Best of the Program | 3/25/25

Why the legislature has ceded all of their power to the administration and they need to reclaim those powers. For the balance of power, I explain why it's important with a couple of news stories today.
Also, 60 Minutes somehow talked to a gang member who admits how many drugs and humans he's smuggled across our border. If the U.S.
wants to avoid becoming Europe, the deportations must continue. And that means Canada, step it up.
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You're listening to the best of the blend back program all right there's a few things that i want to make sure that we go over uh first of all the fbi is now responding uh to the ongoing attacks against elon musk um it it appears as though everybody is saying these are lone wolf attacks. Are they? Law enforcement now, the FBI, has received 48 reports of attacks on Tesla vehicles and the dealerships and charging stations so far just this month.
And it appears that they may be coordinated. Don't know yet, but I wouldn't doubt it.
All you have to do, though, is coordinate a couple of them and then just the crazies take over from there. But we have now moved a 10-person task force of special agents and intelligence analysts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
They've moved them into the Department of Treasury and the FBI's counterterrorism division, and they are specifically going after those people and those groups that are targeting Elon Musk and his company and your car, possibly. Speaking of cars, yesterday, big, big announcement.
Hyundai has announced $21 billion of a U.S. investment.
They are bringing one of their factories here to the United States. They're going to be building cars here.
This is another one of these things where the Trump tariffs, this part at least, seems to be working. He is threatening these tariffs, and companies are starting to move here into the United States because they want the tax break, and they also don't want the tariff on their car.
Did you see what Europe did yesterday? We have had tariffs so high. No car, no American car is selling over in Europe.
One reason is their streets are really, really small, and our trucks and SUVs are really, really big. So that's one reason.
But the other is you can't afford them over there because the tariffs are so high. We don't have tariffs.
We didn't have tariffs on their cars. So Trump said 20% tariff.
Well, they folded. They agreed to a 2.5% tariff.
And it looks like we're going to do 2.5%. So that's good, especially if you're a car dealer of anything foreign, from Europe at least.
That's a good thing. That looks like that should happen and be finalized this week.
By the way, there's a story out today from CNBC.

Tax revenue. That's a good thing.
That looks like that should happen and be finalized this week.

By the way, there's a story out today from CNBC. Tax revenue collected by the IRS set to plummet.
Officials at the IRS and Treasury Department are anticipating tax revenue to drop more than 10% by April 15th compared to last year. The loss of tax receipts is expected as more individuals and businesses don't file taxes or attempt to avoid paying balances owed to the IRS.
The amount of loss federal revenue could top $500 billion. Okay.
Why? Officials say that the prediction is directly linked to the shifting taxpayer behavior and president trump's cuts at the irs okay when i read that i'm like you know this is this is another thing coming from the left the deep state everything else he can't cut those jobs at the irs that's too important we'll lose too too much power. He can't get rid of those 80,000 people.
And shifting, what was it? Shifting, where was that? Receipts expected as more individuals and businesses don't file tax or attempt to avoid paying balances owed to the IRS. Okay, nobody's shifting that.
I mean, is there a new thing? I mean, I'm pissed at my taxes. I don't want to pay my taxes because I think they've wasted so much of my money, but I'm paying my taxes.
I don't know any big movement that's saying, we're not paying our taxes. There was a bigger movement during the Tea Party than there is right now.
But this is all a government nonsense story to get you to to get you to believe that we're all going to collapse because we've cut 80 000 irs people that really hadn't even started doing anything yet uh the house gop is now insisting on senate cooperation for the reconciliation talks. The Senate has broken down.
This is for the big, beautiful bill. And the Senate needs to get their ass in gear.
The country is at stake. You cannot stall on what Donald Trump is doing.
It requires action and action now. This is a very delicate balance.
He's got to have all the pieces in line. You can't hold a piece like tax cuts back.
You can't hold the piece of regulation back. That's the kindling.
He's hitting sparks now, but he's got to have some kindling that can catch fire on the economy. And Congress and the Senate, get your ass in gear.
Now, the House voting on restraining nationwide injunctions to stop the judicial overreach against Trump. This is absolutely imperative as well.
We knew this was going to happen. What did they tell us as they were going after Donald Trump to make sure that he went to prison? What did they say? A, he's not going to be president again because we're going to put him in prison, but we learned a lot.
The way to get this guy is to go after him with the judges and the court system. It didn't work, but they doubled down after he was elected.

Don't worry, we'll stop him in the courts. So anybody believes that this is just spontaneously happening because all of a sudden these leftist judges are like, you know what, I really care about the Constitution.
I didn't care about it just a few months ago, but now I see how important the Constitution really is. This is nothing but another piece of failed strategy from the far left, and it's got to stop.
I'm going to tell you in tell you how our constitution is written and and what each role of the branches of government how the founders put this together we don't trust our government now now that we went through a period to where we did trust our government but it wasn the founding era. The founding era, all of the founders were like, don't trust the government.
We gave this to you, and nobody trusted. Even government officials said, it's getting out of control, it's getting too big.
Why just ask for extra money so we could have some wood to put into the potbelly stove to keep the chamber of Congress warm. They all feared it was going to get out of control because they all came out of a kind of totalitarianism with the king.
So what they put together is checks and balances. And you've heard this a million times.
Three forms of government, checks and balances. But let me give this to you so you can explain this to your children or to your friends that don't understand this.
There are several things the founders were afraid of. One, big states are going to gobble up and take all the power from the little states and they will just, they'll bully everyone around.
The one they were worried about most was Nework new york was a big state and delaware was like we're a state there nobody's going to listen to us and sadly delaware nobody listens to you now just because you deserve it but uh i shouldn't have bidened the rest of the country yeah if you would have done that we would have been fine anyway so what they did is they came up with the electoral college and everybody wants to now get rid of it and i want you to see a i want you to see the progressive game plan here on the constitution right now they're trying to get rid of the electoral college what was that for that was a check on the power of the big states like California, even Texas and New York. We have to have that so the little states don't have to live like everybody wants to live in California or New York.
And New York doesn't have to live like the way Texas wants everybody to live. They want to take that check and balance out.

They've done it before.

And you'll see here in a second.

So we have the House of Representatives based on census.

So everybody gets, you know, representative, you know, checks and the electoral college.

So that was to balance that concern out.

Then when they made Congress, they gave congressmen a two-year term. I mean, I can't even imagine how fast that goes.
It must be like you're running for election all the time. It's just two years? Really? Why? Because they put the purse strings.
This is why every law that involves any kind of money must start in Congress. Because they're the closest to you.
They're the fastest to get rid of. Every two years, they start doing stuff that you don't like.
You can vote them out. No other office has that.
Every two years. And that's because they have the checkbook.
If they start writing bad checks, if they start moving the country in the wrong way, you are the check on them, okay? All these things with money has to start with them because they're the closest to you and the fastest way to get somebody out legally. Now, also, a check on their out-of-control ways would be the Senate.
So let's say Congress starts to act in a way that is all about the federal government and has nothing to do with the states. The Senate is supposed to be representatives from each state that are not elected.

Instead, they are appointed by each state.

So the legislature and the governor get together and say,

we want this guy to be our Senate representative.

Why did they do that?

Because they were afraid of the federal government getting so big and powerful

that the Congress would just start thinking, we're a federal agency, We're here to make sure we can grow the size of government. We can do all these things.
And they knew that if Congress got out of control that way, they had to have the states there that only Chuck Schumer should only care about New York, not the rest, just New York. He's fighting for what New York wants.

But right now, because the progressives changed this around the turn of the century,

what happened?

Chuck Schumer, that's now a national election.

Why?

Shouldn't be.

It shouldn't even be an election according to Congress.

I'm sorry, according to the Constitution.

But the progressives passed an amendment to abolish that check. Notice the check on the states eating each other, or the big states eating the small states, they want to take that out.
They're working on that now. The next one that balanced the states versus the federal, they want to take that one out, and they did take that one out.
So the Senate acts as a guard against an out-of-control government just growing bigger and bigger and bigger. The next one, what happens if the Senate colludes with the House against the constitution well now that you have taken away that you know that check and balance of the senate it could happen so what happens then the veto power that's why veto is so important the administration uh can veto it but that veto is only supposed to be if the government thinks, or I'm sorry, if the president thinks this is unconstitutional.
Because remember, they all raise their hand not to say, I'm going to make sure we're making jobs. I'm going to make sure that we've got everybody equal.
No, they raise their hand to say, I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So the number one job of each of them is to make sure they're guarding their own house and their own power to be a check and balance against the other branches of government.
So now if you have an administration that just starts to go out of control and begins to make its own laws and rule as a dictator because he can which is what the kind of administration we have had now since well really since uh fdr but these the administration is way out of control and way out of balance it's why half the country fears the president no matter who it is half the country He fears that guy. He's going to come.
He's going to shut me down. He could put me in jail.
Because the administration has too much power. How did that happen? Because Congress, again, has the check on the administrative power.
It is the check that says, you know what, we're not going to fund that.

We're not going to fund them anymore. You know, if you're going to use the ATF that way or the FBI, no funding for you.
Get it back in line or we cut it off. That's a big power move.
The other thing is, don't you make a rule? What are you doing making rules? We pass laws here. You can't just go and make up your own rules.
It all has to come through Congress. Well, the founders didn't realize that Congress would no longer be greedy about power.
They would care about not being blamed for stuff more than their power. So Congress gave that power up to the administrative state.
That's why this is all out of balance. They can cut off the money or change the laws, make sure that can't happen.
The Reigns Act comes to mind. The founders knew that people hoard power, but now they're not, and that's why we're out of balance.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. So President Trump has imposed a 25 percent tariff on nearly all goods imported from Canada.
And he's been saying,

you got to work with us.

You've got to secure the Northern border.

You've got,

you've got to stop the drug cartels,

the drugs and the human smuggling that is happening on our Northern border.

And everybody's like,

Oh no,

Canada would never do that.

That's not a problem.

Okay.

It is a problem.

It's a border.

It's a problem.

And it's porous.

All of them are,

we've got to do something about it and ask our friends on our border to help us. Well, they're not.
60 Minutes went up. I couldn't believe this was on 60 Minutes over the weekend.
But they had a cartel smuggler on 60 Minutes. How does 60 Minutes? I mean, is that in the phone book? Where do you find a cartel smuggler? But they found one and he went on record and he said, I'll always find a way to get people illegally across the border.
Here's a piece of what he said. This video was reported in January.
A group of men who just crossed the border ran to an SUV that drove them deeper into New York. You'll also see a woman getting out of the car and go north to Canada.
This man told us he coordinated the handoff and took the video. Can you tell us who you work for? For the Sinaloa Cartel.
For the Sinaloa Cartel. He goes by the name Javi and agreed to speak with us only with his camera off.
He said he can't risk his identity being exposed. How does this work? They tell you where to go? They tell you how many people you have to bring across each week? Exactly.
That's how it goes. They provide the people.
They have more people who are behind all this, looking for customers, finding them, and summoning them to certain locations. We found Javi through his online ads, which he says TikTok recently took down.
Wow. Here he is talking about smuggling babies and fentanyl across the border.
What's the youngest child you've ever crossed? Tres meses. Three months.
Tres meses. Yes, babies.
What happens if one of the migrants you're working with doesn't pay? They cannot go. They're held hostage until they pay up.
Until what? Until they pay. Do you work only with humans or do you move drugs also? Everything.
How much fentanyl do you move across that border? Lately, it's been quiet, but for a while there, we were bringing in 30 kilos per month. Wow.
The drugs come from China? From China. The China.
I get more into the U.S., but also it goes from the U.S. to Canada and weapons.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Interesting, isn't it?

So that's what we're dealing with. And I don't know if you saw the video of the people that were boarded up on airplanes and sent to, where was it?

Not Venezuela, but El Salvador. Did you see that? Trump posted this amazing video.
You guys didn't see this? Oh, we got to look it up and play it. It's this amazing video of the plane arriving in El Salvador and them getting on the plane, getting off the plane, and then, you know, ankle and bracelets on their wrists, walking hunched down into this new prison.
And I got to tell you, that video itself, if I were thinking about coming here, I would immediately go, I'm not going there there if that's what happens to you i am not going there it sent such a strong strong message this is how we treat people who are coming here who are bad guys now this is this is the one that trump is or that the administration is in court now because an activist judge is like, you can't just do that.

You know what?

Why?

Well, because you didn't vet them.

No, I tell you what we did. We gave them exactly the same kind of vetting that the last president gave

when he let them all in.

None.

Now, these people were on a list, okay?

It doesn't mean that we're all gang members. But you're here.
You're here illegally. Bye-bye.
I know that sounds heartless. But you.
I really believe that they all need to go home. All of them need to go home.
And a lot of these people were not just on a list. They were known to be gang members.
And a lot of them had committed crimes here in America. Bye-bye.
See ya. Yeah, I mean, if you, I love that.
I heard some of these people are like, some of these people don't even have criminal records in America. Well, first of all, if they're here illegally, to me, they have a criminal record.
They act like this is not a crime well there's a law

okay and i understand there's some nuance within that law but like there's a law you're not supposed to come here they know they're not supposed to come here many of them had criminal records at their home country and not here again is that does that mean that we don't that we're going to leave them here no because they didn't commit a crime that we know of yet here i mean that the point is to prevent those, right?

Yeah.

I mean, it's possible, right right that they made a mistake there are some um some claims that a couple of these people were should not have been going to prison and even if they should be deported to their home country if they didn't commit a major crime they don't necessarily need to go to the el salvadorian lockup all that being said find those problems solve those problems right i mean i it's yep i like what elon musk said about this in the in the white house a couple weeks ago when he was asked about it and then and and they said like hey you and this has happened with doge hey you posted you saved 1.9 billion dollars and actually that had been canceled in the previous administration and he said yeah we're not going to get everything right like when we notice one of those things we're going to fix it and we'll get it fixed right away like that is actually a normal human way of dealing with an issue like that and i think it's so weird in washington to hear it but like that's okay now if you happen to be the person who was sent to this prison you're not going to like it very much um and you shouldn't have been here in the first place but you shouldn't that's the point like there is an initial thing that puts you into this bucket if you commit a crime by crossing into this country which we have warned you not to participate in if you do that there are consequences to it and you know if if you're wrongly sent to this prison they should absolutely correct those mistakes well i to tell you, I mean, every message he is sending is the exact opposite message that Biden was sending. Yeah.
He's sending right now. Even if what Biden was sending is, even if you're a terrorist, even if you're a murderer, we're not really going to check.
So come on in. You're fine.
Now, you might be a good person. You might be, you know, a dad of 16, whatever, and you're just coming in.

But we don't know.

We don't know.

So don't come.

Leave.

Leave right now.

Leave on your own.

He is begging people to self-deport.

And when you see the video, I got to play it for you.

It is amazing.

When you see this video, it is, you it is amazing when you see this video

it is i watched it i was like oh we have it yeah go ahead and play this watch this

shows the airplane now here they come down the stairs and look how they're all marched in a line

and they're all being marched right into this maximum security prison compound. And no, thank you.
Doesn't look great. Does not look great.
Look at that. No, thank you.
And this is Bukele who actually tweeted this to the president of El Salvador. Yeah.
I mean, you you are not if you heads here yeah if you are thinking about coming to the country or you're here illegally would you not be packing up everything right now going yeah i'm not gonna why mess with it right it's yeah and it's the messaging you know as much as we've always been very, very difficult or tough on illegal immigrants, it's true.

There's always been a part of me that does acknowledge the fact that we treat and have for decades treated illegal immigration kind of like it's a speeding ticket, right?

Like, you know, you shouldn't do it.

Correct.

But we're not really going to do much about it.

And if I were in a situation like some horrible country, you know, everything was overrun, we were all poor, would I risk a speeding ticket? Eh, maybe. Yeah, me too.
I mean, this is going to surprise people. Occasionally, I drift a couple of miles an hour over that speed limit here in the United States.
That's off the record for anyone listening., yeah, you know, occasionally that happens and I do it for almost no gain.

I do it because I want to get home 13 seconds faster.

If you were, if your entire family was, you got all that recorded, right?

Okay, go ahead.

Was devastated.

Yeah.

You and the United States government was constantly sending you the signal.

Sure.

It's kind of like breaking the rules, but don't worry about it. We got here for you the president was in a debate uh he just won joe biden and he told you what should we do with illegal immigrants we should welcome them that's the real policy like i could it almost takes away a good chunk of the responsibility of the illegal immigrant as bad that's how bad our policy been.
The policy is different now. The policy has been communicated quite clearly to anyone who would consider coming here.
Yeah, or is here illegally. Yeah, get out.
Get out, get out. And he's doing all of this to not have to round people up.
He's starting with the worst of the worst and showing the examples of what is happening to them to say to you, please make the right decision. Leave on your own.
We don't want to round you and your family up. We don't want you to go through this.
You have an opportunity. In fact, if you let us know, we're going to give you a special pass.
That means you could come back to the country and apply for citizenship not ahead of the line but you can if we catch you here and you haven't self-deported and you're totally a law-abiding citizen you're never coming back you're on a list you're never allowed to come back okay he's sending these messages and telling people i think with compassion hey uh we might come for you one day you really should leave now we don't want to make this an ugly thing you came in the wrong way sure we encouraged it whatever but not anymore and this has to be done or we turn into europe why is no one looking at what's happening to Europe and concerned? I was talking to a friend last night, kind of in the circle of the know. And he said, I think the world is preparing for a three-front war.
And I was like, wait, that doesn't sound good. He said, you know, look at the actions.
Look at what's happening around the world right now. He said it could go horribly wrong with Europe.
And it appears that there are players on all sides that want to have a war in Europe. You can make your own decisions on if that's true and why.
But also in the Middle East, everybody is preparing for war and preparing for a possible war with Iran. And then China is preparing for war.
And if there is a huge war in the Middle East, then we're brought into it, and a war in Europe, and we're brought into it. You don't think the third leg would stand up and take Taiwan? They'd take it in a heartbeat.
Because we would not be able to fight a three-theater war. We just are not prepared for it.
And the one in Europe, if we're fighting in Europe, you know, we're approaching a place to where that could be a hundred year war because that'll all be about ideology. And we're not talking the Russians.
We're talking about the Islamic state. You know, they're all, all these Islamists have been brought in and then they change and then they have no-go zones and then

they set up Sharia courts. Do you think that's going to stop at some time? France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, you really think all of a sudden they're going to go, but that's enough.
We're not going to go past this. We're going to have our Sharia courts, but we respect you Lutherans over here.

Of course not.

Of course not.

They have to take care of their own countries and the population that has been moving in that is destroying their countries and making them an enemy of the freedoms of mankind. I don't want to deal with it.
They need to. But we're in the same boat.
We must protect the homeland. We'll never be able to save anyone if we don't save ourselves first.
If we don't know who's here, we don't control the crime in our own cities, we don't have cheap and effective energy, We don't have an educated, not miseducated, but an educated population, a hardworking population, a population that understands its own country, its own history, and its own values. You don't survive.
You don't survive. So we have a very clear job that we have to do.
And I think Donald Trump is doing a good job of it so far. But the rest of it is up to us.
But we must act. I mean, I really think that God does what we can't do.
I couldn't have stopped that bullet. Couldn't have done it.
Nobody could have stopped that bullet. God stopped that bullet from hitting him.
I've never seen anything like that. If that wasn't a clear, almost Moses parting the Red Sea style miracle, I don't know if I've ever seen one then.
That was a miracle. But God does the things we can't do.
We now have to do the things that we have to do. And one of those things is if you want the government to be less powerful, we have to stop giving it power.
If you want the government to do less, we have to take on the responsibility to do more in our own communities, neighborhoods, and family. That's the way we fix this thing.
But the time to fix it is right now. We may only have another three years, and who knows what happens in three years? Let's make sure we're doing all the hard work ourselves right now.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program. Stu, what is the, in sports, what, there's somebody that has, I think it's baseball, has an asterisk after their record.
The famous one is Roger Maris, because he hit his 61st home run. That's right, which was more than Babe Ruth, right? Babe Ruth had 60, but Maris did it in 162 games instead of 154.
So for a long time in the official record book, there was an asterisk after that. Hey, he had eight more games.
That's why he was able to do this. They did take that away eventually.
And obviously that record has been broken since several times. But they did take this asterisk away.
I think they should put an asterisk on babe ruth it just says the guy couldn't run he ate hot dogs and drank beer and he was a fat guy and yet look at him huh i mean arguably the greatest baseball player of all time i know and look at him that's an american hero right now they're doing steroids and everything else and you're like oh, oh, you beat the fat guy's record? Big deal.

That's a fair point.

Yeah.

The reason why I bring this up is because there is Aiden Gallagher, who is an 11th grade sprinter from McDaniel High School in Portland, Oregon. You know where this is going? I already do, yes.
Okay, yeah. All right.
So you know. In the girls' 400-meter varsity race, he beat his competition by more than seven seconds.
Wow, what an achievement. Yeah, what an achievement.
What do you mean he? Well, it's a guy. Okay.
Yeah. A guy? Yeah, it's a guy.
What sport was it? It's a girls' 200-meter race. Do you see the problem with that at all? I do.

I do.

But apparently nobody else does.

But I see it clearly.

I'm glad to see you see it.

And everybody in this audience sees the problem.

And so they were cheering him on.

And then he gets up on the podium.

And so he's just won a second race.

He dominates now in the girls' track and field again. Now, here's why I brought up the asterisks.
I honestly think that there should be some group that comes out and they set up the two boxes or even three boxes. And, you know, you can go and stand over there in that number one thing.
That's fine. We're going to have another award ceremony just off to the side of that one where the girl who came in second place, third place, and fourth place, we award them first, second, and third.
And every one of these records in these communities that are saying that was a girl should have an asterisk. We're going to have to remember who actually won as a female.
It's going to come back, King. It's not going to be like this forever.
And I would like to just start. I mean, I think that person should run and his family or his good friends can go, oh, my gosh, that is so good.
You go, girl. And everybody else can be like, yeah, we're meeting over here because here's the real first place winner for women.
Yeah. I think that's a great way of looking at it.
I think, too, like, you know, we've put a lot of focus on gender for the story. What? You know, when we talk about how, like, hey, you know, it's wrong.
And we go to kind of the gender, how crazy it is that people say you couldn't change gender by just wish casting it and all of that. I think the real story is what it's doing to girls.
Yeah, I think it's fairness. It is.
Right? And not only that, you've wanted to be a champion your whole life. Yeah.
And here comes some guy to take it away from you. And everybody is cheering and saying, you go, girl.
It's a guy. Yeah guy yeah seven seconds ahead if that was a girl that did it they would deserve to be on the front page of every newspaper in america right it's a guy doing it that's why it's stupid and it's it's it's it's funny because the gender conversation that we've had at large is really important you can't just change your gender based on this you can't we're not going to necessarily accept all of that, but it's separate from this.
Like, and a good example of this is I remember when my son was playing in his, he was in a 12U tournament, you know, baseball, he was 12. And he was playing in a tournament.
It was a good tournament, like really high level teams there. And one of the teams had a girl on it.
And now the average pitcher at that time was probably could throw you know mid mid mid upper 50s right like miles per hour some of the fast pitchers would throw maybe mid 60s this girl was throwing like 73 on the gun i mean she was throwing harder than almost every other pitcher in this tournament and there was no uproar about it It wasn't like how dare she switch genders and play no one cares because she was essentially i you know i hate to say it this way but playing up right like she was playing in a tougher arena and no one complained about it because she was good enough to compete at that level and it's the opposite that is the problem There is also something that all guys, no matter what you preach, they're like, you were beat by a girl? There is an element. They're going to get better.
If there's any way to get better, they're going to get better just by saying, you were beaten by a girl? I will say, not only did this girl pitch very well, I saw her hit a over-the-fence home run in the same game. Wow.
She jacked a home run, and I was like, wow. Now, she was...
A big girl. She had some...
Yeah, she could do it. She had some muscles.
I have no problem... Honestly, I have no problem with them playing up.
If girls could play at the same level, I think that would be outrageous to watch. It would be great.
Here's a girl who's just outpowering this guy. All right, go for it.
Yeah, I'd be a little – I'd be worried in a physical sport, especially as they get older. You have a football.
If you're going to go out there and play running back i'd be concerned you're gonna get killed like so that is a different story but like when it's not a physical sport like that they go out and compete i don't think the the american people don't care like they want girls to have a chance to compete with each other in a fair context yes that is not this is not it's not insane it is completely normal's the way it's been forever. And that's the way it should continue to be.
That's why sports, you know, when you say about football, that's why sports, it's different than competitive, you know, first, second, and third kind of sports. This is, if you can compete, go for it, go for it.
Because we want to win. All of us want to win.
And we're playing as a team. When this is happening, you got a guy competing against girls.
Girls are not as strong as men are. Their bodies are just different.
They're going to be faster. They're going to be stronger.
I mean, I'm not going to be but uh you know most men and i put myself loosely in that category most men can do those things okay and you know i don't want to see a girl beaten by a guy and i mean physically beaten up by a guy i don't want a girl in a boxing ring against a guy even though he's wearing a dress. No, no thank you.
You know, I'm sorry but maybe it's chivalry that still lives in some of us older people. Sexism is what it is, Glenn.
Yeah, it is. Sexism.
No, it's chivalry. Yeah, it is.
It's chivalry. That's the good word for it.
They would call it sexism. I would call it chivalry yes but it's true i mean i because it has the word shiv in it i i say this to people and and especially around here and the main the main culprit for this is is our own hillary kennedy um who uh i can't watch the the female boxing thing no i can't watch it i can't watch the female mma stuff i'm not saying they're not great athletes i'm not saying it's incredible it is incredible competition.
I can't watch it. I can't watch the female MMA stuff.
I'm not saying they're not great athletes. I'm not saying it's incredible.
It is incredible competition. I can't watch a woman get punched in the face 50 times.
I'm sorry. I have a hard time watching guys with MMA.
Yeah. I mean, it's just like at some point you're like, can you guys, okay, can we stop this? Can we stop this? This seems, and they're like, they both would look at you and go, what? I want to rip him apart.
Right. And you'd be like, okay, there's something unnatural here going on.
I'm uncomfortable. With women, it's horrible.
Yeah, I mean, I can watch, you know, I've always been a boxing fan. I never gotten really into MMA, but I've always been a boxing fan and I would love watching those big matches.
Me too. But with women, like there was a match they had, it was the Tyson-Paul thing that was on that was on netflix yeah yeah yeah and i can't tell you how many people i've talked to and almost everybody says the same thing about that match first of all they say it was a joke and blah blah blah what i actually was i thought the whole spectacle was relatively enjoyed i had a i had a good time watching it it was kind of a crazy thing but everyone says but what was really good was the match before it and it was two women who were beating the hell out of each other to the extent that in the post-game interview,

the woman who I think she lost is out there and her eye is like falling out of her head.

There's just a flap of skin.

Like her entire forehead just kind of plops open like she just had plastic surgery that went really, really wrong. And she's just talking.
There's just blood dripping down her face. And, like, everyone's like, that was an incredible match.
And I'm sure it was if you're into that. But, like, I just, I don't know what it is.
I can't watch a woman, even if it's another woman punching her, get punched in the face over and over again. I just can't do it.
Have you ever seen those Denny's fights

where all the women get up

and they just start dragging each other

by the hair and their beard?

I can't even watch those.

Yeah, I did.

I see that and I'm like,

this is disturbing.

I don't know what's happening here.

I don't know if that makes me a squish or what.

I'm totally with you on that.

So I have no desire to see that.

And I think, I don't know,

maybe I feel like there's something

in being a male and a husband and a father

I'm wrong. I think it'll be remembered just a little bit like i don't know uh the christians and the lions okay yeah you know what i mean it's cool to watch two lions fight it is but when you throw a christian in there i don't think they really have anything but a prayer of surviving uh not gonna make it not gonna make it i don't know how people found that entertaining.
I'm sure it was entertaining, but... Was it? Well, I mean, I've watched it in movies many times.
No, you haven't. No, you haven't.
I mean, you haven't really seen... No, no.
I mean, can you imagine sitting there in the arena and cheering as a human being was ripped apart by a lion? Horrible. Horrible.
He was insane. There's a certain level of horror movie that gets to the point where I can't.
Can't watch it. I think when I was 20, I'd be like, I know it's fake, but there's a certain level of it now.
They really, I mean, some of these movies, the Terrifier series being one of them. I can't even, I could never make it through that movie.
That sounds horrible. It's's basically just like it's for horror movie nerds yeah i would say and basically every don't watch don't watch it i'm not going to just i'm advising everyone in the audience don't go watch it no i'm not going to don't um but it is uh basically every death as gruesome as possible and in a way because horror movie nerds like practical effects and they like to talk about how amazing practical effects are we've had a couple of them who work here and

they're always like oh but the practical effects but i mean like it is horrifically torturous

gruesome stuff many times two women um and i like i i don't stomach for that anymore i don't know

i'm just getting old i'm turning into a really wuss whatever it is you really are but i'm there

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