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00:03:55.760 So, Stu, I think we have to start with the audio of Liz Cheney in her speech last night.

00:04:09.780 Unfortunately, it wasn't a victory speech, but she's going to go on.

00:04:15.500 Listen, here she is. 0.96

00:04:16.380 The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln,

00:04:21.180 was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House

00:04:24.860 before he won the most important election of all.

00:04:28.920 Lincoln ultimately prevailed.

00:04:30.940 He saved our union.

00:04:32.360 And he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history.

00:04:39.360 I think she just compared herself to Abraham Lincoln.

00:04:42.380 I'm not sure what her point was there other than,

00:04:47.120 and I'm like Abraham Lincoln.

00:04:48.540 And so I'm launching my presidential campaign.

00:04:51.780 I mean, I don't know what she was doing.

00:04:53.500 And, you know, in all honesty, she has a lot in Abraham Lincoln.

00:04:58.100 Imagine Abraham Lincoln without the beard.

00:05:02.320 Now, Cheney.

00:05:04.120 You see it?

00:05:06.200 You see it?

00:05:09.500 Not particularly.

00:05:11.180 I can't say that I do.

00:05:13.300 You're right.

00:05:14.080 That's mean.

00:05:14.700 It's just the wart.

00:05:16.020 That is the same.

00:05:17.780 But anyway, so I'm kind of sad, Stu.

00:05:23.340 We don't have old Liz Cheney to kick around anymore. 1.00

00:05:29.240 Darn it.

00:05:30.240 Yeah.

00:05:30.540 You know, it was an interesting approach.

00:05:32.480 One of the strangest elections probably of all time.

00:05:37.480 As we kind of noted a little bit yesterday,

00:05:40.020 you know, Liz Cheney voted for Donald Trump in 2020. 1.00

00:05:43.720 People forget this.

00:05:44.780 She voted for Donald Trump in 2020.

00:05:48.580 She was then obviously turned against him and said the stuff that he did after the election,

00:05:54.820 she didn't like, but then survived a Republican leadership vote after all of this.

00:05:59.000 And then still kept talking about it.

00:06:01.080 And then eventually was thrown out of leadership and has become the enemy and was defeated handily by an opponent who Glenn was so anti-Trump in 2016

00:06:14.300 that she was among the people organizing the overturning of the primary on the convention floor in 2016 to get Ted Cruz to be the candidate instead of Trump.

00:06:25.280 And she's come so far the other way that she's now the pro-Trump candidate. 0.97

00:06:30.800 And Cheney, who voted for Trump in 2020, is now the anti-Trump candidate and lost by 40 points.

00:06:37.900 It is like all of our beds are on the edge of a wormhole.

00:06:41.920 And every day we get out of bed, we put our feet on the floor and we we just like it's like a water slide.

00:06:49.140 Shoo, we're into another America that is kind of like the one we were in yesterday.

00:06:54.080 Yeah, I can't keep track of it.

00:06:55.880 It's so weird.

00:06:56.600 And, you know, so the final was 66 to 29, basically about what I think people expected going into this.

00:07:03.000 There were some crossover votes from Democrats.

00:07:05.160 But again, not enough of them in Wyoming to make any particular difference.

00:07:10.780 And so it was it was it was a blowout.

00:07:13.880 Cheney is already on to her next thing.

00:07:16.540 As we said yesterday, you could tell it was a blowout because the way the media was covering it.

00:07:20.440 It was talking about how she's got more to her than this.

00:07:23.140 This is just one bump in the road of a longer journey.

00:07:27.040 And she leaked this to every single reporter in the mainstream media to tell that, you know, look, this isn't a big deal.

00:07:34.960 Well, she doesn't care about this. 0.99

00:07:35.980 It's the next thing.

00:07:36.700 That's the big deal.

00:07:38.000 I did think it was a little much when she started singing.

00:07:41.360 My heart will go on.

00:07:45.340 It's true.

00:07:45.980 You know, she is trying to make herself into this. 1.00

00:07:49.840 This is a martyr type of period here for her, I suppose.

00:07:53.420 Yeah.

00:07:53.860 And it's it's it's a strange one.

00:07:55.860 You know, I was talking to someone who follows politics, but not like super closely.

00:07:59.800 And he's just like, look, you know, I don't know anything about Liz Cheney other than she doesn't like Trump.

00:08:06.640 You know, and it's like this is her problem here.

00:08:10.020 It's not that you can't disagree with Trump.

00:08:12.100 It's not like you can't have your own opinion.

00:08:14.220 But when you dedicate your entire life to be obsessed with one individual, this is you're going to be defined as to how people in your state feel about that individual.

00:08:23.400 And when it comes to Donald Trump, people in Wyoming like him quite a bit.

00:08:26.140 Yeah.

00:08:27.300 You know, here's the here's the amazing thing is my problem with her is, like you said, she was all in in 2020.

00:08:40.660 She was all in in 2020.

00:08:42.540 And then he does his thing on January 6th, which he didn't cause he didn't do it.

00:08:49.220 But I didn't like the way he acted on January 6th.

00:08:52.540 I just I thought, like, hey, Mr. President, get on TV right now and say stop.

00:08:58.240 And, you know, on the day I was really, really pissed.

00:09:01.240 And I'm like, what are you doing?

00:09:03.660 And and then I kind of got over it.

00:09:07.980 You know, you know what I mean?

00:09:09.660 He wasn't responsible.

00:09:13.480 So I kind of went.

00:09:14.980 I didn't like that, but I'm not going to dedicate my life to destroying him because that's kind of a I don't know, psychotic break.

00:09:26.140 It it might be a little manic in its approach to life.

00:09:31.660 It's like going to going someplace where you've had, you know, good meals and you've recommended the place.

00:09:36.880 And then you have one meal that's cold and you set out to destroy it.

00:09:42.820 I want their license revoked.

00:09:44.680 I want them out of business.

00:09:46.200 I want to burn their business down and I want to piss on their ashes.

00:09:50.200 That's really what it's like.

00:09:52.560 Yeah, it's weird.

00:09:53.340 I mean, look, I think we've certainly asked for for this over the years.

00:09:57.580 Politicians who believe in something that's not popular to stand up for it.

00:10:00.740 I have no problem embracing that general vibe and that and I, you know, a lot of people are saying, you know, I don't know.

00:10:07.720 I think she genuinely seems to believe this now.

00:10:11.420 I don't know what it's hard to understand that from someone who voted for the guy.

00:10:16.000 Right.

00:10:16.200 Like, you know, it's one thing if you really thought he was a terrible president for four years and then you say, OK, this is the this is pushing me over the edge.

00:10:23.640 I have to stop him in any way possible.

00:10:25.460 You're someone who wanted four more years of this guy.

00:10:27.720 Right.

00:10:28.140 Up until the actual election.

00:10:30.680 Right.

00:10:30.880 I think I don't think she is.

00:10:32.960 I think she is someone who held her nose and said all the right things.

00:10:38.820 And if the first opportunity to knife him, she did. 0.93

00:10:42.980 I really you cannot make it psychotic, Stu.

00:10:47.280 Yeah, that's a psychotic swing.

00:10:49.800 It really is.

00:10:50.640 It really is.

00:10:51.220 But it was something it was a big event.

00:10:53.320 Right.

00:10:53.580 I mean, there's certainly no it did change some people's minds, I suppose.

00:10:57.740 But I mean, I think overall, when you when you look at it, it's it's like I don't think she did this because she thought it was going to help her win this election.

00:11:05.400 I think she had to have known going into this.

00:11:07.720 This would have made her political life more difficult. 0.99

00:11:10.000 So if she really believes it, let her go out and do this.

00:11:12.780 But along with that comes the consequences from voters and voters don't agree with you.

00:11:17.620 You know, the Republican voters in Wyoming.

00:11:19.540 Yeah, but I think what you're doing is, you know, completely wrong.

00:11:22.920 And they sent a massive message.

00:11:24.720 The turnout was huge yesterday.

00:11:26.000 But I think, Stu, I mean, think of this strategically.

00:11:31.060 I think a humiliating and devastating loss puts you right where you need to be to launch a presidential campaign.

00:11:40.480 Don't you think?

00:11:41.300 Don't you think?

00:11:41.840 Let me ask Beto O'Rourke.

00:11:43.020 Hold on one second.

00:11:43.900 I'll get him on the phone.

00:11:44.880 I know.

00:11:45.400 I know.

00:11:46.640 Beto's like, there's somebody out there who gets it.

00:11:50.540 Hold on.

00:11:51.260 Stacey Abrams.

00:11:52.180 She's online, too.

00:11:53.100 No, it's true.

00:11:56.360 I doesn't make I don't like the bigger thing here is what is the constituency for a Liz Cheney presidency?

00:12:02.720 She basically runs the state of Wyoming and her family runs the state of Wyoming and she got 29 percent of the vote there. 0.97

00:12:09.580 So what what is the constituency other than the possibility of her running as an independent candidate to shave votes from Donald Trump and what give the presidency to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom or whoever else is running?

00:12:25.720 I mean, if that's the strategy, which I don't see what the alternative is there.

00:12:30.640 I don't think that there's any I don't think there's any other path for her to make an impact that, you know, that's that's a strategy that does not support someone who does have a relatively conservative voting record.

00:12:42.300 She's going to be she's going to be brave and she's going to take that stage with Donald Trump.

00:12:48.560 And he's there.

00:12:49.920 That's she's going to she's going to be the one that takes him on and she will last all of about 45 seconds. 0.97

00:12:58.160 Okay, she will he will pummel her and I'll be ugly done it to every single person. 1.00

00:13:09.160 He'll pummel her the pummel her and then she'll really be set up for a presidential run. 1.00

00:13:16.340 I mean, look, there's no by the way audience for this is not how you would win a primary.

00:13:20.720 There's no one that's going to come in to the Republican primary and take a stance like Liz Cheney is taking and win. 1.00

00:13:27.780 You can take a stance and say, hey, I'm different than Donald Trump in this these ways.

00:13:32.080 I don't like the way he did X, Y and Z.

00:13:34.140 But to come in and just say this man is Satan is not there's no way to win a primary doing that.

00:13:38.880 No. So here's here's where I think I could have tolerated.

00:13:44.700 I could have tolerated and maybe the people of Wyoming would have as well.

00:13:48.700 I don't know. I don't you know, I don't live in Wyoming.

00:13:51.140 But I think if you had if you were with Donald Trump and then you, you know, something happened on January 6th and you're like, OK, that was really bad.

00:14:04.500 You'd handle it like everybody that I know who is was a Donald Trump supporter or is a Donald Trump supporter.

00:14:11.920 They were really angry that day.

00:14:14.460 And now they're to the point of I didn't like how he handled January 6th.

00:14:19.460 I just don't like it. It really bothered me and it still bothers me.

00:14:23.980 But, you know, he's you know, it's Donald Trump and he's going to do what he does.

00:14:30.040 And, you know, while it bothers me, he either is the candidate or isn't the candidate for me.

00:14:36.900 And if he if they would have said, look, if she would have said, look, I was for Donald Trump.

00:14:41.600 I was with him the whole time.

00:14:43.340 And and I love him, just loved him.

00:14:46.580 But then instead of going psycho over it, I decided just to come out and say, guys, I'm not sure if he is the guy for the next election.

00:14:57.160 He was great in the time, but he may not be the right guy because, you know, he's he's he's stirs it up every time.

00:15:07.820 And we need somebody a little more calm than Donald Trump.

00:15:11.960 And, you know, he stirs it up and I don't know, but it should be left up to the people.

00:15:17.940 Is this the is this what is this the best way to defeat this socialism, socialist Marxism?

00:15:25.440 It might be. But I think maybe, you know, Ron DeSantis would be better.

00:15:31.660 OK, I think those conversations are happening, but those conversations are not.

00:15:36.980 You know, I really, really liked him.

00:15:39.840 Now he's got to be destroyed.

00:15:41.340 Right. Right. Yeah, no, it's true.

00:15:44.780 It's interesting because, you know, obviously we do have a lot of guests that come on the show on Studios America.

00:15:50.560 I go on other podcasts all the time.

00:15:52.320 And one of I think the most I'm always interested to ask guests and people who are other hosts, commentators in the conservative world.

00:16:01.840 Who do you want? Who do you want?

00:16:03.620 And and I I'm mostly interested to ask people who are Trump supporters, people who love Donald Trump,

00:16:08.880 who are with him the whole time, who would walk through a wall of fire to vote for this guy in 2020.

00:16:13.580 What do you want in 2024? Who would you prefer?

00:16:17.040 Do you want Trump to run again? Do you want it to be someone like DeSantis?

00:16:20.340 And and all of these people that I've asked have been if Trump is the nominee, I'm 100 percent on board.

00:16:27.300 Right. Like there's no there's totally on that on that realm.

00:16:30.580 But I would say the answers have been about 50 50, about 50 percent want Trump to run that he's the guy.

00:16:37.000 He's the only guy for this time period. About 50 percent are like, look, I love Trump.

00:16:41.000 He's the best. If he's the nominee. Great. Fine. I'm fine with it.

00:16:44.280 But like, honestly, if I had a preference, I'd rather have someone like DeSantis because I don't there's too much baggage already built into that package.

00:16:52.440 And it's not a slam. It's not a slam on Donald Trump.

00:16:55.820 And I don't know the people like Lynn Cheney. I do know people.

00:17:00.240 I mean, I was here in in Utah. I'm in Salt Lake City.

00:17:05.060 I did a speech last night on ESG. I'll tell you about that.

00:17:09.400 There's some ESG news today. But I'm I'm here and I talked to some some real heavy Republican heavy hitters and they all said the same thing.

00:17:20.040 They were all like, look, I'm I'm all in. I'd even raise money for Donald Trump.

00:17:24.680 And I have and I will. But if he would not run, I think that might be a better path because the temperature would be lowered.

00:17:35.740 And I just I just wish we could lower the temperature on things.

00:17:40.200 And then they always followed up with. But if he runs, I'm 100 percent in.

00:17:47.620 It's it's this weird thing that the Lynn Cheney thing doesn't exist.

00:17:53.840 Liz, I really don't think it exists.

00:17:56.120 I mean, it's probably Liz, too. I think they have the same feelings on the issue, but I think I'm talking about Liz.

00:18:00.880 But you don't think that Dick has the same feelings, do you?

00:18:05.080 I do believe you've got a commercial for her on that front.

00:18:09.340 I know it's shocking. You know, it's interesting, too.

00:18:11.420 You have basically the last two eras of Republican politics on the ballot last night in a way.

00:18:18.660 Right. With Liz Cheney kind of continuing the Bush Cheney vibe. 1.00

00:18:21.820 And then Sarah Palin, who kind of came up during that Tea Party era and, you know,

00:18:28.320 sort of converted more to maybe a more MAGA character if you want to separate those two movements.

00:18:34.200 But still, an interesting thing last night.

00:18:37.480 And she, you know, the way the Alaska election works, we're not going to know who wins that for a while. 1.00

00:18:42.380 But it's kind of interesting to see.

00:18:44.580 She is going to be on the ballot.

00:18:46.240 Yeah. Well, here's the well, you know, most likely.

00:18:51.080 Here's the last word.

00:18:53.600 What was at stake last night was, are we going to go back to the Bush kind of Republicans?

00:19:00.040 Are we going to stick with the, you know, the tried and true, gosh, we're going to compromise and work together on this

00:19:09.840 and we'll always lose every compromise?

00:19:13.280 Or are we charting a new course?

00:19:16.220 And I think most voters last night, at least in Wyoming, were like, I don't want this anymore.

00:19:22.780 I'm tired of the kind of George Bush approach to globalism and America.

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00:24:42.400 Oh, no.

00:24:42.880 Very upset.

00:24:43.820 That's terrible.

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00:24:47.900 Right?

00:24:49.100 George Soros and I are like this.

00:24:53.580 Media Matters.

00:24:54.580 Quote, the right-wing influencers leading a social media crusade against ESG.

00:25:02.100 Oh, no.

00:25:02.540 Now, let's just look at this.

00:25:05.400 First of all, I want you to remember the right-wing influencers who are leading a social media crusade.

00:25:14.240 Now, it's an interesting word to use, crusade, because that implies religious zeal.

00:25:21.460 Elon Musk called ESG a scam.

00:25:27.320 Wait a minute.

00:25:28.880 I just want to make sure I have it.

00:25:30.240 Right-wing influencers leading a...

00:25:33.160 Elon Musk called ESG a scam.

00:25:36.180 So, Elon Musk, the guy who runs the largest electric car company in the world and is building spaceships partially to escape global warming, is a right-wing influencer?

00:25:51.100 No.

00:25:52.040 I'm talking about the guy who's all of that plus was dating a Marxist.

00:25:57.240 Oh, okay.

00:26:00.560 That one.

00:26:01.380 Totally a right-wing influencer there, Glenn.

00:26:03.780 Yeah.

00:26:04.100 So, ESG, according to Media Matters, listen to this.

00:26:08.060 I think I'm going to have this blown up and framed.

00:26:10.600 ESG is attracting more and more attention from right-wing media influencers like Elon Musk, Glenn Beck, and James Lindsay.

00:26:20.960 I love those two.

00:26:23.820 That's a good grouping.

00:26:25.560 I'm like, they feel bad today.

00:26:27.620 They're like, oh, you had to throw Glenn Beck in it.

00:26:30.000 Yeah.

00:26:30.280 But I'm feeling pretty good.

00:26:32.840 They're part of a growing number of conservative media figures seizing on the opportunity to turn ESG into the next battleground in the culture wars.

00:26:42.620 In part, by fitting it into the broader Great Reset conspiracy theory.

00:26:48.180 How cute are these guys?

00:26:51.320 Well, the one thing I like about this grouping of Elon Musk, Glenn Beck, and James Lindsay is I think for the first time you can honestly say you're middle class.

00:26:59.700 I think in that grouping you are middle class.

00:27:02.540 Yes.

00:27:02.840 There you go.

00:27:03.580 Middle class Glenn is here.

00:27:05.360 Right.

00:27:05.580 And I also, because I never want to be the smartest man in the room, in that grouping, I'm nowhere close.

00:27:13.060 No, you're definitely the dumbest man in the room.

00:27:16.240 Yeah, I'm the one that gets the drool cup when I walk in.

00:27:19.460 There you go.

00:27:19.920 So they're very upset, very, very upset, because ESG is being misleadingly cast as a tool for the elites to force a tyrannical agenda on unsuspecting Americans, specifically investors, as part of the far right Great Reset conspiracy theory.

00:27:38.580 I don't know how you can call this a conspiracy theory anymore.

00:27:45.060 I mean, even the New York Times is now admitting that it's happening, and they're upset because people are talking about it, and they're against it.

00:27:56.980 It's not like it doesn't exist.

00:27:59.400 They're even saying, okay, it does exist, and these crazy people are against it.

00:28:03.960 Yeah, and the other thing that they keep writing about is that these mean corporations are branding stuff as ESG, when in reality, it's stuff they would have just already invested in, and they're getting extra.

00:28:17.580 They're just taking money from idiotic investors who think ESG is an important thing, and then just investing in the stuff they were going to invest in anyway.

00:28:27.260 So they are very much aware that it is happening, and they're complaining about it, not in the way we're complaining about it.

00:28:34.380 It's not that it doesn't go far enough, of course, but still, that's acknowledging that it exists.

00:28:39.220 Yeah, and I will tell you that, I mean, it is truly remarkable.

00:28:44.080 Do you remember we released my book, what, in January on The Great Reset?

00:28:48.640 And remember, we talked just even days before we released the book, nobody is going to read this, nobody knows about this, nobody is going to pay any attention to this.

00:29:00.560 Is anyone going to buy this book?

00:29:02.920 We've gone from that to now it is part of the zeitgeist in a lot of people's lives.

00:29:13.620 It's out there, it is known, it is known as a problem, still only about, what, 40% of the American people have no idea what it is.

00:29:25.500 And I think about 30% of the American people think they know what it is.

00:29:31.020 And I don't know what the number of people is that do actually know.

00:29:36.080 ESG is always, by the left, is always positioned as the free market.

00:29:43.620 What? Conservatives, you're against the free market?

00:29:46.060 These are just companies making a decision.

00:29:49.380 And this ESG is just to help people make a decision when they're investing.

00:29:54.540 No, it's not.

00:29:55.400 You know it's really bad when the left makes arguments like that.

00:29:59.860 We love the free market, what are you talking about?

00:30:02.040 It's like when they say, well, we don't want anyone between the doctor and their patient.

00:30:05.820 It's like, oh, really, in this one case, you don't, okay, I know what's going on here.

00:30:10.400 They all of a sudden become libertarians like four times a year.

00:30:13.620 Yeah, exactly.

00:30:14.460 I know, I know, I know.

00:30:15.860 But that's the thing with ESG.

00:30:17.220 It's like all of a sudden they're just so supportive of the free market they can't understand why anyone else would possibly oppose it.

00:30:22.920 You oppose it in every other instance.

00:30:25.640 So I think we're on to you on that point.

00:30:28.140 And the awareness here, I think, the rise in awareness is no small part because of the book, which sold a lot of copies.

00:30:35.320 You've talked about it a lot on the air.

00:30:37.400 And it has grown, I think, in influence in conservative circles, certainly, and has now grown to a point where the awareness is more broad in general.

00:30:46.780 I mean, I think people do know about this, even if they don't know all the details.

00:30:50.580 They know that there's something going on here, and it's not going to wind up working out well for the American people.

00:30:57.980 No, it's really not.

00:31:01.440 By the way, if you think that it's just a way to, you know, let people decide, you know, let me ask you, did you decide that we shouldn't drill for oil anymore?

00:31:12.160 Did you decide that oil is a thing of the past?

00:31:16.100 Did you decide that we should shut down the oil fields?

00:31:19.040 Did you decide that Exxon should slow its growth by 20%?

00:31:26.200 Did you decide that?

00:31:27.860 Because your money did.

00:31:29.920 Your money is being held by, like, places like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.

00:31:36.500 They invest most of our retirement funds.

00:31:39.780 And you're losing money.

00:31:41.120 Boy, an enterprising attorney would start to think to themselves, gee, I bet.

00:31:49.040 There's a class action lawsuit that could be had.

00:31:53.000 I bet I could sue a place like BlackRock.

00:31:56.420 Now, I'm not an attorney, so I don't know.

00:31:58.980 But I bet I could find a lot of people.

00:32:02.280 Do you have melephysioma or whatever the hell?

00:32:06.440 Do you have leprosy?

00:32:08.480 Did you ever work with Glenn Beck?

00:32:11.140 You might be in for big money.

00:32:14.320 There's got to be somebody out there who is thinking, you know, I think the mesophilioma thing is probably played out by this point.

00:32:23.000 Maybe, did you have your retirement fund managed by BlackRock where they didn't tell you in advance that their index, their ESG index, which you were just placed into, did you lose money?

00:32:41.800 Because it's underperforming the S&P 500.

00:32:45.400 And now they've come out and said, yeah, you would expect to lose, you know, maybe for the next 10 years.

00:32:50.720 Oh, well, I don't have a problem with that if I'm 55.

00:32:55.000 There's a class action lawsuit here.

00:33:00.180 However, the states are also taking action.

00:33:04.220 I am here in Utah where their treasurer, Marlo Oaks, is doing a great job so far on ESG.

00:33:15.880 And he's not going to invest the state's money into something that will kill the state and also not provide the best return on the investment for the for the people that have their pension through the state.

00:33:32.020 That has to be done.

00:33:33.980 It's happening in Arizona.

00:33:35.740 It is happening now in almost all of the red states.

00:33:40.520 That's half the country.

00:33:41.700 You choke their money off at BlackRock and there's a problem.

00:33:48.940 There's a real problem.

00:33:50.560 They didn't think that this would happen.

00:33:53.660 Now, just so you know, if you think you're you're on the right side, I'm only my money in BlackRock because they don't have anything to do with the price of gasoline.

00:34:05.340 Let me tell you that BlackRock, which is very they're the leader, literally the leader in ESG.

00:34:13.580 Right.

00:34:14.500 Environmental, social justice and governance.

00:34:19.980 OK, that means no more petrochemicals.

00:34:23.340 The S means social justice.

00:34:27.300 And we've got to be we've got to be kind to everybody who's different.

00:34:32.100 I mean, let's not let's not verbally behead people who are different.

00:34:37.800 And then the governance.

00:34:40.040 Let's have a whole variety of people.

00:34:42.780 Do you have somebody who's transgender on your board of directors?

00:34:46.280 So BlackRock is so super, super, super locked in to ESG that yesterday they took a four hundred and fifty one point two point seven two million dollar investment.

00:35:04.560 So half a billion dollar investment from the government of Saudi Arabia.

00:35:12.320 Now.

00:35:14.260 Now, why would Saudi Arabia put half a billion dollars into an investment fund that is not it not outperforming, in fact, underperforming the S&P 500?

00:35:26.940 Could it be that they like the idea that they are encouraging companies like Exxon to stop drilling for oil?

00:35:38.120 Could it be that they don't like the fact that we could be energy independent and not care about them anymore?

00:35:46.340 Is that possible?

00:35:47.700 Well, because I don't know about you, but I don't look at Saudi Arabia as a leader in the E or the S or the G, you know, they're kind of the opposite in each category.

00:36:09.040 I don't know about you, but I don't know about you, but I don't think they have a wide variety of people in any of their businesses or government.

00:36:33.720 Yeah, I'm pretty sure BlackRock is talking out of their butt.

00:36:39.040 BlackRock doesn't mean a thing.

00:36:41.360 They're saying this is a sham.

00:36:45.920 ESG is not about the environment.

00:36:48.140 It's not about social justice.

00:36:49.700 It is not about any of it.

00:36:52.040 It is about power, control and money.

00:36:57.180 But I can't wait to hear what BlackRock has to say of why their ESG investment firm is so happy to have half a billion dollars from Saudi Arabia.

00:37:09.080 That's like the new ADL and we're being funded by the Nazi party. 0.65

00:37:16.720 No, that doesn't.

00:37:18.160 Uh-uh, guys.

00:37:18.940 I don't know.

00:37:19.540 That's obvious that it doesn't work.

00:37:24.060 Back in just a second.

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00:38:52.700 The Glenn Beck Program.

00:39:10.280 So you remember who Noriel Roubini is?

00:39:14.080 Who?

00:39:14.640 The Economist, right, Dr. Doom?

00:39:16.360 Dr. Doom.

00:39:18.520 And he first really came to attention because he was in early 2008 going, hey, we're in for real trouble.

00:39:29.360 And he predicted it, and he was exactly right.

00:39:32.520 Now he is predicting something else.

00:39:35.780 He said, this economy is headed for unhinged inflation and or severe recession, and it will be out of control and a hard landing.

00:39:55.160 And he said, it's going to last a very long time, long, protracted, severe.

00:40:06.540 So that's good news from Noriel Roubini.

00:40:12.020 Yeah.

00:40:12.700 I hope he's wrong this time.

00:40:14.200 Let's hope.

00:40:14.700 I do too, but he's not.

00:40:16.400 But, you know, what he's not figuring in is the bill they signed yesterday, the inflation reduction bill.

00:40:22.980 I know.

00:40:24.460 It's interesting.

00:40:25.440 Now that the bill has passed, I'm seeing all these mainstream media reports talking about how the Inflation Reduction Act obviously will not reduce inflation.

00:40:34.260 They're all admitting that now after it's passed and we spent $740 billion.

00:40:39.580 Thanks for that.

00:40:42.040 Thanks for that.

00:40:42.660 You could have been critical about that as it was going through and maybe put pressure on them to at least change the name from a blatant lie.

00:40:50.860 Yeah.

00:40:51.560 I think, though, that the CBO is very timely, you know, that they came out yesterday as the ink was still drying on the page and said, yeah, much of the stuff in the bill, it's a lie.

00:41:09.580 It's really not going to do any of the things, I mean, including protecting those who make under $40,000.

00:41:19.080 In fact, beginning with people who make $10,000 a year, yeah, you're going to get taxed.

00:41:25.100 Oh, and the IRS agents, there's no way that they're just going after the heavy hitters.

00:41:30.480 They're going after the regular people.

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00:43:52.800 We've got quite a program lined up for you.

00:43:57.200 Coming up in just a minute, Catholics, apparently, according to the Atlantic, have now weaponized the rosary. 0.97

00:44:10.380 Yeah.

00:44:11.260 Yeah.

00:44:12.620 Yeah.

00:44:13.180 It's a dangerous, dangerous weapon.

00:44:17.660 The rosary now kind of sets you off as a dangerous terrorist.

00:44:23.760 We'll give you all that.

00:44:26.320 The attack on Christianity and the labeling of half of our country as terrorists.

00:44:34.160 We begin there in 60 seconds.

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00:44:44.040 By the way, they're saying that housing prices are going to fall by about 15%.

00:44:49.400 We're on the edge.

00:44:50.920 If you want to sell your house, probably now is the time.

00:44:53.740 I guess, you know, I mean, with the economy being what it is right now,

00:44:57.820 may I suggest that maybe you think about moving someplace where you are surrounded by people who think like you.

00:45:04.780 I'm just saying, get out.

00:45:08.400 Get out.

00:45:10.260 Sell your house if you can and move to, I don't know, someplace safer.

00:45:16.640 The moon, even if you don't have an oxygen tank, is probably safer than it is right now in America.

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00:46:02.660 So tonight, on the Wednesday night special, I'm going to show you proof that America's heritage is not white Christian nationalism.

00:46:12.760 And this is so important for you to understand because they are setting a giant trap for a lot of America.

00:46:21.980 You know, they signed the inflation reduction bill.

00:46:25.600 In fact, do we have that audio we just played on the spokesperson at the White House?

00:46:32.460 Not really able to explain why they called it the inflation reduction bill.

00:46:39.780 Here it is.

00:46:40.140 But if you passed a bill called the Fill Every Pothole Act, I mean, voters should expect you to fill every pothole.

00:46:45.060 I mean, so should voters measure the success of this bill on how much you reduce inflation in the next couple of years?

00:46:51.420 So this bill spins out over several years.

00:46:55.020 And so the tax provisions, for example, some of the tax revenue will happen immediately.

00:46:59.140 Some of the benefits in terms of deficit reduction will materialize over time.

00:47:03.180 So, again, this is really an investment in our economy.

00:47:06.900 It represents the president's economic vision for transitioning to an economy that works better for American families by generating the kind of growth that's based on stable, steady productivity gains in the language of economists.

00:47:20.700 So that kind of growth that we know we need to be making in order to ensure that we continue progressing for the decades to come.

00:47:28.240 Yeah.

00:47:28.760 And a name is just a name, but there are definitely a lot of other names you could have named this bill.

00:47:34.120 We just lied.

00:47:35.780 It's so funny how you lied to the American people.

00:47:39.160 You lied and you raped us and you left us for dead. 0.99

00:47:43.780 Oh, that is funny.

00:47:45.680 Oh, that's so funny.

00:47:47.040 How you took a problem that's affecting real people and ruining their financial lives and you acted like you were addressing it.

00:47:53.780 You put a sign on the door that said safe space and we all went in and there were killers and rapists in the room.

00:48:02.120 That is funny that you put safe space on the door.

00:48:05.040 What a joy you are.

00:48:07.760 Oh, my gosh.

00:48:08.920 These people are evil.

00:48:10.020 Anyway, the CBO came out yesterday and they were talking about how it's not going to reduce inflation.

00:48:16.280 It's not going to reduce the deficit.

00:48:19.000 In fact, it's going to add to the deficit.

00:48:21.040 It's not going to help the GDP.

00:48:22.660 In fact, it's going to hurt the GDP.

00:48:25.260 Oh, and they will raise taxes on the middle class as they promised they would not do.

00:48:30.620 Yeah, the whole IRS thing.

00:48:32.720 Yeah, that's yeah, that is coming out.

00:48:36.520 They're going to come after you because they have to.

00:48:39.000 This is what the CBO said yesterday.

00:48:41.560 Thank you for the timely update.

00:48:43.860 And by the way, the CBO is known for making things look better than they actually become.

00:48:50.560 So that fills me with we're in for a hellscape.

00:48:54.940 I will say, Glenn, I did hear some pretty important things about the IRS.

00:49:00.180 And this is important because they said before.

00:49:02.840 I don't know if you've ever called the IRS before, which I'm sure you have.

00:49:06.920 Oh, yeah.

00:49:07.220 No, I called them back in 1986.

00:49:09.080 I'm still on hold, but they're going to pick up any time.

00:49:11.540 Well, that was the big selling point of this bill.

00:49:13.400 They said because they're hiring 80,000 new employees, someone might answer the phone when you call.

00:49:20.080 Well, that is fantastic.

00:49:21.640 And you know what's really great is they're going to be so efficient.

00:49:25.280 You're not even going to have to call them.

00:49:27.600 They'll call and come visit you.

00:49:29.580 Anyway, this is all about the the the United States government has a no, I shouldn't say that the United States president.

00:49:41.800 The administration includes the Department of Education, Agriculture, Commerce, all of it.

00:49:48.480 They all have they all have private armies.

00:49:52.960 Let me ask you, why does the Department of Agriculture have armed officers?

00:50:02.040 I mean, sure, sure.

00:50:04.160 I mean, the the very well-known wars that go between the corn farmers and the Amish, you know, when they when they get their extremist yogurt feud going on with the Amish,

00:50:17.620 there's nothing that will quell that other than the United States Department of Agriculture Army.

00:50:25.420 They are developing things and they are putting you into the extremist position.

00:50:31.480 Look, over in Europe, they're they're already forcing the farmers to live on these ESG rules, which are, by the way, completely nonsensical.

00:50:42.560 That is not that's not even happening.

00:50:44.960 This is a conspiracy theory.

00:50:46.880 These aren't the droids you're looking for.

00:50:50.360 They're already protesting and the farmers are being called the extremists.

00:50:56.320 Have you forgotten who grows your food?

00:50:58.820 Grows food?

00:51:00.100 No, I get my food from the supermarket.

00:51:02.400 Oh, OK, then don't worry about the farmers.

00:51:05.740 They are targeting anyone who disagrees with them as an extremist.

00:51:09.960 And this is why the special tonight on the blaze TV is so important.

00:51:14.560 You have to understand what is coming for you as a Christian.

00:51:22.360 Now, as somebody who is in a faith, that's not the most popular.

00:51:32.260 I will tell you, you're going to look at these days, if you were, let's say, a Mormon or a Jehovah Witness, you're going to look at these times for those people as, oh, those days don't come back.

00:51:54.700 I mean, it's not going to be easy to be a Christian soon.

00:51:59.920 And it all starts with white Christian nationalism.

00:52:05.200 They are making Christians into extremists. 1.00

00:52:09.740 And they are lying about our faith.

00:52:13.080 Christians are the next one in line. 1.00

00:52:16.740 And your faith is now on trial.

00:52:19.860 But it's a kangaroo court.

00:52:22.300 They're not calling any witnesses on the other side.

00:52:24.620 They're calling witnesses that agree with them.

00:52:26.440 It is so misleading and so dangerous.

00:52:30.340 You need to understand how they are painting Christianity in America.

00:52:35.460 That's what we're going to do tonight.

00:52:36.980 Show you where this all breaks down.

00:52:39.680 Give you the rebuttals to these things so you can share them with your friend.

00:52:44.300 And I didn't say friends.

00:52:46.580 I did say share it with your friend.

00:52:48.560 Because if you're actually a Christian today and you're willing to stand up for it, you probably have one friend. 0.94

00:52:54.180 But you need to be able to answer and tell your friends and have them share with others.

00:53:05.400 This is an amateur smear campaign.

00:53:08.020 But it is going to be relentless.

00:53:10.540 CNN came out with an article last week.

00:53:13.020 We're going to debunk that tonight.

00:53:14.820 And also, look at this one.

00:53:16.940 Catholics weaponized the rosary from the Atlantic. 0.95

00:53:21.900 The AR-15 is a sacred object among Christian nationalists.

00:53:29.400 Now, you would ask yourself, what is a Christian nationalist?

00:53:33.060 Stu, if I asked you this, I said, what is a Christian nationalist?

00:53:37.760 What would you say?

00:53:38.640 A Republican.

00:53:40.820 Okay.

00:53:41.660 Okay.

00:53:42.260 Wow, the brainwashing has worked even on you.

00:53:44.800 What would you say?

00:53:45.660 Honestly, what would you say a Christian nationalist is?

00:53:48.300 There's a vision of a Christian nationalist that basically is an idea of an America that is built on Christian principles,

00:53:59.700 but is closer really to a theocracy, and is exclusionary toward other faiths.

00:54:07.180 Other races usually is included in that as well.

00:54:11.320 Can you give me a country in history that might be labeled a Christian nationalist country?

00:54:18.780 Not labeled, not actually one, but one labeled that.

00:54:24.280 An example that was named, I mean, certainly they like to say that about Hitler back in the day.

00:54:30.200 Germany.

00:54:30.600 Germany, of course, it was completely ridiculous. 0.97

00:54:33.520 We've covered that many times.

00:54:35.220 We don't need to go back into it.

00:54:36.280 Hitler, not a Christian, not a fan of Christianity, wanted to end all of the churches, was literally

00:54:42.340 outspoken throughout his not only commentary with close advisors, but admitted much of this

00:54:52.060 publicly that this was a long-term goal of fascism.

00:54:57.340 To wipe it out.

00:54:58.240 But let's call it Christian nationalism anyway, I think is the approach of the media.

00:55:03.460 So Christian nationalism, they've defined this, and you'll find out all of this tonight

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00:56:43.880 So tonight we're going to be talking about this and you need to arm yourself with it.

00:56:48.700 But let me continue with this from the Atlantic.

00:56:51.540 The AR-15 is a sacred object among Christian nationalists.

00:56:55.960 Is it?

00:56:56.700 Now the radical traditional Catholics are bringing a sacrament of their own to the movement.

00:57:05.940 On this extremist fringe, rosary beads have been woven into a conspiratorial politics and

00:57:14.580 an absolutist gun culture.

00:57:16.960 You know, I have to tell you, I can remember, I can remember Sister Siobhan and Sister Uno and

00:57:24.040 Sister Julie, as they would be whispering the rosary on their knees.

00:57:29.320 I remember walking in to the church as a kid and the candles and the smell of the church

00:57:34.600 and the incense.

00:57:35.420 And they were there and you could just barely hear them.

00:57:39.060 And I'd walk up behind them because I didn't want to disturb them.

00:57:42.280 But then one of them would hear me and they were surprised.

00:57:45.040 And they, all I heard was, and they took their ARs out and they're like, stand down, stand down.

00:57:52.120 And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm sorry.

00:57:53.660 I'm sorry, sister.

00:57:54.340 I'm sorry.

00:57:54.760 I didn't know.

00:57:57.900 Oh, they're so radical, those rosary people. 1.00

00:58:01.120 The armed radical traditionals have taken a spiritual notion that the rosary can be a weapon

00:58:06.640 in the fight against evil.

00:58:09.620 Now, this is a new thing?

00:58:13.700 Because I'm pretty sure, I mean, maybe it's just me.

00:58:19.240 I was raised Catholic.

00:58:21.660 I always thought the rosary and doing things like praying was a weapon in the fight against evil.

00:58:33.600 Yes, but now they're taking it literally.

00:58:38.620 It's a garrote.

00:58:39.880 That's what it really is.

00:58:41.240 I've seen him.

00:58:42.020 I've seen him before.

00:58:43.380 Jason Bourne, I mean, they've changed it, you know, from reality.

00:58:47.060 But the real Jason Bourne, when he goes and he chokes people out, he uses a rosary.

00:58:53.060 Now, what do you think the Pope is doing?

00:58:55.560 When he has to kill people, he uses a rosary.

00:58:58.460 Anyway, social media pages are saturated with images of rosaries draped over firearms.

00:59:05.700 How many times have you seen that?

00:59:09.040 I hate that.

00:59:09.920 This is the thing they do now to show a movement when they can't find one.

00:59:13.600 Like, the other day they were saying, after the raid on the Mar-a-Lago residence of Donald Trump,

00:59:22.980 they said the words Civil War were being tweeted once a minute.

00:59:30.420 Now, there are 400 million people on Twitter.

00:59:34.900 You're getting one tweet every 60 seconds.

00:59:37.920 Guys, this is not a news story, okay?

00:59:41.260 Any combination of words is being tweeted once a minute on Twitter.

00:59:46.520 Not hot.

00:59:47.300 Apparently not.

00:59:48.040 Cheerleader.

00:59:48.620 No, yeah, you couldn't find any.

00:59:50.120 That's not me.

00:59:51.200 Nope.

00:59:51.820 Not happening.

00:59:52.980 It's so ridiculous, but this is what they want to do.

00:59:55.300 All right.

00:59:55.940 So here's something.

00:59:58.180 And I just want to point this out.

00:59:59.960 If you are a non-traditional Catholic theologian, so you're for this, you know, this new, more

01:00:08.840 open, progressive, hey, everybody can be whoever they want to be, and we should marry everyone

01:00:15.960 and everything else.

01:00:16.700 You should not be written about, and you might want to reconsider your name, the theologian

01:00:26.060 Massimo Fagoli has described a network of conservative Catholic bloggers and commentary organizations

01:00:37.480 as the Catholic cyber militia that actively campaigns against LGBTQ and the acceptance of 0.51

01:00:46.340 them in the church.

01:00:48.240 These rad trad, this is a new word, rad trad, they're radical traditionalists.

01:00:56.240 These rad trad rosary as a weapon memes represent a social media diffusion of such messaging, and

01:01:04.480 they work to integrate ultra-conservative Catholicism and other aspects of online far-right culture.

01:01:11.920 The rosary in these hands is anything but holy, says Mr. Fagoli.

01:01:17.780 Wow, it's like Dr. Seuss.

01:01:19.220 But for millions of believers, the beads, which provide for a sequence of devotional prayers

01:01:27.800 that have been always traditionally looked at as a source of strength, now take on a new meaning.

01:01:38.040 More of this here in just a second.

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01:03:10.460 Coming up in just a second, we have the guy who is running for the Michigan Attorney General spot in the Banana Republic of Michigan.

01:03:21.440 He is under attack, and it is so important that we have the best AGs.

01:03:31.420 Your state has got to have a tough-as-nails AG because the AGs, the treasurers, and the sheriffs are going to be the ones that stand in the way of this despotism.

01:03:47.720 We talked to Matthew DiPirino coming up in just a second.

01:03:54.720 Again, running for the Michigan Attorney General office.

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01:05:35.940 Our attorney generals are so critical.

01:05:42.280 You really need to do your homework on attorney general for your state.

01:05:47.320 They, the treasurer in your state, and the sheriff may be the last line of defense for us at some point.

01:05:56.000 Matthew DiPerno, I have never met, don't know anything about him,

01:05:59.820 but I have a very good friend that lives in Michigan who really watches things closely and says,

01:06:05.540 this is a very honorable man, a guy who is cut from our same cloth up in Michigan,

01:06:12.220 but his opponent is making all kinds of accusations.

01:06:18.480 And I honestly barely know the story, so I'm going to ask him some simple questions here.

01:06:24.160 And Matthew DiPerno is, again, running for Michigan attorney general.

01:06:30.600 He's the candidate there.

01:06:32.340 Matthew, how are you, sir?

01:06:34.720 I'm great, Glenn.

01:06:35.640 Thanks for having me on.

01:06:37.700 Sure.

01:06:38.340 Now, let me see if I have this right.

01:06:43.500 Your Democratic opponent, the current AG, I don't know her name,

01:06:49.060 but she claims that you are part of a conspiracy with others to steal

01:06:54.260 and illegally analyze voting machines connected to the 2020 election.

01:06:59.700 She says five tabulators were taken to hotels and or air B&Bs in Oakland County

01:07:08.960 where four others, not you, broke into the tabulators and performed tests on the equipment.

01:07:15.740 So you weren't trying to steal the, according to her, as I understand it,

01:07:21.000 you're not trying to steal the election.

01:07:22.820 You were trying to perform a test on this in a hotel room after you or others stole these voting machines.

01:07:32.260 Do I have the story right?

01:07:34.100 And what is the truth?

01:07:37.180 Yeah, you have the story right.

01:07:39.380 The truth is that I, after the 2020 election, I filed a lawsuit in Michigan.

01:07:44.640 Um, I, uh, received a court order allowing us to analyze, uh, an election system and election equipment.

01:07:54.420 Um, we, uh, you know, my, uh, expert witnesses performed, uh, uh, tests on machines.

01:08:02.080 Um, and she now is coming forward, uh, Dana Nessel, my opponent, the most corrupt attorney general 1.00

01:08:09.400 in the country, making these allegations that she knows are totally false because she was my opposing counsel in the case.

01:08:19.180 She represented the secretary of state in the case.

01:08:23.400 They know what the actual facts are.

01:08:26.200 They know this is untrue, but right now, uh,

01:08:30.520 the latest polling shows DiPerno plus one, uh, in the, uh, as an advantage, uh, she's losing terribly.

01:08:38.960 Uh, she's got a 42% favorability rating.

01:08:43.080 She wants to put drag Queens in every school. 1.00

01:08:46.940 And so she's come out with this story in order to try to discredit me.

01:08:51.960 Um, well, you had me at court order, so let's, let's move on.

01:08:58.200 Um, so what is it that you are going to bring to the table and you will, um, clean up or change

01:09:06.980 there as attorney general?

01:09:09.080 Why should people vote for you?

01:09:11.960 Well, right now, Michigan has the highest crime rate, um, in the, in, in decades.

01:09:19.080 We're now number 10 in sex trafficking.

01:09:21.960 Uh, we've got illegal fentanyl flowing across the borders, destroying families and killing

01:09:26.840 children and our attorney general and other rogue prosecutors across the state refuse to

01:09:33.260 do anything about it.

01:09:34.520 It's time that we enforce the law.

01:09:36.660 I've been a practicing attorney for 25 years.

01:09:39.920 I practice constitutional law have been involved in, in criminal cases as a defense attorney.

01:09:46.540 It's time to clean up our state.

01:09:48.420 It's time to enforce the law and it's time to start penalizing criminals.

01:09:53.700 That's what I'm going to do.

01:09:55.020 We have many other issues also in the state of failing education system, you know, um,

01:10:01.180 so we need to fix our state.

01:10:03.300 We need to bring businesses back.

01:10:04.980 And that's what we can do as attorney generals.

01:10:07.240 We can enforce the law, make the states, the state safe and make it favorable for businesses.

01:10:14.500 Dana Nestle, my opponent refuses to do any of that.

01:10:17.300 She simply, simply wants to run on a social platform, bringing drag Queens to our schools. 1.00

01:10:24.020 Uh, and it's terrible.

01:10:25.340 The destruction she's caused in the state.

01:10:27.340 Now, if I, if I have this right in 2020, she was accused of weaponizing her office because she went after, um, she went after anybody, the, the SPLC, which we all know Southern poverty law center is a joke funded by, uh, George Soros.

01:10:47.640 Uh, she went after those groups that were called hate groups.

01:10:53.120 Any comment on that?

01:10:54.480 Well, she, you know, she's gone after, uh, people for religiously held beliefs.

01:11:00.980 The federal courts have smacked her down saying she's weaponized her office against, uh, religious people.

01:11:08.400 Uh, they just recently, uh, they just recently in a recent Michigan Supreme court decision, uh, dismissed all of the cases she filed in the Flint water investigation saying she weaponized her office against her political opponents.

01:11:23.220 And created an unconstitutional star chamber, uh, environment.

01:11:28.420 That's the court's words, not mine.

01:11:30.440 Uh, but what she does in the state is consistently go after her political opponents like me, like others. 1.00

01:11:38.320 And she refuses to go after anyone in her own party. 0.52

01:11:42.400 We have a video where she's come out and said she could not investigate governor Gretchen Whitmer regarding the 5,000 plus nursing home deaths related to, uh, the COVID, uh, pandemic because they're friends.

01:11:59.340 She says, I have coffee with Gretchen Whitmer.

01:12:02.080 So it's too difficult for me to investigate all of those deaths.

01:12:08.320 Wow.

01:12:10.020 So how do you, I mean, uh, you know, Detroit, uh, for one, uh, and Michigan overall, not necessarily known for its clean government.

01:12:22.520 How, how do you, how do you intend on, um, being, you know, commissioner Gordon, if you will, the one guy that is standing up to this?

01:12:34.220 Well, that's a, that's a great question, but what we've been doing in this campaign, um, and people can find me at DiPerno4MI.com or Fight4Matt.com.

01:12:46.860 Um, we've been pushing into these communities in the Detroit area.

01:12:52.640 We've been talking about these, uh, the issues that affect the Chaldean population and the black population.

01:13:00.000 We talk about the high crime rate, uh, nobody likes that.

01:13:04.680 We talk about, uh, education.

01:13:07.600 Parents want a say in their children's education.

01:13:11.380 We're pushing for a parental rights act in this state.

01:13:15.500 Um, and you know, these are the issues that we're fighting about that people actually care about.

01:13:20.180 They don't want drag Queens in every school. 1.00

01:13:23.240 Uh, and they're, they're very vocal about it and we're making great head roads into those communities.

01:13:30.360 How much of a block is she to, uh, stopping this progressive? 0.87

01:13:35.880 Now, look, I don't hate drag Queens. 1.00

01:13:37.940 I don't hate people.

01:13:38.720 I don't, I just please leave my children alone.

01:13:42.520 Leave my children alone. 0.67

01:13:44.000 When you're adult, do whatever you want, but leave my children alone.

01:13:48.520 You are in a wildly corrupt, uh, state with unions and everything else.

01:13:55.760 What is she doing, uh, to help further that?

01:14:00.820 And what specifically are you going to do?

01:14:06.280 Yeah, she's doing absolutely nothing, uh, to change the corruption, uh, in the state of Michigan. 0.95

01:14:12.360 Uh, we've actually been ranked, uh, at the very bottom of the list, uh, 48th, 49th, and 50 as the most corrupt state in the union, uh, ranked by the department of justice.

01:14:26.300 So our attorney general just adds to that dilemma.

01:14:30.500 She doesn't do anything to enforce the law. 1.00

01:14:33.100 That's a huge problem in the state.

01:14:35.040 We have these prosecutors who refuse to prosecute violent felonies anymore.

01:14:42.360 Um, we're down to, in some areas, some counties, one third of the police force, uh, because these, uh, police, they, they're nervous.

01:14:52.600 They're scared.

01:14:53.660 They know they can't make arrests unless they ask permission.

01:14:57.620 And we have more police under investigation right now by my opponent than any time in the state's history.

01:15:05.140 And when I'm in office, we're going to change that.

01:15:07.580 We're going to enforce the law.

01:15:08.940 We're going to prosecute violent, uh, crimes and, uh, you know, we're going to make sure that, uh, we always support the police and our, our current attorney general, just, she despises that she hates the police. 0.86

01:15:23.880 She supports defund the police movement, uh, and her entire administration has been only about promoting LGBTQ and social issues in this state.

01:15:36.280 So we're talking to Matthew, uh, DePerno, he is running for the Michigan attorney general, uh, office.

01:15:43.500 Um, where do you stand on ESG?

01:15:49.140 Um, well, um, we, you know, we're opposed to, uh, this ESG, uh, program, um, entirely.

01:16:01.020 And that's what our opponent continues to push, you know, environmental, social governance, they, they push critical race theory.

01:16:10.640 They push, uh, all of this, uh, on our students and schools right now in Michigan.

01:16:17.480 And if you want to renew your medical license, you have to go through critical race theory training.

01:16:25.340 Uh, you have to, uh, promote, uh, ESG, uh, in this state.

01:16:32.000 Uh, it's terrible what they're doing in this state.

01:16:34.960 Listen, I've been investigated since, um, I've started to run for attorney general.

01:16:41.360 You know, I've been a victim of this very same movement by, uh, my bank.

01:16:50.400 You're, you've been investigated by your bank.

01:16:53.860 Yeah, absolutely.

01:16:55.700 The more you get involved in politics in the state of Michigan, the more you speak out against the corruption, the more, uh, uh, these, uh, institutions want to investigate us.

01:17:09.680 And that's what my opponent's doing right now when she's come out and says, she's going to use taxpayer dollars, uh, given to the attorney general's office. 1.00

01:17:20.300 She was going to use that money to investigate me in order to promote her own campaign. 1.00

01:17:28.400 That's the height of corruption, right?

01:17:31.520 Um, and that's exactly what she's doing. 0.95

01:17:33.760 And that's quite frankly, an illegal campaign finance violation, but nobody will do anything about it in the state of Michigan.

01:17:42.160 Matthew, how, tell me, and, and, and not necessarily about you or the state of Michigan, but we have the IRS being weaponized almost every, no, I shouldn't say that.

01:17:55.840 It is a whole of government approach.

01:17:58.480 Now, every single office and department is being weaponized.

01:18:04.260 Um, the American people I think are beginning to wake up and see, uh, holy cow.

01:18:10.040 FBI is out of control.

01:18:11.580 You know that in your state, uh, with the, uh, Gretchen Whitmire kidnapping case, um,

01:18:18.740 where are we, if we don't get the right AGs and how long do we last like this?

01:18:27.700 Well, we don't last much longer.

01:18:30.160 If we get more, uh, attorneys generals, like, uh, Dana Nestle in office, we are heading down a road of socialism very quickly.

01:18:40.100 Uh, Dana Nestle has signed on to litigation, um, where Mexico has come into the United States to, 0.63

01:18:48.240 uh, stop, uh, gun manufacturers from making guns.

01:18:53.360 Dana Nestle signed on to that radical litigation.

01:18:57.280 Dana Nestle supports, uh, uh, partial birth abortion up to the day of delivery at any time for any reason.

01:19:06.020 You know, many people will say, uh, that partial birth abortion is murder.

01:19:12.860 Dana Nestle sees it as a path to happiness.

01:19:15.800 Uh, so we are going down a road of destruction.

01:19:20.320 They want to weaponize their offices to attack their political opponents.

01:19:25.840 Uh, and that's, that's the, uh, the, the sort of the, the strategy right now.

01:19:33.300 If they can't.

01:19:34.240 Matthew.

01:19:34.560 They were going to take you out any way they can.

01:19:40.020 Matthew DiPerno.

01:19:40.720 I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I'm up against a tight clock.

01:19:43.120 You can go to his website, uh, fight for Matt.com.

01:19:47.920 I'm telling you the attorney generals are wildly important.

01:19:53.400 Uh, if you want to change things on your state level and protect the people in your state,

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01:24:52.560 Can we just watch something that is just entertaining and not trying to brainwash me or my children?

01:25:04.980 Can we not make everything about politics?

01:25:09.860 There is a new Puritan movement afoot in America, except it's not being done by the right or the Christians.

01:25:18.620 Puritans, well, you're a Christian Puritan. 0.68

01:25:22.540 Well, now there is, the rise of the new Puritans. 0.98

01:25:25.960 I'm gonna talk to Noah Rothman, who has just written a book about it.

01:25:29.640 The, uh, the new movement that's sucking all of the fun and a life right out of America.

01:25:37.740 Gosh, they're just such fun people.

01:25:39.820 Noah Rothman joins us in just 60 seconds.

01:25:42.720 First, Noriel Roubini just, uh, came out.

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01:25:51.200 Uh, there we go, he's Dr. Doom.

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01:25:55.400 Oh my gosh, the entire system could collapse!

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01:26:02.840 Hey, um, you know, I know everybody's happy about this, uh, inflation reduction bill,

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01:26:11.660 We're headed for a very severe recession, if not depression.

01:26:16.540 It will last for years.

01:26:19.120 And we could have wild, out-of-control inflation headed our way as well.

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01:27:34.120 Noah Rothman, a guy who I think really gets it.

01:27:40.440 He has the, uh, just written the book,

01:27:42.360 The Rise of the New Puritans, uh, The War on Fun. 0.89

01:27:48.060 Really?

01:27:49.260 Noah, welcome to the program.

01:27:50.380 How are you, sir?

01:27:51.840 Very well.

01:27:52.560 Thank you so much for having me.

01:27:53.480 I appreciate it.

01:27:54.300 You bet.

01:27:54.820 You bet.

01:27:55.140 So, Stu and I are in the midst of, uh, reading your book.

01:27:58.760 Uh, we haven't got it all the way to the, uh, end yet.

01:28:01.160 But, um, I, I, I have to ask you, do, do progressives know that they're almost embarrassingly

01:28:11.080 un-fun right now?

01:28:12.940 Are they, do they know this?

01:28:14.660 No, they, they absolutely don't.

01:28:17.840 They would reject the premise and they sort of, uh, recoil at the, the assertion that they're

01:28:23.660 pursuing some sort of a moral framework, that they have imposed this moral framework on every

01:28:28.720 aspect of life, especially the apolitical aspects of life.

01:28:32.500 They don't see themselves as less fun, less chill, uh, less accommodating than their parents

01:28:39.720 and grandparents, but they most certainly are.

01:28:42.620 They're having less fun.

01:28:43.920 They're having less sex.

01:28:45.420 They're enjoying life less than their elders.

01:28:49.360 They're having less sex?

01:28:51.700 Oh yeah.

01:28:52.500 You haven't gotten to that chapter?

01:28:53.580 That's a good one.

01:28:54.540 No.

01:28:55.420 So that's, that is my very salacious chapter on sex and booze.

01:28:59.800 It's called, it's titled Temperance.

01:29:01.180 All the chapters are organized around unimpeachable moral values because they are pursuing a moral

01:29:07.000 ideal about how society should organize itself.

01:29:10.300 So when you think of progressives, you don't think, uh, they have sexual prescriptions, right?

01:29:15.280 But if you dig into the literature around the many proliferating sexual identities, it's

01:29:19.760 not about self-gratification or self-fulfillment.

01:29:22.580 It's about the political program associated with these things.

01:29:26.560 This has to pursue and advance a political agenda.

01:29:30.300 And you couple that with the labyrinthine, uh, consent requirements now in statute in

01:29:36.080 places like California, but mostly in norms and college campuses.

01:29:39.220 And you have this unnavigable, uh, labyrinth that has been erected around, um, consent,

01:29:45.280 which is absent consent is obviously a crime, but we've created now real legal and moral

01:29:51.520 and social consequences.

01:29:53.020 If a cue is misread or a signal is overlooked, or it's just human behavior intervenes in this

01:29:58.900 process, this complicated process.

01:30:00.720 The result is less sex.

01:30:03.160 People are reporting, especially young people are reporting having much less casual intercourse

01:30:07.400 than their parents did.

01:30:09.300 Okay.

01:30:09.880 I have to, I have to tell you, first of all, it is a religion.

01:30:13.300 What they're doing is a religion. 0.59

01:30:14.660 So you've got Puritans absolutely right. 1.00

01:30:17.780 Um, and they are imposing it on all of us, but I, I look at people who are like this and

01:30:22.980 I think to myself, how could you not be just miserable?

01:30:29.360 If you believe all the things that they believe, it's just a life of misery.

01:30:35.700 Um, yeah, they don't see themselves as miserable, but they are making their compatriots miserable.

01:30:41.260 Um, maybe nine out of the 10 people I spoke with are, um, who would, most of them wouldn't

01:30:46.700 go on the record for fear of consequences saying the things that they actually think,

01:30:49.840 but those who did, which is weird.

01:30:52.840 Yeah.

01:30:53.320 Well, I mean, there are real social and professional consequences for going against this movement.

01:30:57.780 It's not a big movement, but it punches way above its weight.

01:31:00.500 And so these guys are Democrats.

01:31:02.640 Um, they vote democratic.

01:31:03.860 They wouldn't vote Republican with a gun to their head.

01:31:05.460 But they didn't get into the business of making delicious food and writing screenplays

01:31:11.300 and doing broadcasting sports because they wanted to do politics.

01:31:14.620 They don't.

01:31:15.760 They've just been drafted into this movement and it's sapping them of enthusiasm for their

01:31:20.040 life's work.

01:31:20.680 And they really, really resent it.

01:31:23.300 Noah, can you go through some of these?

01:31:24.200 You have so many great examples in the book of, of this type of thing.

01:31:27.440 The hummus place is one.

01:31:30.000 I'd like to hear about the burrito truck.

01:31:31.720 Tell about the burrito truck.

01:31:33.060 A truck that was in the Pacific Northwest.

01:31:38.220 These two women, um, went down to Mexico, fell in love with the food, interviewed chefs, 0.63

01:31:44.220 picked up some recipes, brought it back to the Pacific Northwest.

01:31:46.660 And it was a profound success.

01:31:49.120 They were very commercially successful.

01:31:50.740 In fact, a lot of the people who are targeted by this movement are successful.

01:31:54.380 And I think that their success engenders quite a bit of resentment.

01:31:57.880 Um, but they brought it back to the Pacific Northwest and the media environment down there,

01:32:02.600 which is beholden to this progressive set of ideas, just went about destroying the thing

01:32:08.140 because they had stolen this heritage from, um, from the, the hardworking people of Mexico.

01:32:15.140 They hadn't given them any credit.

01:32:16.400 They weren't giving them the proper remunerations they were due.

01:32:20.100 It's a very nebulous idea of what, what they violated, what prescriptions they ignored.

01:32:26.300 But this thing was destroyed.

01:32:28.800 These two women were driven out of business and their burrito truck, which was feted, 1.00

01:32:32.580 which was loved, was, uh, was driven under, um, out of business, uh, in part also because

01:32:39.120 it was so good, but they had violated some unspoken, unwritten ideal, uh, about whatever

01:32:47.140 cultural comp, uh, appropriation is.

01:32:49.740 It's very difficult to define, but it's believed to be some form of theft as though culture is

01:32:56.000 a, uh, a zero sum game and that it has been commodified in some way.

01:33:00.000 So when I, when I read that and I thought about it, I, I had just seen the new Elvis movie.

01:33:07.940 Have you seen the new Elvis movie?

01:33:10.720 I haven't.

01:33:11.460 I heard it's good.

01:33:12.700 It's very, very good.

01:33:14.080 Um, but it taught me something about Elvis.

01:33:16.640 I didn't know.

01:33:17.360 I didn't know that he was so poor after his dad died that he and his mom lived in a black 0.57

01:33:24.420 community in Memphis, which never happened.

01:33:27.080 And he was like the only kid in this white kid in this black community.

01:33:31.180 So he grew up in that culture.

01:33:33.560 He grew up with the music.

01:33:35.540 That's why he moved the way he did.

01:33:38.620 Um, and the, at the time, the programmers of radio, many of them would have loved to play

01:33:45.680 the black music, but they couldn't put a black man on the air.

01:33:49.040 And when they heard his music, it was the black, uh, culture and black music sung by a white 0.99

01:33:56.340 guy.

01:33:57.000 And, you know, it shows BB King and all of these legends who were friends of his going,

01:34:02.720 man, take it, take it.

01:34:04.060 I'm glad people are, are listening to it.

01:34:06.600 Now you would look at that and it would be cultural appropriation and they would hate.

01:34:12.600 And I think they probably do hate Elvis and anybody like him because he was just stealing

01:34:18.780 that.

01:34:19.320 No, he wasn't.

01:34:20.620 He was popularizing it.

01:34:22.980 He was breaking a barrier.

01:34:24.660 Yeah, popularizing it and, and creating synthesis.

01:34:28.780 Um, and there is this idea abroad that synthesis in music and culture and cuisine is some sort

01:34:36.900 of form of theft is there needs to be, uh, there's a racial essentialist element that's

01:34:42.360 put to this that suggests that any creativity in, uh, creating works of art and amalgamating

01:34:49.400 and synthesizing various influences into some finished product, uh, represents some form of

01:34:56.740 attack on culture.

01:34:58.680 Uh, even though what you just said is absolutely correct in art and food and in music, you're

01:35:03.820 exposing new audiences to this thing.

01:35:06.300 You're creating a broader understanding and acceptance of these cultural traits, albeit

01:35:12.100 perhaps amalgamated, not necessarily adulterated.

01:35:15.680 They confuse the two probably deliberately.

01:35:18.000 Um, but the expansion of and broadening of the exposure to these ideas, these cultural

01:35:25.000 traits, uh, used to be something that we would celebrate and accept as, as an unadulterated

01:35:30.860 good, uh, it is not anymore.

01:35:33.260 I know there was a guy who I grew up listening to on the radio.

01:35:36.680 He was very, very good.

01:35:37.600 His name was Charlie Brown.

01:35:38.780 He was, uh, originally at a KJR in Seattle and then cube.

01:35:42.420 And I, I studied at his feet.

01:35:45.180 Uh, I was lucky enough to, to work with him when I was very, very young and I watched him

01:35:49.880 and I talked to him when I started doing my own show.

01:35:53.220 I called him up and I asked him, Hey, Charlie, can I, can I steal this and this and this from

01:35:58.460 you?

01:35:58.920 And he just laughed.

01:36:00.300 And he said, and I think this is true with almost everything because it's not, you're not

01:36:06.240 living in a vacuum.

01:36:07.800 And he said, Glenn, you steal from me.

01:36:10.540 You've stolen twice.

01:36:12.460 And that's what we don't understand that it all is just kind of, that's where you get your

01:36:18.780 inspiration and you take it and you make it your own and you move, not stealing things word for

01:36:23.560 word, et cetera, et cetera.

01:36:25.140 Um, let me, uh, let me ask you, uh, because I'm, I'm watching, I mean, I know you're, uh,

01:36:29.940 your IQ is a lot higher than mine.

01:36:32.640 And I don't know if you, if you're, uh, if you're watching like the marvelous Ms.

01:36:37.480 Maisel, which I think is fantastic.

01:36:39.780 Um, but it centers around this woman in the 1950s, early 1960s, who wants to be a comedian.

01:36:45.820 And one of the running characters is Lenny Bruce and Lenny Bruce would absolutely be in

01:36:54.260 progressive jail right now if he lived today and you had all of these great comedians that

01:37:01.480 were there to push back on the man, whatever it was, they push back.

01:37:08.420 These people like Ricky Gervais, um, make it, I think, because they don't apologize and they

01:37:16.320 don't stop.

01:37:17.320 Can you talk a little bit about the effect of apology and what's happening in, in comedy?

01:37:27.000 Yeah.

01:37:27.660 Um, the very same, uh, sentiments policing of public morality that took aim at Lenny Bruce

01:37:34.560 at George Carlin at Richard Pryor are at work today.

01:37:37.880 The executors of this campaign, uh, are not on the right.

01:37:41.880 Um, they used to be this, you know, the, the tendency that saw, uh, something that would

01:37:47.080 corrupt you into great society and innocent cultural fair used to be a tendency native 1.00

01:37:52.240 to the right, uh, in part, because we are all heirs to this puritanical tradition.

01:37:56.460 It has found a home in both political coalitions over the years, um, on, when it comes to comedy,

01:38:01.680 one of the things that you see now among this particularly puritanically inclined progressive

01:38:06.120 is to emphasize the pain that someone had to endure in order for you to enjoy something

01:38:12.680 as trite as a punchline.

01:38:14.900 Um, you know, you see this in the fans of the, the comedian Hannah Gadsby, who's an

01:38:19.960 anti-comic and who is funny when she wants to be, she doesn't always want to be. 0.88

01:38:24.880 Sometimes she will build the same tension that would otherwise lead to a punchline and give 1.00

01:38:28.620 you that release, uh, and doesn't break the tension, just lets you sit and marinate in

01:38:32.980 it and absorb her pain.

01:38:34.860 And then maybe interrogate you about that joke that she told five minutes ago and ask you

01:38:38.600 why you thought that was funny.

01:38:39.680 Why was my suffering funny?

01:38:41.240 And that's what they love so much.

01:38:43.420 They love the anguish.

01:38:45.520 They love the ardor because it is a sign of your, um, your prudent understanding that suffering

01:38:53.000 exists in this world.

01:38:54.200 And if you don't dutifully dwell on it every second of your life, you are sacrificing a

01:39:00.200 moral mission to advance the progressive project and make the human experience just a little

01:39:04.740 bit more, you know, tolerable.

01:39:06.260 This is a very puritanical ideal.

01:39:07.580 So when it comes to apologizing, go ahead.

01:39:11.040 Uh, well, hang on, hang on, hang on.

01:39:12.580 I've got to take a quick break.

01:39:13.900 I want to get to the apology and then I want you to explain a little bit deeper.

01:39:17.540 This, this anti-comedian, I'd never heard that term before anti-comedian.

01:39:22.260 And, and, you know, it's different than like Andy Kaufman who just for his own entertainment

01:39:28.620 would just make people wildly uncomfortable.

01:39:31.280 Um, but that's a completely different, uh, look as I understand it.

01:39:36.520 We're talking to Noah, uh, Rothman.

01:39:38.540 He is the author of the rise of the new Puritans, a great book.

01:39:42.680 You want to understand what's going on with the left and this new religion and how it affects 0.79

01:39:48.220 everything.

01:39:49.040 Um, the rise of the new Puritans by Noah Rothman back with him in 60 seconds.

01:39:56.000 Um, you can't talk your way out of pain.

01:39:58.260 If you happen to be living with it, you can't reason your way out and you have to play that

01:40:03.160 delightful game where you keep trying things until either something works or you're just

01:40:07.200 like, okay, I'm just going to have to live like this.

01:40:09.040 I got to that point and my wife made me take relief factor. 1.00

01:40:13.420 I, they were a sponsor of, uh, many of my shows, but I never endorsed them because I

01:40:19.540 didn't think it would work and I had never tried it.

01:40:22.460 And, uh, my wife said, why aren't you taking that thing that advertises?

01:40:26.040 And I said, relief factor.

01:40:27.160 And she said, yeah.

01:40:27.720 And I said, cause it's not going to work.

01:40:29.560 It's an anti-inflammatory.

01:40:31.900 Hey, I'm on ibuprofen 800.

01:40:34.400 Look out.

01:40:35.000 I'm a little loopy.

01:40:35.900 Don't let me drive.

01:40:36.940 And, uh, I said, those things never work for me.

01:40:40.660 She said, just try it.

01:40:42.120 So I tried the three week quick start and I was shocked, shocked that it worked for me.

01:40:48.400 This is where most of our pain comes from is inflation.

01:40:51.840 Uh, sorry, not inflation, inflammation.

01:40:54.500 Can you see what I have on my mind almost all the time?

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01:41:26.640 No, I would, uh, I would love to, uh, do a podcast with you and spend, uh, you know, at least an hour with you on this, this topic.

01:41:44.460 You've, you've really nailed it.

01:41:46.640 Uh, the book is The Rise of the New Puritans.

01:41:49.400 Um, tell me about the apology.

01:41:51.220 So, when we all, we are often bombarded with demands that you apologize for your conduct, the apology provides you no absolution.

01:42:01.760 Um, and that's where I differ from a lot of the very, uh, brilliant scholars, uh, who have called this a purely secular faith.

01:42:11.040 I don't see it as entirely a faith, because in a faith in the Western tradition, there is deism that expiates sin.

01:42:19.360 There can be no absolution for sin in this particular faith, because there is no deism.

01:42:25.240 Uh, and because it is such an all-encompassing social code, I, I liken it more to Puritanism, because Puritanism wasn't just a faith.

01:42:32.540 It wasn't just congregationalism.

01:42:33.780 It was a way of life.

01:42:35.180 It was a totalitarian philosophy by definition, because it was total.

01:42:38.700 Um, when it comes to the apology, the apology, as we've all observed, um, makes you just a more delicious target and trains more fire on you.

01:42:49.020 Um, and this isn't just true in comedy.

01:42:51.240 This is, there's several, uh, examples of that in the comedy chapter.

01:42:54.400 But there's a particularly interesting anecdote that I lead off the book with about a, um, a grocery, a grocer in, um, in, uh, Minnesota that was, again, very popular, very successful.

01:43:06.900 It was vetted, uh, by Keith Ellison on the House of the, floor of the House of Representatives.

01:43:12.020 Diners, drive-ins, and dives, Guy Fieri featured it.

01:43:15.140 So it turned out that this, the owner of this grocer had a daughter who, in her youth, uh, 14 and 18 respectively, made racially insensitive remarks online.

01:43:24.160 This was picked up by, uh, the online community that they attempted to force him to, uh, to apologize and, uh, and to, uh, make absolution for his sins.

01:43:35.360 He had to fire his daughter.

01:43:37.600 Uh, that was not good enough.

01:43:40.000 He pledged that she would devote herself to good works for the community.

01:43:43.220 That was not good enough.

01:43:44.400 Eventually, uh, the holder of his lease terminated the lease because it was, because that was the penit, that was the penitence that was deserving of the sin he had committed, the, uh, careless parentage of a willful daughter.

01:43:58.760 And this is, this is as moral a code as you can find.

01:44:02.380 It goes back to the founding of the country.

01:44:04.260 But when you are apologizing in any other tradition, you would find some absolution.

01:44:11.100 This particularly uncompromising tradition offers no, uh, no absolution for offenses against it.

01:44:18.600 It is, uh, I will tell you, you're right about this as, as a, um, a completely different kind.

01:44:24.540 You don't call it a religion.

01:44:25.780 I do.

01:44:26.300 I just think it's an, an anti-Christ style religion.

01:44:30.360 There is no forgiveness.

01:44:32.420 Uh, and without forgiveness, we, we cease to function normally as a society.

01:44:37.060 You, you, you just can't live in a society where there is no forgiveness, where you're held accountable, not only for everything you've ever done, but also anything your ancestors have done.

01:44:48.160 That's a pretty shallow pool of good people that can be swimming around.

01:44:55.540 Um, no, thank you so much for, for being on the program today.

01:44:58.980 I'd love to have you back.

01:45:00.100 Love to do a podcast with you.

01:45:01.400 Uh, the book is The Rise of the New Puritans Fighting Against Progressive's, uh, Progressive's War on Fun.

01:45:10.380 Noah Rothman is the author.

01:45:13.780 Back in a minute.

01:45:14.680 Thank you so much.

01:45:14.940 I appreciate it.

01:45:16.100 You bet.

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01:46:56.360 Hopefully we're going to have Sean Reyes on, the Attorney General.

01:46:59.520 I think he's the best Attorney General in the country right now.

01:47:02.480 We're going to talk a little bit about ESG and the overreach from the federal government.

01:47:07.480 And I was just saying earlier, why does the, the Department of Agriculture have an armed force?

01:47:17.740 And I told you at the time, and many people thought I was joking.

01:47:21.760 It's because of those Amish. 1.00

01:47:23.440 And I mean, sometimes those Amish just get out of control. 1.00

01:47:26.440 And what are you going to do?

01:47:27.260 You got to have an AR-15 to go in there as the Department of Agriculture Defense Force and take those Amish out. 1.00

01:47:36.780 You know what I mean?

01:47:37.900 And lo and behold, I get this, a story in.

01:47:42.080 Amos Miller, a Amish farmer, contends he's preparing food the way God intended.

01:47:49.320 But the United States government doesn't see things that way.

01:47:53.760 And he is apparently refusing to abandon traditional farming practices.

01:47:58.780 He doesn't use gasoline or oil products.

01:48:01.900 He also doesn't use fertilizer.

01:48:04.760 So, you know, and it's all organic.

01:48:08.280 And the government doesn't like it.

01:48:12.260 So they are stopping.

01:48:15.100 Thank God they're finally taking a stand on these damn Amish. 1.00

01:48:19.320 And I can say that.

01:48:20.340 We can say whatever because they're not listening.

01:48:23.760 Well, they can use electricity.

01:48:26.620 They're banning their grass-fed beef, their cheese, their raw milk, their organic eggs, and their grass-fed water buffalo.

01:48:39.860 And all types of produce.

01:48:42.840 Because they're dangerous.

01:48:45.380 They're dangerous, according to the federal government.

01:48:47.220 We'll give you more on that story tomorrow.

01:48:49.060 We have Sean Reyes on with us.

01:48:52.580 He is the attorney general.

01:48:53.980 And I was asking Stu earlier today off the air.

01:48:57.420 I've never, ever gotten involved in attorney general races.

01:49:02.660 I've never, you know, I'm the attorney general and I'm running for my race in X state.

01:49:07.980 I've always been, yeah, okay, they'll find another show to be on.

01:49:12.260 And I can't tell you how important the attorney generals are in our states.

01:49:18.300 They are, they, the sheriffs and the treasurers are the last line of defense.

01:49:25.220 And if you don't have one that understands the Constitution and has a spine and will stand up for it, your state's going to be in trouble.

01:49:34.720 And Sean Reyes is joining us now from the great state of Utah.

01:49:41.280 Hello, Sean.

01:49:42.760 Lost my, uh.

01:49:43.680 Hey, Glenn, how are you doing?

01:49:44.940 Lost my hearing.

01:49:45.420 Can you hear me all right?

01:49:47.400 I can't hear anything.

01:49:48.800 We are having a little, some technical difficulties here.

01:49:53.400 Sorry about that.

01:49:55.540 Why don't you give us, as Glenn's kind of reconnecting here, give us a, give us a picture of.

01:49:59.320 Hey, Glenn, hello, can you guys hear me?

01:50:01.440 Okay, now we're not hearing anybody at all.

01:50:02.960 Okay, um, why don't we put him on hold and we'll come back to him here in a second.

01:50:08.660 Uh, we were going to talk to him about some of the ESG stuff going on and all of the, all of the nonsense that has gathered around, uh, this movement here in the past few months and years.

01:50:20.740 And really, it hasn't been something that I think most Republicans or conservatives had really followed at all, uh, over the past couple of years as it developed into something much, much larger.

01:50:31.260 You have a situation where we know, like we can go back to Al Gore and we can find people talking about, uh, getting rid of the combustion engine so many years ago.

01:50:42.100 And something that seemed so completely impossible and futuristic, uh, that it could never come.

01:50:48.840 Um, and then you see the news yesterday that the Challenger and the Charger, uh, from, uh, you know, the old, you know, one of the main muscle cars you, you consider in the United States is going to be going all electric here in just the next couple of years.

01:51:05.980 They're talking about the next versions of the Challenger, uh, and, uh, you know, the Hellcat and the Red Eye and all their different versions of this are going to be it.

01:51:16.080 They're going to be quote unquote electric muscle cars after that.

01:51:20.040 This, this, this is where you're taking the attorney general.

01:51:22.960 He's not here.

01:51:23.860 He can't hear anything.

01:51:24.680 So I'm trying to, I'm talking about ESG standards and how fast this has come.

01:51:28.980 You've missed, you've missed much here.

01:51:30.900 I've missed a lot.

01:51:31.780 I don't know what happened to my, uh, my ears, but I, I can now, uh, hear and, uh, I'll try.

01:51:37.320 I'm sorry, audience.

01:51:38.440 I'll try to get this show back on the rails.

01:51:40.600 I was trying, I was trying to discuss this.

01:51:42.640 We discussed this off the air before.

01:51:44.300 No, we did.

01:51:44.720 You cannot call, uh, an electric car, a muscle car.

01:51:48.860 No, no, no, no.

01:51:50.840 And most people don't understand, uh, that all cars, any kind of combustion engine for the most part, except for it's not Ferrari, uh, might be Lamborghini.

01:52:06.420 Do you remember which one it was?

01:52:07.980 Oh, Bugatti.

01:52:08.740 Bugatti, yeah.

01:52:09.140 With, with, with an exception of Bugatti, almost every car will be electric.

01:52:15.320 Almost every car company is phasing the combustion engine out by 2030 to 2035.

01:52:22.860 So you won't have combustion engines anymore.

01:52:27.160 Well, that's a problem.

01:52:29.060 And that means you won't have gas.

01:52:31.240 So if you have an old engine, it's going to cost you probably 10 bucks a gallon if you can get it to run it.

01:52:38.720 And they're getting rid of all, that's not the free market.

01:52:42.000 That's not the free market.

01:52:43.800 Sean Reyes is now joining us.

01:52:45.360 I'm sorry, Sean.

01:52:46.100 We had some technical difficulties.

01:52:47.640 Are you there?

01:52:48.560 Problem.

01:52:49.000 I'm here.

01:52:49.520 Can you hear me now, Glenn?

01:52:51.160 I can.

01:52:51.800 I can.

01:52:52.500 Sean, um, I'm going to take a quick break here in, in, in just a second.

01:52:57.360 Then we'll come back and have a longer conversation.

01:52:59.460 Um, but tell me why the attorney general's position is so critical in every state now.

01:53:08.060 Glenn, we're the last line of defense to defend the constitution, to protect people's liberties, their property.

01:53:15.200 And especially with this administration, executive orders coming out every single day that threaten our liberties, trying to take away how we educate our kids, how we run our businesses.

01:53:28.800 Everything, uh, Glenn, it rests on our ability to stand up for the rule of law.

01:53:35.120 And there's no one else in the position other than the attorneys general who are able to do that the way that we can through litigation, fighting back.

01:53:43.440 Um, and, and Glenn, we appreciate your support because you've been with us out there as we fought, uh, this administration at the border.

01:53:50.900 We fought them in the courtroom and all across this great nation.

01:53:54.700 Uh, well, I think you guys are amazing and I have met many, if not most or all of the attorney generals that are at least, um, uh, Republicans.

01:54:05.660 Some of them are okay.

01:54:07.200 Some of them are really good.

01:54:09.060 Some of them, um, but, uh, most of them are fighting hard with, uh, against ESG for one, uh, and fighting, you know, against this bloated government that is out of control.

01:54:21.560 And I want to talk to you about that as it is in regards to ESG, ESG is taking a double hit from the, the states that are doing it right.

01:54:32.480 And that is the attorney general and the state treasurer.

01:54:37.160 And, um, in Utah, the state treasurer is Marlo Oaks, who is taking a big swing.

01:54:43.440 And I want you to talk about that and what you've just done, which is, I think the, the, uh, real, well, I can't, I couldn't decide which one is the knockout punch, taking the money away or hitting them legally, uh, where they should be hit.

01:55:01.660 And we'll go with Sean Reyes on that.

01:55:03.940 And if you're an attorney general or you're, you're, you're anybody involved in politics, you'd need to listen to what he is talking about.

01:55:11.520 Sean Reyes, we continue here in, uh, just a second.

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01:55:58.740 Remember, their goal is you will own nothing by 2030 and you'll like it.

01:56:03.520 Well, that doesn't make sense.

01:56:04.940 Not all just going to give away our possessions like Gandhi.

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01:56:44.760 The Glenn Back Program.

01:56:51.620 We're talking to Sean Reyes, the attorney general, and I think the best attorney general in the country.

01:57:07.720 And we have a few really good ones leading the way here on ESG.

01:57:13.900 And we also have a treasurer.

01:57:15.980 I think the best treasurer in the country is from West Virginia on ESG.

01:57:21.100 However, he's only taking on the E and not the S and the G.

01:57:26.000 This is all important.

01:57:27.780 So let's look at ESG and what's happening and how the attorney generals can approach it.

01:57:34.780 What are you doing, Sean?

01:57:36.860 Yeah, Glenn, thank you so much.

01:57:38.700 And I appreciate we all do your voice on this because you and I agree that this is one of the greatest existential.

01:57:45.340 Threats to our liberty of our time.

01:57:49.000 And most people just don't understand.

01:57:51.260 It's China. 0.90

01:57:51.880 It's China if we fail. 0.89

01:57:54.440 Absolutely.

01:57:55.880 And here's the thing, Glenn.

01:57:57.400 At best, and when I say at best, it's all bad.

01:57:59.980 But at best, it's a very dangerous, risky gamble with other people's money.

01:58:05.580 With the American public's money.

01:58:07.860 Trillions of dollars of our pensions and our investments.

01:58:11.740 That's at best.

01:58:12.520 But at worst, Glenn, it is an existential threat to the constitutional underpinnings of our republic because it undercuts the whole political process.

01:58:21.380 It hyper-politicizes the boardroom, and it makes political mercenaries out of fund managers.

01:58:27.820 Asset managers, historically, the prime directive, if you will, for them, their fiduciary duty, what the law requires, is that they maximize shareholder value, that they bring returns back in a healthy and responsible way.

01:58:43.000 And ESG turns all of that on its head.

01:58:46.820 It is the progressives' way of totally undermining the political process because they can't beat us on policies at state, you know, policy or at the federal level.

01:58:58.260 So here's what the state AGs are doing.

01:59:00.320 And I appreciate what the treasurers do, Glenn.

01:59:02.600 You mentioned them.

01:59:03.480 They absolutely have helped us lead out on this.

01:59:06.420 They raise a strong voice and bring awareness, but what they can't do that we can is investigate, and with those investigations, then prosecute or litigate, and all of those things are in the works right now.

01:59:21.260 I can't disclose everything that we're looking into.

01:59:24.760 There are rules about that.

01:59:26.480 And it's not just you.

01:59:30.820 There are multiple states involved in this, correct?

01:59:34.440 Oh, no, no, absolutely not just Utah.

01:59:37.080 We are one of the leaders, but there are so many other states.

01:59:40.380 You're talking about Arizona, Kentucky, Texas, your home state of Texas, and the great Attorney General Ken Paxton there, all of us working together.

01:59:48.980 We couldn't do it alone, Glenn, and it's such a huge undertaking that we wouldn't try to do it alone.

01:59:54.720 We have to band together.

01:59:56.200 And it's not just the AGs.

01:59:58.100 It's not just litigation.

01:59:59.720 We need legislators to create better policy to push back and fight back on this.

02:00:06.200 And then we need fund managers.

02:00:07.980 We need people like our friend Vivek Ramaswamy to create alternatives so that there's a market solution.

02:00:15.720 All of these things are the solutions, but state AGs are standing at the forefront.

02:00:20.720 We're the tip of the spear.

02:00:21.840 We feel that burden and that responsibility, and we appreciate your prayers and all of your listeners helping.

02:00:27.520 So when I said last night on stage, you happen to be there, and I said, I think some enterprising attorney, there is a class action suit down the road because it's underperforming the S&P 500.

02:00:44.340 And this is retirement money.

02:00:47.560 So if I'm 50, 55, 60, 65, I'm getting screwed right now.

02:00:54.220 And they know it.

02:00:55.480 And they say, well, that's a 10-year window.

02:00:57.500 Well, wait a minute.

02:00:58.320 I may not have 10 years for my investment.

02:01:00.760 What are you doing?

02:01:01.420 And they're violating their fiduciary responsibility because they want to affect politics.

02:01:10.100 Absolutely, Glenn.

02:01:11.000 You said it better than I.

02:01:12.440 They're taking your dollars, and they're voting your dollars for their policies.

02:01:17.820 Net zero orthodoxy.

02:01:19.540 We're talking about, they make it sound like it's inevitable, that this is all going to happen, and we all have to jump on board.

02:01:26.580 That's how they try to cloak these very short-sighted investments.

02:01:32.140 These are not good investments.

02:01:33.980 Now, I do want to say, Glenn, because I know you and I agree, we ought to be good stewards of this earth.

02:01:38.900 And conservatives get short shrift that we ought to be paying mind to how to protect our environment.

02:01:45.600 But we should not mortgage away the rest of our lives and our freedom in some silly effort to push one particular brand of orthodoxy.

02:01:57.400 And again, that's how they treat it.

02:01:59.020 And they demagogue everyone, right?

02:02:01.120 Anyone who dares stand up against their orthodoxy, even Elon Musk, a person who's built, a tech titan, a great leader who's built his entire empire on a green approach, a very responsible approach, they have demonized him with this ESG.

02:02:22.260 We just yesterday, as state AGs, pushed back against the SEC because they're looking for comments on a proposed rule, Glenn.

02:02:30.540 And this rule would require fund managers, again, not to just worry about trying to maximize return for shareholders.

02:02:38.000 It's hard enough to do that.

02:02:39.400 But now they want them to start reporting all of these ESG criteria.

02:02:44.300 It's what Standard & Poor's did.

02:02:46.360 And that's why we in Utah let out pushing back against them saying, no, no, no, you can't shame everybody into this.

02:02:53.980 This is not based on merit.

02:02:55.700 This is like sometimes I've called it corporate affirmative action.

02:03:00.540 It's not based on merit.

02:03:02.000 It's just an end that you want to perpetrate.

02:03:05.200 Anyway, Glenn, I know that you've got other guests and other things to talk about, but thank you so much for letting me get on.

02:03:11.340 I appreciate it, Sean.

02:03:13.180 Is there anything that the American people all across the country should do to be able to help guys like you?

02:03:19.220 What can they do?

02:03:19.860 Absolutely.

02:03:20.260 First of all, reach out to your attorney general and express some support for pushing back against us.

02:03:27.040 This has to remain a priority for us, but also get involved with your state legislature.

02:03:32.420 They need to pass better laws that we can then go out and enforce.

02:03:36.200 That's how the American people can get involved.

02:03:38.700 Educate yourself on ESG.

02:03:40.200 It is a huge threat.

02:03:41.440 God bless you, Glenn Beck.

02:03:42.560 Thank you, Sean.

02:03:43.620 Sean Reyes, attorney general, all of the republic, most of the attorney generals who are Republicans are on board on this,

02:03:50.900 and they are a last line of defense and support your treasurer in your state as well if they are pushing back.

02:03:58.740 The Glenn Beck Program.

The Glenn Beck Program - August 17, 2022

Saudi Arabia's Investment in BlackRock PROVES ESG Is a Scam ｜ Guests： Noah Rothman & Sean Reyes ｜ 8⧸17⧸22

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