The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Helen Raleigh | 3/10/21

Episode Date: March 10, 2021

Texas is now officially open after a year of COVID restrictions, and progressives aren’t happy about it. Helen Raleigh, senior contributor to the Federalist, talks about Dr. Seuss’ cancellation and its similarities to growing up in China and the Chinese cultural revolution. Sen. Mike Lee joins to discuss new radical bills up for a vote, like the PRO Act and the For the People Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight on our Wednesday night special on Blaze TV, I talk about education and history and what you can do to actually change things in your neighborhood and how important it is to be educated and absolutely involved on the local level. Today on the podcast, we talk a little bit about that. We talk to a couple of people that have actually made a difference. We talked to the head of Hillsdale College, which is just dirt strong. probably the only university in America that I actually feel comfortable that my kids will not encounter indoctrination. We talked to him because he was part of the 1776 commission, which of course was one of the first things. I don't think that Biden even made it to the White House before that thing was erased off of the White House website. They called it all kinds of names, and it's important that you understand what's,

actually in that 1776 project. We also talked to a mom who is very upset. She grew up in China. She didn't have Dr. Seuss, but she did tell us how things worked in China and why we need to stand up today. Also, Mike Lee is on talking about all the nonsense out of Washington. Stu looks at the Asian American violence. And unfortunately, we didn't get to Andrew Cuomo.

forget about it all on today's podcast and don't miss a big night of blaze tv tonight blaztcTV dot com slash glen promo code is glen brand new stew does america at 8 p m eastern followed by brand new glenn tv at nine don't miss either and don't forget to subscribe to this podcast and stew does america as well here's the podcast you're listening to the best of the so today is the day that here in texas uh they've lifted all of the covid restrictions we're back to the way we were a year ago, a year ago. We've opened the doors of the Mercury Studios. It's a little like Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory, except no one in a crowd

outside waiting to get in. I'm surprised. Everyone hasn't rushed back in. Right. It's like, what? What? Yeah, everyone complains about it. I can't go out.

I can't go out. I think this is going to be the exception. People are going to be like, I kind of like working at home. Yeah. I kind of like working at home. So I think that's good with the way this is going to. going to happen. But I mean, Maryland just announced they're going to reopen everything here coming up on, I think, on Friday. Connecticut has announced it, Mississippi. Oh, my gosh. Why are they trying to kill people? I know. They're just irresponsible. New York Times has a list of mostly open, mixed, and mostly closed businesses. And now there are currently no more states in mostly closed. There are only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, I think nine, eight states that are still in mixed. And every, everything else is quote unquote mostly open.

And what's crazy is this has gone against what the progressives have wanted. I mean, people are starting to open things back up and every time, at least when a red state does it, you're condemned. Yeah, there's this dumb thing that happens and when a red state does it, they're condemned. I mean, Texas got just slaughtered in the media because they're opening up to 100%. Right. No one seemed to notice. In fact, a lot of people that I know, because I grew up in Connecticut, were very critical of Texas for their reopening didn't seem to notice the next day when Connecticut announced basically

the same thing. So let me switch subjects here because I think this is really exciting. The House has passed protecting the right to organize act. Ooh, this has got to be good. It's protecting something. It's a right. Well, we have a right to organize and petition our government. You know what I mean? So do we need an act for it? Because I think it's in the Constitution already. I think we can, I think we can organize. We have a right to organize. We have a right to come together. And Oh, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, that's to say things against the government. We don't have that right, right?

Right? They were taking that right away. You can't get together. You can't get together. You can't congregate. You can't. I mean, that's really dangerous stuff. You're a radical if you want that.

However, if you want to have a union, you're set. If you don't want to have a union, it kind of sucks for you. The House passed the protecting the right to organize the Pro Act, a bill that would substantially amend existing U.S. labor law. In a 225 to 206 vote Tuesday evening, five Republicans voted with the Democrats in favor. One Democrat voted with Republicans against it. It is a wish list for union leaders. If you didn't know who controlled the union, I mean, who controlled the Democratic Party, you certainly do now.

It is, it's amazing. The ranking member of the House Education and Labor Committee added that unions have pushed the bill to stop declining union membership, which has taken place over the last 60 years. It forces unionization of workers who don't necessarily want to join a union or pay union dues. Republicans proposed a series of amendments to the pro act, which were rejected by the Democrats. One rejected amendment proposed would have required unions with a president or vice president who has been convicted of a felony within the last three years to file more detailed financial disclosures with the Department of Labor. So that one was going too far.

You don't want to have to actually ask somebody who's been. convicted of a felony in the last three years. Right. Four years ago, you could have murdered an entire group of schoolchildren. Right. With bowling balls. But three, as long as it's not within the last three years. Exactly right.

Exactly right. And listen, that didn't pass, thank goodness. So you could have murdered a bunch of school children with bowling balls yesterday. And you don't have to answer any questions. Yeah. The Pro Act is a compilation of various policies. changes that the labor unions support, which would make it easier for unions to organize private sector employees.

The bill would remove workers' ability to vote against unionization. Listen to this, via secret ballot elections. So when they're voting, should we have a union or not, you have to do, you have to stand up and go, I'm against the union thugs. That's going to work out well for you. I mean, that's crazy. That is crazy. A secret ballot is one of the main cornerstones of America.

I'd like a horse head in my bed. Thank you. I'd like to just give the address of my children's school right now. It gives the National Labor Relations Board, not the workers, a final say in the decision to unionize a workforce. The Pro Act would also nullify the right to work laws that exist. in 27 states. So we have a right to work law. Not anymore.

I mean, that's really bad. You see over and over again that the right to work states outperform every time. Uninizing states over and over again. I mean, I have just a, I mean, a quick story. In fact, two, the first time I met Don Imus, I was 18 years old. And I was up at WNBC in New York. And I had come from. WN BC.

Where was I at the time? I think it was in Washington, WPGC, and it was not a union radio station. And I go to WNBC, where my friend was working. And it was still a music station at the time. And they had him in one booth, just to say 66, WNBC. This is, you know, whoever.

That's what he did. they had a member of the musicians union. It was the only person that could touch the records. At the time, they were still playing records. The only one that could touch the record was a member of the musicians union. And he would touch the record and grab it, and then he would put it on the turntable. Then a second person, which was a member of the,

what was it, technicians union? he could actually put the needle on the record and cue it up. Then you'd have your board op start the record. And the jock was in a different room. In a different room and all he would do is talk. Okay. So you had in a job that I was doing myself, you had to have four people do. And they didn't, they couldn't even turn their microphones on.

No, they couldn't. That had to be the board up to do that. Yes. I mean, that is incredible. Incredible. Incredible. What happens when the technician is putting the needle on the record and he mistakenly touches the record? Does he spontaneously combust? How does that work?

I don't really know, but they were very, very serious about it because I was mocking it. And he was like, don't mock it. Don't mock it. Don't mock it. I'll be dead by tomorrow. Because it's protecting jobs that didn't need to exist. So it started, the radio union started because they started replacing orchestras. you know, they would have singers come in and bands come in and everything else. So all of those musicians lost their job as soon as the record came in. And so the union said, you can't play records. What are you talking about?

Of course we're going to play records. It's cheaper. It's better. It's consistent. No, we can't do that. Look at all the musicians that are going to be put out of work. Well, yeah, it's called progress. Okay, well, then if you're going to do that, we're going to organize.

They organize and said, musicians union members had to be the one that moved the the record. Okay. So former musicians were like, yeah, I used to play the horn. Now I'm just doing this. Unbelievable. Okay. The second story, we were in New York and we were building a studio.

And it took us how long to build the studio? We had 20,000, 16,000 square feet total. And about 8,000. of it was studio space. We built one, two, three studios, but the walls were already up, okay? It was already a radio station. All we had to do was

just put some sheet rock up, change the look of everything, you know, do some painting and wallpaper or some lights, drop the consoles in to the things that were already there. And it took us about a year.

And it was the biggest pain in the butt ever. And everything was waiting for the unions. Sorry, can't touch that. No, I just, I was wondering if you could just, I mean, could you just plug that in? Because we're ready to go. Sorry, a different union. I'll plug it in.

Nope, can't do that. Can't do it. And if it is plugged in, you're fined. Okay. We came down to Texas, a right-to-work state. We took an 80,000 square foot studio, and we built the sets. we hung the lights and we made it into a digital broadcast studio. It was a film studio.

We built a digital broadcast center. And we did the first draft in a week. In a week, we had nothing. And in a week, we had a studio. That's the difference between unions and a right to work state. Now, here's the really bad part. part. You don't get to choose anymore whether you like to join a union or not. All of this is based on that horrible, horrible labor law in California for the, what do you call it? The, I can think the only think of bit economy, but it's not. It's the gig economy. The gig economy, remember, California took it apart. And they passed a law that said, no, no, no, you can't. You have to have a 40-hour work week. You can't. You have to have a 40-hour work week. You can't. can't do a bid economy because it's it's just too bad for people it's just horrible well no in fact it was

so disliked by the public that california had a referendum and they voted against it so they put it in and then the people rose up and said no you're not saying no to a gig economy and the stats on a gig economy are astounding and that's what they're going after they're not only going after all the mom and pop businesses. They're not only going after our economy. They're not only trying to help the unions because they've had a 60 year decline because everybody knows how much they suck. I mean, I wouldn't, I mean, look, I'm not saying that the mob exists.

If it did, it would be great, but I'm sure it doesn't. That's that thing for the movies, right? The mob. That's not a real. sure that that's not a... If it did exist, we'd be for it. Yes, we would absolutely be for it. We'd love it.

And we think they are great guys doing a good job for America. I love them. But they don't exist. They don't exist at all. So anyway, we'll tell you about the stats and what this is really going to affect. It's going to reach in to you. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. This is the Glenn Beck program tonight at 9 o'clock, only on Blaze TV.

We are going to talk to you a little bit about. history history is under attack and we're going into civic action history where the names of the places and everything that doesn't mean anything it's all about action and kids love to take action civics action is coming to your school if it's not already there and that is how to protest how to march in the streets our kids are being indoctrinated and they're not learning history the new ap U.S. history standards do not include Hitler or the Holocaust and paint America as the bad guys in World War II because they only pick it up at the dropping of the atomic bomb. We set that correct for your kids today and we show you how powerful that bomb was. We've got a couple of items that were actually

in the blast of Hiroshima, new to the vault. And it is. It's amazing. You don't want to miss tonight because we're going to show you what you can do. And speaking of that, there was a great article out yesterday that I read and I thought it was really, really well done by somebody who knows. Her name is Helen Raleigh. And she was born in China and lived in China for a while. And what she talked about how to fight this, what this cultural revolution, She's lived through one before. And I wanted to get her on. Hi, Helen.

How are you? I'm good. How are you, Glenn? I'm very good. So can you just tell the story about what you wrote yesterday in the Federalist? Sure. So this is the one about canceling Dr. Seuss, right? Yes, yes.

And it's really heartbroken for me to read that Dr. Seuss was canceled on his birthday. I shared my experience of growing up in China. I never had the quality great children's literature. I shared the story I read as a child. The children's literature was available was about condemning an beaten landlord, landowner to death. And it was the rooster crows at midnight. Can you tell that story a bit? Sure.

So the rooster crow at night was a children's original for children, actually. It was about this evil landowner that he was very cruel to everybody, the laborers who worked for him. And thanks to the Communist Party who liberated all the poor people, they took a land and the livestock away from him and distributed it to all the poor people. So all the poor people were happy. And then one night and the midnight, he tried to steal a chicken from the poor people because he didn't have any. The story did not say that. And then the children caught him. And the children who caught him, and there was a picture in the storybook,

it's a black and white picture showed the children who have all pointed this shiny spear at him. And he was just knelt down on the ground, the head dropped, hands tied at his back. It looks like really, you know, completely defeated. And the author who were interviewed after the story became really popular, the author was interview, he mentioned this was a real life story. And the landowner who was caught, after struggle session, he was beaten to death. That's the story I read when I was a child in China. That's a warm story.

And when you came to America, you knew about Dr. Seuss, but it wasn't until you had a child and you started reading that you read Dr. Seuss for the first time. And what was that experience like? It was very refreshing because I found that I'm trying to feel out a misconduct. chapter in my own childhood and then I was making it up you know during my adulthood because there was no reason for me to even thought about reading it until you know I was about to become a mother and I just love the colorful pictures I love the simple words but in their rhyme and I love the joy and I just even though this Dr. Stu's book written in simple words but they have a deep meaning if you really think about it you know like the saying about it you'll keep your

eye shot, you will see nothing. You know, that's perfect for today's cancel culture. If you keep your mind shut, if you keep your eyes shut, you will see nothing. You will learn nothing. And I wish more of us will read his book instead of banning his book. Well, so what do you say about, because people say this is not the cancel culture, but it is when eBay refuses to sell a used copy of the book, I think. but what do you say that it was the family that said,

we don't want to print these books anymore. They own the copyright. So is it cancel culture or is it just, what is it exactly? Because there are really negative stereotypes of Chinese people in, I can't believe I saw it on Mulberry Street. Right, but let's just unpack this a little bit. First of all, it was not Chinese-American immigrants, who read any questions about that.

You know, we cannot use today's moral standard to judge things that happened, you know, take place with their historical context. If we do that, there's nobody's perfect. We're going to cancel all the valuable things ever been created because there's nothing going to be perfect enough. And I think that's why this cancel culture is really, it's a culture, is a left, it's a culture revolution.

And it's not going to stop by bending a few books. or tear down a few statues. It's a movement to really cancel the Western civilization. The banning a few books, pulling down the field statues is just the beginning. That's why I mentioned in my piece. I see the parallel between what's happening in America, really in the Western civilization today, is really parallel to what's happening in China during the Cultural Revolution.

It's about a total destruction of the old world. so the book map can create a ideologically purify the new world. That's why I find this whole banning books and also eBay preventing you from even treating about it. They're treating the book voluntarily. That is really problematic. You know, the Dr. Seuss Enterprise, they only stopped publishing those books because the vocumptop complained about those books. It was not, the complaint was not fired because Asian people complained. was fired because the woke mom decided that they are going to cancel Dr. Seuss' book,

and they're going to start with the most problematic ones, and they're going to go down from there. They're never going to stop until they canceled everything. You've lived through it. You saw the cultural revolution with Mao, and people say that that's crazy, that it would never happen here, but I contend that, you know, it starts with suggestions. Then it moves to shoving people, shouting and shoving. and when you've shouted and shoved everybody that you can, the only thing left is to shoot.

Is that crazy to think that that kind of thing, that this is just going to continue until you, I mean, what are you going to do with the rest of the people that refuse to go along? How does this end if we don't wake up? Well, if we don't wake up, it's going to end just like the cultural revolution. It's going to be a total destruction of the Western civilization. And you're absolutely right. The trajectory is the vocab

first is going to pick something that we all agree that's problematic, right? Like the Confederate statues, like Dr. Seuss' book with a racial stereotype drawing. So they're going to pick something that's problematic to begin with. Then most of us will say, yeah, you know, we can accept those things maybe not correct.

But again, they will not stop there. Because if you listen to their speeches, if you look at their writings, they are deeply hostile to the entire. Western civilization because they believe this civilization is inherently irredeemably racist and oppressive. So they're going to start with statute. They're going to start with a few books, but they won't stop until this whole civilization has been destroyed. And if there are people who don't waiting to go along, that's what happened in Cultural Revolution is

eventually you're going to have to use blood to purify the ideology, you know, to purify the ideology. So that may happen you will continue down this road. And people already losing jobs left and right, losing the livelihood today in America because they said something or wrote something that, you know, the woke up that do not like. And they were condemned them, drive them out of the marketplace. That's happening here right now. Before I change subjects on you, I just want to point out that she, it's not only that they're going to wipe out the, culture. They wipe out even your personal history. Helen, as she was reading about this evil landowner

and how he was surrounded by kids and all landowners are evil, it wasn't until later in life that she learned that her great-grandfather was a landowner and that book was preaching against him as well. She didn't know that. Let me just hit one more thing with you before you go. Next hour, talk about this, this, uh, trend they're saying of white supremacists that are beating up Asians. And it does not ring true to me. We can't find anything, uh, that seems legitimate on this. Do you have any insight on is this happening where, you know, Donald Trump fans are, are beating up Asians? Well, so there's a definite rise of a hate. crimes against Asians since last year.

So it's complicated. Last year, most some of the complaints, I should say, related to the coronavirus, the pandemic, the fear. But this year, particularly in some of the most progressive cities, the United States, like San Francisco and New York City, there are several very vicious, vicious attack against the Asian, especially the Asian seniors, unprovoked attack against the Asian It's crazy. And those perpetrators, they were not white.

They were non-Asian minorities. Let me just put it that way. They were not white. But the activists that now and the mainstream media tried to portray this very vicious attack happened recently, somehow was driven by the white nationalism. They're just a disconnect there. And I think I wrote another piece for the Newsweek on this, you know, relate to this subject.

because when you are not waiting to identify the true root cause of hate crime, you're going to cause the government to misallocated resources and not able to protect Asian communities, you know, effectively and efficiently. So I wish more people will speak up. The Asian community have spoken up against the critical risk theory, and I wish more people will have the courage to speak up, identify the root cause of this.

Asian community has made a huge difference on critical race on the West Coast. And Helen, thank you for everything that you do. And thank you for your courage for standing up. I know it's not easy. But thank you for your example. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Let's go to our good senator, Senator Mike Lee. who's got to be tired by now, honestly. Senator, how are you, sir? I'm doing great, Glenn. Good to be with you. But, you know, nothing is more invigorating for a tired man than going on the Glenn Beck program. Yeah, that's got to be a highlight of your day, Mike.

So, Mike, we have to talk about several things. First of all, the For the People Act. Is that thing going to pass in the Senate? No. And if they try to do it, it'll be over my dead body. that it passes. But don't say that. It might be. This thing not only renders major parts of the Constitution superfluous. It renders the people superfluous. It consolidates government in Washington. It makes it impossible for states to require voter ID. It makes it impossible for states to prohibit someone from showing up on the same day and registering to vote on the same day that they vote.

and it requires at least 15 days of early voting. It makes the verification process almost impossible to comply with. And if there's one part of it that caught my attention, there's even a part of it that can be read to suggest that they're going to start allowing 17-year-olds to vote, which, you know, I would have loved because in the fall of 1988, George Shmert Walker Bush was on the ballot. I was the president of the teenage Republican club at Temple High School and Provo,

you know, like all the cool kids. Yeah, you were cool from the beginning. I actually wrestled with the idea of wishing I had a fake ID just so I could vote, but I knew that wouldn't be right, so I didn't do it. Yeah, well, there's a, yeah, the crime, the Mike Lee crime spree finally comes out. So, Mike. But I want to be clear, I didn't do it. I just thought about it.

I know, I know, I know. So, Mike, it's not going to pass. Any form of it? Well, look, they're going to try. If for the filibuster, they would pass this, and they would probably pass it tomorrow. They're still going to try to pass it. I'm not sure when they're going to try to bring it to the Senate floor, but I'm confident that they're going to try to get around the filibuster.

So do you have any confidence anymore in Mansion? Now he's starting to like, well, I mean, you know, there's some. nuance there. Yeah, I worry a little bit about the fact that he is now targeted for immense pressure to be brought down on him. And that he's in a position now of wanting to accommodate democratic leadership whenever he can. And that worries me a little bit because there are a lot of tricks they can play. There are a lot of things they could do to convince him.

Oh, no, no, we're not nuking the filibuster. This is just a minor technical correction. We're not nuking the filibuster. All we're asking you to do is take a walk, be out of the room while we have Vice President Harris rule that 51 votes somehow satisfies the cloture standard, and then just don't join the Republican to voting to appeal the ruling of the chair. That sort of thing can chip away at the filibuster and effectively nuke it without ever requiring Joe Manchin to vote affirmatively to do so.

That scares me to death. So this is the changing of the voting system. It becomes almost irrelevant, in my opinion, and very unconstitutional. The federal government does not have a right to do any of this according to the Constitution. Now let me switch to another topic. Biden has just said that he is encouraging the Senate and the House to pass. The Pro Act, and that is the, I mean, you want to talk about a pro-union giveaway. That's it. Tell me what you know about the Pro Act.

I know very little about the Pro Act. I can imagine that it probably has something to do with card check. They probably want to take away the ability of workers to cast a private ballot. It absolutely does. It goes a lot further than that, but it does. have that in it? Yeah, I mean, look, workers have got the right to form organizations, but we've got established laws that govern the process of workers making that decision. And it's important that workers be given the chance to cast their votes with a secret ballot and not being watched by people who might impose consequences on them if they don't vote the way they

want to. That's a pretty fundamental part of our labor law system. And if they want to undo that, perhaps they just want to empower the unions, not necessarily the workers they represent, but the union bosses. That's not cool. So it also gets rid of the gig economy.

And it says it's protecting those people. But basically it's you know, it's redoing what happened in California. And the people went nuts when that happened. So So he wants us to go back to the era of having to sit in smelly taxi caps. Yes.

I mean, that is absolutely absurd. He might as well require us to go back to the era of the eight-track cassette tape and the era of the tinfoil TV dinner. I mean, look, there are a lot of things that we've moved beyond as a society. And the old pre-gig economy is not something any of us are anxious to go back to. But I can understand why someone wedded to big labor bosses, as opposed to the workers those people represent, would want to shun technology like the plague. It would want to deprive society of the many benefits associated with it. It's tragic, but sadly, not that surprising. Mike, you don't have to answer this because I do want to talk to you about the COVID relief bill as well.

You have been so strong on this. And we're now at $30 trillion of debt. But I do want to ask you, tomorrow the president is going to have his first press conference. And there's been some disturbing video recently. Do you have any firsthand knowledge that he's okay? I don't. But, you know, I haven't had any interaction with him.

since he was sworn in his president. So I don't have any firsthand knowledge of that or any knowledge beyond what anyone could see on TV from day to day. And the benchmark against which one would compare that is relatively small because his TV appearances have been relatively short, relatively scripted, and in relatively controlled environments. So, yeah. Well, there is precedent.

There is precedent on this when, people from the opposing party and his own party went to check on Woodrow Wilson. He had had a stroke, and he hadn't been seen for a year, and his wife was actually signing all of the bills. And, you know, it's just there is a, there is historical evidence that sometimes people hide how sick the president is if it's a problem. And I hope that's not happening. All right, talk to me. I certainly don't think that's happening. We've seen some clips of them out talking to people and, you know, just in relatively short spurts.

Right. I don't think that's happening either. I just, but if it's progressing, it could happen. All right. Talk to me, talk to me about a $30 trillion debt. And your comment, I thought, was great on this. It's not like Republicans can say, hey, we did everything we could. They're part of the problem.

Yeah. Well, first of all, we will. went on a massive spree over the last year. And really over the last four years, Republican spending has not exactly been a model of restraint. This one takes it to a new level. This one makes an art form out of using COVID is the ultimate excuse for getting away with anything you want,

even if it's hurting other people. About $2 trillion that was spent, very little of it actually was tied to COVID. And this comes about, by the way, at a moment when it'll take us up to a $30 trillion debt, comes about at a moment when we're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines are coming out. Immunity is building. Infection rates, hospitalization rates, death rates are going down.

We're spending $2 trillion extra in the name of COVID, but very little of that actually goes to COVID. In fact, less than 1% of that bill. That's crazy. goes to vaccine production and distribution. So what the heck is it then? Well, $1,400 checks. And then you got your $375 billion going to state and local governments, which, by the way, are roughly on par with where they were expected to be revenue-wise.

Some states have even seen their revenues go up. Yeah. This is just a big giveaway, a giveaway, especially to a lot of states that have been loyal to Democrats. And I find that really offensive. So, Mike, what do you need from the people? Because I think people want to do something. They just don't believe that anything will change. And then also people feel very alone right now.

What can the people do? What the people can do, anyone within the sound of my voice who happens to agree that we've got a problem with Washington, this stuff is just gross. Just focus. Anytime you get a chance to talk to a member of Congress or somebody run. for any federal office. Talk to them about the fact that you'd love to see the federal government, just do the things the federal government is supposed to do. That means borders, immigration laws, weights and measures, trademarks, copyrights, and patents, national defense, declaring war, granting letters of mark and reprisal, bankruptcy laws regulating international and interstate trade.

That's about it. Focus on that stuff. Focus on Article 1, Section 8. Leave everything else to the states. It's already the law. It's already the Constitution. It's already the case that every member of Congress and every president has taken an oath to affirm that same principle. We got down this rabbit hole because starting about 85 years ago, Senate, houses of representatives and White House of every conceivable partisan combination have been engaging in this legislative orgy that assumes that everything is appropriately federal. And they're spending more and more and more money, doing a lot of times stuff that really isn't any of our business, spend most of that at the state and local level, send most of this federal authority back to the

states where it belongs. That's where I think the message needs to be. Mike Lee, thank you so much. I appreciate you standing. I can't imagine how frustrated you are to be working in that, but I'm glad you're there. Thank you so much, Mike. Hey, thanks so much, Glenn. It's not that bad if you don't think about it. you just keep plugging along. I know that. Thank you so much. That's why I wish I weren't in recovering alcoholic,

because just alcoholism would do a lot of wonderful things for me right now. Na, no, no.