The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: Jason Whitlock | 7/26/21

Episode Date: July 26, 2021

Pat Gray joins to discuss his vacation, the possible return of mask mandates, and the ongoing employee shortage. The Cleveland Indians are changing their name, but they should have checked the website first. BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock calls in to discuss how the NFL’s new COVID-19 restrictions are “medical Jim Crow” and why vaccine skepticism is high among African Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wow, what a great podcast today. Stu is here. Pat is back. We also had Jason Whitlock, who talked a little bit about the NFL. He said that he thinks the NFL vaccination rules are going to make stop and frisk look like the Emancipation Proclamation. Now, I wish Joe Biden was here to say, that's not hyperbole. No joke. I mean it.

It's a fact. Look it up. But unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on a lot. how you look at it. Joe Biden is not here. However, his son is cashing in. And meanwhile, his daddy decided to let a few things go with the Chinese. We're not going to continue to investigate and press charges against these so-called Chinese spies. What? What's the big deal? It's pretty amazing what the Justice Department has backed off on just in the last couple of days. All the little investigations that we're going.

We'll tell you more about that on today's podcast. And we actually started with a salute to women. Because, I mean, if you're a progressive woman, my gosh, you have to love what's going on. Because they've made all of your dreams come true. That's where we begin on today's podcast. You're listening to the best of the glen. To Mr. Pat Gray, who has been on hiatus and vacation for the last week. Wow. Wow. World hasn't changed at all, has it? No. No. No. We're thinking about the mask coming back. Yeah. We got that going for us. Yeah. In fact, as we were driving through St. Louis, they were reinstituting the mandate. Yeah. Did you put yours on? I did not. You did not. I did not. Even though they were reinstit. Even though they were reinstit. Today it's mandatory. And we were on their freeways. Wow. Wow. You are a rebel living on the edge. I am a scofflaw. How are the people of Missouri?

And in Illinois, because you were up in that area. Yeah, I was. How are they doing with the mask thing? They're done with it. They're done with the mask thing. Really? We went all over Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa. You know how to have a good time.

We do. Yeah. We saw more cornfields than you can shake a stick. And I've been shaking sticks at cornfields for quite a while. No, it really is not as much fun as advertised. That's weird. Yeah. It's weird.

Yeah. Nobody's wearing a mask. Really? Nobody. A few waitresses, but that's it. Usually in the restaurants, they weren't even wearing a mask. But I will tell you the thing that is going on is the employee shortage at restaurants. Oh, yeah, big time.

It is critical. Many restaurants completely shut down because they can't get enough employees. It's crazy. It's not because of COVID. It's because they can't get the employee, which might be sort of related to COVID. Might be. Maybe. Maybe.

I'm shaking my stick right now to see if that's what it is. You keep shaking it. Because I think it might. I think it's on to something. I'm not, but the stick is. Yes. So, you know, there's a, there's been a lot of stuff going on while you were away. Don't know if you heard, but we're going to be relegated to the ether.

If we ask questions now that the CDC or the White House doesn't want us to ask. Yeah, how dare you? Why would you ask something like that? Sure. It happened the other day with Jen Saki being asked a question. She didn't really like. They're vaccinated here in the White House Medical Unit for the most part. Go ahead. Kelly, I'm sorry. I'll come to you next.

One, this administration has long claimed that you're trying to get into one's transparent history. If that's the case, why won't you just release the number of breakthrough cases that you've had of vaccinated staff? I think first we're in a very different place than we were six to seven months ago as it relates to the virus. And as many medical experts have said inside and outside of the government, those who are vaccinated are protected from serious illness. Most are asymptomatic if they are individuals who are vaccinated who get the virus. And, you know, we are in a different place in terms of the impact of individuals who may have, as you said, breakthrough cases. Why not just provide the number? Are you trying to hide something?

No, but what is the, why do you need to have that information? In case of transparency, the interest of public, having a better understanding of how the cases work here in the White House. Well, first, there are the CDC tracks, and let me give you this information too. And she goes on to answer questions that were not related to that one. Right, but she doesn't like that question. But she didn't like that question. Why do they need that question under the Trump administration?

Yeah, right. Yeah. Why do any of us need any question answered by you? Isn't that what we're supposed to do and then you answer? them? I thought that's how it worked. What is our arrangement here? You answer questions and I ask them. Seems like you make

$174,000 a year to answer the questions I ask. And we should point out she is our employee. She is not like, people could look at that. It's completely been flipped on its head. Yeah, it's been, it's a position that's responsible to the public. The press secretary is supposed to give us information. It's not

a campaign official, which is what they've become over the past couple decades. That's for sure. But I mean, she's supposed to, her job is to get information from the White House to us. It's not to defend President Biden. It's not to ask why you need that information. No. Because I just want it.

Yeah. How about that? How about that? Plus, it's my job to get it. How about that? Plus, the American people want to know. How about that? Crazy.

It's just unbelievable what's going on now. But like everything else, it's been completely flipped on its head. And we apparently have no right to any information anymore. It's almost as if everything is inside out and upside down. Isn't it, though? Isn't it? Mm-hmm. The goal was to create enough chaos to turn us upside down and inside out so you won't recognize anything.

It's absolutely happened. It's absolutely happened. And they've taken their mask off too. They don't care anymore. Well, they should put that mask back on because Fauci says they should put that mask back on. That's right. I am not as anti-mask as I thought I was. Really?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm thinking about wearing my mask into stores and, you know, any place that say you have a mask, I'm going to wear it and I say, yes, I wear it as a hat. That doesn't, I'm not sure that's exactly what they're looking for. I think it's like a little Amish hat. I think it's like one of those little. It is a nice hat. It's a nice hat.

Yeah, it is. A very nice hat. And it stops the satellites that are spying on your brainwaves potentially deflects some of that. Huh? Mm-hmm. No, it doesn't. I already checked. It doesn't.

I thought that, too, originally. And then I started doing some research on it. I'm like, damn. Well, because I thought the tin foil works as a conducting advice. It does. It does. It's what the government wants you to do to avoid the brainwave detection. Tinfoil tax. That's why they've been pushing it all these years.

So, by the way, did you hear the audio of Fauci defending the funding now of? Yeah, the Wuhan lab? Yeah. Yeah. Now, that didn't happen, guys. No, that was last week. Oh, that's last week. Listen to this audio.

Critics say the Wuhan lab experiments were nonetheless risky whether or not they fit that category. And obviously, the Chinese government is not a good faith partner. They're not allowing transparency. They're not allowing a real investigation. Everyone but the Chinese say this. So as a matter of policy going forward, given that the Chinese government won't allow any real investigation, do you still think the U.S. government should collaborate with labs like Wuhan, especially on research, that experts consider risky.

Well, you know, Jake, if you go back to when this research really started and look at the scientific rationale for it, it was a peer-reviewed a proposal that was peer-reviewed and given a very high rating for the importance of why it should be done to be able to go and do a survey of what was going on among the bat population because everyone in the world was trying to think, figure out what the original source of the original SARS-CoV one was. And in that context, the research was done. It was very regulated. It was reviewed. It was given progress reports.

It was published in the open literature. So I think if you look at the ultimate back rationale why that was started, it was almost as if you didn't pursue that research. You would be negligent Because we were trying to find out how you can prevent this from happening again. You'd be negligent if you didn't do the research that they didn't do, according to him. But it was all peer reviewed and watched carefully in monitoring. So, you know, it was done carefully, but we didn't do it. But we would have been negligent had we not do it. Yeah.

What? Ever been a bigger lying sack of crap than Anthony Fauci? I don't know that there ever has been. Is there, I mean, is there anyone? Oh, yes, there has been. Has there? Has there? Really?

Yes, there has been. I don't know. He's just, he's just, uh, plurific. Say it for me. Polyph, prolific. Uh, he just does that. Prolific. He does that.

Prolific liar. He is on, you know, it's a broad, it's very narrow. It's only about COVID, but it's very broad inside in that narrow category. It's almost everything he says. Is anyone questioning what he said? like no one's questioning whether like this research was started to begin a pandemic. Like no one thinks that like they were like, you know what, let's start a pandemic. We'll start some research to get it going.

Yeah. Like everyone understands that. Always start with the false premise. Right. The beginning of this, yes, we can understand why you'd think about this. But he continually does this and plays these semantic games where like they said, okay, gain of function research is banned. And so, hey, let's go through a process to try to justify that this. isn't the definition of gain of function so we can do it.

No, they did that after. Right. They started initially before the band. Yeah, all said that it was that it was gain of function and it was peer reviewed. I don't know if you heard that. The documents of papers were peer reviewed. Peer reviewed. But they were titled gain of function.

Yeah, but they were peer reviewed. Right. And closely scrutinized. They peer reviewed their way into getting to being able to do the research. Right. They had their, they set up their own guidelines. Yes. And then they said, how do we get around these guidelines?

Correct. And so they got around the guidelines. Then after the after it was quote unquote a success, then they had to publish a paper on it, peer reviewed paper by the way. And in it, it said that this, this was done before, you know, the United States held back the funding, even though we gave back the funding back to them. And it said, but a peer reviewed review was done by peers. and they looked into it and this one can continue.

Oh, that's good to hear. So, that's good to hear. It was peer reviewed the whole time and closely scrutinized. And like, that's a, like, the question wasn't even about that. It was about should this continue in the future? And he wouldn't even, he didn't even come remotely close to answer to the question. You don't need that. What you need is how many peers of mine.

Have reviewed it? Okay. Now, yes. How many peers have reviewed it? Lots. A lot. Lots. Is it peer reviewed?

A vast majority of my peers. Wow. Really? How many peers do you actually have? I have more than I can count. Okay. Why do you need that question? I don't need that.

I don't need that question. I would draw the question. Thank you. You're getting a little hostile here. I apologize. Why are you questioning me? I shouldn't. I shouldn't apologize.

I'm sorry. I would accept your apology, but you're white. And so you can never do enough to apologize. It's just thank you. Welcome back, Pat Ray. Nice to have you back in the studio. Good to be back. as well. Are you still hosting that program called Pat Gray Unleashed available everywhere?

I am. It usually happens, in fact, just about every time right before this show. What really? How would people, how would one acquire this? Why are you asking that show? Why do you need that question, answer? Well, I guess I don't know the people, but I'm willing to. I'm willing to. It's, uh, you know, you could, you could go to the Blaze radio television, listen to it there. Or anytime, wherever you get your podcast. That sounds convenient. Usually it costs about $130 to download it. It's free now? We've discounted it 100%.

This man is magnanimous. This man has gone the extra mile, even just answering a question that shouldn't have been asked in the first. You're welcome. The best of the Glenn Beck program. So I don't know about you, but I love the Cleveland Guardians. Love that name. I think they had to be hammered.

I think my guess is that those involved in changing the Cleveland Indians name said, I cannot, I cannot do this sober. And so, you know, maybe, maybe, you know, one of the head guys was out on the bridge and like, you know, Bill's going to kill himself if he changed the name of the Indians. No, he's not. Yes, he's out on the bridge right now. Standing next to that big statue on a... Hey, maybe that's it.

That statue's called the Guardian. Why don't we call him the Cleveland Guardians? Now, I believe that's the way it happened, and I would like to submit some evidence. What did that hell you say? And the Cleveland Guardians is already taken. There's another team. called the Cleveland Guardians in their own town.

And they even have their own website. Nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody, nobody check the dot com thing. It does seem like an important idea to check Cleveland Guardians. Well, only if you believe in the internet. Yeah, I mean, if you think there's a future. It's a passing trend. Yeah. If you think the interwebs have a future, you usually would go to Cleveland Guardians.com,

which is a male roller derby team. I never thought of that. I know. You'd think before you book Tom Hanks to come in and narrate your launch video, you go to the website. What kind of attorney do they have? Because they had to go and search Cleveland Guardians before. Did they not? I can't believe they didn't.

It had to be, maybe it was one of these things where the owner of the site was like, screw you guys. If you change the name, I don't want you to have it. And they've already given up and they said, well, we'll name it the Cleveland Guardians.com or whatever. I don't know. I don't know what they did. But all I'll can tell you is you should probably have control of the website. This is why it's difficult to rename a team now. There's a guy in Washington who predicted, as it turns out correctly, that the world would become much more woke and the Washington Redskins would no longer be allowed. And so he went out and he bought Washington whatever's.com and came up with a hundred different

things and booked all of them. Now they what they wound up doing, they couldn't. come up with a team name and they've decided to just go with Washington football team, which is hilarious. I got to you. I have that one. Washington football team. Surprising, that was one of the things he didn't have.

Right. I actually think that one turned out to be brilliant. And I liked it at the time. Most people hated it. Now, I would have preferred staying with Washington Redskins because all the complaints about them were stupid. But if you had to change the name, I like Washington football team because I'm an NFC East fan.

I'm an Eagles fan. My dad was a Giants fan. one of my good friends is a Redskins fan. Everyone here is a Cowboys fan. No one on earth calls them the Washington football team. They just keep calling them the Redskins. Because there's no substitute. If they came out with the Washington Guardians,

eventually people would transition. No one calls them the football team. They either call them Washington or they say the Redskins. And so essentially, the team in a way has not really been renamed. At some point, the woke left is going to notice this, and they're going to make them change it again. I have a feeling that Cleveland, the Guardians, haven't really officially changed their name either.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening. With its COVID protocols, the NFL is implementing medical Jim Crow, and Joe Biden loves it. That's from the latest edition of the Blaze podcast from Jason Whitlock, who's joining us. now. Hi, Jason. Fundy.

Yeah, thank you. So I've been, I heard this about the NFL over the weekend, and I'm not qualified to talk about it at all. So I thought I'd let you and Stu talk about it, you know, for the people who, you know, want something halfway accurate. Perfect. I'm here to do it. Okay.

So what do you mean by modern day Jim Crow? Honestly, if you Tucker Carlson coined the phrase medical Jim Crow. A couple of months ago, he was talking about how these COVID restrictions, are going to negatively impact black Americans. Most reluctant by all the data, all the data says we are the most reluctant to take the COVID vaccines. And we're seeing it play out in the National Football League. The NFL has implemented some rules in terms of,

even if you're a protocol of a set up, including not having your mask on 24-7 whenever you're in the building, you're going to face a $14,000 fine. If your team has some kind of COVID outbreak that involves an unvaccinated player, your team could be forced to forfeit games and paycheck. When you're getting the vaccines, talk about, oh, Jim Crow, voter suppression. It's Jim Crow 2.0, and it's, look, these rules requiring an ID are poor black and brown people. And it's all BS.

Any proof for showing up at the polls and being turned away because they have no ID. Or they're sitting at home. Oh, I got no idea. I can't do voter mail or whatever. That's legitimate. It's restrictions, but you won't hear anybody on the left talk about it. Okay, so why is it that the black community is the worst at not getting vaccinated? Right?

Stu, we were right. Stu and I were talking about this this morning, and we're like, if you're black, why would you take it? You're being told everybody is trying to kill you. Here, take this vaccine. And look, there have been. been an example. 30s that really damaged black men and we were basically lab rats. Yeah.

But again, it's about to get you. It's systemically racist. You have no shot. And so it makes perfect sense for black people to say, man, I'm not going to trust an experimental proper calls and channels that vaccines go through before their perfect sense for us to be the least likely to go get the shot. So why then is the media attacking Trump supporters when that's not, it's not even true? Why are they going after people and not mentioning blacks and Hispanics, which are far more less likely to get vaccinated?

Media does is lie. And they particularly lie about race issues. And they want to demonize. Oh, my God, there's this Delta variant. And it's Trump supporters. And again, it's almost like this message is confusing black people. It's out to get you and they're plotting every day on how they can kill you. It's Trump supporter for you.

And you must hate them because they're your mortal enemy. Our natural allies, both groups need to wake up. And we're not the elites. And a lot of money. I get when people, oh, well, you guys are elites makes us humble ourselves and have a difference. I'm not an elite. I have a working class mentality. You know, beyond that, I don't think it matters when we're all saying everyone should have the same opportunity and shot. I don't like, unlike Donnie Deutsch who came out, can you play this for Jason, who came out this weekend and said this?

Imagine the arrogance to say this on TV. Look, whether it's a mandate on mask, a mandate of vaccine is at this point, there is a percentage of the population that, who can't, whether they're angry or upset about. That this is just, there's 330 million people in this country. We need to protect ourselves. And as Willie and Lisa ever mentioned, look, there's, there's been mandates on throughout time. I grew up having to get a smallpox vaccine. We all did. Other vaccines also. So I'm done worrying about what people think. I'm done worrying about is there going to be a firestorm, whether it's a mandated mask, whether it's a mandated vaccine. There's an idiot percentage of this population that just needs to be told what to do. And guess what?

Wow. I think that's elite. That's elite. It's also a dangerous sentiment when, again, that's someone who thinks he's smarter than everybody else. And it's literally that I promise you, I wake up every day hoping I don't make a fool out of myself with something ignorant that I do. And that's my system of checks and balances to make sure that I act normal. I just don't have that superiority gene that Donnie Doid seems to have, and a lot of people on the left seem to have. They're just smarter than everybody else, and the rest of us are just blessed to be in their presence. In your article, you talk about a player from Arizona and Tampa that spoke out last week about this.

And you said, we can't be cowards and sheep forever. What do you mean? Well, DeAndre Hopkins, the Arizona Cardinal wide receiver has expressed out the vaccine. Leonard Fornett, who plays with Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers just won the Super Bowl. He's tweeted out he doesn't want to get the vaccine. But initially sports media was, this white wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills, speaking up. And he was actually doing it probably on behalf because they just don't want to deal with the social media. backlash. And so the media was going to frame like Cole Beasby. He's the only one. It's the white guys,

and he's a Trump supporter, and he's against the vaccine. People sit up. That's how we think and feel. Those aren't immune to what the rest of us think and feel. Is Ezekieland? You're vaccinated. We just didn't believe in any other. And that's a private media mob for Ned and Cole Viesley, and speak our truth. So do you actually believe, you said that this COVID- 19 is going to make the emancipation proclamation. I'm trying to figure out what I'm trying to find it. Do you remember what you wrote? Yeah, I said all are implementing are going to make an old New York.

Or they're going to make stop and frisk feel like the emancipation proclamation in June 10th wrapped all into one. Oh, my gosh. And do you believe that? I agree. Yeah. Now, look, I'm being entertaining in a college. and I want to say that people remember just like you did.

I did remember. Well, I barely remembered it, but that was the line that stuck out. It's just an analogy that this is the same way we complained about stopping frisk in New York. It's targeting black people, targeting black people. This COVID restrictions, it's targeting black NFL players. The data speaks for itself. Jason, thank you so much. By the way, is it okay?

to be happy that the Team USA is not doing good. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. I didn't write it in my column, but I was rooting for France. Right. I don't want to see these guys metal standing do any type of protest and irritate me. Yeah, it just felt wrong because I remember, you know, rooting against the Soviet Union. And I've never rooted against the America, you know, the American team. And I'm kind of there. I don't want them to win. I don't want them to win.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you. You bet. Bye-bye. You know right where I was going. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.