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Episode Date: April 18, 2022

Glenn and Stu start the show by discussing a recent NPR article pushing Americans to use less energy to remain happy and healthy. Pat Gray joins Glenn and Stu to discuss the border crisis as illegal migrants and opioids continue to flood in. Glenn and Stu discuss the indoctrination that is happening in our schools and the teachers’ unions that are responsible. Jason Buttrill, head writer and chief researcher for "The Glenn Beck Program," joins to discuss the Left's grooming of your children and the corruption of the Biden administration. Blaze podcast host Rabbi Daniel Lapin joins to discuss the message of Passover and the freedom religion brings. It’s Tax Day, so Glenn and Stu discuss the joys of where their tax dollars go.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We have that and so much more, but I begin on our grooming. NPR asked the questions, how much energy do Americans need for a good, life. Oh, they have the answer for us in 60. James wrote in about his wife's experience with Relief Factory. He says, I purchased Relief Factor for my wife. She was in extreme pain. And after the eighth day, she could feel the swelling in her knee and shoulders starting to leave. It got even better after the second week. She's now five weeks in and she's feeling better every day. Thank you so much for relief factor bringing my wife back to me if you're living with pain may i recommend

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our executive producer. Stu, there is a, there's a story from PR that I think is very important. How much energy does it take to have a good and healthy life? Americans haven't asked themselves that. Perhaps we should. A new Stanford University study has found the answer is what? None. Far, far less than we have now.

Yeah, far less than the average American is using currently. Comparing energy use and quality of life across 140 countries. You know, may I just say, that's cool. You know, 140 countries. How many of them have the life we have here in America? None. Yeah. Zero.

None. How far down the ladder do you have to go before it's very noticeable? 10? Yeah. 10 to 20 maybe 10 to 20 yeah I don't really care what's happening down don't tell me what's what I have to live with based on what's happening with country number 110 right okay let's bring 110 up to us let's not bring us down to 110 but Glenn they're happy in the central African republic I know they are yeah so comparing energy use and quality of life over 140 countries research

is found the magic number is 75 gigajoules a year or less. For context, one gigagool of energy is equal to about eight gallons of gasoline. One. One. We are only supposed to have 75 per year. One is eight gallons of gasoline. Oh, okay. So this is sort of the money can't buy you happiness approach here.

Energy can't buy you happiness. So therefore you shouldn't have it. So 75 gigajoules per year. If one of them is eight gallons, how many gallons of gasoline can I buy? If one gigajoule is eight gallons and we're only supposed to have 75 per year. 600. 600 gallons of gasoline. That's it. Now that's not just your car. No, that's not just your car. That's running your house. That's running everything. Okay. Americans use 284 giga jewels per year per capita, nearly four times the amount that equals happiness.

Equals happiness. That suggests to me. Stupid. That suggests to me, this is according to the new research and the author and the professor of Earth System Science, Rob Jackson. This suggests to me that we could nudge energy use downward in a body. bunch of hyper-consuming countries and not just make a more equitable world, but perhaps make ourselves happier and healthier. Oh.

Key word there. Perhaps. Perhaps. We can nudge it down. Well, first of all, you'd have the problem of people realizing what they used to have and no longer had. So you can't just say, well, look, there's people happy in Madagascar. and so we can lower the energy usage of St. Louis to Madagascar's level and they'll also be happy.

That's not the way that works. Well, but if there's a crisis, your quality of living goes down and you bitch about it for a while. And then you're like, well, what are we going to do about it? Yeah. You know, like, hey, I'm still, you know, I'm still waiting for, you know, a curtain rod. And it's taken me four months to get it. But what are you going to do about it? Yeah, Wednesday's my eight-month anniversary of ordering my car, which is still not come in.

Yeah, that's weird. And you know, what's weird is I think my car has gone missing because I told you I ordered a car three years ago. We're coming up on its four-year anniversary. Okay, four years. I talk about it on my Instagram. Four-year anniversary. But I don't think that has to do with supply chains. I think that has to do with maybe I picked the wrong company.

Well, because I did read your Instagram post in which, it, the, the, actually mention the company that is doing this work. It does. It does. I don't want to hit them. I don't want to hit them with everything. Well, maybe Glenn could put them out of business.

This is what an Amber Alert does, though, right? You try to find. Well, that's what I ask. So you're maybe, maybe that's, can you put the picture of my car on the back of milk cartons? I'm afraid. Because it is missing.

Hasn't been seen now for three and a half years. Is it possible the next picture you get of this car is the car with a gun to its head? I want to be a hot. to my car. I almost wrote. I want to talk to my car because I don't think it's alive anymore. You know? This is a totally different problem. Totally different problem than how much, you know, because I'll use more than eight gallons of gasoline in that car. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll get you three miles down the road. Yes, it will. Yes, it will. But this is, it's such a fascinating thing of trying to, because look, people adapt to bad circumstances, unpleasant circumstances. If you go back

hundreds of years to our founding they used zero gallons in their cars. And they were very happy. I'm sure happy. They were happy. It doesn't mean you're guaranteeing it, but that doesn't mean you want to go backwards in time and eliminate conveniences that make us not only a more

happy society at some level, but also a healthier one. You know, these things as anyone noticed that the age expectancy has gone up, you know, with the exception to the last couple of years with a, well, not in all countries. items. Globally,

759 million people live without electricity. 2.6 billion without clean cooking fuel in 2019, according to the World Bank. Well, they don't need it. That comes at an enormous human cost, do. Are there happy people that don't have cooking fuel? I'm sure there

are somewhere. At 4 million people, they die each year from cooking conditions by indoor air pollution from cooking fires inside. And access to electricity is crucial for providing medical services. and empowering modern economies, and we're using it all. Now, there is no such thing as a global grid.

So, you know, we could, we could, and I'd be for this, we could all pool our money together and build nuclear power plants. We can do that, you know. But like, you know, having a, you know, burning open air flames indoors does seem to be the world's most easily solved problem. Yeah. Right? Like this is something, and it is one of the biggest killers in the world.

By everybody a Franklin stove. There was no copyright on that. He gave that free to the world. Yeah, and that would solve that problem completely. This study measured those benefits, and when they plateaued, scientists looked at nine benchmarks for a long, healthy life based on the United Nation's sustainable development goals. So this is good.

this fits right into the ESG plan and oh my gosh what a tidy little what a tidy little present to all of us access to electricity air quality food supply and the genie coefficient now i didn't know what the genie coefficient was but that measures wealth inequality and i think they call it the genie coefficient because there's going to be a magic genie that comes and takes money from one people and gives it to another group of people, and everybody's going to be happy. On tax day, I know I'm really happy. I feel so charitable today.

There's nothing I like more than working half my day for taxes and then have the government just piss it away. I love that. You know, it could create jobs. You know, if private people were using the money, government, they don't create jobs. They piss money away. But I digress.

I don't want to get all preachy on how good it feels to be so charitable today. You know, I feel really charitable. I do every year. Anyway, they said that happiness peaks at about 75 giga joules a year. So if we want to be happy, we should use less energy. Just how dumb. These studies are so stupid.

As if using more energy starts to create unhappiness. I mean, look, energy, I think, at a basic level, from zero to, let's say, 75 megajoules or whatever they're saying, giga-joules, that probably does alleviate that poverty-level struggle, which, yes, can make you go zero to 60 in an important. way. But like the increase from there may also help. Like, you know, it probably doesn't help as much as the zero to 75. No. No. No.

If all of our factories and, you know, all of our researchers and everybody else, they only had, you know, how many gallons of gasoline? 600? Yeah. If everybody had only 600 gallons of gasoline for the whole year, for all energy.

use. I think it would be a lot. I think we'd be making more medicine right now. No. Yeah. No, we would not. It also means, according to the study, that we'll be walking and biking more and using public transport.

Oh my gosh. Oh, I didn't know that. Because now I'm really happy. I'm thinking riding the bus to work. Oh, man. That would make me happy. Many approaches require a blend of the two to incentivize people and businesses to make upfront investment

in equipment or technology that uses less energy over time. You know what? If we could just get rid of all the people, then nobody will drive. We wouldn't have all these problems if it wasn't for all these people. We should just tell the elites to liquidate all of us. They are hopeful that the $1.2 trillion infrastructure investment and jobs act, which includes several provisions focused on reducing consumption. Did you know that?

Did you know that? Wait a minute. It's the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. And according to this article, it has several provisions focused on reducing consumption. Wow. Hopefully it'll do that. They do say that many of these moves can face resistance at the local level. We've got to stop saying, hey, we really don't want a new bus or rapid transit route. We don't want XYZ piece of infrastructure in our area when it's our longer term interest to support that. Can I tell you every city? Now, I've lived in

I don't know. A hundred cities because I couldn't hold down a job for most of my career. You know what signals death to any city? When I like, this city's over, whenever they go, we're going to build a rapid transit train. As soon as you hear that, you're like, okay, they're done. They're just pissing away the money now. This is especially true now that there is growing evidence. that those measures are using less energy generally

and do not have a negative impact on Americans living happy, healthy life. I don't know. You know, the rapid transit train, Stu, you see it every day when we go to work. I don't even know where the stations are, okay? I know where the station is here, but I can't get on that rapid train. Wouldn't mind it because it would be like living the life of being chauffered in a giant limousine where it's only you because the rapid transit train never has a soul on it. Okay?

It's soulless. It's not even driven by human. There's not even one human that has to drive it. It drives itself. It stops at all these stations that nobody wants to go to and it's empty. but the good news is I don't know how many giga-joules it's using

but it uses those giga-joules 24 hours a day it does no one rides it and in fact I think 92% of people have never ridden it in the area but they built it

so that the 8% of people could occasionally do it only 4% of people in the area actually use it to commute yeah 4% And it costs an absolute fortune. In fact, it's better to spend your cash in any other way, any other way.

Like, for example, honestly, taking the construction costs and just keep an open mind on this one, lighting it on fire. Here's one that I really would like to do. I want to take polar bear fetuses and plant them here in the soil here in Texas and I'll water them. I think I can grow a whole new crop of polar bears. So if you just want to funnel that tax dollar to me, that's what I'll do. Wow. Yeah, that would be nice. Well, I'll try to do that, but the environmentalist would stop me from aborting polar bear fetuses.

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No. Now I want to tell you what I just read from NPR can be summed up by MSNBC, by Mika and Jika in the morning or whoever it is, Morning Joe. And it's a very white cast. but here is it's not a diverse one.

No, it's no, no. But here is MSNBC last week talking about Elon Musk's attempt to buy Twitter. Listen carefully to what Mika is saying. The dangerous, you know, edges here are that he's trying to undermine the media,

trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined, mind the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that is the, that is our job. Oh, that's their job. Okay. To try to control what people think. And that is their job. Mm, okay. I didn't know that. Okay. So their job is to control people. And you just saw that with NPR. That story from NPR. You are being a, you are being.

You're being trained. You're being groomed. You're being groomed to eat bugs. You're being groomed to use less energy. You're being groomed to reduce your lifestyle. You're being groomed to shut up. Your opinion doesn't matter. So it's good.

You know, I enjoy being groomed. It's better when you know about it because then you're not groomed to do those things. So maybe you should pass that on to your friends. You're being groomed to not eat meat. By the way, that fits nicely with Elon Musk. That's why they don't want him taking over Twitter. They may have been, I think they were talking about Donald Trump there, weren't they? I think it's an older clip from 2017, but it could easily be from today.

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Yes, yes. Now, factors weighing in favor of an exception include the following. A physical or mental illness. Okay. Okay. I don't know about anybody else, but I mean, do we need more mentally ill people in America? I think we have our share of mentally ill. But physically ill.

Wow, that's kind of broad. Disability, pregnancy, lack of access to safe housing or shelter. Oh. If you're over 21 years old or over 70, you and your family. family can get in. So that's great. That is great. We're going to have two million new, well, not really Americans, but two million new people living

in the United States. And I'm not saying they're not people. I'm saying they're here illegally. Well, a border is only a construct. Yes, it is. And I wish we would construct more of that. border fence, but we don't. See, countries like ours are like a lifeboat.

And when you take the lifeboat and point it back towards the Titanic, all those people sink the lifeboat. And then that lifeboat doesn't save anyone. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think so you seem to understand that concept, though. But he thinks that humans can be illegal. Humans can't be illegal. Glenn. Thank you.

We heard years ago that illegal aliens, illegal immigration is only a construct. So here's the thing. Here's the thing. So is all of civilization. I don't know what that. Humans can't be illegal. You're right. They're not.

They're just doing illegal things. I love people who say, humans can't be illegal. Now, sure, they broke some laws getting here, but you can't just smear all of them. Excuse me? I'm not. You are. I'm saying they're breaking the law getting in here. Do it the right way.

Oh, well, that's too much to ask. Okay, all right. Well, what do I say to that? I guess you could go into a bank and take out some money. You could either take it out of your account and play by the rules, or you could break the law and steal that money. what I would call you a bank robber then. Humans aren't bank robbers.

Well, dogs certainly aren't. No, some humans are bank robbers. Really? Yeah. Yeah, that's not an artificial construct. That's a real thing. We can't at least all. Today it is.

Yeah, right. We can all agree at least when we lift Title 42. This is going to go well, right? Oh, it's going to go really well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 18,000 a day they're expecting? That's it. 18,000 a day.

That's not very many. What's the number now? Do we know? Last month it was $221,000, whatever that is per day, for the month. Are they going to make them take their shoes off and their belt off as they come across the border? Are they going to, you know, just so they can be scanned, you know? Are they going to at least have to do what we have to do at the airport? And will they have to do that at the airport?

Because many of them won't like it. because how dare you stop me while I'm getting on a plane? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Very true. And, of course, they will not have the same restrictions we have on airplanes. They will not need to wear masks the entire time that they're here. They will not need to be vaccinated, certainly.

No, right. That will be totally fine. Those will be overlooked. And the good thing is, if it's only 18,000 a day, that just works out to 6,570,000 per year. That's not that many. That's not that many. No, in a country of 330 million? Yeah, it's no big deal.

Let's drop in the bucket. Yeah. By the way, teen opioid deaths have surged by 350%. This is a completely unrelated article. 350%. Now, that's because fentanyl is coming, you know, into America. I don't know how. I don't know how it's getting across.

Who could know? Let's not even talk about how it could be getting here. Good idea. But it is, it's about a hundred times more powerful than morphine and has been linked now to 77% of all overdose deaths by teenagers since 2021. I think it's a, I think it's ABC News that's doing a special on this coming up soon. And maybe think about it a little bit of different way. You just said overdose deaths. Like, isn't that completely a B.

way of looking at what's happening. People are, these teenagers are taking a pill, thinking it's a different kind of pill, and inside it is fentanyl. And so they're getting not, they're not like overdosing. Like, I want to do this much fentanyl. And now I'm doing this much. They're just getting poisoned. We're just, these drug cartels are just poisoning teenagers all across the country.

And we're just acting like, oh, my gosh, don't dehumanize those drug dealers. They are trying to, they are trying to. they are trying to provide the greatest experience for their buy. So how many people do you know in business go that extra mile? The drug dealers are you're going to get even a bigger high off of this one. Yeah. It's really, if you don't die.

Right. It's fascinating. I think part of this too goes back to this idea that like the media jumped on the opioid thing and decided they wanted to blame this one rich family for it. Yes. the Sackler family, which again, the Sackler family followed all of the guidelines from the federal government. So I don't know, like, I mean, there's, it's just, there's been a weird construct of this from the beginning. But to make it seem like these are opioid overdose deaths, you have

to have this idea that, okay, well, this evil billionaire family was targeting these people, trying to get them hooked on their medicine, and then just kept upping it and upping it and not happening it and they died. Well, that's not how these people are dying. Some of them, some of them, were addicted to opioids and try to get them for some reason on the open market. Why would they need to get them on the open market? Why would they need to get them not from the company who's producing them? They need to go to drug dealers because it's hard to get them because the government has blocked people who think they need them from getting it. Well, also the box does say, for end of life use only. Right. But the only. The only,

The overwhelming percentage of people who are dying are not addicted to fentanyl because they want to take fentanyl. They're going to take something else. Like sometimes something very, you know, moderate, not even like an illegal drug, right? They're going to take something that maybe they shouldn't be taking. So they get it from the black market. And then that's laced with fentanyl and then they die. But how is that Purdue pharmaceuticals fault?

They didn't put the fentanyl in the pills. They don't have anything to do with the pills that are killing people in a lot of cases. That's not universally true, but there's this idea that they want to blame this one rich family has overwhelmed this entire issue. It is, I mean, I haven't heard of the black market arm

of that pharmaceutical company. I mean, it's not, you say in most cases, well, then those were probably stolen. And if the pharmaceutical company is like opening a giant jacket, hey, I've got truckloads of fentanyl in here. Who wants it? Then we should shut that down.

Yeah. But at the same time, we're shutting down the supply line at the border. Right. They just try to like implement the plot line from Ozark into reality. And it's not reality. That's a show. This is this, like this is an amazing thing. low, like, especially with conservatives, right?

Here we are so pissed off about the border, justifiably so. This problem seems to be a bunch of Mexican and South American drug dealers poisoning our teenagers, and we're like, ah, these drug overdose deaths. It's not really, that's not really the right way to look at it, is it? Like, if they were poisoning our food supply,

this would be a totally different, like, we'd be freaking out in a totally different way. And yeah, you know, I mean, obviously some of these people are using drugs in, ways they shouldn't be using them. So we, well, some of it is some of the fentanyl deaths are coming from cocaine. Yeah. Because they're mixing it with cocaine. Yeah. And then you snort it and then you die. Yeah. But again, like, and I'm not saying. Like Glenn said, fentanyl's kind of powerful. You're not supposed to. Can I tell you? I took it for two days. A doctor was trying to get me out of

pain. I'm like a horse. You just can't bring me out of pain. And, and so I had it for two days. Didn't even know what it was. I was so drugged up. And it almost killed me. And it almost killed me. It almost killed me. I didn't know what it was. And I went to my other doctor, my regular doctor, and told him like two days after I got off it, because it said end of life use only. And I'm like, you know what? I think I'm going to stop that one.

And my doctor said, why would you let a doctor prescribe you that? And I'm like, A, he's a doctor. I thought it was fine. And B, I was kind of screaming in pain. I just wanted it to stop so I wasn't, hang on, Doc, let me read all of the warning signs. I figured he'd do that for me. Yeah. You didn't read the brochure that comes with the Fed?

I didn't. No, I didn't. But I did strangely have a pharmaceutical rep come and just talk me into it. Jeez. By the way, they say in this story that what we need is urgent action. including expanding access to opioid addiction treatment centers. We got to do that. No, no, we should close the border.

That should be our immediate action. Close the border. When there's even Democrats from some of these border states that are begging Joe Biden not to remove Title 42, then you know there must be some kind of reason for it. Yeah, secure the border. And even some Democrats understand that concept, not the ones, of course, in the White House. I was listening to one of our affiliates, the morning show, one of our affiliates up in Virginia. And they were talking about last week, they were talking about, you know, what Texas had done, you know, busing people up.

And they rightly so said, you know what that's going to do to our city? Right. You know what I mean? It's the only way to get people to understand what's happening in their city because we're overwhelmed right now. We're overwhelmed on our borders. What? Texas has to do it?

No, we're going to send them up. And it's interesting is the district of Columbia did not take those people. No, they shipped them to another town. Of course. Of course. Yeah, back in just a minute. Thanks, Pat. You can see Pat and Pat Gray unleashed wherever you get your podcasts.

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China is delivering all the opioids. Hmm. Is that, is that, hmm, really? Because I, I thought we were having a hard time getting things, you know, sent from China over here. It's weird that they could, they could do all that and still not, you know, deliver my next door neighbor's patio furniture for two years. Yeah. Maybe that's, it is really a fascinating part of this. You know, you go back and look at the death toll from the opioid epidemic, as it's been called.

And it's amazing. I mean, it absolutely dwarfs the crack epidemic of the 80s. Like, it's almost like a little blip on the chart compared to this. It is really a big problem. And a lot of it has to do with fentanyl and illicit drugs from, from, from, south of the border largely. But maybe it was a positive motivation at one point where they were like, well, we need to

put a face on this opioid epidemic and they've picked this family that like, you know, I don't know if they were perfect in every way by any means. I'm sure no one he is. But like, obviously when people are taking drugs from drug dealers in Mexico that come across the border

and then they're laced with poison, it's really hard to place the blame of that on an American family who runs a pharmaceutical corporation. Like, it's just completely insane. And every media source seems to do the exact same thing, which is just

blame this one family for all of this, and it's completely out of control. And what's crazy is, you'll hear China. Have you heard anybody talking about the drug cartels? Nobody's talking about the drug cartels.

Nobody cares. They're making more money than they've ever made before on America because they're now in human trafficking, getting people across our borders, and those, they now have mules too. Some of those people are used to carry drugs across the border as a price of getting you across the border. Then some of them, if they can't pay, they're used in our cities by these drug cartels. Look, don't worry about it. You'll just owe us a favor. And now they're being used in the drug trade wherever they end up. Is anybody talking about that?

No. I mean, look at the two things that have made this worse over the past, you know, several years. One, the border, right? Two, COVID restrictions have made this problem much worse. People were locked down. They wound up getting into these and the opioid deaths have gone through the roof. Those are two things that Democrats really don't want to talk about. So they much rather have you talk about a rich family

who is evil and just searching for profit rather than saying, okay, well, Maybe we need to address the border. Maybe we need to address these, this whole drug situation. Maybe we need to address what we did to this population by locking them all down. They don't want to talk about that. This is the Glenn Back program. Already.

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He was a man in 2002, committed, well, let's just say violence against a woman in New Jersey. He was accused of raping, robbing, and murdering a woman in New Jersey. he was 19. He was driving the woman's car, wearing her clothes when he was stopped by the police. Those discoveries of, okay, dude, this isn't your car, and I'm not sure those are your clothes, led the police to find the nude body of a 47-year-old woman in a ravine

next to a shuttered auto dealership. He didn't just kill the woman. This is graphic. In a letter to the New York Daily News, he wrote, Yeah, I killed her. I punched and kicked her to death, crushing her skull in the process. One of the kicks landed in such a way,

a broke her neck, and then all of a sudden her head was on backwards. I have an unusual taste for blood, so I drank and licked and lapped up my fill. Let it be known that I am Lucifer's maiden servant sent to earth born of sin to bring suffering and pain, darkness, and evil. Okay, all right, okay. So he's in prison, and that should make New Jersey feel good.

However, he now identifies as a woman, so he's just, he's the guy, he was transferred over to the women's prison, and so now he's in the correctional facility for women, you know, kind of like his victim was a woman. Anyway, his date of his transfer has not been

specified, though it may have occurred sometime during the past year. And I just, I want you to know. He is 100% woman. Hear him roar. A female, I identified inmate with the alias of Perry Surf is listed in the New Jersey prison records as being housed at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for women.

And what's crazy is this is the same prison that's having a problem with pregnancy. Now, Stu and I talked about this last week. We don't know how that works. She was afflicted with pregnancy in some immaculate way. We don't know exactly which way. I mean, she was afflicted with a baby. Mm-hmm. You know, punished.

Punished with a baby. With a baby. So, you know, you might say, hey, that's a bloodthirsty guy. And now he's in there and potentially impregnating the females there. Isn't a thirst for blood just something that we need to understand is maybe not the choice. you make, but is an okay choice. Amen. Why demonize all, you know? Demons. Demons. You're exactly right. That's right. Okay. Now, there's a couple of other things that are going on in Missoula, Montana, according to the Sentinel High School, a parent there, her freshman student felt a little

uncomfortable about the questionnaire that was handed out without explanation at the end of the class. The questions from the handout include, 99% of reported racist are heterosexual. Why are straits so sexually aggressive? The majority of child molesters are heterosexual. Do you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers, scout leaders, and coaches? When did you choose your sexual orientation? There's 15 of these great questions.

And the parent wouldn't out themselves as, well, I'm sure they're cisgender, but it wouldn't out themselves as, you know, the parent that is complaining because the kid was mortified when mom or dad said, or mom and mom, I don't know. But when the kid went, you're not going to bring this up. They'll kill me in school. They'll kill me. I will be a pariah in school. But, you know, that's the kind of stuff that happens in these gigantic cities like Missoula, Montana. The Kansas governor, Laura Kelly, she vetoed two Republican state congressional bills. This happened on Friday that proposed a ban on transgender athletes in girls' sports and another that would allow parents to challenge Kansas public education curriculum.

She vetoed that. She said it's just nothing but hate. You know, especially when you have parents allowed to say, hey, what's in the curriculum? I mean, the hate just flows from there. She said the Republican state legislators behind the bill were just trying to score political points. Or do what the voters elected them. to do, you know, one of those two. She said, today I vetoed the divisive transgender sports bill.

So we, listen to this carefully. So we can keep our state welcoming to all Kansas and keep our state open for business. Now, why would she say that this would close the state down from business? Is she sensing a reputational risk to the state of Kansas that maybe there would be some sort of a Vladimir Putin ESG kind of backlash from the banking community, insurance companies? Yeah, because I've noticed there are restaurants around the country that have closed down for pandemic reasons. And then they put a sign. They say open for business because they know there's a possibility that people might think they're still closed or they're threatening to be closed. at any time.

Similar to this, it seems. Like, they want to know they're open for business. We swear, we've aligned with these policies the way you wanted us to so we can be open, right? It's okay for us to be open now, right? And that seems to be the similar thing that's going on. That's weird. Yeah. That's weird.

That's weird. ESG hammer isn't crossing anybody's mind there. It didn't cross mine. Didn't, you know, the Great Reset, you know, they're going to hammer. these states. They will hammer. If your state isn't ready for the new ESG world, you're going to be cooked. You're going to be cooked because she's right. We want to keep it open for business. When ESG is applied, they're going to first apply it to states like Florida. And when they do, you'll see where the rubber meets the road. Will the banks be able to pressure

all of the businesses there to say, I'm moving, or I'm going to show. I'm going to show. down my business in Florida. We'll see. But it is coming. By the way, the Watcom Middle School in Bellingham, Washington's public school system, this is north of Seattle. It was awarded the Gender Sexuality Alliance Club, the Think Big Competition. They won that award of whatever for pitching a middle school drag show for students

age 10 to 14. Now, sure, the kids could be learning, I don't know, math or how to read. But I think the drag queen talent show for 10-year-olds, that's where I want my kids. And I, boy, I'd like to give them an award myself. Wisconsin teacher that decided that, you know, she was going to, or he was going to, or he, was going to dance in drag. The French teacher, Matthew Cashden, strutted up onto the auditorium stage in a high cut,

blue sequin dress, red boots and a blonde wig, and lip synced and danced rain on me by Lady Gaga. It was all a surprise to the assembled students at the Madison, Wisconsin suburb. I bet it was. I bet it was. Is that the French teacher? A member of Ohio State University's undergraduate student government said that white people are inferior.

And he would, quote, absolutely love to live in a world where it's taught that black people are superior to others, end quote. Well, CRT. Your work is finished. Disney, the actor Joseph Gatt, has been arrested for having online sexually explicit communications with a minor across state lines. Why couldn't he just have them in his own state?

Why did he have to go across state lines? Why? It all would have been fine if it wasn't across state lines. Is that true? I don't think that's accurate. I don't think that's accurate either, but I think it becomes federal. Yeah, it becomes that like weird. Like if you commit fraud, it's crime.

But if you commit it in the mail, it's worse. You know, it's like one of those type of things. But like this is the Anthony Wiener situation, basically. Right? Like he was having sexually explicit conversations with underage. We don't know boys or girl. I don't think I've seen that term. And you know, why does it matter?

I really doesn't matter. It doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't. It doesn't. Although it's the most important thing. Remember, it's not at all important, but it's also the most important thing.

And if you could just get that down, then you won't get banned off Twitter. Some would say that doesn't make sense. What? Some would say that doesn't make sense. You're banned off Twitter. I'm sorry. Well, there you go. Unless that evil, evil hate mongering Elon Musk decides to, and using the same logic you

are using, unbanned people and let everyone speak. which would be horrible for free speech. It really would. Postmodernism in action. It really is. By the way, state of Florida has rejected 41% of the math textbooks on the basis that they contain CRT, Common Core, and Social Emotional Learning. So we got that. We got that.

71% were not properly aligned with Florida standards or include prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies. You know, I, I, what are you worried about? Two plus two equals five, you know, and when you're doing math, you need to make sure that you're teaching that cisgendered people are less than and definitely not equal to others. see how I made that into a math problem? You sure did. Yeah, I did it. And you can do it too. So they're rejecting 71% of all of the textbooks.

They don't care. These people just don't care. They will put it in any way they can. And they'll just continue to do it. And if it's not in the textbooks, they'll just do it behind your back. I'm telling you right now, you have got to stop with this idea that your local, politician, you know, your local congressman or your local senator, he's good, but all the rest of them are bad. You have to apply this now to teachers. If they belong to the teachers union,

they are funding all of this. Okay. I'm sorry, you might be a great teacher, truly a great teacher. You may not be teaching any of this. But if you are in the teacher, union, you are funding it. So while you say I'm against it, your money is going to the people who are jamming it down everybody's throat. So I'm sorry, you can't be a good teacher. You can't be somebody that I trust with my children if you're in the teacher's union. It's pretty easy.

Yeah, there's a lot caught up in that. I don't know that it's easy, but it is a hard and fact. Where is the line? Where is the line? You can't say, you can't be, and I'm not comparing the two, I'm just using an over. Oh, here it comes. An exaggerated example. Yes, okay.

But you can't be, you know, in the Nazi party. Had to go this right. And say, I'm for the Jews. Okay. I know, you might have a very small role in the Nazi party, but you should take the pen off. They make movies out of people who say that. Oscar Schindler was exactly right. No, but they, you know, you have this situation where it's so ingrained in the culture and so many people.

It's that, what you described is a lot of people. I mean, that's not just a few people. I know. And if those people actually wanted to change things, they would recognize that their unions have exposed themselves. as not the best for the teachers, not the best for the students. Yeah. It's all about power.

And if those people who are good, decent teachers would just say, screw it, I don't legally have to. I'm not paying, I'm not paying my dues. I am no longer part of this union.

You would collapse the union and a lot of our problems would go away. It's a massive part of the problem. Back in just a second, Nick wrote in about his experience with Relief Factory. He says, I've been taking Relief Factor twice a day for three months. I've noticed a huge difference in my overall pain level. I had knee and back feet, knee back and feet pain for quite a few years.

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Gee, what do these all have in common? The New York City Pension Funds, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System, and the New York State Retirement System, and the New York State Teachers Retirement System. So here's the thing. They are now giving all of their money to places like BlackRock. And you'd say, well, that's a good, that's a really good thing, right? State officials are starting to question whether they see this as a misappropriation of public money

and whether climate and social investment is actually delivering any benefit in return. people with a woke agenda vote the shares. They get to control, they get control of the board, and Exxon Days are now numbered, since said a Pennsylvania state representative, Frank Ryan, Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick said that progressive asset managers are using our money to force their own political will on those companies. When we give them these resources, we're giving them the power, to speak for us states you've got to pull your resources out of anyone who is

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Jason Batrill is with us now, and he's outlining all of this and getting it ready for Wednesday's program. You want to touch base on that just a little bit? Oof. Like, there are times in this job when I wish that I didn't know what I know. It's like that scene in the Matrix where that guy's like, should I eat the steak, you know, and know that it's not real or just is ignorance is bliss? And I'm on that verge of is ignorance of bliss or should I know this? I don't want to know this.

I know. It's one of those things, Stu, you remember us having that conversation about 2010? We were all, we were all being red-pilled and we're all, we all went. I, oof, we go down this road further and we're really going to not be happy people because we won't be able to just relax and enjoy things. Yeah. And it's hard. Yeah.

You go numb after a while, Jason. Oh, I'm definitely there. I think. I mean, after this many years. But I'm still amazed by how shocked I can get over everything. And you think that you're safe like in the Bible Belt. You know, like, I got Texas, you know, places in the south. We're fine.

I'm just reading curriculum from Austin ISD, and it's all in there. It's all in there. And, you know, we have parents, we've done a good job, I think, over the past year, and I think we've been winning the culture war on this. I mean, I think one of the big reasons the Democrats taking such a hit is because of this. Yeah, but then we go back to sleep. Yeah. They say, okay, it's fixed, and then we all go back to sleep, and they put it in anyway.

They say things like, oh, we're not teaching CRT. Don't worry about CRT. or oh, we're not teaching comprehensive sexuality, education. We're not doing that. And one of the things we're going to show is there's a reason why they can deny these things. It's because there is, I'm just going to call it a triangle. There is a triangle. It's part of a curriculum.

And it goes all the way up to the CDC, all the way up to the CDC for years, brought in by woke activists, leftist activists. And there's three different parts of their overall plan. If you think you're fighting CRT and that's your battle, that's one third of the battle. one third. Comprehensive sexuality, education, radical gender theory, another third of the battle.

There is a larger plan here, and I just discovered this. I'm like, oh my gosh, I've got questionnaires, Glenn, that we're going to show on Wednesday, where they're showing five-year-olds, giving five-year-olds a questionnaire to ask them what their gender identity is. Five-year-olds. Here's the thing. I really think it's time for somebody,

and I'd back it 100. percent, somebody needs to start, abolish the Department of Ed. Oh, absolutely. Abolish the Department of Ed. It is past time to abolish that. And it has to be. You must have local control. And it's much easier to pay attention to it when all of this stuff isn't being fed down the pipe with national money.

Yeah. Abolish the Fed. All right. Let me turn the topic here to what Durham said, because you and I worked closely on the impeachment thing. We did the impeachment specials and everything else. I wanted to get your opinion. Special counsel, John Durham, asserted in court on a filing on Friday that the CIA concluded data from the Clinton campaign lawyer, Michael Sussman, alleging coordination between Donald Trump and Russia

was, quote, not technically possible. And it was, quote, user created. What does that mean? User created. So, I mean, go back to one of the indictments that's already happened, that lawyer, the FBI lawyer, Kleinzman. So he was indicted for lying, basically for, you know, drumming up evidence.

He changed an email so that that continue to go for the, FISA. So this is basically the same thing. User created is the people that were working for the Clinton campaign actually injected and created this damning information so that they can get, so basically they fabricated evidence and then handed that off to the FBI. Now, I think it's really interesting that the FBI is not being implicated here. They're not, they're not saying, hey, there's no evidence that the FBI doubted this at all. But of course they didn't, right? because they were all in bed, all the way from the top, from the director, down to people like Andrew McCabe, they were all involved with this.

Now we have people from the CIA saying, well, we looked at it, and it's kind of obvious, and of course, this is leaked as well. So none of this was real, making this even worse. So it's injecting false information into this. Now, you and I have done so much digging on this and reporting on this. We know all the other people that were involved. And this is what's pissing me off about this. Me too.

Because who is getting him? with this, a lawyer? Yeah, listen to this. In the filing, Durham responded to objections from Susman's defense regarding what evidence could be admissible at his trial, which is scheduled to begin next month. Susman is accused of lying to the FBI saying he was not attending a meeting on behalf of a particular client when he was actually presenting the information on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and a technology executive with whom he had worked. So why isn't the Hillary Clinton campaign in trouble? Why is the lawyer going to be the fall guy? Do you think he did that by himself? Do you think that she was shocked and horrified when she found out? Compare this to like

a mob investigation. Yes. Or I'm deep into the motorcycle community like a motorcycle gang or something like that. Now, how do they go after those two organizations, you know, specifically? Lerico. Leaders, right. They use RICO. to go after the leaders. Now, why are they doing that to the Hillary Clinton campaign and Hillary Clinton herself? Can I tell you something? There are so many RICO cases that are out there right now that should be RICO cases. This is one of them. This is one of them. The Federal Reserve,

I think, is a RICO case. SG and what's happening with BlackRock. That's a RICO case. There are so many RICO cases right now. And all they're ever going to do is fish for the small fish. never going to go for the big ones. Oh my gosh. People like, I mean, think of all the people that were involved here. Not to mention the FBI. We've got people from the DOJ. We know this. This is fact. People like Bruce Orr funneling in for all this information, funneling it to the direct, directly to the top. Why aren't they implicated in this? Why is it the lawyer? The guy in the

middle that he's the guy that accepts it. He's like, okay, fine. If I screw up and I'm going to jail. Why is that accepted? Why is it just him? He's the fall guy. We've got a fall guy. We've got a fall guy. Everybody knows he's the fall guy for the bigger fish. They won't go after the bigger fish. It's ridiculous. So then what we found out on Friday is, do you remember that thing where they said they had this computer server that was pinging the Russian bank? Alpha. Completely made up. The fact that Donald Trump has a Russian phone with him and we can track it. It's with him all times. He can make calls to somebody. We don't know who, but somebody in Russia. anytime he wants, and it's with him in high-level meetings.

Untrue. Right. Untrue. The FISA filings, untrue. Untrue. Proven now. Untrue. All of these things, including the steel dossier, proven untrue.

And it all goes back to Hillary Clinton. And Hillary Clinton's use of. the FBI Justice Department the NSA, the CIA, all of them, all of them were in on this. Yeah, and so we know from the

CIA leaker that's saying, look, we knew it was usually created, we knew it was bull crap. The FBI did too. The CIA can't get involved. So that's the FBI. The whole point of this, remember, the whole point in the beginning was just a funnel false information, get it to the FBI so that the media can then get that leaked

and say, look, the FBI is looking into this. this looks really dirty. Donald Trump must be a Russian asset, and then public opinion takes it from there. This, I mean, this is election interference is what this is. I mean, they never intended, I don't think, to get an indictment on Donald Trump. They just wanted public opinion to take it from there and to tank his campaign. That's what this was all about. But again, I don't want, you look at you have people involved the big wigs of the FBI, Hillary Clinton herself. These are the people that we should be looking at. Not a lawyer. Like all these other people, they were the ones directing it and facilitating it.

I don't care about this lawyer. I mean, sure, he should go down with the rest of them if he's found guilty of funneling all this. But he's not the guy. But he's not the guy. It's like, you know, just delivering the message. The justice of Watergate is not happening. You know, even with Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden, he'll go down.

Most likely he'll go down. But will his dad? I mean, we have stories that are much, gee, who said this in 2008? when it all is said and done, this administration, meaning the Clinton, Biden, Obama era, will go down as the most corrupt in all of American history. And it is. All of the things that they built at that time are all those chickens are now coming home to roost. And is anyone at the highest level going to pay? This is the problem with America.

I think most Americans, Republicans and Democrats, independents, we all want the same thing. We all want the bad guys, legitimate bad guys, to go to jail. I don't care if they're Republicans or Democrats. I don't care. I want the bad guys to go to jail. And they won't. I mean, the bad guys will get away with it. And I would have been there on the front lines with, remember when we started the impeachment thing?

And what did I say to you? We have got to turn over every stone. And if the guy is guilty, he's guilty. Let the chips fall where they may. That's not the way it's done in America anymore. And that makes us just another awful, awful country that's run, you know, like a banana republic. Yeah. You talk about countries like Ukraine or whatever.

It seems like they have like a corruption officer at the airport and they'll just like kind of pull you into whatever scheme the moment you step off that's what it felt like when we were doing all that you know all that research on ukraine that was then of course you say that now and they'll call you a putin stooge um but pointing out the obvious you know now is is a crime but i mean how different are we really i mean this is embarrassing and the entire world is watching this i mean we laugh when people like putin get like 97% you know favorability rating you know or whatever we're like oh my gosh that's so stupid system's still corrupt look at us look at us look at us look at us I mean, we can't even acknowledge the obvious.

We have to let a lawyer go down for the things that he's being told to do by the highest echelons of government with the FBI, the Clinton family. I mean, come on. I mean, at this point, it's sad to say, I highly doubt anything even happens. I highly doubt it. And I think we even called this out on one of our show. We're like, the middlemen or the low-level people are going to be the ones that will go down. There's another story. Democrats now are blocking the Republican efforts to upload Hunter Biden's laptop into a searchable digital format into the congressional record.

It's already been accepted, but are you ready? Apparently, Jerry Nadler has said, we don't have the technology to upload that into the congressional record. and so he wanted everything on paper so it could be scanned in. But then that doesn't make it searchable, does it? So they are now conferring with lawyers back and forth. It's been accepted as bizarre. Yeah, we just don't have the technology. Like, why would a New Yorker have that accent?

I don't know. That is bizarre. are. Thank you very much, Jason. I appreciate it. Let me tell you about life lock. Life global events have the potential to impact all of us through cyber attacks. While most experts agree, the majority of cyber attacks are targeted at businesses and institutions and our utility infrastructure.

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Thank you so much. There is a really incredible op-ed from this weekend's New York Times, the weekend of Passover, Good Friday, and also Easter. This was written by a Jewish man. He says, this weekend, Jews around the world will celebrate the holiday of Passover, the name of which comes from the story of God passing over the homes of our distant ancestors on his way to slaughter the firstborn sons of evil Egyptians. Our forefathers, the story goes, marked their doorpost with lamb's blood in order to spare their own sons the awful fate of their enemies.

In this time of war and violence of oppression and suffering, I propose we pass over something else. God. Could I just, may I just ask? this was God freeing the slaves and he didn't like the way it was done

okay are you one of these people that complain about the civil war and how that was done because 350,000 fought that war and died and that's because

we believed God was telling us slavery needed to end. So was God wrong in the freeing of the slaves that time? Are you worried about slavery now or just the slavery that I guess should have happened with the Egyptians thousands of years ago? I'm not sure. More on this in a second.

This is the Glenn Back program. So what's going on, Glenn? Anything big? Anything going on? Anything what's going on? Well, the car company that, you know, has had my car for four years. They said, as soon as Glenn gets off the air, we'd like to have a conference call.

Are you kidding? Because I thought you were saying that you tried to contact them and had to hurt back. We've been writing to them. Two weeks ago, they asked a question. We were like, well, we need this information on a couple of things. And then we can give you an answer right away. And they haven't responded. But now they're responding.

What a coincidence. What a coincidence. Not sure I want to chat. I'm not sure I want to chat You know, it's like you get to a point to where you're like Just Just box it up My wife is

Livid Livid over this Back in a minute So the New York Times had an editorial From Shalom Aslander And he wrote This weekend Jews around the world We'll celebrate the holiday of Passover

In the name It comes from the story of God Passing over the homes of our distant ancestors on his way to slaughter the firstborn sons of evil Egyptians. Our forefathers, the story goes, marked their doorposts with lamb's blood in order to spare their own sons with the awful fate of their enemies. This time of war and violence and oppression and suffering, I propose we pass over something else. God, it seems, paints with a wide brush.

He paints with a roller. In Egypt, said our rabbi. He even killed the firstborn cattle. He killed cows. If he were mortal, the god of the Jews, Christians and Muslims would be dragged to the hague, and yet we praise him, we emulate him, we employ our children to be like him. Perhaps now, as missiles rain down and the dead are discovered in mass graves, it's a good time to stop emulating this hateful God. Perhaps we can stop extolling his brutality. Perhaps now is a good time to teach our children to pass over, God to be as unlike him as possible. That is the holiday New York Times op-ed. More in 60 seconds. Man, we are already teaching our kids to Passover God.

We're already, we are, we are not in good shape, America, and we have to do everything we can to get onto the same page. teach our children what they need to know. Tuttle Twins have a new book that is out. It is, I think, one of the most important topics one can teach their children right now that way and teach yourself because people are going to start clamoring

to help the Fed when there's a crash. When inflation is out of control, the Fed will provide the answer that everyone will go, yes, we got to do it. it. They're the people that cause the problem. I want you to read the Tuttle Twins book. Now, this was made for kids, but you can read it to your kids, your grandkids. Read it yourself. We all will learn, even if you need just a refresher on the Fed. It is the Tuttle Twins and the creature

from Jekyll Island. That is the Fed. How does inflation work? Why is inflation created? Who creates it? Why do prices go up? How's our monetary? system work. Teach your kids. This is crucial for families to be ready so you can prepare. Tuttle twinsbeck.com. Get your book while supplies last for free. Tuddle twins and the creature from Jekyll Island, free now, Tuttle twinsbeck.com. Rabbi Lapin. Everybody needs a rabbi and you are mine. How are you, Rabbi? Couldn't be better, Glenn. It's so lovely to hear your voice again. And I was trying to think how long you and I've been friends.

It's a long time, really. Yeah, it's been. I cherish the French. Yeah, likewise. So I want to talk to you, first of all, about this op-ed. Oh, yeah. Your thoughts on it? Well, it's written by just yet another infantile, secular Jewish neurotic.

And there's a lot of them around. It's tiresome, you know, frankly, life's too short to waste time with that rubbish. Okay. I like that. I mean, your first clue is that the New York Times published it. Right. Right. The problem here is that I think...

No, seriously. I mean, honestly, this is a guy who has been shaking a defiant fist. He's a bar mitzvah. And it's tiresome to be subjected to it. You know, his aunts and uncles probably tried to shut him up all through his adolescence, but now he has an audience, so he keeps out of it. It's an interesting thing. but would this have been, would this have been printed 20 years ago, Rabbi?

In the New York Times? Not in the New York Times. Right. So there's always been, which is when, you know, when, for the most part, when Christians lose their faith or never accept their faith, then they're neutral. You just don't waste a lot of time and energy blasting Jesus. I mean, you just don't get a lot of that. But it's a weird thing about Jews, and probably one of the most valuable and credible validations of the story of the Bible. The fact that Jews are so different from everybody else in this area, when Jews abandon the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they don't become neutral.

They become rabid secularists and invariably join the ranks of radical socialism, almost always. I was watching the Ten Commandments this weekend with the kids, and I noticed something that I had never noticed before. By the way, did they play the opening of Cecil D. B. Oh, yes, we did. That's really important. No, I know. And I really kind of listened to it for the first time. I mean, I used to always watch it, but I never really listened to it.

It is very important. And I stopped it there, and I told the kids, do you know that the first scene that they shot was, Exodus. I don't know if you know this, Rabbi. He shot Exodus first, that big scene with all those extras. He was sitting on a chair and he reaches over to the assistant director and puts his arm, his hand on his arm and said, I don't want you to react to what I'm about to tell you, but I'm having a heart attack. And he looked at Cecil B. DeMille and went, wait, what? And he's like, I told you not to react. If we stop filming today, this film will never be made. So I'm going to sit here and have my heart attack and you're going to listen to what I say and you're going to direct it. And he did.

And that night they took him to the hospital and he had a heart attack. But anyway. My goodness. Something you may not know is that the prop of the actual 10 commandments, he arranged to be carved out of a rock from Sinai. You may not know this. but we have we have the Ten Commandments from that movie

in Oh my goodness Yeah But I didn't know that When I've been with you I really Please I've got to look at it Oh yeah

Yeah yeah yeah So it's the rock of what It was called He had it carved out of rocks from Mount Sinai Wow Have you seen the The video of The area in Saudi

Arabia that's being protected by the king? Yes, I'm quite sure they're correct. I'm quite sure that that is actually the real location. Really? If you haven't seen this online, you should watch. I don't remember what it is. I can't remember the name of the terrific guy who did that whole lot of thing and made the movie, but I do think he's correct.

That's unbelievable because it's all right there. I mean, you see the altar with the calf, you see the split rock. I mean, it's incredible. I think he has the geography and the timeline exactly right. Okay. So, Rabbi, I wanted to ask you a couple of questions. One, as I'm watching the Ten Commandments, it is so important, and I noticed it for the first time, that Cecil B. DeMille is saying, this is the beginning of freedom, the end of slavery. Tell me about that, because that's not the way, I mean, it's more of, I've always perceived it's more of a story of God than Ten Commandments. But that part is really important. The role it plays is very significant. In other words, we don't observe the data just as a commemorative event of an historic event that took place 30 300 years ago.

No, it's actually we play it as an annual – I don't want to use the word vaccination anymore. I'm down on those. I'm going to say an annual – how about if I say inoculation? Okay, yeah, good. Powerful and the many. And so it could hardly be more a click of current time in the United States of America, where people's lives are being oppressed by wokeism and by radical leftism. And the theme is this, Glenn, you know, in May 1954, something really significant happened, which is that, well, if you're into athletics, what happened is that for the very first time, the four-minute mile was broken. Roger Bannister broke the tape at 359, a minute before.

But here's the funny thing, it's a four-minute mile. And then every subsequent year to the present day, more and more and more athletes where to this day, you know, college athletes regularly break the four-minute mile. So what changed? Why is it that a year later, seven guys were able to do it? But prior to that, nobody had been able to do a four-minute mile. What Roger Bannister did was profound. He showed that it could be done.

Because up until then, doctors had said that people would die in a four-minute mile attempt it's not doable. Because, you know, the experts always know best. But Roger Bannister, medical student himself, paid no attention to that, and just calmly went ahead and ran a four-minute mile. The fact that something can be done is hugely important. The deep human belief that something is impossible

will absolutely tyrannize one and render one's efforts completely futile. If you don't believe, this is part of what athletics coach do. It's part of what motivational work does. If you don't believe deep in your heart that what you're attempting to do is doable, you probably won't make it. And your likelihood of success is vastly increased by the knowledge, conviction, belief that you will and can do it. And so up until that point by God, from a tyrannical set of circumstances, is hugely important. And perhaps in my lifetime, perhaps no more important than it is right now.

People are being oppressed by the United States government. People are being oppressed by wokeism at colleges and in the university system, in the public school system, which I call government indoctrination camps. I don't call them public schools anymore. There is a whole area of research, which interestingly enough, Russian scientists have done some good work on, that oil is not the result of decaying, matter, but it's actually a chemical process that takes place under high temperature and pressure

deep underground, which suggests an explanation for why it is that many oil fields, like one in Louisiana, most notably, that was declared to have a lifespan ending very soon, seems to have been reborn, and the reserves have increased. It's as if new oil is being made. You're not allowed to say this, because it violates the whole doctrine of shortage and scarcity. And, and people's lives, there are scientists who've told me, I'll point you in the direction of some research, I'll give you some books, but I will not publicly allow you to quote me as saying this because I don't need my life destroyed. And this is a message of Passover.

Are we able to stand up to the tyrants? And some of us can, and some of us can't. It's as simple as that. You know, I don't blame anybody who says, look, I want to be able to continue feeding my family. Back with Rabbi Lapin here in just a second. First, let me tell you about Gold Line. Everything that you are being told is wrong. Remember, it was the experts that said there would be no inflation. There was the experts that said that it was when inflation hits, it was just transitory. Then it's not going to be so bad. Now that we're hitting highs, and if you

calculate it the way it used to be calculated back in the 80s, They changed the calculation to make it look better. We are way above, three points above at the worst. In 1980, inflation was in the 14 range, like 14.6. We are now 17.1, if you calculate it the same way. Take away the games from the government. You see they are really, really bad at predictions, or they're just straight out liars. Thomas Soul pointed out that a $100 bill in 1998 would buy less than a $20 bill in the 1960s.

You'll lose 80% of its value in that time, 80%. The empire is falling and our money is going to be worth less and less until eventually it's worthless. Please, call Gold Line now and find out, ask them about their specials on graded $5,000, Indian head coins. You may be eligible for free platinum as well. You have to call, find out how to qualify. Just call them now. Do your own homework. 866 gold line, 866 gold line or goldline. 10 second station ID. So Rabbi Daniel Lapin is with this. Rabbi, you told me one time that in exodus, when they were exiting, that not all the Jews went. And I think this is so critical to understand because we think that everybody's got to get on board for something big to happen.

And it's not true. Even the Jews, many of them, decided to stay in Egypt as slaves, right? Yes, because, you know, the devil, you know, and don't forget, there's an aspect of slavery, which is very appealing, and that is you don't have to worry about your food and shelter. Your rent is paid, your food stamps, you get your food stamps, and I'm making it blue. liberal parallel between slavery and welfare. In both cases, your dignity is destroyed, and you become subservient to whoever, whoever, over your head, slavery, which is very appealing in that sense. And so, not surprisingly, the Hebrew original, and, you know, when, when you kindly said

everyone needs a rabbi, you know, you were just not, not just promoting full employment for rabbis, but, you know, you were allowing me to submit my candidacy in all humility. And the reason is because the Hebrew text is really, really important. The translations of the Bible leave out a good deal of the meaning. There's a reason that people who want to study Russian literature study the language of Russian to read it in the original. And the Bible deserves no less. And the Hebrew is very clear that only 20% of them agree to follow Moses out. The rest prefer to stay behind. And it's perfectly comprehensible. You know, how many people How many's population followed George Washington.

What percentage decided to rebel against Britain? Only about a third, I believe, and you'll know better than me. It's about 20%. Same figure. Same amount. And that's what we have to recognize, and that revolutions can occur, even with only 20% of the people. The world can be changed.

You don't need more than 20% of the people. And that's probably all you're going to get. So our problem here is we no longer understand freedom. And I think it's, you know, if you've had it so long, you just don't appreciate it, especially as isolated to the rest of the world as we are. We're a huge, huge country. So most Americans, this is all they know. How do you fight against that?

That the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency, The process of inflation, he observed governments, can confiscate secretly and observed an important part of the wealth of their citizens. Okay, so we're seeing that happen. How do we combat it? Well, I think that, in my view, the most important thing is, first of all, to take care of what I teach. I mean, today this is 90% of what I do. develop what I call their five Fs. And that means that even though there is a deliberate attempt to depend on government, that is the ultimate goal. You've got to develop your financialism.

You've got to focus on friendships. One of the things that socialism does is destroy the bonds between citizens. You know, in the old Soviet Union, there were no PT parent teachers associations, there were no rotaries, there were no Lions Club. No organ of the founders knew that the principle of free association was so critical. And so helping people become financially independent, socially independent, will say, I'm not a religious person, I don't have faith, I don't have a connection with God. Well, when I was a teenager, I used to have pimples all over my face. I didn't walk around saying, hey, happy to meet you.

I'm Daniel Lappen. I'm a pimply teenager. I spent the equivalent of the gross domestic product of small countries in the United Nations on pharmaceuticals to clear my face until it cleared up. And I think in the same way, I would say to people, you know, you won't accept the fact that's wrong with you, you try and get it fixed. The fact that you're not religious is not terminal. Do something about it because it really is harder to function in a society who's driving force is secularism if you deny yourself the countervailing fuel that can propel you to freedom. So, I mean, I think the faith is an important factor.

I don't know, you know, the Black Rove Regiment is something I still have a lot of faith in, and I'm hoping its moment will arrive and will be with you. But in the meantime, you've got to survive. And so you have to build that up. Rabbi, we have 30 seconds here. so if you can. I made the case last week, and I think you heard it, that we're actually too religious.

We're way religious. It's just a religion of wokeism. Do you agree? No, absolutely. Secularism is a religion. Yeah. No question. All right.

Rabbi Lappin, thank you so much. By the way, you can see the Rabbi Lappin podcast or get it, wherever you get your podcast, and blazedtv.com. The Glennback program. movement to start a parallel economy has already begun in many ways. More and more as time goes on, you have to have, and I think we all realize this now, the ability to do business with companies that believe what you believe. You do business with companies that don't believe in ESG or do believe in abortion. And so they're taking their money and actually funding and helping

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Right. I feel bad for the IRS employee. Amen. Who's sitting there just not able to get through all those times they need to harass the American people over the money they didn't earn. Yeah. You know, that is what I feel today. And I've just overwhelmed that side of the feeling with the feeling of great charity and the work

that I'm doing for this. Goodness, you said that. Yeah. Because I have, I'm sure I have built countless turtle tunnels all over the country. You know what, Glenn? Even you, a man who's been taxed like a probe from an alien for the past 20 plus years. Without the alien baby. You probably have still not paid for any full turtle tunnels.

because they probably cost a billion dollars apiece. You're right. You know, every once in a while I think about that. This is the darkest. This is the darkest you'll get about your country. You'll see some dumb program that cost $7.9 million on a turtle tunnel. And you'll just be like, gosh, that's unbelievable. And then I want you to stop and think about it.

Because if you're the average American, you, in your entire life, all of the taxes you will ever pay will not even fund that one turtle tunnel. Not even one turtle will cross underneath the road because of you. All of those hours, all of those hours that you have worked half the year for some people,

half of the time that you spend working it won't even finish a turtle tunnel. Nope, not even one government waste project will you fund in your lifetime? Let me, about how, think of the despair you should feel today. Today.

Because, you know, it's not even like, well, you know, there's a lot of people who need things. And the government does important things for important people, or for certain people.

A lot of important things for important people, too. That's a whole other situation. But like the basic idea that, okay, we're helping. There's, you know,

there are people who cannot do, it and they need help. There's an orphan somewhere who needs a meal and you know somehow they fall through the cracks and we need okay let's just say that person exists. I'm sure somebody does certainly some people are

helped by government funds at some level but it's like you know so little of your money ever goes to anything like that it's just a waste if they turned it all off tomorrow. If they turned the income tax off tomorrow

tomorrow. We would go have to, we'd have to figure out how to go back and live like we did when we spent like the Barack Obama presidency. Just the time from the beginning of Barack Obama to now is the entire income tax is how much we've increased the budget. So you could turn it off, off and we'd have to go back only to Barack Obama spending levels. We are so completely out of control. And now we've come to a point in our political back and forth in which there is no other side to the argument. There's only let's spend a, you know, a 3.5 trillion dollars and let's spend $2.5 trillion. When the Republicans get in control, they do the exact same thing as the Democrats, except maybe a little less spicy. And so we're all eating the same foods. Just one has more

Tabasco than the other. And that is not a way to control. You did your own taxes, didn't you? I did. I did. What do you think my afternoon is? If tonight's Stu Does America sucks, you know why. Because I couldn't spend a minute on it. Instead, I had to work on my stupid taxes and not my actual taxes. Glenn, no, no. I have to spend more time today like I did all Easter weekend on my extension to my taxes because I don't even have all the forms yet. The people who I have to go and get forms from are not even able to turn them in. They need an extension to send me the forms. So now I need an extension to send in my taxes so that they can hold on to my money for just a little longer. A little longer.

And then maybe I'll be lucky and get a refund of my own money. Won't that be a miracle? Well, it will because the money you gave them, you know, a year ago. Yeah. That's worth about 17 cents less on every dollar. Right. Right. Yeah, taxes during inflation, it makes it even more fun.

Oh, yeah. Because everyone looks at this, like, I got a refund. Like this moment of pride, the government is giving you a gift of a refund. They've held your money hostage through a high inflation period. And now they might give some of it back to you. Which is worth almost $20. 20 cents less. And they're not even going to give it back to you on time.

Yeah. As they're saying now, they're delaying these quote unquote refunds for months and months and months. Because as you know, Glenn, they only have 15,000 people to harass everyone. So all the time that you could have had that money, even if you put it in the most basic account, get a couple of percent, you'd still be able to close the gap as to what they're going to give back to you. But you can't even do that. Mark this show on the calendar because I think we're going to come back to it in a couple of years and we'll be like, look, we talked about it and everybody said it wouldn't happen. Just imagine how much we're going to love it when we have a Fed coin.

Oh my gosh. And you won't have to worry about paying your taxes. It will just never be put into your account. That'll be great. Because the Fed will be able to decide what's taxable and what's not. So you won't have tax day. They'll just take it. And really in the way of you're guilty until proven innocent, because there's got to be some way to go, no, wait a minute, part of that was, you know, a deduction for this, this and this.

And then they'll have to look at that and go, well, I'm not sure. All right, we'll give you a Bitcoin. Go get some mouse food. Incredible. And there's no way to know. I mean, the amount of work that I've put into this, now look, look, I do procrastinating a bit. and I will admit, although the forms come in so late, there's no way, you can't start it in January. You have to wait until all the stuff comes in to actually be able to do it, to go through everything.

It's, you know, some tax returns I've done in my life were pretty easy, you know, and I, by the way, I should point out, I'm not doing it. I'm just doing the preparation work so that the accountant can do it. I have no idea what she does. She gets all these pay. I said there's thousands of forms. It is magic. And I've said, I've said, because I've been audited, but. before. And oh my goodness, I thought I was being visited by aliens. Anyway, it's not a fun

process to go through. In my case, it ended up, it was either even or they owed me like $200, something like that. Yeah. Because I overpay. Yeah, that's what I say. I say the same thing every time. No, at least that's what I say. If it's a question, if there's any, out let it fall that way, not my way. Aaron, in the government's favor because I don't want to freaking be harassed. Right. I don't want to be harassed. I don't want to go through it.

I don't want to have to cough up money. Just let it go in there. But I don't know. And so many things now, like cryptocurrency. Oh my God. How do you even? They don't even have the laws. They don't have the rules.

They don't have any idea how to prepare it. You could go to the IRS and they won't really even know. It's all guesswork. It's so true. You go to go look at some of the, the cryptocurrency, like, tax forums on, like, Reddit and all these. And, like, is everyone just asking, like, what the hell are we supposed to do with this? And people linking to article after article after article trying to explain how to treat, you know,

some complicated cryptocurrency transaction and on your taxes. It's like, you know, people, look, I, I really hate taxes. I really hate them, as you may be able to tell in this segment. But, like, I love them. I mean, don't. But I'm trying to be like, I, you know, when people are like, well, I don't want X, Y, and Z, and that's why I don't do it. I don't follow the law. I just, you know, look, I want to follow the law.

I believe that following the law is an important thing that a civilization needs, even with laws that you don't love. I think that I couldn't, I could not gauge America today anymore. But I think when I was growing up and I still have this ethic, I don't mind. mind paying taxes. I do mind paying unfair taxes, but I still pay them. Yes. But I'll make my voice heard. I don't like this. This isn't right. However, I'll pay them. And I think most Americans don't approach their taxes with anything other than, I just want to get this done and I want to get it right. I just, you know what, I don't want any hassle. Just let me pay my fair share, whatever that is, even though it's probably not fair.

Let me just pay it. I think most people go that way. I think you're right. I don't think people necessarily are trying to evade their taxes. They want to just get it done and get it right. They prefer if the government did something of value with their money, which they never seem to do. Never. But you know, like you put up with it.

It's just a part of life. Like there are roads I want to go faster than the speed limit. And, you know, sometimes maybe I do a little bit, but generally speaking, you keep it in line because, you know, we're a rule following society generally. How did we get this system other than it has to be because the progressives did it? How do we get the system in a country where you are innocent until proven guilty? How is it we are with the IRS, we are guilty until we bring this stuff to show we're innocent? Yeah.

It's incredible. It's just a total reversal of everything the country stands for. Yeah. And remember, the country, when it was founded, didn't have this. No. They were, they specifically needed to pass a constitutional amendment to even allow this to occur to you. Yes. This was not supposed to happen to you.

Progressives. Yeah. They passed it. And what did they say, Glenn? Never higher than what, nine or 10 percent? No, they said it would never be for anyone, um, uh, that made less. I can't remember then. Like, it was an extraordinary number back then, like a hundred thousand dollars, which was like two

millions today. Um, and they said it would be. never more than 5 to 7%. And then how it was only a few years later. It was like two years later. It was 10. And it was and it was and it was way down for everybody. Everybody started to pay taxes.

And then as soon as one of the wars hit was it the first world war. It went up to, you know, 70. It was at some point it was at 95% top income tax rate. That was in, I think, under Roosevelt. Yes. But there were all kinds of loopholes. Right. You know.

if you were newly rich, you know, you hit the non-existent lottery back then and you had all that money, you wouldn't have the sophistication or the attorneys to be able to find all the loopholes for you. You just paid and it was 95%. But if you, you know, if you had the money and knew how to work the system, you didn't pay that. And a lot of that's still happening. Still happening. Like, I mean, if you're mega, mega, ultra rich, you find ways to pay lower taxes. I mean, you know, there was a big... But they're all legal.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, Donald Trump was amazing when he was accurate when he said, yeah, I may pay lower taxes. That's the way the system works. Change it if you don't like it. Yeah. And he's absolutely right. Everybody, of course, is trying to pay as low tax as they can. Who is trying to pay more?

Nobody. And you know this because they put an address where you can give gifts to the U.S. government every year. If you believe your tax burden is too low, you can give gifts to the U.S. government to spend against their general fund in which they can pay for taxes. Every progressive should be doing that. And no one does. No one does. I think there's like one or two, isn't there? Yeah, they usually get a few every year.

Yeah, they get a few. A few bucks, but it's like not a lot. It shows that this idea that taxes should be higher is something they utilize to punish others. They don't care about it themselves. They want to punish others. you know, and they've done this forever. People, you know, Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders comes out there.

I mean, he was asked about it in one of the debates. It's like, hey, you keep saying taxes should be higher on the wealthy. You're the wealthy, and you don't give more than you're supposed to. Why? Why don't you just implement this policy for yourself? Wow, because it's not the system that I would think that would really be able to hand. Okay, all right, thanks. All right, let me tell you about my Patriots supply.

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And again, you're going to feel very charitable. Very charitable. So this is the last pre-pandemic year. Obviously, the budgets are much worse now than they were then. But America spent in 2019 more on taxes than it did on food, clothing, and housing combined. All of the basic necessities of life combined are outweighed by just the taxes that you give to the government

so that they can completely waste in your honor. Now, I should clarify, half of the country pays more than the entire country's housing, food, and what's the other one? Clothing. Clothing. Yeah. Combined. Combined. Because yours.

So half the country paid as much as the entire country paid. Right? Yeah. And the number was higher than ever. You're talking about the number where of people, percentage of people who do not pay any income tax at all. And that number usually, famously Mitt Romney, 47%. And it bubbled around that number for a while. It's well over 50% now as we hit the pandemic.

Well over 50%. I don't have the number in front of me, but it's over 50% of the country now. I want to say it was 56 or something. That's when, that is when Ben Franklin said the country would be over. As soon as the majority of people were there, and the politicians realized they can win with the tax scheme,

it's over. There's no way back. But he was usually wrong about stuff. Really? I feel like he was pretty smart. That was not. This is the Glenn Back program.