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00:00:00.620 This isn't a cooking show, all right, but we're going to do it anyway because neither of us speak Hezbollah-nays, although we've had it on, I've had it on rib and pasta. 0.96

00:00:11.800 Yeah, that's delicious.

00:00:12.920 Very, very delicious.

00:00:14.240 But one of the guys that's on the show, he apparently speaks Hezbollah or Hezbollah-nays, and there was a big conference that was happening, a big, big press conference.

00:00:25.260 Thousands of people came out. They wanted to hear from their supreme leader about what does Allah tell them to do?

00:00:32.340 Should we go kill Jews now, or should we do it a little while later? 1.00

00:00:35.840 We have that update for you, as well as an incredible story about year zero. 0.99

00:00:44.040 You don't know what year zero is.

00:00:45.440 That's happened a few times in the arrogance of people, like during the French Revolution or with Mao.

00:00:54.120 Well, the leaders just declare it's year zero, and everything else doesn't matter in history.

00:01:00.520 We're just renaming and redoing everything.

00:01:03.000 And that's what's happening in America with including the birds, the bird names.

00:01:09.560 They're changing them.

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00:03:01.560 Hello and welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:09.140 Yesterday, Russia's Wagner Group said they were going to supply Hezbollah with air defense, so that's good. 1.00

00:03:16.200 We got that going for us.

00:03:17.300 Now, Hezbollah is making a major announcement, even as we speak. 0.93

00:03:21.560 I don't speak Hezbollahese, so I don't know what they're saying, but we'll get the translation here in about a half an hour.

00:03:27.860 But they're making a major announcement in the Middle East.

00:03:32.520 I think they're going to reverse themselves on gay marriage. 0.55

00:03:36.040 Not on homosexuality. 0.99

00:03:37.500 They'll still behead you for that. 0.99

00:03:38.800 But on gay marriage, they're going to be fine. 0.99

00:03:41.260 Oh, nice. 1.00

00:03:42.680 So that way they can behead both of the participants in the gay marriage. 1.00

00:03:48.040 If you want to get married, but you're not gay, but you want to be gay married, you can do that. 1.00

00:03:53.920 But no gay people can exist. 1.00

00:03:55.460 In fact, they don't exist. 1.00

00:03:56.740 If they do exist, they'll have to behead them. 0.99

00:03:58.780 The only ones that exist are queers for Palestine. 1.00

00:04:01.080 Yeah.

00:04:01.540 That's it.

00:04:02.460 The queers for Palestine. 1.00

00:04:03.940 They'll be all right?

00:04:05.200 Well, they exist.

00:04:06.540 They exist.

00:04:06.900 I wouldn't say they'd be all right.

00:04:08.160 They should not visit anytime soon.

00:04:10.220 So we don't know what they're going to announce, but we'll get to that here in a second.

00:04:14.260 Let me give you a couple of other things.

00:04:17.560 Pat Gray joins us from Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:04:20.480 And Pat, I would like you to play color to our sports commentary here.

00:04:25.880 And I know we're, you know, but you know sports.

00:04:28.040 And so you could do this.

00:04:30.260 This is a supermarket where some shoplifter is trying to get out of the store.

00:04:38.500 And the security guard is trying to stop him.

00:04:42.440 And something happens towards the end.

00:04:44.900 Here we go.

00:04:45.920 All right.

00:04:46.200 We've got a security guard now playing defense as a shoplifter attempts to leave the store,

00:04:51.620 utilizing a shopping cart as sort of a barrier here as it is an interesting maneuver, shuffling

00:04:56.600 back and forth.

00:04:57.480 And oh my! 0.99

00:04:59.540 Out of nowhere!

00:05:01.480 What was it?

00:05:02.540 Whoa.

00:05:03.120 That appeared to be another shopper who fired a two liter bottle of Coke at the head of the

00:05:10.760 shoplifter and down he goes!

00:05:13.220 Watch this.

00:05:14.320 Boom! 0.99

00:05:15.200 Oh my! 0.58

00:05:15.680 I mean, that is a good shot.

00:05:18.500 Seriously.

00:05:19.440 Seriously.

00:05:20.080 That kid could be a quarterback.

00:05:22.120 Do you know how many backup quarterbacks are playing in the NFL this week?

00:05:26.080 I mean, sign this person up, whoever it is.

00:05:28.480 I mean, I think that's fantastic.

00:05:30.280 Now, I thought it would be better if we ran this video with a little music behind it because

00:05:37.580 it reminded me of something and I thought, you know what?

00:05:41.600 I would like to do this.

00:05:43.480 So here it is.

00:05:44.260 I like to teach the world to sing with me.

00:05:48.680 Perfect harmony.

00:05:50.360 Perfect harmony.

00:05:51.980 I like to buy the world of Coke.

00:05:55.520 I keep it company.

00:05:57.520 Oh! 0.60

00:05:58.660 It is the real thing.

00:06:00.400 And I think we should all maybe consider carrying around a two liter jug of Coke.

00:06:06.640 I love how he throws it, knocks the guy completely out, and then just calmly walks off.

00:06:12.500 Yeah, just goes back to the shopping.

00:06:14.840 Back to what he was doing.

00:06:16.160 Tell me, though, this story does not end with the shopper who threw the Coke bottle in charge.

00:06:22.380 It depends.

00:06:23.220 It depends.

00:06:24.260 Where did this happen?

00:06:25.920 I don't know.

00:06:27.180 Depends on what state.

00:06:28.160 If it's in Texas, the guy will get a parade with the Rangers.

00:06:33.580 It depends what city he's in.

00:06:35.520 Yes, yes, yes.

00:06:37.140 That's true.

00:06:38.140 That's true.

00:06:39.460 All right.

00:06:40.020 One other thing that I've gotten, and I'd love to hear anything you have.

00:06:43.400 We have an article at glennbeck.com.

00:06:49.000 Sabo's been busy lately.

00:06:50.800 Sabo is the street artist in Los Angeles who is, well, he's conservative.

00:07:00.260 And, well, in some ways.

00:07:02.020 He's anti-fascist.

00:07:03.540 Let's put it that way.

00:07:04.200 And so here are the latest from him, the street designs that he has.

00:07:10.740 He's taken one.

00:07:12.400 It's a stop sign that he has now put Joe Biden sniffing the hair of a girl with the word stop.

00:07:22.920 I actually think that is.

00:07:26.300 That's great.

00:07:26.800 That's appropriate and should be.

00:07:28.020 Here's one.

00:07:29.540 This is a highway sign.

00:07:33.140 You know, the interstate highway sign, the red, white, and blue one.

00:07:35.620 It says the red Newsom failed.

00:07:37.600 And then Exodus East with a little U-Haul sticker on it.

00:07:44.240 Then we have this one, World War III, full metal jack something that's blurred out.

00:07:53.300 I don't know. 1.00

00:07:53.760 But it has Joe Biden's stupid face with a Hezbo. 1.00

00:08:00.720 He's wearing a helmet with a Hezbollah banner around it or scarf and a Ukraine flag on it. 1.00

00:08:09.600 And then the people parachuting in BLM loves Hamas. 0.66

00:08:14.580 Now, if you happen to be really offended by the Hamas thing, do we have the Hamas one first? 0.97

00:08:21.060 Yeah, there.

00:08:21.440 He hung these from the signs or from the stop signs or stoplights all across Los Angeles.

00:08:30.720 They are BLM loves Hamas paratroopers or the guys, you know, that are paragliders coming in. 0.78

00:08:39.680 Those, he said, were the first to be taken down at sunlight.

00:08:44.160 My gosh.

00:08:45.520 Yeah.

00:08:45.960 BLM loves Hamas. 1.00

00:08:47.700 It's amazing.

00:08:48.500 Hard to deny.

00:08:49.180 They seem to be overtly loving them.

00:08:52.160 Yeah.

00:08:52.420 They're making no bones about it.

00:08:54.560 And then, of course, this is the first time it's been seen on the street.

00:08:57.320 One that he made for us.

00:08:58.480 We have we have T-shirts and sweatshirts for this.

00:09:02.220 It is the Trump, the Trump, what do you call it?

00:09:08.080 A booking photo with a little help from from Sabo.

00:09:12.960 Just says corn pop.

00:09:14.820 One bad dude.

00:09:16.440 Twenty twenty four.

00:09:18.000 You can find these at Glenn Beck dot com and you can find the corn pop stuff also at Glenn Beck dot com.

00:09:24.160 Find it and and wear it proudly.

00:09:29.340 So, Pat, what was the thing that you felt this week needed to be discussed and is not going to bring us down on a Friday?

00:09:39.080 That's not going to bring us down.

00:09:40.280 Yes.

00:09:40.480 So there was no there was no topic that won't bring you.

00:09:46.400 All right.

00:09:46.640 So what is what are your thoughts on the week?

00:09:49.320 I am flabbergasted at the administration and how they're trying to play both both sides.

00:09:56.120 Oh, yeah.

00:09:56.760 I can't.

00:09:57.980 It's but it's really hard to take.

00:09:59.900 Don't you feel like it's a setup?

00:10:01.640 It's they're only playing both sides as long as they have to.

00:10:05.480 Yeah.

00:10:05.660 That they will go over to the Hamas Palestinian side. 0.97

00:10:09.440 Yeah.

00:10:09.820 And the the amazing thing, though, is how many people have openly already jumped in to the Palestinian side, the Hamas side, the anti-Jewish side.

00:10:20.100 And they don't care.

00:10:21.300 They don't hide it. 0.94

00:10:22.280 They talk about their Jew hatred.

00:10:24.600 It's so it's like the 30s all over again.

00:10:27.000 Remember the book that I told you guys about the diary?

00:10:29.700 I don't know if either of you ever read them.

00:10:31.380 The read the diary from the guy, the German in World War Two.

00:10:34.580 He talks about that because I've said you will understand what's coming and where we are in the process if you read this book, because he's basically writing a diary. 0.99

00:10:46.680 He gets to this point to where his friends, who he thought were normal just a week ago, are coming in and saying these damn Jews have all got to go. 0.99

00:10:59.700 It happens quickly. 1.00

00:11:01.100 It happens.

00:11:01.820 And he said it happened overnight and it happened overnight here.

00:11:05.180 Yes.

00:11:05.700 A couple of weeks.

00:11:06.440 Right.

00:11:06.540 All of a sudden, people, you know, people that you you hear on TV and on the streets are are quoting Adolf Hitler.

00:11:13.340 And you're like and they're fine with it.

00:11:15.440 They're fine with it.

00:11:16.260 And why is that?

00:11:17.040 I mean, it's been bubbling inside of them the whole time.

00:11:19.780 It didn't just happen.

00:11:21.440 You know, no.

00:11:21.980 Yeah.

00:11:22.280 No, it's it's safe for them now, apparently, to let it out.

00:11:25.300 It's what we want.

00:11:26.760 It's why I have been talking about anti-Semitism. 0.96

00:11:31.240 It's why I went over.

00:11:32.580 Have you seen the the film from Restoring Courage?

00:11:37.820 The speech I gave?

00:11:39.360 I watched it last night.

00:11:42.080 Oh, my gosh.

00:11:44.040 Oh, my gosh.

00:11:46.040 Was that inspired?

00:11:47.120 That speech should be given today.

00:11:52.640 I mean, it is it's remarkable because as I'm watching it, I'm thinking to myself, why did I write those words?

00:12:01.500 Why?

00:12:01.820 Because it wasn't happening at the time.

00:12:04.180 Do you remember?

00:12:04.900 Oh, yeah, I do.

00:12:05.880 Yeah.

00:12:06.340 And we were like and I and I just felt like it's important to say these things.

00:12:12.280 And it it was written for this time.

00:12:15.520 I'm going to post it this weekend.

00:12:17.340 It's unbelievable.

00:12:20.380 Unbelievable.

00:12:21.140 Everything that I'm saying, you know, it was crazy.

00:12:25.640 I'm like, you know, you're going to be in the minority, but you have to stand up.

00:12:31.440 You have to say no.

00:12:32.900 If they're going to say we're coming for the Jews, you have to stand up and say, then count me as a Jew.

00:12:39.880 Wow.

00:12:40.360 I talked about how the world will go insane and they'll all all of the world, including our government, will start to stand up against the Jew. 1.00

00:12:50.800 I mean, it's amazing.

00:12:53.740 That's 12 years old.

00:12:55.260 How'd you look? 1.00

00:12:56.760 Shut up. 0.99

00:12:57.560 Wait, I mean, what's the implication here? 1.00

00:13:03.240 I don't know why he snapped.

00:13:04.980 Asked how he looked.

00:13:06.100 That was weird.

00:13:07.320 I looked at that young, healthy man there, you know, at the lowest weight he had been in since, you know, high school.

00:13:16.020 You remember?

00:13:16.500 Because that week.

00:13:17.140 Was it really?

00:13:17.760 Wow.

00:13:18.000 Two days and two days before that.

00:13:20.180 Remember, I had to go to the hospital.

00:13:22.200 I passed out.

00:13:24.240 Don't you remember?

00:13:25.020 You weren't there.

00:13:25.660 You remember that, Pat?

00:13:26.960 I remember it.

00:13:27.640 Yeah.

00:13:28.120 They took me out because I was writing the speech and David Barton walks in and David said, hey, Glenn, how you doing?

00:13:36.880 And I went, I'm really.

00:13:38.120 And then I just collapsed on the floor and I was out for a while.

00:13:40.640 I wake up and everybody is around me, security and everybody's around me.

00:13:45.800 And they're strapping me to a, you know, a, what do you call it?

00:13:51.300 Gurney.

00:13:51.740 A gurney.

00:13:52.600 And they're picking me up and they're going to take me out.

00:13:55.400 And I'm hearing them on the phone with the prime minister's office and they're saying he can't go to a regular hospital.

00:14:04.220 He can't, he can't, we can't have this come out.

00:14:07.120 It will be really bad for the event, blah, blah, blah.

00:14:09.500 They took me through the back stairs of this hospital because I couldn't use the elevator.

00:14:14.400 So had to go down the back stairs.

00:14:16.680 I get into this ambulance and they take me to a, this hospital to a underground bunker hospital that is used for the prime minister.

00:14:27.340 If there's anybody in the military or anybody in the, um, uh, the, uh, government that is hurt or, you know, there's any kind of problems going on with, you know, terrorism.

00:14:42.600 They use that.

00:14:43.440 And I go in and I just see the ceiling of this place and it's completely dark.

00:14:48.300 And I'm like, what the, where are you guys taking me?

00:14:51.320 And they turn on the lights and then all of a sudden from the hospital, a whole bunch of people come down.

00:14:56.820 Wow.

00:14:57.380 Uh, and I mean, so it was, it was weird.

00:15:01.120 Today they would have had to get you out of there with a crane, but, uh, fortunately that wasn't the case back then.

00:15:08.160 Why do I invite him?

00:15:09.460 Why do I invite him on?

00:15:10.420 Uh, wouldn't it be nice to let, and you brought me cookies yesterday.

00:15:14.540 I know.

00:15:15.280 You enabler.

00:15:16.760 You enabler.

00:15:17.940 I gotta tell you, Kexi cookies.

00:15:19.780 If you have not had Pat's wife's cookies, they're unbelievable. 0.97

00:15:25.340 She's absolutely a witch. 0.98

00:15:27.380 I told, I told my wife, no, I mean that in a good way. 0.95

00:15:31.520 Unlike the one that rhymes when I talk about you.

00:15:35.320 But I didn't make that last fat joke.

00:15:37.280 That was Pat.

00:15:37.780 Yeah.

00:15:38.100 Well, you will.

00:15:38.920 Uh, enabler.

00:15:41.440 Uh, so, uh, I told, I told Tanya, I said, we are sending only Kexi cookies to, you know,

00:15:48.680 cause we usually will send, you know, fruit basket or flowers or something.

00:15:52.420 Yeah.

00:15:52.940 You know, for the Christmas list.

00:15:54.200 This is way better.

00:15:56.100 Yeah.

00:15:56.320 Way better.

00:15:57.080 Yeah.

00:15:57.260 And you got to try the Boston cream pie.

00:15:59.620 Oh, good.

00:16:01.780 Believable.

00:16:02.420 So you have, it's the only cookie that I recommend you eat with a spoon.

00:16:06.400 Yeah.

00:16:07.040 Seriously.

00:16:07.780 Delicious.

00:16:08.100 It is so good.

00:16:09.460 So good.

00:16:09.940 Not that I had one, honey, while you were gone.

00:16:11.960 No.

00:16:12.280 I did not have one.

00:16:13.320 Mm-mm.

00:16:13.720 Why would he?

00:16:14.460 Uh, anyway.

00:16:15.240 That's weird.

00:16:15.820 Kexi.com is a place you go to get them.

00:16:17.760 Thank you.

00:16:18.080 Great holiday. 1.00

00:16:19.120 How do you spell that stupid thing? 1.00

00:16:20.720 K-E-K-S-I. 1.00

00:16:22.240 Yeah.

00:16:22.560 Just like it sounds.

00:16:23.540 Just like it sounds.

00:16:30.440 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:16:32.980 Justin Haskins is with us now.

00:16:35.760 He is the co-author of The Great Reset and Dark Future, both of my New York Times bestselling

00:16:41.840 books, and also Research Center Director for the Heartland Institute Socialism Research

00:16:48.220 Center.

00:16:48.960 How are you?

00:16:49.660 Good morning, Glenn.

00:16:50.560 How are you?

00:16:50.960 I'm doing great.

00:16:51.860 I'm in Stu's chair.

00:16:53.180 We threw Stu out of the studio.

00:16:54.620 Yeah.

00:16:55.000 He's terrible. 0.93

00:16:55.900 Yeah.

00:16:56.060 I'm in the chair.

00:16:56.600 And I gotta tell you, this feels good.

00:16:58.060 This feels right.

00:16:59.000 Don't get too comfy.

00:17:02.040 You have also brought with you Bob Rommel.

00:17:04.300 Bob is the Florida State Representative who has been fighting against ESG in Florida.

00:17:11.540 And Florida has the model.

00:17:14.040 Yes.

00:17:14.480 Do you think?

00:17:15.140 Oh, yes.

00:17:15.780 Yes.

00:17:16.060 As you know, back when we put The Great Reset book together, and we realized that ESG

00:17:21.800 was the key to the entire Great Reset puzzle.

00:17:24.780 Yeah.

00:17:25.020 And you and I thought, this is pretty depressing because no one's going to do anything about

00:17:29.320 it.

00:17:29.460 Correct.

00:17:29.640 We were convinced no one was going to do anything about it.

00:17:32.500 Then the book came out, and states across the country started enacting various ways of

00:17:38.660 fighting back against ESG.

00:17:40.360 But in many of those cases, we've had 14 different states that have put some kind of anti-ESG legislation

00:17:46.280 together.

00:17:46.720 Most of them are focused on making sure that government pensions and government contracts

00:17:52.100 are not being used to promote ESG causes.

00:17:55.580 That's really good.

00:17:56.800 Okay?

00:17:57.140 That's really great.

00:17:58.120 It's a start.

00:17:58.780 It's a start.

00:17:59.700 But if you really want to protect people, you have to protect consumers.

00:18:04.340 You have to protect the individual.

00:18:06.080 And the only place where they have actually enacted a law that does this, that protects

00:18:11.040 financial individuals from financial institutions promoting ESG, is in the state of Florida.

00:18:16.780 And Bob Rommel, who's here with us today in the studio, is the champion of that cause.

00:18:21.540 He's the guy who led the charge in the house.

00:18:24.260 And he is a personal hero.

00:18:26.500 He really is.

00:18:27.080 He's a personal hero.

00:18:27.940 So thank you for being here, Bob.

00:18:29.280 Bob, thank you for standing up for this.

00:18:31.160 I don't know why more states won't protect the consumer.

00:18:35.080 They'll protect all the big guys.

00:18:36.860 But it's the consumer.

00:18:38.120 It's the little person when they go to try to get a loan.

00:18:41.760 You know, the farmer that tries to go get a loan and he's rejected because he's not doing

00:18:47.400 everything he's supposed to do ESG-wise.

00:18:50.700 And that consumer will never be told it was because of ESG.

00:18:55.100 So they can't sue them.

00:18:56.200 They can't do anything about it.

00:18:57.440 Well, Glenn, thank you.

00:18:59.260 And Justin, thanks for those kind words.

00:19:01.300 I don't know if anybody's ever called me a champion, but thank you.

00:19:05.580 As an ex-banker, I know that if you control the capital, you make all the rules and you

00:19:11.760 do everything.

00:19:13.100 And I started looking at ESG, some of the ESG rules that some people were telling me about

00:19:18.260 two years ago.

00:19:19.300 And then the incoming speaker, I told him about, we have to do something about this in Florida.

00:19:23.760 We need to protect our citizens.

00:19:25.560 To me, it's just another form of discrimination.

00:19:28.860 And as an ex-banker, when we did mortgages for folks, you know, we couldn't discriminate

00:19:34.480 based on race, color, creed, political belief.

00:19:38.240 They got mortgages based on their ability to pay and their income, period.

00:19:43.080 That's the way it should be.

00:19:44.100 That's the way it should be.

00:19:45.140 And that's how our country was built.

00:19:46.820 And you always, when the government messes with our banks and tells them that you have

00:19:55.260 to consider other things, it creates a system that is false.

00:20:00.600 And it creates the bubble that we had in 08.

00:20:04.440 That was the United States government telling banks, you have to make more loans in these

00:20:10.820 ways, which the people couldn't afford.

00:20:13.680 But the government was demanding the banks do it.

00:20:16.540 You know, and luckily that we had in Florida, we had a speaker and we had a governor that

00:20:22.380 wanted to do something because the pushback was huge and it was pushed back on multiple

00:20:27.500 sides.

00:20:28.140 So Democrats, and I believe it was a Democrat that came up with ESG.

00:20:31.620 They're great at coming up with these new words and these new terminology.

00:20:35.160 So the first thing is environment, you know, environment.

00:20:38.780 So listen, everybody wants clean water, clean air.

00:20:41.840 So they said, well, we have to do this to save the environment because if not, we're all

00:20:46.500 going to die. 0.95

00:20:47.600 And I don't know if anybody's listening, but we're all going to die eventually anyway. 0.98

00:20:50.880 We're all dying.

00:20:51.500 Just slower.

00:20:52.220 Just slower.

00:20:52.860 So then the social governance and I go, what is social governance?

00:20:58.140 And, and if you, you know, you can look at a couple of the greatest American iconic companies

00:21:03.560 in a world that social governance has destroyed their, you know, value of their companies.

00:21:08.180 Disney.

00:21:08.980 Disney and Anheuser-Busch.

00:21:10.800 Yeah.

00:21:11.140 I would, you would think both of it.

00:21:13.200 Coca-Cola is really bad too.

00:21:15.080 Oh yeah.

00:21:15.280 And so me as a business person, whenever I hired somebody, I hired the best, the brightest

00:21:21.820 and the people that actually show up to work.

00:21:24.240 Yes.

00:21:24.640 And I never looked at their race or, you know, or their political beliefs.

00:21:29.920 I just wanted to hire the best.

00:21:31.660 And that's how our country was built.

00:21:32.860 Our country was built on access to capital and people like Thomas Edison.

00:21:37.600 I know you have an issue with Thomas Edison.

00:21:40.180 Thank you for knowing that.

00:21:42.660 I know you do.

00:21:44.820 And, you know, we can, we can debate whether that was the best technology or not, but we

00:21:50.000 need to make sure that the next inventors have access to capital.

00:21:53.680 So whatever the next great invention that's going to help civilization is available.

00:21:58.580 And when I saw what was happening, a friend of mine has a multinational company and he

00:22:02.920 was telling me a worksheet that he would have to fill out to get capital and it had nothing

00:22:07.120 to do with his business or the ability to pay.

00:22:09.380 It was based on how many transgender people do you have working here?

00:22:12.740 How much carbon footprint do you have?

00:22:14.740 What are you using to mitigate your carbon footprint?

00:22:16.640 And I said, there's something wrong here.

00:22:19.940 And you know what?

00:22:20.700 In the end, it's going to hurt civilization.

00:22:23.160 And in Florida, we wanted to make sure we did something to protect our citizens.

00:22:26.660 Okay.

00:22:26.800 So now does, does this actually, if I'm a citizen and I go to a bank and I feel they've judged

00:22:32.820 me on ESG, does this cover me as a citizen of Florida?

00:22:37.220 Yeah.

00:22:37.800 So there's no doubt that the law and they're going to challenge it.

00:22:42.860 We highly suspect banks are going to fight this because they don't, they wanted to be

00:22:46.820 able to discriminate against people.

00:22:48.220 That's what banks want the ability to do.

00:22:49.900 And they're being pushed by the left and big asset managers.

00:22:52.120 But yes, that's what the law is designed to do.

00:22:54.620 The law is designed to make sure that if you are being discriminated against, that you have

00:22:59.300 an ability to file a complaint with the government so that the government makes sure that that

00:23:04.880 doesn't happen.

00:23:06.120 Now, one of the problems that we have, and Rep.

00:23:08.460 Rommel is trying to address this going forward, is how do we even know that that's what's going

00:23:13.600 on?

00:23:14.120 How do we know the bank?

00:23:15.460 Because the bank might not tell you.

00:23:17.300 The bank might just deny you the loan and never tell you why.

00:23:20.100 And so we need to figure out a way to make sure that people know why they're being

00:23:24.440 denied access to bank accounts and things like that.

00:23:26.420 So do you want to talk a little bit about that plan that you have?

00:23:30.440 Sure.

00:23:30.680 We know what we did.

00:23:31.620 We knew it was going to get challenged.

00:23:33.060 And we had a tremendous amount of pushback and pushback from people I didn't even understand

00:23:37.600 why they were pushing back.

00:23:39.620 Matter of fact, one of the second in charge of BlackRock came to visit me, the commerce

00:23:43.540 chair in Florida, which was kind of cool.

00:23:45.720 But he read my background.

00:23:48.660 He goes, oh, he seems like you're more of a libertarian.

00:23:50.540 You're a free market guy.

00:23:51.920 Why are you interfering with business?

00:23:54.440 And I said, it sounds like you're interfering.

00:23:58.240 And we actually had a great conversation.

00:24:01.480 And he was talking about, this is just free market business.

00:24:04.700 And I said, well, let's talk about ESG.

00:24:07.080 And I said, did you fly down here to visit me on a private plane?

00:24:10.500 And he said, yeah.

00:24:11.160 Matter of fact, I go, did you pick the most diverse pilot or did you pick the best pilot?

00:24:15.720 He goes, that doesn't matter.

00:24:16.780 And I go, no, it does matter.

00:24:18.020 I go, if you truly believe in this stuff, you'll make the most diverse pilot.

00:24:21.760 God forbid you're ever going to get sick.

00:24:23.300 You're going to get the most diverse surgeon.

00:24:25.220 But it's not.

00:24:26.060 This is about you controlling the markets, controlling capital, controlling people, making people have fewer decisions and maybe buying some bad technology.

00:24:35.720 And, you know, they kept pushing and pushing.

00:24:38.520 The banks came back to me and said, oh, you're interfering with us.

00:24:42.360 But, you know, they were all, you know, it's so bad.

00:24:44.880 This banking, it's a cartel that they have going against, you know, against our representatives and our legislatures in America.

00:24:54.520 This cartel comes in so heavy handed with loads of money and credibility and tries to stop people like you.

00:25:02.880 You know, and we had to be careful the way you crafted the bill because if you use ESG as a form of scoring, you won't be able to, you know, issue Florida bonds.

00:25:12.180 You won't be able to access to qualified public deposits or pension funds.

00:25:16.000 But we also had to make sure that if everybody did it, we were able to write checks in the state of Florida to pay our bills.

00:25:22.280 So there was a balance there and we had to make sure that there was other access.

00:25:27.240 And there is.

00:25:27.900 There's not quite enough for $300 billion in local community banks.

00:25:32.160 So I think we're in a good place there.

00:25:34.100 But over the summer, one of our local businesses in Florida, Dr. McCall, who owns a very big supermarket, but he also owns a multinational natural health vitamin company.

00:25:44.660 And over the summer, I get a call from one of his representatives.

00:25:48.600 He goes, Rep Brommel, can you help us?

00:25:50.780 And I go, I'll try.

00:25:51.640 What's up?

00:25:52.320 And he said, well, all of the managers and multiple employees from the Mercola markets been debanked.

00:26:00.200 Their bank, which was JPMorgan Chase, gave them letters and say, find new banks.

00:26:04.660 We're not going to bank with you anymore.

00:26:06.520 So I talked to a JPMorgan.

00:26:08.580 Hang on just a second.

00:26:09.500 How rare, because I'd never heard of being debanked before, unless you were like Al Capone.

00:26:16.340 I had never heard of that.

00:26:17.920 How rare did that used to be?

00:26:21.120 I would think never because banks wanted you to keep your money and your non-interest-bearing accounts and pay late fees and things like that to earn income.

00:26:28.480 So we looked into it a little bit, and I talked to their rep, and they said, well, Bob, he could be doing money laundering or some suspicious activity, and by the law, we're obligated to debank them.

00:26:40.920 I go, his entire workforce?

00:26:43.780 And they couldn't tell me because I'm not authorized to hear this information.

00:26:48.440 And again, the state of Florida, if you're running arms or fentanyl, we don't want you banking either.

00:26:54.740 But we also believe in due process in the state of Florida.

00:26:57.900 I don't trust you as the bank, and I don't trust you as some federal agency to say, this person needs to be debanked.

00:27:05.660 Because I remember Operation Chokehold when they told payday loans and arms dealers, I think that was, you know.

00:27:13.600 Obama era.

00:27:14.320 Obama era 2013, Operation Chokepoint, that you can't do any banking business.

00:27:20.300 So I don't trust the federal government agencies, and I don't trust the banks that are colluding with ESG, with our federal agencies, to bank them.

00:27:28.640 So what I'm going to try to do this year, assuming it's passed, that if you're a bank and you debank one of our Florida citizens, a business or an individual, first of all, you're going to have to tell Florida.

00:27:39.100 You're going to have to tell the Division of Financial Services, hey, I debanked Dr. Mercola, and this is why I did it.

00:27:46.180 Then we as a state, keep it in private, we'll investigate.

00:27:50.420 If we felt that you did it in bad faith, well, we're going to fine you, and you're not going to do business in Florida.

00:27:55.440 And then the individual that was harmed, we're going to allow them to have a private right of action against that bank.

00:28:02.040 Excellent.

00:28:03.280 Excellent.

00:28:04.200 That is fair.

00:28:05.220 Was I right?

00:28:06.180 I was right.

00:28:07.160 This is amazing.

00:28:08.080 This is what this is.

00:28:09.700 By the way, this is, what is it, fair access is what it is.

00:28:12.800 Yes, that's the shorthand.

00:28:13.920 Shorthand is fair access.

00:28:15.020 There are many states that have passed now anti-ESG laws, but it is fair access that gives the power to the individual to be able to get the information and to sue if it is, if it's wrong information or based on ESG.

00:28:32.520 And you guys have led the way.

00:28:34.500 So let me ask you, what was the name of the bank that debanked this guy?

00:28:39.540 It was JP Morgan Chase.

00:28:41.480 JP Morgan Chase.

00:28:42.340 That's a big bank.

00:28:44.780 It is a big bank.

00:28:45.460 And I believe JP Morgan Chase is one of the organizations that flagged the Treasury on money laundering for Hunter Biden.

00:29:02.320 Really?

00:29:02.860 I think that is true.

00:29:03.920 I think it is.

00:29:04.800 I'd have to check, but I think it is.

00:29:06.160 You should ask them, did you debank Hunter Biden when you suspected money laundering?

00:29:13.180 You know what?

00:29:13.940 I bet they didn't do that because, you know.

00:29:17.180 It's a good bet.

00:29:18.500 Unless they did, and that's why Hunter can't pay his child support.

00:29:21.720 Yeah.

00:29:22.140 Maybe.

00:29:22.820 Maybe.

00:29:23.660 Okay.

00:29:23.980 So what do people need to do to make sure that next year we sew this up?

00:29:28.440 The biggest thing is that state lawmakers, their representatives all across the country, they need to understand that ESG is a huge problem.

00:29:40.240 It's maybe the biggest problem facing the average citizen in America right now.

00:29:44.780 The problem is going to get bigger because in Europe, they're about to make ESG mandatory, and they're going to drag a whole bunch of American companies into the mix, and they're going to be beholden to Europe's ESG system.

00:29:56.400 Right.

00:29:56.480 They will have to live ESG here if they want to do business elsewhere.

00:30:00.540 Yes.

00:30:00.560 And the only thing worse than ESG is ESG created by Europeans. 1.00

00:30:04.880 Yes.

00:30:05.360 That's the only thing that could make it worse, right?

00:30:07.160 Right.

00:30:07.520 And so what we need to do is make sure that there are protections for individuals.

00:30:11.640 It can't just be for big businesses.

00:30:13.480 It can't just be for industry.

00:30:15.440 It can't just be on environment issues or fossil fuels.

00:30:19.040 Those things matter.

00:30:20.040 But we need to have protections for the individual person.

00:30:23.100 And if your state is not doing that, then they are not looking out for you.

00:30:27.100 They are not protecting you.

00:30:28.360 And you are going to be a victim of this eventually because there is just way too much money and planning and power behind it, as we've shown in the last two books that we did on this topic.

00:30:38.720 You guys are at you're over at the legislative conference, aren't you?

00:30:42.960 Yes.

00:30:43.200 Yeah.

00:30:43.480 Yeah.

00:30:44.080 Are you there in town for that?

00:30:46.700 Yes.

00:30:47.140 And we're actually presenting together very briefly a little bit later.

00:30:50.460 So I'm glad that you're now learning that this is happening.

00:30:53.520 Oh, I am so glad.

00:30:54.080 I've got to catch a plane today.

00:30:55.540 And I'm like, I don't know what I'm going to talk about today.

00:30:58.920 You'll be fine.

00:30:59.120 Here's what I'm going to say.

00:31:00.320 Justin.

00:31:00.880 Oh, okay.

00:31:01.380 Good.

00:31:01.620 What should people do?

00:31:02.660 Yeah.

00:31:03.480 Anyway, the pro-family legislative conference is happening.

00:31:06.700 There are about 200 pro-family lawmakers that are in town.

00:31:12.520 And all weekend long, I'd ask for you to pray for them.

00:31:16.000 These people, like Bob, are really, I mean, they are on the edge and standing up for the

00:31:23.240 really hard things.

00:31:24.020 They take bullets in the back, in the side, in the front, all of the time.

00:31:28.620 They are looking for pro-life legislation, protecting women's sports.

00:31:33.160 Have you, did it start yet this morning?

00:31:36.020 When's the artificial intelligence?

00:31:37.060 Yeah, it started last night, but today's the first full day of programming and stuff.

00:31:40.420 I wish I could be there for the artificial intelligence thing and the digital dollar.

00:31:44.320 Well, those are things I'm doing.

00:31:45.940 So you know all about what I think on those issues.

00:31:48.460 Okay, yeah.

00:31:49.100 Right, okay.

00:31:49.820 I think I taught you about AI.

00:31:51.900 Maybe, I don't know.

00:31:54.300 Okay, that is great.

00:31:55.880 Bob, thank you so much.

00:31:57.120 Have you guys decided what's going to happen if, well, eventually, Ron DeSantis cannot run

00:32:04.740 again for another term, so whether he becomes president or whether he just terms out, is

00:32:10.360 the state going to be stable?

00:32:12.880 Is it him, or have you guys written enough into the laws that it can't be changed?

00:32:19.860 It's not all executive order, right?

00:32:21.960 None of it's really executive order in Florida.

00:32:24.100 We believe in the power of the legislator.

00:32:26.040 If we pass it, and he signs it, it's law of, you know, states are different than the federal

00:32:30.220 government, thank God.

00:32:31.720 And I know you were just talking about, you know, pro-family stuff.

00:32:35.200 We already did boys don't go in girls' room. 1.00

00:32:37.940 We already did boys don't play in girls' sports.

00:32:40.080 We did the heartbait bill.

00:32:41.520 And last year, for education, we had the education savings account, but basically gives every

00:32:46.480 single child a voucher to go to any school they want.

00:32:49.900 And Florida, we rank third in K-12 education now.

00:32:52.540 And 30 years ago, we were the worst.

00:32:54.560 Oh, you were.

00:32:55.220 I lived there in the, what, right around 2000.

00:33:00.200 And Florida struggled with schools.

00:33:02.720 And now we're Texas struggling with schools.

00:33:05.840 And we've got one Republican, the Speaker of the House here in Texas, standing against

00:33:11.060 school choice.

00:33:12.280 Hopefully that will change.

00:33:13.320 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:33:15.540 Oh, man.

00:33:17.220 Is everything racist?

00:33:18.000 It's time for another episode of Everything is Racist.

00:33:22.460 Everything is racist.

00:33:25.520 Every thought you have is a KKK dream.

00:33:29.120 Everything is racist. 0.99

00:33:31.800 White supremacist extreme. 0.96

00:33:35.060 We're going into the Pandaverse now as we are looking at or anthology.

00:33:41.600 Yes.

00:33:42.280 It's very important, Glenn.

00:33:43.440 Glenn, I hope you know that a lot of the familiar names you know from birding.

00:33:50.580 I know you're a big birder.

00:33:51.620 I'm not a big birder.

00:33:52.820 Big birder.

00:33:53.600 Glenn said, people don't know that.

00:33:54.660 Big birder.

00:33:55.260 I don't know anybody who is a big birder.

00:33:57.440 Oh, huge birder.

00:33:58.380 I eat birds.

00:34:00.340 Well, that's why you're looking for them.

00:34:01.820 So you can eat them.

00:34:02.600 Okay, yes.

00:34:02.940 But that's a little different than the typical birder.

00:34:04.580 I will say you do it a little bit differently.

00:34:06.200 Yeah, all right.

00:34:06.320 But you're going to have to say goodbye to some very familiar bird names.

00:34:10.500 Oh.

00:34:11.340 Like.

00:34:11.860 Like.

00:34:12.480 I mean, say it with me.

00:34:13.980 Anna's Hummingbird.

00:34:15.200 Anna's Hummingbird.

00:34:16.240 Anna's Hummingbird.

00:34:17.480 Gamble's Quail.

00:34:18.620 Gamble's Quail.

00:34:20.320 Lewis's Woodpecker.

00:34:21.600 Lewis's Woodpecker.

00:34:22.820 That one sounds like we shouldn't talk about it.

00:34:25.140 We shouldn't.

00:34:28.260 What is that?

00:34:29.340 That's Lewis's Woodpecker.

00:34:30.840 Just leave him alone.

00:34:32.600 Stop playing with that.

00:34:34.960 All right.

00:34:35.600 Here we go.

00:34:37.020 Bullock's Aureole.

00:34:38.980 Uh-huh.

00:34:39.460 How many times have you been like, oh, look, it's Bullock's Aureole right over there?

00:34:42.320 Well, I usually will just say it's an Aureole.

00:34:45.560 But when it's Bullock's Aureole.

00:34:47.680 Oh, yeah.

00:34:48.380 That.

00:34:48.780 It rubs me wrong.

00:34:49.800 It does.

00:34:50.220 It rubs me wrong.

00:34:51.220 It does.

00:34:51.520 Yeah.

00:34:52.080 Well, apparently these are going to go away because of the American Orenthological Society.

00:34:57.580 How they vow to change.

00:34:58.800 Easy for you to say.

00:34:59.320 I know.

00:34:59.600 To change the English names of all bird species currently named after people, along with any other bird names

00:35:05.380 deemed offensive or exclusionary.

00:35:07.900 Okay.

00:35:08.420 Now.

00:35:09.380 Okay.

00:35:09.820 Hey, God, just a second.

00:35:10.620 To whom?

00:35:11.120 The birds?

00:35:12.240 No, the birds don't care about the names.

00:35:13.860 Birds don't care. 0.99

00:35:14.420 Okay.

00:35:14.640 All right.

00:35:15.140 It's apparently about human beings, as they discussed in the article at length.

00:35:17.560 So, is this happening all over the world, in every language?

00:35:20.580 Any other society that is named a bird?

00:35:23.740 There's only one society that matters.

00:35:25.400 Really?

00:35:25.860 Okay.

00:35:26.740 And it's the American Orenthological Society.

00:35:28.780 Okay.

00:35:29.140 All right.

00:35:29.240 Which is a word I've said many, many times.

00:35:30.940 Many times.

00:35:31.380 Not just starting yesterday.

00:35:32.020 You remember.

00:35:32.880 Yes.

00:35:33.620 Now, there have also band names that were named after, like, Native American tribes.

00:35:39.280 Because that's also offensive.

00:35:40.660 Like the Washington Redskins.

00:35:41.920 That was offensive.

00:35:42.500 We had to get rid of that.

00:35:43.120 Even though they approved of it, about 90% of the people in the tribe approved of it.

00:35:47.580 That didn't matter.

00:35:48.600 So, this move comes as a part of a broader effort to diversify birding and make it more

00:35:55.080 welcoming to people of all races and backgrounds.

00:35:57.340 I have to tell you, because you know me, I'm one with the hood.

00:36:01.140 And I'm down with my peeps in the hood.

00:36:04.620 And we're listening to...

00:36:08.340 Lizzo?

00:36:10.280 Lizzo.

00:36:10.720 Lizzo. 1.00

00:36:11.580 And she's like, damn! 0.99

00:36:13.920 Where is... 0.99

00:36:14.680 Where my phone at?

00:36:15.360 Where my phone.

00:36:16.060 And I say to myself, Lizzo, have you thought about, perhaps, bird watching?

00:36:25.840 Birding.

00:36:26.360 Let's call it by the appropriate term.

00:36:28.120 Birding.

00:36:28.580 I'm in the hood.

00:36:29.780 I'm using the street.

00:36:30.320 Okay.

00:36:30.380 So, this is like a slang term.

00:36:31.780 Bird watching is a slang term for birding.

00:36:33.760 Okay.

00:36:34.060 Got it.

00:36:34.800 And she says, where the hell my phone?

00:36:38.680 And I said, you don't need one.

00:36:39.800 You just go out with all of the stuff that you might get from the orientalical society.

00:36:46.780 And you just go watch them birds.

00:36:50.340 And she said to me, and this is a quote, birding is too racist.

00:36:58.140 Oh, yeah.

00:36:58.440 And I said, I'm with you.

00:37:01.220 I'm with you on that.

00:37:02.640 But can you explain?

00:37:04.120 And she said, I don't think I have to to you, Glenn. 0.85

00:37:08.200 And I said, damn right. 0.96

00:37:10.700 That's right. 0.97

00:37:11.360 I remember that.

00:37:12.080 You told me about that conversation.

00:37:13.400 It's a really good story.

00:37:14.600 We have contemporaneous notes backing that up in case anyone's questioning it.

00:37:17.080 Anybody wants to see it.

00:37:17.980 So, like, this is very common, actually.

00:37:21.020 Like, a lot of, there's a lot of people who are sitting around and they're just like, you know, I'd love to get into birding.

00:37:26.460 But I find the name Lewis's Woodpecker to be a little offensive.

00:37:31.640 It doesn't feel like I'm.

00:37:32.800 Can we use something else besides.

00:37:34.300 No, you don't understand.

00:37:35.360 Because there's, you know, there's never been an African American.

00:37:38.340 I put a hole in the side of the barn.

00:37:40.120 And now I've got to replace that whole slat. 1.00

00:37:43.820 With Lewis's Woodpecker?

00:37:44.840 No, because Lewis's Woodpecker put a hole in the barn. 1.00

00:37:47.640 It's a large bird.

00:37:49.160 I can, let's stop.

00:37:50.920 Is it, let's stop.

00:37:51.900 Lewis had a big bird.

00:37:53.680 Okay, all right.

00:37:54.300 And a lot of people talk about that.

00:37:55.380 So.

00:37:58.420 But, you know, I don't know.

00:37:59.720 Are there a lot of people that go through this process that are like, I just, you know.

00:38:02.520 Because there's never been an African American name with the last name of Lewis.

00:38:05.580 That's never occurred.

00:38:06.780 Yeah.

00:38:07.000 Certainly throughout history.

00:38:08.700 So.

00:38:09.020 Joe.

00:38:09.660 Yeah.

00:38:10.280 Carl.

00:38:11.240 Carl.

00:38:11.760 You know, I don't know.

00:38:12.440 There's been some.

00:38:13.320 But you didn't think.

00:38:14.460 The one who wrote Alice in Wonderland.

00:38:16.220 That one.

00:38:16.800 Yeah.

00:38:17.360 Whoever that was.

00:38:18.160 Okay.

00:38:18.600 So biologist Erica Knoll says she was recently visiting some salt marshes.

00:38:24.120 Now, I know you have a timeshare near a salt marsh that you visit often.

00:38:27.660 I get all my salt there.

00:38:28.740 Yes.

00:38:29.600 And she saw a common bird there that's called Wilson's snipe.

00:38:33.100 Now, as you know, there's also never been an African American with the last name Wilson.

00:38:37.000 They don't.

00:38:37.860 Never occurred.

00:38:38.980 Slip.

00:38:40.580 Russell.

00:38:41.860 So, which this bird has a long bill and engages in dramatic displays such as flying in high

00:38:48.640 circles, which produces a whistling sound as air flows over specialized feathers.

00:38:53.540 Very good.

00:38:54.140 You are a birder.

00:38:55.120 I can tell.

00:38:55.620 I can tell.

00:38:56.040 That's the Wilson.

00:38:57.860 Wilson snipe.

00:38:58.520 Snipe.

00:38:59.040 Which I think is actually a pretty cool name.

00:39:00.520 Snipe! 0.99

00:39:00.800 Yeah, that's what it sounds like.

00:39:02.880 Just like.

00:39:03.180 Snipe! 0.99

00:39:05.580 I do the calls sometimes.

00:39:07.100 But it doesn't say Wilson.

00:39:08.360 It just says snipe.

00:39:09.280 It just says snipe.

00:39:10.080 Yeah.

00:39:10.980 And this biologist says, quote, and I thought, what a terrible name.

00:39:16.440 I mean, Wilson was the father of modern ornithology.

00:39:21.300 But.

00:39:21.900 But this bird has so many other evocative characteristics.

00:39:25.620 You know, I mean, I think when I think of the guy who founded modern ornithology, when 0.99

00:39:34.680 I think of him, I think that damn Wilson. 0.99

00:39:37.580 Yes. 1.00

00:39:38.160 That damn Wilson. 1.00

00:39:38.980 His name is everywhere. 1.00

00:39:40.420 Yeah.

00:39:40.720 Everywhere.

00:39:41.340 What color was Wilson with Tom Hanks?

00:39:43.820 White. 0.81

00:39:44.680 The ball was white.

00:39:46.560 Mm hmm.

00:39:47.240 Remember that.

00:39:47.920 I got it.

00:39:48.440 OK, so that's the typical craziness.

00:39:51.440 Number one, they're they're calling the bird names racist and acting like, you know, some

00:39:56.520 Hispanic person's like, I can't. 1.00

00:39:58.200 I would never go into birding now.

00:40:00.740 I've always wanted to bird.

00:40:02.680 But the name Lewis, I may not bird now.

00:40:09.160 Snipe! 0.99

00:40:13.200 Beautiful bird.

00:40:14.260 A little annoying if it's around your house, but a beautiful bird.

00:40:18.360 So you have that part.

00:40:19.940 I have a whole nest of them.

00:40:21.140 Yeah.

00:40:21.540 Right.

00:40:22.160 Secondary part of this, which is ridiculous, is they're not just targeting because I guess

00:40:26.820 there have been some of these people who named birds who also were around in the 1880s 0.57

00:40:31.320 and made racial racial remarks or did something terrible.

00:40:34.180 I don't know.

00:40:35.260 So but they're not just targeting those people.

00:40:37.460 I mean, if it's if it's like Sherman's N word, I get it. 1.00

00:40:42.780 Right.

00:40:43.240 I get it.

00:40:43.880 You'd understand.

00:40:44.580 Right.

00:40:44.980 You'd understand a name change with that one.

00:40:46.800 Yeah.

00:40:47.100 And like, you know, we like it's hard.

00:40:49.760 We understand how this process works. 0.99

00:40:51.800 We might think it's stupid racing history. 0.98

00:40:53.560 But like this has happened all across the country at this point. 0.99

00:40:57.060 They're tearing down statues of freaking Ben Franklin.

00:40:59.240 I mean, this is not.

00:40:59.920 But these guys are not they're not necessarily bad guys.

00:41:02.740 Wilson's not a bad guy.

00:41:03.680 Right.

00:41:03.780 They're not targeting only people who have done things that could be deemed offensive

00:41:08.680 by modern sensibilities.

00:41:10.020 They're because Tom Tom's Blue Jay Tom's Blue Jay Tom was a badass guy.

00:41:15.380 Yeah.

00:41:15.660 He knocked over a few of the Southland Corporation's best 7-Elevens.

00:41:20.160 There you go.

00:41:20.600 Back in the 40s.

00:41:21.420 That's yeah.

00:41:21.800 That's a whole nother story.

00:41:23.020 Yeah.

00:41:23.560 But they're targeting anyone, any name, any if you're named after a person, they're getting

00:41:30.180 rid of it.

00:41:30.560 So even if you're the best person around the world, just the American or anthological 1.00

00:41:35.340 society.

00:41:36.080 Got it.

00:41:36.420 Okay.

00:41:36.700 Okay.

00:41:37.420 And all that's crazy.

00:41:38.580 Okay.

00:41:38.780 But that's baseline crazy.

00:41:40.440 There's another level of crazy with the story.

00:41:42.880 And here it comes.

00:41:46.440 The president, Colleen Handel, says that was the first I'd ever really recognize or heard

00:41:51.600 that a name was offensive.

00:41:53.160 She says at that point in time, concerns about injustice weren't a traditionally accepted

00:41:58.220 reason for changing bird names.

00:42:00.560 But it really started to change in 2020 when police officer killed George Floyd in Minneapolis.

00:42:13.420 Wait, that's when the birders said enough of this.

00:42:18.560 Enough of the Wilson snipe and the Lewis's woodpecker because George Floyd has been killed

00:42:23.600 in Minneapolis.

00:42:24.740 Now you might say, well, what the hell does that have to do with anything?

00:42:27.880 This is a totally different story.

00:42:29.340 No, I might say, produce one birder that said that. 0.93

00:42:34.780 Right.

00:42:35.480 Produce just one that said that.

00:42:37.660 But the issue is it was not really George Floyd's murder.

00:42:41.800 Oh, it wasn't.

00:42:42.820 Because on that same day, and you may remember, you may forget that this was the exact same

00:42:47.340 day as George Floyd's murder.

00:42:48.260 Same day.

00:42:48.920 Same day.

00:42:49.740 Remember this.

00:42:50.460 Same day.

00:42:51.240 A white woman. 0.99

00:42:52.260 A white woman. 0.99

00:42:53.220 In Central Park.

00:42:54.360 In Central Park.

00:42:56.000 Called the police on a black birder. 0.98

00:43:00.740 Oh my God.

00:43:01.220 Named Christian Cooper.

00:43:02.340 So he was a birder.

00:43:03.760 Yes, he was a birder.

00:43:05.320 He was a guy who was in the bushes watching, maybe looking for Lewis's woodpecker.

00:43:11.660 Woodpecker.

00:43:13.940 She called, she called the police claiming he was threatening her.

00:43:17.940 Less than a month later, the group called.

00:43:19.840 The name is so good.

00:43:26.500 Less than a month later, a group called Bird Names for Birds.

00:43:35.660 Bird Names for Birds.

00:43:37.060 I've got to join this organization.

00:43:39.040 Bird Names for Birds.

00:43:40.580 Can you look it up, Sarah, real quick?

00:43:42.360 Just look up for their mission statement.

00:43:44.220 What is their mission statement?

00:43:46.000 Imagine going door to door trying to get people to go into.

00:43:48.480 Uh, we, uh, we represent the Bird Names for Birds Club.

00:43:52.160 Yeah.

00:43:53.020 And, okay, so.

00:43:54.740 So Bird Names for Birds.

00:43:55.880 Yes.

00:43:56.060 They write to the American Orenthological Society and say, hey, George Floyd was killed.

00:44:02.300 This birder was, the police were called by a white woman on this black birder. 0.99

00:44:08.140 Therefore, we should get rid of Wilson's name from Wilson's snipe.

00:44:11.380 That's basically how this conversation went.

00:44:13.700 Now, the problem with the story, if you remember, it was called the Central Park Karen story.

00:44:17.740 Mm-hmm.

00:44:18.180 This is the story.

00:44:19.380 And the main issue with this part of it is the story has been utterly and completely debunked.

00:44:28.100 There was no black birder. 0.99

00:44:29.960 No, there, well, not, maybe not utterly, completely. 0.88

00:44:32.400 But the black birder did exist, is a human being. 0.95

00:44:35.440 Okay.

00:44:35.540 But there's a lot of details you probably haven't heard about.

00:44:37.620 Okay, okay.

00:44:38.320 So, if you remember how this story went down, here's a couple headlines.

00:44:43.080 A black man bird watching in Central Park asked a white woman to leash her dog.

00:44:48.580 She called the police.

00:44:51.960 Amy Cooper was her name.

00:44:53.360 She was charged with, in Central Park, false report against a black bird watcher.

00:44:58.180 And the problem.

00:44:58.720 Is that an actual crime?

00:45:00.880 Is that the crime she was charged with? 0.98

00:45:03.020 A false police report, yeah. 0.95

00:45:05.680 Oh, but not against a black bird watcher. 0.92

00:45:08.600 Oh, yeah. 0.94

00:45:09.060 Well, that's a separate crime.

00:45:10.240 It's like a hate crime.

00:45:10.940 Okay, okay.

00:45:11.820 It's like there's false reports.

00:45:13.440 That doubles it.

00:45:13.780 And then false reports against black birders. 0.85

00:45:15.800 Black birders. 0.89

00:45:16.140 And that's bad. 0.96

00:45:17.220 So, let me give you the footage of this incident, because you'll remember it when you hear it.

00:45:23.320 This is Amy Cooper being very frantic and insane. 1.00

00:45:28.600 I mean, she's hysterical in this clip. 0.70

00:45:30.740 Of course, the black birder was in the right. 0.98

00:45:33.880 Here is Amy Cooper.

00:45:35.000 This is from the day George Floyd died.

00:45:39.500 Would you please stop?

00:45:41.260 Sir, I'm asking you to stop.

00:45:42.800 Please don't come close to me.

00:45:44.420 Sir, I'm asking you to stop recording me.

00:45:46.020 Please don't come close to me.

00:45:47.160 Please take your phone off.

00:45:47.980 Please don't come close to me.

00:45:49.040 Can I take any pictures of calling the cops?

00:45:50.420 Please, please call the cops.

00:45:51.500 Please call the cops. 0.87

00:45:53.740 Oh, this is true, New York. 0.98

00:45:54.300 I'm going to tell them there's an African-American man threatening my life. 1.00

00:45:56.620 Please tell them whatever you like.

00:45:58.560 I'm sorry, I'm in a ramble, and there's a man, African-American, who has a bicycle home with.

00:46:02.900 He's recording me and threatening me and my dog.

00:46:07.660 There is an African-American man, I am in Central Park.

00:46:10.760 He's recording me and threatening myself and my dog.

00:46:13.780 I'm being threatened by a man in the ramble.

00:46:16.020 Please send the cops immediately.

00:46:19.520 I'm in Central Park in the ramble.

00:46:21.500 I don't know.

00:46:23.240 Thank you.

00:46:24.780 Okay.

00:46:25.560 Now, she's very hysterical.

00:46:26.980 She's very hysterical.

00:46:29.140 He seems like he's under control and a nice guy.

00:46:32.720 Totally calm guy. 0.99

00:46:33.500 It's two New Yorkers that are just probably a little nuts. 0.93

00:46:41.140 I mean, to take you back to this moment, though, in all seriousness, New York City around May 2020 was pretty freaking nuts. 0.95

00:46:48.520 People were afraid to go outside.

00:46:49.940 This is like, this is like very beginning of COVID. 0.64

00:46:53.600 And, you know, we can all look back at some of the hysteria then, you know, with certainly noticing how ridiculous it was.

00:47:00.760 Oh, that's probably why she, in her twisted New York way, said he's threatening my life because she was saying, don't come closer to me.

00:47:06.780 And she's wearing a mask.

00:47:07.720 Well, that could be that.

00:47:10.300 Remember, too, she also had health problems.

00:47:12.100 She was predisposed to being more affected to COVID.

00:47:14.680 She had barely gone out at all outside.

00:47:17.040 She was a terrified person.

00:47:18.440 And a lot of people in New York at that point were very terrified.

00:47:20.880 They still are.

00:47:21.180 Some of them remain to this day.

00:47:23.160 But what happened to her afterward?

00:47:26.120 She was a white woman who called police on Black Birdwatcher has been fired. 1.00

00:47:31.400 They took her dog from her.

00:47:33.680 They took her dog?

00:47:34.060 They took her dog.

00:47:35.900 And she actually went into hiding, left the country and went into hiding after this. 0.87

00:47:43.460 So let's just say for a minute she is a racist and she did this. 1.00

00:47:47.040 You wouldn't necessarily think you'd have to leave the country, but she was being threatened by people.

00:47:51.140 She was terrified of everybody.

00:47:52.980 It was very, very bad for her.

00:47:55.140 When we come back on the other side, I want to give you the actual perspective of what occurred in this incident because nobody knows.

00:48:02.160 Everyone watched it that way.

00:48:03.120 The media covered it the way I just described. 0.99

00:48:06.080 Racist white Karen going after this black guy for absolutely no reason. 1.00

00:48:11.360 And she, good, she got fired. 1.00

00:48:14.140 Good, they took her dog.

00:48:15.120 Good, she's out of the country. 0.90

00:48:16.160 She's a terrible human being in every way. 0.97

00:48:18.440 Okay, I don't agree with that. 0.76

00:48:21.260 I'm glad maybe she's out of the country, but for entirely different reasons.

00:48:25.520 Really?

00:48:26.000 Yeah.

00:48:26.280 I mean, oh, gee, we lost another New Yorker who was walking their dog in the park who was wearing a mask and all freaked out about going inside.

00:48:36.160 But I don't, I mean, I'd like her to move away in happy terms.

00:48:38.920 Like, I really don't like it here.

00:48:41.080 Right.

00:48:41.440 People make too much sense.

00:48:42.700 That's true.

00:48:43.280 Well, I mean, I don't, as far as I know, she's not even a member of Bird Names for Birds.

00:48:48.380 Oh, I don't know.

00:48:49.220 I've got it pulled up here.

00:48:50.600 I can.

00:48:50.800 Oh, you do?

00:48:51.120 I'll look.

00:48:51.860 Yeah.

00:48:52.660 Can I join?

00:48:53.480 Can I get on board with Bird Names for Birds?

00:48:54.980 Well, I was just looking at the background.

00:49:00.040 Concerns about the honorific common bird names is not new.

00:49:05.400 But this movement seeks to change those names.

00:49:10.540 Oh, yeah.

00:49:11.620 Mm-hmm.

00:49:12.200 Thank God.

00:49:13.020 Mm-hmm.

00:49:13.260 Thank God these names are going away.

00:49:15.520 So they're very upset about Bachman Sparrow is the first one they bring.

00:49:19.460 Oh, really?

00:49:20.020 Yeah, Bachman.

00:49:21.600 What did Bachman do?

00:49:22.760 Bachman was a bad, just, well, Bachman, I believe that's probably Jewish. 1.00

00:49:29.500 Oh. 0.79

00:49:30.040 And the Jewish Zionists, they control all of the bird names. 1.00

00:49:33.740 I've been hearing that a lot on college campuses lately.

00:49:36.480 It's interesting you bring that up.

00:49:38.260 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:49:39.840 Na, na, na, na.

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