The Puppet Fox News Debate Recap You Didn’t Know You Needed ｜ Guests： Jack Posobiec & Seth Dillon ｜ 8⧸24⧸23
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Summary
Glenn Beck uses the framework of Star Trek to explain his take on the latest episode of 'The Dark Side Of' 'Space Trek: The Original Series,' 'The Last Episode of The Starship Enterprise'. Glenn Beck is a conservative radio host and host of the conservative radio show "The Glenn Beck Show" on SiriusXM Radio.
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What you're about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
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Everything you need to know about the debate could be explained through the framework of Star Trek.
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Okay, so you remember Star Trek, the original series.
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There's a couple of people that I, if you look at, I know it was just me.
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But if you look at the panel last night on the stage, all of those podiums, and think of them more like a landing party.
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And I would believe that a few of them have come from outer space directly to the stage.
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Whenever they were going to be beamed down to the surface, there were always these guys.
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And as soon as they got into the transporter, you're like, oh, they're going to die by the end of the episode.
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But at the center of the transporter always was Kirk and Spock.
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And I think we had Kirk and Spock there in the center of the stage playing the role of Captain Kirk was DeSantis.
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Chris Christie, by the way, in this particular scenario, is represented by the lava rock guy in the – he was in the episode and he was always –
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he always kind of sounded like he was in a cardboard tube.
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Does anyone know this reference other than you and Pat?
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I've never heard it from anyone else, but I love the episode too now that you've showed it to me, but it's incredible.
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If you're watching on The Blaze TV or just Google him, just do lava rock guy original Star Trek series, and it's Chris Christie.
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Okay, so then you had Mike Pence, who I don't know.
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Was it Christopher Pike, the guy who was only on one episode, and they were like, he's going to be – he's Captain Kirk.
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And it was the pilot episode, and they're like, not him.
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He was the guy who was like – he got up there, and he was like, no, I'm – I'm Captain Kirk.
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He's actually – I have to go to another TV show to describe him.
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I think he was – I think he was a little MacGyver-ish last night because he's the only guy I've ever seen that could take a Bible and the Constitution and fashion those into a noose to hang himself.
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Now, I've been reading some of the mainstream media reports.
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I'm told he's one of the big winners from the debate last night.
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As someone who watched the Iowa situation that we did, the first candidate form of the season, it was a better performance than that.
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Yeah, Asa Hutchinson was a giant zilch in both of them.
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There's something about his style, and he's the only – I agree with the things he said.
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But him saying it, I found myself like, ooh, I'm not for that.
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Well, it's just a – yeah, he has a weird style.
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Like, he had – he's the only one on stage that does the pause.
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And it's like he starts one word, and then he pauses for six seconds.
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Now, of course, it's something that you're sort of famous for broadcasting-wise.
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But in a debate, like, he would say one word, he would pause, and then Vivek Ramaswamy would
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And you're like, oh, wait, is he still in that first sentence?
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And when he would pause, see, you can't have white hair.
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You can't have white hair after Joe Biden and pause, say, you know – because everybody's
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I mean, it was – every time he paused, I was like, is he going to continue?
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Nikki Haley, she's like the nurse on Star Trek, but not – you know, Bones always returned.
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Nikki Haley is the original blonde nurse who I don't even know her name.
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She was actually, I think, Gene Roddenberry's daughter.
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And they thought she was going to be the big star, and she – and so they – and she
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And so she just kind of drifted off into the sunset.
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I am told by many of the same publications I just mentioned that she was one of the big
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I don't think she did herself any harm, but I don't think she did, you know, any good.
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I mean, I thought – I legitimately thought her abortion answer was terrible.
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If you guys figure out who you're going to vote for, I'm not your dad, you know.
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But, like, watching – I thought that was really weak.
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But the problem with that was, is she was interrupted by Mike Pence.
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I'm going to stab you with a crucifix right now.
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I suddenly – I'm for – I don't even know what Nikki is saying, but I'm for her now.
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You are Mr. – I talk about God in uncomfortable places.
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I talked to a friend of mine, Dan Andrus, from faithwire.com, CBN, and a guy, he works
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I know it's actually broadcasting, but C is Christian.
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So, this is a person who's very comfortable talking about faith.
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He's like, you know, Steve Dace last night said it, too.
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He's like, I'm like the most Christian guy I know.
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And it's still – there's something about the way he talks about it that makes you feel
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It makes you feel like he's trying to send you a Vulcan mind bell.
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I want you to know, Jesus loves me, and I love him.
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Because it feels like what he's saying is, I love Jesus, and I have a direct hotline to
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To be a little fair to the mainstream media's take, and this was – it's in some ways my
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Both Pence and Haley are such non-factors in this race that just getting in the middle
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of it and mixing it up is probably a positive for them.
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At least I thought Pence at least had some decent moments.
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She had a decent moment against Vivek at one point that people were talking about.
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But I think, like, when you are zero, you're kind of a zilch on stage, and you can make
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I think there's an argument there to say that you had a positive day.
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He wanted to make sure that he was seen and heard, and so he was good at that.
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But what he said and how it came across was not good.
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Do you remember – I don't remember the name of the show.
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It was the cartoon in the 60s with Bandit, the little dog Bandit, Johnny Quest.
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It's a fascinating series of references on this first model.
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He looked like Mike Pence probably looked in 1960.
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So if you look at him, that's what Mike Pence looked like in the 1960s maybe,
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but he feels like he came right out of the 1960s and then just aged.
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You know, his hair color changed, and he's still that strangely like,
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Most of that is stylistic, but it is part of it, and it was strange.
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Tim Scott was the guy who, you know, is in the landing party,
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And the first line he speaks, you're like, okay, this is a trick.
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You know, and again, we've had Tim Scott on the show.
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and I just don't think he's the candidate that can pull this on-paper argument off.
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He's not the guy that has the, I don't know, gravitas or the connection, I think.
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Like, you know, all the other fireworks that were going on, the back and forth,
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I'm like, oh, my gosh, like, I forgot about Tim.
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Like, he just didn't – there's something about his delivery.
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He's – there's a package there that Tim Scott is trying to represent
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that could have an impact in this race, and his polling isn't terrible.
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and it's just – I just don't think he's going to be able to pull that off.
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and, you know, certainly the best senator of South Carolina.
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Is there some other senator that you might be referring to?
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There's a good 80-senator gap on the top 100 list
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So, you know, I think that there is an argument to be made
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but, like, I just – when I – I feel like when I'm watching it,
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It's like I had a high draft pick, and I'm convincing myself,
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and I just – he just – I don't think he's going to get there.
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I think watching Asa Hutchinson age last night was weird.
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His skin got a little dark around his nose and blue.
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It was like blood was just, I don't know, rushing to his lips
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and his – or his upper lip, not his actual lips,
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but, you know, this thing that's connected to your nose,
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that part of your lip, and the end of his nose.
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and then he started to get a little transparent,
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It's like as if he came from his other job working at a haunted house.
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I felt like he was going to, like, start narrating
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in the middle of a Michael Jackson song at one point.
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And I couldn't get past on Bermentum – what's his name?
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I couldn't get past every time he came on the screen.
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Even though I'd seen him three times, every time he came on the screen,
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Someone said it was like a Martin Scorsese eyebrows,
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And it's – you know, the real problem is he's not Martin Scorsese.
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And I don't know what – I mean, you know, I came from a small town.
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Well, I came from a small town, and I still have small town values.
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You are the governor of the state who has more sheep than people.
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It's not like, oh, but then he moved to the big city.
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I don't know what that's supposed to mean, that I'm – you know, I'm from a small town,
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and I'm really getting sick of – I'm from a working-class family.
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I mean, I thought one – Vivek, I thought, to me, and we'll get to him, I'm sure, a little up and down.
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But one line I did like about him from him last night was when he said he had the ultimate privilege,
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And, like, that is the defining – you want to talk about class inequality.
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We talk so much about how much money people have.
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That is the inequality that we should talk about a lot more.
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A lot of people who don't have that do start with a disadvantage and live life with a disadvantage.
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So let me just take a quick break, and then we're going to come back,
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and we're going to talk about DeSantis and Vivek,
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because those were the two that I think made the biggest difference last night.
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And I think they both had a couple of moments that were not good,
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but generally did really well last night, both of them.
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We have all of these great puppets that came in.
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There's nothing you can challenge this audience with that they don't –
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Somehow or another, they just don't pull it out.
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Whether it's saving people in Afghanistan or sending us puppets.
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I think Vivek is the model for the Republicans of the future.
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And he just says what he means and means what he says.
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And you could tell there was no hesitation on several things.
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Like, raise your hand if you will pardon Trump.
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And then a few others started to raise their hand.
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And then DeSantis, whether he was going to raise his hand or not,
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DeSantis kind of looked to the side to see it looked like he was looking at –
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Like, I don't want to be the only one putting my hand up here.
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Now, he's publicly said he was going to do this basically before an interview.
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So, you know, he was just rehashing a previous position.
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But – so that's what makes me think it wasn't like he was checking the room.
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But it did look like – I mean, it looked like he was like,
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oh, my gosh, am I supposed to put my – oh, here.
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And then Chris Christie and everybody else, it just got ugly.
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However, I don't think that was the question, though.
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He was the only one that raised his hand on who would pardon Trump.
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I remember Pence pushing – but there was that – there was one question where they
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all raised their hand except for the two sort of moderate slash liberals on there,
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And I thought he had another bad moment where he said, I'm the only one up here.
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I'm the only one up here that's not bought and paid for.
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You know, it's – and it's also – let's – can we be honest about it?
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I mean, and he looked like he had them all memorized.
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You're telling me if you win this nomination, you're not going to take donations from people?
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You're talking about people that take political donations are all bought and paid for.
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I think it's a good point to the audience sometimes.
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Sometimes it was pulled off horribly last night.
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And I think he may have been too brisk for some.
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I thought he did exactly what he should have done last night and make sure you're in there.
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No, I don't think he made errors with the exception of the one hand-raising thing, which was weird.
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Like, a lot of the reaction from the media is he was terrible.
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Like, I did think that he didn't mix it up as much as maybe they'd want him to.
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But they were – the campaign was happy that he wasn't the one getting all the attacks.
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They went after Ramaswamy, and those attacks are going to get bigger now.
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Pat Gray joins us, and I'm also surrounded by puppets, because this is an amazing, amazing audience.
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I just want to, you happen to be watching us on BlazeTV.
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Let me just share some of these puppets that are behind me, and I feel awkward because they're staring at me.
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This comes from Andrew Olson, and he said, Glenn, I dropped all other work projects.
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I took two days off from my job, and for the past 48 hours, I've worked building these four puppets.
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Trump, Chris Christie, Mike Pence, and DeSantis.
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I wish I had time to build all eight, but I'm going on vacation, so I could only spend two days.
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Yeah, those are like professional puppeteer-type puppets.
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And then I got this one in from Valerie, Valerie Perkins.
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She said, I'm one of the grandmas you mentioned that can make anything out of anything.
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She said, I made only, I only had time to make one puppet.
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Now, remember, we asked, I think, on Tuesday for puppets.
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This is from a woman named Sally Sawyer, I think.
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Dear Glenn Beck, my mom listens to you every morning.
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Here's Mike Pence from Barrett in Big Timber, Montana.
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And there's so many more, but we can get into it later.
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What was the big thing that stood out to you last night, Pat?
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Have you guys not progressed at all to say, okay, we've been at war long enough, and we've
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been in enough places around the world, and we've policed the planet long enough?
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We've tried it that way for about 150 years, and it's not working.
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We can have the border and fight Canada and Mexico if we want to.
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We're going to start something in the Congo, and we can definitely fight for Ukraine.
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Well, I mean, we can do a lot and still fight Canada.
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Because it's not a terrible line that Pence brings up from a line perspective.
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He's like, you know, we're the greatest country in the world.
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You have a bad view of our country if you say that.
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We'd already heard it, but it's the exact same line.
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But secondly, like, actually, our country can't do either of the things one at a time.
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We can't do the most basic thing in the world that a government's supposed to do.
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And I thought he also sounded really out of touch when he was going up against Ramaswamy,
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who was like, look, we are having bad times in America and we've got to recognize that
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And we have to we have to soul search and rediscover who we are.
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Every Mike Pence was just like, oh, you're saying the American people are bad.
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I will say, though, and this is the thing I did appreciate about the debate last night.
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That what you're talking about, Pat, is a serious policy difference in the party.
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Like that was actually some substance, some some sort of depth.
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This first time in my career, I've done this 45 years, I think, something like that.
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And every four years, this broadcast is usually as somebody that has been up all night pulling
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No one is playing clips because Fox is there saying, we'll sue you.
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And most executives and media are just saying, okay, they're crazy.
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And quickly, as you're putting your puppets on, I would just point out, too, can we spread
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Yes, Fox deserves the blame for not spreading these around.
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I'm not taking any blame away from them, per se.
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But I want to add additional blame here to the RNC for allowing this.
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Next time you go to Fox, you say, you don't get this debate unless people get to see our
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And I understand why Fox wants to steal it all for themselves so that they can have
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this, oh, it's going to be an exclusive and no one else gets to see it.
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I get that from a self-interest point at some level.
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But like, that's not the self-interest of the RNC.
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What we did when we did the summit, we had the summit.
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We paid for the broadcast and everything else could be taken.
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So you saw that even if you didn't see our broadcast, you saw those clips.
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Hey, here's what happened in the debate on Fox last night.
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It is hard to take you seriously with a pink puppet on your hand.
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If you love Vladimir Putin so much, why don't you marry him?
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You could tell it's Nikki Haley because it's the only feminine pink puppet.
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Which she, by the way, made sure she pointed out to us over and over and over.
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I know half of the country can't notice the differences.
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You know, should they be preparing that for a month and sneak this in when you can?
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That if you want to talk about something, you ask a man.
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What is the audience you're playing to with that line?
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Maybe if you're in the general election, you think it's going to win people over.
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This is a party that's completely aligned against identity politics.
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And you come out and your big point is, I've got a girly part.
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Can I need to add something to the constitution of our program, Sarah?
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I don't want anyone to ever refer to Nikki Haley's girly parts.
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Now I feel a little weird as I'm holding a puppet on my hand, a Donald Trump puppet,
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and I'm pointing with Donald Trump's nose to Sarah, but...
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I mean, for when Chris Wallace came up and Trump said, I don't think that's a friend
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of yours, and Tucker said, no, no, he's not a friend.
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I mean, that's just honesty that you don't normally get.
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Well, I like the part where Tucker said, I mean...
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Was there a tough moment at all for Trump in there?
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Did he get a tough question about any of the...
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I mean, again, I think they are aligned on most policy issues.
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I wouldn't expect it to be some hit job, but I was sure...
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I was interested to see if he'd push him on something like, you know, Fauci or vaccine
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He pushed him, believe it or not, to get to that, why aren't they going to put a bullet
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in your head question, he pushed him on Epstein.
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I got the impression he didn't believe it at all.
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I just think it was a very sloppy, sloppy situation.
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He also did talk about Bill Barr on how Bill Barr was a coward.
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And that's why he just kowtowed to everybody else.
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There's definitely a lot of pushback on the Vivek thing.
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You know, again, like we come from such a different experience here with Vivek.
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He was on the show 10 times before he announced he ran for president.
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Probably talking about his books and everything else over the past five years.
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And I think, like, the American people who watched him were going through...
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People, like, who were watching The Blaze and are informed on this guy.
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I think watched that and were like, eh, not his best performance.
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The Blaze audience poll had him at about 60% as the winner.
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And the next closest was DeSantis, like, at 37%.
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Part of that, though, I think, was that he dominated the stage.
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Like, I thought Chris Christie's, hey, you're repeating Obama's lines, was actually a good
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I mean, it was, hey, oh, who's the skinny guy with the funny name?
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Like, who's the skinny guy with the funny name?
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Some of the other stuff, I thought he actually sort of lost.
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And while he was good and he made a big impact, I thought for someone, for people who knew him
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and, like, he was really good in Iowa to the point of, like, he blew the room away.
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The only thing that he could have done better, I think, is when Christie was saying, I've
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We talked about it during the show last night, during the debate.
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I don't know what happened, but they turned him down.
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I believe he bet his home on the air yesterday that he would be on the debate stage.
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You get a Larry Elder home and you get a Larry Elder home.
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I did not share his optimism about him getting on stage, though I do think it's possible he
00:41:49.640
I get to get to 2% in these polls now instead of 1, which could be difficult for him.
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Hopefully he's at least named in the poll, which is a big key for him, because when he's
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not named in the poll, it's difficult for him to get 2% of the vote.
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But he's got a chance to get on stage at least.
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So we're going to talk next hour to Selena Zito about what she was sensing last night
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He is a podcast host and the host of Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
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He's going to talk to us about President Trump.
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I think, I think I shot like 20 bullets, 20 rounds.
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Uh, and I only missed two and that's remarkable for not shooting, uh, at a firing range for
00:44:36.820
Is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment
00:45:08.560
Or gonna run for the big showdown with the big man
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And then Tucker Carlson throws a curveball yesterday
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And says, oh by the way, I've got an interview with Donald Trump
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Probably about 10 or 11 times more than what Fox News had
00:45:44.760
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Jack, what did you think, first of all, about the debate last night?
00:47:31.240
Well, Glenn, I watched the debate last night and I thought it was interesting
00:47:40.020
I think some of the sub-tier candidates, you know, were largely not present
00:47:44.880
I think some candidates phoned it in, but really the biggest standout for me was how can we be in a situation where the front runner for the opposition in this party is about to be arrested for the fourth time in a row the next day, which is today
00:48:04.100
And they're up there, they're talking about planning a Sunday brunch in the middle of a cat five hurricane
00:48:13.920
And I think the fact that it didn't dominate the discussion actually did a disservice to the people
00:48:20.060
Because you would hear these candidates saying, oh, I'll fight back, I'll fight back
00:48:24.400
Everyone says that, what are you actually going to do?
00:48:26.940
Walk us through your steps to fix the situation that we're in
00:48:30.300
Because Glenn, the last time I came on here, I said that we are going through the fourth turning
00:48:36.320
They're assassinating the opposition, these rebels who tried to come out on Putin
00:48:44.040
They've just announced they're joining BRICS today
00:48:46.140
This is going on, we have a regime that's locking up political opponents at home
00:48:49.700
And I feel like these guys are debating like it's still the 1980s
00:48:53.540
Yeah, I felt a lot of them were debating like the 1980s
00:48:56.940
I also thought it was interesting how few of them said if he's arrested
00:49:02.380
If they were going to, if they would still honor their pledge if he became the nominee
00:49:09.000
And very few of them would be willing to raise their hand
00:49:12.680
Only Vivek Ramaswamy raised his hand when he said, I'd pardon him
00:49:16.840
Because, you know, we're going to move on from this
00:49:21.140
And if he's convicted, this whole thing is a sham, I'd pardon him
00:49:29.280
I think this is remarkable coming from the Republicans
00:49:35.320
And also that was a moment where there was a quick moment
00:49:42.500
Because that Ron DeSantis looking around to see how other people reacted to the question
00:49:54.420
Whether you want to call it a CNN gotcha style question
00:49:58.400
However, comma, that's the kind of stuff that leaves an indelible mark
00:50:03.560
Because when you have one candidate showing a decisive answer
00:50:11.000
Like he's looking around to see what other people are doing
00:50:13.780
That's the kind of thing that a sort of, you know, like a low propensity, low impact
00:50:20.280
You know, someone who's not paying attention to the news on a day-to-day news cycle
00:50:29.720
And I do think that will stick with the governor
00:50:31.560
So I think the problem with the Trump topics last night
00:50:36.600
I don't want to, at this point, dwell on the 2020 election
00:50:48.520
Which the Republicans were the only ones that could do it
00:50:53.300
They didn't push to make sure that we're correcting all of the mistakes from the past
00:51:04.320
And I think just as important is what is happening to Donald Trump
00:51:20.960
And so they are going to put him in jail come hell or high water
00:51:34.120
And cutting the budget of the FBI and the Justice Department
00:51:44.860
And you don't have to be a Trump supporter to believe that
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And you've been stonewalling on all of these things
00:52:07.580
Has got to be more than frustrating for Donald Trump
00:52:56.220
Where you've got prosecutors bringing these ridiculous indictments
00:53:03.700
No, this is not what we do in the United States
00:53:11.040
And for Fox News to barely ask questions about it
00:53:14.140
To barely ask questions about election integrity
00:53:16.700
To barely bring up how we're going to conduct the election in 2024
00:53:21.800
Which I don't think I heard any candidate really talk about this
00:53:24.440
Ballot harvesting, drop boxes, any of these things
00:53:37.800
Well, that's perhaps a more sinister plan afoot there
00:53:45.200
And I certainly could understand why people may think that
00:54:16.720
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We're going to be following you as you go in and out
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Because the way that Joe Biden was installed as president
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How things are going to happen when we get into office
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The way that elections are held in this country
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They've changed us from a system of voting on election day
00:55:08.220
And Republicans have not woken up to that new reality
00:55:11.100
I don't see how they win any election going forward
00:55:15.820
I mean, Trump is going to turn himself in today
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You know, there's this meme that's going around
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You know, I think this is going to be the mugshot
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Most of the people in our country are fantastic
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It's not enough just to throw some dry kibble in a bowl
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I started giving Uno rough greens a couple of years ago
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You know, who sort of was part of that ruling class
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I think it would blow this country apart, Glenn
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I really do think it would blow this country apart
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I'm going to open up the phone lines for about 30 minutes here at 888-727-BECK
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I'd like to hear your thoughts on the debate last night and the Tucker interview
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If you watched both of those especially I'd like to hear from you and what your thoughts on the the whole thing all the way from Fox News not allowing any clips to be shown three minutes total per week and it can't it has to be deleted from all files if you air it it's crazy it is truly crazy nobody is covering the debate and I can't figure out why they would do that.
01:23:12.080
It's not good for their business it's not good for their business it's not good for their business it's not good for the Republican Party yeah I mean it's bad all the way around really bad for the Republican Party who's the whole point of having these debates is to introduce people your candidates available to a wide audience so they understand their views and then to give this to Fox and allow them to do this.
01:23:31.260
I really do put a lot of blame on the RNC here that you need to catch that beforehand and say no this needs to be widely distributed you can air it everyone's going to watch it live on your air everyone's going to go to you for coverage of course pregame postgame I mean a lot of people came to the blaze too but a lot of people went to the to Fox News you get that benefit.
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And you know I can understand you saying you can't air the entire debate on another channel of course they have that protection but clips especially the next few weeks I mean they're acting like they're the Oscars here.
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The Grammys and banning clips banning people from airing clips.
01:24:04.080
Except this is something that's not like the Oscars or the Grammys this means something.
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And if it doesn't mean something to Fox man that tells you something about Fox doesn't it?
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Uh, and you have, what, nine of his attorneys also being booked?
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Uh, we're, we're now prosecuting not only our rival, but we're also now prosecuting, prosecuting attorneys?
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So, Stu, I think Fox News has done a great disservice for America as I am watching the news on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Fox News.
01:28:43.620
So I'm watching the four real networks, and nobody's really covering the debates.
01:28:49.460
They're talking about it, but nobody's playing any of the clips.
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This is such a disservice to the Republic, such a disservice to the Republicans.
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And it is Fox's decision, but it's the GOP's fault for allowing them to do it.
01:29:07.400
You don't get the debate unless you meet terms that meet both of our goals, right?
01:29:12.040
You guys get something out of having the exclusive that night, and then it becomes part of the news cycle.
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That's how these things seemingly have always worked.
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And so there are a lot of places, radio, television, Internet especially, you can't play them.
01:29:30.040
Or Fox has said they will come after you and sue you.
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It's ridiculous and is real disservice to the nation and to the GOP.
01:29:48.160
And I think you showed – I came away hopeful.
01:29:51.720
Usually I watch these debates, and I'm like, oh, shut up.
01:29:57.100
I actually enjoyed even the dummies on stage, strangely.
01:30:06.060
Like, I thought – this is a totally wrong take to have on conservative radio, probably.
01:30:11.120
But I actually thought Chris Christie's appearance there made it better.
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Because he's like – he gets in the middle of stuff, and like, no one's going to vote for the guy.
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I thought there was a good chance he was going to go on there and just nonstop talk about how evil Donald Trump was.
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It was really like he was – he seemed like he was actually running as a candidate.
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And it did create some of the better back-and-forth moments of the night, even when he lost them.
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But it was one of those things where I didn't really appreciate a lot of the questions.
01:31:03.400
Some of the answers seemed more canned, although anytime Vivek seemed to get in it with anybody, that was incredibly entertaining.
01:31:12.540
And then even – I'm not really a Chris Christie fan, but I really appreciated his initial reaction to the UFO question with the, what?
01:31:29.440
Yeah, I agree with you, Lee, and I think the questions from the moderators were less than just silly or not so good.
01:31:43.000
I think there were several questions that – especially the abortion question.
01:31:48.420
The way it was phrased, Martha McAllen comes up and says, it's a loser for Republicans.
01:32:01.400
But if you look at what's happened since, 25 states have moved to put restrictions, more restrictions on abortion.
01:32:13.600
And all of the governors that signed these, all of them have won if they were in their race.
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There has been some negative political effects.
01:32:21.140
Like, I mean, the Ohio situation we talked about a couple weeks ago was not good.
01:32:24.500
There's been several – there have been ramifications to this, though.
01:32:27.320
I keep asking this question, and I thought this was one of Nikki Haley's really bad moments last night.
01:32:35.480
But, like, the fact that you're talking politics around this issue is rough.
01:32:40.020
It's like, if you can't trade election losses for saving millions of babies' lives, what the hell are you worth?
01:32:52.660
And, like, I get that the correct answer to me, Glenn, is like, look, we want to save as many babies as possible, right?
01:32:59.140
We'll take every incremental step we can take to get to that end.
01:33:02.800
The long term is we need to convince people hearts and minds need to be changed.
01:33:07.760
So this is as abhorrent to Americans as slavery is, and we have a constitutional amendment that bans it.
01:33:13.900
But, like, we – I understand we're not going to get there today.
01:33:16.240
Nikki Haley's point on we don't have enough senators to pass it is correct.
01:33:22.320
There should be a constitutional amendment banning abortion every single year they vote on.
01:33:30.680
They are afraid of their own shadow and the shadows that are cast by progressives, Democrats, and the media.
01:33:38.880
You know, they say – the fact check from – I think it was Washington Post or New York Times came out,
01:33:44.360
and the fact check on abortion was nobody is trying to go for, you know, no-limit abortion.
01:33:52.840
And they reported in their fact check that, no, there's – nobody's pushing for that.
01:34:00.580
I mean, seven states already have a law that says any point during the pregnancy.
01:34:06.600
There's – we must have 100 different politicians on record, all in the Democratic Party,
01:34:17.460
What are you talking about no one's advocating for this?
01:34:19.620
I know, and this is what happens when you have a media that represents the establishment
01:34:29.740
Bob in Kansas, what did you think of the debate last night?
01:34:36.540
I just wanted to say that Vivek both helped and hurt himself.
01:34:42.940
I think he said a lot of good things that would push the party forward,
01:34:54.460
But at the same time, he was really kind of condescending in some of the things that he said
01:35:01.160
And so I think that he kind of helped himself, but he hurt himself, so he's one and lost.
01:35:08.720
And if I can say something on a personal note, as a recovering alcoholic myself, you did save my life.
01:35:21.060
But you did save my life, and I didn't get on the line that time that I called.
01:35:29.100
But I called in that other time because of the guy that called in because he didn't want to continue.
01:35:40.200
I just appreciate you, and it took me getting a new liver to be here, but I appreciate you.
01:35:51.820
I am so glad that you are recovering, Bob, and that you're still with us.
01:35:59.600
The farther you get away from your drinking days, the more you realize,
01:36:09.200
I don't know if I just didn't expect it because we're just talking in the middle of dumb politics right now,
01:36:16.540
You've destroyed so many lives, and you saved one.
01:36:20.260
No, but seriously, that's a really great story.
01:36:33.720
I think he captured the passions of the people.
01:36:36.120
Sure, like Bob said, he was a little arrogant, but he reminded me of Trump in that respect.
01:36:41.500
I felt like he saw through all those, I say, fakers out there.
01:36:47.460
But, you know, it's hard for me to look at some of those people after knowing what I know.
01:36:51.080
Yeah, I will tell you that he struck me last night as optimistic, having the optimism of Reagan, strangely, even though he said it's not morning in America.
01:37:09.840
He has the fighting spirit of Donald Trump, and I thought it worked.
01:37:21.040
I do think that he stepped over the line a couple of times, and I can see how people thought that he was arrogant at times.
01:37:28.260
And especially if you don't know him, but I gave him a break on that.
01:37:35.740
I thought he did a really good job for a first timer.
01:37:38.160
I also say he's getting hit on one fact check that is not true in my understanding of it.
01:37:43.220
And again, I've seen some of the DeSantis people tweet this stuff out.
01:37:47.740
And just to get the record straight, he said on stage, the report is that, and a lot of mainstream media is reporting this as well, that he said that climate change is a hoax.
01:37:58.820
And then they're going back to his book where he said, I believe climate change is real, but this is what we should do about it.
01:38:04.680
As I remember, and correct me if I'm wrong, I think he said the climate agenda is a hoax.
01:38:09.780
And that is a totally different point and is consistent with what I think he wrote about in his book.
01:38:16.580
So I think he is getting a little bit of an unfair beating on that one.
01:38:32.940
You watched Tucker's interview with Trump last night.
01:38:41.060
I was really, you know, Tucker left Fox and I just felt like the interview that we got, that could have been aired on Fox.
01:38:49.340
I was looking for the Tucker to come out to really press Trump on the issues Tucker has told us about.
01:38:58.300
Ukraine, the vaccine, these type things that just kind of, I don't think, got enough play last night in the debate.
01:39:05.240
And I think with Trump, I was really hoping that Tucker would take it to Trump.
01:39:09.060
Ask some tough questions because I'm very curious to know where he stands on that many years later after, you know, we're kind of in this weird wall of COVID and we hear the rumors of what's coming.
01:39:22.260
What does he really think about warp speed now?
01:39:25.240
What about the whole Fauci thing where he let that guy just kind of take over the presidency?
01:39:29.860
I really wanted to hear that, was kind of disappointed in Tucker.
01:39:33.320
And with the interview, I just feel like it kind of fell flat to me.
01:39:35.980
I tend to agree with you that I would have liked to see just because we are entering not to go back and relitigate, but we are hearing rumors about the new COVID mandates that are coming.
01:39:49.300
And, you know, I was disappointed that it didn't come up in the Fox debate and it didn't come up with Tucker.
01:39:57.600
You know, can we can we all agree that this was bad and should never happen again?
01:40:04.980
And should somebody pass a law to make sure it doesn't happen again?
01:40:09.680
Yeah, and I'll say, too, I think the energy of the party is against funding Ukraine right now.
01:40:14.040
Voters are feeling that way in the Republican Party.
01:40:16.540
The overwhelming percentage of lawmakers in the Republican Party support funding Ukraine in some way.
01:40:22.780
And it's important to note that Trump said he would send even more weapons than than Biden wanted to send to do this.
01:40:31.960
That doesn't mean that Donald Trump's out of line with Republican thought.
01:40:37.580
Everyone's beating up Mike Pence and Tim Scott and Nikki Haley for holding that view.
01:40:42.520
But Trump is at least indicated he's pretty friendly to that view.
01:40:48.260
So, like, I think that sort of stuff would have been interesting to examine with someone like Tucker, who's so good at interviews.
01:40:58.400
I will provide arms if they don't come to the table.
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And I'll provide more arms than they can possibly do.
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He's saying sort of a lot on both sides because he thinks it's going to advance a negotiation.
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You know, these cars, these electric cars, they're not good.
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Let me get to the first scientific poll on who won the debate in just a second.
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First, let me go to Tammy listening to us, I think, in New York.
01:43:24.060
I'm calling in because I am a registered Democrat in New York state, and I am not happy with how the country stands right now.
01:43:34.340
So I needed to see what other options, even meaning on the other side of the fence, what they had to bring to the table.
01:43:45.240
He had a lot of points that I was interested in.
01:43:48.880
I thought Chris Christie did his standard talking above everybody.
01:43:52.820
So that pretty much got me in the same place that every one of his debates has gotten me in the past.
01:43:58.380
And that being said, not many other people kind of jazzed me.
01:44:03.200
So I think in the future, as much as I have voted on the Democratic side, I definitely want to learn more about the Republicans.
01:44:13.240
And right now, things are kind of leaning toward DeSantis.
01:44:16.560
So what is it, Tammy, that has made you, you still haven't changed your affiliation.
01:44:26.080
What is what's happening in the world that is opening your eyes to say, maybe I should look for something else?
01:44:33.160
I am I am a fixed income person, and I know for a fact that what I have in my pocket at the end of every what I used to have in my pocket at the end of every month is now not even there at the end of every week.
01:44:53.920
So that being said, and seeing how the past three years has just taken more away from me, increased my health costs, and it's just it's very frustrating.
01:45:09.160
It was it was the most depressing thing I've seen in years.
01:45:15.080
And so in order for it to be changed, we have to make the changes.
01:45:18.260
And me maybe voting for another party is what I need to do.
01:45:22.400
So, Tammy, I'm just trying to get a handle on how you may have seen the world or are seeing the world.
01:45:31.080
What is the cause of that, in your opinion, of the prices going up?
01:45:36.160
I think I've seen more lately that the United States just seems to give and give and give, but to other people, not to our own country.
01:45:49.360
And I think some of that, you know, I've always said it is not the United States world to completely police the world.
01:45:58.300
And if, you know, some of the money that's that's going overseas and helping them, whereas, you know, I haven't seen one dollar be mentioned about what happened in Hawaii.
01:46:15.740
Tammy, you know, like I said, I've seen the price of groceries go right through the roof.
01:46:20.940
I worked with a lot of people in the restaurant industry.
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They can't put a plate on our menu for the same price, even close to what it was.
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And the problem is, is we're not rebounding from that the way everybody thought we would have.
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If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to get your phone number.
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I'm interested in in hearing somebody in transition, which whichever way they're going, you know, towards a Republican or towards a Democrat to to see what is opening their mind.
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He is the CEO of the Babylon Bee and wanted to get him in today to talk a little bit about the debate and where we are.
01:48:52.320
Well, I went on the Internet where people tell me what to think.
01:49:03.240
I don't know how to judge how someone won a debate like this because there's so many people on stage vying for attention.
01:49:10.380
And sometimes the person who gets the most attention is the winner, even if they didn't do the best.
01:49:16.240
I feel like that was probably Vivek because, I mean, it seemed like it was like Pence and Vivek going at it like half the time.
01:49:23.560
There was a lot of back and forth between them.
01:49:26.120
And Pence was kind of creepy, didn't you think?
01:49:29.660
At the beginning, very smiley, like excessively smiley.
01:49:36.220
And that kind of, that was a little weird for me.
01:49:38.340
But I mean, look, to your comment, it was his first time and he handled himself very well.
01:49:44.740
But I don't know how to pick a winner in these things.
01:49:48.140
I think whoever we're talking about the most, whoever people are either attacking or praising the most is the winner of the thing.
01:49:53.240
And so you just have to kind of see who's trending on Twitter, I guess.
01:50:02.680
Daily Mail came out with the first, what I've seen, scientific poll for what that's worth.
01:50:18.000
I mean, because to your point, he was aggressive.
01:50:21.440
You know, he got in the middle of it and, you know, his views I don't think are exactly aligned with voters right now in the party.
01:50:26.100
But he was aggressive and he was in the middle of those fights.
01:50:32.680
And for a guy who has really not made any noise at all, all you're talking about is turning up the volume a little bit, right?
01:50:38.380
He was so active, had there been a fly on his head, it probably would have flown off.
01:50:46.220
That one was strange because I didn't think he made, he didn't really seem to stand out at all to me.
01:51:00.340
I wish we had the transporter from Star Trek because I would have beamed a lot of them right back up.
01:51:06.180
So, you also have the book about gender, the Babylon Beguide to Gender.
01:51:21.780
And Fox has been under some fire recently from the right for being kind of like squishy or possibly even like pro-trans on some issues, you know?
01:51:31.400
So, I was not really surprised by it, but I was disappointed that it was.
01:51:35.120
I mean, it's like, that's like the cultural issue of our time right now.
01:51:53.000
So, we wouldn't be qualified to give you a definition of woman.
01:51:57.580
Well, your test, still not sure if you're a woman, take the test.
01:52:16.320
Have you ever decorated a bed with six or more pillows?
01:52:21.880
Can you tell the difference between cream white and rustic farmhouse white?
01:52:30.660
Have you ever, have you run into a curb in the past 24 hours?
01:52:37.660
Do you bleed, like, for an extended period of time at regular intervals?
01:52:46.320
Uh, does it take you over three hours to decide what you want to eat?
01:52:52.020
Are you currently a member of at least three pyramid schemes?
01:52:56.740
Again, this is just, this just allows us to draw general inferences, though, but because
01:53:00.560
we're not biologists, we can't say definitively.
01:53:09.640
Do you frequently describe your emotional state as fine when you're not, in fact, fine?
01:53:15.380
Is your Starbucks drink order anything other than black coffee?
01:53:25.740
So we had this problem, you know, for most of human history, we didn't have science.
01:53:32.560
And we thought that there were just men and women.
01:53:36.500
And they determined that men can get pregnant and that women can suffer testicle injuries.
01:53:40.860
And so once scientists discovered that, it opened up this huge, you know, awesome opportunity
01:53:47.480
to explore the gender spectrum and how truly infinite it is.
01:53:51.700
I was really happy that Nikki Haley multiple times pointed out that she was a woman, because
01:53:57.540
As onlookers, we wouldn't know she was the only female candidate, but she pointed it out
01:54:07.700
Well, that's a, I make that reference because I mean, this was, that, that, that's comes
01:54:15.240
You've got a situation where you've got somebody getting confirmed to the Supreme Court
01:54:24.900
And so to satirize that, you really don't have to satirize.
01:54:27.860
No, no, you don't really just have to hold it up there and say, look how absurd this
01:54:34.800
So we're not, we don't really have to go much further than the Democrats.
01:54:41.020
I tell people all the time, they think our job is easier than ever because the world is
01:54:45.620
And I say, imagine if your job is to write jokes that are funnier than what Democrats
01:54:53.640
That's why you guys keep predicting the future, right?
01:54:54.520
You keep writing these fake articles and then they come true like six months later.
01:54:59.840
There are times when I honestly look at something and laugh because I think it's you.
01:55:05.800
And then I'm like, oh dear God, no, this is real.
01:55:09.540
Well, we just, there's just that, uh, I think it was New York times op-ed about how elections
01:55:16.460
And that's another one of those ones that came true.
01:55:22.260
I mean, end of the insanity, not end of the country or anything else, but are, I mean,
01:55:26.780
there are some, for instance, comedy is coming back and it's coming roaring back.
01:55:33.120
I think, um, you're seeing things that just three, four years ago you would have never
01:55:40.540
Well, when you, in comedy you're saying, yeah, um, I, I do appreciate that there.
01:55:45.360
And I think a big part of the shift will be when comedians start taking this stuff less
01:55:50.620
This is one of the problems that we've had from my perspective, doing humor and satire
01:55:54.600
is there are so, so many of these comedians, especially the late night talk shows, stuff
01:55:58.380
like that is just propping up the popular narrative and not challenging it.
01:56:03.560
It's, it is propaganda and propaganda is not funny.
01:56:06.800
Um, but then you've still got guys like Bill Maher, for example, who I disagree with on
01:56:11.040
He did a monologue on the whole gender issue and talked about how crazy it was.
01:56:14.440
He joked about how, when he was a kid, he wanted to be a pirate.
01:56:17.140
No one scheduled him for peg leg surgery and eye removal.
01:56:21.860
And, and that, those kinds of jokes, people don't understand the power of comedy to undermine
01:56:29.360
And I, my, it's been my contention for a long time.
01:56:31.360
I've said this for a long time that the absurd has only become so popular and sacred where you
01:56:35.160
can't even criticize it because it hasn't been mocked enough.
01:56:38.280
Well, that is the one thing that dictators and authoritarian, authoritarian figures hate
01:56:46.400
Because once, once they mock you, I mean, look at, look at how popular comedy was when
01:56:54.640
And, and you had John Stewart, you had all these people mocking the right, mocking our
01:57:03.040
And then all of a sudden, all those shows went away.
01:57:05.060
Well, it's working in the other way now where they're all in support of the narrative and
01:57:12.000
And so that just allows them to maintain their power instead of undermining it.
01:57:15.260
And the comedian's primary job really, besides making you laugh, which is really rule number
01:57:22.520
Just doing it through humor and mockery and making fun of them, poking holes in the popular
01:57:27.140
So I think, I think if we, if we do that, if we start seeing comedians do that, if people
01:57:31.720
start to really wake up, especially now that kids are involved in all of this, you see
01:57:35.420
parents waking up and speaking up about these things.
01:57:37.860
If people actually get the courage to start challenging this stuff and pointing out how
01:57:48.780
Well, it all depends on if that actually happens.
01:57:51.660
If it actually happens, yeah, I think we make a lot of progress.
01:57:54.280
Otherwise we'll be the, the lone lunatics who seem like lunatics who are still saying that
01:57:59.520
Um, the, um, is your job at all kind of depressing because you're pointing these things out and
01:58:19.220
Um, but when you're writing it and then you see it come true, if you ever sit around with
01:58:25.780
everybody going, God, man, what, I mean, it is disconcerting when the jokes come true.
01:58:37.440
We have a spreadsheet where we're tracking the fulfilled prophecies and there's nearly
01:58:44.800
Wherever the course, the last, the B was started in 2016.
01:58:47.540
So we didn't have a lot of them early on, but lately it's been ramping up and they're coming
01:58:52.900
Sometimes we'll publish an article and within a matter of hours, it comes true and it's
01:59:07.500
I think I have a link to it in my, uh, in my, in my bio.
01:59:10.120
I have like the link tree and there's a link to it in there.
01:59:12.380
Someone could pull it up if they wanted to, but yeah, but yeah, we have a lot of, we track
01:59:18.280
It is some somewhat depressing that the people think that they often criticize us.
01:59:23.900
Our jokes are too close to reality and that's why people believe them.
01:59:29.600
And that's why people believe our jokes because the real headlines, you remember the headline
01:59:34.680
I think this is a great example of how shark attacks are being rebranded as negative interactions
01:59:40.200
because it's like stigmatizes the sharks as these violent creatures.
01:59:45.660
It's comedy, but that's in the, it's in the New York post.
01:59:49.160
And so like those kinds of things, it's just, you laugh or cry, Glenn.
01:59:54.260
I think you're going to, I think we're going to come back when we're past this emotionally
01:59:58.840
and we're, you know, away from it and we've hopefully, you know, rediscovered the truth.
02:00:07.400
It's just whether we destroy ourselves completely before we have to rebuild from the ground.
02:00:15.120
And when it does, people will look back at this time.
02:00:17.500
I mean, this, they will write about this period of, of history in so many different ways.
02:00:24.060
The, I think the destruction, the way the left has pulled this off is brilliant.
02:00:34.260
Dennis Prager was on Bill Maher's show a few years ago.
02:00:41.220
And he was talking about how they were starting to put tampons in the boys' restroom.
02:00:44.860
And Bill Maher and his audience thought that was hysterical.
02:00:53.400
So tell me when, when you've, who's this book targeted to me or is this, is this a book
02:01:00.100
that, because I, I really, I want to ask the people who have gone down this road where
02:01:12.640
In fact, you know, the, the clip that you're talking about, they did.
02:01:17.500
All the Democrats in the room thought it was crazy.
02:01:20.580
There's no new evidence that has been, you know, we haven't found, Hey, look at this.
02:01:27.400
You know, it's a removable penis on, you know, on old bones that we found.
02:01:35.080
Except people have just told you that you have to say these things and this is the new science.
02:01:43.240
Do, do you think people will pick this up and maybe, maybe go.
02:01:52.520
So one of our most popular articles ever was about how a motorcyclist identified as a
02:01:59.900
It got like 6 million or 8 million shares or something like that on Facebook.
02:02:02.940
And I got a stream of emails, a steady stream of emails from people, no joke, emailing me
02:02:09.560
straight face saying, I didn't really understand the men and women's sports issue.
02:02:15.060
I thought it was all about tolerance and acceptance until I read this article.
02:02:17.600
It like made it clear for me how, how crazy this is.
02:02:20.660
It really does actually have an impact on people's thinking when you draw out the absurdity of
02:02:25.200
it that way by, by putting it in a humorous context.
02:02:29.120
Can you hand this book to a liberal Democrat who's on board with all this stuff and they
02:02:35.280
I don't, I don't know that that's necessarily the case, but I'm going to leave one in, but
02:02:38.740
a reasonable person, reasonable person reading through this, I think we'll find a lot of
02:02:42.920
it funny and they'll find it funny because it's true.
02:02:45.120
And like you said, the truth, you can't, you, the truth will assert itself at some point
02:02:54.660
The name of the book is Babylon Bee Guide to Gender.
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Thank you so much for listening today and thank you to all the puppet makers.
02:04:31.640
I've got to show them online, show all of them.
02:04:34.340
I mean, does this, does that look, not look like Mike Pence and Morocco puppets?
02:04:53.660
I mean, people just, they, I mean, it's just amazing.
02:04:58.360
I couldn't believe it when I got a call yesterday afternoon and somebody went to the P.O. box
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