The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Bridget Phetasy | 2/2/24

Episode Date: February 2, 2024

Pat Gray joins to discuss the recent inflation of grocery store prices and what Biden is doing about it. The guys give the real reason why everything appears to be getting worse. Sen. Mike Lee joins to discuss the upcoming border bill and whether Biden needs extra powers to enforce the border. Contributing editor for the Spectator Bridget Phetasy joins to discuss how Americans are too fat to be engaged in a civil war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So here they are, Stu and Pat to join me on this, on this really fact-finding mission. Blue ribbon panel, you would really say. Um, so there is a, there's a problem in grocery stores. Uh, and, uh, it's that prices are too high. And, uh, and, and people are having a hard time making ends meet. And so the, uh, the president is doing something about it. And, uh, yesterday, uh, he, he talked about the people who are suffering from high inflation. Uh, and, uh, he called out the, uh, he called out the, uh, he called out the, uh, the villain in this whole thing.

what is the cause of grocery stores charging more for their products? Ooh, I would say inflation due to government spending. Okay, now remember, this is not an educated patent. None of us have doctorates or degrees or anything else. Okay. I was going to guess maybe the high cost of gasoline because the food is being delivered and it costs more to deliver it. Okay. All right. So just the cost of everything that has gone up. Okay. No, I'm sorry. You're both wrong. It is the grocery store, abusing and overcharging their shoppers.

So that's according to President. Wow. Yeah, according to President Biden. So all right. Now here's another mystery, another mystery. Okay. There is an uptick in Washington State of car thefts. It's up over 500%, it's 503% increase in car thefts in Washington State. They can't figure out exactly. I mean, they have a theory, but I want to see if it's the same theory that you guys have. What is causing the uptick of car thefts in Washington State? Is it rampant crime brought on by maybe two light of sentences that are dished out to felons?

Okay, that's a good guess. What about economic desperation by the citizens of these communities where the economy's been ruined? Wow, okay. No, you guys aren't even, no. It is the fault of Hyundai and Kia. And they're considering issuing this. Yeah, the state would like to have the federal government force them to recall all of those cars because they're just too easy to break into. Really?

Because, I mean, I've walked by cars and lots that have their windows open, and I don't steal them, even though they probably would be easy to steal. But I don't do that because I don't want to commit crimes. Huh. Yeah. Well, it's not a crime if you're just sharing everything, you know. Yeah. We're just sharing. Also, what kind of Pollyanna are you?

I mean, that's just, that doesn't even make sense, too. Really? Yeah. To want to steal a car. Really? It's better with you. And by the way, it also has done that. Let me just tap down this disinformation here.

The new state law in Washington that limits police pursuits that took place. That has nothing to do with it. It is the car manufacturer. And again, it is the grocery store. So we're on, you know, we're not, we're not back. batting a thousand here. We're not batting anything. We're striking out.

Now, pharmacy closure in a, quote, crime-ridden neighborhood in Boston. What is causing this in Boston? You said it, the crime-ridden neighborhood, right? If these people who are working at the stores had their stuff stolen, that the employees are threatened. Do you have any? I mean, Pat, do you have anything that you could throw on? I mean, this guy didn't really make sense.

pharmaceuticals did okay maybe no no but that's a good guess that's a good guess but it's no it's massive shortages what was it Glenn no it's it's it's racism it's racism it's racism so they don't like to take money from black people well no there's here here's I mean Ariana Presley from Massachusetts said that it's not the criminal elements that are directly responsible or the the you know the leftist that champion the unrest in the streets and everything else. It's the businesses themselves that are pulling up the stakes, not because of ruin, but because of racism. And I don't think she needed to explain any more than that any deeper. Well, it's important to know what Ariana Presley has to say

because I think she's the sister of Iona Presley, the Congresswoman. Yeah, and I love both of them. I really do. Now, the whole Preslin family is one of my favorite. Elvis was growing. Great. Yeah. He was great. Okay. So Denny's is now leaving Oakland. Now leaving Oakland.

They don't know why. You know, Glenn, these healthy eating keto diets, people just aren't in the mood for pancakes anymore. And that's why they have to leave. Oakland, very healthy city. Yeah, well, they have the super bird, which is very healthy. It wasn't for all the butter and everything else on it. But Pat. any

I would you know I'd have to guess because I think you put your finger on it when you introduced this in a high crime area is it all the crime that has caused them to

say that it is you're saying that because it's in a minority area is that what you're saying it because you mentioned it was a high crime neighborhood you have proved their point it is racism

now fentanyl fentanyl Apparently, drug use has gone through the roof and overdose deaths from, you know, synthetic opioids driven by fentanyl, has jumped 533% in Oregon. And what do you suppose cause that? The rain, I think it was probably the rain. People are so depressed by, yeah, by the weather there. in Oregon that they've got to be on fentanyl to get through it.

Yeah. Because I was going to say open borders, the China, just manufacturing this stuff, seemingly targeting our people. Oh, what's next? What's next? You're going to bring up that they, oh, oh, you know, and they also legalized all drugs as well. I was going to get to that.

Yeah. Yeah. No. No. My gosh. No. They still haven't found a reason for that one. But they're very concerned.

They're very concerned about it. And by the way, those are not. It could be the rain. So I could have been right. Yeah. It's a mystery at this point. Now, you know, they're not really overdoses because these are illegal drugs. So it's not like, hey, man, I got some fentanyl for you.

I got it at the pharmacy as they were giving their big going out of business sale. Okay. A lot of these are drugs that are just laced with fentanyl. this would be called not a drug but poison which would then make the people selling that and bringing it across the border murderers not over prescribers so i just again i'm it's old tiny theory yeah yeah i'm a doctor but they're not a doctor so uh so we don't really know if that's true at all you know does it does it get to a point at any time where people people just stand up and go, this is bullcrime. For instance, yesterday, did you see Joe Biden working and consoling the parents of people

who have lost a family member, Gold Star Families? And he actually again said, you know, I understand what you're going through. My son died in React. And nobody said anything. And I thought to myself, when will a Gold Star family say, Mr. President, your son, son died in a hospital in America from cancer, not from being wounded or killed in Iraq. He died of cancer. Don't insult us. When is somebody going to just say that to him? Oh, it's how can it not have, I mean, we've heard some rumblings that these families have been upset, but I don't think it's after the fact.

Oh, after the fact. Yeah. I want somebody to say to his face. It needs to be. And I will say this. Like, we can put this on Gold Star families if we want. I mean, they're dealing with very difficult things. But how about a damn journalist asking it? Somebody. How about next time you get Joe Biden for a sit-down interview, your first question is, why do you keep saying your son died in Iraq? And let's say this, too.

Even if he did, even if he had died in Iraq, it's not about you. Right. It's not about you. And he makes it about him every single time. Incorrectly. You could say, you could say I know, I can imagine what you're going through.

I lost my son at an early age as well. It was from cancer, but I know it doesn't compare. And that would be appropriate. But to say your son died in Iraq and I know how you're feeling, it is so insulting. It's incomprehensible. He's not getting called out by this. I mean, every single, like he keeps doing it. How many of these stories, Pat, we went over this one day.

How many stories has this guy told that the mainstream media has corrected numerous times? Yes. But they don't ask him about it. They don't go to him and say, Mr. President, you keep telling a story about your Amtrak experience that everyone knows is false. Why do you keep doing it? Right. The Xi Jinping story that he tells over and over and over. Not true.

But you know, those to me don't matter as much as the one. As the Gold Star family. As the Gold Star family. That one is just so unbelievably callous and offensive. Despicable. And it wouldn't be the same as a journalist saying that to his face as it would be a grieving father or mother who he mutters that to. I mean, I think America would cheer at that. I really do.

I really do. The media wouldn't. But I think Americans would say, good, good. He deserved that. Somebody finally said. that. Yeah. Yeah. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. So let me start with this. The United States Capitol Police yesterday determined upon the completion of an investigation that there was no evidence that a crime had been committed by a former congressional Democrat staffer. He filmed himself engaging in a sex act with another male inside the Senate hearing room on Capitol Hill. He's not. He's not. going to be criminally charged. I you know what I what do you say about that I I mean do we have a law against I mean did we need a law ever against

filming yourself having sex in the Senate hearing room I mean I doubt it was the first time but well I mean they probably it probably happened before but but but but nobody dared film it and were proud of it. How are you going to send this guy to jail? For what? For what? You want to pass a law? Great. But see, this is why Adam said this system of government won't work for an ill-religious and immoral society because you have to make all the laws. This never happened out in public, at least. We never knew about it at least because people knew they'd be shamed. This guy, I bet you, hero on the left. I bet this guy is like, oh man, you're the guy who had sex and filmed it.

That's why this country cannot remain free if we don't self-regulate ourselves. We have Mike Lee in the room with me here in Georgia. Hello, Mike. How are you? Good to be with you, Glenn. Thank you. So your thoughts on? Well, first of all, you totally threw me off there by suggesting it's probably happened before. Just let me live in this blissful ignorance where this is the only time it's ever happened. And I have hearings in there every week. And fortunately, it was not at my desk. It was not a place where I sit. So let's just leave it. Now that you've said that, it might be at your desk. Just take the Chlorox wipes and wipe everything down. Not going to happen. No, it's very clean. It didn't happen anywhere else. I'm very, very glad that that's the only time it's ever happened,

hope it never happens again. Here's what I can't figure out though. Why in the Sam Hill did they not have cameras that caught this happening before it occurred? This is a fairly secure room. There are security cameras everywhere. I don't quite understand how it got to this point. It doesn't make it anybody else's fault other than the people who did it, but it's strange. They have cameras in that room. Oh yeah, that's right. They brought their own. No, but I mean, they don't have cameras in that room? They do have cameras. They have cameras going into the room, out of the room, in the room, all over the place. And so I don't know how this guy thought he was,

I don't know how he was so dumb as to think he wasn't going to get caught. But he didn't get caught by the cameras. He got caught because the cameras he brought to film it. Right. Then displayed the thing, the event. Let's leave it at that. Yeah, yeah. For the entire humanity to see.

internet. So yeah. So this doesn't help me feel that the Capitol police are getting better at their job. Yeah, okay. But in fairness, this probably occurred either on a weekend or in the middle of the night or a combination of the two. And they do have secure entrances and exits, especially during those hours. And so, you know, that particular hearing room probably wasn't a major concern to them. I still would like to know why they didn't notice it. Yeah. And I'd like to not talk about special entrances and exits while we're talking about this story. Now, Schumer. You did. You walked right into it. Schumer says the Ukraine border bill is on track for vote in the Senate next week. You know, this is interesting, Glenn, because there isn't a bill. We don't have a bill. It's on track for

next week. Yeah, it's on track for next week. Yeah, it's on track for next week. week because he has said it's on track for next week, but there is no it. We still don't have the bill. They've been working on the thing for four months. Four months they've been negotiating it, and we still don't have bill text. When you say they're negotiating it, who is negotiating it? It is a tiny handful of individuals. I know, for example, that on the border security portion of it, the primary Republican negotiator is James Langford, and the primary Democratic conference negotiators are Kirsten Sinema and Chris Murphy. I actually don't know who is negotiating the Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, miscellaneous supplemental aid funding portion of it. I assume that

it's the top Republican and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. But they've never been clear on what's in that, or exactly who's in charge of that part. But most importantly, Glenn, we don't have the bill. And unless you have the bill, remember, we don't vote on just abstract ideas typically in Congress, or if we ever do, it's not a law. When we're passing a law, like this one, something that spends $106 billion, funds components of conflicts occurring in three different remote locations on the planet, and then undertakes a massive overhaul to our immigration laws, perhaps the most significant of the country, of its kind in a generation. Those are not abstract concepts. We can't vote on those.

Under Article I, Section 1, and Article 1, Section 7, you can't make abstract concepts into a law. It doesn't work. Well, they'll give you the law, and they'll give you about two hours to read it. Right. And that is the problem. You have to have the same language, the exact same language, passed by the House and by the Senate, and then presented to the President. We still don't have that language. So if you give that to us at the very last minute, Remember, this stuff does not read like a fast-paced novel. And this is sufficiently complex.

I will not be surprised if it's hundreds of pages long. And it takes time. Even if it were only, I don't know, 100 pages or so, which for all this bill does would surprise me a bit, but even if it's quote unquote only that, immigration law in particular is tricky. Lots of cross-references in a bill like that. It's going to take at least a few weeks for us to understand it. At least a bare minimum would be like a week or two.

So here's what I'm concerned with. The president keeps saying, you know, I've been asking, I need the money and I need the powers to do it. I'm not for special powers, emergency powers, going to the White House. I don't care if it's Donald Trump or Joe Biden. No more special emergency powers. enough is enough, is enough is enough. Is there any reason that he needs extra powers to be able to solve the border?

All right, this is a good question. Look, there are things in the immigration code that would be good to tune up. It would probably be good to clarify certain things to make it easier for presidents, moving forward, to secure the border. That isn't the question. The question is, what does this bill to do to accomplish that? And what else does this bill do to offset whatever good might be in it? And that is where I have the problem. A problem that is compounded by the fact that the President of the United States

currently has authority to stop the border crisis. Now, they may not be the most elegant tools around. They might not be the tightest. But he has the exact same statutory framework available to him that Donald Trump had when he secured the border while he was still in office. Remember, he had massive border surges. That's when the cartels really started cooking up their human trafficking business, which, by the way, travels on the same chassis with the same people as the drug trafficking business. Those people that they've trafficked into the country over the last few years, they've brought in enough fentanyl to kill every American. several times over.

Anyway, he has the same authority. Now, some people will say, oh, well, no, no, that's not true. That's not true because Donald Trump was using Title 42. Title 42 was based on the COVID pandemic. That's missing the point. He fixed most of the problem, almost entirely fixed by the time COVID was even a thing. He's got the authority. Moreover, all these authorities that they're abusing, asylum law, immigration, parole,

authority, deferred removal authority. They are all discretionary powers given to the executive branch that you can meet out under certain circumstances. But they're all may-shall. They don't have to give anyone asylum, not one person. They can shut down the entire asylum program when they find that we can't keep up with it. He's got the power now. And we're sending the false message by having this discussion that this is for want of adequate legislative authority. That's false. are we giving to Ukraine at the same time? This is going to be $106 billion in this bill

from what we're told. About $62 billion of that will go to Ukraine. Of that sum, $11.75 billion, will be set aside just to fund Ukraine's civil government. It's civil servants, their pensions, and things like that. Now, I've raised questions about this. Why are we doing that? And how long does that buy us?

A year, we're funding their entire government's budget. their payroll soup to nuts. We're funding it for an entire year. I asked my colleagues, why would we want to do that? Why is that our thing to do? The answer was, well, fighting a war is expensive, and they need a government while they're fighting a war.

That's the kind of thing that substitutes these days, apparently. You know, I could understand that if it was World War II and we were doing it for England, where we were both in declared war, they were our allies, maybe, maybe with some sort of, some sort of vote in Congress and debate that that's what we were going to do. This isn't a war we're in. This is... Right.

We have not declared war. We are not combatants in this war. And they're not the most important ally. No, no. And they are also two countries that have, let's just say, have had a fairly long, history of conflicts against each other. Now, don't give me wrong. Putin, bad guy. And I would like Ukraine to be free. But this is not something that's particularly new. These guys hate each other. There are a lot of conflicts. They do that sort of thing. We can't fight every war all the time.

If we do that, we're going to create a lot of problems. And every time we do this, you increase the progressive cause. You increase the total level of guys. government funding with a war, that doesn't go away. All right, let me change subjects. 26 Attorney Generals have now demanded Biden and the UNRWA the funding that we now found that 10% of the people that work for this had ties to terrorism. Some of them actually participated in the Palestinian terrorism of October 7th. Well, of course they did.

I mean, look, the only thing that's shocking about that number is that it's that low. And the only reason it's that low is that they're not taking into account all of the true problems with UNRWA. Look, Glenn, UNRWA has for decades been running schools that teach young children, little kids in their classes, that they need to kill Jewish people, that they, in their words, who needed to stab them with knives and run over them with cars. teaching hatred. So Donald Trump cut the funding. We cut the funding and Joe Biden brought it back. He's also yesterday, let me see here, yesterday he imposed sanctions on four Israelis from the West Bank, if you will. The reason I'm not really sure, they say that they just had thrown rocks and clubs at Palestinians in the disputed territories of the West Bank that they had threatened to kill people,

et cetera, et cetera. And, you know, I want those people to, you know, go to jail and, you know, bad behavior on either side is bad behavior. However, the president has now said that they have to be debanked here in America. They lose their visa and they're not allowed to come into America at any time. Did we do this for Palestinians that had thrown rocks or said bad things? If we had done that, it would have made news and it didn't happen because there has been no news to that effect. Sometimes I really want President Biden and his administration to pick a horse and write it. He pretends to be the friend of Israel, but then when he goes and does stuff like this, it makes me wonder. He's a little bit like the guy who insists on buying a humidifier and a dehumidifier and putting him in the same room to let him have it out.

This makes absolutely no sense. I don't know what he's getting at here. On the UNRWA thing, though, I think it's high time for us to have a conversation as a country. I think Congress needs to make sure that this happens. Unra is a creation of the United Nations. It's a United Nations agency. Glenn, I can't name a darn thing that the United Nations does that I don't find pretty troubling. I certainly can't think of a darn thing that they do, knowing that we're by far the largest contributor to the UN.

Somewhere in the neighborhood of about $20 billion a year, what do we get out of that? And by contrast, what do they do to undermine us and our allies like Israel? A lot. It's time to defund the UN, Chippooroy, and I both have. have bills in the House and the Senate, respectively, in order to do that. It's time to defund the U.N. I agree with you. I think that's going to be hard to do in the current circumstances.

However, I think current circumstances are going to change. There is a huge change coming to the world soon. It just depends which way it swings. You know, we have absolutely destroyed Boeing, one of the greatest engineering firms in the world. They've destroyed themselves, quite honestly. and they care more about wokeness, et cetera, et cetera. But there's something else going on with the FAA, the tower control people,

the people who are actually making sure that our planes don't hit each other. There's a problem there, Mike? Yeah, there's a problem in that they're violating federal law and because it's government entity also going against the Constitution. We have provisions of the Constitution, and we also have laws that say that, You can't treat people differently on the basis of race. Absent very unusual circumstances, there's a bona fide occupational qualification.

You're casting somebody for a role in the play and it's a government actor and they need to be of a particular background because that's what the character is. Absent that, race should never factor into the equation. It's not something that we use to hire people or not hire them. And so when they do this, it causes problems and it carries. ramifications for safety. In what ways? I have 60 seconds. In what ways? If it's just race, but they have the same qualities as somebody else, why is this making our error less safe? Well, because the FAA specifically has adopted criteria designed to make sure that they are not hiring people who have the same qualifications. That's the problem. Now, if it were used only as a tiebreaker, that's a different

thing. But it's not here. They've come up with this set of criteria designed to make sure that they're not making these decisions on the basis of time-honored criteria that determine your qualifications. I got to tell you, I think my great-grandchildren will not believe that we had air travel the way we have it now if we don't turn this around. As I said years ago, hey, you'll learn your lesson when airplanes start to fall out of the sky. Well, we're there, gang. We're there. Thank you. Senator from Utah. You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more?

Check out the full show podcast. Hello and welcome to Friday. It's the Glenn Beck program. Bridget Fetasy is joining us. She's a spectator, columnist, and a contributing editor there. She's also the host of the weekly dumpster fire. Love the name of this. The weekly dumpster fire on YouTube and Walkins Welcome podcast.

She is somebody that, If you've, if you've not heard before, she's very, very funny. She is also, I would say, um, uh, rather new, if you will, uh, to common sense. She used to be way, way left. Uh, not so much anymore, not so much anymore. In fact, she's sobered up about 10 years ago. She's with us now. Bridget, what did you say in my office when I said to you, uh, you're living?

I can't believe this. You're sober. You've got a child. you're married, you're living in a suburb here in Texas. Remember what you said to me yesterday? Yeah, I mean, I just celebrated 10 years. And if you had told me right before I got sober that I would get sober, I was in Los Angeles, wearing hot pants, running around, you know, being an empowered female.

Right. And if you had told me that I would have ended up in a Texas suburb as a mom, I would have just kept on drinking. I've been like, what drugs are you on? Give me more. By the way, it's the beginning. We haven't mentioned yet. It's the beginning of Black History Month. And so today we salute all of those great leaders in black history, Justin Trudeau, the former governor of Virginia, and our first black president, Bill Clinton. Good job. Bridget, how are you? I'm going to change my bio to new to common sense.

Great intro. Yeah, well, I mean, it's kind of true, don't you think? Yeah, yeah. It's amazing. So I read your article, I think was in the spectator the other day, that said, said, we're too fat for civil war. I just love that. Because I was thinking, man, I think we're headed for Civil War.

And then I see you saying too fat, way too fat. Can you imagine, I mean, you're a history buff. You know exactly what all of those soldiers during the Civil War endured and went through. Oh, my gosh. How they had to travel with packs for miles and then run uphill into battles in the rain. When you look at the stats, it's crazy. The average American, I think it's something. I am not, someone has to fact check me on this.

I believe if you walk 20 minutes, you're in the upper percentage of Americans who are in shape. We really are. We're turning in. And I'm chief among them. We're turning into those people on Wally. Yeah. They're just sitting in the chairs as like, I don't know, a pudding pack. Yeah, we are.

And people will be online in their, you know, studios and being all, we're headed for civil awards. Like, if you bend to Disneyland trying to. imagine all those people in combat. It's not happening. The enemy might run out of ammunition because I don't know if it could penetrate all of our bodies. Just, you know. Yeah, I just, I'm not seeing it.

I have heard several people kind of say, you know, I know it's time for a civil war. And I just look at it like, are you out of your mind? Have you ever, have you ever seen civil war just on television from? other countries. It's never good. Well, what's wrong with balkanizing? Have you seen the Balkans? I don't want to live there. But it's again, like play the tape forward for me. Whenever people say this, I need them to play that tape forward. What does this look like? It's not like we just have red states and blue states. Maybe we have blue cities in red states. Is this rural versus urban? You know, and I was saying in the piece, what are the letters home going to be like? We lost.

the battle for the River Ranch Costco. I mean, what are we fighting? How do we, what is it over? How do we know that it's ended? I need, I need people to answer these questions for me. You know, have you heard the people that are like, you know, the problem with the world today is modernity. And I'm like, you mean like antibiotics? Like electricity, heaters, that kind of modernity? You know, we've got to go back before modernity, you know, back to a time before the Enlightenment. No, I don't think we do. I think you might be romanticizing what it's like to take a crap outside every night. It does feel, you know, Instagram is very much, has its finger on the pulse of the kind of basic person that I am.

And that most people in America are, and there's a great meme that goes around that's like, when you want a homestead but you also like getting things from Amazon in two days, you know, and you're like telling your husband, I'm going to get chickens and I'm going to grow my own food. And he's like, okay, but you still want that. You still want those seeds and like, you know, by the end of the day. Yeah, I follow somebody. My wife just turned me on to him a couple of months ago. I can't remember what the, uh, but they're up in Montana, I think.

And they have eight children, and the children churn the butter. And it's crazy. Now, they have this beautiful house, you know, and they chose this. They were like, you know what, we're rich enough. Let's make our own butter. I don't choose that ever. But it's crazy how people, and it's in some ways it makes sense. I don't trust our food system anymore.

Not the system, but I mean, I don't trust the big food corporations anymore. And, you know, there is a healthy thing to say, we've really screwed this up. And this society is not necessarily good. But you don't just flush the whole thing down. Yeah, and there is a lot of romanticizing. It's very, you know, go read Little House on the Prairie at the very least or something. There was a whole chapter in one of the books that's dedicated just to their spring cleaning, an entire chapter of the book. I know.

There's an entire chapter of the whole book just about Christmas where they got like a sugar cube. Yeah. They were so excited. I'm reading that to my kids. And I'm like, and we would just take a couple nibbles off the sugar cube and then we'd put it away for a few days. This is what you want, guys. No. No, it's not.

Well, we would get skinny enough to fight a civil war. Yeah, for all the wrong reasons, I think. So how's motherhood? I love it. 21 months. She's a joy. It's so interesting to me how, and perhaps this is just getting older, but I spent so much time wanting to be cool and different and edgy and all of these

things that I was chasing and I was sitting in my house looking at seven roofs because I'm in a very basic suburb which again had you told me I'm very in a very working class suburb and I'm looking at all these I think you could have killed yourself if I would have told you that and that you would be friends with me you would be I'd be dead of a mental overdose I'm going to Canada for made okay I just got off myself but I was looking at at this thinking just how much beauty there is in being basic as you know the kind of term is now and there's so I feel so content as long as my and having a relationship that is loving and stable I mean my biggest asset and superpower I think is my husband he is such a rock for me and

again, if you had ever told me that these words would be coming out of my mouth, I would, I would, like an Uber feminist. I mean, I was, you know, there's all this talk about like polyamory right now and, you know, this is, the media is pushing all of these things that, you know, you've got to have. And I, I was definitely one of those people who tried out, oh, I was experimental. You know, I was, I was. You're kind of in a. You're very lonely. You don't really have a team leader or somebody that's out there pitching for you, you know?

Is there? No, there's no one. I mean, am I allowed to say the slut? There's no one. There's no one. You can use the word sluts. Okay, I don't know. I don't know what's allowed.

I'm used to podcasting or you can say anything. I don't know. When I look at politicians, particularly this election, for example, I don't know who's talking to the reformed slut. of the world and we we are legions there are dozens of us but seriously look at if you again look at Instagram which obviously the algorithm is targeting I'm a geriatric mommy so it's really targeting me and but there's again many old elderly moms you're not old and You're barely 70. Barely 70.

But you see all these videos that go viral of women doing their, like, they'll be cleaning and then they'll be doing their club dance. They'll break into their club dance while they're cleaning or they'll say one of my favorites that goes around is somebody when they're trying to make some macaroni and cheese and then they flick the macaroni and cheese bag like a bag of drugs. Like only drugies would know. And it's hilarious and it goes around and I'm always like, you know, the, the, I do sometimes think the right has a woman problem because the rhetoric around women is women.

There's a lot of people who used to be party girls who are living in the suburbs now. Who's talking to them on the right? And no one's talking to them on the left either because they've- Well, I think I'm talking to the, I mean, my parties were really, really bad. Yeah, but I'm talking to a party girl right now. Yeah, you are. You are. You're giving me a platform. So what is it?

Representation matters, Glenn. That's right. That's right. Let me take a quick break because I don't, do you have the hour you can spend with us? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so there are two kinds of people, I think. Well, there's three kinds of people. There are people that listen to Taylor Swift and they have become a little, a little obsessive about it.

Then there are people like I fit into this category. I respect her. I don't necessarily listen to her music. So I don't know much. But I think she's a brilliant business person. And I have no problem. And then there's people like Stu who are just like, why am I watching you on Sunday during football? Well, that's, yes, I am that person.

I want to see football on NFL broadcast. I don't want to necessarily see Taylor Swift. That being said, I'm not anti-Tay Taylor. I don't care. Like, I know, you know, you know. I know. But, you know, you do. I mean, this is brilliant programming.

They've taken the NFL and they've merged it with the Hallmark channel. That's a beautiful, beautiful combination. It's a love story. Uh-huh. It's such an alt-trop. What do you mean? Like the jock and the, you know, the cool girl, like the beautiful cheerleader type and the jock. we've seen this. So which category are you in? Oh, I think she's a si-up. No, I'm just kidding.

I don't. I don't. I think that is hilarious. I do, I posted a meme the other day on my Twitter feed where do you guys remember that everyone who disagrees with me as a Nazi meme that went around? It was a book cover. I posted it with Taylor Swift and it said everyone who disagrees with me as a sigh up because it's like the other side of this like maybe people just don't agree with you guys but she I think it's I don't know I find her very wholesome she maybe it's just as I've become basic she's wholesome she speaks to the suburban mobs do you guys hate suburban moms no no no no I just I don't know if I mean in today's world yes maybe we hold her up as wholesome. You know, back in the good old days of the Salem witch trials, maybe not so much.

They were churning butter back then. Yeah, they were. I mean, this is the, this is the trad wife content that always cracks me up. You'll see these like trad wives and they have a lot of cleavage showing and they'll be like, I'm a trad wife. I'm like, I don't think trad wives are showing their tautas on TikTok. You know? I call me crazy. I don't think that's what it is. We're never good and we never seem to be able to find the middle. You know, we're always one way or the other.

And it's like, can, I mean, are we alone? Is the majority of America still normal? Yes. I live amongst normies. People in media. You live in Austin. No, I don't. I live in a suburb of Austin.

So I do not live in Austin because it is very normal. It is a very normal. It's actually crazy. My neighbors brought me brisket. You know, I was reading, I was saying the other day, I know I'm getting older because I was reading the bylaws for my HOA. And that is not the joke. The joke is that I was agreeing with them. I'm like, yeah, there only should be an American flag.

That's right. I don't want any of these signs. I don't want to know my neighbor's politics. And largely I don't. We make each other cookies and help each other out. And there's a very community feeling to it. And that feels normal. You know, like a sense of normalcy and people have each other's backs.

And it doesn't, it didn't. I came from West Los Angeles. It was insane. It was like Mad Max there. You know, it was very, this is so different. And people,

I don't know, they have football parties and there, it doesn't, it still feels like there is a very large portion of America that's normal. I don't think this election in particular inspires very much passion out of anyone.

I mean, maybe it's a good thing. I think there's a lot of, people that are passionate. I think there's a lot of passion for and against Donald Trump. That is where the passion lies. Right. There's no passion whatsoever for Joe Biden. I need to meet these people who are like passionate Biden supporters. They must, they can't be zero percent. Someone exists. Someone's got it. Her name is Jill. No, I honestly, I don't even think Dr. Jill is passionate about it. She's like, whatever. Do you think that with some of this, like the SIOP stuff is a good example of this?

Like, there was a conversion at some point from the idea that people would post things on the internet to make them popular, right? They wanted likes, right? And like the new Twitter algorithm, right, is interactions. It doesn't necessarily reward you for being popular or well-liked or saying things that people agree with. It also rewards you, like, if you say the dumbest thing on the internet, that gets retweeted and mocked 50,000 times.

Right. And I feel like now we're kind of at that point where people are like incentivized to just take the craziest stand they can think of because that's what gets you the cloud. Yeah. Yeah. Unless there's a lot of people that actually believe the craziest things they can think of, which in today's world is a real possibility. It's something else here now.

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