue wise.
00:36:50.440 Some states have even seen their revenues go up. Yeah. This is just a big giveaway,
00:36:54.760 a giveaway especially to a lot of states that have been loyal to Democrats. And I find that really
00:36:59.000 offensive. So, Mike, what do you need from the the people? Because I think people want to do
00:37:05.640 something. They just don't believe that anything will change. And and then also people feel very
00:37:12.280 alone right now. What can the people do? All right. What what the people can do,
00:37:19.880 anyone within the sound of my voice who happens to agree that we've got a problem with Washington,
00:37:24.440 this stuff is just gross. Just focus any time you get a chance to talk to a member of Congress or
00:37:30.520 somebody running for any federal office. Talk to them about the fact that you'd love to see the
00:37:34.600 federal government just do the things the federal government is supposed to do. That means borders,
00:37:41.320 immigration laws, weights and measures, trademarks, copyrights and patents, national defense,
00:37:45.640 declaring war, granting letters of market reprisal, bankruptcy laws, regulating international
00:37:52.600 and interstate trade. That's about it. Focus on that stuff. Focus on Article one, Section eight. Leave
00:37:59.240 everything else to the states. It's already the law. It's already the Constitution. It's already the
00:38:04.440 case that every member of Congress and every president has taken an oath to affirm that same
00:38:10.600 principle. We got down this rabbit hole because starting about 85 years ago,
00:38:16.760 Senates, houses of representatives and White Houses of every conceivable partisan combination have been
00:38:21.960 engaging in this legislative orgy that assumes that everything is appropriately federal and they're
00:38:28.520 spending more and more and more money doing a lot of times stuff that really isn't any of our
00:38:33.560 business. Spend most of that at the state and local level. Send most of this federal authority back
00:38:39.800 to the states where it belongs. That's where I think the message needs to be. Mike Lee, thank you so much.
00:38:46.360 I appreciate you standing. I can't imagine how frustrated you are to be working in that,
00:38:53.240 but I'm glad you're there. Thank you so much, Mike. Hey, thanks so much, Glenn. It's not that bad if
00:38:58.520 you don't think about it. You just keep plugging along. I know that. Thank you so much. That's why I
00:39:07.080 wish I weren't a recovering alcoholic because just alcoholism would do a lot of wonderful things for
00:39:13.560 me right now.