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Episode Date: June 1, 2021

Glenn and Stu discuss Texas Democrats walking out over the state’s newly proposed voting bill. Why are we still buying food and medical supplies from China? People are going to the movies again, and Stu gives his review of “A Quiet Place Part II.” Prepare to pay $5 for a gallon of gas. Inflation is affecting everything from lumber to beef, and President Biden is actively making it worse. Glenn takes calls from farmers who have been affected. Cattle buyer Steve Stratford explains what’s going on with the beef industry and how the four top meat-packers in America are involved. A BLM chapter founder stepped down after discovering what the organization actually stands for. Spain’s postal service introduces "equality stamps." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Pretty well, Glenn. Pretty well. You know, it's a, had a good weekend. We should at some point talk about I saw a quiet place part two this weekend. Ooh, is it good? Just came out. Yeah, it's very good. I thought it was very good. But it definitely felt like the first like return to the theater for reals this time, you know? Yeah. Well, I was going to go and, you know, do some.

some Memorial Day stuff, but I just enjoyed the long weekend instead. All right, the national radio program begins here in just a minute. Hello, hello, you sick, twisted freak. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We are live from the Standing Rock Ranch, but my heart is never far from Texas. What has happened in Texas is absolutely remarkable. And the New York Times is reporting it as if, you know, look, This is probably why we need the filibuster to go away.

Because look at what Republicans are doing. Yeah, let's look at the Republicans. And then let's look at the Democrats, all in the name of democracy. We have that coming up in 60 seconds. Brian lives in Alabama. He writes in about his experience with Relief Factory. He says after taking Relief Factor for three weeks, at least 90% of my pain is gone.

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we had an interesting tale to tell here in Texas. You know, in Texas, I think we run things better because the politicians are never in session, which is the way the United States used to be. We used to meet, I think it was once every year in the summer or once every other year, and they put it in Washington because they knew nobody would want to go to that swamp, mosquito-infested nightmare of a town. and unfortunately the the politicians and everybody I guess decided to make that a permanent thing but it used to be that they would only come in that's the best scenario for a republic because it allows people to have control of their own lives the house and the senate in

Texas they don't rule our lives because they're never there so they ended their session in an interesting way. Wouldn't you say, Stu? I would say, and it's apparently as the, I believe it was the New York Times in a news story, by the way, wrote and summarized, these are the Republican efforts to clamp down on voting. Oh, man. Thank goodness we have that happening. It's very, as you can see, anti-democracy, Glenn. Republicans don't want people to vote. They're looking for a select, you know, group of six or seven people who will vote each year. Right. They're kind of clamped down. I'm on that list. I don't know about you, but I'm on that list. And what I say goes. Right. All white men. And there's about six of us, maybe seven.

Eight, if you count our Zionist master over in Israel. Of course. So this is the big, the new Georgia law controversy is now Texas. because as each state has gone through it, the national media has tried to come together to tell everyone how terrible these things are. And now the latest one is in Texas. Texas took a while to get it done, came down to the end of the session, which was needed to be Sunday night.

Long story short, what the Democrats decided to do because, you know, they love democracy so much, Glenn. And the respect of... Democracy. The intent of the voters must be respected. Yes. Of course, as you know.

Amen. So what they decided to do with these elected officials that were put in by voters, they decided instead of letting them, I don't know, accomplish their jobs and actually do their jobs and get the bill that the Republican voters all supported, I get that through. They decided to walk out and make it impossible to come up with. the quorum, basically a procedural measure. Oh. So the vote couldn't go through.

So all in the name of democracy. Of democracy, yes. So they stop the democratic process. Now, as you know, or a Republican process, if you will, not a Republican with a capital R, but a Republican with a small R. Right.

They stop the Republican process. which part of that is democracy of, you know, all of them lining up and voting. They stopped that all in the name of that. Yeah, really interesting, especially after being lectured for the past couple of weeks of the terror of January 6th and the insurrection attempt that we saw on that date, Glenn. The reason was that it was so offensive was not just the violence and the rioting. It was because they stopped the democratic process from going forward. That was such a terrible tragedy just a couple weeks ago.

now it's to be praised that Democrats walked out of the session so they couldn't get the vote done. Now, long term, they will have a special session and they will get the voting rights act done here in Texas. But what's fascinating about this, Glenn, is not only that they're stopping democracy to preserve democracy, as it were, to paraphrase an old George Bush line on capitalism. I got to violate the free market to save this. free market. Exactly. It doesn't really work, George. So that's what they're doing here. But in addition to this, you know, it's a typical bill that you've seen from Republicans this cycle, which is basically, hey, we think maybe you should be able to prove who you are before you vote. Things like the overwhelming, one of the most popular items in our national discourse, which is voter ID, things that are,

This is approved by 70 and 80% of minority voters, 70 and 80% of Democratic voters approve of voter ID. But it's tossed out there as if it's the most offensive thing you've ever heard in your life. So it's mostly stuff like that. The one, just like in Georgia where they latched on to, you can't have water when you're in the lives. There's no water. People only go to the vote to get water.

And now you're taking away the water. Because water is the reason why people get in line to vote every, every November water. And really it's, it's so hot. It's so hot in the summer in November. In November. That November heat wave in the summer. Ooh, it's so hot.

People are dropping dead of the lines in November from heat. Because they don't have any water. We have to bring them water. That's what they did in Georgia. So they didn't attempt that thing in Texas. What they're doing in Texas is the brisket. There's no brisket. Where's the brisket?

I need brisket. I can't go on. First I voted in Georgia and I didn't get any water. Now what? No brisket? So what they're trying to do in Texas is they're highlighting this one part of the law that was also part of the original take on the Georgia law. Basically, it says, yes, you can vote early. Yes, you can vote early on weekends.

Yes, you can vote. early on Sundays, but you can't vote Sunday morning early. You can't vote until I think it's 1 p.m. on Sunday. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Now, whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Now, my gosh. Look at the oppression. Right. That's what they're saying. Now, why are they saying that? I mean, the Republicans are saying, look, you know, we want to be able to protect people who work at the polls and have their ability to still go to church. So we don't want people forced to avoid church to have to go work at the polls because they have to open the polls early. Just so you know, Texas is the closest to a blue law state that I've ever seen.

And it's all by choice. People do go to church. I know it's weird, Democrats, but people do go to church, you know, when you're not putting their pastors in jail in Texas. And very few stores are open on Sunday. A lot of people take, you know, the same. Sabbath actually as an important thing. It's not against the law for them.

I mean, there's some places do close. There's a lot of places open to, but those, they're not as heavily trafficked as you might think because people are actually at church. You know, it's a highly, it's a high population religious voting base and citizenship. So, so, but the Democrats are saying, well, the only reason they're doing this is because they're trying to limit the souls for the polls glad souls for the polls souls hang on just a second my friend uh hey uh sarah do we have the gospel music here as we talk about the souls for the polls uh that is fantastic so are they are they actually being honest this time

souls for the polls that's uh dead people voting no no i should say you're right souls to the polls. So I guess it's not... Souls. We don't want our voter registry. We want dead people. It's their claim is basically... This is a big...

I mean, they took the mask off already. I thought maybe they're just also like, yep, we're just whipping up names of dead people. It's the souls for the polls. Would not be surprised, honestly, at this point on this one. No, I wouldn't either. So Souls to the Polls is a program that runs, you know, largely in black churches, which is an idea that after church, everyone gets together and they all go to the polls to vote early, I guess. Now, I don't know what time church runs.

You know, I, you know, my, it runs various times. Usually there's multiple services in Texas. I've noticed. Yeah. I mean, a lot of churches have showtimes. Yeah. You know, like, like all in the movie theater. Yeah, three or four services per day, right?

Because there's so many people that actually go to church here. but the idea being that like what they're accusing Republicans of is altering the time schedule so that no one can vote before 1 p.m. because they think they're trying to limit the amount of people who will go from church directly to the polls. Now in theory, if you let's, I don't know, what time is your church end? 11 or 12. So you'd have to wait an hour.

Of course, the whole point of this is to make the poll workers who are also going to church, giving them time to get to the polls to open. But what they're saying is they're just trying to limit black people because they apparently, and again, this is racism. Again, racism in action here by Democrats who are basically trying to make the case that black people care so little about government and society that if given an opportunity to vote but they need to wait an hour, will not vote because they care so little about this country. They care so little about the state that they will not wait for an hour.

after church to go vote because they actually care about the poll workers also being able to go to church. These religious people want to thwart the poll workers' ability to go to church so that they can go immediately after. Apparently is the accusation here. And they're trying to say this is the only reason they're doing this

is to limit black voting and therefore this is anti-democracy which is why we can walk out on the democratic process at the last minute. Okay. Oh my head hurts from trying to do the gymnastics on this one. weren't the Democrats the ones that were trying to shut down all of the churches?

Thank you. Wasn't it that, I mean, isn't it the Democrats that are the Marxists that are not really for church, you know, or God? Here is a group of people, Glenn, that have spent the last year telling you you're not allowed to go to church at all. You are going to be fined. your pastor is going to be arrested if you try to go to a worship service, but they're the ones telling you that democracy is at its edge if black churches aren't allowed to cart their voters directly to the polls from church. Again, in addition to all of this, we spent the last how long with the Democrats telling us

it's against the law for any pastor to say anything possible. about a Republican policy from the pulpit because it's a violation of the separation of church and state and they're going to get their tax exemption status removed. But yet, Souls for the Polls is so vital to democracy that apparently now you're allowed to go to church just so you can get to the polls. It's insanity. I love this. Souls for the polls. I mean, it just couldn't be any more clear. You're saying to me, you're going to lose your tax status if you intermingle at all, church and the polls. You're going to lose your tax status, you know, with an exception of Souls for the Poles and Alaska and Hawaii. What is that?

This is a scream. If it wasn't so tragic, if it wasn't our country burning down, it would be hysterical. Yeah. I mean, if I were in Canada, no, no, because everybody's going to be ruled by the Chinese soon. So I wouldn't be laughing if I was in another country. If I were in China, I'd be laughing. Oh, hang on. Shh, shh, shh, shh, I can hear them laughing right now.

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I mean, they will take anybody, anybody, because everybody is just kicking back on the Biden train. And it is really frightening when you think about it. When you look at what's happening to us, we have already, I mean, I got news. have you ever tried to hire some white people to do work? Not going to happen. White people don't do work? I didn't, I was not familiar with this theory. No.

No. Well, I should say white teenagers and stuff. They're not going to happen. Really? No. Well, you are, you do have a teenage son. This could be coloring your analysis a little bit. And I'm, I'm sitting here with, uh,

five teenage boys this week. And all the stories I will have to tell as I put them to work this week, we'll see. And I have a feeling my son will be the laziest of all of them. Now, he could be wrong. But if he's anything like his grandfather, he will be, you know, my grandfather, he was the chief steward at Boeing. And he was the union steward. which, yes, I came from a Democratic family and union members when they weren't so bad. And he would go, he was a good storyteller.

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And I don't know what you did this weekend, but, I traveled with five teenage boys across the country. My cars are up for sale right now. I'm not sure you'll ever get the smell out. I just thought I'd throw that in. last night we sat around with a veteran friend of mine and I said can you tell them about some of the friends you've lost and some of the fights you were in and it was the only time that I saw the boys completely silent and he went on for about an hour and told some amazing stories my

my deep gratitude and deepest thanks to all those who fought for the freedom. So we can be stupid and piss it away. But thank you so much for everything that you have sacrificed and all of your friends that you have lost. I am deeply grateful, as is my family. What did you do this weekend, Stu? one of the notable things I did was to go see a quiet place part two which that's what they fought for that's what that's what they fought for uh I took Kamala's they actually did and enjoy the long weekend as Kamala recommended and uh did go see a quiet place part two which was really I thought it was really interesting to to to do because I had been to the movies a few times I went actually in May 2020 At one point, Pat Gray and I.

I remember that. Yeah, we went to a movie. It was a really terrible Vin Diesel movie. And we were the only two people, not only in the theater, but in the entire theater complex. I don't know if you're saying, we went to a really bad Vin Diesel movie narrows it down, Annie. No, it doesn't. It doesn't. And also, people don't know if the reason the theater was empty was because of Vin Diesel or the pandemic.

Who knows? Right. But so it was interesting to see a quiet place part too because I've been looking forward to this for a while. I really liked the first one. And so on March 8th, 2020, John Krasinski, who, you know, Jim from the office, he's been great on a bunch of different projects. But he was- I never saw this, never thought of his directing talent there when he was working at a paper company. I know.

He's grown into it. He got his life together. A lot of time at the gym, apparently. And he's been thinking about how to direct- movies. So on that weekend, he is at a red carpet event for A Quiet Place Part 2 that is about to be released in a couple of weeks. That weekend, there's $100 million done at the box office. The next weekend, it drops down to $53 million. And then March 20th that weekend, which is the weekend, A Quiet Place Part 2 is supposed to come out. It goes from $53 million and drops down

slightly to $4,160 nationwide. Jeez. What they round to a 100% drop in revenues. So in that period where on March 8th,

he is maskless, no social distancing, doing a red carpet event for this movie that's coming out in less than two weeks to the movie being delayed for what they think is going to be a short time

and what turns into what 15 months or whatever it was. So this movie's been sitting here ready to go for 50. 15 months and they finally released it this weekend. And to me, it felt like the first real, like, we're actually back at theaters type of event.

Why do you say that? Why do you say that? Well, they've tried a couple times to restart this, right? The first one was Tenet back in the summer last year, which flopped miserably. It was also a, I also went to see in the movie theater and it was terrible. And then they sort of have done it a couple times here with these sploply. it releases like Godzilla versus Kong came out and made like almost $30 million in theaters a couple of months ago. Bob Odenkirk had a movie that came out called Enough. That's, you know, it wasn't a major.

Which was really good. I liked it a lot. I thought it was great. It wasn't a tent pole type of movie, right? Quiet Place is the first one. I feel like they, it's only in theaters. They really went for it. This is the old school. And it did over, I think over $50 million this weekend, which is way, way above expectations. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Now, if it was released in March of 2020 with no pandemic, it probably would have done $100 million in the weekend. So it's not fully back. But it was, you know, the theaters were crowded. Like they, you know, I went to book a normal time movie with my wife one night this weekend.

And it was like crowded enough that, you know, it was hard to find a good seat in the theaters. Like wasn't completely sold out at the theaters we looked at, but it was mostly sold out. even the matinee I went up going to was pretty crowded for a matinee. You know, it felt like, hey, you know, this is, it's coming back around. And it's funny because the story of the movie kind of parallels the mainstream media telling

of the pandemic, which is like, what, if you listen to the media, like, we're open one day, then no one is allowed to go do anything. And if you have an in-person conversation, everyone there dies. That's the story of the pandemic to the media. And it's also the story of the movie.

Yeah. The parallels of the movie into this were actually, like, pretty amazing. I feel like Fauci, though, was trying to sell us these big monsters. And at the beginning, I bought into it. You know, just a few months in, I'm like, no, dude, that's the quiet place. That's not happening here. That's just not happening here. Well, and it's the toughest kind of movie to make.

and it again runs parallel to the pandemic. Like the first movie you spend the entire time figuring out like what the hell is going on, right? There's something's going on. Something bad is happening. I don't know what it is. What are these things look like? What is going to happen? I don't understand how any of this occurred.

When you make the sequel to the movie, it's a lot harder to make that movie because you know what the creatures look like. You understand all the rules of this, you know, a horror movie scenario. And so to keep people interested in it, it's a lot of. lot harder to make the movie. This is why like every like Jason or Friday the 13th movie, they just up the death count in the sequels because they're like, I don't know what else to do. What if we just kill more people? I don't know. I don't know. Make them bloodier. I mean, how many 17 year olds are going to have sex at a camp? How many can we kill? Let's just kill as many

as we can. Where this is like, they did a really good job pulling it off. It's up that part of it's opposite though. Like you get to a point where once you learn the rules, once you have a situation where you have, let's say, a vaccine available to every single person who wants to take it above the age of 12, right? You, the fear can't be there anymore, right? Like, and it feels like people, certainly in Texas, but I think this is even starting to permeate a lot of the blue states, people are ready. This is, it felt to me like the first time, you know, that it was like we were able to go back to normal a little bit. Like, you know, even in, even in a movie theater, Glenn, no mask. I mean, 90% of people not wearing masks going into a movie theater.

Now, that's a different. It's weird. It really depends on where you are. Yeah. You know, I was, you know, I crossed the country this weekend, and I was in, you know, small towns all the way. And I really didn't see any mask use. But you go to Los Angeles.

You go to New York, and people are wearing 14 masks on their face. And for no reason. It has just been drilled into their head. And it's really quite sad. Yeah, I was talking to someone who, my friend of mine who lives in Pennsylvania this weekend. And he was telling me, he's like, you know, like the CDC thing guidance changed. And, you know, all the stores now say like masks are optional, but only, you know, 30% maybe 40% of people are not wearing masks. And he's like, I'm going in there every time without a mask on now.

And like, what I think people lose here is that that's just cultural. right? That's not a scientific judgment. In fact, you would argue these states have higher vaccination rates than even a state like Texas does. It's like it's just a cultural thing at this point. And people get very frustrated about these restrictions and rightly so. And we've talked a lot about how they're wrong and not following the science and all these things. And that's all totally legitimate. I think at the end of the day when the history is written about this pandemic, the fact that Texas opened up a couple of months earlier than, you know, Pennsylvania, which opened up a couple of months earlier than California is not going to be the headline, right? Like, it's, it's not the top of the story here. If you're in one of these states, it feels like an eternity. But like, I think, you know, we are getting, we're at the point now where if you look back a couple months ago, it wasn't 30 or 40 percent in a blue state that were unmasked. It was 0% or 5%. Now, it's 30 or 40%. In a month from now, it'll be 50 or 60 and then it'll be 80 and then it'll be 100. And we are going in the right direction.

Texas feels with the only exception to this, I would say at this point, is some places still have their employees wearing masks. Other than that, I would say we feel a feels 100% back to normal here in Texas. And that might be, you might be pissed off if you're in a blue state hearing that. Like, how can that be happening? We do live in two Americas right now. But this is coming to you. It's just you have a, the people around you voted for a terrible governor and it's going to take a while. You're going to have to pay for that vote for a couple of months while they unroll these things, even when the science clearly says it's time to change those policies. But, you know, it is coming. We are on the right side of this, I think.

And it was kind of encouraging to see people back in a freaking movie theater again. You know, $50 million dollar movies soon will be at $100 million again. And maybe we'll have, you know, these. regular life back for all of us, which I, you know, as much as I can sit here and I like to make the point about red states and blue states, it will be nice to have, I don't know, there's a lot of good people in blue states that have been beat up by all these policies. It'll be nice to see them free. Yeah, I know.

Yeah. I will tell you that we were, we were driving up. I had a very different weekend than, then I think you did. Although I was sitting in front of a bunch of teenage boys that I had to say, could you just shut up for a few minutes. But we were driving through the mountain as we were coming into the canyon here for the ranch. I saw an animal I never, ever want to see again. It was a cougar.

And it was about 2 o'clock in the morning. Was it Madonna? And we're driving. What? Madonna, no. Yeah, you know what? I think that's more frightening than the actual cougar that we saw. But he was standing across the road.

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But you've got to be careful because you're going to get infected. Watch Golden State Gulag tomorrow night, 9 p.m. Eastern on Blaze TV. This is the Glenn Beck program. Some of your grocery supplies and your gasoline could be absolutely unaffordable very soon. If you're somebody who preps or stocks up on food, if you haven't already stocked up on beef in particular, you might want to do that. for the first time in history, beef by the pound on the, on the hoof, if you will, was less expensive than pork. Hmm.

Why is that? The farmers, I want you to know ranchers and farmers, we're going to be doing a special on this in the next couple of weeks because something is very wrong. And we're going to delve into a little bit of this. this coming up in just a few minutes, but something is very wrong with the four companies that do all of the lumber distribution, and something is wrong with the meat processors, the four companies that are doing all of our meat processing. I think it is, I think it's a monopoly that needs to be broken up, quite honestly.

There are only four of these companies, and they all seem to be moving in exactly the same direction. Two of them are foreign-owned. One is owned by Brazil. The other is owned by China. Can we stop selling our medicine and our food to China? Could we maybe learn from a lesson and don't have, not be dependent on foreign countries for our food or for our medicine? But beef is going to go through the roof soon. Friday, beef was selling for less than pork. It's never happened before in history. And yet it costs more money to feed a cow and raise a cow than it has in a very long time. So the farmers, they're not getting rich. The granaries, they're not making the money. Who's making the money here? Who's getting like two.

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Tomorrow night, 9 p.m. Eastern. Lee's TV. Could I play cut six, Biden, democracy is in peril. Listen to this. The lives of billions from antiquity to our own hour have been shaped by the battle between aspirations of the many and the greed of the few between people's right to self-determination and the self-seeking of the dictator, between dreams of democracy and appetites for autocracy, which we are seeing around the world. Our troops have fought this battle on fields around the world, but also the battle of our time. And the mission falls to each of us, each and every day. Democracy itself is in peril, here at home and around the world. What we do now, what we do now, how we honor

the memory of the fallen, will determine whether or not democracy. democracy will long endure. So those are great words. They really are, but I'm having a hard time squaring them with reality. I'm trying to square them with, so let me be honest with you. Let me let me. Did you see the, do we happen to have the video of Joe Biden when he was talking about the very young girl? He's at a speech.

And I'm not going to go into the creepiness of the very young girl thing. I just want you to listen to him. Here it is. I'm honored to be joined today by Governor Northam and by two great representatives of Commonwealth, Congressman Lurie and Congressman Scott. Listen to him. And I want to thank you for all that you do

to represent these service veterans because they're devoted to you. The family members, the caregivers, survivors, will call Virginia home. I'm especially honored to share the stage with Brittany and Jordan and Nathan and Margaret Catherine. I love those barrettes in her hair, man. I tell you what.

I'm looking at her. She looks like she's 19 years old sitting there like a little lady in the way he's caught. Brittany, you're doing triple duty. Okay. We don't have to overlook the creepiness, do we? I mean, completely? Yeah, no, I mean, you go ahead.

That's not my point, but I think it should be made. So go ahead, Stu. it was really creepy. You all heard it and you know it was creepy. I mean, I understand that there's a grandfatherly thing he's going for there, but he is, they should tell him not to try doing it again because it does not work. It is really super creepy. However, did you notice how he is just, I don't know, one thing.

Brittany, I love those breads on Brittany. And he just sounds like he's really. really tired like I've got to get a nap in pretty soon. I'm not sure that he even knows. I think he has surrounded himself by radicals. And I don't know if he's even getting the truth on what is happening with his policies. Because how are these radicals writing these speeches for him? These speeches don't reflect the policies of him for them.

the most part. That, you know, democracy is in peril because of the, the want of a dictatorship. Yeah, who's calling for a dictatorship? Who is building the framework of a dictatorship? Who's the one that's trying to change all of our systems so it's easy to stay in power? Who is the one that is demonizing half of the country? It is, it's, it's, it's, It's frightening. And I saw a poll the other day that Democrats, and I don't mean the ones in Washington, I mean the average Democrat that you know that lives next door to you, that is normal, that they're starting to be concerned about some of these things that are happening.

They're starting to look at the wokeness and say, this is going too far. And, you know, it looks like we're starting to, you know, edge into Marxism. Well, welcome to the party Democrats. I hope you, I hope you wake up a little faster because democracy is in peril. And I don't understand the policies. You know, we are looking at probably two million new dreamers coming in over the border. two million in this year at the time when Americans are not working now these people will work I don't know about you but I see I see you know in new immigrants assuming they're legal or illegal but I see new immigrants and they are working hard they they know what the American dream is so is that it is is it is are we just living off of this

New labor and then Americans are not supposed to go to work? Because everywhere, everywhere, it is happening where Americans just aren't going to work. I got a friend who wrote to me, he said, Glenn, my neighborhood Facebook page is now a constant stream of job openings for low-wage positions. People are complaining because Mercury Coffee just shut down here until they can find people. Jimmy Johns is now shut down. Not because of COVID, but because they can't find anybody to work it. The local pizza place can't find anyone. I just placed an order at McDonald's and drove up to pick it up.

The manager told me she can't do curbside because they don't have enough people even to keep the drive-thru running. There were dozens of cars waiting in like 70s gas lines for the drive-thru at McDonald's. What's happening to us? well we're we're so many are not willing to go back to work and this is going to mean really bad things now i want to talk to you about the price of gas and the price of everything that is going up then not all of it is because people won't go to work some of it is if we include all food and energy costs into our cpi which we don't because we don't

because the government says, oh, those numbers are too volatile. Oh, they just go up and down. And we don't want to include those in the consumer product index. I mean, consumer price index. I mean, because they'll go up. If you include them like we used to, we'd be closer to 20% annualized rate of inflation. 20%. John Williams, that's shadow stats, pegged in 1980s era C-Port.

at 12% in April compared to the 4% that the government tells us it is. But even he noted that his inflation index doesn't include all food costs, for instance, dining out. Now, I'm not dining out all the time, but I'm using Uber Eats more than I ever have before. If gasoline moves up to $5 a gallon, even his index will be higher, closer to, 18%.

We also have another problem. And I would love to hear from anybody who is a rancher or somebody who sells lumber on their land or a logger, because something is very, very wrong. We have a growing issue in both the lumber and meat packing industry. Now, on Friday, and this is why I question the president. We have lumber up at over 800% increase. The price over 800% in an increase.

We also have a housing shortage now. People are trying to buy houses, but they're buying houses at a rate, or I should say at a price that we have never seen before in human history. When you look at the K-Shiller Index, never has America paid this much for a house. It's almost double what it was in 2007 right before the big collapse where everybody lost their houses. One of the reasons is because the houses are about 30% more expensive to build right now because of a shortage of lumber.

Now, you're president of the United States. What do you do? If you believe in the United States, if you're trying to help out the consumer, do you do things to make lumber less expensive or more expensive? On Friday, President Biden put a new tariff on lumber. So now we have any lumber that is coming from Canada has a new tariff. on it. Well, that's not helpful. That will make the price of lumber even more expensive. Now, there are four companies, four companies that run the lumber mills. There are also four

companies that are the largest meat packers. They control over 90% of all of the product in America. So if you're looking to buy meat, you're most likely going to get it from these four. processing plants. 90%. You're looking for lumber. You're going to get them from these four different lumber companies. There is something you could make a case for collusion. And there are some senators now, including Democratic senators,

who are now looking at the price of beef and what is going on and the price of lumber. And they're asking questions. and what they're doing is they're asking the Justice Department to look into it to see if there's any collusion. Do you trust the Justice Department? Consumer prices are up more than 100% in each industry. But what's driving the shortages is more collusion between major companies, keeping the supply short rather than skyrocketing demand or shortage of production. In both cases, lumber and beef, Fortune 100 companies who control the industry are making huge profits right now.

Gigantic profits. But the producers and the consumers are getting screwed. The guy with a chainsaw out in the forest, he's not making more money. the guy who has purchased this land and is now trying to thin some of the forest by taking some of the lumber, he's not getting rich. If you have a herd of cattle and you are trying to sell them at market, you've just paid the highest price you may have paid in a very long time for grain. You have to raise the price of your cow because you're just paid. You've paid. It cost you so much money.

If you're lucky, you're making about eight cents a pound. That's barely enough to keep the lights on. If you're lucky, as of Friday, you weren't making anything. You were lucky to break even. Most are losing money. So we have plenty of beef. we have plenty of cattle. Where's the breakdown?

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It is not the fault of the producers. We know now that the producers are paying more for grain. they are the cheapest logs we've had in a very long time. So what's happening? Because the guys who are actually producing, they're not getting any more money. In fact, they're getting less. So where is it coming from?

Well, the meat producers are blaming it on the truckers. The truckers would not be, could not be responsible for a, 100% increase. Yes, we have shortages of people who want to work, but the truckers are being paid more than they were, but not enough to make our beef this expensive. It's at the producers level, the people who actually take the beef,

process it, and then get it to the stores. They are making profits that are, record profits and because there's only four of them two of which are foreign owned when are we going to learn that lesson because there's only four of them I believe it's a wink and a nod I believe I can't prove it but there needs to be an investigation but it's going to be the Justice Department they I believe are looking at profits and saying why would we work harder when we're making more money than we ever have.

We're putting out less product and we're making more money. Why would we want this to change? I don't think these companies are in it for Americans. I don't think these companies are actually doing the right thing. They're doing the right thing for the shareholders, perhaps, for the CEOs, perhaps. They're not doing the right thing for the American people. And somebody in government needs to have a hearing and call them to task. Has there anybody clean enough in Washington, D.C. to do it.

Because the price of your house and the price of the food that you put on that kitchen table are going to skyrocket if this doesn't stop soon. You're also going to put all of the farmers out of business. you're not going to have anybody that can afford to raise cattle for meat. Oh, but don't worry. Two of those companies are foreign, but the other two, they're the ones making things like the Impossible Burger. Oh, they're so green. Oh, I wonder if they get some help on that as well.

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And this is the guy who gives the updates. His name is Jim Mundorf. I want you to listen to what he says about the prices of of beef in the grocery store and on the farm. If you imagine yourself as a beef packer and you are butchering two head of cattle every day and on those two head you're making $200 per head so you're making $400 a day

and you're making a good living and a good profit and all of a sudden something happens and now you're only able to make one you're only able to butcher one head of cattle a day. And on that one head because there's less supply of beef you're able to increase your price and all of a sudden you're making a thousand dollars a day and so your income has jumped

two head a four hundred one head a thousand and now you've got less payroll less facilities needed less logistical issues just less everything and you're making more money are you going to be in a hurry to go back to go back and work harder for $400 a day or are you going to want to sit on your $1,000 a day and just rake it in as rake it in and just butcher that one. You're going to want to sit on $1,000 a day. But in a competitive marketplace, what you would have is somebody else would say they would want that market share. They would want that shelf space and they would come in and they would butcher two, four, six, eight, whatever it took because you're in a competitive marketplace.

But in this scenario, there's only four of you. There's you and three other beef packers and you're just kind of look at each other while you're making your thousand dollars a day and thinking why would we ever go back? Why would we ever increase production again when we can sit back and make this make more money than we ever dreamed of? And so that's where we're at. And what they're doing is illegal. And they always have to have an excuse right now. Their excuse is a labor shortage. Last year it was COVID, of course. And then the year before that there was a little fire that broke out in one of the beef, one beef packing plant in Kansas and it's just always another excuse and every time the profit margins

just get more, they just stretch those profit margins out more and more. This is something that I never knew and never followed and most people don't because we're too far away from the land. But what he was just saying is exactly what all of the ranchers around me say every single time. It's always something. We now have four companies that produce about 90% of all the beef in America. Tyson Foods, JBS, Cargill, and Smithfield Foods. They're the ones that are controlling the market and the market price. We have got to start getting away from these big companies on almost everything.

The one thing that people have right on the left, if you will, the idea that we should think globally, but act locally. We have given all of the power over our food, over our medicine, everything. Out of our states, many times out of our country. We have got to find these small meat packing plants again and encourage them and start buying from them because this is out of control. Ben in Ohio. Hello, Ben.

Yes, sir. Good morning. How's things in Texas? Really good. Yeah. Well, hey, you were talking about, you know, the inflationary rate on food pricing going up. Our family here in our village, we own and operate a small meat processing facility. We do everything but slaughtering. And we raise all of our products here locally on our farm right outside of town. And, boy, I tell you what, since, and I don't mean to sound cliche, but since January 20th, protein prices have drastically increased. And, you know, we saw that last year, Glenn, you know, we saw that last year due to COVID, you know.

And we saw a huge, huge, huge, huge price increase. And we also saw huge price decreases immediately after that. and now we're seeing that again. And like you said, we're seeing these excuses being played out of less labor, which obviously we know there is less labor out there. But you are correct. Correct. There are four companies that control the price here in the United States.

And I think it's almost like the mafia. If they're not buying, if they're not doing it, I mean, they control the price of what the animals cost at the market. And they're making all of this money on the end where the farmers and the ranchers and the people who grown the grain, they're not getting rich. No, well, they're the ones that not only are they doing the processing to the final consumer, they're also owning the product as well. And they're not, you know, they're not the small family farms that raise the hundreds. to a thousand, 10,000 cattle, had a beef a year. You know, it's not them that are doing.

It's not the family that are doing. It's the corporate, and they just work for the man, so to speak. So our family business here, we're in a niche business where we operate and sell directly to, you know, from farm to table, if you want to call it that. I know that's a real hot, hot buzz point right now or hot word to say. But, you know, you're talking about the companies. Not only do they control the price, they control all the regulations as well. Much more difficult for the small family farms to be successful. And I call it the Walmartization of our food.

And that's unfair to say to a retailer like Walmart, but they want you to go and buy in these small, they don't want you to buy from us small. I want you to go into the large retailers like the Kroger's. Around here, we have, you know, Meyer stores, well to you or whole foods or Costco's and they trick you into thinking that those places are actually less when you're actually paying more the same or more but they have you know maybe one of two items that also that in a smaller

retailer but everything else is the same or greater Ben thank you so much for your phone call we need to find our own processors locally and farm to farm to table let's go to Mike in West Virginia hello Mike I'm mr. Beck how are you there Mike good sir how are you I'm good I can't good morning to you and Sue I might have a little bit different perspective on this I work for a company that manufacturers animal feed trailers I sell these trailers to everyone that's just been mentioned on the air within the last five minutes I was telling your call screener, the name of my company who I deal with. And what I'm being told out there, Glenn,

is that the three main ingredients to animal feed is corn, soy, and diesel fuel. Now, obviously, you don't put diesel fuel in it, but you've got to have it to move product from point A to point B. And I've got people out there telling me not only at the big producers, such as the ones you mentioned, Smithfield, Tyson, but also at your smaller feed mills. There are hundreds of small feed mills in the hills of Pennsylvania, Ohio, so forth and so on. And they're telling me that by this time next year, soy could be double, corn could be doubled, and diesel could be $450 a gallon. And that's not unrealistic.

And when that happens... I don't think it's on... Hang on just a sec, Mike. I don't think that's unrealistic at all. And I agree with you on the three ingredients. for cattle. What I'm saying is that the average rancher brings his cow who he's had to pay more for diesel fuel. He has had to pay more for his feed. He's not getting that back. He's breaking even at best. And so all the profit margins are coming from or going to the meat processors. They're

not going to everybody else. They're certainly not going to the rancher. No, you're absolutely correct. And the bottom line in all this, Glenn, is that, and we don't quite understand, and maybe you do, but the bottom motivator in all of this is energy prices. When it costs more money to move raw material from point A to point B, then it's just going to be, you know, common sense to realize that it's going to cost more money to move the end product from point A to point B.

Everything that is moved in the animal feed industry or the animal production industry is done with diesel fuel, whether it be trains, semi-trailers, what have you. And when all of that, and they don't buy it like you and I buy it, Glenn. I mean, they buy it by the tanker load. And so when they're, you know, when they're at $1.85 a gallon, which they were a year ago right now, and now they're almost double that. The one that pays for this, and we can all thank Uncle Joey for this, the one that pays for this is you and me and everybody else that wants to sit down and have a good meal. And it's not just beef. That's where people, all those ingredients I gave you.

I know. Turkey feed, that's turkey feed, that's chicken feed, that's cow feed. In fact, cow feed has got a little bit less of that. I'm talking from the dairy side of it than some of the other. Some of the dairy feeds get molasses put in it and more sweeteners, you know, because that's more appealing to that animal. But corn, soy, and what the other people don't realize, Glennon, maybe you do is when you're rolling down the roads of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,

I grew up in the Chicago area, and you see all these fields of corn. 95% of that corn and soybean that you see when you're rolling down the back roads of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, that is not for human consumption. That's for animal consumption. I mean, that's not your sweet point. Thank you. I agree with you. Mike, thank you. I got to cut you loose.

We have Vern on the phone. Hello, Vern. Yes, hi, Glenn. How are you? Hi. Good. How are you? Thank you for getting to these topics today. I have a different perspective than most on this.

I work for a company that leases rollerblades to security personnel at Petting Zooz. And what I think is important for the audience to understand is there are 14 main ingredients to rodent swill. You have your corn husks, to rodent swill. You have your corn husks, your mink globules. Right. your horse glue your white leopard pancreas you got your

liquefied camel humps you got your diet rc cola and this is all for what what are you making with this the price on all those things I'm sure it's going up but you're making what rodent swill

there's 14 mating ingredients I'd like to rodent yeah I have a four hour kind of Zoom call I'm doing later if all of your audience would like to come on and I'll discuss each individual piece of that. And where do I find that Zoom call? www.

www.rodin. dot swill. All right. Okay. Thank you very much, Verne. I appreciate it. Let me go to real estate agents. I trust.com.

whenever it is possible, I like to pass on lessons that I've learned in life for other people. One of the things that I seemed, for a long time I could never get somebody who could sell my house or sell it for the most amount of money. All they would seemingly, all they would do is put up balloons and they would have an open house. and then they'd have an open house for all the realtors. Then they'd lower the price and have an open house. And you're like, is this, is this your plan? There is an actual plan that the best real estate agents, the ones that I trust, actually have. And it revolves around their website, for one, how many people are coming to visit their website?

How many people are already there looking for a house like yours? There's a combination of things that we look for. for when we look for real estate agents i trust at real estate agents i trust dot com this is a free service to you there they don't work for us we just are kind of somebody that looks at them looks at the traits and looks at the results of each real estate agent we're looking for the best one and the best practices all around so if you're looking for a real estate agent in your area or across the country you can help uh we can help find one for you Real estate agents.

I trust.com. That's real estate agents I trust.com. This is the Glenn Beck program. We're glad you here. Thank you so much for listening. Interesting. Listening to that caller,

not the one who was telling us about the 14 meat ingredients of rodents will, but the one before that. Yeah, that's a bad one. And several callers this hour, where I'm fascinated by this at the level of, I like go to grocery stores often, as you might know,

by looking at me. And I, you realize how well capitalism works. When you think about there are all of these things, all these products in these stores, they're always there whenever I need them. And I spend approximately zero minutes thinking about how they get there. You know,

I am not required by this at all, by the, by the country at all to even think about this. And you realize these problems are real. Yeah. So I'm with you. I never think of it either until the price of, until my grocery store says we're not even buying beef ribs anymore because they're far too expensive. No one will buy them.

And I'm hearing that in a community of ranchers. That's nuts. And so you start to look at it and go, okay, so wait, what part of the capitalist system is breaking down here? And there's several things that are breaking down. And if we're going to, if we're going to be able to afford meat, you know, there's a possibility that this is part of the ESG thing. Two of those companies that are the beef producers are also making fake meat, which would be great for their ESG scores. We're putting ranchers out of business. Once you do that, all you have is corporate meat and you're held hostage.

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His name is Steve Stratford. He's a Kansas cattle buyer and Angus Breeder and assistant manager of PRICE. rat livestock. Hello, Steve. How are you? Good morning, Glenn. I'm great. Thanks for having me own. You bet. Now, Steve, here's what I'd like to do, because most of the audience doesn't care about the price of cattle, and they should. Can you frame this so people who are just, they go to the grocery store. They're living in a city. They're living a normal life. And they're disconnected from the farms. Can you explain what's happening to the beef and why it's so important?

What, Glenn, right now, the packing industry is controlled by such few amount of people that basically today they can put the screws to the consumer and the producer both and capture a margin in the middle that is not of percentage equity theirs. basically you know they're they're profiting this week a thousand dollars ahead and owning that animal for a week or less

and the producers margins are negative 100 to maybe 20 or $30 and they've got an 18 month investment in that animal right so the people who are raising the cows they are losing money now at the open market why is the

market, I mean, because they're paying more for feed. They do have at least 12 to 18 months in that cow that they had to feed it and care for it and give it its vaccinations and everything else. And now they're losing money. That sounds like a company trying to put farmers out of business. Yeah, that's exactly right. And, I mean, you're talking about that producer losing money while our product at the retail sector is at record levels.

and the demand is insatiable. What has happened that they've got so much captive supply and control handed to them that they don't have to actively bid, and there's no true price discovery on those cattle. So they've got the deal controlled, and they're putting the screws to the retail sector and also the producer with the end goal in mind to get it down to just a few very large producers that are willing to work on a margin.

and put the average smaller operator out of business in this country. So the free market system has completely broken down. You know, we've lost any price discovery and any connection to the product we raise. You know, they can price it at the retail sector and basically give the producer whatever they want. So the Trump administration was looking into these. into these processing plants because of COVID, and they said, oh, this is the price and the farmers are getting screwed because of COVID. And he didn't think so.

Do you know if any of that was done? Was there any result to that? We're actually waiting on the results of the, there was a fire and a packing plant. We're still waiting on the final results of that investigation. All that stuff has come without any real true fruition or answers. As we speak right now, we have a couple, three drives from different senators to open another DOJ investigation. So what is the, how long can a rancher, you know, wait this out? I mean, I don't know any ranchers that can lose that kind of money on their cows and then just, oh,

Well, I'll just do it again for a year and hope that it's better next year. Yeah, and we're at that point now, Glenn, where the clock's ticking fast. You know, it is such a large investment out here for these people, and they have to invest so much time, capital, labor, that if they don't start getting a plausible return here, we're going to see a lot of these producers go out of business. And how that affects the consumer is that, A, like I, said before, I mean, these big packers can price it to the retail sector however they want. They own different segments of the protein business.

They're controlling that whole meat counter with also investments in fake meat that's priced there alongside our product. And it's a total misadvertising by the packer. I mean, you go into the effect of the foreign beef coming in. And as long as it's processed here, it can be labeled product of the USA. You know, we've got it coming from all avenues. I mean, right in the middle of the American taxpayer sending billions of dollars to the American rancher,

the American taxpayer just as well wrote those checks to the four major packers because they're the ones that got that margin. Our product was never in problem. Our product never was at a discount in the meat counter, and we had to bail out the American ranchers when the product they raises at a record level. And that's just a broken system. So we're talking to Steve Stafford, whose report on this, I watched, I think, on Friday or Saturday.

And, you know, I am not a rancher, but, you know, I dabble in cows. And the one thing that I've learned is this didn't start with COVID. There's always an excuse. And it looks like that this started to get bad around 20. which I think is interesting when you look at the Paris Accords because they went down as well at that time and the they were then pushing the corporations and big banks into this ESG thing. But let me just give you an article here that really is disturbing. Meat from animals. I'm quoting meat from animals will be a luxury and very.

pricey in the future the people will have to turn to vegetable derived alternatives which will be cheaper this is according to JBS chief executive officer go belto tom what is it Tomazone this is Jeep Bs Bsgisian this is G Bs saying years ago that this is going to become very very pricey what are what are the indications that beef is going to become, you know, more pricey in the future, other than people wanting to engineer prices to be more expensive? Yeah, and you've got the Packers investing in the alternative meats, which is a direct competition.

And they, you know, there's no reason right now for what the producers receiving for the meat to be at the price they are. It's just a monopoly on the, the packing system. We haven't. You know, you've got these fake meats out here. They've got a list of ingredients in them that is longer than your average bathroom cleaner you'll find under your sink. I don't think we really know the ramifications or if that stuff's even healthy. And I imagine you're a red-blooded American that eats red meat. And we've proven that that is healthy and the most wholesome source of protein for a long time here. So I don't think we throw the baby out with the bathwater and think we go to these alternatives they're pushing.

So, Steve, you're seeing the futures prices now. What does that mean in the grocery store a month from now, two months from now? You know, the futures price to the grocery store really means nothing. The futures price is what the producer out here can lock in that ad or, you know, price his product at. there is no tie to the from the futures price to the boxed beef. There's no tie to the producer with the box beef price. We do have a, like a December futures is showing fat kettle going to be, you know, $15, you know, $8, $9 higher than it is today. Now, how does that correlate to the box beef?

It really doesn't. The Packers can price that worth. So do you have any idea how, if our price, are going to go up or down at the grocery store? It would look to me like they're going to stay up. We have an employer problem in these plants. They can't process at maximum capacity because the employees won't show up because they can make as much money sitting at home,

collecting unemployment. And like I say, beef has crazy demand right now. Everybody's out and out and back out. So they've got that price. there and gouging the consumer because they can't they can't process enough of it and keep it in front. Steve, thank you so much. You want to take it to another level. I guess I'd like to add this that the average consumer out there listening to you and the consumer across the United States needs to call their senators, their legislators, and express concerns because, you know, just like today, we've got JBS, which is the largest packer in the United States of proteins under

cyber attack and shut down. So the prices will skyrocket at the consumer level when one of these packers goes down for a minute. So this country from national security and feud security needs to have more packing and not be so susceptible to problems. Steve, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Call your senator and your congressman now and have them look into this.

I was just going to report on. on this cyber hacking, it is exactly what happened to our gasoline. What a surprise. We're going to see more of this, which will cause the cost of everything going up. I sure would like to know what Washington is doing about it. You know, last time we had a cyber hack, it was a private matter. It was a private corporation. Well, what the hell good is the United States government,

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There's a food enthusiast is how I want to be known. It'll be on my gravestone when I pass. Yeah. You used to be a food inventor. You were very good at inventing really delicious things. Thank you. Thank you, Glenn. It's one of my main accomplishments in life.

We've been talking a lot about food today. It really is pretty much your only accomplishment, really. least too. I think that's very saying. I'm not, uh, I'm not, uh, upset about that. Yeah. I don't, I just don't think that there is, uh, anything more important than, uh, food, you know, and I don't mean the price of food. I just mean food, just having it around, you know, just having burgers and fries and who and tater tots and things like that. Mm-hmm. I guess, again, occasionally a salad for someone, I don't know who, but occasionally, you know, I'll give them my lettuce and tomato off of my hamburger, and they can eat that.

It's basically a salad. Well, it is. It has the main ingredients, you know, lettuce, tomato. I don't know. I don't know how else you make a salad. There probably is other things in it, but I'm not really that interested. As people point out, for many people around the country, salad is the food that your food eats. Exactly right.

Yes, it took me a while to see that through. but you're exactly right. You're exactly right. And so if they had a salad, I'm practically having a salad myself. You know, they were talking a little bit about, you're talking a little bit about the, you know, the different sort of plant-based options there are these days. And they do point out that basically you're doing a similar process here. When you're talking about a hamburger, all you're doing is converting grass into food.

And essentially that's the, I mean, they're almost doing the same thing. Because you're taking grass. It's almost an impossible burger. Yeah, you're feeding it to an animal. They're eating the grass. They're turning that into cow. And then you're eating the cow. So it's very similar.

So basically, I'm having grass every time I have a steak. I just, you're a vegetarian. You know, maybe I'll have a little finished with a little corn, you know. But basically, that's, you're having grass and corn. I mean. Sure. Yeah. That's how it works.

exactly how it works. It's like, you know, when you're eating French fries, you're just eating your vegetables. That's all you're doing. Ketchup. I mean, that's your fruit. That's true. That's not a fruit. Well, it's not a fruit. Isn't tomato a fruit? Is it a fruit? Tomatoes a fruit. I think it actually is. Yes. I wasn't guessing. It makes no sense. Yeah. Whoever was categorizing, you know, tomatoes, it's not a fruit. It's not a fruit. Yeah. Remember that there was in the colonial times, we used to think that in America, we used actually believe that tomatoes were poisonous and you should never eat them because it was poison and people would do shows um you know there's this uh newspaper report that we have over in the

vault uh for mercury one of a guy taking all day saturday he was in the newspaper for it and all he did was go to the town square and like 20,000 people showed up and he ate tomatoes all day and everybody was waiting for him to die. And he never did. Wow. Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad you live in a time of Netflix? Seriously?

Much better than the tomato eating guy. So did they just have white pizza? How did that all that work? I don't know if they had pizza yet. I'm not sure. Not sure. Sounds like a harsh. But it was kind of a, it was like a parlor trick for Thomas Jefferson.

He would invite people over, and then he'd put sliced tomatoes on the plate. And everybody around the table would go, oh, my gosh. And he'd say, no, they're actually good for you. And then he would cut his up and eat it. And then everybody else would be like, he's making it eat tomatoes, which hasn't changed, didn't he? I mean, that's exactly how I approach a tomato now. Okay, enough of that nonsense. More on the program in just a minute.

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One on Black Lives Matter. one of the guys who was a BLM founder in Minnesota said he was leaving now because he figured out what the group is really all about. I want you to listen. I am living proof that no matter your starting life, quality education is a pathway to success. I want the same success for our children in our communities.

That's why in 2015, I was a founder of Black Lives Matter in St. Paul. I believe the organization stood for exactly what the name implies. Black lives do matter. However, after a year on the inside, I learned they had little concern for rebuilding black families, and they cared even less about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis.

That was made clear when they publicly denounced charter schools alongside the teachers union. I was an insider in Black Lives Matter, and I learned the ugly truth. The moratorium on charter schools does not support rebuilding the black family, but it does create barriers to a better education for black children. I resigned from Black Lives Matter after a year and a half, but I didn't quit working to improve black lives and access to a great education.

Today, I serve as the president and executive director of Minnesota Parent Union. We're dedicated to helping parents move their children from failing schools to successful. successful schools. It's hard work, and we're up against forces that don't want us to succeed. But success is possible. Just look at me. In the hundreds of children and families, we've helped to pursue a great education, break the chains of poverty, and lead a life of success. Now, join our movement to return to faith, family, and something else. If that was Black Lives matter. Faith, family, and education. If that was what they were doing, I think they would be much more, you know, people would be much more inclined not to abandon them in record numbers.

But people know this is all about Marxism now. It's all about violence in the streets. And it really doesn't have anything to do with what the average person wants, which is a fair shake. I wonder you hear this professor arguing for critical race theory. I mean, I mean, you want to talk about taking the mask off. Listen to cut four. I want to say that the Marxist foundation of critical race theory is at base as spiritual concern. If you read Marx, you know that he was concerned about alienation, specifically alienation of the species being, that element of humanity,

that provides creativity, that is unique to the individual, that really gives us, it is what defines humans from animals in that case, and that Marx was concerned that our modern systems were flattening that humanity. So the core question for critical race theory is one of releasing people, especially people of color, especially black people, from the oppressive systems that deny us access to our species being, including racism. Huh. So which one do you think will be more effective? The one that is saying, look, you can be a success.

Look at me. Or the one that says, no, we have to condemn other people because you can't have success. This is all oppression. I don't understand how this is selling. I really don't, but it is. But at least we haven't gone down the Spain route yet. Cut one. The world has had enough. It is time to draw a line in the sun.

Thousands have taken to the streets to condemn racial discrimination. And Correos, the Spanish Postal Service, wants to play its part too. That's why we created a new series of stamps. Correos presents equality stamps. A collection of stamps that reflect an unjust and payful reality. painful reality, which should never exist. There are people who think the value of a person depends on the color of their skin. That's why these stamps have a different value, depending on the color of the skin they represent.

The darker the stamp, the lower its value. That means you'll need more black stamps that white ones for your deliveries. That way, every letter and every person will be a reflection of the inequality generated by racism. by racism, a protest. Equality stamps, a collection of stamps, demanding that color should not determine the value we place on a person's life.

So, the Postal Service in Spain, starting a new stamp program where the lighter the color of the stamp, the more value it has. The darker

the stamp, the less value. Hmm. And there's, saying that this is going to be because people are going to buy, they're going to have to buy a lot of the lower price stamps and you will see how many of those lower price stamps it takes, you know, instead of just one white stamp. I've just never seen really works, but it doesn't work at all. First of all, I mean, just the fact that you're putting a lesser value on the darker skin color is so

obviously insulting. I mean, I, it's so blatantly insulting. I guess they're trying to say, this is the reality. But basically, if, you know, if Richard Spencer became the head of the postal service, would he change the, would he change the

way these stamps were designed? I don't, I don't think he would. If Richard Spencer were in charge, here's the way the stamps would work. The lighter, the color, the more, the more value it would have. The darker the color, the less value it would have.

So, I mean, they're just implementing his, yeah, he's, they're implementing like some racist fever dream here, uh, that they would be somehow gain the power to be able to do this is completely nuts. They are not capable of implementing this themselves. So instead, the government of Spain is like, well, we'll just do it and we'll implement the racist fever dream so we can make the point that that's what they really want, which of course is not. It's not possible to happen anyway, but that goes beyond just how ridiculous this is. This is just permeating society in such a weird way. It's like it really did feel like we had, we got past this. We got to a point where sure, racism still existed. There were still David Dukes of the world that were out there. But generally speaking, you know, race was not the number one thing everyone thought about every day, unless you were some sort of identitarian.

Now we have an entire society pushing us to become identitarians. I don't know why anyone would want that. I think it's a terrible idea, but it does seem to be where we're going. No. By the way, an update on the most dangerous attack on our republic since perhaps the Civil War, maybe even earlier. The January 6th, you know, we're on the lookout for white terrorists. could I could you please play cut 25

cut 25 do you have it it's 26 25 one before that please that was Yankee Stadium yeah that is what our level that is labeled 25 in our

black it's a black militia It's a black militia And when that time I'm coming around tat tat crack a wheel kill everything white in sight

They ain't right now. Because all what you have done to us, all what you've done with the 6,000 years span of killing 600 million of us and 400 and 80 years in particular in the hundred and 50 million in the past. That's time the day is up because this is the time and this is the state of the race of dress because they are a race. It's trying to hold on to power because race has beginning and the ending. And your end in time it went up to 1914, no good pecker one. Now, it's the rebirth of the black nation and the salvation of us in the hells of North America. And throughout the African world, a pan-Afri-Afianism. This is a time when Malcolm talked about, a time that we put our difference to the size.

And when we come out, we come out with a united front. And I united front of the day is all the black revolutionary progressive, strong uncompromising organization here in the hell to North America that was giving this crack of hell for the cradle to the grave. Hmm. So they're going to give the cracker hell from the cradle to the grave. I don't know if you caught that, Stu. And they're also going to kill everything white in sight. I wouldn't worry about it. I wouldn't worry about it.

Really? You know, it, well, it did sound a little like Louis Farrakhan. But, you know, has Louis Farrakhan ever killed anybody? Don't answer that. Let me, let's see if I can rephrase that. Has Louis Farrakhan killed more than one person? I don't know. I frankly don't know.

Yeah. I don't know. I have no idea. But I will say, watch out for those January 6th's, rioters. I look, I, it's so,

it's, you know, this is everywhere right now. Like there's this, you know, I'm sure you've been up on the, on this because it's sports related,

Glenn, but, uh, there is a controversy where Kyrie Irving is a basketball player who believes the earth is flat. He, uh, he went to,

um, the Boston Celtics. I'm sorry. I'm, I'm sorry. I just, could you repeat that? I miss.

Yeah, I think I miss heard. The Boston Celtics. Yes. Okay. And, uh, he believes the earth is right.

And so he went. And so he went to the Boston Celtics. Okay, hang on, hang on. Can we not skip over the earth was flat? I think that's what I'm hearing. That is that he actually believes the earth is flat? Yeah, he did say this in a podcast at one point. He believed the earth was flat and he doesn't see any curvature.

And so he's since. And we're listening to him and further comments. Why? Well, because he's saying the right thing about race. See, even a guy. who thinks the earth is flat, if they say the right thing, if they say the right anti-racist thing on the right day, they can still be listened to because their opinion is vital. So this guy went to the Boston Celtics and told, you know,

was made a big deal about it. They paid millions and millions of dollars. They were going to win all these multiple championships. And then he completely quit on the team, right? To completely quit on the team and leaves to go to another city to build a super team with other superstars in, uh, in, uh, in Brooklyn. So, Boston doesn't really like them all that much, right? And they're no longer fans. So they're playing each other in the playoffs right now. And so as they're about to play in Boston,

Kyrie Irving says, you know, I just hope it's about basketball, not all that racism. You know, the Boston people, the racism is strong in Boston. And I just hope that they're not racist to me when I get there. Now, this flies in the face of his 2019 story about, when he said he had never seen any racism in Boston. But he's updated his opinion and now Boston is very racist. So as he goes to play in this city where he's criticized them as racist and abandoned them

after taking millions of dollars, as he's walking off the court and someone throws a water bottle at him, that is now evidence that he was right. Boston is a racist town. Racism is a huge deal. Obviously, everyone's racist against Kyrie Irving, not worried about. about the whole what was the what was the bottle shaped as well it was shaped like a bottle all right all right all right let me show you a bottle here okay what does this look like what what kind of shape is that here a bottle no it's it's it's like if this were the head

this would be the neck they even call it the neck of the bottle okay you know so it's kind of shaped like a weird you know oddly shaped person well I don't think anything could be shaped like an oddly shaped anything. If it's oddly shaped, then it wouldn't be shaped like it. No, I think when you, when you're looking at a water bottle, you're immediately thinking that's a person. And when I think that's a person and it's a white person, because most water bottles have white caps, I think that is a clan member.

So a clan member attacked him. This weekend? Was it this weekend where the clan was attacking him? I think. Man, I feel. Oh, wow. What? What?

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It's going to be a short book, I'm thinking. Don't know about you, but 10 lessons. on truth, service, and the way forward. Expect the unexpected. Well, this was unexpected. I mean, maybe it wasn't if you're a fan of Fauci, you know, and Governor Cuomo. They seem to both kind of go down the same aisle. I wonder how much of it advanced Dr. Fauci got for his book on truth.