The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Sen. Eric Schmitt & Gavin McInnes | 11/20/24

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

The Democrats lost every branch of government in this past election. Did they learn any lessons? Apparently not, according to a new poll that shows Kamala Harris as the current favorite to run for president in 2028. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) joins to discuss whether Matt Gaetz will be confirmed despite the apparent Senate opposition. Censored.TV founder Gavin McInnes joins to discuss how liking Trump is becoming cool again and whether that’s a good or bad thing.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Dems still don't understand why they lost the election. I thought we just take some examples from today's news and then just ask a question. I don't think you're really looking that hard. You keep using that phrase. I don't think it means what you think it means. How did we lose? Senator Eric Schmidt is here to talk about the Senate and what's going to happen with Matt Gates, et cetera, et cetera.

And the one and only Gavin McGuinness joins us for some laughs. On are we the cool kids all of a sudden? All on today's best of podcast, which begins in 60 seconds. These days, it seems like so much of the business world has bowed down to the leftist mission to spread wokeism. It's hard to find a company that's not part of it, but Patriot Mobile is one of those companies clearly. And I am proud to be their friends and to be their spokesperson. They put cause ahead of profits. And that's one reason we're proud to partner with them.

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A free smartphone. offers eligible only with the promo code Friday, limited time offer, or until supplies run out. Terms and conditions do apply. Join me, make the switch today. Patriotmobile.com slash Beck. That's Patriot mobile.com slash Beck. 972 Patriot. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck. Find this incredible from Yahoo News. Kamala Harris is the top choice of Democrat voters to be the party's nominee for the 2028 presidential election according to a new poll. What? What? Do it. Do it. You're right. You're right. Run it back. Yeah. Ms. Harris was significantly ahead of Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, and Pete Buttigieg. By the way, can I just say, you know, these people are so unqualified to run any of these departments that Donald Trump is nominated. Pete Buttigieg.

A person they mocked the Biden campaign. campaign mocked for having no qualifications. No qualifications. Then they gave him the transportation secretary. And he became the worst one we've ever had. HHS secretary. Who do we get a guy who thinks he's a woman? I mean, come on, guys.

Come on. Okay. So they don't know why they lost. And they're now saying that Kamala should be the not. This is the majority. In a poll, the majority of Democrats think that they go this way again. Guys, do it. Do it.

Please. So Katie Couric was on with, oh, what's her name from MSNBC? She used to be Jen Saki. She used to be with the White House. And they were talking there like, I don't know what happened. I'm so frustrated. What happened? And Corrick says, I think it was her word salads.

She just didn't answer any question. Well, that's part of it. But could I just try to boil it down for the, the Democrats one last time. Okay. Let me give you some today scenarios, not in the past, things that are happening today that are making you the party of the wigs. Here we are. House Democrats are rebuking a proposal for a ban for an incoming transgender lawmaker from using female bathrooms at the Capitol, calling the effort a distraction from the real work people want to see done. Democrats were quick to blast Nancy Mace, a rape victim. For her bill that

dropped on Monday, which targeted Representative elect Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware, the first transgender member of Congress. However, despite outraged posts on social media and calling the GOP proposals bullying, several Democratic members are saying that they are better to do things with their time than to respond to a petty move. They're wanting this guy who claims to be a woman to be able to use the congressional women's bathroom. Now, this guy has his own potty in his office. So does Nancy Mace.

So it's not really even a problem unless Nancy Mace wants to go in, you know, with everybody else and, you know, not use the one in her office. Sometimes that happens, you know. she didn't want a guy in there. She's been raped. But beyond that, this is not what the American people want to talk about. They don't, they, they, they care now, where they didn't care before about transgenderism and all this stuff. Once you started mutilating our children, once you started forcing people to say, not only is that a woman, but my gosh, one of the most beautiful women.

Have you seen Rachel Levine? She is. Oh my gosh. She should be on the cover of Vogue. I look at Melania Trump on Melania Trump. Do you have I seen Rachel Levine every time in my bedroom there's a poster hanging up over the bed, of course. I don't even look at my wife. I close my eyes and think of Rachel Louis Levine.

Okay. So there's one. Here's the other one. The woman who was an original founder of Laleche League. Now what is Le Leche all about? Leleche is all about mother's breast milk. That's what they fight for. Mother's breast milk.

Now they've decided to include men as chest feeders. Well, when guys can start to make mother's breast milk, let me know. But that's what the whole organization is about. mother's milk. And you're including chest feeders, men? Okay. I wonder what happened. How did he win?

What happened? How did we lose America? Example number two. Chest feeders. Here's another one. What city can withstand all of the illegals that have come across the border. Which one can afford it? Which one is rolling in the dough? And they're like, you know what? We got so much money. And we're so open-hearted. We just want all of

them up here. And we're not going to put anybody in jail ever. Okay. Which city? Is it Chicago? Because I know Chicago, the minorities are now standing up going, wait a minute, you're giving all these people, all this stuff. You never did jack for us. And we're, we're citizens. Not working out, Chicago. And yet you're doubling down now after the election. Before the election, we're like, oh, we're going to collapse if this continues to go. We need, we need Biden to, you know, do some common sense.

And that's why we're for him closing the borders. You know, it's, he's got less people coming over right now than Donald Trump did all day. All right now. And they were all for that. Now Donald Trump gets in and they are, we're going to. There's not a policeman. in this town that will, because we're all for it. Are you now?

Are you? Here's what I'm for. If you want to violate federal law, common sense federal law, this isn't a, this is not something that's controversial. What is it? 70, 80% say, hey, we can't live this way. Your own people are crying out

for an end to the crime and to illegal immigration, and to the tax dollars that you are spending. I say if you want to go there, fine. You do whatever you want. You be you, boo. California, Illinois, you keep going. Oh, I'm so proud of you.

Look, who's so cute. We all know how that's going to end. Your own people know how that's going to end. But you want to do that? That's fine. I just suggest that you don't get a federal dollar for anything. You can't do that. I hate that.

Really, aren't you the same people that were preaching the 50s? mile an hour speed limit forever. You're not going to get a dollar of federal funding unless it's 55 miles an hour. So don't, don't, that was Jimmy Carter. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. Talk to the hand. And that's what you are saying to your common sense voters.

Los Angeles, New York. New York, the mayor of New York was saying, we're going to collapse. Now we're not letting us sing. person, we love them. Come on over here. I always want to give you a big squeeze. Uh-huh. Okay. What else? What else? Now, these are not, I'm not going back to the past. I'm going to the things that are happening right now. The public school district in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, said it mistakenly released the names of close to 100 elementary schools whose families opted them out of the controversial sex education program last year.

Oopsie. Upsi. Did we dox them? We didn't mean to. We keep that file in a super super super super secret place. We keep it over. It's locked. Nobody's ever going to know.

That's going to be super secret. Did we just release those names? Oh my gosh. And I'm shocked. I am shocked that somebody hacked in to the Congress and got those facts on Matt Gate and now Matt Gates is going to be exposed. I am shocked and horrified. Mm-hmm. Are you? So another reason? You weaponized the federal government. You weaponized it. And every time something happened, you were like, oh, that was a mistake. Then if you didn't weaponize

it, if it's all mistakes, you are the worst. We cannot stand another day of people. We cannot stand another day of people running the country that make this many mistakes because they're kind of important ones. Okay, so what else? Why else did you lose? Well, I want to tell you about the super hot, sexy Jaguar. Here is the latest ad for Jaguar. It's an elevator full of a guy with a tutu on and a guy who looks like he has a dress. Now he's wearing a dress.

Live vivid. Delete ordinary. Is that a male or a female? Is that a male or a female? Or is that the one that used to run our nuclear? That's the luggage stealer. Okay. Okay.

Copy nothing. So, so far, we didn't see a car. And that's the end. And there is no car in the ad. I don't know what they're selling. But it's not a car. Shocking, they would do that today. Like three years ago, maybe.

Maybe I could have seen it. Like the fact that they're doing that in 2025. Who owns, who owns, who owns Jaguar? That's a good question. I don't know. I think it's still Ford, isn't it? Or whoever owns Ford now, it's the same company as Ford. So what, uh, I don't know.

What, what are you selling? I thought you were selling cars. When you sell a car and it's, it's, it's, Tata or Tata motors, an Indian automotive manufacturing company. that acquired Jaguar Land Rover from Ford in 2008. Okay. All right. So it's Tatas.

It's Tatas. You know, watching that, I can understand. Tatas seems like the right name. But they've been strangely sewn on men, those Tatas. Yes. When you're selling a Jaguar, you're selling it to guys, and you're selling that car based on sex appeal, all right? Guys, when they can afford a nice jaguar, they're usually having a midlife crisis.

And they're like, I got to have something sexy that makes me feel young. And a guy in a dress doesn't make a guy feel young and hot. Okay? So. A certain type of guy. It probably does. Probably does. And I guess that's who they're trying to appeal to.

Right. No longer the James Bond type that's with every hot spy. Right. Right. Right. Because the majority of people that are buying Jaguars are transgender. Yes. 85%.

Yeah, 85%. That is, why are you losing? Because you don't know who your customer is. You have no idea. You are denying who your customer is. And your customer is like, wait, I, but I'm, hold it. I thought I was voting for the people that were against these never-ending wars. What are, what?

No, you, you have completely forgotten who your customer is. Now, let's go another one. Colorado has paid now $1.5 million for violating an artist's First Amendment rights after the SCOTUS case that just came down. There was a website design and they had to pay this person $1.5 million because they violated the First Amendment rights. Graphic designer. She was asked to, as a Christian, marriage is supposed to be between Maine. and female and they wanted, you know, to do a same-sex wedding website, and she said, no, they targeted her and then dragged this person through the court and tried to destroy her life. So this

goes to the weaponization of our justice system. You're destroying people. Now, I don't know about you, but I know a lot of gay people who are just like, I've had it up to here. Okay? This is, not my agenda. I just want to get along. Just leave me alone. You know, I'm a normal human being. I'm not for this. And by the way, let me ask you, who wants somebody to make something for you that just doesn't have their heart into it? Doesn't hate you. Just doesn't have their heart into it. You know what that looks like? That ends up looking like a Jaguar ad. Okay? Where you're like, I don't even recognize. That's not.

Have you ever? I did this at CNN. I asked somebody at CNN to write a piece on the strength of Ronald Reagan. It was the week he died. And I got it. And it was the worst piece of crap. And it was one of our best writers. Worst piece of crap.

And I called him up and I said, Hal, what the hell happened? Did you just phone this one in? He said, Glenn, I worked harder on that one than I ever have. He said, I don't like Ronald Reagan. I don't understand. why everybody loves him. I did the best I could. And I saw, he really did.

He did. I couldn't be mad at him. He didn't get it. Why would you want somebody to make a website for you that really, truly, doesn't get it? Doesn't get your point of view. And of course, that's not what they wanted. No, they wanted. Everybody to bow down.

Bow down, get a lawsuit, whatever it was. Right. I'm just going over the things that are happening. today? Not in the past. Today, Katie Couric, I don't understand. Well, give me five more minutes, Katie. And if you don't get it after five more minutes, it's because you don't want to get it. Wow, I haven't even considered that. You just want to say that we're stupid and you're brilliant. And you don't really want to find a real answer. It's not an honest search. That can't be, Katie Corrick. I'm going to speak slowly, Katie, so you can understand.

understand because I know you're on an honest search. What is it that caused the Democrats to lose? Well, let me just give you two things in the news today. Democrats have launched an 11-hour campaign to kneecap the Jewish state. Okay, all right. That probably is another reason. Know your customer. Know your voter.

Akazio-Cortez hammered with accusations of anti-Semitism after she blames Jewish groups for the Democrats' loss. well, that's another reason probably why you lost and you're going to lose again. The Democrats all say, you know, the DOJ is going to be there. They're going to watch every single count. They're going to make sure everything is done legally. How come they're not going after the people in Pennsylvania? Don't answer that.

We all know why. Because they don't mean what they say and say what they mean. That's why. I mean, it's just that. simple. We got to get everybody to drive a green car. Nobody's buying them. If you want a green car, you're going to buy a Tesla. Everything else is worthless. I can't tell you. You know why? It was probably talk radio and all of the internet. Uh-huh. Once upon a time, there was no pain. It hadn't been invented yet. And then

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We go now to Senator Eric Schmidt. He used to be the AG in Missouri. He is fantastic and a fantastic senator from Missouri. We welcome now to the program to talk a little bit about some of these. Well, first of all, let's just start with Matt Gates. What are you expecting with Gates, Senator? I think President Trump deserves to get the jokes that he thinks are going to be loyal to the agenda. that he ran on, right?

And so I think that my hope is that my colleagues will keep an open mind on this, and we get to a confirmation hearing. And again, I just think if you look at this election, one of the things you've talked about it, but not a lot of people, I think, highlight this. The unique coalition that was put together that delivered this mandate for President Trump was really disruptors versus the establishment. That's how I see it.

And so these cabinet pictures, shouldn't be any surprise to anybody who's paying attention. The American people support this. So now you have a broader coalition that then brought in. You got working class Americans. That's how I grew up. You brought in, you know, the RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, that was the formula.

You know, you, like your listeners, the Joe Rogans, all that stuff is different. And there's a lot of people in permanent, permanent Washington that are threatened by that. But for me, bring it on. This is why I ran because we got a unique moment in time to actually deliver. And these agencies need to not just be checked by the Article 1 branch and things that we can do structurally to reform the administrative state, but from the inside. You know, people who are going to leave these agencies to believe it to. So for those reasons, I'm bullish on Gates and Pete Hesquez, all of them. I think that this is what President Trump ran on, and he deserves to have a cabinet that he trusts.

You know, when years ago, when I started the Blaze, the Tribeca Film Fester gave me the Disruptor of the Year Award. It killed them and I loved that. But one of the things that was so important to me, and I used to say it to the team all the time, I do not want to be surrounded by people, horses that you have to whip and coax. I want horses that I have to maybe pull the reins back at times and go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, not quite so fast, not quite so far. and I think that's what he's appointing. People who are just going to come out of the gate strong, and if you just let them run wild,

they will disrupt everything. And in some places, maybe that's right. In other places, I want disruptors in there that at the appropriate time, you'll hold back and go, nope, hang on just a sec, not quite so fast, not there yet. You know what I mean? Well, absolutely. And so, you know, from my own personal experience.

And so the Senate, you know, it takes a little time. there's six years or staggered turn. But I think, you know, the Republican centers that are coming in now, I mean, Trump has helped transform this party. For me, I ran in a crowded primary field and won a general election, was out of spent. And what did I talk about? Look, when I was AG, we took on the vaccine mandates at the Supreme Court. We won.

We had the student loan death forgiveness case. We won. We brought Missouri versus Biden and exposed the vast censorship enterprise. And, you know, for me, that's what the people of my state wanted. And you saw in this election cycle two years later in 2024. That's what the American people want. They want fighters. They don't like this system that exists right now that seems to protect insiders.

And it's a permanent Washington. And what's unique about this opportunity in time, Glenn, is normally Republican and Democrat administrations for the last hundred years, you know, really kind of starting with Woodrow Wilson, our nation's worst president, probably. You're just talking sexy to me now. You don't have to do that. But this belief that the experts know better. Yeah. The unwashed masses don't really know what they want.

And we need a team of experts to tell them what is best for them. This has been on the rise for 100 years. And what we have is an opportunity now to pull back the power of these agencies, to disperse that power back to the people. this kind of thing doesn't happen very often if they want it in a lifetime opportunity. And so again, for those reasons and many more, I think President Trump deserves the opportunity to put people in he trusts to go do that. And that's what's on the line.

So I was talking to somebody in the banking community yesterday. And as we were talking, in this very, very high-level banking individual. And I said, what do you think is coming for taxes and everything else? And I was shocked. He said, you know, we're expecting Trump to follow through. ruin his promises. However, when it comes to taxes, you know, maybe he'll drop it by a couple of points here and there, but nothing dramatic. That is not the impression I've gotten from Donald Trump, but he said, you know, when it actually goes through Congress, when it goes through the Senate,

it's going to be hard to move any of that. Do you agree with that? Well, we've got an opportunity because of reconciliation where we only need 51 votes on this tax package, right? But we've got 53 senators, right? So we are going to have to be pretty unified that people offer strenuous objections on provisions in particular. That's something you work through. And that's, look, that's the founder's design. That's the legislative process. But I would point out, we do have to have a sense of urgency because you only got two years. Maybe we have four, but you for sure have two years to go do this. So a lot of those tax cuts people have gotten used to that they like, which have been eaten up, honestly, through the inflationary practices

of this Biden administration, whether it's energy policy or spending. But we can make those permanent. The other thing that's not really on the radar yet, but you and your audience would appreciate, and something I intend to push pretty aggressively, through that process of reconciliation, the Democrats really opened the door for different things in their Inflation Reduction Act stuff. What does that mean? Well, if we can find budget savings with regulatory reform, we can get that in. And so my view is, yes, let's make these permanent, let's build upon the tax policies that help working families and small businesses. But if we can deal with permitting, if we can deal with other sort of regulatory burdens,

save money, let's get it in there. So I think we got a shot to have kind of generational reform of the tax code and of, again, the regulatory state. It won't work if it's only one. It won't. It just won't work. I mean, we really have to follow Calvin Coolidge, who cut taxes in half and cut the state in half. And then the next year, he did it again.

And that's what gave us the roaring 20s. It has to be both, or we're, or we'll just push our debt out of control. Yep, it's an opportunity to really reign in, you know, the broader administrative state and a lot of authority that they have, which are ghost taxes in many ways. So I was reading Victor David. Hanson today, and he said that he thought the Gates nomination was one that he put up so he could pull it off and have a loss. I don't think Donald, I've never seen Donald Trump plan for a loss, and I've never seen him abandon things that he really believed in. Do you think that's right? I agree with you. This is not a flare. Yeah. In that, you know, that job in particular,

the attorney general of the United States, given the weapon, and the corruption in the DOJ, this is not a drill. This is a serious pick for President Trump, and he wants to win. And like I said, I think he deserves to have people that he trusts to go in and shake things up in that department, which has been weaponized against not just him, not just trying to bankrupt him, not just trying to throw him in jail for the rest of his life, but also going after the American people, whether it's Catholics or moms and dad showed up. during COVID to school board meetings who are, you know, being investigated under the

offices of the Patriot Act. This stuff is crazy. So I think you need a reformer to go in there. So to answer your question, I don't think this is a throwaway. I think this is a big one. And I think he wants to make sure that he gets across the finish line. What does it mean that Bragg has postponed the lawfare on Trump? I think they understand the political reality, which also tells you what this thing was all

about anyway, which was a political prosecution. The truth of the matter, though, is particularly on that one, the presidential immunity case that the Supreme Court decided, which basically says you can't use communications, you know, or official acts as a predicate for a criminal prosecution, which is exactly what they did there, which is exactly what Jack Smith was sort of lying on, that all crumbles apart on appeal anyway. And so, you know, and by the way, the judge should probably do something unilaterally himself, although they won't. So I think they understand the writing that's on the wall, and I think that, you know, they just, they don't exactly know what to do, but they know they're not going to be able to move forward with sentencing. I mean, it's totally ridiculous. So there's some

things that, you know, with what's happening overseas now, Biden, I mean, I think this is impeachable what he just did, you know, basically lining up World War III with 60 days left in his term. It's just, it's outrageous. But, you know, as Russia responds to this and puts us into, you know, bad situations, when you look at everything, I think we are going to experience nuclear war, but more metaphorically than actual. And I think that's because we are looking at the possible end of a 120-year push for the progressives. to give us a fully autocratic state and even a global state,

they're not just going to give up on this. I think they're going to launch everything they have against Donald Trump and this movement. What are you expecting? Well, I think that the growing sentiment, although I still think it is an uphill climb in this town, which I'm two years into this. And the Ukraine thing, honestly, it's just really bizarre, Glenn. I don't really, I don't understand it.

No one has ever come and said, here's the plan or here's an exit strategy or here's what victory looks like. It is these folks who have a world order that they want to maintain, don't want to listen to anybody else. But I do think it's changing. The climate is changing. And I think we've got to get to a place where America's core national interests are front and center in our foreign policy.

And the truth is, our European allies in NATO need to step up. Right. I think the American taxpayers are tired of subsidizing their social welfare programs. And the message is being delivered loud and clear. We have to pivot towards China. So I think it's very dangerous. I think what happened by a lot is incredibly dangerous by Joe Biden. But again, if the core of your sort of presidency and your foreign policy is this Ukraine situation,

I guess it makes sense, but it doesn't help us. I think President Trump is the only person that could step in and actually solve this problem. I only have 30 seconds. What I meant, though, was that they're going to launch everything against us legally and everything else, not doing Ukraine, but to stop this administration. They're in survival mode. The deep state is in survival mode. Are you looking at this as this is about to really get ugly?

Well, we got, I mean, again, Pete Hesketh, whoever, we need a reformer in the Pentagon. that's going to change that shift, you know, make that shift. So you're right. They're not going to go quietly into that. Right. Good. Thank you so much, Senator. Senator Eric Schmidt from Missouri.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Gavin McGuinness is a fellow, Gavin. Hi, how you doing? Good. I just want to remind you we're on FCC regulated airwaves. Okay. That's my vocabulary in half. How are things?

I mean, you got to be, are you shocked by what has happened in the last couple of weeks? Yeah, but what I want to say on the show is I'm not going to deny myself of the joy. Like you get to a point where you're a beaten stray dog where you're scared to accept gruel, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I kind of feel like, you know, there's been this, there's this period for another 60 days, hopefully, where everything seems to be okay and you can just enjoy the time. Enjoy. Because it's going to get bad again. They're not going to let go. It's not like they're like, oh, gee, we lost. Okay. Well, we're not going to take over the world. That's not going to happen. We were beaten down for not just Biden's administration, but for a lot of Trumps. It only felt like we were winning for about six months in 2016. Yeah. So I'm reveling in this. I'm reveling to the point where I'm not even watching the liberal tears because that's low-hanging fruit. Yeah. Like I'm reveling in Rachel Maddow and MSNBC and CNN.

They are, I'm reveling, I have to tell you dirty, I mean, it's just a dirty pleasure is the view. I'm just, I'm enjoying every second of the view going, what the heck happened? How? Yeah, not so whoopey and joyous and sunny anymore. They've got to read these legal notices where they say, sorry I said that about Matt Gett. Yeah, so great. That whole industry is dead now because it was, it was an industry of gloating. And when you put all your eggs in that basket and you lose, I'm afraid you're toast.

They still don't get it. They're still figuring it out. They're still like, I don't understand what happened. How? Yeah. That's a second wave of joy, too, is these new plans. Like, we're going to do our own insurrection. I'm going to shave my head.

Good. You let me know exactly who you are. Yeah. You weren't on my radar. You think you're denying me lust? Go put a burqa on for all I care. Right. I don't love you.

So are we, are we, I mean, because you used, you were the co-founder of Vice Media. And Vice Media used to be the, you know, the, you would search when you had it, you were searching for the punk rockers, you know. And then the, the conservatives, whether they knew it or not, were punk rock for a while. I mean, we were the ones, you know, we were bucking the whole system, becoming very, very punk rock. would if you were still with media, vice media, would you be, would your cameras be in our faces now going, look at these guys?

Yeah, it is kind of weird. It's like when that hardcore band, Husker Do signed to Warner, and all the cool kids said, I hate them now, or, you know, any indie band like you replace them. Right, right. When they get signed to a major,

you're supposed to eschew them. But Husker do had great albums under Warner Records. So I'm still dancing in the streets. I don't care how popular. we are. Like, let's enjoy it because we'll be pariahs again soon enough, I promise. Oh, that's optimistic. What do you think about, because I said before the election, I said it like a week or so before Joe Rogan. I said if Trump goes on, Joe Rogan, and he has millions of views and he wins, it will be the moment that historians will look back

and say, that was the end of the mainstream media. in, and not the literal end of it, but the end of their dominance, in 2028, you're not going to see these, you know, who's going to go to ABC to do a debate? You're not going to do that. Also, these vanity projects, like Washington Post is a vanity project, and billionaires get sick of vanity projects because their accountant goes, yeah, let's trim the fat this year, this Washington Post thing is a bomb and Trump won anyway, and we don't want to jeopardize future licenses with him. So let's get his good books and just can that. And you're going to start

seeing that with the billionaires who are wasting their money on mainstream media. And once they get reduced to the free market, they are absolutely toast. So let me switch gears to January 6, right? I have so much to talk to you about. I haven't talked to you in a while. January 6th, I got pushback because I said, I want all the people that did actual violence. Probably most of them were FBI agents, but that did actual violence on January 6th, I want them to serve the punishment that you would normally serve, just like I want everybody that was, you know, doing violence and burning cities down in Minneapolis for Black Lives Matter. I want them to go to jail, and I don't want them to receive an outsized punishment because I disagree with them. I want

them to do the jail time. I'm sorry, were you just vaporized by nuclear weapon or? I don't know if you've been to the South Bronx recently, but the Transformers have taken it over, and Optimus Prime is in a fight with Bumblebee. I'm going to have to get away from them. Okay. So when I said that on the air, the Doublemint Twins, what's their names?

They said, they came out on a tweet and said, hey, Glenn Beck, you know, you're wrong. Everybody's got to be released. Well, no, no, no, wait. I think everybody, they all do have to be released because I think there's a lot of people that shouldn't have gone to jail in the first place. And everybody should just get time served. But some people's, some people's sentences should be expunged. They should be pardoned.

But not everybody. But time served. It's enough. But what's the going rate for vandalism these days? What if a bunch of thugs in the South Bronx smashed a bunch of windows of a library or an, government building, they would probably do two days in the tombs. Right. And they'd get some paperwork and they'd be a misdemeanor that would eventually get to

Smith. Correct. So it's like when someone kills a pedophile, like, oh, we don't need vigilantes in this country. That guy should be fined $300 and have to do over two hours of community service. Like these guys should get a $1,000 fine and get a misdemeanor. Even the other guys, too, like I keep saying, I'm happy they're getting pardoned, if they are.

But that's still really egregious for a January 6 meandering, which is what it was. It was a meandering for 99% of them. Yeah. So I'm still mad even though they're getting out. Yeah, I am too. I am too. Let me ask you in your book, Death of Cool. You came out with this when?

2012, 2013, somewhere in that area? Yeah, 2010. It looked like Teenage Rebellion, was absolutely over. I mean, it was the weirdest thing. First time I think in history where, you know, people who were coming up in 18 were suddenly not pissed at the system. They were like, yeah, and I'm with the system. And we got to silence people.

And I love men with boobs. They're the most beautiful men, women on the planet ever. And it was this weird, weird. I don't even know what it was, but it wasn't rebellion. It was marrying into the system. And I'd never seen it before. Now Generation Z seems to be coming back. Are you, is there a sequel coming that maybe Teenage Rebellion is coming back?

Yeah, well, it's become rebellious to be right-wing. And the left, they started out, you know, being about tolerance. But then it became about fascism until you had feminist defending the Burka. and queers for Palestine and anarchists defending the government's vaccine mandate, representing old ladies who didn't want a vaccine. So they twisted themselves into a pretzel of hypocrisy. And the biggest mistake they made, though, was coming after comedy. I mean, America basically invented comedy.

Stand-up comedy in Britain is relatively new. It's our bag, especially goofball comedy with no rules. Yeah. And they started coming after that, and young people cherish laughs. mostly because they're stoned. And they started policing laughs and saying, you can't make this joke and that joke. And then they checked in on us,

and we had memes and pirate radio, and we were banned from campuses. So that's Animal House. And I think we're at a point now where punk became cool, like with Blink 182 in the 90s. And I'm going to embrace it, because unlike Blink 1282, our team is good. All right, Gavin.

What have you been up to lately? Boxing every day, so I don't fall into a rage hole. Although now the Trump's winning, I don't hit the heavy bag as hard. The rage is dissipating. And we're doing the network censor.tv. It'll be back. The rage will be back. Yeah.

I mean, we're dealing with people. We're dealing with those kind of people who's like, If I can't have you, no one will. Yes, yes, I'm going to sabotage your life. If we can't have you, we'll vaporize the whole world. Yeah, really, literally. Well, one last thing I want to squeeze in here, I've always been pessimistic about leadership and said,

these are just puppets, and that's the guy driving the train, but the train is powered by someone else. And if you look at the massive incompetence of this past administration, Joe Biden was the inept president, and he almost got us into World War III. still might. We have Pete Buttigigig in charge of infrastructure. Infrastructure is a complete disaster, toxic waste spilling over in Palestine, the USA. And then you had the borders are who led in more people than Ellis Island did in its entirety. So in a bizarre way, that's good news,

because it shows you that these boobs still have some power. And when you elect someone, they might be able to do something. But isn't it incredible, though, they're looking at like Matt Gates and Like, he can't run. He's incompetent. Did you see the chick that was running HHS that's not a chick? Pete Buttigieg, that was competence. The only reason they hired him was to bait Donald Trump into using an epithet. And he's smarter than them, so he called him Alfredine Newman.

And now you're stuck with this gay guy that you chose just for his homosexuality. And you don't know what to do with him. What do you think, Karin-Jean-Jean-Pierrez? next gig's going to be. I think she's going to start reading children's books and try to get her English grammar up to a normal adult level and maybe go back to kindergarten. Don't you wish just once?

Peter Ducey would say, I have a question. It's not really related, but what's eight times seven? And can you do your work out loud? Gavin, great to talk to you, man. Thank you so much. Cheers, Klein.

Have a good one. You bet. Censored. Dot TV. He's the founder of that, Vice Media co-founder, which is not around anymore. Once he left,

it kind of went to hell. A comedian, Gavin McGinnis. All right. She'd read the answer to eight times seven as well from her big book. She would. Big book of answers.

She would. Set. Ninety-seven.