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Yet,

another central bank got a phone call from Vladimir Zelensky.

And as it turns out, it's not Vladimir Zelensky.

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Wait, what, what?

What's wrong with people?

Let me tell you right now, so you can be the next central banker.

When that phone rings and they're like, it's Vladimir Zelensky.

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It's most likely not Vladimir Vladimir Zelensky.

But we're finding out all kinds of things, and I want to tie it into

the lessons I learned today listening to the New York Times, The Daily.

They had some incredible information

about the collapse of yet the latest bank.

Wait until you hear it, because it opened up a whole new world for me.

A whole new way of looking at things and understanding the banking crisis in a deep and significant way.

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Stu, did you catch the New York Times the daily today?

I did not.

No.

I haven't listened to it in months.

But I thought,

I thought, you know, today, maybe I'll see what they have to say.

And I learned so much about the banking crisis.

Did you?

Yeah.

yeah.

So listen in and learn.

So, Gina,

another day, another bank failure.

Starting to be the pattern these days.

Very much.

And after these

two banks had failed, Silicon Valley Bank, then a couple days later, Signature Bank, the hope, and I'd say the expectation was that this crisis might be over.

It was not over.

In fact, the third bank, First Republic Bank, collapsed, and it was even bigger as a bank than the previous two that failed.

So tell us about why First Republic Bank

ultimately went under.

I think that what happened at First Republic was sort of a slow-motion reaction to what happened at Silicon Valley Bank, that first bank that failed.

The other thing is a lot of the sort of assets on First Republic's balance sheet, a lot of its loans, a lot of its, you know, sort of business isn't actually all that bad looking.

It just didn't hold up well in the face of rising interest rates.

And JP Morgan has also, in this case, got some guarantees from the government.

The government is going to share in losses on the portions of the business that aren't looking so hot.

Wait.

Now, does that mean that the government, and by that I mean you and me, the taxpayer, are now subsidizing J.P.

Morgan Chase's purchase of First Republic?

So far, the government has been careful to say that no taxpayer money is being used to bail out any of these failing banks.

So is that true in this case as well?

It is, but it's a little bit complicated.

This deal is going to cost the government about $13 billion,

which is going to be covered by the insurance fund that's paid by every federally regulated bank.

So it's not taxpayer money per se, but the banks will tell you, and some people outside of the banks will tell you that while this is paid for by assessments on banks, at the end of the day, that comes back to hit the bank customers because the banks are going to raise the money by charging more fees on mortgages, on bank accounts, on things like that.

And so it's possible that you'll still end up subsidizing this, whether it's directly or not.

It's possible.

And even if you don't want to.

So if you have any relationship with a federally regulated bank, which almost all of us do, you're in one form or another, eventually helping to pay for this deal.

Yeah, exactly.

So if you're J.P.

Morgan Chase, this is a pretty good deal, obviously, but

there's something a little bit funny about it, which is that J.P.

Morgan Chase is already the nation's largest bank.

And after the financial crisis in 2008, the whole idea was that big banks shouldn't get any bigger, shouldn't be buying up their rivals because they might become too big to fail.

So this deal seemed kind of at odds with that.

So it is a little weird.

I think the message we all took from 2008 was that really big banks can be dangerous.

And certainly that was baked into the legislation that we saw passing after 2008.

We saw a restriction that said the largest banks in America can no longer acquire really big banks because we don't want too much of the nation's deposit base concentrated at any one bank.

I don't want that.

However,

there was an exception to that rule.

And the exception is that if a bank is failing, a large bank can acquire it.

And that's really what we saw come into play here.

JP Morgan was also able to offer the least cost option to acquire First Republic.

You got to stop.

You got to stop.

Okay, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

So we learned that big banks were bad,

and big banks can't grow any bigger.

But how do they grow bigger, Stu?

How do they grow bigger by buying other

banks?

Okay, so they can't do that.

No.

But if that bank fails,

they can do that.

Of course.

Right.

That makes total sense, doesn't it?

So they can become much bigger, much more cheaply.

Yeah.

That's the

goal of the legislation.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I mean, you know, not that the Federal Reserve is playing favorites at all.

J.P.

Morgan Jays.

That's incredible, too.

And it's like they had...

to buy the bank, they were able to designate what parts of it they didn't want.

so this is the partnership with the government the government's going to share the burden no you gave all of the good assets to jp morgan chase we took all the bad assets right i mean who does this deal it's incredible it's like if you like a one building in an apartment complex burns to the ground and then you say well i'm going to come in but i'm not going to take over any of the responsibility for the one that burned down i'm just going to take all of the nice buildings that are still operating with all uh renters in there paying their rent completely fine.

I'll take all of those over for 80% off the cost.

Oh, great.

Yeah.

You'll do that.

That's wow.

Thank you.

So now, listen, if any of my renters start not paying the rent, you're going to have to have to take those.

You'll take it off.

But you could do it on insurance.

You just get money from all the other apartment complexes, which are going to charge all of the other people in those apartments more money to rent their house.

So in case some of my renters go down,

you can pay me.

Wow.

What a good deal for the United States of America.

Yeah, we win again.

Yeah.

And by the way, an insurance fund, when does this dry up?

How many banks does this need to happen to before we have nothing left in this account?

Okay, so there, from what I understand, there was nothing left in the account after we bailed out Silicon Valley Bank.

Okay.

But, but that it gets complicated here, Stu.

It gets complicated.

The government will just print more money.

Oh.

Well, but.

Wait a minute.

That doesn't seem complicated.

Yeah.

No.

Well, you got to get the ink and the paper.

But they're digitizing, and that's where it gets complex.

Do we digitize it or do we print it?

They don't know.

They don't know.

They'll have meetings and stuff.

So it gets complicated and probably a little bit too much for you to understand.

Yeah, above my pay grade.

Above your pay grade just a little bit.

They say, by the way, $128 billion are in this fund.

Now, I know they just said this bank had $120 billion that were people pulled out that caused this crisis in the first place.

Right.

One bank.

One bank.

They lost $120 billion.

There's $128 billion in the entire fund.

Yeah.

So, and we just spent apparently $13 billion.

The taxpayer is not going to bear that burden.

No, what happens when that runs out?

Well, you're not going to bear that burden.

They will get that money from the banks.

And the banks will get that money just from people, you know, really rich people, people who have bank accounts.

Okay.

If you've got a bank account, sure, you're a fat cat who's going to even, yeah, but you probably have so much.

I'm speaking directly to those few people in this audience that have bank accounts.

Yeah.

There's only a few.

You've got a bank account.

You're not even going to notice that's missing.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

So it's not you, the average taxpayer.

It's just people that have bank accounts.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, I have another question.

Yeah.

Just a sidebar.

So they also, to get through this crisis,

the last couple months,

when we were told they were going to make it.

because we had all these incredible actions.

Oh, it's all passed, except for the stuff that they know about that might be coming.

They also borrowed about $50 billion from the Fed.

What happens with that?

Like, does JP Morgan Chase have to pay that back?

How do they got that?

They got that back.

What?

What?

That money just is like.

Why is your voice getting so high when you're?

I'm just saying that they just don't have any, you know,

that money is like, it's, there's nobody to pay it.

There's, I mean, right.

So there's no, there's no money there.

So it's just like it just disappeared.

Wait, what?

What do you mean it just disappeared?

It's on a balance sheet someplace.

Right.

But we don't know who

and who paid.

Probably the same damn people that own those bank accounts.

Oh, okay, good.

You know, we're going to squeeze them to get that money back.

Because they keep telling me if we have.

If you have less than $250,000 in your bank account, your money is safe.

That money is guaranteed by the federal government.

Okay.

Well, I don't believe them.

What do you mean?

I don't.

What do you mean?

You go to, you have 250,000.

Are you pulling your money out of the bank?

I mean, I'm very, I don't know what to do, honestly.

You leave your money in the bank.

You make sure that you don't have more than $250,000.

The government will just make more.

What?

That is basically what we're all supposed to believe, right?

And they will.

They will just print more.

What do you do?

To cover all losses from all bank accounts yes

they'll just keep printing well what is that does that have modern monetary theory it's modern i'm being dead serious this is modern monetary theory i'm a tad concerned as what the fall might be to that why

what could possibly happen i i mean inflation uh economic collapse inflation is transitory and the fed is working on that they have a plan in fact when the call came in from vladimir zelensky

who wasn't Vladimir Zelensky, let me tell you something.

If your organization can't figure out if that's actually the leader of Ukraine on the phone,

you shouldn't have a credit card, let alone be in charge of the Fed.

I'm just saying.

But once again, a central banker is fooled by this group of people that are posing as Vladimir Zelensky and then recording it.

And it's not on the phone.

Apparently,

it's a video conference call.

How are they falling for a

conference call?

Yeah.

Yeah, don't know.

Don't know.

But maybe, you know, just the computer rings.

And you just, oh, hang on.

I've got a FaceTime call coming in.

It's Vladimir Zelensky.

We didn't hear from your people or anything.

How'd you get my number?

Well, let me tell you all my deepest, darkest secrets that I'm not going to tell everybody else, but I'll tell you, Vladimir, because you're trustworthy.

Here's what Powell said.

Now, this is not what he's telling the American people.

Listen to this.

But what we're going to find is that growth in 2022 was...

was positive, but modest.

It was subdued.

So, you know, 1%

around that level.

In terms of this year, most forecasts call for the U.S.

economy to continue to grow, but at a pretty subdued level.

So growth of less than 1%.

Less than 1%.

So stop for a second.

Is anyone, does anyone on the planet think that growth of less than 1%

is really growth?

I mean, I think that's probably in the margin of error.

Yeah.

And I honestly,

considering what other economists are saying, growth of under 1% would be positive.

Yes.

Yes, it would.

Compared to what they're actually predicting, which is recession.

Right.

So

he's maybe in the spin zone where he's like, you know, but Vlad, listen, we can keep sending you those bullets because our growth, our growth is like crazy

right now.

Crazy high

zero point something numbers.

Yeah.

It's great.

We are on track for another record year, and I mean that.

Here he is.

But we would tell you that a recession is almost as likely as

very slow growth.

Huh.

Wait.

That's nobody telling us.

That's a fact.

And I think that is partly because of

us having raised rates quite a bit.

But this is the first time.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Why are we having a recession, according to the Fed chair?

Because the Fed

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Ha.

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Okay,

okay.

All right.

So hang on just a second.

Hang on just a second.

I want to make sure I understand this.

So we're in a recession.

Why?

Because, or we could have a recession, according to Gerald Powell.

Just as likely.

Why?

Because they're raising interest rates.

Stu.

Why are they raising interest rates?

Because of inflation.

Trying to get inflation under control.

Getting inflation.

What

is the definition of inflation?

Too many dollars chasing too few goods?

Huh.

So

what is the real problem?

We have too many dollars and we have too few goods.

So, there's two things you can do there.

Right.

You can get people working to make more goods,

or

you can get rid of all of those dollars.

Okay.

The first thing you do, if you want to get rid of dollars, what's the first thing you do?

Raise interest rates?

No.

No.

No.

The first thing you do.

If

your house is underwater because you had a faucet that just blew, a pipe that just blew, what would the first thing you would do?

Turn off the water.

You'd turn off the water.

Stop printing money.

You'd stop.

Printing money.

That's a great idea.

So the first thing you would do...

Now, I'm not a plumber,

nor am I a printer,

but I am a thinker.

The first thing you would do is shut the printing press off.

Okay.

All right.

Is our government doing that?

No.

No, no.

What's the reverse of the government doing that?

Right.

They're doing more of it.

Is he saying in here that

should stop our out-of-control spending?

He is not.

No, he's not.

No, he's not.

Instead, he says we're going to cripple people.

Now, I'm going to let you hear it from his own mouth, but there are other options.

Again,

you know, I don't have my degree, which would, I think, make me blind to all of the real solutions and the real problems.

So I wear that as a badge of honor.

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But what we're going to find is that growth in 2022 was

positive, but modest.

It was subdued.

So, you know, 1%

around that level.

In terms of this year, most forecasts call for the U.S.

economy to continue to grow, but at a pretty subdued level.

So growth of less than 1%, let's say.

But we would tell you that a recession is almost as likely

as very slow growth.

So

that's a fact.

And I think that is partly because of

us having raised rates quite a bit.

But this is what it takes to get inflation down.

To get inflation off of the high, we've had inflation at its highest level in 40 years.

To get inflation to come down, what we need is a period of slower growth so that the economy can cool off, so the labor market can cool off,

so that wages can cool off.

And so that that's how inflation comes down.

That's the only way we know to bring inflation down.

No, it's not.

And it can be painful, but there is, we don't know of any painful way, painless way

for inflation to come down.

Okay, so first of all, let me ask you something.

How are these guys?

I mean, what is Vladimir, you know, the fake Vladimir saying

to get into these conversations and to have...

Does he just calling the central banks and like, listen, it's Vladimir Ivantanos, like, tell me stuff that you will not tell your own people?

Yes, I'm just calling for confidential information that you want to keep on the QT as we set up a new world government.

What is what?

How?

What is he asking?

What are they expecting to get on the phone?

Yes,

just central bank.

I just want to know.

I know you're not my central bank.

I have nothing to do with you, but I want to know what is your plan?

What are they saying to get on the phone with these people?

It's incredible that they keep falling for it.

And this is, we've been talking a lot about AI.

This is just the beginning of this.

Every single one of these people is going to fall for one of these calls.

It's crazy.

Right?

I mean, it's great.

I mean, because, I mean, it'll expose.

No, it'll expose things.

Great's not the word I would use for this.

Well, no, I think it's great because it'll expose things and then nobody will do anything about it.

Which is a total joke.

That kind of great.

Now, listen.

So he says

it's an equal chance

that we're going into a recession, and that's a fact.

Have you heard that fact said to the American people?

Not from him no not from not from anyone in the government from him okay so uh we have 40-year highs of inflation pretty bad that's a fact

um so the only way to do it is to slow growth slow down labor and and slow down wages so let me get this right Let me use regular fightful spike.

I'm sitting there not having a Bud Light at the end of the bar.

And his hoity-toity guy comes to me and he says, Well, we got to slow growth.

We got to slow down labor and wages.

Now, I think what he's saying here in bar talk

is he's going to throw a wrench into our economy.

And then he's going to get a bunch of us fired.

And then the rest of us are going to have sucky wages.

wages because that's the only

way out.

Really?

No.

Here's another idea.

You could

tell people

to get their ass off the couch and go back to work because this sugar daddy teat off of Uncle Sam ain't giving you any more milk.

How about that one?

That one.

That would be good.

We could have a return of labor, which if labor returns and we don't have to pay, you know, in blood

for all that labor, maybe,

maybe we could make more products.

Then we could also just shut the printing press off for the United States government.

He's saying the only way, the only thing we can do is screw the American people.

That's what he's saying.

The only thing we can do is hurt the American people because they don't matter anyway.

We, I mean, the last thing we want to do is piss off Congress.

We don't want to piss off the Senate.

And besides, we're all in it.

Because remember, I'm the head of the Federal Reserve Bank, a wholly owned private company

made up of, well, dare I say it, banks like JP Morgan Chase.

Am I the only one?

It's like I'm standing in a, I feel like I'm standing in a crowd and everybody is going, wow, this is fantastic.

And I'm like, wait, no, but he's,

no, he's saying he's going to put you out of business and he's going to hurt your, I know.

But he's really got it under control.

No, he's the guy who caused all of these problems.

I know, but look at his hair, right?

And he's on the phone with Vladimir Zelensky.

That guy's great.

No, no, I think he's a criminal, too.

What a conspiracy theorist.

I just feel like I'm standing in a crowd going, would somebody wake up?

And you're not even seemingly that worried in the fact that a fake Vladimir Zelensky can get on the phone with Jerome Powell on a video call somehow with AI, which is right around the corner where we are now, you know, we talked to a woman who had not a famous person like Vladimir Zelensky, but

her daughter, who had like five sentences spoken on the internet, converted into a hostage tape.

We're on the corner of basically any voice being on the phone, and you're not going to know if it's real or not.

And

this is what we're dealing with.

Not even our federal government can

sift through this.

What happens, Glenn, when someone makes a legitimate, seemingly sounding, credible threat of nuclear attack?

What do you mean?

Like, Vladimir Putin calls up.

Vladimir Putin, we've got Vladimir Zelensky on the phone.

Really?

Is it the real one?

Yes, he said he was.

Right.

What happens when one of our idiotic government officials falls for something like that?

I mean, that's going to happen, maybe not to us, but somewhere.

Certainly, this is, we are, man, we are so screwed.

We are so screwed.

That's why I keep getting every one of the ending of the conversations I have about these topics are just like, ah, we're so screwed.

That's how it was at.

Oh, no, no.

You got to end it differently now.

Okay.

Instead of saying, I'm so screwed or we're so screwed, you say this.

Wow, it's going to be an interesting time.

I mean, it's going to be really interesting.

I'll be fascinated to see how this is all going to work out.

Is this some sort of,

why would I say that?

It makes you feel better about it.

Yeah, it makes you feel a little better.

It makes it, it makes it, yeah.

it's like you're a disinterested onlooker.

You're like, yeah, you know, because really, in some ways, you are.

It's up to Jesus now.

There's not much you can do.

No, and so, I mean, we got to do our part, you know.

But when Jesus comes, it'll be like, wow, that powell cat.

That was an interesting

thing to play out.

I can't wait to see how that works when he's standing at the foot of Jesus.

I don't think well, but who knows?

I'm not here to judge.

It'll be fascinated to watch it.

Yeah.

You know, to see what I'm doing.

I'm not here to judge.

I mean, I'm here to point out the guy is a stinking liar.

And now that a fake Vladimir Zelensky

bot

talked to him on the phone, we now have the evidence.

You know, instead of it, a conspiracy theory, we now know.

Unless.

It was the real Vladimir Zelensky and Jerome Powell was the AI.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I like this new approach of yours.

Because, I mean, I think, think about this, like, you know, you're watching Breaking Bad.

His entire life is falling apart around him.

His potential drug empire is, he may go to prison.

He may be shot.

He may be killed.

And that whole time,

it's pretty interesting to watch.

I wonder what's going to happen.

Like, that's how I reacted to that.

Exactly right.

What if I do that with real life?

Okay, so I was just watching, my son wanted to watch Valkyrie with me.

Oh, okay.

Classic.

Classic.

I love that.

Okay.

So we watch Valkyrie together.

And

the general is,

you know, he's like, I don't know.

Is Hitler dead?

And

I'm at the couch and I'm like, who cares if he's dead?

Move.

Yeah.

Okay.

And I said to my son, I have to get up.

I have to get up.

You know those movies?

And sometimes you get into that place where you're like, I can't watch this.

I can't watch this.

And you're like, it's a show.

It's a show.

That's the way you have to be.

We've been walking around our our couch going, I can't watch this.

I can't watch this.

Oh my gosh, these people are so stupid.

I can't watch this.

Yeah.

Just watch it.

Yeah.

Watch it.

Just watch it.

This is going to be really interesting to see how this plays out.

I bet I know how this ends.

Yeah.

Bet I know how this ends.

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You know how you're like,

yeah,

the kid wasn't seeing, the kid wasn't seeing

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You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Let's be.

Everybody's like, I can't wait to see how that turns out.

I know how it turns out.

Okay.

I'm going to spoil it for you.

It's disturbing.

It's disturbing of a way to go through life, but I think it's going to be better.

I think this new

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That much better.

Now, that doesn't mean I don't take it seriously.

You know, I certainly take it seriously.

I took Breaking Bad seriously.

I was very interested in what would happen.

I just didn't.

Since I'm guessing the ending,

I'm not going to be in the one in the movie theater going, oh my God.

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Crazy, isn't it?

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It's one of those movies.

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And I think it was the first movie made with when somebody who had a hand is missing a hand.

And the CGI, just the hand and the eye, great stuff.

Really?

Yeah.

You know, he'll pop his eye out.

He'll turn his back and you'll see him grab the glass eye and he's like,

and he puts his eye back in.

And then you're like, it's not the same color.

Did you notice that?

Not the same color.

That's the kind of stuff that led us to this Vladimir Zielinski call.

All right, back in just a second.

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Ow.

Welcome to the program.

So there was some leaked footage

from Fox News.

Yeah.

Someone did it.

I'll tell you that.

Yeah, someone did do it.

Yeah.

But definitely not anybody in the PR department of Fox News.

No, absolutely.

They wouldn't do that now.

Why would they do that, Stu?

It's hurting their own product.

Right.

Because Tucker was taking some shots at Fox Nation saying he didn't like the way the website worked.

While he was there.

While he was there.

And then some, I guess, international spy broke in and took the footage from inside of Fox News from one of their cameras and leaked it to Media Matters, an organization which they supposedly have a bad relationship with, you know?

Boy, they wouldn't be able to do it.

Because they wouldn't.

Media Matters is one of these places that takes shots at Fox News.

It's almost, some would say it almost sounds like they just almost worked together to try to sync personality.

I'm not sinking.

No, no, of course not.

It would be crazy.

Crazy.

Crazy.

You know what?

So it'll be interesting to see how that plays out.

Yeah.

It is.

It's going to be interesting.

It's going to be interesting.

And I think they're all going to find out.

I think they're all going to find out.

So this is the bad stuff that was just somehow or another leaked, but definitely not from Fox News.

No.

This is Tucker Carlson at his worst.

At his worst.

You're going to hate him.

You're going to hate him.

Oh, man.

Listen to this.

You have it?

What do you mean we don't have it?

Were we not on the leak list?

No, man.

Were we really not on the leak list?

All right.

Okay.

Well, here.

I played it last year, right?

Here it is.

Here we go.

Is my computer open?

Here it is.

I don't want to be a slave to Fox Nation, which I don't think that many people watch anyway.

We're going to, because

I'm like a representative of the American media now.

Speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood of journalists.

Like he was panicking about it and said, you don't have to.

Tucker's going to be looking casual.

That's how our show looks.

Is that okay?

I mean, this is airing on the nighttime show, and I want it to look official.

I don't want it to be like bro talk.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, but the majority of it, like if we go like 45 minutes, it's going to be for Fox Nation.

But nobody's going to watch it on Fox Nation.

Nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks.

So I'd really like to just put the dump the whole thing on YouTube.

But anyway, that's just my view.

I'm just frustrated with the,

it's hard to use that site.

I don't know why they're not fixing it.

It's driving me insane.

And they're like making like lifetime movies, but they don't work on the infrastructure of the site.

Like what?

It's crazy, and it drives me crazy because it's like we're doing all this extra work and no one can find it.

It's unbelievable, actually.

I don't know who runs it.

So I don't even understand why this is supposed to be negative.

Why is this negative on him?

This is not negative on him at all.

I mean, he's obviously frustrated, but he's still being respectful, and he doesn't want to do it.

I mean, he's right.

His audience is 50 times, 100 times the size on the television show.

That should be the priority.

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Yes, go ahead.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Helping children.

That's what the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia does.

What else would it do?

Well, they've got a gender clinic that also offers medical interventions for kids as young as eight.

In addition to the clinic providing children with devastating puberty blockers, they also have previously advocated for confused little girls to have their healthy breasts cut off

and for other varieties of mutilation.

In recent years, the clinic has gone beyond exploiting and making things worse with the insecurities of minors.

They're now training elementary teachers to do likewise.

Now, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

I'm just

reading what the news is saying.

And as I'm reading it, I'm thinking the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia should not use this acronym when we're talking about gender mutilation.

The Children's Hospital

of Philadelphia, otherwise known as CHOP.

That's suboptimal, Clinic.

Suboptimal.

Suboptimal.

The CHOP

Gender Clinic

provides guidance to educators in Pennsylvania and Council Rock school districts in 2019 and 2021 on how to facilitate kids as young as kindergartners changing their gender, according to a new report

on

CHOP.

You know,

again,

well, actually, I am a doctor.

And so I can say it.

I can say it with great authority.

If you really, you want to be taken seriously

and you want to be known as a non-butchering hospital, which you clearly are with a gender mutilation here,

you might want to stay away from the acronym of CHOP.

Same.

It does seem like a bad decision.

A little bit.

A little bit.

Now,

I just, I want to understand the bigotry here.

I do.

I want to understand the bigotry.

There is a Delaware County Councilman, Ryan Webb,

and

he's redefining his own life.

He's coloring outside the lines.

You know what I'm saying?

He has announced on Facebook, after much consideration, I have decided to come out and finally feel comfortable announcing my true authentic self.

It is with great relief that I announce to everyone that I identify as a woman

and not just any woman,

but a woman of color as well.

Furthermore,

I guess this would make me gay and lesbian since I am attracted to women.

But I'm excited to bring some diversity diversity to the city council or the county council.

Until today, we didn't have any females of color or LGBTQIAPC plus on the council.

And now, wait, what were the letters?

We do.

LGBTQIAPC plus.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

Because I feel bad because I always just say LGBTQQIA2 plus.

Yeah.

What's a C?

Maybe it should be

LGBTQIIA P-O-C plus.

Not sure.

Because it was P.

Because what's the P?

I don't know what a P, what's the P?

What's the P?

This is fascinating.

Wait, there's more accurate.

It could very well be that.

Maybe it's just pansexual.

Okay, we're getting pansexual.

Pansexual.

What's the C?

Don't say it.

Don't say the C word.

Don't say the C word.

That's always a good lesson.

All right, anyway.

So to avoid confusion, everyone can still address me as Ryan Ryan or as Councilman Webb.

I also retain my preferred pronouns of he slash him.

However, this will in no way diminish my true identity as a woman of color.

I'm excited to be a vocal partner of the LGBTQIAPC plus movement.

PC?

What's this?

I'm not down with it, Holmes.

Holmes.

Should I ask ChatGPT?

Yeah, ask ChatGPT.

ChatGPT.

What is the C

in LGBTQ

I

A

P C C plus?

Okay.

Okay.

Chat GPT is thinking.

Okay, he's finally says.

Chat GPT is disgusted.

No, cisgender.

That's us.

The boring ones.

We got a letter.

Wow, we got a letter.

I don't think that's an official letter.

No, that can't be.

I don't think that's an official letter.

They say ChatGPT says the C stands for cisgender, cisgender, and that's a term to describe individuals who gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth.

Oh, it's doing the whole thing for me.

Here we go.

Lesbian K bisexuality.

Wouldn't be N.

What?

Wouldn't that be N?

No.

I hate to use the N word.

Don't use the N-word on the air.

Don't use the N-word on the air.

I know that's something that I'm saying.

Oh, I don't want to say it.

Okay, turn off your microphone.

I just want to check.

Normal.

Oh, geez.

No, I had to.

I'm sorry, hang on.

That came through.

People could hear it.

Dump that.

Normal.

Dump Dump that.

What do you think?

Is that the end?

Is that the end?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning, which again is two separate cues.

That's why you have LGBTQQ.

Then you have I intersex, A, asexual, or ally, which is a real, I mean, you're really reaching there.

Then P is now pansexual or polyamorous,

and C is cisgender.

the plus sign represents other identities that may not explicitly be included in the acronym, such as demisexual, genderqueer, gender fluid, and others.

It emphasizes inclusivity, acknowledges the diversity within the community.

That is great.

Why not call it the plus community then?

Why do you need the other ones if you have a plus?

Plus is getting everything.

Just call it the plus community.

Stop your bigoted language.

I am trying to tell you about Delaware County Councilman Ryan Webb, who is now a black woman.

Now, is he a woman of color?

Is he a white man in reality?

In reality?

Oh, no.

I've done it.

I'm not going to say that.

I'm not going to dead name him.

He is.

Sorry, in the past.

That's what I meant to say.

In the reality of the past.

I don't know there is any reality of the past.

Was he at one point a white male?

Yes.

So now he's now

changed.

A woman of color that is also a lesbian.

Can I have a moment that you've had many times on the air in which it goes back to the Monica Lewinsky days when you said we were having the argument with the left and they were saying, oh, he didn't do that with Monica Lewinsky.

And we were saying, well, I think he did.

And they say, well, no, he didn't.

And we say, yes, he did.

No, he didn't.

Yes, he did.

And we go back and forth.

And you said at the time, what we needed to ask was, let's say he did do it.

Will it be wrong?

Does it matter?

Does it matter?

Does it matter?

Does it matter if he did do it?

Let's not argue about whether he did it.

Right.

If he did do it, does it matter?

That's a good question.

Because what wound up happening is he did do it, and then they acted like it didn't matter.

After arguing for six months, that he definitely didn't do it.

Right.

So let me ask you this.

Can we have one of these moments here together?

Okay.

As a family.

Together.

Okay.

We're a family.

Should we hold hands?

We're not a family.

No, I'd rather not be afraid of a moment.

Okay, I'd rather have enough physical contact.

Look, you might say

Dylan Mulvaney is a woman.

Okay?

You might say that.

You might say that.

I'm talking to the people on the other side of this.

Yeah.

We might say, hey, no, it's a dude.

Right.

And you're saying, no, it's a chick.

Right.

No, it's a dude.

It's a chick.

It's a dude.

It's a chick.

My thing here is, though,

when,

when, yeah, don't argue whether this is going to happen.

Right.

But when

Dylan Mulvaney comes out, not just as a woman, but as a teenage girl,

When he announces he is a teenage girl, are you going to accept it?

Answer before he says it, because it's coming, but answer before he says it.

Is he a teenager?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, he is.

Do you think they're going to say yes?

Oh, yeah.

Because I think now before he says it, they'll say, of course, he's not going to do that.

That's ridiculous.

Of course, that's absurd.

That's ridiculous.

That's not ridiculous.

That's one of the more sane things that's happened in the media.

When it happens, it'll be like, well, that makes sense.

They will accept it.

He's like, girl power.

Hi, girl power.

Because he's acting as if he's a teenage girl.

He's not a woman.

He's a girl.

That's what he always says.

I'm a girl.

Right.

And at some point, he will manufacture a new age.

Will you accept it?

I want to know now.

Not then, when all of a sudden you say it's hateful.

I want to know now.

Do you accept his 13-year-old age?

Do you accept you will?

Age is nothing but a construct.

It's so, this is so bad.

This is so, we are so screwed.

Can I go, please?

Can you ask ChatGBT a way to get out of this?

Can I please tell you about the glass ceiling that Ryan Webb is just?

I'm sorry, you're right.

We're back on the Ryan Webb thing, which is

their name is still Ryan.

Still Ryan.

And he identifies as him, her.

Him, her, okay.

Okay.

Wait, him, her, both?

No, I'm sorry, him, he.

Wait, that's even more confusing.

Yeah, all right.

Okay.

And

his message was,

I am so glad that this is now possible.

So

anyone can be anything or anyone they want.

Who knows how far we can take things?

I'm honored to be the one that shatters the glass ceiling.

Hashtag girl power.

Now,

there is

someone also on

the council,

Charlize, Charlene Jaminson.

Now, Charlize

is a biological male,

but she was reading this and she said, I think

He's making fun

of

this whole situation.

And

she said he has a history of making transphobic comments,

which I don't know.

And she said, it's easy for me to see through his bigotry.

Oh, wow.

So they don't believe

his identification?

No.

Wait a minute.

But the only thing required is for him to say it.

Yeah.

Oh, Charlize is a beautiful woman.

Look at her.

Look at her.

There she is.

That's Charlize.

Yeah, she looks great.

And she is one

good-looking woman.

There you go.

I've seen worse.

I've seen worse.

For sure.

You know, men that are pretending to be women.

But as a guy goes, she's a good-looking woman.

There you go.

You know,

so you think potentially.

So, yeah.

So, Charlie, she has a spider sense.

She knows.

And I think what he's saying is

this is ridiculously stupid.

And go ahead.

Go ahead.

Deny me my moment.

How can you deny me my moment if whatever I say has got to go?

And you're questioning his internal journey?

Like, you're not allowed to do that.

A men.

My understanding was the only time you were able to deny someone saying they were LGBTQQIA2 plus is when they commit a mass shooting.

Then immediately you can say, Oh, we don't, they're not real.

They're not real in this community.

They're not really transgender.

You're allowed to say it then, but I thought that was the only time.

So far, we don't know if Ryan, he might have killed some children.

Okay.

He might have killed some children.

Then we can question it.

Until then, we cannot question it.

Now, I do have one more question on this topic.

And a friend of mine gave it to me yesterday and said, and I thought,

I've not thought that.

I have not had

that

question

posed to me.

Wow.

Not her.

There's been a lot of questions.

There's been a lot of questions.

I mean, there's a cue.

There's two cues.

There's two cues.

Okay.

I was bigoted.

Bigoted.

Didn't question.

I'm going to.

And I think you're going to like it.

And if you're a parent at a school that is doing drag shows,

I think you're really going to like this question.

Okay.

All right.

We'll do that in 60 seconds.

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That's due.

I want you to think this through with me, okay?

What is the point of having drag shows in classrooms?

Don't answer your first first answer.

Don't just knee-jerk answer like there is no except for sexualizing our children and preying on them.

Okay, don't give me that bigoted stuff.

What's the reason to have drag shows in schools?

Shelter from the weather.

No.

No.

No.

Okay.

No.

I'm out of reasons.

That was my only guess.

To make your kids comfortable exploring their sexuality.

Oh, well, see, that's not a goal of mine.

No, I'm not asking for you because you're a bigot.

We already established that.

I don't need my children to explore.

Whatever.

That's for adults.

Thank you, Caveman, for showing up.

Got it.

Try to live in the day.

Okay, sorry.

Okay.

You want your children to explore their sexuality and be comfortable with it, right?

Right.

Now

we're leaving something out of that.

I would like to know,

and I would help you set this up.

I would like to know if there's somebody who's having this problem in school and they want to go to a school board meeting surrounded by really extremely hot Playboy bunnies

and

demand

equal time so your kids can also enjoy a nice strip tease from beautiful hot women.

And then we can bring the Chippendales in and they can dance, but

they dance with the Playboy Bunnies

and they gyrate on each other in a cisgender sort of way.

So they can explore the potential.

The potential

unlikely that they might be straight.

Yeah.

I mean, it's probably a one in a million chance.

Oh my God.

But they should, they're looking to explore.

147%

of our population is transgender or gay.

And that's new.

That's a new study.

It's a new study.

A new study.

147% of all people are

gay.

In classrooms today.

Or LG or B or T or Q or I or IA or 2 or Plus.

And I'm not even counting the two-spirited people.

I'm not even counting those.

And that's a problem.

We need to talk about that off the air.

I got to HR.

I know.

I'm sorry.

Here in a minute.

Sorry.

I'm working on it.

I'm trying to be more open-minded.

Hey, Playboy Bunnies and Stripper Poles, you go ahead.

Take that one to the Department of Ed and just ask them, hey, we're just trying to make sure they are exploring their sexuality.

Don't tempt them.

Please.

Oh,

I'm tempted to do it.

I'm tempted to do it.

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Glen Beck program, The owner of a Bloomington, Indiana dive bar,

who voiced support for Bud Light and threatened to remove customers for speaking out against Bud Light,

is

now on Facebook saying, We appreciate your support because I kicked all these hateful bigots out.

And if you want to stop by and have a beer,

please do.

Because

he's kind of following in the footsteps of Bud Light.

And,

yeah, he's lost his patrons

because he said they spewed bigotry and hatred regarding Bud Light's advertising partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.

And, you know, so the bar is still celebrating the 365 days of girlhood.

of Dylan Mulvaney.

And I thought that already passed.

Well,

I don't know, Stu.

Does it ever pass?

Does it ever pass?

I don't know.

I don't know what the rules are.

It's very difficult to keep track of them.

So he's having a hard time.

Coincidentally,

in complete coincidence, so is Anheuser-Busch.

Yeah, no, no kidding.

Yeah, now I saw this story today from the Washington Examiner.

Anheuser-Busch employs ex-GOP aides for damage control.

And they've hired

Sean McClain.

And that's

a legislative director for Senator Ted Cruz.

And then

another person

that was also with Kelly Iot

from New Hampshire.

She's also a Republican.

And

they're working now for Bud Light trying to get things back.

Bud Light, may I just say,

I didn't really have to even go into this story at all.

When I saw that you hired two ex-GOP aides for damage control, I thought, boy, you still don't get it.

It's about beer,

not about politics.

Okay.

I don't

pull the horse out.

Okay.

Just do the horse thing.

Okay.

It's too late now.

You've destroyed the Clydesdale horses.

But pull them out, you know?

But they can't give up, right?

They're not going to be just like, oh, let's fold the company.

We didn't.

So you go to

Ted Cruz aide, right?

Someone who probably understands conservatives.

For what?

For what?

How do we

apologize for this appropriately, essentially?

What is Ted going to say?

Well, I don't know what Ted's going to say, but neither do they.

And I don't know.

What would you say?

Forget it's too late.

Throw that piece of advice out.

What is your advice to Bud Light?

Just lay low.

Just don't say anything.

Don't say a damn word.

Apologize and mean it and just lay low.

Exactly.

And then just, and then just, and then hope that people forget.

They're not going to, Bud Light.

They're not going to.

You've destroyed your brand.

Destroyed it.

That one thing.

Destroyed a hundred years.

One thing.

I mean, and that might be the answer.

Of course, they can't accept that answer.

They have to try to repair it.

Yeah.

As the

gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter return is the Rudyard Kipling last line of the poem Gods of the Copybook Headings, which is truth returning to

a people that have completely disregarded the truth, made truth

things like,

you know,

horses and ponies have wings and

wishes are pigs, those kinds of things.

No, they're really not.

Ponies don't have wings, okay?

And that, when your society has gone so far off the track, it takes a toll

when you finally return back to the truth.

And America is returning back to the truth.

Whether you like it or they like it or not, it's returning back to the truth.

Did you hear what Coca-Cola did?

This is amazing.

So

shareholders

have requested that Coca-Cola's board of directors issue a public report prior to December 31st, 2023, admitting confidential information and

at a reasonable expense detailing any known and potential risks or cost to the company caused by enacted or proposed state policies severely restricting reproductive rights and detailing any strategies beyond litigation and legal compliance that the company may deploy to minimize or mitigate these risks.

Here's what it is.

A nonprofit that proposes ESG policies to companies,

which is called As You Saw.

Oh, that's clever or just stupid.

87%

of the controlling shares voted against their proposal.

What their proposal was, we're not going to ship Cokes to states that don't allow abortion.

Boom.

And the shareholders were like, what?

I said we're not going to ship Coca-Cola to states.

Boom.

Nope.

Nope.

83% are against that.

83%.

And so now they're like, we'd like to see how you're coming up with these great proposals, please.

Kind of seems a little crazy.

I think this is an interesting thing to think about this as we look at a long-term response to wokeness.

How do you systemize this?

And what are you trying to do?

Who is the right target?

And what are you trying to accomplish when you look at it at these companies, right?

So we did a show last night on Studios America.

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But we went through the five levels of corporate wokeness.

Okay.

And so you have number one, company that is woken proud of it, right?

Think Ben and Jerry's, right?

They, any liberal policy that comes out, they're in full endorsement.

They're Bernie Sanders.

They don't like Jews very much.

There's a lot of things that they do.

And they've smoked enough dope to where they don't care.

They don't care.

They don't care.

So you can boycott Ben and Jerry's all you want.

They're not going to change it.

But they're not going to change a policy because to them, wokeness is more important than selling you ice cream.

Like straight out.

Next level down, neutral to the public, but woke in in the boardroom.

Right.

These companies that act like they're just normal companies, but their activity in the background is always.

Verizon.

Yeah, right.

We talk about these phone companies, right?

Where they're donating all their money to Planned Parenthood and all this stuff, but they act like the normal company that's just trying to serve you and sell you cell phone service.

Can you hear me now?

There you go.

Can you hear me now?

Because

I've got the screaming of all of these babies that are dying right now in my other ear, so speak up a little bit louder.

Now, that's not Bud Light.

That's not Budweiser, right?

They're not neutral to the public and woke in the boardroom.

They're doing the opposite.

They did a bizarre sort of outreach to Dylan Mulvaney publicly and then are trying in the boardroom seeming to reverse that.

So that's the next category.

Neutral in the boardroom, woke to the public.

And I think that's the type of person that is affected by the ESG score, right?

They're not necessarily a woke company, but like they see these pressures coming in.

They're trying, they think maybe it's the right stance to sell product to be woke.

They don't care about transgender issues.

They're taking positions to try to act like to get new demographics in.

I think there's another category.

I've got two more.

Oh, okay.

Okay, so tell me if these are covering or the next one is neutral.

This is what everything used to be.

Back in the day, everyone was just like, you know what?

We just want to sell products.

If you want to buy them, buy them.

If you don't want to buy them.

Now, I don't know if there's any.

I mean, I don't know.

Maybe there's some, but almost everybody seems to have some political band.

And then the last one is like you mentioned Verizon earlier,

the category five, not woke and proud of it.

That would be Patriot Mobile, right?

Where Patriot Mobile is just like, yeah,

we're not woke at all.

We want to, we want, we're pro-life.

We're a pro-life Christian company and we stand on that.

I think there's the other category of pretty hostile to the woke thing, but have to do it because of what it would mean for the stock price.

They bought into all the lies.

And I think that's where Bud probably is.

Yeah, I think of that as.

They're not neutral.

Maybe you don't think they're hostile to wokeness?

Hostile to wokeness?

I think a good majority probably are hostile to it, but when doing it.

They're sitting down in the, they're just doing it to get through.

I think of that as that neutral in the boardroom.

But you're right.

Neutral to anti-woke in the boardroom, right?

Like you're not, they're not embracing it, and I think that's where Bud Light is.

And so, number one, I think that's probably the best target for

an outreach campaign from conservatives who are frustrated by this.

People who actually are doing this because they think it's the right thing to do to sell more beer, right?

But you're not, here's the thing: you're not, but

in today's world,

there is no forgiveness.

That's the problem.

There is no forgiveness.

Well, but you just said when they did this Dylan Mulvaney thing that it's over.

Yeah.

That does not show forgiveness, right?

No, I know.

Because there's something they could do to make this right.

And you said they said no.

Because nobody believes anybody anymore.

You have no trust.

Right.

Oh, that's true.

It's not like the Clydesdale can go out and say, but they feed me oats and the same kind of yummy oats and hops that are in this Bud Light.

You know, there's no, what can they possibly do that you will believe?

Nothing.

When you betray the truth that hard,

this is why, this is why sane Democrats are jumping off the Democratic wagon right now.

Because that correction is coming.

It's coming.

But like, isn't there something in this situation?

Logically.

Shouldn't we be asking for something?

Like, what happened with Bud Light is they came out and they made a statement, which was not incredibly strong, but not incredibly weak either.

They were basically saying, like, we went out of this.

We didn't mean to get in the middle of this.

And then the people responsible were suspended.

Now, maybe you might say that's not enough, but like,

there has to be something we're asking for.

If

why are we asking for it?

I don't want to be like them.

I don't want to say, we'll let you go ahead and sell your beer as long as you do X, Y, and Z.

Make beer.

Right.

That's fine.

Leave us alone.

I just want you to be neutral.

Right.

Coinbase is neutral.

They say, look, we're taking no stance on anything unless it has to do with crypto.

Correct.

That's the right approach.

That's the right approach.

Once you've crossed the Rubicon, I don't think you get your credibility back.

This is a massive organization, right?

They hired someone.

And look, I'm not defending Bud Light because I don't like what they did here.

And I don't like the fact that they hired someone initially, right,

whose stated goal was to remake this brand because it became too fratty, Right.

Like, that's a terrible idea.

They shouldn't have done that in the first place.

But, like,

at some point, if they do something, if someone does something that's wrong and you think it's wrong, usually what we would say is, hey, okay, make it right.

But this isn't a person.

No, it's a company.

Yeah, it's a brand.

You should care less about it then.

Right?

Shouldn't you care less about whether

you never believed in Bud Light's credibility as a bunch of human beings?

They're just a nice watery beer that's really available.

I don't know.

I don't know.

It's a new slogan for you.

I don't know how I can

express this in a different way.

We are

Americans feel betrayed.

Right.

And when you've betrayed,

I'm sorry, you can be nice.

And over time, just make beer.

Yeah.

And over time, maybe.

Maybe.

I'm not against you, Bud Light.

I'm not going to support you

because I'm an alcoholic.

But beyond that, I wouldn't be drinking Bud Light right now because I feel betrayed by you.

But over time.

But over time.

Show your record is strong over time.

You don't do this again.

And you might want to look to do things that are standing behind.

You know what, Bud,

here's what you can do.

And I don't know if I would even accept it, but something like this.

Put our American museum that is teaching the truth about America, you become the national sponsor of it, and pay for it to go on the road for the next year.

Now, they would say, of course, then we're taking a stance on the right.

We're not being neutral.

We're not just making beer.

Since when is American history

associated with you?

You are obviously a race.

I know they could associate with girl power, but not somebody who believes in the Constitution.

I am

literally on this show and have been for 25 years, and I don't want to associate with you.

I understand the stance here.

No, but I don't know.

That makes sense, right?

And I'm not saying that that would be a quick fix.

No.

It wouldn't, you know, there would be a lot of people that would go, I'm going to go, but Bud Light, what were you doing?

What were you doing?

But over time,

maybe they can rebuild it.

But otherwise,

I mean, I have no suggestion.

They're bed bath and beyond.

That's what they are wow a brand that you thought would be around forever forever because you need bed stuff and you need bath stuff

and sometimes you go beyond

that's it bye-bye all right let me tell you about uh patriot mobile patriot mobile is one of those companies that stu said these are the great companies they are not neutral they are for the constitution they are for your free speech your

religious freedom, sanctity of life.

They have a stance on drag and any real strippers, drag or not,

in your classrooms.

They actually are moms and dads of kids, of actual kids that they claim are theirs.

You know what I'm saying?

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Western Alliance Bank and PacWest Bank.

They're definitely it's not contagion.

It's definitely it's these banks are fine.

They're solid.

Nothing to be seen here.

Well, we've already stepped in, Glenn, and the government has shown it has given full confidence to the markets, which is why, of course, these stocks are all down and stopping trading multiple times in a day.

Because, I mean, we have full confidence

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Right, right.

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which one's going to get PacWest and which one will get Western Alliance?

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It's written by Heather McDonald, and she's with the Manhattan Institute.

She's a fellow there, and she's on with us now.

Hi, Heather.

Hi, Glenn.

Thanks for having me on.

Sure.

So

do we ever get back to merit in this country?

We could,

with relative ease, but it requires courage.

So all it takes is courage to stand up to the phony charge of racism and to say that standards are not racist.

The racial disparities in our country are not due to racist standards.

They're due to academic skills gaps.

They're due to criminal offending disparities.

But right now, the American civilization

should not be apologizing for itself.

We are not today

a racist country.

But what we're doing is tearing down meritocratic standards across the board, whether it's in medicine, science, law,

the arts, policing,

all because those standards are being accused of having a racist impact on underrepresented minorities.

But how,

let me take you to Budweiser.

Budweiser, we were just having a conversation.

How do they get their credibility back?

Well, they can't.

They will over time, I suppose, if they just don't do more stupid things.

However, you know, this has infected everything.

The reason why Bud

was rejected here is I don't want any of this crap.

I just want the beer.

Leave us alone.

Just want the beer.

Everything now is about politics.

How do we get out of that?

Yeah, I mean everything's about politics, but a lot of it is about race.

And we need people in medicine to stand up and say, I'm an oncologist.

I have devoted my life to trying to cure cancer.

I am not going to accept the charge that is coming out of the federal government, out of the National Institutes of Health, out of the National Cancer Institute, that medicine is racist.

I am not going to accept the charge that's coming out of our scientific journals that says that science is racist.

If people started saying that and refusing to put their heads down and go along with the elites and defend meritocratic standards that are colorblind, objective and constitutional,

the whole thing would collapse.

I will tell you, especially when it comes to medicine,

the fact that

if you are

underprivileged or intersected in any way, shape, or form,

you get into medical school much faster than somebody who just happens to be really, really smart and gifted, wants to be a doctor, but they have no intersections on them.

Then

the good ones are being kept out.

Just for

our new balancing act that we're doing, we are going to really suffer a consequence because the best doctors are not going to be the best doctors because they weren't allowed in.

Black and Hispanic seniors are being accepted to medical schools with scores on the medical school admission test and GPAs that would be automatically disqualifying if presented by whites and Asians.

That's based on the phony charge that those medical school admissions tests are racist.

They are not.

There are schools that are waiving them entirely for black students.

And when students are admitted with lower qualifications than their peers, they understandably and predictably

struggle.

In a sense, it's not their fault.

It's the fault of the admissions officers that are subjecting the so-called beneficiaries of racial preferences to an absolutely unfair handicap.

But they struggle, and guess what the next step has been?

Get rid of further standards.

So we have now

dismantled the step one of the medical licensing exam, which comes after the second year of medical school to test students' basic knowledge of anatomy, physiology, drug interactions.

Blacks weren't doing very well on that exam.

So we have gone last year we changed it from a graded system to a pass-fail system to cover up the fact that blacks are not learning as much.

So they get passed along and then the pressure is on on medical school hiring committees to hire on the basis of race, not merit, put people on hospital staff on the basis of race, not merit.

The American Medical Association, the American Association of Medical Colleges is all behind this.

You read their documents and it's like reading something out of a black studies class.

It is mind-boggling.

I have doctors on a daily basis sending me pronouncements from their associations of hematology or oncology or neurology, people trying to cure Alzheimer's disease, that are saying everything from now on has to be about anti-racism.

This is a lie,

Glenn, and the sad thing is, is that people are still terrified.

They're terrified of losing their jobs if they stand up to this narrative.

But that is what it's going to have to take.

This can't, nobody's going to do this for us.

We have to take it back ourselves and start telling the truth that though this country had a deplorable, heartbreaking history of gratuitous cruelty towards blacks that I think actually the conservative narrative about America does not sufficiently account for, we are not that country today.

The reality is, frankly, black privilege, not white privilege.

I don't know a single high school senior who's black who is putting down his race as white,

thinking that that will improve his chances for admissions.

But I know a lot of white males who are wondering if they can get away with putting down their race as black because they know perfectly well that that will give them an enormous, enormous admissions boost.

These are not the ways of a white supremacist country.

Heather,

these organizations keep coming up with the same point, which is of course we want the best doctors.

We want the best people here.

But we also want a diverse staff.

We want to make sure we're hitting those diversity goals as well.

Can they do both?

They cannot.

Unfortunately, and Ben, Glenn, this is a difficult thing to talk about.

It violates racial etiquette.

People don't want to hear it.

It makes them uncomfortable.

But given the size of the academic skills gaps right now, and let me give you some data, blacks are

if you look at 12th graders, black students, 66% of 12th grade black students do not possess even partial mastery of 12th grade math skills.

That means doing arithmetic, reading a linear function on a graph.

66% are below basic.

The number who are actually advanced in math is too small to show up statistically on a nationwide basis.

This means it is mathematically impossible to have proportional representation in our meritocratic STEM organizations.

You can have diversity or you can have meritocracy.

You cannot have both.

Diversity,

here's a translation key for your listeners, Glenn.

Diversity is simply code word for racial preferences.

When any institution is saying we're doing diversity, it means we have double standards.

We're lowering our standards in order to create diversity.

Because right now, you cannot have both diversity and meritocracy.

And we have to start standing up for meritocracy and say, we'll solve those skills gaps, but the way to solve them is not to tear down our standards.

So usually,

I mean, I would hate to be a Christian missionary

in the good days.

And my zone is,

you know, the Wall Street area.

Because nobody's successful, nobody, you know, at the top of their game is miserable enough to question what am I doing wrong?

Right now, the American people are not deeply questioning.

But when medicine, for instance, starts to go down, and

you have, you know, bad service, we become more like Venezuela or Cuba.

Then we'll ask, but it will be too late then.

How do we get people to understand today

what's coming our way?

Well, they've got to get the facts about what's going on.

I mean, that is in my book.

I would say that you start with the people with power, the people that are seeing it.

Again, it's...

I'm getting

this

avalanche of material for people that do know what's going on from the doctors, from the scientists, who see that their entire

life's work is being jeopardized and torn down by this diversity obsession.

So can you give me any examples, any stats or anything where you're seeing the impact now?

Well,

with medicine, yes.

I mean, I've seen, for instance,

people

for heads of medical schools, which is important,

the heads of a medical school are going to set priorities, they're going to set the tone, they're going to get federal funding.

I have seen the candidates that are chosen, and I have seen people with enormous cancer research success, just the leaders in the field, not get the job because they're white males.

And the people that do get the job are, as you say, intersectional.

As far as being able to point to somebody dying because he comes through the emergency room after a car crash and he gets a racial preference beneficiary,

I don't see that.

I can see in the area of public safety, I don't see it yet, but it will happen.

But I can tell you that this disparate impact thinking that I write about is taking lives in public safety.

If your listeners, Glenn, are scratching their heads and saying, what the heck is going on in law enforcement today?

Why are all these prosecutors not prosecuting the law?

You know,

overlooking theft, turnstile jumping, shoplifting, trespass, assault, disorderly conduct, and just saying, we're not going to do anything about it.

The reason they're not doing anything is because of disparate impact.

Were they to enforce the law in a colorblind, neutral, constitutional fashion, it will have a disparate impact on black criminals, not because the law is racist, but because the crime rates are so much higher.

When you back off of policing in the name of disparate impact, when you back off of prosecution in the name of fighting disparate impact, lives are lost.

2020 saw the largest one-year increase in homicide in this nation's history, 29%.

Carjackings are spreading out of the inner city into the suburbs.

People are having their jewelry torn from their necks, eating outdoors in restaurants.

We see the flash mobs that have been going down the magnificent mile in Chicago for years because

they fear no consequences for their action.

So certainly in the field of public safety, we are seeing lives being taken.

And overwhelmingly, they're black lives, their black children who are being gunned down and drived by shootings to not a peep of protest from the Black Lives Matter activists.

Why?

Because they're being shot by other blacks.

They're not being shot by the police.

They're not being shot by whites.

They're being shot by blacks and therefore those black victims are of no concern to Al Sharpton or Benjamin Crump, the ubiquitous civil rights attorney.

So this is a philosophy that disparate impact is inherently racist that must be be fought, and it will start happening in STEM.

It will slow down our scientific progress.

China is going full speed ahead with its nanotechnology.

It is grooming its students for the most challenging mathematical

test possible.

It doesn't give a damn about diversity.

It just wants to throw everything it's got at its gifted and talented programs.

Meanwhile, here in the U.S., we are dismantling gifted and talented programs.

We're saying you may be gifted in math, but you're not allowed to excel because it will be racially disparate.

We will not have 13%

at this point

black students in our gifted and talented programs.

Therefore, nobody should be in a gifted and talented program.

We don't want you to do calculus in the ninth grade if you're capable of it, because you will not be in a diverse class of students.

This is

a death knell to freedom, to capitalism,

and

to everything that we have built.

If we don't turn this around, the name of the book is When Race Trumps Merit.

The author you've been listening to is Heather McDonald.

She's from the Manhattan Institute, where she is a fellow.

Again, the name of the book is When Race Trumps Merit.

Heather, thank you so much.

Thanks for the conversation, Glenn.

You bet.

Appreciate it.

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Hello, you sick twisted freak.

Welcome to the program.

Hello, Stu.

Glenn,

I'm

also very worried about the loss of merit in this country.

Heather was just on and talking about this.

And, you know, you have that situation where

there was a controversy, it was a few weeks ago, and someone was on TV and some liberal asked them, well, you know, you keep talking about your anti-woke.

How would you define woke?

What does woke mean?

And, you know, the controversy was about, you know, there's a pause before she answered.

I can't remember the exact situation, but like, shouldn't you know?

You're always complaining about wokeness.

And to me, one of the central parts of that is just the dissolving of merit in this country.

That, like, that is

central to it.

I think that started a long time ago when I hired you.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

That's, I mean, that's a great first.

Yeah.

I mean, it's like everybody in America heard that and they were like, what the hell?

What?

I mean, I expected so much more.

Right.

And I'm with you, America.

I did too when I hired him.

Believe me.

And being here for 25 years with you, I've wondered about my own standards.

But it is, like, I do think that's essential to what we're fighting here.

Right.

It's not like just this feeling of liberal annoyances and tweets.

It's this idea that we're losing something really fundamental to the country's success, which is we care about merit and they cared about class and they cared about race and other countries cared about kings and queens and princes and all that other crap.

And we blew them out of the water.

Yeah, we blew them out of the water by saying we don't care about any of that.

We care about who's best at the job.

And now we're dissolving that.

And we're not just dissolving it, like

just not hiring people of merit.

It's going down to our kids.

They are not even learning about merit.

In fact, if they do, they'll learn that meritocracy is bad.

They're telling kids that getting to work on time is racist.

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That's why they don't show up on time.

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All right.

So ABC News, Martha Redditz,

was talking to very excited liberal voters about, you know, what's on the horizon here?

What are you excited about?

I've got a Joe Biden supporter with me, and they're just excited about the whole thing.

Here's how it went.

Democrats are divided on whether or not President Biden should be running again.

You voted for Biden.

I did.

He announced this week, what was your reaction?

Regret, disappointment, frustration.

While it's very early in the race, that disappointment and frustration was expressed again and again by young voters we talked to.

I think I would go for Biden, but obviously I would prefer a fresher candidate.

He announced this week, were you excited by that?

not particularly.

I'm more interested in a progressive candidate.

Despite having voted for Biden last time, 21-year-old Elena Symes couldn't point me to anything that would make her want to vote for him again, except...

What do you like about Joe Biden?

Um

that he's not Trump.

I mean, that's the whole thing.

That's their entire strategy.

If you're curious as to what Joe Biden is trying to do to become president again, you just heard it outlined right there.

He will not be Donald Trump.

Yep.

At no point in the campaign will he be Donald Trump.

He might sound like Trump on things like Social Security, but that's a totally different issue, and you should totally ignore that.

It is fascinating to watch this because

they are not at all inspired by this guy.

They are not at all excited.

I have to tell you,

I think RFK could make a run for it.

This is insane, too.

I know.

But I do think he's.

He's at 20% in some of these polls.

That's insanity for a guy who is just basically,

you know, look, a long shot.

He's going to be perceived as a younger guy,

a different generation.

How old is he?

He's not.

He's got to be.

No, he's got to be in his 60s.

Let's see.

Born in 54.

So, yeah.

Yeah.

So, you know, almost 70.

He's not the typical.

He's saying exciting things.

He's got 19%

with Democrats already.

That's

19.

There's going to be some protest vote.

Some people will just say no to whoever's at the top of the ticket.

But I think that's more significant.

Could just be Kennedy name recognition at this point.

And look, Kennedy does.

People have lost this over the past year or two, but Kennedy aligns very strongly with the hardcore left wing of the Democratic Party.

This is a man who wants to put people who disagree with him

on climate in prison.

This is a person who is outwardly argued for by name, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, to be executed because they're guilty of treason.

Yeah, that's a little bit hard.

It was a little harsh.

It was a little harsh.

I will say that does make them fit directly into the left wing, the AOC wing of the

Democratic Party.

It does.

So there is going to be a bunch of people who like that sort of approach.

And of course, you know, but really all he's been talking about lately has been the vaccine stuff, which has a base on the left as well as the right.

That's sort of a bipartisan issue.

And I think it's go back for a long time.

I will tell you this.

The thing I like about Joe Biden is he's not RFK Jr.

So we got that going for us.

The thing I like about RFK Jr.

is he's not Joe Biden.

Yeah.

So

basically no one's voting for anyone.

No.

And we're all just voting against what the other side is.

So Hunter Biden was in court yesterday, and

he is actually

trying to cry

poor mouth.

He actually said, I've only ridden on Air Force One once, which I don't think is true.

I've only done that once.

My Porsche has been repossessed.

No.

I have no idea what I'm making with my art.

No idea.

Because

I can't,

you know, I'm not allowed to see who even bought anything.

Well, but you probably are allowed to see the check that you're getting from the gallery.

I'm guessing.

He said, no, you don't know.

It's bad.

I had to sleep on a cot in my dad's room when he went to Ireland.

Oh, my God.

Wait, why were you with him in Ireland?

Right?

Right.

Why'd you go to Ireland?

Maybe you should get a job if you're so poor.

We all know that he's lying, right?

And he's blatantly lying here for

some purpose.

But can I ask a different question here?

Sure, sure.

Why don't they just pay this woman off?

This is an incredibly wealthy family.

They have the pres, his dad is the president of the United States.

They don't need this hassle.

Why would they

be a child?

Again.

You don't want to be punished with a baby.

But I mean, like, I'm saying, like, take out the actual honorable thing to think about.

That's not going to be part of the Biden calculus on this.

I'm saying purely from politics.

You could pay this woman off for what, a quarter of a million dollars a year?

Literally nothing to them.

Just pay her.

Why?

If you are a Democratic operative, and again, if you are, you have no soul, so this would make sense to you.

Why wouldn't you just pay her off?

Just give her what she wants.

Who cares?

They obviously don't care about this child.

The media doesn't seem to care if the president of the United States is abandoning his grandchild.

No one seems to be interested in this.

No one's asked him one single question about it.

Why?

I don't know.

But if you're a Democrat, why not just, who cares?

Just, you know, okay, George, get George Soros over here, donate some money, pay it off.

Find a way to get this paid off so we don't have to hear from her anymore and we can ignore our grandchild in peace.

I can't believe that's not their approach.

It's really cynical, but I am surprised.

Yeah.

Why are they fighting this?

I don't, I,

I don't know.

I don't know other than

maybe,

maybe it's your mistake.

You clean it up.

But that would require a parent

that is going to let somebody sit with their mistakes.

And that's not the case.

Why the family has not been tough love.

They've been, hey, use my influence to get yourself out of situations, which again, it's not like they feel like if they felt like they were being extorted for a false

claim of fatherhood here for Hunter, you could understand it.

But we've already passed that stage.

Right.

Right?

Like, this is a woman who definitely had sex with your son while he was actually dating your other son's ex-wife.

Okay.

That happened.

The tests have all come in.

This is actually your grandchild, Joe.

And the fact that he will not acknowledge that.

And then separately, the Democratic apparatus won't get them out of this trouble for a couple hundred thousand dollars is shocking.

Look at how much

the left and Democrats

hate Donald Trump.

Oh, my God.

They are overlooking

everything on Joe Biden.

They've overlooked his massive corruption.

We're putting our national security at stake because of his relationships with China.

We have our national security at stake because of what we did in Afghanistan and Ukraine.

We're torching our economy.

We're spending way too much money, and

the only solution is to hurt your job and your wages.

His son is wildly corrupt.

We know that the CIA chief now is wildly corrupt and lied to the American people about the Hunter Biden laptop so he could get elected.

I mean, every criminal thing, everything that anybody who is decent at all

looks at and goes, this is despicable.

And he won't even recognize his grandchild.

And it's not that they don't know.

They know

this is just, these are despicable human beings.

And yet half the country is okay with that.

They don't even like him.

They don't like the job he's doing.

But they will vote for him again.

You know, maybe we're answering our own question here.

You know, why, why don't they pay him this woman off?

Because they know no one's going to ask.

And they know they won't be held accountable.

And they know no one cares what they do.

They don't care.

I mean, they've committed much worse crimes than this, and no one said anything.

So why bother?

Maybe that's the answer.

They're just so confident that they will never be asked a question about it and never will have to deal with reality that they just

keep fighting it.

Why?

Why imagine?

You imagine if we slip through that same wormhole that we slipped through to get to this earth and we went back to the earth we were on, you know, like in 2000, well,

1980,

and

the American people woke up and saw

this president president for what he was.

I mean,

if that ever happens,

it's going to be a shocking, think about putting this country back on the right track.

I don't know if it can even be done, but think about what a Herculean task that's going to be.

to clean all of the corruption up,

to

punish the bad guys, to even recognize the bad guys anymore.

We don't even recognize who the bad guys are.

What a flip from reality this is going to be.

Yeah, that's one way to look at it.

You know what, Glenn, it'll be really interesting to see how this plays out.

This is what I taught Stu earlier today in the podcast.

You know, you just look at everything and instead of going, we're doomed, we're dead.

Hmm.

It's going to be interesting to see how this works out.

I'm really anxious to see how this all plays out and,

you know, and how people learn, you know, the lesson.

It's sort of a catch-all for all problems.

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You know, Stu and I have been talking here off and on the air today about, you know, it's going to be interesting.

It's going to be interesting to see how everybody works out.

You know, all these things that are going on.

Wow, I'm anxious to see how that

ends.

Huh?

Did you see that?

Wow.

Yeah.

That's how I want to react.

Yeah.

And

so I said to Stu just a minute ago, well, I would make it even more interesting.

And he said, I don't know if we want to make it more interesting.

And I said, no, I mean, in a fun way,

you know, maybe we lay bets or something.

Maybe, maybe we, you know, like I offer $1,000 every month.

And I'm going to give somebody who comes up with the most outrageous prediction of what could happen by the end of the month and you get a thousand bucks if it comes through.

It seems reasonable.

Yeah, I mean, because then we could be looking for it.

We'd be like, aha, this could be the opportunity

when a rabbit shoots out of his butt and nobody saw it coming.

Like the classic examples of this would be like aliens

are discovered.

And it's like, eh.

Would that even be that crazy?

Like, it's kind of already happened almost.

Yeah, you know, I'm wondering, you know, because you know that thing where they, I can't remember remember what it's called, but that uh

that the reason why we don't find alien life anywhere is because once you hit the radio wave, then you know you're just a couple of years away from discovering a nuke and then you blow yourself up.

Well, that clearly didn't happen in that amount of time.

Our radio waves are out there now.

When they come here, it will, you know, we might be annihilated.

However, however,

maybe it's

not the nuke, maybe it's AI, which gives you more time.

And so any planet that has an Elon Musk,

their people are on another world.

You know what I mean?

Without the radio equipment or anything, and they're all stranded on another world.

Oh, that sounds great.

Okay.

Wonderful outcome.

But it also could be this is why the aliens are coming now because they're like, they're about to do it.

They're about to do it.

And they're either here to watch the fireworks show.

They'd be like, huh, it's going to be interesting to see how these people work this out, isn't it?

Yeah.

And they'll be like, yes, but blebe,

it's never worked out on any other planet.

And you'll like, yeah, but it might.

Maybe this time they'll do it.

And Blebe, he's always running his mouth.

I know.

So either Blebe is right or the other guy is right.

And we work it out.

And maybe they're here because they're like, screw the prime directive.

We're going to intervene at the last minute.

Maybe.

Maybe that's

They could.

Would you be, and I'm being this sincerely, would you be that surprised if aliens landed in the next month or two and said, you guys are going to destroy yourself.

We're here to help.

I feel like we'd be on the air saying.

Like, guys, I feel like we would have

years ago thought this was a huge story that there's aliens now walking around and they owned a Sabarro in

Acapulco.

I think like we would have talked about, it.

That would have been the biggest story in the news a few years ago, but obviously now Trump just tweeted something.

Is there a possibility that Bleb is already here?

He's running for president and is RFK.

Is that

it's the same voice, isn't it?

I don't know.

I haven't heard blebe.

But you've impersonated bleebling impersonation of bleeb.

See, I would vote bleeb for president.

I don't know that I want to vote RFK Jr., but I would vote bleeb.

Blebe for president.

Blebe 2024.

I'm in.

Yeah, I'm in.

I think he's the only, or the only thing that will can get us there.

Oh, you call him a thing?

You don't know his pronouns.

I know, that's what I'm saying.

That's why I used thing.

I thought I was being accepting.

Wow.

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