The Glenn Beck Program - Trump’s Removal from Ballots Is Destroying Democracy — Not ‘Saving’ It | 1/2/24

Episode Date: January 2, 2024

Coming back from holiday break, Glenn and Stu discuss those on the Left's ongoing attempt to remove Donald Trump from the presidential ballots in multiple states despite him never having been charged ...with insurrection. But will the Democrat-created superdelegate system return to haunt them? The Democrats seem to lack confidence in Biden's chances of winning the presidency. Are the Democrats inadvertently helping Trump by consistently going after him? California is forcing fast food places to pay their employees $20 an hour, and the plan is already failing. Glenn and Stu discuss the unreliability and cost of solar power. The Left's “solutions” for climate change are solely for virtue-signaling. Why are people still sending their children to college? Glenn discusses the Left's handling of Sam Bankman-Fried and how it views Trump.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:46 Glenn, very well. Yeah. It's, I think you're amazingly accurate here when you point out that we are in that situation where we are hitting the ground running here. Oh, yeah. We jump in. You come back from holiday break, and you're less than two weeks away from Iowa. You, we launch into basically full-out election mode immediately. Yo. Yo.
Starting point is 00:03:11 Yo. Thank you. We got lots of technical. It's a new year. It is a new year. New year. New year, new buttons. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:18 So, I mean, you go right into this, right? Like, I think so many people were, you spend the, the previous year kind of like figuring out what the field looks like. What's the, what's this race? What is this? Right? And it's got to be one of the strangest races anyone's ever looked at before. Right? You have one side saying all they care about is democracy is they're trying to get the other guy removed from the ballot.
Starting point is 00:03:40 I have to tell you. I mean, I have to tell you. I cannot believe that this is their strategy. First of all, I don't know if you heard about Rudy Giuliani. He's broke now. They've wiped his savings out. He is absolutely broke. There was a ruling against him for nine figures, right?
Starting point is 00:04:01 And so he is, he's broke. And that is, that's the lesson. The lesson is, we'll bankrupt you, we'll destroy you, we'll smear you, you will not survive. And the process really is also the punishment. It doesn't matter if they win or not. It really doesn't. They'll just keep going. With Donald Trump, the way these states, I mean, I could not believe.
Starting point is 00:04:27 believe that they're invoking the 14th Amendment and saying, well, you know, part of an insurrection. He's not even been charged with an insurrection, not even been charged. So they're taking him off because of an insurrection, something he was never even charged with. In any, they have 91 charges against him. None of them are insurrection. None of them are. And so now you have two states taking him off the ballot. And there's, 30 lining up. Yeah, plenty of them. We're going to try to do it. Let me tell you something.
Starting point is 00:05:04 This should tell you everything you need to know about the Democrats. It should tell you how radical they actually are. They're saying that they want to preserve democracy, but this isn't true. Let me tell you what I think is going to happen. If this goes through and Donald, it's going to make Donald Trump more and more popular. I have no idea how they're going to arrange these things. It's going to throw everything into chaos. Joe Biden's numbers are going to continue to go down. And the Democrats have something that the Republicans don't thank God. And that is the super delegate. The super delegate is something that the
Starting point is 00:05:52 Democrats came up with after they saw Ronald Reagan elected. Here's this guy. who was out of step with the party, was not playing ball with the party, but his grassroots effect just took off and they couldn't control him. And the Democrats saw that and they said, we can't have that happen to our party. We can never have that.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Well, for many, many years, there's never been anybody. You know, it's like Al Gore or Bill Clinton. Oh, geez, which one? Which one? It's not that big of a choice. They didn't have a Bernie Sanchez, that could stand up and actually do grassroots.
Starting point is 00:06:34 Well, Bernie Sanders did. Bernie Sanders was not in their camp. That's why you saw all of the horse trading and everything else that was going on during the 2016 election. They took him out. Now, that was still not the full superdelegate thing. You're going to see it this year. I really believe the Democrats are going to do their super delegate, which can vote differently than the public. So it's a hand-selected group of people that the party elites select, and if they feel for the party or for democracy's sake, the people have been duped.
Starting point is 00:07:27 They can override their vote. And I think you're going to see the poll number is going down so horribly that you're going to have to have somebody else besides Biden. And you can't have his vice president. And there's no way you can start a campaign now. It's too late. It's too late. You can't even get people on the ballot. Although they're strangely trying to get somebody else off the ballot, but you can't even get anything.
Starting point is 00:07:57 anybody on the ballot at this point. Super delegates stand in and they say, you know what, for the good of the country, we need somebody that can unite us all. And that would be Michelle Obama. Wow. Wow. You're starting off the year with this. I, because I just, it just makes sense to me. It may not happen, but it just makes sense to me. It's amazing because it shows the state of where Biden is, right? I mean, there's a new poll out today showing that, you know, Trump is winning. And even with like Hispanic voters and young voters and black voters, black voters, he's making massive inroads in these groups that are supposed to be just democratic votes, groups. We've talked about this forever. They just take them completely for granted, right? They'd show up every single
Starting point is 00:08:45 time. They vote 80, 70, 80, 90 percent for Democrats, and they never really think about them again. That is not, at least in the polls, is changing in a big way. and at some point you wonder are they just got are they really going to go down with the ship with joe biden are they really they are that dedicated to this man what is your choice at this point and then you get to where you are right with michel obama or someone similar you you you don't have a do am i wrong do they have another choice at this point i think gabvin newsome wants it to be gabin newsome yeah but how do you get him on to the ballots everywhere how do you how does that happen. It would have to be something within the party. And by the way, that's, that's an important thing to
Starting point is 00:09:27 understand with the Trump part of this as well. If these states tell the Republicans, they're not going to put them on the ballot, they can, the Republican Party can still make this happen for Donald Trump as the nominee. The question is in the general election, where it becomes a problem, because they can change their own rules and tell people, like, you know, they can do all sorts of stuff to make sure Donald Trump gets this election of what people believe is that he's way ahead. And they're just taking them off, trying to get him off the back. It's a different process when it comes to the Republican Party. But when it comes to the actual final ballot, that's a big, big, big deal.
Starting point is 00:10:01 This is this is Soviet Union stuff. I mean, the next step, honestly, the next step is to put your opponent in jail. But they would never try that, Glenn. Right. And then here they are. Right. Right. Here they are.
Starting point is 00:10:16 It's fascinating. I mean, and it's all under the context of an argument for democracy. Correct. It's all in this context that the media completely accepts with no sense of irony at all about it, that this is all about an effort to preserve democracy. Look, if you trust democracy, then just beat Donald Trump. Just beat him. Convinced the American people.
Starting point is 00:10:44 He's the worst option. They can't. Your 90-year-old guy who can't get through a sentence is going to be much better. Just convince them of that. They can't. But they obviously believe that they can. can't. I mean, even if they could, they don't believe that they can. Because if you believe actually in democracy, which I don't think that they do, at least the elements of democracy that
Starting point is 00:11:05 exist in our constitutional republic, if they actually believed in those things, they would just come out and win. Yes. You know, I mean, look, I went through a weekend this weekend, Glenn, where the Philadelphia Eagles lost to the Arizona Cardinals. And the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Detroit Lions, basically blowing up what started as a promising season for the Eagles. And watching that, the end of that Cowboys game was horrible for Eagles fans because it really looked and Detroit Lions fans. It looked like the Lions should have won. There was a controversial call, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And people, my Eagles friends are like, hey, can you believe that call? Beat the Arizona Cardinals and you don't have to worry about it. Right. Go out and
Starting point is 00:11:47 win the games on your schedule and you don't have to worry about the calls in the other games. this is what the freaking Democratic Party should be able to understand. Come out and win. Beat the guy you say is Hitler and you don't have to worry about throwing him in prison. Just beat him. They're just moving too fast. Look at, you have a situation now. Did you see the poll numbers with youth on Osama bin Laden now?
Starting point is 00:12:12 Yes. It is crazy. It is crazy. It is 26% believe that he was. was not only had good ideas, but what he did was right. Okay. It's astonishing what's happening. Now, why is that happening?
Starting point is 00:12:33 Because of lack of education. We lived through it, and we did not show it all the time. We don't even teach it anymore. So all we're teaching is anti-American stuff. They don't know who Osama bin Laden really is. and what do you get? You get this. Their agenda in schools is working.
Starting point is 00:13:00 We've already lost one generation. We may lose two. If that happens and we don't turn it around, America, as we know, it is gone for a while on earth. It will be found again. God will not be thwarted. It may not happen in this country, but God will not be thwarted.
Starting point is 00:13:18 These freedoms belong to him. You sit here and you look at what they're doing. They know they can't get all of the things that they need past, past. So at the end of progressivism is either a peaceful transition or revolution. They're now choosing, I think, revolution if needed. They will not give this up. But they think they had all of the tools. The thing that they didn't count on was the American people.
Starting point is 00:13:59 They didn't count on the middle of the country actually believing in something that they don't even understand. They didn't count on a Donald Trump or Ronda Santis or a Vivek Ramoswamy. They didn't expect the Tea Party. and for the people who invented the internet, they had absolutely no idea the monster that they unleashed when they put people and said, you can't talk on these media outlets when the internet was ready.
Starting point is 00:14:36 So now what are they going to do? They have to affect the election, and they're also trying to take Donald Trump off of the ballot everywhere because they want turmoil in the streets. They have to have it. They have to have it. More in just a second. First, let me tell you about LifeLock.
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Starting point is 00:16:45 and I don't want to become everything I despise, but I want them to know, oh, you moved a change. chess piece. You think you have me in in check. Well, let me put you in check. There's got to be a check and balance. And it doesn't seem like that's happening. For instance, who is the person? Oh, what's his name? The big donor to the Democratic Party that was. Sam Bankman-Feed? Yeah, free. So Sam Bankman-Fried, they decided the feds. decided, oh, we're not going to look into any corruption charges, any bribery or anything else. He gave more money to the Democrats than I think anyone ever in the history of the Democratic Party,
Starting point is 00:17:33 okay? And we know what that bought. The federal government decides, oh, we don't want to look into that at all. I don't know why there is an attorney general somewhere that knows that your congressman or your senator got money from Bankman Freed and you're not pursuing it. Our attorney generals have been really, really good, but it's time to take it to the next level.
Starting point is 00:18:08 If you believe that he was influencing government, the attorney general has a right, if I'm not mistaken, to go in and look at that and prosecute prosecute him and anyone else that was involved in bribery. It's got to take it to the state level.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Have to. I mean, you have to at least look at all this stuff, right? I don't know what. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not an attorney, so I don't know. I can't imagine you're the first person who's thinking, hey, like something, because there needs to be some sort of pushback.
Starting point is 00:18:43 It can't just be defense, right? Yeah. Because, I mean, I, look, I am currently operating under the belief that this will, this stuff about getting Donald Trump tossed off these ballots will be eliminated by the Supreme Court. I think the Supreme Court will hold the line on this, and I do think they have no argument in reality. I don't think this will work,
Starting point is 00:19:04 and that's one of the reasons why I'm not as panicked about it as perhaps I should be. But if all you do is just win these cases that they throw against the wall, you're in a position that eventually you're going to become victim of something sticking. Yes. Like, eventually one of these things works,
Starting point is 00:19:20 So you have to be disincentivizing them to try these things throughout the process because if you just let them keep trying and trying and trying with no consequence, then they'll just keep trying until it works. Did you see Mitch McConnell's ratings? Oh, eight. Out of ten? Like in hotness? Yeah, eight.
Starting point is 00:19:41 Oh, eight percent approval? Or is it six point eight? I think it was six or eight. Approval rating? Approval rating. Okay. It's not good, Glenn. Not good.
Starting point is 00:19:50 Not good. And especially when you look at the poll and you realize it has a 4.8 margin of error. Suboptimal, that is what I would say. And why is that? I think that is the exact same reason why Donald Trump is doing well. Who's watching out for you? Who's actually doing anything bold? Okay. Mitch McConnell is going the opposite direction, but it's not just that because there's lots of people, trust me, there's lots of people in Washington that are going the opposite direction.
Starting point is 00:20:34 He's made the stand to not only go the opposite direction, he's also ignoring all of the blatant things that would help America constitutionally. So he's actually not just working in the other direction. He's actually barricading people off that feel disenfranchised. You're not part of us. We don't want anything to do with you. And unfortunately, as the economy goes worse and worse and worse, there's got to be a champion someplace. And Donald Trump seems to be the only one that is connected with the American people to be their champion.
Starting point is 00:21:16 Now, I don't know if that can change with Ron DeSantis. And I, you know, it's interesting because at the beginning, everybody said, Ron DeSantis, he's in with a party. No, there seems to be one that is in with a party. And I don't think it's Ron DeSantis. More in just a second. The Glenn Back Program. My Pillow is a great sponsor, and they make great products.
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Starting point is 00:23:54 I've never seen that. In what is supposed to be a competitive primary, it really happened. I mean, you can see that with someone who's running for re-election, which again, maybe that's the way that this should have been looked at the whole time, right? Like where Donald Trump is essentially seen as an incumbent. I mean, he's obviously not in office right now, but he's running for a second term. Maybe that's how he should have been seen. Now, that's a national poll.
Starting point is 00:24:20 Some of the state poll stuff looks a little closer. So that would be interesting. Like, if a Haley or a DeSantis were to keep one of these first states close, then what happens? Right. We have seen race's turn on stuff like that. But this lead is very large. And it's not the same stuff that's fueling Donald Trump to a 50-point lead, which is him being attacked by the legal system and the media and democracy. All that's going to continue and ramp up in the middle of all this voting.
Starting point is 00:24:54 So it's hard to imagine how these guys can turn it around. If you happen to be on the opposition side, how do you do it? I have to tell you, though, I think this as always, whenever you try to obstruct, my father used to say, you know, waterfalls straight down from the sky. it's only when it hits a mountain or a man-made object that it starts to divert its course. Okay. And it's true. And I think what he was trying to teach me so many years ago was don't be that man-made object. Let it flow.
Starting point is 00:25:33 Just let it all flow. And every time, and we learned this years ago, every time you try to insert yourself and say, well, I'm going to make a difference here because I'm going to shape this or I'm going to do this so then that happens later. It never works out. No. It never works out. You don't get to control the universe, unfortunately. I know.
Starting point is 00:25:56 And I think that's what the Democrats are trying to do. And it's actually going against them. By tying him up in court, he's not on television all the time. by them saying we're not going to give him any TV time is also helping them. Because Donald Trump, one of the things that people, even who like him, have a hard time with is, okay, can we, why would you say that? You know what I mean? It's what those people, especially the independent voters, are touchy on. by them not covering him, by them keeping him in the courtroom, they're taking away one of his biggest
Starting point is 00:26:41 negatives. Yeah. And this is what this is what they're holding, they're hanging their hat on right now. Right. Like they are looking at this and saying, well, we haven't started doing that stuff yet. We haven't implemented the anti-Trump strategy as when it comes to going to the American people about who this guy is because he hasn't won the nomination yet. And look, that's a lot.
Starting point is 00:27:01 that's a big risk if you're a Democrat. You're waiting an awful long time. Yeah, but they want him. I mean, the theory is they want him to win this primary. And look, when you're doing this to somebody, it's going to be hard for him not to win. The argument, of course, for the other side, has been, and this would be a competitive primary if this were the truth, which is Donald Trump, yeah, he can win this primary, but he's going to lose the general election. If Ron DeSantis was able to present poll after poll after poll after poll with him up eight points over Joe Biden and Donald Trump down five, this would be a totally different situation because the Republican voters would look at that and say, geez, I love Donald Trump, but I don't want to risk Joe Biden. What do we do? The polls aren't showing that, though. The polls are showing the opposite in many cases. In fact, some of the polls are showing, and again, you could throw polls away if you want. I know everyone says every time I bring up the word polls, but it's like, There is something that is made, people make decisions based on them.
Starting point is 00:28:04 I think too often. I would say, who do you think is going to be the best president and vote for that person? That's, that would be my recommendation. But people don't vote that way. Here's why I think the people are voting that way when it comes to Donald Trump. They look at him as a guy who's not a politician. Ronda Santis is a very good politician, very good. he's holding the line against the establishment and everything else.
Starting point is 00:28:32 So he's very good. But he is seen as a politician. That has such a bad rap to it that even the good politicians are getting pounded for it. Okay. Donald Trump is not seen. He is seen still as the guy who was at the end of the bar. Remember this in 2016? There's a guy at the end of the bar who just says crazy things.
Starting point is 00:28:57 But you know what? Everybody cheers. He's right. He's right. He still is that guy. He's not a politician. It's very true. But the argument to unseat him would be, well, he can't win. I mean, Desantis has made this argument. Haley's made this argument. And it might be true. I don't know. It may very well be true.
Starting point is 00:29:19 And because, again, as we pointed out, the left really hasn't turned their focus on Trump outside of these legal efforts. I mean, you haven't seen him every word of his gets, you know, covered. And we know, we know this whole story. So it may turn around. But right now, that's not even what the polls are showing. The polls are showing that Trump's doing great. Like, I mean, like great. He's doing really well.
Starting point is 00:29:40 Yeah, like Reagan great. Leading in, against, among Hispanic voters, among younger voters, these are not numbers, these are not things that I think will hold up until the actual election. Again, a big part of the reason why he's winning younger voters. in particular is because the left younger voters, they don't like Biden's stance on Israel, which I don't know if you notice, Biden's noticing and is changing his stance on Israel by the day. By the time this election comes around, he's going to sound like, you know, AOC probably on Israel or Ilan Omar on Israel. And probably that all goes away. They're probably not going to run from the Democratic Party
Starting point is 00:30:21 when it comes to voting in these numbers. But still, it sets the tone. for this primary and makes it a very uphill battle for anyone trying to beat him. Because the argument to go to people to say change paths is we're going to lose in the general, and the polling doesn't show that right now, so it's hard to convince people of that. You know, you look at the polls recently, there's not enough in these early states, so we really don't know what's going on. Maybe Ronda Santos has made a run over the past few weeks. I mean, there is one poll that shows Haley very close to Donald Trump in New Hampshire.
Starting point is 00:30:56 you know, a few points. So is that real? I don't know, but she seems to be around nearing 30% in a lot of these polls in New Hampshire. That's within striking distance, you could argue. Maybe something like this will change, but it is a real uphill battle, real uphill battle for anyone trying to take him on in this environment. I don't understand that. I mean, you know, if you're a Nikki Haley supporter, I would love to hear because it just goes, to me, it seems like an anti-Trump. vote. And maybe that's what it is. Haley does. You know, I'm going to be more along the lines of,
Starting point is 00:31:33 you know, the traditional RNC, which is if that's what America wants, that's what America wants. But I don't understand it if it's anything more than that, because she doesn't seem like somebody who's going to go in and really change things. Does she? No, I think she's definitely more of a traditional Republican, right? I mean, it's crazy because she's a Tea Party person. Yeah. But I think at least that's the impression that I have. She's more of the let's be calm.
Starting point is 00:32:07 Let's take care of some things. But, you know, I'm going to go more the traditional RNC way. And the youth is not going that way at all. I don't know if you saw this from Amfest, Charlie Kirk's event, but the Donald Trump won by a landslide in their straw. Stropole. And did you see who they wanted as vice president? No. Two non-politicians.
Starting point is 00:32:34 The vague? Or Tucker? Hmm. Tucker Carlson. Wow. Hmm. Interesting. I mean, that is, it does seem like where a lot of the energy of the movement is,
Starting point is 00:32:45 at least that wing of it. Look at Malay. Look at the guy down in Argentina. Yeah. You know, everybody's like, why, how are these guys and why do they always look so weird because you're used to a politician combing his hair. You're used to a politician looking a certain way and behaving a certain way. And when they get on television, go, you know what, you're just nuts. And their hair's out of whack. You've been programmed to think this guy
Starting point is 00:33:15 is unstable. He looks like Einstein. I've had this argument with my wife. She's like, can you just run a comb through your hair occasionally? And I'm like, it worked for Einstein. How come it doesn't work for me? Why? And she's like, you're not Einstein. I said, but Einstein wasn't Einstein before. And I think it's just that you have to start, you can't end that way, because then you just look like you went mad. You have to start with crazy hair. Well, maybe uncovering some of the secrets of the universe is also a part of the equation for Einstein. Maybe it's not all about the hair. Glenn? No, I think it's the hair. I think I think it's the hair. I think it's the hair. Yeah, it worked for him. No, I mean, you just got a pass. I mean, it's not like, oh, I want Einstein here. Although, I wouldn't mind getting out of bed and just having my hair stand straight up like that and just walk out and be like, hey, it's me. Love that. Live with it. Live with it. Deal with it. Einstein just got the world to live with it.
Starting point is 00:34:17 I mean, look, that's true. I just feel like maybe his accomplishments had something to do with the fact that they put up with the hair. I'm in the Hall of Famer. That's true. I mean, you could justify it a little bit. Yeah, just a little bit. A little bit. I'm just saying back just a second. First, this message from Gen Yselle. So we're going into the new year. New resolutions trying to look better, trying to feel better about everything that's going on. Good luck with that in the world. But you can come up with the new you this year with GenuSel skin care. You can turn the clock back and look even five, 10, 15 years younger. Right now, GenuCel is celebrating 2024 with its new year's sales event. You can save over 70% off all your Genucel must-haves with their most popular package. You can say goodbye to the fine lines, the forehead wrinkles, the sagging jawline, dark marks, skin redness, and even under-eye bags and puffiness and leave them in 2023. Screw that. Genucel works for men and women.
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Starting point is 00:36:21 High Point North Carolina pastor was arrested last week after assaulting a McDonald's employee. The High Point Police Department reported that on December 28th, a woman who was training to be a manager at the South Main Street McDonald's location, said that her employees were disrespecting her. And as a result, a woman called her husband, who is a pastor to help her deal with it. He walked in, apparently. This is what witnesses say. He walked into the McDonald's, then went right behind the counter, grabbed the neck of one of the employees, and then push the victim's head towards the deep friar. Which I think that is in the, is that in the gospel of John? we're in Bible country.
Starting point is 00:37:17 We're in Bible country. It might be the gospel of Jack. I'm not sure. The different kind of baptism. Yeah, it is. That's what he was going for. How did I know it was 475 degrees? He also punched the victim several times in the face
Starting point is 00:37:33 and did not stop striking the victim until multiple employees were able to pull the pastor off the victim. Now, I don't know what it would take to make you look for a new church, but I think the deep fryer incident of 2023 would be on my list. Right. Has your pastor tried to force a McDonald's employee's head into a deep friar? No? Okay. All right. Let's continue to talk.
Starting point is 00:38:08 Right. You know? I'm still open. That doesn't mean I'm staying. It just means I'm open to stay. I mean, they might have done other things. But that one, I just want to check that one off the list. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:16 Wonder if this guy has any parishioners left? Oh, 100%. In this country, absolutely. There's going to be people. Absolutely. What was the disrespect? What level are we talking about here? She didn't say they were just disrespecting her.
Starting point is 00:38:32 Yeah. That's an important part of the... Like what kind of disrespect would it be? He didn't... First of all, let's be clear. here. He didn't actually put anyone's head in the deep friar. No, uh-uh, no, he was just... It was a threat, and that's not a good idea.
Starting point is 00:38:46 Yeah, I mean, I'll throw it out there. Don't pull the deep fryer unless you plan on using it. I mean, there is a level of disrespect that could happen to your wife that would cause you to be very angry. That might be, you know, I mean... That might be true, although I don't think it would get me to force somebody's head into a deep friarer. He didn't do that. He just threatened it. I know. I know. I know.
Starting point is 00:39:09 I know. You know? And then he punched a person a bunch of times. Repeatedly and wouldn't stop. I mean, you keep focusing on these details. Right. There is a, I mean, there's a level of, look, if your wife is being verbally assaulted in some way or being really disrespected, there's a level of anger that rises in a husband. Sure. That could cause all sorts of things. I would defend my wife.
Starting point is 00:39:34 Right. So. That would not include a deep friend. I thought I had you there. No. No matter how you try to sell it. No matter how you try. I am going by the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And there's almost no deep fire action at all in any of those books.
Starting point is 00:39:53 No. Pluck out your own eye? Sure. Put somebody's eyes in the deep friar? Never said it. No. They had almost no fried foods back then, which is sad. But no wonder there was so many angry people.
Starting point is 00:40:06 Exactly right. There's no fried foods to cure it. Right. But I do think, though, there is, there's an ang, I mean, like a, a fight. I mean, this is. I cannot believe you are even saying. I mean, this story is, wow, that's the response. Well, now, wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:40:27 You said that they have any parishioners left. I feel like there's a few that I'd be like, all right, come on. They said all sorts of mean things about the guy's wife. So it would be you. It would be you sitting in the pew. Come on, tell me about it. I respect you, pastor. I respect you.
Starting point is 00:40:42 I mean, if you put the head in the deep prior, I think we'd all be gone. But come on. The Glenn Back Program. When you were little, you had braced in course of recreat, always in trying to negotiate, exchanging these cards of hockey, the bonhom,
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Starting point is 00:44:15 Glenn, how are you? Happy New Year. Oh, my goodness. My goodness. I'm just great. You know what's going to be really great is when we can just all stay in our homes and not go anywhere. You know, because we won't have to. Mm.
Starting point is 00:44:28 You know? Because it's so dangerous out there. So dangerous. Outside. Have you noticed that? Everybody in my house over the holidays was sick. Where do you think they got that? Outside.
Starting point is 00:44:41 Outside. Outside. Outside. Outside. Other people. Exactly. We just eliminate the whole other people thing from our lives. Right.
Starting point is 00:44:48 Right. Right. And, you know, in Davos, there's probably somebody saying that in just the next couple of weeks. If we just get rid of all the people, we wouldn't have all problems with people. Anyway, there's a couple of things the governors around our country are doing to make your life just that much better. Let's start in California because Gavin Newsom isn't done yet. He just signed a bill into law and it goes into effect in April. It is fast food chains, national fast food chains that operate in California have to pay their employees a minimum of $20 per hour.
Starting point is 00:45:31 Now that the minimum wage in California is $16, but they're moving it up to $20 an hour. Glenn, I thought about this reading some of these stories about the minimum wage increases because they're all over. the country in 2024. Sure. Don't you remember when we had the conversation about a $15 minimum wage? Yes. And it was treated as a Bernie Sanders fever dream. Right?
Starting point is 00:45:54 Like it was like, okay, Bernie Sanders Democrats were saying, okay, Bernie Sanders is saying that, but no one's really considering $15 an hour. Then like Seattle did it. And like Portland did it. And everyone's like, gosh, that was crazy. Can you believe that? And then they watched those restaurants move. Yeah. Move.
Starting point is 00:46:10 Yeah. Now, $20, yeah. No, $20 is, $20. We said at the time, why not make it $20, $25, $30? Hell, why not make it $100 an hour? What is your limiting principle here? Correct. Correct. And we said that they're not going to, you're going to get the increase passed to you as a best case scenario.
Starting point is 00:46:34 And all of those people, and I know this is a small business person, when my dad couldn't afford to have help because egg prices, he was a baker, egg prices went up or whatever happened, he had to let go the staff that was doing all of the work on cleaning and everything else, and he hired me for a quarter. Okay? That's what they do. They just can't print money like the United States of America. Of course, they said that it would protect the fast food workers.
Starting point is 00:47:10 Unfortunately, there's been a little announcement from a major corporation Pizza Hut. They've decided that they're going to lay off all of their delivery drivers. And they say, well, I mean, why should we pay for that? Because you can just go through DoorDash or Grubhub or Uber Eats, which leads you to two things. Okay, great. But now I pay for that delivery where I didn't pay for it before. So you're getting it in the end. You now have to pay for delivery instead of Pizza Hut bringing it to you.
Starting point is 00:47:46 And it opens up the door for, well, now, wait a minute. All of these drivers have been left off. Maybe we should regulate DoorDash and Grubhub and Uber Eats. That's a fascinating plan, right? And from a consumer perspective, who do you blame when you're annoyed with the delivery fees? You blame Grubhub or DoorDash, not Pizza Hut. Correct. So. And why would you blame Pizza Hut? You should blame Gavin Newsom. You should. Though it's interesting, and this is a hack to our system that Democrats have not actually exploited as much as you think over the years, and they are learning that they should exploit it. And at the minimum wage is one of the most popular policy proposals in our discourse. I mean, usually, I mean, there's a poll from last year in May, 74% of voters support raising.
Starting point is 00:48:37 the federal minimum wage, as much to $20 an hour. Again, people generally look at the minimum wage as we should be nice to poor people. That's how people translate that. Now, you can bring up all the economic arguments in the world, and they don't care. You mean the actual math. The actual math, what actually happens to people, how it hurts the exact same people you're trying to help? All that is true, but when you ask people about it, they don't process it that way. So what happens when you raise the minimum wage?
Starting point is 00:49:06 I mean, think about this brilliance from the Democratic perspective. You raise it to $20 an hour. Well, what happens? First of all, you get a bunch of people who are maybe making $14, $15, $16 an hour to get more money. And supposedly that works with what you believe. I don't know if the Democrat Party really cares. But set that aside for a second. What you do is you force a bunch of people who are on the verge of needing you
Starting point is 00:49:33 into definitely needing you as a government. government, right? You're translating these people, you're taking them from people who are making it on 15 bucks an hour, maybe not with lavish vacations and wonderful new cars, but getting by, and you turn them into people who can't get by without your help. Then you get to regulate DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber, all these other things, places where people go to work. You get to regulate them because now they're just part of the economy. And you can increase the benefits that go from the government to these people because look, there's all these new people that are unemployed
Starting point is 00:50:09 because they're these evil corporations and you do that by implementing a policy that is overwhelmingly popular, not only with Democrats, but also Republicans. That is something that people really need to wake up to because they're going to start doing this to ridiculous extents across the country. Yeah, they're not going to, so let's move on.
Starting point is 00:50:28 California also initiating a new law today. Now, imagine you have a you know, toy store or a toy center in your house or in your your business. Okay. You're in the business at all of selling toys. I mean, could be marginal,
Starting point is 00:50:48 but that's part of your product line. Today, it begins, they will fine any retailers if they don't sell gender neutral children toys in their store. They have to be clearly marked and sectioned and stores that refuse to comply will face a $250 penalty for the first violation and $500 penalty for every subsequent offense. Oh, and the law also pertains to, quote, any product designed or intended by the manufacturer to facilitate sleep, relaxation, or the feeding of children, or to help children with sucking or teething. So it has to, because it's not clothing, right?
Starting point is 00:51:39 They don't have to have a special clothing area. No, it's toys, but then the sleep or relaxation feeding of children and help children with sucking or teething, that is disturbing. That's a disturbing line. Yeah, yeah, disturbingly specific. Like, they put a lot of thought into that. But, like, what does that mean? So, like, you have a section currently, right, where you have a bunch of toys that are together from boys and girls. Then you have to have a separate.
Starting point is 00:52:06 Separate section, right? Like, so you're not like you're giving options to kids who are supposedly transgendered or non-binary or whatever the hell they're promoting this week. But they can't even be in the same section with other kids. Because it's not the point. The children, not the point. It is to make a statement, this store will comply. There were many, many stores back in the 1930s over in a, well, foreign land. that a lot of people were not with the Nazi party.
Starting point is 00:52:42 They weren't with it. But they put the Nazi flag up in their store window because they didn't want trouble. Right. Okay. That's all this is. We have a special, what, non-binary, what the hell is this calling for gender-neutral children toys? Imagine seeing that. What do you think?
Starting point is 00:53:05 you immediately know this store caved. That's all this is. This is muscle. Wow. It seems so... Again, this isn't about the customers. You have to remind yourself it's not about the customers. Because customers would be like, where...
Starting point is 00:53:23 What am I doing? Where am I going? Like, when you go into a store, let's say you have a daughter who really likes sports, right? Maybe isn't consistent with the typical gender stereotype, right? You just go buy the things they like. As a parent, you say, okay, well, they like
Starting point is 00:53:44 basketball, so I'm going to buy her a basketball. You don't necessarily need to go to a girls' section, girls' sports section to find the basketball. They have different sizes for girls, but using this as an example, they're going to be right next to the other basketballs, and you're going to say, this is girls' basketball, you're going to go buy that. Now, these people are going to go to these sections, and then, in theory, go to another.
Starting point is 00:54:05 separate section where there is a well marked section a well marked section have to be clearly marked and sectioned and how long until they say this is essentially segregation you're taking these poor non-binary kids and making them have their own section they're going to just none of this stuff makes any sense what was segregation really all about what was segregation really truly all about I mean, it was about a lot of things. But it was about certainly racism, skin color, power, right? A sign of power. I would say mainly power.
Starting point is 00:54:43 I mean, racism, obviously, but that is a function of I want to be powerful over somebody else. Sure. Okay. So what was segregation? It was teaching people. You are not good enough to walk through this door. These people are. Okay?
Starting point is 00:55:01 So whenever you saw whites only, you were reinforcing. You were teaching the public without ever saying blacks are inferior. I'm only saying whites only. Right. That's all I'm saying. This wasn't a good argument, but this is what they were trying to. It was only about power and reinforcing the doctrine of the people in power. That's all it is.
Starting point is 00:55:26 And that's all this is. Little section toy store, if these are non-gender, you know, or gender neutral toys. Why? I go to Walmart. I go down. It's preventing you from buying a toy for the other gender. Right. Like you make the decision.
Starting point is 00:55:43 When it comes to toys, you're making, this is not life-changing surgery. When it comes to toys, you're making the decision you want to make for your kids. Wow. Can you stop bringing up gender surgery? Okay. I mean, gender is fluid, but the discussion is not. Wait. Hmm?
Starting point is 00:56:00 Gender is fluid, but the discussion is not. So we're not allowed to have this? We're not allowed to have the national conversation. No, gender is the only thing that is fluid. Conversation about it is not. All right, back in just a second. I have some good news. I know you thought you were going to have to use that second rate real estate agent who barely knows what he's doing this year.
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Starting point is 00:57:59 say, hey, you can't have gender surgeries, you can't have all these crazy gender treatments, you can't have boys playing girls' sports. Hold it. Just a second. If I'm not mistaken, there is a difference here. Okay. Isn't DeWine the one that took the money from the gender hospital? Yes, there was.
Starting point is 00:58:20 Okay, so there were special interest involved in this one. That's what makes this so different. It's special. It's special. That special interest. Now, I don't know. What did he take $40,000, I think? I don't know if that's enough. I mean, it was enough for Martha Stewart to go to prison.
Starting point is 00:58:35 Let's just remember that. That's true. Wow. Yeah. which is bizarre. Bizarre. But I don't, sometimes I, I find that explanation lacking because, you know, people get a lot of money from a lot of different places.
Starting point is 00:58:50 And that might be, it might be the reason. But I mean, I think more than that, it's, it's, it's this very, it's squishiness. Yeah. I mean, look, here's a deal. Dwayne, it's clear you're a whore. We just don't know what the price is. It could be, it could be money though. I think buddy's a more innocent explanation, frankly.
Starting point is 00:59:11 I think the fact that he just wants to enrich himself personally would make me feel a little bit about the situation. Okay, okay. He's trying to get a new vacation house. All right, we all understand that. He's just a poor working girl. He can decide what he wants to do. And, you know, if you have to mangle a couple of kids to get it, you know, it's a third bedroom. We need the extra.
Starting point is 00:59:31 We need the pool. Yeah, I agree. So if it was just that, I find it to be working. than that. I mean, like, you know, here's a guy who is really, you know, against the freedom movement when it came to COVID, for example. This is one of the things he's well known for. He was very bad on COVID for a Republican governor. And he, so obviously he, this idea that he just wants to keep you alone with your health care decisions is absurd. It's the exact opposite of everything he's known for, right? But in this one case, he's just like, I just feel like parents should be
Starting point is 01:00:05 able to say kids can be you know, mangled and mutilated at the whim of the nutty parents. Of course that's okay. I don't know. If you want to chain your kids to the basement and the radiator, that's fine. Parental choice. We're all super libertarians here.
Starting point is 01:00:21 Come on. Okay, another new law out of California. It starts today. If you're an employer in California, you cannot ask your employees about their marijuana consumption outside of the workplace. So you can't necessarily smoke pot on the job yet.
Starting point is 01:00:39 And you cannot penalize employees if they test positive for marijuana unless they're actively high at work. So I, you know, and I don't know how do you, how do you know, you're actively high? No, yeah. Wow. No. I mean, what do you? We work in the entertainment field. Everyone around here is high.
Starting point is 01:01:07 Everybody. Okay, so here's the problem. Here's the problem with this. It seems kind of reasonable. It seems kind of reasonable now, you know? You're kind of like, well, yeah, as long as they're not high at work. You know what I mean? That's the way most people are going to look at it.
Starting point is 01:01:24 Well, yeah. I mean, if they want to smoke dope, you know. But, I mean, there's a part of me that has some sympathy for this. I know, I know. You know, again, I don't. I don't. Right. It's still federally illegal.
Starting point is 01:01:37 We do realize this, right? Everyone's like, oh, it's legal now. Not really. Like, it's actually still against federal law. Yeah. But again, like, you know, I kind of feel the same way of like, well, you know, if you're tweeting something, should you be fired from your job? Pretty much no.
Starting point is 01:01:53 I mean, there are exceptions to that maybe, but. I shouldn't have been fired from my job. I was never drunk at work. But I was drunk for 21 hours out of the day. But, like, we start firing people who are drunk. drunk 21 hours a day. There's nobody left. There's no, the workforce. This is California. You start firing people who are smoking pot.
Starting point is 01:02:11 There's nothing left. I don't think that, and this is a strange thing to say, but I don't think like a functioning alcoholic, if you were drinking at home and coming in and doing a good show every day, you shouldn't be fired for your drinking at home. I mean, it's your own bad personal choice. Correct. Now, if you're doing something illegal at home, which marijuana is, there's a different maybe argument, but still, like generally speaking, I think that's, you should keep yourself.
Starting point is 01:02:34 I said this one kind of, it just is like we're lowering the standards. You know, we're having to pass a law that says, hey, there's a really big problem with people being fired because they're smoking pot. You know, maybe we should look at it that way just a bit because I don't necessarily have a problem with the law. The Glenn Beck program. It's just really sad. Hey, I gave my whole family, Berna. Do you remember the gun I brought in? Yes.
Starting point is 01:03:07 It is my second oldest daughter who is not a fan of guns. She was like, you're giving me a gun for Christmas? And I said, yes, I am. Except it's not a gun. I mean, it looks just like it, but it's a gas powered launcher. Tear gas, kinetic deterrence, 60 foot range. So you're not going to kill anybody. with it, but you can hit them with a pretty hard.
Starting point is 01:03:37 It won't break the skin, but it hurts. And 60 feet away, you can shoot tear gas. And it's nasty-ass tear gas. I got it for every member of the family, and I told Tanya yesterday, I said, I want to see this in your purse, honey. I put this in your purse. Burn up. B-Y-R-N-A.
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Starting point is 01:04:51 knife or a stick. You can put an eye out with that. And the state knows. And they want to take care of you on this. And now, Whitmer, another just safety first kind of governor, she signed in the clean energy and climate action package, which will make the state 100% carbon neutral by 2040, which I think is great. There won't be any employment there or any real home. that are not, you know, covered with people who are either wildly rich and comfortable or extremely poor and cold. But she signed that in.
Starting point is 01:05:35 It's going to require all of the state's utilities to increasingly source from green energy. The bill says that you can use solar and wind power. Now, I built a house off the grid. and I use solar and wind power. And I have spent enormous sums of money trying to make it work. No. No. No.
Starting point is 01:06:05 It won't work. It won't. It's just unreliable. It's unreliable. It is absolutely unreliable. I mean, if I were trying to put this company on solar or wind, And there's no way. We'd be off the air three times a week.
Starting point is 01:06:24 It's absolutely unreliable. And it is so I bleed expensive. If you're doing a big project, there's no way. If you want to offset some, you know, put some solar panels on your roof and, you know, I don't know, be able to make a cup of tea. Great. Some of the solar panels, you can actually sell it back to the grid. Good.
Starting point is 01:06:47 Good for you. but this is not this is one of those things you're like oh good for you this is not like you're going to do this or else because it doesn't work and wind power is an absolute joke
Starting point is 01:07:01 an absolute joke I had a wind turbine at the house it was attacked by some cattle and uh it was wait it was a how
Starting point is 01:07:15 what happened to the well wind turbine. I don't know. Maybe one of them was trying to mate with. I don't know, exactly. But it came down. You know how long it took us to recognize that we lost all of our wind power?
Starting point is 01:07:32 No, how long? I have no idea. Don't know when that thing came down. I have absolutely no idea. Makes that big of a difference. It makes that big of a difference. Now, in ill... Wait, why were your cattle mating with a...
Starting point is 01:07:44 I'm not a farm guy, per se? So maybe I don't understand. There's not a lot of cows, you know, where my cows were kept. And, you know, they were like, I kind of, you know, they don't seem to be real choosy. Okay. You know? Mm-hmm. And the female cow doesn't, I mean, just, just eats during it.
Starting point is 01:08:06 And I just, oh, muck. Ah, he's on me again. I mean, it's. Romantic lifestyle. It is romantic. The farmer's life. Romance all the way. all the way. In Illinois, new law going into effect on January 1 will allow non-citizens to become
Starting point is 01:08:23 police officers and sheriffs. So, Illinois, you got that going for you. Now, I'm noticing a trend here on some of these laws. Let's see, California, Michigan, Illinois. Okay. Landlords also in Illinois are going to be required under state law to rent or sell property to, non-citizens and illegal aliens beginning today. And by the way, if you're an illegal alien, you're also going to be able to obtain a standard driver's license starting, you know, wow, just around election time and mid-2024. So now you won't need that to vote, of course.
Starting point is 01:09:07 No. No. You'll have a, you could go in and vote and they just have to bring anything. We don't have to stop you for anything at the border. No. And we don't even have to verify. Yes, those crying children are your children. We're not going to ask you for no, nothing.
Starting point is 01:09:23 Too much. Too much. Too much. Beginning January 1st, Illinois also is shutting off state funding for public and school libraries that ban books for political reasons, including books that promote LGBTQ plus ideology, making the first state to enact the law. So they are promoting this as a ban on book bans. Yes. But of course, these book bans aren't actually occurring. Correct. So it's a ban on something that has not really been banned. Yes.
Starting point is 01:09:55 But we've got the bonfire burning. All I'm asking you to do is just keep throwing stuff in. Okay. In Colorado, a new law will go into effect beginning January. First, wow, Colorado, another state. What do these states have in common? A new law go into effect beginning today banning certain single-use plastics. Like bags and styrofoam cups and takeout containers.
Starting point is 01:10:24 So they say that these are typically less expensive than paper or biodegradable alternatives. Yeah, they're also better. They're also better. They do the job, you know. As much as I like taking, you know, and using my paper towel holder, you know, the inside of the after, I save those now for straws. The only way you can get any liquid up. They have to be that wide.
Starting point is 01:10:52 Yeah. And it lasts for, oh, seconds before it just starts to degrade into whatever it is you're ingesting. I was at a restaurant this weekend that had paper straws. Oh, I... And I was drinking out of one of them. First, it's a terrible experience. It feels awful on your lips. It feels awful on your tongue.
Starting point is 01:11:13 The soda doesn't come up. And I was drinking this and I just started taking them out and asking for new ones every time it got the slightest bit difficult. Because screw these people. I want to use 50 paper straws just to show them that they shouldn't be doing this. These stupid restaurants. No, they won't learn. Because they don't care. It's not, of course, it's not about the climate.
Starting point is 01:11:33 No, it's about, again, marking all of the toys and the toy section. We've given up. We're not going to cause any problems. even though most of our customers hate this. There's a few vocal people that want us to stop with plastic. And we might even ourselves want to stop with plastic. But that's not why we're doing it. We're doing it now so we can tell everybody we've surrendered.
Starting point is 01:12:04 It's true. And it doesn't make any sense either. I was reading this interview in the New York Times interview. They did with some person who was talking about how to talk about climate. She has a new book out, and she is concerned about the climate. But her point is basically like, hey, like, we should, you know, talk about the positive things that we could do, but not necessarily freak everybody out. And in the book, the interviewer asked, in the book, you have this category of things that we shouldn't stress about so much, like using plastic straws or single-use plastic bags. But isn't the person who says I'm going to care about those things more likely to display the political will that is needed than a person who says, I don't care?
Starting point is 01:12:42 her response. I'm clear in the book that I don't think we should use all sorts of plastic bottles and plastic straws, but people stress too much about it. It's an absolute disaster if they turn up to the supermarket and they don't have a recyclable bag. They feel awful for the entire day because they're not doing their bit for the environment. It's just trying to take a little stress out of it so it feels less overwhelming. The other lens to it is based on this concept of moral licensing, where we feel like,
Starting point is 01:13:08 oh yes, I avoided the plastic straw, I've got my bag, I can drive my gas. powered car and eat lots of meat. The risk is that people focus entirely on the small and miss the big stuff. It's fascinating, first of all, that people really are like this. Like, people will go to a grocery store, forget their recyclable bag, and feel bad all day? What sort of psychosis is this? No, it's not. It's a religion.
Starting point is 01:13:33 It is, yeah. It's a religion. You have sinned against the God of the planet. And so you should atone. for that. The planet will never forgive me. This is a religion. And it is a state-controlled religion.
Starting point is 01:13:53 And the second part of it is 100% right, this moral licensing idea where you can sit there and say, well, I got my recyclable bag and I'm using these straws that don't work. Therefore, I'm a good boy and you're a bad boy because you're driving your gas-powered car when everyone knows none of that makes a difference. The plastic straw one we've talked about was initially started by like a fourth grader
Starting point is 01:14:21 who had a school report who tried to come up with some number of how many straws we use and the media picked it up as if it was real. It literally came from a student in like elementary school. Still quoted as the source. Still quoted as real. Yeah.
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Starting point is 01:16:23 Is because some stories that you might go, well, I don't know exactly. how I feel on the, you can't have a discussion on that one alone because that one story is not in a vacuum. It's all of the stories that come out every single day that show we are being dismantled and remember this, millions of people will die from starvation, from cold, they will die if the people who have the radical climate agenda win. Millions will die. So you can't look at things in a vacuum. Here's a story.
Starting point is 01:17:10 A new animal welfare law goes into effect today in California. And it has mandates for space requirements for pigs, cows, and chickens. And this includes the price of your eggs. So any meat and eggs. going to go through the roof. Why? Because they want the pens to be larger for each animal. Now, I don't eat veal because I don't like the idea that they're sometimes hung or they're just kept in a box so they don't move so it'd be more flavor or less more tender for me.
Starting point is 01:17:50 No, thank you. So I do care about the animal. I raise animals to be eaten, and I love my animals, and I treat them well. However, what this is going to do, and California knows this, California did Proposition 12, it goes into effect today, and it sets the standards for sale of certain animal products in California. if you don't comply to California law, you can no longer sell any meat, chicken, eggs, beef, pork, to California. And this puts an enormous burden on the farmer.
Starting point is 01:18:36 They say, if you want to live up to this, if you're a hog farmer, it will cost you $3,500 per head. Okay? $3,500. I don't know. what my cows actually sell for, but I don't think they make that much, and I fed them all year. This is insane. This is insane.
Starting point is 01:19:03 And here's what the problem is. Farmers around the country, because California has such a big population, they buy so much meat, the farmers are going, well, I could either go out of business by trying to come imply and hope that I gain the business in California and other states that will probably follow this, or I'm just going to stand my ground. And they don't know what to do. And I'm telling you now, and I know farmers, and I know the situation you're in. So I don't say this lightly.
Starting point is 01:19:41 But if somebody doesn't take a stand, we're toast. because this is only trying to get it. This bill is heralded by the Humane Society. They don't want you to even have a dog, okay? You can't say you're an owner of a dog. You think they're going to stop with this? And I, quite frankly, am tired of California dictating what I have to do. Yeah, because, I mean, I would assume if you're a farmer, you're thinking to yourself,
Starting point is 01:20:15 well, I could lose my business if I can't sell to California, but if I have to make these changes, I could lose my business anyway because other states aren't going to want to buy. You know what? Take a stand in your own area. You might as well just take a stand in your own area. I refuse to sell to California
Starting point is 01:20:33 because I'm not going to have California dictate to my farm. And if you start standing together, you know the only thing that's going to teach California? Well, I don't even know if it will ever. I mean, it's just just to slide into the ocean. I don't know anything that will actually turn California into a common sense place because everything's on fire and they still go down this road. But when they can't get any meat, God bless you, California.
Starting point is 01:21:03 Gee, no eggs, no chicken, no meat, no pork. Huh, sucks to be you. That's why I don't live in California. Don't take your nonsense and your insanity and shovel it into my backyard. I don't live in California for a reason. And now they're going to give what free health insurance to all illegal immigrants? Lying! It's a lie! Liar! Is it? They're going to do that.
Starting point is 01:21:31 And then we know what's going to happen. It was when they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Guess who bails them out? You do. You do. You do. No. My star is going to start pet. My flag is going to have 49 stars. I am seam ripping one of them off. And it might be two. I may go back to the 48 star flag.
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Starting point is 01:22:25 America, as we start a new year, new day, new attitude, we begin in 60 seconds. First, if you're buying or selling a home,
Starting point is 01:23:37 you've discovered how much of a hassle it can be or you're about to. I feel you. I bought and sold quite a few houses as I've been on this radio
Starting point is 01:23:44 train all across the country. Sometimes even knowing where to begin is half the battle. That's why I created Real Estate Agents I Trust.com. My brother and I went into business together on this. It was something we were both frustrated with. And I started working with the 500 best real estate agents in the country, as recognized by the Wall Street Journal. And I got to know them. How do I even begin to interview a real estate agent? How do I vet them? How do I know? Well, there is a system. It really is a reason why some are really good and some are not so good. We found out that system and we vet all these people. Now, none of them work for me, but they're all fans of the show. You're going to have a lot in common with them and they have a great track record. These agents
Starting point is 01:24:33 are your kind of people, hardworking, smart, dedicated to their community. Pretty good chance. There's one in your area. Why not check and see? Just go to real estate agents.I trust.com. You're looking to buy and sell across the street or across the country. Real estate agents. I trust.com. So I talked to Tony Robbins over the holiday. He's an amazing guy, amazing guy. And the reason why I said I couldn't start the new year without thanking you for giving me my son back.
Starting point is 01:25:13 If you were a longtime listener of this program, you know that, you know, all of our kids are struggling. And we have had real gut-wrenching and terrifying moments in my son's growth. And it's nothing, unfortunately, out of the usual. And he went to college. He was, you know, I thought he was on a great path. And all of a sudden he was suicidal and it was horror. and didn't know what to do.
Starting point is 01:25:49 And I called Tony Robbins. And I said, Tony, I don't know what to do. He said, send him to me. And he didn't mean send him to my house personally. He said, just, I'm going to tell you which events your son should go to. And he talked to me about depression. And he said, we have the highest rebound from depression. It's like 93%. Even drugs and counseling, it's like 47% that hold it.
Starting point is 01:26:24 And he said, it's unlike anything. He said, all we're doing is just teaching the correct principles, showing them that their life does have meaning, that they're in control of their own life. They don't have to wait around for somebody else's permission. And they don't have to wait around because they can't do it. it. Yes, you can. And I said, okay, so I went for a weekend with my son, then my wife went for a week at another Tony Robbins event with our son. He is a different man. I sent a broken boy. I got a man back. It is amazing. I said to him, Tony, no way I'm spending money. Another dime on college that is doing everything to dismantle my children where you actually I did my best but I couldn't somehow or another breakthrough on this young man and you did I'm going to send Tony Robbins University and if it's expensive but it is game changing it is
Starting point is 01:27:45 game changing. If your child wants to change, that's the biggest thing. If you don't want to change, you're not going to change. But if my son was just tired of being like that, he's just, dad, I don't know what to do. I can't break the cycle. I don't know. And we tried and tried and tried. And he got to a point to where he didn't want to be that way. And he is totally, Totally, totally different. It's crazy. And like holding it. I mean, I know it's only a bit about, what, four weeks, but still holding it this long.
Starting point is 01:28:29 Like getting up in the morning was a problem for him. I went, I think it was day after Christmas. I said, hey, son, I need, and I know he was up till three o'clock in the morning with his sisters watching movies. And it was like eight o'clock in the morning. And I needed some help. And I said, hey, son, wake up, can you help me with something? He popped, popped out of bed, sat on the edge of his bed and said, sure, Dad, what do you need? And I'm like, who are you?
Starting point is 01:28:57 Who are you? It's incredible. How much of this is, to make a real change, you have to be able to come to that decision yourself, right? Oh, 100%. I mean, you know, you can, he had come to that decision that he didn't want to, continue the life he was doing. He saw there is only dead ends in front of me. You know, remember, we went, we've, we've gone through some dark places with him and we had one psychiatrist say, and I think it was the right thing, but don't, don't do this without consulting
Starting point is 01:29:35 somebody. But we brought him and he said, you need to tell your son you're not afraid of him killing himself. And I'm like, uh, what? You need to tell your son. You're not afraid. You'll be sad. It'll be horrible. But you'll get over it. And probably, I mean, what would happen if that happened? And he took me through it. And I was like, we would probably go on tour and we devote our life to suicide prevention. And he's like, so actually, I mean, it's bad. You'll never get over that. But you'll do good. And I'm like, yeah, and he's like, you need it. You need to let your son know that.
Starting point is 01:30:16 And I'm like, are you, can I see your license? I've never wanted a holographic sticker on those license that you have on the walls. But this time, I think, but he was right. He was right. And when he stopped, when he learned he couldn't get reaction from us anymore, which was helping him somehow or another. just making things worse, but also giving him things to blame. You know, I don't know.
Starting point is 01:30:50 But once that went away, about a year, year, year and a half later, he's like, end of his rope. And we're a very close family. So we talk about everything. You do. We do. And, but he got to the end just, you know, in November. It was like, I can't, I can't do it. So I was out of options.
Starting point is 01:31:15 And I'm telling you, I, you know, I don't, I don't know Tony Robbins, no, you know, I know of him probably like you do. He's a, he's a guy who's motivational speaker and very successful and I think a billionaire and everything else. But I, you know, I've never studied him or anything else. He's a lot like my father. My father taught the same kind of philosophy so I can plug in. to Tony Robbins and go, oh, I know what you're saying, where some people might have a problem with it because they think he's, you know, saying one thing and, you know, he's not a guru. He's teaching you how things work.
Starting point is 01:31:55 The mind mechanically and the body, how they work. And they never change. The mind is the mind. And it works the same with everybody. The mind is an engine. You can put whatever body of car you want on it, but it's still an engine. Okay. And that's what he teaches.
Starting point is 01:32:17 And if you go into it thinking, this is all about me. This is, I've got to find out what the things are that are stopping me. When I heard my son next to me, Tony asked everybody to shout out, you know, your biggest fear. And the thing that really bothers you. And I'm shouting something out. And my son, I hear my son because he says, keep shouting it. Keep shouting it. Keep shouting it. And, you know, I don't think you're supposed to be listening, but it's my son. I wanted to. And he said, I'll never be greater than my father. I was heartbroken.
Starting point is 01:33:06 Heartbroken. I mean, what a compliment, but heartbroken. Because that's absolutely not true. He is going to surpass me. He's going to surpass me. He's going to surpass me. And that's good, right? That's great. What you want as a dad. Yeah. My dad, when I hit, I think 40, my dad came to me and he said, you have surpassed me as a man. He said, I worked my whole life.
Starting point is 01:33:32 And he started bad with his father. And he said, I've worked my whole life. You have now surpassed me. He was in his 70s. And I said, no, dad, I don't. And he said, yes, yes, you have. Yes, you have. And he said, now your job.
Starting point is 01:33:48 is to see if your son can do it even a year before you did. And I think my son's going to do that and then some. But I just, I know people are struggling for answers. And I know this is expensive. But, man, I don't know why you're sending your kids to college. I mean, I think of the fear of college right now. the uncertainty of college right now. What is it?
Starting point is 01:34:22 Did you see Google? You know, oh, hey, you got to learn to write code. Really? Do you? Google just let off 30,000 people this week.
Starting point is 01:34:33 30,000 people. You know why? AI. I have no idea what to take, what the future is going to look like. I only know that the thing that we came here with, and I mean at birth and, all the people, I don't care what color they are, I don't care how they came here or when they came here,
Starting point is 01:34:55 but if they came here for a better life and they wanted to be left alone to pursue their dreams, because some bully was standing in the way back where they lived, they know I need some conditions that are helpful, but the biggest thing I need is me. I need me to be solid. I need to know who I am first. I need to know what my skills are, what I'm not good at, and I need to conquer those things. You know, it's amazing. Tony divides people up into four different categories, water, fire, wood, I can't remember.
Starting point is 01:35:41 And because my son was teaching it to me just recently. but he's saying look, you might be wood right now. You might be fire 20 years ago or 20 years from now. You might be that person, but you should be all four of these elements. You can be more than the others, and that makes sense. But you have to be all of them. And he's right. And if you can give your kid a foundation at 20, 25, I mean, I had a really solid foundation from my father,
Starting point is 01:36:25 but it didn't activate in me until I was 35. I think I gave my son a pretty good upbringing, my wife especially, gave a pretty good upbringing. But we couldn't activate it. and so you as a parent usually go, well, something will happen. They'll remember, you know, when they need it, they'll find it. Well, gosh, yeah, this is a positive way to take action. And it's, you can do it online. This is not a commercial for him, nothing.
Starting point is 01:37:03 I tell you, I wrote to him a couple of days ago to say thank you. you have given me a man you have not taken from him you've activated him you just put all of the correct principles in a way that made him understand and go I want to be that Tony Robbins
Starting point is 01:37:36 you should check it out he can do he does things online too I mean the seminars and stuff go online And it's not just about business. His best ones empower you as an individual. And that is what we need, all of us. We need to realize who we are and how much power we actually have. We have to stop letting other things in our life control us. And I struggle with this.
Starting point is 01:38:06 I told Stu when he came in, I've read 90 stories today, Stu, and none of them good. and I haven't had a pit in my stomach in two weeks. And I was fine when I got up this morning, and I'm sitting here an hour before the show with a giant pit in my stomach thinking, good Lord. But I have to do it. So how do I do?
Starting point is 01:38:30 How do I not let the world control me? That's really the secret, I think. More in just a second. Your home is so long. much more than the place where you live. It's an investment tool, and you can put that tool to use by accessing your equity as cash, which you can use to pay off high interest debt. Right now, the average credit card rate is hovering at about 25%. If you're not paying that debt in full every month, that fee is adding up. It's two steps forward, one step back. You just can't let this
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Starting point is 01:40:16 Do you start your year? Can I tell you, I'm living with Yoda now. My son has become Yoda and it's bisoned me off. My daughter said, so you're going to, your resolution is to lose weight again and get into shape. I mean, that's just rude. I know, I know. Well, we're pretty rude to each other. And I said, yes.
Starting point is 01:40:39 And my son, like Yoda, put his hand on her shoulder and he said, nothing changes if nothing changes. I'm like, sit down, Yoda. Sit down. Go fly around the room, lift up a spacecraft or something. Leave me alone. So is that your actual resolution? Are you thinking this might be the year? I've gotten to the place.
Starting point is 01:41:06 You know that number that you have? And you're like, if I ever hit that, then I'm an absolute cow. I hit that last year. Congratulations. Yeah. Yeah. And I blew. You are hitting your goals.
Starting point is 01:41:15 Oh, I blew past that. Like it was nothing. Like it was nothing. And I just, you know, I was looking at, when you get to the point to where when you're turning over in bed and you're kind of out of breath, you know, you're like, oh, that was a workout. That's a problem. That's a problem. You know. Some would say.
Starting point is 01:41:37 Yeah. Some would say. Yeah. And, you know, I don't want to. In a month, I'm 60. Is that true? Yeah. 60.
Starting point is 01:41:46 Wow. That's crazy. That doesn't feel real. I know. I know. My grandfather died at 67. That was old back then. That was old. Yeah. And it's not old. It's not old now. And I don't want to do that. And I, my, my niece gave me a picture of my grandfather for my desk. And I look just like him. I look just like him. I wait and all. in fact, he might have been a little slimmer, you know. Well, he's working outside a lot. Yeah, he was working outside. Most of it was muscle, you know, sure.
Starting point is 01:42:24 But, yeah, I don't want to end up that way. I was, I had to sell a few friends over the holidays and, and every horrible stereotype of getting older is like every conversation is about health. I know. It's unbelievable. We used to leave, leave the table. Tanya and I used to live, because we dined with her Italian family. So all generations were there. And it was always about, oh, man, I got gas so bad.
Starting point is 01:42:52 I can't. I had to go. I thought I was having a heart attack. And you're like, what? And we used to go and think, I mean, I don't ever want to have it. That's all your conversation is now. Yeah. I feel like it's getting worse too because there are now so many, like, fitness and longevity
Starting point is 01:43:11 influencers that people are into. So, like, you get in these. conversations and everyone's got this like guru that they're watching 900 YouTube videos from that's explaining the nine things you need to do to live to 200 years old or whatever it is. I don't want to live that long. No, no, no. No, no. No, no.
Starting point is 01:43:29 I mean, do you really want to, would you want to live to be 150? I mean, at some point, aren't you like, okay. What else can I do here? I've seen all the shows. I've seen everything. I can't watch friends again. Okay. I mean, it depends how you're living, right?
Starting point is 01:43:49 I guess the idea is, you know, you want to live a healthy life, being able to do these things. 200 seems like a long time. I'll be honest. I don't envy the Bible. Eternity? It might all be hell. The Glenn Beck program. You know, that's what I think hell is.
Starting point is 01:44:06 Just living like this. Just living like this for all eternity. Anyway, remember when you were a kid, you hit the ground running in the morning. you didn't stop until evening. You would come back when the lights would come on. The street lights would come on. You knew if that happens and I'm not home soon, I'm in trouble. I don't have trouble sleeping all the time.
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Starting point is 01:45:16 Subscribe to Blaze TV. Go to blazeTV.com slash Glenn. Use the promo code Glenn Plus and save $30. I want to talk to you about, I mean, I thought I'd bring up the Sam Bankman freed story. One more time. And I... Why? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:46:01 I mean, he already had a trial or something. I don't know. He had a trial. Shouldn't we just forget about everything he did? We should. Let's not look too closely. So I know this came out last week, but I haven't had a chance to vent on this one. And I did vent earlier, but there's more venting to do here. Just reading the story that came out New Year's Eve.
Starting point is 01:46:19 The decision to avoid a second trial charging Sam Bakeman-Fried with conspiracy to make unlawful political donations and bribery has many conservatives up in arms. federal prosecutors said Friday they do not plan to proceed with a second trial against Sam Bank Bankman Freed citing what do you think what do I say what do you think uh cost to the taxpayer ooh really good yeah what do we need no public interest in a speedy resolution to the case oh yeah people yeah people don't want to know the truth they just they want it to be over quickly You know what I've been thinking is, you know, gosh, this trial has been going on and on and on and when is it ever going to end, you know? No, no, I haven't had that thought. No, I don't know anybody who was at that thought, except maybe Sam Bang been freed.
Starting point is 01:47:16 Yeah, or at least the people around Sam Bangford Fried. Yeah, well, his lawyers are like, probably, can we stretch this out a little longer? So the federal court said they do not plan to proceed with a second trial as much of the evidence that would be offered in a second trial. The second trial was already offered in the first trial and can be considered by the court at the defendant's March 2024 sentencing. See, the one part of that was who was he giving his money to? Which campaigns was he apparently bribing? We don't know that part of it. But we know he gave money to politicians.
Starting point is 01:47:56 We know he promised something like a billion dollars. Now, there's not a ton of evidence that he gave that much. money. He did give more than any other person on earth, except George Soros, I believe, in that cycle. Yeah. And we also know that there is a lot of money that was going through various cryptocurrencies, some of which not easily traceable, especially if you happen to own an exchange. And some of that money's not around anymore. We don't know where it went. Don't have any idea. I think that might be important to find out. I don't have any idea whatsoever. But now apparently not the issue. Well, the Justice Department said, given the practice
Starting point is 01:48:31 reality and the strong public interest in a prompt resolution of this matter, the government just proceeds to, just intends on proceeding to sentencing. So, I mean, you know, we don't have to know anymore because, man, I can't wait for that to get over. By the way, in 2023, ICE had 37,000 migrants in detention. Okay. 37,000. Now, they've issued a warrant to appear. Oh, good. That's taken care of.
Starting point is 01:49:08 To six million people. They're not detained. But they have final orders of removal. But it's only six million. And, you know, what do you? I'd like a speedy ending to that one. Yeah, where's the speedy resolution on that one? I'd like that to be.
Starting point is 01:49:26 We're just going to sit here for decade after decade accepting millions of people. Did you hear the woman over the weekend that came across the border? She was issued a court appearing. She has to appear in court by, what was it, 2031? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:49:40 I don't know. I'd like a little speedier work on that one. That's an interesting thought. You know, it seems like they come right after you when you do something wrong. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:49:52 It seems like Donald Trump. Donald Trump, he's got to have what? 172 trials, but Sam Bankman-Fried. Look, he's already had one. That's enough. Ah, okay. Apparently. You know, and what is it, free health care to 700,000 illegals?
Starting point is 01:50:10 Yeah, in California. In California. 700,000 illegals. Imagine if you're in California, maybe you are an independent contractor working your butt off trying to make ends meet. Yeah, yeah. Maybe you don't have health insurance. Right.
Starting point is 01:50:23 Maybe you can't afford it. Maybe you're in one of those little pockets that Obamacare just can't find. And you find, can you imagine finding out that they're giving your tax dollars to illegal immigrants for health care? I mean, I can't even comprehend how angry I would be if that was happening to me. You lie. I don't know why that keeps coming. You keep saying that. I don't know if that jogs a memory of some sort that I don't know what it is.
Starting point is 01:50:54 What was like, I don't even remember the guy's name. I don't either. South Carolina. If you don't know what we're talking about. It was during a state of the union with Barack Obama when he said something to the effect of, they exclaim Obamacare will give free health care to illegal immigrants. That will not happen. Will not happen.
Starting point is 01:51:08 And he said, you lie. And at the time, it was like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe you did that. Oh, my gosh, we're going to spend years calling somebody the next president, Hitler. But how could you say you lie to this glorious man? Right. And it was a big deal at the time. Yeah, kind of. It was a big deal.
Starting point is 01:51:26 Joe Wilson was. Yeah, that's right, Joe Wilson. Representative Joe Wilson. It was, I guess, South Carolina. And remember, of course, it is Barack Obama who's president at this time. The next Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton, had that exact thing in her platform. That's how long it took for him to be proven right. You lie. No, I do not lie. And now Gavin Newsom, the seemingly the next guy up in this long, cavalcade of disasters on the Democratic side is giving it, has done it in a state. 700,000 people. You know, here's right now, California, I'm sorry to California. And I know there's a lot of great Californians that listen to us every day. But you should get out of there. But let me just say this.
Starting point is 01:52:18 California could burn itself to the ground. I would weep for the natural beauty of the state. but far as any of the infrastructure that, you know, was built out there, it's all garbage. It's all garbage. And it's going to burn itself down. Here's what I'm not going to do. Send in tons of money to act as a firefighter for their reckless spending. I'd love to live.
Starting point is 01:52:46 I always wanted to live in California. Always. I loved California. When I was growing up, it was a lot different. It was, you know, Reagan. had just left office. California was kind of a decent place. Now it's a cesspool.
Starting point is 01:53:02 And I've known forever. I can't live there. They'll tax you to death. They'll spend to death. They're destroying the state. I am not sending a penny to California. Not a penny. You get, you, you made your bet.
Starting point is 01:53:19 When did our collection of states become a suicidal Pact. We have states that are committing suicide. Okay. Look, if this was a patient, if California was a human being and you saw their progress to suicide, they came in to you 10 years ago, then five years ago, and you said, hey, you should stop doing those things. They come in and they're in California's condition. Do you even spend any time with them? I mean, I would say, you know, I can't help you unless you want to change, but they're like, no, everything I'm doing is great. Okay, well, go find yourself another doctor, man. That is, that's suicide. That is absolute suicide. And we all know it. We all know it. Why would, why do I have to be involved? And they'll say, well,
Starting point is 01:54:19 that's never going to happen. Really? Like 700,000. people on on obamacare really that's that's that because that wasn't going to happen either eventually you run out of other people's money and when that happens you're not coming for mine i got news for you yes they are they are coming for yours well i hope to be living i hope to be living in a state that says no no nope nope you're not nope you mean a nation state because you may need to go to a different nation state for that? I don't think. I think there comes a time when I don't know what the line is and I hope I never see it.
Starting point is 01:55:02 But there is a line that I think many will know when they see it. I don't know what it is. It's way down on my priority list of ever finding that line. But there is a time when people, when you take, when you've taken everything, that some people are going to stand up and go, no, nope, I'm not going there with you. No, usually that ends in gulags. And say it. How does it really end?
Starting point is 01:55:35 Usually it ends with a bullet to the head at the gulag. Right. Right. Usually. But I didn't take you there. I just took you to the gates of the gulag. Right. That's all.
Starting point is 01:55:44 Yeah, that's it. That's the new optimistic 2024, Glenn. Thank you. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Now, one thing that we did talk about before we went on election, or on vacation, I said, you know, who has Jeffrey Epstein's book? And we revealed that on one of my Wednesday night television shows. Not the person I would put the book into the hands of.
Starting point is 01:56:09 But now, apparently, right before the new year, a judge ruled that this has to be. released. So John Doe 36 is President Bill Clinton. And this is going to come out tomorrow, John Doe 36. Now, he has mentioned more than 50 times. Now, of course, they redacted all of this because, you know, you don't, I mean, you know the name, but you don't want to know exactly what he was doing, right? I mean, he's already been tried for, I want a speedy resolution, Glenn. And that's why I don't want to know any other information. Apparently, they say this will be released, I think, tomorrow. So if it is, we will gleefully cover that. But he's mentioned more than 50 times, apparently because one of the accusers kept coming to him and saying,
Starting point is 01:57:13 come on testify against him you know well 50 times is a little excessive and and if somebody's coming to me 50 times and saying hey come on you know and other people are come on you know you've got to stand up and testify against him at some point i say maybe to jeff hey jeff these people won't leave me alone is there something you're doing to cause this you know what i mean or If I know Jeff is kind of, you know, ha ha ha, ha, let's have some cigars and some four-year-olds, you know, that kind of guy, I might after maybe the tenth time to go,
Starting point is 01:57:57 you know, I'm going to look into that. I'm going to look into that. And I'll get back to you. Again, that's going to add length to this process. And all we want is a speedy resolution. You're right. Why do we want to know the truth? Amen.
Starting point is 01:58:11 That's amazing. So is the accusation that he was involved in this or is it that he is, he just turned the other cheek because he didn't. Don't say that. Not in this. Don't say he didn't, he wasn't willing to open his mouth. No. Don't say any of it. You can't say anything.
Starting point is 01:58:31 No. That's why we need a speedy resolution. Because whatever we say is going to be a problem. And with him, I'm guessing it is. Anyway, let me tell you about rough greens. Jackie wrote in about her dog's experience with rough green. And she says, we ordered the sample bag of rough greens that you were talking about. Our little chihuahua loves it.
Starting point is 01:58:48 Now, I don't think I ever recommended it for a chihuahua. Although I'm giving chihuahuas, the benefit of doubt, they're still kind of dogs. They're not cats. So they're okay. Anyway, she said it used to take forever for her eating her food. Of course, kibble, that's like an apple to a regular dog. Anyway, now she begs for her food every night. She'll scratch on the cupboard until we feed her.
Starting point is 01:59:15 Her energy is up and she runs up and down the stairs easier than she's ever had. She's addicted to it. Wonderful product. Thank you so much. Jackie, thank you for writing in and telling me about your dog. Naturopathic Dr. Dennis Black was the one who came up with the idea of Rough Greens, and it really changes your dog's life. Roughgreens.com slash Beck.
Starting point is 01:59:38 Roughgreens.com slash Beck. Just get the free bag first. I mean, now that's going to last her with a chihuahua. That bag will last her like probably 17 years. But anyway, roughgreens.com slashback. It's first trial bag free. You just pay for shipping. It's roughgreens.com slashback 833, Glenn 33.
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Starting point is 02:00:45 You see that Joe Biden is in his administration is now thinking about suing the state of Texas for shipping minors out of Texas. I'm not minors. I'm sorry. Illegals. Well, minors too, probably. I don't know. We don't check anymore. This is not important.
Starting point is 02:01:14 But I say bring it on. I say bring it on. I thought the word illegal in illegal immigrants had some relevance, but apparently no. No. We had to pass a new. law to make it illegal to be an illegal immigrant? Yeah, so we're shipping them elsewhere. And Chicago, Denver, and New York, they're full up.
Starting point is 02:01:35 They just like, oh, I've eaten too much. And I just, I can't loosen the belt anymore. So they just, I think we've sent 25,000 to New York. Yeah. And they are, it's a point of like collapse. Yeah. Right, right. At least that's what the mayor is saying.
Starting point is 02:01:50 Texas. But we got, what, 300,000 in one month? In one month. In one month. So the entire time, we've sent $25,000 up there, but we're getting $300,000 a month. Well, just this year, we've added the population of, I believe it's Alabama. So we just created just one Alabama in the last year. But Texas's got to take it.
Starting point is 02:02:13 Texas, you sit down and shut up. But no, they're full up. They can't take another. I can't have another bite. That's weird because I heard over and over again it was a human right. Yeah, no, a sanctuary city. Yeah, let him come there. You know, so yeah, I don't know what happened.
Starting point is 02:02:30 I don't know what, uh, tomorrow we're going to show you who's involved, though, uh, Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, the United Nations and, uh, Friends of the Train, you know, I love that one. I wonder if Joe Biden is involved in that NGO, Friends of the Train, because he's a friend of the train. You know, he was riding one time and this old. train conductor who he'd seen there over and over, who never really worked there when Joe was alive. But he told him some great little story and anecdote. And none of it happened, but he's
Starting point is 02:03:07 definitely a friend of the train. So we'll show you tomorrow how planned and coordinated by the left this is. Now, this is something we told you would happen in an episode of my Wednesday night television show in 2018, but here's the evidence of that conspiracy theory tomorrow.

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