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Speaker 2 We're watching a lot of the mayor of Chicago, who is now in the bizarre position of Trying to justify that his city is not completely out of control with crime, just as we saw from the media in DC, where they had to constantly justify their city was not out of control with crime.

Speaker 2 Previously, we had Los Angeles, who was trying to justify how they were not completely out of control when it comes to crime. We're seeing a massive difference so far in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 2 And, you know, D.C. is a unique circumstance.
It's a federal district. There's all sorts of powers the federal government has there that they don't necessarily have in other places.

Speaker 2 So it's not going to be as easy to do this in other cities,

Speaker 2 but

Speaker 2 it's also setting up this clash of personalities.

Speaker 2 There's a story in a reason today, Brandon Johnson, Chicago, is a preview of Zoran Mamdani's New York, and it's true.

Speaker 2 If you want to live in a world where your city is crumbling, where crime is rampant, where the economy is going into the tank, where you have

Speaker 2 city-run grocery stores that have no food in them. That's a world you want.
You can have it. Like, it's available to you.
It's available all around the world.

Speaker 2 You can go to Venezuela right now and check that out. You want that? You go to North Korea.
They've got that sort of the empty shelves and grocery stores available in spades.

Speaker 2 You've got it all over the world, and now we're starting to get it in U.S. city after U.S.
city. Because when you implement these policies, this is what you get.

Speaker 2 It's not some crazy formula. We're not reaching into deep economic texts here, though they all support this idea and has been proven over and over again.
These are basic things.

Speaker 2 If you want the government involved in every aspect of your life, if you want the economy to be controlled by somebody other than you,

Speaker 2 You can get that. It's an available option.
It's just a bad option.

Speaker 2 The people in New York who

Speaker 2 are completely surrounded with bad options, let's be honest about it. I mean, when your other option is Andrew Cuomo,

Speaker 2 I understand how I guess it's a difficult choice.

Speaker 2 But it's darker and darker and darker and darker. And these same choices are going to have to be made now

Speaker 2 by America as we go forward in the future.

Speaker 2 Donald Trump is in a second term.

Speaker 2 He can do a lot of good things. He is

Speaker 2 really is a person, unlike any other human being I've ever seen, seems to never get tired. He's 78 years old and just nonstop.

Speaker 2 Every day, there's four or five new things you can talk about with some new policy he's pushing through or some new idea he has. He just does not tire.

Speaker 2 But now he is,

Speaker 2 you know, president of the United States working toward

Speaker 2 a different sort of country, a country he's trying to,

Speaker 2 you know, rework a little bit, remix, move to a different vision, certainly to what we've had to go through over the past four years and before that, the Barack Obama era.

Speaker 2 But that

Speaker 2 everyone now is positioning themselves for what's next.

Speaker 2 There's a bunch of redistricting news. We'll get into that today.

Speaker 2 And that's the next election we're going through. That's next year.
Of course, then 2028 is up. And when you talk about this idea of Karen Bass in L.A.,

Speaker 2 the D.C. situation, Johnson in Chicago, Mom Donnie potentially in New York, everyone's positioning themselves for their next step in the power struggle.

Speaker 2 And Gavin Newsom is probably the highest profile guy doing that. And Newsom is so, I mean, I don't know.
Maybe people buy this.

Speaker 2 Maybe I am so out of touch with the American people that maybe they will fall

Speaker 2 for the lead actor in American psycho. Maybe

Speaker 2 that will be a thing.

Speaker 2 Maybe they want that. Maybe they want a guy who, by all appearances, seems to be

Speaker 2 to carry all of the characteristics of a serial killer from a movie portrayed in the 80s. I don't know.

Speaker 2 It's possible. I can't put it past the United States.
They elected a guy who was

Speaker 2 in the second syllable of the word dementia

Speaker 2 when he was elected. And he progressed to the last syllable during his public time in office.

Speaker 2 Perhaps

Speaker 2 they would elect someone like Gavin Newsom. But

Speaker 2 is it just me? Is it possible

Speaker 2 that we maybe as Americans are still capable of seeing through someone who is so clearly

Speaker 2 trying

Speaker 2 so hard.

Speaker 2 You might look at your life and hope that you can make some good friends and have a good spouse and have a great family.

Speaker 2 But I have to break this to you. You, in your entire life, will never find anyone who loves you.
as much as Gavin Newsom loves Gavin Newsom. There will never be a relationship in your life.

Speaker 2 Your children, your spouse,

Speaker 2 your mother, your father, no one will love you like Gavin Newsom loves Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 2 It will never occur.

Speaker 2 It's the type of relationship that,

Speaker 2 you know, I said I wasn't going to bring it up, but you hope that Travis and

Speaker 2 Taylor can get to at some point, but they never will. They will never love each other as much as Gavin Newsom loves that mirror.

Speaker 2 This dude loves himself.

Speaker 2 And it's funny because he's constantly remaking himself to try

Speaker 2 to garner the attention

Speaker 2 of whatever audience he feels benefits him at that moment. That is really the extent of it.

Speaker 2 What gets him more power, more money, more attention, more clicks?

Speaker 2 That's all he's doing.

Speaker 2 You know, a big chunk of California is back on fire.

Speaker 2 I don't know if anyone's noticed this. Maybe Gavin will notice this one because it's wine country.

Speaker 2 I hope it doesn't hit anywhere near the French laundry.

Speaker 2 He's got half of his state burned down last year. A big chunk of it's on fire again.
And what is he doing? He's tweeting. He's tweeting at the president.
He's trying to he's releasing new merch.

Speaker 2 This is who this guy is.

Speaker 2 And every single step of the way, there's been a new Gavin Newsome. He's like a software release.

Speaker 2 Gavin Newsom comes out, then they release it. It's Gavin Newsom 2.0 and 3.0.
I think the iPhone, the new iPhone is coming out soon. He's got more versions than there are iPhones.

Speaker 2 Go back to the beginning. Gavin Newsom,

Speaker 2 back in the day, he's this, you know, Gavin Newsome 1.0 was this rising star of the Democratic Party. Gavin Newsome, Democrat rising star.

Speaker 2 The fresh-faced California golden boy coming up, hyped as the party's future.

Speaker 2 Some people bought that, but it's the beginning. He gets into

Speaker 2 mayor of San Francisco. Is that really, you know, long-term? Maybe he can turn that into the presidency.
It certainly was his thought, even at that time.

Speaker 2 And then Gavin Newsome 2.0 was Gavin Newsome Playboy.

Speaker 2 He was the guy, he was a ladies' man.

Speaker 2 And one of the ways he made sure that you knew he was the ladies' man is by breaking like,

Speaker 2 I don't know, if you have a pyramid of infidelity, okay,

Speaker 2 at the, you know, maybe at the bottom, it's cheating on your high school girlfriend. I don't know.

Speaker 2 And then you raise that up, and it's eventually a few steps up from that, it's cheating on your wife, which is really, really bad.

Speaker 2 And then it gets higher than that there's several steps and at the very top i would say of the uh of the infidelity pyramid is

Speaker 2 sleeping with your best friend's wife

Speaker 2 that's gavin newsom playboy edition

Speaker 2 Sleeping, I mean, it's one thing.

Speaker 2 You have this guy who is not only his best friend, but also helping him through his career, helping him climb the political ladder in California, working closely with him every single day, but apparently not every single night, because while he was working alone at night, Gavin Newsom was also working his wife.

Speaker 2 I mean, that's, you want to talk about a bro code violation. That's got to be number one, right?

Speaker 2 That's that's as bad as you can possibly get. We've churned out a lot of garbage in this country.

Speaker 2 There's been a lot of trash that the United States has pushed out over the years.

Speaker 2 Some great people too.

Speaker 2 Lots of them. More than maybe any other country in history.

Speaker 2 But we've also, you know, screwed up from time to time.

Speaker 2 We've got our serial killers, we've got our mass shooters, and we've got our Gavin Newsoms.

Speaker 2 Then Gavin Newsom 3.0 was the anti-Trump tough guy. He's out there talking about Trump all the time, criticizing Trump.
He was the guy that was going to stand up. He was a resistance warrior.

Speaker 2 Then Gavin Newsom 4.0 was released, and that was Gavin Newsom, the DEI warrior. He was the guy that was going to promote every single race and color.

Speaker 2 He was going to take the most important characteristics that everyone has, their skin color and their genitals, and make all decisions based on that.

Speaker 2 Because at that time,

Speaker 2 that's what benefited him.

Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 2 he at one point, this is like 2019,

Speaker 2 he's governor and he's right before COVID. And he's got a decision to make on

Speaker 2 some high-level health,

Speaker 2 basically the HHS secretary of California, if you will. And he is in the middle of figuring out who to promote.
He's got an infectious disease expert who is in line for the job.

Speaker 2 Everyone expects her to get the job. The problem with her, though, is she's white and blonde.

Speaker 2 So she doesn't get the job. She's passed over for someone who doesn't know what they're doing,

Speaker 2 but is the right color. And he puts her in the position right before COVID.
Now, look, as we all can sit here and remember, not every disease expert did things that we would necessarily approve of.

Speaker 2 as conservatives, of people who care about our liberty. I'm sure we would disagree with

Speaker 2 whoever he put in there as far as policy goes. But instead, he put in someone who was completely incompetent to the point where they actually were hiding her from reporters at press conferences.

Speaker 2 They weren't inviting her to meetings about COVID.

Speaker 2 And they were pushing out the actual experts from the meetings before that.

Speaker 2 So that was Gavin Newsom as he steps steps in. DEI master.
Then, of course, Gavin Newsom 5.0 was released, which was Gavin Newsom COVID dictator.

Speaker 2 Longest lockdowns, most extreme policies.

Speaker 2 The guy who,

Speaker 2 if you were to look back and say, who were the worst offenders during this period, you'd probably, you know, you'd probably see Andrew Cuomo first, let's be honest about it.

Speaker 2 But secondly, you're probably going to see Gavin Newsome. And he was the first guy who really

Speaker 2 locked out even before Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo was still in his previous release, which was, wow, this is no big deal at all.
Then you had

Speaker 2 the queen of Versailles, Gavin Newsom, who decided, while yes, of course, everyone else should be locked down, I should be going out to dinner indoors.

Speaker 2 He's at the French laundry rolling out Gavin Newsom 6.0. Then Gavin Newsom 7.0 came out.
I'm probably, there's probably a 6.1, 6.2 I'm missing in here, but Gavin Newsome 7.0 came out.

Speaker 2 That one was, hey, it seems like, you know,

Speaker 2 this is at the point where Trump, maybe not looking like the favorite for 2024, the favorite for 2024 looks like Ron DeSantis. So what does Gavin Newsom turn into? Ron DeSantis.

Speaker 2 He tries to be, I'm Mr. Competent Governor.
I can debate.

Speaker 2 In fact, despite the idea that as of now, he's not even running for president, I'm going to debate Ron DeSantis on Fox News. That's Gavin Newsom, super competent debater man.

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Speaker 2 We're going through the release notes of Gavin Newsom here on the Glenn Beck program, and we've gone through seven versions so far. There's a couple more.

Speaker 2 You'll, of course, remember Gavin Newsom 8.0, the party line man.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, you know, he was at first, he was this guy who was out there.
He's, you know, he's debating Ron DeSantis. He looks like he's running for president.
It's kind of weird, right?

Speaker 2 Because Joe Biden's the candidate. Joe Biden's the president of the United States at the time.

Speaker 2 And then, of of course, you have this escalation to it looks like Biden's going to continue to run.

Speaker 2 Newsom doesn't know what to do with himself because he's positioned himself to be the guy. And the party is cracking down on him and saying, hey, Gavin, get in your lane.
This is not your gig.

Speaker 2 So Gavin Newsom becomes party man, defending Joe Biden, the number one guy out there telling you Joe Biden is completely fine. Nothing's wrong with Joe Biden.
Biden's the man.

Speaker 2 He's super, you know, he's sharp as attack. I don't know if you've heard that.

Speaker 2 So we go through this whole thing. Then the debate happens.
Who's out there saying he's still fine? Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 2 Tons of people in the Democratic Party are saying, this guy can't run. You can't have another Biden term.
Who's out there defending him all the way? Gavin Newsom, party man.

Speaker 2 He's the party lying, Gavin Newsom 8.0. Then there's Gavin Newsom 9.0.
You might remember relatively recently he became an anti-DEI centrist.

Speaker 2 Yes,

Speaker 2 he just couldn't believe the idea that you would let men play in women's sports. What?

Speaker 2 He's cracking down on such things because he can relate to you. This Democratic Party seems to have gone too far, you know.

Speaker 2 Then, like, I think there was a Gavin Newsome 9.1 release where he became a Manosphere podcaster and started talking to like Charlie Kirk and saying, oh, Charlie Kirk, my son loves you.

Speaker 2 He wanted to stay home from school to talk to you, Charlie Kirk, because you're so relatable. I'm having all the right-wing guests on because I can understand them.

Speaker 2 We might not agree on everything, but here I am. I'm basically Joe Rogan.
Now, that's me because that worked previously. I remember it happening in 2024.

Speaker 2 It seemed to work for Trump, so I'm going to jump on that bandwagon.

Speaker 2 And that all leads up to, of course, the newest release, Gavin Newsom 10.0, a social media troll. And you might think, oh, well, this guy's mocking Trump.
He's got the capital letter

Speaker 2 tweets.

Speaker 2 He's always doing this. While his state is burning to the ground, he's on Twitter.

Speaker 2 And you might think, wow, this is an interesting approach to win in 2028. But of course, it's not.
It's got nothing to do with what he's going to be doing in 2028.

Speaker 2 There will be 12 other versions of Gavin Newsom that'll be released before then.

Speaker 2 This is what he does. Right now, his task is lining up donors, getting social media excitement for his primary campaign that will come up in 2027.

Speaker 2 He's working on that Gavin Newsom right now, and when he needs to be a different one, he'll just change to a different one.

Speaker 2 He's absolutely soulless.

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Speaker 2 Welcome back, 888727 BECK is the phone number. It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn today.

Speaker 2 He is out sick,

Speaker 2 sadly.

Speaker 2 Well, what happened was he tried to do the president's physical fitness test. He tried to do

Speaker 2 50 pull-ups and 100 push-ups. And in between push-up one and two,

Speaker 2 he fell ill and was not able to.

Speaker 2 I'm not making fun of that. No, I.

Speaker 2 That could happen to any one of us. It really can.
I want to get into that. Maybe we should get into that again.
I would love to get your opinion on that whole thing.

Speaker 2 Because, you know, Jeffy really was the original face of the Maha movement. Make America Healthy Again.
That's Jeffy. Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you.
That's the title of my biography.

Speaker 2 Everything in moderation.

Speaker 2 But I want to finish off on Gavin Newsom here.

Speaker 2 And I think because

Speaker 2 the world moves fast, and I think because

Speaker 2 whatever's happening right now is the thing everybody's thinking about, we forget how ridiculous these transitions are with Gavin Newsom. Go back to

Speaker 2 Newsom. This is just a few months ago.
I mentioned it briefly before. This is when he's a Manosphere fear podcaster for two weeks.

Speaker 2 Here is Gavin Newsom. Think about the person you know now.
The person who's screaming about Trump all the time, trying to appeal to like

Speaker 2 the farthest left leftist,

Speaker 2 trying to appeal to AOC and Jasmine Crockett and their audiences.

Speaker 2 This same guy, a couple months earlier, is talking to Charlie Kirk like this.

Speaker 2 Last night, trying to put my son to bed, he's like, no, dad, I just, what time? What time is Charlie going to be here? What time? And I'm like, dude, you're in school tomorrow. He's 13.

Speaker 2 He's like, no, no. This morning, wakes up at six up.
Then he's like, I'm coming. I'm like, he literally would not leave the house.
Did you let him take off school? No, he didn't. Of course not.

Speaker 2 He's not here for a good reason. But the point is.
You canceled school for like two years. Once one year, one year.
The point is the point, which is you are making a damn debt. Thank you.
I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 When you go to these college campuses, I love watching your TikTok, which is next level. Clearly, that's expressed by my 13-year-old son.
I want to meet this guy.

Speaker 2 He's coming to a turning point event this summer, Tampa, Florida Student Action Summit.

Speaker 2 By the way, a very funny line from Charlie Kirk. You closed schools for two years.
You can't get the game one day off. But, like, who is that guy?

Speaker 2 That guy is a completely different human being than the one that is out there today.

Speaker 2 He has a totally different personality.

Speaker 2 He is a totally different human being. And that's because he's decided this is what's best for him.

Speaker 2 Oh, my gosh. Right now, that is the Gavin Newsom that benefits Gavin Newsom.
Absolutely. And in three or six months, it may be something totally different.

Speaker 2 Whatever he needs to be, he will become.

Speaker 2 And it's possible the American people fall for that. It's just embarrassing if they do.

Speaker 2 But this is what we're seeing in California. We're seeing all these cities kind of melt down across America and Trump looking to potentially step in.

Speaker 2 Chicago is a fascinating example of this, Jeffy.

Speaker 2 Are we all for that? We're ready to move in to let him take over?

Speaker 2 Well, no, I don't think I don't.

Speaker 2 They aren't. They are not.
They aren't. Trump, I think, is ready.
As soon as this DC thing is over, I don't know that it's a one part about this that's an issue is it's not a sustainable approach.

Speaker 2 You can't just send the National Guard into city after city after city or all cities at once. It's not a way to necessarily solve crime, but it can be helpful, certainly for a period.

Speaker 2 Now, DC is a little different. He's only got 30 days in DC.
It's coming. I mean, we're already 14, something like that, right? 13, 14, something like that.
Basically two weeks in.

Speaker 2 We've seen real dramatic decreases in crime. Absolutely, they are.
In most types of crime, at least.

Speaker 2 Zero murders. Right, and they're used to

Speaker 2 every other day? At least one every other day. I love the bragging of this.
You know, we're all like, oh, can you believe this? This city hasn't had a murder in two weeks. Wow.
I know.

Speaker 2 I know. When did that become something you brag about? I mean, it's so, it's true.
It is quite an accomplishment in that city, but what an embarrassing fact that is. There's no question.

Speaker 2 And they don't care because Trump is bad, and we don't care that you're saving lives. It just saved one life.
Yeah, it saved a bunch. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And we still don't want it. No, they don't want it in D.C.
But in D.C., there's really no question he has the legal authority to do it.

Speaker 2 We start getting into more and more questionable lines the more this expands. And the only thing we can do is look at these as on a case-by-case basis, look at the justification utilized.

Speaker 2 I mean, I think there was some justification for it in L.A. at the time.

Speaker 2 We will have to see what they do in Chicago and judge it on its merits. There are plenty of residents in Chicago that would say, yeah, come on in.

Speaker 2 I mean, right now, we played a clip earlier this morning that, you know, the CNN's, they're man on the street interviews, and

Speaker 2 they've got this young African-American female they find on the street, and she's like, yeah,

Speaker 2 I do want them to come in. I want to feel safe.
And the CNN reporter is like, why don't you,

Speaker 2 we could seriously do your reenactment of this or just play the clip. Those are the two options on the table.

Speaker 2 I'm fine with you reenacting it. Honestly, I kind of like it so far, but we do have the clip.

Speaker 2 Let's listen.

Speaker 2 Let's listen to this. Is a CNN clip again talking to a Chicago resident.

Speaker 3 My first reaction was that this is a good thing. I think that the governor, as well as the mayor, should be on board with it just so we can get a bit more of security in Chicago the way that we need.

Speaker 3 The crime has dropped since 2024. Do you feel like the city feels safer?

Speaker 2 No. No.
Not at all. No.

Speaker 3 No. Especially with the police being defunded.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Don't you feel crundy?

Speaker 2 I will say, you know, I've been doing this job a long time. You have instincts.
Jeffy recreating that interview would have been a disaster.

Speaker 2 I gotta say. What? I nailed it.
I nailed it. By the way, you're welcome.

Speaker 2 Network of 500 radio stations. I didn't have Jeffy recreate that clip.

Speaker 2 We just listened to it.

Speaker 2 I do think that is how people feel. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Sure, there are people who dislike Trump. Sure, there are people who are going to be against Trump no matter what.

Speaker 2 But the average person who doesn't look at everything through a political lens says, we've got a big problem here. I would like someone to solve it.
That's not always available, right?

Speaker 2 Like, because there are process and rules and

Speaker 2 restrictions that you have to deal with. But like all things being equal, most people would like a larger police presence in areas where there's lots of crime.
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 Everyone wants to go to 7-Eleven and get a Slurpee and pump their gas without being hassled,

Speaker 2 without being robbed.

Speaker 2 I mean, everyone wants that. Yes.

Speaker 2 These are basic human requests.

Speaker 2 I don't think we all expect to be given

Speaker 2 lifestyles of the rich and famous. We don't expect that.
What we do expect is,

Speaker 2 it would be nice.

Speaker 2 What we do expect is a general level of safety. Absolutely.
Where our kids can go to school. and come home.
We can go to work and make it back. We don't get robbed on the way.

Speaker 2 And you do, and you know this dude too, Jeffy, from living and working in New York and cities throughout America. Yes.
You start to tolerate

Speaker 2 a weird set of

Speaker 2 everyday events. That just happens.
Don't worry about it. Yeah.
That just happens. Yeah.
It's like you just walk in,

Speaker 2 you've got rats crawling all over your

Speaker 2 feet as you're in the subway. You've got people attacking each other.
You've got a human being just peeing on a pole right in front of you. You know, you have someone screaming insults, threats.

Speaker 2 I know. You act like you don't hear them.
You move along. There are smells you've never experienced that you just deal with on a day-to-day basis.
That is true.

Speaker 2 This is life in the city.

Speaker 2 And when you're in the city, because I've seen these interviews with people talking about this, they will say, look, our city, you know, people are making it seem like our city is this dump.

Speaker 2 And it's like, you know, it's this crazy area where there's crime all the time. I mean, you know, sure, you'll get mugged every once in a while.

Speaker 2 And sure, you know, we've all had our windows broken, but come on, this is not that bad. If you are accepting it, yes, it is that bad.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That is

Speaker 2 unacceptable, which is what I think Trump's messages here. Yeah, and he's trying to, he's trying to solve

Speaker 2 also the issue of

Speaker 2 the way it is.

Speaker 2 At the baseline level, I won't reenact for you, but I did see,

Speaker 2 I saw footage of the police arresting a carjacker, and he was like,

Speaker 2 why are you arresting me? I'm just going to go down there and they're going to let me out. He already knows how the system works.

Speaker 2 And so,

Speaker 2 no, dude,

Speaker 2 you're trying to steal someone's car is the whole base point of this. Yes.
Right. And you should go to prison and you shouldn't get out for the maximum time allowed by law.
Right.

Speaker 2 That we see this over and over again. If

Speaker 2 you go and you put police in an area of high crime, that crime level comes down. We know that.
But if these people get arrested, go to

Speaker 2 jail for overnight, and then are released the next day, or maybe don't even get into jail at all, it almost doesn't matter. And actually, these police are put in a situation where they're in danger.

Speaker 2 Yes. Because now you're releasing all these people.
They are responsible for arresting them. Over time, they learn this, of course, as well.
They're much more aware of it than the everyday person.

Speaker 2 And they're like, well, maybe we shouldn't bother.

Speaker 2 Why am I going to go into that really dangerous district where people get shot all the time, risk my life, risk my family's future to arrest someone who's going to be back

Speaker 2 walking behind me the next day?

Speaker 2 And absolutely, that's what Trump is trying to... to trying to do.
And that actually is a good,

Speaker 2 it's a good thing.

Speaker 2 It is. It's a great thing.
You know, again, you got to do it. Of course.

Speaker 2 You have to do it within the Constitution. You have to do it within the law.
There's no doubt. There's no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 We don't know what every step of this is yet. A lot of this might just be, you know, he's going to wind up, he's good at this.
He winds up making big statements and sort of threatening X, Y, and Z.

Speaker 2 And then X, Y, and Z have a way of reversing themselves.

Speaker 2 We've seen this with tariff threats. We've seen this with the border.

Speaker 2 That doesn't mean he probably isn't going to send the National Guard to every city in America. He wants it, though, to sound that way.

Speaker 2 That's one of the fascinating differences of Trump versus every other politician and every other president. Like, most people, if you accuse them of saying, well, you're going to come into every city.

Speaker 2 Well, no, not every city. No, no, no.
We're doing it this way. We're doing it by the law.
And here's why we're doing it. They will downplay it.
They will say, no,

Speaker 2 what I'm proposing is

Speaker 2 much more responsible. We would never do that.
What does Donald Trump say? I'm the president. I can do anything I want.

Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 2 I think

Speaker 2 that is legitimately, I mean, it's not an exact quote.

Speaker 2 He basically said that in the cabinet meeting yesterday. It certainly could be, yeah.
Yeah, he basically said it in the cabinet meeting. I'm president.
I can do whatever I want.

Speaker 2 Now, we all know by watching him as being president for four and a half years now that he doesn't do anything he wants. He listens to the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 He likes to say he's not going to listen to the Supreme Court, but he listens to the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 We should get into the Flag Amendment maybe a little bit later and the details on it.

Speaker 2 But like, when you look at that, you say, well, the Supreme Court ruled, you know, flag, burning the flag is a First Amendment issue. And everyone's like, well, Trump is ignoring the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 Read the freaking executive order. It doesn't do anything.
In fact, it specifically says it's got nothing to do with speech. Except that's just not the way it's presented from him.
From him.

Speaker 2 And that's what's funny.

Speaker 2 You know, George W. Bush, he would say things and the media would take them and make them look 10 times worse.
Donald Trump just cuts the corner.

Speaker 2 He'll just make it seem way more aggressive and over the line from his mouth. And then what he does is sort of the opposite of that.
A lot of times it's very much in line.

Speaker 2 He doesn't even know what he's talking about.

Speaker 2 It's fascinating. We should get into that a little bit more.
Also, there is a

Speaker 2 because even Joe Scarborough is confused as to what is going on with these mayors.

Speaker 2 And Joe Scarborough, by the way, we talk about releases and he's got about 10 different personalities he's released over the years as well.

Speaker 2 But he is completely baffled by the Chicago Mayor's responses to these basic questions. We'll get into that here coming up in just a sec.
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Speaker 2 I'm curious, would you also like to get federal funding to help put 5,000 more cops on the street in Chicago? Would that help drive down crime? Of course it would.

Speaker 2 Well, look, policing by itself is not the full strategy. No, I understand.

Speaker 2 You've talked about the other things you want, and I said those are good and important programs.

Speaker 2 But I'm asking also, would 5,000 more police officers on the street in Chicago be helpful to go along with all of those social programs that a lot of cities are engaging in and having success with?

Speaker 2 The answer is yes.

Speaker 2 Look, here's the best way I can put it, Joe: is that in the 90s when I was in high school, we had 3,000 more police officers

Speaker 2 and we had 900 people being murdered every single year in Chicago. It's just not policing alone.
Of course, we want more detectives.

Speaker 2 I know it's not policing alone, but I know it's not policing alone. You've told me everything else you want.
Look at the police.

Speaker 2 I'm curious, and this does come out with the arm and the political difference between

Speaker 2 people.

Speaker 2 Do you believe that

Speaker 2 it would be safer if there were more uniformed police officers on the streets of Chicago?

Speaker 2 I believe the city of Chicago and cities across America would be safer if we actually had, you know, affordable housing.

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Speaker 2 All right, it's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenbeck.

Speaker 2 We have had

Speaker 2 we're in a weird time, I think, in our country where we have these stories that sort of pop up and they define an era. And that era often is two weeks, right?

Speaker 2 Like it's we have a lot of eras these days. Yeah.
It is really hard to even remember

Speaker 2 each one of these eras because they come, a big story pops up, we talk about it constantly for a couple of weeks, it goes away, and then it becomes just a reference point.

Speaker 2 Yeah, a year or so later, you go, oh, yeah. Yeah, remember that? We, of course, had many of these controversies in the past few years.

Speaker 2 And we've talked about the way the country has changed over the past few years.

Speaker 2 If you go back to COVID, right?

Speaker 2 We all have that

Speaker 2 feeling. Good times.
Yeah, remember those days. Good times.
Nobody wants to go back and

Speaker 2 get those days back. You know,

Speaker 2 hopefully, you don't.

Speaker 2 You never know what's around the corner. I heard, what is it, Screw Worm is the latest one.

Speaker 2 They found the first human infected with it

Speaker 2 in Maryland by Maryland. But apparently, he traveled here from, I think, Guatemala or one of the Central American countries.

Speaker 2 I hope he wasn't a Maryland father and husband. I know.

Speaker 2 I know. That isn't the case.

Speaker 2 Yeah, human screw worm. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 Look, we're building

Speaker 2 factories to create

Speaker 2 sterile flies that are supposed to go out and kill the screw worms. Really? Yeah, we're building them, one in Texas, one in Mexico.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 are you telling me you're not aware of that? I am not aware of it. Deadly screw worm.
You seem to want to date. Let me ask you this.
You ever had screw worm? I have not. Really? Yeah, no.

Speaker 2 I mean, it seems like there are a lot of people. There's a couple of things called that, but no.

Speaker 2 It's just so stupid. Yeah.
And no, technically, I have not had screw worm. You never have.
That's good to hear, just, especially because I'm in the room with you right now.

Speaker 2 If you're out and about and you have some sort of wound on you, though, make sure you cover that bad boy up. Really? That's how you get screw worm.
This is a little off topic.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 I am kidding. I mean, you brought up a true worm.
I did. So go back to COVID.
Believe me, infections I'm aware of. Yes, that I know.
Go back to COVID. Okay.

Speaker 2 We

Speaker 2 really, I think when you say put yourself in that place again, what it felt like, right? Now, we all know that everybody overdid it.

Speaker 2 We all know that Gavin Newsom kept California locked down till 2023 or something.

Speaker 2 We all know that. But I mean, think of those first couple of weeks.
We didn't really know what was happening yet.

Speaker 2 We didn't really have all the information we had indications that like healthy people weren't really affected by it we all knew because i i think everybody in the audience at least knew people who care about constitutional values we all knew you can't be closing churches because of this we all had those indications but many of us had our the businesses that we either own or work at were closed our kids schools were closed even in bright red states for a few weeks or maybe a couple months these things were going on

Speaker 2 And you can almost feel what it was like to be back in that moment. It was so strange.
And it felt like something that could not happen in the United States

Speaker 2 until it was here. It sure did.
I was at a Dallas Mavericks game a day or two,

Speaker 2 it might have been the same night or it was the night before the NBA. Remember, they stopped the NBA game in the middle of it? I think it was the night before.

Speaker 2 I can't remember now, but I was, you know, in the stadium. It was weird.
They were handing out like the hand sanitizer. This is pre-masks.
pre-masks, like people weren't talking about masks yet.

Speaker 2 And it was a strange place to be. It felt strange.
And then all of a sudden, everything was closed, right?

Speaker 2 We all have, we all understand how weird that era was now, right? Like, we can all say that was so strange and so out of the American experience.

Speaker 2 I don't think we've really begun to reckon with how weird 21 and 22 were, though. After

Speaker 2 COVID,

Speaker 2 after we've gone back to work,

Speaker 2 Because

Speaker 2 the echoes of George Floyd and all of that DEI stuff. Oh, my gosh.
And the fact that our country for a year or two decided to just become Ibram Kendi in nation form, where all of a sudden

Speaker 2 we were tossing every guy out of work because they made a bad joke to some co-worker 12 years ago, the Me Too era, if you will.

Speaker 2 We were

Speaker 2 every time someone would say something that referenced anything controversial, they'd be tossed out of their gig. They'd be

Speaker 2 banned.

Speaker 2 We were looking back at tweets of players getting drafted in the NFL and

Speaker 2 free. That's what they said.

Speaker 2 And then you had

Speaker 2 all the company stuff where companies were just coming out and saying the strangest things.

Speaker 2 The one that went viral a couple of weeks ago was a tweet by the NHL, the National Hockey League, that just said trans rights are human rights.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 those trans women are women. Those are bastards.
And you're like, why on of all sports,

Speaker 2 hockey, which is just famous for people beating the crap out of each other? Who's ever running their social media account? Yep. Said that was the right place to be.
Yeah. Right.

Speaker 2 Everybody, you know, all these companies are basically Kevin Newsom, as I was explaining in hour one. They all just form

Speaker 2 they go wherever they need to go to make more money. This is what they do.
Like,

Speaker 2 yes, they'll kiss Trump's butt today, but they were kissing Biden's butt before, and this all changes. I don't think we've really reckoned with how strange that era was.

Speaker 2 And now that we're at the point where we're saying, hey,

Speaker 2 you know, maybe Bud Light shouldn't have Dylan Mulvaney as the logo. of the comp you know as as a spokesperson for the company

Speaker 2 we have we had so many of those moments where we've kind of

Speaker 2 reawoken from wokeness and said, hey, this is crazy. That's happened now.

Speaker 2 And it feels like we're making progress in turning that around. I don't think we've realized how weird and crazy that period was, though.

Speaker 2 I mean, we reversed almost every belief we had in this country for a couple of years. That's for sure.

Speaker 2 We've reversed so many things that we believed never could happen in the United States of America. Again.
And it was happening. Right.

Speaker 2 Like, we certainly have had periods of massive racism in this country. We all know that, right? We've had slavery.
We've had all sorts of terrible things in this country in our history.

Speaker 2 And the point was

Speaker 2 we're going to get past that. And the way we get past that.
And that's what makes us great. It's to treat people equally.
Yes.

Speaker 2 You go to a situation

Speaker 2 where you just don't care about skin color, the idea of a colorblind society. I mean, I thought we were there.

Speaker 2 I mean, we talked about it a thousand times, but I mean, I thought we were there when Obama was elected. That's what we were told.

Speaker 2 I felt like that was actually where it started to turn around it's actually the reverse the reverse happened absolutely it did but we went down this road of of of making race and gender and sexual preference into what is most important about a person yes which is actually what and hear this clearly what is least important about a person is the exact opposite

Speaker 2 are you sure none of it i mean look

Speaker 2 color of skin makes no difference right now there are are differences between the genders, which are important.

Speaker 2 The left tried to change those things, but that does not mean that gender should be treated

Speaker 2 differently as far as rights go, right? Like, you should be able, everyone should have the same rights. That used to be something we understood.
And then, of course, you come down to... The same.

Speaker 2 It doesn't mean you're the same. Exactly.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't mean that you're the same.
It means that you should be treated equally.

Speaker 2 Everyone should have the same opportunity, not the same outcome, but the same opportunity. When you come to sexual preference, of course, you know, if

Speaker 2 you're at a bar or something, then you know, probably there is some relevance to that as far as it is somewhat important to you in that moment.

Speaker 2 It depends on the time of night, but go ahead, Stu.

Speaker 2 Depends how many Bud Lights you're in that particular evening. But yeah, you know, that one might be a little bit more, it's at least a little bit more core to a part of your life, right?

Speaker 2 But it's still pretty much unimportant.

Speaker 2 And we've now seen so many companies just get swatted down with their ridiculous nonsense, trying to kiss butt and move into that, the

Speaker 2 afterglow of the DEI, Ibram, Kendi,

Speaker 2 George Floyd era, which is, I think, largely gone now. Well,

Speaker 2 you would think that. You would think that.
And

Speaker 2 I hope that that's the case, but

Speaker 2 I think that

Speaker 2 what we call it is gone. I don't know that the actual happenings of the whole process is gone.
It's a good point. I made this observation yesterday with Glenn in that

Speaker 2 progress, I think, is undeniable here. We've made real progress.

Speaker 2 Progress is not the solution.

Speaker 2 We have not solved the problem. This is not the end of the road.
We've just started. backing out of the wrong

Speaker 2 you know i always think of that uh you know the famous picture where the road comes in it splits you try not to go down the wrong road if you you go down the wrong road, you don't just keep going because you started that way.

Speaker 2 You turn around, you come back to that split again and go the opposite direction. That's what you need to do.
Did you realize it was the wrong way? You turn around. Go to the opposite path.

Speaker 2 This is a lesson learned by Cracker Barrel yesterday. Oh, man.
As they came out and have reversed themselves now in their

Speaker 2 logo situation. Incredible, man.

Speaker 2 When she took the CEO, when she took office, she said how, what a great

Speaker 2 company Cracker Barrel was, and she was so happy to work there. And then within the first six months, you know, we're going to change it all, though.
We're going to redo it.

Speaker 2 Has she only been there six months? Is that? No, no.

Speaker 2 No, she's been there for two or three years. Yeah, I thought it was a couple of years.

Speaker 2 Within the first six months of her taking the CEO ship, she said, well, we're going to do a whole restructuring plan. She had a whole restructuring plan.
And this is the result of it.

Speaker 2 And this is part of that. Yeah,

Speaker 2 we're moving that ship along for her, yes. And it lasted considerably less time than New Coke.
A lot of people were like, hey, they want to go back to Cracker Barrel Classic. But it lasted a lot.

Speaker 2 New Coke was at least out for a few months, and then they continued it as a parallel product to Coke Club. So they make that front, right? They make that front.
Hey, we're going to change it.

Speaker 2 This is our new logo, and we're changing up.

Speaker 2 We're not changing everything, but we're changing the big stuff that really matters. And this is our new Cracker Barrel.
Well, the world went crazy.

Speaker 2 No, what are we doing? We're taking away the old guy on the rocket chair, which we come to find out his name is Herschel. I did not know that.

Speaker 2 Is it Herschel? I did not know that. I didn't know that.
I think it's either Uncle or Grandpa Herschel, but it's Herschel. And so

Speaker 2 then, I mean, then the world went crazy.

Speaker 2 So then they go on, they paid for their, and I don't know that they actually paid for it, but they did the infomercial on Good Morning America, where the CEO came out and had

Speaker 2 great questions from Michael Strahan like, oh, that's interesting.

Speaker 2 And I will say, just to pause quickly, it certainly felt like a paid segment.

Speaker 2 I don't know if it was. It sure did.
That whole thing felt like the infomercial.

Speaker 2 And that didn't even work, right? The firestorm was still there.

Speaker 2 That didn't even cover their bases. And she tried to say that the managers all wanted, wanted, were raising their hand for remodels.
Well, I do believe that. I don't believe that they are.

Speaker 2 I think that managers are asking for

Speaker 2 new tables. And new chairs.

Speaker 2 And maybe we get some new stuff in the kitchen. And maybe we work on finding some employees that can stick around and cook for more than two weeks before they quit.

Speaker 2 Something, I do believe that. You know, maybe we get some new shelving

Speaker 2 in the front of the store. But not like this massive Jaguar-esque.
Correct, right? Correct. That's not what they were looking for.
No, no, they weren't. Now,

Speaker 2 they didn't do that.

Speaker 2 There's talk about some of the redesigns, right, where they would get rid of all the clutter. That would be a major change to Cracker Barrel, right? Like that would be.

Speaker 2 i i thought i know maybe it was ai but i thought i saw some pictures of there was some of that i think that was real and and that was i think to me hit me more than the logo change where the logo change you know i was the clutter it's somewhat similar to the original logo they they get rid of a couple of the things on the outside but it's sort of the same shape of the of the little logo

Speaker 2 and they just made it text which is boring and minimalist and many companies around america do that now but what

Speaker 2 and minimalists? Yes. You're right.
And I think there is a real pushback right now on that, especially from the right.

Speaker 2 And I do believe that Cracker Barrel is probably hurting.

Speaker 2 I say hurting. You know, they're not doing the business that they were doing.
Well, you know, I looked into that.

Speaker 2 Okay. Let me take a quick break.
I don't want to come back on the other side. Because I am fascinated by even why they even started this process.
Because it's a beloved brand at some level.

Speaker 2 People like it. Just continue with your brand.
Just continue with your brand. Because the last time I was there, I will say this.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I'm a fan.

Speaker 2 I'm

Speaker 2 a shocked. Big surprise.
I may have been to a cracker barrel a couple of times.

Speaker 2 It wasn't as good as it used to be. Oh, really? The food.
Yeah, I was very disappointed in there. The chicken and dumplings was one of my favorite dishes.
Not enough lard? What was this? That's good.

Speaker 2 What was the? I don't know what the problem was.

Speaker 2 That's what the problem is right there. Well, we'll figure that out here in just a second.
Let me take a quick 60-second break. We'll get back to it.

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Speaker 2 We're talking about Cracker Barrel. It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn today who's out sick, had too much Cracker Barrel.
So they weren't really losing money. I mean, times were tough for them.

Speaker 2 Let me give you the sales. This is annual revenue.

Speaker 2 2015, $2.8 billion. Okay.

Speaker 2 2016, $2.9 billion. 2017, $2.9 billion.
2018, $3 billion. 2019, 3.1 billion.
$3 billion.

Speaker 2 Steady, slight increases. Nothing to blow you away, but a slight increase.
Then COVID happens.

Speaker 2 And I would actually say the fact they only, when they went from 3.1 down to 2.5 billion is a pretty good performance during COVID for a restaurant where probably every location was closed for a year.

Speaker 2 Honestly, I don't know if they were open or not. I mean, right? Because a lot of those.

Speaker 2 I don't know. They probably had, I mean, I know.

Speaker 2 Remember there was a big, a big issue that Waffle House was closed. And then they eventually were like, screw it, we're open.
We're opening. Right.
Like, there was a lot of that.

Speaker 2 Maybe limited. Maybe you could just take out or something.
Yeah. And it depends on where you were, too.
You know, here in Texas. That's still great.

Speaker 2 Places opened relatively quickly. You could make the case that was they had a pretty good performance.
2.5 billion in 2020, 2.8 in 2021, 3.3 in 2022. People coming back.
$3.4 billion in 2023.

Speaker 2 Starting to travel again. And then last year, 3.5 billion.
Now, what that picture shows you is

Speaker 2 moderate, but relatively consistent growth. Absolutely.
And it's been pretty strong, I would argue, since COVID. Like, it comes back pretty nicely.

Speaker 2 People are traveling back on the road and needing to stop at Cracker Barrel. I like it.
Since COVID, it does, to me, feel like this is totally unnecessary.

Speaker 2 Right, they should have concerned themselves with making sure that the kitchens were up to date and they had new tables and chairs and that they were able to have employees stick around that would cook the food properly.

Speaker 2 Yes, like the basic business stuff, right?

Speaker 2 It didn't seem like it needed a complete rebrand. Now, look, companies rebrand, right? I don't, if it's not for woke reasons, I don't think we necessarily care that much, right?

Speaker 2 I don't think sometimes you lose a brand that you love and it's annoying and you don't like what they've done, but like usually it's because there's a motivation behind it.

Speaker 2 They've added some woke agenda to it. And everyone

Speaker 2 is saying that's what this was. There are signs of it.
I mean, there does seem to be a DEI element inside this company. The CEO has been accused of some of this and such.

Speaker 2 But like, I don't know, at some level, level,

Speaker 2 I will say there's a line. Oh my God.
I got to say,

Speaker 2 Jeffy, there's a line. You tell me you don't care about losing the Herschel.
We are going to fight right now. I'm not saying you shouldn't care about it.
I'm not saying that. That's what it is.

Speaker 2 What I am saying is there are a lot of people who are not. You don't want to eat with Americans.
There is a lot of people. You don't want to eat with everyday Americans.

Speaker 2 There's a dividing line where there's some things I care about, some things I just don't care about. And not everything can be above the line.
That's what I'm saying. Everyday Americans,

Speaker 2 I like Cracker Braille. It's good.
No, no. I'm going to go.
No. I want to go now because I'm.
I do not want your pity. All right.
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Speaker 2 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Glenn is out today.
He is fallen ill. Too much chicken-fried steak is the cause from Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 2 See, we were talking about the rebrand, and he didn't want you to know that he's frequenting a Cracker Barrel in the middle of this period, crossing, basically crossing picket lines to get chicken-fried steak.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you got to do what you got to do. You got got to do what you got to do.
And he crossed that line. So he's not feeling well today.
Hopefully, he's back tomorrow on the program.

Speaker 2 We mentioned Cracker Barrel has caved to the rebranding outrage. This is a tough decision, too, because,

Speaker 2 as you mentioned, she comes into office six months after that. She's saying, We need a total rebrand.
It takes her a couple of years to get it done.

Speaker 2 They do all these, you know, they hire marketing firms, they have research, they get all money. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then a week after releasing this thing, they said was going swimmingly,

Speaker 2 they've completely reversed themselves. They have.
I know. It's incredible.
And now we're getting stories about how the board didn't all agree on these changes, but some of them let it happen.

Speaker 2 Okay. All right.
Let me ask you this, Jeffy. You are not a man who

Speaker 2 folds to pressure over

Speaker 2 societal norms.

Speaker 2 Thank you. That's a nice thing to say, right?

Speaker 2 I think

Speaker 2 when people are critical of you, you tend to

Speaker 2 just continue in the direction you were going in.

Speaker 2 Well, that's the direction I was going in. Right.
And it's hard to slow down when you get going, right? It is.

Speaker 2 So do you think this is the right thing for them to do? Should they... Yeah, I don't know.
I mean, I'm glad that they did, but

Speaker 2 I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 2 Because when I first heard the...

Speaker 2 Because

Speaker 2 their first knee bend, I think, was where they should have stayed.

Speaker 2 Their first knee bend was, look, Herschel's not going anywhere. He's on all the signs.
He's on the menus. He's still

Speaker 2 part of our corporation. And it's just the out, you know, it's just the sign on the store that's changed.
And, you know, they tried to back up. We're revamping.
We're revamping. Right.

Speaker 2 They tried to ease that pain of getting rid of the old logo. But I kind of feel like they should have stayed there.
Now they've completely gone. I mean, they've been completely bent.
And I mean,

Speaker 2 where do you go from here? It feels like they had to. But I will say, oftentimes, these rages that go on for a few weeks wind up fading.

Speaker 2 And, you know, I mean, I can't tell you how many people told me they were, you know, never going to buy Bud Light again. Bud Light was able to kind of just, you know, go through that.

Speaker 2 And now their sales are back up from the lowest. You'll see in their commercials during football season.
Oh, it's all good. I mean, I will say

Speaker 2 they basically spent every dollar they had in marketing trying to address that issue, right? Like, who's a figure that some people on the right

Speaker 2 like?

Speaker 2 Put them on. Whoever they hire all of those people.
And they did. And they did.
And they pushed hard and they tried to fight it off. It's not always successful.

Speaker 2 A lot of times, you know, you wind up trying something like this and it really hurts, but you can also reverse when you realize you haven't made a mistake and you reverse, Coca-Cola being probably the best example of this.

Speaker 2 You back off of New Coke, you go to Coke Classic, you say we made a mistake, you move on, and now you're the biggest beverage company in the world and still are, by the way, to this point.

Speaker 2 And I don't know.

Speaker 2 Did they say,

Speaker 2 I mean, they said

Speaker 2 the new logo is going away and it's bringing back

Speaker 2 the old timer.

Speaker 2 I mean, did they say, hey, we made a mistake?

Speaker 2 They said, we've listened to you, is what they said. We've listened to you.
We heard your outrage. We've listened to you.
So that's you.

Speaker 2 That's not realizing their mistake. They don't realize that.
Yeah, they're folding to the pressure. This is a straight out.
There's no question, a fold to the pressure.

Speaker 2 If you were fired up about this, maybe, you know, look, I grew up in the Northeast. You know, Cracker Barrel is not the institution it is to many down in the South.

Speaker 2 Don't you try to ease your hate for Americans. Okay.
I'm just trying to explain that why I don't. I honestly didn't care that much when it happened.

Speaker 2 You know how much stuff there is going on, Jeff? You know how many issues there are, serious things? Those of us that drive across this great land of ours

Speaker 2 and need some food once in a while do stop off of Cracker Barrel. i know those of you that you know fly over you know look down upon us can we be clear you're not an open-road truck driver

Speaker 2 you're a stupid radio host

Speaker 2 you host a podcast called chewing the fat and you commute 20 minutes home

Speaker 2 30 30 minutes and i and it's only 30 minutes because you stop at cracker barrel on the way home

Speaker 2 i wish there was one more accessible

Speaker 2 yes so you know again i get it uh you know wasn't my central issue but I get, you know,

Speaker 2 if it was a brand that I cared about, I probably would be annoyed, right?

Speaker 2 I think the right thing to do in this moment is to reverse yourself. There's no reason.
This is not like a meaningful change where some of these companies made statements, you know,

Speaker 2 about who they were and their,

Speaker 2 this is, you know, these are the people we are. We care about LGBTQQIA 2 plus issues.
And that is our definition of our foundation. Like, it's harder to back off on this.

Speaker 2 This was a rebrand, and it was a bad idea. It was a bad idea.
And if you like their food, I guess you should.

Speaker 2 They went about it terribly.

Speaker 2 What's your forgiveness level on this stuff? Like, when something like this happens, they reverse it. Are you right now, hey, I like that they reversed it.
I'm going back.

Speaker 2 Or are you more of the person who says, I'm pissed off for them ever doing that? I'm never going back. Oh,

Speaker 2 I will be maybe the first cracker barrel I pass on the interstate. I'm not going to stop there.
No, we're not going. But by the second one, I'm kind of hungry.
That's just go. Yeah, right.

Speaker 2 Just pull it.

Speaker 2 So pretty quickly you get over it. Yeah, I'm over.
Okay.

Speaker 2 I think a lot of this has to do, you know, this is

Speaker 2 ties loosely, I think, to the flag-burning situation with the president and his new executive order.

Speaker 2 You know, it's a much more serious symbol than Herschel. Sure.
It's the flag of the United States of America. And however, though, I think

Speaker 2 it is a symbol. I think people think of the idea of a flag burning and say, wait a minute, I don't want that to happen, and that shouldn't be okay.
Absolutely. We talked about this issue before.

Speaker 2 We met with Oren Hatch, Senator Oren Hatch from Utah, years ago

Speaker 2 in the back room of an arena where Glenn was doing a show. And we were sitting there.
I can't remember. There's four or five people there.
And he was talking about his strategy going forward.

Speaker 2 I don't remember what year this was, but I guess it had to be in the Obama era, I want to say.

Speaker 2 And Orrin Hatch's big idea was to get people to the polls to win elections. He was going to put a constitutional amendment, a flag-burning amendment

Speaker 2 on the ballot for people, and that would inspire them to come out. And Glenn and I are sort of like, really? That's the idea.
That's the inspiring thing. Like something

Speaker 2 I don't want anyone burning flags. And am I pissed off every time I see it? Sure.
Absolutely. I hate it.
I mean, it's, and it shows how you're pathetic pathetic if you do it.

Speaker 2 I will say the way it was first presented

Speaker 2 as, you know, this flag-burning executive order, I thought,

Speaker 2 I never wanted to burn a flag more. I've seen

Speaker 2 with them telling me I couldn't do it. But I

Speaker 2 said, the way it was presented. Right.
The way it was presented. No, I.

Speaker 2 Of course not. I don't want to ever burn a flag.
It's the United States of America flag. What are we talking about? Right.
We love it. And it's a symbol of a great nation.

Speaker 2 But that is, it is a symbol of a great nation.

Speaker 2 i feel like being worried so much about that symbol is

Speaker 2 almost a sign of weakness yeah it feels like it's like well what is our country is it our culture is it our traditions is it our ideas is it our land all the things that people say that it is this is a symbol of that yeah and and and do i feel do i feel angry if i see someone burning it yes absolutely but it is just the symbol yeah like if you're that it feels like something,

Speaker 2 you know,

Speaker 2 a country does that is more insecure than we are. Certainly is more insecure than

Speaker 2 the current president is on how great our country is. I mean, this is a person who knows how great the country is.
Absolutely. And I think that's the motivation behind the flag burning amendment.

Speaker 2 And the way it was presented, which obviously is not what it is,

Speaker 2 I'm like, well, I've never wanted to burn a flag more now. They're telling me I can't do this.
What are we?

Speaker 2 That's ridiculous. I never wanted to do it before, and now I do.

Speaker 2 And it's just, but then when you find out that, well, that's really, once again, what we talked about earlier, it's not really what it is.

Speaker 2 Yeah, let's hear him talking about it first, and then we'll discuss what it actually says. Here's Donald Trump talking about the flag burning amendment.

Speaker 4 What the executive order does, sir, it charges your Department of Justice with investigating instances of flag burning, and then where there's evidence of criminal activity,

Speaker 4 where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of the First Amendment, and instructs the Department of Justice to prosecute those who are engaged in these instances of flag burning.

Speaker 5 And what the penalty is going to be, if you burn a flag, you get one year in jail, no early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail.

Speaker 5 If you burn a flag, you get, and what it does is incite to riot. I hope they use that language, by the way, did they? Incite to it.
Incite to riot. And you burn a flag, you get one year in jail.

Speaker 5 If you don't get 10 years, you don't get one month.

Speaker 5 You get one year in jail, and it goes on your record and you will see flag burning stopping immediately just like when i signed the statute and monument act ten years in jail if you heard any of our beautiful monuments everybody left town they were gone never had a problem after that it's pretty amazing we stopped it but this is something that's uh i don't know in a certain way it's equally as important

Speaker 2 now i think every single person in this audience probably agrees with the sentiment of this right the idea that we don't don't want people burning flags is disrespectful to the country.

Speaker 2 It usually indicates someone who is either outwardly opposed to our nation or just really annoying and smelly. So there is

Speaker 2 usually one of those two things.

Speaker 2 Now, what he's saying there, a one-year penalty for burning the flag, is not only not something he can't do. himself, you can't just institute a new criminal penalty through an executive order.

Speaker 2 That's not how the system works at all. In addition to that, the executive order doesn't even describe this penalty.
It doesn't even

Speaker 2 say nothing about it.

Speaker 2 The way it was presented. Yeah, the way it's presented here is a very tough standard on

Speaker 2 the monuments the same thing.

Speaker 2 We're going to tell everybody, we want everyone to know, don't do it.

Speaker 2 The actual text of this, though, is consistent with the Constitution and is consistent with the Supreme Court ruling, where I see, you know, a lot of people on the right are now saying, oh, well, yeah, we should have, it should be illegal to burn a flag.

Speaker 2 You can have that argument. I think a lot of people would agree with you on it because, but, you know, you have to go.

Speaker 2 Orin Hatch's approach, while I didn't necessarily love it as a tactic, was the right one. You have to have a constitutional amendment for that to go on.

Speaker 2 But at the end of the day, I think a lot of people just really don't like flag burnings. They want it to stop.

Speaker 2 What Trump is doing here is giving you a message of this is going to be a massive penalty.

Speaker 2 What he says there, and it says in the executive order as well, is basically if someone's burning a flag and that incites a criminal riot, they should be prosecuted

Speaker 2 for inciting the criminal riot.

Speaker 2 But that's already a crime.

Speaker 2 For the most part, you know, those

Speaker 2 insight of

Speaker 2 riots, that's already taken place. You know, I mean, the crowds are already gathered when we see people burning our flag.

Speaker 2 burning the country's flag. The crowd's already there.
They're already incited.

Speaker 2 So the flag burning is just, you know, advancing advancing on top. Right.
Yeah, it's part of it.

Speaker 2 Now, J.D. Vance addressed this because Antonin Scalia was one of these justices who was on the side of saying flag burning is, we might hate it, but it is protected speech.

Speaker 2 He said, one, Antonin Scalia was a great Supreme Court justice and a genuinely kind and decent person. True.
Two, the president's executive order is consistent with Texas versus Johnson.

Speaker 2 That's that case. And it's true.
Not only is it consistent with it, it mentions it in the executive order, basically saying we're not going to violate this.

Speaker 2 And then three, he says Texas versus Johnson was wrong and William Rehnquist was right. That's probably the actual debate people are having.

Speaker 2 You know, I tend to think it's a symbol and I'm with you in that you should be able to do it if you really want to,

Speaker 2 but

Speaker 2 I don't like it and I'm not going to approve of it and I'm going to criticize you for it. But like it doesn't change my life if you burn a flag.
I just think you're dumb.

Speaker 2 That's basically what happens, unless the fire results in my house burning down, which is going to be a whole lot of people. That's a crime ship.
That's a separate crime.

Speaker 2 So that's where we are with that. Again, the media going crazy over this when in reality, when you read the text of the executive order, it doesn't do much of anything other than making a statement.

Speaker 2 And he's trying to discourage this behavior in the best way he can without crossing the line of what the Supreme Court said. All right, back with more in a second.
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Speaker 2 Triple 8727 BECK is the phone. Have we even mentioned that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged? Have we even mentioned it? I mean,

Speaker 2 we're not talking about it. It's like the biggest story of the day.
There's no need for us to talk about it, but yes,

Speaker 2 it is a big story. Congratulations.
By the way, Cracker.

Speaker 2 Congratulations there. Thank you.

Speaker 2 I don't think we need to go any more in depth than that.

Speaker 2 I know you're excited. There's a lot more to the story.
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I'm not alone. I didn't say you're already.
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Speaker 2 Very excited about it. Then we should talk about

Speaker 2 it. Then we should talk more about it.

Speaker 2 We don't program this show for 12-year-old children.

Speaker 2 Now, I know you have the mind of a 12-year-old girl at times,

Speaker 2 but no,

Speaker 2 we don't know. Whatever.
I'm just trying to get the information out to the audience. That's all.
Thank you. It's Stu and Jeffy in for Glenn.
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Speaker 2 Now, Glenn,

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Speaker 2 But I guess

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Speaker 2 All right, well, you know, we come in here all the time, we complain about the media being wrong about stuff,

Speaker 2 and we hate that.

Speaker 2 This is one of those moments we hope they are wrong. This is this is the opposite because we're getting reports now from Minneapolis of what appears to be a

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Speaker 2 in southeast Minneapolis.

Speaker 2 School.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's tough, man. I know, I know.
So there's a school shoot. There was a school there as well.
Yes. And they're talking about

Speaker 2 20.

Speaker 2 These are the details I'm getting to currently. Yes.
I appreciate that. Yes.

Speaker 2 It's a Catholic school.

Speaker 2 It is grades kindergarten through eight. It is a, I mean, I...

Speaker 2 To set the scene here, it seems to be really bad. They're saying,

Speaker 2 I mean, this is an initial figure. We have no idea if it's correct.
Hopefully it's high. I fear it's not.
There was a

Speaker 2 school about 320 kids, and they were in an all-school mass at the time of the shooting. There are reports of a man dressed in black with a rifle,

Speaker 2 and it does appear that the situation is under control from the aspect of additional violence carrying forward.

Speaker 2 We don't think that there's a threat to the surrounding community anymore. I mean, that usually means the person with the gun has been killed or killed himself or has surrendered in some way.

Speaker 2 We don't know the details of it yet. But good God, this seems to be

Speaker 2 a really, really tragic situation. And, you know,

Speaker 2 all we can do at this point is sit back and say, pray for the victims, pray for the families that are involved.

Speaker 2 You know, the left will mock us for praying. Sure.
They sure will. You know, I don't care about that at all.

Speaker 2 When people say, Hope, my hopes and prayers are with you, and then the left mocks you and says, Oh, all you have is hopes and prayers. Well, first of all, hopes is one thing.

Speaker 2 I can see hopes do very little for you in a situation like this. We can hope.

Speaker 2 We can try to be optimistic for the best possible outcome. That doesn't do

Speaker 2 all that much, though.

Speaker 2 Prayers are a different story.

Speaker 2 When the left mocks prayers, what they're mocking is the ultimate thing you can do in this moment. It's not a nothing.
Sure, you can pass laws later on. I mean, I don't, you know, we'll get into that.

Speaker 2 I'm sure that will be a debate coming in future days, and

Speaker 2 no need to do it yet.

Speaker 2 But it is something that you can do. You can try to do all sorts of different things here on earth.
But But at the end of the day, the solutions to issues like this do not come from laws.

Speaker 2 They do not come from hopes. They can come from prayers.

Speaker 2 If you're a Christian, if you're faithful,

Speaker 2 your

Speaker 2 ultimate response in a situation like this is prayer.

Speaker 2 And certainly, the people who sent their child, probably at great expense, to a Catholic school.

Speaker 2 Those people certainly believed in it as well. And you might say, well, oh, gosh, if you're on the left, you might say, oh, gosh, well, it didn't do anything for their kids.
Well, you know,

Speaker 2 you can be a horrible human being if that's what you desire to be. That option is presented to you in this country.
You can sit here and take, you know, some grotesque joy

Speaker 2 out of

Speaker 2 this type of situation. But at the end of the day,

Speaker 2 the only thing that does solve this is people changing and

Speaker 2 honestly, miracles. The only thing that can solve a situation like this in a free society is a miracle.
And I really do

Speaker 2 hope and pray that

Speaker 2 maybe the worst things that are being reported are not true. Jeffy, I know you've been looking at this as we've been talking here.

Speaker 2 What are the latest updates? Well,

Speaker 2 we can certainly hope and pray that what they're reporting is not true. 20 was the high count that I saw.
That's all I've seen so far. Injured, yes.

Speaker 2 The shooter, they claim, is deceased from a self-inflicted gun wound. That's what they said.
And they also said that they found firearms and explosives on the scene. Good God.

Speaker 2 So, I mean, could something, you know, obviously they have everything locked down.

Speaker 2 We hope that that is the end of all of this, that nothing else horrible happens.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 I would pray that 20 is too high. I mean, honestly, I hope so.
I hope so. Any number is too high.
I'm nervous about it, though.

Speaker 2 I mean, the situation being lined out in the reports that we're seeing, I mean, you think about a, it's a large school service,

Speaker 2 but a school service. You know, my kids go to a religious school.
My kids do. They have a chapel.

Speaker 2 They all go together. There's a lot of kids

Speaker 2 in one area. Right.
I mean, and to see a situation like this, this is why, I don't know know if you've noticed this, Jeffy, but like churches now really often have

Speaker 2 people who, you know,

Speaker 2 security and armed officials there when they have large gatherings. That's a, it's a, it's a despicable sign of our society, but a lot of people, like a lot of people have anger against God.

Speaker 2 A lot of people have anger against churches. A lot of people are psychos and want to do terrible things to children.
I mean, we've talked,

Speaker 2 I'm sure Glenn has talked about it, you know, for safety safety and security of churchgoers, as you said, with security outside, but they've also talked about trying to get churches not to live stream their

Speaker 2 Sunday services. Go ahead and record it, post it later.
Yeah. So it's not being live streamed.

Speaker 2 You don't want to ⁇ well, because this is one of the things that we've seen consistently through reporting on mass shootings over the years, which is a desire for

Speaker 2 notoriety,

Speaker 2 a desire to be the one who sets the record, to be the one who everyone remembers, to be.

Speaker 2 And this is why I don't use the names of the shooters. We stopped doing this.
And I know the Blaze currently has that policy as well. We stopped before the Blaze even put it in.

Speaker 2 I know a bunch of other people have jumped on that bandwagon. Good, because that is the one clear thing you can see in report after report and study after study on these things.
Is

Speaker 2 that a big part of the motivation, right? The big part of the motivation is that notoriety, is that fame, is to be famous even among that community. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 2 And the community are people who are thinking about doing these mass shootings or have done them. There's almost like a

Speaker 2 bizarre, like,

Speaker 2 you know, swifty type society that has developed online.

Speaker 2 It's really sad. That praises death.
Really sad. Oh, well, we've been, we've been a death cult

Speaker 2 on the left for a long time.

Speaker 2 There's no question about that. We've seen it.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
And you can just start with abortion and then work your way down the list.

Speaker 2 I mean, we've got them crying now that they're for crime, right, in the cities. They want the crime in the cities without saying, well, we need crime.
Crime is part of our life.

Speaker 2 That's what we're doing. But that's what they're actually saying.

Speaker 2 But they're saying they're against making streets safer. It's a fair point.
You know, you think about the deaths of all

Speaker 2 the potential births that can happen before,

Speaker 2 of course, going after human beings before they're born. You have the situation that certainly developed in mass in Canada, where now we're seeing one of the leading causes of death

Speaker 2 being euthanasia. Right.
Where they're encouraging people without life-threatening conditions to take it on. Yeah, just go ahead.

Speaker 2 Did you

Speaker 2 want to? Okay, all right, good. And I think, honestly, there's a real consistency with the attitude of

Speaker 2 so many

Speaker 2 about what you might refer to as bad neighborhoods in cities. You know, like there's that situation in LA,

Speaker 2 famously Skid Row, right? Okay. Where it's basically like,

Speaker 2 it's not walled off, but in a way, it almost feels like a walled-off area.

Speaker 2 Make the left turn. You're there.
Go there. Be homeless there.
Have your life be terrible. Do a bunch of drugs, but don't come near us.
There's no need for you to cross this street. Don't cross.

Speaker 2 If you cross this street, we might start enforcing crimes. But you there, you have your little community of crime and suffering and despair.
And we'll live over here. See that nice house on the hill?

Speaker 2 That's mine.

Speaker 2 And there is a version of that that goes on in every one of these big cities, Chicago, certainly, you know, certainly in D.C.,

Speaker 2 where they will just allow a lot of this stuff to happen as long as it happens in the right areas. I mean, really, we're seeing it in every major city across America.

Speaker 2 I think that's true. I mean, it's overwhelming, which, you know, leads us into President Trump saying we need to clean it up.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I think that's why I think people will actually have

Speaker 2 and have an appetite for it.

Speaker 2 They see the problem is there. The denials from the left and the media are not going to work.
You can't

Speaker 2 just like it didn't work on inflation during Biden, right? You can't tell, you can't talk your way out of these problems. You can't talk your way out of inflation.

Speaker 2 People are buying things and the prices are going up. They're going to notice it.
You can't tell them Bidenomics is working and expect that to be effective. The same thing with crime.

Speaker 2 You can say Donald Trump's evil and he's orange and he's Hitler and he's all these bad things. But at the end of the day, what he's suggesting is we should stop crimes from occurring.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you feel safer? The numbers say the crime is down. Do you feel safer? No.

Speaker 2 Of course I don't feel safer. Has anyone been to these cities? I guess not.
I think they have, but they don't go to certain areas. They choose to ignore it.
You can go down. There are areas.

Speaker 2 We were there for the inauguration in D.C. We were covering it.
And now,

Speaker 2 I will say D.C. during the inauguration, a different place, right? There are 1 trillion police officers all over the place.
Just like today. Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's nowhere near. I mean, honestly, what they're doing today is nowhere near what they do for the inauguration for understandable reasons.

Speaker 2 And going there, you still notice it, but in the areas where, you know, politicians walk from day to day, on a day-to-day basis, where their aides are, where the nice hotels are, that's not your issue, where the monuments are.

Speaker 2 That's not really the issue. The issue are areas outside

Speaker 2 of that vicinity, which, you know, one area in D.C., I think it was a 10-block area, was responsible for 14% of the murders in the entire city.

Speaker 2 10 blocks.

Speaker 2 Now, you can stop the murders in that 10-block area by populating it with a lot of police officers, at least for a time. That doesn't mean that eventually the crime doesn't move.

Speaker 2 But what's happened, I think, in city after city, Jeffy, is

Speaker 2 we've just abandoned these areas.

Speaker 2 Democratic mayors have come in and said, if we can make it nice for the nice people

Speaker 2 over here, if we give them, you know, roughly safe zones, again, a lot of times these are bad too.

Speaker 2 We talked about mentioned it earlier. We've become accustomed to it.
It's like, yeah, that's just the way it is. Yeah, you just kind of blow it off and you're like, oh, gosh.

Speaker 2 I mean, San Francisco is an example of

Speaker 2 it kind of permeating everywhere. I mean, you can go to really nice areas in San Francisco, and there are still homeless people with needles in their arms pooping on the sidewalk.

Speaker 2 Like, that is like legitimate.

Speaker 2 We were there for the Super Bowl. Yes,

Speaker 2 it had just started to become bad

Speaker 2 in several areas. It's gotten much worse.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I mean, when we walked around those neighborhoods, some of those neighborhoods were just starting to get, you're like,

Speaker 2 letting these people put their tents up in front of the buildings, in front of the storefronts? Yep. And it's going to get worse.
Okay.

Speaker 2 It was incredible. Incredible.
And it was, I will say,

Speaker 2 the worst smell I've ever smelled was on that trip. I don't know what it was.
It was some combination of God only knows what. I don't even want to get into the description of it.
It was terrible.

Speaker 2 And it was common.

Speaker 2 There was a version of it on every street corner.

Speaker 2 And you can let your city completely go, which was kind of what San Francisco tried for a while there. It sure seemed like it, yeah.
If you can do a version of this where it's sort of cordoned off.

Speaker 2 And that's what's sad about these cities.

Speaker 2 You know, these people, one of the things that I think is effective in what Trump is trying to do here is for the first time, there's a person who's standing up and saying they actually care about these people.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 2 The president is saying,

Speaker 2 I want to do something that is testing my presidency, that is testing the power structure around me. And I want to do that to stop the murders in your community.
Right. I mean, how many shows?

Speaker 2 Jeffy's the king of television. You've watched every show.

Speaker 2 But like you look at, you know, think of like The Wire, right? You have these,

Speaker 2 which is a great show, but you have

Speaker 2 these areas of town that are just crime-ridden, and people just kind of stop and say, well, that's that area. That's where that will be.

Speaker 2 The police don't want to really go there because

Speaker 2 they already know it's a bad area.

Speaker 2 It's okay.

Speaker 2 I think one of the plots of the, one of the seasons of The Wire, if I'm not mistaken, it's been a while since I watched it, was they actually

Speaker 2 that? The one police chief or captain gave them

Speaker 2 an area. And so the crime and the drug dealing could all happen.
It'll happen right there. Keep it there, and we won't do anything.

Speaker 2 It's not that overt, but it's happening all over the country. And Trump is trying to step in.
We'll have more updates on what's going on in Minneapolis as we go forward today.

Speaker 2 It is a developing situation, and it is important to realize. Much of the information you will get in this time period will not be accurate.

Speaker 2 We can only hope that the corrections, when they do come, come in the favor of God only knows, 320 kids are in this school. They were in the middle of a mass.
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Speaker 2 We're getting reports of 20 that are at least injured.

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Speaker 2 So they are giving a

Speaker 2 press conference coming up in a few minutes. So we'll learn more about the shooting in Minneapolis.
Right now, it's being reported that

Speaker 2 the shooter and two others have lost their lives.

Speaker 2 That's what we know so far. That's what we know so far.

Speaker 2 So we'll, you know.

Speaker 2 Just absolutely horrible. Horrible.

Speaker 2 It's hard to even describe how ridiculous this stuff is. Like, I, you know, if you're going to wind up,

Speaker 2 if you're going to be one of these people that's going to go and kill yourself,

Speaker 2 there's so many people now want to draw attention to themselves and take out others in these moments. And, you know, we saw this with the NFL situation from a few weeks ago

Speaker 2 where the shooter, like, he was like, oh, this is going to be, you know, death by police or whatever, went in and killed a bunch of people and then wound up dying.

Speaker 2 um this seems like potentially a self-inflicted gunshot uh wound here as well

Speaker 2 there's no reason to take out it look you shouldn't kill yourself this is a very basic and it should be uh you should be reminded of it you're definitely worth more even if you think you're a terrible person or you're having all sorts of problems everything don't do that yeah but really don't do it in this way really don't do it when you're going to go take out a bunch of innocent children you wonder in a situation like this and and oftentimes this is the case where

Speaker 2 people come back to maybe someone who went to school there or someone who had a beef with this particular church. We'll see.

Speaker 2 We will see. But you think the idea that maybe they knew that there was a service where everyone was gathered, because this isn't obviously what they're doing all the time at the school.

Speaker 2 They're normally in individual classrooms. Seems like this was timed to hit the mass amount of people possible.
We will see how that plays out. But look,

Speaker 2 whatever you think, you know, to these people who do this over, whatever you think is important in your life, whatever you think is so important that you have to do something like this, I guarantee it's not.

Speaker 2 No kidding. It's just not.
And

Speaker 2 gosh, to watch this stuff happen, especially when it comes to kids, man, this is the worst. This is the worst stuff.
This is the worst our society produces these days. No parent wants that nightmare.

Speaker 2 No. No.
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Speaker 2 And we'll get into more as we get updates here. Ongoing situation in Minneapolis with a mass shooting seemingly taking place at a church.

Speaker 2 More details coming up.

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Speaker 2 Welcome back. It's Jeffy and Stu in for Glenn on the Glenbeck program.

Speaker 2 Federal sources are telling Fox News the shooter in Minneapolis is dead. Potentially 15 to 20 are injured.

Speaker 2 You had mentioned, Jeffy, another report saying a couple had passed away. Yes.
So we don't know what the number is.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the original, obviously, everything changes, but

Speaker 2 the original number was 20 injured.

Speaker 2 Is that counting the two that they're saying is deceased?

Speaker 2 That's the important thing. And this is where we're going to draw the line on this.
It's important for you to know that it's going on.

Speaker 2 It's important important for you to know what the reporting is saying at some level. There's a chance we are going to have a press conference on this incident in the next 20 minutes or so.

Speaker 2 If that does occur, we'll bring it to you.

Speaker 2 But there is a limit as to what utility we can provide here because I think what we're going to find out is half the stuff that they're reporting right now is not accurate.

Speaker 2 It's just one of those situations where you just know we're going to wind up with a lot of

Speaker 2 when we actually know the truth and what's gone on, we're going to have much different information.

Speaker 2 I pray that the numbers do change to zero.

Speaker 2 Everyone's okay except for the shooter. Okay, good.
Best case scenario. It doesn't seem likely, but we're going to wind up finding out what this is.

Speaker 2 So what we'll do over the next 20 minutes for you is monitor the situation. If anything concrete breaks, we will bring it to you.
If we get this press conference, we'll bring it to you.

Speaker 2 But for the time being, rather than consider, you know, sitting here and speculating for 20 minutes, let's go on to some of the other things that are happening because there are a lot of other things happening in the world.

Speaker 2 In fact,

Speaker 2 a bunch of big developments in the legal world right now, including one with Amazon, Jeffy. No question.

Speaker 2 I've got lawsuits and a drug king ping going down, but the Amazon class action lawsuit filed in federal court this past weekend over a bait and switch in which the company allegedly, allegedly, of course misleads consumers into believing they've purchased content when they're only getting a license to watch it

Speaker 2 which can be revoked at any time

Speaker 2 they can change it they can change if you what if you buy a movie

Speaker 2 buy be this is what the class action is mad about is that you shouldn't say buy because you're not buying it because you're really not are you no the fact is is that uh what's being bought isn't ownership of the title, but rather a limited time license for viewing access.

Speaker 2 Limited time license for viewing access. Wow.
Yeah, that's what you're buying. Okay.

Speaker 2 So if the tech, you know, if they decide that they want to replace it with a different cut,

Speaker 2 if they lose the rights for the film altogether, they can just take it away. Gone.
Goodbye.

Speaker 2 If you bought a movie from Amazon, If you purchased a, I'm sorry, a limited time license for viewing access on a movie that you really enjoyed and they've lost their rights to air it but pull it from there from from your my movies section on Amazon Prime and I feel like that's happened to me I feel like I've purchased movies in the past from Amazon and I go back to find them and they're not there

Speaker 2 is this could this be what happened absolutely I don't I and I don't know that they're I don't know that

Speaker 2 could you be dreaming and not have actually ordered the movie absolutely I need some evidence on that that's fair that's fair fair. But that's absolutely could have happened.
Yes. And like

Speaker 2 it's really,

Speaker 2 they have made the case before this California. Now, this is nationwide.
Now, in California, they had a lawsuit that was

Speaker 2 where Amazon said. People know.

Speaker 2 People know, too.

Speaker 2 People snow that. People know that they're not actually purchasing the thing they're purchasing.
Yeah, they're not buying it. They know that.
And the court was like, that's not what it says.

Speaker 2 Well, it's not how it works either, right? Like, it doesn't work to say that

Speaker 2 you have to say things that are true. Right.
Gosh, I'm going through a situation right now.

Speaker 2 I really want to rant on it right now. But oftentimes when you make purchases,

Speaker 2 the website indicates,

Speaker 2 insinuates hints toward certain things happening. certain prices on items.
And then when you go through a little bit of the process, all of a sudden the price is a lot higher. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I find that to be frustrating. Same thing when you buy a movie at Amazon.
Yes. And you have this, you've clicked a button that says buy, especially when it's differentiated from rent, right?

Speaker 2 Like there is a rental button. You can rent it.
This is more like a long. For a certain amount of time, and then it goes away.
This is more like a long-term rental. Right.

Speaker 2 You hope.

Speaker 2 Maybe that's what you call it, a long-term rental. I don't know.
I mean, California

Speaker 2 just did

Speaker 2 just passed a a law that says that

Speaker 2 you're supposed, the false advertising and consumer legal remedies laws, and

Speaker 2 that's what they want.

Speaker 2 You're buying a limited license for these movies. So under the statute, sellers are supposed to obtain acknowledgement.
So I don't know if Amazon is different in California.

Speaker 2 Prime is different in California than it is the rest of

Speaker 2 the rest of the country. But I mean, it comes up on your screen to rent, you have it for so so long, or buy, and

Speaker 2 they definitely lead you to believe it's yours when

Speaker 2 it really isn't.

Speaker 2 You know, we all believe that it is,

Speaker 2 except it's not.

Speaker 2 I do think that's how people go through that. And it is a, you know, there's some people out there who really are pushing for own your media.

Speaker 2 You know, if you want a movie and you want to make sure you have it forever and it's not going to be altered or edited for woke purposes, Glenn talks about this all the time when it it comes to digital books.

Speaker 2 Like, oh,

Speaker 2 hard copies, you know, because they will edit it. They can change it.
Yeah, they can change it whenever they want because you've actually

Speaker 2 didn't buy the book, Stu. What did you do? You went ahead and had a limited-time license for viewing accidents.
Oh,

Speaker 2 well, that's everyone's dream. It's the American dream, Jeffy, to have a limited-time access of license for viewing

Speaker 2 home ownership. It's not home ownership.
It's a limited-time

Speaker 2 I mean, holy cow.

Speaker 2 And I feel like there were other companies, too, that I had dealings with that

Speaker 2 we were buying movies from, and then it went away. And they gave you so much time to say, we're going away.
And if you want to keep the stuff you've already purchased, you got to move it over here.

Speaker 2 And if you don't move everything,

Speaker 2 oh, well. Oh, well.
Have a nice day. Yep.
See you later. Take care.

Speaker 2 And so that's nice of them. At least they let me know.

Speaker 2 I suppose

Speaker 2 if that's enough for you.

Speaker 2 I feel like everybody's getting sued right now. Absolutely.
I know OpenAI is dealing with a bunch of stuff. Elon.
Elon's one. Yeah, Elon is slamming.

Speaker 2 He's suing Apple and OpenAI for billions, actually, alleging their partnership is preventing groking from becoming a common verb.

Speaker 2 And the lawsuit alleges that the two monopolists teaming up last year to embed chat GPT into iPhones iPhones led them to corner the AI market and throttle Musk's companies.

Speaker 2 So illegal.

Speaker 2 Have you ever heard anyone use the term grokking before? That's because they won't allow me to see that, Stu.

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, you could just use it. Those things are supposed to be organic, aren't they?

Speaker 2 You know, what's the movie? You're trying to make fetish. I'm just telling you, this is, you know, I don't think grokking is a thing that's happening.
It's because

Speaker 2 he's getting locked out. Is that what what you are? Well, that's what the deal is.
Now, I think there are some potentially, you know,

Speaker 2 I don't really care about a lot of this stuff, but there's always these anti-competitive lawsuits that are in the case of the African Apple thwarted these super apps.

Speaker 2 They're already, you know, the Fortnite deal, maker of Epic Games. I mean, they sued them at one

Speaker 2 for being throttled from the Apple store. The game store.
Epic Games did deal. Yeah.
And so, I mean, so they could sell it themselves, and

Speaker 2 they're charging more money on the Apple app and it costs them you know a lot of money i feel like you're you're goading me uh to talk about uh

Speaker 2 my situation with this story selection today uh because i you know to give you

Speaker 2 i mean you look you've been you purchased an item and you are

Speaker 2 you are advertised one thing yes i've never advertised one thing and then you realize that the advertising was maybe a little misleading right well maybe you didn't read it properly

Speaker 2 i'll give you a little bit of detail on this. So I

Speaker 2 Tesla advertised a new leasing program. Now, I am not an electric car guy.
I don't like electric cars all that much. And I think it would really annoy me to have an electric car.

Speaker 2 That's my perception of the situation.

Speaker 2 However, there are some benefits to electric cars that I'm interested in. Let me lay them out for you.
Okay. Number one.
All right. Let's say you have a son.
Yes. Son plays on a baseball

Speaker 2 team.

Speaker 2 Son has friends.

Speaker 2 The ones that I always have to cart around, both catchers. Okay.
So they have big bags that don't really fit in my current car. Oh.

Speaker 2 So I was thinking about maybe they have a Model Y, which is like a SUV, much more storage than I have. That's nice.
Would be perfect for some time. See them on the road.
Number two,

Speaker 2 he often plays tournaments that are at 8 o'clock in the morning, an hour and a half away. And I am very interested in the self-driving

Speaker 2 for that. Which many people are using in this very Metroplex.

Speaker 2 Yes. And I like the idea of, I'm not going to be, you know,

Speaker 2 you got to pay attention to the road, but it's nice to be able to do that. Yeah, they make you pay attention.
It's very disappointing. When we get to the point when I can go to sleep, let me know.

Speaker 2 I kind of like the assistance, though, on a long drive. Absolutely.
And

Speaker 2 another step number three in this process of how I got here, I have to drive my daughter to gymnastics, which is 45 minutes away and always in constant traffic.

Speaker 2 That drive in my current car, which is a manual transmission, is hell.

Speaker 2 It is very difficult. And it's annoying.
And you forgot when automatics came out why people liked them.

Speaker 2 I drove a stick for a long time. I like driving sticks.
I love it too. Because it's driving, right? You're driving, and I like driving.

Speaker 2 But driving in traffic, stopping no traffic for 45 minutes is not pleasant. Three or four times a week.
Fun. It's not fun.
And then finally, Jeffy, you may have heard of global warming.

Speaker 2 Global warming, I know we're so concerned with it. You and I, if I get the global warming in the stickers all over the place,

Speaker 2 it is currently 174 degrees in Texas for the sun moves closer to Texas.

Speaker 2 Just starting to fade a little bit. Just starting to fade into like 80s and 90s occasionally now, but it's, you know, the summers are really rough.

Speaker 2 And the aforementioned Little League tournaments where your car is outside baking for eight straight hours,

Speaker 2 getting back in, very difficult. Now, again, as I mentioned, the car is a manual transmission, so there's no auto start on it.

Speaker 2 But in the lease of the Tesla, there would be. There would be.

Speaker 2 In fact, one of the things that's most attractive to me about potentially buying a Tesla or another electric vehicle would be the idea where you can just kind of turn on the

Speaker 2 climate control. and leave it at like 70 degrees and then get right back in.
It's nice and cool. So I'm not sure.
Other things do. And I don't know if you know this.

Speaker 2 It might not have even said this in your papers, but you can have it just like, say you're done with the game. The game's over.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And you're at the field. You go, oh, man, I'm not going to walk all this whole parking lot to carry this baseball stuff to the car, am I?

Speaker 2 Nope. And the car will come to you.
You can summon your automobile. It's another interesting thing to

Speaker 2 almost certainly use. So all these are features that would make me be interested in a Tesla with trepidation because I don't think I love the idea.
So what do I do? Right.

Speaker 2 I could buy a Tesla and try to figure it out. Or they just came out with this new lease program in Texas in California.
Someone sent it to me.

Speaker 2 I'm like, this is actually really interesting because one of the lease terms is a year. Okay.
Two to $300 a month for a year for a used Tesla.

Speaker 2 That's not too bad, but except whatever it costs to charge and everything.

Speaker 2 I'm told

Speaker 2 that that's not free. I would assume that charging it was free, but it's not.
It's not free, but it's supposed to be cheaper than gas. Who knows if that's actually accurate? But whatever.

Speaker 2 The point is, I like the idea. A couple hundred bucks.
It's almost like a long-term rental. I'll try it.
Let's see if I actually like this thing. It is.

Speaker 2 Well, let's just say

Speaker 2 after you put your money in and you send them your deposit, let's just say the $200 to $300 cost seems to multiply by multiple times.

Speaker 2 It doesn't seem to be anywhere near $200 to $300.

Speaker 2 Oh, really? And now they're like, well, we're, oh my God, I just want to cancel this thing now. And like, well, we're not, we can't send you back.
It's a non-refundable deposit.

Speaker 2 So that type of stuff drives you crazy. Like, I'm trying trying to have an experience with this company.
And I think overall it's a good company. I like Elon Musk.

Speaker 2 I'm not complaining about it, but it's like, just be upfront with me. Tell me what the hell I'm going to be paying.

Speaker 2 And then don't wait to reveal the actual payment until after I've given you money that you won't refund. That is an interesting approach as you get customers long term.

Speaker 2 Maybe you could scam them into one deal or a couple thousand dollars. Yeah.
But like, I'm not going to want to go back to Tesla after that. If this holds up, I'm arguing with you.

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Speaker 2 Brooks Turner is a 35-year-old dad, and he held his preschooler daughter, Ayla, in his arms as he walked away from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting that is breaking today.

Speaker 2 He said he was told all students were in a church for an all-school mass when the shooting started, but Ayla and the other pre-K students were in a room below.

Speaker 2 Thankfully, she survived. Ayla said she heard banging and hid in a play

Speaker 2 kitchen before she was evacuated.

Speaker 2 So thank God, at least there's one story there that's of hope, but just it kind of paints a picture of how terrible a situation this is. Hiding in a play kitchen.
I mean, good God Almighty.

Speaker 2 Please protect these families and these people that are there and going through this situation.

Speaker 2 It's going to be a tough rest of the day. Hopefully, we have the best outcome possible.
Jeffy, thanks for joining me today, man.

Speaker 2 We're going to be actually doing a show next week together as well here on the radio program.

Speaker 2 Hopefully, Glenn is feeling better and will rejoin us on tomorrow's program. Of course, don't forget, listen to Chew in the Fat as part of the Blaze Network and Studos America.

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