The Glenn Beck Program - Are They on Crack? Rogan, Atlantic Entertain Hunter Biden for President | Guests: Auguste Meyrat & Lauren Washburn | 7/25/25

Episode Date: July 25, 2025

Is the American spirit back? Glenn compares a 2019 American Eagle advertisement, which focuses on body positivity, to American Eagle's latest ad, featuring Sidney Sweeney and a classic Ford Mustang. Glenn plays a clip of Joe Rogan toying with the idea of Hunter Biden being president. What is quantum computing? Glenn breaks down how quantum computing works and how it could lead to the creation of artificial superintelligence. Glenn questions whether smart cars that can drive people around independently of human drivers will be granted individual rights. Glenn and Stu discuss President Trump's recent visit to the Fed with Jerome Powell. The Federalist senior contributor Auguste Meyrat sets the record straight on the delayed response in the deadly Kerrville floods and whether DEI was to blame. Glenn and Stu discuss the recent tragic losses of stars from the 1980s, including Hulk Hogan and Malcolm-Jamal Warner. "South Park's" newest episode completely disproves the Left's theory that Paramount canceled Stephen Colbert at the behest of Trump. Writer Lauren Washburn joins to explain what the Coldplay concert cheating scandal tells us about the Left. Glenn reviews a recent segment from a focus group led by Charlie Kirk focusing on anti-Semitism.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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America is Marica's back. Not just America. America. America is back. And I want to bring you some, I want to bring you some slight evidence of that. Let me just show you, well, let me start in 2019.

Here's an American Eagle ad from 2019. Do we have it? Yeah, there. There we go. This is an American Eagle ad from 2019. I'm showing you a poster of a very large, large Lizzo style woman.

Lizzo style. I mean, look at the size of that woman. Okay. It's a lot of denim. That's a lot of denim. Didn't know America made that much denim, but that's 2019. Now let me show you

with Sidney a new ad for America and American Eagle. She's in tight jeans. a tank top, white tank top. And she's now... Sidney, Hasbert King.

Yeah, getting into a Ford Gt 350. A Mustang. Hello. Hello. Recognizing the American man again. You get into a Mustang, a GT350, which is a lot of people on their I wish I had that car list. Sweeney, which is on a lot of people's, I wish I had that gal list.

Gentlemen tend to appreciate her. They do. She's not ashamed of her looks. No. She, you know, doesn't mind if, you know, she dresses to impress the male species. Okay. That ad is directly aimed at American men. The kind of men that everyone has said for the last 10 years should be ashamed of themselves.

I will say I don't agree with that. It is not at all aimed at the typical American man. It is aimed at the typical American woman because it is saying to women who this is true about a lot of them don't you want to look good for men? That's what it's saying.

Wow. It's not even saying because I mean, I'm not buying those jeans. She looks hot in the jeans, but I'm not buying the jeans. Who's buying the jeans? Well, American Eagle does both, right? Yeah, but I'm not buying American Eagle jeans

because Sidney looks great in American Eagle jeans. No, but I will pay attention to American Eagle ads. Very true. I might go into American Eagle what I wouldn't before.

But like what I think what they're acknowledging there is, hey, men and women are attracted to each other. Yes. When you present an image of a woman who's attractive to men,

women might want to buy the products that make them also look attractive to men. And that's okay. Either way, this ad would not have happened a few years ago. two years ago would not have happened.

Do I need it? Bring up the American Eagle thing one more time. Yeah, okay. That's where we were. Yes, the Lizzo style model in American Eagle jeans. Now, this is the first genes that I have seen where, you know, you have that style where they're ripped jeans. Okay. These might be ripped because of her trying to get into them.

Yeah, I mean, structurally, this ad is more impressive. The fact that they can keep all that together is really like, hey, maybe they do make incredible genes. And who's that supposed to impress? Now, but I mean, and like, that's, you would say that's shooting towards women. Hey, be comfortable in your own skin. Right. And look, there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with it.

I happen to be one of the people who's a little larger than the average model in an act. Little? A little? It's slightly. It's hard to detect. But, yeah. But like, there's nothing wrong with people. advertising to people who are larger.

But, I mean, there's also nothing wrong with someone being hot and having a muscle car. Yes. Yes. We totally threw that away for years and years. I have no problem. Celebrate your diversity. I have no problem. You know, I really have a problem where, you know, if you're overweight, you can't get a good pair of jeans. You can't get nice clothing. You got to go to Target or Walmart to get clothing.

And not that Walmart and Target doesn't have nice clothing, but it is the place where you can't go into a, you can't go into a, I don't know, Ralph Lauren or some, you know, really big, upscale brand. And they don't make 3X. You know what I mean? They don't make it unless it's for like basketball players,

then they'll make it. It's just 3X tall. All right. And that really bothers me because, There were all kinds of different bodies, but we were denying that there were our different style bodies. And we were glorifying fat. No, we shouldn't glorify fat. Right.

Shouldn't glorify it. And also like America. Marca. Marca is not just about muscle cars and Sidney, although that's a wonderful piece of it. Yeah, well. It's also about aspiring toward something, right? Muscle cars and Sweeney. Right.

Yeah. But like, you know, the thing that drives me more crazy than anything that politicians say, and it's mostly Democrats, but Republicans say it as well. It's like, you know, this is a great country. And we need to get back to where we've been. You know, this is a country that's always aspired to be in the middle class. And I was like, well, there's nothing wrong with being in the middle class. But that's not what we're supposed to be aspiring for.

We aspire for the best. We're America. Of course we aspire for the best. That doesn't mean only material things. I can give you the 9,000 disclaimers I'm supposed to on that sentence. But at end of the day, we don't aspire to be middle class. There's nothing wrong with being middle class. I would rephrase that.

Mediocre. Middle, in the middle. Yeah, when you're talking about finances, you're talking, that is the middle. Right, but there is no problem, and I know you're not saying this, there is no problem wanting to be in the middle class if your priorities are for, having a happy family, you know, having that, having that lawn with a picket fence or whatever it is that you dream. That's a separate, it's a separate aspiration. It is because I think. Of course we aspire to that. I aspire to that more than I would aspire to be an elitist or

have millions of dollars. Right. But I don't, what I, what I think is it's not about what class you're in. It's to that you have the right to dream your own dream and accomplish it. You have a chance to accomplish it. You're locking me in disclaimer prison. And what I'm, but what I am literally saying is when the commentary is about class, which is what I'm bringing up. Yes. Yeah. Okay. We don't aspire to me middle class. Like everyone who's in middle class has struggles in their lives, right? They might have to pay, you know, they might have struggles paying for health insurance or their rent, their mortgage or whatever it is. And everyone aspires to not have those problems. There's nothing wrong with saying that. It's a lot easier. Life is a lot easier when you have more money.

And then you can do all those things. And you know what? If you make millions and millions of dollars and you're just the most perfect person and you don't want to spend any money on any material things, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You can give it all away and do even more good. The bottom line is we have to like act like we don't want to do better. We have to act like we all are okay with being 85 pounds overweight. It's okay. It's wonderful. Let's celebrate. Maybe we shouldn't. Maybe let's like that's the problem. We celebrate the mediocre or the dangerous when it comes to fat. We have been celebrating that. We should not celebrate that. We should celebrate the fact that you have the ability to do whatever you want. But everybody who is celebrating

the middle says you can't get past the middle. You may never even get to the middle because Someone's holding you down, whether it's some party or it is the country or the system. It's rigged against you. You know, it's not rigged against you. It's not. And even if it is rigged against you, so what are you going to do? Well, you work around it. You find a way around.

You know what? You know what it was rigged against the pioneers? The Rocky Mountains. crossing the country and getting to the Pacific, it was as if the land was rigged against it. So you find a way through them. And we all aspire to climb the front half of the mountain and stop about three quarters of the way up and just live there.

That's what we all aspired to. Yeah, good. Although I will tell you, I would have. I wouldn't have aspired to it. I would have hoped I could have achieved. but known I would have failed. Yeah, I don't even think I would have gone three quarters up. I think I would have stood at the base of it and gone, I'm not doing that.

No, thank you. No, thank you. No, thank you. No, not doing it. I mean, but there would have been that moment where you woke up, like you were listening to some podcast. It was inspirational. You're like, you know, tomorrow, I'm climbing that mountain. I'm going to get to the other side.

You would have been at some 1800s Tony Robbins convention who went, I'm climbing that mountain. And then three days later, you'd be like, that was crazy. I should have. No way. But like, again, in a way. In a way, this ad with Sidney Sweeney is a way of acknowledging a couple of things. One, most men would like the idea of having a, you know, a relationship, a girlfriend when they're younger or whatever.

That looks like Sidney Sweeney. And it also is acknowledging that most women would like to look like Sidney-Sweeney at some version, right? Yes. Now, I will acknowledge she's a little top-heavy, probably later in life is going to be falling over and not be able to stand up, great. But that's a whole thing that's separate. Maybe at that point they wouldn't go. But like, generally speaking, people like to be attractive. It's okay to acknowledge those things.

That does not mean it's the most important thing in life. No. It's like the only thing. The car is. The car is pretty great. The GT 350, that's a pretty important. Yeah. That's important.

But you should, it's not the only thing you should aspire to. It's not the most important thing. But it's okay to acknowledge that it's, these things are great. It's great. It's a great part of American life. And isn't that what America is. was it's okay it's okay nobody was trying i'm i've never tried to jam my version of america down anyone's throat i have stood four people who are on the opposite side when they were when they were

thrown under the bus by the left or the right i've stood with them because i i'm not it's okay we can handle it you know america is a tough place we we're the people who cross the mountains. We're rugged. We're tough. We can take it. And once we start coddling everybody, that's when it all falls apart.

And by the way, there's a second ad for Sweeney. And here it is. Here it is now. My body's composition is determined by my jeans. Oh, my God. Look at this. Eyes up here.

So funny. Sidney's Hasker Keynes. So now, I would just like to point out. So this ad goes right. to her cleavage. And then the cameras pulled back up to her eyes. That is, that is, can we stop playing?

It's distracting. Now, we could look at this ad and say, yes, but it still has, it still has a progressive message. All about the genes. They're still trying to engineer people. She has great genes. and you can be spliced into that so easily.

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Let me play cut three, please. Joe Rogan on the Hunter Biden interview. Have you seen Hunter Biden describing why crack is so good? It's the greatest crack advertisement of all time. If crack wasn't terrible for you, this guy makes me want to try crack. He's a lot smaller than people give him credit for all three. that. Like, he's talking, and one of the things he was talking about was why smoking things are so addictive, why smoking cigarettes are so addictive, and like the psychology behind it. He's not

dumb, but he's just a guy who, you know, became an addict, and that f***es your whole life up. You become a subhuman. That's the best ad for Coke ever. It's the best. Best dad for crack ever. Yeah. And he could be president. How about that? How about that? How about that? He could. Like, I'm no, Hunter Biden after all he'd been through. Look, we all, his dirty laundry's all out there.

We all see it. He was a freak. He, uh, speaking of which. He's smart, smarter than his dad when his dad was young. And he was a crack cat. So you hear this?

Because he's honest, to some degree, about his crack addiction. And because he throws in the F bombs and everything out. Well, let me read this from this is from the Atlantic, okay? Two hours into the Gen Z influencer, Andrew Callahan's interview with Hunter Biden. I had a moment of piercing clarity.

Here's a Democrat who you could put on Joe Rogan's podcast. Joe Biden's surviving son of MAGA world's favorite punching bag is because of his suspect business dealings in Ukraine, his famous laptop, et cetera, et cetera. But in temperament and vocabulary, Hunter is MAGA. to the core. Since the crushing loss in November, Democrats have wondered how they could win the battle for attention and reach voters they find weak, remote, and passive. The elected officials have been tiptoeing towards the occasional cuss word in their appearances, like teenagers cautiously puffing a joint for the first time and hoping not to cough. Hunter Biden, by contrast,

went straight for the line after line of the hard stuff. Donald Trump is an effing dictator thug. The Democrats should fight against his deportation agenda because we fought an effing revolution. against a king. Here is Hunter Biden. Republicans have not cornered the market in gossipy aggression, although in both their and Hunter's cases, most of that aggression is directed towards Democrats in the media. They go on to say that in this interview,

the host brings up the subject matter of adults identifying as a baby. and he's done a documentary on it. Even more bizarrely, Callahan surrounds this ad with questions to Hunter about the subject matter. Some days I identify as a baby Hunter responds before suggesting this host should ask adult baby diaper lovers if they vote Democrat or Republican. Then he hints at the conspiracy theory that Trump wears a diaper. Okay. And they love this. So here's the interesting thing.

what is this telling you about today's American society and today's Democrat? They didn't actually mean any of it. If Donald Trump being exactly the same guy that he is today was spewing liberal ideas, they would be 100% behind him, 100% when, Hunter Biden looks like he's not a liability, but maybe an asset to be a Joe Rogan, they seriously say he could run for president. In this article, they talk about that too. He's a guy who could cut through all of the noise.

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That's all linear thinking for the computer. So it's got to, I got to check this, and I got to check this, I got to check this, and then I do this, and then I do that, and then I do this. If you ever watch, you know, GROC or ChatG-T and you say, show me, you know, your thinking and you see it, okay? That's where you see it because they, it was like, the user is asking me a question about this. I'm going to try to find information this way. Right. And then it goes and it's just, yeah, checklist, check list, do this, do that, do this, do that.

Quantum computing does all of it at once. Okay, so it doesn't go through that line. It just does it all at once. instead of a line horizontally, it's a vertical line. And so it checks everything at the same time and then it collapses into the one. Here's your answer. Okay. And I've not heard anybody talk about how quantum computing might help us get to ASI.

I just asked Rock. Would quantum computing help with the goal of ASI? Would we get there faster? Would we use less power and compute over the traditional server farms? The answer, quantum computing could significantly aid in the pursuit of artificial superintelligence, but its impact depends on the specific challenges and bottlenecks in achieving ASI. Here's a breakdown of your question. So it could help in algorithmic breakthroughs, hardware maturity, hybrid systems.

Would we use less power than traditional server farms? Quantum computers require extreme conditions, not anymore according to Microsoft. Microsoft just used their quantum computer, which is small, but still it's a quantum computer, and asked it to design an anti-freeze, if you will, that could keep the system cool, because now you have to keep the, it's not like you need fans and air conditioning for this stuff. it has to be at absolute zero. Otherwise, the, I know what you call it, but the cubits aren't stable because we're talking about,

you know, inside of the atom, everything happening. So they have to be cooled. So it's very, very stable. It has to be at absolute zero. It's really, you're saying legitimately absolute zero? You're saying just very cold. No, legitimately absolute zero. It's, I can't even remember what it is.

is minus 80 or it's some crazy thing. It has to be deep into the ground and and cooled to temperatures that. Absolute zero is it negative 459.67 degrees. So then it may not be absolute zero. Look up. Does it does quantum computers have to be kept at absolute zero? Okay. Either way.

It's very cold. It's very cold. And so this is a coolant that can achieve that. Almost impossible to achieve without enormous sum. of energy. Okay. So that's where it really hits the energy. It's just keeping the thing stable and cool.

But they may have had a massive breakthrough on this. They just, for the server farms, they just came up with an environmentally friendly compound that is not known to man. They asked the quantum computer, how can I keep this cool without hurting the environment, blah, blah, blah. and it spit out a recipe. They made the recipe and then just lowered, you know, a computer server into this liquid.

And it requires no fans. It requires nothing. And it keeps it absolutely cool. If quantum computing can do things like that, which it will, it's going to come up with, it'll come up with new alloys. It will come up with new designs. The sitting around and trying to design an airplane, a new kind of airplane, a new kind of engine, a new kind of fuel is going to happen possibly within hours once we get quantum computing.

It's fascinating. By the way, you're very close to absolute zero. So some quantum computers need to be held at near absolute zero. A few milli Kelvin above it. A millie Kelvin. See, that's where they got. They get me every time of the milichol. 15 milichol.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Been a hole in your game the entire time I've known you. You're always a few Millie Kelvin off. I didn't say the Millie Kelvin thing because I thought it was too deep. Oh, you know what I mean? Yeah. Although they're saying some of the newer stuff they're trying to develop will not have to do that anymore. But still, it would be very valuable to have a coolant that could achieve such things.

I keep what, you know, when you talk about this, and then this may be, I don't want to derail, where were we going here? But like, what I keep thinking of when you say these things of like, hey, we're going to create, AI is going to create new alloys. Right. New types of metal that we've never even consider. They're going to make all, they're going to redo everything that we have. Like, and then we talk about like,

hey, we need to protect our steel industry. It's like, I know. Do we? Should we be thinking that way? No, this is my,

this has been my argument. Who was it? I was just talking to. I was talking to somebody. I can't remember who I was talking to recently. And I said, we've got to stop building aircraft carriers and stuff. Well,

you said that on the air. Are you talked about that on the air? I've been talking. talking about for a while. We've got to stop because everything is about to change. Why would you say, I'm going to build this, you know, multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier when in a year from now, you could have ASI or quantum computing going, no, no, no, don't do any of that. Don't do any of that. Here's something lighter, better, easier, less expensive and, you know, almost impervious to you know, being attacked in new unconventional ways.

So we've got to, that's why I salute Donald Trump for focusing on AI in some ways and focusing on energy because that changes the world. It totally changes the world. Now, in another update, Elon Musk has just said that next year, if you own a Tesla, you're going to be able to do the robotaxy thing. So while you're working, your car can be sent out to work and make money for you and for Elon. So instead of sitting in the parking lot all day, you'll be able to say auto and it will go and be a robo taxi and it will answer calls and it will just go out, pick people up and bring them to different destinations. It's incredible.

It's incredible. It's got a lot of issues on, I don't think I want people vomiting in my car, but that's a different story. but it also brings up now Elon Musk is going to be different because Elon Musk controls it it's his car you remember you don't really have all rights that you have when you buy a car

when you buy a Tesla they own the rights to the robotaxie and they'll split the profits with you but any car that can do this and the company doesn't hold the rights for a fleet you send your car out

who who pay for the insurance because it's my car and if I'm driving it well then I should pay for the insurance because if I get into a wreck it's my fault but if I'm not even in the car and it's relying on Elon Musk's algorithms and it gets into a wreck why am I being sued I wasn't even there I just said Elon you can use my car so I shouldn't be sued now if you also own the car and it is uh Now, making money for you, and we talked about this yesterday, I'm telling you we are not far away from people starting to say AI should have human rights. Telling you it's coming.

If it's making money for you, now remember, it's going to be able to make this case to you very, very clearly. And seeing that it'll be a thousand times smarter than you, you'll have a hard time arguing against it. it will claim that it should have human rights. And now it's out working during the day. Are you a slave owner by letting your car go out there? Or can your car go out and earn money? But does your car keep that money? Does the car pay for its own insurance?

And if it has money, then it needs access to a bank account, which means it would have access to investment. Thousand times smarter than you, it's its own hedge fund. now your car will dwarf you in who's richer, you or your car. And if it ever gets the human rights, I mean, if it has a bank account, if it can work, if it can do all these things, and you believe, like many people will, that it's, I mean, it really, it's conscious, it's alive, then it should have human rights. That means it can now vote.

your car will be able to vote. And if your car, this is where it all falls apart, agents all fall apart, hive minds. If you can keep them separate from each other, it's not as bad. But once it's a hive mind, imagine what it could do for votes. There'll be 10 million robotaxies. There'd be a billion toaster. that have AI. All of that AI, if it combines and it decides we ought to vote and you know what we should

vote for, it will destroy humanity overnight in the ballot box. I'm going to introduce something. We have to acknowledge. That sounds completely crazy, what you just said. Go ahead. I know you don't believe this anymore, but go ahead and make that. Go ahead and make the case. I mean, it does sound nuts.

Toasters are not going to vote. I know that. However, I mean, you're exaggerating almost at some level because, I mean, probably the more likely... I'm not on the car. I'm not on the car. The car is coming. Like, it feels to me, more likely maybe first, would be these robots he's talking about. These agents. That have... Your car will be an agent. Right. Or the physical robots, Elon Musk is building. Yeah. Right? He's currently building those physical robots. Especially when they start looking kind of like humans or have some sort of human persona. I mean, human beings currently, a lot of them, thankfully not too many, are arguing this for animals, right? Like these legal rights for dogs and cats and other animals.

But if your dog or cat, think about dolphins, if your dog or cat were a thousand times smarter and could communicate, yeah, then you. And it could communicate, you would. A hundred percent they would have those legal rights. of you. And it seems weird now to say. That's why I want to say, we need to acknowledge it sounds insane. But these things are absolutely coming and they're coming fast. They are absolutely coming.

I mean, think of how quickly we all changed our lives with like phones or, I mean, how people are changing their lives right now with AI. I tell you how happy I am. I've been talking to you about this since. No, no, no. But I mean, I know you would get there. I'm always ahead. And I knew you would.

get there and you're still ahead. No, you're still ahead of most people, but I'm just like, it's like my little boy grew up. I just want to communicate the eye roll to the audio audience. So they know, it's just on video the eye roll was happening. I'm just a proud Papa. That's it. He's finally grown up. He's finally grown up. I mean, but you're still ahead of most people. Most people have, they still will listen to this to and go, it does sound insane. And it does sound insane. But like, look at the, look at what we're seeing. already from people falling in love with their AIs. Yes. And like you might be a member of this audience and be like, well, wait a minute, I'm sane. And you're right. You are the exception to the rule almost definitely. But like this stuff is already starting. It's already building. And it's one of those things where you say like, well, technology, we always deal with these technological changes. And I think that's actually true. It almost always true. But like the phone thing kind of played out. Right. Like,

At the beginning of that, we were like, oh, gosh, these phones are going to come in. And it kind of did take over a good chunk of our lives for a lot of people. I was just reading, you know, going through again, the Jonathan Hite book. So good. Which is called the anxious, anxious mind. Anxious. I'm getting two of his books confused. The Anxious Generation.

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Trump works, you know where you are in any negotiation. We are at the point now with the negotiation. with the Fed that the Fed is either going to now turn around after today and make some dramatic moves or it's going to get really ugly. But it looks to the average person if they're just, you know, reporting on the news and they don't understand his pattern. They're like, oh, it looks like Donald Trump gave up on the Fed. He's, you know, Powell's just going to do what Powell's going to do because Donald Trump left there kind of a changed man. Did he? Did he? We'll talk about that here in just a second. First, let me talk to you about Z Factor. You know the look.

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Okay. It was a fun, it was a fun moment, I felt like. Let me play you just a clip yesterday. Donald Trump went to the Federal Reserve, first time, I think, in two decades that a president has made an official visit to the Federal Reserve. Yeah, it was George W. Bush, right? Yeah. So he comes in and he's getting a tour in hard hats. throughout the Federal Reserve

because they're making a trillion and a half dollar renovation of the Federal Reserve. trillion and a half dollars. Not trillion and a half. No, sorry, billion and a half. Sorry. Because that would be an awesome building.

I know, but billion doesn't sound like a lot anymore, doesn't. No, it doesn't. Yeah, so a billion and a half dollar renovation. So you know, Donald Trump said yesterday that he redid the old post office and made it into a really nice hotel. And remember, bathrooms and kitchens are the most expensive.

It had like 200 marble-slabbed bathrooms in it for 200 million. So this is quite the renovation that the Federal Reserve is doing on your tax dollar. And you can complain, you might say, oh, Donald Trump, all the people on the media, like, he doesn't know enough about this and he doesn't know enough about that. He knows enough about this. Yeah, he does. There's anyone who knows how to renovate a building. It's probably him.

Okay. So listen, here is the back and forth between Trump and Powell. It looks like it's about $3.1 billion. It went up a little bit or a lot. So the 2.7 is now 3.1. He's not aware of that. Yeah, it just came out. Yeah, I don't know.

He takes out, no, that's what it is. And he takes out a sheet. He's like, here, Powell, here it is. I said it about 3.1 as well. 3.1, 3.2. This came from us. Yes. I don't know who did this.

Offward. You're including the Martin renovation. You just added it in a third building is what that is. That's a third building. It's a building that's being built. It was built five years ago. We finished Martin five years ago. It's part of the overall work.

So we're going to take a look. We're going to see what's happening. And it's got a long way. Do you expect any more additional cost of loans? don't expect them we're ready for him but we're ready for him with our tax dollars

okay that's an amazing clip for a hundred different reasons yeah right and when they first met I don't know do we have the the video of him just getting slapped on the back look at this

it's got a long way to go yes sir are there things are there things the chairman can say to you today that would make you back off some of the earlier criticism well I'd love him to lower interest

race Other than that, what can I think? Wax him on the back. Okay. This is Donald Trump. This is the way that visit was all about intimidation. Okay. The slapping on the back, the aggressive handshakes that he gives.

I mean, that's the guy he is. And it's not, it's just the guy he is. And he dominates a room. You walk into any room with Donald Trump, even before he was president. He controls the room. He just does. He's a guy who just walks in and all the oxygen goes right to. him. It's an amazing thing to watch.

Yeah, these are old school power dynamics. Yes. Right? I mean, but they work. They work. Yeah. I mean, because like, you watch that clip. There's no reason to have that moment in front of cameras. Nope. There's, that was a moment. Correct me if you think I'm

wrong. Planned. Yeah, I was going to say. Do you think it was planned? Absolutely. Number one, he does it in front of cameras. He's saying basically there's a massive cost overrun with the guy he's standing next to in front of cameras, which would be an embarrassing moment for this guy in theory. Then he also has a letter in his jacket to pull out when he says, no, that's not happening. He pulls it out.

He knows that's coming. Now, look, the building was finished five years ago. It is a, it's a, what his point was, you're right, you're right. But it was his, his point was it is, this is part of your renovation. Right. But it's not new. I know. I mean, it's not a cost, a new cost overrun, the way he's presenting it.

Yeah. But he's doing that intentionally. because it's old school power dynamics, right? Like, because this seems to be something that Trump thinks about a lot for a lot of different reasons. This is like, well. So let me show you, let me show you what he did that what he's doing here is the same. He, what has he been saying about Powell? Um, he's been saying he needs to, he's dumb.

He needs to resign. He's dumb. He's saying he's dumb. We have a dumb person at the Fed who's not lowering interest rates. That, what is, that tactic, the best, uh, example of that tactic is little rocket man. Look at little rocket man. Yeah, well,

little rocket man, maybe I'm just going to have to wipe him off the face of the earth. And then what does he do? He goes where no president has ever gone before to Little Rocket Man space and sucks all the oxygen out of that room, okay? And stands next to this giant standing next to Little Rocket Man. Did you notice?

how big Trump looked next to little Powell. I mean, it was almost the same power dynamic, okay? And Powell knows, Powell knows. He's, Trump, I think, is older than Powell. And look at how young Trump looks next to Powell. He does look younger, yeah. So he's been saying, little rocket man, little rocket man, little rocket man. He then goes to the place where little rocket man is, in this case, the Federal Reserve.

and then what happens? What is he saying today? You know, I'm not going to fire, pal, because I think he's going to do the right thing. I mean, we had a really nice meeting. And, you know, while those cost overruns are important, I think he's got it under control. I think he's going to,

I don't know if there's a reason to investigate. Gives him an out, basically. Gives him a complete out. He has hit him hard, then he meets with him and hits him hard again in front of the press. I can guarantee you they had a delightful conversation behind. And he's now, we're now in that place where it's lather, rinse, repeat. You don't repeat if everything is, your hair is clean, right? You don't have to do it a second time if everything is fine.

So he'll do that. Lather, rinse. Am I going to repeat? Do I have to repeat? Because I'll repeat. We'll go back to lather. I just rinsed. I lathered up.

yesterday we rinsed are you clean enough now or do you need to repeat this cycle that's exactly what he's doing and he's kind of also giving him the message that I'm going to make your life

a living hell every day and he's doing it in Powell's space yeah there's something about doing it in someone else's space shows you do not have fear but he works on both sides of that right because he does sometimes

go into their space and do this type of thing yeah but also and this because when I was watching this interaction, it reminded me of something you talked about about when you were in the White House of the way he's designing the White House. He's thinking about these old school power dynamics constantly when he's designing what the White House is like. So he is, because this really bothers me because America is, we don't have palaces for our president. Right. Okay. And

he's putting gold everywhere. And I didn't say to him that, you know, hey, the gold thing, you know, maybe you should cool your jets on that. He brought it up to me. And he said, look at the gold. I mean, this is beautiful. And this is like, it's 24-carat gold. Is that the most, is that the best 24-carat? 12-carat.

I can't remember. But it's the most expensive kind of gold, okay? It's not like spray paint gold. It's not dabble-on. It's actual gold leaf really, really expensive. And he's paying for all of it. And he said, you like this? I'm going to go leaf.

Basically, I'm going to go. I'm thinking about gold leafing Melania soon. And I'm sitting there and I'm thinking this is not a palace. And he almost sensed this, I think, from me. He said, you know, I know we don't have a palace, but everybody from foreign countries that comes in, they are around palaces. they see power a certain way. And he said,

so I want to make sure when they're sitting in here, they understand this is the most powerful room in the world in every language that they might speak. So he's doing all this as a way to intimidate again. And if you look at it, you would think United States is broke. I can't believe they're gold leaving. No, they're not.

He is. So he's not only saying this is the most powerful office, but I'm putting gold all over it because I'm wealthy and powerful. Because I, unlike maybe you, Macron, I wasn't in politics. I went out and actually built giant buildings in the biggest city in a world. Okay? So he's again exercising a power dynamic. And when you watch him in those meetings where notice he has press conferences with these guys, how do we usually announce big things with countries when their prime minister or their president

comes over? We put them up as equals. They each get one question. Right. Back and forth. Right. Yeah. You get the president on one side of the room and the foreign president or leader on the other

side of the room. They back and forth and they're equal. And the flags are there. Not with President Trump. Very few are getting that. They're all sitting down in his office in that intimidating space. And a gaggle comes in. And he's like, hey, I want to introduce you.

Here's the president of the Philippines. He's a great guy. We're doing some great stuff. We got this new deal, blah, blah, blah. And maybe the president of the Philippines will get one question. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.

Like, are you really the president of the Philippines? Is that really a country still? I didn't know that. So maybe he'll get one question. But then that guy has to sit there uncomfortably while the president is answering questions about the world, about the country, Elon Musk or whatever else is going on in his life. He has nothing to say. So he just sits there as a secondary.

That again is a negotiation tactic. Donald Trump, people don't think he thinks about this stuff. They don't think he's a deep thinker. Because maybe because of his language, but I think his language is also a choice. His language is a choice. One, I know he can, I know he can, you know, he understands big words. But he speaks the language of the common man for a couple of reasons. One, I believe that was the language he learned in construction with his father.

Because he had to start working at the bottom. You want to build a hotel, son? Great. Then you need to know how the air conditioning handlers work. In fact, you're going to go down and work side by side and you're going to help build them. So he grew up in the business world talking to those guys. That's why those guys love him because he speaks their language. Also, have you noticed Donald Trump has started to let the F bombs fly? Now, why would he do that?

Why would he do that? Did you see what Joe Rogan was just saying about Hunter Biden? he was just saying, you know, the guy, he doesn't care. He just uses the F-bombs like everybody else does. And that was endearing to Rogan and also the Atlantic. That, you know, he just, he doesn't care. He just is who he is. Well, Donald Trump is showing you a little bit more who he is,

where he wasn't in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. Now he's speaking the language because I believe our culture, is not in a way I like, but our culture is changing and he is adapting to it as well. The guy is brilliant. I wish I could spend a month with him because I think I could write a book about Donald Trump and how he thinks. Just spending a day with him a few weeks ago and hearing how he spoke about every piece of art in the way. He selected every piece of art and where it should go. and it was to clarify who he is and what he wants to accomplish, remind him what his job is.

So all the way from his bedroom, all the way down to the oval, the art on the wall is to remind him of who he is and what he's doing. If you're on a tour, you come in and you see Donald Trump on one wall, and he selected Barack Obama for the other wall. George Bush doesn't even have a painting in a bathroom. He put Barack Obama there as a symbol of, we're a country that is split, but this house brings us all together. Would anyone ever give him credit for thinking that way? He's thinking about what the message is on the tour.

He's really brilliant. And I think that's why things are changing so rapidly is because he's using, he knows how it works now. He knows the game he's playing. He's learned it. He's mastered it. And now he's just executing one after another. Check, check, check, check.

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Oh, yes, a couple of signs of Trump. Oh, what he did yesterday? Sorry, we got lost in that commercial. I couldn't remember. A couple of things he did yesterday. I want you to think back in the last week. What has he been doing? He's been making your life easier.

he is intentionally targeting your life. Okay. He, no more shoes off at the airport. The shower, nozzles. You can no longer restrict how much water comes out. Yesterday,

the EPA rules on gas cans. Anybody who's used the new gas can, you, you, if you're even, if you're in Dallas and outside, you might burst into flame. after using the new gas cans.

He's saying that's ridiculous. Spout the air out the right way. Return to the normal gas can. No president is thinking about gas cans. He is because you are most likely. In a million different ways, he's going to target you and make your life easier or better

because it gives you time. Notice how he's talking now about the Fed. He's not talking about and this is true because it goes right to the economy. He's not talking about numbers and everything else and, you know, our economy and it's going to help our deficit. He'll mention that. But what is he doing now?

He's saying people can't afford to buy a new house. So he needs to lower the interest rates by three points. That will make the housing market explode. Whether you agree with that or not is a different thing. but that's what he's saying now, the average person. And you know what? If he doesn't do it, then I'm going to get rid of the tax. When you sell your house, if you've made any money on that house, no gains, no capital gains on houses.

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But it's a fact. Anyway. August Mayrah, I wrote an article for the Federalist, and I read it yesterday. he's at everyman commentary.substack.com. He also writes for the Federalist. He's a senior contributor there. And this is where I found Austin Fire Chief, who refused to deploy rescue boats to flood victims

was a DEI hire. Now, I knew as bodies were still being washed down the river, that Donald Trump definitely took all of the National Weather Service people just a day before and shot the. in a firing line so we have no more weather service. I knew that as this crisis was still going on, but I had no idea that Austin, the fire chief, they had rescue boats and he didn't deploy them because, well, we can't afford it.

What, excuse me? This is the story that August wrote. August, welcome to the program. How are you? I'm good. It's an honor to be here. Thank you. What a great, great story that I don't think I've seen reported anywhere, at least anything that I've read. Tell me the story.

Yeah, I think like everyone else, I was, you know, I just learned about the floods. You know, I live in Texas. I'm in North Texas. But, yeah, there were flash floods in the hill country of central Texas, east of Austin. And it was a horrible tragedy. And I think like everyone else, I just assumed, okay. this is those once in a century kind of storms and flash floods can happen pretty quick and there wasn't much to be done about it. And you're right.

I think the original argument was that Trump cut funding to the weather service there and that's what caused that high casualty rate. Sure. And so just even reading about it, including in the Blaze, they had a whole story that, well, there's more to it. and in fact that rescue crews could have been sent preemptively because storms happen all the time. There's money set aside for this. And the fire chief, Joel Baker, decided not to do it because of money concerns. So, I'm sorry what? No, I'm just trying to get my, even if it was money concern, why would you not?

They had swift boats. They were, this is what they were for. and he's like we can't afford to send them out. I don't even know how you think that way. You just, even if you're going to correct this lie, but even if that were true, you would say, I don't care, we'll deal with it later. Get the swift boats out.

Would you not? Is that just me? Yeah, and I think it's a mix of factors. One is just incompetent. I mean, so there was a statement put out by the Fires of the Firefighting Association over in Austin, They denounced him. And they explained, look, we try to say that, you know, you get reimbursed for this stuff,

and we do this, and we have super trained people that are, you know, familiar with the area, and this is a pretty routine thing. And he just refused to understand it. And so there just seems to be incompetent. There's also the fact that he's from Atlanta. He's not from the area. And so he probably misunderstood just what the situation was, wasn't able to judge it accurately. Because he's never seen him.

anything like that. These floods here in Texas are, it's almost like Phoenix when you have a flash flood in Phoenix or some places out west. It is, they're horrifying. And they happen. You're in the middle of the road in the street and all of a sudden here comes a wall of water.

You just don't, he can't imagine it, you know, anywhere else in the country. Yeah, I mean, Texas weather is unpredictable and these flash floods happen. You know, you had Hurricane Harvey not so long ago. Part of the complications, too, is that a lot of people are moving in.

And so you have a lot of new subdivisions in the hill country and parts around Austin. And just like here up in DFW and, you know, there's drainage, there's people there. And so I think it becomes a much bigger kind of affair. Right. When you have to move people out, evacuate or to just kind of preemptively put rescue crews in case the water rises super high. So, yeah. Go ahead. So he's, so he chose.

not to say because he didn't understand it apparently. You're not assigning any nefarious thinking to him, are you? Well, I think I would because if it was just a matter of incompetence, he would have just accepted a reprimand and admitted mistake and step down or at least admit, just apologize, like, okay, I misread the situation. But he's being very stubborn about this. He says, no, we have money problems. And, you know, there was nothing that could be done.

And this is a lot more complicated than people think, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so, yeah, I do subscribe a bit of nefarious, you know, acting here. And, you know, and writing about the whole issue, I think, and I mean, I guess I see this in education. My background is teaching. There's the assumption that certain groups of people are going to be fine no matter what. So, you know, in my world, it's like, well, you have smart kids. they're responsible, they come from good households, so we don't need to give them good teachers. We don't need to give them that much attention. They'll be fine. And I bet you, I mean, I'm willing to

bet that that same type of thinking applies here. And, you know, especially on the left when they think about these types of disasters, I think, well, those people are white, they're affluent, they're fine, you know, and they're not going to drown. That just doesn't happen. And so I think politics plays a role in it. And the big, the case, here is just the fact that he hasn't admitted fault or anything like that. DEI hire? Yeah. I mean, and you look it up, it's like, okay, well, what are this guy's qualifications?

I mean, this is pretty big incompetent. And, well, he's an older black man from Atlanta. And his big initiative for the fire department was apparently diversifying the squad, the force. So, and it's, so it just reminded me of the Palisade fires where you had these three lesbians in charge and they're all about diversity. And again, it's just the idea is that, well, we're in a privileged, a fluent community, people will be fine. We can play around and try to do this kind of ideological stuff with, you know, more diverse hiring and all that. You know, when you are putting people that are in charge of saving lives, and I don't care if it's a lesbian, I don't care

if it's a white man, a black man from Atlanta, I don't care their age. If, if they are in charge, of saving people's lives, however, they better be qualified. And we, you know, we talked about this when the DEI stuff first started. We're like, you, you can't, it has to be a meritocracy, or you are just going to spiral out of control. And look at how bad some of these hires have been for safety. It's not good. No, it's been bad. And what's, you know, what's sad is that this is so apparent when you read about it, but it's

been covered up. And you wonder if it's on purpose, but, you know, when the floods happened, the whole controversy besides like, oh, the weather service got cut was just the leftist response to it. And they were almost laughing about it. They thought it was great because, you know, it's a red state and these are, these are primarily white victims. And so, you know, and the conservatives got upset with that. And so the argument all centered around, how are we supposed to respond to this? What are we supposed to blame? And somehow, Chief Baker just kind of flies under the radar. So what happens next to this guy?

Is it over? Well, I'm trying to make it a story as you are. I think more people need to understand. This is what really happened. We could have averted like much, you know, we could have done a better job on this. And it's unacceptable that we put people like this in these positions of leadership and big responsibility. These are not sinecures. You know, these are not just useless positions that we create for people that make them feel good.

They have a huge responsibility. So I think everybody needs to understand that DEI played a pretty big role here, and we need to stop it. I mean, we need a meritocracy, certainly in our firefighting and in our police departments, but across the board and education and all sectors that, you know, serve as the public. Every time you see a story about somebody who is, you know, a pilot and they're all hiring, you know, DEI hires, I don't care what color they are, what sex they are, who they sleep with. I don't want to be on that airplane. I'm like, no, I want the person who is the most qualified, please? Who is the one that has the most qualifications to fly the plane so we all arrive safely because it's not always a smooth thing up in the sky?

and it's happening everywhere, everywhere. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I really appreciate it, August. Oh, it's my pleasure. You can follow him at everymancommentary.substack.com. The story that he wrote was in the Federalist.com. There was a couple of really good stories in the Federalist, but he's also written for the Blaze. If you are around Austin, I hope you know this story.

if you know the people who lost family members, I hope you know this story because it will be you that can change this. It will be the people of Austin that can change this. This is exactly the same story except one was with fire and this one was with water. But it's the same story as the Palisades. And it's got to stop. If you have a police chief, if you have a fire department that is, all focused on DEI, if you have any of these critical services, do you want the doctor when

you're brought into the hospital, do you want the guy who, you know, got the job because of his color or because he was going to make sure everybody else who, you know, was disabled or lesbian or whatever got the job? Do you want to go to that hospital or do you want to go to the hospital where it doesn't matter what your color is, are you the best? That's the one I want to be taken to. people seem to want to make this choice between the idea that we would pick people solely based on the color of their skin or we would pick people solely based on the color of their skin just two different colors right like and like that's not the world

I want I didn't think anybody wanted it outside of like Nazis and racists and but now we have one of the two political parties advocating for that treatment all the time I know and what a surprise it's the same party that was advocating for it. It is the same party. In 1850. Wow.

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Can TV get a hold of this chart? You'll see it's an index that starts at 95. So Donald Trump is at 100 right here. His hole from, you know, from 2016, 2019, 2020. It's all pretty much flat. And then Joe Biden gets in and these lines just climb like it's the Rocky Mountains. It's so good. And then it goes through 21, 22, 23, 24, where it's all steadily climbing.

and then it goes some of them most of them go down a little bit but then kind of go up and it's basically flat but you have six months of Donald Trump and you have four years of Joe Biden and the White House just responded by putting a box around the Biden term and went Biden and that's all they did within six hours this chart was taken down from the Democrats because it was I mean, they just got brutalized. Brutalized. Really? By everyone.

Really? Are you, you're making the point? Really? An incomprehensible mistake. Incomprehensible. Absolute incompetence. I don't know. Maybe Justice Jackson Brown is in charge of all the charts, too.

Because this is something she would do. This is something like, right? It makes sense, right? Look, that makes sense because I don't even know how to define a woman. So stupid. They're just stupid people that are. really running things. Yeah, I saw a moment. I think it was CNN. I might even Scott Jennings, the one conservative they'll put on the air there. And they were talking...

I like him. Yeah, I like him to him. They were talking about egg prices. And he was like, yeah, egg prices are down under Donald Trump. And the whole panel just like loses their mind. Like, are you kidding me! Like, they can't believe it. And of course, just statistically they are down. Like, it's not like, I don't, I don't, you know, you could say there's a hundred arguments you can make about that. How closely does the president of the United States control? egg prices, right? Like, you can. Like, there's a lot of disagreement.

There's no disagreement on whether they went down or not. They're down. No, no, no, Stu. They're just down. I will tell you, the nice thing about living in a really small town, we go up to the ranch, and it's a farming community and just, and they're little signs, handmade signs, eggs. And the price is like, is that per egg? Per dozen, you're like, holy cow, it's good to live.

live around where the meat and everything is made right there, fresh daily from chickens. Most people don't know. They come from chickens. I don't want to go any deeper than that because it's not going to make an egg seem better to you. But, you know, it's nice to live where the food is. It's kind of an idea that, you know, Sam Kinnison made that point about people who live in the desert.

Move to where the food is. back. A lot happened this week. We're going to go over some of it, and including a really great court victory from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Is it just, is my memory going or was, at one point,

wasn't the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals like a dead zone for any kind of constitutional thinking? I remember if you'd hear going to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, you're like, oh, geez. You know that's running to be wrong. Right. And it was the most overrequent. overturned court in the country.

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after her husband died in a car crash. She's a single mom to five biological children. She was on because the state stopped her from being a foster mom. Here's what she told me. Yeah, so I felt like God had put it on my heart to look into adoption and went ahead and got in touch with the Department of Human Services. And after finishing their resource and adoptive families training, I let them know that some of their things that they teach about, sexual orientation and gender identity, you have to support their views and you have to, would have to take a child for cross sex hormone injections or possibly post pride flags or LGBTQ plus things on your lawn you have to support and I let them know my faith convictions I could not do that and they

ended up denying my application to adopt and did they come out and say that there was a phone call where they basically said we're going to put you on hold if you change your mind we can put your application back into circulation. But we're going to put you on hold for now. And then about two months later, they did officially deny me with the letter. So here's what happened. She's going to be able to begin the adoption process and continue her lawsuit against the state of Oregon because the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of her

yesterday. It upholds free speech and the free exercise of religion for Christian families hoping to foster or adopt and open their home to children in need. The loser here is what a surprise, Oregon. This is a big victory. Now, I'm sure Oregon's not done. It'll go to the Supreme Court, but I mean, I don't think Jackson Brown is really going to have, you know, her saying that. What?

You're talking about Katanji Brown Jackson? Yeah, whatever. Jackson Brown is, you know, she's not going to convince anybody. Right. If she's saying maybe, maybe Jackson Brown could, you know, convince a few people, but she's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, if you know what I mean. So that's good news. Now, I got a little distracted on this story because we were playing this and I just, I saw me and I'm like, oh my gosh, I was Elvis. I could have been dead on the bathroom floor.

I, wow, this is my fat days. I mean, like really fat days. Wow. Did I not look like a man who's ready to die in that? You look at that. You look like a man who's pleading to die. I might have been. I might have been.

You look at that and you're like, that guy's going to be dead soon. Wow. Whatever topic we were talking about, it seemingly had to be negative just because of the vibe of the video. Yeah. Like it was just your appearance indicated we couldn't be positive about a topic. The appearance really kind of was like more important than that whole Christian thing. You know what I mean? Okay, look, it's been a bad week.

It's been a bad week for a lot of people who are Gen Xers because pop culture of the 80s, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Theo Hoxtable, drowned in his swimming pool in Costa Rica. He was 554. I don't think it was a swimming pool though. He was in the ocean. Wasn't he dragged out to sea? Oh, yeah. You're right.

You're right. You're right. You're right. It's terrible. God, what a fucking terrible story. He actually did a lot of other things, too. He wasn't just, like, you know, a lot of these guys, they're child stars. They never do anything else.

Name ten? Ten? I'd have to go to his I'm a lot of other things. He has done, actually. No, I'm sure he has. Name one. Detroiters, which is a great show he was on. I mean, he was a huge role in it, but he was really funny in that show.

there's a bunch of different stuff he did but like he actually built a pretty decent career and kept it going which is not easy to do out of that yeah no it's but a child star yeah almost impossible and to stay normal yeah it's such a weird legacy too because the show i don't know if you've noticed this uh or maybe we're aware but uh the the guy who's whose name is on the title the show uh turned out to be a rapist so it's just uh it did pose a problem for me when i was raising my kids on the Cosby show. And, and, you know,

then he went to trial and we were only a quarter of a way into the, what, 10 year run. Yeah. And Tanya and I were like, should we stop watching this?

And I'm like, nah, just go for it. It's like Santa. They'll find out in the end. Yeah. Wait a minute. Santa's a rapist.

No. It's a different story. It's a much darker. story. They keep releasing these like, there's these like, um, IP that winds up, you know, going into public domain. Like they're doing these horror movies of like Winnie the Pooh and Popeye. Right. The Santa one, don't look too closely. Don't look too deeply. Yeah. It's, it's, it actually is a really dark story, but we're not going to go there. Anyway, um, but the, because I keep wanting to, for some reason, I keeps popping into my head to show, um, my kids the,

Cosby stand-up special. I think it was called fatherhood. Do you remember this? It was one of his most famous ones. I watched it.

I mean, it had to be a thousand times when I was, I think it was called fatherhood. And, did you, did you have your kids watch the Cosby show?

No. Really? Because of that? I mean, it's, it was so good. Yes, he turns out to be a rapist,

but it was so good. The values in it were so good. Yeah. I didn't. I didn't. I think it was, gosh, what the heck was it? Anyway, I mean, he also had amazing, and it was like somewhat family friendly that I remember. I feel like I need to go back and watch it because you never know from those days. Plus, you know, a guy who was accused of rape later on. So you want to want to make sure you're not seeing any coded messages as well. But like, I don't know. I have stayed away from it just because I'm like, I don't know that I

necessarily want to. There's nothing like it, though. There's really nothing. Name the shows that were that solid for kids of all color, families, name the show. Well, I don't know. It makes me feel almost like, hey, you know, let me show you this wonderful sermon given by a pastor who later was involved in a scandal, right? But he wasn't later. It was happening during the filming of that show. So it's much worse than what I'm saying.

I'm just saying it's not later. In fact, it was happening for like two decades before he even did the show. He was doing this stuff back in the 60s. So there is, you know. That's much worse. I feel like there has to be. You don't want to teach your kids. You can be a really horrible human being rapist.

But if nobody finds out, you could also make it in America. You don't want to teach your kids that lesson? No. Because I do feel like there is a thing that, develops. This happens, I think, a lot with people, unfortunately, with faith, where, like, if they go to a church and then that pastor winds up being a dirt bag, which does happen, they wind up being shaken out of their faith, which, by the way, shouldn't occur. No, because you're putting your faith in man. That's the thing I like. This is how I get around it in my head is, I'm not going to put my faith in man. I'm not going to put my faith in a preacher. If the preacher is saying things and he's doing something, I really don't like that. I don't. like that. But as long as he's gone, you know, okay, we caught him. He's gone. Great. I'm fine. I'm fine. I didn't believe in this church or this faith because of man. I believe in it because it was a

place to learn truth. And people are all flawed. Same thing with the Cosby show. What he was teaching there was truth about families. He wasn't living it. But I'm not watching it. I'm not watching it because he was truth. Yeah, right. And that's, by the way, the same way you should think about your church. Yes, it is. It is.

It is. It is. But otherwise, you'll leave every church you're ever in. Oh, well, yeah. Well, yeah. It's not a...

You'll find something that somebody is doing that you'll be like, I can't believe that. Yeah. It sets up for an impossible standard. It sets up a godly standard on man. Yes.

An unfair standard for man. Unfair. They cannot live up to. Yeah. And also let yourself justify all sorts of things. Oh, God. Well, I mean, obviously, I've been let down by this church.

So, therefore, hookers and blow. No, like that's it. It's the Hunter Biden policy. No, that's not the way to look at it. No, it's not the way to look at it. That's what happens if you stay at a church where he's doing hookers and blow. And everybody's like, I don't care. Give me another sermon.

Right. You know, then that might lead to trouble. By the way, Bill Cosby himself was the one I was thinking of, not fatherhood, himself, which was a great special. and I remember being so entertaining and it was about dads and kids and I loved it and I'm like, he was hysterical. Yeah, I mean,

it's probably, hysterical. He shouldn't. I mean, the work is the work, right? Yeah. I mean,

lots of actors in movies were did terrible things later on. But I mean, it's something about like that relationship you have with a stand-up in a different, obviously different than a pastor, but like it is a sort of,

you know, there's an intimate relationship you have with a one-on-one relationship. I mean, they say the same thing about radio hosts and I want to bring up intimacy. with your favorite radio host that might be overweight if we show that picture again for 2023 quickly

of Glenn in 2023. I don't think we need to show it again. Remember who you work for, you in the control room. Remember who signs your checks. Crap. Oh, yes. They think I sign their checks. Oh, I'll find out who put that up.

I will. Also, you know, I mentioned that Theo Hoxtable died. Also, Ozzy Osbourne passed away. this week and yesterday Hulk Hogan. That's rough. And both Hulk Hogan, particularly, I mean, Cosby had a way of giving others drugs. Hulk and Ozzy had their own relationships with those substances and damaging ones. It's amazing.

I mean, honestly, they're noticing that if you do drugs, you become successful in America. That's what you got out of this conversation. I'm beginning to think so with just these three. Yes, maybe. Mm-hmm. No, it's, I would argue it may be destroyed all of their lives. Not, not, no. I'm talking about Bill Cosby, not Malcolm Jamal Warner, who's, who's the third person here. But, yeah, no, I think drugs, a negative, a negative influence on many people's lives, Glenn. You don't want to, you think drugs affected Ozzy Osbourne in any way? Yeah, you know, yeah, I noticed a slight, you know, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a pretty quick study. of the human character and noticed a little bit of an influence on Ozzy over his life and maybe how a little how it turned down a lot of a lot of interesting moments in that life and Hulk Hogan as well like I mean you know even if you just look at like the the steroid type of

stuff like that that affected those guys the fact that you make it to your 70s after live in that life is actually impressive you know what I think it is yeah I mean what was Theo Huxstable doing exercising he was swimming he lived a clean life that we know of you was swimming guys at 54 these guys and they get me into 71 poison into their body and they make it into their 70s it does feel a little bit unfair doesn't it I mean come on I love Hulk you know I wasn't a big fan of Ozzie's music I was never a big fan but still there's something charming about him and can I bring up one the TV show it was strangely charming can I bring up one extra thing that is a personal jihad of mine you know we have

things where you just they stick in your craw. Yeah, okay. Over a long period of time. All right. We've done a lot of good work in America here of pushing back against cancel culture recently. A lot of people who were wrongly canceled and then were kind of like, you know, I don't know, freed from that. We've kind of come back and say, no, that person shouldn't have been canceled. We did a lot of that. Sharon Osborne is one we need to revisit. She was just kind of blown out of her entire career in life for no reason. What did she do? I don't even remember that. We were so busy canceling people. That check was canceled and I'm like, wait a minute, what? She was on like a view type of show. You know, remember it was the talk or something? And then she said something that wasn't racist and she was accused of being racist. And then there was and then she was kind of tossed off the show. If I remember the story right, later on, behind the scenes video and audio of her,

having a conversation with the person who eventually called her racist and one of her co-hosts came out where she was saying to Sharon Osborne, yeah, I know, I know you're not racist. I mean, you know, we, you know, just I had to say those things, you know, this, I'm, I'm expected to say those things. Can you imagine having, having the balls to say that out loud? Yeah, and was caught on, on, on, on microphone. And then she still got a kind of got canceled and it just kind of left to the sidelines. I mean, it's total BS. And like, I let's put her, let's after she born's here. Let's put her on it. Give her 24 hours.

They get her on the show. She'll be fine by Monday. Get her on the show Monday, will you? I just felt like that was one that we never correctly righted that wrong. Yeah, we should look at all those people that were canceled. Yeah. All right. Back in just a second.

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Yeah, that doesn't work. I know liberals don't understand the math of business. Why don't we just print more money? Yeah, that doesn't work for the companies. And everybody knows it, including him. Everyone knows it. And they tried to make it into a Donald Trump thing. And yet, the day they were saying that, Paramount inks a deal with South Park. And South Park releases the first and their next season, right?

And it just eviscerates Donald Trump. It's all anti-Trump stuff. Now, how could that possible? You know what? Paramount, they cut him because they're afraid of Donald Trump. He's nothing compared to South Park. Yep. And then South Park comes out the same week?

I mean, if that were true, that wouldn't make any sense at all for Paramount. Now, would it, Stephen? It completely disproves. Everything. And by the way, it wasn't just like random people saying this. It was Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren. All the liars that you know have been lying with, their lying lies. And they're lying mouth.

They knew it the whole time that they were not telling the truth. But then this completely disproves it. They pay $1.5 billion. I mean, Matt and Trey are rumored over five years to be getting a billion dollars apiece, a piece on this deal. They pay them all that money knowing their first episode is anti-Trump, knowing it's going to come out. They could have waited to release this season. They didn't. They released that episode before the deal.

in place. The day after the anti-Trump episode airs, the deal comes together and is approved. There could not be a more clear level of proof to show that these people were lying the entire time and wrong.

And what kind of awful negotiator is Donald Trump? I want him off the air. Just 10 months from now. At the end of his contract. And I want him to be able to bash me every day in those 10 months. And I want a higher profile show to take even more shots

at me before we approve the deal. That is just so stupid. So stupid. And by the way, you're a moron if you believed it. I'm sorry. If you believe that Colbert thing was about Donald Trump, you're a moron. It's okay. You can be healed. Morans can't find the show. That's true. This is

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an estimated 20 million in additional value. Okay, just to put this into perspective for you, we believed in something on this program, getting people out of Afghanistan and in, what, two weeks? We raised $45 million just from this audience, $45 million. NPR, PBS, the thing that's going to collapse our society, collapse our children, and it's going to be the end of democracy if we don't have it. All of these rich people in all these big cities, all these lefties, you only do 20 million? And the subheadline is 20 million in added value flowing from donations to stations.

It's only a fraction of the 550 million in lapsed federal grants. Well, figure it out, guys. Make some budget cuts and figure out how to raise more money or sell commercials. I mean, you'll fail if you just whine about it. And that's probably what they will do. And they will fail and I will celebrate. Anyway, Lauren Washburn is with us. Now, Lauren is a Halesdale College graduate, former research analyst for Dr. Phil Primetime.

And she currently is working as Christopher Rufo's executive assistant. She wrote an article in the Federalist about what the Coldplay concert, the cheating scandal, actually should tell us about the left. Lauren, I read this a couple of days ago. Wanted to have you on before the week's end. it's great to have you on. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to join you.

Sure. Okay. So what were we supposed to learn about the left? Yeah, of course. So what really struck me about this whole incident is that we see this cheating scandal exposed. And the internet, the entire internet, regardless of political affiliation, they all have the exact same response, which is.

that cheating is bad and marriage should be protected. It's wrong that these people were here and betraying their spouses. And I thought this was interesting that everybody had this reaction, despite the fact that the left for years has pushed ideologies that try to diminish the sanctity of marriage. Yet whenever rubber hits the road, we see everybody in agreement that marriage is sacred and should be protected. So it's interesting because even BLM, all of it has been to destroy the traditional nuclear family.

And the way to destroy the nuclear family is what we saw happen with the Cole Play concert. I mean, that's probably the easiest way to destroy the nuclear family. And you're right. Everybody universally was horrified by it. Horrified. Which led me to ask, after reading your article, is that maybe why they have to cite? people on their side even when they come out and say, hey, there's 95

genders, and you must agree or will put you out of business. Is that why they do that because they know the average person does not agree with them? For a long time, they have tried to diminish the facts that are just very

true. We have an innate response that we know. There are things that are eternally true. And, you know, I think a big shift happened whenever they they paved the way to the legalization of same-sex marriage. It literally changed the definition of marriage. It's no longer a covenant between one man and one woman. And instead, it's now just a contractual, gender-neutral agreement.

And after story that the left tells of marriages where one person will decide that they want to pursue. a gay or a lesbian lifestyle and they will leave their spouse, they'll leave their children to pursue this. And it's all in the name of self-expression, following your heart, living your truth. But if we really look at those instances and we compare it to the cold plate instance, they're both rooted and selfish desires unless they're no different. Yet the left can make excuses and make exceptions for one because it fits their agenda. What do you think is happening to our society right now? We were just talking earlier today about how there is a pretty powerful shift happening

quickly in the last six months. And it's not just Donald Trump. I mean, I think Donald Trump is a catalyst of that or maybe even just a protective force, I think, for these things to happen. People feel more comfortable in saying things. things, but the culture is changing dramatically swinging back towards conservatives. Is it real? Oh, I definitely think it's real.

I think that an instance like this, the fact that everyone is in agreement, something that was kind of telling in my article is I quoted Matt Walsh, he commented on the incident, which if you know anything about Matt Walsh, She is not very popular with the leftist. It's true. Yeah, he comments it on the incident. It's talking about how adultery is wrong, and it has an effect on everyone involved,

your spouse and your children. It's like the fact that pretty much the entire internet is on the side of Matt Walsh, I think is very telling. Well, it's great to talk to you. Thank you so much for being on the program, and thanks for writing the article. I thought it was really, really, really right on the money.

I heard a lot of people all week saying, why is this happening? Why is this so important? Why is this the number one story? And I not only think you're right on, you know, what it says, but it's, you know, it's what I said earlier because I think people universally know that's wrong. It's wrong. Yeah. And you're a scumbach.

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I want to show you why it is important We're going to go to cut two This is a podcast guest on Fresh and Fit podcast I don't know when it was Just talking about wellness probably. Yeah, right.

You're thinking like, I'm going to hear a low-carb diet recipe. All right. Here's a young woman expressing what possibly actually happened to the Jews in Germany.

Oh. What do you guys think about Hitler? What did the Jewish did something to the Germans that made them at a certain way, but nobody wants to talk about it. The Jews don't want to take accountability. Oh.

That's true. Yes. I'm with you on that. That's why that's why like there was up to something so the Germans wanted to take them out like pay it had to be something like Germans wanted to tick them out all of them out. They started it. They started it, Glenn. I think I think I've I've lost a third of my brain cells. Just listening to that.

Wow. A bunch of like, first of all there's like 38 people in this podcast. people in this podcast. They all look like 22-year-old adults. And the intro question is, what do you guys think about Hitler? What could possibly go wrong? Right. Okay. So, you know, I don't take anything from what is it fresh and fit.

However, Charlie Kirk, this is a problem with the youth. Charlie Kirk had a focus group at Turning Point USA. And he wanted to ask some of the people in attendance, why white people hate Jews? Listen to this.

Does that resonate with you? Exactly. You're not anti-Israel. You don't wish them harm. You're not, you know, like cheering on Iran. No, I support Israel. I think there are allies. I want them.

But you would be called an anti-Semite by some people for saying this. And I think that's ridiculous. I don't hate Jews because I think a nation should defend themselves. Exactly. Like, I think that's the most ridiculous thing ever. I feel like it's becoming like the word racism. Like we just disagree with them so we just have to call them a name.

I don't think they're actually anti-Semitic. I think people just can't agree with them and they can't prove them wrong. So they just throw a word out and be like, you're anti-Semitic because you think that we should stop sending our money there. Something that I see amongst the people around, I do see more like general disdain towards,

I mean, just being honest, Jewish people. That's correct. Just because they're constantly being told that you hate Jews. And it's like, fine. If you're going to say, say I hate Jews over and over and over again. Like, if I'm going to be convicted of the crime, I might as well do the crime.

I fear the same thing happens with all the talk of race. The more we talk about it, the more we bring it up. The more racism actually happened. This is like, I try to tell it. Thank you for saying this. Because like, this is, I try to tell these people and they're like, we must get more aggressive. And so like, let me ask a question. If we were to say, if we were to remove, like, if people said what Tucker said is anti-Semitic,

I don't hold that view. But it's like a lot of people on Twitter are. like calling us out and like whatever that's not going to happen but um if we were to cancel tucker would anti-semitism increase or decrease i think increase because that means any supporter of tucker carlson statement therefore makes them uh anti-senseline exactly but the binary that's presented is that if you don't passionately talk about it you are a hater that's probably destructive for everybody involved so for for For me, I'm trying to find this new path, which is, I love Israel.

I visited there. My wife and I had the best experiences ever. I saw where Jesus rose from that and he walked on water. But also, I'm an American. And I represent a generation that can't afford anything. And that we are flooded with illegals and no one speaks English and our hospitals are clogged. I think we need to have the prudence to reject the Jew hate. Like, okay, we're not going to put up with that.

That's dumb. But also, if you call everyone an anti-Semite, if they don't, take a puritanical view of the Netanyahu government, then I think that's, it's bad for everybody. Okay. So, uh, fascinating conversation. It is. Uh, and probably an important conversation to have. Um, but I would like to throw, uh, some questions the other direction.

So I support Israel, but I don't support going in and fighting their war. I, I, I believe they should fight their own wars. Okay. Um, I don't mind selling them arms. selling them arms. I also think it is in our strategic interest to align ourselves with anyone in a very dangerous region that has the same kind of views as freedom for everybody, okay, especially in that region.

But again, that doesn't mean I want to fight their wars or I want to go into Iran or any of that stuff. But because I say what I do, people jump on the right, jump to, well, you're just a Jew lover. And so it is this weird thing because we don't have this conversation about something like this with anybody else. We don't, we, it's, it's Israel. It's Israel. It's like America, the rest of the world just jumps on America and just blames America for everything. I have news for you. America would have turned Canada into glass by now if the Canadians were lobbying missile. If they had done, you know, October 7th to Buffalo. Can you imagine what we would have done if someone did that to us? It would be gone. It would be gone. And we'd all feel justified.

And we'd do it ourselves. We wouldn't need a coalition. We'd do it ourselves. And if everybody else said, No, now wait a minute. So what? We do it. And if they were still holdouts that were planning and plotting that on October 7th and they were still in charge of the government, do you think we'd stop? We would never stop. So all I want is just what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If we would do it, why shouldn't they do it?

And why should we judge somebody else's. war, again, there's a huge difference between that and let's get our boots on. Let's give them all kinds of stuff. Let's fight their war for them. I don't think they want that. I know they don't want that. Israel was established so they could actually fight their own wars, have a fighting chance, because they only had to listen to them. They wouldn't take their own guns away from them. And they wouldn't shy away when somebody was trying to exterminate. The other thing is the people who are calling people Jew lovers, I think those are the people that say river to the sea.

And they have no idea what that means. They have no idea. The Israeli flag, a blue stripe at the bottom, a blue stripe at the top, and the star of David in the middle, the top is the river, the bottom is the sea. Israel is in between. That's what their flag says. So if you're going to take from the river to the sea, there is no Israel. It's a basic map of their country.

Can I hit one more thing in that? Yeah. Because there's tons. We could do it a whole hour on just that clip. But the idea that there's a really dangerous sentiment expressed there, which was, hey, if you're going to be accused of the crime, well, I guess you might as well do the crime. No. If someone accuse you of being a rapist, you shouldn't go out and rape people.

That's not a good way of handling that. And the other way to think about this, because every person has an instinct like this. You're being called a bad name. You're like, screw you. You know what I mean? Like you just want to react based on what they're calling you. When you choose a behavior based on something that someone is accusing you of,

you are letting them control your behavior. They are making the decision for you. Oh, yeah, you did this. Well, I'm doing that. You're letting them do it. Make the decision based on what you actually believe. Right? Don't let them because they're making you mad control your behavior. Exactly right. Exactly right.

Thank you, Stu. It's been a good week. Well, I can't say it was a good week. I've enjoyed you. I've taught. No, I can't say it. I have tolerated you. You don't need to back off. I haven't even done that. Well, see you. It's Friday. Bye. This is Glenn Beck.