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00:00:33.760 Hope you had a great 4th of July weekend.

00:00:36.460 The President of the United States, Joe Robinette Biden, was on fire.

00:00:46.720 On fire.

00:00:48.940 He got to swear in some American citizens.

00:00:52.120 I think there were two of them there.

00:00:54.960 And he got to swear them in with such an inspiring speech.

00:01:02.100 We'll share some of that with you coming up in 60 seconds.

00:01:06.380 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:01:14.200 Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:01:19.080 President Biden is just absolutely beloved on virtually every single agenda item that he has.

00:01:31.180 But especially his border policies are approved by a full 33% of the American people.

00:01:38.220 33%.

00:01:39.080 He had to get probably almost half of Democrats on that.

00:01:43.820 Yes.

00:01:44.420 Yeah.

00:01:44.640 That's pretty good for a Democrat.

00:01:46.380 Yeah.

00:01:46.720 Uh-huh.

00:01:47.260 Mm-hmm.

00:01:48.640 It's a, let's see, 51% of adults are not happy.

00:01:52.840 So it's 51-33.

00:01:54.360 He's upside down by a lot there.

00:01:56.920 I would call that, um, 18 points.

00:02:01.180 Big fat minus 18.

00:02:02.880 Yeah.

00:02:03.160 It's a good way to go.

00:02:04.400 Uh, the survey has a margin of error, three and a half percentage points, but, um, he is

00:02:11.240 not doing well with the immigration policy that he has.

00:02:15.240 I wonder why.

00:02:15.880 Maybe it's because of all the kids in cages.

00:02:18.520 Maybe it's the fact that, uh, border crossings are up like a billion percent.

00:02:23.340 They're the highest they've been in 20 years.

00:02:26.100 And his border policy is just plain failing.

00:02:29.780 However, over the weekend, because this is traditional, um, on the Independence Day weekend,

00:02:34.540 for the president to swear in some, some new immigrants, uh, and he took the chance to

00:02:40.120 do that and gave them a little welcoming speech, which was so inspiring.

00:02:45.240 Us in this service.

00:02:46.820 Look, today, uh, um, today's special guest to all of you, it's my honor to congratulate

00:02:54.680 the 21 of you who have earned the title of, that our democracy in every, is equal to being

00:03:02.560 president.

00:03:03.320 It's of the same consequence.

00:03:04.760 What?

00:03:05.280 Citizen.

00:03:06.820 Citizen.

00:03:07.640 What?

00:03:08.000 Of the United States of America.

00:03:09.700 I mean, it's not amazing.

00:03:10.820 He's, he's, he's reading it and he still can't get it.

00:03:15.320 That is the case so often with him.

00:03:17.580 And it is the case that, uh, that looking into, look, here's the, what I'm trying, we,

00:03:26.000 I've just said too much.

00:03:27.840 Welcome.

00:03:28.760 It's about that bad.

00:03:30.220 It really is.

00:03:31.100 It's just incomprehensible what he's trying to say there.

00:03:33.260 He almost, he acts as if he's reading a speech in a perfectly dark room where there's like

00:03:41.780 a strobe light on so he can only like get every other word or other word.

00:03:46.820 And he doesn't, sometimes he goes up to the, a line above where he's supposed to be.

00:03:50.480 Sometimes he does two or three words from three lines down.

00:03:53.620 He bounces back and forth.

00:03:55.620 He just can't do this.

00:03:59.240 He can't.

00:03:59.980 It just shows how incapable he is of doing this job.

00:04:02.820 If you can't even so much as swear in some citizens who were there on the 4th of July

00:04:08.320 trying to become citizens and you've got the copy right in front of you on how to do it

00:04:12.920 and you still can't do it.

00:04:14.940 Yeah.

00:04:15.120 Something's wrong.

00:04:16.200 Yeah.

00:04:16.840 Uh, and it's fascinating to me that nobody cares.

00:04:21.480 The CNNs and MSNBCs, CBS, NBC, ABC, they don't care.

00:04:26.860 They don't show it.

00:04:27.900 They don't acknowledge it.

00:04:30.800 It's as if everything's fine.

00:04:33.240 What?

00:04:34.000 How dare you say that his cognitive abilities are less than maybe where they should be?

00:04:39.500 How dare you?

00:04:40.940 What kind of conspiracy theorist are you?

00:04:45.400 And that's how we're treated when we take note of it.

00:04:47.640 There was a transition in the media over the past five years from, I think, a group of people

00:04:56.080 who were blatantly left-leaning, liberal, leftist at times, but tried to hold up the generalized

00:05:06.180 concepts of journalism where they would act as if there was like this like, you know, sheen

00:05:14.940 of credibility that they would hold everything together with.

00:05:19.240 They would say, okay, look, you know, we just, we think the facts are this way.

00:05:23.780 We're just giving you the facts and then, you know, sure.

00:05:27.100 A lot of times when you listen to the facts, they happen to align with the Democratic Party.

00:05:31.220 That's what it used to be.

00:05:32.460 It's not like that anymore.

00:05:34.040 I mean, this is just straight out.

00:05:35.200 So often it's just straight out activism.

00:05:36.900 Maybe even a clearer example is the Hunter Biden situation where like every story they've told

00:05:43.900 us about over the past five years, whenever someone gets caught saying something bad in

00:05:49.180 private, it's a major story.

00:05:50.800 Whenever someone is caught in international corruption, it's a major story.

00:05:55.700 Whenever people are misusing their power for business gains, it's a major story.

00:05:59.360 Whenever they're sexual escapades and whenever you would maybe take advantage of a woman and

00:06:09.580 then when they are having your baby, you kind of ignore them and don't pay for it.

00:06:14.620 All of these things would be major stories with anyone else.

00:06:18.420 Yet this person does all these things and then comes on for softball interviews about

00:06:23.360 his new book and they don't say anything about any of those.

00:06:26.080 They don't say a word about it.

00:06:27.100 And it's like, we're just supposed to sit here and be like, oh, OK, well, that's totally

00:06:30.680 normal because they no longer are trying to hide that they, you know, they're not trying

00:06:36.460 to tell you even anymore that they're doing journalism.

00:06:38.720 They're just out there being advocates.

00:06:40.920 Yeah, they don't care.

00:06:42.320 I think they believe they've come so far that it just doesn't matter anymore.

00:06:45.760 It's too important.

00:06:46.360 I think that they see Trump and everything since Trump as so uniquely threatening to the

00:06:53.820 United States of America.

00:06:54.960 There's no more time to fake journalism.

00:06:57.100 We can't pretend we're doing it anymore.

00:06:59.600 It's too important.

00:07:00.860 We need to just come out here.

00:07:02.540 It was, you know, Pat, during the Trump era, there was that big conversation about whether

00:07:07.800 the president should be called a liar.

00:07:11.040 Remember that? 0.95

00:07:11.740 Oh, yeah.

00:07:12.300 And they were like, I don't know.

00:07:13.480 There was that.

00:07:14.100 It should.

00:07:14.560 You know what?

00:07:14.920 We must come out and just say it. 0.99

00:07:16.800 We must come out and just say he is a liar. 1.00

00:07:18.980 The president, who is a liar, was speaking in Georgia this weekend. 0.99

00:07:23.240 Like, they need to just come out and say it every time. 0.98

00:07:25.560 And it's like, well, you know, they made this out to be some brave act where they took this

00:07:31.760 step.

00:07:32.100 They normally would be held back by the rules and traditions of journalism.

00:07:39.180 But this is too vital.

00:07:43.020 We must.

00:07:44.660 The hatred, the damage to our nation.

00:07:47.940 We must just come out and say it.

00:07:49.760 And that's the mode they're in.

00:07:51.700 Just come out and say it.

00:07:53.160 No longer hide behind journalism.

00:07:55.940 No longer hide behind those things.

00:07:57.940 Just be an activist.

00:07:59.240 Be honest.

00:08:00.400 Come out and advocate for one side of the aisle because that side of the aisle is better.

00:08:05.400 That's what they think.

00:08:06.440 And that's what they're doing.

00:08:07.760 Exactly what they're doing.

00:08:09.560 And I, you know, I'm amazed by the fact that they don't even show it and then try to spin

00:08:15.980 it.

00:08:16.160 They just ignore it. 0.98

00:08:16.940 Anytime that he looks like an absolute buffoon or he looks completely lost or he can't get 0.98

00:08:25.660 his mind engaged in what he's supposed to be talking about, it's just ignored by them. 0.98

00:08:31.380 He went into, I don't know, some little store.

00:08:34.800 I guess they were buying ice cream again.

00:08:36.760 Oh, he seems to be buying ice cream.

00:08:39.080 He's making me dislike ice cream.

00:08:41.240 No.

00:08:42.180 I'm turning on ice cream.

00:08:43.540 Every time I see him now, I need ice cream and pudding.

00:08:46.840 Is there pudding ice cream?

00:08:48.500 Can I have ice cream pudding?

00:08:49.840 Sounds pretty good, actually.

00:08:50.820 He does.

00:08:50.960 I would totally.

00:08:51.600 Doesn't it?

00:08:51.920 I love the banana pudding ice cream.

00:08:53.540 I'm all over that when I see it on the menu.

00:08:55.060 So here he is buying ice cream again, and he's asked about Russian hacking.

00:09:01.920 Mr. President, let me know if I can ask you a question.

00:09:05.200 Sure.

00:09:07.940 Right now, sir?

00:09:09.140 Yeah.

00:09:09.400 With the most recent hack by the Russians, would you say that this means that... 0.60

00:09:15.160 We're not sure it's the Russians.

00:09:16.520 Okay.

00:09:16.920 I got a brief as I was on the plane.

00:09:21.140 That's why I was late getting off the plane.

00:09:22.800 I got a brief and...

00:09:25.060 What?

00:09:27.020 And then he freezes, and so does the camera.

00:09:30.080 Oh, God.

00:09:31.660 I thought that was just...

00:09:32.500 Would you like your receipt?

00:09:33.460 Look at this.

00:09:34.300 Like eight, nine, ten seconds.

00:09:35.940 He can't see.

00:09:36.400 I'll be in better shape to talk to you about it.

00:09:38.900 When I have my medications.

00:09:40.760 No.

00:09:42.020 Did he take out his notes?

00:09:43.600 Yeah.

00:09:44.180 He's taking out his notes.

00:09:46.360 He's got notes on both sides of his suit coat.

00:09:48.320 I'll show you what they sent me.

00:09:49.420 Okay.

00:09:50.420 Okay.

00:09:51.480 That's not...

00:09:52.440 The idea...

00:09:57.820 First of all, we're not sure who it is, for certain.

00:10:00.760 Number one.

00:10:01.080 Okay.

00:10:01.720 Yeah.

00:10:02.060 And what I did, I directed the full resources of the government to assist in a response if

00:10:08.140 we determine...

00:10:09.540 What else do you need?

00:10:10.340 Oh, nothing.

00:10:11.100 You're all set.

00:10:12.000 Okay.

00:10:12.360 And the fact is that I directed the intelligence community to give me a deep dive on what's

00:10:21.200 happened, and I'll know better tomorrow, and if it is, either with the knowledge of and

00:10:28.880 or a consequence of Russia, then I told Putin we will respond.

00:10:34.680 Wow.

00:10:35.260 And he puts his notes back in his pocket.

00:10:36.720 No, no.

00:10:37.360 I haven't called because we're not certain.

00:10:41.620 The initial thinking was it was not the Russian government, but we're not sure yet.

00:10:48.940 Okay.

00:10:50.260 So, he freezes for up to 10 seconds at a time.

00:10:53.780 Can't say anything.

00:10:54.940 He's desperately searching for words or where he is or if he has his pants on.

00:11:00.340 And I don't know.

00:11:01.600 And he does have his pants on.

00:11:03.160 We should point that out.

00:11:03.840 He does seem to have...

00:11:05.300 He's wearing trousers.

00:11:06.720 Yes.

00:11:07.100 Yes, he is.

00:11:08.780 And then he takes out his notes, and that still doesn't help him much.

00:11:12.660 He's slurring his words.

00:11:14.340 I mean, it is so clear there's a serious problem here.

00:11:20.200 And you're so right, and you feel bad.

00:11:24.060 I feel bad even talking about it, but it's like he can't answer this very basic question.

00:11:30.700 Right.

00:11:31.180 That any politician should be able to handle.

00:11:32.700 Without notes?

00:11:33.720 At the same time.

00:11:34.720 Come on.

00:11:35.560 He can't do it with notes while trying to complete an ice cream transaction.

00:11:42.840 Like, that is like it's thrown the operating system off.

00:11:46.080 Like, it can't do both of those things.

00:11:47.360 You can't have the calculator running and your email.

00:11:49.560 He cannot.

00:11:50.000 He can't multitask.

00:11:52.260 There's no way you can ask that of him.

00:11:55.200 He's the president of the United States, Pat.

00:11:57.420 I know.

00:11:57.840 Well, and I'm sure before he entered that restaurant, that little ice cream shop, they told him, Mr. President, we have planted someone who's going to ask you a question about Russian hacking.

00:12:10.960 The notes are in your suit coat, and they're right inside your suit coat on both sides.

00:12:19.140 When they ask you the question, get your notes out and read what we've written for you.

00:12:23.700 And again, his notes seem to indicate they just didn't know it was Russia.

00:12:29.000 Right?

00:12:29.640 Like, that's...

00:12:30.380 We don't know who it is yet.

00:12:31.560 Unless there's, you know, five or six other words that he just can't read.

00:12:35.320 Right.

00:12:35.960 I don't know.

00:12:37.120 According to his answer, the notes just said, we don't know yet.

00:12:41.260 So the answer is, look, we don't know where it is yet.

00:12:43.340 We're not going to comment until we do.

00:12:44.660 That's the answer.

00:12:45.180 And that had to be written down.

00:12:46.020 That's the answer.

00:12:46.980 Yeah.

00:12:47.840 Right?

00:12:48.480 Yes, it is the answer he gives.

00:12:50.420 I mean, like, he doesn't have to...

00:12:52.060 Is it one of the cashiers asking him about...

00:12:54.600 I think it is one of the cashiers.

00:12:56.460 And somebody came around with him and put a mic in front of both of them.

00:13:00.980 And so, like, you know, look, the President of the United States has a wide berth in these

00:13:06.520 situations to be able to answer with a delicate nature, right?

00:13:13.060 It's an international incident we're talking about.

00:13:15.380 He doesn't need to give an answer to every cashier who asks them a question about it.

00:13:18.940 All he has to do is say, look, we don't know yet.

00:13:20.840 But clearly, they've planted the question because they've got the microphone ready.

00:13:26.260 And he has his notes on both sides of his suit coat.

00:13:30.040 Hold on.

00:13:30.800 Let me...

00:13:31.080 We want to pack a Marlboro.

00:13:32.060 Hold on.

00:13:32.360 About the Russian hacking.

00:13:35.000 Why is the cashier asking about the Russian hacking?

00:13:38.600 It's so bizarre.

00:13:39.800 And again, this is such...

00:13:43.040 The handling of Biden is almost as bad as the presidency of Biden.

00:13:47.760 Yeah.

00:13:47.940 Like, why is he in these situations?

00:13:50.980 Get someone else to get the ice cream so he doesn't have to constantly embarrass himself.

00:13:56.540 I only mean that from a...

00:13:59.040 It, like, hurts me in a political sense.

00:14:01.420 I think he insists.

00:14:02.860 Yeah.

00:14:03.240 That's what I suspect.

00:14:04.160 He is the president.

00:14:04.860 He insists.

00:14:05.940 And he still believes he's that Joe Biden who is charming and folksy.

00:14:12.720 And he can get out of any situation.

00:14:14.200 I think you're right.

00:14:14.760 Because it's just Joe being Joe.

00:14:16.100 And he thinks he can still do that.

00:14:17.720 And he can't.

00:14:18.980 And you know what?

00:14:19.640 He can't.

00:14:20.040 And when he's shown that he can't, he never pays a price for it.

00:14:25.240 Right.

00:14:25.460 Because the media doesn't show these things.

00:14:27.080 Yep.

00:14:27.300 Only the evil conservative media covers them.

00:14:30.000 So, he never really pays a price.

00:14:32.720 It's not embarrassing him on the networks he's watching.

00:14:35.820 So, why not?

00:14:36.380 So, why not keep doing it?

00:14:37.800 Yeah.

00:14:37.960 You know, there's no way to tell Joe this has got to stop.

00:14:42.200 So, I can see, you know, from an...

00:14:44.280 If you're in one of his aides, you're sitting here going, like, how do we convince him to stop doing this?

00:14:48.660 And they've tried everything.

00:14:49.980 I mean, they're doing teleprompters in kindergartens.

00:14:53.200 They're giving him notes in both sides of his suit coat in case he goes for the wrong side.

00:14:58.380 I mean, they've done everything they can.

00:15:01.040 And again, the notes just say, I don't know.

00:15:04.340 That's all that's...

00:15:05.580 More in one minute.

00:15:09.720 Well, if you're worried about Russian hacking, which you should be, by the way, 1.00

00:15:14.600 they almost definitely were responsible for this more recent incident, which is a big deal over the weekend.

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00:15:23.520 And you wonder, you know, not just...

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00:17:01.080 I think, Pat, we need to come...

00:17:02.600 That needs to be something I have in my life.

00:17:04.400 It's just notes in my pocket from some advisor that can tell me when someone asks me a difficult

00:17:09.080 question, I should just basically say, I don't know.

00:17:11.300 Like, how do you feel today, Stu?

00:17:12.980 I don't know.

00:17:14.060 I don't know how I feel.

00:17:15.620 Really?

00:17:15.980 At this time, we don't know how I feel, but we may have more information on how I feel

00:17:21.660 at a later time.

00:17:23.220 That's how I feel.

00:17:24.200 Okay.

00:17:24.760 I want someone to be telling me things like that, because you get...

00:17:27.740 You know, there's times where you get an uncomfortable question, you know?

00:17:32.080 Maybe you come home a little too late.

00:17:34.160 Maybe you were hanging out in the Taco Bell parking lot, multiple trips around the drive-thru,

00:17:38.280 trying all their new products.

00:17:40.540 You come back home to a dinner that's been cooked, and you think to yourself, I don't

00:17:44.960 know if I'm going to be able to eat all that, because I just ate at Taco Bell four straight

00:17:47.460 times.

00:17:48.780 And when your wife says, hey, where were you?

00:17:52.260 You just say, I don't know.

00:17:53.740 We may have more information about that coming soon.

00:17:56.620 I mean, of course, you should obviously be silent for about 10 seconds in the middle

00:17:59.780 of that.

00:18:00.320 Right.

00:18:00.460 I didn't want to replicate that part of it, because all of our stations would go off the

00:18:04.820 air.

00:18:05.460 But just a good 10-second silence mixed in with some version.

00:18:09.820 of I don't know, some stuttering, and changing back and forth between conversations.

00:18:15.740 And perhaps slurring your words along the way.

00:18:17.640 Yeah, you've got to slur. 0.63

00:18:18.060 The words you are saying are all slurred.

00:18:20.020 Yeah, that's a good idea.

00:18:22.160 This is kind of fascinating.

00:18:23.600 I love this story.

00:18:24.920 You know the train story?

00:18:26.240 He keeps talking about the conductor that comes up to him and grabs him by the arm and

00:18:30.700 says, Joey, you know how many miles you traveled on Amtrak?

00:18:34.980 Like, one and a half million.

00:18:38.420 You know, have you not heard that story?

00:18:40.540 I feel like I have heard him tell that.

00:18:41.800 He's told it three or four times over the last couple of years.

00:18:45.600 And he loves it.

00:18:46.840 Because he thinks it makes America believe he's just like them.

00:18:52.380 That he travels Amtrak every day.

00:18:54.760 And that's not true.

00:18:55.500 I mean, Amtrak is like the upscale way to travel on a train.

00:18:58.740 Like, when we were doing national radio shows and national TV shows, I took New Jersey

00:19:04.180 Transit in because it costs like one-tenth of the cost.

00:19:07.160 Yes.

00:19:07.520 It's very expensive on Amtrak.

00:19:09.160 That's not an average American thing to do.

00:19:11.960 So, anyway, this guy, Angelo Negri, who he and Biden supposedly became friends and came

00:19:20.560 up to him and told him he's traveled over a million and a half miles on Amtrak over the

00:19:24.460 years.

00:19:24.880 One and a half million miles.

00:19:26.120 Well, Fox and the Daily Mail and even CNN eventually looked into this.

00:19:33.120 And there's just a little problem with the story of Angelo Negri coming up to him and

00:19:38.200 telling him about the one and a half million mile milestone.

00:19:41.280 Only 1.4 million miles.

00:19:43.400 No, it's just that Angelo had retired decades earlier.

00:19:48.960 And, in fact, when he hit the milestone of one and a half million miles on Amtrak, Angelo

00:19:55.120 had been dead for a year.

00:19:56.660 Oh, no.

00:19:57.320 So, he would have had a hard time coming up and telling him about it.

00:20:00.920 Poor Angelo.

00:20:02.060 It's just like the story of Katie.

00:20:03.820 Remember the Katie's diner or whatever?

00:20:06.120 He used to go there all the time.

00:20:07.200 It closed in 1984.

00:20:09.420 But he was still going there in 2008.

00:20:12.340 Worst part about the Angelo story, too, is that he was killed by an Amtrak train.

00:20:17.720 He was run over.

00:20:18.860 Wow.

00:20:19.380 He was standing out in the middle of an airson action.

00:20:22.080 Yeah, wow.

00:20:22.580 Yeah.

00:20:23.100 Weird.

00:20:23.600 They took him.

00:20:24.160 87 years old.

00:20:25.100 Hit by an Amtrak train.

00:20:26.280 Pancaked.

00:20:30.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:20:44.960 Target and Walgreens making some drastic changes.

00:20:48.960 Due to an increase in theft in San Francisco, according to the California Retailers Association,

00:20:55.700 three cities in California are among the top ten in the country when it comes to organized retail crime.

00:21:03.020 Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento.

00:21:05.280 Already they've been seeing the negative impact it's having in San Francisco with stores permanently shutting down or closing early because of theft at their stores.

00:21:16.700 Target has now acknowledged San Francisco is the only city in America where they've decided to close some stores early because of escalating retail crime.

00:21:25.880 People just come in and take stuff and leave.

00:21:28.660 Mm-hmm.

00:21:30.040 It's not like they're breaking in in the middle of the night.

00:21:32.440 No.

00:21:32.760 They're doing this during store hours, often in broad daylight.

00:21:36.820 If anyone, any company knows this, I don't know how Target couldn't be the one because they were the one that was told when their buildings were burning to the ground.

00:21:44.920 It's just property.

00:21:46.200 Right.

00:21:46.420 They're being completely cleaned out in city after city after city.

00:21:50.220 Yeah, you know, it's just property.

00:21:51.500 Don't worry about it.

00:21:53.020 And so now they're realizing-

00:21:54.780 You have insurance, right?

00:21:55.820 You have theft insurance.

00:21:56.760 Which, by the way-

00:21:57.240 Use it.

00:21:57.500 I mean, as any small business owner will tell you, that doesn't work out that way.

00:22:02.540 You don't get, like, 100% of your money back.

00:22:05.440 That's not how that works.

00:22:06.240 Did you have your roof replaced recently after the hail?

00:22:09.260 I did not.

00:22:09.920 No, I did not.

00:22:10.760 But a lot of people-

00:22:10.920 I'm having mine replaced.

00:22:12.180 And it's-

00:22:13.300 Insurance comes in and says, yeah, I'll give you about half of what that's worth.

00:22:18.240 They don't say it's half, but it is about half of what it will actually cost.

00:22:21.540 Mm, that's great.

00:22:22.480 Yeah.

00:22:22.820 Plus my deductible.

00:22:24.460 So-

00:22:25.220 That worked out well.

00:22:25.620 Yeah, the insurance thing, it's not ideal.

00:22:28.920 So when you're telling these companies, yeah, just use your insurance.

00:22:33.880 First of all, you shouldn't be stealing stuff from them.

00:22:36.140 But we've gotten to the place where apparently that's okay for certain people to steal things from a store.

00:22:43.280 It's true.

00:22:44.020 And I think it's an organized thing at this point.

00:22:46.040 I'd love to hear if there's any small business owners who have gone through this at their-

00:22:50.100 If they own a retail facility.

00:22:51.780 I know someone who was in a store and watched this happen.

00:22:55.880 Here in the DFW area?

00:22:57.800 Yeah.

00:22:58.000 And this is Texas, okay?

00:22:59.780 Yeah.

00:23:00.660 Where a group of four people came in to a store.

00:23:06.340 It was a makeup store.

00:23:08.060 Mm-hmm.

00:23:08.440 Garbage bags and walked up to the counter where all the displays were and took their arms and cupped, you know, 50 to 60, like, lip glosses and just shoveled them into the garbage bag and did it about 10 times each and then walked out of the store.

00:23:22.480 Oh, my God.

00:23:22.900 With four garbage bags filled with makeup.

00:23:25.120 Thousands of dollars of makeup.

00:23:27.120 And this stuff is freaking expensive.

00:23:28.900 Believe me.

00:23:29.440 It goes to about two-thirds of my salary goes to it.

00:23:31.740 So were these people who are the greatest danger we face in America white supremacists?

00:23:37.960 No, I don't think-

00:23:38.700 Is that what they were?

00:23:39.260 White supremacists? 0.95

00:23:39.660 If they were white supremacists, they were really bad at it. 0.95

00:23:43.580 This particular group of ladies- 1.00

00:23:46.040 Don't tell me they were BIPOC. 1.00

00:23:47.860 Are they BIPOC people? 0.99

00:23:49.440 Hey, we're BIPOC.

00:23:50.980 Oh, boy.

00:23:51.320 They were BIPOC. 0.99

00:23:52.440 Oh, no.

00:23:53.280 This particular group.

00:23:54.660 Black, indigenous, people of color.

00:23:56.500 Yes.

00:23:57.120 Now, it's interesting because you have to look at the incentives of such a situation.

00:24:02.900 Mm-hmm.

00:24:03.440 By the way, 888-727-BEC, if you happen to be a small business owner and have seen this happen,

00:24:07.720 or how- because I would love to hear how you're dealing with it.

00:24:10.140 Yeah.

00:24:10.260 But, you know, the incentive of the situation is the employees of a corporate retail establishment

00:24:17.540 don't want to get into an altercation.

00:24:20.480 They're trained to not get into an altercation.

00:24:23.780 Yep.

00:24:24.040 They're trained to know, well, don't say, don't try to stop X, Y, and Z type of person because 0.95

00:24:30.980 that's not, you know, there's guaranteed signs all over the store saying how much black lives 0.98

00:24:38.260 matter and how much, you know, every dumb left-wing slogan is pasted all over every one 0.99

00:24:46.020 of these stores. 0.99

00:24:46.680 Mm-hmm.

00:24:47.280 And as we've seen, even with, like, Starbucks, Starbucks, what was the controversy?

00:24:51.540 They didn't allow someone to go to the bathroom, and it became a national story.

00:24:54.960 Yeah.

00:24:55.140 So, if you try to stop someone, you tackle a woman with a garbage bag of makeup making 1.00

00:25:01.160 it from walking out the door?

00:25:02.560 They're not going to.

00:25:03.480 What happens in that situation?

00:25:04.740 You're on the news as the bad person.

00:25:07.200 Right.

00:25:07.320 You're on the news as the terrible person who didn't let this individual who-

00:25:13.900 Abscone with thousands of dollars worth of your material, your product.

00:25:18.120 What are you going to do?

00:25:18.780 You're going to step back and you're just going to let it happen.

00:25:20.660 Jeez.

00:25:21.160 And they're going to walk out the door.

00:25:22.460 And if they do get caught, which they probably won't, probably the charges will be dropped.

00:25:29.040 Mm-hmm.

00:25:29.380 Right?

00:25:29.920 Mm-hmm.

00:25:30.240 And we've seen Antifa, they burn down cities, and we have the vice president of the United 0.93

00:25:35.620 States begging for money to bail them out.

00:25:38.980 So, why would you possibly believe you're going to get in trouble over something like

00:25:42.900 this?

00:25:43.300 And if they do get in trouble, what is it?

00:25:44.720 A fine?

00:25:45.820 A fine that is, what, one-tenth of one haul from one of these stores?

00:25:50.080 So, you're seeing this all over the place.

00:25:51.200 There was a video that went viral last week or the week before.

00:25:53.580 And a guy just walks in, fills his garbage bag with all sorts of stuff on his bike, and just

00:25:58.260 rides his bike out the front door of the store.

00:26:00.240 Yeah.

00:26:00.840 There's no longer, you don't need to be Ocean's Eleven anymore.

00:26:04.680 There's no, you don't need to have this incredibly intricate operation.

00:26:08.800 You walk in the front door, like every other customer, with a garbage bag on display.

00:26:13.940 You fill it with the material.

00:26:15.780 You walk out the front door the same way you came in.

00:26:18.300 You just ignore everyone telling you to stop.

00:26:20.400 Yeah, it's not that hard.

00:26:21.180 If someone tells you to stop.

00:26:21.820 It's not that hard.

00:26:22.560 No.

00:26:23.100 Oftentimes, people don't even tell you to stop.

00:26:25.600 They just, they just watch you go out the door.

00:26:27.940 Bye-bye.

00:26:28.340 Look, if you're an employee, you're making, you know, 13 bucks an hour, and you're thinking

00:26:34.840 to myself, I'm not going to get, I'm not going to become an international story because I stopped

00:26:40.340 a BIPOC individual from stealing something, or a Hispanic individual, or a white individual. 0.87

00:26:47.980 I'm sure this is happening with all sorts of colors.

00:26:49.880 I mean, it's just this particular story happened to be that, and I would think it's a lot harder

00:26:55.900 to justify to corporate that you did something in this situation the further down the oppression

00:27:02.040 ladder you get, right? 0.51

00:27:04.140 Yeah.

00:27:04.380 We're seeing this in story after story after story.

00:27:06.700 Now, the oppressed, the formerly oppressed women, the formerly oppressed gays, the formerly 0.99

00:27:13.760 oppressed, if you're not, you know, 12 different intersectionality groups at the same time, you

00:27:20.320 don't even show up on these charts anymore.

00:27:22.260 I mean, like, poor women. 1.00

00:27:23.640 Remember when women were oppressed? 1.00

00:27:25.780 And now they're a forgotten class completely.

00:27:28.380 Absolutely.

00:27:29.880 Yeah.

00:27:30.240 Yes, they are.

00:27:32.300 As indicated by the thing last week at the Wii Spa in Los Angeles, where the trans woman 0.85

00:27:40.440 goes into the bathroom and shows her wiener to little girls. 1.00

00:27:47.020 Her wiener.

00:27:47.680 And I will say, just the fact that you just said those two words next to each other.

00:27:58.580 Yeah.

00:27:59.020 That's a lot about our society.

00:28:00.460 It does, doesn't it?

00:28:02.200 She shows her wiener.

00:28:06.120 Right.

00:28:06.920 It's not funny to little girls.

00:28:08.920 No, it's not funny.

00:28:10.420 What's not funny is how you're identifying them as little girls without asking them what

00:28:14.860 gender they are.

00:28:15.720 That's true.

00:28:16.320 So, one person, one person goes to the counter and complains about that to the spa employees,

00:28:26.420 and that person is the bad person.

00:28:28.620 Mm-hmm.

00:28:29.020 Because how dare you say she can't show her wiener to people in the bathroom? 1.00

00:28:34.400 How dare you?

00:28:37.160 It doesn't. 0.92

00:28:38.320 And so, she's the bad guy, and everybody defends the person showing their genitalia in the 0.99

00:28:47.380 bathroom to little girls. 1.00

00:28:48.460 It's like, okay, we don't care about defending or protecting little girls anymore, or women,

00:28:53.360 for that matter.

00:28:53.980 We don't.

00:28:54.160 We don't care about it.

00:28:55.060 Nope. 0.95

00:28:55.360 In fact, if you ask about it or say anything about it, you're a hate monger. 0.83

00:29:01.280 Well, this is absolute insanity.

00:29:03.880 Over the weekend, a few people show up to protest that going on.

00:29:10.060 He's calling it pedophilia, because it is.

00:29:14.140 And Antifa shows up and starts beating these people.

00:29:19.140 One of them got slashed with a knife in the arm.

00:29:22.440 Others were beaten to the ground.

00:29:24.800 This guy, this Asian guy, just standing there, and a woman runs up and kicks him where he 0.98

00:29:31.000 lives, and he responds by hitting her in the head with a water bottle. 1.00

00:29:35.960 He's the one who gets arrested, and he's the one everybody's yelling and screaming about.

00:29:41.520 Because you've got these Antifa people that they're the aggressors, and then if anybody

00:29:46.020 is aggressive back towards them, whoa, no, no, now they're the bad person.

00:29:52.280 Yes.

00:29:52.800 That is how this works.

00:29:54.020 It is.

00:29:54.660 Then they do it really well.

00:29:55.840 They do it really well.

00:29:57.140 It's amazing to see our society react to this stuff.

00:30:00.320 Like, you know, Target and Walgreens are making decisions they believe are good for their bottom

00:30:06.240 line, right?

00:30:06.860 And what they're doing is, we'd rather be closed.

00:30:11.560 There are 7-Elevens that are closing.

00:30:14.620 That's amazing.

00:30:15.140 Yeah.

00:30:15.460 Now, the original meaning of 7-Eleven was seven days a week open, 11 hours a day.

00:30:21.600 Right.

00:30:21.900 That is what it initially meant.

00:30:22.900 Or until 11 at night?

00:30:24.180 I thought it was 11 hours.

00:30:25.280 Maybe it was until 11 at night.

00:30:26.680 It was something of that nature.

00:30:28.080 I thought it was 11 hours a day, which isn't all that impressive, frankly.

00:30:31.300 It's not.

00:30:31.960 No.

00:30:32.720 Maybe it was until 11 at night.

00:30:34.320 But there was, you know, and now it's obviously, but everywhere, it's a 24-hour business.

00:30:38.880 Yeah.

00:30:38.940 And they're closing, or at least closing, not allowing people inside because the theft

00:30:43.380 is so prominent.

00:30:44.520 I mean, Target and Walgreens just closing their stores, closing them, because they see it

00:30:51.060 as more of a problem to remain open.

00:30:54.500 Yeah.

00:30:54.700 The shoplifting is so bad, they can't make money because of it.

00:30:57.760 Because of the shoplifting.

00:30:59.040 So they got it.

00:30:59.600 It might as well just close that outlet, which they did.

00:31:01.760 And normally what your answer is, I mean, look, there are some levels where maybe you

00:31:05.580 would close the store down, I guess.

00:31:07.320 I'm sure it's obviously happened before.

00:31:09.660 But it's becoming more common because you really, the other way of handling this is

00:31:14.560 adding security people.

00:31:16.160 But the security people aren't allowed to do anything.

00:31:19.440 Yeah.

00:31:19.700 This security guard says, his name is Kevin Greathouse, and he said that they're told

00:31:25.800 not to physically engage with those who shoplift.

00:31:29.040 He said, it's going to be lawsuits.

00:31:30.440 Obviously, they don't want ourselves or anybody else to get injured while we're out here attempting

00:31:35.480 to make these apprehensions and leave it to law enforcement.

00:31:38.620 Carries with him a handgun, a taser, and pepper spray, but he's never used them.

00:31:42.440 On the other hand, he says people shoplifting have at times threatened him with a knife.

00:31:47.100 And he said, I don't have any intention of getting stabbed for $60 worth of stuff.

00:31:52.120 Well, okay.

00:31:52.980 So you can hire security guards, but if you're going to tell them not to engage with anybody

00:31:57.120 who steals, what good are they?

00:31:58.560 You're just wasting your money.

00:32:00.740 There's a video, another video that went viral this weekend of a guy in New York in a place

00:32:07.880 a place we certainly walked by a million times when we lived in New York in one of these

00:32:11.960 like Penn Station type hallways.

00:32:14.040 And like, they're not pretty.

00:32:14.960 And usually on the side, there might be a homeless person sitting down.

00:32:18.860 So this guy, he's sitting there.

00:32:20.940 He's, he's mopping, he's mopping the floor and he's got his bucket there.

00:32:24.820 He's mopping the floor.

00:32:25.580 He turns around, he's mopping the floor and you see it all happen.

00:32:28.780 As soon as he turns his back, he's mopping the floor.

00:32:31.080 The homeless guy gets up, walks over, turns around, sits down on the bucket and starts 0.98

00:32:35.280 taking a crap in the bucket. 0.99

00:32:36.460 Oh. 0.99

00:32:36.740 Now, this guy turns around with, with his mop.

00:32:42.480 Oh man.

00:32:43.000 And it's like, what the, you know, swears quite a bit and goes up to the guy and goes, get

00:32:48.120 out of there.

00:32:48.760 The guy is offended that he's tried to stop him in the middle of going to the bathroom

00:32:54.200 in his cleaning bucket and takes his mop and starts hitting him with a mop.

00:33:01.460 Yeah.

00:33:01.680 Now, there's tons of people all walking around there.

00:33:03.740 This is in the middle of a high traffic area and he's, he just goes, he pushes right through

00:33:11.460 it and gets, goes right back down, sits on the bucket and goes for it in front of everybody.

00:33:18.060 Unreal.

00:33:18.380 And I mean, this is the state of our cities right now.

00:33:22.720 And I got news for you.

00:33:24.480 No Republicans run in any of them.

00:33:26.740 Right.

00:33:27.400 You know, there's no Republicans run in any of these cities basically at this point.

00:33:31.360 There's a couple, but there's very, very few.

00:33:33.780 And this is what has happened over and over and over again.

00:33:36.700 These cities are just turning into, they're disintegrating.

00:33:40.800 Yeah.

00:33:41.080 Like apocalyptic scenarios.

00:33:43.140 888-727-BECK.

00:33:45.080 You are listening to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:33:49.420 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn, the Glenn Beck Program.

00:33:53.660 Hope you had a great 4th of July weekend.

00:33:57.480 It was incredible here weather-wise.

00:33:59.740 Did you, did you, I hope you didn't do a backyard barbecue, Stu, but well, not with anybody who's

00:34:06.720 not in your household and even the people who were in your household need to be in separate

00:34:11.900 backyards as we established on, on Friday.

00:34:14.600 Yeah.

00:34:14.740 We worked that out.

00:34:15.560 I also, I also required everyone who came over to get all of the available vaccines,

00:34:21.060 including the Chinese vaccines.

00:34:22.380 Oh, okay.

00:34:23.000 Yeah.

00:34:23.200 We imported a bunch of Sinovac and Sinopharm.

00:34:25.960 And so we injected everyone in various body parts.

00:34:28.880 With all of them.

00:34:29.100 All of them at once.

00:34:29.820 Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson.

00:34:32.860 Yep.

00:34:33.260 And the two.

00:34:34.040 Sinovac, Sinopharm, and Sputnik 5.

00:34:36.620 Sputnik 5?

00:34:37.300 Yeah.

00:34:37.520 We got the Russian thing.

00:34:38.440 That's powerful.

00:34:38.860 We want to get that coursing through some veins as well.

00:34:41.220 Yeah.

00:34:41.740 We just felt like it was the only thing.

00:34:43.460 How many people survived it?

00:34:45.180 Anybody survived the vaccines?

00:34:47.120 It feels like that many vaccines might be very damaging.

00:34:50.440 Might be.

00:34:50.860 I don't know.

00:34:51.420 That's a good question.

00:34:52.140 I don't know.

00:34:52.940 It seems like too many vaccines for one day.

00:34:55.860 But, you know, look, I notice around here, at least,

00:35:02.660 life is completely back to normal.

00:35:05.520 Like, I was in.

00:35:07.220 Virtually entirely.

00:35:08.160 There was a big 4th of July celebration in my suburb.

00:35:11.580 Yep.

00:35:11.860 There was 15,000, 20,000 people there.

00:35:14.680 And almost nobody had a mask on.

00:35:17.040 Yeah.

00:35:17.460 Almost nobody.

00:35:18.140 I'd say I went to a mall this weekend,

00:35:20.660 as well as multiple outdoor gatherings for 4th of July.

00:35:25.520 I mean, people are into it.

00:35:26.600 You know, the crowd seemed big and passionate.

00:35:29.140 And really, they were enjoying getting back to this sort of stuff.

00:35:31.860 But, you know, I would say, you know, maybe the mall, it was 5% to 10% masked in that range.

00:35:39.380 You know, outdoors, you know, lower 2%.

00:35:42.920 You know, very, very small percentage.

00:35:45.440 And, you know, like, we all understand that I think Texas is about 50% vaccinated.

00:35:51.060 So, like, all the stores just say, like, come on in.

00:35:53.880 No mask if you're vaccinated.

00:35:55.420 We all know half the people are just doing it anyway.

00:35:59.040 Right.

00:35:59.500 But, again, like, this is where we are.

00:36:02.360 We're back to normal life.

00:36:04.540 You know, when people have the choice to get the vaccine, the pandemic is over.

00:36:08.420 If they don't want to get it, then they don't want to get it.

00:36:10.860 Like, the problem with the pandemic is you are at that point where there's nothing you can do.

00:36:16.720 Right.

00:36:17.240 Now there is something you can do.

00:36:18.600 Do it if you want.

00:36:19.480 Don't do it if you want.

00:36:20.360 But then you just take the consequences of those actions.

00:36:22.700 Right.

00:36:23.020 Both sides.

00:36:23.720 Exactly right.

00:36:30.200 Great to have you with us.

00:36:31.200 It is Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program, 888-727-BECK.

00:36:35.400 We were just talking at the 4-Minute Buzz about how virtually every Republican in the state is running for governor of Texas right now.

00:36:44.240 It's true.

00:36:45.200 It's amazing.

00:36:46.100 It's a crowded field.

00:36:46.860 It's a crowded field.

00:36:48.400 He is being primaried like nobody's ever been primaried.

00:36:51.940 I'll get into that a little bit and much more coming up in 60 seconds.

00:36:58.300 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:36:59.780 If you happen to be the type of person who is looking to move right now, you better be careful because this is a crazy housing market.

00:37:10.220 I mean, it's one I don't think I've ever seen one like this.

00:37:13.120 People are looking to spend their money on homes and prices are going through the roof, especially if you happen to be in a state like Texas.

00:37:21.960 All the people trying to escape California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and coming to Texas, Florida, and other sites that were maybe down south, maybe a little bit more open.

00:37:35.480 That's been happening over the past six months or so.

00:37:38.060 And it's really just increased as the economy has sort of warmed up coming out of the pandemic winter.

00:37:43.920 So you have a situation where if you're selling a home, this could be the biggest haul you'll ever make, right?

00:37:50.560 I mean, this could be the biggest financial transaction you ever have in your entire life.

00:37:53.820 You better take advantage of it.

00:37:54.980 You better make sure you get the most for your money.

00:37:57.480 Secondarily, if you're going to buy a house right now, you better be careful to not overreach and go for something that maybe costs more than you can afford.

00:38:07.420 Maybe you're overpaying because you get caught up in the hype of a market.

00:38:10.440 You better have a real estate agent on your side of either side of that transaction to make sure that you're doing the right thing.

00:38:16.680 You can find that person at realestateagentsitrust.com, a company that Glenn started several years ago.

00:38:21.780 To find the best real estate agents around the country, you can do it no matter where you are in America.

00:38:26.540 Go to realestateagentsitrust.com.

00:38:28.960 Name says it all.

00:38:29.860 It's realestateagentsitrust.com.

00:38:40.440 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program, 888-727-BECK.

00:38:48.680 There's a new poll out that shows Governor Abbott with a 39-38% lead over Matthew McConaughey.

00:38:57.080 Now, nobody even knows what Matthew McConaughey's policies are.

00:39:01.340 What's his agenda?

00:39:02.300 He hasn't even declared.

00:39:03.600 Are you a Democrat or a Republican?

00:39:05.680 Nobody knows.

00:39:06.360 Or an independent.

00:39:07.120 Or an independent.

00:39:07.760 Right, who knows.

00:39:08.700 Which is probably what he'd run as because, you know, if you're anything but a left-wing kook Democrat, you can't declare that if you're in Hollywood, right? 0.93

00:39:18.420 So he'd probably have to say he's independent.

00:39:21.080 But 39-38, whereas McConaughey months ago was way ahead of Abbott in a head-to-head competition, at least according to the polls.

00:39:30.920 Now, there's another Republican who's probably not well-known outside of Dallas, and that's Don Huff-Heinz.

00:39:38.840 He's got a big car dealership empire here.

00:39:43.020 Abbott leads him 77-12.

00:39:46.240 So he's probably not a real threat.

00:39:50.100 But just entering the race is Colonel West.

00:39:59.920 Yeah, Alan West, who, former congressman, obviously, been very active in conservative politics for a long time.

00:40:05.860 He's going to be running.

00:40:06.960 He was the chair of the Texas Republican Party.

00:40:09.480 For about 15 minutes.

00:40:10.680 Yep.

00:40:12.540 Not very long.

00:40:13.600 No.

00:40:13.740 But he's very well-known and well-respected, I think, in the conservative community.

00:40:18.600 And I think he's actually in a poll that they just conducted a little bit ahead of Governor Abbott.

00:40:24.900 Interesting.

00:40:25.640 Yeah, it is.

00:40:26.240 He's a threat, for sure, I would think, to Abbott.

00:40:28.340 You know, of course, our own Chad Prather here from Blaze TV is running as well.

00:40:32.680 But this is a crowded field.

00:40:34.600 And it's interesting because Abbott is not like...

00:40:38.220 Greg Abbott is a guy who, if you're not from Texas,

00:40:41.500 you might not have a huge impression of Abbott.

00:40:46.960 It's interesting.

00:40:47.540 When I talk to people outside of Texas, what I hear typically is,

00:40:52.560 oh, I wish we had a governor like yours who didn't lock down the whole time

00:40:56.480 and has lifted all these mandates and all that.

00:41:00.080 It's the exact opposite of what I hear from people in Texas

00:41:02.260 who are just angry at him for ever having the mandates.

00:41:05.460 Yes.

00:41:05.720 Right?

00:41:06.000 That's basically the way this breaks down.

00:41:07.560 I was talking to Andrew Wilkow, also from Blaze TV, our friend from up...

00:41:11.880 He lives in New Jersey, I think.

00:41:14.180 Now, his impression of how good of a job Greg Abbott is doing is quite different

00:41:20.580 than, I think, someone who's living in Texas.

00:41:23.540 He's like, they wouldn't let us out of our house for 14 months.

00:41:27.140 So, we would love to have anyone who would allow that.

00:41:31.600 I mean, everything closed down on...

00:41:35.860 Basically, it was March 15th or 16th was the day that Trump did the 15 days

00:41:41.820 to stop the spread speech.

00:41:45.540 And that led to, of course, another month of slowing the spread.

00:41:51.740 So, it turned into the end of April, where basically, nationally,

00:41:56.380 we were shut down for six weeks.

00:41:59.140 On May 1st, I went out to a restaurant down the street from this facility.

00:42:05.520 It was 25% capacity.

00:42:07.940 I don't even know if they hit 25% capacity at the restaurant I was at, 0.98

00:42:11.260 but damn, I was at it. 0.98

00:42:12.400 I was there shoveling food down my gullet. 0.99

00:42:15.740 Isn't that where you contracted COVID as well?

00:42:17.940 Not till later.

00:42:18.620 No.

00:42:18.780 I got at a restaurant in Texas much later, Pat.

00:42:22.540 You know, you bring up a sore...

00:42:24.200 As a COVID-19 survivor, you bring up a very sore subject there.

00:42:29.800 But, yes, that...

00:42:30.960 It did happen.

00:42:31.700 It's not a terrible point by you.

00:42:33.300 Right.

00:42:35.500 But, yes, it did happen.

00:42:36.740 And it can happen.

00:42:37.620 I mean, it definitely is a risk.

00:42:39.380 But, again, it was my choice to go out and shovel food down my gullet

00:42:43.400 in the middle of a pandemic.

00:42:44.680 You know, it was my choice.

00:42:45.960 And having COVID-19 for you was a lot like not having COVID-19, right?

00:42:51.740 Yes, it was.

00:42:52.280 You had no symptoms.

00:42:53.200 It was asymptomatic for me.

00:42:54.400 I was just basically staying home for 10 days.

00:42:56.300 Yeah.

00:42:56.680 Which was not fun.

00:42:57.960 I didn't necessarily enjoy it.

00:42:59.740 We did have some fun family times, but, you know,

00:43:02.480 when you really can't go out for any reason.

00:43:04.420 Yeah.

00:43:04.880 You know, when you have it.

00:43:05.900 But still, you know, you get through those times.

00:43:08.460 My point, though, with Abbott, though, is that it was...

00:43:10.500 As compared to the nation, he was definitely on the leaning freedom side

00:43:14.480 of the transaction.

00:43:15.960 However, for Texas, you know, nothing but, you know,

00:43:19.960 perfection will do on these situations.

00:43:22.220 And Abbott has had some problems.

00:43:23.860 I mean, he's...

00:43:24.300 He has.

00:43:24.640 He's, you know...

00:43:25.320 And some people just got unreasonably pissed at him.

00:43:29.780 I mean, like, just done with him.

00:43:33.200 I'm done with him forever.

00:43:34.220 Yeah.

00:43:34.600 Yeah.

00:43:34.860 No, it definitely was at least around...

00:43:38.440 Look, I work at The Blaze, which a bunch of people who are very conservative

00:43:42.420 and very outspoken.

00:43:43.960 So I did hear maybe more than the average Texan did.

00:43:46.440 I mean, if you look at it, it's like they just did a poll on Greg Abbott's

00:43:49.660 approval rating within the Republican Party.

00:43:52.180 He has a 77% approval rating among Republicans.

00:43:56.040 You should be able to win that way.

00:43:57.740 If you have a 77% approval, you should win.

00:44:00.220 It's amazing that he has this many challengers when you have a 77% approval rating.

00:44:04.120 Yeah.

00:44:04.620 Though, he's got some challengers and some real ones.

00:44:07.900 Like...

00:44:08.360 Allen West is a real challenger.

00:44:09.660 Allen West is a real challenger.

00:44:11.380 Chad Prather's really popular, particularly in Texas.

00:44:15.100 You know, Don Huffine has a lot of money.

00:44:18.220 I don't know.

00:44:19.640 But again, like, it's a well-funded candidate.

00:44:22.360 It's a big challenge to a person.

00:44:25.200 In the poll I just saw, Prather was actually ahead 42% to 35% over Allen West.

00:44:33.260 And then I think Abbott, was it 30 or somewhere in there?

00:44:39.220 He was actually in the lead as far as Republicans are concerned.

00:44:42.820 It's interesting.

00:44:43.760 Yeah.

00:44:43.980 I don't know what's going to happen, but I think these things are...

00:44:46.540 We're in the middle of a cycle, to take it out of Texas here for a second.

00:44:50.280 We're in the middle of a cycle where there's a...

00:44:53.260 There's going to be a cycle here of retribution, essentially, for what happened in the pandemic.

00:45:01.620 Right?

00:45:01.800 I think we're seeing that on the streets right now.

00:45:03.880 Mm-hmm.

00:45:04.260 You know, we're seeing that from...

00:45:07.040 In political parties where if you didn't do what your base thinks is the right thing, you're going to be targeted and punished and...

00:45:16.220 No doubt.

00:45:16.600 Uh, and taken during these primaries and people are going to try to exploit it.

00:45:22.720 Yeah.

00:45:22.880 You know, it was like when we had a series of this, you know, after 2016, there were obviously

00:45:28.220 the Republican Party was sort of split on people who really liked Trump and people who didn't

00:45:31.980 like Trump.

00:45:32.460 And the people who spoke out against Trump had a lot of primary challenges from people

00:45:39.020 who were very, very pro-Trump.

00:45:41.200 Uh, you know, we're seeing that now happen with anyone who voted for like the impeachment,

00:45:45.560 for example.

00:45:46.220 Or, you know, people who spoke out like, uh, you know, obviously the most obvious one is

00:45:50.720 Liz Cheney.

00:45:51.920 Right?

00:45:52.780 There are aligning...

00:45:53.620 There's probably going to be 97 people, right?

00:45:56.200 It's Liz Cheney in the next primary. 0.85

00:45:58.680 No question.

00:45:59.120 Because there's a dividing line there.

00:46:00.860 And I think the same thing is going to happen with COVID.

00:46:03.960 You know, there's a lot of people...

00:46:05.580 Some Republicans did not go as far on the freedom scale as many Southern states did.

00:46:12.200 And it's also the reason why you're seeing people circle around Ron DeSantis as a guy

00:46:17.220 who people like because they liked what he did during that period.

00:46:20.300 It was a test, Pat, right?

00:46:21.560 It was a test of your principles.

00:46:23.740 You know, what is...

00:46:24.340 What do you do in a really difficult situation?

00:46:26.620 Do you still favor freedom?

00:46:28.440 Or is it only when you're running for office?

00:46:31.460 And many of these, even Republican governors, are finding out like, oh, gosh, maybe I should

00:46:35.540 have...

00:46:36.180 You've been on the side of freedom.

00:46:37.440 Yeah.

00:46:37.960 Because even...

00:46:38.540 Yeah.

00:46:38.560 Look, you're not...

00:46:40.960 People would try to take that as like, well, if you're on the side of quote-unquote freedom,

00:46:44.860 you're trying to kill grandma. 0.86

00:46:45.920 And it's like, well, no.

00:46:47.540 When you're on the side of freedom, you're letting people make their own decisions.

00:46:51.980 And look...

00:46:52.400 Including grandma.

00:46:53.120 And that also includes like how you're affecting others.

00:46:57.120 Right?

00:46:57.520 I mean, a pandemic is not just an isolated act.

00:47:00.040 We all know that.

00:47:00.780 That's the problem with a pandemic.

00:47:02.980 But people have the right to be able to take the risks that they feel are necessary.

00:47:11.820 And also take the responsibilities of actions that might not be, might not be so, so thoughtful.

00:47:20.000 Right?

00:47:20.600 I mean, there's definitely more of those people too.

00:47:22.520 So, I think this is going to be one of those dividing lines that lasts for a very long time.

00:47:28.660 And we're going to have no choice but to deal with it, especially when it comes to financial matters.

00:47:35.560 Because our country has spent so much money.

00:47:38.620 And when I say spent money, what I mean is they printed it.

00:47:41.280 I mean, I...

00:47:42.160 You know, it's like to say that they were spending money that existed before 2020 is sort of a false way of looking at it.

00:47:49.780 I mean, we've just done everything that we were terrified of as conservatives all at once within an 18-month period.

00:47:57.380 And we've still got three, four, five, six trillion dollars to go here.

00:48:01.000 They're going to spend more.

00:48:03.020 They're doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on this stuff.

00:48:06.200 And you just have to believe there is a point that...

00:48:10.640 There's a breaking point?

00:48:12.060 Yeah.

00:48:12.420 Yeah.

00:48:13.060 Oh, yeah.

00:48:14.480 And we don't even have to print it anymore.

00:48:16.380 That's the beauty of it.

00:48:17.140 We just digitize it.

00:48:18.260 That makes it even more fun to spend.

00:48:20.420 It is.

00:48:20.760 It's just a number.

00:48:22.120 Numbers on a screen.

00:48:23.040 That's all it is.

00:48:23.900 It's a number.

00:48:24.540 We don't even have to do the paper anymore.

00:48:27.000 So it's so easy to spend money now.

00:48:30.200 And nobody even bats an eye at a billion dollars or $10 billion or $50 billion anymore.

00:48:40.420 That doesn't even faze people.

00:48:43.100 You don't even think, oh, my gosh, we're going to spend $50 billion on that?

00:48:46.980 They don't care because it doesn't even have an impact until you get to trillions now.

00:48:52.320 We've become so used to hearing the billion-dollar figure.

00:48:57.140 It used to be millions and hundreds of millions.

00:48:59.760 Then it was billions.

00:49:01.060 Now you're not even fazed unless you hear that we're going to spend a trillion dollars.

00:49:06.300 And even then, maybe not very much.

00:49:08.560 You're not worried about it.

00:49:10.260 And this is not, it wasn't that long ago that the word trillion was poison to even Democrats.

00:49:18.240 If you remember going through the post-2008 recovery period, Barack Obama gets elected.

00:49:25.840 He comes in.

00:49:26.980 Big conversation.

00:49:27.940 He wants to spend $787 billion on, I think that was the recovery one, the stimulus, right?

00:49:35.880 And then it was Obamacare.

00:49:37.540 They worked very hard to manipulate the numbers to keep it under $1 trillion.

00:49:41.440 The final cost was in the $900 billions.

00:49:43.560 Now, of course, it wasn't actually in the $900 billions, but that's how they presented it.

00:49:47.180 And the media, of course, went along with it.

00:49:49.740 But they thought if it hit a trillion, the American people will revolt against it.

00:49:54.940 Now, the American people still sort of revolted against it, at least back then.

00:49:59.180 Now, they don't even care.

00:50:01.600 Now, they don't even care.

00:50:02.340 Now, it's part of our culture.

00:50:03.380 And as we said, as soon as this becomes something that is yours, something you are owed, it will never go away.

00:50:10.420 And that's where we are with Obamacare now, obviously.

00:50:12.920 But at that time, they didn't think it was going to pass.

00:50:16.240 Remember, they had 60 votes and they were doing this.

00:50:19.340 They had 60 votes in the Senate.

00:50:21.420 And they were saying, we can't get it over a trillion dollars.

00:50:23.460 It will never get approved.

00:50:24.320 And now we're at the point where we're like, well, if we have 50 votes, we can pass a $5 trillion bill, right?

00:50:31.260 And in the American people, yeah, of course you can.

00:50:33.820 You got 50 votes.

00:50:35.220 Yeah, sure.

00:50:35.600 Go ahead.

00:50:36.300 No problem.

00:50:37.140 And to help you, we'll take Republican responsibility for another trillion in infrastructure just to make your job a little easier.

00:50:45.460 Just to make so you can get that extra trillion.

00:50:47.260 You don't have to make it a $6 trillion bill.

00:50:49.180 Make it a $5 trillion bill.

00:50:50.600 We'll take the other trillion on with you.

00:50:52.760 Yeah, and it all happened so fast.

00:50:55.700 888-727-BECK.

00:51:00.400 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

00:51:02.840 888-727-BECK.

00:51:06.100 And at Pat Unleashed on Twitter.

00:51:10.280 Let's see.

00:51:12.500 Did you see that Queen, the greatest hits of Queen, were number one on iTunes over the weekend?

00:51:20.940 No.

00:51:21.280 An album that is 40 years old this year was number one over the weekend.

00:51:28.740 And number two was Joni Mitchell and her blue album from 1971, I think, which was 50 years old this year.

00:51:39.220 Where is that coming from?

00:51:40.960 Is that because of the anniversary?

00:51:42.560 Is it getting a lot of promotion?

00:51:43.760 Yeah, I think so.

00:51:44.420 Because of the anniversary?

00:51:45.120 I think they probably re-digitized it and spruced it up and then re-released.

00:51:51.460 And so they shot to number one and number two.

00:51:54.240 Can you imagine when we were kids, like in 1981, you think of an album that was 40 years old.

00:52:00.820 It would have been 1941.

00:52:03.300 I can't imagine that happening then.

00:52:04.700 An album from 1941 going number one in 1981.

00:52:08.720 This is not a game we should play.

00:52:10.320 No.

00:52:10.580 It makes me feel really bad about my life.

00:52:12.600 Me too.

00:52:13.260 You know?

00:52:13.620 Me too.

00:52:14.120 Like, they do this all the time with the September 11th thing.

00:52:17.280 Now, September 11th is a moment in my life that I remember vividly.

00:52:21.080 I remember being on the phone with Glenn Beck when the second plane hit the tower.

00:52:26.840 And, like, that's a vivid moment in my life, in my career.

00:52:31.840 And that was now 20 years ago.

00:52:37.660 Yeah, this September 11th, we'll be commemorating the 20th anniversary.

00:52:41.680 And 20 years before that, I was five.

00:52:47.560 The same distance from now.

00:52:49.520 Me too.

00:52:49.820 I was.

00:52:50.360 You were five.

00:52:50.720 No, I was three.

00:52:51.860 You were three.

00:52:52.340 I was three.

00:52:52.580 You were a little younger.

00:52:53.260 Yeah.

00:52:53.600 You were a little younger.

00:52:54.520 A little younger.

00:52:55.780 But, I mean, like, that's, like, the first thing I can ever remember was probably five years old.

00:53:00.560 Right?

00:53:00.800 And it's like.

00:53:01.900 Yeah.

00:53:02.280 That's the same distance from now to September 11th. 0.84

00:53:05.480 Holy crap am I getting old. 0.97

00:53:07.960 It's depressing. 0.94

00:53:08.460 And it hits you in weird ways.

00:53:10.360 You start playing this game, you start getting a 40-year game.

00:53:13.960 Yeah.

00:53:14.220 Then you're starting to hurt yourself.

00:53:15.760 40 years.

00:53:16.640 It's just crazy.

00:53:18.260 You know, it's interesting, though, how Queen has held up.

00:53:21.600 I think that the real musicians and the real musical bands kind of tend to hold up over the years.

00:53:30.180 Yeah.

00:53:30.420 And have some staying power.

00:53:32.600 Like Queen.

00:53:33.580 And so that when kids are subjected to the music, they're like, yeah, that's pretty good.

00:53:38.380 Yeah, they can handle it.

00:53:39.200 They don't want to kill themselves.

00:53:40.540 Yeah.

00:53:41.020 The singer's actually singing notes.

00:53:43.860 And the guitarist can actually play the guitar.

00:53:47.020 Huh.

00:53:47.720 That's really something.

00:53:48.820 It's an interesting idea.

00:53:50.260 It is.

00:53:50.760 And not one that I had considered.

00:53:52.280 It is.

00:53:52.760 Should the people who are singing the songs actually play the instruments, too?

00:53:57.240 It's a radical concept.

00:53:58.540 It's a crazy idea.

00:53:59.480 It honestly is.

00:54:00.540 It's a radical concept.

00:54:02.680 The guy who developed the mRNA treatment, his name is Robert Malone.

00:54:12.480 Oh, we know Robert.

00:54:13.540 Yeah, he did three days in a row on this show, right?

00:54:15.800 He basically became the co-host of the program for multiple days.

00:54:20.100 When was that?

00:54:20.600 The last week, Glenn was here, I think, right?

00:54:23.000 Really?

00:54:23.360 A couple weeks ago.

00:54:23.920 Yeah.

00:54:24.100 Okay.

00:54:24.640 So, yeah.

00:54:25.020 If you want to go back and listen to the archives, it's available on the podcast.

00:54:28.040 Three days in a row for Robert Malone.

00:54:29.720 Well, his LinkedIn account was just deleted this last week.

00:54:34.180 You know what?

00:54:34.940 That's the nicest thing you can do for somebody is delete their LinkedIn account.

00:54:38.480 If there's anything else, this is a blessing in disguise.

00:54:41.460 It is.

00:54:41.780 Someone, whoever owns, whoever is overseeing big tech right now is like, you know what?

00:54:46.300 I really like that Robert Malone.

00:54:48.180 Delete his LinkedIn account.

00:54:49.100 Because it's the best thing that could ever happen to a human being is not have one.

00:54:53.240 He doesn't seem to think so.

00:54:54.560 Okay.

00:54:54.840 But you and I both would agree.

00:54:56.860 Them deleting your LinkedIn account?

00:54:58.740 Good God.

00:54:59.260 Thank you.

00:54:59.900 Thank God.

00:55:00.680 Oh, my God.

00:55:01.000 Please.

00:55:01.280 Thank you.

00:55:02.080 Please.

00:55:02.740 So obnoxious.

00:55:02.880 If I had the choice of someone giving me a check for $8 million and my LinkedIn account

00:55:08.040 being deleted, I would get my LinkedIn account deleted.

00:55:10.940 Yes.

00:55:11.180 That is where I am with it.

00:55:13.620 How many emails can they send you?

00:55:18.320 It's like as if they have all of them.

00:55:20.800 They've just set up giant rooms of servers just to send me email.

00:55:25.660 Yes.

00:55:26.040 I've never even signed.

00:55:27.340 I don't even have a LinkedIn account.

00:55:29.200 Why do I get so many messages from them?

00:55:32.080 It's incredible.

00:55:33.340 It's incredible.

00:55:33.960 But Robert Malone was actually a little offended.

00:55:36.940 Yeah.

00:55:37.240 Probably off topic.

00:55:38.240 And he said, my business pays for LinkedIn in premium.

00:55:41.380 So that's true.

00:55:42.060 He's been paying for this service.

00:55:43.800 I don't know why you would, but he did.

00:55:45.620 I've been deleted.

00:55:47.220 Purchased a service from LinkedIn to promote my company.

00:55:49.980 This is very different from the YouTube or Twitter terms.

00:55:52.540 This arbitrary and capricious action has damaged our business and we deserve to be compensated.

00:55:57.720 Jeez.

00:55:57.900 Given no notice, no warnings, 10 to 15 year old account has never had a warning and then

00:56:04.520 they just deleted him because he said there were problems with the MRNA delivery device.

00:56:10.300 Even if you disagree with what he's saying, you know what I mean?

00:56:12.780 There's no reason to silence people.

00:56:14.900 No.

00:56:15.960 Discuss it.

00:56:16.740 Discuss it.

00:56:17.880 Marketplace of ideas.

00:56:18.780 What are you so afraid of?

00:56:19.580 Remember this whole thing?

00:56:20.240 Yeah.

00:56:20.540 I don't understand it.

00:56:21.400 It's just fascism. 1.00

00:56:22.240 Pat Grant, stupid gear in this week for Glenn. 1.00

00:56:29.180 888-727-BECK. 1.00

00:56:32.140 Another story that's breaking that doesn't seem to be getting a lot of coverage.

00:56:41.340 And it's not even about Hunter Biden.

00:56:44.740 This is about his dad.

00:56:47.020 You might have heard of his dad, Joe.

00:56:49.480 Yeah.

00:56:49.740 He's the guy that gets ice cream.

00:56:50.900 You might know him as the guy who's at all the ice cream stores.

00:56:53.680 Right.

00:56:54.140 Around America every day.

00:56:55.760 Yeah.

00:56:56.420 That guy.

00:56:57.000 And always buys vanilla.

00:56:59.260 Which is racist.

00:57:00.940 You bet.

00:57:01.280 Is that what he's...

00:57:01.940 Because he's always like, what flavor did you get?

00:57:03.480 I thought he was saying like, double chocolate chip.

00:57:05.480 Vanilla.

00:57:06.200 I mean, look, if vanilla is available, I'm going to take it.

00:57:11.240 If it's the only option, I'm going to...

00:57:12.320 If it's the only option, sure.

00:57:13.660 Absolutely.

00:57:14.240 Yeah.

00:57:14.660 I'm not...

00:57:15.060 I'm never going to an ice cream specialty store and ordering vanilla.

00:57:18.220 No.

00:57:18.540 Who's doing that?

00:57:19.160 Why would you?

00:57:19.660 You don't order vanilla.

00:57:21.400 No.

00:57:21.600 You order one of the crazy flavors with all the toppings and stuff mixed in.

00:57:24.560 Mm-hmm.

00:57:25.040 That's what you do.

00:57:25.760 That's what you do.

00:57:26.240 You don't order vanilla.

00:57:27.200 I mean, is vanilla a big...

00:57:29.380 Like, if you have 30 flavors of ice cream, is vanilla still like the...

00:57:33.040 Oh, yeah.

00:57:33.360 It's a big...

00:57:33.720 It's number one.

00:57:34.280 It's number one, but that's unfair, right?

00:57:38.160 Like, I'm saying like, how does it do versus the other flavor?

00:57:41.900 Like, you expect vanilla chocolate strawberry to be probably the top three.

00:57:47.560 Maybe you get it as a cookie dough, a chocolate chip mixed in, something like that.

00:57:50.660 The basics are going to obviously outdo the other smaller flavor batches.

00:57:54.600 Because you can do so many things with vanilla.

00:57:56.440 That's...

00:57:56.660 I think that's why.

00:57:57.520 Yeah.

00:57:57.540 You can add sauces to it and whatever else.

00:58:00.520 Meat.

00:58:02.140 Bacon.

00:58:02.680 People put bacon on those Sundays.

00:58:03.840 Put bacon in it.

00:58:04.200 As a man who owns a cookie company that had a bacon-based cookie very recently.

00:58:07.960 That is true.

00:58:08.700 You can do that.

00:58:09.560 Yeah.

00:58:09.960 Yes.

00:58:10.400 You can do it.

00:58:11.460 By the way, you'd get those at kexy.com.

00:58:13.400 Thank you.

00:58:13.980 By the way, I ordered some this weekend.

00:58:15.420 Did you?

00:58:15.800 Here we have...

00:58:16.900 Pat's cookie company is on Uber Eats.

00:58:19.080 Now, I could, I suppose, just call Pat up and say, hey, Pat, can I get some cookies?

00:58:22.560 Yeah, you could.

00:58:23.180 But that means I have to talk to people.

00:58:24.880 Yeah.

00:58:25.280 You know, make phone calls.

00:58:26.500 Right.

00:58:26.920 You don't want to do that.

00:58:27.220 Human interaction.

00:58:28.160 No.

00:58:28.380 So, I just Uber Eats going on there.

00:58:30.920 And they brought over the Butterbeer one, which is amazing, by the way.

00:58:35.120 Thank you.

00:58:35.620 It's good stuff.

00:58:36.600 That is not...

00:58:37.380 That's not a commercial. 0.99

00:58:38.040 That's just legitimately adoration for your freaking cookies. 0.99

00:58:42.420 They're delicious. 0.99

00:58:43.360 Okay.

00:58:43.580 So, this is the Hunter Biden story.

00:58:44.800 Okay.

00:58:46.500 But it's actually not really Hunter Biden.

00:58:49.480 This is what I think is the most important part of this.

00:58:52.020 This is not a Hunter Biden story.

00:58:53.100 This is a Joe Biden story.

00:58:55.300 Joe Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the president of the United States.

00:59:02.400 You believe there's at least two of those?

00:59:04.380 Why would you do that?

00:59:05.320 Why would you do that to somebody?

00:59:07.320 Name them Robinette. 0.98

00:59:09.200 Robinette.

00:59:09.680 That's just wrong.

00:59:10.480 It's wrong.

00:59:11.420 It sounds like...

00:59:12.680 You know how, like, Robin is Batman's sidekick?

00:59:15.000 Yeah.

00:59:15.140 Robinette is Robin's sidekick.

00:59:16.760 Like, it's like...

00:59:17.840 And it's maybe his female sidekick.

00:59:20.140 Yes.

00:59:20.320 Because it's Robinette. 0.57

00:59:21.680 I feel like it's Robin's transgendered sidekick is Robinette. 0.59

00:59:26.080 That's a good feeling.

00:59:27.480 I think you're right.

00:59:28.460 Maybe it's what Robin does on the weekends.

00:59:30.260 Okay.

00:59:30.940 He becomes Robinette.

00:59:32.120 Yes.

00:59:32.240 And he goes to certain clubs that he wouldn't normally go to.

00:59:35.900 Maybe he goes to the library and reads to kids on the weekends.

00:59:40.760 I don't know.

00:59:41.780 Maybe.

00:59:42.940 I mean, you can't wear that costume everywhere.

00:59:46.040 Right.

00:59:46.500 Sometimes you're wearing a different costume.

00:59:48.640 Maybe it's a dress. 0.58

00:59:50.160 We'll see.

00:59:51.040 Okay.

00:59:51.240 But back to the story.

00:59:52.060 For a man who says he knows nothing.

00:59:53.800 This is from Hot Air, by the way.

00:59:55.080 Who knows nothing about his son's business dealings.

00:59:58.200 Joe Biden keeps popping up in emails that point to a different conclusion.

01:00:02.020 That laptop of Hunter Biden's that most of the American media has chosen to ignore

01:00:06.580 has produced yet another interesting story.

01:00:09.260 As attorney Jonathan Turley reasons, it appears that Joe Biden is, in fact, aware that his

01:00:15.460 son peddles influence and helped him to do so as vice president.

01:00:19.880 Now, this is going to get into some basic.

01:00:23.880 Sometimes we get into these little stories of corruption.

01:00:26.740 And because we aren't all familiar with all the players in these stories, they can get

01:00:30.640 a little overwhelming.

01:00:31.900 So we'll summarize here in a second.

01:00:33.480 But let me at least give you some of these details.

01:00:35.600 Hunter and Biden family friend Jeff Cooper hatched a plan in 2013.

01:00:38.960 To invest in multiple businesses in Mexico and Latin America, using their relationship

01:00:43.700 with a Mexican billionaire Aleman family, with late patriarch Miguel Aleman Vardez, who

01:00:49.600 served as president of Mexico.

01:00:51.360 Cooper, an attorney who worked with Hunter's late brother, Beau Biden, on asbestos claims,

01:00:56.160 donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Biden political campaigns over the years,

01:01:00.600 was particularly excited by the venture's prospects.

01:01:03.400 Writing to Hunter in February 2013, quote,

01:01:05.760 This is setting up to be flippin' gigantic, brother.

01:01:09.640 I do respect the fact that they were not swearing.

01:01:11.700 Yeah.

01:01:11.900 Better than Hunter's record on his private messages, where he's using racial slurs constantly.

01:01:18.140 Flippin' was the choice here.

01:01:19.660 And I do appreciate that.

01:01:21.140 Well, that's because it's Beau.

01:01:22.900 You know, Beau was the good son.

01:01:24.660 Right.

01:01:26.500 That's that.

01:01:27.440 I think even Joe would admit that.

01:01:28.760 I think even Joe would say that.

01:01:29.920 Even Hunter would probably honestly say that.

01:01:33.300 The prospects for profit only grew when Hunter joined the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma

01:01:37.700 the following year.

01:01:38.820 He and Cooper sought the help of Valdez's grandson, an airline CEO, to forge a relationship

01:01:44.160 with the richest man in Latin America, Carlos Slim, in an attempt to cash in on the privatization

01:01:48.300 of the giant state-owned company Pemrex for Burisma and themselves.

01:01:53.280 While Hunter and Cooper were working on their business plans, they managed to get the billionaires,

01:01:57.380 Slim, Velasco, and McNani, a private meeting with then-Vice President Joe Biden.

01:02:03.080 So, step back for a second now.

01:02:04.780 You got all the names.

01:02:05.680 You might not remember them.

01:02:06.900 But family, friend, and business associates of Hunter meeting with billionaires all over

01:02:13.240 Latin America and getting those billionaires meetings with the Vice President of the United

01:02:18.980 States.

01:02:19.460 Here are the details.

01:02:20.700 Hunter and Cooper attended the meeting.

01:02:22.720 Photos on Hunter's laptop dated November 19th, 2015 show.

01:02:27.260 The six men smiling and hugging in the meeting in Joe Biden's vice presidential residence

01:02:32.740 at number one observatory circle, Washington, D.C.

01:02:36.040 Emails also show the billionaires met with Joe at the White House.

01:02:41.660 It is unclear, if anything, what was discussed with the Mexican billionaires.

01:02:46.160 But of course, this is what influence peddling is.

01:02:49.620 Remember, Joe said he knew nothing about Hunter's business dealings whatsoever.

01:02:57.500 He said they had one conversation where it was brought up and he said to Hunter, hey, is

01:03:02.100 everything okay with that?

01:03:03.120 And he said, yes.

01:03:04.540 That's what he said publicly, all he knew.

01:03:07.340 Now, why on earth would he think that his son and a family friend would waltz in to the

01:03:15.780 White House and to the vice presidential residence with multiple Latin American billionaires for

01:03:23.820 a meeting and a photo shoot?

01:03:26.160 Now, again, these are not public photos.

01:03:28.460 This is not a public meeting.

01:03:29.520 This was discovered on Hunter Biden's laptop, which is still the most amazing story of all

01:03:34.900 time.

01:03:35.180 The fact that this guy left this laptop at a computer repair shop is among the craziest

01:03:40.120 things that's ever happened.

01:03:41.520 Well, was it Russian hacking?

01:03:42.860 We don't know.

01:03:43.720 We do.

01:03:44.060 We don't.

01:03:44.440 We don't know.

01:03:45.440 We don't know.

01:03:46.880 It's like the metric system.

01:03:48.000 We just don't know how to convert that into American.

01:03:51.400 We don't know.

01:03:52.260 Just Google it.

01:03:53.220 You could convert.

01:03:54.700 So they just don't know.

01:03:56.040 Russians could have come in, taken it, hacked into it, and then dropped it off at that computer 0.98

01:04:03.440 shop to be fixed.

01:04:05.440 When this first started, I would have thought, there's no way Hunter Biden just left his laptop

01:04:11.560 at a computer repair shop so it could be, they could just go through and see all of his

01:04:17.000 private correspondence for multiple years.

01:04:18.780 Except they did.

01:04:19.520 That's just what happened.

01:04:20.320 Yeah.

01:04:20.580 That's just what happened.

01:04:22.240 He was probably so, I don't know, coked up or whatever.

01:04:25.800 He forgot about it.

01:04:26.920 Had to be.

01:04:27.560 And by the way, when you ask him this, he will not deny it.

01:04:31.180 Right.

01:04:31.380 He's, oh yeah, it could be mine.

01:04:33.160 Or it could be Russian hacking.

01:04:35.800 What?

01:04:36.880 What?

01:04:37.740 But like, if these things were false by now, he could say, obviously it's not my laptop.

01:04:43.040 I didn't have photos with multiple billionaires inside of the Oval Office or inside of the

01:04:48.060 White House with my father.

01:04:49.500 Like, that would be an easy thing to deny.

01:04:51.260 I could ask you this, Pat.

01:04:52.240 Pat, have you ever had photos with multiple billionaires inside the vice presidential

01:04:56.560 residence with your father?

01:04:59.000 No.

01:04:59.600 That's never happened.

01:05:00.640 So if I took that laptop right there in front of you and I would scan the entire thing,

01:05:04.300 I'm not going to find one photo?

01:05:05.760 Not one photo.

01:05:06.420 Not one.

01:05:06.880 No.

01:05:07.300 So I would know if someone produced a photo like that, that they were lying and it was

01:05:12.500 not your laptop.

01:05:13.740 Right?

01:05:14.140 Right.

01:05:14.960 That's right.

01:05:16.280 Unless it's been hacked by Russians. 0.85

01:05:17.840 So I can't say for certain it may have been hacked in the meantime, you know, since last

01:05:26.160 I checked.

01:05:27.000 Hunter can't do the thing you just did, at least honestly.

01:05:31.340 No.

01:05:31.600 Now, he'll lie about it, I'm sure, at some point.

01:05:33.680 But this is an amazing...

01:05:34.480 He doesn't even lie about this at this point.

01:05:36.200 I mean, he doesn't deny this is his laptop.

01:05:38.620 He just says that he doesn't, you know...

01:05:40.660 He doesn't know for sure.

01:05:41.620 He doesn't know for sure, which is, you know... 1.00

01:05:43.020 It's stupid. 1.00

01:05:43.660 Of course it's his. 1.00

01:05:44.780 But again, like...

01:05:45.600 Did you drop it off at that place?

01:05:47.120 Yeah.

01:05:47.640 Well, yeah.

01:05:48.200 I don't know.

01:05:48.640 I can't remember.

01:05:49.280 I can't remember.

01:05:50.020 You know, it's amazing, though.

01:05:51.100 No Republican would be allowed to have that answer.

01:05:54.500 Oh.

01:05:54.760 No Republican would be able to say, I don't know, maybe it's my laptop?

01:05:58.080 Like, what person doesn't know if it's their laptop?

01:06:02.100 There's been thousands of messages released. 0.98

01:06:04.560 There's pictures of you hooking up with hookers all over it. 0.98

01:06:07.140 I don't know. 0.98

01:06:07.680 Is that you with the hookers? 1.00

01:06:08.860 Do you remember being with the hookers? 0.93

01:06:10.760 Maybe you don't remember every hooker you've been with. 0.96

01:06:12.940 But what about one of these hookers? 1.00

01:06:14.860 Do you remember any of these hookers? 1.00

01:06:16.600 Do any of these hookers... 1.00

01:06:17.820 You know, how about this one? 1.00

01:06:18.880 This stripper here who happens to be the father of your child. 1.00

01:06:21.780 Do you remember her?

01:06:23.420 He doesn't seem to even remember the people who he's impregnated.

01:06:28.180 You remember the Anthony Weiner situation when he first showed his namesake?

01:06:33.460 And then he was asked about it.

01:06:39.740 Well, is that yours?

01:06:41.520 I wish it was.

01:06:43.680 I wish it was.

01:06:44.300 I wish it was.

01:06:45.180 I wish I was that impressive.

01:06:47.320 That is one of my favorite political moments.

01:06:50.180 Awesome.

01:06:50.460 Because he is, at the same time, blatantly lying to the entire country.

01:06:55.880 He's complimenting his own wiener.

01:07:00.160 He's like, I wish I looked...

01:07:01.600 If I looked like that, I'd be showing that thing off in every spa around America.

01:07:07.000 I'd be swinging that thing around in libraries all over the country.

01:07:11.280 It's the same kind of deal.

01:07:12.660 Yeah.

01:07:13.100 I don't know.

01:07:14.160 I wish it was.

01:07:15.200 I wish it was me.

01:07:16.400 That's it.

01:07:17.300 Wow.

01:07:18.160 Would I love to be endowed like that?

01:07:20.580 You bet.

01:07:21.020 It turns out, it is him.

01:07:25.440 It is him.

01:07:26.020 And then he could say, at least at the end, he could say, look, I told you.

01:07:29.200 It was impressive.

01:07:30.040 I was impressed by it before.

01:07:31.380 I'm impressed by it now.

01:07:34.160 Shockingly, by the way, he's having trouble getting hired.

01:07:37.920 Anthony Weiner.

01:07:38.380 That is shocking.

01:07:39.760 Stunning development.

01:07:40.800 He just can't seem...

01:07:42.280 Weird.

01:07:42.940 ...to get himself hired.

01:07:43.740 I will say, though, in a recent interview, and I think this should happen, this should

01:07:47.840 be reality.

01:07:48.500 And in a recent interview, he said he couldn't get a job.

01:07:52.920 He was having trouble paying the bills.

01:07:54.560 And he thought to pay the bills, maybe what he could do is sell the laptop that started

01:08:00.440 the whole situation with the Uma Abedin laptop.

01:08:02.900 My gosh.

01:08:03.640 And that wound up opening up the investigation 10 days before the 2016 election, right?

01:08:10.620 That whole scenario started with Anthony Weiner.

01:08:12.480 People forget that now.

01:08:13.640 But he said, I still have the laptop.

01:08:15.700 It's in my closet.

01:08:16.500 Maybe I should sell it to the MyPillow guy.

01:08:19.640 And I was like, that needs to happen.

01:08:22.480 I want Mike Lindell to step...

01:08:23.780 I told Glenn, you got a museum over here.

01:08:26.340 Right. 0.96

01:08:26.740 You should buy the freaking thing and put it in the museum. 0.98

01:08:29.240 Did he ever put it up for sale? 0.99

01:08:30.480 I want it behind glass and plastic.

01:08:32.280 I don't want...

01:08:32.900 Yes.

01:08:33.540 I don't want to touch it with my bare hands.

01:08:35.340 No, thank you.

01:08:35.960 You need a toxic waste department to come in here and put it in the museum. 0.99

01:08:39.480 And I want it in a vacuum.

01:08:41.540 Uh-huh.

01:08:41.980 And I want that...

01:08:42.940 I want an air duct outside of the building.

01:08:48.580 Like, I don't want to walk in a room with the same air as this thing.

01:08:52.780 But it would be amazing to see.

01:08:55.020 It would.

01:08:55.280 It would.

01:08:55.420 I think he should sell it.

01:08:57.560 You know?

01:08:58.260 I mean, I don't necessarily want Anthony Weiner to get money.

01:09:02.740 But on the other hand, it would be kind of a cool thing.

01:09:05.600 It would.

01:09:06.360 A nice museum piece.

01:09:08.020 It would be.

01:09:08.980 888-727-BECK.

01:09:10.880 Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:09:16.040 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.

01:09:19.100 888-727-BECK.

01:09:21.440 Things pretty good over the weekend in Chicago.

01:09:26.220 You know, they know how to celebrate the 4th.

01:09:27.860 95, at least 95 people were shot in Chicago over the Independence Day weekend.

01:09:36.400 Including two police officers and a 6-year-old girl.

01:09:40.540 16, at least 16 people died.

01:09:44.160 I mean, the stiffest gun laws in the country.

01:09:50.120 And time after time after time after time, we're reading about weekends like this in Chicago.

01:09:56.140 That's because all the guns are coming from small suburban towns in red states.

01:10:01.160 In like Idaho.

01:10:02.780 Right.

01:10:03.260 There's that Idaho to Chicago pipeline.

01:10:05.700 Oh my gosh.

01:10:06.640 What happens is all of the gangs leave Chicago and they go on train trips to Idaho and they go to the small, like a town of like a thousand people.

01:10:16.840 Okay.

01:10:17.080 Very red.

01:10:17.960 Big Trump voters where the gun laws are more lax. 0.96

01:10:21.480 And they go in, they legally buy those guns and then they bring them back to kill people. 0.98

01:10:26.840 By train. 0.99

01:10:27.500 By train.

01:10:28.240 By train.

01:10:28.800 In Chicago.

01:10:30.520 You can't really fly with all the guns.

01:10:32.120 So they have to go get those trains.

01:10:33.200 Oh, right.

01:10:33.640 Right.

01:10:34.140 But they don't even take the Amtrak trains.

01:10:36.600 They take the nice scenic, like the steam trains.

01:10:38.780 Because it's just, they just like it.

01:10:40.120 You know, they're old timey people.

01:10:41.700 The steam trains.

01:10:41.720 The gangs.

01:10:42.160 Big old timey people.

01:10:43.920 This is the picture they try to set.

01:10:45.900 Yeah.

01:10:46.540 Like, oh, well, what they're doing is they're leaving.

01:10:48.280 They all come from somewhere else. 0.99

01:10:48.820 Yeah, they come from somewhere else. 0.59

01:10:49.680 They come from the red state areas.

01:10:51.360 That's where all the guns are coming.

01:10:52.640 Do they?

01:10:53.260 You know what?

01:10:53.860 The gangs aren't flying in to Texas to buy their guns.

01:10:58.300 No, they're not.

01:10:58.720 That's not what's happening.

01:10:59.280 No.

01:10:59.620 If any, if they're coming from anywhere else, here's where they're coming from.

01:11:03.720 The southern border.

01:11:05.660 They're coming across the southern border.

01:11:08.280 And those illegal guns are being used in cities across America.

01:11:13.100 That's happening.

01:11:14.720 It's happening often where people go into legal gun owners facilities.

01:11:19.680 And steel guns?

01:11:21.520 Not sure what gun law, because my understanding is it's illegal to steal a gun.

01:11:26.240 I'm not sure what gun law stops that.

01:11:28.800 But in reality, that is, that's where they're coming from.

01:11:32.560 They're not coming, like, there's not like, you know, gang leaders are like going into the

01:11:36.780 local gun shop in Wyoming and just saying, ah, you'd like to get, do you have a 175 AR-15s

01:11:44.840 we could snag from you?

01:11:46.520 Is there any, do you mind? 0.99

01:11:47.980 It's just asinine. 0.99

01:11:48.360 It's just asinine. 0.98

01:11:49.080 It's obviously not happening. 0.95

01:11:50.620 And they're not, by the way, it's also not ghost guns.

01:11:53.040 These guys aren't building their own guns themselves.

01:11:55.920 That's not what's happening.

01:11:57.560 But that is what we're told.

01:11:59.020 So, and we're supposed to believe it.

01:12:00.720 Oh, by the way, I lied.

01:12:01.720 It wasn't 95.

01:12:02.680 It was a 100 people shot over the weekend.

01:12:05.540 Just the hunting, though.

01:12:06.220 18, fatally.

01:12:06.800 Could have been 1,500.

01:12:07.860 It could have been.

01:12:08.560 But it was only 100.

01:12:09.420 But just 100.

01:12:10.580 So, good weekend in Chicago.

01:12:12.560 You know what you want in your entertainment and sports network?

01:12:22.000 I don't know, like, what would you call a network like that?

01:12:25.220 Maybe BSPN.

01:12:28.300 You want politics.

01:12:30.260 That's what I want.

01:12:31.540 And they continually deliver.

01:12:33.960 And it's great.

01:12:36.200 Although this little situation that's developing, or that developed,

01:12:40.320 is kind of behind-the-scenes stuff.

01:12:45.180 And we'll get into that, tell you what's going on there.

01:12:48.680 Also, we've got some amazing video from Georgetown and American Universities.

01:12:53.940 And you can see, it'll cause you some, maybe, consternation, perhaps,

01:13:02.480 for what our children believe about this country.

01:13:06.420 That and more, coming up in 60 seconds.

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01:14:43.940 Now, I think that, like, Stu Does America, that's a lot harder to get to, isn't it?

01:14:50.920 Do you think?

01:14:51.900 Yeah.

01:14:53.000 Well, here's what you have to do.

01:14:54.040 All right.

01:14:54.540 If you go to YouTube and you search for...

01:14:57.100 Don't make it complicated.

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01:14:59.020 Stu.

01:14:59.820 Like S-T-E-W? 1.00

01:15:01.400 No, S-T-U. 0.98

01:15:02.760 Oh, okay.

01:15:03.520 All right.

01:15:03.680 And what will happen is you'll see Stu Does America, the channel.

01:15:06.000 You should subscribe to it.

01:15:06.780 I will see it.

01:15:07.580 And then I subscribe and then I rate it.

01:15:09.420 Yeah.

01:15:09.800 Just type...

01:15:10.300 How many?

01:15:10.700 Like one and a half stars?

01:15:12.140 Five stars.

01:15:12.740 Five stars.

01:15:13.200 Five stars is the appropriate number of stars.

01:15:15.240 Would you say for both?

01:15:16.320 I think for both those programs, they both deserve five stars.

01:15:20.180 They're great programs.

01:15:21.300 Yeah.

01:15:21.620 And you should definitely rate them five stars.

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01:15:26.520 You may happen to frequent, as well as this radio show every day.

01:15:29.760 You can get it for free.

01:15:31.260 Check it out wherever you get your podcasts.

01:15:33.520 You should definitely do that.

01:15:36.180 ESPN having a little issue again.

01:15:38.160 ESPN seemingly always having some issues lately.

01:15:45.160 But this one's kind of a non-issue to me.

01:15:47.680 I mean, I don't...

01:15:50.400 Did she...

01:15:51.000 Did Rachel Nichols really do something really horrible?

01:15:54.320 Yes.

01:15:54.860 She did.

01:15:55.380 She did something absolutely horrible.

01:15:57.360 She did do something horrible, Pat.

01:15:58.220 Okay.

01:15:58.460 Tell me about it.

01:15:59.120 Because I was under the mistaken impression that it wasn't that big a deal.

01:16:04.080 Oh, my...

01:16:04.660 What?

01:16:04.980 Yeah.

01:16:05.340 Yeah, I was. 1.00

01:16:05.940 You bastard. 1.00

01:16:06.740 But maybe I don't know the full story. 1.00

01:16:08.240 Apparently not.

01:16:08.960 Okay.

01:16:09.420 Tell me.

01:16:09.520 So, Rachel Nichols is a broadcaster on ESPN.

01:16:14.160 She's one of the main NBA hosts of their post-game show or whatever, pre-game show.

01:16:20.560 She's seen her many, many times.

01:16:21.320 Yep.

01:16:22.060 Very well known.

01:16:23.540 She apparently had an issue where she left on her microphone. 1.00

01:16:28.420 You cannot do this in today's society.

01:16:30.200 Oh, that's for sure.

01:16:30.920 Cannot.

01:16:31.280 And had a private conversation, oddly, with one of, like, LeBron James' advisors.

01:16:37.200 Weird.

01:16:38.160 I would have never guessed he had an advisor, the way he acts.

01:16:41.600 I mean, I would have totally assumed he's a bad advisor.

01:16:45.260 Yes, whatever.

01:16:46.100 It's a very strange one.

01:16:47.300 Or maybe LeBron ignores everything his advisor advises.

01:16:50.600 Maybe.

01:16:51.180 That's possible.

01:16:51.560 I will say his comments in here are pretty freaking interesting, too.

01:16:54.320 It's a side story in this conversation.

01:16:56.760 So, basically, Rachel Nichols wants to be the lead anchor of the NBA coverage and realizes,

01:17:05.500 after her very long resume and lots of success and very well known, realizes she's not getting

01:17:10.700 the gig for the 2020 NBA Finals.

01:17:13.120 Now, why would that happen?

01:17:14.640 I don't know.

01:17:16.240 She seems to be highly qualified.

01:17:17.820 She seems to be well-liked by everybody.

01:17:20.840 I've never heard, you know, you hear bad, occasionally you'll hear from sports fans.

01:17:25.140 They don't particularly like female announcers as much.

01:17:28.440 They seem to like her.

01:17:30.480 Beth Whatserface is a really good example of that.

01:17:32.660 Beth Whatserface. 0.99

01:17:33.560 Beth Whatserface, who does the play-by-play college football from time to time.

01:17:38.700 Have you not watched coverage?

01:17:40.300 I don't remember.

01:17:40.800 Play-by-play done by Beth Whatserface.

01:17:42.820 She's not your favorite.

01:17:44.220 Oh, my.

01:17:44.880 No.

01:17:45.360 Not my favorite.

01:17:45.940 And that's been a standard complaint from guys over the years, right?

01:17:50.220 I mean, we can admit that that's been something that other guys, not us, have engaged in.

01:17:54.060 Beth Whatserface is fine.

01:17:55.300 I'm sure she's perfectly fine.

01:17:57.100 So, but Rachel Nichols has always been one of the anchors that I thought has been highly,

01:18:02.300 you know, well-respected.

01:18:03.400 Sage Steele is another one on ESPN that I think people really like.

01:18:06.620 I never heard a bad word about her.

01:18:09.140 Female announcers can do great jobs and whatever. 1.00

01:18:12.620 So, what's interesting here is she's off camera.

01:18:15.880 She realizes she's losing this gig.

01:18:17.420 She's losing this gig to Maria Taylor. 1.00

01:18:20.340 Now, Maria Taylor is a woman as well, an African-American woman. 0.91

01:18:25.000 Now, think about you in this situation for a second.

01:18:28.560 If you're Rachel Nichols, you just lost your big primetime gig, right?

01:18:32.960 Mm-hmm.

01:18:33.780 You're pissed off about it.

01:18:35.180 Mm-hmm.

01:18:35.540 Now, people at times in those private conversations might say stuff that, you know, like they don't

01:18:39.880 necessarily have evidence of, but they're, you know, expressing frustration.

01:18:43.040 And especially if, like she says it is, it's in your contract that you're going to have

01:18:47.780 that gig.

01:18:48.200 Right.

01:18:48.660 This is her gig.

01:18:48.960 Then you'd especially be upset about it.

01:18:51.700 Yeah.

01:18:52.060 So, here's what she says in a private conversation.

01:18:54.660 She says, I wish Maria Taylor all the success in the world.

01:18:57.440 She covers football.

01:18:58.320 She covers basketball. 0.90

01:18:59.540 If you need to give her more things to do because you're feeling pressure about your crappy

01:19:03.640 long-time record on diversity, which, by the way, I know personally from the female side 0.99

01:19:09.380 of it, like, go for it.

01:19:11.480 Just find it somewhere else.

01:19:13.260 You're not going to find it from me or taking my thing away, end quote.

01:19:17.160 Uh-oh.

01:19:18.320 This has been, this is the type of thing at ESPN that it gets turned into an international

01:19:23.600 incident.

01:19:24.320 Yeah.

01:19:24.420 Now, what's fascinating about this is someone, we don't know who, who could it be?

01:19:30.600 I don't know.

01:19:31.800 I don't have evidence as to who it was, but I will say someone held onto this recording

01:19:38.720 for like a year and has now somehow gotten it to the New York Times right around the moment

01:19:46.080 Maria Taylor is renegotiating her contact with ESPN.

01:19:49.500 Now, look, who could it be?

01:19:52.620 It could be anyone in the whole world.

01:19:55.940 It's like the guy in the Netflix series, I think you should leave with Tim Robinson.

01:20:00.160 Tim Robinson's dressed up as a hot dog in a hot dog costume after a hot dog car crashes

01:20:05.620 into a clothing store and they're all looking around.

01:20:08.900 Who did this?

01:20:09.760 And the guy in the hot dog costume is saying, I don't know.

01:20:12.960 Who could it be?

01:20:14.520 It could be any of us.

01:20:17.020 It's you in the hot dog costume.

01:20:19.120 You were driving the hot dog car.

01:20:21.120 Now, we don't have any evidence that she was driving the hot dog car in this particular

01:20:24.420 situation, but it could be, could be, let's give us some scenarios.

01:20:28.100 Could be someone who's aligned with her.

01:20:32.640 Could be someone random.

01:20:34.740 Could be someone who just really cared about racial justice, Pat.

01:20:39.800 Could be someone with just a hardcore belief in racial justice.

01:20:43.780 Who knows who it could be?

01:20:46.400 But it's interesting that it's coming up, particularly at this time, when apparently the belief is

01:20:52.480 that ESPN has offered Maria Taylor multiple millions of dollars, but she wants multiple 1.00

01:20:57.000 millions of dollars more.

01:20:59.080 She wants something like $8 million a year. 1.00

01:21:02.500 Wow.

01:21:02.900 At least that's the, that's the reporting going on right now.

01:21:05.580 I want that too.

01:21:06.420 I want it too.

01:21:07.400 I want that too.

01:21:09.260 Can I just state that now?

01:21:11.100 I want that too.

01:21:12.340 I want $8 million a year.

01:21:13.840 What I find to be completely fascinating about this story.

01:21:17.380 And first of all, it falls right in to the Pat Gray sweet spot of liberals eating their

01:21:22.560 own.

01:21:23.080 Because if you notice the comments from Rachel Nichols, she's not saying it's unfair to give

01:21:28.060 someone a job they don't necessarily deserve because of their physical characteristics.

01:21:32.880 She's saying that's fine.

01:21:34.540 They should just take away other people's jobs instead of hers. 0.99

01:21:37.720 Right.

01:21:38.120 And she's also saying that she, she was on this bandwagon already on the female side

01:21:45.420 of it.

01:21:45.720 So she's actually seemingly for people being promoted because of their physical characteristics. 0.96

01:21:53.660 Yep.

01:21:54.300 Because she believes there's been some injustice against those people.

01:21:57.340 Right.

01:21:57.620 So she's not against, she wouldn't say like, I think, I don't think she would summarize her

01:22:02.300 position as I think the best person should get the job no matter what their, what their

01:22:06.500 skin color or gender.

01:22:08.120 Right.

01:22:08.280 And that's not what she's saying.

01:22:09.380 No.

01:22:09.620 She's saying women should get diversity hires. 0.95

01:22:12.980 Maybe even she's saying that ESPN has a bad record on diversity and they should be promoting 1.00

01:22:18.400 black women to these roles. 0.99

01:22:20.240 Just don't take my gig. 1.00

01:22:22.300 I want, I want that money, not her. 0.99

01:22:25.620 Give me the money.

01:22:26.640 Give me the job.

01:22:28.160 She can take some white guy's job is basically what she's saying. 1.00

01:22:32.520 And does ESPN have a bad record on diversity?

01:22:35.640 Because there are approximately three white men who work at ESPN now, I think, at this point.

01:22:42.500 I mean, look, I don't care.

01:22:45.340 I really don't care.

01:22:46.240 I don't either.

01:22:46.700 But if you're going to say they have a problem with diversity, there's women and BIPOCs everywhere 1.00

01:22:51.940 on the network.

01:22:52.760 Yeah.

01:22:53.920 There's like you said, maybe three white people left.

01:22:57.000 Is that too many?

01:22:57.800 Yeah.

01:22:58.380 I mean, look at our own Jason Woodlock, who works here at Blaze TV now.

01:23:03.460 Just started.

01:23:03.980 By the way, his show is starting up.

01:23:05.060 I don't know if it started yet.

01:23:05.840 It's coming soon.

01:23:06.440 He's got a podcast coming out and everything.

01:23:08.200 He's a great host.

01:23:09.720 When he was at ESPN, they started, what was it?

01:23:12.580 The Undefeated?

01:23:14.340 It was basically supposed to cover the intersection of race and sports.

01:23:19.260 And Jason was one of the people who started it.

01:23:22.740 And if you know Jason and his views on race and sports and that intersection, they are

01:23:28.000 not approved.

01:23:29.560 Not ESPN approved.

01:23:30.660 By ESPN anymore.

01:23:31.460 That's for sure.

01:23:32.280 And so he's certainly no longer there.

01:23:34.760 And they took it in a totally different direction, which was essentially if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

01:23:40.160 ran a sports publication, right?

01:23:42.460 Like that's what it is now.

01:23:44.260 Which is so weird because the average sports fan is not there.

01:23:47.780 Yeah, and the average sports fan is not going to the site either.

01:23:50.980 It's more of a political move now than something that could have been really interesting.

01:23:57.280 If you look back at some of Jason's work when he was there, I mean, some of it's fantastic.

01:24:02.260 He's always great, Jason.

01:24:03.400 But I mean, like it's fantastic.

01:24:05.900 So what I find to be fascinating about this story, though, is let's just play game theory

01:24:12.700 here for a second, Pat.

01:24:15.080 How would you win in this scenario?

01:24:17.780 Okay.

01:24:18.520 How would you win?

01:24:20.140 We know that Rachel Nichols is in trouble.

01:24:23.220 Why?

01:24:24.240 Because she said they were promoting Maria Taylor to this job because she's a black woman, right? 1.00

01:24:30.180 They're trying to just solve these diversity problems.

01:24:32.480 So they've promoted a black woman into this role, right? 0.95

01:24:35.720 Yep.

01:24:35.900 What's fascinating about that is that this is specifically the request from the left that

01:24:44.080 you promote people because they are black women, right? 1.00

01:24:49.120 Back in the day, the position of everybody was hire the best person for the job.

01:24:55.580 Don't notice their skin color. 1.00

01:24:57.020 You shouldn't be noticing their skin color.

01:24:59.000 Okay.

01:24:59.460 The new request is the opposite of that.

01:25:03.380 It's you must notice their skin color.

01:25:06.140 You should give people who are, let's say, African-American a leg up whether they are the best person for the job or not. 1.00

01:25:15.100 You have to give a black person the job, right? 1.00

01:25:18.360 We saw this with the Lin-Manuel Miranda movie that came out recently in the Heights, I think it was called, where they got in trouble because they hired almost exclusively Hispanic actors, but not dark-skinned Hispanic actors or not dark-skinned enough.

01:25:34.840 So it wasn't about that the actors and the singers and the dancers did a bad job or they weren't the most qualified, is that they didn't have dark enough skin to please the woke crowd.

01:25:47.200 So what Rachel Nichols is saying and getting in trouble for and accusing ESPN of doing is the exact thing the woke people are requiring. 0.94

01:26:00.220 So how could you possibly win in this situation? 0.97

01:26:03.360 If you say they only put this black woman in this role because she's black, you're bad. 0.98

01:26:11.340 However, the woke left is also saying you must put this black woman in this role because she's black. 1.00

01:26:16.980 They're saying both sides of the issue. 0.55

01:26:19.180 It's impossible to win, first of all.

01:26:22.340 Second of all, you shouldn't even be trying to win because it's anti-American to, and I think completely wrong, to make decisions based on skin color.

01:26:31.520 It's a thing I've had for a while.

01:26:32.860 I've had this weird inkling throughout my entire life that you should make approximately, exactly, zero decisions in your entire life based on skin color.

01:26:43.680 That's kind of my philosophy.

01:26:45.780 Where are you getting that kind of nonsense?

01:26:48.080 There's a couple people who brought it up.

01:26:50.180 Who else would have felt like that?

01:26:51.960 Yeah, I know. 0.99

01:26:53.300 That's ridiculous. 0.98

01:26:54.000 It's an outlier of a position to take. 0.98

01:26:57.420 It is now.

01:26:58.460 It is now.

01:26:59.340 Who wants it?

01:27:00.400 You know, MLK is not welcome in the movement anymore.

01:27:04.380 Yeah.

01:27:04.540 Someone's, you know, there's this book, Anti-Racist Baby, that we've talked about a few times from Ibram X.

01:27:10.440 Kendi, and it's basically a way to indoctrinate people into this, you know, babies, literally babies, into this hardcore left-wing woke ideology, you know, critical race theory.

01:27:22.160 It's all involved in this, even though it's occasionally denied.

01:27:25.600 And someone asked someone, but I know, hey, like, you know, why don't you, you know, they posted something negative about Anti-Racist Baby.

01:27:36.220 And they were like, well, why don't you like, why don't you, what's wrong with it being an Anti-Racist?

01:27:43.420 It's like, well, I prefer the way MLK went about it.

01:27:46.600 That's the problem here.

01:27:48.060 I prefer the way MLK thought about it.

01:27:50.740 And I, what is, what we have now is this idea that we should discriminate against certain groups to try to even some score done by their ancient relatives.

01:28:00.740 Like, that's what I call nuts.

01:28:03.980 Yep.

01:28:04.460 And wrong, and, you know, I'm not going to teach my kids that.

01:28:07.620 I'm not going to teach babies that.

01:28:09.480 Like, that's the wrong thing to teach them.

01:28:12.120 And it's amazing to see ESPN try to figure out how to navigate this situation.

01:28:17.380 Because one is saying you should be woke for women.

01:28:19.960 The other person is saying you should be woke for black women.

01:28:23.160 And ESPN should be saying, hey, put the best host on the air.

01:28:26.840 Who's the best host? 0.95

01:28:27.580 Put them on the air.

01:28:28.740 And they can't even do that.

01:28:29.880 Can't do it anymore.

01:28:30.940 Incredible.

01:28:31.660 888-727-BECK.

01:28:41.420 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.

01:28:43.720 888-727-BECK.

01:28:46.300 Here's another example of liberals eating their own.

01:28:49.960 Gwen Berry, who turned her back on the flag in the National Anthem last week and took all the attention from the gold and silver medal winners and placed it on her in the hammer throw competition to see who were going to be our U.S. Olympians in that competition. 1.00

01:29:06.360 You know, she's getting some of her own medicine because what the left loves to do is look at your tweets from last week, last month, last year, or last decade, and then beat you over the head with them. 1.00

01:29:23.280 Well, somebody looked into the past tweets of Gwen Berry.

01:29:28.520 Oh, no.

01:29:29.200 And, ooh, there's some nasty stuff in there.

01:29:32.240 This sounds like it's about to take a sad turn, Pat.

01:29:34.280 It really is about to, Stu, because she has said some nasty things in the past. 1.00

01:29:40.360 And, like, after watching a video of a little white kid acting up, she says, this little white boy being bad as hell, I would smack his ass, then stomp him. 1.00

01:29:54.120 Stomping a child. 1.00

01:29:55.140 Shaking my head. 0.99

01:29:56.520 White people, kids, hella disrespectful. 0.99

01:29:58.920 Now, I happen to, I've seen your car before, Pat, and you have a bumper sticker that says, white people, kids, hella disrespectful. 0.99

01:30:06.340 Hella disrespectful, I do. 0.96

01:30:07.860 So, you're on that train.

01:30:09.400 Yeah, I am.

01:30:09.960 But I think it's okay for me because I'm a white person.

01:30:12.500 You're a white person.

01:30:13.120 So, I can say those things. 0.99

01:30:14.340 I can go ahead and criticize white people. 0.98

01:30:16.480 Yes. 0.98

01:30:17.080 You can say those words.

01:30:18.520 Yes.

01:30:18.940 It's not okay for Gwen Berry to say them.

01:30:21.560 Exactly right.

01:30:22.220 Even though they might be the same words, it's okay for you to call for stomping children. 0.97

01:30:28.920 If they're white. 0.96

01:30:30.180 If they're white.

01:30:30.880 Not okay for her to do it.

01:30:32.400 Not her.

01:30:33.340 That's, that's, that is not cool.

01:30:35.640 It's not cool at all.

01:30:37.520 Then she says, another tweet, just saw this girl wearing heels with white socks. 0.70

01:30:43.840 What the hell? 0.98

01:30:45.140 Hashtag Chinese people. 1.00

01:30:46.840 Always trying to start new trends.

01:30:49.640 Shaking my head, girl. 1.00

01:30:51.540 Is there a big use on Twitter for hashtag Chinese people?

01:30:55.620 I don't know.

01:30:56.820 Maybe there is.

01:30:57.480 And I will say, by the way, one interesting thing is the word girl, G-I-R-L. 0.97

01:31:02.500 Yeah.

01:31:02.840 Not G-U-R-L. 1.00

01:31:04.160 Just in case people.

01:31:04.700 Or G-G-G-U-U-U-R-R-R-L-L-L. 1.00

01:31:09.400 That doesn't work.

01:31:10.220 Now, have you ever gone and searched hashtag Chinese people always trying to start new trends? 0.66

01:31:15.180 I didn't know.

01:31:15.760 I have not.

01:31:16.380 That was a big thing.

01:31:17.280 But again, maybe it is.

01:31:18.420 So, we don't understand all parts of culture.

01:31:20.080 Exactly.

01:31:21.100 Then there's a, apparently, you do know about this trend, I'm pretty sure. 0.98

01:31:24.300 Mexicans just don't care about people. 1.00

01:31:26.840 She wrote that in 2012. 0.99

01:31:29.140 Just generalize an entire country that doesn't care.

01:31:31.360 Yeah, don't worry about it.

01:31:31.740 And you know what?

01:31:32.420 Saying disparaging things about Mexicans.

01:31:34.840 I've never seen that burn anyone.

01:31:37.220 Right?

01:31:37.880 Never.

01:31:38.380 It's been universally approved and cheered on by the media.

01:31:42.380 I've noticed.

01:31:43.240 Oh, man.

01:31:43.840 I will say, she also, they say that she made light of rape during a tweet when she said, 0.99

01:31:49.320 I'm about to rape my lunch. 0.97

01:31:52.120 I will say that. 0.98

01:31:53.380 That just made me laugh.

01:31:54.720 I know I'm not supposed to laugh at it, but it did make me laugh.

01:31:58.980 Yeah. 0.97

01:31:59.380 You shouldn't rape your lunch, folks. 1.00

01:32:00.760 No, you shouldn't. 0.97

01:32:01.240 No.

01:32:01.580 Come on.

01:32:01.840 Think about it.

01:32:02.420 Or joke about rape in any way, shape, or form.

01:32:04.520 By the way, she did also criticize women who, she said, shout out to all the females that 0.99

01:32:09.440 are going to get drunk and get wrecked by four dudes, then cry rape this weekend. 0.99

01:32:13.380 Whoa. 0.99

01:32:13.840 So that's way over the Me Too line.

01:32:15.280 Not allowed to say that.

01:32:16.300 You can say it about lunch.

01:32:17.160 You can't say it about women.

01:32:18.240 Right.

01:32:21.040 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:32:26.440 It's Pat and Stu for Glenn.

01:32:30.060 I don't know.

01:32:30.740 Just when you think things can't get any worse.

01:32:35.880 They sort of do.

01:32:37.860 This Campus Reform video.

01:32:39.760 Campus Reform went out to the Georgetown area with Georgetown students and American University

01:32:46.620 students and asked them about how proud they are about America because it was the 4th of

01:32:51.900 July weekend.

01:32:52.700 It was Independence weekend.

01:32:53.600 And they just wanted to see where our kids are at.

01:32:56.920 Nice little heartwarming video.

01:32:58.840 Right.

01:32:58.980 You get some nice reactions.

01:33:00.000 Some patriotic people.

01:33:01.340 Right.

01:33:01.700 Saying what they love about this country.

01:33:03.200 Yeah.

01:33:03.820 And here's how it went.

01:33:05.640 Hi, I'm Ophelia Jacobson with Campus Reform.

01:33:08.460 Today we're in Washington, D.C. talking with young Americans to see if they're proud to

01:33:12.800 be an American.

01:33:14.080 Do they think that America is the greatest country in this world?

01:33:16.700 I'm sure they do.

01:33:17.320 And if not, can they name a better country?

01:33:19.120 Let's find out.

01:33:19.740 Are you proud to be an American?

01:33:21.920 No.

01:33:22.880 I feel embarrassed to be an American every day.

01:33:25.800 I think a lot of things about this country are really embarrassing.

01:33:29.220 Really?

01:33:29.440 Just like, I mean, racist history, colonization, even currently, just what's going on with politics

01:33:36.120 and the cops.

01:33:37.520 I'm not really in this climate.

01:33:39.820 No, like, I'm a black person.

01:33:41.660 So obviously, I experience a lot of, you know, there's like oppression that comes with her. 0.99

01:33:47.640 She looks oppressed.

01:33:48.500 Yeah, very oppressed.

01:33:49.660 Not most of the time.

01:33:51.300 I think sometimes it's just a little embarrassing.

01:33:53.640 We claim to like support everyone, but, you know, we continue to support Israel, which is, 0.99

01:34:00.020 you know, dislocating quite a few Palestinian people.

01:34:04.160 Dislocating people.

01:34:05.240 Yeah.

01:34:05.620 Their shoulders, mostly.

01:34:06.980 They've dislocated a lot of shoulders. 0.93

01:34:08.880 And what is there to be proud about if you're black and being like, 1.00

01:34:11.660 you know, because it's like, it's still a lot of stuff that goes on for black people.

01:34:15.140 Like, yeah.

01:34:15.540 I think that's a complicated question for me.

01:34:18.140 I think I, I, I think most of the time, no, at least over like the past four years,

01:34:24.420 it's been tricky to, you know, love to be an American.

01:34:28.420 Has it?

01:34:28.900 Halfsies on that? 0.93

01:34:30.460 Like, partly, because like, I feel like there's certain topics where it's like very controversial,

01:34:35.680 but like, I don't know.

01:34:37.620 I just think that our economy just cares about money.

01:34:39.400 That's a wonderful statement.

01:34:39.860 But like, I don't know.

01:34:41.240 Like, humans, like, yeah, in general.

01:34:42.880 Yeah.

01:34:43.380 I wouldn't say that I am as proud as I was, but I would still say there's a little bit

01:34:47.420 of country pride.

01:34:48.360 Do you think that America is the greatest country in this world?

01:34:50.240 I think, I mean, like, to be a white person, it's pretty good to live here.

01:34:55.820 But like, overall, I don't think it's the greatest country in the world.

01:34:58.840 Sure.

01:34:59.520 No.

01:35:00.500 No.

01:35:01.400 No.

01:35:02.160 No.

01:35:02.880 No.

01:35:03.320 I feel like the American dream is so sought after that it's not even a thing anymore.

01:35:08.180 That it's not a thing.

01:35:08.880 I don't even really think there is an American dream really anymore.

01:35:11.480 I mean, like, I would honestly rather kind of live somewhere else.

01:35:17.000 Yes.

01:35:17.540 Like where?

01:35:18.520 I mean, I don't know.

01:35:21.340 I'd say that it's like the greatest in like the Olympics.

01:35:24.620 Go Olympics.

01:35:25.540 I don't know.

01:35:25.800 America's not really known for being like the most hospitable place, even though we have

01:35:29.500 a reputation like where it's like you can come here and do what you want to be, be what

01:35:33.920 you want to be and do what you want to do.

01:35:35.220 Wait, but that's the opposite.

01:35:35.920 It's not really the most welcoming to most people.

01:35:38.960 Immediately contradicts yourself.

01:35:39.700 Can you name a country that's more welcoming than the United States?

01:35:45.560 Not really.

01:35:46.380 I don't really know that.

01:35:47.340 I don't have that much information.

01:35:48.660 Can you name a better country than the United States in your opinion?

01:35:52.340 No.

01:35:52.860 I'm not sure if I can.

01:35:55.220 Uh-oh.

01:35:55.860 Silence.

01:35:56.000 I don't think I can.

01:35:56.920 Oh, no.

01:35:57.220 I mean, there's probably a really tiny European country that's thriving.

01:36:03.100 Yes.

01:36:03.400 Lichtenstein.

01:36:04.100 Monaco.

01:36:04.540 Good question.

01:36:06.740 Europe?

01:36:08.220 Europe's not a country.

01:36:09.480 Well.

01:36:10.020 You get what I'm saying.

01:36:10.660 Have you ever considered moving to another country?

01:36:13.020 Oh, absolutely.

01:36:13.720 Oh, sure.

01:36:14.240 I think I had joked about it.

01:36:16.360 Uh-huh.

01:36:16.740 Like, joked, but was, you know, fully serious.

01:36:19.200 Like, oh, I'm going to move to Canada.

01:36:20.180 You joked, but you're fully serious.

01:36:22.060 I mean, I personally, I'm the type of person that likes to help people, so I was, I would

01:36:26.300 actually consider going to someplace, like, with more poverty.

01:36:29.380 Yeah.

01:36:29.920 Probably.

01:36:30.420 Would you be willing to give up your U.S. citizenship?

01:36:32.460 I want to live in a place with more poverty.

01:36:35.080 Yeah.

01:36:35.240 I mean, it's not that necessary.

01:36:38.140 I mean, I can still take vacations here.

01:36:40.300 Definitely.

01:36:40.900 Yeah, 100%.

01:36:41.500 Actually, yeah.

01:36:43.460 Good God, oh my God.

01:36:43.900 Would you say that a college has helped shape your perception of being not proud to be an

01:36:48.140 American?

01:36:48.680 Yes.

01:36:49.040 I would say, yeah, because I went to HBCU, so yeah, definitely.

01:36:52.760 Yes, absolutely.

01:36:54.000 Sure.

01:36:54.160 Good.

01:36:54.460 I also, I mean, I went to American, which is an extremely, like, liberal bubble school,

01:36:57.900 so I know it's kind of like lots of liberals just preaching to the choir, but I think I

01:37:02.400 learned a lot that I'm from Georgia, and I would have never learned if I had not taken

01:37:06.400 those classes just about the way the justice system works and zoning laws and everything

01:37:10.960 else.

01:37:11.220 So I think college opened my eyes to a lot of these things.

01:37:12.880 Zoning laws.

01:37:13.200 Zoning laws.

01:37:13.220 Zoning laws are so outrageous in this country.

01:37:19.340 I'm glad she found out about the zoning laws, because we try to keep that one secret.

01:37:23.620 Yeah, we do.

01:37:24.140 We try to kind of sweep that under the rug, the zoning law situation.

01:37:27.780 That's why American University was created, to teach kids about zoning laws.

01:37:32.300 Yeah.

01:37:32.840 Yeah.

01:37:33.180 And that's why, by the way.

01:37:34.100 I think it's in their charter, as a matter of fact.

01:37:36.080 It is.

01:37:36.520 And that's also why you have to pay $49,889 per year to go there.

01:37:41.960 Oh.

01:37:42.420 The oppression.

01:37:43.440 For the zoning law.

01:37:44.260 For the zoning law, yeah.

01:37:45.260 Information you're going to get.

01:37:46.260 The impression of this country, we are terrible at oppressing people.

01:37:49.720 We really are.

01:37:50.560 Like, the one lady who's like, you know what, it's just terrible to be here, was carrying 1.00

01:37:54.220 a bag from Foxtrot Market, which is an incredibly upscale market.

01:38:02.120 Mm-hmm.

01:38:02.780 Where you buy fine wines and cheeses.

01:38:05.900 Mm-hmm.

01:38:06.380 You know, again, like-

01:38:07.640 Like government cheese?

01:38:08.680 No.

01:38:09.220 Is that because, no?

01:38:09.860 No.

01:38:10.340 Really?

01:38:10.800 All sorts of imported cheeses from all around the world, from those poverty countries.

01:38:15.560 And, you know, high-end coffee bar.

01:38:22.040 It's a very nice place to go.

01:38:24.360 I mean, as a fan of America, I'm glad there are places like it in this country.

01:38:27.660 That's how oppressed she is, though. 0.97

01:38:29.500 She has to go there for her cheese. 1.00

01:38:31.240 It doesn't just get delivered to her door.

01:38:33.840 It's true.

01:38:34.460 Oh, it could be.

01:38:35.380 It could be delivered to her door.

01:38:37.300 Yeah.

01:38:37.400 Could she, like, call Uber Eats or DoorDash or whatever?

01:38:40.700 Yeah, she'd be fine to get it.

01:38:41.840 Yeah.

01:38:42.140 But this is, she had to walk in the beautiful sunshine on July 4th to go get this one.

01:38:47.860 It really is amazing to see that because it's so common and it's just culturally popular.

01:38:53.100 I just love the one who wants to live in a place with more poverty.

01:38:58.880 You know, we just don't have enough poverty for her liking in this country. 1.00

01:39:03.680 And she wants to go to a place with more poverty. 1.00

01:39:05.560 I think that's great.

01:39:06.940 Because who wants to live in a place that's doing well?

01:39:10.060 Nobody.

01:39:10.940 Nobody.

01:39:12.000 So, hopefully she'll be able to find a place like that.

01:39:15.480 I've got a couple of recommendations.

01:39:17.900 But...

01:39:18.380 Yeah, you wouldn't want to go to any of them.

01:39:20.300 No.

01:39:21.180 But I wouldn't.

01:39:21.700 The country of Europe is nice this time of year.

01:39:23.560 I will say that.

01:39:24.380 I will say that.

01:39:25.600 Oh, that's not a country.

01:39:26.700 Well, you know what I mean.

01:39:28.020 Yeah.

01:39:28.520 No, I really don't.

01:39:29.640 That's a continent.

01:39:30.480 What do you mean?

01:39:31.260 I'll give you a country you can go live in.

01:39:33.860 Andorra.

01:39:34.480 They said tiny countries in Europe, right?

01:39:36.160 Oh, okay.

01:39:36.700 Right?

01:39:37.020 Andorra.

01:39:37.480 Very nice place to go.

01:39:38.800 There's a controversy going on there, though.

01:39:40.280 Is that named after Bewitched's mom?

01:39:43.420 Is that what that is?

01:39:44.180 Yes.

01:39:44.920 Okay.

01:39:45.420 Exactly.

01:39:46.620 The country of Andorra.

01:39:47.860 Lots of people from Spain are moving there.

01:39:51.200 And what they're finding is...

01:39:53.060 In fact, it's become one of the...

01:39:55.340 A global...

01:39:56.640 A global place for people who are like YouTube creators to go live.

01:40:02.340 Because it's very pretty, very statuesque...

01:40:05.360 Andorra.

01:40:05.440 Sort of a beautiful country.

01:40:07.040 And near...

01:40:08.080 And does not have the tax rates of Spain.

01:40:10.260 So all these people who are like YouTube creators in Spain are all moving to Andorra

01:40:13.540 because they're paying 10% income tax there.

01:40:15.540 And the people in Spain are like...

01:40:17.380 The media in Spain is wrecking them for moving there.

01:40:20.120 Because they're like, you're abandoning us.

01:40:22.040 You're not paying our taxes.

01:40:23.440 You're making all this money on YouTube.

01:40:24.700 And you're paying the tax rate in Andorra.

01:40:28.040 That's not right.

01:40:30.280 And, of course, Andorra also made it easier to get through the pandemic.

01:40:33.420 Not constant lockdowns and things like that.

01:40:35.580 So, people went there and are enjoying their lives there.

01:40:39.600 And it's almost like there's this incredible idea where you'd have a global competition among countries

01:40:46.020 to make people have the most free life possible.

01:40:51.340 And people would choose in that market where to go.

01:40:54.940 As you see, if you've watched the border anytime recently,

01:40:58.120 you've seen a lot of people choosing the United States of America.

01:41:01.620 But what are we doing now, Pat?

01:41:03.320 Pat, on the July 4th weekend, what are we actually doing?

01:41:07.060 We are going around to country after country

01:41:09.920 and harassing them to keep their tax rates high

01:41:13.060 so that people don't leave us and go to them.

01:41:17.100 That's the Biden administration.

01:41:18.900 They've created a global agreement.

01:41:23.080 130 countries are participating in this.

01:41:25.340 All saying, hey, don't lower your corporate tax rate too much.

01:41:29.940 Because if you do that, then people are going to leave us

01:41:32.080 and they're going to go to you.

01:41:33.320 And we don't want that to happen.

01:41:34.860 So, keep your rates high.

01:41:36.660 Now, of course, most of the countries involved

01:41:38.740 in the agreement already have tax rates above this level,

01:41:43.820 which I think is 15%, including us.

01:41:46.340 We've obviously had rates much higher than that until recently.

01:41:49.060 They're trying to reverse those right now.

01:41:50.680 But places like Ireland are like, wait a minute.

01:41:53.060 You want us to raise our corporate income tax

01:41:55.400 so we can be in a global agreement

01:41:57.040 that our citizens don't agree with,

01:41:58.660 that our government doesn't agree with,

01:42:00.020 so we can please the United States,

01:42:02.300 so they don't lose corporations to go to Ireland,

01:42:05.040 which, by the way, we should just be out-competing and winning.

01:42:08.780 We're the United States of America.

01:42:10.900 I don't know.

01:42:11.720 We, like, basically brought the free market to market.

01:42:16.920 Yep.

01:42:18.000 We should be able to out-compete Ireland for a business.

01:42:22.080 Yep.

01:42:22.640 Instead,

01:42:23.480 We can't.

01:42:24.060 Our argument now is to go to the world

01:42:26.700 and tell them to keep their tax rates high.

01:42:30.340 It's outrageous.

01:42:31.880 Unbelievable.

01:42:32.620 It's outrageous.

01:42:33.040 We do have some good news, though.

01:42:36.360 You know, we just came off an Independence Day weekend,

01:42:39.940 and so there is some hope.

01:42:42.200 There are people who do appreciate this nation,

01:42:45.000 and maybe it's not the college students

01:42:46.480 that go to Georgetown and American University

01:42:49.120 and they're taught to hate this country,

01:42:51.200 but how about Ozzie Guillen,

01:42:54.380 former professional baseball player from Venezuela,

01:42:58.180 on MLB Network, or no,

01:43:02.840 he was on an interview with NBC Sports Chicago,

01:43:07.160 Ozzie Guillen,

01:43:07.980 and he's asked about becoming a U.S. citizen.

01:43:11.300 Check this out.

01:43:12.140 You became an American citizen.

01:43:13.780 You were born in Venezuela,

01:43:14.940 and what this country means to you,

01:43:16.880 and it was,

01:43:17.600 I've got the date right here,

01:43:19.100 January of 2006.

01:43:21.520 That's when you became an American citizen.

01:43:23.360 How about this day?

01:43:24.040 What did that mean to you that day?

01:43:25.960 Espresso.

01:43:26.400 People, they don't know how hard that is.

01:43:31.760 How many people die,

01:43:33.160 how many people open the thing,

01:43:34.620 how many people want to be American.

01:43:36.320 It's a very honor for me to do that.

01:43:40.220 Yeah, you're really emotional right now.

01:43:42.260 Why are you so emotional?

01:43:43.540 I'm tearing up out now.

01:43:44.540 Maybe cut back to the studio, guys.

01:43:46.660 I don't know.

01:43:48.760 Opportunities, man.

01:43:50.200 Opportunities.

01:43:50.920 Opportunity opened the door for me,

01:43:53.200 and being great,

01:43:54.560 I've been living in this country for a long time,

01:43:56.800 give my family a great cause,

01:43:59.880 and open the door for them to be who they are.

01:44:02.060 You didn't know that video was coming.

01:44:03.280 Maybe that caught you from my advice.

01:44:04.400 Maybe that was.

01:44:05.240 Yeah.

01:44:05.940 It was funny, but I don't cry that often.

01:44:08.660 I'm a very tough guy,

01:44:09.440 but seeing that,

01:44:11.780 I know how to be American.

01:44:11.860 But he cries about becoming a U.S. citizen.

01:44:13.860 Yes.

01:44:14.140 I mean, that's awesome.

01:44:15.840 Yeah, awesome.

01:44:16.360 There's an, you know,

01:44:17.660 that's an immigrant we want in this country. 0.99

01:44:19.980 Somebody who appreciates it.

01:44:21.280 Somebody who understands what America means to them.

01:44:24.920 Somebody who chokes up just speaking about becoming a citizen.

01:44:29.660 That is great stuff.

01:44:31.920 And when you're fleeing a place like Venezuela,

01:44:33.980 it does create a lot of emotion.

01:44:37.260 Yeah.

01:44:37.540 I mean,

01:44:37.860 think of the life that he would have had had he remained there.

01:44:41.000 And it's a totally different existence for him and his family.

01:44:45.100 And this story is repeated all over the world.

01:44:48.080 People come here,

01:44:49.020 and, you know,

01:44:49.860 there's nobody better, man.

01:44:51.120 I mean,

01:44:51.360 like nobody appreciates this country more than someone coming here from Nigeria. 1.00

01:44:55.680 Yeah.

01:44:55.940 And trying to escape the situation there to come see it here.

01:45:02.660 Or people who've come from a former Soviet satellite country.

01:45:06.660 I mean,

01:45:07.540 or you've come here from Cuba.

01:45:09.840 These are the people that understand what America offers.

01:45:14.260 It's so great.

01:45:15.220 And unfortunately,

01:45:16.080 our kids at Georgetown taking everything for granted.

01:45:19.220 Triple 8,

01:45:20.320 727-BECK.

01:45:25.980 This is Pat and Stu for Glenn.

01:45:28.260 Did you save your 16 cents on your 4th of July meal over the weekend?

01:45:34.140 Well,

01:45:34.400 I live in a red state,

01:45:35.240 so it was only 14 cents saved.

01:45:37.120 Yeah, 0.98

01:45:37.280 we got screwed. 1.00

01:45:38.880 That sucks. 0.99

01:45:40.940 An amazing thing. 0.99

01:45:41.420 Wait,

01:45:41.640 I live in a red,

01:45:42.540 same one as you.

01:45:44.120 So I must've only saved 14 cents too.

01:45:47.260 I think it was the Babylon Bee that said they're minting,

01:45:49.040 new Joe Biden,

01:45:50.100 16 cent coins to honor the 16 cents we all saved on July 4th.

01:45:55.580 That's funny.

01:45:56.800 Yeah,

01:45:57.640 they're always pretty solid.

01:45:59.740 So the other thing about the 16 cents is that supermarkets are stockpiling inventory

01:46:07.740 because food costs have gone up so much.

01:46:10.540 They're stocking up on everything from sugar to frozen meat before they get even more pricey.

01:46:17.680 Girding for what some executives anticipate will be some of the highest price increases in recent memory.

01:46:24.120 Your 16 cent savings is going to go away even if I mean as if you had 16 cent savings.

01:46:33.040 Some supermarkets say they're buying and storing supplies to keep their shelves full amid stronger demand.

01:46:39.320 Grocery sales in the U.S. for the week ending June 19th rose about 15% from two years earlier.

01:46:44.320 15% stockpiling by food retailers is driving shortage of some staples and that's driving up prices too.

01:46:55.860 But when you go to the supermarket,

01:46:58.900 I don't know where the Biden administration shopped to get that 16 cent savings.

01:47:05.800 Because if you're buying meat and meat was included,

01:47:10.080 they included some ground beef.

01:47:12.120 But wow,

01:47:13.620 where I shop,

01:47:14.440 it's up a lot.

01:47:15.740 Meat price.

01:47:16.280 Of course,

01:47:16.480 you don't buy meat.

01:47:17.860 So now the household does for sure.

01:47:21.100 And I mean,

01:47:21.540 you can just tell all the prices are up.

01:47:23.100 I mean,

01:47:23.220 it's obvious gas prices are really noticeable.

01:47:25.880 I mean,

01:47:26.120 you notice that every single time you go to the pump filled up this morning.

01:47:30.600 $71.

01:47:31.620 That might take $71.

01:47:34.760 That's just crazy.

01:47:36.420 $71.

01:47:37.600 Yeah.

01:47:38.400 But I saved 16 cents last week when I bought,

01:47:41.400 you know,

01:47:42.480 watermelon and did you though?

01:47:45.000 No,

01:47:45.440 probably not.

01:47:46.240 No,

01:47:46.700 probably didn't seem like I saved 16 cents.

01:47:49.460 It didn't.

01:47:50.380 This isn't working out so well so far.

01:47:52.140 It's really not.

01:47:53.380 It would be my summary of it.

01:47:54.460 The whole Biden administration?

01:47:56.020 Not working out so well so far.

01:47:57.680 It's kind of a radical statement.

01:47:59.860 I mean,

01:48:00.020 we had a couple hundred good years.

01:48:01.680 Maybe this,

01:48:02.380 you know,

01:48:02.620 maybe we shouldn't get greedy.

01:48:04.200 We shouldn't get greedy.

01:48:05.240 Right?

01:48:05.600 This is too much.

01:48:06.400 What do we expect?

01:48:07.460 245 more?

01:48:08.440 I mean,

01:48:08.740 come on.

01:48:09.340 Let's just call it a day.

01:48:10.960 And have it.

01:48:11.600 Look back at our past and be happy.

01:48:13.040 Okay.

01:48:15.700 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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