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There is a mystery afoot, the game's afoot.

There are so many things that now our politicians and our city politicians, state politicians, just cannot figure out.

And I brought together two of the, well, the only minds that I can pick on this morning and see if we can get something out of their brain.

So, you know, they're not scholars, but

they have mouths.

So here they are, Stu Stu and Pat, to join me on

this really fact-finding mission.

A blue ribbon panel, you would really say.

So

there's a problem in grocery stores,

and it's that prices are too high.

And

people are having a hard time making ends meet.

And so the

President is doing something about it.

And yesterday,

he talked about the people who are suffering from high inflation.

And

he called out the villain in this whole thing.

What is the cause of grocery stores charging more for their products?

Ooh,

I would say inflation due to government spending.

Okay, now remember, this is not an educated pen.

None of us have doctorates or degrees or anything else.

Okay.

Pat.

You know,

I was going to guess maybe the high cost of gasoline because the food is being delivered and it costs more to deliver it.

Okay.

All right.

So just the cost of everything

that has gone up.

Okay.

No, I'm sorry.

You're both wrong.

It is the grocery store

abusing and overcharging their shoppers.

So bastards.

According to President Biden.

Yeah, according to President Biden.

So, all right.

Now, here's another mystery, another mystery.

Okay.

There is an uptick in Washington state of car thefts.

It's, yeah, it's up over 500%.

It's 503% increase in car thefts in Washington State.

They can't figure out exactly.

I mean, they have a theory.

But I want to see if it's the same theory that you guys have.

What is causing the uptick of car thefts in Washington state?

Is it rampant crime brought on by maybe too light of sentences that are dished out to felons?

Okay, that's a good guess.

What about economic desperation by the citizens of these communities where the economy has been ruined?

Wow, okay.

No, you guys aren't even...

No, it is the fault of Hyundai and Kia.

And they're considering car companies.

Yeah,

the state would like

to have the federal government force them to recall all of those cars because they're just too easy to break into.

Really?

Because I've walked by cars and

lots that have their windows open and I don't steal them, even though they probably would be easy to steal.

But I don't do that because I don't want to commit crimes.

Huh.

Yeah.

Well, it's not a crime if you're just sharing everything.

You know, it's just we're just sharing everything.

Also, what kind of Pollyanna are you?

I mean, that's just, that doesn't even make sense to really

steal the car.

Really?

It's better with you.

Okay.

And by the way, it also has nothing.

Let me just tap down this disinformation here.

The new state law in Washington that limits police pursuits

that took place

that has nothing to do with it.

It is the car manufacturer.

And again, it is the grocery store.

So we're on, you know, we're not batting 1,000 here.

In fact, we're not batting anything.

We're striking out.

Now, pharmacy closure in a, quote, crime-ridden neighborhood in Boston.

What is causing this in Boston?

Well, you said it, the crime-ridden neighborhood, right?

If these people who are working at the stores had their stuff stolen, that the employees are.

Do you have any...

I mean, Pat, do you have anything that you could throw on?

I mean, this guy didn't really get a lot of money.

Did they run out of pharmaceuticals?

Okay.

Maybe they didn't.

No, but that's a good guess.

That's a good guess.

But it's no, it's.

There were massive shortages.

What was it, Clint?

No, it's just racism.

It's racism.

It's racism.

So they don't like to take money from

black people in this particular pharmacy?

I mean, Arianna Presley from Massachusetts said that it's not the criminal elements that are directly responsible or

the leftists that champion the unrest in the the streets and everything else it's uh the businesses themselves that are pulling up the stakes um because not because of ruin but because of racism

and i don't think she needed to explain any more than that any deeper well it's important to know what arianna presley has to say because i think she's the sister of ianna presley the congresswoman yeah and i love both of them i really do now the whole presley family is one of my favorites elves was great he was yeah he was great

Okay, so Denny's is now leaving Oakland.

Now leaving Oakland.

They don't know why.

You know, Glenn, these healthy eating keto diets, people just aren't in the mood for pancakes.

They're not here.

And that's why they have to leave.

Right.

Oakland, very healthy city.

Yeah, well, they have the super bird, which is very healthy, if it wasn't for all the butter and everything else on it.

But Pat, any?

I would, you know, I'd I'd have to guess because I think you put your finger on it when you introduced this in a high crime area.

Is it all the crime that has caused you to be aware of that?

I would just say that.

It is, is it you're saying that because it's in a minority area?

Is that what you're saying?

No, I'm saying it because you mentioned it was a high crime neighborhood.

You have proved their point.

It is racism.

Oh, wow.

Now,

fentanyl.

Fentanyl.

Apparently,

drug use has gone through the roof and overdose deaths from

synthetic opioids driven by fentanyl has jumped 533%

in Oregon.

And what do you suppose caused that?

The rain.

I think it was probably the rain.

People are so depressed by

the weather there in

Oregon that they've got to be on fentanyl to get through it.

Because I was going to say open borders, the China just manufacturing this stuff, seemingly targeting our people.

Oh, what's next?

What's next?

You're going to bring up that they, oh, oh, you know, and they also legalized all drugs as well.

I was going to get to that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

My gosh.

No, no.

They still haven't found a reason for that one, but they're very concerned.

They're very concerned about it.

And by the way, the rain.

It could be the rain.

So I could have been right, Briar.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a mystery at this point.

Now,

you know, they're not really overdoses

because these are illegal drugs.

So it's not like, hey, man, I got some fentanyl for you.

I got it at the pharmacy as they were giving their big going out of business sale.

Okay.

These are these, a lot of these are drugs that are just laced with fentanyl.

This would be called not a drug, but poison, which would then make the people selling that and bringing it across the border murderers,

not over-prescribers.

So I just, again,

it's an old tiny thing.

Yeah, I'm a doctor, but they're not a doctor.

So

we don't really know if that's true at all.

You know,

does it get to a point at any time where people just stand up and go, this is bull cry?

For instance, yesterday, did you see Joe Biden working

and consoling the parents of people who have lost a family member, Gold Star families?

And he actually again said,

you know, I understand what you're going through.

My son died in Iraq.

And nobody said anything.

And I thought to myself, when will a Gold Star family say,

Mr.

President, Your son died in a hospital in America from cancer, not from being wounded or killed in Iraq.

He died of cancer.

Don't insult us.

When is somebody going to just say that to him?

How can it not have happened?

I mean, we've heard some rumblings that these families have been upset, but I don't want to do the fact.

After the fact.

Oh, after the fact.

I want somebody to say that.

It needs to be said to his face.

It needs to be.

And I will say this.

Like, we can put this on gold star families if we want.

I mean, they're a

very difficult thing.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

But how about a damn journalist?

Yeah, somebody.

How about next time you get Joe Biden for a sit-down interview, your first question is, why why do you keep saying your son died in Iraq?

And let's say this, too.

Even if he did, even if he had died in Iraq, it's not about you.

Right.

It's not about you.

And he makes it about him every single time.

Every incorrectly.

You could say,

I know,

I can imagine what you're going through.

I lost my son at an early age as well.

It was from cancer, but

I know

it doesn't compare.

And that would be appropriate.

But to say your son died in Iraq

and I know how you're feeling, it is so insulting.

It's incomprehensible he's not getting called out by this.

I mean, every single question, like he keeps doing it.

How many of these stories?

Pat, we went over this one day.

How many stories has this guy told that the mainstream media has corrected numerous times?

Yes.

But they don't ask him about it.

They don't go to him and say, Mr.

President, you keep telling a story about your Amtrak experience that everyone knows is false.

Why do you keep doing it?

Right.

The Xi Jinping story that he tells over and over and over, not true.

But you know what?

Those to me

don't matter as much.

As the Gold Star family.

As the Gold Star family.

That one is just so unbelievably

calm and offensive.

Despicable.

And it wouldn't be the same as a journalist saying that

to his face as it would be a grieving father or mother who he mutters that to.

I mean, I think America would cheer at that.

I really do.

I really do.

The media wouldn't.

But I think Americans would say,

good.

Good.

He deserved that.

Somebody finally said.

He deserved that.

Yeah.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

So let me start with this.

The United States Capitol Police yesterday determined upon the completion of an investigation that there was no evidence that a crime had been committed by a former Congressional Democrat staffer.

He filmed himself engaging in a sex act with another male inside the Senate hearing room on Capitol Hill.

He's not going to be criminally charged.

You know what?

What do you say about that?

I mean, do we have a law against?

I mean, did we need a law ever against filming yourself having sex in the Senate hearing room?

I mean, I doubt it was the first time.

But,

well, I mean,

it probably happened before,

but nobody dared film it and we're proud of it.

How are you going to send this guy to jail?

For what?

For what?

You want to pass a law?

Great.

But see, this is why Adam said,

this system of government won't work for an ill-religious and immoral society because you have to make all the laws.

This never happened out in public, at least.

We never knew about it, at least, because people knew they'd be shamed.

This guy, I bet you, is a hero on the left.

I bet this guy is like, oh man, you're the guy who had sex and filmed it.

That's why this country cannot remain free if we don't self-regulate ourselves.

We have Mike Lee in the room with me here in Georgia.

Hello, Mike.

How are you?

Good to be with you, Glenn.

Thank you.

So your thoughts on...

Well, first of all, you totally threw me off there by suggesting it's probably happened before.

Just let me live in this blissful ignorance where this is the only time it's ever happened.

And I have hearings in there every week.

And fortunately, it was not at my my desk.

It was not at the place where I sit.

So let's just leave it at that line.

If you said that, it might be at your desk.

Nope, no.

Just take the Clorox wipes and wipe everything down.

Not going to happen.

No,

it's very clean.

Didn't happen anywhere else.

I am very, very glad that that's the only time it's ever happened.

I hope it never happens again.

Here's what I can't figure out, though.

Why in the Sam Hill did they not have cameras that caught this happening before it occurred?

This is a fairly secure room.

There are security cameras everywhere.

I don't quite understand how it got to this point.

That doesn't make it anybody else's fault other than the people who did it, but it's strange.

They have cameras in that room.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

They brought their own.

No, but I mean, they don't have cameras in that room?

They do have cameras.

They have cameras going into the room, out of the room, in the room, all over the place.

And so I don't know how this guy thought he was

I don't know how he was so dumb as to think he wasn't going to get caught.

Well, but he didn't get caught by the cameras.

He got caught because the cameras he brought

to film it

then displayed

the thing,

just the events.

I'll just leave it at the event.

The events

for the entire humanity to see on the internet.

So, yeah, not a lot of people.

So, this doesn't

help

me feel that the Capitol Police are getting better at their job.

Yeah, okay, but in in fairness, this probably occurred either on a weekend or in the middle of the night or a combination of the two.

And they do have secure entrances and exits, especially during those hours.

And so, you know, that particular hearing room probably wasn't a major concern to them.

I still would like to know why they didn't notice it first.

Yeah, and I'd like to not talk about special entrances and exits while we're talking about this story.

Now, Schumer.

I walked right into it.

You did.

You walked right into it.

Schumer says the Ukraine border bill is on track for vote in the Senate next week.

You know, this is interesting, Glenn,

because

there isn't a bill.

No, no, no.

It's on track for next week.

Yeah, it's on track for next week because he has said it's on track for next week, but there is no it.

We still don't have the bill.

They've been working on this thing for four months.

Four months they've been negotiating it, and we still don't have bill text.

When you say they're negotiating it,

who is negotiating it?

It is a tiny handful of individuals.

I know, for example, that on the border security portion of it,

the primary Republican negotiator is James Lankford, and the primary Democratic Conference negotiators are Kirsten Sinema and Chris Murphy.

I actually don't know who is negotiating the Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, miscellaneous supplemental aid funding portion of it.

I assume that

it's the top Republican and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee.

But they've never been clear on what's in that or exactly who's in charge of that part.

But most importantly, Glenn, we don't have the bill.

And unless you have the bill, remember, we don't vote on just abstract ideas typically in Congress, or if we ever do,

It's not a law.

When we're passing a law like this one, something that spends $106 billion,

funds components of conflicts occurring in three different remote locations on the planet, and then undertakes a massive overhaul to our immigration laws, perhaps the most significant of its kind in a generation.

Those are not abstract concepts.

We can't vote on those.

Under Article 1, Section 1 and Article 1, Section 7, you can't make abstract concepts into a law.

It doesn't work.

Well,

they'll give you the law, and they'll give you about two hours to read it.

Right, and that is the problem.

You have to have the same language, the exact same language passed by the House and by the Senate and then presented to the President.

We still don't have that language.

So if you give that to us at the very last minute, and remember,

this stuff does not read like a fast-paced novel.

And this is sufficiently complex, I will not be surprised if it's hundreds of pages long.

And it takes time.

Even if it were only, I don't know, 100 pages or so, which for all this bill does would surprise me a bit, but even if it's quote unquote only that,

immigration law in particular is tricky.

Lots of cross-references in a bill like that.

It's going to take at least a few weeks for us to understand it.

At least a

bare minimum would be like a week or two.

So here's what I'm concerned with.

The president keeps saying, you know, I've been asking.

I need the money and I need the powers to do it.

I'm not for special powers, emergency powers going to the White House.

I don't care if it's Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

No more special emergency powers.

Enough is enough.

Is enough is enough.

Is there any

reason that he needs extra powers to be able to solve the border?

All right.

This is a good question.

Look, there are things in the immigration code that would be good to tune up.

It would probably be good to clarify certain things to make it easier for presidents moving forward to secure the border.

That isn't the question.

The question is, what does this bill do to accomplish that?

And what else does this bill do to offset whatever good might be in it?

And that is where I have the problem.

A problem that is compounded by the fact that the President of the United States currently has authority to stop the border crisis.

Now, they may not be the most elegant tools around, they might not be the tightest, but he has the exact same statutory framework available to him that Donald Trump had when he secured the border

while he was still in office.

Remember, he had massive border surges.

That's when the cartels really started cooking up their human trafficking business, which, by the way, travels on the same chassis with the same people as the drug trafficking business those people that they've

trafficked into the country over the last few years they've brought in enough fentanyl to kill every American several times over Anyway, he has the same authority.

Now, some people will say, oh, well, no, no, that's not true.

That's not true, because Donald Trump was using Title 42.

Title 42 was based on the COVID pandemic.

No, no, no.

That's missing the point.

He fixed most of the problem, almost entirely fixed by the time COVID was even a thing.

He's got the authority.

Moreover,

all these authorities that they're abusing, asylum law, immigration parole authority, deferred removal authority, they are all discretionary powers given to the executive branch that you can meet out under certain circumstances.

But they're all may, shall.

They don't have to give anyone asylum, not one person.

They can shut down the entire asylum program when they find that we can't keep up with it.

He's got the power now, and we're sending the false message by having this discussion that this is for want of adequate legislative authority.

That's false.

And how much money are we giving to Ukraine at the same time?

This is going to be $106 billion in this bill from what we're told.

About $62 billion of that will go to Ukraine.

Of that sum, $11.75 billion will be set aside just to fund Ukraine's civil government.

Its civil servants, their pensions, and things like that.

Now, I've raised questions about this.

Why are we doing that?

And how long does that buy us?

A year.

We're funding their entire government's budget, their payroll, soup to nuts.

We're funding it for an entire year.

I asked my colleagues, why would we want to do that?

Why is that our thing to do?

The answer was, well,

Fighting a war is expensive,

and they need a government while they're fighting a war.

That's the kind of thing that substitutes these days, apparently.

You know, I could understand that if it was World War II and we were doing it for England, where we were both in declared war, they were our allies.

Maybe, maybe,

with

some sort of vote in Congress and debate that that's what we were going to do.

This isn't a war we're in.

This is...

Right.

We have not declared war.

We are not combatants in this war.

And they're not the most important ally.

No, no.

And they are also two countries that have, let's just say, had a fairly long history of conflicts against each other.

Now, don't get me wrong.

Putin, bad guy.

And

I would like Ukraine to be free.

But

this is not something that's particularly new.

These guys hate each other.

There are a lot of conflicts.

They do that sort of thing.

We can't fight every war all the time.

If we do that,

we're going to create a lot of problems.

And every time we do this, you increase the progressive cause.

You increase the total level of government funding with a war.

That doesn't go away.

All right, let me change subjects.

26 attorney generals have now demanded Biden and the UNRWA the funding that we now found that 10% of the people that work for this

had ties to terrorism.

Some of them actually participated in the Palestinian terrorism of October 7th.

Well, of course they did.

I mean, look, the only thing that's shocking about that number is that it's that low.

And the only reason it's that low is that they're not taking into account all of the true problems with UNRWA.

Look, Glenn, UNRWA

has for decades been running schools that teach young children, little kids in their classes, that they need to kill Jewish people, that they, in their words, we need to stab them with knives and run over them with cars.

They are teaching hatred.

Donald Trump cut the funding.

We cut the funding.

And Joe Biden brought it back.

He's also yesterday, let me see here, yesterday

he imposed sanctions on four Israelis

from the West Bank, if you will.

The reason I'm not really sure, they say that they just had thrown rocks and clubs at Palestinians in the disputed territories of the West Bank,

that they had threatened to kill people, et cetera, et cetera.

And, you know, I want those people to go to jail.

Bad behavior on either side is bad behavior.

However,

the president has now said that they have to be debanked here in America.

They lose their visa, and they're not allowed to come into America at any time.

Did we do this for Palestinians that had thrown rocks or said bad things?

If we had done that, it would have made news, and it didn't happen because there has been no news to that effect.

Sometimes I really want President Biden and his administration to pick a horse and ride it.

He pretends to be the friend of Israel, but then when he goes and does stuff like this, it makes me wonder.

He's a little bit like the guy who insists on buying a humidifier and a dehumidifier and putting them in the same room to let them have it out.

This makes absolutely no sense.

I don't know what he's getting at here.

On the UNRWA thing, though, I think it's high time for us to have a conversation as a country.

I think Congress needs to make sure that this happens.

UNRWA is a creation of the United Nations.

It's a United Nations agency.

Glenn, I can't name a darn thing that the United Nations does that I don't find pretty troubling.

I certainly can't think of a darn thing that they do, knowing that we're by far the largest contributor to the UN,

somewhere in the neighborhood of about $20 billion a year.

What do we get out of that?

And by contrast, what do they do to undermine us and our allies like Israel?

A lot.

It's time to defund the U.N.

Chip Roy and I both have bills in the House and the Senate, respectively, in order to do that.

It's time to defund the UN.

I agree with you.

I think that's going to be hard to do under current circumstances.

However, I think current circumstances are going to change.

There is a huge change coming to the world soon.

It just depends which way it swings.

You know, we have absolutely destroyed Boeing, one of the greatest engineering firms in the world.

They've destroyed themselves, quite honestly.

And they care more about wokeness, et cetera, et cetera.

But there's something else going going on with the FAA,

the tower control people, the people who are actually making sure that our planes don't hit each other.

There's a problem there, Mike?

Yeah, there's a problem in that they're violating federal law, and because it's a government entity,

also going against the Constitution.

We have provisions of the Constitution, and we also have laws that say that you can't treat people differently on the basis of race,

absent very unusual circumstances where there's a bona fide occupational qualification.

You're casting somebody for a role in the play, and it's a government actor, and they need to be of a particular background, because that's what the character is.

Absent that, race should never factor into the equation.

It's not something that we use to hire people or not hire them.

And so when they do this, it causes problems and it carries ramifications for some of the people.

In what ways, I have 60 seconds, in what ways, if it's just race but they have the same same qualities as somebody else,

why is this making our air less safe?

Well, because the FAA specifically has adopted criteria designed to make sure that they

are not hiring people who have the same qualifications.

That's the problem.

Now, if it were used only as a tiebreaker, that's a different thing.

But it's not here.

They've come up with this set of criteria designed to make sure that they're not making these these decisions on the basis of time-honored criteria that determine your qualifications.

I got to tell you, I think my great-grandchildren will not believe that we had air travel the way we have it now if we don't turn this around.

As I said years ago, hey, you'll learn your lesson when airplanes start to fall out of the sky.

Well, we're there, gang.

We're there.

Thank you.

Mike Lee, senator from Utah.

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Hello, and welcome to Friday.

It's the Glen Back program.

Bridget Fettesy is joining us.

She's a spectator,

columnist, and a contributing editor there.

She's also the host of the weekly dumpster.

Love the name of this.

The weekly dumpster fire on YouTube and Walk-In's Welcome podcast.

She is somebody that,

if you've not heard before, she's very, very funny.

She is also, I would say,

rather new, if you will,

to

common sense.

She used to be way, way left.

Not so much anymore.

Not so much anymore.

In fact, she's sobered up about 10 years ago.

She's with us now.

Bridget, what did you say in my office when I said to you, you're living?

I can't believe this.

You're sober.

You've got a child.

You're married.

You're living in a suburb here in Texas.

Remember what you said to me yesterday?

Yeah, I mean, I just celebrated 10 years.

And if you had told me when I, right before I got sober, that I would get sober, I was in Los Angeles wearing hot pants, running around,

you know, being an empowered female.

And if you had told me that I would have ended up in a Texas suburb as a mom, I would have just kept on drinking.

I would have been like, what drugs are you on?

Give me more.

By the way, it's the beginning.

we haven't mentioned yet, it's the beginning of

Black History Month.

And so today we salute all of those great leaders in black history, Justin Trudeau, the former governor of Virginia, and our first black president, Bill Clinton.

Good job.

Bridget, how are you?

I'm going to change my bio to new to common sense.

Great intro.

Yeah, well, I mean, it's kind of true, don't you think?

It is.

Yeah, yeah.

It's amazing.

So

I read your article, I think it was in the spectator the other day, that

said, we're too fat for Civil War.

I just love it.

Because I was thinking, man, I think we're headed for Civil War.

And then I see you saying, too fat, way too fat.

Can you imagine?

I mean, you're a history buff.

You know exactly what all of those soldiers soldiers during the Civil War endured and went through and

how they had to travel with packs for miles and then run uphill into battles in the rain.

When you look at the stats, it's crazy.

The average American, I think it's something I am not, someone has to fact check me on this, but I believe if you walk 20 minutes, you're in the upper percentage of...

Americans who are in shape.

20 minutes.

We're turning in, and I'm chief among them.

We're turning into those people on WALL-E.

Yeah.

They're just sitting in the chairs.

It's like, I don't know, we're putting packs.

Yeah, we are.

And people will be online in their

studios and being all,

we're headed for civil wars.

Like, if you been to Disneyland trying to imagine all those people in combat,

it's not happening.

The enemy might run out of ammunition because I don't know if it could penetrate all of our bodies.

I'm not seeing it.

I have heard several people kind of say, you know, it's time for a civil war.

And I just look at them like, are you out of your mind?

Have you ever seen civil war just on television from other countries?

It's never good.

Well, what's wrong with Balkanizing?

Have you seen the Balkans?

I don't want to live there.

But can it's again, like, play the tape forward for me.

whenever people say this I need them to play that tape forward.

What does this look like?

It's not like we just have red states and blue states.

Maybe we have blue cities and red states.

Is this

rural versus urban?

And I was saying in the piece, what are the letters home going to be like?

We lost the battle for the River Ranch Costco.

I mean, what are we fighting?

How do we, what is it over?

How do we know that it's ended?

I need people to answer these these questions for me You know, have you heard the people that are like you know the problem with the world today is modernity and I'm like you mean like antibiotics

like electricity heaters that kind of modernity?

Yeah, we've got to go back before modernity, you know back to a time before the Enlightenment No, I don't think we do I think you might be romanticizing what it's like to take a crap outside every night

It does feel, you know, Instagram is very much has its finger on the pulse of the kind of basic

person that I am

and that most people in America are.

And there's a great meme that goes around that's like, when you want a homestead, but you also like getting things from Amazon in two days,

you know, and you're like telling your husband, I'm going to get chickens and I'm going to grow my own food.

And he's like, okay, but you still want that.

You still want those seeds.

And like, you know, by the end of the day.

Yeah,

I follow somebody.

My wife just turned me on to them a couple of months ago.

I can't remember what the,

but they're up in Montana, I think.

And they're,

they have eight children, and the children churn the butter.

And

it's crazy.

Now, they have this beautiful house, you know,

and they chose this.

They were like, you know what?

We're rich enough.

Let's make our own butter.

I don't choose that ever.

But

it's crazy how people, and

in some ways, it makes sense.

I don't trust our food system anymore.

Not this system, but I mean,

I don't trust the big food corporations anymore.

And, you know, there is a healthy thing to say.

We've really screwed this up and this society is not necessarily good.

But you don't just flush the whole thing down.

Yeah, and there is a lot of romanticizing.

It's very, you know, go read Little House on the Prairie at the very least or something.

There was a whole chapter in one of the books that's dedicated just to their spring cleaning, an entire chapter of the book.

I know.

There's an entire chapter of the whole book just about Christmas where they got like a sugar cube.

Yeah.

They were so deep.

I remember reading that to my kids.

And I'm like, and we, we would just take a couple nibbles off the sugar cube and then we'd put it away for a few days.

This is what you want, guys.

No, no, it's not.

No, but we would get skinny enough to fight a civil war.

Yeah, for all the wrong reasons, I think.

So, uh, so how's motherhood?

How's your child?

I love it.

Um, 21 months.

She's a joy.

I, it's so, it's so interesting to me how, and perhaps this is just getting older, but I spent so much time wanting to be cool and different and edgy and all of these things that I was chasing.

And I was sitting in my house looking at seven roofs because I'm in a very basic suburb, which had, again, had you told me I'm in a very working class suburb.

And I'm looking at all of that.

I think you could have killed yourself.

If I would have told you that.

And that you would be friends with me, you would be...

I'd be dead with ventinal overdose.

I'm going to Canada for MAID.

Okay, I just kind of off myself.

But I was looking at this, thinking just how much beauty there is in being basic, as, you know, the kind of term is now.

And there's so, I feel so content as long as my husband, and having a relationship that is loving and stable, I, I mean, my biggest asset and superpower, I think, is my husband.

He is such a rock for me.

And again,

if you had ever told me that these words would be coming out of my mouth,

I would.

You're like an Uber feminist.

I mean, I was, you know, there's all this talk about like polyamory right now.

And, you know, this is the media is pushing all of these things that, you know, you've got to have.

And I was definitely one of those people who tried it out.

Oh, I was experimental.

You know, I was, I was

kind of in a, you're very lonely.

You don't really have a team leader or somebody that's out there pitching for you, you know, is there?

No, there's no one.

I mean, am I allowed to say that slut?

There's no one.

There's no one.

I can use the word slut.

Okay, I don't know.

I don't know what's allowed.

I'm used to podcasting.

We can say anything.

I don't know.

When I look at politicians, particularly this election, for example, I don't know who's talking to the reform sluts of the world.

And

we are legions.

There are dozens of us.

Dozens of you.

But seriously, look at, if you, again, look at Instagram, which obviously the algorithm is targeting.

I'm a geriatric mommy, so it's really targeting me.

And, but there's, again, many old elderly moms.

You're not old and elderly.

You're barely 70.

I'm barely 70.

But it's, you see, all these videos that go viral of women doing their like, they'll be cleaning and then they'll be doing their club dance.

They'll break into their club dance while they're cleaning, or they'll, they'll say, one of my favorites that goes around is somebody when they're trying to make some macaroni and cheese, and then they flick the macaroni and cheese bag like a bag of drugs like only druggies would know and it's hilarious and it goes around and i'm and i'm always like you know the the i do sometimes think the the right has a woman problem because the the rhetoric around woman is women

there's a lot of people who used to be party girls who are living in the suburbs now who's talking to them on the right and no one's talking to them on the left either because they're talking to the you do my party you're talking to me really bad.

Yeah, but I'm talking to a party girl right now.

Yeah, you are.

You are.

You're giving me a platform.

So, what is it?

Representation matters, Glenn.

That's right.

That's right.

Let me take a quick break because I don't.

Do you have the hour you can spend with us?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so there are two kinds of people,

I think.

Well, there's three kinds of people.

There are people that listen to Taylor Swift and they have become

a little obsessive about about just a little obsessive about it.

Then there are people like I fit into this category.

I respect her.

I don't necessarily listen to her music, so I don't know much, but I think she's a brilliant business person, and I have no problem.

And then there's people like Stu who are just like, why am I watching you on Sunday during football?

Well, that's, yes, I am that person.

I want to see football on NFL broadcasts.

I don't want to necessarily see Taylor Swift.

That being said, I'm not saying

Taylor Swift.

I don't care.

No, I know.

I know.

But, you know, you do,

it's, it's, I mean, this is brilliant programming.

They've taken the NFL and they've merged it with the Hallmark channel.

That's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful combination.

It's a love story.

Uh-huh.

Love.

It's such an old trope.

What do you mean?

Like

the jock and the, you know, the cool girl, like the beautiful cheerleader type and the jock.

We've seen that.

So which category are you in?

Oh, I think she's a psyop.

No, I'm just kidding.

I don't.

I don't.

I think that is hilarious.

I do.

I posted a meme the other day on my Twitter feed where, do you guys remember the Everyone Who Disagrees With Me is a Nazi meme that went around?

It was a book cover.

I posted it with Taylor Swift and it said, Everyone Who Disagrees With Me is a PSYOP because it's like the other side of this.

Maybe people just don't agree with you guys, but she, I think it's, I don't know, I find her very wholesome.

She's, she, maybe it's just as I've become basic.

She's wholesome.

She speaks to the suburban moms.

Do you guys hate suburban moms?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

I just, I, I don't know if, I mean, in today's world, yes, maybe we hold her up as wholesome.

You know,

back in back in the good old days of the Salem witch trials, maybe not.

They were churning butter back then.

Yeah, they were.

They were.

I mean, this is the trad wife content that always cracks me up.

You'll see these like trad wifes, and they have a lot of cleavage showing, and they'll be like, I'm a trad wife.

I'm like, I don't think trad wife are showing their tatas on TikTok.

You know,

I call me crazy.

I don't, I don't think that's what it is.

We're never good, and we never seem to be able to find the middle.

You know, we're, we're always one way or the other.

And it's like, can, can, I mean, are we alone?

Is, is the majority of America still normal?

Yes.

I live amongst normies, people in me.

No, you live in Austin.

No,

I don't.

I live in a suburb of Austin.

So I do not live in Austin because it is very normal.

It is a very normal whole, like it's actually crazy.

My neighbors brought me brisket.

You know,

I was reading, I was saying the other day, I know I'm getting older because I was reading the bylaws for my HOA.

And that is not the joke.

The joke is that I was agreeing with them.

I'm like, yeah, there only should be an American flag.

That's right.

I don't want any of these signs.

I don't want to know my neighbor's politics.

And largely I don't.

We make each other cookies and help each other out.

And there's a very community feeling to it.

And that feels normal, you know, like a sense of normalcy.

And people have each other's backs.

And it doesn't, it didn't, I came from West Los Angeles.

It was insane.

It was, it was like Mad Max there, you know, it was very, This is so different.

And people,

I don't know,

they have football parties.

And

it still feels like there is a very large portion of America that's normal.

I don't think this election in particular inspires very much passion out of anyone.

I mean, maybe it's a good thing.

I think there's a lot of people that are passionate.

I think there's a lot of passion for and against Donald Trump.

That is where the passion passion lies.

There's no passion whatsoever for Joe Biden.

I need to meet these people who are like passionate Biden supporters.

They can't be 0%.

Someone exists.

Someone's got to.

Her name is Jill.

No, honestly, I don't even think Dr.

Jill is passionate about it.

She's like, whatever.

Do you think, though, some of this, like the SIOF stuff is a good example of this?

There was a conversion at some point from the idea that people would post things on the internet to make them popular, right?

They wanted likes, right?

And like the new Twitter algorithm, right, is interactions.

It doesn't necessarily reward you for being popular or well-liked or saying things that people agree with.

It also rewards you, like, if you say the dumbest thing on the internet that gets retweeted and mocked 50,000 times.

Right.

And I feel like now we're kind of at that point where people are like incentivized to just take the craziest stand they can think of because that's what gets you the

cloud.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Unless there's a lot of people that actually believe the craziest things they can think of, which in today's world is a real possibility.

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