00:09:01.260So we're going to read the whole thing today on Blaze TV, and then we'll post it all for you.
00:09:06.960But just because we have such little time today, I'm going to give you just the edited version of Asians in Cages by the Glenn Beck Program.
00:09:20.480Franklin Delano tugged at his hair and tapped the arms of his big metal chair.
00:09:29.460Then he said with a sigh as he polished his glasses in a voice that was low and as smooth as molasses.
00:09:36.880We must treat these Asians as separate classes and put them where they can't be harming the masses.
00:09:47.520Oh, where is the best place for them all to go?
00:09:52.460With a snap of his fingers, both too soft and sluggish, for his polioed nerves were all wiggy and buggish, but still had a ring that was brutal and thuggish.
00:10:04.640He smiled and said, I've got the perfect solution, a cultural cleansing from Asian pollution.
00:10:12.740And in this nebulous time full of fear and low wages, and with war with each other that rages and rages, and advice both from fools and from Democrat sages, let's put all of these terrible Asians in cages.
00:10:30.440And so it was done, to our shame and our guilt.
00:10:34.980And we damn near lost every good thing that we had built.
00:10:38.580But from history we learn, and to history we go, for a crack at the future so bright it could glow.
00:10:46.740And no matter how leftism strikes and enrages, us all in battle of wits that enrages, we still have one thing we can say through the ages.
00:10:58.940It sure the hell wasn't us that put Asians in cages.
00:26:05.740And even though he does these amazing things, his late, his early work also has some drawings.
00:26:11.120They, if you look at them, they didn't age well.
00:26:14.240I think even Dr. Seuss would admit they didn't age well.
00:26:17.000Those two things can be true at the same time.
00:26:19.420And I think what is such a, you know, is so sad today is that we reduced the culture and the culture has come to, and I can say this, you know, for our kids' books, as Dr. Seuss, who was a hero in one of them, right?
00:26:31.600Every hero that I've done, Glenn, from Amelia Earhart, we did I am Abraham Lincoln, I am Martin Luther King Jr., I am Rosa Parks, to the new ones, I am Walt Disney, Jim Henson, someone has written to me and said, that person's not a hero, you shouldn't do them.
00:26:48.940And that is what is so sad to me, because I tell my kids, if you're looking for perfection, the only thing that's perfect is God.
00:27:25.800But if you are, you know, if you are a monster at the beginning because of your beliefs or whatever else, and then you grew and you learned and you were like, oh my gosh, I reject the things that I thought I, I'm not the same man.
00:28:26.480I mean, the same way that Disneyland and Disney World, when you go now and you go to the Song of the South, you look at someone and you're like, this might have been good in the 50s and 60s, but today it doesn't look as good.
00:28:36.520And I think the, I wish that as a culture, we could take a breath and rather, you know, I go back to Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address is like, we need to be friends and not enemies.
00:28:48.460And I, and I, it's so sad to me and heartbreaking that the culture has turned into everyone is the best.
00:28:55.160Everyone's the worst because that kind of those kinds of absolutes, you know, maybe it's because I'm a Star Wars fan, but absolutes, you know, in the Jedi order, right?
00:29:02.440Like they, they just never do anyone any good.
00:29:46.880It's always been, you know, it's one of the great things of our friendship.
00:29:50.120Um, but to give the other part of our friendship is I wanted to give my kids better heroes to look up to, heroes of character, heroes of compassion, heroes of kindness.
01:01:06.400But, when he started to get into trouble, the Attorney General of the State of New York, Letitia James, who wants to be governor, swung into action.
01:01:21.520Now, she's further left, much further left, than Andrew Cuomo.
01:01:26.120Andrew Cuomo will hold up things like the wealth tax and a lot of the socialist stuff that the people, the far left of New York, wants.
01:01:35.420Once Letitia James signaled that she wanted his job, then, all of a sudden, the press started to report stuff.
01:01:46.400And James herself came out and said, well, I'm going to investigate Andrew Cuomo.
01:13:56.200Sadly, journalism has changed a lot since I first stepped into a newsroom.
01:14:02.060And I'll be honest, I don't like the direction it's going.
01:14:05.600The media needs more balance in coverage and a wider range of viewpoints represented in every newsroom, at every level, and in each position.
01:14:15.600In the past few years, I haven't felt proud to be a member of the media.
01:14:20.340I'm sure there are other journalists out there who feel the same way.
01:14:23.960I found myself reading news copy that I didn't believe was fully truthful or only told part of the story.
01:14:31.680And I began to feel that I was contributing to the fear and division in this country by continuing on in this profession.
01:14:39.020It's been a serious struggle for me, and I no longer want to do this job anymore.
01:14:44.160So I've decided the time is right to do something else, and I'm leaving Fox 10.
01:14:49.540There will probably be some hit pieces written about me.
01:14:52.840Not everyone is dedicated to telling the truth.
01:14:55.140But thankfully, many of you have figured that out.
01:14:57.420I promise you, if you hear it from my lips, it will be truthful.
01:15:02.520It is scary walking away from a good job and a successful career, especially in difficult times.
01:15:09.440I know God has my back and will guide me to work that aligns with my values.
01:15:15.040So local news has been the one place where people feel like they can still trust it.
01:15:21.160They can still trust their local news.
01:15:23.000Now it's down to local news where there is no diversity of thought at all in local news.
01:15:30.680Are we seeing the rebirth of journalism with these people leaving and most likely starting their own thing?
01:15:40.040Or are we seeing a more disturbing sign that the trend is continuing with really bad journalism?
01:15:49.980Well, it's not a profit center anymore.
01:15:54.000The local news, and I came up under local news, it's not a profit center the way it used to be.
01:16:01.080So the people who work it are not nearly as smart and as honest as they used to be.
01:16:10.080And that's what this woman, and I read the story, and she was absolutely right.
01:16:13.860The guy in the Arizona Republic, Goody Koontz is his name.
01:24:06.960Even if the weather is changing or no matter how cold it is, you have an app on your phone and you can set the temperature and it automatically monitors that temperature and adjusts the heat to make sure that it remains the right temperature.
01:25:01.980Sadly, journalism has changed a lot since I first stepped into a newsroom.
01:25:07.600And I'll be honest, I don't like the direction it's going.
01:25:11.840The media needs more balance in coverage and a wider range of viewpoints represented in every newsroom, at every level and in each position.
01:25:21.540In the past few years, I haven't felt proud to be a member of the media.
01:25:26.240I'm sure there are other journalists out there who feel the same way.
01:25:29.420I found myself reading news copy that I didn't believe was fully truthful or only told part of the story.
01:25:37.480And I began to feel that I was contributing to the fear and division in this country by continuing on in this profession.
01:25:44.520It's been a serious struggle for me, and I no longer want to do this job anymore.
01:25:49.580So I've decided the time is right to do something else, and I'm leaving Fox 10.
01:25:54.760There will probably be some hit pieces written about me.
01:25:57.560Obviously, not everyone is dedicated to telling the truth.
01:45:27.600So, Stand Up New York has sued Governor Cuomo to lift COVID-19, the shutdown order, and I guess they kind of won a little bit because he has lifted a bit of the shutdown order.
01:47:05.980But I really feel like we're on the upswing right now.
01:47:09.440And by the way, the Upper West Side liberal thing, I challenge you to take a walk with me on Broadway, on the Upper West Side, and get a bagel at Zabar's.
01:47:21.700I should be challenging you to do that.
01:47:44.540Listen, I saw you have stand-up New York in the park, and you guys started doing, you know, social distancing stand-up, you know, under the trees in New York City.
01:48:06.180Really, I was in the bar, in the club by myself.
01:48:10.840Like, everyone in New York City was really just hunkering down and being in their apartments.
01:48:15.980So there was really nothing going on March, April, May in Manhattan.
01:48:19.360But come June, when the weather was nice, I started city biking to Central Park.
01:48:25.320And I bought a lawn chair, and I would work on my laptop.
01:48:27.780And I just saw hundreds of people on the lawn in Sheep Meadow in Central Park just enjoying themselves and playing frisbee and lying on the grass.
01:48:36.900And I text my booker, John, and I'm like, dude, we should do a comedy show here.
01:48:43.060Like, it feels alive here in the park.
01:48:45.000If you go to Broadway, it's a disaster.
01:48:48.280But storefronts close and homeless people are around, and it was actually, like, dangerous in the streets.
01:48:53.580But the park, we didn't get that sense.
01:48:55.980And we did a comedy show, and 50 people showed up, and we had six comics, and we paid them.
01:51:30.680I can't believe it's been a year we were closed down.
01:51:33.780And I got really frustrated over the past few weeks when Cuomo announced that weddings are allowed.
01:51:40.820And restaurants can increase their capacity.
01:51:43.400And you can go bowling and play pool and do all these things.
01:51:47.800But comedy clubs can operate and music venues can operate.
01:51:50.920And I just got really on social media, like open the clubs, you know, screaming and yelling.
01:51:58.000And we decided Monday to file a lawsuit.
01:52:00.560You know, we were fighting for the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment, the First Amendment, you know, freedom, freedom of expression, which I didn't know, like last week.
01:52:12.760And 14th Amendment, which is equal protection under the law, we should be able to operate under the same guidelines as other businesses.
01:52:21.840And the media has been covering the lawsuit.
01:52:26.200And Andrew Yang had a call with him a few days ago, and he tweeted support.
01:52:31.100And he didn't understand why we can operate under the same guidelines.
01:52:44.840You know, Saturday Night Live, as you pointed out in your lawsuit, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Fallon show, jazz dinner, theaters, weddings, restaurants.
01:52:56.860They didn't tell us, which is really unfortunate because entertainment in New York is everything.
01:53:03.740I mean, that's why people from all around the world, young people move here, right, to be an actor, to be a comic, to be on Broadway, musicians.
01:53:14.800There's great music clubs and comedy clubs and there's off-Broadway.
01:53:18.580And not to give one explanation, not to mention it at a press conference in the past year when he wrote his book, right?
01:53:27.600Not to address why we can't be open, why he can't arrange a conference call with venue operators, just explaining the logic to them, I find is really unacceptable.
01:54:37.400Most comics in the country, especially New York, are to the left and they're very liberal, but they're very pro-speech and they're very against this woke mob, I'll call them.
01:54:55.420And they hate cancel culture, which is cool.
01:55:00.080You know, like, again, a lot of comics are liberal, but they hate it, you know, which is refreshing to see.
01:55:32.640I'm happy to give comics a platform to say whatever they want and we've never censored them.
01:55:39.420And it's funny, I was having drinks with my friend Dan last night and I was telling him, like, there's some words that we used to say, like, in the 90s or 2000s that you can't say now.
01:56:44.400Uh, we, so about a month ago, uh, we were approached by common health.
01:56:50.240They run urgent cares here in New York and they saw what we're doing, trying to keep comedy going in New York and, um, you know, try to support comics and keep people laughing.
01:57:02.600And they approached me and they're like, you know, we want to offer your comic free healthcare visit and free COVID testing through August 31st.
01:58:03.200I don't even have to like you, but we must protect free speech.
01:58:06.980And I'm also, New York's not a fan of me, but I'm a fan of New York and, uh, anything we can do to help you, the comedians or the comedy club, you reach out at any time.
01:58:23.580Having to get your car repaired, especially after the warranty has expired is a pain in the butt.
01:58:29.700I mean, it's right up there with finding out that you have to have your appendix out, which I fought all the way to the hospital.
01:58:35.060I'm like, come on, I've got stuff to do, and I got stuff to do, um, a car shield, carshield.com.
01:58:41.780You will don't have to worry about any more of it.
01:58:44.220And it doesn't take, it doesn't take your focus off the things that you really find important, like your family, you know, the money that you're putting into savings for a rainy day.
01:58:53.100You don't want to blow it all on some stupid Silicon chip that costs 50 cents to make, but it's going to be cost you about six grand to make your car work.
02:00:47.480He's the host of the bachelor says he's been working closely with a quote, race educator and strategist along with faith leaders and scholars like Dr. Michael Eric Dyson.
02:00:58.060But Dr. Dyson often talks to me about counsel, not cancel.
02:01:05.380And that is, there's a couple of things.
02:01:08.180First of all, this guy is the host of the bachelor who cares, who cares?
02:01:52.860By the way, if you missed our ode to Dr. Seuss, you know, the problem with the Mulberry Street book was, you know, some Asians were in cages.
02:02:02.920And we just decided it would be right to, uh, to tell the truth about who in America has put Asians in cages.
02:02:11.960Uh, you'll be able to hear that on the podcast, or you could check out the, uh, the whole Dr. Seuss ode that we wrote at glennbeck.com.