Tech CEOs on Hot Seat, Biden's Lies, and "Sociopath" Gavin Newsom, with Newt Gingrich and Adam Carolla | Ep. 715
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As the nation prepares to elect a new president, the polling shows some very good news for former President Trump in key swing states, but some bad news for him when it comes to the latest national poll. And then there s that wild, oh, did you watch any of this?
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Happy February. We made it.
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January is so long, isn't it? My gosh. This is the year in what my next guest is calling the
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longest general election campaign in history. We are well on our way, one month down. And it sure
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does feel that way. As the nation prepares to elect a new president, the polling shows some very good
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news for former President Trump in key swing states, but some bad news for him when it comes to
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the latest national poll. We'll get into it. And then there's that wild, oh, did you watch any of
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this? The big tech hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday? I found this thing fascinating. It's, you know,
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usually I'll see the highlights and I'll follow the news reporting and my team will watch it and
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sort of give me the highlights. This morning, that's what I did. I watched the whole hearing.
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It was three hours. You can find it on YouTube. It was very interesting. And it was one of the only
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times I've seen in recent history where you heard exactly the same messaging from the Dems and the
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Republicans. It was these tech executives on their heels as several tried to lie about the damage that
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their products are causing, in particular to young people and young girls in this country. In most
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notably, met as Mark Zuckerberg. It was a crazy exchange with Senator Josh Hawley, who shamed him
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into standing up and apologizing to the families who had come to Capitol Hill holding up pictures of
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their dead or damaged children. And he actually did it, stood up and turned around to them and offered
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an apology. There's a lot to go over. We're going to talk about it first with former Speaker of the
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House, Newt Gingrich, author of March to the Majority. Mr. Speaker, welcome back to the show.
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Great to have you. Well, it's always fun to be with you. And you're right. There are a lot of
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things going on. Right. OK, so let's just start there, because I really was very interested in
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this. What happened on Capitol Hill? I know you know better than anybody. It's not that common these
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days to see Republicans and Democrats united on anything. But they were united in their anger
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against the social media companies, in particular how they've just done almost nothing to protect
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young people from the hazards of their products. And there are things that can be done. No,
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they can't eliminate all harm. But there are things that can be done. And it's culminated in
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this exchange between Senator Josh Hawley and Mark Zuckerberg, who continued to deny. Zuckerberg
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continued to deny that his products cause any harm. I'll just set it up before I play the
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soundbite. This is what he said. Mental health is a complex issue. And the existing body of
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scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having more
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mental health outcomes. That's just not true. That that is not true. Meta's own internal studies,
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we know, have proven time and time again. Wall Street Journal analysis of the Meta study showed
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Meta's own researchers, quote, repeatedly found that Instagram in particular, which is owned by
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Meta, they own Facebook and Instagram, quote, is harmful for a sizable percentage of young users,
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most notably teenage girls, but did nothing about it. People inside Meta have been jumping up and down
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trying to tell Zuckerberg, we do need to do something about this. And he's opted not to because
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money, because he can make more money if he doesn't. So all of this leads to this exchange
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with Hawley, where Zuckerberg, for the listening audience, does stand up. You can't hear the
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beginning of the apology because he's off mic, but you'll get the flavor. Watch.
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Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. There's families of victims here today. Have you apologized
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to the victims? Would you like to do so now? Well, they're here. You're on national television.
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Would you like now to apologize to the victims who have been harmed by your product? Show them the
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pictures. Would you like to apologize for what you've done to these good people?
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I suffered, and this is why we invested so much, and are going to continue doing these
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streaming efforts to make sure that no one has to go through the types of things that
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your families have to suffer. Will you take personal responsibility?
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Senator, I think I've already answered this. I mean, this is-
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Well, try this again. Will you take personal responsibility?
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Senator, I view my job and the job of our company as building the best tools that we
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Well, you're failing at that. You're a billionaire. Will you commit to compensating the victims?
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Will you set up a compensation fund with your money?
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Your job is to be responsible for what your company has done.
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Well, I was really reminded of the early days of the tobacco hearings, when the evidence
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was overwhelming that tobacco caused heart disease, caused cancer, and you would have
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these same kind of executives defending the profit margin of their companies and getting
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up and saying things that were just patently false. The evidence is overwhelming that particularly
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for young girls, that the social media that people like Zuckerberg are so proud of is extraordinarily
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dangerous, has increased the level of depression, has increased the level of suicide, and that
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these companies have done nothing to reduce that kind of risk.
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And I don't know whether it's out of profit motive, because he's already extraordinarily rich, or whether
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it's just out of arrogance. But it's clear that Congress will have a hard time finding a positive
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way to intervene as opposed to holding hearings. But I do think the pressure is going to build
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to find mechanisms that protect young people and that recognize that these instruments can be good,
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That's the problem. And I mean, I'll tell you something. I don't allow my kids on social media,
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period. Doug and I have made a really clear, hard decision that they're just not going to do it,
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not while they're in our house, not at 12, not at 14. No. And it's so frustrating to me because I
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look around at so many other parents that I know who talk about how their kids are dealing with severe
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anxiety, girls in particular, stress, depression. And yet they continue to allow them on social media
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and to spend hours a day scrolling it. It's like they're just not paying attention. The news is
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ubiquitous about the link between these apps and depression in particular amongst girls. So it needs
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to be a joint effort by the tech companies and the parents. We can't forget their role in it.
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Look, these Internet institutions are at least as dangerous as drinking. And we've been pretty clear
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as a country about trying to establish a baseline for when we think you're mature enough. I think we
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need the same conversation. I think that there are aspects of things like Instagram that we clearly
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have to appreciate should not be there for people who are 13, 14, 15 years of age. And I think that
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ideally that'll be done voluntarily. But if it's not at some point, you're going to have to have
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Congress impose rules of the road, just as we've imposed rules of the road for tobacco and for
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alcohol. So what would the thing that the legislators were pushing yesterday was to get rid of 230,
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which section 230, which provides immunity to these social media companies saying, you're really just
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platforms. You can't be held liable for damage that happens as a result of posts on your platforms.
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And, you know, I've heard a lot of even conservatives say, that's not the answer. You know,
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more lawsuits. That's not the answer. And how can you really hold a platform liable for, let's say,
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a defamatory comment somebody makes in the comments section of a post on the Federalist or the Daily Wire,
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for example. This to me seems like something different. Why, why can't these parents who sat
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in that audience holding up pictures of their dead children who died just to give the audience a
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flavor for, because they ordered, there was a testimony. One, one kid didn't feel well and ordered
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a pill off the internet, just a stupid thing to do, but he did it. It was late lace with fentanyl.
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He died. Many of the parents had children who were lured into this, they call it sextortion,
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where a foreign bad actor poses as a sexy young girl, for example, and says, hey,
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here's a naked picture of me. Now you send me one of you. And he does it. And then they reveal
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themselves as bad guys who now have a picture of this boy naked, and they're going to post it
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everywhere unless he gives them money. And in a shocking amount of instances, these boys wind up
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killing themselves rather than face the embarrassment of this. I listened to a woman testify at an event
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I went to two summers ago, um, where she talked about how her child, her son was on, she went upstairs.
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It's terrible. And found him hanging. He had hanged himself because he was being bullied by kids on
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Snapchat who had found a way into a backdoor that you can easily use with third-party software into
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Snapchat. You're no one other than your friends are supposed to be able to access you, but they had,
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and they bullied this kid literally to death. These are just a couple of the problems with the social
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media. And some of that really can be stopped like the backdoor on Snapchat and a greater crackdown
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on these sextortion schemes, which are prevalent, not to mention the sale of pills. So they're not
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doing any of it. I don't know if it's two 30 is going to take care of it, but the immunity that
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these companies have is troubling. You know, it seems like an antiquated provision for modern day
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problems. Well, it is. Look, when, when I was in the Congress, uh, two decades, two decades ago,
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we did things specifically to encourage the growth of the internet because at the time it was a brand new
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technology. We thought it was important for America to take the lead. And so we took steps.
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Well, now these are gigantic worldwide companies. Their owners are enormously rich.
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They have to be held to a different standard. And we've learned some things. I think all of us have
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been surprised how susceptible young people are, uh, to psychologically being beaten up and harassed
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on social media to a degree that they become depressed. And as you point out in a number of
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cases, they commit suicide. There ought to be some accountability, uh, some ability to hold the company
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liable at a minimum, some ability for parents to intervene and have easy access to somebody in the
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company to cut their child off or to track down and hold liable the people who have been doing this.
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I mean, if the people who are doing the bullying suddenly were held liable and you were able to
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sue them for the bullying, you would stop a great deal of negative behavior on the internet.
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One of the things that the social media companies were saying was, you know, we're,
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Oh, we'll make it, um, a blocking app more available to the parents or blocking mechanism.
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And I have to give credit to Amy Klobuchar, uh, Democrat, former presidential com, uh, candidate who
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got out there and said, be realistic. These parents, they can't navigate these apps better
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than the children. And there are so many, if you're going to let your kid do social media,
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whether it's Snapchat, Tik TOK, Facebook, Insta, all these things, you've got a different mechanism
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for each one. Parents are busy. They care about their children, but they have to work. They have to
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take them to school. They have to maintain their own lives to try to figure out, you know, the five
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different apps and what the parental mechanisms are. There needs to be some uniform protection.
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Like I hate to put it all on like our government saviors to regulate these companies into doing the
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right thing. But like, just to kick it all back to the parents and say, you guys figure it out
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yourselves app by app is not realistic and it's not working. So what are your thoughts as a Republican
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on, you know, big government actively getting involved here to say, sorry, social media companies,
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you are going to have to do something to make it easier. Well, you know, normally I am for less
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government and more freedom and more of a free market, but I'm always reminded of President
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Theodore Roosevelt reading Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, which was about the stockyards in
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Chicago. And there was a scene in the jungle where a man working in the stockyard fell into a vat
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and ended up being turned into sausage. Well, Roosevelt was apparently reading that scene
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as he ate his eggs and sausage that morning. And by that afternoon, he had sent up the food and drug
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administration bill because he realized that there are modern nationwide manufacturing systems,
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you have to establish certain standards. You know, I want to know if I go to a McDonald's or a Wendy's
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that the food is safe. I want to know that if I go anywhere and take a drink that the water is safe.
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Now, is that government? Yes. But it's a public health issue. Well, now we have mental health issues
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that are fully as important. I mean, if you're going to lose your child, whether it's to a drunk driver,
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or to smoking too much and getting cancer, or to being psychologically destroyed on the internet,
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in each case, you've lost your child. And I do think it's legitimate for the government
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to intervene literally as a public health issue and try to better understand, both with drugs and with
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just plain mental illness, what we're doing to ourselves and what we have to do to stop it.
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Hmm. I'll tell you something interesting. Um, I watched that clip. I actually watched it with
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my children, all three of my children and Mark Zuckerberg standing up and apologizing.
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And, um, I, I said to them, what did you, what did you think of it? And I have to admit,
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I am a sucker for an apology. I, I am. Um, and all three of my kids who are 10, 12 and 14 were a hard
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no on the apology. All three of them said he just did that because that one guy made him do it.
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It wasn't sincere. He wouldn't have done it. And I, I was thinking just as a person who's in the,
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in the news biz, um, I Mark Zuckerberg's PR people must've been mortified that he did it.
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They must've thought it's the one thing we forgot to go over, right? Because a better way of handling
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it would have been God forbid. And from now on, everybody's going to begin beginning going to be
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given the Zuckerberg role. Like if they ask you to do that, you say, I'm not going to make this into a
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dramatic moment. This moment is about you getting answers for me and I'm happy to provide them,
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but I'd be glad to meet with any families who want to meet with me at the appropriate time
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and hear their stories and see what we can do to help them. That's the right answer.
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He kind of embarrassed himself by doing it. I don't know. What did you think? It was
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pretty extraordinary to see Mark Zuckerberg do it. No, I thought he was in a position where,
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uh, the Senator was clearly going to keep me, was going to humiliate him. I mean,
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he would have kept going after him unless he did it. Uh, and it would make him look very in like,
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like he was, he lacked heart. He had no sense of sincerity, but I also think that it was baloney.
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I don't think Zuckerberg meant it. Uh, I think he went out, got back in his private plane,
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flew back to his extraordinary state in California and continued to get money, uh, out of teenagers,
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uh, without any particular sense of shame or of, of fixing things. Again, I think that it would have
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been good to come back and say, all right, if you meant that, in what ways are you going to change
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your company? In what ways are you going to do something different? I think that would have been
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a very good followup from Holly, uh, after the, after the, uh, apology.
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One of the problems with all these social manual, and we've been beat, we're beating up on Zuckerberg,
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but it's, it's across all these platforms is the weird sexual provocations that are fed to young
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children and open the door to pedophiles who are all over the internet trying to get access to your
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kids. I was glad to see they had the one, um, the one CEO there, forgive me. I can't remember his name,
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but he's from one of the platforms, um, discord, uh, which is a gaming platform. I have a very good
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friend whose young son was on one of these games and got approached by a pervert, like a
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young kid who he didn't, he just started like talking dirty to him in the chat. And my friend
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didn't even know that there was a chat, you know, it was like, again, back to the parents,
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not totally understanding every nature of these games. Um, but Ted Cruz tried to zero in on this
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problem. This, these media platforms being exploited by pedophiles and the like nonsensical approach
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by, I mean, Zuckerberg's a parent though. He's a parent who's admitted he doesn't let his kids sit
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there online doing social media. It makes them play outside, but listen to this exchange with Ted Cruz.
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Instagram also displayed the following warning screen to individuals who were searching for
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child abuse material. These results may contain images of child sexual abuse. And then you gave users
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two choices, get resources or see results anyway. Mr. Zuckerberg, what the hell were you thinking?
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All right, Senator. Um, the, the, the basic science behind that is that when people are searching for
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something that is problematic, it's often helpful to rather than just blocking it to help direct them
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towards something that, um, that could be helpful for getting them to get help.
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In what I understand, get resources in what sane universe, is there a link for see results anyway?
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Well, because we might be wrong. How many times was this warning screen displayed?
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I don't know, but the, but the, you don't know. Why don't you know?
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I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head, but you know what, Mr. Zuckerberg,
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it's interesting. You say you don't know it off the top of your head because I asked it
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it in June of 2023 in an oversight letter and your company refused to answer. Will you commit right
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now to within five days answering this question for this committee? We'll follow up on that.
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Is that a yes? Not a we'll follow up. I know how lawyers write statements saying we're not going to
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answer. Will you tell us how many times this warning screen was displayed? Yes or no?
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Senator, I'll personally look into it. I'm not sure if we have.
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OK, so you're refusing to answer that. Newt, it's cathartic to see that kind of thing, isn't it?
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So often we watch these congressional hearings and it's just so frustrating. Nothing gets done.
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They don't get their points across. It's cathartic to watch something like that.
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First of all, I mean, child pornography is illegal. We routinely arrest child
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pornographers. And I think that this is a similar thing. I think that grooming and pedophilia are
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illegal acts. And one of the things that should be happening is the government at different levels
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should be routinely scanning. And there you have an individual who is accountable,
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the person who is putting this stuff on the Internet. And that person should be at risk of
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going to jail. But there's no question. When my wife Callista was the ambassador of the Vatican,
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one of her three major concerns was this kind of preying upon women and the exploitation of women and
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children. And it is a worldwide problem. I mean, something has happened. And we now have
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organized efforts on a huge scale to exploit women and children and to make huge amounts of money out
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of doing it. And I think that we have to be much more aggressive and tough minded so that people don't
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even get on the Internet trying to do this stuff because you do leave a trail. And we should be able
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to track these people down and we should be able to hold them accountable and prosecute them.
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Hmm. Instead, we're letting them click on a little box to see explicit images, apparently, of young
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children, which is illegal on every level. And he says we might be wrong. I mean, what's coming up?
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What about the times you're right? How often are you right? What do you do then? Like that's
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I'd love to know the answers to all those questions. By the way, while people like the like the guy just
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mentioned, the CEO of the gaming company, Discord, got up there and said, oh, we're so happy to be here to
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talk about this issue. Only a couple of them showed up voluntarily. Most of them had to be subpoenaed.
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They didn't they didn't want to go. They got dragged in there kicking and screaming. So good on the Senate
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for doing it. And I hope something comes of it. All right. Let's talk about what's happening with
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Mayorkas and illegal immigration right now. It looks like the House is going to, for the first time, I guess,
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in 150 years, impeach a cabinet official. And there's a big debate even within Republican circles on whether
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this is the right move, because as upset as Republicans and everyone, well, not everyone,
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but Republicans are about the border. Mayorkas is not really the problem. His boss is the problem.
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And if we get rid of him, there's a real question about whether anything will change. So let's just
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start with you. Do you think it's a good idea for them to proceed with an impeachment vote,
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which we think they're going to do? Look, I doubt very much if he's going to be convicted by the
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Senate. So in a way, it's a project at growing people's attention to how bad the border is. But I
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think also, you're exactly right. The real problem here is what happens with Biden, Biden's policies.
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I mean, a group of senior FBI, retired senior FBI people, just issued a letter to Congress saying that we
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have an enormous national security threat on our southern border. And that national security threat is
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entirely Biden's illegal immigration policy. These are Biden's illegal immigrants. The fact is Trump had done a
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good job of closing down the border and dramatically lowering the number of people coming into the U.S.
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Biden has gone in exactly the opposite direction. And the result is today, we have thousands and
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thousands of people. We don't know who they are. We don't know what their relationships are. And
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these FBI officials said, you know, the number of young males who are now in the U.S., who could be from
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Venezuela or from Iran or from a variety of other places and could, in fact, potentially be a fifth
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column, attacking the United States from within. Now, this is all very real. And the truth is,
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the Biden policies leave us defenseless and vulnerable in ways that I would have thought
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were unimaginable. OK, but now things are getting interesting politically, because this is a very
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clear winner for Republicans prior to, you know, this month. The Democrats clearly want an open border.
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Otherwise, why would we have one? And the Republicans under Trump did a very good job
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of not shutting it entirely, but coming as close as we have in years. And now it's already getting
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spun because they've proposed this deal. Republican hardliners said, you're not getting any Ukraine aid
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unless we get some concessions on the border. And Biden kind of said, OK, I'll give you the
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concessions on the border, at least some of them. And now give me my Ukraine aid. And the Republicans
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now are supposedly this bill is DOA that three senators have been working on because the House
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is saying hard no, reportedly because Trump is saying hard no. And that, according to Mitch
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McConnell, Trump doesn't want it because it's going to hurt him in the election. He doesn't want to give
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the win to Joe Biden. And Trump himself is saying, I'm very against it, not for that reason, but because
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he thinks it's a bad deal. He says no deal is worse than this deal. Now, the other argument is
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we don't know whether Trump's going to win the election. Joe Biden could win the election.
00:24:56.400
And half a loaf might be better than no loaf if that's our future. So how do you see it?
00:25:03.160
Well, first of all, my experience in Congress was when a bill is written in secret, it's because they
00:25:09.940
know if they release it, it's going to fall apart. So when you have three or four months of secret
00:25:15.460
negotiations, and recently one of the authors has been going around complaining that people keep
00:25:21.080
making stuff up. Well, they make stuff up because it's secret. And I think they're now going to
00:25:26.740
release it. We'll see the real language. But if the language is as bad as people have suggested,
00:25:32.120
I would absolutely totally oppose this bill. I think our goal should be no illegal immigration,
00:25:38.640
a completely secure border, and whatever changes in the law that requires, we should take. Now,
00:25:44.920
in terms of Biden's abilities, there's an entire list. I'm writing a newsletter at Gingrich 360 about
00:25:51.640
this. There's an entire list of authorities that he has right now. And he inadvertently admitted that
00:25:57.960
the other day when he said, boy, if they pass this, you know, I'll close the border that day. Well,
00:26:03.000
if he has the power to close the border that day, why isn't he closing the border? And the reason is
00:26:08.180
because the left wants an open border. They want the largest possible number of illegal immigrants.
00:26:14.400
I hope that they're going to wait the census for the next Congress and move and save places like
00:26:20.800
California and New York from losing congressional seats. And the whole thing is crazy. I mean,
00:26:26.600
I have to be honest, the left has now gone both on climate, where they want to impose electric cars
00:26:34.980
on everybody, even though only 6% of the country wants one. They've gone crazy on the border. And
00:26:42.320
their position on Iran is frankly, equally crazy. And you look at all this, and you just wonder,
00:26:47.700
what has happened? I mean, my other example would be what's happened with drugs. When you have more
00:26:55.520
Americans killed by drug overdose annually, that were killed in eight years of the Vietnam War,
00:27:02.180
literally, more people die from drug overdose every year now, than were killed in eight years in
00:27:07.120
Vietnam. We have a real crisis. And you have, frankly, a Democratic Party that seems incapable
00:27:15.280
of breaking out of its ideology and dealing with reality.
00:27:20.660
Joe Biden now wants us to believe he's a border hawk. He's a border hawk, even though we've had
00:27:25.560
2.7 illegals encountered at the border, meaning stop and interacting with Border Patrol. That doesn't
00:27:32.100
count the gotaways. A record number this past year alone, not to mention, if you go back the year
00:27:36.480
before that, well, over a million and so on, the year before that, too, all under his presidency.
00:27:41.540
Now he wants us to believe he's a border hawk. And he sees a political opportunity here now that
00:27:45.520
the Republicans are saying, this is not a good deal. We're not going to sign this. And we're not
00:27:49.260
signing on to this. It's not what we want. It allows, reportedly, at least 5,000 illegals to cross
00:27:55.580
over the border a day. We're already having 8,000 right now at a time everyone agrees this is a
00:28:01.220
crisis. So we're going to lower it by three? That's our great border deal that we're striking?
00:28:06.480
And that allows him to say, there, I fixed it. So here he is. My team put together a little
00:28:11.680
then and now SOT montage of him. Sound on tape. That's what SOT stands for. Showing how he sounds
00:28:18.200
today versus how he has sounded from the beginning of his presidency. We could go back further than
00:28:22.620
that. But watch. We're a nation that says if you want to flee and you're fleeing oppression,
00:28:27.600
you should come. If that bill were the law today, I'd shut down the border right now.
00:28:32.000
You come to the United States and you make your case. It'll also give me as president,
00:28:37.400
the emergency authorities shut down the border until it could get back under control.
00:28:41.540
And those who come seeking asylum, we should immediately have the capacity to absorb
00:28:46.920
them, keep them safe until they can be heard. No one, no one would be put in jail while waiting
00:28:55.580
for their hearing. Amazing. We can absorb them all. How did that work out?
00:29:02.200
Well, you know, Gallup warned us that in their worldwide poll, 165 million people said they
00:29:09.820
would like to come to the United States, 165 million. Now, you know, I mean, in Biden's case,
00:29:17.040
first of all, if he's a hawk, he's a chicken hawk. He's not a real hawk. And second, I thought the most
00:29:23.280
telling number recently was a Rasmussen poll that said that by 69 to 27, the American people side with
00:29:33.100
Texas against the federal government. And among strong support, it was 52 to 15. Now, if that if
00:29:41.240
69% of the American people think Texas is right to intervene and control the border, despite Biden's
00:29:47.800
policies, that tells you that the country's beginning to really become militant about the need to get our
00:29:55.160
border under control. And I don't see how Biden's going to deal with this. He has a huge split with
00:30:00.440
his left over the border. He has a growing split with his left over the Middle East.
00:30:06.460
Meanwhile, the average American is looking at high prices. They're looking at crime in the streets.
00:30:11.600
I mean, Washington, D.C. is a nightmare. We've had nine last year, we had nine hundred and fifty
00:30:17.320
carjackings. We had seven thousand cars stolen. This is international capital. And across the country,
00:30:26.120
Portland has just declared an emergency because it is such a disaster.
00:30:30.440
So I think that there's a there's both a performance problem for Biden in that the
00:30:36.500
country thinks it's not working and there's a values problem in that the country mostly repudiates
00:30:42.160
the kind of hard left values that he has come to advocate, which, by the way,
00:30:46.580
is a long way from where he was back when he was U.S. senator.
00:30:51.500
Right. Oh, my God. He's changed dramatically. Just looking at what this is doing,
00:30:56.540
you know, these eight thousand across the border every day, what it's doing to U.S. cities and why
00:31:01.420
Biden has finally been willing to come to the table on it. Yes, he cares deeply about Ukraine
00:31:06.300
because he thinks we'll be ceding Ukraine to Russia. And that's a major campaign issue for him,
00:31:11.320
too, if we don't fund an additional 60 billion as he's requested. So he's in much more of a
00:31:17.180
compromise mood. But it's really about his reelection hopes that, as you point out, you
00:31:21.900
know, 69 percent of the countries on Texas side, the immigration is becoming a top issue for Democrats
00:31:28.200
now, or is it it never was. And now it is for them, too, because they're feeling it in unique
00:31:33.720
ways in their own cities. And that brings me to Massachusetts. All right. So Massachusetts,
00:31:38.960
the state's emergency shelter system hit capacity in November. Right now, we have dozens of migrants
00:31:45.320
sleeping on the floor at Boston's Logan's Logan Airport. And that and then there's a huge recreational
00:31:51.600
complex, a state run facility that they're right now turning into a shelter for immigrants. Now,
00:32:00.080
this is in a majority black area per the Daily Mail. And so kids at risk youth who are usually
00:32:08.220
encouraged to go to the rec center to play basketball, to have fun, to stay off the streets,
00:32:12.540
like get in there with your friends. They do this in a lot of cities and it's smart and it works are
00:32:16.840
now being told, get back out on the street. Out you go. We need this for the illegals. And you've got
00:32:23.140
the governor who's part of the problem out there like, I'm really sad. I'm really sad about all of
00:32:29.760
this. And but yet, what are you going to do? What are you going to change? Are you still going to be
00:32:34.500
sanctuary place for illegals? Take a listen to her.
00:32:38.060
I get emotional, guys, OK? Because I'm committed to this. Little kids need to be able to breathe
00:32:46.540
clean air. They need to be able to access swimming pools. They need to have lifeguards there who are
00:32:51.980
going to teach them how to swim. And they need to have activities. I don't know what we're going to
00:32:56.440
do for a couple, three months. I'll call universities. I'll call other places.
00:33:00.660
Great. She's going to make some phone calls so the children can get their rec center back.
00:33:07.220
Look, the problem with the modern left is it lives in a fantasy world. Somehow, magically,
00:33:14.640
things are going to happen. And when you get down to reality, it doesn't work that way.
00:33:19.980
You had the same thing in New York where they had to close down a school, send 1,200 children home
00:33:24.940
so they could bring in illegal immigrants because there was a big snowstorm and they needed the space.
00:33:29.800
I mean, what's happened under the Biden immigration policy is that Biden's illegal immigrants are
00:33:35.840
treated better than American citizens. They're given, you know, some of them are put up in hotels
00:33:40.060
at very considerable cost. And we're all supposed to feel sympathetic. Well, I think most Americans
00:33:46.780
feel sympathetic first for their own neighborhood, their own children, their own grandchildren.
00:33:51.440
And they look around in horror. You just had a group of illegal immigrants beat up a New York cop
00:33:56.320
and they were released without bond because New York has a no bail program. So these guys are back
00:34:02.960
out on the street. And you wonder why we have this huge crime rate. We've had a horrendous problem.
00:34:09.100
I mentioned Washington. We had a guy the other day who killed two people while carjacking and was
00:34:14.460
finally killed himself by the police. Now, normal, everyday people can look at this and say,
00:34:20.880
it ain't working. But if you're on the hard left, you think, oh, that's it's really racist to say
00:34:26.960
that illegal immigrants shouldn't be allowed to rape you or kill you. This is a sign that you're
00:34:31.520
really a racist. No, it's a sign you're a normal person who doesn't think you want to be killed or
00:34:36.640
raped. Why they are so out of touch with reality, I don't know. But it's clear that the modern left is
00:34:43.920
now off in La La Land and has virtually no contact with with the planet Earth anymore.
00:34:50.560
On the on the Massachusetts front, Massachusetts is eight cities within the state of Massachusetts,
00:34:56.760
which is not huge, are sanctuary cities, including Boston. Those are the phone calls she should make.
00:35:02.340
You want to help them make phone calls to those eight mayors and see if you can get reversals on the
00:35:08.040
lure. That is the sanctuary cities to these illegals. You mentioned the D.C. carjacking
00:35:14.120
situation. Here's the D.C. top attorney, Brian Schwab, talking about this. Listen.
00:35:19.960
We as a city and a community need to be much more focused on prevention and surrounding young people
00:35:26.980
and their families with resources. If we want to be safer in the long run, we cannot prosecute and
00:35:32.620
arrest our way out of it. It's unbelievable. And you were there,
00:35:37.400
Newt. You live this. I had Bill Barr on the program a couple of months ago at the beginning
00:35:42.200
of the year. And he, of course, he worked for H.W. many moons ago. Never mind, you know, Trump.
00:35:48.840
And he wrote a whole book talking about how strict enforcement of the law, criminal prosecutions
00:35:55.580
and putting people in jail works. That's exactly how you stop crime. Well, I mean, we know that's
00:36:02.160
true from what Giuliani and Chief Bratton did in New York, where they reduced the murder rate
00:36:07.120
literally almost overnight. But in addition, I would point out, when I was Speaker, we took over
00:36:13.880
the city. Washington is the national capital. Every American should be able to visit their
00:36:20.920
national capital in safety. And if the local corrupt Democratic government can't do it, then I think we
00:36:27.440
have an obligation for the Congress to take the city over again, establish law and order, establish
00:36:34.320
rational rules, eliminate the regulations that are killing business. Look, they're so bad right now,
00:36:40.820
they have driven two of their major sports teams out of the city. They are going to bankrupt downtown
00:36:46.660
Washington because those sports teams were the major draw to bring people down into Washington
00:36:52.440
to shop and do other things. And they're on the edge of a genuine crisis economically,
00:36:58.580
a real crisis in crime. And I think it's unconscionable that the Congress doesn't.
00:37:05.020
This is a federal city. It's the national capital. And frankly, it should be run in a rational,
00:37:12.340
All right. I want to get your thoughts on how they're handling Iran and the death of these three
00:37:17.580
American service personnel this week, as well as politics, because those interesting split polls
00:37:22.220
per Trump and Biden, they tell us something. And I don't know what you'll tell us when we come
00:37:26.500
right back after this quick break. Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, stays with us.
00:37:34.900
A couple of polls out that I'd love to ask you about. First, there's the new Bloomberg
00:37:39.100
slash Morning Consult poll. This is polling a Trump versus Biden matchup in the key swing states.
00:37:46.380
It's a poll to be noted of not likely, which is the best measure, but of registered voters.
00:37:52.320
Getting all registered voters out to vote is a very different story, as you know. I mean,
00:37:57.660
a lot of these states, you just register when you get your driver's license. It does not mean you're
00:38:01.020
actually going to go do it. So I always like to point that out. The polling of people at Fox were
00:38:04.820
always super rabid about likely, likely, likely. Okay. In any event, he's crushing it. Trump's crushing
00:38:12.840
Biden on these polls. North Carolina, up 10. Nevada, up eight. Georgia, up eight. Wisconsin,
00:38:19.460
up five. Michigan, five. Pennsylvania, up three. Arizona, up three. My God. Okay. But then
00:38:28.900
there's the Quinnipiac poll, which is a national poll. I don't know if the national polls are that
00:38:35.180
relevant. You know, it's like we don't have a national election. You know, we have an electoral
00:38:39.180
college. You have to win the swing states in order to win whatever. But for what it's worth,
00:38:42.880
the national poll, again, registered voters, shows Biden up over Trump by six points, Biden 50, Trump
00:38:50.600
44. Not for nothing, but it shows Haley beating Biden by five points. But the reason they're
00:39:00.800
showing Trump's struggling in this national poll is his deficit to Biden when it comes to women
00:39:05.700
in particular and independence to a lesser extent. Biden has a 22 point margin over Trump in this poll
00:39:12.280
with women, 58 to 36. And Trump's got an 11 point margin over Biden with men, but obviously at 22 is
00:39:21.700
double 11. And when it comes to independence, Biden's beating Trump by 12 points, 52 to 40. So how are we
00:39:29.920
to make sense of those two pieces of data? Well, I don't think we know yet. We need three or four
00:39:35.780
more polls. Quinnipiac is an outlier right now. We've seen no other poll like that with Biden ahead. So I can't
00:39:44.020
say for sure what it means. The Bloomberg polls are about where we've seen things in general, but a little
00:39:52.780
stronger for Trump. So I don't know if something happened in between. It's very unlikely that you saw that
00:39:59.140
biggest shift between the polls, but I'd like to see three or four more polls. Normally, I think
00:40:06.200
Quinnipiac is not as reliable as a lot of other polls, but you still have to take it at least
00:40:12.460
semi-seriously. But I don't know of anything which has happened, which was strengthened by, I mean,
00:40:19.340
he's getting weaker because of the way he's mishandling Iran. He's getting weaker because of the border.
00:40:24.620
So I don't know of any big comeback that is strengthening him at any level at the present
00:40:31.720
time. I just did two events with the Republicans in Michigan, with the Republican House and
00:40:40.640
Republican Senate. And in both of those cases, they felt pretty confident they're going to carry
00:40:44.860
Michigan. And if they carry Michigan, Trump will almost certainly be president.
00:40:50.360
I mean, that really will be extraordinary. When he started to win in the upper Midwest in
00:40:54.260
16, it was the moment where you knew, whoa, something's happening here. But here's how
00:40:59.040
this is going to be spun with the left and independents still read the New York Times and
00:41:04.440
listen to the New York Times podcast and so on. Just take a listen to how they describe the
00:41:08.360
immigration issue. And if they don't strike this deal on immigration, we're going to get a whole
00:41:13.580
lot more of this over the next 10 months. This was today's New York Times podcast, The Daily,
00:41:17.820
in part. He doesn't want to give Biden a win on this. It's an extremely compelling political campaign
00:41:28.000
issue for him with his base. So in a very real sense, Trump is trying to torpedo this, we suspect,
00:41:33.700
because he wants to make sure that a huge issue so animating and central to his campaign and his base
00:41:40.120
remains an issue that's animating to his campaign and to his base. This is really the story of a
00:41:48.080
Democratic president being willing to meet his Republican congressional peers much more than
00:41:54.340
halfway on a very sensitive issue. And the response from those congressional Republican peers
00:42:00.600
is to reject the offer. Much more than halfway. He's bending over backwards here, sir.
00:42:10.660
Hey, look, this is the New York Times. I mean, I spent my whole career reading the New York Times and
00:42:16.840
the Washington Post and then moving 35 points to the right to understand reality. I mean, the New York
00:42:25.040
Times is so totally anti-Trump that it's kind of pathetic. But there are two things that are
00:42:31.320
problems for them. The first is the American people are really fed up with politics. You know, when 96 of
00:42:38.500
the top 100 TV shows last year were NFL games, it tells you that people are looking for an escape
00:42:45.580
rather than focusing on this mess that they are frustrated by, but they can't control.
00:42:52.160
The second problem the Democrats have is you can say anything you want to politically and then you
00:42:57.640
look at the local news, not national news, local news. You see muggings, you see carjackings,
00:43:05.160
you see murders, you see rapes, you see policemen being assaulted. And you think these are all Joe
00:43:11.760
Biden's illegal immigrants. You don't think this is Donald Trump's or this is the Republicans.
00:43:16.900
Uh, this has been Biden's policy. He has owned it for three years. He can't get out from under it.
00:43:23.380
Uh, and frankly, if he really wants aid to Ukraine and Israel, you ought to bite the bullet except HR2,
00:43:29.940
which is the bill that the House Republicans passed back at the beginning of the year, uh,
00:43:34.500
and actually control the border. I mean, if he actually suddenly controlled the border,
00:43:38.660
and if illegal immigration dropped to under a thousand a day, let's say, um, he would be in
00:43:44.860
dramatically better shape. He can just do it. Just do it. Just do the same executive policies
00:43:51.060
that Trump did. Just do it. You don't need the congressional approval. Just do it. You can
00:43:55.060
actually get the border in a lot better shape. He doesn't want to, they should call his bluff on that.
00:43:58.920
Go ahead. Do it. Do title 42. Do, do all the Trump stuff. We, we support you.
00:44:04.440
I'm going to do a podcast at, at newts world on, on this whole issue with people who are experts on
00:44:09.400
the border. And the truth is they have an entire list of things that Trump did, all of them legal,
00:44:15.800
all of them Biden could do tomorrow morning. And he sort of hinted at this the other day when he said,
00:44:21.080
boy, if they'd pass that bill, I'd close the border today. Well, if he can control the border today,
00:44:26.280
why isn't he? And people know why he isn't because his left wants the largest possible
00:44:31.960
number of illegal immigrants. Even if that includes terrorists, criminals, people left out of insane
00:44:38.360
asylums. I mean, these countries aren't pedophiles. Yeah. Okay. So to summarize, you are against
00:44:43.960
cutting a deal, this deal, as at least as it's been reported thus far, you're with Trump. This is not
00:44:49.240
a good deal. I am for a good bill and I'm against a phony bill. And the current bill strikes me as pretty
00:44:54.640
phony. And then last but not least, can you give me your take on how we're handling the Iran crisis
00:45:00.560
with three U.S. soldiers dead and Biden saying, and another 34 wounded and Biden saying,
00:45:08.320
I've decided what I'm going to do. I've decided. Everything he does, he telegraphs and then we
00:45:15.360
wait to see what it is. Now it's been several days. We've done nothing. What do you think?
00:45:19.400
I think his weakness on the border is matched by his weakness with Iran.
00:45:25.320
Everything he has done, he allowed them to start selling oil again. That gave them billions of
00:45:30.960
dollars. He paid them $6 billion to get five hostages. He was part of the Obama deal, which
00:45:36.940
actually flew in an entire plane load of cash. I mean, think about that. An entire plane filled with
00:45:42.840
billion dollars in cash, none of which, by the way, was U.S. dollars because the Iranians would not
00:45:48.160
accept American money. I mean, they've had this love affair. They have this fantasy that there's
00:45:54.080
a moderate Iran. There isn't a moderate Iran. When the Iranian parliament chants, death to America,
00:46:00.940
the Ayatollah Khomeini went on national television and said, this is not a slogan. This is our policy.
00:46:07.780
Now, they have attacked us over 150 times. I have a newsletter coming out tomorrow outlining that
00:46:13.860
either we're going to intimidate Iran or Iran is going to intimidate us. We know if Donald J. Trump
00:46:21.580
were in the White House, we'd be the intimidators. And we know with Biden in the White House that he
00:46:26.760
is being intimidated. It is pathetic. We've had 150 attacks on Americans since October 18th. You would
00:46:34.160
think the Pentagon had sitting on the table an entire strategy of attacking that they could hand the
00:46:40.500
president, and he could have announced it three hours after the attack that killed three Americans.
00:46:45.080
Instead, they're dithering around. They're desperately trying to avoid getting into a fight
00:46:49.120
with Iran for reasons I cannot fathom, because the Iranians are going to keep pushing us and pushing us,
00:46:55.060
and they're going to keep trying to kill Americans. They're going to keep trying to close down the Red
00:46:58.940
Sea. And we look like we're pathetically incompetent. Between the border and Iran, this is the most
00:47:07.240
pathetic administration, I think, in American history. It looks like we're afraid of them.
00:47:15.060
That's how it looks. No question. No, we don't need to be afraid of them. It would not go well for
00:47:22.380
Iran. We take care of them in about a day. But nobody wants a war with Iran. It's just you'd like
00:47:27.040
to see some strength and some leadership, and you'd like to see some fear of the United States military
00:47:31.700
under the commander in chief right now. It's not there. Speaker Gingrich, it's always a pleasure.
00:47:36.300
Thank you so much for being here. Great to be with you. All right. And don't forget, folks,
00:47:40.460
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00:47:45.460
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00:47:50.240
We appreciate that. Governor Gavin Newsom of California told MSNBC over the weekend there is
00:47:59.920
no chance that he will run for president. That was just before he told us how far he would go
00:48:06.480
for President Biden, who he assures us is very, very vibrant and up to the task. Plus,
00:48:12.880
a leaked video reveals Gavin Newsom was shocked, shocked, I tell you, when he watched his policies
00:48:18.360
play out in everyday life. Joining us down to discuss it all, one of our favorites,
00:48:24.200
and he's a California resident. Adam Carolla, host of The Adam Carolla Show. Adam, welcome back.
00:48:30.200
Great to have you. Thanks for having me, Megan. All right. So your favorite governor has been
00:48:35.400
making the rounds and had this to say on MSNBC. Take a listen. You are an excellent emissary in terms
00:48:43.080
of passion, engagement, articulation, all of the things that, you know, make for a good campaigner,
00:48:48.500
though we know you're not running for president yourself. No chance. No chance.
00:48:52.040
Yeah. Who in their mind would want to run when you have someone of such esteem as our incumbent
00:48:59.940
president of the United States with a record of accomplishments and a man of character,
00:49:04.640
a man of decency. I'm old school. Talk about loyalty. I'll go to ends of the earth for this
00:49:09.660
guy. I really would. I'm not I'm not making that up. I'm glad he said that at the end because I was
00:49:14.660
wondering whether he was joking. Yeah. Well, it is kind of funny because
00:49:20.800
if when you exaggerate, that's when it becomes clear that you're lying, you know? So somebody
00:49:31.340
said to you, like, if you had a short, fat daughter and somebody said, how's Helga doing?
00:49:41.900
Did she find a date for the prom? And you went, no, she hasn't. Helga hasn't found a date for the
00:49:47.540
prom. But it's it's it's it's it's puzzling because she's exquisite looking and she's so
00:49:53.220
beautiful and she's better looking than the best looking supermodel. And her personality is so
00:49:59.560
vibrant. That's when it starts seeing seems like you're lying, you know? And the thing about Biden,
00:50:05.840
Biden is such an unmitigated train wreck that when people try to prop him up, it seems surreal.
00:50:16.280
And it also seems like they're lying. Like if somebody said, you know, what do you think of
00:50:22.040
Joe Biden? And I was like, well, you know, he's he's doing his job, I guess. You know, I mean,
00:50:27.820
really, how good is any president? You know, at least he's not Trump or something like that.
00:50:31.920
Then you'd believe it. If I if I went this guy sharp as a tack and leading us in the direction
00:50:37.860
of light and truth. And you'd go, oh, get the hell out of here. And so that's what that's
00:50:45.580
what Newsom sounds like. But keep in mind, Newsom is a narcissistic sociopath douchebag.
00:50:54.380
I mean, he really is. He really has a personality disorder. I don't know how else to explain who he
00:51:04.840
is. And it's not Newsom that we should be thinking about. It's the people that vote for Newsom. Like
00:51:13.960
that's the thought experiment. He is an empty bag. He is a sociopath. He has no thoughts in his head
00:51:23.920
other than soundbites or what will get him either elected or reelected. The question is in this sort
00:51:30.600
of sociological experiment is who votes for this idiot? And the answer is a lot of people
00:51:38.400
because of how he looks and how he comes across, which is very interesting. Like what would how would
00:51:47.380
it work if Gavin Newsom was five foot nothing and had a double chin and a receding hairline?
00:51:56.440
What if his first name was Helga? Like I got yelled at when I did Sean Hannity show several
00:52:04.600
months ago where somebody asked me about AOC and I said, listen, if she was 60 and from Minnesota and
00:52:12.980
fat, no one would listen to a word she said. And everyone was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's like,
00:52:19.840
whoa, what? You think we've listened to a word that's in that head? She doesn't have a thought in
00:52:26.620
her head. Why would we listen to her? It's totally true. It's a hundred percent true. And I think
00:52:32.460
if Gavin Newsom was 60, short, fat, and from Minnesota, nobody would listen to a goddamn word
00:52:41.220
that idiot had to say. I think I need to hear the sound bite again. It's such there's such
00:52:45.720
acting going on in here. He's from California. Let's watch it again. All right. You are an
00:52:51.380
excellent emissary in terms of passion, engagement, articulation, and all of the things that, you know,
00:52:57.220
make for a good campaign or though we know you're not running for president yourself.
00:53:00.320
No chance. No chance. Yeah. Who in their mind would want to run when you have someone of such
00:53:08.080
esteem as our incumbent president of the United States with a record of accomplishments and a man
00:53:13.660
of character, a man of decency. I'm old school. Talk about loyalty. I'll go to ends of the earth
00:53:19.480
for this guy. I really would. I'm not, I'm not making that up. It's, it's wonderful. I mean,
00:53:26.800
the craziest thing about Biden's character is back when he knew he was alive about 30 years ago,
00:53:38.100
he was giving his bona fides about his education. And he was like, I was at the top half of my law
00:53:45.660
school class. I was a Fulbright scholarship awardee. I was the only person in my school that had a triple
00:53:52.940
major. He, he lied about all of it. I mean, back when the news, back when the news had an ounce of
00:54:01.620
integrity, like, you know, the craziest thought experiment is you go back and you watch the ABC
00:54:07.500
nightly news from 1991. And they're like, Mr. Biden did not have any of these degrees. Mr. Biden was
00:54:14.900
lying. And you're like, Oh, who's saying this? It's like, Oh, Oh, the news. Yeah. It used to be the
00:54:21.560
news. They used to just report on stuff when Democrats lied and plagiarized. So how can you
00:54:28.620
be a man of character? Like I said to Dr. Drew, I was like, is there any situation where you could
00:54:35.700
forget what your major was or how many degrees you had or how many scholarships you had? That's a weird
00:54:45.200
characteristic lie. I mean, that's an insane thing to make up all your degrees and all your majors or
00:54:52.340
you know how you merged with Martin Luther King, or you were in a South African prison because you
00:54:58.200
went to meet with Nelson Mandela. I mean, what is sociopathic liar Biden is, but you got Newsom
00:55:06.540
who's also a sociopath. So they're, they're kind of perfect for each other. He explained why he did
00:55:13.120
some of that in particular, his academic record. He said he exaggerates when he gets angry.
00:55:19.860
That's what he said. I exaggerate when I get angry. That's a thing, right? And you get really pissed off
00:55:25.460
and you just are like, I was top of my class. That's what you start yelling, right? You start making up
00:55:31.160
your fake resume when you feel angry. Whenever I argue with a woman and it gets really heated,
00:55:36.180
I'll go, it's like the time I won the Heisman trophy. And then I go, oh, wait a minute. Oh,
00:55:44.600
it's like the time I won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Okay, woman? Yeah. I remember the time I
00:55:51.460
hoisted the Stanley Cup above my head. Yeah, yeah. That's not what it is. That's, you're being too hard
00:55:57.900
on him. Obviously we've all been there. Um, okay. I want to get down to my second clip of Gavin Newsom
00:56:03.220
because he was apparently doing some round table with press and local California officials about
00:56:10.000
something else and was making small talk before the zoom call got started about a very jarring
00:56:15.760
experience he had in a target out there in California. Uh, take a listen to how that sounded.
00:56:22.740
Sat 21. Uh, you dropped this and he comes back, picks it up and keeps walking out as we're checking
00:56:30.680
out. The woman says, oh, he's just walking out. He didn't pay for that. I said, well, why are you
00:56:34.900
stopping? She goes, oh, the governor sort of got true story. And my mom's great. The governor lowered
00:56:41.620
the threshold. There's no, there's no, there's no accountability. There's no, I said, that's just not
00:56:45.740
true. And she, I, she got, I said, we have the 10th toughest, $950, the 10th toughest in America.
00:56:51.060
She didn't even know what I was talking about. By the way, it's the 10th toughest in America.
00:56:54.560
Look it up. No one gives a damn about that. And I said, it's just not true. There's still
00:56:59.180
a stop. He said, well, we don't stop them because of the governor. And then she goes, she looks
00:57:04.340
at me twice and then she freaks out. She calls everyone over, wants to take photos. I'm like,
00:57:09.380
no, I'm not taking a photo. We're having a conversation. Where's your manager? How are you
00:57:13.740
blaming the governor? And it was, you know, $380 later. And I was like, why am I spending $380?
00:57:19.340
Everyone can walk the hell right out. Yeah. So annoying, isn't it?
00:57:25.760
I know. I, you know, Gavin Newsom, I remember about two years ago, he, when all the train
00:57:33.500
robberies were going on, um, they were robbing all the trains in downtown LA because they had
00:57:41.060
FedEx boxes on them. And then they would just throw the boxes everywhere. And it was just garbage.
00:57:46.340
As far as the eye could see boxes packaging, it was a real hellscape. And then he showed
00:57:53.600
up and he did a presser and he was like, what the hell's going on around here? Like, that's
00:58:00.580
his thing. His thing is like, oh man, he has a, he has a very interesting technique, which
00:58:07.800
is he will say like, you'll go homeless. What's going on with the homeless? And I'll go, yeah,
00:58:13.840
what's going on with the homeless. What's happening? Like all your horrible failed policy
00:58:20.500
is what's happening. That's what shares in your pain and also has no idea how, how this
00:58:28.400
Yes. Your, your Democrat majority, um, city and state is what happened. Gavin Newsom. That's
00:58:39.180
where the graffiti is. That's where the trash is. That's where the homelessness is. That's
00:58:43.660
where all the crime is. That's where the smash and grabs are. That's the person walking out
00:58:47.580
in front of you without paying a target. That's where it comes from. Why are you looking around?
00:58:52.960
Go find a mirror and figure out what the problem is. We looked it up and, uh, Jerry Brown was governor
00:59:00.680
of California in 2014. That's when prop 47 was signed into law. It lowered drug and property crime
00:59:08.280
penalties. And Gavin Newsom, who tried recently to, to push for measures that might tackle some of the
00:59:15.420
out-of-control recent theft, uh, out-of-control retail theft, refused to make changes to prop 47
00:59:21.700
refused. And prop 47, uh, makes it a felony for property thefts, totaling 950 or higher. So in other
00:59:27.840
words, you can steal with impunity if it's under $950. That's basically the law. And so he looks
00:59:35.020
around like, gee, I don't, how did it happen under another Democrat? You were just given the chance
00:59:39.660
to increase the penalties so that there could be a real skin in the game for these thieves.
00:59:43.180
You refuse to do so. And not for nothing, but, um, the, the numbers are, uh, since 2019 shoplifting
00:59:52.100
in San Mateo and San Francisco counties have increased 53% and 43% respectively. The highest
00:59:57.320
out of California's 15 largest counties and California at large ranked second worst in the
01:00:05.100
nation for total value of stolen goods per capita. It's ranked third worst regarding lost tax revenue,
01:00:13.020
due to retail theft. So there you have it. Those are the actual numbers.
01:00:17.700
Well, I do have some good news, Megan, which is $950. Sounds like a lot of merchandise, but soon
01:00:25.420
a McDonald's hamburger will be $950 in California. So be that much stolen.
01:00:34.860
They're about 875 now, you know, with the, with the minimum hike. Yeah. I mean, listen,
01:00:43.620
you know, here's, I mean, an interesting philosophical thought for, for you and, and your audience,
01:00:52.580
which is you can sit around and Newsom will do it all the time. Newsom will go like, you know,
01:00:58.740
California's economy has grown 7.8% under my administration. Crime is violent crime is down
01:01:05.780
13% homelessness. We just got 850 people off the street on Wednesday. Like he'll do all that.
01:01:13.980
He'll, he'll, he'll take those numbers. He'll do the same thing Biden does. You know,
01:01:17.760
we created 75 million new jobs under my, you know, here's the deal. In-N-Out Burger is leaving
01:01:25.200
Oakland, California. Why? Why is In-N-Out Burger leaving? In-N-Out Burger has never closed a
01:01:31.460
franchise in their storied 75 year history. In-N-Out Burger is California. Every In-N-Out Burger
01:01:39.580
that opens thrives. You can pass an In-N-Out Burger two in the morning on a Wednesday. And
01:01:45.660
there's a line of 85 cars trying to get an In-N-Out Burger. That's how robust In-N-Out Burger is.
01:01:52.920
So you do this thing where they go like crime is down and jobs are up. Okay. How come the In-N-Out
01:01:59.180
Burger left Oakland, California? Why? Why? Why is there retail theft going on? Why is there graffiti
01:02:07.120
everywhere? Why is there garbage everywhere? Why is the schools failing? Why are there homeless people
01:02:12.820
everywhere? You talk about how great everything is, but why? How come when I look around, how come when I
01:02:17.940
go to other cities? I don't see garbage everywhere and graffiti everywhere and homelessness everywhere.
01:02:23.240
How? And it's the same thing. It's like, listen, you don't need stats in a spreadsheet. You need to
01:02:29.720
know why In-N-Out Burger left Oakland, California. And the answer is they defunded the police. The police
01:02:37.180
fell back. Too much crime in that neighborhood. That's Gavin Newsom's backyard. Why?
01:02:44.320
And soft on crime prosecutors, right? In these big cities. They're just now catching up with some of
01:02:49.720
that nonsense. Like they got rid of Chesa Boudin and San Fran. All right. Well, you'll be happy to
01:02:54.360
know, or maybe not, that it's not just California that's lost its ever-loving mind. All the way across
01:03:00.740
the country, closer to me in Connecticut, in New Hampshire, they are choosing to celebrate people's
01:03:07.620
sexual fetishes on main street. So New Hampshire of all places, which is not, it's not California.
01:03:14.800
You know, I don't, I don't get it. It live free or die. I get that piece of it, but this is a little
01:03:18.880
much even for them. They have just opened, um, in Atkinson, New Hampshire, the diaper spa,
01:03:26.080
the diaper spa, um, catering to, this is from Fox news.com catering to diaper wearing adults who
01:03:35.280
want to role play as young children. Uh, they call it a safe and judgment-free zone for visitors to
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pamper themselves with snacks, playtime, storytime, nap time, cuddle time, changing time, coloring,
01:03:47.040
nursery rhymes, and sing-alongs. In the summer, Adam, you can play with your water wings and floaties
01:03:53.380
poolside, picnic under the tree with your teddy bear, play marbles on the patio, or swing on the
01:03:59.280
front porch swing and serve tea to your dollies on the porch. This is all men in diapers. I continue
01:04:04.640
in the winter. We can make snow angels, build snowmen, drink hot cocoa from beneath clouds of
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whipped cream and sprinkles, and decorate gingerbread men or sugar cookies. I'm almost done. We focus on
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the entire sensory experience in our nursery smells like baby powder and warm cookies. We have,
01:04:25.680
we have soft blankies and stuffies, a sound machine that makes womb noises or plays lullabies,
01:04:35.020
a wet wipe warmer, a bottle warmer, and an oil warmer. Oh God. We have tons of snacks to keep
01:04:43.220
tummies happy too. Now they've had to assure residents that they will not be encouraging those
01:04:50.900
who frequent the diaper spa to walk at the nearby park on any excursions where the young children play
01:04:58.700
because it's going to be a bunch of old dudes with fetishes in diapers with filled up tummies
01:05:05.480
and gingerbread cookies. I don't even know what to do about this. I don't, I don't know what to say.
01:05:12.760
It, it's a, it's a eerie harbinger of our times that a place like this could even exist
01:05:21.240
as a business. The in and out burger is gone, but the huggy boogie diaper center is opened and
01:05:28.500
taken to the place. Um, you know, I had a, I had a joke years ago where I said, you know, the best way
01:05:36.440
to round up all the deadbeat dads would be, I say back when, um, back when the Oakland Raiders were in
01:05:44.880
LA, I said, somebody should put a sign in front of the Coliseum that said free cockfights for Raiders
01:05:51.560
fans only. And then everyone who showed up would be arrested. And I feel the same way about this place.
01:05:58.540
Anybody who walks through that door should just be arrested immediately. You know, they're, they're
01:06:05.660
on some watch list somewhere. They're, they're not supposed to be within 5,000 feet of a school
01:06:12.120
or a park. There's something going on with these people. And it's interesting. I mean, it's, it's kind
01:06:19.940
of an interesting sub category of men because I used to do love line for all these years. And
01:06:28.140
once in a while we talked to one of these dominatrix women or what, what have you the
01:06:33.960
fetish. And I would always go, who's your clientele? And they'd always go rich white guys,
01:06:38.420
like the boss. It was always the boss that wanted to be knocked down because the guy working on the
01:06:43.920
factory floor, he gets his ass kicked for a living, you know, and when his money for that,
01:06:49.940
yeah, his idea of a good night out is a steak and a martini and a prostitute, not putting pampers on
01:06:57.900
and toddling around the romper room, you know, so with this water wings, it was this water wings on
01:07:05.840
and listen, I, you know, I feel like the 53 year old guys in their diapers should be able to go across
01:07:12.860
the street to the park and play on the seesaw. Like, I mean, if you're going all in, you got to go all
01:07:19.660
in. I wonder if businesses like, remember, they had those businesses a few years ago where you
01:07:25.760
just went in and broke things. Like you just take dishes and smash them on the ground and still have
01:07:31.560
that. That's the, that exists in New York city. Are they flourishing though? Like, do they work?
01:07:38.400
Does, does the business model work? I would, you know, I, well, here's, here's my thing though. I,
01:07:43.120
the, the owner of the spa would like you to know, Mr. Carolla, that pedophilia is not tied to diaper
01:07:48.760
wearing in adults. That's a, that's a smear. It's not a thing. These are just sexual fetishes.
01:07:54.260
Doesn't make them pedophiles. She also would like to give you a tour of the diaper spa. And in case
01:07:58.640
you want to see it, but you don't want to go in there personally, I got you covered. Here she is
01:08:02.900
in SOT24. This is my changing area. So it has diapers and baby powder and wet wipes and
01:08:10.980
I guess everything you would expect. It helps them process whatever trauma it was. A lot of times
01:08:15.520
it's childhood trauma when they were still in diapers or just getting out of diapers and they
01:08:20.180
want to feel that safety that they had before that. Playtime, story time, nap time, cuddle time.
01:08:26.200
You understand why people read this when they think for an adult in a diaper, they, I guess they,
01:08:31.900
you talk about the judgment. They find it strange. They do. And I'm, you know, I don't ask them to
01:08:37.040
understand, you know, it'd be nice that they did, but you are not going to all understand other
01:08:40.640
people's needs and lifestyles. What do you hope comes from this? That people learn to be more
01:08:47.120
accepting of people that, um, you know, are different. So I miss the days when people had their
01:08:55.540
sexual fetishes and kept them to themselves. Like what you do in the bedroom, as long as you're not
01:08:59.960
hurt anybody, it's really none of my business, but I, I really don't want to have to walk by the
01:09:04.660
diaper spa in the middle of, of this town, uh, Atkinson, New Hampshire on my way to the park with
01:09:11.940
the young children. And I do question why this woman felt the need to create the, how are there
01:09:16.780
so many diaper wearing men that we need like a business? How many cities will the diaper spa spread
01:09:23.420
too? Yeah. I don't know. In terms of buying a franchise, I feel like I'd go in on a Chipotle
01:09:30.920
before the diaper spa. Just, I think my money manager, if I said like, Hey Rob, I want, I got
01:09:38.900
some extra cash laying around. I want to go in on a franchise Chipotle diaper spa. I mean, he'd probably
01:09:45.180
have to sleep on it. We'd probably end up, maybe we'd combine them by the Chipotle, put the diaper on.
01:09:51.400
Oh God, it's going to be a stinky diaper spa. Um, I'm, I'm 100% with you in that. I, I think
01:10:03.680
all this stuff is intertwined. Like when you fly on a Southwest flight and the guy in front of you
01:10:13.240
is wearing flip-flops and board shorts and a t-shirt with two pigs having sex that says making
01:10:21.860
bacon on it. And you're like, that's what you chose to wear on this commercial flight. You know
01:10:29.820
what I'm saying? Like a general degrading of society sort of, but it's kind of all encompassing,
01:10:37.100
like people with really aggressive piercings and you're looking at them and they're like,
01:10:41.040
what are you looking at? It's like, I'm looking at your aggressive piercings that you're asking me
01:10:45.820
to look at, or, you know, the tattoos. I mean, you go to the airport in 2024, you go to LAX in the
01:10:56.260
morning and people essentially are wearing pajamas at this point. They're wearing half the women under,
01:11:04.920
I'd say half the women at LAX under the age of 40 are wearing slippers in what? Yeah. There is,
01:11:16.360
I mean, it's kind of a style thing or something there. Half the guys are wearing the glides,
01:11:20.500
you know, flip-flops. Everyone under 40 is essentially wearing pajamas and slippers. It's,
01:11:26.300
it's a, it's a thing. Look, I'm thankful for clothing. Like I, you know, you look out on any
01:11:32.100
magazine or newspaper today and all the glam shots of this celebrity or that they're almost naked and
01:11:37.880
I'm not a prude. I, I love a saucy outfit and I love a woman's body is gorgeous, but like,
01:11:43.660
I don't need to see it all. You know, the, I was ripping on Lauren Sanchez recently because she had
01:11:48.820
basically just a lace sheer thing over. I could see it all like, like a thong under it. It's like,
01:11:53.260
it's too much. And by the way, it's not sexy. It's not sexy. Cause I can see it all,
01:11:59.100
you know, like the part of sexiness is the mystery of like, what do I get to see if I
01:12:03.780
managed to be the one to take you home? This is more like, Hey, everyone see it. You can see it.
01:12:08.680
Look at it now. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's all part and parcel of the sort of narcissistic society
01:12:15.200
we've become, but the wearing your fetishes on your sleeve or even, you know, gay pride,
01:12:23.840
LGBT, you know, proud, the process. It's like, you don't have to be proud. I'm not proud to be a
01:12:28.620
heterosexual. I don't talk about it. I don't advertise it. Do whatever you want. Be gay,
01:12:35.160
be trans, be, be what, whatever, whatever you are, go ahead and be it. And you know what?
01:12:42.720
I'll be whoever I am, but I won't need to tell you all about who I am and what I do sexually.
01:12:50.460
That'll just be my business. And you know what? Your business can be your business. We don't need to
01:12:56.440
hang the gay flag in front of the, in front of the Capitol, the white house. We don't need to
01:13:02.060
have a parade. We don't need to, you don't, we, we don't need to respect you because of your sexual
01:13:09.140
proclivities. And we don't need to disrespect you because of it. Actually we don't need to know.
01:13:14.940
And we don't need to know about your heritage. We don't need to know what Island your parents are
01:13:19.140
from. We don't need any of that shit. It's, it's the United States. Shut up, go to work.
01:13:26.040
Yes. Amen. All right. Now, speaking of the, the trans thing, and it's, it is in your face,
01:13:31.320
because everybody wants you to know if they're trans or they've hired a trans person or this is
01:13:34.820
whatever. So I have to tell you about something that happened to us recently. Um, my daughter got
01:13:42.600
asked to go to a Broadway show with a bunch of her friends. She's 12 and the name of the show is
01:13:48.880
and like ampersand Juliet and Juliet. And I had never heard of this. And it was a very nice offer
01:13:55.860
of the other family to take this group of girls to Broadway. So we're like, sure, that's great.
01:13:59.540
So I looked it up cause I'm not a dope just to make sure like, well, you know, I want to know what
01:14:04.660
she was going to. All right. Here is the description that I saw. If you just Google and Juliet,
01:14:09.980
that'll take you to the pet, the website. It's, it's the and Juliet website. It's not like some
01:14:14.100
rando. And, uh, it says created by the Emmy winning writer from Schitt's Creek. Okay. That's
01:14:19.300
a successful show. This hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told.
01:14:24.860
And Juliet asks, what would happen next? If Juliet didn't end it all over Romeo get whisked away on a
01:14:30.880
fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second chance at life
01:14:36.000
and love her way. Juliet's new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic
01:14:42.520
as her name, including since you've been gone roar baby one more time larger than life. That's the way
01:14:47.100
it is. And can't stop the feeling all from the genius songwriter producer behind more number one hits
01:14:51.440
than any other artists this century break free of the balcony scene and get into this romantic comedy
01:14:55.960
that proves there's life after Romeo. The only thing tragic would be missing it. That sounds cute,
01:15:01.220
right? Sounds like a little girl powery that I don't, that's good. Fine. I don't care.
01:15:05.520
Um, thought she'd enjoy it. So she comes home. She had a great time with her friends. She loves this
01:15:09.940
gal. And I was like, well, what about the show? How was that? And she's like, well, it was a little
01:15:13.640
weird. Like what was weird about it? She's like, well, there was a lot of trans stuff in it and like
01:15:18.140
trans love and trans kissing and trans. I was like, what is like, it's been a while since I've
01:15:26.960
read Romeo and Juliet, but I, I don't think there's, that's not in there. And, uh, even for
01:15:32.220
Romeo were to die, I don't think Juliet would go trans. I don't not. Right. So I wasn't. So I'm
01:15:37.540
like, maybe she was exaggerating. I don't know, but you never know because Broadway's. So I did a
01:15:43.100
little Googling when she got home and found this little promo that had been done. Clearly I should
01:15:47.420
have gone beyond the show page when I was researching the show before she went and found this
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little video by an actor named Justin David Sullivan, who stars as the character May,
01:16:00.240
who now I understand is Juliet's best friend in the musical. Watch this.
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It's a man with flowers in his hair and makeup and a girl's outfit. I'm Justin David Sullivan. I use
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the pronouns he, she, and they, and I play Juliet's best friend, May.
01:16:29.480
And Juliet is a contemporary musical that re-imagines the classic story of Romeo and Juliet,
01:16:35.860
where Juliet doesn't die and takes initiative of her own life. And it follows a group of friends
01:16:41.520
coming into their own. May goes on a journey of self-discovery, finds love, and explores their
01:16:48.920
gender identity. I am fiercely proud that there are characters in the show that are in conversation
01:16:54.080
with queer representation and what it means to find love in a way that perhaps is often seen
01:16:59.240
as, as unconventional. We wanted to make the story kind of as, uh, accepting of all people and embracing of
01:17:05.340
all people as possible. I've never seen a non-binary character experience in a Broadway musical
01:17:10.180
before. So just to have that representation on stage is so important. May's experience just
01:17:16.020
happens to be so close to my own. And I feel so lucky that I get to tell the story.
01:17:24.060
This show celebrates queer love in a way that Broadway has been waiting for.
01:17:40.660
Um, it's all a sort of, I, I would say to Dr. Drew all the time, and especially recently,
01:17:48.540
just all roads lead to narcissism. Like we're going like, why are we in this place? Or how do
01:17:55.080
you figure this out? Or what's this person doing? It's all just a narcissistic disorder
01:18:01.200
about, you know, I, if you listen to any of these people from any of these groups, it always starts
01:18:08.660
with I, like I, I represent, I, I stand up. I, you know, all the people with the horrible
01:18:15.780
narcissistic disorders, all the super blowhards on the left, you know, like when Alyssa Milano
01:18:22.740
tweets, you know, it's like, I stand up for all children. I stand up for clean water. I stand up
01:18:29.020
for a government that this corruption is like, okay, you, you, you, you, you, it's always,
01:18:35.320
it's all narcissistic. No one has ever brought this to the stage before. I'm standing up for the
01:18:40.880
people that lurk in the shadows. Like at this point, over the last five years, LGBT trans,
01:18:48.400
are you guys still lurking in the shadows? Because I can't walk five feet without hearing about your
01:18:53.320
ass. It's amazing. This is like, this was so in your face. I mean, if the, for the listening
01:19:00.400
audience, it shows two guys kissing on stage. Obviously one of them is this guy who goes by he,
01:19:06.760
she, she, and they, all of them, Adam, all of them refused to go or to be considered for a Tony
01:19:14.860
award in 2023 because of the quote, gendered categories. He was, he, he, she, they, they were
01:19:22.000
upset about the gendered categories. And, um, it's just so happy that now we're celebrating queer love,
01:19:29.500
which is not at all what I thought something based on Shakespeare and about Juliet's next chapter
01:19:35.620
was going to be. How about the non-disclosure of any of this in the writeup about the show? Don't
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we parents get a right to like make a call? You could be sending a much younger child than 12 there.
01:19:49.480
My kid and I have talked about these issues many times, but many haven't, this could be their first
01:19:54.120
exposure to it. It's not up to Broadway to do that. Yeah. Well, listen, I, uh, I don't bring it up,
01:20:02.460
but you know, there is some grooming possibilities going on here. I mean, as we learn from COVID,
01:20:10.880
they don't really tell you what was on the curriculum at a lot of schools. Uh, but there
01:20:15.680
was a lot of this, you know, on the agenda and in the agenda. So I think the, the kind of the
01:20:23.920
plan, even if it's unspoken is we're going to say, come to school or come to a theater,
01:20:32.660
come to Broadway and we're going to, you know, come to school. We're going to talk about reading
01:20:36.940
and writing and arithmetic, but also we're going to work in some of the trans community agenda
01:20:43.620
as well. Yeah. Maybe that's just the new world order because it just sort of, it's just kind of
01:20:51.460
popping up every place, but they don't push it out front because maybe they don't want the pushback
01:20:57.700
or maybe it would hurt ticket sales. Or if they said, listen, bring your sixth grader into school
01:21:03.160
so we can talk about, uh, the transgender community. Then parents would go, Whoa, I don't want that.
01:21:08.920
Or I don't want to send my kids there. There'd be some pushback. So they kind of leave that part off
01:21:13.800
and then they just sort of work that into the curriculum. So maybe that's what you would think.
01:21:20.780
I would have learned my lesson last year. My audience knows I went to see Macbeth with Doug,
01:21:25.840
my husband, and, um, it was starring Daniel Craig, James Bond. I'm like, Oh, this could be cool. I feel
01:21:31.960
like I'm getting a little culture here. It turned out there were, there was no set and there were no
01:21:36.760
costumes, very minimal, almost nothing. No set. They decided this is like the new cool way to do
01:21:41.300
it with absolutely no money, I guess, invested into it. And it was supposed to be, I think it's
01:21:45.580
15th century Scotland. Um, it was majority minority cast. So it's like, I mean, that's diversity's fine,
01:21:54.060
but like 1400 Scotland, pretty sure it was pretty lily white. And, uh, the, the, the, the person playing
01:22:02.060
the King's son was a girl who had a blue, like Mohawk type hairstyle. And of course, then the play
01:22:10.380
opened with a guy coming out in a wheelchair. I mean, it was every single category. We didn't learn
01:22:18.040
our lesson. We keep going back and keep getting more of the same. Know what you're getting into next
01:22:23.620
time. Peeps. I know, I guess you just have to figure that it's just baked in at this point and
01:22:33.840
you're going to have to check. I kind of remember when passion fruit iced tea replaced regular iced tea.
01:22:43.440
And, and I used to complain all the time because I love iced tea. And in California, they started
01:22:49.220
replacing it with passion fruit iced tea, which tastes like someone took a scented candle and
01:22:55.440
just dunked it in warm water. And at a certain point, and I'll, I'll come around to why this
01:23:02.220
will make sense. But at a certain point, I would start saying I'm ordering iced tea. It's just regular
01:23:07.740
iced tea. And they went, yeah, it's regular. And then they would bring me passion fruit iced tea.
01:23:12.740
And I'd go, this is passion fruit. And they'd go, that's regular. And I'm saying all the trans stuff,
01:23:19.220
or the, or the Mohawks or the female playing male roles or the wheel handy, capable people.
01:23:25.560
It is now just regular. You're just going to have to assume if you go to a Broadway play,
01:23:32.500
that is what you're going to get. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, Broadway's always been,
01:23:37.760
you know, leftist when it comes to that kind of thing and, and lots of gay men and all,
01:23:41.760
and that's fine. I don't, most people are totally tolerant of that, but I don't want it. So in my face,
01:23:46.640
why am I forced to celebrate? I don't, I'm looking to see something related to Shakespeare,
01:23:51.260
Juliet's next chapter, kind of like wicked where like, you're imagining this great story,
01:23:56.280
but from a different perspective. Yes. Love it. More of it. How do we get into queer love? Guys are
01:24:02.700
making out on stage and they're, you got the man dressed as a woman, but saying, I'm not a girl
01:24:07.620
who goes by he, she, they, I can't, it's a lot. It's a lot for a bunch of 12 year olds, especially.
01:24:12.240
All right. Standby quick break. We're going to come back with the latest on the trans
01:24:16.140
insanity in the athletic field. Wait until you see this video of this male pretending to be female
01:24:24.180
running for the Rochester Institute of Technology. Standby.
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So Adam, we talked about in our first hour, you may have seen this story, but these illegals in
01:25:37.300
New York who were encountered by police and the police were questioning them. And I'm trying to
01:25:44.940
remember if they were, they were trying to arrest these guys or there was a confrontation and the
01:25:49.100
illegals start beating down the cops. The cops are trying to look at this. They're, they're kicking the
01:25:52.980
cops and the cops placed a couple of them under arrest. I think a couple are still at large
01:25:57.840
and we've just received the video of these illegal immigrants being released without bail.
01:26:05.120
Look at this double bird flipping the double bird to the cameras. You can see he feels
01:26:09.840
really remorseful about his behavior. Here's the next one. Double bird to the cameras. Welcome to
01:26:15.640
America. Enjoy your free hotel. You can see they're really grateful to be here. You can like,
01:26:20.880
these are going to be fine upstanding citizens joining our ranks sometime soon, laughing and
01:26:25.880
flipping off the cameras. Yeah. Megan, I just want to correct you. You're calling them illegals. These
01:26:31.020
are undocumented dreamers. Okay. So please make a correction with your verbiage and show some
01:26:40.500
response to these people. Yeah. You know, I was kind of thinking about this just sort of philosophically
01:26:47.840
because now we're in a weird sort of through the looking glass upside down world where Biden,
01:26:55.860
who undid all of Trump's border measures is going, what do you want me to do? I didn't ever did
01:27:02.100
anything. Somebody's got to do something like it's this crazy upside down world where like, but I just
01:27:08.500
thought like, let's just do a thought experiment. Like, let's forget about the border for a moment and
01:27:15.800
just say, just pretend you had a school, right? And one group of people kept saying, we need to build
01:27:24.180
a fence around the school because we're worried about people coming in and maybe harming the
01:27:30.300
children or getting into the school or stealing the food from the cafeteria. And then you had another
01:27:36.540
group saying, we're not going to build a fence. And if you build a fence, we're going to tear it down.
01:27:42.620
Well, at some point, which group do you think would be more interested in protecting the school?
01:27:50.860
And we're living in a crazy world where you have the Republicans are like, build a fence,
01:27:56.460
build a wall, do it, do it, do it. The Democrats are like, don't build a wall, tear down the wall,
01:28:03.540
sell all the materials off for scrap while they rust in the desert.
01:28:07.540
And then they go, we're super interested in protecting the school. And it's like,
01:28:13.800
you're super interested in protecting the school. I'd like to build a fence around the school. No,
01:28:19.340
no, no. We're going to tear the fence down. And if you start building the fence and we take control,
01:28:25.140
then we're going to take the part of the fence that you built and we'll tear that down. We'll sell
01:28:29.460
all the material for scrap, but do not tell us we're not more interested than you in protecting the
01:28:35.460
school. Well, if you put it that way, that sounds insane.
01:28:40.140
It's the same thing on women's rights that the Democrats, I mean, every other day,
01:28:44.420
how they're the champions of women's rights. When that E. Jean Carroll was on Rachel Maddow's show
01:28:48.280
the other night, women's rights, I'll do what it takes for women's rights. That's what Rachel said.
01:28:53.220
E. Jean Carroll, she's a women's rights champion. I have yet to see Rachel Maddow or any on the left,
01:28:59.100
MSNBC, et cetera, pick up the mantle of fairness to girls in sports, fairness and safety for women
01:29:06.200
in women's spaces. And that brings me to the trans story that I mentioned. Sadie Rose Schreiner
01:29:12.560
is an amazing runner, Adam. Sadie Rose is crushing it, running as a sophomore at the Rochester Institute
01:29:19.600
of Technology. Just watch Sadie Rose absolutely dominate Sadie's competitors, breaking collegiate
01:29:28.940
records in track and field. Here, take a look, watch some video. This is Sadie. Look how long
01:29:36.780
Sadie's legs are. Look how tall Sadie is. Sadie is like the Leah Thomas of running. There isn't a girl
01:29:45.420
near Sadie. Sadie looks unbeatable. And there are at least five body lengths between Sadie and the next
01:29:54.200
person on the team. And there's a very good reason for all of that. Sadie's a man. Sadie is not just
01:30:01.300
any man. Sadie was on the men's track team just a couple of years ago. Actually, yeah, one year ago
01:30:10.220
in December 2022, he was competing in the men's category of track and field. But like so many of
01:30:18.660
these men, he wasn't very good. So if you took the same times he's posting as a women's record setter
01:30:25.260
and medal winner, he would be a loser as a guy. Sadie's real name is Camden before the quote
01:30:32.220
transition. Just sent to set two new records on Friday in track and field for RIT and New York
01:30:38.220
set the 200 meter record qualified for the Atlantic regional championship, broke the 300
01:30:43.300
meter record. Uh, the 300 meter race time was over two seconds ahead of the first female runner behind
01:30:49.460
him. Uh, for comparison, his times would have placed him in 18th place among the men's 200 meter
01:30:58.060
race in 10th on the men's 300 meter. Nope. He's first now that he's a so-called girl also placed
01:31:04.520
first in the four by 400 meter relay earning a Liberty league women's track and field performer
01:31:09.160
of the week award. Yay. Cause the best women are men. He brags crazy meat last weekend running till
01:31:15.980
my legs gave out. It's not his first stolen win in December. Just this past one, he was at Nazareth
01:31:24.040
university in New York, setting the new record there with a time of 41.8 seconds reportedly competed at
01:31:29.640
the very same meat Adam one year earlier in the men's category of the 100 meter where he came in
01:31:38.240
19th. You see, he only gets 19th or 18th as a man, but it's wonderful because with those long legs
01:31:46.040
and post-male puberty and having run professionally or in the college level as a man, it's very, very easy
01:31:51.140
to meet, to beat the actual females. But could it go any other way? I mean, this is the system.
01:32:01.860
And I think what we fail to realize, and especially the progressives and the leftists fail to realize
01:32:09.600
is this is human nature. So if you say you can't travel with your dog, you can't bring your dog to an
01:32:19.480
airport and you can't bring your dog on an airplane. And I go, well, I want to bring my dog to an
01:32:24.880
airport. I want to travel with my dog, especially if it's for free. And they go, well, you can't do
01:32:30.180
it unless it's a service animal. And you go service animal. How's that work? Oh, you just get a note
01:32:37.180
from your doctor saying you have like coma or saying you have anxiety or something. And then you can travel
01:32:41.980
with fluffy. Well, there's going to be perfect. There's got you go to the airport. Now you step
01:32:48.020
in dog poop because people go, oh, that's the system. OK, let's game the system. This is what
01:32:55.460
we do. This is what Americans I mean, they go, you know, fill out your taxes. How many dependents do
01:33:00.480
you have? I have five, but you only have one child. I know, but I'm counting my teapot as a dependent.
01:33:06.980
You know, I mean, it's human nature. Everyone comes over the border, right? Used to be remain
01:33:13.120
in Mexico. Now they go, well, you come over here. And if you're seeking asylum because you're coming
01:33:18.280
from a regime that's oppressing you. So people come across the border and they go, uh, yeah,
01:33:24.280
I'm an 18 year old dude who's looking for work, but I'll just say come from a oppressive regime
01:33:28.560
and I fear for my life. And they go, oh, right. Well, that's what we do. And so when you open the
01:33:35.160
door, people walk through it. And that's what you're saying. X amount of women and X amount of
01:33:43.120
men, and I should say pretty much men are going to do this because everyone wants to be first
01:33:50.300
and no one wants to be 19th. So that's what this creates and it's going to happen and it can't not
01:33:58.620
happen. And we shouldn't be so naive to think that it isn't going to happen. And that's what we do.
01:34:05.640
We go, Hey, defund the police and start community ambassadors. These are unarmed people who understand
01:34:12.720
the community. Next thing you know, everyone's getting the shit kicked out of them and carjacked
01:34:17.700
because all the fakakta crazy left-wing ideas only lead here. That's how it works.
01:34:26.720
It's just, I'm sure Sadie's in the locker room with these young women right now. And they're
01:34:32.300
probably too afraid to say anything. We've seen the story before. All right. Finally,
01:34:36.420
in the minute or so we have left reports, take it for what it's worth. Cause it's at a rolling stone
01:34:41.840
that, uh, someone close to Donald Trump is saying that if Taylor Swift publicly backs Joe Biden in
01:34:49.660
the next election, Trump supporters will unleash a quote, holy war on the mega star. Do you think
01:34:58.760
that's a good idea? Um, first things first, I wouldn't wipe my ass with a page from Rolling Stone
01:35:07.520
magazine. They completely destroyed themselves. I have no idea why Rolling Stone wants to go down
01:35:15.880
the path of sports illustrated or the LA times. You idiots have destroyed your own brand. I used to
01:35:23.660
subscribe to Rolling Stone. I used to read Rolling Stone and I used to take articles from Rolling Stone
01:35:29.660
and go, Oh, this must've happened. I did not know back then that they had any kind of agenda
01:35:37.380
other than reporting on rock and roll and things related to it. I now believe nothing. Rolling Stone
01:35:45.040
says about anything. They're just a lying rag. So I have no idea if this is true. I don't believe it
01:35:55.140
because Rolling Stone, if Rolling Stone came out with an article that said, Adam Carolla is 59 years of age
01:36:03.300
and six foot two and a Gemini, I would go, that's bullshit because it's in Rolling Stone.
01:36:09.960
Well, I think you, I have the same skepticism about the publication as you do, but I also know that
01:36:16.880
those very close to Trump, uh, if she does get political and she throws her hat in for his
01:36:22.340
opponent, he's not above hitting her and he's not above having, you know, team MAGA hit her. And
01:36:27.100
that's just what happens when you step your foot into politics. I'm sure she's aware of that. And I
01:36:32.560
think if she does, so she's fair game, Adam, it's been a true pleasure. Thank you so much for all
01:36:38.980
the laughs. Always a good time, Megan. Oh, likewise. All right. See you soon. And see all of you
01:36:45.760
tomorrow. We're going to have our Kelly score all stars, Arthur Idala and Mark Iglar. See you then.
01:36:53.960
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