The Glenn Beck Program - The INSANE Equality Act | Guests: Sen. Rand Paul & Bill O’Reilly | 2/26/21

Episode Date: February 26, 2021

The House-passed Equality Act is frightening. Sen. Rand Paul joins to discuss Biden nominee Dr. Rachel Levine and her controversial stance on transgender surgery for children. Companies are sidestepping the Constitution to enact the Equality Act. Oreo wants everyone to know: “Trans people exist." The Democrats’ COVID relief bill contains a lot of insane non-COVID spending. Bill O’Reilly joins to discuss the border, the Equality Act, the COVID bill, Andrew Cuomo’s sex scandal, the Recall Gavin Newsom movement, and his predictions on Trump’s CPAC speech. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis explains all the pork in the $1.9 trillion COVID relief package. Tonight, Glenn reveals the “Hyppo Awards” nominees for the most outrageous hypocrites of 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It will compel speech. If you won't call somebody by the right pronoun, you can be shut down. It will shut down. Charities could shut down. Churches, anyone who doesn't comply.

More biological males will defeat girls in sports. It could coerce medical professionals and more parents could lose custody of their children. This is a horrendous bill. And the guy who has really made waves in Congress over this and in the Senate, in the Senate, is Rand Paul. There's a hearing yesterday. We're going to talk to Rand Paul about this bill and so many others coming up in 60 seconds.

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Listen, genital mutilation has been nearly universally condemned. Genital mutilation has been condemned by the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Population Fund. According to the WHO, genital mutilation is recognized internationally as a violation of human rights. Genital mutilation is considered particularly egregious because, as the WHO notes, it is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. Most genital mutilation is not typically performed by force, but as WHO has, notes that by social convention, social norm, the social pressure to conform, to do what others do and have been doing as well as the need to be accepted socially and the fear

of being rejected by the community. American culture is now normalizing the idea that minors can be given hormones to prevent their biological development of their secondary sexual characteristics. Dr. Levine, you have supported both allowing minors to be given hormone blockers to prevent them from going through puberty, as well as surgical destruction of a minor's genitalia. Like surgical mutilation, hormonal interruption of puberty can permanently alter and prevent secondary sexual characteristics. The American College of Pediatricians reports that 80 to 95% of pre-puberal children with

gender dysphoria will experience resolution by late adolescents if not exposed to medical intervention and social affirmation. This statement of yours, Ran, is responsible for headlines like this. Rand Paul tried to derail Rachel Levine's historic confirmation hearing with transphobic misinformation. You know, the interesting thing is none of it was directed towards her personally or who she is, who was directed towards the question of whether children can consent. And this is an intellectual question. It's not a, you know, inflammatory question.

It's a question of serious consequence. can a young girl of 12 years old or 15 years old, can they consent to an abortion? Can they consent to have their ears, can they consent to have surgery to change their sex? I mean, these are important questions, and most people would argue that children can't really make an informed consent. You know, we have laws against, you know, a man having sex with a 12-year-old, even if the 12-year-old says yes, because we don't think a 12-year-old is capable of consenting. They just aren't old enough to make the difference. But see, it's even worse than this. In one of the clinics in England, one of these gender dysphoria clinics in England,

10% of the kids that are coming in are between the age of 3 and 10. My goodness, people talking to a 3-year-old and trying to tell them it's fine that they really are of a different sex. See, most of this stuff would be, you know, 3-year-olds think they're alien sometimes. I mean, they have no conception of any of the importance of any of these incredible questions, but to let a three-year-old participate in that or a five-year-old or an eight-year-old. And then you've got these loony-tune left-wing parents encouraging this and reaffirming it. And this is what the American pediatricians have said, is that if you don't medically do anything and you don't reaffirm it, and you just kind of let the kid grow up, most people grow out of this and understand that it's an aberration,

not something that they would really desire. Is she going to be confirmed? overwhelmingly she's in a special category now so the democrats will vote for i suspect a couple of republicans who want to somehow you know send some kind of signal we'll vote for her too but it's alarming and it isn't about who she is it's about the idea to my mind that a minor could make the decision and see a lot of this stuff is irreversible you give a boy girl's hormones in the ages of 14 to 16 they don't come back you give a girl a girl boys hormones. You know, once a girl is given enough testosterone to grow a beard with,

their face doesn't go back if they change their mind. So to me, it's just crazy. To me, it is a little bit about who she is and nothing about her sexuality or her trans, transition to a woman. It has everything to do with her mother. She took her mother as she was the Secretary of Health for Pennsylvania. She took her mother out of nursing home as soon as COVID restrictions without warning anybody else, hey, you know, maybe you should do that. She also during COVID

had a report out from her on an official health department stationary about how the COVID scare should affect your orgies and she put rules out. Our kids can't go to school. But her priority was if you're going to go to a place where you're going to have sex with several people, here's what you have to do. I mean, the world is a clown show, an absolute clown show. I think this is why she wouldn't answer my question. She refused to answer the question and came up with some empty problem,

but she didn't want to answer it because she truly is an extremist. She is so far out there that most of America would recoil in horror if they knew what she was for. But you're right about the practicality of it. Other people ask that question. That was why I didn't dwell on the idea of what she did bring her mom out and put everybody else to die. Absolutely, that's disqualifying, and that's most pertinent to whether she can do the job. But there is this big issue of normalizing this idea that a nine-year-old, can want to change their sex and you start giving them hormones.

And if the parents say no, that the child gets to decide at nine, and that's just wrong, and children just aren't capable of making life-changing decisions, and there is a permanence to this. At some point, when they start giving them cross hormones, meaning that you give a boy-girl hormones or a girl-boy hormones, when you start doing this, and they do it between the ages of 14 and 16, as minors, they're irreversible changes. do you become sort of this in between. You're neither boy nor girl, but you can't go back.

A book that came out three years ago that basically says the same stuff, quoting medical science and scientists, warning about how detrimental this can be on children, was pulled from Amazon. It's been out for three years. It was pulled for hate speech by Amazon. what Sunday I believe this also goes right into the Equality Act which if you don't buy into this stuff if you don't call people by the right pronoun if you don't affirm the new sexual norms and gender ideology you're in trouble and this is this will affect small businesses this will affect charities this will affect churches and it It appears to be written in a way where there is no recourse.

You're not going to a court and having this reversed on you. I don't think I've ever seen anything this bad that has a chance of passing. It's insane where we are. I mentioned the story of a young woman in England by the name of Kira Bell. And she just read on the Internet. She was a confused young woman. She says she was confused. She had psychological problems at the time.

She didn't know who she was. She was trying to discover her identity. And she read on the Internet about transsexual, thought it was cool. She went in after a couple of appointments. They were very encouraging to her. There was no other side presented. She ended up taking cross hormones and then having a double mastectomy. Now she regrets it.

She's worried about whether she knows she's a woman now and she would like to have children. She's fearful that she will be infertile. And she ended up having a, you know, a body transceptychic. transforming double mastectomy, and she just regrets it. And they've changed some of the rules in England on this now. But this Dr. Levine has said that most of the time she's not for surgery before 18, but she is for street kids. So she's for poor kids who don't have parents.

You can imagine if you're a homeless 15-year-old, there's a lot going on that either your parents have been rotten parents or you have psychological problems or you might be schizophrenic or you might have other problems for the reason why you're homeless, but to take those people and pray upon them and say, they don't really need consent, and we're going to get the state to sort of approve their hormones. I mean, this is really grotesque that they would take a poor child and, you know, infuse their beliefs and their extreme views on these children.

It's just obscene. Brann, I know you have to run. I want to ask you, I'm not sure if you're aware of what's going on with the World Economic Forum and the Great Reset, but you're already seeing it happen in companies. There is this merger, if you will, between government, NGOs and corporations, these public-private partnerships, and all based on what are called ESGs, or, yeah, ESG, environmental, social, and governmental mandates. These big companies are already adopting these things like the Equality Act and critical

race theory. And they're jamming it down people's throats and it's an end run around the Constitution. Let me ask you, as a libertarian, we complain a lot as conservatives about big tech and what they're doing. But I believe, and I know you believe private business should be able to do what they want to do. It's right in the free market. But when these companies are aligned so closely with a party and the government specifically, and they're doing an end run around the Constitution, what should we do?

Look, Coca-Cola, you know, both my wife and I are incredibly upset with them right now. They came out with this woke thing about you need to admit that you're white and you're a terrible person. You need to admit that you're aggressive, that you're opinionated, and you will apologize for being white. And that's the most grotesque sort of racist thing I've ever heard. That is the World Economic Forum's ESGs. Yeah, and then you got Bill Gates out there promoting that we need to have critical race theory in math. And there was a great professor from Vanderbilt, African-American woman, who said,

you know, that's the most racist thing I've ever heard, that Bill Gates thinks my kids can't learn because of their skin. And they're going to dumb down math, and that's showing your work. or having too much emphasis on the correct answer is somehow racist. You know, that whole concept is racist, but that's the world we live in. You got Black Lives Matter extorting big corporations who are now paying for Black Lives Matter, people to go riot in different cities. It's obscene. I know a guy works for one of the big truck companies.

He says, oh, yeah, if I give $100, my company will match $300 to Black Lives Matter. And I've seen them. The people were in the George Washington Hotel, in the Willard Hotel, $500 a night with plane tickets, all paid for by big corporations through Black Lives Matter to get people to riot in D.C. The people almost killed my wife and I were paid for by big corporations, big U.S. corporations paid their way there. So are there enough Republicans that are at least feeling some sort of responsibility to stand up for the Constitution and, you know, and do something? Sure is, is that you have to have some foot spa, you got to have some guts, some courage to stand up because it is a culture out there where even by me, everybody's saying I made transphobic comments yesterday. all I did was asked was whether a minor can consent to this kind of dramatic surgery. Nothing I ever said was hateful. I said nothing hateful about these people. I said nothing hateful about adults who choose to do this.

But the culture is out there that is so strong that so many people in office are afraid to speak out, and it's getting worse. So there's a handful of us that will speak out in the Senate. There's a handful in a house, and we just have to grow our ranks, but we have to resist, or it's just going to roll over us, and we're going to live in this terrible cancel cultural world. where nobody speaks out and everybody's afraid to say anything. Silence in the face of evil is evil itself, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Rand, thank you for being one of those people who will stand up. We will help you in any way we possibly can,

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what's in the COVID relief bill we'll get into here in a little while is terrifying. Last night, I was fortunate enough to be able to have time with WRVA listeners. They're in Richmond, Virginia. I think it was supposed to last 20 minutes, and the program, Greg, was, I think, a little pissed at me by the time we ended because it was like two hours. And it's because I wanted to talk to.

the I wanted to hear them and I wanted to hear how we can help them and what they're facing and it's it's amazing I think there were 12 listeners and I think what I heard there was just a strong determination and an understanding of what is headed their way but the one of the the main topic I think was probably the equality act. What is that going to do for me if I refuse to have my kids being taught that they can gender reassign? What does that mean if we say no, they can't? And they go back to school and report that. What does that mean if I won't allow transgender people just to switch bathrooms or people who are in?

transition even even better people who just say I identify as a woman yeah it's me I got a pack of cool cigarettes and I'm looking for some tampons you know not right now I'm just I just this morning decided I'm gonna be a woman I'm I identify as a woman I don't want you in the girls bathroom what happens to churches who say gender is specific gender is assigned divinely assigned what happens? What happens? If you run a small business, you're not going to be able to survive this. If you don't have, if you stand up against it, the lawsuits against this against you

will put you out of business for sure. So there's no fighting anymore. What happens? I talked to these people in Virginia last night and maybe on, Monday we just do a full show of just phones because I want to hear your voice. I listen to these people last night and they were determined, but it was a change. There was a change in understanding. And I think people are starting to realize, wow, real religious persecution, real persecution for people who will not conform is right around the corner. And I fear.

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Oh my gosh. Are you kidding me? Yes. Are, what? And I'd like to tweet back to Oreo cookie. So do trans fats. And you're an expert on trans. I love that.

This thing where there's another story that just came out the other day that was the, it was the same thing. It was like, you know, it was a complicated story, but basically a fake accusation of racism by a young, very wealthy student, black student, against a very non-wealthy white janitor. And her, she said, I was, I was criticized for eating while black. And it took, they questioned whether I even existed as a person of color. It's like, well, everyone knows you existed. They wouldn't have said anything about you being in the room you weren't supposed to be in. And they didn't think you existed. They know you exist.

That was the problem. You existed in the room that was banned. And does this stuff happen? Like this language, they just turn these words, Glenn, into things that don't mean anything. We are officially in a clown show. We're in a clown show. Nothing. I'm telling you right now, I'm an alcoholic, okay?

I know clown shows. My life was a clown show where nothing made sense. I could say or do whatever I wanted and it all worked for me in my crazy head. But at some point, you're going to be forced to wake up. You're going to be forced if you don't die, which we might. if you don't die first, you will realize we have got to sober up. And when you start going back to reality, you are going to be so ashamed of what you have tried to perpetrate on truth, on truth, on math, on science. What you have perverted everything into.

I want to go over the COVID bill. the relief package. Okay. Some say it's 9% COVID-related. It's probably closer to 50% if you're giving them the benefit of the doubt. And I'll explain why. 58 billion dollar bailout for the union pension funds. The left would say that is, that absolutely is for COVID.

The unions have really suffered because of COVID. No, I told you in 2010, I went over the pensions of the unions in all these blue states. They couldn't afford them then, and I told you they would come up with a way to get the United States to bail them out. Well, here it is. $34 billion in expanded Obamacare subsidies. $4 billion to pay off loans for socially disadvantaged, farmers and ranchers. This one is absolutely unbelievable.

If you are black and you own a farm, you can go to the federal government and the government will pay off your debts, mortgage, all of it? 100% no strings attached because you've been disadvantaged because you're black. Whites need not apply. So this this package is going, I mean, and Joe Biden said it. He said, we are going to concentrate this package on the disadvantaged in the communities of color. So if you're white, you don't get that. Four billion dollars to pay off loans. A billion dollars in world food assistance. Now, I don't have a problem with this. I don't have a problem being charitable. But I believe the United States government is going to pick and choose who gets it based on their

environmental social justice bull crap. They're going to give it and waste most of that money. And a billion dollars in food assistance, what about all the poor starving children here? The doubling of the federal minimum wage was in it, but it looks like the parliamentarian said, you can't do that in this bill. $8 billion to expand broadband access. They say that's for COVID. If I'm being charitable, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Right.

That's one of the stretch ones, though. Right. It is. Because more people are on Zoom calls and everyone's working from home. Correct. And in poor communities, in poor communities, they may not have broadband access. For schools. For schools.

It's like, okay. It's, again, that's a stretch, but I can at least see the tie to COVID. Now, I'd like to see how Stretch Armstrong can go on this one. $270 billion for the national endowment for the arts and humanities. Now, that's COVID. You know why? Because those theaters are struggling. Those theaters and those artists have not been able to work or have an audience.

What are they going to do? I don't know. Get another job. But isn't, we have all sorts of unemployment insurance built into this bill. So we're funding. Right. And we have this big major loans. There's upkeep on, on, you know, these big, beautiful buildings like the Kennedy Center.

Which is why they have all these loans and programs. $200 million for the Institute for Library and Museum Services. Now, let me just say this. as a guy who is working on a library and museum and building one we can get some of this money maybe I can get some of this money right I don't think so my expenses could be zero except for rent right now because I can't let anybody in you can't come into a museum you don't have these museums in these libraries in Washington open what why do you need extra money?

$50 million for environmental justice grants. You have $10 million for, and this is COVID related, $10 million for Native American language preservation. So does, wait, I know COVID does a lot of damage. It kills languages? It kills languages. Native American languages. Only Native American languages.

Progressivism is killing the English language. Okay. But COVID apparently killed the Native American language. A third round of relief checks of $1,400 for Americans adds up to $422 billion. That's what I think people think a COVID relief bill is. Right. I think that's what they think it is. You're out of work.

That's not what it is. You're getting money. Right. That one makes some stimulus sense to a lot of people. That's what people think of this. Right. except 422 billion for everybody affected in the United States with COVID. 422 billion is what you get.

But the states, the blue states, on top of that, because they, you know, Andrew Cuomo has been struggling to, I mean, the cupboard is bare. And people keep moving out of a state. Right. I mean, how are we going to deal with all these empty buildings and empty offices? they get $350 billion in bailouts. Now, not the states like Texas, not the state of Florida. South Dakota, are you kidding me? Only the states that did the right thing and really shut their state down.

They get $350 billion, while every individual in America is only worth $422 billion. $129 billion to open schools. I can do that one for free. Teachers, get your ass in the classroom or you're fired on Monday. That didn't cost anything. Somebody should try that. $40 billion for higher education because you can't expect Yale to dip in to their trust funds. $39 billion for child care.

Here's one. billion for Amtrak, $50 billion for FEMA, $90 billion for mass transit, because let me tell you something, there is nothing American needs more than that maintenance work on the bridge between New York and Canada. And, of course, the $100 million metro tunnel, the extension, the 6.5 mile extension. in Silicon Valley, because those poor guys in Silicon Valley, how are they going to get to work? I mean, sure, helicopter, you know, hoverboard, just a bunch of their employees carrying them into the office. They, of course, need that extension of 6.5 miles for $100 million, a $15 billion payroll support for airlines. and this is good.

$246 billion. It's $400 a week more in federal enhanced unemployment benefit fits through August. Now, the CBO has said this increase of money will now increase the unemployment rate as well as decrease the labor force in job participation since unemployment. will be more profitable than finding a job. There's your economic stimulus bill. There is what's going to fix the country. There, my friend, along with all of the Equality Act,

which is going to help the small businessman and the churches. It's going to help them so much. It's going to be so good for your children. That is very. just the beginning of the consequence of your neighbor or somebody down the street that, yeah, I believe in the Constitution and didn't get their fat ass out of the chair. I want to continue this conversation after this. My doctor said the other day, you have any stress in your life?

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Real estate agents. I trust.com. Glenn, what can we do? What can we do? We know the problem. I contend most people do not know the problem. They know a portion of it, but they have no idea of the reality of the world they're living in now. They think they're living in the world of even last year. They are not living in that world. It's completely different. And my job every day is to describe the world you now live in. So you wake up. up. It's a little like the matrix. Wake up. It's no longer the world you think it is. It's entirely different. And that means your strategy has to change. And people ask me, what do I do? What do first of all? I really appreciate the fact that you would think that I have a solution. I am just like you. We are in this together. What do I do? Get with your local community. Strengthen the

bonds with your neighbors. Talk to each other. Get on your school board. Get into city council. Stand up in your business. That's what you do. There's no grand solution to this. It's individuals standing up and saying, I'm not taking this course. I'm not taking this course. I'm not taking it because I yes, I'm white, but I'm not a racist and I won't hear this racist talk of categorizing a whole

group of people. We didn't do it with Islam. I won't do it with Christianity. I won't do it with blacks. I won't do it with whites. It's wrong. But the most important thing you can do is just find the courage

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Oh, yes. Mr. Bill O'Reilly is joining us now. The acclaimed offer of Killing Crazy Horse and also his new book. is coming out, killing the mob, the fight against organized crime in America. And of course, we will be talking about that on most of this channel with a very gracious grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Meanwhile, let's slum it and talk about today's news with Bill O'Reilly.

Bill, what's the most important story of the week? And the I come. We spent a lot of time on it last night on the Nosepen News. So what's happening on the border, the southern border, is going to influence the vote coming up in less than two years for the House and the Senate. And what people don't understand, I didn't even know all this, but I put my super sleuths on it to, you know, get real down the micro stuff. is that Joe Biden essentially doesn't know what's happening in Mexico. He doesn't know. He doesn't really care either.

If you look at his history about immigration, he's never been a guy that's been proactive in that area. But what's happening is that Mexico itself, now that Trump is gone, because Mexico feared Donald Trump. They feared him. and they basically cooperated by taking asylum seekers and letting them stay in Mexico. That was the Trump program. You can't come to the United States and ask for asylum and stay. As soon as you ask, we put you across the border and you've got to stay in Mexico. Everybody remembers that, right?

That's done. So Obador says, you know, when I got to do this anymore? even though the United States is essentially paying for it. Obrador, you know, I don't really want to speculate, but he's told the United States we're not going to cooperate in cartel narcotics investigations. We're not going to stop the migrants from coming from Central America, and we're not going to keep them here on the northern border while you guys wait to hear their asylum cases. So that's a trifecta right there, right?

What news organizations have covered that? outside of the conservative media I would gather none of the corporate media have covered it so then you got to ask yourself why why wouldn't they cover this

when this is probably the most important national slash foreign news story there is that in the space of 37 days Joe Biden has totally totally

all right turned around all the things that Donald Trump did which pretty it stopped the caravans and the mass trespassing on the border. Why wouldn't you report that? Okay, so may I offer a theory? I remember at Fox News when we were working together, there were things that you would cover that I thought were really important, but I didn't cover them. And it wasn't that they weren't important. It was because you were taking care of that base, and it allowed me to talk about something else because it was so important.

important. And I think there are two other stories that fall into this trifecta of destruction of America. And the one I think most Americans, especially if they are Christian, if they are religious, and if they have children, is the Equality Act. Yeah. That is terrifying. But it's not going to get through. No, if any of that gets through. I just talked to Rand Paul. He said he thought it would. Well, you've got to get 60 because he'll filibuster it. So I don't see how it's possible. Did Rand Paul explain that?

No, he didn't. Okay. Well, trust me. So the reason that I'm not hopping up and down about this, because essentially this is a two-paragraph story. I think most Americans want protections for gay people. They don't want them to be bullies. Certainly when I taught high school, I saw that firsthand, where kids were effeminate, boys were effeminate, were really, really bullied, and it was horrible, and no one wants that. And the federal government can easily extend protections in the workplace

that you can't be fired because you're gay. I don't think anybody's going to oppose that. But what this bill does is if you're baking a cake, And a gay guy comes in and says, I want your cake at my wedding, and you go, well, I can't really do that because I don't grieve religiously with... You're out. ...you're out. You have to, or you or the feds prosecute you. Right.

Okay. So that's the issue. And that issue is there isn't, I don't think there's anybody outside of the, you know, Markowski and... Well, but there's more to this. There's also the compelling of speech. You know, why can't we just all get along and just use the pronoun that they are asking to use? Do you remember the high school teacher in Virginia? Again, this is not going to rise.

So if this law were passed, it would be pretty much essentially the same law that protects skin color and political persuasion, that kind of thing. No. No. No. Well, with the component that you would have to cooperate with gays, even if you didn't believe that. No, it's not just, it's not just that. It is, it is the bathroom issue. It is the people who are in transition competing in, in girls sports. It's, uh, medical professionals not being able to say, hey, this, you know, this is not necessarily good for your child. to do this. It is the fact that it doesn't matter if you're a church or a charity. If you won't have, you know, a transgender person working at your church, you are in deep, deep trouble. I mean, it's, it is, well, that's why I'm telling you it's not going to get in.

They're not going to do it. They're not going to pass it. The Republicans will block it. You need 60 votes because they'll filibuster it. That's why they want to do it to filibuster. I'd be shocked that this thing gets passed into law, the way the house wrote it. You know what happens. I know. That's what I'm... It's a negotiation. They take out, they take out all the stuff and then it goes around and around and around.

But I don't think any of it's going to get in. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. So let's go with the other story, the COVID relief package. Yeah. $1.9 trillion dollars, which includes $58 billion.

a bailout for union pensions. Oh, yeah. All right. How about the $4 billion to pay off loans for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers? Now, I would claim that that's me. There is no one more solely. Yeah, I'm a rancher, and there's no one more socially disadvantaged among ranchers than me. I think that you get the first check.

Right. No, but if you're white, you need not apply. the billions for the national endowments, the billions of bailouts for blue states, the $10 million for Native American language preservation, $50 million for environmental justice grants. It looks like it is the beginning of, what do you call that when you're getting paid to do nothing

but write poetry for Nancy Pelosi? They send you a check. No, no, it's not wealth fair. It's basic minimum. income. It looks like universal basic income. It looks like that is also in here. I mean, it is,

it's a mess. It is a mess. That's why it hasn't been passed. And, you know, then they'll take another, you know, McConnell, delay at another four or five months.

In meantime, then they'll hope that this vaccine is kicking in, which it is, by the way, if you look at the stats, from Christmas Eve to last night, we put those stats up last night.

The number of new cases has declined. I think it's 60, 70%. So anyway, look, I'm not a guy that spends a lot of time on proposed legislation once it comes up for a vote, then I get in, because these kinds of things have a way of being delayed. They have relaying away of change, watered down, all of this stuff. The psychological thing, though, is if you look at the polls, that most people go, well, why you're holding up to my check?

How come in? Because they don't take the time to understand, you know, how much insanity is in the bill and how much of a waste of money a lot of the stuff is because they don't. You know, people are selfish. People want their money. They're hurting.

And so it's a propaganda tool as long as it's held up for the Democratic Party. But that's the country we live in. Again, you go back to the media. The media are you going to just say what you said? Are they going to tell people, oh, wow, this is in a bill, and this is a waste of time and it's why they're doing it? No.

No. And that really is the essential problem that we have in this country right now is that we have a news blackout in America. We have a news blackout. I mean, people don't know what the deuce is going on. Look, when you have misbehavior accusation against Governor Cuomo, and none of the network news covers it, and the cable, the two liberal cables, don't mention it.

Are you kidding me? I called it the Kavanaugh effect. So they're willing to rip up Kavanaugh and destroy his family and his children and they won't even mention this. And it was the same thing with Biden. I mean, everything

about Trump, any accusation against Trump, bang, everywhere, right? Oh, the women were on TV. You didn't even have credibility and you were on TV. Absolutely. Biden gets the same thing and it's, well, we'll put it in a Hunter Biden capsule and not mention it. So to me, I mean, I stay away from all of this stuff because I don't know what happened. I'm no idea what happened.

I mean, I can't point a finger at anybody. I'm not saying anything. But the blackout of the news is absolutely unbelievable. All right. Hang on. Let me go to the facts of COVID and what's happening on the ground in New York with governor. Cuomo and because Stu and we've had this conversation

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Rachel Levine who went through her confirmation hearing yesterday. I don't want to talk about the trans part of it. I want to talk about about what this woman actually believes and how radical she is. And I have to correct something. Rand didn't tell me that it would pass, that the bill would pass.

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Did you? Tell me what you think is happening in the Democratic Party politically. And I'm talking about the New York Democrats, with Cuomo. New York is now trying to get to the California radical left status. They're desperately Albany's trying to be Sacramento. They have to understand the dynamic of the state. So the Republican Party is totally blown up here, even though Donald Trump competed outside of New York City fairly well in this state. There's no leadership by a Republican. A lot of their former leaders are in prison. I mean, they're just, the Republican Party here is just the worst.

So the Democrats know that now they have an open field and they can, you know, impose crazy stuff and try to get it in forever. Cuomo's not radical enough to them. Wow. All right? Yeah, I know. So wait. So the pushback is not because he killed a bunch of people in nursing homes, lied about it, made money on it. No, no, no, no, I don't care about that.

These people who were waiting in the weeds. Cortez is the leader of this crew. A guy named Andy Kim from Queens is the local guy. They were waiting for Cuomo to screw up. Wait, so wait, wait, wait, wait, on Andy Kim, do you believe that he was telling the truth about that phone call? Yeah, I yelled at Andy Kim the other day. I called him up and he yelled out.

He's such a guy is just a dweeb. So everyone yells at Andy, and he walks out of his house and says, Hey, to get back in the house. All right. Nobody likes it. So, yeah, Cuomo yells at everybody. And Cuomo, I mean, people don't even care. I mean, yelling and he's running around.

Everybody goes, just Andrew, you know, come on. Is anybody stunned that Andrew Cuomo yells at people on the phone? No, or threatens people or uses mob tactics? No, not at all. Yeah, yeah. You do that. I kill you. Okay, Andrew, fine.

Pass the ketchup. So this is all a bunch of crap. um and andrew combeau though is so arrogant and he's so unlike um but there are people who really like him very very much yeah i don't know what you guys knows but he's the godfather to billy joll's two young daughters they're real close and and quomo can be very charming and and he's got a big social set here on long island i mean he shows up in uh michael corleone was very charming as well No, not Michael wasn't, you know, Sonny was... But anyway, the plan on the part of the far left in New York is to get him out and put even a further left loon in there.

So whereas Comos signed the No-Bail law, okay? This one would sign the No Prison Law. You see what I'm talking about? That's what these people are doing. They couldn't care less about the poor nursing home deaths. They don't care about, you know, if he... is yelling at people or whatever else the accusation is. They got them on the ropes.

They don't like them personally. And they're going to try to take him out. And you know what? They will. He's done, I think. I don't think he comes back from any of this. I think there'll be a new governor. I think he'll probably eke out his term.

We don't have recall here in New York. Whereas Newsom, I don't think Newsom's going to survive the year. But here, I don't think they'll impeach him. They'll censure him. And censure is, Andrew, you're a dufus. That's what's centered. Right.

So tell me about Gavin Newsom. What do you think happens in California? Because that is not a movement to get someone more radical in. No, no. So here's what going to happen. They got the signatures, so they have to validate the signatures. And then it has to go on. Wait, wait, wait.

Do you believe that there's going to be any problems with the validation process? No, because they're going to have more than $2 million. They only need $1.5. I mean, everybody hates Newsom out there. That French laundry thing, and the hair mousse, they're just tired of it. They want a bald governor in California that we're tired of this hairmuffs. They just announced yesterday $1.825 million they're out already. Yeah, and look, they can get as many as they want.

So then it gets put on the ballot in the summertime, probably August in there. And along with, do you want a Newsom out or not? You have to answer that. Then there are other people to replace him on the same ballot. All right. And then you just choose one. I'd like to further our conversation on just so. Who do you think they're going to choose as well as some of the other stories that are happening this week?

The story on the Navy now doing critical race theory training that all white people are bad, what's happening with our military, the troops, the stand down, and schools with Bill O'Reilly coming up. Sometimes he just makes sense, doesn't he? I mean, that's weird. It's weird. Let me tell you something. Is Andrew Cuomo, your governor here? Let me ask you a question, all right? See you the type of person that goes snitching on your boss because he sexually harassed you a few times. and the very next day you get out your warranty in your car and it won't start

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The promo code is Glenn. More with Bill O'Reilly from Bill O'Reilly.com. This is the Glenn Beck program talking to Bill O'Reilly because it's Friday. Bill, tell me, they're talking about Richard Grinnell as a possible candidate in California. Have you heard any names that you thought could replace Gavin Newsom? Well, the guy in San Diego, the former mayor there, he's going to run. A guy named Cox, who Newsom beat last time, he's a Republican stalwart. he's going to run. Is there a big name out there that, you know, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, he got in because

for a recall, as you'll remember. They booted great David out. And then Arnold was on the ballot and they voted for him. Yeah, but are they going to see a, is there a conservative lean at all? I can't say it's a wave, but is there a lean at all now? Is California changing, or is this just about Gavin sucks? Well, the folks are angry because, you know, Newsom shut down the entire state, putting all the gyms out of business

and the restaurants, and they're angry about the homeless and they're angry, visually angry. They can see the deterioration. But is this something that the average person sees and goes, you know, maybe that's our policies, or do they see it in? Yeah, I don't know if they're linking it in into liberal. philosophy. I don't know if they're doing that. That would have to be done with a study or something. But folks are angry and, you know, the French laundry thing where Mr. Moosehead went to the most

expensive restaurant and didn't have a mask and, you know, did everything he told everybody else not to do. That pretty much did him in. But is the philosophy of irresponsible liberalism under fire in California? Minority State, and I'm not saying that with any disparagement toward minorities, but it's a minority state now. And so people are voting, well, who's going to give me, and again, I'm not everybody, but a lot of people, where am I going to get? What am I going to get? Okay. And then, you know, what party does that. So I don't know if ideology is going to change out there. Let's talk a little bit about CPAC. President Trump is coming to CPAC. He's going to be speaking

on Sunday. Right. What do you think he's going to say? Well, Miller, his guy just came out and said, oh, he's not going to look back and he's not going to relitigate the election, which would be smart for him. Not to do. Yeah. Do you think he's got that? He'll get a few jabs in.

Yeah, okay. But what he should do, and, you know, if he listened to me, he would do it, but he doesn't listen to me back, which is just astounding. How could someone not listen to Bill? I don't know. About half the country has made a very good, happy life for themselves. I'm not sure about that. But I would open up with, here's the kind of election reform we need in America. Okay, and then five bullet points. Here's what we have to do to ensure that the next election is not rife with controversy.

Now, that would engage the people who believe that he got hosed, right? because that's what they're screaming for. He wouldn't look like just some guy who's bitter and he's advancing solutions to what is a legitimate problem for most Americans, not the media, but most Americans. And so he should open with that. And then, man, he's got the border just as I said in the beginning of this conversation, he can roll on that.

Just roll on it. And then the stock market is imploding. He could use that because by the end of today, that market's going to be down. significantly this week. And then he can say, well, like a Biden,

Biden is in his jammies. He doesn't know what he's doing. And get away with it. Because you got, you know, stuff now the market might be back up next week. But now it's a pretty painful week. So,

you know, the essential thing is that whether you like Trump or not, he was engaged in the presidency. This is the most important point for everybody listening right now. The guy was engaged in it. Okay. Is he a reader? Is he an analytical guy like Obama?

No. But every day, I mean, he was there and they were discussing how to make America great again. And that's what he did. Biden is not engaged at all in problem solving. He's just doing what they tell him to do. How do you say that with authority? Because I know people. Well, I know people too.

They're ranking people, and they're already worried. They're already worried because they know it's such a short time between now and the midterms that if you get a one-two-punch chaos at the border and a listing economy, and they also know that Americans are paying 50 to 70 cents more for a gallon of gasoline, 37 days after the guy was inaugurated. I mean, that's just a fact, and that's going to go to a buck and a half, summer because the fossil fuel industry goes, all right, Mr. Biden, you're going to hurt our business and you're going to do the X, Y, and Z, and we're going to spend all this money

to transition. So we're going to hose the folks now and raise all the prices, which is exactly what they're doing. And this goes back to my analysis that Americans don't know any of this. They certainly know they're paying more at the gas pump. Right. I have to know that. I'm yelling at Saheed down here in my town. Oh, what are you doing?

Hey, this is $2.10 for it. And he's looking at me going, hey, Mr. O'Ready, you just have to pay what's on the pump. I said, okay. But the media is not telling you any of this. It's like, oh, Joe's the greatest guy. Look at Joe and Jill. Joe and Jill. You know what they had?

They had lasagna tonight. Oh, this is delicious. And they had a log in the fire. I know. I loved that story. Let me ask you about a big. change and I don't hear any Republicans and honestly it doesn't bother me but it is a huge change one that only Obama really seemed to break and that was when you're

a president and you're a former president you shut up about the next president but that's gone that is gone yeah it's gone and is that a good thing or a bad thing I don't care you're not mad at me I mean I'm Obama's on doing a podcast with Bruce Springsteen. And I used a clip last night on the Bill O'Reilly.com broadcast. And the clip was Obama's changed his reparations stance a little bit. It was well thought out. But he talked for about a minute and 30 on reparations.

And Bruce Springsteen did not say a word. I don't know if Bruce knows what reparations are. I am not quite sure. He was there. Bruce was there. but he had this blank look on his face like, what is this? So, but anyway, so Obama's got the podcast, and he's going to, you know, he's going to go in and he's going to say what he wants to say because he's making some money doing it. So is, if you were at CPAC and you were speaking to the Republicans, yes, I know I thought today that the thing that I would say, you must not.

now organize in your states and strengthen the states and make sure you're passing all these laws to make sure that your state is solid on the election. Do everything you can. Absolutely. What would, what advice would you give the Republican Party that seems to be ready to hoist the Trump 2024 flag and, and, and just start heading down that for the next four years? what advice would you give them?

Republican Party has got to have a sense of humor. And that sounds trite, but it isn't. So right now, the independent block is growing in America. People are bailing out of both parties. They don't want to be Republicans or Democrats. They just want to be able to vote for whoever, you know, they like. But you've got to kind of bring it down to a basis where everybody understands, it. You can't do ideological, you know, ideological stuff. So if you oppose the bill for the

transgender gays and all this, you got to, you got to look, we don't want to hurt them. We want to protect them. We understand that, particularly children get battered. But look at this. This arose a huge part of religious freedom, but just keep it contained, keep it so everyone can understand it. So I would say you have to be the party of logic. Okay, that's what you need to be. And then you have to have a sense of humor about your presentation. So if you're going to criticize Biden, you don't bring a sledgehammer. You just, you know, criticize him in a general way that gets the point across that this guy really is not engaged in solving any problems. You are going to make it, he's going to make it a lot worse.

You're describing Ronald Reagan. Yeah, but, you know, Reagan was an ideologue, and I think those days are over. You know, Reagan was a firm, conservative ideologue that the Soviet Union is evil. Those days in America are gone. Now, it's all presentation. Who can present the best? And that's why Trump won, because he presented so much better than his Republican opposition. in 16.

Okay. Let me ask you one final question. Let's say, and this is never going to happen, certainly never on purpose. Let's just say Donald Trump is hit by, you know, Joe Biden's Amtrak one day. Complete coincidence. Who else is there besides Donald Trump that could pick up the mantle at this time? Of South Dakota. Love her. I knew it back, see.

Yeah. What about Florida governor? Ron DeSantis. Yeah, but he, you know, the Republican Party needs a new look. And Governor Noem would present that. Would you not? Yeah. So I might put DeSantis on the two and have known DeSantis.

DeSantis is strong and, you know, he did a good job in the COVID thing down there. even though he got battered. Those are probably the two best governors in COVID. So you might put those two together, but you need a new look. If you're not going to go with Trump, and by the way, if the economy does collapse, then Trump has got it locked. I think so, too. I think so, too. But if it doesn't, if it just waivers and people are mad, but they're not desperate,

then you might go for a new look. And no one knows what's going to happen to Trump. I mean, he's so, such a volatile situation surrounding him, it just never ends. Yeah. Bill O'Reilly, thank you so much. Anything you want to talk about, your new book? Yeah, I mean, if you pre-order killing the mob, and we talked about it last night, because it was the anniversary of Muhammad Ali, who was on Cassius Clay beaten, Sonny Liston, that fight was fixed. And we go into a great detail and killing the mob.

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Okay. George needs a TV debut, I think. It's a skinny pig. How big is this skinny pig? It's legitimately just like a normal guinea pig. It just doesn't have any hair on it. And so they call it a skinny pig, I guess, because it's not fluffy. I don't know.

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funding is coming your way. if you have suffered under COVID. Well, it's not coming directly to you. It's probably going to your union. Oh, you're not in a union? You should get into a union because those are good union jobs. You should do that. And if you're a farmer, there is real help coming for you.

Well, I mean, unless you're a white farmer. If you're a white farmer, I mean, haven't you, haven't you, don't you have enough, really? We're talking about the black farmers. There's lots of money coming for you. No strings attached to that, I'm sure. And it's great also if your state has been struggling. Well, I mean, if you're a blue state, you're a red state, screw you. Because you didn't play by the rules, all right?

$1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. We talked to a member of Congress who has been shouting from the rooftops. Uh, warning. In 60 seconds. It's Friday. So if you've been living with pain and you want to get your life back, I'm here to tell you I understand firsthand what it's like. I understand getting up every morning and going,

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Great, Glenn. Great to be with you. I appreciate you having me on to expose what's actually happening in this bill. Yeah, so I read a lot of stuff. The media is spinning this, of course, as this is all. going to help those states that are really in need and all those people that are really in need. I don't read it that way. Can you fill us in with the facts on what is in this bill? Sure. Well, first of all, I think what people need to understand is that there's a trillion dollars left over from the previous package. So Congress didn't take the time to really identify

where the need is, where we could potentially be shifting resources, and ensuring that we came out with something that was tailored and specific to the needs of struggling America. Americans and small businesses. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I want to make sure I understand this. There's a trillion dollars in, you know, some fictitious bank account that they've already approved that hasn't been sent out? That is correct.

So, and that's education spending to reopen schools. Some of it is PPP money for small businesses. Oh, my. So, so, so, and the interesting thing enough with the education funding is that the CDC said it would cost $25 billion to reopen schools safely across America. Yet they put $64 billion in the previous package with the majority of it unspent. And as you know, many schools, including those in my city, remain closed. And on top of that, they want to put another $130 billion in this package with 95% of

that funding not being able to be spent until after this year is over. So wait, the estimate is that to reopen schools that we call $25 billion, but between the unspent money in the last bill and the new bill, they are sending our schools $200 billion? That is correct. And so what I say is only under a mismanaged government or when Democrats are in control that things end up costing eight times as much as originally estimated. So what exactly is the, what do they say?

What is the response on $200 million for schools? Well, there's been no response. As a matter of fact, they keep insisting that this is for reopening America's schools. We know that's not the case, number one, because the estimates were an ace of what they're putting into this fund. The second thing is that the money is restricted to be used for over a year. So it's not emergency funding unless they anticipate that they're not going to reopen schools for a whole other year. So to give you an example, in New York State, my state, Governor Cuomo did receive $4 billion for school, yet many of our schools remain closed throughout the state. I mean, we've just reopened middle schools in New York City.

And as you know, the school's chancellor just resigned about an hour ago. And it's because, I believe, really, because he hasn't been able to successfully roll out the opening of these schools and like the Catholic schools have in our city. Yeah. May I just recommend for anybody who is struggling to figure out how to open schools, the first thing you have to do is teachers, you're to report back to class on Monday. If not, you're fired. That would be the first thing to do to open up schools. Maybe it's just me. You also in this bill are, we are finding now that there is,

a $86 billion of our tax dollars to rescue union pension funds. Yeah, I mean, look, that's in there. There's a lot in there, which is why we call it the Pelosi payoff bill, not the actual COVID relief bill. So it's not just, you know, the bailout for pensions, but you actually have a $3.5 billion going overseas internationally for the global health fund for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, you know, good cause.

But the thing is, why are the American people picking up 88% of the tab for this international organization's expenditures? Because that's what $3.5 billion equates to. And this is at a time when even our diplomats overseas haven't even had access to the vaccine. And the other thing, to show you how bloated this package is, less than 1% goes to vaccine production and distribution. And you ask any Democrat or Republican, local leaders. or national leader and they will tell you that the vaccine development distribution is the number one thing to getting us back on track.

So the fact that it's only equating for less than 1%, and I had to use Siri, by the way, to figure that out because, you know, calculators and go up to $1.9 trillion. But when you calculate it using Siri or Alexa, you'll find out that's something like 0.7% of the entire package is going to what is said to be the number one priority. That is how below this bill is. Nicole, is there, I mean, you're new to Congress. So let me ask you, are you, is it worse than you thought it would be or better or about what you expected? Well, unfortunately, it's, you know, it's a very polarizing. And my first month wasn't great. It was a very polarizing first month.

You know, the fact that we lost the Senate was not helpful because there's no balance anymore. They changes the rules in this procedure so that way they don't even need any Republican votes. They changed it from the 60 vote requirement. They changed it to 51 votes using what's called the budget reconciliation. And so they've basically shut us out of this process. And now we know why, because they wanted to jam all this pork into this bill. And as a New Yorker, I can say, look, of course I want my city and state to have money. But I also want accountability.

And I don't trust this mayor or this governor. I believe that they'll take the federal funds and they still will increase the taxes that are driving New Yorkers out. They're already talking about imposing higher income taxes and stock transfer tax. Mayor de Blasio increases the property tax levy every single year. They just increase tolls on our roadways. And so they're taking the money and they're still going to take from the people. And what's interesting about the way the Democrats set up this formula is that they changed it based on population to now based on unemployment, So governors like Governor Cuomo and Gavin Newsom are actually being rewarded for shutting down their economies and driving people out of work.

So it's very disheartening to see how this is playing out. But I was a member of the New York State Legislature, also in the minority. And so I'm kind of used to these types of games being played. But I'm hopeful that we'll be able to actually work together in a bipartisan fashion on something like the president said he wanted to do, even though he hasn't tried yet. So I was just talking to Bill O'Reilly. and he said what was happening in the New York House and assembly was that the Democrats are going after Cuomo, not because of any of the scandals, but because he's not radical enough. Do you believe that's true?

Or are the Democrats in New York waking up to Cuomo? No, I think the Democrats in New York are getting a lot of pressure from their constituents who are demanding answers. and families who are demanding justice, the governor made a bad mistake by implementing this order that mandated the nursing homes except COVID positive patients. Then he underreported it to the public, the number of deaths that were as a result of that. And then he stonewalled the legislature when they try to get answers. And then his own chief of staff admitted that they were covering up the whole thing simply because they didn't want the Department of Justice to give. access to this information. Then he bullied one of the Democratic assembly members who stood up to him because his uncle died in a nursing home.

So I think they're getting very tired of the governor's antics. Thousands of New Yorkers have actually joined me in adding their name at enoughcom to send a message that they want the governor to resign. And this has only been exacerbated now by the fact that a young woman who is part of his administration has come forward with sexual harassment, claims. So I think the Democrats really are starting to get tired of the governor. You know, he's been in governor for three years, three terms. He does use bullying tactics to get what he wants. He is vindictive. And I think that he's outdoing his welcome, both with the other Democrats in the state, but also with the people, which is why his poll numbers have just been dropped so much of the last month. So with him and de Blasio are, and I would love to know this in California as well, but you are from New York,

so you might have a good handle on New York. With Cuomo and de Blasio, the wreckage that has been done with these policies, especially because of COVID, are people just wanting to get rid of them, or are they tying them also to the policies that are so damaging? Well, they are tying them to their policies

because they're the ones who put forward, these arbitrary restrictions, these mandated shutdowns that have hurt our local economy that have led to thousands of people losing their jobs, that have put small businesses, people's livelihoods out. And, you know, schools, the parents, teachers, and students that I speak to want to go back to school. And that is very upsetting. Children don't have school athletics anymore, which is another big issue. And there's not a lot of these restrictions that they put in place lacked common sense. You can go to the gym, but you can't go to the yoga studio.

You know, you can ice skate and, you know, you can go to an ice skating pavilion and skate, but you can't have hockey leagues. You know, it just doesn't make any sense. And so there's a lot of frustration. And New York City were being treated differently than the rest of the state. The rest of the state is at 50% capacity for indoor dining. New York City was shut down for so long. And finally, we got 25%. I kept pushing.

We got now a 35% inching up toward 50. but why are we being treated differently than the rest of the state? So people are upset about this. They see that the governor and the mayor had way too much power. And, you know, the governor's power needs to be rescinded. I've said that repeatedly. I've been saying that for months. And the Democrats keep dragging their feet.

But they finally have to go and do it and take back their power as a equal branch of government and work to just reopen this economy and get children back to school and get people back to work. I have to tell you, I think between what companies have discovered with Zoom and virtual work, et cetera, et cetera, and the absolute devastation that has been done to Manhattan and your district in southern Brooklyn and Staten Island, I don't, and I know you won't agree with this, I'm sure, but I don't see New York City ever recovering to the city that it once was, at least for a decade. How how are you, how is that area going to pay for all of the services that it needs and have promised when everybody's moving away? Companies are shutting down. You're absolutely right about the policies that have been put in place that are driving people out. I do have hope that New York City will recover that we do have a mayor's race.

I'm hoping that somebody who will be, you know, really, really try to roll back some of this stuff that the mayor did. I mean, look, whether it be defunding the police, which was a completely ridiculous idea, it's led to crime skyrocketing. We have a lot of mismanagement, a lot of mismanagement of our tax dollars, which is why I'm so concerned with billions more coming to New York. But I do believe that it's up to the people. The people have to be vocal. They have to complain. You know, I ran for mayor of New York City in 2017. I think we'd be in a better position had I won that election.

Unfortunately, this mayor spends more and more money, and the problems get worse and worse. So that is the definition of mismanagement. I think there's a lot of things we could be doing differently to tackle our homeless crisis, to make sure our streets are safer, to make sure that our trains are running, to make sure that our children are getting a good education in person. You know, these are things that I think, unfortunately, government has just strayed from the basics of what they're supposed. supposed to be doing, right? People expect you to keep them safe, give their kids a good education,

make sure traffic is flowing, the trains are running on time, making sure that there's an environment where jobs can grow. And unfortunately, they've strayed into all sorts of areas. They've got to get back to the basics. And that's what I'm going to be pushing for and speaking out for both here in Washington and when I'm back home in New York City. Thank you so much. Congresswoman Nicole Malia Takas from New York. Thanks for checking in with us. I appreciate it. Let me tell you about rec tech. Spring, believe it or not, is right around the corner. And one way to forget everything is to just go out and grill.

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be. He's got to get a hippo. Well, he's he's he's he. Lifetime achievement? already? He is in the running, but we don't know. We haven't counted. Got to count the ballots. Yeah, got to count the ballots. And I want you to know that the accounting firm of Bill and Steve have done all of the counting counting.

And we don't know. Bill or Steve won't tell me who won. They, those sound like white names. I hope they've repressed their whiteness. before they started counting these ballots. They haven't, but I am going to stiff them on their check. Gosh, how many? Who's up for these awards?

There's so many. I know. I know. It's got to be up for one. DeBlasio has got to be up. Cuomo, we have a career retrospective coming up with Quo. You're just trying to give you to watch. I don't even know if you have one.

The Cuomo thing's amazing to me because there's this thing that's going on now where people are saying, Like, look, he's having all these problems. And we've noticed his COVID handling maybe wasn't so good. But that doesn't take away from his amazing press conferences at the beginning of all this in March in April. When he really helped public health and... Hey, I got to tell you something. Hi, I'm Governor Cuomo. And I like masks.

I think the masks are hip. Yeah. I heard that clip the other day. They're like, you know, you have to go. But he became a media superstar because of his amazing press conferences. And they went through like a montage of clips. And one of them was that clip where he literally is like, oh, I think masks are cool. Masks are cool now.

That's like the highlight of his press conference. Masks are cool. Well, it's so bad. That's why he's such a trend setter. You know what I mean? Oh my gosh. He is the worst. Actually, you know what I would have described

Andrew Cuomo is awful. Dot com. Yeah, that's how I would. And today on blazedtv.com, uh, you can't miss the Hippo Awards. Oh,

there'll be some favorite moments for you. As we share them today on blazedtv. com slash glen. promo code Glenn save 30% last day to do it. This is the Glendack. Oh, man. I just did a grill commercial.

What else? Could we talk about? Hmm. What would tie in? Stakes? Wow. If I only knew who, you know, made those really good stakes or provided those good stakes for, like, really good steakhouses. Yeah, you don't want like any steaks.

Yeah. No, I want those. What would they be called? What city would they be named after maybe? Well, probably Omaha, you know. Nebraska, you know, Omaha steaks. Nebraska steaks. Omaha Steaks.

And if you put a dot com on there, then you'd have a business. You really would. Omaha Steaks.com. Now, if you went to that and you typed my name Beck in the search bar, hypothetically, you're going to find the butcher's bestseller pack, which you would save over 50% and you get a little bit of everything. All the best sellers, it's burgers, pork chops, sausages, desserts, really yummy cut with a spoon-style forks. You'll save 50% plus you'll get four free chicken breasts and four free burgers. And Omaha Steaks.com.

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We vote against it. So, with the American people on record as not wanting socialized medicine, Congressman Ferrand said, if we can only break through and get our foot inside, the door. Then we can expand the program after that. Well, let's see what the socialists themselves had to say about it. They say, this nation will be provided with a mechanism for socialized medicine, capable of indefinite expansion in every direction until it includes the entire population. Well, we can't say we haven't been warned. In this country of ours took place the greatest revolution that has ever

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And behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until one day, as Norman Thomas said, we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don't do this and if I don't do it, one of these days you and I. Oh, true. Done by Nick Daly, our production guy. That's Ronald Reagan, obviously. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It is Friday.

I want to tell you about the podcast that comes out tomorrow with Tulsi Gabbard. It is really fascinating. It really is. Yeah, it is fascinating. But I think it's important that we cover something that you just said. Why do you have this? Sometimes you say these things and they're so profound in the moment. You are such a jerk.

What are you? We lose them because of just, you know, you're so rapid fire with so many great moments. And then we miss a genuine. And I think the audience may have missed a gem just a few moments ago. And I think the audience wants to settle in, clear your mind. What do you have? And just contemplate this brilliant analysis by Glenn Beck. Sausages, desserts, really yummy cut with a spoon-style forks.

You'll say 50. What exactly is a cut like a spoon-style fork? I know what that is. The copy says cut with a fork, but the actual term for for steaks is cut with a spoon. And as only I was thinking for it's a spoon, not fork. And I forgot about the word steak. Right. No, and it's an Omaha steak commercial.

So why would you remember the word steak? But so are you, I just want to clarify here. Shut up. Are you cutting? Shut up. Are you cutting the fork with a spoon? Yes. Can we hear it one more time?

I'm sorry, Sarah. There's no reason to cut with a spoon-style fork. So is it a fork that cuts like a spoon? Do you just? Or are you cutting? You know, you did nothing? I mean, just. There's a reason they gave that to you in 2020.

Yeah, I'm just holding up the Hall of Fame Award. Radio Hall of Fame member going on. Bring your down off the table. Would you bring that one out? Hold on. Let me press this button. I cut with a spoon-style forks. Was that part of your acceptance speech?

Did you cut a spoon with a fork on stage? Look, I don't know how I got this job. I don't know how I keep this job. I really don't. I listen to other shows. I know how talented everybody else is. I listen and I'm like, they don't make any mistakes. They don't say, ever.

They would never say, they'd never say this. Cut with a spoon-style fork. I know that. Listen, I don't know how they do that. I know. I must have had pictures of somebody that I never took, nor did I know I have. You know, I bought something, and it was in like a pocket of some used jacket or something. And everyone was like, he's got that jacket.

You should put him on the air. Otherwise, he's going to use it. I don't know what was in the jacket. I don't even know what jacket it was. I just don't understand why you would need a spoon-style fork. Shut up. Just use a fork or a... Shut.

Why would you style your fork out for a spoon? All right. There's two different utensils. Separate your cutleries. It's all we're trying to say here. It's such an shirt. Wait, what's that award again? Radio Hall of Fame.

Wow. I mean, that's a, what an amazing achievement. Again. For you. I had pictures of somebody in a jacket I don't own. Here's the thing. Could we go back to the show, please? cut with a spoon-style forks.

Did you talk to Tulsa Gabbard about the spoon-style forks? You know what's so weird? I am more comfortable with this than if you are actually heaping praise on me. If you were saying, you know, you're a great, I would rather have you point this out. That's how sad my life is. Surprisingly enough, I'm more comfortable with it too. I know what you mean, though. You feel awkward when when people say positive things.

Which is really nice because it doesn't happen. At least very often. I've removed myself from that position consistently throughout my entire life. Well, here's the great thing. You're standing in my shadow for just the last 25 years. I know. What does that say? What does that say about me?

No, it's true. It's depressing when I think about it, so I try to drink a lot. Well, I can't drink anymore. so think how I feel. All right, Tulsi Gabbard. Yesterday, first of all, oh my gosh, it was the most beautiful picture we have ever received. We're doing things remotely now because of COVID. And she was in Hawaii.

And she comes up on my screen and I just, I'm like, Tulsi, I feel like I'm doing an interview with a movie star. It was just so beautiful. It turns out her husband is a cinematographer. And so he set up the little Zoom. call between us. You can tell. I mean, it looks like she's on a movie set.

Yes. Of course, she just is in Hawaii, so everything looks great. And she's beautiful. Sure. I mean, she's really beautiful.

Um, but we had an honest conversation. And the first thing I asked her was, are you, are you like a Bernie Sanders person who is saying stuff just to dupe people on the other side? Are you, are you a Bernie Sanders person?

that now has woken up and like, whoa, that was crazy. Well, what, who are you? Because I can't put her in any box. And she talks about, you know, it's the box thing. I'm not in a box. She said, she's interesting. I don't know what she's going to stand on every issue. Right.

She has different reasoning. Again, I, there's a lot of her policies that I think are really, really off the wall. But, you know, in fact, I don't even know what her feelings are on spoon-styled forks, for example. She just seems to be completely... Shut up. However, but like, you know, she would, she legitimately campaigned. People wonder why I didn't call him and say, hey, you should drain your sprinkler system. Yeah. She campaigned for Bernie Sanders. I mean, she was like a state chair, I believe, for his campaign in 2016.

It seems totally disconnected from this person I find myself agreeing with way more often than I should. So I talked to her about principles. I mean, we spent about an hour and 15 minutes and it was really a great conversation between people who don't agree with with each other on some really important policies yeah and uh it's really a model for the way people should to should be able to come together uh and talking to her about principles not policies just principles i would vote for her based on her principles i would vote for her if that is indeed who she is and i think it i think it is certainly doesn't seem like she has a problem standing up to her party, which I like, I like it on both sides, frankly.

And we don't see a lot of it anymore on either side. I like somebody who's going to stand up and say, you know what, you know, my side sucks. I might be a Democrat, but this is dumb. You know what I mean? Like, I like that. I want someone who's going to be able to challenge that because then we just fall. Besides the fact that I think it's good for the country to have people like that,

it's also not boring, you know? I mean, it's, it makes these things a little bit more interesting. By the way, you can see the Tulsi Gabbard interview. It dropped yesterday on Blaze TV. You can watch it today as well or listen to it on BlazTV.com slash Glenn. Or you can get it wherever you get your podcast tomorrow. And it's worth watching because she's beautiful. But she also, you can look her in the eye and judge her, is she lying or not?

Does she really believe these things? Because I put her into the, you know, First Amendment. I talked to her about the military, what was going on, how she felt about all the federal troops there and how, you know, during the inauguration, should we have done that? Now what happens to those people? She said some things that she was very clear on,

that I have not heard really anyone willing to say about the military, at least on the other side. side. No way. She's really fascinating. I think you'll really, really like this. I think she has her priorities right. So would a spoon-style fork be a spork? Cut with a spoon-style forks?

No, when I point to you not to play that again. Oh, my gosh. Because, I mean, they have the combination, and I guess a spork would be what you're talking about. I mean, you could have just said cut with a spork, but you said a spoon-styled fork. Cut with a spoon-style forks. I have to make some money to keep paying your salary.

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Cut with a spoon-style forks. So the $15 minimum wage is out of, the COVID bill. It was in the COVID bill. There's so much in that bill. It was in the COVID bill. But the parliamentarian said, You can't do that.

I mean, it's revenge of the nerds. You blatantly can't force through a minimum wage increase through reconciliation. That's not a thing. I think they knew it wasn't a thing. They decided to give it a shot and they can now blame the parliamentarian for not getting it in. But they're going to try to get some hike in this in another bill.

Guys, don't think, you know, you can do that. He's a monster. Yeah, exactly. But, like, how, what is the percentage of workers that make the minimum wage? What is the percentage? I mean, what are we talking about here? What? Make the minimum wage.

Make the minimum wage. Do you know the number? It's, I'll give you a hint. It's been falling over the past few years. 10%. 10% would be a guess. It was 10% about. out in 1981.

Oh my. But then it's been falling a little bit. All right. 8%. It did fall below 8% in 1983. 5%. It did fall below 5% in 1987. 2%.

It did fall below 2% in 2007. 1%. It did fall between below 1% in 2019. The actual percentage is 0%? 0.8% of workers make the minimum wage. Or below. Like, so I guess like that means like maybe like illegal immigrants

who aren't getting paid. Yeah. Be the minimum wage. 0.8% make this. And again, those is the biggest thing. It's such a scale. In the world.

And by the way, in that time, if you look at the entire time in there, they've been complaining, oh, like, they haven't raised the minimum wage in all of this time. And it's only $7.25. It's been that way for, many, many years now. However, the entire time it's been at 725 an hour,

the median wage has gone up and up and up and up and up. Why? Because you have to. Right. Why would these evil corporations, all they want to do is pay their workers nothing? Why do they keep raising this over and over and over and over and over again? It's the free market.

Yeah, because they have to compete. So what is the average wage for people who are working a wage? I have clicked on at this time median wage, which as I know you know is a little different than average. However, the average is much higher than this. But currently the average wage is $15.35 an hour. So again, they're already over the area they want to raise it to. Now, that's the median. The average is up over $20 an hour now.

But still, it's not even close, right? And it's gone up and consistently up regardless of the change. No minimum wage changed. And all this time and it keeps going up and up and up and up and up. I wonder why. And I wonder why they just don't tie a minimum wage to inflation. Tied to the cost of living. Why not?

Because they need the argument. You need us. Or they're bad. They set you on fire. You starve. You need us. Ugh. Bah.

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