The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Steve Deace | 12/17/21
Episode Date: December 17, 2021Glenn has a very special guest in the studio for the holidays, Karl the Elf, who has a very dark message to pass along. BlazeTV host Steve Deace joins to discuss his newest book, “Do What You Believ...e: Or You Won’t Be Free to Believe It Much Longer.” Glenn, Pat, and Stu discuss anthems, pop culture, and terms over the course of time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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This is it.
Last show of the year.
Welcome to today's podcast.
You're listening to
The Best of the Blenbeck program.
Well, it's the holiday.
This is the last broadcast
I'll be doing
before the holidays.
you know, we've usually, usually that means when we go on vacation, but Pat is here with me.
Hi, Pat.
Hi, Glenn.
Usually that means we screw off and we don't get anything done.
But we are dedicated to you.
And so none of that's going to be happening.
I wanted to go through some of the news.
And as a surprise guest, is Carl the elf.
Hi, Carl.
Hey, Glenn.
How are you?
I'm pretty good.
I'm pretty good.
It's a surprise to have you here.
here in the studio.
I didn't know that you would,
you know,
you'd make it for this.
You literally scheduled me to come in here.
I thought elves were all about magic and...
Yeah, it's not magic.
It waking me up early for a very long commute.
Okay.
Your commute was long?
Yeah, then I'm the freaking pole.
Yeah, but it was.
Yes, I have it.
But at least it wasn't congested.
Okay, Carl.
Yeah.
I just have to do some news with Pat,
if you just want to, you know, join us for this.
Have you heard, Pat, that Joe Biden has warned of a winter of severe illness and death?
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Well, that's Merry Christmas, everybody.
Merry Christmas.
Are you sure that wasn't you?
Is he listening to this show?
Is that what's going on?
President Biden said yesterday that Americans unvaccinated against the coronavirus are facing a winter of severe illness and death, which is, you know,
kind of the fun stuff that you like to hear from the president.
Yeah, it's good that the Republicans are the fear mongers.
Right, right.
Carl, are you vaccinated?
Nah.
You're not.
Nah.
I mean, look, I'm begging for death at this point.
Yeah.
You're begging for death.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, are you guys slaves to build toys all year?
I am.
I know what that life is like.
I didn't.
It sucks.
Yeah, I didn't think you were slaves.
I mean, you're up there in the North Pole.
You're always seemingly very happy.
Well, I guess you could call it indentured servitude that doesn't end.
There's another way of looking at it if you want to make the holidays nice and warm.
Okay, all right.
Well, thank you for chiming in on that.
Here's the next story.
And I hate to bring this to you, you know, so close to Christmas, but the FDA is going to permanently allow abortion pills by mail.
Now, this is coming from the New York Times.
They have lifted all the restrictions that would make the abortion medication more accessible.
19 states have already banned telemedicine visit for abortion pills.
And so women are going to have to travel to get their mail, I guess, in other states.
Wasn't that long ago that you couldn't get RU486 anywhere in the United States of America?
You're going to be able to get them in junior high vending.
machines. Right. Yes.
They'll have them. Good.
Good. Excuse me?
Well, I mean, look, the mail, whatever. Yeah, the post office
might be bringing you some abortion pills, but we've been delivering these things
for a long time.
I've been hitting up the ladies with abortion pills off the sleigh.
I kind of got a backroom sort of a dealing operation, if you want to call it that.
I think this is probably not something Santa would, would, why are you for abortion?
I'm a little, well, first of all, I'm a little pissed off the post office is cutting into my business, but I am for abortion for one simple reason, and I know women's choice is something we can all agree on.
It sounds sarcastic, Carl.
Look, I don't care about women's choice.
What I care about is less toys to build.
the more abortion pills I drop off as a jolly old elf means I got to make less etch-a-skeches.
That's what it means to me.
Right, right.
You know, I, look, you know, this is why I don't get disappointed in your COVID reporting.
You know, if Fauci's right, you know, I've got basically, I'm taking March off.
And that's what I'm looking at.
March and April, I might be off from making toys.
So you, there are too many people for you, too many kids.
Yeah, I mean, how many do we need?
You know, four, four or five, I think would be, would it be okay?
Per family.
No, total.
I think, look, how many do we need?
Eventually, if you have five, maybe one of them, you know, something happens at some point.
So you got four left, and that's enough to propagate the species.
at some point, I believe, elves should take over the whole situation anyway.
You know, why, you know, these humans, like you're doing a good job running things?
Have you looked around lately?
Well, but you don't seem like you're carrying a, well, neither does Joe Biden,
but you don't seem to be carrying a happy message, one that we all want to get behind.
What year do you think this is?
It's 2021 back.
Right.
It is, we haven't had, it's been non-stop catastrophe for how many years?
Well, but, uh, look at what you guys are doing.
You, you full-sizers down there are, have been screwing up this planet.
You've got disease spreading all over the place.
Uh, everybody's aborting each other.
I mean, look, everything you've done has, has screwed up this, this world.
and what have we tried to do, make it a happy place?
And our efforts of bringing you, you know, little rocking horses isn't working.
Like, you guys suck.
So you think the little rocking horses used to work.
Yeah, at one point, it made it, like, you know, you had a decent place to live.
Things were going relatively well.
And we'd bring you, you know, I don't know, some stupid toy to make the kids smile for five minutes.
now they're basically going to
You know
We're teaching them that the color of their skin is the most important thing about
So wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait.
So when was it great here?
I just want to hear because, you know, you seem to have rose-colored glasses on.
When was it really, really great?
Where everybody had nice houses and, you know, we're happy.
You're trying to, is this gotcha journalism?
Are you trying to, if I say a year, you're going to tell me the worst thing about that.
year and then that was the thing
I was rooting for. Well, but I mean, when
was that? I mean, you know,
things have been bad for quite some
time. I'll tell you when the good
times are, in the future
when people like you are gone.
That's when we'll
be celebrating. We will be
dancing and dancing
at the North Pole at that point.
You seem to be almost
somebody who likes eugenics.
Eugenics, huh?
Yeah. Yeah. That's
That's not my thing.
You're the one that's basically in the Nazi party.
I'm not talking about eugenics.
I'm just,
because,
I mean,
that's...
You were talking about giving abortion pills to kids and,
I mean,
and,
you know,
and you're remembering things.
I remember kids,
you know,
used to have polio and everything else.
Yeah,
no,
that's true.
There was some polio stuff.
We used to root for that.
We were like pro polio up at the North Pole.
Well, yeah, because, you know, there was a time when it seemed like, you know, we were not going to be able to get abortion pills through the mail.
Now it's a lot easier to wipe these kids out.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
So you were, were you behind polio?
I don't want to say behind it.
I mean, I was part of an effort.
To what?
To create polio.
I didn't know that the elves were part of the creation of folio.
When is our vacation?
I know your vacation is coming up after this show.
Yeah.
When is my vacation?
My vacation is nowhere because kids keep coming.
There's more and more of them.
I want none of them anymore.
They're all sticky.
Their hands have like, they've been like eating a candy cane and then
they get the residue on their hands and everything's sticky and I just look I want a vacation
and this is the way I can get it.
So have you thought about maybe asking Santa for a vacation as opposed to killing all the kids?
Oh, you mean the guy who's imprisoned me for a thousand years?
I don't know.
What is his position on vacation?
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Carl the elf.
Gosh, it's too bad he can't stay.
This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
Steve Days.
Blaze TV show host, the Steve Day Show, which follows this program every day on the Blaze TV Radio and Television Network.
Steve, how are you, sir?
Good morning, good of you guys. Merry Christmas to everybody. Thanks for having me, brother.
Are you in the Christmas mood? You probably are.
I've been in a Christmas mood since, well, I'm a Christmas flap, and I've been in a Christmas mood since about three seconds after Halloween.
That's when Christmas begins for me.
I'm usually that way.
I'm just, I don't know.
We've had so many bad things happen with our family.
I'm going on vacation, and I just don't believe it.
I won't believe it until I'm back.
I said to everybody, nobody's answering the phones.
No phones.
No internet.
Everyone, the entire United States could burn to the ground,
and no one is to recognize it until we are off a vacation.
Amen.
Sounds like you have teenagers.
I feel you're saying.
Yes, I do.
My wife said to me, I had a dream last night.
She woke up and she said that a day, I had this weirdest dream.
I dreamt that we had a lion in the house.
And I said, we do.
It's called our teenager.
But anyway, Steve, you have a new book out, do what you believe, or you won't be free to believe it much longer.
Tell me about it.
The last year, you know, on our show here on our show here on,
Blaze TV, we kind of have a theme for the show every year. And the theme for our show this year
was that the answer is us, that if we want to turn around the direction of this, just sitting around
and waiting to vote ourselves out of it isn't going to be sufficient. And we're going to have to
learn some of the old arts of resistance and noncompliance and civil disobedience that the founding
generations of the country perfected in order to found us. And what's transpired as the year has
gone on and it's become more and more clear that the political system, unless you happen to be
governed by Ron DeSantis or a handful of other people, is largely ineffective or unwilling to
confront the authoritarianism that is beyond creeping now. It's a shadow that is threatening to
overtake us, is we're going to have to do this. And you've seen it recently. I mean, just a few
months ago, the airlines, Southwestern American Airlines, were facing unprecedented shutdowns and
cancellations because of pilots and employees failing, refusing to go along.
with their jab mandates. And now those CEOs are now saying, we shouldn't even be wearing masks
on plane anymore. It's amazing how the turntables here in a few days, right? Yeah. You look at the Jesse
Smollett, the Kyle Rittenhouse cases. Those are cases where in our current political media
industrial complex, the truth was unattainable to achieve. Yet when facts and evidences are
presented to regular people that are sober-minded and not filtered through those mechanisms,
suddenly we get to a place of truth and justice. And I think that shows that really the answer we're
looking for here are people who understand where their rights come from, which is God.
We understand that America, as Chesterton said, is the only country ever founded upon a
creed, and that ultimately stop waiting for some magic savior with an R after his name
to show up and outsource your citizenship to him or her, but to take these matters
peaceably but confrontationally into our own hands with the mechanisms we have.
And that's what our book lays out is a battle plan for doing exactly that.
Yeah, some of the chapters, first we have to correct some stink and thinking.
The Declaration of Independence choose this day, the inconvenient truth about America, which is what?
That were far worse off than we think, that what transpired the last year and a half didn't break or wreck anything.
It's a harvest of things that were already broken and wrecked.
so that the forces that want to really undo them.
What we're really talking about here is the unraveling and undoing of Western civilization.
You know, I'm really essentially.
Go ahead. Don't go. Go.
No, I mean, that which has essentially been a, you know, a 500 post-Reformational understanding of the world
in the Judeo-Christian context of how to conduct human affairs,
where where rights come from, where good and evil come from, who defines that,
what institutions are in charge of such endeavors, the role of family, et cetera.
What we're really up against is a complete and total unraveling of that.
That's why a lot of the theories and morals that the opposition articulates that they call
progressive, they're not progressive, this is paganism.
This is a pre-Judeo-Christian understanding of the world, and they're really regressive.
They want to take us back to the dark ages, all right, so that even things like gender
distinctions are all but gone and erased.
and that that that that those are the stakes we're playing for here and it's not as if we just got up one day and we're like holy cow how did we get to this place we were actually creeping to this place for a long time we were complacent we did not confront it and now we're in the position now where it's here it's spectacular and it has us cornered that's the inconvenient truth so um you know i've been worried about this for a while um you know if you look back at germany germany lost all of its uh all of its icons all of the
You know, even the eagle of Germany was lost in the 20s, and it was lost for about 10 to 15 years.
Then Hitler came in, and he twisted all of those symbols.
So the Iron Eagle came back, but it wasn't the same.
And I kind of feel like this is happening to us in real time.
We are slowly forgetting everything.
We, you know, we're living our life.
in such a way now because of COVID in many places, we would have never, we would have never thought
we would do this. Now we're just doing it and we don't even notice it anymore. It's just kind of like,
yeah, that's the way life is. That's very dangerous. See, this is why what you just described is
why we have this phenomenon right now with people like Dave Chappelle, with people like Bill Maher,
with people like Andrew Sullivan. I mean, Andrew Sullivan's the Bill Buckley of the gay rights movement.
It was its first respected celebrity intellectual.
He can't get booked on CNN or MSNBC anymore.
Why?
Because if you go read half of Andrew Sullivan's Twitter feed every day, about half of it is stuff I would tweet.
And I'm the guy that puts the fun and fundamentalism, okay?
Because what happened is a lot of the old liberals thought that they were just freeing themselves from our gods.
Yes.
And what they're learning is that the new leftist actually all along intended to introduce
the new gods instead. Okay? So no, you're not going to free your conscience from the mandates,
the bibla, the mandates of the Ten Commandments, or what the Bible preaches, or traditional
Judeo-Christian understanding. We're actually just removing those restraints so we can put the
new restraints in instead. So you really didn't get rid of some form of what you viewed as
theocratic authoritarianism. You actually just set the stage and helped us bring in real
theocratic authoritarianism. It's just all going to be that the power emanates from the state. And this is
why we're now finding some strange bedfellows from some of these old liberals who are like, wait a minute,
I thought I had a right to my own conscience. And it was really those Christians and those and those
conservative Jews who were stopping me from fully actualizing that. And now what they're learning is,
you don't have a right to your own conscience. At least with us, we were willing to argue with you
how far your right to conscience could go, but that you at least had one. With the new left, you
don't have those rights anymore. You must comply. There is no individuality. It's why Dave Rubin's
not gay anymore. He might as well change his name to Donald Trump. Okay. It's why Jason Whitlock's
not black anymore. He might as well change his name to Steve Bacer, Glenn Beck, because it's not
about any of those identities we were sold before. It was about a means to an end to use those
things in order to deconstruct the old ways so we could introduce to you the new one.
So that's why it's so important to me that we're reaching out.
I just did an interview with Andrew Yang.
There's a lot I disagree with Andrew Yang on.
There's a lot I agree with him on.
And these intellectuals that had been part of this movement to the left, they're now saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, not here.
I agree with the Bill of Rights.
These are the people now finally coming to the table that we can disagree.
agree with and, you know, not have to round one, you know, one side or the other up in the end.
And I think it's really important that we welcome this diversity to the right, because there,
you want to talk about a very small tent. It's the left.
I agree, because I also don't think that the traditional political then diagram is applicable
at the moment. We're, we aren't having a direction, an argument about the direction of the country.
We're having an argument about whether to have a country, okay?
What is a border?
What is a citizen?
What's a boy?
What's a girl?
What's a team?
What's a law?
What's anything?
We're up against a movement that really transcends politics.
It is a rival religion.
And it behaves in very cultic ways.
That's why there's not a lot of critical thinking, but a lot of group thinking with talking
points instead.
It's what I've kind of dubbed on my show to use an old stained glass window term.
call it the spirit of the age. And that's why there's so much zealotry, so much fervor. That's why
they seethe a lot, these people that are caught up in this, sadly, when they speak to you,
that they can't critically think or reason with you. It's because they have given up on reason
and have essentially just glommed onto a cultic spirit of the age that they think is
ultimate truth, is a form of salvation. This is absolutely spiritual. And that's why, you know, we run a,
we run a great promotion for our colleague, Ali Stucky, on our commercials here on Blaze TV.
And she keeps saying this line.
I always hear her say, these people, they absolutely think they're the good guys.
They do.
They think that they're here to deliver us, that we're the ones that are misbegotten,
that we are the misgid, you know, that we are the troglodytes here, unevolved.
And so this idea that there could be a national divorce and our states go their way and their state,
no, no, no, no, folks, they think that they need to.
save us from going our own way. And so that's why what we're really talking about now is
authoritarianism versus liberty. That's really the paradigm now. And that's why there is
ability for us to work with people that we have a whole host of disagreements on. And I don't
plan on changing my mind on most of those things anytime soon. But right now, we're having a fight,
Glenn. Am I entitled to have my own mind? See, that's the point. That is the thing that, you know,
I keep starting in conversations with people that I know I'm going to disagree with with this.
Do you believe in the Bill of Rights as written?
You give me nine of those, you know, first ten.
Do you agree with the Bill of Rights?
If you do, then all we're usually talking about are policies.
And that's normal.
It goes back to you saying, you know, what is a law?
What is a nation?
What is a border?
if you understand the Bill of Rights, that gave us the playing field, and it gave us this is all out of bounds.
Well, nothing is out of bounds right now.
And I'm, you know, I can argue policies, but we are not talking about those now.
It's not really about spending.
It's about, wait a minute, wait a minute, you are spending and building a structure for an entirely different system.
And you're not including us in it.
That's exactly right.
This isn't political. It's spiritual. And it's not cultural. It's existential.
This is a completely new, fundamentally new way of life.
Yes, it is.
And this is the end of Mel Gibson's Apocalyptic, and neither side can agree on who the savages are.
So one belief system, this is, you know, it's a worldview steel cage match now.
Two of them have entered. Only one of them is coming out.
And either we are going to be permitted the luxury of going back to those culture war political issues that we thought at the time were existential and, you know, so serious.
And now we've reached a whole different meta level and realize it kind of seems pretty trite compared to what we're talking about now.
Either we're going to be afforded the luxury of returning to that political paradigm and then being angry at the Andrew Yangs in the world again or we're not going to have a country.
those are really the stakes so Steve if you would have talked to me two months ago I would have been
very very pessimistic then Afghanistan happened and I saw people stand up then the school boards
started to be flipped now people are starting to say you know shut up Fauci I'm starting to see
that spirit of America come back are you optimistic I'm optimistic I'm optimistic I'm more
optimistic I don't know I'm a total depravity kind of
a guy so I don't know that I'm ever actually optimistic, okay? But I am I am more optimistic than I was a few
months ago, yes, that I do think that there's, here's how I would define it. We don't have as
many people as we probably need, but we have more people right now, but we have more people
than the system can tolerate at the same time. And so that's where we can build a ground swell
of momentum here. And I think there's a window here that we can use,
like mass resistance, noncompliance, New York State right now, I believe has 40 of 62 counties
that are refusing to enforce or implement the new governor's attempt to return to COVID-stands.
It's fantastic.
That's what we're talking about is who they can issue all the decrees that they want.
The school board doesn't have a sergeant at arms.
OSHA with the jab mandate doesn't have police officers that they can come arrest you
if your company won't enforce it.
If enough people refuse to comply, these things become unenforceable.
They're trying to impose these things through infrastructures that don't have enforcement
mechanisms.
Yet.
They've just relied on, yet, they've just relied on us to go along with it.
And we need to show them that it will be painful for you to try to inflict these things
on us, that this pain will not be a one-sided transaction any longer.
Just like you want to inflict pain on us, we will return the pain on you for
trying to inflict it. Steve Dase,
Blaze TV host, Steve
Day's show follows this program every
day. He is the author of the Faucian
bargain and the author
of Do What You Believe or
you won't be free to believe it much longer.
This is what he's been talking about, this new
book that is out now. Steve Dase,
thank you so much. Talk of you again.
You got to guys. Again, Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas. Thank you.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
I just want you to be on
high alert in fact I think it I think it warrants the duct tape alert because what you are about to hear will honestly just it can make your head explode but you might pray for that so maybe you don't wrap wrap your head in duct tape Biden is now warning and I quote of a winter of severe illness and death end quote Merry Christmas everybody
I mean, these guys just won't give up on their fear mongering.
And I think, like to make a prediction.
By the end of the year, and I think it's going to happen sooner rather than later because it already is.
But America is just going to start mocking, I mean, universally, mocking these warnings, mocking these people.
And they're just going to be like, yeah, really?
Got to wear a mask, huh?
Not going to do it.
By the end of the year, meaning in like just a couple of weeks?
Are you saying in 2020?
In 2020?
Yeah.
It's,
it's coming.
Here's what I'm already saying to them.
ABC, D-E-F-U.
That's what I'm already saying.
Really?
Really.
And your mom and your sister and your job.
Are you quoting a...
Broke-ass car.
That stuff you call art.
What?
Are you guys familiar with this song?
It was number one in the country last week.
Yeah, but I didn't think I would hear it from you of all people.
I never thought.
thought I would quote a song like that either, but this is probably the song your kids are listening
to and you don't know.
Do you have a piece of it edited?
It's a good song.
It's a good song.
And it's super catchy
As a program
Strictly as a guy
A music guy who used to
A music guy who used to program
Top 40 stations
I would have this in what was called
Power Rotation
Out of the box
You'd hand it to me
I put it in
I listen I go
Put it on the air right now
Every 90 minutes
Every 90 minutes
It is a
It's a smash hit
It's not only a smash hit
It is an anthem
It's an anthem
And those
Those happen
occasionally, rarely, but it is an anthem that becomes a movement of the age.
It's nice that.
They spare the dog, too.
I feel good that they say.
Yeah, she spared the dog.
She spared the dog on all this.
It's, uh, it just, you get something you can just powerfully relate to, I guess.
It is so, and I wish you couldn't.
I wish I couldn't.
Yeah.
But, uh, you can see the appeal.
Wait, you know, you, you're seeing it.
It's your, like, Pat,
Gray's anthem? I thought you were saying it was good.
It just feels good. It feels good.
That's my, you know? I could, I could quickly adopt that as my anthem.
Oh, big time. Yeah. Big time. Yeah.
And your kids have got to, not that I want them to, or they should be.
This is what they're listening to. But that's what they're listening to.
They're listening to that and you don't know it. And they would never sing it around you,
but I guarantee you they know every word.
They're singing to all their friends and they're screaming it in the car when they're not with you.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It's weird. We were at a place where.
like I didn't like the I let me put it this way I like the Brandon chant yeah okay much better than what that what it means yes I as a parent of two small kids going to sporting events and hearing the actual chant associated with let's go Brandon over and over again it was not fun I did not appreciate that I like let's go Brandon much more so I but I think society I mean Pat you remember me in the day yeah
Before I sobered up and changed and found the Lord and everything else.
It was an art form.
The F word was an art form.
You know, I could say...
Came up a few times in conversation.
Yeah.
And I could pretty much talk about anything and probably more F words in it than actual other words.
And you'd still understand exactly what I was talking about.
I feel like I wasted all of those years.
Well, maybe I was just a pioneer.
Because everybody is talking like that now.
Yeah.
Doesn't it seem like that?
Yeah.
Like, you hear that everywhere.
Yeah.
Everywhere.
Seems like we're just getting dumber and dumber as a society.
And I think that's, it's like, what was it?
The idiocacy, the movie that predicted the future blatantly.
But everyone kind of breeds in, gets dumber and dumber over time.
And then that's how they talk all the time.
All they're doing is swearing.
And like, and it's just.
constant insults.
But there is nothing better at times, at times, than that word.
It just.
Word is an effective.
It's a very effective word.
There are only a couple of words that are more effective that they don't get into songs all that often.
Yeah, right.
But it's kind of like it's becoming almost like the C word in England.
Like in England, it doesn't mean what we think it means.
Right.
The C word.
Yeah. And it's interesting.
Do we all understand the right C word?
Because I know there's lots of C words.
We're not supposed to say.
Yeah, see is the one you've got to stay away from the most.
It seems like that word.
Hang on just a second.
I'm getting it from my Scottish friend.
Is it only Scotland?
So in England, does it mean the same thing that it does here?
Means the same in England, not in Scotland.
And I know this because the guy who is my assistant is Scottish.
And he was having a conversation with his now wife.
But they were dating.
and he called her that.
And she was like, what?
And he was like, what?
What's the problem?
Didn't go well.
Didn't go well.
But he saved it.
Does it mean like, you know, a door?
Can he just let me see him at least.
I know he doesn't want to be on the microphone.
But does it mean idiot?
Is that a appropriate translation?
What does it mean?
Open his mic.
Go ahead.
What's it mean?
It's just a friendlier way of saying, yeah, that idiot over there.
A friendlier way of saying that idiot.
A friendlier way.
It doesn't seem friendly, but.
Yeah.
And it, I mean, it doesn't seem like idiot either.
Yeah.
How we use that.
I mean, we use it in all.
Oh, I know.
I know.
I know.
I know.
I know.
Yeah, I know.
And, uh, and, you know, I, because, you know, I, you know, I, you know, I, you know, I, you know, I
you know, I watch the BBC a lot because I think the BBC is.
No, it's not necessarily better.
Well, yes, it is.
but it's just that it doesn't have any American politics in it.
It's got loads of British,
but I don't care if they burn to the ground.
So it's like, yeah, that's funny.
Yeah, but it's interesting.
Like over there, they have a word,
and they have a word for a cigarette as well.
That is, that means something else over here.
Yes.
Yes.
That occasionally makes it into those shows.
And it's jarring because you just don't hear it in any context.
And especially because it's usually preceded one to drag off of a.
Yes.
And you're like.
Like, no, no, no, I'm good.
Thank you for that.
I was watching, I've been watching The Wire, the show on HBO that aired in the early 2000s.
Yeah.
Basically, based off Jason Whitlock's recommendation.
Because I've heard, obviously I've heard of the Wire, and it's one of the, you know, most renowned shows of all time.
And he was saying it's his favorite show of all time.
And so he kind of talked me into going through it.
And it's very good.
But what's interesting about it is there, it's, you know, it's about like drug dealing on the streets of Baltimore.
in the early 2000s, and they, like, particularly the anti-gay slur is all over the place.
Like, like, crazy.
And, like, it's interesting.
Just in that time, that has gone from a word that was just continually used in pop culture,
not necessarily in a positive way.
Like, hey, these guys are good for using this word.
I mean, they're bad characters.
But, like, it was just in there all the time.
And you go back at, you know, there's episodes of it's always sunny in Philadelphia that
just have the N-word in them.
Straight out N-word said full.
like it's so shocking that like that's that's happened pretty fast really fast well but it is
it is to me it has always been shocking because you know pat and i came from music radio
that stuff was in rap all the time all the time all the time and so it was to me it was always
shocking to hear it in music and it's and then it was just weird that you could hear it in music
still can hear it in music here it in you know with you know half of the population or what is it 20%
of the population being free with it just throwing it out anywhere and can and everybody else is like
okay that's really a bad word it's just weird it's developed in a very strange way there's that
controversy that happened around here in Texas with supposed racism in high schools and it was what
was kind of the basis of the recent CRT stuff that happened where the teenage girls were singing
the lyrics of a rap song.
Yeah. And that was part of
the criticism of this town and that like the white
girls were singing the actual lyrics of the song. No
criticism levied at the artist
for recording the song this way. Right.
No one said, hey, maybe like don't put it in the song that you
know is going to attract young people who may not be able to
decipher the ins and outs, nuances of how this word is
supposed to be used. No criticism to them.
for making millions of dollars off the word, but let's criticize the high school kids for just
singing along to lyrics of a song that Universal or some other big companies making millions
of dollars off of.
Remember when I stood up for Don Imus against Al Sharpton?
Because Al Sharpton, I mean, Don just said some things he shouldn't have said, but it's by far
not worse than what's in rap songs.
And I'm talking to Al Sharpton and like, when are you going to talk to the?
like, we're going to talk to the record companies.
When are you going to boycott them?
And the answer to, of course, is never.
He actually did.
Oh, he did?
He did say he would do it.
And he did.
He did.
I went and marched with him.
I said, I'm not going to.
I said, you're not going to do it.
And he said, yes, I will.
And I said, you know what?
Then I'll show up with my cameras and I'll be there to cover it.
I don't agree with it.
But I will, I will cover it and I'll be there.
And I walked out.
He'd had a march.
And I walked around the corner.
And he was there.
you know with a block full of people and one of the guards was like no no no no and
Sharpton said no come here and he looked at me like I was an alien like I you're here and I said
of course I told you I would be I said I can't believe that you are doing this and he said well I
told you I would and I said yeah but there was a time where that was a position of race race
activists right that we should everyone should get rid of the N word it should not just
You know, I don't know if anybody...
I don't know if it's a...
It kind of goes to all men are created equal.
I mean, we should all be playing by the same rules.
We should all be playing by the same rules.
That's old school.
What you're saying is old school.
Who is the rap star?
Was it Drake that invited the white girl up on stage to sing one of his songs with him?
She sang the word and then he berated her for it.
Really?
What?
Yeah.
One of your songs, man?
I'm just singing the lyric.
What am I...
Do you put...
N-word in there, in place of it?
Kendrick Lamar, I'm being told. It was.
Not Drake. All right. Good. Still,
that's a... That's insane. I hope
she went away going, you're a
total psycho. I would think
so. Well, how about when in
the, uh, Jussie Smolett trial,
they were reading the texts?
And they, and Jussie Smolett said the
lawyer, the white lawyer, couldn't read
Jussie's text because the N-word
was used in the text. Jeez.
Rec quoting text in a legal trial.
Hang on just a second.
let's just all enjoy for a second the holiday season
and knowing that Jesse's
only got it's going to go to jail.
Yeah, there we go.
It's like chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
you know, it just feels good.
It just feels good.
