Best of the Program | Guests: State Rep. Bob Rommel & Justin Haskins | 11/3/23

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Speaker 5 But we're going to do it anyway because neither of us speak Hezbollahs.

Speaker 7 Although we've had it on, I've had it on ribbon pasta.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's

Speaker 9 very delicious.

Speaker 10 But one of the guys that's on the show, he apparently speaks Hezbollah or Hezbollah.

Speaker 6 And there was a big conference that was happening, a big, big press conference.

Speaker 14 Thousands of people came out.

Speaker 6 They wanted to hear from their supreme leader about what, you know, what does Allah tell them to do?

Speaker 17 Should we go kill Jews now or should we do it a little while later?

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Speaker 6 Yesterday, Russia's Wagner group said they were going to supply Hezbollah with air defense.

Speaker 56 So that's good.

Speaker 6 We got that going for us.

Speaker 19 Now, Hezbollah is making a major announcement.

Speaker 27 Even as we speak, I don't speak Hezbollah, so I don't know what they're saying, but we'll get the translation here in about a half an hour.

Speaker 19 But they're making a major announcement in the Middle East. I think they're going to reverse themselves on gay marriage.

Speaker 10 Not on homosexuality.

Speaker 12 They'll still behead you for that,

Speaker 19 but on gay marriage, they're going to be fine.

Speaker 58 Oh.

Speaker 58 Nice.

Speaker 61 So that way they can behead both of the

Speaker 36 participants. No, no, no.

Speaker 31 If you want to get married, but you're not gay, but you want to be gay married, you can do that.

Speaker 49 But no gay people can exist.

Speaker 19 In fact, they don't exist.

Speaker 59 If they do exist, they'll have to behead them.

Speaker 63 The only ones that exist are Queers for Palestine.

Speaker 3 That's it.

Speaker 64 The queers for Palestine.

Speaker 65 They'll be all right.

Speaker 53 Well, they exist.

Speaker 48 I wouldn't say they'd be

Speaker 48 able to get away from it.

Speaker 61 They should not visit anytime soon.

Speaker 27 So we don't know what they're going to announce, but we'll get to that here in a second.

Speaker 57 Let me give you a

Speaker 27 couple of other things.

Speaker 12 Pat Gray joins us from Pat Gray Unleashed.

Speaker 27 And Pat, I would like you to play color to our sports

Speaker 27 commentary here. And I know we're, you know, but you know sports, and so you could do this.

Speaker 14 this is a supermarket where some, some shoplifter is trying to get out of the store, uh, and the security guard is trying to stop him, and something happens towards the end.

Speaker 59 Here we go.

Speaker 54 All right, we've got a security guard now playing a defense as a shoplifter attempts to leave the store, utilizing a shopping cart as sort of a barrier here, as it's an interesting maneuver, shuffling back and forth.

Speaker 33 Oh, boy!

Speaker 17 Out of nowhere, what was

Speaker 74 that?

Speaker 42 Appeared to be another shopper who fired a two-liter bottle of Coke at the head of the shoplifter and danced me go.

Speaker 30 Watch this.

Speaker 75 Boom.

Speaker 76 I mean, that is a good shot.

Speaker 74 Seriously.

Speaker 32 Seriously, that kid could be a quarterback.

Speaker 40 Do you know how many backup quarterbacks are playing in the NFL this week? I mean,

Speaker 77 sign this person up. Whatever it is.

Speaker 6 I mean, I think that's fantastic.

Speaker 50 now

Speaker 6 i i thought it would be better if we ran this video with a little music behind it because it it reminded me of something and i thought you know what

Speaker 52 i would like to do this so here it is

Speaker 78 i like to teach the world to sing with me

Speaker 78 i like to wire the world

Speaker 78 and keep it company oh

Speaker 8 it is the real thing.

Speaker 55 And I think we should all maybe consider carrying around a

Speaker 6 two-liter jug of Coke.

Speaker 11 I love how he throws it, knocks the guy completely out, and then just calmly walks off.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 77 Just goes back to the routing.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 73 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 79 What he was doing.

Speaker 81 Tell me, though, this story does not end with the shopper who threw the Coke bottle in.

Speaker 40 Charged.

Speaker 82 It depends.

Speaker 14 It depends. Where did this happen?

Speaker 57 I don't know.

Speaker 32 Depends on what state.

Speaker 32 If it's in Texas,

Speaker 15 guy will get a parade with the Rangers.

Speaker 72 Depends what city he's in.

Speaker 56 Yes, yes. Yes.
That's true. That's true.

Speaker 22 All right.

Speaker 27 One other thing that I've got, and then, you know, I'd love to hear anything you have.

Speaker 26 I just, we have an article at Glenbeck.com.

Speaker 19 Sabo's been busy lately.

Speaker 27 Sabo is the street artist in Los Angeles who is,

Speaker 73 well,

Speaker 68 he's, he's, he's conservative.

Speaker 57 Uh, and, well, in some ways,

Speaker 50 he's anti-fascist, let's put it that way.

Speaker 19 And so here are the latest from him, the street designs that he has.

Speaker 70 He's taken one.

Speaker 69 It's a stop sign

Speaker 52 that he has now put Joe Biden sniffing the hair of a girl

Speaker 73 with the word stop.

Speaker 19 I actually think that is great.

Speaker 6 That's appropriate and should be.

Speaker 26 Here's one.

Speaker 55 this is

Speaker 27 a highway sign, you know, the interstate highway sign, the red, white, and blue one.

Speaker 19 It says the red, Newsom failed, and then Exodus East

Speaker 78 with a little U-Haul sticker on it.

Speaker 6 Then we have

Speaker 19 then we have this one, World War III,

Speaker 14 full metal jack.

Speaker 12 something. It's blurred out.

Speaker 24 I don't know.

Speaker 68 But it has Joe Biden's stupid face

Speaker 19 with a Hezbollah.

Speaker 4 He's wearing a helmet with a Hezbollah banner around it or scarf and a Ukraine flag on it.

Speaker 19 And then the people parachuting in, BLM

Speaker 13 loves Hamas.

Speaker 19 Now, if you happen to be really offended by the Hamas thing, do we have the Hamas one first? Yeah, there.

Speaker 55 He hung these from the signs.

Speaker 6 or from the stop signs

Speaker 19 or stoplights all across Los Angeles.

Speaker 22 They are

Speaker 83 BLM loves Hamas paratroopers or the guys that are

Speaker 24 paragliders coming in.

Speaker 19 Those, he said, were the first to be taken down at sunlight.

Speaker 79 Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 63 BLM loves Hamas.

Speaker 14 It's amazing.

Speaker 39 Hard to deny.

Speaker 82 They seem to be overtly loving them.

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 79 They're making no bones about it.

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 19 And then, of course, this is the first time it's been seen on the street.

Speaker 55 One that he made for us.

Speaker 27 We have

Speaker 6 t-shirts and

Speaker 4 sweatshirts for this.

Speaker 27 It is the Trump,

Speaker 6 the Trump,

Speaker 60 what do you call it, a booking photo with a little help from

Speaker 6 Sabo.

Speaker 57 Just says Corn Pop, One Bad Dude, 2024.

Speaker 26 You can find these at Glennbeck.com, and you can find the Corn Pop stuff also at Glenbeck.com.

Speaker 59 Find it and

Speaker 11 wear it proudly.

Speaker 3 So, Pat, what was the thing that

Speaker 52 you felt this week needed to be discussed and is not going to bring us down on a Friday?

Speaker 59 It's not going to bring us down? Yeah, so

Speaker 66 there was no topic

Speaker 21 that won't bring you down.

Speaker 5 All right, so what are your thoughts on the week?

Speaker 16 I am

Speaker 79 flabbergasted at the administration and how they're trying to play both sides.

Speaker 83 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 79 I can't.

Speaker 14 It's

Speaker 19 really hard to take.

Speaker 68 Don't you feel like it's a setup?

Speaker 19 They're only playing both sides as long as they have to.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 27 That they will go over to the Hamas Palestinian side. Yeah.

Speaker 79 And the amazing thing, though, is how many people have openly already jumped into the Palestinian side. The Hamas side, the anti-Jewish side.
And they don't care. They don't hide it.

Speaker 79 They talk about their Jew hatred.

Speaker 48 It's

Speaker 33 like their 30s all over again.

Speaker 19 Remember the book that I told you guys about the diary?

Speaker 28 I don't know if either of you ever read

Speaker 19 the diary from the guy, the German in World War II.

Speaker 26 He talks about, because I've said, you will understand what's coming and where we are in the process if you read this book, because he's basically writing a diary.

Speaker 55 He gets to this point to where his friends, who he thought were normal.

Speaker 19 just a week ago are coming in and saying these damn Jews have all got to go.

Speaker 6 It happens quickly.

Speaker 19 It happens. He said it happened overnight and it happened overnight here.

Speaker 38 Yes.

Speaker 8 A couple weeks, right?

Speaker 81 You know, all of a sudden, people, you know, people that you hear on TV and on the streets are quoting Adolf Hitler and you're like, and they're fine with it.

Speaker 6 They're fine with it. And why is that?

Speaker 79 I mean, it's been bubbling inside of them the whole time. It didn't just happen.
You know, it's just no, it's safe for them now, apparently, to let it out.

Speaker 55 It's what we warn. It's why I have been talking about anti-Semitism.

Speaker 8 It's why I went over.

Speaker 23 Have you seen the

Speaker 14 film from Restoring Courage?

Speaker 49 The speech I gave?

Speaker 59 I watched it last night.

Speaker 23 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 19 Oh my gosh, was that inspired?

Speaker 3 That

Speaker 76 speech should be given today.

Speaker 82 I mean, it is.

Speaker 45 It's remarkable.

Speaker 27 Because as I'm watching it, I'm thinking to myself,

Speaker 6 why did I write those words?

Speaker 32 Why?

Speaker 59 Because it wasn't happening at the time.

Speaker 48 Do you remember? Oh, yeah, I do.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 19 And we were like, and I, and I just felt like it's important to say these things.

Speaker 8 And it was written for this time.

Speaker 50 I'm going to post it this weekend.

Speaker 23 It's unbelievable.

Speaker 82 Unbelievable.

Speaker 19 Everything that I'm saying, you know,

Speaker 27 it was crazy.

Speaker 68 I'm like, you know, you're going to be in the minority, but you have to stand up.

Speaker 19 You have to say no.

Speaker 68 If they're going to say, we're coming for the Jews, you have to stand up and say, then count me as a Jew.

Speaker 57 Wow.

Speaker 16 I talked about how the world will go insane and

Speaker 62 all of the world, including our government, will start to stand up against the Jew.

Speaker 19 I mean, it's amazing.

Speaker 8 And that's 12 years old.

Speaker 10 How'd you look?

Speaker 50 Shut up.

Speaker 38 Wait, I mean, what's the implication here?

Speaker 87 I don't know why he sounds how he looked.

Speaker 46 That was a weird question.

Speaker 27 He looked at that young, healthy man there,

Speaker 13 you know, at the lowest weight he had been since, you know, high school.

Speaker 3 You remember? Because that week.

Speaker 54 That wasn't really. Wow.

Speaker 11 Two days before that, remember, I had to go to the hospital.

Speaker 69 I had passed out.

Speaker 27 Don't you remember? You weren't there.

Speaker 73 No. You remember that? I remember it.

Speaker 23 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 27 They took me out

Speaker 19 because I was writing the speech and I'm, David Barton walks in and David said, hey, Glenn, how you doing?

Speaker 27 And I went, I'm really, and then I just collapsed on the floor and I was out for a while. I wake up and everybody is around me, security and everybody's around me.

Speaker 19 And they're strapping me to a,

Speaker 57 you know, a,

Speaker 83 what do you call it? A gurney. A gurney.

Speaker 27 And they're.

Speaker 19 picking me up and they're going to take me out.

Speaker 19 And I'm hearing them on the phone with the prime minister's office and they're saying he can't go to a regular hospital he can't he can't we can't have this come out it will be really bad for the event blah blah blah they took me through the back stairs of this hospital because I couldn't use the elevator so had to go down the back stairs I get into this ambulance and they take me to a this hospital to a underground bunker hospital that is used for the prime minister.

Speaker 57 If there's anybody in the military or anybody in the

Speaker 26 government that is hurt or, you know, there's any kind of problems going on with terrorism, they use that.

Speaker 19 And I go in and I just see the ceiling of this place and it's completely dark.

Speaker 59 And I'm like, what?

Speaker 69 Where are you guys taking me?

Speaker 27 And they turn on the lights and then all of a sudden from the hospital, a whole bunch of people come down.

Speaker 57 Wow.

Speaker 13 And I mean, so it was

Speaker 24 weird.

Speaker 86 Today they would have had to get you out of there with a crane.

Speaker 47 But

Speaker 47 fortunately, that wasn't the case back then.

Speaker 46 Why do I invite him?

Speaker 75 Why do I invite him on?

Speaker 32 Wouldn't it be nice to let, and you brought me cookies yesterday.

Speaker 56 I know.

Speaker 73 You enabler. You enabler.

Speaker 3 I got to tell you, Kexie cookies, if you have not had Pat's wife's cookies, they're unbelievable.

Speaker 11 She's absolutely a witch.

Speaker 7 I told my wife.

Speaker 60 No, I mean that in a good way, unlike the one that rhymes when I talk about you.

Speaker 87 Make that last fat joke.

Speaker 39 That was Pat.

Speaker 6 Yeah, well, you will.

Speaker 20 Nabler.

Speaker 56 So

Speaker 19 I told Tanya, I said, we are sending only Kexie cookies to, you know, because we usually will send, you know, fruit basket or flowers or something

Speaker 38 for the Christmas list.

Speaker 73 This is way better.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Way better.
Yeah.

Speaker 83 And you've got to try the Boston cream pie coffee.

Speaker 47 Ungood.

Speaker 20 Believable. You have to do it.

Speaker 19 It's the only cookie that I recommend you eat with a spoon.

Speaker 30 Yeah. Seriously.

Speaker 56 Delicious. It is so good.

Speaker 6 So good.

Speaker 59 Not that I had one, honey, while you were gone.

Speaker 57 I did not have one.

Speaker 7 Why would he?

Speaker 12 Anyway, that's weird.

Speaker 35 Kexi.com is a place to go to get them.

Speaker 40 Thank you.

Speaker 35 Great holiday. How do you spell that stupid thing?

Speaker 3 K-E-K-S-I.

Speaker 14 Yeah, just like it sounds.

Speaker 21 Just like it sounds.

Speaker 18 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Speaker 19 Justin Haskins is with us now.

Speaker 27 He is the co-author of The Great Reset and Dark Future, both of my New York Times best-selling books, and also research center director for the Heartland Institute Socialism Research Center.

Speaker 73 How are you?

Speaker 75 Good morning, Glenn. How are you?

Speaker 37 I'm doing great.

Speaker 88 I'm in Stu's chair. We threw Stu out of the studio.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 37 He's terrible.

Speaker 88 I'm in the chair.

Speaker 71 And I got to tell you, this feels good.

Speaker 75 This feels right.

Speaker 26 Don't get too kukomfy.

Speaker 8 You have also brought with you Bob Rommel.

Speaker 19 Bob is the Florida state representative who has been fighting against ESG in Florida.

Speaker 50 And Florida has the model.

Speaker 37 Yes. Do you think? Oh, yes.
Yes.

Speaker 88 As you know, back when we put... the Great Reset book together and we realized that ESG was the key to the entire Great Reset puzzle.

Speaker 88 And you and I thought, this is pretty depressing because no one's going to do anything about it.

Speaker 88 We were convinced no one was going to do anything about it. Then the book came out and states across the country started enacting various ways of fighting back against ESG.

Speaker 88 But in many of those cases, we've had 14 different states that have put some kind of anti-ESG legislation together.

Speaker 88 Most of them are focused on making sure that government pensions and government contracts are not being used to promote ESG causes.

Speaker 88 That's really good. Okay.
That's really great.

Speaker 85 It's a start. It's a start.

Speaker 88 But if you really want to protect people, you have to protect consumers. You have to protect the individual.

Speaker 88 And the only place where they have actually enacted a law that does this, that protects financial individuals from financial institutions promoting ESG is in the state of Florida.

Speaker 88 And Bob Rommel, who's here with us today in the studio, is the champion of that cause. He's the guy who led the charge in the House.
And he is a personal hero. He really is.
He's a personal hero.

Speaker 88 So thank you for being here, Bob.

Speaker 3 Bob, thank you for standing up for this.

Speaker 19 I don't know why more states won't protect the consumer.

Speaker 19 They'll protect all the big guys, but it's the consumer, it's the little person when they go to try to get a loan, you know, the farmer that tries to go get a loan and he's rejected because he's not doing everything he's supposed to do ESG-wise.

Speaker 6 And that consumer will never be told it was because of ESG, so they can't sue them.

Speaker 23 They can't do anything about it.

Speaker 85 Well, Glenn, thank you. And Justin, thanks for those kind words.
I don't know if anybody's ever called me a champion,

Speaker 85 but thank you. As an ex-banker, I know that if you control the capital, you make all the rules and you do everything.

Speaker 85 And I started looking at ESG, some of the ESG rules that some people were telling me about two years ago. And then the incoming speaker, I told him about we have to do something about this in Florida.

Speaker 85 We need to protect our citizens. To me, it's just another form of discrimination.

Speaker 85 And as an ex-banker, when we did mortgages for folks, you know, we couldn't discriminate based on race, color, creed, political belief.

Speaker 85 They got mortgages based on their ability to pay and their income, period.

Speaker 46 That's the way it should be.

Speaker 85 That's the way it should be. That's how our country was built.

Speaker 59 And you always, when the government messes with our banks and tells them that you have to consider other things, it creates a system that is false and it creates the bubble that we had in 08.

Speaker 19 That was the United States government telling banks, you have to make more loans in

Speaker 3 these ways, which the people couldn't afford, but the government was demanding the banks do it.

Speaker 85 And

Speaker 85 luckily that we had in Florida, we had a speaker. And we had a governor that wanted to do something because the pushback was huge.
And it was pushed back on multiple sides.

Speaker 85 So Democrats, and I believe it was a a democrat that came up with esg they're great at coming up with these new words and these new terminology so the first thing is environment you know environment so listen everybody wants clean water clean air so they say well we have to do this to save the environment because if not we're all going to die and i don't know if anybody's listening but we're all going to die eventually anyway we're all dying just slower just slower so then the social governance and i go what is social governance and and if you you know you can look at a couple of the greatest American iconic companies in the world, that social governance has destroyed their value of their companies.

Speaker 85 Disney. Disney and Anheuser-Busch.

Speaker 85 You would think both of them.

Speaker 24 Coca-Cola is really bad, too.

Speaker 85 Oh, yeah. And so, me as a business person, whenever I hired somebody, I hired the best, the brightest, and the people that actually show up to work.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 85 And I never looked at their race or, you know, or their political beliefs. I just wanted to hire the best.
And that's how our country was built. Our country was built on access to capital.

Speaker 85 And people like Thomas Edison. I know you have an issue with Thomas Edison.

Speaker 47 Thank you for knowing that.

Speaker 36 I know you do.

Speaker 36 And, you know,

Speaker 85 we could debate whether that was the best technology or not. But we need to make sure that the next inventors have access to capital.

Speaker 85 So whatever the next great invention that's going to help civilization is available.

Speaker 85 And when I saw what was happening, a friend of mine has a multinational company, and he was showing me a worksheet that he would have to fill out to get capital.

Speaker 85 And it had nothing to do with his business or the ability to pay. It was based on how many transgender people do you have working here? How much carbon footprint do you have?

Speaker 85 What are you using to mitigate your carbon footprint? And I said, there's something wrong here. And you know what? In the end, it's going to hurt civilization.

Speaker 85 And in Florida, we wanted to make sure we did something to protect our citizens.

Speaker 27 Okay, so now,

Speaker 19 does this actually, if I'm a citizen and I go to a bank and I feel they've judged me on ESG,

Speaker 19 does this cover me as a citizen of Florida?

Speaker 88 Yeah, so there's no doubt that the law, and they're going to challenge it.

Speaker 88 We highly suspect banks are going to fight this because they wanted to be able to discriminate against people.

Speaker 88 That's what banks want the ability to do, and they're being pushed by the left and big asset managers. But yes, that's what the law is designed to do.

Speaker 88 The law is designed to make sure that if you are being discriminated against, that you have an ability to file a complaint with the government so that the government makes sure that that doesn't happen.

Speaker 88 Now, one of the problems that we have, and Rep Rommel is trying to address this going forward, is how do we even know that that's what's going on? How do we know the bank?

Speaker 88 Because the bank might not tell you. The bank might just deny you the loan and never tell you why.

Speaker 88 And so we need to figure out a way to make sure that people know why they're being denied access to bank accounts and things like that. So

Speaker 88 do you want to talk a little bit about that plan that you have?

Speaker 85 Sure. We know what we did.
We knew it was going to get challenged.

Speaker 85 And we had a tremendous amount of pushback and pushback from people I didn't even understand why they were pushing back.

Speaker 85 Matter of fact, one of the second in charge of BlackRock came to visit me, the commerce chair in Florida, which was kind of cool.

Speaker 85 He read my background. He goes, oh, he seems like you're more of a libertarian.
You're a free market guy. Why are you interfering with business?

Speaker 85 And I said, it sounds like you're interfering. And we actually had a great conversation.
And

Speaker 85 he was talking about, this is just free market business. And I said, well, let's talk about ESG.
And I said, did you fly down here to visit me on a private plane? And he said, yeah.

Speaker 85 Matter of fact, I go, did you pick the most diverse pilot or did you pick the best pilot? He goes, that doesn't matter. And I go, no, it does matter.

Speaker 85 I go, if you truly believe in this stuff, you'll make the most diverse pilot. God forbid you're ever going to get sick.
You're going to get the most diverse surgeon. But it's not.

Speaker 85 This is about you controlling the markets, controlling capital, controlling people, making people have fewer decisions and maybe buying some bad technology.

Speaker 85 And, you know, they kept pushing and pushing. The banks came back to me and said, oh, you're interfering with us.

Speaker 36 But, you know what?

Speaker 85 They're all

Speaker 3 so bad.

Speaker 7 This banking, it's a cartel that they have going against,

Speaker 27 you know, against our representatives and our legislatures in America.

Speaker 19 This cartel comes in so heavy-handed with loads of money and credibility and tries to stop people like you.

Speaker 85 You know, and we had to be careful the way he crafted the bill because if you use ESG as a form of scoring, you won't be able to, you know,

Speaker 85 issue Florida bonds. You won't be able to be accessed to qualified public deposits, our pension funds.

Speaker 85 But we also had to make sure that if everybody did it, we were able to write checks in the state of Florida to pay our bills.

Speaker 85 So there was a balance there, and we had to make sure that there was other access. And there is.

Speaker 85 There's not quite enough for $300 billion dollars in uh local community banks so i think we're in a good place there but um over the summer one of our local businesses in florida dr mercola who owns a very big supermarket but he also owns a multinational natural health vitamin company and over the summer i get a call from one of his representatives and he goes uh rep bromo can you help us and i go i'll try what's up and he said well all of the managers and multiple employees from the merculler markets been debanked Their bank, which was JPMorgan Chase, gave them letters and say, find new banks.

Speaker 85 We're not going to bank with you anymore. So I talked to a J.P.
Morgan.

Speaker 14 Hang on just a second.

Speaker 23 How rare was it?

Speaker 19 Because I had never heard of being debanked before, unless you were like Al Capone.

Speaker 62 I had never heard of that.

Speaker 68 How rare did that used to be?

Speaker 85 I would think never because banks wanted you to keep your money and your non-interest

Speaker 85 accounts and pay fleet fees and things like that to earn income.

Speaker 85 So we looked into it a little bit and I talked to their rep and they said, well, Bob, you know, he could be doing money laundering or some suspicious activity.

Speaker 52 And by the law, we're obligated to debank them.

Speaker 85 I go, his entire workforce? And they couldn't tell me because, you know,

Speaker 85 I'm not authorized to hear this information. And again, the state of Florida, if you're running arms or fentanyl, We don't want you banking either.
Right.

Speaker 85 But we also believe in due process in the state of Florida. I don't trust you as the bank, and I don't trust you as some federal agency to say this person needs to be debanked.

Speaker 85 Because I remember Operation Chokehold when they told payday loans and arms dealers, I think that was, you know, Obama era, yeah.

Speaker 85 Obama era 2013, Operation Chokepoint, that you can't do any banking business.

Speaker 85 So I don't trust the federal government agencies, and I don't trust the banks that are colluding with ESG, with our federal agencies to do to bank them.

Speaker 85 So what I'm going to try to do this year, assuming it's passed,

Speaker 85 that if you're a bank and you debank one of our Florida citizens, a business or an individual, first of all, you're going to have to tell Florida, you're going to have to tell the Division of Financial Services, hey, I debanked Dr.

Speaker 85 Mercola, and this is why I did it. Then we as a state, keep it in private, will investigate.

Speaker 85 If we felt that you did it in bad faith, well, we're going to fine you and you're not going to do business in Florida. Good for you.

Speaker 85 And then the individual that was harmed, we're going to allow them to have a private right of action against that bank.

Speaker 83 Excellent.

Speaker 83 Excellent.

Speaker 13 That is fair.

Speaker 33 That was right.

Speaker 37 Yeah, I was right. This is amazing.

Speaker 3 This is what this is.

Speaker 56 By the way, this is what is it? Fair access.

Speaker 37 That's the shorthand.

Speaker 56 Shorthand is fair access.

Speaker 25 There are many states that have passed now anti-ESG laws, but it is fair access that gives the power to the individual to be able to get the information and to sue if

Speaker 19 it's wrong information or based on ESG. And you guys have led the way.

Speaker 6 So

Speaker 82 let me ask you, what was the name of the bank that debanked this guy?

Speaker 85 It was JP Morgan Chase.

Speaker 70 J.P. Morgan Chase.

Speaker 61 That's a big bank. It is a big bank.

Speaker 68 And I believe JP Morgan Chase

Speaker 56 is one of the organizations that flagged the Treasury on

Speaker 59 money laundering for Hunter Biden.

Speaker 39 Really?

Speaker 88 I think that is true.

Speaker 18 I think you're right.

Speaker 33 I'd have to check.

Speaker 37 I think it is.

Speaker 3 You should ask them, did you debank Hunter Biden when you suspected money laundering?

Speaker 85 You know what? I bet they didn't do that because

Speaker 38 it's a good bad.

Speaker 85 Unless they did, and that's why Hunter can't pay his child support.

Speaker 31 Yeah, maybe, maybe.

Speaker 19 Okay, so what do people need to do to make sure that next year we sew this up?

Speaker 88 The biggest thing is that

Speaker 88 state lawmakers, their representatives all across the country, they need to understand that

Speaker 88 ESG is a huge problem. It's maybe the biggest problem facing the average citizen in America right now.

Speaker 88 The problem is going to get bigger because in Europe, they're about to make ESG mandatory and they're going to drag a whole bunch of American companies into the mix and they're going to be beholden to Europe's ESG system.

Speaker 72 Right.

Speaker 88 They will have to live ESG here if they want to do business And the only thing worse than ESG is ESG created by Europeans.

Speaker 88 That's the only thing that could make it worse, right? And so what we need to do is make sure that there are protections for individuals. It can't just be for big businesses.

Speaker 88 It can't just be for industry. It can't just be on environment issues or fossil fuels.
Those things matter, but we need to have protections for the individual person.

Speaker 88 And if your state is not doing that, then they are not looking out for you. They are not protecting you.

Speaker 88 And you are going to be a victim of this eventually because there is just way too much money and planning and power behind it, as we've shown in the last two books that we did on this topic.

Speaker 20 You guys are at, you're over at the legislative conference, aren't you?

Speaker 46 Yes, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 46 Are you there in time for that?

Speaker 88 Yes, and we're actually presenting together very briefly a little bit later. So I'm glad that you're now learning that this is happening.

Speaker 75 I'm glad.

Speaker 10 I got to catch a plane today, and I'm like, I don't know what I'm going to talk about today.

Speaker 61 Here's what I'm going to say. Justin.
Oh, okay, good.

Speaker 32 What should people do?

Speaker 55 Anyway, the pro-family legislative conference is happening.

Speaker 81 There are about 200

Speaker 6 pro-family

Speaker 27 lawmakers that are in town.

Speaker 27 And all weekend long, I'd ask for you to pray for them.

Speaker 6 These people, like Bob, are really

Speaker 19 I mean, they are on the edge and standing up for the really hard things. They take bullets in the back, in the side, in the front, all of the time.

Speaker 6 They are looking for pro-life legislation protecting women's sports.

Speaker 90 Have you did it start yet this morning?

Speaker 59 When's it going?

Speaker 88 Yeah, it started last night, but today's the first full day of programming and stuff.

Speaker 19 I wish I could be there for the artificial intelligence thing and the digital dollar.

Speaker 88 Well, those are things I'm doing.

Speaker 73 So you know all about what I think on these issues.

Speaker 46 Yeah, right. Okay.

Speaker 52 I think I taught you about AI.

Speaker 75 Maybe, I don't know.

Speaker 51 Okay, that is great.

Speaker 68 Bob, thank you so much.

Speaker 26 Have you guys decided what's going to happen if, well, eventually,

Speaker 27 Ron DeSantis cannot run again for another term?

Speaker 28 So whether he becomes president or whether he just terms out, is the state going to be stable?

Speaker 82 Is it him or have you guys written enough

Speaker 19 into the laws that it can't be changed? It's not all executive order, right?

Speaker 85 None of it's really executive order in Florida. We believe in the power of the legislature.
If we pass it and he signs it, it's law.

Speaker 85 You know, states are different than the the federal government, thank God.

Speaker 85 And I know you were just talking about, you know, pro-family stuff. We already did boys don't go in girls' room.
We already did boys don't play in girls' sports. We did the heartbait bill.

Speaker 85 And last year for education, we had the education savings account, but basically gives every single child a voucher to go to any school they want. And Florida, we ranked third in K-12 education now.

Speaker 40 And 30 years ago, we were the worst.

Speaker 6 Oh, you were.

Speaker 28 I lived there in the

Speaker 31 right around 2000.

Speaker 6 And

Speaker 58 Florida struggled with schools.

Speaker 14 And now we're Texas struggling with schools.

Speaker 55 And we've got one Republican, the Speaker of the House here in Texas, standing against school choice.

Speaker 51 Hopefully that will change.

Speaker 91 The best of the Glenbeck program.

Speaker 44 Is everything racist?

Speaker 74 It's time for another episode of Everything is Racist.

Speaker 78 Everything is racist.

Speaker 85 Every thought you have is a KKK dream.

Speaker 78 Everything is is resistant. White so far as they stream.

Speaker 26 All right, going into the Pandaverse now

Speaker 10 as we are looking at ornithology.

Speaker 90 Yes, it's very important, Glenn.

Speaker 90 I hope you know that a lot of the familiar names you know about from birding, I know you're a big birder.

Speaker 49 I'm not a big birder.

Speaker 84 Big birder.

Speaker 73 Glenn said, people don't know that.

Speaker 84 Big birder.

Speaker 55 I don't know anybody who is a big birder.

Speaker 38 Oh, huge birder.

Speaker 63 I eat birds.

Speaker 64 Well, that's why you're looking for them.

Speaker 36 So you could eat them. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 71 That's a little different than the typical birder.

Speaker 87 I will say you do it a little bit differently.

Speaker 34 But you're going to have to say goodbye to some very familiar bird names.

Speaker 87 Oh.

Speaker 22 Like.

Speaker 67 Like.

Speaker 41 I mean, say it with me.

Speaker 72 Anna's hummingbird.

Speaker 87 Hummingbird.

Speaker 49 Anna's hummingbird.

Speaker 53 Gamble's quail.

Speaker 58 Gamble's quail.

Speaker 34 Lewis's woodpecker.

Speaker 8 Lewis's woodpecker.

Speaker 82 That one sounds like we shouldn't talk about it.

Speaker 52 What is that? That's Lewis's woodpecker.

Speaker 32 Woodpecker.

Speaker 85 Just leave him alone.

Speaker 18 Stop playing with that.

Speaker 84 Bullock's Oriole.

Speaker 92 How many times have you been like, oh, look, it's Bullock's Oriole right over there?

Speaker 16 I usually will just say it's an Oriole, but when it's Bullock's Oriole,

Speaker 84 that it rubs me wrong. It does.

Speaker 48 It rubs me wrong.

Speaker 6 It does.

Speaker 90 Well, apparently, these are going to go away because of the American Oranthological Society, how they vow to change

Speaker 90 it to change the English names of all bird species currently named after people, along with any other bird names deemed offensive or exclusionary.

Speaker 64 Okay.

Speaker 75 Now.

Speaker 31 Okay, he got just to say.

Speaker 58 To whom?

Speaker 75 The birds?

Speaker 73 No, the birds don't care about the names.

Speaker 48 The birds don't care. It's okay.

Speaker 34 Apparently about human beings, as they discussed in the article at length.

Speaker 22 So is this happening all over the world in every language,

Speaker 82 any other society that is named a bird?

Speaker 63 There's only one society that matters, and it's really

Speaker 90 American Oranthological Society.

Speaker 87 Okay, all right.

Speaker 40 Which is a word I've said many, many times, not just starting yesterday.

Speaker 38 Remember, yes.

Speaker 65 Now,

Speaker 90 there have also banned names that were named after like Native American tribes because that's also offensive, like the Washington Redskins.

Speaker 63 That was offense.

Speaker 40 We had to get rid of that, even though they approved of it.

Speaker 84 About 90% of the people in the tribe approved of it. That didn't matter.

Speaker 71 So this move comes as a part of a broader effort to diversify birding.

Speaker 93 and make it more welcoming to people of all races and backgrounds.

Speaker 27 I have to tell you, because you know me, I'm one with a hood.

Speaker 57 And

Speaker 62 I'm down with my peeps in the hood.

Speaker 57 And

Speaker 31 we're listening to

Speaker 87 Lizzo. Lizzo.

Speaker 10 And she's like, damn, where is

Speaker 6 my phone?

Speaker 68 And I say to myself, Lizzo,

Speaker 85 have you thought about

Speaker 14 perhaps bird watching?

Speaker 71 Birding.

Speaker 84 Let's call it by the appropriate term, birding.

Speaker 57 I'm in the hood.

Speaker 31 I'm okay.

Speaker 72 So, this is like a slang term.

Speaker 80 Bird watching is a slang term for birding.

Speaker 38 Okay, got it.

Speaker 38 And

Speaker 5 she says, Where the hell is my phone? And I said, You don't need one.

Speaker 6 You just go out with all the stuff that you might get from the oranthological society

Speaker 10 and

Speaker 6 you just go watch them birds.

Speaker 68 And she said to me, and this is a quote:

Speaker 68 Birding is too racist. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 31 And I said, I'm with you.

Speaker 19 I'm with you on that, but can you explain?

Speaker 70 And she said,

Speaker 19 I don't think I have to to you, Glenn.

Speaker 70 And I said, damn right.

Speaker 58 That's right.

Speaker 40 I remember that.

Speaker 63 You told me about that conversation.

Speaker 12 It's a really good story.

Speaker 63 We have contemporaneous notes backing that up in case anyone's wants to see it.

Speaker 80 So, like, this is very common, actually.

Speaker 93 Like, a lot of, there's a lot of people who are sitting around and they're just like, you know, I'd love to get into birding, but I find the name Lewis's woodpecker to be a little offensive.

Speaker 45 It doesn't feel like I'm something else besides

Speaker 45 because there's, you know, there's never been an African-American in the side of the barn, and now I've got to replace that whole slap with Lewis's woodpecker?

Speaker 18 No, because Lewis's woodpecker put a hole in the barn.

Speaker 72 It's a large bird.

Speaker 18 Let's stop.

Speaker 18 Is it let's stop?

Speaker 84 Lewis had a big bird.

Speaker 61 And a lot of people talk about it.

Speaker 43 So,

Speaker 42 but you know, I don't know.

Speaker 90 Are there a lot of people that go through this process that are like, I just, you know, because there's never been an African-American name with a last name of Lewis.

Speaker 84 That's never occurred, certainly throughout history.

Speaker 71 So Joe.

Speaker 73 Yeah, Carl.

Speaker 84 Carl, you know, I don't know. There's been some.

Speaker 5 But you'd think.

Speaker 6 One who wrote Alice in Wonderland.

Speaker 84 That one. Yeah.

Speaker 34 Whoever that was. Okay.

Speaker 71 So biologist Erica Knoll says she was recently visiting some salt marshes.

Speaker 40 Now, I know you have a timeshare near a salt marsh that you visit often.

Speaker 26 I get all my salt there. Yeah.

Speaker 92 And she saw a common bird there that's called Wilson's Snipe.

Speaker 40 Now, as you know, there's also never been an African-American with the last name Wilson. They don't,

Speaker 84 never occurred.

Speaker 29 Clip.

Speaker 61 Russell.

Speaker 43 So, which

Speaker 71 this bird has a long bill and engages in dramatic displays, such as flying in high circles, which produces a whistling sound as air flows over specialized feathers.

Speaker 84 Very good.

Speaker 84 You are a birder, I can tell.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I can tell.

Speaker 31 That's the Wilson

Speaker 37 snipe. It's the snipe.

Speaker 74 Which I think is actually a pretty cool name. Snipe!

Speaker 72 Yeah, that's what it sounds like. Just like.
Snipe!

Speaker 46 I do the calls sometimes.

Speaker 43 But it doesn't say Wilson.

Speaker 72 It just says Snipe.

Speaker 14 It just says Snipe.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 72 And this biologist says, quote, and I thought, what a terrible name.

Speaker 74 I mean, Wilson was the father of modern ornithology.

Speaker 92 But, but this bird has so many other evocative characteristics.

Speaker 85 You know,

Speaker 6 when I think of the guy who founded modern orthonology.

Speaker 84 Orthology.

Speaker 45 When I think of him, I think, that damn Wilson.

Speaker 8 Yes.

Speaker 82 That damn Wilson, his name is everywhere.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 39 Everywhere.

Speaker 84 What color was Wilson with Tom Hanks?

Speaker 53 White.

Speaker 71 The ball was white.

Speaker 38 Remember that. I got it.

Speaker 43 Okay.

Speaker 39 So that's the typical craziness.

Speaker 90 Number one,

Speaker 34 they're calling the bird names racist and acting like, you know, some Hispanic person's like, I can't, I would never go into birding now.

Speaker 42 I've always wanted to bird, but the name

Speaker 42 Lewis, I may not bird now.

Speaker 29 Snipe!

Speaker 54 Beautiful bird.

Speaker 77 A little annoying if it's around your house, but a beautiful bird.

Speaker 84 So you have that part.

Speaker 12 I have a whole nest of them.

Speaker 23 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 71 Secondary part of this, which is ridiculous, is they're not just targeting, because I guess there have been some of these people who named birds who also were around in the 1880s and made racial remarks or did something terrible.

Speaker 84 I don't know.

Speaker 92 But they're not just targeting those people.

Speaker 43 I mean,

Speaker 2 if it's like Sherman's N-word, I get it.

Speaker 54 Right.

Speaker 43 I get it.

Speaker 35 You'd understand that. Right.

Speaker 72 You'd understand a name change with that one.

Speaker 43 Yeah. And like, you know, we like, it's hard.

Speaker 34 We understand how this process works.

Speaker 40 We might think it's stupid erasing history, but like, this has happened all across the country at this point.

Speaker 80 They're tearing down statues of freaking Ben Franklin.

Speaker 90 I mean, this is not.

Speaker 6 Because these guys are not, they're not necessarily bad guys.

Speaker 80 Wilson's not a bad guy. Right.

Speaker 92 They're not targeting only people who have done things that could be deemed offensive by modern sensibilities.

Speaker 17 Because Tom, Tom's Blue Jay.

Speaker 93 Tom's Blue Jay.

Speaker 50 Tom was a badass guy.

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 19 He knocked over a few of the Southland Corporation's best 7-Elevens

Speaker 28 back in the 40s.

Speaker 40 Yeah, that's a whole nother story.

Speaker 44 But they're targeting anyone, any name.

Speaker 34 If you're named after a person, they're they're getting rid of it. So even if you're the best person.

Speaker 75 Not all around the world.

Speaker 33 Just the American Oranthological Society.

Speaker 87 Yes.

Speaker 87 Okay.

Speaker 92 And all that's crazy. Okay.

Speaker 35 But that's baseline crazy.

Speaker 34 There's another level of crazy with the story.

Speaker 74 And here it comes.

Speaker 71 The president, Colleen Handel, says, that was the first I'd ever really recognized or heard that a name was offensive.

Speaker 64 She says, at that point in time, concerns about injustice weren't a traditionally accepted reason for changing bird names.

Speaker 44 But it really started to change in

Speaker 75 2020.

Speaker 74 When police officer killed George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Speaker 81 Wait, that's when the birders

Speaker 5 said enough of that.

Speaker 74 Enough of the Wilson's snipe and the Lewis's woodpecker because George Floyd has been killed in Minneapolis.

Speaker 43 Now, you might say, well, what the hell does that have to do with anything?

Speaker 74 This is a totally different story.

Speaker 76 No, I I might say, produce one birder that said that.

Speaker 18 Right.

Speaker 67 Produce just one that said that.

Speaker 20 But the issue is it was not really George Floyd's murder.

Speaker 59 Oh, it wasn't.

Speaker 53 Because on that same day, and you may remember, you may forget that this was the exact same day as George Floyd's.

Speaker 82 Same day. Same day.
Remember this. Same day.

Speaker 52 A white woman.

Speaker 22 A white woman.

Speaker 80 In Central Park.

Speaker 38 In Central Park.

Speaker 92 Called the police on

Speaker 84 a black birder

Speaker 3 named Christian Cooper. So he was a birder.

Speaker 33 Yes, he was a central birder.

Speaker 67 He was a guy who was in the bushes watching, maybe looking for Lewis's woodpecker.

Speaker 23 Woodpecker.

Speaker 43 She called the police, claiming he was threatening her.

Speaker 80 Less than a month later, the group called

Speaker 42 less than a month later, a group called Bird Names for Birds.

Speaker 75 Bird Names for Birds.

Speaker 77 I've got to join this organization.

Speaker 47 I want to be

Speaker 76 a bird.

Speaker 32 Can you look it up, Sarah, real quick?

Speaker 19 Just look up for their mission statement.

Speaker 18 What is their mission statement?

Speaker 76 Imagine going door to door, trying to get people to go into,

Speaker 55 we represent the Bird Names for Birds Club.

Speaker 58 Yeah.

Speaker 39 Okay, so. So Bird Names for Birds,

Speaker 39 they write to the American Ornithological Society and say, hey, George Floyd was killed.

Speaker 92 This birder was, the police were called by a white woman on this black birder.

Speaker 53 Therefore, we should get rid of Wilson's name from Wilson's snipe.

Speaker 35 That's basically how this conversation went.

Speaker 34 Now, the problem with the story, if you remember, it was called the Central Park Karen story.

Speaker 41 This is the story.

Speaker 44 And

Speaker 42 the main issue with this part of it is the story has been utterly and completely debunked.

Speaker 8 There was no black birder.

Speaker 92 Well, maybe not utterly, completely, but the black birder did exist, is a human being, but there's a lot of details you probably haven't heard about.

Speaker 58 Okay, okay.

Speaker 64 So if you remember how this story went down,

Speaker 63 here's a couple headlines.

Speaker 85 A black man bird watching in Central Park asked a white woman to leash her dog.

Speaker 25 She called the police.

Speaker 44 Amy Cooper was her name.

Speaker 64 She was charged with in Central Park false report against a black bird watcher.

Speaker 68 And the problem is.

Speaker 68 Is that an actual crime?

Speaker 3 Is that the crime she was charged with?

Speaker 64 A false police report, yeah.

Speaker 57 Oh, but not against a black bird watcher.

Speaker 72 Oh, yeah, well, that's a separate crime.

Speaker 35 It's like a hate crime.

Speaker 58 Okay, okay.

Speaker 61 There's false reports.

Speaker 8 And then false reports against black birders.

Speaker 8 And that's bad.

Speaker 53 So let me give you the

Speaker 71 footage of this incident because you'll remember it when you hear it.

Speaker 44 This is Amy Cooper

Speaker 20 being very frantic and insane.

Speaker 53 I mean, she's hysterical in this clip.

Speaker 74 Of course, the black birder was in the right.

Speaker 53 Here is Amy Cooper.

Speaker 44 This is from the day George Floyd died.

Speaker 94 Would you please stop? Sir, I'm asking you to stop. Please don't come close to me.
Sir, I'm asking you to stop recording. Please don't come close to me.
Please take your phone off.

Speaker 94 Please don't come close to me.

Speaker 94 Please, please call the cops.

Speaker 94 Please call the cops.

Speaker 94 I'm gonna tell them there's an African-American man threatening my life. Please tell them whatever you like.
I'm sorry, I'm in a ramble, and there is a man, African-American, who's a Pfisky man.

Speaker 94 He's recording me and threatening me and my dog.

Speaker 94 There is an African-American man I am in Central Park. He is recording me and threatening myself and my dog.
I'm being threatened by a man in the Ramble. Please send the cops immediately.

Speaker 94 I'm in Central Park in the Ramble. I don't know.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 75 Okay.

Speaker 61 Now she's very hysterical.

Speaker 33 She's very hysterical.

Speaker 26 He seems seems like he's under control and a nice guy.

Speaker 82 It's two New Yorkers

Speaker 60 that are just

Speaker 22 probably

Speaker 22 a little nuts.

Speaker 65 They're arguing.

Speaker 90 I mean, to take it back to this moment, though, in all seriousness, New York City around May 2020 was pretty freaking nuts.

Speaker 38 People were afraid to go outside.

Speaker 35 This is like

Speaker 34 the very beginning of COVID.

Speaker 63 And, you know, we can all look back at some of the hysteria then,

Speaker 90 you know, with certainly, you know, noticing how ridiculous it was.

Speaker 14 Well, that's probably why she, in her twisted New York way, said, He's threatening my life.

Speaker 6 And because she was saying, don't come closer to me.

Speaker 38 And she's wearing a mask.

Speaker 84 Well,

Speaker 44 that could be that. Remember, too, she also had health problems.

Speaker 63 She was predisposed to being more affected to COVID.

Speaker 84 She had barely gone out at all outside.

Speaker 34 She was a terrified person.

Speaker 71 And a lot of people in New York at that point were very terrified.

Speaker 82 They still are.

Speaker 44 Some of them remain to this day.

Speaker 43 But what happened to her afterward?

Speaker 53 She was

Speaker 93 a white woman who called police on Black Bird Watcher, has been fired they took her dog from her dog they took her dog and she actually went into hiding left the country and went into hiding after this so let's just say for a minute she is a racist and she did this You wouldn't necessarily think you'd have to leave the country, but she was being threatened by people.

Speaker 71 She was terrified of everybody.

Speaker 41 It was very, very bad for her.

Speaker 35 When we come back on the other side, I want to give you the actual perspective of what occurred in this incident because nobody knows.

Speaker 80 Everyone watched it that way.

Speaker 92 The media covered it the way I just described.

Speaker 90 Racist white Karen going after this black guy for absolutely no reason.

Speaker 44 And

Speaker 93 she, good, she got fired. Good, they took her dog.

Speaker 34 Good, she's out of the country.

Speaker 90 She's a terrible human being in every way.

Speaker 49 Okay, I don't agree with that.

Speaker 19 I'm glad maybe she's out of the country, but for entirely different reasons.

Speaker 14 Really?

Speaker 82 Yeah.

Speaker 49 I mean, oh, gee, we lost another New Yorker who was

Speaker 28 walking their dog in the park who was wearing a mask and all freaked out about going inside.

Speaker 59 But I don't, I mean, I'd like her to move away in happy terms.

Speaker 49 Like, I really don't like it here.

Speaker 26 Right.

Speaker 70 People make too much sense. That's true.

Speaker 63 Well, I mean, I don't, as far as I know, she's not even a member of Bird Names for Birds.

Speaker 46 Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 60 I've got it pulled up here.

Speaker 24 I can. Oh, you do?

Speaker 46 I'll look. Yeah.

Speaker 80 Can I join?

Speaker 80 Can I get on board with the bird?

Speaker 26 Well, I was just looking at the background.

Speaker 62 Concerns about the honorific common bird names is not new.

Speaker 19 But this movement seeks to change those names.

Speaker 73 Thank God.

Speaker 63 Thank God these names are going away.

Speaker 16 So they're very upset about Bachmann's sparrow is the first one they bring.

Speaker 46 Oh, really?

Speaker 73 Yeah, Bachman.

Speaker 34 What did Bachman do? It was a bad.

Speaker 30 Just, well, Bachman,

Speaker 86 I believe that's probably Jewish.

Speaker 19 Oh.

Speaker 58 And the Jewish Zionists, they control all of the bird names.

Speaker 80 I've been hearing that a lot on college campuses lately.

Speaker 77 It's interesting you bring that up.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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