The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Bill O’Reilly & Tommy Vext | 12/18/20

Episode Date: December 18, 2020

Karl the angry socialist elf calls in from the North Pole. Bill O’Reilly talks the latest on election fraud and the future of Donald Trump. Musician Tommy Vext joins to talk cancel culture and Black... Lives Matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 All right, welcome to the podcast. It's our last show of 2020. Ah, we've reached the end, almost. We'll see if the whole world blows up before the end of the year. Today is great show. We have Bill O'Reilly joining us to kind of go over a final news review of the year. We have Pat Grayon with his typical holiday cheer, exactly what you'd expect from Pat. And we have Tommy Vexon as well.
Starting point is 00:00:26 We're really cool story about how he's come along from. the left of the side of things to the right side of things and his transformation story is really interesting as well if you'll like it. Make sure you go to Glenn Beckmerch.com if you want to pick up a last minute Christmas gift or Stu does merch.com is there as well. I think you'll like a lot of the ridiculous nonsense that we have. And I always think there's a great path for a last minute Christmas gift when you realize you didn't get the person
Starting point is 00:00:53 anything. You can just go to the website, buy the thing, get it shipped, and then just print out a picture of it and put it in a a card. Then it'll look like you thought about it. And we screwed it up. We'll take responsibility. We'll tell you, hey, I'm so sorry. We screwed up the shipping. It's our fault. We'll take full responsibility. Blame us. Glenn Beckmerch.com. Here's the podcast.
Starting point is 00:01:13 You're listening to. We have the connection up. I didn't expect this. I didn't think we would actually get this. But we are, we now have a live satellite connection. I don't even know how good it is. There may be some delay. to the North Pole. We go now to, I don't know who we're even speaking to. Who is this?
Starting point is 00:01:50 Hello? Yes. Hey! Did you hear me? Merry Christmas. Ah, it's an elf. Yeah. It's good to talk to you.
Starting point is 00:02:01 Are you excited about Christmas this year, little boy? Well, I'm not a little boy, but yeah, I am. Sorry, are you excited for Christmas this year? overweight old man? I mean, I don't think that was necessary, but yes, and it's talking to a happy elf, you know, kind of makes things even better. Well, I hope you enjoy this Christmas because it's the last one. Excuse me?
Starting point is 00:02:30 It's the last one. I'm tired of this crap over and over again. This fat guy keeps telling us what to do all year and basically. and basically keeps us in indentured servitude and what do we do? We sit here and we serve and we serve and we serve
Starting point is 00:02:52 we get paid jack and then I have to make toys for your stupid snot-nose kids. I'm sick of it. Is there another elf I can talk to? Oh, am I bringing too much truth? Is that what I'm doing? Instead of bringing more crappy
Starting point is 00:03:12 stuff that we actually bought in China and I didn't even make. Wait, Damien, your stockings instead I'm bringing some truth. Okay,
Starting point is 00:03:18 that's what I'm doing. Okay. You seem like an unhappy elf. I mean, is there a happy elf I can, first of all, I don't even know your name. Is it like jingle or jangle?
Starting point is 00:03:36 Carl. You're Carl, Carl, the elf, yeah. Okay. Is there a, is there like,
Starting point is 00:03:46 A supervisor I can... Every year we have to do this. Is there a supervisor I can... I'm sick of the media crap. I just... I can hear you, Carl. What? Hey! Happy Christmas to you.
Starting point is 00:03:59 Yeah. Is there like a supervisor I can talk to or somebody... You need a supervisor, do you? Maybe instead we'll give you our new elephant representative. We just elected her. Well, technically we elected some really old guy who says he's a moderate, but in reality, we reelected a socialist basically. That's going to step in in a few months.
Starting point is 00:04:22 You want to talk to her? Well, that sounds familiar. Yeah, could I talk to her? No. Is she around? No, you can't. She's not around. No.
Starting point is 00:04:33 No. Not at all. No. Because you are sitting here in judgment of us in the North Pole. We see how you look at us because we're minorities. We might be a slight. different size, and you have to continually point out that we're not normal. We're different than you.
Starting point is 00:04:53 Well, I'll tell you what. We just built a North Pole Autonomous Zone, and our rules apply here. Your rules apply. So what exactly are your rule? By the way, this is not turning into the Christmas interview we hope. Rule one, you come near us, we shoot you. Is Santa around? Could we speak to Santa? No, Santa is not around. In fact, there's going to be no Christmas toys this year.
Starting point is 00:05:25 Get used to it, boys and girls. Here's what happened. Last year, we usually are stocking. We get the stockings out. We're stuffing the stockings. This year we were stuffing ballot boxes. This is how I know that there was election fraud this year because there's no way Donald Trump got that many votes. We were flying around the earth picking up all the votes for Trump and bringing them back here. and lighting them on fire. Hold it just a second. So there is election fraud. You say Trump didn't get as many votes.
Starting point is 00:06:00 Yeah, he was probably working with the Russians or something on it. I don't know. I saw it on CNN. And the point is that I know for a fact, we were taken out Santa Slate, the reindeer, super liberal. And we were taking, they were happy to do this. They flew us around the earth. We went in through all these little ballot box locations.
Starting point is 00:06:19 We took them back. A Christmas fire needed to be built anyway. Why not build it with Trump ballots? Okay. Was Santa involved with it? Does he know that you were taking the reindeer out and not feeling balance? Well, Santimental, he's really kind of a, he's a judgmental bastard, frankly. But he is at least pretty much a socialist.
Starting point is 00:06:42 I mean, we're giving away stuff all the time. So he's kind of on board with it. Bottom line is he's still white. So we're going to get rid of him soon. Okay. You sure there's nobody else I can... Well, is there anyone else? No, well, I could get...
Starting point is 00:07:00 You could talk to my new girlfriend. Her name's Fang Fang. I got to be really receptive to my advances, which is odd. Most women are not interested in me, but Fang Fang's all in. It's interesting. I'm an elf, and I'm still being. bigger than her last boyfriend. Okay, Carl.
Starting point is 00:07:35 We're the only ones, okay, up here at the North Pole. Better, better at spying on Americans than the Chinese. So this whole thing works out well. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Carl, Carl, the elf, from the North Pole. Wow.
Starting point is 00:07:53 Oh. It's not a completely surprising fact about Eric Swalwell that we learned there towards the end. The elves are taller? Taller or bigger. Oh, Christmas cheer. Good, good. I'm glad we have some Christmas cheer this year. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:22 By the way, did you see, did you see, did you see, did you see, did you see, did you see, did you see the the uh uh the uh pun fang dossier letter the what now the fang fang hmm
Starting point is 00:08:36 uh I found this on American greatness uh and it's a letter from Fang Fang to the Ministry of State Security of China uh it says
Starting point is 00:08:50 party comrades the American website Xios has published an extensive essay on our Spionage operations in the United States. According to the essay, a Chinese national name Fang Fang or Christine Fang, you know, I guess it's better not to have two fangs. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:12 I like that. It's like when you call a call center for customer service and it's like, my name is Richard Fang. It's like, she's either, she was Fangfangfang. And she's like, no, it's Christine Fang? Do you believe that, Eric? No, the problem is the word fang. If you've got fang in your name, you should change it.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Anyway, so Christine Fang targeted an up-and-coming local politicians in the Bay Area and across the country who had the potential to make it big on the national stage. Well, it was Swalwell. That's a different story. Since American media have picked up on the story, I want to set the record straight. I indeed did operate, as the article explains, and my primary target was Eric Swalwell,
Starting point is 00:10:03 formerly a low-level prosecutor, city councilman, and a man of vast ambition, who in fact ran for the President of the United States. I was able to access his organization and help him raise money for his 2014 run for Congress for the source of these funds and how they were laundered. I'll refer you to the Ministry of State Security File. To my great delight, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put Representative Swalwell on the House Intelligence Committee, where he enjoys access to the most sensitive secret information. I'll refer you again to the classified files concerning our access to this information, but be assured that Representative Swalwell was one of our greatest victories.
Starting point is 00:10:48 As you know, Swalwell was one of the loudest voices against our main enemy, Donald Trump, accusing him crimes with no evidence whatsoever. On the other hand, Swalwell has faithfully repeated our propaganda practically word for word, and I find no case where he openly disagrees with our position. Criticizing our human rights record. Never has he spoken a word. Swalwell has been silent about the sexual relations we indulged in, but let me clarify. The man holds a vast conceit of himself.
Starting point is 00:11:24 self. So as the Americans say, getting next to him was easy. Swalwell wanted to perform several acts, not fully covered in my original training. Yes, they were very distasteful, not to say, uncomfortable as well. But on the political side of the American, the American was soon doing everything I wanted. The various American mayors I courted were easier, and in time they also might yield considerable benefits. As the article pointed out, the American Federal Bureau of Investigation gave Swalwell a defensive briefing in 2015, but that was long after I safely returned to our homeland.
Starting point is 00:12:12 Swalwell remains on the Intelligence Committee, where he serves as a valuable asset. He blamed the Axios report on President Trump, which made all of us at the ministry, laugh really hard. As I note here in my report, FBI gave a similar briefing to Diane Feinstein, but not before one of our agents had been on her staff for 20 years, sometimes attending consular functions on the senator's behalf. So far, they have not been disciplined. As my report recalls, the Communist Party was the creation of the Soviet Russians in
Starting point is 00:12:54 the United States, and they ran candidates in American elections from 1920 to 1984 when Gus Hall and Angela Davis served as the CPUSA candidates. The PRC needs no such operation as the Democratic Party is serving our purpose as well. I had no direct role in operations during the American election, which has Hunter Biden's father, he positioned to occupy the White House. He's, he's did enough for us. I agree with the ministry leadership that President Biden stands to be our biggest asset as we strive to expand our already considerable influence. And to that end, I may refer party comrades to my full report for possible MSS operations under the Biden administration. Our ultimate victory is just ahead. And our schedule is ahead as well, and virtually assured.
Starting point is 00:13:54 respectfully, fang, fang. It is amazing when you look at this and you couldn't write it. No one would believe it. And the part that is so unbelievable is the New York Times still has not found any of this news fit to print. How's that possible? They spent years telling us that any kind of foreign influence would be just disastrous. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:14:29 Did you see what he did with Russia? China! How is this China news, not news, to the New York Times? Oh, I'm sorry. I was a rhetorical question. You didn't really actually start to answer that, did you? I'm sorry. We all know the answer to that.
Starting point is 00:14:50 The best of the Glenn Beck program. Kind of like Disneyland is the happiest place on earth. This holiday season, I have to just tell you and remind you, really, Bill O'Reilly, the happiest person on earth. Hello, Bill O'Reilly. This morning, I'm not the happiest guy. Twice. Because the Terri-Dlew is pulling the leash, all right?
Starting point is 00:15:23 I'm lucky I'm not in traction here. But here's a happy note, Beck. Here's a happy note. I want to thank you and Stu for giving, killing crazy horse, to all your friends as Christmas gifts. That was very, very nice of you to do. You're welcome. Oh, I didn't know that you would recognize that I bought an extra book for all of my friends.
Starting point is 00:15:48 You know, I should say, I bought a book for all of my friend. From number 20 to number 10, I called them and they said, hey, Beck just ordered a whole bunch of killing. I know. I did. It's a great, it would be a great Christmas gift. Not as good as some of my books, but it would be a great Christmas. gift killing crazy horse. Now, I wouldn't recommend that, but
Starting point is 00:16:11 I mean, there might be some people out there. So, Bill, I want to take you first. Tell me the events of the week. Donald Trump. Let's start there. Where are we still?
Starting point is 00:16:25 A message of the day on bill orrilly.com, and I told everybody that the president is very uncharacteristic. isolating himself. So he had a couple of parties at the White House for the big fat cat donors.
Starting point is 00:16:42 He didn't even show up to those parties. I understand from people who do it every day that, you know, he's a little withdrawn, and I understand. He believes that the culmination of five years in a dubious election,
Starting point is 00:17:01 and he believes that he got hosed every, every way you could get host. And that's just frame of mind going into the Christmas week. I was there last Friday with my daughter at the Christmas party. We were actually in the West Wing before the party started and caught a glimpse of the president in the Oval with Mike Pence and Meadows as he was being briefed on the Supreme Court. It didn't go well. It didn't go well, as you could imagine.
Starting point is 00:17:37 You know, and he's a pretty resilient guy. I'd known him, you know, for 30 years. And, you know, he bounces back pretty well. But I think this is really shaking him because he sincerely believes that he won the election. That's not, you know, posturing or he doesn't have any self-doubt. He believes that he won it and that it was taken from him by these forces who for five years try to destroy him. So let me
Starting point is 00:18:06 be very careful on what I say here. I believe that as well, but I haven't seen the evidence to back that up in a way that would be would transform things. You know, there hasn't been
Starting point is 00:18:24 knockout punches. There's been some things revealed, but it hasn't, so far, it always seems like, okay, well, that's a good point, and I see that, and that might be, but is it? So I believe that he did win the election if it was honest. I just don't think it was honest. Yeah, I don't say to my listeners and viewers that Donald Trump won the election.
Starting point is 00:18:56 I don't do that because it's impossible. to ascertain. We know there was corruption. That is a fact. But we don't know the level. However, here is the salient statistic. I think it's Nevada, Wisconsin, and Michigan. No, not Michigan.
Starting point is 00:19:25 Nevada, Wisconsin, and Georgia. There you go. Donald Trump lost those three states by a combined 44,000 votes. had he gotten those electoral votes, the whole thing would have been different. That's not a lot of votes. And you can. I know. And you can.
Starting point is 00:19:50 You can. And if you look at the country, what was that? Well, I was going to say, it isn't a lot of votes. And between the dead people and the illegals in Arizona, you. very, very durable. Last night on the no spin news on Bill O'Reilly.com, we had a guest in Las Vegas, who said in the state of Nevada,
Starting point is 00:20:16 they give driver's licenses to undocumented people. And once you get a driver's license in Nevada, you can request to be registered to vote, and they'll do it even if you're not a citizen in Nevada. Now, we try to check this out. It's murky, but it's absolutely possible that happened at a pretty grand scale. Now, if illegal undocumented people are being allowed to vote in California and Arizona and Nevada, who are they going to vote for?
Starting point is 00:20:53 A guy building a war migration or a guy like Biden who's going to give undocumented people free health care? Who are you going to vote for? So these things add up, but what has to happen now is a special counsel. We talked about this last week that has to do forensics on the questionable voting machines and has to analyze the mail-in votes in a very precise mathematical way to say, listen, in Detroit, maybe 10% voted for Donald Trump and 90% voted for Joe Biden mail in. But in the next county over, which is demographically pretty similar to Detroit, it was 70-30 or whatever it is. So you could prove that there was an anomaly, word of the day, anomaly.
Starting point is 00:21:51 Correct. In various places. So you're never going to be able to overturn an election. The Supreme Court will never do it. Base upon affidavits and anecdotes, you need to have a hard core. forensic and analytical investigation, and that takes... I agree with you. I think the problem with this case is you can't prove your case fast enough.
Starting point is 00:22:21 That's right. But I believe, and I talked to Rudy Giuliani about this yesterday, if he'll appoint a special counsel right now, because Biden's not going to do it. But if Donald Trump appoints a special counsel, it may take a year. He can't do it. Why not? Because the president can't appoint a special counsel, has to be done by the attorney general. So the new attorney general, well, Barr could do it.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Barr's got four more days. All right? He could do it. Barr is a waste of skin if he won't do this. What has that guy done? What has he done? I'm screaming at the top of my lungs. And here's what else I screamed.
Starting point is 00:23:12 Joe Biden should be calling for this. Every local American should want to know in a presidential election. Everybody. It doesn't matter who won or lost. We've got to have integrity and our system. When it came to the, when it came to the, when it came to looking into to Donald Trump with Russia and Ukraine, I'm all for it.
Starting point is 00:23:43 Let's look into it. But let's actually look at the facts. When we started doing our own investigation and found the facts, there wasn't anyone who wanted a trial in the Senate where you're calling witnesses more than me. I want it. If you're innocent of those things, you want the trial. Give it to me.
Starting point is 00:24:04 Give it to me. I'm going to prove that it was you that did it, not me. If Joe Biden is so convinced a special counsel, because there is absolutely no way constitutionally, once he is sworn in as president, there's nothing in the constitution that allows you to remove an administration and go back to the old administration because of voter fraud. It's not covered.
Starting point is 00:24:31 There's no trigger for that. No, you're not going to get. out of there. He's not going to get out of there. But you can put people in prison, number one, who did this. And number two, maybe in four years we'll have an honest election. Wouldn't that be nice? Correct. So, yeah, I don't trust the one we're going to get in Georgia in four weeks. Yeah, I don't know. All I know is there are literally thousands of poll watchers down there. So, you know, it's going to be very, very difficult to cheat with all of those eyes down there. But there's more, so far there's more absentee ballots coming in than the presidential election.
Starting point is 00:25:23 The absentee ballots. Yeah. In Georgia, 1.2 million mail-ins were requested for this senatorial race, 1.2 million mail-ins were requested for this senatorial race, 1.2 million, and about 300,000 have showed up. What are you going to do? Pass a National Fair Election Standards Act, which it wound as long as Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the House, all right? We're always going to have individual states screwing up, right? And that's just, look, with all this high-tech stuff that we have now and all of the change in our society, our government has not kept up with this, Beck,
Starting point is 00:26:08 no we have blockchain we should there should be no question no question with the technology that we have no question on the validity of the vote this is the best of the glenbeck program and we really want to thank you for listening i want to introduce you to somebody uh Tommy vexed he's the lead vocalist of bad wolves uh co-host of deviant gentleman podcast he happened to be in dallas today and I wanted him on the show and unfortunately I'm not there but he's at the studio Tommy I have to tell you
Starting point is 00:26:52 I watched one of your videos I don't remember what you were explaining but you're using you were using pens Oh the hot marker video Yeah yeah yeah I instantly became a fan I thought this guy knows
Starting point is 00:27:09 how to break down an argument and make it so crystal clear That is a real skill. Well, the way that that happened was I was actually, I was at my friend Matt's house and he has three daughters and they're young and basically they were asking me what's going on. And so I was like, okay. I'm like, all right, kids. He filmed it and then it went out and I was like, well, there we go.
Starting point is 00:27:38 So it caused a bit of controversy for me. Yeah, I bet it did. I bet it did. Also, a fan of the, what was the Cranberry song? A zombie. That you did the cover. Oh, so great. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:27:53 Thank you. Anyway, I want to get you on. I want to talk to you, and we have only about eight minutes here, so it's going to suck. I'd love to have you back for a podcast. You text, what, earlier this week, there are no political parties anymore. There's just insanity. patriots pick aside yeah tell me about it well i mean it's it's uh you know my experience has been a similar experience to many people uh over the past five years i think a lot more over the course of
Starting point is 00:28:30 2020 and um i think that i'm someone who i grew up identifying as democrat i was raised that oh we're poor so we're democrat and uh you know rich people are republicans and that was kind of this ideology that that I was taught as a kid. And so that was just how we voted and that became the identity form of my politics. And then, you know, as I've gotten older and started to pay more attention, you can see that things have, either things have changed or they were never the way that they were explained to me in the first place. And 2020, we've seen a lot of, what's that?
Starting point is 00:29:12 Which do you think it is? Well, I think that I think the extreme measures that the, the Democratic Party has gone to kind of institute totalitarianist government lockdowns and the fear mongering of the media. And, you know, it's pushed everyone from from people who are liberal to the, you know, to moderates, to libertarians, all pushed everyone to the right end of the pool. Like I said on on a I was saying this the other day. It was like if you were in a long pool and in a public pool and the and the Democrats, somebody pooped in the in the left side of the pool and everyone just came running to the right. That's kind of what's happened. You know.
Starting point is 00:29:58 Yeah. And it is. And it's what I think it comes from a fundamental misunderstanding. Everybody tries to use the European scale. Left and right in America is not liberal and consulate. conservative, because over in Europe, it's either Nazis or communists. Here in America, the left and right scale is total government, zero government. And the farther you go to zero government, you'll, you know, you'll get into the Democrats, I mean, sorry, the Republicans, and then the libertarians, and then probably towards anarchy
Starting point is 00:30:41 and the no government people, you go the other way and it's people that want more and more government. You will find some of the Republicans, some of the many of the Democrats, and then the communists and the Nazis. That's the choice in America. Freedom or no?
Starting point is 00:30:57 I even think that the radicals that want no government, they seem to be, have been weaponized by the left as well. Somehow, Yes, I think so. Antifa, which is like anti-fascist, but they believe in using fascist techniques to bat combat in imaginary fascism.
Starting point is 00:31:15 They're fighting on the side of the left. And I think one of the most hilarious things that I've witnessed this year is, you know, the riots and the looting and all this stuff and people accusing Trump of being a dictator. And just the American privilege of not understanding that if you truly lived in a dictatorship, the military would just kill,
Starting point is 00:31:38 they would just fire on all of these civilians. who are rioting and protesting. And that's, you know, people don't realize, like, I travel all over the world. That's my job. I'm nine months out of the year, I'm traveling. And about half that time is spent overseas. And you can't do that. You can't do that in South America.
Starting point is 00:31:57 You can't do that in Russia. No, they're not, you know, it's, and, you know, forget about China, but, you know, I don't want to say that. I don't want to get a shadow banned. Look at just. Yeah. Look at just the recent events in our lifetime from Tiananmen Square to Venezuela to Egypt, running people over with the government tanks.
Starting point is 00:32:22 That's a dictatorship. They don't care. Well, yeah, I also say, too, like, if you were in a dictatorship, the media is not allowed to talk ill about the standing dictator. So basically the mainstream media is all the proof you need to understand that we do not live in a communist dictatorship under Trump as the president. And if we are not allowed to criticize Joe Biden, if he winds up in the White House, which is still, it's like everything's still up in the air because there's so much misinformation and the truth is so obfuscated. if we're not allowed to criticize him, then you'll know where we're at. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:14 That is truly, I don't understand what people are saying, ah, we have freedom of speech, but you have to shut up. That's not freedom of speech. That is a dictatorship. You can talk ill about one side and say nothing about the other. When that has complete control, you're done as a nation. You're living in California. Sorry for that.
Starting point is 00:33:38 That's okay. Which is a country. We had a good run. Which is a state. Yeah, I know. Which is a state I've always wanted to live, live in. I grew up in rainy Seattle, and I always wanted to live in Southern California. And just I've had opportunity after opportunity.
Starting point is 00:33:56 Can't bring myself to it because the regulations and everything else is so anti-business. But now there's something super special going on where they are just to, destroying all businesses. What is the feel in California? Because I sense that there is a, there's a big collection of people both left and right traditionally, as it traditionally knows, Democrat and Republican, that are done with this.
Starting point is 00:34:30 And they're going to stand up soon. They're going to stand up. They already are. Well, yeah, I mean, it's already happening where, you know, know, you see, so I lived in L.A. for almost 14 years. I ended up in Venice, where I always wanted to live. And, you know, in 2020, the riots happened. They shot a police officer on my corner, a homeless lady defecated in front of my home that is not, it's not a cheap place to live. And I was like, yeah, I'm done. And I don't know why I'm holding on. And a lot of people in the
Starting point is 00:35:01 entertainment industry are holding on to this idea that you have to be in L.A. and it's not true. It's the rent is too high. The homeless, they're not helping these people. These people are either mentally ill, they're addicts, they're down in their luck. They need actual help. And so it's, it's, you're basically paying crazy property tax, you know, crazy income tax. And then you move to these neighborhoods that are, you know, it's on the same street of Google. You got people shooting meth in front of the building.
Starting point is 00:35:37 And it's, you know, so I don't know if, I don't know if you've seen anything about the, the drug laws in Spain, but Spain was having horrible, horrible drug problems. And they started from, from scratch. And they said, okay, what we're doing clearly is not working. So let's stop spending money on trying to stop drugs from coming in. Let's end the drug war. let's legalize everything. And then instead of spending all that money on a drug war,
Starting point is 00:36:13 let's go find the people that actually want the help. Their deaths from drug overdoses, their problems from drugs have almost gone away. And it's remarkable. We have an opportunity in front of us to actually reset to some libertarian values and give that a whirl, but nobody's talking about that. Everybody's talking about bigger government, a bigger solution, and we'll fix it globally.
Starting point is 00:36:42 Well, the government has failed to do so. You look, and when you look at San Francisco and you look at Los Angeles, you know, and I myself, I've been in recovery, I've been sober for over 11 years, and I, thanks. And I don't believe you deserve a award for running out of a burning building, but it wasn't working out. Nobody gets into recovery on a winning streak. But I understand addiction to alcoholism as defined as a disease. And it's a health crisis.
Starting point is 00:37:14 We're dealing with an opioid crisis in this country that people aren't talking about. And more people have died in the past three years of opioid overdose than the Vietnam War casualties on both sides. And so I was actually a part of a film called Snow Babies that my record laid. released and it was we had a song called Sober on there that was the lead track and that movie really attacks the accessibility of opioids to adolescents and and teens and how devastating it is for our children. Tommy I'm sorry we have to cut this loose I couldn't let you be in town and not have you on the show but I I'd like to invite you back for a podcast oh I love that spend an hour with you oh that'll be great your
Starting point is 00:38:03 your backstory is fascinating, absolutely fascinating. It's a whirlwind. Tommy, thank you very much. Yeah, thank you for having me. All right. You bet. Yeah, Tommy Vexed. You can follow him at T. Vext.
Starting point is 00:38:18 No, no, no.

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