The Glenn Beck Program - Woke Olympic Insanity | Guests: Sen. Mike Lee & Ronald Pestritto | 8/2/21

Episode Date: August 2, 2021

Australia sent out the military to enforce lockdowns and mask mandates. Pat Gray joins to discuss Glenn’s art show and woke Olympians like Raven “The Hulk” Saunders. Rapper Da Baby is being canceled over “homophobic” comments, but Glenn and Stu review all that didn’t get him canceled. Stay-at-home mom Nicole Solas joins to discuss how her school board threatened to sue her for asking too many questions about critical race theory. Hillsdale College professor Ronald Pestritto joins to share his new book, “America Transformed,” and compare Biden’s progressive policies to Woodrow Wilson’s dream. Utah Sen. Mike Lee calls in to discuss the newest trillion-dollar spending bill in the Senate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Are you wearing your mask? Because I definitely am. Aren't you used to? I wish, well, if I was a very bad citizen, I would wear a mask. I'm wearing two masks. Right, of course we are. I mean, it's a good, I wish we were on TV right now and not radio because you and make no comment. What you're seeing on Blaze TV is not real.

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about today. And we got to make sure we, we don't, I wish we had, you know, a minute to screw around today, but really it's, there's too much coming out of them. That is too much. You don't want to hear about this weekend. I mean, I, maybe when we're off the air, we're broadcasting out of millions of people. I think we should probably get to the news. Clear on that because it was a good, good weekend, and you said it wouldn't be. Anyway, I don't know if you've noticed this, but the military now has been deployed to enforce the lockdown in Australia. It's a prison country again. I can't imagine the military being dispatched on our shores to make sure that you remain inside. I, well, I was going to say, I don't think Americans would put up with it.

But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we would. Yeah, we would put up with it. I mean, why not? Why not? What else? What else could they do to us? You know, here's the thing. We have taught the United States government and those weasels in Washington an awful lot. We have taught them that you can spy on us. You can collude with big tech. You can you can break all of the warrant. laws. You can lock us up in our homes. You can destroy our businesses. You can tell us exactly what to do and what not to do, where to eat, where not to eat, when to eat, when we can open up, what we have to wear, what we have to put into our bodies. They can tell us anything. And we'll

take it. We'll take it. We'll just keep taking it. I think they have learned a lot. They have learned a lot. They have learned a lot. And hopefully there are going to be a few states that will stand up now and say, yeah, that was a mistake to teach you that. That was a big mistake to teach you that. Definitely does seem like that's true. Australia is doing such a strange thing too. Look, if you're a continent, that is an island, right? Right. You can theoretically lock down and really limit the virus spread, I guess. You know, I was just there. Sydney, the biggest Sydney, the biggest city in Australia is about the size of Pittsburgh. And then it's a different world.

Hours away of nothing to the next city. Yeah, it's a different world, right? Different, totally different. And like, look, everybody in this audience thinks the lockdowns were a bad idea, almost everybody. So I don't need to sell you on that idea. But if you're looking at it in the most generous way possible, lockdowns should be viewed as basically a panic room, right?

Like if someone breaks into your home, you go into the panic room. It's not a long-term choice. It's not designed to be a long-term choice. You know, in the first few weeks, when we don't have any tests, we don't have any treatments, we don't know what the heck this virus is. Correct. You could at least make the argument, okay, maybe there's some reason for some of that stuff. But like, it's not supposed to be a long-term strategy.

What Australia has done is basically made it into a long-term strategy. but at the same time, not gone after vaccinations. So they're like 12% vaccinated. And so at some point, they're going to have the same sort of rise in cases that everyone else has faced. They've just delayed it and destroyed their economy at the same time. Well, the good thing is China will be there to help bail them out. Oh, sure. I'm sure they will be there.

By the way, New York is, of course, collapsing. And Cuomo knows it. We have a little Cuomo music, please. Hey, and let me tell you something here. We got to get people back. You know, we got to get people back in volume in the places like New York City, you know? Oh.

So, you know, if you were to see a 15% decline and people coming back to New York City, that'd be a devastating impact on the commercial market. We need them coming back. So say to your work. workforce by Labor Day. Everybody's back in the office. Now here's the problem.

He's saying, hey, everybody come back. It's so great. Here is Bill de Blasio this weekend talking about, oh, how dangerous things are, because people are going outside without masks and without being vaccinated. Do you have the power to mandate vaccination in all restaurants, like a liquor license? Like a restaurant can't sell liquor if they don't have a, liquor license. Could you do that or the city council? The health department, which in especially

an emergency situation like this, has very real powers, can put out a variety of rules. Just as you said earlier, there was issues with smoking in the past, any kind of public health issue can be addressed. And we'll look at all those options. But listen, it comes down to something very human. We want people to understand this is what saves their lives. This is what saves the lives of their loved ones. But we've tried incentives

for months and months. We tried being, you know, communicative and open and compassionate and all that was good. But we need something also tough at this point. Incentives, yes, $100 per person, great deal. But we need mandates. So Bill de Blasio, you come to me today, the day of my daughter's wedding and Labor Day.

And you say, you want me to do your favor? He'll do it. He'll do it. He'll absolutely do it. And they have no idea. why people are moving out of, I mean, did you see Goldman Sachs is, please don't do this Goldman Sachs. We don't want you here.

Goldman Sachs is now moving their headquarters or splitting their headquarters and moving to Dallas. Goldman Sachs. Wow. Okay. You lose Goldman Sachs and all of these places. The brokers are like, you know,

why don't we go down the Florida, you know? Okay. The amount of people that are leaving these states like California, like New York, is incredible. I mean, it is incredible. I mean, you can't function in these states. You try to do business up there. It was already a bad place to do business. It was already a bad place to do business in California.

But when you lock down all of the employees and make their lives miserable every single day and continually threaten those businesses from even existing. I mean, people just run. They're literally fleeing. Wouldn't you? I would, yeah. Business, small business, the most small business closures in the country is in New York City.

31% went out of business. Now, that is the backbone of an economy. When you lose your small businesses, you lose everything. And I know everybody's like, we got big, let's go, let's have. help out the GE. You don't need to help out GE.

Just let the small businesses come back to work. But now we, of course, have to wear masks. And, you know, they say that it's not confusing at all. You know, the mask thing. I mean, they've been very, very, very

clear about it. Could we please please play cut nine? People should not be walking around with masks. Let me just state. for the record that masks are not theater. Wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better. Masks are protective. But it's not providing the perfect protection

that people think that it is. There has not been any indication that putting a mask on and wearing a mask for a considerable period of time has any deleterious effects. There are unintended consequences. People keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.

And can you get some schmutz sort of staying inside there? Of course. You do not need to wear a mask indoors if, in fact, you've been vaccinated. Good that you're vaccinated, but in a situation where you have people indoors, particularly crowded, you should wear a mask. So even if you are vaccinated, you should wear a mask. If in fact you are vaccinated, fully vaccinated, you are protected, and you do not need to wear a mask. Outdoors or indoors.

When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks. You know, if you look at children outside, particularly when they're with the family, walking down the street, playing a game, or what have you, don't have to wear a mask. The pediatric, the Academy of Pediatric, actually makes that recommendation that children should be wearing masks from two years old onward. And you're asking now, if your child is a member of your household, can you walk outdoors with your child without a mask? According to that chart, the answer is yes.

But the child can't, not to beat it to death? Yes, yes. Because now the CDC says, I mean, I think I've got this right. One mask is better than zero masks. Two masks is better than one mask. But you don't have to have double masks. Is that right?

I mean... It became clear that cloth coverings, that you didn't have to buy in a store that you could make yourself were adequate. And then you wanted to fit better. So one of the ways you could do it if you would like to is put a cloth mask over, which actually here and here and here

where you could get leakage in is much better contained. Are you a double masker, Dr. Fauci? It look like you are. Okay, so I think that's all very, very clear on exactly what we need to do and the science of masks. Just all the science. Yeah, exactly right. Eddie lives in Seattle. Wow. Eddie, can we raise money for you? Seriously. Eddie lives in Seattle. He writes in about his experience with relief factories. He says about a year ago, I was bent over like an old man. I could barely stand up straight. I had heavy, heavy back pain. I dreaded even going to the mailbox.

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It's Relief Factor 800, 583,84. 10 seconds. Station ID. Things are getting so bad in Australia, It is good that we have people here in the United States that understand freedom of speech and understand how important it is to have diverse voices. Unfortunately, no one at YouTube or Google seems to be a part of that group. YouTube said yesterday it was barring Sky News Australia. That's like banning Fox News here. they are no longer letting Sky News post anything because of COVID-19 misinformation.

It comes after a view of posts uploaded by the Rupert Murdoch-owned TV channel, says we have clear and established COVID-19 medical misinformation policies to prevent the spread of COVID-19 misinformation that could cause real-world harm. That's according to YouTube. with 1.86 million YouTube subscribers, the channel which is owned by News Corp has a conservative following well beyond Australia. Its posts, including some questioning whether there is a pandemic, and the efficacy of the vaccines are widely shared on social media forums around the world that spread the virus and vaccine misinformation. So now they have been banned because they uploaded three days ago a host claiming that lockdowns have failed and are criticizing state authorities for extending their current stay-at-home orders. They banned them and Google allowed it to happen.

Are you seeing what's happening in Cuba when the tech giants. Pick a side, and they pick the side of the government. You will be able to oppress and silence those who disagree. This is outrageous that this is happening with Google. That's their policy. That's fine. But Google is editing and silencing dissenting voices. When, I'm sorry, the science isn't clear. we didn't know anything a year and a half ago.

And so it was important to hear disparate voices. But with this variant, we also don't know. And they're silencing voices on this. Stu, have you heard the argument about that the variant is possibly enhanced by the vaccines? Yes, I've heard that argument. And you don't buy it? No. I don't think it's, I don't think that has anything to do with it.

Let me, let me just, if you haven't heard this, this is cut 15, Dr. Robert Malone. Listen to what he said. What NBC news dropped yesterday was the statement sourced from an unnamed government official that the titers in the vaccinated are actually higher than in the unvaccinated. What does this mean? And why, why do you suddenly see this kind of frantic scramble? This is precisely what one would see if antibody dependent enhancement was happening. What is antibody dependent enhancement?

Briefly, it's that the vaccine causes the virus to become more infectious than would happen in the absence of vaccination, would cause the virus to replicate at higher levels than in the absence of infection. this is this is the vaccinologist works nightmare okay stop it has so why don't you buy that what what do you what have yours what is your research said about that

uh i mean i just don't think it's like you know dr malone has been on the program we we like him he's a nice guy um you know but i haven't seen this as we just saw this outbreak in in the uk for example where you know it doesn't seem to have happened uh doesn't seem to be happening here

i mean people are having far less he's talking about the people who would get the virus or having more virus to potentially spread to others. However, they're getting it at one-tenth the rate. So, I mean, even if you do get a... And again, that's just based on one study. If you look at, I think, the entire experience of the UK going through the battle with the Delta variant just weeks ago,

where we saw a massive drop-off in the rate of death, about 93%. I you know I you know it's not to say that what he's saying has no I mean I'm not a virologist by any means I mean and I know that Dr. Malone as as he would say is not agreeing with the you know lots of other virologists on this right he you know as he he's kind of taken that position of saying hey like this is this is what I believe and I think it's different than what everyone else believes is why he's you know been an interesting figure through this right But, you know, I don't think I, look, we'll see.

You get to this point at some point with some of the stuff is, let's just watch it happen. Like, people are just going to do what they're going to do and it's going to spread how it's going to spread. And at the end of this, we can all come by. At the end, we can all kind of find our own little answer as to why it ended. And that's kind of where this is going to go. So of the Delta variant in Massachusetts, in a study of Massachusetts, the people who got sick, 74% of the people infected with COVID were fully vaccinated with the variant. The overwhelming amount of people are in the vaccinated group.

They're not equal groups. So if you have 100 people, let's put it this way. If you have 100 people, all of them are fully vaccinated. What percentage of people are going to be in the hospital that are vaccinated? 100%. They're all going to be vaccinated because all the people are vaccinated. So the group of vaccinated people is much, much, much, much, much larger than the, in the group of unvaccinated people.

So that's going to be the rate, however, the rate your chance of going to the hospital is much, much higher if you are unvaccinated. Yeah, it's lower if you are vaccinated. If you are vaccinated, correct? Much lower. All right. Back in just a second.

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It's available on Blaze TV. Right. What in particular did you like? Where do people download that? Pretty much anywhere. Anywhere. It's really interesting. What I was wondering was how many paintings. Friday, he said people would come in and spit on the painting.

I don't think I said that. And so that turned out to be, that was inaccurate? Inaccurate. Nobody spit on any painting? No. And he said like no one would show up. I may have said people should spit on the paintings. I don't know if I said that they would.

and it was all he could talk about last week. That's all he could talk about. Now, strangely, he doesn't want to hear. I'm sorry if the news is more important than your little art show from the weekend, Glenn. I'm sorry, you know, our country right now is on the edge. Yeah. And you want to talk about your paintings? Right.

Well, yeah. I don't know. I mean, is it a big deal to talk about it for just real quick. He's wasting much more time. No, inflation, terrorism. pandemic. Let's let's let's let's spend some time on you drawing. Okay. Your heightened level I don't know the fine coloring book. Yeah. All of all you know, all of my proceeds going to Mercury 1. Wait for what I don't. I don't. What for what? Like what are

is there any, is there any important issue that maybe we should talk about like the loss of the global sex slavery? Yeah. Maybe the loss murdering of Christians around the globe. But maybe we can spend some time on that instead of your stupid paintings. Anyway. Anyway, I don't have the final number, but it's about $250,000 raised this weekend. Really? Just Saturday. That's fantastic.

Yeah, it was a wild success. I think we have a generous audience to, right? To put that sort of money into this cause at the expense of also taking home your painting. I mean, what an incredible honor. It was very, it was, and it was wonderful. It was packed all day. Saturday. Yes, Saturday.

And was taking, you know, people about 30 to 50 at a time through the gallery and, you know, talking, telling the stories behind each of the paintings. And it was just great. So many people came from, drove a long way, you know, didn't, and didn't even buy anything, which I was totally fine with. And it was, it was great. And we should, I've had a lot of questions from the people who have purchased your paintings. And the answer is, yes, you just have to put it up when.

Glenn comes over. You don't have to have it up all the time. Right? Just put it up. If Glenn's coming over your house, put up the painting. Be kind. All right. So, Pat, did you watch the Olympics at all?

I have watched about two minutes of coverage. Really? Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't watched a darn second of it. I do know that the women's soccer team lost. Oh, no.

To Canada. Gosh, darn it was torn apart by that. Tored apart. seem like such a lovely group. Don't they? Don't they though? They do. So patriotic and wonderful and loving and dedicated. Wonderful. They do. Wonderful. I hope they got

equal pay for that loss. I actually I would have liked them to have won. I would not have. They're from the U.S. Oh, I really? I'm past that. Are you really? Yeah, I'm past that. I've always been past it with soccer. Because soccer I want them to lose. Because the more U.S. soccer teams

win, the more I have to watch highlights on ESPN or wherever I'm watching sports. They treat it like it's a real sport. Well, then you should be against Ted Lassow. Ted Lassow is doing that, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. He's normalizing soccer. You're right.

I need a new stance in my life. Anti-Ted Lassow seems like the right thing. Yeah, it does. Don't normalize soccer. Don't do it. Did you see the, what was her name that? Oh, you mean the beautiful trans woman? The Victoria Secret woman?

Yeah, she's so beautiful. She's lovely. She's lovely. She's a victor. Wait a minute. Hold it. Or are we talking about the same woman? Well, if she's not.

The shot putter. The shot putter. Oh, the shot putter. Yeah. That's not the trans person. Oh, okay. The weightlifter is the trans person. Okay.

What is she winning? No, she crashed out. Oh, darn it. A stunning development, though, that a trans weightlifter would excel enough to get to the Olympics. It seems like such a, of all the sports. And was expected to medal. And so who would go figure that the person who used to be a man might have a leg up in that competition. And again, no reason to change my stance of I'm glad to see the U.S. lose.

Because when they win, that's when you see people like Raven Saunders. She was sporting a neon green and purple buzz cut. and she made an X sign with her wrists, with her wrists up at the podium. She just crossed her arms and made her. And she said later, because everybody said, what the hell does that even mean? And she said, I'm glad you ask,

it's the intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet. That is. Right at her wrists? Right. Weird. That's weird. That seems like too many people for one set of wrists.

And then, and then after she decided. decided to twerk. And it was sexy. That's nice. I could imagine. I wanted to meet on her wrists after that. I did. I was like,

I think I was oppressed by that. I don't know how to go on. She said, I just wanted to be me not to apologize, to show younger people that no matter how many boxes they try to fit you in. You can be all you can and you can accept it. People tried to tell me not to do text. tattoos and piercings and all that.

But look at me now. Look at her now. I'm popping. I'm popping. She said she, you know, she's been, she's had a lot of things weighing on her for 22 years. And she was finally able to process it. And she was finally able to separate Raven from the Hulk, which was really. Okay.

Wow. Good. That's so Raven. That is so Raven. That's exactly the type of behavior you'd expect from Raven. Right. She's a delight. She's a delight.

You know, I have to tell you, Simone Biles, and, you know, I'm not going to tear her apart because she's gone through a lot, et cetera, et cetera. But, you know, as I was doing these tours about the painting, one of the paintings that I did was Jesse Owens. And I painted him so his eyes would follow you in the room. And I have him at the starting line at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. And don't talk to me. about, you know, oh, I've got so many things I'm oppressed. He was oppressed. He was oppressed.

He was living in America at a time where he had to use a separate water fountain if he wanted to drink. So half of the population in the United States loved him. The other half didn't love him. When Hitler invited him and the U.S. to come over for the Berlin Olympics, half of the black community said, you can't do it. You can't go because you can't support the Hitler government and you can't support the United States government. The other half said, you have to go.

You have to go because you have to show that a black man is human over in Germany because he says you're subhuman. So you have to go. FDR didn't want to meet with Jesse Owens, didn't want to support Jesse Owens. Hitler. He's in the stadium with Hitler staring at him. You want to talk about pressure? Shut up. Talk to Jesse Owens.

And what did he do? He won the gold. And then he stood there proudly as the National Anthem played. And he came back. That's why he's a hero. He twerked afterward, though. He did twerk. There was twerking going.

He had to twerk. It wouldn't have been any good if he didn't twerk after a ceremony. Let me tell you. Let me tell you the same story with Jesse Owens. Do you know why he won the gold? Because he was faster. Past his time, yeah. Cross the finish line before the others.

Yeah. So that's what happens. You turn your mics off and turn your headphones on. You're not allowed to listen anymore. Let me just share this with you, okay? Here's the reason why I won in the long jump is because the guy who he was competing against will notice that Jesse Owens was jumping too soon. and he kind of sneaks over to Jesse's side and he's standing there and he says,

hey, listen, you're jumping too soon. And Jesse said, what are you talking about? He's like, don't look at me. Hitler's looking at me. Don't look at me. You're jumping too soon. So I'm going to saunter over to the pit and I'm just going to drop my towel where you should jump. and so he does

and this is a German competitor I believe wasn't it? Oh yeah Oh yeah And he puts his towel down Right where Jesse Owens should jump Jesse Owens jumps and wins the gold It didn't take long for that guy

To be sent to the Russian front That guy was sent to the Russian front Because he lost to Jesse Owens And he helped Jesse Owens Jesse Owens and he became friends he was sent to the Russian front and the last thing he said to Jesse Owens was please one thing I ask

please tell my children when this madness is all over I was not one of them so don't tell me about your oppression Hulk Raven don't tell me about your oppression well there was that 10-2 thing

they had to deal with well yeah and she was told not to pierce you know and I'm sure that there's a lot of people who are oppressed that were really sad to hear that that kind of oppression was going on on her people don't look at this anymore but the Nazis were very anti-piercing that was one of the things people don't really discuss they don't even discuss what is that horrid he rose to power based on the non-piercing theory yeah he did it gosh oh we're such cry babies thank you pat pat gray unleashed wherever you get your podcast all right let me tell you about car shield don't know if you've been

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could we play this, uh, video here? I'm going to make a brief statement here and then we'll get to ask the vice president to say a few words, get to. Get to the, questions and we get down to business. That's okay with y'all. Okay, now he's about to be handed up. You know, one month ago, we convened the first of what will be a regular presidential briefing on wildfire preparedness.

And expand your capacity is through the partnership that we have. Handed a note. Says on it, sir, there is something on your chin. This issue is ongoing each year as we have discussed, and then eats it. No. It affects real people.

Oh, no. Why? than normal. We've had two and a half times more acreage burn in the last decade than the previous. So those are the obvious concerns and everything you need to fight a fire, we could use your help on. And I think you've been totally on top of this. Yeah, I was going to ask, how did you know it was on the note? But he, of course, holds it up backward to the camera so you can read it. Yeah.

Sir, there's something on your chin. And then he eats it. He doesn't just take it off. Then he looks at it and he's like, ooh, yummy. and eats it. That was really a repulsive moment. I mean, that is just, I gotta say, that was legitimately repulsive.

That is really just gross. Do you remember in Fahrenheit 9-11? I guess the Michael Moore. I didn't see it, thank goodness. Really? I thought we talked about it at the time. I thought we did. Maybe have blocked it from my memory.

I think you may have blocked it because we did, I think, go to see it so we could talk about it on the air. But there is one moment where I think it's Paul Wolfowitz. And they're, you know, of course, trying to make all the Bush people to be these terrible people. And I, if I remember, right, he did something like he combed his hair and then like, I think he licked, he licked his hand or something and like put it through his hair and then licked his hand again. It was like one of these like set up before an interview. And it was like a really kind of gross moment.

Like he was trying to make his hair look good. And they, they, I think all of our mothers have done that though. I mean, look, it's people do gross things. I mean, don't take something off your face, look at it and then eat it. I've, no. I mean, I've done a lot of gross things. Don't think I've ever done that one. No.

I don't think so. I can't think of what the right. I have tried to, you know, I've dropped spaghetti on my shirt and then tried to suck the sauce out of the. Of course. Everyone's done that. It's not even in the same category. Right. But like if you had something on like the corner.

If you had something on like the corner of your mouth. Yeah. Right. And you kind of, you maybe feel it. Mm-hmm. You could go a couple different directions. You could kind of brush it off or you could kind of brush it in. Brush it in.

Like if it's an M-M-M-A. I brush it off. If it's an M-M-A. M&M crumb. You just had ice cream, M&M toppings, little chunk of M&M, corner of your mouth. I think the timeline is different too. Like if it's 40 minutes later, you're brushing it off. If it's two minutes later, you're just eating it. Yeah, if you're still sitting there with the ice cream and somebody's like, Glenn, you got some ice cream. Yeah, you're brushing it into your mouth. You're brushing it into your mouth. Now, this guy's done an entire briefing on fires across the country. And he's walked to the, I mean, it doesn't, he's not there quickly, I don't think.

He's doing it. He's in the middle of a conference. And if you see the, and if you see the, close up of it. It looks like either pudding or egg or something. Oh, no. So ugly. So ugly. That's another line. Solid versus liquid is a big line, I think, there. Like, if you have a liquidy egg, you can't be putting that in your mouth. Now, if it's a, no, if it's a cracker crumb, it's, it's better than an egg, an egg yolk. Are you, I just try to find the lines. Do you have a list of the acceptable things and when it's acceptable to put it in your mouth? I've got 25. minutes on studios of America on this tonight. And I want people to check it out.

It's sort of the continuum of risk when it comes to what food is on your mouth. What comes in? What goes out? I read the headline of this and I was like, whatever. And then I later saw the video and I'm like, oh, man. That is. It's one of these days where it's better to be listening to the radio. I mean, you don't have to see it.

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they will want to know Danu's on Da Baby. Mm-hmm. I'm very concerned about what's going on with Da Baby right now. Now let's pretend you don't know anything. about da baby da baby yeah da baby is one of the premier hip hop artists out there i know that i don't talk to me don't talk to me talk to the audience there are some if this is going to be incredible to believe but there are some in the audience who might not even know who da baby is and now for those who don't mr. is da a first name baby a last name that's correct yes okay so

it's not like da baby erickson where they're leaving off his middle name no first name was Da. Okay. And then the second name is Baby. Okay. And it's interesting when you go through his current situation, people, it's hard to talk about Da Baby. Right. Because of Da Baby being his name.

It sounds like you're saying a baby is doing this. Mr. Baby, or I call him Da. You know. Let's call him Da. Okay. I think I feel most comfortable calling him Da Baby. Okay. Because he, just in a formal sense, I think it's the right thing to do.

And what is the, I mean, you are a journalist. Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. I've done some hardcore research on this today. Okay, all right. So give me the headline that's coming out now, shockingly about DaBaby. So Da Baby apparently is getting canceled. He is a victim of canceled culture.

So in other words, no more, his television or YouTube show or something is no longer. Which television or YouTube show were we talking about? Now, Da- Oh, you mean canceled as? in the cancel culture. Yes. Yeah. I hate to have that happen to

Da Baby. Now, some would say the cancel culture doesn't exist, but Da Baby's a victim of it, Glenn. Oh my gosh. Da Baby had some commentary on some

some people called his comments homophobic. Oh boy. Okay. He... He... Didn't you even say what he said? I think I could say it.

Here we go. This is a quote from Da Baby on stage. He, He said, quote, if you didn't show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that will make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cell phone lighter up. Now, the next part, I can't say exactly. Okay. But I, in fact, I don't, I will say I don't even understand.

You don't even understand. Who he's looking for in this next statement. But you can't even say. He's looking for a particular kind of lady with a particular... Doubt that it is a lady. Right. A woman. I don't know.

And that, and again, what do these terms even mean? It all means how you identify. Then he says, fella, again, I can't say, he's associating same-sex relations. Don't try. Please don't try to interpret da baby. Let his word speak for himself. Just don't say them. Just don't say them. That's a good point.

All right. I'll do both of those things. I'll let it speak for himself without saying it. But people interpreted this as homophobic, which it does seem to be. Okay. So, so Da Baby is now getting all of his, he was going to be at Lollapalooza, which apparently Glenn still exists. What year is this?

It's 2021. Da Baby at Lallelalapalooza. Now Lollapalooza, I feel like started when I was in like high school. school. Yeah, I think it did. But it's still going on, apparently, and now they have Da Baby there. Okay. Now, Da Baby, I find this to be very interesting because Mr. Baby is getting canceled for these comments where he's been critical and flippant about the LGBT QQIA 2 plus community. Don't do it. And you don't do that. That gets you canceled. And I thought to myself, wait a minute, I kind of remember Da Baby having previous issues that.

to me in my memory. No, not Da Baby. He's clean. He's clean. That's one of the things he's like an altar boy. See, I thought maybe he had significant issues in his past that maybe would actually warrant cancellation more than a bad sentence or two about the LGBT. Not with DaBaby. What did you find on Da Baby in his past?

Look, a couple things. Okay. 2013. How old were you then? I, well, I was, yeah, I was a good eight years younger than I am now and so was he. But he was, he was busted on pot and weapons. Okay, what, come on, that's nothing, nothing. So he's got an illegal gun.

Now, he was, government doesn't even care about any of that stuff. Yeah, and we should point out that from 2013, when that first charge happened, he was absolutely clean until later in 2013 when he was again arrested for pot. Okay. Okay. Then, again, he was arrested for felony pot possession. Oh, felony pot possession. So he had more pot on it, I guess. Okay. Then, I mean, like from 2013 to 16, things went pretty well.

Well, not all the way through 2016 because he was busted on firearms charges. But then in 2018. Well, he learned his lesson. Right. He learned his lesson. He learned his lesson. And then he forgot the lesson. In 2017.

Because in 2018, he was, he was charged with having a stolen firearm. Okay. well he couldn't buy one you know the system worked there right he couldn't he couldn't felony he couldn't buy one he had to steal it so he had to steal you bad bad this system

forced him to steal thank you yeah thank you yeah now in 2018 he did kill someone inside of a Walmart and some people would say hey when you kill someone inside a Walmart maybe that's a cancelable sort of offense but nobody saw it nobody was there Happened right, like right when everyone was there shopping.

He did. Yeah, but it was in an aisle, I'm sure, where nobody was. It was between some clothes racks. Clothes racks, I believe so. You don't know for sure that it was him. And I will say this, in his defense on this one, it does, he was charged with, that it was, he did have gun charges against him because he again, shouldn't have had the gun, but. But only the fourth time.

This is right. And that's, what's that? DaBaby is trying. He is trying very hard. And it was a ruled self-defense. It looked like he was someone else was trying to kill him. He killed them. And that happens, generally speaking, in most Walmart trips.

People are, you're going to wind up killing someone occasionally in a Walmart. This happens to people all the time. Happened to me three times last week alone. You know what it is? DaBaby is black. Yes. Yeah. So DaBaby is black.

And that's why this happened. Yes. He was shopping at Walmart while black. And he was, the guy who was trying to kill him was a white supremacist also happened to be black. but he was a white supremacist. Sure he was. Sure he was.

2019, he had another pot charge against him and resisting arrest. That's only third time. Now, this is where I kind of joined the Da Baby's story, Glenn. Because I, you know, was, this is going to surprise the audience, was not on DaBaby and his Da Baby musical train early. I was not an early adopter. You know all of his hits, like, or. Well, here's the thing.

I do know one of his hits. Okay. And it was a song that, of course, he did with Ms. Leipa. Oh, I love. Dua Lipa. Doa. Doa. Doa.

Doa. Doa. Love dua. Levitating, which was a gigantic song last year, I think. Last year or earlier this year. I don't know. Last year. Can you play it?

Can you play just a little of it? Just play just a little. Baby, I believe speaks right at the beginning. Yeah. It would be really, really good. And he's very, very talented. Yeah. Of what I recognize this song?

It was a huge, huge song. Huge huge. I will say that. By Da Baby. Da baby. Okay. What's in another? All right.

Let me know when you have it, Sarah. Okay. All right. So then he had, and this is what I thought was interesting because I remember when this song came out thinking to myself, didn't he have like some major legal issues recently? Like, is he out there still making popular music after this occurred? And because I remember he was at the Super Bowl. This is the post or right before the pre-COVID Super Bowl.

Okay. Okay. enough. Yeah, I remember that song. Thank you. You got it from just that? I just got it from that. Yeah. You are a fan. I love that song. I'm a huge fan. Yeah. Thank you for just to play it again, just a little bit of it. He's right at the beginning. Go ahead. Yep, that's it. I remember it. It was so good. It was so good. What a super, super classic.

He, I remember him, my memory was, didn't he hit a lady from on stage during a concert? and DaBaby did in fact slap one of his fans a female fan in the crowd during a concert on camera and I thought

wouldn't that prevent you wouldn't that be the cancelable thing apparently no and slapping a woman and to be fair he was responding because someone took a picture with a camera flash too close to his face

oh my gosh and like if you're not going to belt a lady for that I don't know what you do. What's the... She's lucky to be alive. She would have done that to me. Holy cow. And by the way, he had a legitimate defense.

Which was he was actually aiming for a different woman. Which I thought was a good... Oh my gosh. It wasn't his fault he hit that woman. He was trying to hit another woman. Police let him go right away, right? Yeah. I don't think he even got charged for that.

He just did it on camera. Wow. Now, I believe he was being sued for that. And of course, he also, by the way, was charged in 2021. with robbery and punched a promoter. So he made it through all of that. Let's not skip by that real quick.

I heard what? He punched one of his promoters and was charged with robbery. But he wasn't convicted. But this is way back in 2020. I should point this out. Oh my gosh. How old were you in 20? I don't even remember.

The baby was so ancient. We were all distracted with this fake election thing. You know what I mean? But there was really even an election. Yeah. We were so distracted by that. You always have to watch the other. hand. What is the baby doing? The baby always knows what's going on. So DaBaby now, after all of those

things was able to create, do we have that song? This was a huge hit song that you. That's good. That's enough. Thank you. Did that one. Yeah. And then he made it through all of that and everyone embraced him and they gave him this gigantic song. He's a big role on one of the biggest songs of the year. And then he went on and he said two sentences about the LGBTQQIA2 plus community. And now he's canceled. Thank God. So he literally slapped a woman on camera and killed someone in Walmart and was like, ah, put him on the next record. But, you know, here, that, the thing from the stage where he alluded to people with diseases.

Well, as we talked about, as we talked about, you know, the green-haired US shot putter that won the silver. You know, she, she wanted to let everybody know how a. impressed she was. So she got up after winning the silver. She twerked, of course. You're going to twerk after a silver. And then she stood up on the stand as they were giving her the medal and the national anthem was playing and she crossed her arms to show intersectionality and her support there

because she was oppressed. And I just want to quote her because I don't want to make these things up because I don't I don't even, I hope this isn't true. But she said to me, not to apologize, to show younger people that no matter how many boxes they really true to fit you in, that you can be you and you can accept it. I mean, people tried me, tried to tell me not to do tattoos and piercings, but look at me now. They try to say the same thing to da baby.

And I'm a popin. And she is a poppin. She is a poppin. And that's the thing about the Olympics. it's always been this way. It's about you as an individual. Definitely not about your country. I mean, you know, we were used to see people, you know, from Kenya or the bobsledding team.

Jamaica, you know, that didn't even have snow. She had people say, don't get your ears pierced. And how she can continue to go on. And I will say, is remarkable. So many people tell women not to pierce their ears in this country. It's so common. I'm sure it occurred. I want to make sure I'm not questioning that story at all.

That definitely occurred. I want to be clear. Now, she also had mental illness. She did. Yeah. She's completely clean of it now. Oh, that's good. But she had some mental illness going on.

Glad you got past that. Yeah, she's past it. Is that so raven? Is that who that is? That is so Raven. So very Raven. So very Raven. So very consistent with the behavior.

And she said that she now has contained the Hulk. That's why her hair was only. half green green on one half of her shaved head and red on the other how does one half colored hair on a shaved head you'll have to see it for yourself it's beautiful it is a beautiful and I will say she's also wearing those beautiful earrings that people tried to stop her brave so brave by the way this is totally unrelated ratings for the Olympics are way down shut up yeah no they've probably haven't gotten all of them yet.

They, everyone they have heard how. Really? Yeah. People not, not that interested in the Olympics this year. That's really weird. It's almost as if it's yet another institution that has just so defiled itself, uh,

that we all look at it like they're just a bunch of horrors and we don't need to see that. You feel that way? Hmm. You know, like the, the NFL, they've just hoard themselves out, you know, to make money in China or whatever it is. and so they just tell us things that you know most of the people

in the office just don't believe. It's basically impossible to watch the National Basketball Association at this point. It is a if you want to watch the DNC with occasional dribbling, then you watch the NBA. Because it's basically just

an arm of the Democratic Party operating as a sports selection of sports franchises. Well, I will tell you, this, and I've taken a hard stand on this. I will I will not rest until DeBaby can play

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About all the things that are going on. Not about the baby, shockingly, but about all the things that are going on. First of all, you have to encourage your state and your local legislatures and your local, mayor and city council to stay in touch with the people and do what the people are saying. Da people. Da people. Da people. Our local communities have been taken over.

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in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. She enrolled her five-year-old daughter in kindergarten in the South Kingston School District and then said, you know, I want some information because she had heard that the teachers were starting to teach critical race theory. And so she said, I need some information from the school. Now, it's perfectly legal for her to request. In fact, they have it on their own website. If you want information, blah, blah, blah.

You do it. Well, she requested the information. Then she figured I should probably pull my daughter out of school after they threatened to sue her because of her public record request about critical race theory and gender theory, which the district told her to submit. She's now being represented by the Goldwater Institute, and she is on the phone with us now. Hi, Nicole. How are you? Hi, Glenn. I'm good.

Thanks so much for having me. So not only they threatened to sue you, they told you you had to pay $74,000 to find out if the school district is teaching CRT. Right. And this isn't the first time that they have given me these very high estimates to get public information, which, frankly, we already pay for with our taxes. First, they had given me a $9,000 fee to get information when I first started submitting my public records request, other information with $2,000, $3,000. The Goldwater Institute resubmitted a public records request on my behalf with much more specific terms that were more likely to turn up information. And that was now $74,000, which is insane because this is public information. And it shouldn't be a government secret.

It's information that really the public has a right to access and a public records request is just the way to get that information. In my town, 80% of the budget goes to the school and it costs 20. $77,000 for student to educate. Wow. And now I have to pay $74,000 to know how they're being educated. It just seems like this is not the way it's supposed to work. So you asked for lesson plans and course materials used or assigned at any school within South Kingston School Department in the 2021 school year that include any of the following terms, 1619 project, Zinn education project or Howard Zinn, equitable math, gender theory, white privilege or whiteness, systematic racism, CRT or critical race theory, Ibram Kendi or Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, or just DiAngelo. They said that they could do that, but it would take them eight hours to retrieve.

Yeah, I think it was a lot more hours. I think it was like like 693 hours or something like that. And that's, you know, they have under the statute, they can charge $15 an hour to compile and retrieve all this information. But it still has to be a reasonable fee. And when you're asking for lesson materials and instructional materials, that shouldn't have to be requested under the APRA to access to public records act. These are not just public documents. These are lesson materials. They at any point can just email this to me of their own volition.

They can just respond to my questions that I asked in an email without having to charge me money because this is really just a conversation about what our kids are learning. So they're the ones that constrain me to this public record request process. And I believe they're doing that to evade my questions and not answer them. Now, what did you hear that the teachers were incorporating all this stuff in? Well, the principal from the elementary school where my daughter would go, I've since pulled her out and placed her in private school, said that they integrate values of gender identity in every grade. And she said that they have a certain line of thinking about history that they teach children in every grade. And she told me this after I said, do you teach anything with anti-racism?

And as we all know, anti-racism really just means racism, a critical race theory. It's all the same thing. So the principal told me that they do, in fact, teach these values. And when I asked, well, how exactly do you do it in every grade? They said that they have these common practices that they use. And when I asked, well, you know, when did this common practice start? It was all non-answered. Either I don't know or let me get back to you.

And then finally, it was submit a public records request. So I know they're absolutely doing it. And I have tons of evidence that I've uncovered through these public records requests and with my own research showing that the school district believes that all white people are racist. I just found a document saying that. And that part of their goal is to have implicit bias trainings with students and teachers. and they're 100% committed to this, but they're not telling me exactly how.

And so I want them to be completely transparent so that people can decide if they want to enroll their kids in this district or opt out of certain lesson plans. And we can finally engage in a robust public debate about the values of critical race theory or anti-racism or whatever you want to call it. I tell you, you can file for a Freedom of Information Act and you don't have to pay for it.

I mean, it's, it's again, on our time, on our dime. And you ask for all records of communications, including email communication, to or from any South Kingston School Department official, principal, teacher, teaching assistant, counselor, any other person from January 1, 2020, to the date of this request, which includes any of the following terms, 1619 project, Zinn, Howard Zinn, Equitable Math, Gender Theory, blah, blah, blah, all of these things. that is that is public record i know that um here in texas when we finally did get the freedom of information act from a school district called south lake it showed that they were uh mocking the parents and saying we're just going to do it anyway and let's one of them said let's keep this

information away from the parents uh and two of the people went to jail over it and nobody had to pay for that information because it came from a government source? Yeah, so the Freedom of Information Act is is different from the Access to Public Records Act, which is a Rhode Island statute, and that Rhode Island statute carves out this $15 an hour fee that a public entity can charge you for. They can also charge you 15 cents for hard coffee, but you're right that this information should not have to cost taxpayers money.

They're already paying for the information just, you know, by having the public if you do their jobs. So I think that that's going to be a point of contention, that it's not reasonable to have the $74,000 fee. And it's certainly not equitable for all of this talk that schools have about equity and everyone having equal access. I don't know how you justify that kind of fee just to know what your kid is learning because it sounds like they're saying that only the extremely wealthy are privy to information

about what their kids are learning. So what did the Goldwater people say? and what are you doing about this now? Right now we're determining what our next step is. We're still talking about that, and I'm sure we'll make a decision soon on whether we want to go to court or if we want to take some other legal action. How is the community responding to you,

the people in the school? Are they with you or against you, or is it split? I only have overwhelming support. I have parents and even teachers emailing me and thanking me for putting myself out there. I also get lots of tips from parents about what is being taught in school here, and it's sometimes hard to get verification. So if they say, oh, my kid had to do something with Black Lives Matter in class, and I'm telling you, I'm hoping you can do something with it, but they're scared to actually tell me the name of

the class, the name of the teacher, the actual assignment, because they don't want to be a retaliated against in the way that I was retaliated against, but you know, you can't just go out there and say something is happening and have, you know, no proof. So people are still scared, but they are extremely supportive. Well, stay brave. This will only get harder. If people like you don't stand up now, it's only going to get harder and you most likely won't win in the future if we don't stand up now. I wish you all the best of luck. Is there anything that our audience can do to have. help you? I just want to reiterate what you said that more parents need to start standing up to their school boards and just to remember that school boards are made up of ordinary people. They live next door to us. They're our family members and our friends. These people are not working behind the Iron Curtain of the Kremlin yet. So we need to stand up to them now and let them know that we're not going to tolerate this indoctrination of kids in our school. Were you ever,

I mean, are you an activist? Would you ever see yourself doing something? like this? No, I've never been politically involved. This only happened because I enrolled my daughter in school and then they publicly threatened to sue me. So I had to respond publicly because they were trying to destroy my reputation publicly. They are getting so bold, so bold. Yeah. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. God bless. Thank you so much. You bet. Thank you. I have to tell you, you know, I said that they would take their masks off, which is strange because they're being told to put their masks back on. But I told you a time that the Marxist would find it because they were dying to tell you who they really were.

They were dying to tell you how wrong you were, how evil you were. And that has turned out. They all have their masks off now. And yet, it seems as though most of America doesn't really care. I mean, did you see that the, the spending package past the Senate this AM

yeah we went over it on Friday the whole the whole bill and all the crap that's in it you know all sorts of just wasteful nonsense and remember it's not like we have the money to have a bill like this oh I know this is just all made up fake money that we're printing

essentially to do this with the promise that if we leave something out of the bill they're going to throw it in the next one that they're going to pass without Republican support. Why Republicans are involved in this, I don't think I'll ever understand. In the Senate, only one stood against it, and it was Mike Lee. Well, he's not the only no

vote. On the bipartisan infrastructure bill? Yeah, yeah. I mean, Rand Paul didn't vote for that. I don't know, maybe he was in committee. That was the... Yeah, possibly. That might have been what you're talking about. Because it, we'll ask Mike.

Mike is coming up in just a few minutes. And I know that he was, he was, he was standing there talking to an empty Senate. Nobody sat around and listened to him, but you should hear him because he makes really good points. We're having the highest surge in inflation in a very long time, very, very long time. And this is only going to make this worse. As the government is buying up all kinds of stuff to improve infrastructure, the prices

to you are going to go up. what does that mean? Why are we doing that at this moment? Seems like a bad time to spend another $5 trillion. Is that what you're saying? It does. It always is really bad to spend another $5 trillion, but maybe it's just me. We'll find out what's in the bill and talk to Mike Lee coming up in just a minute.

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Of course. So brave. Beto O'Rourke. Oh, so brave. So brave. So brave. What did you do this time? Well, he went on a four-day walk.

A four-day walk to walk for rights that people already have. and it was so brave. Now he walked 30 miles in those in those four days. So he was a slow walk. Very slow. Very slow walk. Because I could probably do 30 miles.

I'm guessing just kind of strolling. You know, and maybe probably five hours. Me, I could probably do that. But it took him four days because he's that brave. That's a brave walk. Yeah. And he did it so people in Texas can do

what they're already doing. Vote. It seems like a pointless reason to walk. Seemed but brave. Very brave. To be that pointless, that takes a lot of guts. A lot of guts.

What if he were to continue to walk until he actually crossed the border of Texas and left the state forever? That would be even braver. Because the bravery of the other Texas Democrats leaving has been really tough on me. Yeah. And I'm so glad they're brave

and not hopefully coming back at all. And maybe Beto could join them. what if Beto went to Washington, D.C. forever and it didn't come back. Well, he's tried. He tried to do that. He tried to do that. And the people said, no.

No. We don't want you there. That's the problem with Beto. You can't get him to leave because no one else wants him. Right. I don't think at this point New York would want him. No. Cuomo is begging for people to move back to New York.

You know, along with a threat that we're going to close your business down. Any moment. Any moment, this thing could go sideways. But bring your businesses back. and so that's quite the incentive. But maybe they can throw in and sprinkle on top and Beto O'Rourke will be here. I don't think that's going to work. I have a sneaking suspicion that's not going to work.

By the way, New York is not doing all that well when it comes to the COVID situation right now. Have cases up 159% in the last two weeks. Can you not give me the percentage? Can you give me the actual cases? probably if you give me it's definitely not as bad as it was yeah the one the one we should probably stop talking percentages

because it went straight way down it did go way down like we're seeing like for example if you look at Florida there's a high percentage increase but the I always say the hospitalizations is relatively worrisome I mean it's it's almost as high as the peak of hospitalizations so but again

which didn't overwhelm the system no No, but, you know, have you still? I don't want people to die. I know. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, let's, you know, let's not panic everybody. No, I'm not.

I don't think that this show panics people on this particular topic. I don't think that that's what we do. A lot of New Yorkers are like, wait a minute, wait a minute. Did he say Beto O'Rourke is moving here? I'm sorry for that. That's just a rumor. Whether it's for work or play this summer, take your racons with you. I'm at the ranch right now, and I'm going to be plugged in as I get onto my tractor,

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There are two people. If you listen to my program, there are two people that I have to apologize to my mother and say, no, mom, no, no. I know this makes you unhappy, but I don't just dislike the things they do. I hate them. And one is whom? Who's somebody that I just hate? Woodrow Wilson. The other one is Edison.

I know. I know. I'm not going to bore you with Edison. You'll chew your arm off to get away from me. But I start talking about Edison, please, dear God, it went on for hours. But I'm just going to get an update on Woodrow Wilson. Ronald R.J. Prestrito, he is a professor of politics at Hillsdale College. He is the guy that changed my life, really, changed my understanding of American politics

with his book Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism. When I read that, I understood what was going on. Well, I want to get an update because we are doing almost exactly what Woodrow Wilson wanted to do. So I want to talk about modern liberalism, modern progressivism, and where we are on Woodrow Wilson's dream country. We do that in 60 seconds. I don't know if you've heard the good news or not, but Democrats have just passed in the Senate another $5 trillion reconciliation. reconciliation social reform bill and it is great because there's nothing that we could do that will help us more than spend another five trillion dollars on you know things that really don't you don't care about really honestly things that we don't have the money for but that five trillion dollars is going to make your value of your dollar go down and so you'll have to worry about how much money you have in the bank all the time because you won't really have any or it won't be of a value so it'll be really good for the American people.

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And he's now towards the bottom. Well, I think you might have had something to do with that back during the Obama presidency, as I recall. Well, I got a lot of the information from you. And I wanted to talk to you about the comparisons between Joe Biden's administration and Woodrow Wilson's administration. I mean, just the idea that he segregated the military again. And in the opposite way, in some ways, Joe Biden is doing the same thing with the federal government.

He's splitting whites against blacks. He's not saying, you know, you have to work in separate places or be segregated. But he is dividing us. And I wanted to talk to you about the comparisons if you saw any between the two. Well, I think the comparison that, you know, a lot of people would think of quite correctly. in Biden, you're dealing with a president who I think any fair person has to say has greatly diminished cognitive capacity. And it's not clear who's actually calling the shots in the Biden administration. And I think it's fair to see it as a kind of extension of the Obama presidency

and an extension in power of those who were there in control during the Obama presidency. and you know, Woodrow Wilson, of course, was disabled at the end of his time in office, and it was unclear historians still debated who exactly was running things. But it was, from what I understood, it was really his wife that was kind of running the show, and even his own party was against that when they couldn't meet with him. they came and, you know, she put together a meeting and she really orchestrated that well. But when they really found out that he was trying to run again and he was not in control, even his own party turned on him, didn't they?

And, you know, it was a situation that, you know, I think many hoped not to repeat, but the circumstances of the recent electoral cycles here in our country have been so, you know, so hard to imagine that, I think we're. we're looking at that kind of situation again here. Unbelievable. You know, I read, I don't know if you've ever read it. I'm sure you have, but Philip Drew, administrator, one of Woodrow Wilson's favorite books while he was in office.

I think he read it three times. And he, in it, Colonel House talks about how the country just needs to be done by these new scientific administrators and everything coming out of this administration is no longer going through Congress. It's no longer even debatable now. It's all, let's listen to the experts. This is science, science, science, and we just have to do it. Are we an administrative state now? I have in the pandemic that we've seen over the last year and a half, the greatest possible proof if more could be needed that we are in the throes of an administrative state. And we know going back to the original progressives, their idea was kind of coming out of the 19th century

that science had kind of triumphed. And that was the future. And it was the Darwinian revolution in the 19th century. And so we thought that the time had come for the limits on government to to be relaxed. Historical progress made it such that we were capable of so much more. We knew so much more. And so the idea was to put power in the hands of those who were educated, those who came up in the universities, those who got the advanced degrees. I think you mentioned in your intro, you know, Woodrow Wilson was a professor. He's a PhD in political science. God help us, you know, coming into power. And so I think you're exactly right. What's the rhetoric that we have seen out of this administration, it's always deference to science. We have the CDC imposing

moratoria on evictions, making policy that it has no right to. It allows it to make. Yeah. We have, you know, the president's spokespeople unable to justify various measures and mandates that they're taking, and they're just saying, well, this is what the experts tell us to do. So I think it's a very timely question. And what did Wilson do? I mean, it's so fascinating that, at least I think they're very, very similar.

And they're going through the same thing. And, you know, 1917, 1918, we have the Spanish flu here in America, which is the last time we had a pandemic. What did Wilson do? Well, they are, Glenn, you know, Wilson was basically the father of the modern administrative

state. He was the scholar, and of course, he was a important academic and thinker in the country for decades before he became a big public official. And it was a vision that he had for university-educated people to populate a large bureaucratic apparatus. He greatly admired the system in Germany under Bismarck in Prussia. And he wrote a very famous essay about how we could take the Prussian bureaucratic system and take all of its expertise and depend it onto our Constitution. And, you know, he started a lot of that in his administration.

Much of it had to wait for later circumstances and later ways. People like Franklin Roosevelt, for example, who referred back to Woodrow Wilson and building the apparatus that implemented the New Deal. But that originated with Wilson. And public administration scholars in our country look to Wilson as one of the founders of their discipline, in fact. Did he do shutdowns for the, for the Spanish flu? Did no, these are unprecedented. This is unprecedented what we have in our time because you have a vision for it in the original progressive era, but we have never in the entire history of our country,

even with very, whether it's progressive administration, any kind of administration, any kind of threat far greater than COVID-19, never have we. seen any of this on our liberties before. It was something the original progressives, I think, even themselves couldn't have fathomed. The other thing I found striking is that we have now Facebook, which is the public square, limiting, shaming, listening in on gathering information. That is just the electronic version of, and I can't remember what they're. were they were like the minute man or something and and he actually had a hundred and twenty badge wearing americans snooping on their neighbors well world war world war one was was

uh... an occasion that the wilson administration certainly took advantage of it was one of the ways in which many of the you administrative entities uh... you kind of got got justified although quite honestly uh... he had started quite bit of that before even the circumstances war were upon the country. When we, in the early Wilson administration, as you know, we have the establishment of the income tax, of the Federal Trade Commission, of the Federal Reserve Board. So a lot of it even starts with more extreme wartime measures that you mentioned. Let me ask you, you have the new book out called America Transform, The Rise and Legacy of the

American Progressivism. I said maybe, I don't know, maybe about a year ago or so, that I think progress, we are out of the progressive phase and we are now into the revolutionary phase with what you're seeing on the streets. Would you agree with that? I think we're in unprecedented times. I think that a lot of years, right, if you go back 100 years to when the progressives got started, this was a project that has taken. time. It's come over us in a series of waves over the 20th and now 21st century. And for a long time, we've had an uneasy coexistence between our original constitutional regime, which has been there all along. It's still there. And then a progressive mindset, an increasingly progressive mindset,

and a left wing that's been pushing that now for over 100 years. But something ultimately had to give. And that's sort of the story I try to tell in the book. It's the book you told, me to write 10 years ago, by the way. Really? And I finally, you know, it's coming to a head. And so we're at a point now where you have citizens, the way I try to put it in the book, is you have citizens that are really of two different regimes, two different countries, two different sets of principles that happen to occupy the same space.

And that the time has come for this major concept to be resolved. It's the progressive ideas of the limitless state, limited government, the sake of securing our natural God-given rights. Unfortunately, progressivism has taken over really almost every university, except a few places like Hillsdale, where you teach. And there's nobody to defend. When progressivism, when Woodrow Wilson went too far, people saw that and they were really taken aback.

And it took the Great Depression and war to have those ideas come back. but they they went too far and they knew it that they had to kind of hide it and go into the universities and start to teach it because the American people knew who George Washington was. They knew who Thomas Jefferson was. They knew the writings. They knew the reasoning and they knew the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We don't now. How does it work out for us?

Do you think this time? Well, I think that you suggest. because complete mess. There were a few islands of sanity. I'm very grateful to teach at one at Hillsdale, of course. But by and large, higher education is a mess. And this was where progressivism started. That's, I think, it's an important point to understand.

They invaded the universities first. They knew that they had to go to the places where ideas percolate, and that that would slowly, this is something that the great political philosopher Aristotle teaches us, you know, that these ideas, they percolate at the top and they filter down. And so it's taken time. But the revolution was in the universities. A lot of our university, your college professors, started going over to Europe to get their higher degrees.

It's the thing that you were supposed to do if you wanted to be a trendy educational institution in the second half of the 19th century. A lot of orthodox institutions got transformed right under the noses of good trust. these this way. And so by the time you get to 1900, higher ed in America is already sort of, there's already this poison that's been put into the system. And it's been taking root. You have now, you take a look at higher education and it's essentially an enemy of the country. Oh, yeah. That's what you're taught in higher ed is to hate this country, to hate everything it stands for.

and, you know, a few of us are sitting there sticking our fingers in the wall, trying to hold it back, but it's not easy. Yeah. I thank you for everything that you've done, RJ. R.J. Pastrido, he's a professor of politics at Hillsdale College. Author of the new book, America Transform the Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism. Love to have you back after I have a chance to read the book. I didn't know until this morning that it was actually out. So thank you so much for running.

It's a lot of me to write. long time ago and I'm happy to be on. Well, I can't, I can't wait to read it. America transformed. R.J. Pastrido, thank you for being on the program. Let me tell you about our sponsor. You're signing books and you're not even, you don't even know when they come out? I mean, he told you told the guy to write a book and then...

We haven't talked for a while. He didn't write to me. I mean, it seems like maybe you keep tabs on the guy. You tell the guy to write a book. I mean, he writes the book. Maybe you should keep in contact with it. You are such a jerk. You are such a jerk all day.

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And I said, no. And one lady said, You know, I used to not like Stu at all. That's interesting. You're not alone. Yeah. And she said, he's growing on me. And I said, like mold.

And she said, something little worse than that. But yeah. I have been told I am growing. Yeah. So that's something. You're a growing boy. Yeah. So the event went really, really well.

And as much as I torture you, we should point out, looks like you've raised a quarter of a million dollars. Yeah, don't have the final numbers. But it should be, you know, it should be in. that area for, uh, yeah, for Mercury 1. And yet again, our audience, uh, steps up in moments like this. They always do. They always do.

You know, we've raised millions and millions of dollars for charity and they've done a great job, especially in this circumstance, which it's not only you have to donate, but you've got to lug home this thing, you know, this painting thing. And then you got to figure out what to do with it. You probably your trash guy won't even take it. I'm not sure. You know, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's a lot of times they won't.

Yeah. They won't even take it. You got to call for a bulk. deliver it's big. Okay. You know what's really weird is I don't think anybody, because I said, you know, you'll take the tax right off. You don't have to pay me, my share. You just, just send it to Mercury One yourself. And I, I don't think anybody did. I think they all just paid for the, so I get a big tax write off, which is really nice. I don't think that's how tax is work. Exactly. You might want to talk to a account to an accountant on that. Yeah, probably. Really?

They watch those things, huh? They do. Not if you're Hunter Biden. They don't. Don't watch it if you're Hunter Biden. Huh. That's totally okay. You can raise millions and millions of dollars, not for charity. Right. More from China. And from China.

China and crack. Yeah, all right. And, of course, there's lots of bills that need to be paid for particular visits to Alabama. Yeah. Strip clubs down in that general vicinity. Gosh, that must be hard for his accountant to put that all together for the IRS. Anyway, thank you so much if you came. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. so much. It really was an amazing time on Saturday. And luckily money doesn't mean anything anymore. We can just spend it anywhere we want. Anywhere you want.

As we're going to talk to Mike Lee about here coming up for just a minute. Yeah, because the government will be taking some of that money. Oh, good. In fact, a lot of it to spend. And Michael tell us on what next. American financing NMLS-182334. www.

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Oh, geez. I mean, he's got this infrastructure government spending bill. He couldn't put a little padding in there for the art. Yeah, put a padding in for a private jet flight to your art show and they're back. That's all. and maybe a couple of paintings along with them. But, oh, no, I'm too serious. I've got work to do.

People don't want us spending money. Mike? You're leaving out the real reason I didn't come, Glenn, which is that I'm still offended that you didn't include any of my art. I mean, I know stick figures get a bad rap in American art culture these days, but it's pretty good.

Yeah. Yeah, no, that's good stuff, Mike. Mike Lee, the senator from Utah, you were up late last night. Working on this bipartisan government spending bill, how many of you guys voted against this thing? There were maybe 35 who voted against it at the earlier stages. Here's the weird thing, though, Glenn, we voted on this a couple times last week. The bill didn't yet exist at the time.

The bill didn't exist until last night, late last night. I finally received it as I was sitting on the Senate floor with a bunch of my colleagues who were getting ready to give speeches. favor of it. And all of a sudden, I got it electronically. It's 2,702 pages long. Yeah, well, that's, that's an easy read. Kind of strange that they voted to proceed to it without knowing what it was first. Well, let me ask you this. Isn't this kind of just like, weren't really last week just saying, hey, how much do you want to spend? We'll fill it in later. How much do you want to spend? Isn't that what it was?

Yeah, but kind of what they were doing. Yeah. deciding overall threshold amounts and deciding, you know, in general terms, what the agreement would consist of. But normally, that's not how we vote on actual pieces of legislation. But in any event, we've got it now. It's 2,702 pages long. How much is spending? How much is spending on this one?

It spends $1.2 trillion. Oh, love that. And of that $1.2 trillion, $550 of it is new federal spending. that's above and beyond what we were expected to spend this year, which strikes me as curious, given that it's a terrible time to be spending more money at a time when due to deliberate, reckless overspending by the federal government, poor middle class Americans are finding that everything they purchase is more expensive. From chicken breast to gasoline to cars to housing, everything is more expensive because we're

spending too much money in Washington. Oh my gosh. Stu. How can we listen to this old-timey guy? Blah, blah, blah, inflation. Don't you know that inflation is not a problem? It's not going to be a problem.

Because they're digitizing. They're not actually printing. They're digitizing, Mike. And that is totally different. It's transitory. And that, of course, makes those dollars spend very differently and inflation proof, doesn't it? Yeah, it sure does.

You know, you brought up a when you're on the floor of the Senate, I watched some of the highlights, and you made a great point about inflation. You were like, even just the act of spending all of this money, when you're talking about infrastructure, will drive the cost of the things that are already expensive up because now the private sector has to compete with the government. That's exactly right. So everything that goes into these projects, from cement to the aggregate, get materials you used to make concrete, to steel, to labor, and everything else. All those things are more expensive right now. And so, look, I'm not a fan of stimulus-style spending,

but even to those who might be, they might be able to make a slightly less bad case for this in a time when demand for these products is low and industries are shutting down. I still wouldn't like to see government doing that, but whatever. You can make a... case for it in that circumstance, not one that I agree with, but you can't make a good case for doing it right now where everything is inflated, where every federal dollar we put into this is going to go less far because it's a federal dollar that comes with lots of strings attached, and it will go even less far because of the fact that all of these things are in short supply and can be procured only at a premium. We will get less from this as a result of the fact that it's federal and as a

result of the fact that we're doing it right now. So why are they saying this is a good deal? Why are the Republicans even thinking we have to do any of this stuff? Well, look, I'm always reluctant to speak for those who are not present. I'm not a good spokesman for them because I disagree fundamentally with what they're doing. I suspect if one of them were on the phone with us. They'd say, okay, well, first of all, we need infrastructure. Secondly, if we do this, then what the Democrats do on their bill, the bill that they intend to pass with a simple majority.

either later this week or later this month, they will spend less than they would otherwise spend if we didn't do this. Now, if we were in court and someone testified to that effect, I'd stand up and say, objection assumes facts not in evidence. I don't know how they can possibly know that they will spend less if we pass this bill. And in any event, that doesn't mean we don't, we don't have to put our names on something that we think is bad and harmful to the American people if we don't agree with it. Look, Glenn, there are sort of three different groups of people in America, one of which will benefit from this bill, one of which might not notice much of a difference, and the others will be hurt by it. The first group, consisting of those who might benefit from it,

tend to be wealthy, well-connected individuals and business interests in this country, who might actually get rich off of it. The next group consists of well-off Americans who have enough money that they won't notice a big hit to their lifestyle. But almost everyone else, the vast, overwhelming majority of Americans fits into the third category. People who have limited paychecks, in many cases, living paycheck to paycheck,

every dollar will buy less as a result of spending like this one. Those people will be hurt. So in some ways, we're exchanging one thing for another. in some ways we're taking money away from poor middle class Americans and giving it to the wealthy and well connected. I can't justify that. This is the opposite of Robin Hood. This is the opposite of Robin Hood. Exactly.

Senator Lee, there's some argument that the passing something bipartisan gives Senator Manson, Senator Manchin, Senator Sinema some talking point to go back to Democrats and say, we shouldn't drop the filibuster. Do you think there's anything to that at all? Yeah, look, I don't want them to drop the filibuster. They shouldn't drop the filibuster. We have no guarantee that if we didn't do this, they would drop the filibuster, or that by doing this, they won't. No guarantee whatsoever. What we have to vote on is the legislation before us. Now, the legislation before us, 2,702 pages long, which we received late last night, has

been hammered out over a period of four months by 10 very smart, very hardworking senators. Senators with him I happen to disagree on this issue, but they worked hard on it. They've had four months to come up with 2,702 pages. It is beyond folly to suggest that the entire Senate should now get up to speed on that and be expected to process it, amend it, vote on it, and pass it within a period of a few days. we need arguably at least as much time as they did at a minimum we need at least a few weeks to work on this we have no business spending this amount of money and passing this size of a bill that we saw for the first time last night within a few days remember it was Barack Obama who

said he was going to have the the transparency that it never happened before and he would post every bill for at least a couple of weeks before it was ever voted on they never did that Nobody ever has an intention of doing this. And all of these things are banged out. And really, a lot in the House is just put together by the heads of the party. And then everybody else is just told vote for it. Yes. No, that's exactly right.

And it reflects one of the sad biases that you see in this place. You know, senators get praise when they pass big spending bills. They get criticized when they vote against them. They assume that passing legislation is a good thing in the abstract. I'm reminded of something that Calvin Coolidge once said. He said, as a lawmaker, it's important to both pass good bills and stop bad ones. They're both important, but as between the two, it's the second that's more important. It's more important to stop the bad bills, because a good bill that doesn't pass today can always be passed later.

A bad bill, once it passes, it's nearly impossible to unwind. You can't ever get rid of it. And that's why we've got to focus on this. Look, a handful of senators will get praised if this thing passes. But that praise and that adulation, that political notoriety for a few days, will have long-term consequences for Americans, America's poor and middle class. And that concerns me greatly. Can you tell us what infrastructure even means now, Mike?

Well, look, it means a lot of things. In this bill, they're talking about all sorts of things from highways and bridges, roads. Hang on just a second. We have every time there's a big bill. It's an infrastructure bill. When and how much was it going to take to actually fix the roads and the bridges, the federal roads and bridges? Because I'm tired of hearing about infrastructure fixing the roads and bridges because nobody ever shows us any progress on that and says, okay, we're a lot closer. Just an endless infrastructure bill. Fix the roads and bridges.

Right. And look, you can always identify things that have been fixed. And that's why things like this can be very tempting because people can point to good things that will happen to good people and good communities that are well deserving of improvements. The question I raise is, does it have to be this much? Does it have to be right now? And does it have to be through this government? I'm still going through this bill because it takes a while to do it. It doesn't read like a fast-paced novel. But Glenn, I will be shocked if there isn't a whole lot of infrastructure in here that isn't federal in nature that is not or should not be federal. Now, if it's part of an interstate highway, then perhaps it should be federal or some other project with an appropriate federal.

nexus that's close, maybe so. I'm willing to bet that a large portion of this is going to go to surface streets that start and stop in the same state and things that are otherwise not necessarily appropriate for the federal government. And that's not just an esoteric problem. It creates real financial problems. Correct. The minute you add a dollar of federal spending to an infrastructure project, in many states like mine, it can add 30%, sometimes more, to the cost of the project, because you have to comply with this Byzantine labyrinth of federal regulations and mandates. And so you're buying less with more money when you make it federal. We shouldn't do that. There's also a $3.5 trillion dollar human infrastructure bill coming our way. Yes. Yes. That is a bill that the Senate Democrats

are working on that they believe that they can pass with a mere 51 votes. And, I'm calling it the inflation bomb because that would truly be it. They've learned over time that bills can be more palatable if you call them something most Americans understand and resonate with. Patriot Act. Yeah, if you call it about the troops or about national security generally or if you talk about infrastructure, perhaps they'll accept it more easily. But this is this inflation bomb that they want to pass with a simple majority. is a whole lot of stuff that has nothing to do with infrastructure. It's just big government spending.

And to put that in perspective, $3.5 trillion, many of us expect it will be more like $4 or $5 trillion, by the way. That's roughly on par with what we spend in a particular year out of the entire federal government in a non-COVID year. So if they expect that we can roughly double that amount and have no consequences, They're crazy. They're just not looking at the facts. Oh, it's 37% of all U.S. dollars that have ever come into existence have been printed in the last 18 months. You don't do that without making a whole lot of poor middle class Americans poorer.

Hey, one last thing I'd like to ask you, because I know that they're working on airports here. But the Green New Deal would like to get rid of all airplanes by 2030. Why would we be building new airports if we have to dramatically cut up? our air travel. I'd just like you to ask somebody there and see if you can find an answer. Mike Lee, thank you so much for being on with us and thank you for standing and fighting the good fight. I certainly appreciated it.

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