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00:01:20.420 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck

00:01:48.880 program. Hello, America. Welcome to the program. It is it is a problem every day to look at the

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00:02:20.280 truth, the truth about covid, our schools and what is truly happening in our schools. We begin there

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00:04:17.800 I want to talk to you about something here. And I, I am going to remain cryptic and you'll understand

00:04:39.140 why I will tell you as much as the story. I feel comfortable. And I would ask you,

00:04:46.840 uh, those who are online and, uh, those who are so-called journalists to leave my family alone.

00:04:58.060 But I just, I want to share as much as I can, because I want you to know that you're not alone

00:05:07.340 because I think this is the greater pandemic. Let me give you a story.

00:05:14.640 It comes from the New York Times today. Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is

00:05:22.140 difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll of the pandemic

00:05:29.800 lockdown. He felt disconnected, said the mother of a 14-year-old freshman in Las Vegas who expressed

00:05:35.880 suicidal thoughts. He felt left behind.

00:05:38.540 The reminder of pandemic-driven suffering among students in Clark County, Nevada, have come in

00:05:46.040 droves. Since schools shut their doors in March, an early warning system that monitors students' mental

00:05:51.620 health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to distant officials, raising alarms about suicidal

00:05:58.300 thoughts, possible self-harm, or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their own lives.

00:06:08.540 Now they're going back to school, Clark County. They've decided this is worse than the COVID pandemic.

00:06:15.740 We have got to get these kids back in class.

00:06:18.040 I don't want to go into details, but in the last two months,

00:06:38.540 my family has experienced a serious suicide attempt.

00:06:52.140 And there is nothing more frightening. I can't imagine it's not right for a parent to survive their child.

00:07:08.540 And I don't want to live without any of them.

00:07:19.240 There's so many of us that don't have any idea what to do.

00:07:23.280 I'm a survivor of suicide from my mother.

00:07:33.980 I had another suicide in our family when I was probably about 30.

00:07:39.320 This is different.

00:07:50.020 I believe those were from biology, genetics.

00:07:55.080 This is because our children

00:08:04.280 don't know what to do.

00:08:12.380 They don't have friends.

00:08:14.240 Take yourself back to when you were 16.

00:08:17.180 What were you doing when you were 16?

00:08:19.220 When you were a teenager, it was your stand by me years.

00:08:24.580 It was the time when your friends got together and they went out and they did stuff,

00:08:28.880 even just just going for walks outside.

00:08:32.580 We used to just like a bunch of hoodlums.

00:08:37.140 Just walk our neighborhoods.

00:08:39.240 Screw around.

00:08:41.280 Talk.

00:08:43.260 Discover.

00:08:44.000 Talk about your feelings.

00:08:46.180 Talk about girls. 1.00

00:08:47.220 They're not doing that now.

00:08:53.260 Imagine taking the prime years of your life

00:08:57.480 and just having it gone.

00:09:07.120 Our children have developed high anxiety.

00:09:10.720 Our children are losing their skills to be able to relate to one another.

00:09:21.380 We don't really even look at one another anymore.

00:09:25.120 We don't.

00:09:25.860 We can't.

00:09:26.560 It's un...

00:09:27.760 It's...

00:09:28.720 It's not part of our human experience

00:09:39.600 to talk to people for months on end wearing masks.

00:09:44.100 The Academy of Pediatrics reported that as of December 3rd,

00:09:54.360 children accounted for slightly more than 0% of all COVID-19 cases.

00:10:00.300 Even fewer deaths.

00:10:02.120 About 0.11%.

00:10:04.780 0.11%

00:10:06.300 In 160 total.

00:10:09.260 There are still 15 states with zero reported child deaths.

00:10:14.520 They don't even catch it as often.

00:10:16.800 They account for less than 2% of the total confirmed COVID-19 cases globally.

00:10:22.000 Even here in America, the nation with the highest infection rates,

00:10:25.460 that number is the same.

00:10:26.940 2%.

00:10:27.480 And when they do catch it,

00:10:29.060 the overwhelming majority of them experience either no symptoms or mild symptoms.

00:10:33.560 Another recent study found that compared to the flu,

00:10:36.480 children play a minimal role in spreading COVID-19.

00:10:40.280 And most children who contract it actually get it from their parents.

00:10:44.660 So children rarely catch it.

00:10:47.620 They almost never die.

00:10:49.360 And they don't spread it.

00:10:51.880 Yet according from the data from the CDC,

00:10:54.260 the rate of children visiting emergency rooms has skyrocketed.

00:10:57.860 The number of 5 to 11 year olds is 25% higher.

00:11:02.100 The rate of 12 to 17 year olds going to the emergency room is 31% higher.

00:11:08.040 Why?

00:11:09.600 That number is due to mental health reasons.

00:11:16.020 I'm going to publish this monologue at glenbeck.com.

00:11:18.960 I have 11 studies.

00:11:21.420 We stopped posting them at 11.

00:11:23.480 According to a ton of stories and studies during the pandemic,

00:11:31.020 children of all ages had high rates of depression, anxiety,

00:11:35.280 post-traumatic symptoms as expected in the aftermath of any disaster.

00:11:39.940 The reality is unequivocal.

00:11:42.920 The lockdowns and the quarantines are bad for our children.

00:11:46.900 Do you know there's a study out now that shows that our children,

00:11:50.500 our children are going to be years behind now.

00:12:02.140 My son goes back to class today.

00:12:07.620 He is,

00:12:11.040 he loved class,

00:12:14.600 was doing great last year.

00:12:17.400 Things were finally on track.

00:12:20.360 And he and his friends,

00:12:22.180 they talk on the phone.

00:12:25.000 They spoke last night.

00:12:26.840 They don't,

00:12:29.820 they don't want to go back,

00:12:31.860 but they don't also want to stay home.

00:12:35.640 It's totally changed everything.

00:12:38.080 The reason why he doesn't want to go back is because the last time he went back

00:12:42.260 before somebody had COVID,

00:12:44.780 this was in December.

00:12:46.740 The last time he went back,

00:12:48.640 there were like four kids in the class and they were in these plastic bubbles.

00:12:53.980 He said,

00:12:54.640 I couldn't understand the teacher because she was wearing a mask.

00:12:57.480 I had to wear a mask.

00:12:59.040 We couldn't go anywhere.

00:13:00.160 We had to stay in the room.

00:13:01.780 We couldn't even go for lunch.

00:13:03.640 We couldn't sit together.

00:13:05.260 That's not healthy.

00:13:10.200 What are we doing to ourselves?

00:13:13.140 One study found children of all age groups showed more clinging,

00:13:17.280 inattention and irritability.

00:13:19.660 Three to six year olds were more likely to manifest clinginess

00:13:23.180 and fear that family members might contract the infection.

00:13:27.700 Six to 18 year olds were more likely to show inattention and persistent inquiry.

00:13:32.440 Another found a study found that in many households,

00:13:35.440 children who end up staying indoors become restless.

00:13:38.340 And in some cases,

00:13:39.740 violent.

00:13:40.180 I know kids that don't want to go outside anymore.

00:13:46.140 They just don't want to go outside anymore.

00:13:51.720 My son told me this,

00:13:53.080 this weekend,

00:13:53.640 I don't want to leave the house.

00:13:56.080 My daughter's anxiety of being around people has gone through the roof.

00:14:01.520 What,

00:14:01.840 what are we doing?

00:14:02.940 What are we doing to our children?

00:14:10.300 You know,

00:14:11.860 you know,

00:14:13.700 the truth,

00:14:14.680 you know,

00:14:16.160 the truth about how children contracted.

00:14:19.940 And if you don't,

00:14:20.800 I'm posting this study.

00:14:22.340 85% of parents have noticed negative changes in their children's emotions

00:14:31.860 and behavior since the pandemic in England,

00:14:35.180 deaths by suicide among children increased after the first lockdown in Holland.

00:14:40.940 A study found that young people reported significant increase in severe anxiety

00:14:46.000 and sleeping problems.

00:14:47.560 Does anybody else have a problem with their kids up at three o'clock in the morning?

00:14:50.440 overwhelmingly the research overwhelmingly concludes that children should remain in school.

00:15:08.300 You are going to be the one that solves this.

00:15:11.180 You are going to be the one that is going to go to the school board,

00:15:15.660 to the school.

00:15:18.160 You are going to say enough is enough.

00:15:20.440 Enough is enough.

00:15:22.820 If there is a teacher that is old and infirm,

00:15:25.820 they should stay home.

00:15:28.060 If there is someone that is teaching and they're afraid,

00:15:32.960 they should stay home.

00:15:36.980 Not our children.

00:15:38.760 I urge you to use this as your first step of standing up and getting involved.

00:15:49.320 I urge you to stand up now and push back.

00:15:56.140 The time has long passed for us to do this.

00:16:00.740 We must do it now.

00:16:02.960 Get our schools open.

00:16:07.340 We are paying with the lives of our children.

00:16:14.340 All right.

00:16:14.940 Let me,

00:16:15.420 excuse me.

00:16:16.380 Let me,

00:16:16.840 oh my God,

00:16:17.560 COVID.

00:16:18.800 Is that COVID?

00:16:19.520 Again?

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00:17:39.720 I just,

00:17:40.980 I,

00:17:41.360 I don't know.

00:17:42.180 I just,

00:17:43.000 I just don't know if,

00:17:47.840 how,

00:17:48.220 you know,

00:17:49.900 I said to my,

00:17:50.780 um,

00:17:51.920 uh,

00:17:52.200 my blood pressure,

00:17:53.280 my doctor was like,

00:17:54.160 uh,

00:17:54.820 you got to get your blood pressure.

00:17:55.700 And I'm like,

00:17:56.000 okay,

00:17:56.280 well then I won't show up for work.

00:17:58.660 And it's true. 0.56

00:17:59.800 Every time I read the news,

00:18:01.560 every time I come into work,

00:18:03.320 my blood pressure just shoots through the roof.

00:18:06.080 I've got to find some Zen way of telling you about all the stuff that's going on.

00:18:10.860 I can't used to have this problem solved back in the day with,

00:18:15.340 uh,

00:18:15.620 with your friend,

00:18:16.260 Jack,

00:18:16.840 uh,

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00:18:19.440 Jack Daniels,

00:18:20.160 Dr.

00:18:20.880 Daniels,

00:18:21.420 Dr.

00:18:22.040 Jack Daniels.

00:18:23.420 It solves all the problems.

00:18:24.800 It really does.

00:18:25.800 I wasted all of those blackouts. 1.00

00:18:28.720 I wasted all,

00:18:30.120 please kids don't drink.

00:18:32.180 Don't drink.

00:18:32.960 At least not yet.

00:18:34.300 Save it up.

00:18:35.100 At some point you're going to have teenagers and the world's going to come undone.

00:18:39.100 It might come undone now,

00:18:41.540 but it's not your problem.

00:18:43.160 Really?

00:18:43.720 Don't drink.

00:18:44.560 Don't drink.

00:18:45.840 Save all of those blackouts. 1.00

00:18:48.340 Save those times in a bargain.

00:18:50.240 I don't really,

00:18:51.140 I mean,

00:18:51.740 how does this affect me?

00:18:54.740 Save those moments.

00:18:57.160 Um,

00:18:57.600 Biden now says there's nothing the U S can do to counteract COVID in the next several months.

00:19:04.320 Wait,

00:19:05.260 hold on.

00:19:06.480 I don't understand what he means by that.

00:19:08.100 Does he mean that we are going to have deaths over the next several months?

00:19:11.200 I mean,

00:19:11.420 yes,

00:19:11.720 that's true,

00:19:12.340 right?

00:19:12.880 We,

00:19:13.200 we know these things get in the pipeline when you're having a couple of hundred thousand

00:19:16.480 cases a day.

00:19:17.700 Yeah.

00:19:17.880 There's nothing we can do.

00:19:18.980 You can certainly decrease the amount of them though.

00:19:22.300 To get to zero.

00:19:23.820 Yes,

00:19:24.040 there's nothing we can do.

00:19:24.840 No,

00:19:24.960 there's not,

00:19:25.620 there's nothing we can do.

00:19:26.860 No,

00:19:27.060 he says,

00:19:28.060 he said there's nothing we can do.

00:19:29.500 There's nothing the U S do can do to counteract COVID in the next several months.

00:19:33.140 Isn't he specifically doing a 100 day mask challenge?

00:19:37.840 What is the purpose of this?

00:19:39.400 If you can't,

00:19:40.460 well,

00:19:40.700 you got the mass challenge.

00:19:41.920 So you got the mass challenge and he's got that lofty goal of 100 million,

00:19:47.120 uh,

00:19:47.780 vaccinations in a hundred days.

00:19:50.160 The problem is we're now doing,

00:19:51.940 what was it?

00:19:52.400 Friday we did 1.6.

00:19:53.880 Yeah.

00:19:54.080 We're now ahead of that pace.

00:19:55.760 Yeah.

00:19:56.240 So,

00:19:56.860 I mean,

00:19:57.160 it's a lofty goal.

00:19:58.100 He'll see if he can cut it down.

00:19:59.700 He's going to slow the rate of vaccination.

00:20:02.500 I mean,

00:20:02.860 it's,

00:20:03.100 it's not,

00:20:03.820 by the way,

00:20:04.880 uh,

00:20:05.260 Gretchen Whitmer eases restaurant restrictions,

00:20:07.900 uh,

00:20:08.660 right after the inauguration.

00:20:10.000 So we had that going for us.

00:20:11.300 Now,

00:20:11.700 wait a minute.

00:20:12.440 The,

00:20:12.620 the president,

00:20:13.920 the new president is saying,

00:20:15.500 there's nothing we can do.

00:20:17.320 I'm sorry,

00:20:18.160 but you've lost your loved one.

00:20:20.240 Meanwhile,

00:20:21.080 right after he's elected Whitmer,

00:20:23.680 the king of the lockdowns.

00:20:26.100 I mean,

00:20:26.500 I mean,

00:20:26.760 outside of maybe,

00:20:28.200 maybe Gavin Newsom.

00:20:30.040 I mean,

00:20:30.260 I mean,

00:20:31.040 well,

00:20:31.320 Gavin is even doing it too.

00:20:33.860 Gavin is now coming out.

00:20:36.160 And today he's supposed to say,

00:20:37.980 you know what?

00:20:39.180 These restrictions,

00:20:40.220 uh,

00:20:40.900 we're going to lift them.

00:20:41.800 We're going to lift them.

00:20:42.360 As of today,

00:20:44.180 California is supposed to get that.

00:20:46.640 Wait,

00:20:46.840 wait,

00:20:47.700 you hold it.

00:20:49.200 I mean,

00:20:49.360 I can't,

00:20:49.680 I haven't looked at California specifically here in a little while,

00:20:52.660 but I mean,

00:20:53.120 they have not exactly been in a low point as far as transmission goes lately.

00:20:58.640 But he's saying it's time.

00:21:00.120 It's time to,

00:21:01.000 to,

00:21:01.540 uh,

00:21:01.800 open these things up.

00:21:03.400 Are you kidding me?

00:21:04.740 Same thing with New York.

00:21:05.580 I mean,

00:21:05.720 Cuomo was doing the same thing saying,

00:21:08.220 Hey,

00:21:08.440 we need to open these things up.

00:21:09.620 And it's like,

00:21:09.880 well,

00:21:10.060 have you looked at your state at all?

00:21:12.000 Have you,

00:21:12.360 have you,

00:21:13.180 cause I mean,

00:21:13.600 we are,

00:21:14.580 I mean,

00:21:14.860 it's kind of,

00:21:15.180 I guess it's maybe come down a little bit.

00:21:16.780 Who are you talking to?

00:21:17.180 Ah,

00:21:17.760 of course I look at my state and it's a mess.

00:21:23.680 You know,

00:21:24.400 I'm the mobster that is brilliant.

00:21:27.220 And at the same time,

00:21:28.400 complete idiot. 0.93

00:21:31.540 So this is out of control.

00:21:34.300 Lock it down.

00:21:35.440 I think we should put more people in nursing homes.

00:21:38.420 To be able to kill more,

00:21:42.560 you know,

00:21:43.000 grandmas and grip. 0.99

00:21:45.520 But at the same time,

00:21:46.980 open it up.

00:21:48.120 We can't do this anymore.

00:21:50.760 Governor Cuomo,

00:21:51.460 you again have rejected the release of the information.

00:21:55.100 Uh,

00:21:55.280 that has been,

00:21:56.060 uh,

00:21:56.520 multiple lawsuits have been filed to get the information about how many people died.

00:22:00.140 Are you,

00:22:00.720 uh,

00:22:01.220 calling me,

00:22:02.060 uh,

00:22:02.440 some sort of,

00:22:03.380 uh,

00:22:03.960 Italian slur name there?

00:22:07.180 No.

00:22:07.460 I think that's what I heard.

00:22:13.300 America's dumbest mobster.

00:22:14.920 Oh my God.

00:22:15.540 She's just,

00:22:16.840 I mean,

00:22:18.380 he's the one who's like,

00:22:19.680 leave the gun. 0.94

00:22:22.020 Take the cannoli.

00:22:23.340 No,

00:22:23.560 wait,

00:22:24.000 take the cannoli.

00:22:25.420 Leave the gun. 0.94

00:22:26.740 No,

00:22:27.120 wait,

00:22:28.140 leave the cannoli.

00:22:29.720 Wait,

00:22:30.460 I don't know what to do here.

00:22:32.520 Woo.

00:22:32.920 Woo.

00:22:33.380 Woo.

00:22:33.820 Woo.

00:22:34.280 Woo.

00:22:35.260 Well,

00:22:35.700 you should make decisions maybe a little faster,

00:22:38.820 maybe a little faster.

00:22:40.340 I did that.

00:22:41.660 That's why I put all those sick people in nursing homes. 1.00

00:22:46.380 That's why we say Andrew Cuomo was awful.

00:22:49.040 Dot com.

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00:23:00.600 Okay.

00:23:00.840 So the economists are starting to predict that this year rates in the housing industry are going to start to increase.

00:23:06.600 Okay.

00:23:07.200 All right.

00:23:07.740 That would mean maybe,

00:23:09.840 um,

00:23:10.980 that there's a chance of that.

00:23:12.460 Now I'm going to give you another stat.

00:23:14.680 The banks have come out and said,

00:23:17.820 uh,

00:23:19.140 if we get higher taxes,

00:23:20.420 we're just going to put them into the interest rates and we'll raise interest rates.

00:23:24.420 That way we'll pay for the taxes.

00:23:26.620 No,

00:23:26.840 you won't pay for the taxes.

00:23:28.060 That puts us paying for the taxes.

00:23:32.140 Look,

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00:24:39.620 Hello,

00:24:39.880 Pat.

00:24:40.260 Yeah.

00:24:40.760 Hello,

00:24:41.060 Glenn.

00:24:41.380 How are you?

00:24:42.260 Oh,

00:24:42.760 perfect.

00:24:43.480 Just,

00:24:43.860 I mean,

00:24:44.380 so perfect.

00:24:45.120 You know,

00:24:45.540 I'm so glad the media said,

00:24:47.420 uh,

00:24:47.780 over the weekend,

00:24:48.580 uh,

00:24:49.400 CNN was talking about how Joe Biden,

00:24:51.680 what he's doing is just boring.

00:24:53.740 There's,

00:24:54.260 I mean,

00:24:54.540 he's just not doing anything.

00:24:56.820 He's just not doing anything that's exciting or,

00:25:00.480 you know,

00:25:01.080 controversial,

00:25:02.040 right?

00:25:02.360 Like they're just 19 boring executive orders.

00:25:06.340 Exactly.

00:25:07.160 And they're all like,

00:25:08.020 all is such a,

00:25:08.940 maybe you should order more paper clips.

00:25:11.340 Yeah.

00:25:11.720 You know,

00:25:12.180 exactly.

00:25:12.980 And who cares about paper clips?

00:25:15.660 Except for the fact that none of them are about paper clips.

00:25:18.340 They're about things like the border.

00:25:20.760 Right.

00:25:21.580 Right.

00:25:22.180 Well,

00:25:22.580 just release all,

00:25:25.240 all people that ice has in custody.

00:25:28.220 Yeah.

00:25:28.680 All of them.

00:25:29.700 No big deal.

00:25:30.340 Yeah.

00:25:30.500 Just all of them.

00:25:31.220 Yeah.

00:25:31.800 It's not like,

00:25:32.520 it's not like he's releasing.

00:25:35.500 Well,

00:25:35.940 he is releasing all of them.

00:25:37.800 Yes,

00:25:38.040 he is.

00:25:38.460 Uh,

00:25:38.740 but he's not releasing more than all of them.

00:25:41.000 No,

00:25:41.360 that would be controversial.

00:25:42.760 Yes,

00:25:43.140 but this isn't,

00:25:44.080 this isn't.

00:25:45.220 Nope.

00:25:45.900 He's also inspired,

00:25:47.260 uh,

00:25:47.880 caravans again.

00:25:48.780 So we got,

00:25:49.540 uh,

00:25:49.880 yes,

00:25:50.260 we have that going on.

00:25:51.080 We had one of 8,000 last week that was broken up a little bit.

00:25:54.120 Uh,

00:25:54.520 we have another one of 3,000 that launched,

00:25:56.560 uh,

00:25:56.920 again,

00:25:57.400 like yesterday.

00:25:58.240 That's great.

00:25:59.200 That's only,

00:25:59.800 that's great.

00:26:00.920 You know,

00:26:01.180 11,000 people that are headed.

00:26:02.720 I think it's wonderful.

00:26:03.960 States of America.

00:26:04.800 Hey,

00:26:04.820 by the way,

00:26:05.740 uh,

00:26:06.000 did you,

00:26:06.520 did you hear that Jeff Bezos and Amazon little upset?

00:26:11.000 Yeah,

00:26:11.260 I did hear.

00:26:11.840 Yeah.

00:26:12.020 Little upset.

00:26:12.980 There's a,

00:26:13.600 they're trying to unionize Amazon and he doesn't like that.

00:26:18.060 I mean,

00:26:18.960 when you got a corporation like Amazon,

00:26:21.120 that's working well,

00:26:22.700 why not throw a little bit of the postal service in there with it?

00:26:29.460 You know what I mean?

00:26:30.320 Let's get a couple of really good unions in there. 1.00

00:26:33.540 So,

00:26:34.100 um,

00:26:34.760 Amazon,

00:26:35.660 uh,

00:26:36.040 it has just filed with the national labor relations board because the unions said,

00:26:42.920 what we're going to do is so huge.

00:26:45.600 instead of having a meeting where everybody votes,

00:26:47.700 uh,

00:26:48.320 what we'll do is we'll have mail-in ballots and,

00:26:52.280 uh,

00:26:52.720 and,

00:26:55.020 uh,

00:26:55.500 Bezos doesn't like that because he,

00:26:57.760 he says mail-in voting.

00:27:00.620 There's too much of a risk of fraud by the labor unions.

00:27:04.880 Yeah.

00:27:04.980 The only way it can be valid and fair is to have an in-person voting system.

00:27:10.580 Right.

00:27:11.180 Well,

00:27:11.600 not only that,

00:27:13.040 not only that,

00:27:13.900 he said,

00:27:14.740 um,

00:27:15.280 the concerns about election security run,

00:27:17.920 um,

00:27:18.660 particularly high because we don't have a reliable electronic signature platform.

00:27:26.220 Hmm.

00:27:27.280 Hmm.

00:27:28.180 Hmm.

00:27:28.560 Hmm.

00:27:29.200 So Amazon doesn't have that.

00:27:33.060 No.

00:27:33.480 Hmm.

00:27:34.180 That's interesting.

00:27:35.200 That's a,

00:27:36.020 so I throw that in.

00:27:37.800 I mean,

00:27:38.280 again,

00:27:38.580 some of the stuff gets out of where the election was,

00:27:41.400 you know,

00:27:41.540 crazy,

00:27:41.960 but the one where they keep saying like,

00:27:43.860 when we check the signatures,

00:27:44.820 it's like I buy things every day and they supposedly check the signatures.

00:27:49.340 Like they,

00:27:50.020 they don't even look at my signature when I sign a credit card receipt for thousands of dollars.

00:27:54.640 They don't even care.

00:27:55.940 Like they check the signatures.

00:27:57.900 I mean,

00:27:58.140 I'm not saying that they don't go through a check,

00:27:59.740 but like how reliable is that check?

00:28:01.360 I have literally signed at Mickey Mouse at times.

00:28:03.800 I really have.

00:28:04.580 Yeah.

00:28:05.000 I signed one Jesus at one point.

00:28:08.060 They just,

00:28:08.540 just to see,

00:28:09.440 just to see.

00:28:10.040 Nope.

00:28:10.740 I just,

00:28:11.400 I actually signed it.

00:28:13.340 Jesus McCool.

00:28:15.240 Nothing.

00:28:15.760 Nothing.

00:28:16.360 I,

00:28:16.580 I sent my kid up there the other day to buy lunch with my credit card and they gave it to him.

00:28:21.360 Like I,

00:28:22.020 he's not,

00:28:22.700 he didn't get the credit card.

00:28:23.880 He's nine.

00:28:24.520 They don't care.

00:28:27.660 He's on his cell phone.

00:28:29.360 American express.

00:28:30.380 I know.

00:28:31.020 I know.

00:28:31.780 I wrote,

00:28:32.420 I wrote the check.

00:28:33.380 I don't know why it's not there for last month's payment.

00:28:36.020 I just need lunch today.

00:28:41.120 Tim Matheson for,

00:28:43.640 for,

00:28:43.980 for some reason.

00:28:45.340 Now,

00:28:45.460 Tim Matheson is the guy.

00:28:46.760 Remember,

00:28:47.160 do you know who he is?

00:28:48.020 Yeah.

00:28:48.240 Yeah.

00:28:48.420 He's the guy from National Lampoon's animal house.

00:28:51.480 Animal house.

00:28:51.960 Yeah.

00:28:52.280 Right.

00:28:52.680 He was otter in that.

00:28:55.080 Right.

00:28:56.040 And,

00:28:56.520 and what he's been doing since is,

00:28:59.920 Oh,

00:29:00.280 it's terrific stuff.

00:29:02.220 Right.

00:29:02.900 Whatever it is.

00:29:03.600 So,

00:29:03.860 so anyway,

00:29:05.520 I've seen all of his film.

00:29:07.020 Yeah.

00:29:07.260 Oh,

00:29:07.640 so,

00:29:08.260 so he,

00:29:09.700 he tweeted out so wonderful to have a first lady with class and heart and can speak English. 0.67

00:29:19.480 Oh yeah.

00:29:21.880 Melania Trump.

00:29:22.780 What a dummy. 0.59

00:29:23.500 She only speaks five languages.

00:29:25.180 Only five.

00:29:28.340 She's only fluent in five and no class.

00:29:31.900 Did you see her?

00:29:32.820 You see her out sitting on the washer and dryer that she put on the back porch.

00:29:38.160 of the white house sitting there with a crop top and she's sitting there just drinking a Budweiser.

00:29:45.920 And I thought,

00:29:46.500 could we get some class?

00:29:48.640 Wouldn't it be nice?

00:29:49.460 Wouldn't it?

00:29:50.080 But no,

00:29:50.620 no,

00:29:51.120 no.

00:29:51.600 You got a supermodel in the white house and they hated her guts for four years for no apparent reason whatsoever. 0.95

00:29:58.460 Is there any first lady that had more class than Melania Trump? 1.00

00:30:04.100 Not that I can think of.

00:30:05.080 She was always classy.

00:30:06.400 I think Jackie O would be the only one that I could think of that was,

00:30:10.100 was in her category.

00:30:12.580 Yeah.

00:30:13.000 Jackie O had real class,

00:30:15.260 but you know,

00:30:16.060 I was at the white house and I'm in the Rose garden.

00:30:19.360 Remember when she redid the Rose garden?

00:30:20.600 Yeah.

00:30:20.980 Yeah.

00:30:21.300 And what did they say?

00:30:22.140 They said she ruined it. 0.99

00:30:23.780 That it was ridiculous.

00:30:25.160 That it was terrible.

00:30:26.160 Do you know what she did?

00:30:26.900 Cause I was standing in the Rose garden.

00:30:28.600 It is beautiful.

00:30:30.580 You know what she did?

00:30:31.260 No,

00:30:32.060 not exactly.

00:30:32.960 Yeah.

00:30:33.260 She,

00:30:33.760 uh,

00:30:34.460 uh,

00:30:34.960 restored it to the exact plan of Jackie O.

00:30:39.120 They had changed it since.

00:30:40.700 Wow.

00:30:40.860 So all she did was like,

00:30:42.520 I think Jackie O had the right plan and they restored it to the Jackie O plan.

00:30:48.520 And that was classless.

00:30:51.660 Unbelievable.

00:30:52.420 I mean,

00:30:53.120 it's just unbelievable.

00:30:54.100 I just,

00:30:55.220 but the class of Dr.

00:30:58.480 Jill Biden.

00:30:59.620 Wow.

00:30:59.840 Now that.

00:31:00.920 Yeah.

00:31:01.480 I,

00:31:02.000 yeah,

00:31:02.560 it's amazing.

00:31:03.300 Um,

00:31:03.760 San Francisco hotels are being used to house homeless people.

00:31:09.200 And there's a new executive order that has just been signed by Joe Biden.

00:31:14.260 It's so boring.

00:31:15.320 I,

00:31:15.620 I,

00:31:16.000 I shouldn't even read it to you.

00:31:17.860 Um,

00:31:19.140 under the order,

00:31:20.340 certain kinds of emergency housing for the homeless are eligible to be fully reimbursed through September.

00:31:28.660 Now,

00:31:29.700 uh,

00:31:30.440 not sure if this executive order,

00:31:34.440 uh,

00:31:35.380 if,

00:31:35.900 if this emergency will,

00:31:38.260 will fit this executive order,

00:31:40.460 but I'm guessing it does.

00:31:43.600 Uh,

00:31:44.240 so now we are going to be paying,

00:31:47.860 paying for the hotel rooms of the homeless in San Francisco.

00:31:56.180 I have to ask you,

00:31:57.560 do you have a line anywhere?

00:31:59.020 Do you have a line on,

00:32:00.760 on taxes where it's just like,

00:32:03.200 okay,

00:32:03.500 okay,

00:32:03.760 no,

00:32:04.520 because I almost feel like that's taxation without representation because I'm paying for programs in California.

00:32:11.040 I don't get any representation in California.

00:32:13.040 I don't get any representation in California.

00:32:14.480 Why am I paying for policies that I vehemently disagree with in California?

00:32:21.700 California should have to pay their own bill. 1.00

00:32:24.020 I don't live in California for a reason.

00:32:26.980 I live in Texas for a reason.

00:32:29.160 You know,

00:32:29.900 Texas brought home all of its own gold.

00:32:33.140 We have our own gold reserve.

00:32:35.240 Now,

00:32:35.580 we finally got it out of the federal reserve.

00:32:38.280 It took us five years,

00:32:39.900 but we got it.

00:32:41.200 And now we have all of our own gold reserves.

00:32:44.600 I did that for a reason because Texas knew this ain't going to last.

00:32:51.260 Is Texas,

00:32:52.540 why does Texas have to pay for the nonsense in California? 1.00

00:32:56.860 Is it just me?

00:32:58.620 Because I feel this way about why am I,

00:33:00.820 if those,

00:33:01.220 if they're using federal funds,

00:33:03.000 then no,

00:33:04.560 that's,

00:33:04.980 I mean,

00:33:05.100 that's completely wrong.

00:33:06.020 These ideas,

00:33:07.040 this is why Madison did not want this to be the outcome,

00:33:10.560 right?

00:33:10.740 Where we just send a bunch of money to the federal government and it

00:33:14.420 distributes it all over the,

00:33:16.060 all over the country.

00:33:17.060 Correct.

00:33:17.440 The opposite of the model.

00:33:19.000 Right.

00:33:19.660 And it's,

00:33:20.260 and they're doing it in California.

00:33:21.960 They're going to do it with,

00:33:23.540 and if it's executive order,

00:33:25.660 do I really have representation there?

00:33:29.300 Because they're spending money through executive order.

00:33:32.200 It's supposed to go through Congress,

00:33:33.980 but even if it does go through Congress,

00:33:36.580 I don't have any representation in California.

00:33:42.580 Who's the one going to hold the budget for us?

00:33:45.920 Who's going to be the one that holds the feet to the fire?

00:33:48.540 Who's going to make sure that California has some austerity instead of just

00:33:53.360 continuing to spend money?

00:33:55.820 I mean,

00:33:56.460 I just think we are setting ourselves up for massive problems because when

00:34:02.960 New York fails,

00:34:04.700 which it will,

00:34:06.080 when Illinois fails,

00:34:07.840 which it will,

00:34:09.640 I have no problem helping a neighbor,

00:34:11.960 but not the neighbors who have been living it up.

00:34:14.920 Not the neighbors who are like,

00:34:16.300 you guys are so stupid. 0.99

00:34:19.440 Party.

00:34:20.960 Why would I help them?

00:34:23.660 I think New York will probably be fine because I just imagine the sales of the

00:34:29.360 poster that Andrew Cuomo made celebrating how good,

00:34:32.240 what a good job he did on Corona virus.

00:34:34.140 Those are probably selling so much that he can just pay off all the budget

00:34:36.820 problems with that.

00:34:37.820 Right.

00:34:38.100 And or his book.

00:34:38.980 Yeah.

00:34:39.280 Just,

00:34:39.580 just either one,

00:34:40.240 the book about how,

00:34:41.020 what a great job he did with the Corona virus that was released just as

00:34:44.240 they went to the highest peak they've had since the beginning of the crisis.

00:34:47.220 By the way,

00:34:47.580 speaking of more problems,

00:34:49.380 7,000 national guardsmen are going to remain in Washington through mid March.

00:34:54.960 Now 7,000.

00:34:57.780 So DC is essentially an occupied city.

00:35:00.980 Then I guess,

00:35:02.360 I guess that's what I guess.

00:35:04.900 Great.

00:35:05.420 That's what they said.

00:35:06.220 Trump wanted to do to Portland,

00:35:08.440 make it an occupied city.

00:35:09.960 Now we have 7,000 national guardsmen and DeSantis is calling them back.

00:35:15.240 He's like,

00:35:15.600 you're not,

00:35:16.040 you're not keeping any of my national guard in March.

00:35:18.480 I mean,

00:35:18.740 I understand that like maybe the next day they don't leave because that would be

00:35:22.300 kind of an obvious cue to everyone if there was going to be a problem,

00:35:25.660 but mid March,

00:35:27.040 I mean,

00:35:27.340 what,

00:35:27.580 what's the limiting,

00:35:28.540 what's the limiting argument here?

00:35:30.840 Like at some,

00:35:31.700 how,

00:35:32.180 why would you send them home in mid March?

00:35:33.480 Then the people are going to come in April,

00:35:35.500 right?

00:35:35.700 Like there's no limiting principle here to stop this.

00:35:39.660 So DeSantis is pulling the troops back.

00:35:42.320 So is,

00:35:43.120 so is Texas.

00:35:44.800 Yeah.

00:35:45.160 They're going to lose.

00:35:45.900 Yeah.

00:35:46.140 All the red states are going to be like, 0.96

00:35:47.500 no,

00:35:47.660 we're not going to,

00:35:48.600 we're not,

00:35:49.020 we're not an,

00:35:49.480 an everlasting occupying force in this.

00:35:52.300 In Washington,

00:35:53.120 DC.

00:35:53.420 And they're making them sleep in parking garages. 0.99

00:35:56.680 Now they moved them out of the marbled floors of the,

00:35:59.860 of the Capitol building and put them in a parking garage.

00:36:02.240 They said that the national guard asked for that.

00:36:04.920 Not bull crap.

00:36:06.520 I'd say that's bull.

00:36:07.660 No,

00:36:07.860 they said that they,

00:36:08.780 they wanted to be,

00:36:09.680 we want to sleep in a parking garage.

00:36:11.960 It's more comfortable for them.

00:36:14.280 We'd,

00:36:14.520 we'd hate to be in a hotel.

00:36:15.820 Put us in a parking garage.

00:36:17.180 I mean,

00:36:17.600 please,

00:36:17.860 we don't want to go to a hotel though.

00:36:20.480 That's for the homeless. 0.81

00:36:21.900 Right.

00:36:22.060 We'd rather sleep in the garage.

00:36:26.200 Jeez.

00:36:27.420 All right.

00:36:28.320 Omaha steaks.

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00:36:29.760 you know me,

00:36:30.680 Glenn Beck,

00:36:31.240 as a fitness and nutrition expert.

00:36:33.520 Oh yeah.

00:36:34.060 Oh my God.

00:36:34.700 Why is Pat laughing?

00:36:35.920 I don't know.

00:36:36.780 Did you hear him laughing?

00:36:37.380 He's probably telling himself a joke.

00:36:40.060 Listen,

00:36:40.600 I can't.

00:36:40.860 I'm just thinking about something from my show.

00:36:42.140 Yeah.

00:36:42.480 I can't stress enough how important it is to have balance in your eating habits.

00:36:47.960 You know,

00:36:48.220 having a,

00:36:48.600 you can't stress that enough.

00:36:51.440 I can't,

00:36:52.060 I can't.

00:36:52.640 Well,

00:36:52.820 as a fitness and nutrition,

00:36:55.060 I mean,

00:36:55.420 I'm a doctor.

00:36:56.020 Are you a doctor?

00:36:57.200 No,

00:36:57.460 I'm not a doctor.

00:36:57.900 I'm a doctor.

00:36:58.620 So you've got to really have the best diversity of food and it's critical to living your best

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00:37:06.100 as a doctor,

00:37:06.560 when I order from Omaha steaks,

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00:37:10.940 just order steak,

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00:37:13.820 I seek that balance.

00:37:15.940 It's why I also get,

00:37:17.420 you know,

00:37:18.140 sausage or burgers or pork chops and chicken breasts.

00:37:22.320 Go light on the chicken breasts.

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00:38:10.780 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:38:14.040 So I want to,

00:38:16.540 I want to ask you a question.

00:38:17.420 We have a Jeep pie coming on and many people will not know who Jeep pie is,

00:38:23.000 but you should.

00:38:24.300 He was the FCC chairman under Donald Trump.

00:38:29.080 I have done broadcasts for 45 years.

00:38:33.680 I think he is the best FCC chair ever.

00:38:38.720 He understands freedom of speech.

00:38:41.420 He understood.

00:38:42.120 I think the,

00:38:43.620 the internet questions saved the internet,

00:38:46.840 arguably.

00:38:47.380 Yeah,

00:38:47.740 he did from net neutrality saved it.

00:38:50.520 I mean,

00:38:50.680 now who knows what's going to happen next,

00:38:52.240 but at least he let us have a few years here.

00:38:55.380 And we're going to talk to him about the future of broadcast,

00:38:58.260 the future of the internet and what he sees coming down the pike that we should be paying attention to. 0.99

00:39:04.280 He's coming up in just a few minutes on freedom of speech.

00:39:06.940 Here's a question that I have for you.

00:39:10.500 What does the,

00:39:12.660 what does freedom of speech guarantee?

00:39:19.820 Freedom of speech,

00:39:21.240 the first amendment,

00:39:22.820 freedom of speech,

00:39:23.580 freedom to petition your government,

00:39:25.960 right?

00:39:27.520 What,

00:39:28.240 what does that mean?

00:39:29.360 Where do you draw the line on that?

00:39:32.380 For instance,

00:39:33.220 there's a story man charged in Capitol riot,

00:39:36.140 barred from commenting about matters related to the U S government online.

00:39:42.200 He's a guy who lives in Kentucky.

00:39:43.960 He allegedly stormed the U S Capitol.

00:39:46.760 Um,

00:39:47.200 and he's been told.

00:39:50.740 He can no longer make any comments about the breach or the U S government online.

00:39:58.200 Um,

00:39:59.160 I don't see how that's possible under the first amendment.

00:40:02.020 You can now he was released.

00:40:03.940 No,

00:40:04.100 he was released on bond.

00:40:05.560 This is,

00:40:06.100 this is the court ruling.

00:40:07.140 Yeah.

00:40:07.860 Um,

00:40:08.180 which barred him from using the internet or anything else to talk about the government,

00:40:13.800 uh,

00:40:15.080 or any kind of rallies like this.

00:40:16.740 Yeah.

00:40:16.880 Like I,

00:40:17.280 I'm,

00:40:17.720 I don't think that's possible.

00:40:18.700 Like when you have every once in a while,

00:40:20.600 there'll be a case where like a guy is selling shady supplements that,

00:40:24.480 that he says do things that it doesn't do that they don't do.

00:40:27.520 And he'll get in trouble for that gets sued.

00:40:29.520 And part of the punishment will be,

00:40:30.980 he can no longer operate in the arena of selling supplements.

00:40:35.260 Right.

00:40:36.220 However,

00:40:36.980 these guys without fail,

00:40:38.460 go on to write books about supplements because you can't stop them from talking.

00:40:42.600 It's a free speech issue.

00:40:43.800 It's a first amendment.

00:40:45.300 This is free speech specifically about questioning your government.

00:40:49.500 And I don't like any of his speech.

00:40:51.660 I mean,

00:40:52.400 you know,

00:40:52.760 he was like,

00:40:53.240 we got to start a revolution.

00:40:54.460 I don't like any of it,

00:40:55.500 but I,

00:40:57.440 you don't have a right.

00:40:58.520 The government does not have a right to say you can no longer speak about the U S

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00:42:08.540 What you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

00:42:37.860 This is the Glenn Beck program.

00:42:47.280 I've been in broadcast for 45 years and I have never even wanted to interview the head of the FCC,

00:42:55.840 but this guy you should know about.

00:42:59.320 I believe he saved the internet.

00:43:01.980 I believe he's the best FCC commissioner we've had in the entire time that I've done broadcast.

00:43:09.180 He is the guy who has been protecting freedom of speech through the FCC.

00:43:13.880 He's now left the administration and we've got a new person in the FCC.

00:43:20.260 I want to talk about freedom of speech and the perils of what is happening now.

00:43:27.420 This talk about panels, this talk about losing your ability to speak out, even to speak out against the government.

00:43:37.840 And not incitement, but to speak out and say, these guys, they're horrible.

00:43:44.120 Do you have the right to do that?

00:43:45.740 What is our future?

00:43:46.840 Ajeet Pai, the former FCC chairman, joins me in 60 seconds.

00:43:56.260 The Glenn Beck program.

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00:45:06.760 It's an honor to have Ajit Pai on with us again, former FCC chairman.

00:45:15.040 Ajit, how are you?

00:45:18.260 Is he there?

00:45:19.660 Ajit.

00:45:20.820 My gosh, they've silenced him already.

00:45:22.880 Hey, Glenn, how are you?

00:45:23.940 There you are.

00:45:24.520 Thanks for having me on.

00:45:25.120 You bet.

00:45:25.640 How are you, sir?

00:45:27.000 Pretty good.

00:45:27.740 Pretty good.

00:45:28.080 Hope you're doing well also on this Monday morning.

00:45:29.960 So, you were the chairman of the FCC.

00:45:34.760 Before that, you were the commissioner at the FCC.

00:45:37.500 You were appointed then by Barack Obama and approved unanimously by the Senate.

00:45:44.380 So, everybody agreed that you were a good guy that could get the job done.

00:45:51.040 You've done some amazing things.

00:45:52.880 I believe that you and when you were at the FCC, those involved with you, saved the internet

00:45:59.660 from net neutrality.

00:46:02.180 Tell me about the health of the internet and where we are today because of those challenges

00:46:07.600 before we look to the future.

00:46:09.880 Well, the internet in terms of its infrastructure is stronger than ever.

00:46:13.860 And this is remarkable when you consider that when we made our decision to repeal these heavy-handed

00:46:18.700 net neutrality regulations back in 2017, the left was caterwauling about how this was the

00:46:24.940 death of the internet as we know it.

00:46:26.820 That was according to Bernie Sanders.

00:46:28.600 Others said the internet would slow down to one word per time.

00:46:32.640 Others said that you'd have to pay $15 per month just to be able to tweet.

00:46:37.240 All of these things have fallen by the wayside.

00:46:39.500 Speeds are now twice as fast as they were back in 2017.

00:46:42.840 Internet infrastructure has been built out so that millions more Americans have access.

00:46:48.040 Obviously, it's a much different environment than those hyperbolic predictions would have

00:46:52.600 suggested.

00:46:53.400 And to me, at least, the proof in the pudding has been during the pandemic.

00:46:57.080 Our internet infrastructure has held up despite the increase in traffic, whereas in Europe,

00:47:01.680 which still has these net neutrality regulations, they had to go hat in hand to companies like

00:47:06.060 Netflix and YouTube and beg them to throttle content because they don't have the infrastructure

00:47:10.660 that's necessary to sustain these loads.

00:47:13.500 So we made the right decision, and I'm glad we did.

00:47:16.380 So are you still hearing the voices?

00:47:18.160 Were those forces still out there for net neutrality and to bring some of these regulations back?

00:47:24.540 And if so, why?

00:47:27.460 You know, I'd say we still hear them all the time.

00:47:29.840 Whenever I'm on social media, I see it, and it's incredible.

00:47:34.620 I think it's more of a religious issue with some folks on the left.

00:47:39.120 What does that mean?

00:47:40.500 What do you mean by that?

00:47:42.300 Because what I mean by religious issue is there is literally no set of evidence you can ever

00:47:47.380 provide to these people to persuade them that there's not a problem.

00:47:51.560 Look at the last three years.

00:47:52.740 Without these net neutrality regulations, we haven't seen any kind of market failure.

00:47:56.640 We haven't seen broadband providers throttling or blocking content.

00:48:00.360 Nonetheless, they say that these rules are absolutely vital and the Internet's about to die.

00:48:05.140 Meanwhile, these very same advocates are going to the tech giants and telling them,

00:48:09.240 we want you to censor content that we don't like.

00:48:12.140 And so the hypocrisy of these advocates is just stunning.

00:48:14.860 It's just, as I said, there's literally no evidence we could provide in terms of faster speeds,

00:48:19.480 more infrastructure, open Internet, all that kind of stuff that would persuade them.

00:48:24.840 And so it's not a reasoned policy debate anymore, at least in some quarters, at least.

00:48:30.060 It's much more of an issue of religion.

00:48:33.080 Do you believe or do you not?

00:48:34.620 And that's unfortunate because after all, we're making policy here.

00:48:38.820 We're not putting our finger in the wind.

00:48:40.720 The hypocrisy is overwhelming.

00:48:42.880 But as you mentioned, there's no evidence you can present.

00:48:45.400 But the evidence is there, right?

00:48:47.000 Like the speeds have gone up dramatically since they promised they would slow down to a trickle.

00:48:54.420 Yeah, and that's the incredible thing.

00:48:56.120 The speed is the most objective one.

00:48:58.120 There's a group called OOKLA, O-O-K-L-A.

00:49:01.020 The independent company, they do their own assessments of speeds.

00:49:03.960 They were the ones who were saying, hey, the speeds are tracking upward and upward.

00:49:06.980 And I kept pointing this out to some of our critics.

00:49:10.200 And they would say, well, the speeds were going up anyway.

00:49:12.680 And so you didn't have the responsibility for that.

00:49:14.820 I said, no, no, if you look at the February 28th, I think it is, 2018, the entire Senate Democratic Caucus put this out on Twitter.

00:49:22.660 If we lose net neutrality, you'll get the Internet one word at a time.

00:49:26.740 And so I said, look, that is objectively false.

00:49:29.360 There's no debate about this.

00:49:31.640 The Internet did not slow down.

00:49:33.220 And nonetheless, there's still some folks who say, no, it's still at risk.

00:49:37.480 Broadband providers are going to start censoring content any day now.

00:49:40.840 And it's always the sort of boogeyman that's right around the corner that we have to regulate against, as opposed to the concrete problems that we can see on the Internet, which is not any type of stuff like this.

00:49:52.800 It's more that people in rural areas don't have access or people in urban areas can't afford access.

00:49:57.900 And those are the types of problems we need to be addressing, not this phantom of net neutrality, which to me, at least, is a solution that won't work to address a problem that simply doesn't exist.

00:50:07.040 It is 5G has been described to me as 4G being the size of a garden hose and 5G being the size of a channel for all of the all of the information.

00:50:21.300 I know my wife just I don't remember where she was, but she used real 5G and she she I mean, she never comments on speed unless it's really, really slow.

00:50:33.720 And she said to me, oh, my gosh, Glenn, you can't imagine how fast it was.

00:50:38.720 It was just like load, load, load, load.

00:50:41.980 It was just there every time.

00:50:45.220 It's yeah.

00:50:45.840 Go ahead.

00:50:46.320 Can you describe 5G and what it will mean and how far we are away from that really being everywhere?

00:50:54.280 I'm really excited about 5G, this next generation of wireless connectivity.

00:50:58.360 And unlike some of the predecessor transitions we've had, you know, 1G to 2G, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, 5G is going to be a leap, partly because of the speeds you mentioned that, you know, 100 times faster speeds than 4G, a much more responsive network.

00:51:13.060 So when you click on the link, it'll come up almost immediately.

00:51:15.400 But it's more the fact that this technology will underlie all kinds of different industries.

00:51:20.760 Healthcare, for example, if you want to do a telehealth visit with your doctor, much higher resolution video, much lower latency, as they call it, so you can immediately see what the doctor is looking at and all that kind of thing.

00:51:34.100 It's going to be tremendous.

00:51:34.880 If 5G with doctors means because the latency goes from, what, 100 milliseconds to down under 10, which means in some cases you might be able to actually do surgery on the other side of the world with 5G.

00:51:53.620 Exactly right.

00:51:54.840 That is the future that's within grasp.

00:51:56.900 And if you think about all these low latency applications from telehealth to gaming to you name it, that's a really big deal.

00:52:03.360 So I'm really excited about the work that the FCC did over the last four years to help that potential become a reality here in the United States.

00:52:10.780 So I just bought a refrigerator the other day, and it said Bluetooth enabled.

00:52:16.480 And I'm like, I don't want my refrigerator to be Bluetooth enabled.

00:52:22.140 The amount of information that is going to be going out of our homes now with 5G, because 5G allows everything to be smart.

00:52:32.960 A smart item.

00:52:35.400 Are you concerned at all about privacy and just the use of all of this information on the American people?

00:52:46.480 Absolutely.

00:52:47.320 And this is why many years ago I called on Congress to come up with legislation on the federal level to establish rules of the road for privacy in the digital world.

00:52:56.560 We don't have that right now.

00:52:57.960 And so what you see is some states like California taking the lead and essentially regulating on their own within that state.

00:53:04.880 Or you see Europe implementing very strong privacy regulations.

00:53:09.140 And essentially multinational companies like Google and Facebook abide by those same restrictions in the U.S.

00:53:14.840 just as they would in Europe because you can't have different privacy protections across the world.

00:53:20.880 So I think right now it would be great for Congress to sit down and put on the page some of those basic privacy protections.

00:53:26.920 But the other issue related to privacy is security, Glenn.

00:53:29.860 I mean, as you know, as everything gets connected, the network is only going to be strong as its most vulnerable point.

00:53:36.960 And we're talking about 5G and security.

00:53:38.500 There are companies like Huawei and ZTE, other companies in this space that could look to compromise some of our networks for their own gain,

00:53:46.500 whether it's economic espionage or inserting malware or even more insidiously the Chinese Communist Party looking to compromise security of networks 0.77

00:53:54.420 to gain insights on where our national security is vulnerable.

00:53:57.860 Well, people would say that blockchain is going to be really important for our security.

00:54:02.060 But when we're at, you know, what is it, 56 qubit quantum computing, even blockchain is vulnerable, isn't it?

00:54:15.120 I mean, now that we're getting into quantum computing so fast, how are we going to be able to keep things secure?

00:54:22.560 That's a really good question.

00:54:25.600 And that's part of the reason why a few months ago, before I left, I asked the FCC to organize a forum around quantum computing

00:54:32.500 to understand what this future looks like.

00:54:35.760 And I don't pretend to have the answer to your question, but I do think it's important for the U.S. government

00:54:40.920 to start thinking about quantum and AI and machine learning and some of these blockchain, these next generation technologies.

00:54:47.420 It might seem futuristic, but the future can become the present a lot quicker than people think.

00:54:52.560 One more question on privacy before we move on.

00:54:56.740 The has anyone suggested that all of my information belongs to me?

00:55:07.920 It is it's mine.

00:55:09.660 And if I decide to sell it, then I will make that decision and I'd make my decision on what parts of it I'd be willing to sell.

00:55:18.600 This would not only throttle these giant companies that are truly getting rich off of the backs of all of us through metadata

00:55:27.960 and now really amazingly detailed data on each of us, but it would also return our privacy.

00:55:38.240 It would punish the Googles of the world financially by taking that incentive away from them, but they could buy it from us, 0.99

00:55:49.100 which would also be something that the American people could make money on.

00:55:53.180 Is anybody suggesting that?

00:55:54.940 I have seen that suggestion in some cores.

00:55:58.160 In fact, I think there might be some legislative proposals floating around Congress along those lines.

00:56:03.340 So I think that's one of the things that people instinctively get is that the property right they might have,

00:56:09.000 so to speak, in their own data is something that should be vindicated.

00:56:12.860 Now, on the other hand, there are some who have raised some questions about that.

00:56:15.440 For example, if you're walking along a road and you have a smart transportation network that is monitoring how traffic is going

00:56:24.620 so that they can avoid hitting pedestrians and the like, is that your data also involves some public safety issues?

00:56:30.760 I mean, there's some sort of gray areas there, but I do think there's a lot to sort out in this.

00:56:35.000 What is your data?

00:56:36.220 Who owns it?

00:56:37.260 How should it be used?

00:56:38.600 These are the kinds of things that Congress needs to speak to.

00:56:40.940 We don't have a framework right now for understanding that, and we need one desperately.

00:56:45.120 I look at the bottom of my Alexa, and I see that it has an FCC license on it.

00:56:51.320 And I wonder if, in some ways, this isn't, and I know this sounds ridiculous, but hear me out,

00:56:58.300 a violation of the Third Amendment, which is the government can't quarter soldiers in your home.

00:57:04.640 I feel as though the government isn't, but if they start to collude more and more with these companies,

00:57:11.580 they kind of are.

00:57:12.420 Aren't they quartering people, not the government, but these companies, aren't they kind of quartering people

00:57:18.180 in our home if they are constantly going and listening to us and gathering information?

00:57:25.080 I haven't thought about that angle.

00:57:27.280 I will say, though, just so you know, the FCC logo you see on the bottom, we're not licensing them.

00:57:32.560 All we do is essentially authorize their equipment to say, any device in the United States that emits or receives radio frequency or RF,

00:57:41.040 we have a responsibility to okay it.

00:57:42.900 So we actually don't license those particular devices directly.

00:57:46.360 But I do think it's interesting that a lot of us rely on these devices that you pick up a lot of our conversations,

00:57:52.420 and they deliver a lot of value.

00:57:54.980 But I think some people also have the concern, well, are they looking into everything?

00:57:59.840 And so that's one of the things, too, that it's just a new world.

00:58:03.400 This didn't exist when I was a kid, needless to say.

00:58:05.680 When you were inside the confines of your home, that was sort of this impregnable fortress, so to speak.

00:58:11.180 Right, right.

00:58:11.460 Your own thoughts and data.

00:58:12.740 So it's a much more complicated world now because of technology.

00:58:16.720 We're talking to Ajit Pai.

00:58:18.080 He's the former FCC chairman, and we're going to continue our conversation with him in just one minute.

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00:59:44.420 We're talking to Ajit Pai.

01:00:01.420 He's the former FCC chairman.

01:00:03.020 He was appointed by Barack Obama and served under Trump as well.

01:00:08.860 I think he's the best chairman that the FCC has ever had, and he also is somebody who I think really, because of his passion, has saved the Internet from net neutrality.

01:00:21.820 And we've seen how good the Internet has become.

01:00:26.500 You spoke earlier about when you were talking about hypocrisy, about the kind of controversy about big tech companies censoring conservative voices generally.

01:00:35.660 And obviously, we have a right for free speech.

01:00:37.900 We don't necessarily have a right to an audience on someone's private website.

01:00:40.860 As someone who's a conservative and is very scared of a federal intrusion on the Internet, I am worried about this sort of new idea from the right, where there's a big debate going on, whether the government should step in and do something to these big tech companies.

01:00:57.520 Where do you stand on that?

01:00:59.580 Well, where I stand is what I've said for many years, which is that these tech giants increasingly are running social platforms that have become the new public square.

01:01:08.180 And to the extent that some are either obstructed or prevented from speaking in that square, I think it's important for people to understand how are these decisions being made, who is making these decisions, and why.

01:01:21.760 And I think the past couple of months have only illustrated the fact that we don't have any insight here.

01:01:26.900 And for me, at least as a consumer, I don't care whether it's a network operator, like your Internet service provider, or a content company, like a tech platform.

01:01:35.260 I just want to know, am I able to speak or not?

01:01:38.860 Am I able to read what I want or not?

01:01:41.500 And if I want to understand the rules of the road, and I think that kind of lack of transparency is what's frustrating a lot of people.

01:01:47.320 Nobody knows what's inside the black box anymore.

01:01:49.220 So here's the deal.

01:01:50.720 I've done broadcast for 45 years.

01:01:53.360 I know what the rules are.

01:01:54.640 I know what the FCC says.

01:01:56.060 I know what's acceptable and not, because the rules are very, very clear.

01:02:00.820 Always have been.

01:02:01.880 When we get blocked or we get dinged by some of these high-tech companies, we usually don't know why.

01:02:09.980 So I can't make sure that we're in compliance if I don't know what it means to be in compliance.

01:02:19.600 Exactly right.

01:02:20.580 And that's why some of the decisions seem to be made as they go along.

01:02:24.100 I pointed this out last summer when I asked on Twitter, why is the supreme leader of Iran allowed to tweet out threats,

01:02:31.940 essentially urging the destruction of the, as he called it, the Zionist state and all of this nonsense,

01:02:38.200 whereas other people are not allowed to say things which are clearly not as far as that.

01:02:43.300 Don't go as far as that.

01:02:44.400 And I think it just goes back to, you know, like I said, in November 2017, I gave a speech where I said,

01:02:48.760 if you are really concerned about a free and open Internet, what you need to be worried about is not net neutrality.

01:02:53.560 It's the question of how these tech platforms operate free from any transparency requirements whatsoever.

01:02:59.840 And I think people on the left and the right now, I would think, agree with that.

01:03:04.920 Ajit, people, I've never seen this before.

01:03:08.420 People in this industry, both radio and online, are extraordinarily concerned about losing our place, our platform,

01:03:21.160 our ability to broadcast or even narrowcast.

01:03:25.260 I want to talk to you about the future and what we should be concerned about,

01:03:30.860 who are the new players, if you know anything about them,

01:03:34.540 and what we should be doing.

01:03:37.980 Back with more from Ajit Pai.

01:03:45.800 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

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01:05:09.160 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

01:05:19.080 We have Jeet Pai, the former FCC chairman and commissioner, former commissioner as well, of the FCC.

01:05:27.440 He was appointed by Barack Obama.

01:05:29.120 He served under Donald Trump, and I think he is phenomenal on freedom of speech and regulation being minimal.

01:05:39.700 Let the free market work things out.

01:05:43.060 Thank you, first of all, for everything that you've done, Ajit, to keep the Internet free and to keep our voices intact.

01:05:50.540 I want to talk to you about something that is really disturbing.

01:05:55.500 Now, this is from Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.

01:05:59.400 So she's on the left.

01:06:01.140 She said this weekend,

01:06:02.500 It is so dangerous.

01:06:04.660 This is an issue that Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about,

01:06:11.000 especially because we don't have to guess about where this goes or how it ends.

01:06:15.420 When you have people like former CIA director John Brennan openly talking about how he has spoken with or heard from employees or nominees in the Biden administration

01:06:25.300 who are already starting to look across our country for types of movements similar to the insurgencies they've seen overseas,

01:06:33.200 that, in his words, make up this unholy alliance of religious extremists, racist bigots.

01:06:41.320 He lists a few others, and at the end, even libertarians.

01:06:47.760 It's dangerous because of our civil liberties.

01:06:51.620 It will mean that who could be scooped up tomorrow, we don't know.

01:06:58.200 I am very concerned about the freedom of speech on broadcast radio and the freedom of speech for those of us,

01:07:07.300 not just the average man, but also those of us who they're talking about deprogramming or licensing to be able to have a podcast.

01:07:19.000 It's an unfortunate time for those of us who cherish free speech in the First Amendment,

01:07:26.500 and that's part of the reason why I've been so steadfast in my defense of it,

01:07:30.500 because I do think a defining feature of our democracy is that any faction that happens to be in power

01:07:36.980 should not have the ability to define who is allowed into the public square and who is not.

01:07:42.720 And I think that's a basic American democracy over the decades.

01:07:47.560 I may disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.

01:07:52.420 I think that understanding has become frayed,

01:07:54.340 and I think the First Amendment is even more important when we have a tribalistic political culture like we have now,

01:08:00.380 because we don't want your ability to speak to depend on whether or not you are in favor with those in power.

01:08:07.140 So I don't know what particular information Mr. Brennan was relying on when he made those assessments,

01:08:12.140 but I'll just simply say as a general matter, the First Amendment is important for all of us,

01:08:16.600 even when we disagree with the message that we might be hearing over the airwaves.

01:08:21.720 Are you concerned that the next FCC commissioner and chairman will erode some of these freedoms for radio?

01:08:34.360 Are we, in radio, in a safe zone or not?

01:08:41.200 I certainly hope so.

01:08:42.560 I mean, I did everything I could over the last four years, last eight,

01:08:45.680 since I served at the FCC to make sure that radio had the ability to thrive into the next century.

01:08:51.020 It's the oldest communications medium of addressing the mass market that we've got.

01:08:54.960 It's older than the FCC itself.

01:08:56.780 And to me, at least, I think it is one of the important forums for discussion of these types of issues.

01:09:02.380 So I hope that the next FCC will embrace that.

01:09:05.040 I'm a little more worried about what people will think on the digital side of things,

01:09:09.400 you know, over the Internet and the like, where, as I said, you have net neutrality advocates

01:09:13.360 demanding certain types of regulations, but then, on the other hand,

01:09:16.480 demanding censorship on the Internet, which seems inconsistent with that.

01:09:19.600 But hopefully radio can continue to be one of the places where we do still embrace

01:09:24.420 that First Amendment value that all of us cherish.

01:09:26.940 Do you know anything about the people that are coming in behind you?

01:09:30.220 Yeah, I served with all the four of the current commissioners who are there,

01:09:34.660 including the acting chair.

01:09:35.800 So, you know, I do think they have a shared commitment to public service, to the public

01:09:40.260 interest.

01:09:41.100 You know, they, I think they believe in the First Amendment just as much as I do.

01:09:44.800 So hopefully they will stick by that.

01:09:47.800 You know, that's been a bipartisan tradition at the FCC.

01:09:50.140 And I think the most dangerous thing would be for us to get back into the game of

01:09:53.620 approving licenses or doling out favors based on whether we agree with the political views

01:09:58.740 of the would-be license holder.

01:10:00.500 And that's just not what the FCC should be doing.

01:10:02.700 It should be a market-based objective decision, not trying to look into a crowd and pick out

01:10:08.320 your friends.

01:10:09.960 I want to read a story to you and just ask you your opinion on this.

01:10:14.360 And I warn you that I find what this man did and said to be disgusting and despicable.

01:10:20.900 But there's a sentence that had just been handed down that I cannot believe is constitutional.

01:10:31.720 A federal judge has ordered a Kentucky man who allegedly stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier

01:10:36.360 this month not to make any comments about the breach or the U.S. government online.

01:10:43.580 Damon Michael Beckley, who was arrested by the FBI in Cub Run last week,

01:10:48.480 was released on conditional bond, which barred him from using the Internet to post about

01:10:54.640 the rally, the Capitol riot rally, or matters related to the U.S. government.

01:11:01.600 He was also prohibited from attending any rallies, protests, or demonstrations, and he must be 1.00

01:11:06.340 now monitored by GPS.

01:11:08.680 He said things online like, Vice President Pence, my name is Damon Michael Beckley.

01:11:14.040 I don't appreciate this one bit, the situation you caused here, sir.

01:11:17.680 We're not putting up with this tyrannical rule.

01:11:20.260 If we've got to come back here and start a revolution and take all these traitors out,

01:11:24.260 which should be done, then we will.

01:11:26.600 I don't agree with that.

01:11:28.220 I think that's abhorrent speech.

01:11:31.080 But isn't this, as a federal judge, telling him he can't speak about the government or

01:11:37.940 voice his opinion about the government online?

01:11:42.820 Isn't that a violation of the Constitution?

01:11:44.960 And isn't there any protection for him?

01:11:47.680 Well, I certainly share your assessment of the comments themselves.

01:11:51.420 This is an area of the law that's pretty well developed and one that I'm unfortunately not

01:11:55.880 as knowledgeable about, about whether or not judges can restrain the speech in this

01:12:01.140 way.

01:12:01.580 So I probably had to defer until I had a chance to read the brief, study up on that area of

01:12:06.120 the law a little better.

01:12:07.060 I know that this is something that has occurred in a number of cases, and I'd want to express

01:12:11.300 a more informed opinion after reading all that stuff.

01:12:14.360 Tell me, before we let you go, tell me the thing that keeps you up at night, and tell

01:12:21.540 me the thing that you see over the horizon that really excites you.

01:12:26.920 Well, in terms of what keeps me up at night, it is the security of our networks.

01:12:30.600 I spent a lot of time over the last four years here domestically making sure the FCC did everything

01:12:35.480 we could to secure our networks against national security threats from the outside.

01:12:40.860 In particular, I've been very outspoken about the Chinese Communist Party's determination

01:12:44.440 to dominate the world through technology and, in particular, to lead in 5G.

01:12:49.320 And that's something I think we should all be worried about.

01:12:52.940 Hang on just a second.

01:12:54.300 People don't believe me when I say there is a building, I think it's in Beijing, dedicated.

01:13:00.200 All it is, is the Communist Party, it's their platform of hackers, and they are hacking in 0.96

01:13:07.500 and trying to hack into our Pentagon.

01:13:09.840 I can't remember, it's some ungodly number of like 70,000 attempts a day or something like

01:13:15.060 that.

01:13:15.340 I mean, they have groups of people that this is their job to hack into our infrastructure.

01:13:23.760 True or not?

01:13:26.180 We've heard similar reports, and I think that's part of the concern.

01:13:29.660 And not only that, I mean, they've demonstrated that they are willing to export their anti-democratic

01:13:34.100 values when it comes to things like the NBA or Taiwanese flag emojis or the like.

01:13:39.860 Imagine what they would be willing to do if they had access to our telecom networks.

01:13:44.720 That is a serious threat indeed.

01:13:46.540 So explain that for people who don't understand that.

01:13:51.160 Well, so imagine if we had all these 5G networks built in the United States, everyone was using

01:13:55.680 them on everything from smartphones to connected refrigerators to your cars to military installations.

01:14:01.640 And let's say some of that equipment was built by the companies like Huawei and ZTE, which

01:14:07.020 are themselves subject to Chinese Communist Party rule.

01:14:10.260 So what if the Chinese Communist Party said, you know what, we just want to see exactly how

01:14:14.100 American consumers are using broadband.

01:14:16.260 Let's see how broadband around military installations is being deployed and whether we can get insights

01:14:21.340 into things like troop movements or missile placements, I mean, all these kinds of things would be

01:14:25.820 simply one request away from the Chinese government to Huawei and ZTE.

01:14:30.420 And we would have no way of ever knowing that those requests had been made and that our networks

01:14:34.720 had been compromised.

01:14:35.420 And I think that is the risk.

01:14:37.180 And that's why I've been so outspoken about the fact that I'm very bullish on 5G's potential.

01:14:41.220 But we also need to think about security as a forethought, as opposed to an afterthought.

01:14:46.500 Once we've installed these networks, it's too late.

01:14:48.820 You just can't put that genie back in the bottle.

01:14:51.000 So we need to be very careful about this threat and not have a rosy-eyed view of the reality

01:14:57.800 of the situation.

01:14:59.520 Final question for you.

01:15:00.400 Wait, wait, wait.

01:15:00.900 Didn't you give the...

01:15:01.720 Well, you ask the final question, then I want to hear his optimistic thing.

01:15:04.580 Oh, okay.

01:15:05.040 Well, I was just going to ask, my passwords are all set to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

01:15:08.440 Should I change any of them?

01:15:09.300 Yeah, I would definitely urge you to change that.

01:15:14.020 Don't change it to password, either.

01:15:15.760 That's the one that I think is probably not as well advised.

01:15:18.400 Mine's password, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

01:15:22.120 Oh, that's really good.

01:15:23.680 Anyway, tell me what you're excited about.

01:15:26.100 Tell me what's on the horizon that you say people don't understand how game-changing

01:15:32.200 in a positive way this could be.

01:15:35.020 I think what I'm really excited about is just the new influx of broadband-based technologies.

01:15:41.280 You know, when I got into this business, broadband essentially meant telephone lines being souped

01:15:45.740 up with TSL to deliver relatively slow service.

01:15:48.920 Now, at the end of my tenure at the FCC, we've authorized low-Earth orbit satellites, companies

01:15:53.280 like SpaceX, to deploy broadband from space at a really high speed.

01:15:57.720 We've also encouraged electric utilities to get into this business since they have a deep

01:16:01.020 footprint across rural America.

01:16:02.800 We've had a huge influx of spectrum, thanks to our decisions that allow fixed wireless

01:16:07.860 companies to enter the space.

01:16:09.300 I guess what I'm trying to say is all of these different technologies are finally being unleashed

01:16:14.340 through the power of the market to deliver connectivity to American citizens.

01:16:18.340 And to me, at least, broadband is more important than ever.

01:16:20.940 And I'm really excited to see how all these companies using all these technologies are able

01:16:25.580 to innovate for the benefit of consumers.

01:16:27.340 It's going to be a really exciting decade to come in that regard.

01:16:30.560 Are you at all concerned?

01:16:32.460 I mean, I was going to ask you what's next for you, but you were appointed by Obama, but

01:16:36.920 you actually served also under Donald Trump, and they're going after anybody that served

01:16:42.820 with Donald Trump.

01:16:43.600 Are you concerned about your future and what's next for you?

01:16:47.760 No, we had the privilege of being an independent agency, and I led in that spirit.

01:16:52.520 I kept all the political nonsense in Washington at arm's length to the extent I could and did

01:16:58.700 the best I could.

01:16:59.600 And I think, you know, a lot of the issues, they didn't have a partisan chain at all.

01:17:03.560 For example, establishing 988 as a three-digit number for suicide prevention and mental health

01:17:08.260 and making sure people with disabilities had access to technology.

01:17:11.060 I mean, the bulk of our work was pretty nonpartisan.

01:17:14.020 So as for what the next adventure is, I'll have to wait and see.

01:17:16.300 But one of the things I've found in my career is that it's just such an amazing country that

01:17:20.520 you just work hard, and you try to be in the right place at the right time, and something

01:17:25.200 will present itself to you.

01:17:26.560 So I'm so grateful for the privilege of having the chance to serve and look forward to the

01:17:30.940 next adventure being just as intellectually stimulating and rewarding.

01:17:34.240 Ajit, I would love to do a long-form interview with you on our podcast.

01:17:39.920 I've got a lot of questions on security and technology that is coming.

01:17:46.960 I would love to pick your brain.

01:17:48.280 So if you have time at some point, I'd love to have you as a podcast guest.

01:17:52.840 Well, sounds good.

01:17:53.820 Let's love to talk about it.

01:17:55.180 Let's figure out what will work.

01:17:56.480 And again, thank you for your service.

01:17:59.620 You've been great at the FCC.

01:18:01.900 Thank you.

01:18:02.800 Thank you.

01:18:03.240 Thank you.

01:18:04.300 Well, I can't say enough how much I appreciate the kind words, Glenn.

01:18:06.460 And I really appreciate the support from everybody out there in the country.

01:18:10.620 Thank you.

01:18:11.260 God bless.

01:18:12.080 Ajit Pai, he was now leaving the FCC as the FCC chairperson.

01:18:18.940 Now, I don't know about you, but I like having power at my fingertips.

01:18:23.080 I mean, real power at my fingertips, knowing that when I reach my finger down to my phone

01:18:28.960 or device and press the button, I'm generating a lot of heat someplace else.

01:18:34.920 Yeah, makes me feel like president, you know?

01:18:38.160 I mean, this heat is a little less than what the president has at his fingertips, but I'm

01:18:43.980 not nuking anybody.

01:18:44.960 I'm just firing up my rec tech.

01:18:46.580 Yeah, that's the kind of power I'm talking about.

01:18:48.840 So when I get home, I'm ready to grill some amazing food.

01:18:52.020 That's the benefit of smart grill technology.

01:18:54.420 And you're going to get one for yourself.

01:18:55.840 And you'll see what I mean.

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01:19:24.780 I would like to challenge you to find the hand of God in your life every day.

01:19:38.920 Find something where you feel like that was a miracle.

01:19:44.420 Because miracles are happening and they're amazing.

01:19:49.320 What's going on right now, we can look at all the bad things or we can look at some of

01:19:53.000 the good things that are happening.

01:19:54.780 I told you last summer, I think, uh, and said that we would find out early next year

01:20:00.740 about a study that was being done in Israel that could cure blindness.

01:20:08.020 Now there's several, several reasons people go blind, but one is because their cornea just

01:20:13.200 blows out the cornea, uh, blindness looks like it's at an end.

01:20:20.780 I told you about this story from a company in Israel last summer and they were putting

01:20:26.420 the, a artificial cornea into a man who is 78 years old.

01:20:32.240 He hasn't seen for forever because the film just grows over.

01:20:36.020 It's not glaucoma.

01:20:36.880 It's a cornea thing.

01:20:37.700 Um, and they said, we just have to replace.

01:20:43.660 They took the bandages off and he can see crystal clear again, artificial corneas.

01:20:54.200 When you were blind from this before you needed a cornea, uh, donor.

01:21:01.020 So you need, you were on a waiting list just like a kidney and everything else.

01:21:04.940 No more, no more.

01:21:07.460 That's a third of the people in the world that are blind are blind because of this.

01:21:13.740 A third.

01:21:15.080 That's incredible.

01:21:16.140 And it's over now.

01:21:17.580 That is great news.

01:21:19.000 Really great.

01:21:19.720 That is great news.

01:21:20.340 It comes from Israel.

01:21:21.280 Yeah.

01:21:21.620 Um, I'm watching with, um, I'm fascinated by the, uh, by Israel right now because they're

01:21:27.820 essentially running a giant human experiment and human experiments on Jews.

01:21:32.580 The history of that is not particularly good.

01:21:34.340 But it is in Jerusalem or it's in Israel, right?

01:21:36.320 It's not in Germany.

01:21:37.200 Right.

01:21:37.520 Yes.

01:21:37.700 Yes.

01:21:37.980 So it's better.

01:21:38.640 They've got about over 40% of their population vaccinated already for COVID over 40% of the

01:21:44.420 population.

01:21:44.940 We're at 6% right now.

01:21:46.440 So we're going to see smaller population.

01:21:48.640 Right.

01:21:48.680 But the point is though, if it works, we're going to see it work there before we go down

01:21:54.000 this road and the, and the opposite, if for some reason it doesn't work out as expected,

01:21:57.440 we're going to see it.

01:21:58.120 By the way, if you want to know about the corneas, it's corneat.com.

01:22:03.560 Hello, America.

01:22:04.320 There's a lot of news to cover, including impeachment.

01:22:08.240 We go there in 60 seconds.

01:22:13.540 Yeah.

01:22:14.700 And it is, you know, I, I, I'm a doctor.

01:22:18.380 You a doctor?

01:22:19.840 I'm not a doctor, Glenn.

01:22:21.100 I'm a doctor of humanities.

01:22:22.720 So, uh, I studied for years and years all about, you know what it's like to be a human

01:22:28.120 and I can treat any human condition.

01:22:30.540 Can't do it on lions or dogs or anything else.

01:22:32.740 But when it comes to humanities, I am, uh, that's you.

01:22:37.120 So cars have a lot to do with, uh, with humans, you know?

01:22:41.160 And so let me talk a little bit about car repairs.

01:22:43.500 I mean, who built the car?

01:22:45.220 Humans, right.

01:22:46.720 Humans build the car.

01:22:48.000 They drive the cars.

01:22:49.340 They repair the cars.

01:22:50.840 They charge you through the nose to repair the car sometime.

01:22:53.500 And as a doctor, that's wrong.

01:22:57.700 So let me prescribe something for you.

01:22:59.560 Okay.

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01:23:01.580 Also, I'm an expert in because run by people, a bunch of good people.

01:23:06.600 So, and as a doctor of humanities, I can write this prescription.

01:23:10.880 Drive with confidence because you're going to, if something happens, all you have to do,

01:23:15.360 you'll get the rental car, uh, while yours is in the shop.

01:23:18.960 You're going to get the 24 seven roadside assistance.

01:23:21.740 They're going to pay the wherever, wherever you, you could have your mechanic do it,

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01:23:29.640 And you're not going to wait for a check because as a doctor, I know that causes stress on you

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01:24:01.540 So Rand Paul, uh, had, I mean, I personally think that this is, you know, was, was, was great exchanges with, uh, with Rand Paul.

01:24:26.000 He was on with George Stephanopoulos and, uh, and, uh, George said, let me, let me begin with this threshold question.

01:24:35.060 This election was not stolen.

01:24:37.100 Do you accept that fact?

01:24:38.260 And Rand said, well, I would say there's debate on whether or not there was fraud and whether it occurred.

01:24:44.900 We've never had any presentation in court where we actually looked at the evidence.

01:24:48.900 Most of the cases were thrown out for lack of standing, which is a procedural way of not actually hearing the question.

01:24:55.820 There were several states in which the law was changed by the secretary of state and not the state legislature.

01:25:01.020 To me, those are clearly unconstitutional.

01:25:04.280 And I think there's still a chance that those actually do finally work their way up to the Supreme Court.

01:25:09.800 Courts traditionally and historically don't like to hear election questions, but yes, were there, uh, were there people who voted twice?

01:25:17.960 Were there dead people who voted?

01:25:19.360 Were there illegal aliens who voted?

01:25:21.620 See, I told you they were going to come out about the UFOs.

01:25:23.980 He's just saying this, like, it's no big deal.

01:25:27.080 Legal aliens voted. 0.79

01:25:29.100 Of course they're illegal.

01:25:30.580 They're from another planet.

01:25:32.700 We need voter ID like crazy.

01:25:35.600 And yes, we should get to the bottom of it.

01:25:37.900 I'll give you an example.

01:25:38.760 In my state, we had a Democratic secretary of state. 0.89

01:25:41.700 She refused even under a federal order to purge the roles of illegal voters.

01:25:45.960 We got a Republican secretary of state and he purged the roles.

01:25:50.080 This is when Stephanopoulos said, I got to stop you there.

01:25:52.660 No election is perfect, but there were 86 challenges filed by the Trump administration and his allies in court.

01:25:57.740 All were dismissed.

01:25:58.920 Yes, every state certified their results.

01:26:01.120 And then they talked over each other for a while.

01:26:02.880 And Paul said, George, where you make a mistake is that people coming in from the liberal side like you, you immediately say everything's a lie.

01:26:12.880 Instead, instead of saying there are two sides to everything.

01:26:15.560 Historically, what would happen is if I said I thought there was fraud, you would interview someone else who said there wasn't.

01:26:22.040 But now you just insert yourself in the middle and say that that the absolute fact is that everything I'm saying is a lie.

01:26:30.460 I think this is the root of the problem.

01:26:36.060 These journalists have deemed themselves to be arbiters of the truth.

01:26:40.440 And the truth is, it may not have changed the election, but there were enough regularities that we should look into it, not to change the outcome of the election at this point.

01:26:53.060 There's nothing in the Constitution that would allow that.

01:26:55.900 But to make sure that all of the other elections that are coming don't have the same kind of problem.

01:27:02.920 And I love the fact that Jeff Bezos is now against mail-in voting when it is in regards to his company receiving ballots through the mail on whether or not it should be unionized or not.

01:27:17.120 He says the signature verification isn't strong enough.

01:27:21.240 Really, Jeff?

01:27:22.780 Because that's not what the Washington Post said when we were talking about the election of a president.

01:27:28.040 But this is the real problem is it's one side or the other, and it's one side that says the other is wrong always.

01:27:39.280 Well, that's not true.

01:27:41.660 That's just not true.

01:27:43.300 In this case, in particular, there is a there is a possibility that there was enough to sway the election.

01:27:51.820 There is also the possibility that there wasn't enough to steal the election.

01:27:56.200 But we don't know which it is.

01:27:58.900 And more importantly, I just want to know where the flaws were so we don't make them again.

01:28:04.700 And I think, too, one of the biggest parts of this is making sure the rules are set up in a way that are fair and that people can trust.

01:28:12.780 You know, you know, it's like you could make the argument that last year LeBron James stole the championship.

01:28:20.120 Now, I wouldn't make this argument.

01:28:21.040 Of course, I'm I'm a objective person and I'm not.

01:28:24.520 I don't know if you have tape ready to pull up of me saying I don't like LeBron James.

01:28:30.820 Go ahead and do it.

01:28:31.480 But you obviously don't have that tape ready.

01:28:33.120 Well, you have the I hate LeBron James dot com.

01:28:37.600 Well, yeah, but that's that.

01:28:38.740 That's just, you know, I'm just I'm just print T-shirts and mugs investments.

01:28:43.060 Well, yeah, that's separately.

01:28:44.600 But like the rule because of covid, right, they changed the rules of the NBA, which was to give an old player who was playing a lot of minutes in a very important part of the team, a three month break in the middle of the season to relax and get his energy up to for a playoff run.

01:29:01.820 Did is that a stolen championship?

01:29:04.260 No.

01:29:04.820 But did that those rule changes really benefit LeBron James?

01:29:07.900 Yes, of course.

01:29:08.680 So the same thing, you know, you could argue here, a lot of these changes were made before the election.

01:29:14.200 LeBron James is worse than Hitler.

01:29:15.820 Oh, well, you're not going to get an argument from me on that one.

01:29:18.120 No.

01:29:18.420 Well, OK, maybe maybe technically.

01:29:20.820 But again, you know, you know, potatoes, potatoes.

01:29:24.620 But I guess I don't like LeBron James.

01:29:28.580 My point, though, is that like some of these changes happened before the election took place and those changes in the rules gave an advantage to Joe Biden.

01:29:39.340 That's different than saying that like Dominion voting machines were changing votes on the fly.

01:29:43.520 That's saying that like these rules need to be put out in a way that make it fair for everybody and that both sides can trust the results.

01:29:52.920 Right.

01:29:53.060 Obviously, covid is a is a weird circumstance.

01:29:55.500 Everybody knows that this was a strange year for an election for every other thing that happened during the year.

01:30:00.380 But going forward, we don't have to act as if we're on a panic footing all the time.

01:30:05.860 For instance, we didn't know if anybody was ever going to be able to even go to the polls because of covid.

01:30:12.820 You know, back in the summer, like we may be locked in the house and not be able to do it.

01:30:17.100 What do we do?

01:30:17.660 Mail in voting.

01:30:18.780 Now, I saw that as a scam.

01:30:20.980 But, you know, other people felt that that was really reasonable to do.

01:30:25.120 Yeah.

01:30:25.200 Well, we should make sure now that we have time that never happens again.

01:30:29.380 It's a bad idea for from a mass scale.

01:30:32.140 Correct.

01:30:32.400 I do believe that if you have a reason to I mean, like, you know, I'll get an example that we've used many times, especially when we were in New York.

01:30:41.840 We were doing election coverage all day from the from the morning I woke up.

01:30:46.200 It's, you know, I'd be on a train at six o'clock in the morning and I didn't come home until the next morning.

01:30:50.980 Like, you know, usually I had to stay in New York that night.

01:30:52.900 So I had no chance to vote in my own state on the day of the election.

01:30:56.160 Does that mean that I don't get a vote?

01:30:57.500 No.

01:30:57.800 Like, no.

01:30:58.480 Absentee voting makes sense.

01:30:59.980 If you have a reason to not be able to vote that day.

01:31:02.860 Honestly, I think even if you just don't want to vote that way, you probably can.

01:31:07.340 However, it should be something that you're requesting and going through a process that's legitimate, not this sort of like we're just going to mail everybody, you know, a ballot or a ballot request form and and change the choice architect architecture.

01:31:21.920 That's why the left likes this so much.

01:31:25.160 It basically means, well, these people who have barely pay attention to the election and are fringe voters because they don't actually know anything about the topics can vote from their own living room with no effort.

01:31:36.440 That's what they want, because they want people who don't think about these things to win the election for them.

01:31:40.660 And if that's the way your state wants to operate, then it should go through the legislature right now.

01:31:46.060 Make those changes and make sure that it is it's verifiable, that it is strong.

01:31:50.900 I mean, Washington state has done this for a long time, but it took them 10 years to get the security right.

01:31:56.780 Let's not just all go, oh, well, we did it last time.

01:31:59.340 We can do it this time.

01:32:00.360 Let me let me switch topics.

01:32:03.140 What you're saying here is we all have to play by the same rules.

01:32:07.460 You can't change them in the middle of the game.

01:32:10.520 Well, is that what's happening with the impeachment trial?

01:32:13.400 Well, John Roberts, Chief Justice John Roberts, shockingly, has said he's not going to go to the impeachment trial.

01:32:25.500 Now, according to the Constitution, the chief justice must preside at the impeachment trial.

01:32:32.860 Well, he says he's not going to go because he said it is, let me see, an illegitimate procedure.

01:32:43.400 All right, so he's not going now that the Senate, the Democrats are saying, well, we're he's not going because we're not inviting him.

01:32:51.420 Wait, the Constitution says you have to have the chief justice sit as the judge.

01:32:59.640 He plays no role other than the administering of rules.

01:33:04.240 So will this be a legitimate process if the Democrats don't invite or if the chief justice says, no, I'm not going because this isn't legitimate.

01:33:19.260 I'm there to remove a president.

01:33:22.800 I'm not there to judge somebody who isn't president anymore.

01:33:28.860 So which is it?

01:33:30.140 Now, we all know why this is being done.

01:33:36.480 This is being done.

01:33:37.900 One, as the Democrats are so good at something the Republicans never understand, and that is smoke screens.

01:33:48.000 They had the greatest smoke screen going for them in my lifetime.

01:33:53.500 It was called Donald Trump's thumb and his Twitter.

01:33:57.780 OK, that was the greatest smoke screen ever.

01:34:01.820 Everybody was talking about what he was tweeting every day.

01:34:05.800 You should have been doing stuff like, you know, passing freedom for everybody acts.

01:34:12.820 You should have been passing things in Congress, but they didn't.

01:34:16.940 They did nothing.

01:34:18.620 The Democrats don't make that mistake.

01:34:20.300 So the reason why this is going through the Senate is, A, it's very popular with Democrats.

01:34:29.280 Nine out of ten Democrats want him impeached.

01:34:33.280 One out of every ten Republicans want President Trump impeached.

01:34:38.460 But that shouldn't matter.

01:34:40.440 It should be about the Constitution.

01:34:42.280 But more importantly, the more we talk about Donald Trump, the less we talk about things that are actually happening, the things that they are doing on climate change, et cetera, et cetera.

01:34:54.460 Massive changes are being made right now.

01:34:57.860 So that's why they're doing it.

01:35:00.580 And they also want to make sure that, you know, presidents, when they leave office, you kind of look back.

01:35:06.780 I mean, we even said this.

01:35:07.940 We joked about it.

01:35:09.560 Ah, Barack Obama, when he was in office.

01:35:13.460 Those days don't come back.

01:35:14.980 You know what I mean?

01:35:16.920 When whatever you're hating at the time over, you know, a period of four to eight years, you start to pine for those days.

01:35:25.720 And you think the Trump era was bad.

01:35:27.240 Wait until 2024.

01:35:28.920 Let's just say Trump decides not to run.

01:35:31.080 Whoever does run, they will say is worse than Trump.

01:35:35.120 They will find the things, you know, at least Donald Trump did criminal justice reform.

01:35:41.260 I mean, this guy is a conservative crazy person.

01:35:44.380 They did it when Giuliani ran.

01:35:46.060 They were like they were against Bush the whole time.

01:35:47.780 And then Giuliani ran.

01:35:48.700 They're like, Giuliani is even worse than Bush.

01:35:50.360 Like Giuliani agrees with you on half of this stuff.

01:35:52.340 Remember, like this guy was known as a moderate in New York City.

01:35:57.040 And they were like, he's worse than Bush.

01:35:58.900 No matter who the new guy is, Romney.

01:36:01.740 Oh, this Mitt Romney.

01:36:03.000 He is a he's a hellion.

01:36:05.160 Is he really?

01:36:06.560 Is Mitt Romney?

01:36:07.980 Oh, he likes it.

01:36:08.980 He's a killer.

01:36:10.060 He's a killer.

01:36:10.800 Oh, my gosh.

01:36:11.300 Is he really?

01:36:11.820 And you're also you're also not only are we going to grow more fond because that's what happens, but also because the economy.

01:36:21.800 I mean, Joe Biden came out today and said the economy is worse than we thought.

01:36:26.080 Worse than we thought.

01:36:26.940 It's just it's getting worse and worse every day.

01:36:29.160 I'm not sure how long it's going to take us to turn this around.

01:36:31.720 Well, it's going to get worse with all the things that you're doing.

01:36:35.200 For instance, he has said that he wants global warming to take precedent over everything.

01:36:43.040 So now he's talking about taxing you for how many miles you drive.

01:36:48.500 So you drive to and fro work.

01:36:52.960 They want to know how many miles you drive, and that will add up over the years and you will get a tax every year on the amount of of time you spend in your car.

01:37:03.340 Well, that's going to help.

01:37:05.280 That's not going to take money out of people's pockets that they could spend or they could build their life with.

01:37:09.920 That's going to help.

01:37:10.760 He also has stopped the Trump order to slash the price of insulin and EpiPen.

01:37:16.240 Do you remember when that was such an outrage?

01:37:21.840 Oh, OK.

01:37:24.160 And he orders to look into the social cost on all of the all of the regulations for climate pollution and everything else.

01:37:36.080 What is the social cost?

01:37:37.620 So we used to have a way that you would have to pay for it if you're going to make a regular a new regulation.

01:37:44.340 And you had to look at the cost to the economy.

01:37:48.180 Well, they've changed that now to the social cost.

01:37:51.580 If you think the economy is going to get better, I think you're sadly mistaken.

01:37:56.420 And that's why they want him impeached so he can't come back and run.

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01:39:29.200 So this weekend, ICE agents have been ordered to free all illegal aliens in custody.

01:39:53.380 Release them all.

01:39:55.600 Okay, that's great.

01:39:57.680 That's great.

01:39:58.640 That's going to help people.

01:39:59.980 That's going to help people.

01:40:01.180 We have problems on the border.

01:40:03.160 That's coming.

01:40:04.740 We've got how many how many caravans coming out that we know of two right now?

01:40:08.960 We know of thousands of people in each.

01:40:11.280 And that's going to be that's going to get worse and worse.

01:40:15.660 Incentives matter.

01:40:16.460 You're telling people to come to the border because we will not just we will not deport you for at least 100 days.

01:40:21.120 So now, why would you want to make sure that you impeach Donald Trump?

01:40:26.160 Well, there is a backup plan to that.

01:40:27.920 And that is the 14th Amendment.

01:40:29.920 And the 14th Amendment was put in for the Civil War that you couldn't run for office if you had led an insurrection.

01:40:37.960 So, in other words, if you were in the Confederacy, you couldn't run in the Union.

01:40:44.320 You couldn't run in the United States of America because you tried to destroy America.

01:40:49.700 Now, think of the history of that.

01:40:54.300 They are now saying that you can't run for president.

01:41:00.640 Well, now, wait a minute.

01:41:01.940 Wait a minute.

01:41:03.040 Bill Ayers.

01:41:04.420 He never ran for president, but he's been trying to destroy.

01:41:07.920 Bernadine Dorn trying to destroy the United States of America.

01:41:13.820 Antifa.

01:41:14.220 Antifa, the one who said, I am Antifa, that ran for office, lost, but ran for office in Portland.

01:41:21.340 They openly state they're against the government of the United States.

01:41:26.460 We don't enact this.

01:41:29.160 You know, it's the 14th Amendment.

01:41:31.780 It was Civil War times.

01:41:34.600 So now, because he gave a speech to where he didn't incite, but he didn't also say, hey, don't do these things.

01:41:42.180 That's going to bar him from being president.

01:41:45.020 Here's why they care about this so much.

01:41:47.340 They care about this so much to make sure that he can't run for president ever again because they know how bad things are going to be.

01:41:58.260 And they also know Americans might start looking fondly on those good old days of Donald Trump.

01:42:07.640 Because if the economy is an absolute wreck, the one thing everyone knows, half the country won't admit, but everyone knows, we had the strongest, the best economy in the history of the United States.

01:42:23.760 And it worked for minorities.

01:42:26.660 It was working in record numbers for the poor and minorities.

01:42:32.000 That's something that you just don't throw out.

01:42:35.260 We did, but they're afraid when they've screwed things up horribly, this guy could march right back into the Oval Office, be carried on the shoulders of Americans back into office because they'll be tired of the economic destruction that I fear is coming our way.

01:42:58.200 More in a minute.

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01:44:29.820 Do you see the picture of Bernie Sanders that's going around everywhere with him sitting with the mittens?

01:44:40.520 Yes, very much.

01:44:41.740 I love these memes.

01:44:43.360 But the lady who made the mittens, now out of business. 1.00

01:44:49.360 She had a small business.

01:44:51.100 She made these mittens. 0.93

01:44:53.480 And now because of coronavirus and all the shutdowns, she's out of the mitten business.

01:45:00.360 You're kidding.

01:45:01.180 It's not because it has nothing to do with this meme.

01:45:03.300 Like she sold so many or...

01:45:05.220 No, no, no.

01:45:05.700 She's out of business.

01:45:06.760 She can't make the mittens anymore.

01:45:08.460 It's so freaking depressing.

01:45:10.580 What are we going to laugh at without those mittens?

01:45:13.800 Well, you can still laugh at Bernie Sanders generally, but the mittens helped.

01:45:16.400 Yeah, the mittens helped a lot.

01:45:18.420 An awful lot.

01:45:19.240 He looks so cold and frigid.

01:45:21.100 And the funny thing is he was indoors.

01:45:22.980 It was 81 degrees on the thermostat.

01:45:25.200 He's just that old.

01:45:26.080 You see the picture of him, the meme with him on the beach with Chris Christie?

01:45:29.320 Yeah.

01:45:29.780 I just love it.

01:45:31.860 New York has lost a million jobs due to COVID-19.

01:45:36.240 Good luck getting that thing back.

01:45:41.260 Now we have new things that I think are just wonderful.

01:45:46.060 Biden has put a pause on oil.

01:45:50.020 And this is starting to concern states like New Mexico.

01:45:52.860 In Albuquerque, President Biden's 60-day moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases and drilling permits is prompting widespread concerns in New Mexico, where spending on education and other program hinges on the industry's success.

01:46:09.260 Top Republicans in the state, as well as local leaders in communities that border the most productive regions in the U.S. right there in New Mexico, say that any moves to make permanent the suspension would be economically devastating for the state.

01:46:26.000 Half of New Mexico's production happens on federal land and amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars of royalties every single year.

01:46:35.400 Congressional members from several other Western states are also raising concerns, saying the ripple effects on the moratorium will hurt small businesses already struggling because of the pandemic.

01:46:45.380 You know what you need to do?

01:46:48.460 The West and the attorney generals in the West need to get together and demand their land is returned.

01:47:00.340 Their land was taken from them when the government pushed out West.

01:47:05.160 And they seized a lot of these lands, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada.

01:47:11.680 If you look at what the United States government owns far as land goes east of the Mississippi, it's a very small amount of land.

01:47:23.220 Once you start going west of the Mississippi and the farther you go, you know, near the Rockies, it's almost all federal land in some states.

01:47:32.340 And they have been told by the Supreme Court twice that that land belongs to the states and needs to be returned.

01:47:43.160 But when the government is the policeman as well, what do you do?

01:47:50.940 Twice this has gone through the Supreme Court and two times the federal government has been told return the land.

01:47:59.580 States should have this land.

01:48:02.340 States should be making these decisions on what they want to do.

01:48:07.360 And I'm telling you, I think this is I think this is going to become more and more.

01:48:12.240 Let me give you this story.

01:48:15.920 I think this is part of the correction.

01:48:19.440 American Airlines will no longer permit emotional support animals on flights, forcing owners to pay extra if they wish to be accompanied by their pets.

01:48:27.460 The airline said Tuesday that trained service dogs will be the only animals allowed in the cabin without an additional charge.

01:48:34.840 The ban will begin Monday.

01:48:36.800 Blah, blah, blah.

01:48:37.420 The decision to ban emotional support animals will likely be followed by other airlines in the near future.

01:48:42.320 The animals outside of service dogs will only permitted to fly in the cargo hold or cage that fits underneath the seat in the cabin.

01:48:49.940 And they will collect a fee of a minimum of one hundred and twenty five dollars for these pets to travel on the plane.

01:48:56.360 What is this story really about?

01:48:58.200 Would they want more money to to be able to know?

01:49:04.700 No, no.

01:49:06.120 Have you flown recently?

01:49:08.340 Yeah, yeah.

01:49:08.780 A couple of times.

01:49:09.340 It's like flying in the San Diego Zoo.

01:49:12.320 It's like, let's take the zoo with us.

01:49:16.280 Now, I fly with Uno.

01:49:19.960 Uno is a protection animal.

01:49:22.700 And so we fly with Uno.

01:49:25.340 And we had to go through all kinds of hoops and legal stuff.

01:49:30.160 And he's got to wear a tag on him that he's a service animal and a protection animal.

01:49:36.960 I'm sitting next to I swear to you, I am looking for a cockatoo to be sitting next to me and crapping on my shoulder at some point.

01:49:44.660 An emotional support cockatoo.

01:49:46.000 Yes, everyone is bringing their pet.

01:49:49.360 And I think it's kind of funny myself because we saw this coming, you know, when they when the person had the donkey as the emotional support donkey.

01:49:58.200 I'm not making this up and put it in their aisle with them.

01:50:02.420 The the an emotional support donkey.

01:50:06.180 I thought this is hysterical.

01:50:08.080 Keep it coming.

01:50:09.140 I want snakes and all kinds of snakes on a plane. 1.00

01:50:12.780 I've heard bad things.

01:50:13.620 That's true.

01:50:14.640 That documentary that came out was really it was riveting.

01:50:17.420 Yeah.

01:50:17.700 Riveting is truly frightening.

01:50:19.980 But this is the market correcting itself.

01:50:24.060 OK, OK, OK, OK.

01:50:26.340 We thought people would be reasonable.

01:50:29.860 And I don't know why they thought that.

01:50:31.580 And we realize that in today's world, anything goes.

01:50:36.480 And so I guess we're just going to have to regulate a little bit and charge you because that's a tarantula. 0.65

01:50:43.880 And I'm sorry.

01:50:45.300 It can't be on the plane with you on your chest, no matter if you have to pet it or not.

01:50:50.420 No, I mean, it that's what this is.

01:50:55.300 And I'm not necessarily saying I like this.

01:50:57.800 This is showing that there is a correction coming.

01:51:00.980 Here's another example.

01:51:02.180 There are many states now, Montana, Tennessee and Utah are now running through their state houses, open carry laws.

01:51:17.340 They are saying they're pushing for concealed carried guns without a permit and open carry.

01:51:24.640 So wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, you can conceal your gun, you have a concealed carry permit, you don't need the permit, what?

01:51:36.220 This is the states starting to react to the federal government and saying, you know what, you're going in the wrong direction and we're going to strengthen the laws here to make sure that everybody is very clear where we stand on guns.

01:51:54.640 This is this is just fortifying.

01:51:57.420 Yeah, no snakes on this plane.

01:51:59.620 That's what's happening.

01:52:00.800 And that's a really good thing.

01:52:02.640 And every state in the union that you live in, that's not frickin California.

01:52:09.180 You need to get to your state legislatures and act right now.

01:52:14.780 They should be pulling the 1619 project out.

01:52:18.420 They should be passing a law in the in your city and in your state.

01:52:24.860 And you're going to get a lot of heat and pushback for it.

01:52:28.200 I know of a city here in in Texas that is just being dragged through the mud because they're like none of this critical race theory crap in our schools.

01:52:36.900 You're not teaching it to our kids.

01:52:38.960 And boy, oh, boy, they're being dragged through the mud right now because of it.

01:52:44.180 Just keep standing.

01:52:46.120 Just keep standing and and bring it to your state level and your local level.

01:52:52.420 They've got to be you've you've got to right now organize in your local community and your state to make sure the 1619 project is not in your schools to make sure that critical race theory is not being taught in your schools in any form.

01:53:07.640 You have to make sure that your state is shoring up its election rules right now.

01:53:14.600 If your state did something smarmy.

01:53:18.260 You're going to have a hard time because most likely you're you're being run by smarmy people.

01:53:23.120 But if if your state like Texas, they fought and fought and fought and fought in the courts.

01:53:30.240 I think they should be looking at those things right now, make the make your voting, your voting rules absolutely bulletproof.

01:53:41.640 People should be forming groups now in all states to stop mail in voting unless there is signature verification and all kinds of verification.

01:53:53.760 I think personally stop all mail in voting except for absentee, any of this voting where we just send out ballots.

01:54:00.620 That's all we do.

01:54:02.260 I think that should all stop.

01:54:04.180 But if you request a ballot for absentee, you should be able to get it.

01:54:07.780 But we have to shore up our voting.

01:54:11.360 Everything that you can do in your state to shore up the Second Amendment and the First Amendment.

01:54:17.600 The First Amendment is going to your your freedom in your church.

01:54:22.820 is already under attack.

01:54:26.100 And you know this.

01:54:27.880 We think it's because of covid.

01:54:30.120 When they started saying you can't do these things.

01:54:32.820 Why?

01:54:34.300 Because they are destroying your habits.

01:54:37.300 They're destroying your traditions.

01:54:39.660 Barack knows to do this.

01:54:42.000 We're going to have to change our traditions.

01:54:44.800 Well, that's what's happening.

01:54:47.380 But the attacks are going to come.

01:54:49.420 They're going to be much more direct, much more direct.

01:54:54.580 You have to do everything you can to shore up your state and local community and your home.

01:55:03.340 You need to start preparing for a time where you are the leader that thinks this way, that you are the one who can lead others to safety because you work hard on your credibility.

01:55:17.380 You don't say crazy things.

01:55:20.460 You just do what's right.

01:55:23.720 And you stand.

01:55:25.300 You will.

01:55:25.920 If you are peaceful, kind and generous to people who disagree with you.

01:55:31.220 When the crap hits the fan, people will look to you as a leader.

01:55:35.800 You must position you and your family as those people right now.

01:55:44.340 I don't know.

01:55:45.720 American financing.

01:55:47.480 You can refinance your mortgage right now.

01:55:50.020 Kind of sounds scary.

01:55:51.460 I mean, I don't.

01:55:52.780 I hate.

01:55:54.040 You know, when I bought my, you know, when I bought my house right after I signed, do you know what the bank said to me?

01:55:59.380 No, don't come back.

01:56:01.160 Yeah, they said, congratulations.

01:56:02.400 You know, you're never going to sell that house.

01:56:03.760 I was like, what?

01:56:06.520 Why wouldn't you tell?

01:56:07.780 Why?

01:56:08.500 Why wouldn't you say that to me before I just signed on this dotted line?

01:56:12.580 It's a fair question.

01:56:13.360 Yeah.

01:56:13.840 Yeah.

01:56:14.080 They didn't have a good answer for it.

01:56:15.440 I mean, you know, they're working for the bank.

01:56:17.740 I want somebody to work for me, somebody to help me out, please.

01:56:23.440 Well, we have them.

01:56:24.840 It's American financing.

01:56:27.640 Americanfinancing.net is the is the group of people that work for you, not the banks.

01:56:32.740 It's an important distinction, because if you're in a mortgage right now that is over three percent, it's the best time to refi.

01:56:41.340 Now, the bank doesn't they're not calling you going, hey, you should refi because they're making money on that.

01:56:46.840 You can bundle all your high interest loans into into a new loan under your mortgage without resetting your mortgage.

01:56:53.600 It's American financing, 800-906-2440, 800-906-2440.

01:56:59.220 It's Americanfinancing.net.

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01:57:13.040 Well, you know, I could go into, I could go into some things that people are going to say they're conspiracy theories.

01:57:22.460 What, you know, what the official state run agency in China is is doing for the opening activities for the World Economic Forum.

01:57:34.820 But he will be calling it a conspiracy theory and conspiracy theories aren't fun anymore.

01:57:39.160 You know, like I looked up on TV just a minute ago and the the Shriners, you know, they run those commercials to help raise money.

01:57:48.320 And those kids are so cute.

01:57:50.720 Now, a good conspiracy is they're so cute.

01:57:54.360 They must be computer generated.

01:57:56.840 Those kids cannot be that sick and and that cute.

01:58:00.980 Now, that's an absolute lie.

01:58:03.140 These kids are absolutely real.

01:58:04.980 So it wouldn't be a fun conspiracy for the Shriners or the kids, but it would be at least something to be like, that's crazy.

01:58:14.500 Yeah.

01:58:14.640 Yeah.

01:58:14.680 Like, no one storm in the Capitol over the Shriners kids.

01:58:17.700 People are so serious now.

01:58:19.380 Yeah.

01:58:19.680 About their conspiracy theories.

01:58:20.920 There was a time where conspiracy theories were like more whimsical and fun.

01:58:25.400 Like?

01:58:26.260 Like, even like you go, I think people believe them in sort of a, it was a good little bit of entertainment and kind of like the moon thing.

01:58:33.860 Like the moon thing.

01:58:34.540 Like, ah, you know what?

01:58:35.500 You know, they never, we never landed on the moon.

01:58:37.040 Let's argue about it.

01:58:37.740 It'll be fun.

01:58:38.360 Yeah.

01:58:38.520 And it was like a harmless thing to argue about.

01:58:40.400 Right.

01:58:40.580 Because who cares, you know, if you don't, if you're not correct on that.

01:58:44.460 Right.

01:58:45.080 People weren't storming buildings.

01:58:46.380 They weren't showing up at senators houses.

01:58:48.720 Correct.

01:58:48.920 You know, there was none of that.

01:58:50.460 But that, but that is turned into serious because the people who really believe them are, are, are like, is like growing.

01:58:56.860 And it's becoming this thing that is anti-government now.

01:59:00.140 Before it was like, we didn't go to the moon.

01:59:01.800 Uh, dude, here's the photo.

01:59:03.840 Uh, here's the guy who went.

01:59:05.280 I just had him on the show.

01:59:07.220 Um, you know, you had stuff like that, but now it's, now you don't believe anything.

01:59:12.980 Well, have you heard this theory that, uh, Britney Spears is being held hostage?

01:59:17.340 Oh, by her dad or something, right?

01:59:18.800 By like, yeah, her, her management or her something like that.

01:59:21.220 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:59:21.520 And she's in her house and she's sending signals through her, her Instagram videos.

01:59:25.800 This is a great one.

01:59:26.960 About whether she's like, someone said.

01:59:29.920 This is a great, you know why this is a great one?

01:59:31.600 Why?

01:59:32.020 Because nobody really cares if it's true.

01:59:34.060 I mean, I'm sure.

01:59:35.220 I mean, Britney would. 1.00

01:59:36.780 But nobody else does.

01:59:38.180 I mean, it's like Britney Spears who really cares.

01:59:40.500 Um, but.

01:59:41.380 There are a lot of people who seem to care.

01:59:43.720 Uh, but it was, it's at least fun.

01:59:46.240 I mean, it's at least fun because there doesn't seem to be any societal, um, statement.

01:59:51.820 It doesn't seem to be any divisive.

01:59:53.260 Like, like, the thing I liked about conspiracy theories back in the day where you could argue

01:59:58.240 about them and still, and passionately and still like the other person.

02:00:03.160 Like, Jeffy believes every conspiracy theory.

02:00:05.860 Oh, of course he does, yes.

02:00:06.760 Now, I never liked Jeffy, obviously.

02:00:08.560 So there's never a moment where we argued about it and liked each other.

02:00:11.100 But, like, there was, he will come up and, with a dead straight face, argue basically

02:00:17.860 any conspiracy theory to you.

02:00:19.240 It was like the guy who used to work for us years and years and years ago, who was, uh,

02:00:23.220 Clinton, the communist.

02:00:24.380 Yes.

02:00:24.580 He wasn't really a communist.

02:00:26.620 He kind of was.

02:00:27.520 He kind of was, but he was more of just like, ah, I just like to say those things that get

02:00:32.400 people stoked up.

02:00:34.240 There's a little bit of that in there, right?

02:00:35.720 But he was like, he was a nice guy.

02:00:37.300 We liked talking to him.

02:00:38.520 He wasn't going to kill anybody and he wasn't going to burn the city.

02:00:41.100 He was never going to overthrow the government for his communism.

02:00:44.000 Right, right.

02:00:44.460 It was much like, he's a lazy communist.

02:00:46.760 He's a lazy communist.

02:00:48.460 That's what we need.

02:00:49.200 More lazy conspiracy theorists.

02:00:51.120 Right.

02:00:51.240 People who kind of want to, like, joke about it at parties, but not necessarily, you know,

02:00:56.860 light anything on fire over it.

02:00:58.540 Like the lizard.

02:00:59.860 The lizard one.

02:01:00.820 That's great.

02:01:01.760 But all the people in Washington are lizard people.

02:01:04.200 I love that one.

02:01:04.780 Wasn't there someone recently that did take that one?

02:01:06.860 Because it's true.

02:01:07.440 Hmm?

02:01:07.920 Hmm?

02:01:08.300 What?

02:01:08.860 They took it too seriously?

02:01:09.960 I think there was a lizard person, the protester, up in the capital. 0.77

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