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00:20:43.260No, the grammar tests are going to be great.
00:20:45.460So on each box of the new Together cereal, you can play little games where you can celebrate your pronouns.
00:20:55.840I wish this actually was about real pronouns, not saying I'm an it, you know, but I think this is great because as the slogan goes, no matter who you are, who you love, or what pronouns you use, you're too awesome to fit into a box.
00:22:07.200They came out with a set of Legos where they're all rainbow colored.
00:22:11.060And then they, of course, have the, they had to add black and brown because you couldn't have an actual, rainbow is not inclusive enough, obviously.
00:22:17.660So they added black and brown, and then in the very back, you could see the white and the pink.
00:22:23.980So the women and the white people are in the back of the line.
00:22:27.160May I just, may I just say, Stu, you haven't heard anything until you hear about the new stamps from Spain to solve racial equity.
00:26:57.360I'm grateful that we have the innovation that led to the vaccines that has enabled for so many of us to return to normal life and the freedoms that we cherish.
00:27:07.480That being said, I think the decision whether or not to get the vaccine is a personal decision.
00:27:45.540You ought to have the same civil rights protections you have for other things in the workplace.
00:27:50.000And it ought to be your individual choice based on on your individual liberty.
00:27:56.380I have to tell you, Ted, this has become all about politics, 100 percent about politics.
00:28:02.380People have lost their reason entirely.
00:28:05.960I haven't gotten a vaccine because I had it in December and I had a bad bout with it.
00:28:12.300The the research all shows if you want to follow the science, if you've had it, you have the antibodies and all of this crap that they were saying for the last year about.
00:29:57.760So so, Ted, the problem with the vaccines or the not the vaccine, but the problem with the vaccine passport, the government is going to say we're not going to do any vaccine passports.
00:30:09.360You know, the private industry wants to do that, but they are making an end run around our Constitution on almost everything with the the coddling of these giant corporations.
00:30:21.720I've never been a guy who's been against, you know, corporations.
00:30:26.520But when the free market becomes an arm of the government and they are the ones spying on people because the government can't, but we'll share that information with the government.
00:30:39.300Is there anything that's going to stop these corporations from doing this?
00:30:43.620Well, part of the legislation I've introduced prohibits discrimination based on vaccine status.
00:30:52.660And so what it does is it adds it to the existing civil rights laws.
00:30:57.720And so the Americans with Disability Act, for example, requires that that you make a reasonable accommodation for an employee that that has a disability.
00:31:07.180Now, reasonable accommodation doesn't mean that you always allow, you know, look, someone who's blind, you wouldn't hire to be an airplane pilot.
00:31:18.180I mean, there are there are some instances where there are disqualifying medical conditions.
00:31:25.420I would beg to differ with you, and I am not making this up.
00:32:02.460So the point is, we have an existing legal structure that that that protects your civil rights and with respect to disabilities requires reasonable accommodations.
00:32:14.620And what my legislation does is it puts your choice of whether or not to get a vaccine with the same protection so that so that the blaze doesn't fire you, Glenn, because you chose not to get a vaccine.
00:32:29.080Now, given the control of the company, I think you're pretty safe there.
00:32:31.620But, you know, well, I mean, I could be schizophrenic at some point.
00:32:37.220Let me, is there any chance of this passing in the House and the Senate?
00:33:07.960So I have not yet, and I will in the coming weeks, be reaching out to Democrats and seeing if any Democrats are willing to come together and support it.
00:33:15.300If no Democrat supports it, then no, it won't pass in a Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi Congress.
00:33:21.300If Democrats are willing to support it, and they should, then it has a chance of passage.
00:33:26.760We'll have to see what they're willing to do.
00:33:28.380All right, Ted, a couple of other questions just to sweep up on some things.
00:33:32.980The January 6th committee, I have no problem with a committee looking into what happened on January 6th, which I think was disgusting,
00:33:40.040and what happened all around the country on the other side all through the summer.
00:33:45.520But that's, they're only doing January 6th.
00:33:48.560And, you know, you just said, and I had a hard time not speaking out about it, when you just said, you know, we have a system that protects people's rights.
00:33:59.560Well, as you are well aware, the Justice Department is going through every cell phone record.
00:34:06.960If you were even in Washington that day, there's no warrants, nothing.
00:34:15.000If you were GPS tagged for Washington, D.C., they're going through everything.
00:34:19.820What the hell happened to civil rights?
00:34:22.000Well, look, I think civil rights are always in peril, particularly when you have too big government and over-vigorous criminal prosecution.
00:34:36.140But my view, let's start with first principles.
00:34:42.880If you carry out an act of violence against someone else, if you assault someone else, if you injure someone else, if you attack a police officer, you should be prosecuted.
00:34:55.500And that's true regardless of your politics, whether you're right wing, left wing, or you have no wings at all.
00:35:02.620I think the guys who broke into the Capitol, I think the people who broke into the Capitol, put their feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk or whatever, I think they should all go to jail.
00:35:18.520And there were a lot of police officers who were assaulted, who were injured, some injured badly that day.
00:35:25.060And I think if you hurt somebody else, if you hurt a cop, you ought to do serious jail time.
00:35:33.760And so I support prosecuting anyone who committed a crime of violence.
00:35:38.820Now, there were thousands of people in Washington that were peacefully protesting, that didn't break into the Capitol, that didn't hurt anybody.
00:35:46.200And I don't think they should be persecuted for standing in the National Mall and singing God Bless America.
00:35:51.900There's a difference between peaceful protests and committing acts of violence.
00:35:56.480As you noted as well, January 6th is not the only day on which acts of violence occurred in America.
00:36:02.240We just came through a year where for almost an entire year we saw riots across the country.
00:36:09.300We saw peaceful protesters, yes, and they have a First Amendment right to do so.
00:36:13.460But we also saw violent criminals that were firebombing police cars, that were looting stores, that were assaulting, and in some instances murdering police officers.
00:36:23.460Every one of those violent criminals should be prosecuted and go to jail.
00:36:27.020So is the January 6th commission going to pass in the Senate?
00:36:54.620We have the FBI and what Schumer and Pelosi want is they want a partisan kangaroo court to spend two years laying out the theory that Donald Trump is bad and Republicans are bad.
00:37:10.360And so that's why I'm not going to support it.
00:37:12.140I think most Republicans in the Senate are not going to support it.
00:37:15.300Okay, one last thing, two-part question, but we only have about 70 seconds for an answer.
00:37:22.120The $6 trillion, is it six or eight, $6 trillion budget proposal that came from Biden, and the, you know, we'll give you half a trillion dollars for infrastructure.
00:38:27.620I mean, look, there has been historically a coalition of all the Democrats and a bunch of the Republicans who are willing to spend and spend and spend and spend.
00:38:35.480Write down what my Republican colleagues.
00:39:56.520What you need to do is roll all of that into your mortgage and lower the mortgage payment so you don't have a high interest rate on your mortgage as well.
00:42:55.240My sister is visiting from Wyoming, and she just came in this morning and bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and she's had all kinds of problems.
00:43:05.120She's had bad back and Crohn's disease and everything else, and she said, I have to tell you, I started taking Relief Factor because of you.
00:47:18.140So I know this, uh, and, um, but, but the people around him know what the policies are.
00:47:25.880Uh, and it, it, I mean, why would you put tariffs on, on lumber when we are having lumber prices go up 800%?
00:47:36.380Uh, why, why is the New York times today reporting on something that apparently we all were aware of because they say,
00:47:44.000you know, this is an, in a continuation of the ongoing, uh, conversation about removing America's highway systems.
00:47:52.580I didn't even know we were having that conversation and I can't imagine what would be, what good would come from removing our highway situations, uh, or highways.
00:48:06.300The department has expressed support for removing the barriers that divide black and minority communities, uh, saying there is racism physically.
00:48:55.540So the Trudeau government in Ottawa, um, slapped on restrictions on American dairy farmers, sending cheese to Canada because they want to protect the Canadian farmers.
00:49:12.660In return for that, the Biden administration has slapped tariffs on lumber.
00:49:19.020Now you ask, well, why would they do that?
00:49:21.160Since we already have a lumber shortage and housing building materials have gone up 300% in four months.
00:51:07.860Every, every American is going to get screwed.
00:51:10.100Every single person is going to get screwed because the criminal justice system is collapsing and the economic system won't be far behind that.
00:51:33.960But that's why Biden wants this massive spending so the federal government can take over from small business and provide jobs in the highway sector or the green energy sector.
00:51:46.920But I want to tell you one thing about this.
00:51:48.780If you watch the nose of the news back, which you do not, by the way, you do not.
00:51:52.940I don't even know what channel it's on.
00:53:13.980So I suggested that the attorney general of Texas immediately, if this budget is passed or it doesn't even matter, he can write up something today.
00:53:25.240I'm going to sue the Biden administration on behalf of Texas, and it'll be the same suit, and they'll win in the Supreme Court.
00:54:03.660The case was brought by private business owners that said they could not conduct commerce, interstate commerce, because of all the restrictions FDR was putting on them.
00:54:32.340See, what your listeners need to know is that this is a well-thought-out campaign to wrangle private business, to put as many companies out of business, so the federal government steps in and provides all the employment.
00:54:52.560It is why the federal government did all of the forbearance, and they own, now between the federal government and the Federal Reserve, about 90% of all low-income housing and 70% of all mortgages, period, in this country.
00:55:12.460They are the ones who are the lender of last resort.
00:55:16.780They're the ones that have bought up during forbearance.
00:55:25.600The government is the one that ends up with your house, your home.
00:55:28.960They are owning everything through this.
00:55:32.340That's right, because that takes away freedom and liberty and self-reliance from the people and makes the people dependent on the Democratic Party in Washington, which will dole out the goodies, the jobs, the entitlements, the mortgages.
00:55:54.980This is a well-designed plan that has been executed in every socialist country on Earth.
01:02:46.580Now, Biden's foreign policy is even more extreme.
01:02:50.140It's we don't want to get involved with anything over there because our agenda is to turn the economy socialist and to hype up the Green New Deal stuff.
01:03:03.580That's everything comes back to those two things.
01:03:07.280And if it's not connected to those two things, the Biden administration doesn't want to hear about it.
01:03:12.620That may be absolutely on the money, which is getting to be worth less and less as the seconds tick by.
01:03:23.660More with Bill O'Reilly here in just a second.
01:03:26.180I want to go to China and the Wuhan virus.
01:19:30.800The Wuhan Institute of Virology, just a few miles away from the wet market we've heard so much about, posted a job opening.
01:19:38.200We're taking bats as the research object.
01:19:40.660I will answer the molecular mechanism that can coexist with Ebola and SARS-associated coronavirus for a long time without disease and its relationship with flight and longevity.
01:19:50.380They were doing this result, these sort of research projects, at the time, in November, when people went to the hospital with strained coronavirus areas.
01:20:02.060A Chinese researcher, who was formerly a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard, posted a study.
01:20:08.740Now, he was working at a university controlled by the Chinese government.
01:20:15.700We screened the area and the seafood market and identified two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus.
01:20:23.780Within 280 meters from the market, there was the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention and, of course, the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
01:20:34.640He goes on to explain that, in his estimation, it probably came from the lab.
01:24:14.060They were the first ones to invent it, and then they perfected it.
01:24:17.280They started in like the 1960s with a zero-turn lawnmower.
01:24:20.540They've been around for years before that.
01:24:22.400And then they came up with a zero-turn lawnmower, and they made things for, you know, stadiums, football fields, highway departments, everything else.
01:24:29.900They started making them for you, for your lawn, and it will cut the time of cutting your lawn in half.
01:26:40.580He joined the military and went to Iraq.
01:26:42.600He felt like there was a reason he survived.
01:26:46.020Well, she told me the reason he survived was because of the people he saved in Iraq.
01:26:59.780And she told me this story with tears in her eyes, and she gave me this bracelet.
01:27:10.760It's just a standard black, you know, soldier bracelet.
01:27:15.280I remember bracelets like these when I was growing up.
01:27:18.000They were for prisoners of war in Vietnam.
01:27:20.780And she just asked me, could you, would you just wear this for the day for my son?
01:27:29.940I probably wore this every day for maybe 10 years.
01:27:36.860And I took it out of my little box that I have, you know, my keys and watch and things in this morning, and I put it on.
01:27:46.860And if anyone in the Tannish family this weekend is mourning the loss of Patrick Tannish, I hope his mother knows that I am doing the same this weekend, and I am grateful that he lived.
01:28:07.880And I feel as though he has been with me for many, many years.
01:28:16.860I want to introduce you to somebody that I just think is one of the greatest guys I've ever met.
01:28:23.060And that's hard to say, because I've met so many really incredible people.
01:28:29.400Rishi Sharma, he is a guy that's been on my program a few times.
01:28:35.500And he started out just wanting to talk to World War II veterans.
01:28:42.460I'm going to let him tell the story quickly.
01:29:04.420I really appreciate this opportunity to talk about the World War II heroes.
01:29:09.220But my name is Rishi Sharma, and I started interviewing World War II veterans when I was in high school.
01:29:16.780I've always been interested in the war.
01:29:18.400And one day I decided to ride my bike basically to the local retirement home, and I wanted to meet the men firsthand who I had been reading about and seeing TV shows about.
01:29:29.160And it was an amazing experience just how open they were and the fact that I got to actually look in the eyes of someone who went through hell so that someone like me could be alive.
01:29:41.660And after meeting a number of these veterans at the retirement home, I really felt a burden that I owed these men not just my life but to preserve what they fought for so that future generations won't go to war and that we'll always remember what the World War II veterans have given us.
01:30:00.820And so when I graduated, I was very blessed to get a bunch of news coverage, and I had a fundraiser, and I raised funding to go out and interview as many World War II combat veterans as possible myself.
01:30:17.040And now it's four years later, 48 states, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and just over 1,100 interviews now on camera.
01:30:40.560You wouldn't believe the number of people I've, you wouldn't believe the number of organizations I've reached out to who just, I guess they aren't interested, maybe because it doesn't fit their narrative.
01:31:29.760I mean, when I was in high school, you know, as a member of the younger generation, I'm 22 now, I can honestly tell you that they don't teach World War II in school anymore.
01:31:39.980And what they do cover is how bad, quote, the bad U.S. was for dropping the atomic bombs.
01:31:46.840I mean, people are being brainwashed nowadays.
01:31:49.240The younger generation are being brainwashed to hate our country, to hate our veterans, to hate our way of life.
01:31:57.180And I don't want to see that happen any further.
01:32:00.080That's why recording these stories of what these veterans actually went through, what they witnessed, the atrocities they came across, I mean, whoever has that footage is going to be able to control the narrative.
01:32:50.600And the AP requirement is that you understand that the United States bombed Japan with a nuclear weapon and, quote, that made the world question the motives of the United States of America.
01:33:12.240It's absolutely, I mean, it's revisionist history, and it's the lies, because what people fail to realize is that we gave Japan many opportunities to surrender.
01:33:25.260We had been completely surrounded by naval blockades.
01:34:23.680I mean, there was a well-known incident on the island of Saipan where the Japanese had a garrison.
01:34:31.360There was a civilian population there as well.
01:34:34.100And when the Americans landed, the Japanese forced the civilians to a cliff, women and babies,
01:34:41.000and had told them stories that the Marines and the Army infantry would, you know, hurt them and do cruel things.
01:34:47.540And these babies were thrown off the cliffs, and the women jumped after them, and the Japanese, you know, obviously soldiers went themselves.
01:34:56.280But we had translators, you know, up on the cliffs trying to tell these civilians to come and that they would be safe.
01:35:02.440And, I mean, it's so dangerous, this type of rhetoric that the United States and the Allies were in the wrong.
01:35:09.840I run this YouTube channel called Legends of World War II, and some of that content of the veterans talking about their experiences, it's been censored by YouTube.
01:35:21.340But what's also shocking is how many uninformed people there are.
01:35:26.440I get comments all the time of people thinking that Pearl Harbor was in retribution for us bombing Japan.
01:35:36.380They don't realize it was the other way around.
01:35:44.680I've got to take a one-minute break, and then I want to come back, talk about how you do this, how you are now asking others to do it, and send you their footage.
01:35:53.380And I want to hear about the best stories that you have heard, the best people that you have met.
01:35:59.520Because, I mean, meeting them from the greatest generation of America, I would imagine this is going to be hard for you to decide.
01:36:07.400But tell me about the most interesting and best encounter you have had with some of these vets.
01:36:30.440I'm going to miss my Rectech because I don't have the same up at the ranch, and everything I do have is in a barn packed up because it's a long story.
01:36:44.040So I'm not going to have my Rectech for about three weeks, and I don't like that at all because Rectech, it's going to be us for over a week.
01:36:52.980It's just me and the boys, and so I am up there.
01:37:32.940So we are with Rishi Sharma, who I met, I don't know, about three years ago, and he is one of my favorite people I have ever interviewed.
01:37:52.280I think he was probably about 20 when we first met, and I just think he is – I mean, you're a hero of mine, Rishi, and I mean that sincerely.
01:38:15.640I just meant, you know, I feel very strongly that the word hero is really only reserved for those, you know, who put their lives on the line.
01:38:22.460I mean, the fact is, if I had all the money in the world, I would still be doing what I'm doing.
01:38:26.640I'm so blessed that I get to hang out and talk to the men who saved the world.
01:38:47.720Basically, you know, I raised all that funding, and I've been doing these oral histories of the World War II veterans.
01:38:54.980And I give them copies of the interviews, but I would also put it on YouTube.
01:38:59.960Back in December of 2020, the channel – I wasn't trying to be a YouTuber or anything.
01:39:04.660It was just a storage place for the videos.
01:39:07.680But back in 2020, December, some of the little vignettes I was making, you know, 10-minute clips taken out of some of the interviews, some of them started going viral.
01:39:17.140I mean, getting millions of views, and I guess the way it works is the YouTube algorithm picks it up, and they'll show it on many people's homepage.
01:39:26.700And so that was happening to some of the videos, causing a huge surge in traffic to the channel.
01:39:32.500And so I go from about 2,000 subscribers to about 25,000 in just maybe a week, and it's about 2,000 every day, and then it stops, and it craters down to maybe 100.
01:39:48.620And the analytics just don't make sense.
01:40:04.320I've reached out to other people who deal with World War II on YouTube.
01:40:08.940They face the same exact thing because, I guess, the algorithm and the people behind it, YouTube, they believe anything to do with World War II is promoting Nazis and Hitler, and they don't take the time to decipher.
01:40:30.140It's the veterans saying what they went through and what they saw.
01:40:34.160And, you know, without the monetization, I can't keep, you know, affording to stay on the road.
01:40:38.360And I just find it incredible that they find themselves to be the superior power that can censor whose voices can be heard and whose cannot.
01:40:48.440I mean, these makeup tutorials, they get a billion views.
01:40:52.060But the men who fought for our freedom, who went through hell, I mean, why can't we give them the same attention?
01:40:57.680Tell me the most interesting and best out of all that you've done, hard to choose, I know.
01:41:11.040What was the thing that really opened your eyes or moved you or had you look at things differently?
01:41:26.800But I would like to tell you about a man named Chuck Pataglia.
01:41:30.660I found out through him through a directory of wounded veterans.
01:41:38.880I was, you know, I literally would spend my days going through name by name, calling these veterans who all belong to the same organization.
01:41:47.060And I came across his name and I reached out to him and he agreed to do the interview.
01:41:53.440And he didn't mention anything on the phone, anything unusual.
01:46:19.920He is the guy who started Legends of World War II, Heroes of the Second World War, which is where you can find him on Facebook.
01:46:28.840He wanted me to ask any veteran of World War II, if you know a veteran, please sign up so they can be interviewed.
01:46:37.420And you can do that at Heroes of the Second World War that's spelled out Heroes of the Second World War dot org or on Facebook at Heroes of the Second World War.
01:46:50.340They are fading fast, they are going away, and he is trying to get as many as possible.
01:46:57.880You know, when I hear people talk about America, I think about people like Rishi, a 19-year-old kid who started this because he was fascinated.
01:47:07.260And now he knows the truth and he is fighting hard that we don't lose, so we don't lose all of these voices and experiences.
01:47:14.500When I think of America, I think of a country that makes an awful lot of mistakes, but then does its best to right itself and learn from that mistake.
01:47:25.900I want to introduce you to Adam Sandoval.
01:47:28.720His story began because he was disappointed in himself.
01:47:32.780He said, I never served in the military.
01:47:35.080I didn't do so for no good reason, just poor choices, temptations, distractions.
01:47:40.500I had my focus in all the wrong places at a young age, and as I got older, it really started to set in.
01:47:46.160The sacrifices, and even more so, realizing the sacrifices that other people have made for our country.
01:47:52.400I wanted to find a way to give back and do what I could.
01:47:57.340So, he came up with something that he is now very passionate about, and I want him to explain it.
01:48:13.860You are a guy who is dedicating his life now to raising awareness of our veterans, and you have some things going on soon that you're going to talk about.
01:48:26.600But tell me what you started and what you're doing.
01:48:31.720You know, it all started with a campaign.
01:48:34.620I called it Scootin' America, and I just rode my Harley Davidson to every Harley Davidson dealership across the country and raised awareness and support for veterans.
01:48:44.120It was an 88,000-mile road trip that took me coast to coast.
01:49:00.160I got hit by a car, had to come back from that, you know, damaged my leg pretty bad, but was able to get back on the bike and finish it and ride to every dealership in America and, you know, had Americans ride with me from every corner of this country in honor of our veterans.
01:49:16.520We raised a ton of money and a ton of support for veterans, and, you know, I just couldn't stop after that.
01:49:22.080So, we've got all kinds of programs rolling out.
01:49:25.440So, didn't you, when you would stop at these dealerships, didn't you many times give a bike to a veteran?
01:49:32.240I have done a lot of veterans' motorcycle giveaways.
01:49:35.420I think to date, don't quote me on this, but I think I've given up 12 bikes away to veterans at this point, and that's always such an impactful thing because I know what the motorcycle community stands for when it comes to our veterans, and they're very passionate, and they're very embracing.
01:49:52.120And it can be a channel for a veteran that needs it.
01:49:55.380So, when I find a veteran and I give them, hand them over the keys to a brand new motorcycle, I know it's not just a motorcycle I'm giving them.
01:50:05.100It's a channel, you know, for therapy.
01:50:07.580It's a channel for community, camaraderie.
01:50:11.300I get messages from them all the time.
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02:00:04.460It's Friday, Memorial Day weekend, and, uh, you know, I wanted to do something at the end of the show that made everybody feel good, you know?
02:00:12.660And so I booked those two guests, and I think, Stu, I don't know about you, but that made me feel the opposite.
02:01:53.540Let's say 27 dollars, since that seems to be my Bernie donation.
02:01:57.760Just so you know, the organization Ami Horowitz is raising money for, in this clip, is called Friends of Hamas.
02:02:06.060And he is, has no shortage of college students willing to give him money to donate to an internationally recognized terrorist organization, just because, in his summary of what they do, he says they're going to destroy Israel.