The Great America Show - PRIME TIME ALEX STEIN JOINS LOU TO DISCUSS HIS WAR ON THE MARXIST DEMS AND HOW HE HAS MANAGED TO MAKE THEM LOOK LIKE UTTER FOOLS EACH DAY

00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to the Great America Show.

00:00:04.560 We're celebrating the closing days of what we all hope will be a giant red wave on November 8th.

00:00:10.540 Ten days away now. Ten days till Election Day 2022.

00:00:15.820 And how big it is. Wow.

00:00:18.540 And we have good news to begin with.

00:00:20.240 The Commerce Department reporting its first estimate of GDP growth in the third quarter.

00:00:24.880 It's surprisingly strong, up 0.6%, and the shell-shock stock market loved it.

00:00:31.200 The Dow Jones Industrials up on the stronger-than-expected report on a strengthening economy.

00:00:37.480 But that report may only result in another big Federal Reserve interest rate hike

00:00:42.220 as they try to slow down high inflation. We'll see.

00:00:46.260 The markets hate uncertainty, and particularly markets that have been volatile throughout the year.

00:00:51.300 The index that tracks the 500 largest companies is down 20%.

00:00:56.740 That's what they call bear market territory on Wall Street,

00:01:00.940 and this year has been one of the worst years for investors in almost a half century.

00:01:07.420 Then there's politics, of course.

00:01:09.680 Voters in Pennsylvania, they must be ready to pull their hair out.

00:01:13.540 The Secretary of State there sent out 240,000 unverified mail-in ballots.

00:01:20.300 240,000!

00:01:22.220 But then it turns out, more 2020 drama,

00:01:25.780 then they correct that.

00:01:28.020 It turns out it's actually 250,000 unverified ballots.

00:01:32.800 Pennsylvania, does it sound just a little crooked?

00:01:35.240 What do you think?

00:01:35.960 Then, the U.S. Supreme Court had to overrule a Pennsylvania court

00:01:40.840 that had decided, despite a state law,

00:01:43.760 to permit undated mail-in ballots to be counted.

00:01:47.740 But then the acting Secretary of State in Pennsylvania said in the upcoming election,

00:01:52.920 the counties will decide what to do.

00:01:55.620 Pennsylvania looks like it's a free-for-all electorally.

00:01:59.280 Whatever you do, please vote.

00:02:01.380 Remind your family and friends, and your neighbors, whoever.

00:02:04.640 This election is the election of our lives.

00:02:08.840 The polls across the country are tightening, which is not unusual,

00:02:13.040 but voter reluctance to tell pollsters what they're really thinking is.

00:02:17.820 The Hill reporting that people are not sharing their true beliefs about politics and candidates,

00:02:23.880 avoiding hassles and arguments, I suppose.

00:02:26.640 In some cases, avoiding politics out of pure fear.

00:02:30.120 A generalized threat of physical violence and abuse constraining many voters, I'm sure.

00:02:36.380 This is, after all, Biden's America, and another sign of our times.

00:02:42.040 Vladimir Putin's threats against the West have become part of the world's uncertainty and angst

00:02:47.000 since he invaded Ukraine.

00:02:48.760 That's now more than eight months ago.

00:02:50.720 And now, Putin is declaring the Western domination of the world is over.

00:02:56.420 That a new world order is on the way and that Russia will be a big part of it. 0.93

00:03:01.180 And China, of course.

00:03:02.940 China, Russia, the most important election of our lives.

00:03:06.640 The stock market, you name it.

00:03:08.580 It's not a quiet, peaceful time.

00:03:11.060 Quite the opposite, in fact.

00:03:12.500 And so we thought it might be a good day to have a little departure, a little fun.

00:03:17.480 Maybe a few laughs.

00:03:18.740 A good day to introduce you to Alex Stein.

00:03:21.600 Alex takes his politics seriously, but he's seriously funny when he exposes politicians,

00:03:27.560 Democrat city council members, national officials.

00:03:31.060 Does his man-on-the-street interviews all across the country.

00:03:35.120 Alex Stein, comedian, political activist, provocateur, in the best way, of course.

00:03:39.800 Alex, good to have you with us here on The Great America Show.

00:03:43.400 Tell us how you got started doing things like recruiting for the Ukrainian Foreign Legion.

00:03:50.720 Well, Lou, I know we only have so much time, but I have to start off. 0.99

00:03:54.080 Like I said in the pre-interview, I have to kiss your derriere. 0.98

00:03:56.580 You're a legendary broadcaster. 0.98

00:03:58.340 I think it's an honor and a privilege to be with you today.

00:04:01.460 But like you said, let me get into me because, you know, I am a diva.

00:04:04.880 So let me get my diva. 1.00

00:04:06.060 You're giving me the spotlight.

00:04:07.180 So a little bit about the alter ego, the character, the person, primetime 99, Alex Stein.

00:04:14.460 And a lot of people want to ask, like, is that really you?

00:04:16.680 Is that a bit?

00:04:17.840 But my comedic hero, Lou, is a guy named Andy Kaufman.

00:04:21.620 I think Andy Kaufman, what he was so brilliant at doing, was mixing absurdity and making it seem real.

00:04:28.180 And so what I did, I'm really just like a hack comedian.

00:04:31.300 I'm basically mixing absurdity in a, you know, some sort of realistic package by being as crazy as possible.

00:04:41.140 But doing it in these kind of fish out of water situations in front of unexpecting people, it creates humor because of the awkwardness, because of the cringe factor, because there's also truth in it.

00:04:51.080 And so that's my comedic hero.

00:04:53.800 But how I got started, Lou, is kind of insane.

00:04:56.760 Are you ready for this?

00:04:57.620 I don't want to go on too long.

00:04:58.480 We're ready.

00:04:59.340 I don't know if you want to.

00:05:00.260 Okay.

00:05:00.560 So I worked for a TV show and I signed an NDA.

00:05:04.020 I can only say so much.

00:05:05.200 But after I graduated college in 2010, I moved to Los Angeles and I worked as an extra for my first few months in Hollywood.

00:05:12.160 Then I got a job working as a production assistant.

00:05:15.160 And then about my third year in L.A., Lou, I got casted on this big time reality show and it's called The Glass House.

00:05:21.960 And I was a 25-year-old young man at the time, very, you know, immature.

00:05:28.240 And I thought I was going to be like a superstar from the show.

00:05:31.280 The way these producers talked about it, they're like, Alex, you're going to be the star of the show.

00:05:34.840 And it's a competition type show where you live in a house and you vote each other out and they film you 24-7.

00:05:40.480 So it's kind of like a mental test almost more than anything because you have no privacy.

00:05:46.080 It's kind of a very weird, a voyeuristic show.

00:05:48.520 But my point being is they said you're going to be the star.

00:05:51.500 They told me, Alex, you need to be the villain of this show. 0.99

00:05:54.980 So I went in there and I acted like an idiot villain and I got kicked off in the first week, Lou. 0.99

00:05:59.840 And I got so disenfranchised with Hollywood. 1.00

00:06:02.560 I was like, these guys are all liars. 1.00

00:06:04.560 They're all frauds. 0.99

00:06:05.900 And then, you know, I put my tail between my legs and I moved back to Dallas, Texas.

00:06:10.480 And that's when I started working for a TV show called Cheaters, Lou.

00:06:13.820 And in that show, I was one of the producers.

00:06:16.120 We catch people cheating on their husbands and wives. 0.87

00:06:18.040 Have you ever seen that show?

00:06:19.180 It's been on for about 17 seasons.

00:06:21.480 Well, I missed all 17.

00:06:23.780 I'm sorry.

00:06:24.100 Yeah, yeah.

00:06:24.600 Okay. 0.97

00:06:24.940 No, and it's a trash TV show. 0.86

00:06:26.460 So it's distributed by Viacom, who owns VH1, CMT, and MTV. 0.97

00:06:32.260 On the show, Lou, this is why, this is one of the reasons that changed my life.

00:06:35.960 I worked on the show for a long time.

00:06:37.320 I started off as an intern in college and then I moved away.

00:06:39.780 And then when I came back to Dallas, they gave me a job.

00:06:42.420 But the host of the show is a guy named Clark Gable.

00:06:45.400 And I'm sure you're familiar with his grandfather, Clark Gable, from Gone with the Wind, right?

00:06:50.100 Absolutely.

00:06:50.420 Okay, so, Lou, this is his grandson.

00:06:53.420 His real name was Andrew, but he went by Clark because he was the host of the show, Cheaters,

00:06:57.300 and they just kind of wanted to do that gimmick, like, you know, Clark Gable gimmick.

00:07:00.460 It's such a recognizable name.

00:07:03.320 Lou, he was a wild California kid.

00:07:06.140 His grandfather was obviously a legendary guy, drank, partied, and smoked.

00:07:09.480 And, Lou, I've hung out with some very, you know, auxiliary-type people, people on the edge and stuff.

00:07:14.640 And I would say that Clark had the biggest tolerance to any party animal that I've ever seen.

00:07:19.880 And I went to LSU, which was, you know, a wild and crazy place.

00:07:22.400 But this guy had the highest tolerance for anything when I would see him use drugs and alcohol.

00:07:26.660 And I'm not, you know, proud that I hung out with him doing that.

00:07:28.940 But, you know, we're in our 20s.

00:07:29.960 We're doing wild stuff.

00:07:31.120 Well, after the 17th season, him and I now are a little older.

00:07:36.000 I'm not, you know, really kind of on the same level as Clark.

00:07:38.580 But Clark decides to go buy some street pain pills, either Oxycontin or Hydrocodone, something like that.

00:07:45.300 And it had fentanyl in it.

00:07:46.740 And he died in his sleep, Lou.

00:07:48.340 And that's why I bring up his tolerance is that this fentanyl crisis in America, to bring it to what's going on here in America, 108,000 drug overdose deaths, the most recorded United States history.

00:07:58.820 We have a fentanyl problem that is just being flooded through the border with synthetic opioids that are, you know, strong enough to kill the entire population, you know, a million times over is how much they're producing.

00:08:07.980 And it got this guy, Lou.

00:08:10.900 This wasn't some little kid.

00:08:12.000 This wasn't some little kid at their first rodeo trying to drug in college.

00:08:15.840 This was a guy that was in his, you know, I think he was 30 at the time or 31.

00:08:19.660 You know, it was a whatever you call a serious user is what I'd say.

00:08:24.700 And after that happened, I changed my life.

00:08:26.460 I quit drinking.

00:08:27.200 Not that I didn't really use drugs.

00:08:28.740 But, you know, I'd smoke some.

00:08:30.240 You know, I've done a little bit of this and that.

00:08:32.120 My point is I changed my life, Lou.

00:08:35.220 Well, good.

00:08:36.820 But what they call those people, by the way, is an addict. 0.58

00:08:40.520 They're addicted.

00:08:41.480 They know it or not.

00:08:42.860 Yo, he was a big time addict, for sure.

00:08:44.660 A functioning addict.

00:08:45.420 And that's not a good thing.

00:08:46.240 And a lot of people are, though, Lou.

00:08:47.880 You know, that's the problem is everybody's trying to medicate the pain.

00:08:50.720 You know, and I don't really think that we should make marijuana legal.

00:08:54.560 But at the same time, you know, I don't think alcohol should be able to go to every corner and buy a bottle of liquor for 10, you know, literally for a dollar.

00:09:02.440 So it's like I but I think that we should have the right to be able to drink.

00:09:05.780 And I think we should have the right to probably use marijuana, even though I know that would be bad for society.

00:09:10.200 So it's kind of weird.

00:09:11.020 It's not really what I think is right.

00:09:12.400 But I think what I'm a populist, Lou.

00:09:14.480 Everybody says good man.

00:09:16.040 Good man.

00:09:16.860 Well, people are like, oh, Alex, you're conservative.

00:09:18.640 Well, not really.

00:09:19.120 But let me finish my story because I know we have a short time.

00:09:20.880 Sorry.

00:09:21.200 And I want to talk about this because this is my origin story.

00:09:23.000 Clark dies of a drug overdose, Lou.

00:09:24.560 They say, Alex, you're going to be the next host of the show.

00:09:26.960 I get in the best shape of my life.

00:09:28.580 I get, you know, I quit drinking.

00:09:29.960 And, you know, obviously quit smoking and just show.

00:09:32.440 I mean, my life.

00:09:33.120 I mean, I am dialed in the most dialed in I ever was.

00:09:35.640 And then April of 2020, Lou, when it was time for the show to start filming, they freaking

00:09:41.400 hired a 52 year old African-American DJ out of New York, which is fine.

00:09:45.640 If I was him, I would take the job.

00:09:46.860 But instead of going with like another kind of, you know, 30 ish old white guy, they went

00:09:51.520 in a different direction because Clark and I were basically the same.

00:09:53.960 And I lost the job because of affirmative action. 0.61

00:09:56.380 And I know that because the DJ's name is Peter Guns, Lou.

00:10:00.100 And they made him change it to Peter Pankey because they didn't want to encourage gun violence.

00:10:05.940 Unbelievable.

00:10:06.660 Well, Peter Gunn, as everybody knows of a certain age, and I'm of that certain age, was a detective

00:10:11.960 series back in the, I guess it was the 60s, 70s.

00:10:16.720 It was a terrific show.

00:10:18.160 I would have thought they'd have stayed with it.

00:10:19.940 Clark Gable, Peter Gunn.

00:10:21.480 I mean, you start, you know, there starts to be a continuum there.

00:10:25.380 Well, that's fascinating.

00:10:26.880 So how did you start?

00:10:27.800 Let me finish.

00:10:28.740 But let me finish.

00:10:29.400 I got to finish.

00:10:29.940 I'm so long winded.

00:10:31.900 OK, so listen.

00:10:33.300 So I freaking, I don't get the job.

00:10:35.300 Then that's when I decide.

00:10:36.420 I decide, hey, I'm going to start my podcast.

00:10:38.400 I was really, like I said, I'm a populist, even though I obviously lean conservative.

00:10:41.960 I hate abortion, you know.

00:10:43.080 But at the same time, I do think we should have some sort of social, you know, socialized

00:10:47.080 health care.

00:10:47.460 Not that it necessarily needs to be free, but we need to put caps.

00:10:49.640 It doesn't make sense that insulin is $200 in Texas and $7 in Mexico.

00:10:53.720 So my point being is we just need a reallocation of funds for our, you know, health care.

00:10:57.960 And I do believe, you know, Medicare and Medicaid, you know, we should help out senior citizens

00:11:01.900 for sure with social services.

00:11:03.320 So, you know, that's not necessarily, you know, and I saw, I used to sell cars, Lou, and I

00:11:08.760 used to like, listen, there's a lot of dealers.

00:11:10.760 Of course, I can screw a lot of people.

00:11:11.940 But when you sell a person a car, I have to sell it as is, no warranty, or I have to

00:11:16.760 give them a complete inspection with the opportunity to get a warranty so they know what they're

00:11:21.360 getting into, like, and they're protected by law.

00:11:23.520 If I don't get that piece of paper, they can return the car.

00:11:25.220 So listen, I don't like big government in my stuff. 1.00

00:11:27.380 Government's idiot. 1.00

00:11:28.240 They're dysfunctional. 1.00

00:11:29.240 But I kind of like that, that they, you know, they're trying to help the customer.

00:11:31.800 Like, if the people running the government weren't so incompetent, I also have a

00:11:36.700 libertarian mindset, but we got to have rules, Lou, you know that we are.

00:11:40.120 But I just kind of want less rules that subjugate the American citizens, like all this climate

00:11:45.040 change and just letting people, you know, migrate here and becoming a welfare state.

00:11:50.120 So that's why now, because of the Overton window, I'm an all-right conservative, according

00:11:54.680 to the left-wing media.

00:11:56.240 Well, as an all-right conservative, libertarian, and populist, I think you have triangulated a

00:12:04.140 position that is rich in potential for you and for America.

00:12:09.020 I mean, we're looking at less than three weeks to the elections, and we're watching the Republicans

00:12:14.540 just roll them up.

00:12:16.640 It looks like in the polls, they're going to just, it's a tsunami.

00:12:19.120 It's not a wave.

00:12:20.580 It could be an earthquake.

00:12:21.720 Who knows?

00:12:22.640 But it looks like they're going to take the Senate and the House, and guess what?

00:12:25.940 Then all we'll have to deal with is an impaired puppet Marxist-dim president and the cabal that 0.94

00:12:32.240 are his masters. 0.74

00:12:34.120 Don't you feel better already?

00:12:35.980 Well, I know.

00:12:36.880 You know, you've got to watch that clip.

00:12:38.580 You know, I'm a conspiracy theorist, proud tinfoil hat wearing, and this is what I'm saying

00:12:42.360 is, you know, Barack Obama is probably still calling the shots.

00:12:44.940 I mean, Joe Biden can take out his lunch.

00:12:47.300 But this is what I'm worried about, Lou.

00:12:48.540 I think you're exactly right.

00:12:49.540 I think there will be a red wave.

00:12:50.900 But at the same time, just because you get in office that day, you can't get your legislation

00:12:55.520 and stuff passed.

00:12:56.180 It takes, you know, a year, six months minimum, maybe, before you even get something going.

00:12:59.720 But now the Biden administration has had two years to basically put America, make sure

00:13:05.780 the hole in Titanic is big enough so we sink fast enough, with the House, with the Congress,

00:13:10.760 you know, with all the leverage in our favor, it will still all the, you know, misdoings that

00:13:17.620 they had is going to land.

00:13:19.000 And it's going to look like, oh, hey, well, when the Republicans took over, inflation skyrocketed.

00:13:22.720 But that was all because of the left.

00:13:24.840 I think that's the next psychological operation or the trick that they're going to put, just

00:13:28.780 like this Ukraine war.

00:13:30.520 It's tough to tell because you've got a guy, a rhino like Kevin McCarthy coming in. 0.55

00:13:37.580 And all I can think of, he wants to be Speaker of the House.

00:13:40.080 He wants all this power.

00:13:41.060 He's the guy who really is more Democrat than he is Republican.

00:13:45.080 And riding that big red wave is going to be surfer boy McCarthy.

00:13:49.540 He's just going to come in for a hard landing on that beach.

00:13:53.160 And they're going to call it good and not get anything done.

00:13:56.300 That worries me a lot.

00:13:57.720 How about you?

00:13:59.060 Well, 100 percent.

00:14:00.020 I mean, come on, Lou.

00:14:00.800 I don't know how much we can say without getting kicked off the Internet.

00:14:03.220 But I mean, all these guys that just let Joe Biden get 81 million votes.

00:14:06.960 Give me a break.

00:14:07.680 I mean, we live in a world now where they can just look at us in the face and lying.

00:14:11.560 You said earlier about a rhino, Dan Crenshaw.

00:14:13.400 I mean, Dan Crenshaw, I respect every single veteran woman and man in a military uniform with all my heart.

00:14:19.280 I have the utmost respect.

00:14:20.540 But I think our government needs to do more to help out veterans.

00:14:23.540 I think our government needs to do more to be a conflict interventionist and stop putting people in the line of fire.

00:14:29.520 As human beings, I think that we should be able to rise to a level of understanding where we could come to some sort of agreement.

00:14:36.380 But guys like Dan Crenshaw, who's just bought and sold by Halliburton, by Raytheon, I mean, that's the problem is that, Lou, we don't have human beings running the country.

00:14:46.640 We basically have multinational corporations.

00:14:48.780 We live in a corporatocracy where these guys can buy politicians.

00:14:52.180 Maybe at one point Dan Crenshaw had the best interest, and he was, you know, even though he was never really a MAGA-type guy.

00:14:57.400 But, you know, maybe at one point he did have the best interest.

00:14:59.560 But now a guy who lost his eye, one of the biggest sacrifices you could do, is still encouraging sending young men over to fight wars for bankers, for lines in the sand that don't really affect you and I.

00:15:12.120 So for me, after a 20-year war in the Middle East for weapons of mass destruction, I'm 100 percent against all war.

00:15:18.680 And Dan Crenshaw, a guy that should be way more invested because he lost more than I, still wants to go to war.

00:15:24.300 That's a big red flag, Lou.

00:15:25.780 It is a red flag.

00:15:27.540 It is a sad thing that we have veterans who are almost reflexively supporting the military-industrial complex,

00:15:35.760 about which Dwight David Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, warned us about 60 years ago, for crying out loud.

00:15:41.400 And meanwhile, Joe Biden is shipping the 82nd Airborne into the eastern flank of Eastern Europe and doing his best, it seems to me, at various times of trying to start a war with Russia instead of concluding.

00:15:57.340 Point of fact, that no one in the Biden administration, to my knowledge, has even raised the issue of negotiating a peace with Vladimir Putin and resolving this thing.

00:16:08.540 And instead, you know, Vladimir Zelensky keeps running his mouth off and inviting more missile attacks, and his people are suffering.

00:16:17.340 And the United States is paying for the whole sorry, tragic spectacle.

00:16:21.900 Lou, at the beginning of this whole gimmick war, I believe that there was on the table, all they had to do was say the Donbass region was autonomous.

00:16:30.660 I guess people could say they're Ukrainian or Russian.

00:16:32.580 And that the Ukraine wouldn't join NATO.

00:16:36.080 Ukraine's the poorest country in Eastern Europe.

00:16:38.360 It's not even really a country.

00:16:39.720 I mean, it's barely a country.

00:16:40.920 And we're going over there sending $100 billion.

00:16:44.320 We're going to force, we're going to twist Vladimir Putin's arm into using some sort of nuclear weapon in order to start some sort of World War III.

00:16:51.640 And you were exactly right.

00:16:53.020 Joe Biden, if he was calling the shots, they're doing this on purpose.

00:16:56.740 They have to keep us in constant war, Lou.

00:16:58.400 And, you know, like I said earlier, I'm a conspiracy theorist, but there's no conspiracy here.

00:17:02.600 It makes no sense. 0.51

00:17:03.760 They cannot come to an agreement for lines in the sand between Russia and Ukraine when the Texas and Mexico border is being flooded every day with children that are being used as sexual objects. 0.89

00:17:14.620 There's a thing called rape trees where they find condoms. 1.00

00:17:17.180 They find discarded minstrel items.

00:17:20.660 You know, all kinds of the most – some of the worst stuff in the world is happening a few hundred miles from my doorstep.

00:17:27.320 Yeah, they're going to send $100 million to the Ukraine.

00:17:30.760 Give me a break.

00:17:32.220 Yeah, well, give America a break. 0.99

00:17:34.240 But Joe Biden isn't here to give us a break.

00:17:36.420 He is here to break America.

00:17:38.580 There is no question about it.

00:17:40.100 I want to give everybody a sample of Alex Stein at work at his most brilliant, as usual.

00:17:48.400 Alex, let's listen to you talking to the Richardson, Texas City Council.

00:17:55.960 Roll it, if you will, please.

00:17:58.780 All right, guys.

00:17:59.900 So here, my name is Marcus Matthews.

00:18:03.040 I'm a sergeant in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, and I'm here today to recruit some of you to go fight in the war in World War III.

00:18:11.940 Now, I know that sounds crazy, but what's happening right now is an absolute nightmare.

00:18:17.580 And I ask, if even just one of you, if even just one of you were to consider joining, it could change the whole landscape of the war.

00:18:26.680 You guys don't realize the power that you have as a council member.

00:18:31.240 If one member decides to stand up and do what is right and fight for this man right here, Vladimir Zelensky, you can make the difference, officer.

00:18:46.980 You can make the difference, lady on a laptop. 0.99

00:18:49.720 Life is short.

00:18:51.520 Do you want to die a nobody or do you want to die a hero?

00:18:55.160 I can tell you look like you're vibing with it.

00:18:57.080 Are you interested in signing up for the American Foreign Legion and going and fighting in the Ukraine today as an American representative?

00:19:02.840 And if you are, I have the sheet right here.

00:19:05.540 You sign this sheet, your name, your Social Security number, your maiden, your mother's maiden name, and your credit card number.

00:19:14.840 There is a small deposit to make sure that we can reserve your spot on this flight.

00:19:20.500 Alex, that's terrific stuff.

00:19:21.880 And, by the way, I imagine you were just about trampled with volunteers rushing to sign on the dotted line and turn over their credit card numbers, do you?

00:19:30.660 Well, Lou, 100% they were shaking in their boots.

00:19:33.220 But it's funny that you picked that video because I have to name drop because, you know, now I'm a young man coming on the scene.

00:19:38.100 But my biological father is a guy named Tucker Carlson.

00:19:41.200 And that video that you just played, Tucker Carlson, no, he texted me when he saw that video and invited me on his show because he said that was one of the funniest videos he'd ever seen.

00:19:49.740 And he loved it so much because of that video and because I went on Tucker Carlson.

00:19:53.080 That changed my life, Lou.

00:19:54.300 That had a clip.

00:19:55.880 No, and so I'm saying all because of that video and Ukraine.

00:19:58.960 So it's funny that you picked that.

00:20:00.360 It's kind of full circle.

00:20:01.420 And I talked to you and you just, you know, organically picked that.

00:20:04.320 It's a surreal moment that I'm sitting here and getting to talk to you.

00:20:06.900 It really is, Lou, for going and acting like an absurd person.

00:20:09.340 But we live in absurd times.

00:20:10.600 And I think we almost have to kind of put a mirror to it and sort of kind of laugh about it and bring about some humor instead of constant trauma and despair.

00:20:19.440 One of my favorite expressions is there is no choice left to anyone who crosses the penumbra of the absurd.

00:20:29.240 There is no choice but to laugh.

00:20:31.660 And I think you're the embodiment of that saying.

00:20:34.780 And what you do is terrific because you make your points, your political points, and you also reach to the human nature and to the soul, make us laugh, and also make us think.

00:20:49.800 That's a pretty good combination, Alex.

00:20:52.280 I want to just get a few thoughts from you, though, on what you do next.

00:20:57.700 Can you give us a sense of what you're working on?

00:21:00.820 Yeah, well, I have a big thing.

00:21:02.360 It's been kind of a viral story.

00:21:04.360 You know, a bunch of outlets, CNN, a bunch of, you know, whatever left-wing media has called out that I'm speaking at an event at Penn State on October 25th.

00:21:13.820 So, you know, very soon in five days.

00:21:15.880 And they're protesting at hardcore.

00:21:17.560 No, they've really – but, see, Gavin McInnes is on the lineup as well.

00:21:21.420 So it's him and I.

00:21:22.580 And, you know, it's kind of a speech and like a Q&A, an open dialogue, and some of the students get to do a meet and greet.

00:21:29.600 But now there's three different organizations that are holding counter events.

00:21:32.560 So that basically just means an organization of protesters.

00:21:35.280 So I think it's going to be really interesting, and I've never been to Happy Valley.

00:21:39.400 And, you know, I've kind of had this – I don't – for lack of a better word, kind of a meteoric rise in the last year.

00:21:44.900 So I go publicly speak, but this is my – this is the biggest college event, the most hoopla of any – one of my public speaking engagements that I've ever had.

00:21:54.340 So it is kind of a big deal, and it's kind of a nervous anxiety, excited about it.

00:21:58.680 But, you know, you know how it is.

00:21:59.980 It's like I don't know what to expect.

00:22:02.420 Well, you know, that's great.

00:22:03.880 And I know that you'll be terrific in whatever you do there in Happy Valley.

00:22:10.100 I don't know if it'll be still called Happy Valley after the protesters and the demonstrators get through.

00:22:17.520 But the fact that the university is not trying to crush you and stifle free speech and expression, and particularly you who are 180 degrees away from the conventional left-wing narrative that is commonplace in the indoctrination palaces we call universities.

00:22:39.300 Your thoughts on that?

00:22:40.260 Well, 100 percent, and they've had to come out and make a statement and saying that they are going to let it happen and that, you know, they're upholding the Constitution.

00:22:47.920 And it just stinks that, you know – it's funny, though, Lou, I go viral for going and Culture Jam is speaking at these meetings.

00:22:54.100 But it's funny.

00:22:54.720 These meetings are one of the last few places where you actually have freedom of speech.

00:22:59.120 I mean online you don't on Twitter.

00:23:00.820 You don't on YouTube.

00:23:01.940 You don't – I mean literally very few places can even speak freely.

00:23:05.320 So I don't know.

00:23:06.160 It's just – it's kind of scary the world we live in and how there's very few people that even uphold the Constitution.

00:23:12.500 So the fact that the university is doing it, I applaud them, and that's why I think the experience will be incredible.

00:23:19.940 I mean I just think it's going to be very – you know, people love conflict.

00:23:25.520 People love drama.

00:23:26.620 And for me, Lou, as a content creator, these people, these protesters, and I hate to say it and I say this out loud and I say this in interviews, I'm so excited.

00:23:34.180 I want a million protesters there because it only makes me seem more interesting and relevant.

00:23:38.560 So it's funny how it really has a counterproductive mechanism when they protest.

00:23:43.780 It has a Streisand effect.

00:23:44.820 By them coming out, it just makes me seem like I'm much more popular and controversial than I really am, which I appreciate.

00:23:50.320 And the fact is all of those demonstrators and protesters are really just unpaid extras in Alex Stein's movie for the folks at Happy Valley.

00:24:00.180 I do want to congratulate Penn State for having the guts and the principle to stand for free speech, and I really do.

00:24:08.480 I applaud them, and I applaud you for both your talent and your courage, and we wish you nothing but the best.

00:24:14.940 Alex, we always give our guests the last word here, and so I'm going to ask you for your concluding thoughts as we wrap up.

00:24:21.960 My last word, you had to give me one of your last words.

00:24:24.960 I just want to ask you, I think the new digital media era, all of these cable companies are going to die.

00:24:30.960 I know as you guys, you on broadcast television for a long time, don't you personally think it's a sinking ship when you saw CNN Plus fold so fast?

00:24:39.560 I really think people in the future are going to get their media a la carte, and almost like a podcast, you'll be able to get it video,

00:24:44.960 video, and it'll be just, you know, basically, there'll be some sort of universal future Napster, some sort of app where we can content share.

00:24:52.500 So I don't think these dinosaur media companies are going to live.

00:24:55.880 Personally, I'd like to get your opinion on that, and the last word I'd like to get people out there to say is,

00:25:00.440 listen, guys, my favorite thing that people tell me, it's not the, oh, you've got hundreds of thousands of followers or whatever.

00:25:07.460 That's, you know, everybody likes the likes and clicks, but I love when people come up to me, Lou, and they say, Alex, you know what?

00:25:14.120 Because of your goofball antics, I went and I spoke at my school board meeting.

00:25:17.960 I went and I spoke at my city council meeting.

00:25:20.060 I went and I spoke at my HOA meeting, whatever it might be, because that's what I want to do is I want to encourage people,

00:25:25.240 and I'm not virtue signaling, but I want to encourage people, even people that don't have the same viewpoints as me,

00:25:29.660 to go speak up for themselves.

00:25:31.460 Because with my content, Lou, I don't even want to encourage people to actually have the same viewpoint as me.

00:25:36.060 All I want to encourage people to do is to ask questions, because the government, the people, the media companies,

00:25:42.140 they can only lie so much if it just takes, like, one millimeter of research to realize that the world we live in is full of lies,

00:25:48.660 from basically, you know, the top all the way down to the bottom.

00:25:51.160 So with my content, I just want people to look into it, ask questions, and think, is this real?

00:25:57.600 Is this fake?

00:25:58.380 Like, is this where we're going?

00:25:59.760 And if I can do that, then I did my job or I achieved my goal.

00:26:03.940 Well, I think it's a wonderful aspiration and philosophy and perspective.

00:26:10.800 And I agree with you across the board with one exception.

00:26:14.640 And I'm really, as you know, I'm anti-government.

00:26:18.140 I just cannot stand the idea of what we've allowed government to do and to encroach.

00:26:22.720 But I do think there is an important role for government.

00:26:25.620 And it goes to what you raised, and that's podcasting.

00:26:27.940 I don't believe that government should go another day without a law against anyone else entering podcasting,

00:26:35.140 because I kind of like it where we are right now.

00:26:37.840 I don't mean to limit competition or better ideas and better presentation.

00:26:42.300 But, you know, there is a role for government, and I think I just found it.

00:26:46.300 And I know one thing.

00:26:47.280 There's a great role for Alex Stein.

00:26:48.860 Alex Stein, please watch him.

00:26:50.340 Please follow him on Twitter.

00:26:52.640 And that handle is?

00:26:54.440 Alex Stein 99.

00:26:56.240 And, Lou, man, it is such a privilege and an honor.

00:26:59.040 And I say this now.

00:27:00.940 It's funny how, as a person that goes on shows, it's crazy.

00:27:04.200 You go on a show with a man for 30 minutes.

00:27:06.340 Now I feel like I've known you forever, Lou.

00:27:08.040 Isn't it funny how this digital way, I mean, we're not even together.

00:27:11.060 It's obviously, you know, a connection together is more powerful.

00:27:14.020 But it's just crazy.

00:27:15.080 And I would have never thought about that.

00:27:16.580 I didn't realize that when you get into broadcasting, when you do these interviews,

00:27:19.540 you almost know the interviewer after the interviewer.

00:27:23.260 It's kind of interesting.

00:27:24.780 I make a lot of new friends is what I got to say.

00:27:26.780 And I'm going to consider you, Lou, as a new friend.

00:27:29.780 Great.

00:27:30.000 And I appreciate that.

00:27:31.160 And I'm grateful and vice versa.

00:27:33.980 Thanks so much, Alex.

00:27:34.840 And I think the audience has a new friend as well to follow in every way.

00:27:39.160 Alex Stein, thanks for being with us.

00:27:41.300 We appreciate it.

00:27:42.140 God bless you.

00:27:43.200 Thank you, Lou.

00:27:45.240 Thanks to Alex Stein.

00:27:46.580 I'm a comedian, provocateur, and great American.

00:27:49.360 A reminder, you can follow me on Truth Social at Lou Dobbs and on Twitter at Lou Dobbs.

00:27:55.720 Thanks, everybody, for listening in.

00:27:57.660 And here tomorrow on The Great America Show, our guest will be Adam Laxall, running for the

00:28:02.660 U.S. Senate in one of the most important battleground states, Nevada.

00:28:07.040 That's here tomorrow.

00:28:08.020 Please join us.

00:28:09.260 Till then, God bless you.

00:28:11.160 And may God bless America.

00:28:12.940 Listen to you.

00:28:13.400 Time.

00:28:14.020 So, let's do it.

00:28:16.620 I love you.

00:28:17.340 I love you.

00:28:17.980 I love you.

00:28:18.020 Okay.

00:28:18.780 That's what I love.

00:28:21.920 It's okay.

The Great America Show - October 28, 2022

PRIME TIME ALEX STEIN JOINS LOU TO DISCUSS HIS WAR ON THE MARXIST DEMS AND HOW HE HAS MANAGED TO MAKE THEM LOOK LIKE UTTER FOOLS EACH DAY

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