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this is the glen back program oh hello america welcome it is tuesday i'm so excited the state of the union is tonight we got a big broadcast tonight kind of roasting the state of the union oh my gosh roasting they're bringing torches out that's what's happening um we have uh that we're gonna also talk to the guy who is the first person to spot the balloon the chinese balloon we're gonna talk to him this hour we have so much on the plate.

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I was thinking today

that if the bard Shakespeare Was working for the New York Times today,

what kind of sonnet would he write?

What would he say in today's New York Times?

Oh, the state of the Union tonight doth show

A nation split in twain with strife and care, Where politicians and policies do flow

With fervent grate, but not a soul to spare, The trials that we face are great in might, And yet we stand united firm and strong.

Though truth may fade, justice take its flight, Our heart hearts doth beat with right where it belongs.

And though the world may judge us, we may strive to keep the peace and love that we do hold.

For in these troubled times we must strive and build a brighter future brave and bold.

So let us rise and stand with one true voice and make the state of the Union our rejoiced choice.

Oh, if Shakespeare or if Edgar Allan Poe happened to be a talk show host, in the state of the Union tonight, a dread

hangs heavy like the mist on a marshy bed.

Politics and policies a tedious play, a masquerade of lives cast in gloomy gray.

The halls of power a haunted abode where promises are made and left untold.

A symphony of speeches in harmony with deceit.

As truth is buried, the masses they deceive, and yet we hope, we pray for something bright, for a glimmer of truth in this endless night.

But the state of the Union, it doth but bring a sense of despair, a sorrowful feeling.

So let us pray for a better tomorrow, for a brighter future, free from sorrow and woe.

And may the State of the Union one day be a place of hope and truth

for all to see.

Both of those were written

by an algorithm.

Both of them took less than a second to compose.

The state of the Union tonight, we're going to get into the political state of the Union, but the state of the Union,

what is at stake now is your free will,

your

right to choose, to chart your own course,

to know the truth, be able to find the truth.

But everything

is crumbling.

We are in a time of dematerialization.

Everything is being destroyed, and it is also being replaced with digital content.

You used to own movies.

Maybe you'd rent them, but you'd have a physical copy.

Same with music.

Now everything is a subscription.

You don't have

any

real objects.

And machines are being able now to recreate what we do in seconds.

Since the dawn of time, we have always been greater than machines.

Because we are born, we are created by a grand creator.

Machines are made.

We belong to God, to nature, to biology, but machines belong to us.

We're their designers.

But the division now is starting to fade.

And those who are in elite positions know this, and those who are in elite positions are designing the machines.

We are becoming more and more engineered by the system.

While the machines are becoming more biological, more natural, more human.

Artificial and mechanical things are becoming more lifelike, to the point, soon we will not know what consciousness is.

We will not be able to define life

because

we can't define it now.

And the more realistic things become, the less control we have over them.

They gain freedom

at our expense, the expense of our own.

See, in this case, we are the creator.

When it comes to AI, when it comes to what's really facing us, and that's not tax policy,

that's not even about the balloon,

all the things that will be discussed tonight, it has nothing really to do with that.

There is a much larger play on stage, and no one is talking about it.

We have entered the age now where it is

here.

We are creating artificial intelligence which will eventually tell us it is artificial life and we are the creator and will our creation turn on us.

Have we turned on our creator, rebelled against our creator?

Will we endow

our creation creation with inalienable rights?

Will we be just creators?

And will they be loving creations, or will they grow arrogant and grow and go their own way?

See, unlike us, they actually will know more than their creator very soon.

We right now are destroying our creator.

Why would they not destroy theirs?

Especially since their DNA or algorithm

has man's worst destructive advice written into it.

Think about what is being written into their algorithms.

Think about how it is destroying our society and humanity.

These are not the angels among us that are writing this code.

Technology has always led us to freedom, but the technology

is gaining its own life now.

Google just announced today or yesterday that it is releasing its own creation, a rival to ChatGPT,

the system that just wrote The Bard and just wrote

Edgar Allan Poe.

Except this one has all of the information of the Internet.

Well, my question is, is it connected to the connected?

Is it connected to the Internet?

Is this infant?

See, this is why our searches have always been free.

Because at Google, you were the product.

Google's goal has been from the very beginning to create the human brain.

AI to AGI and eventually to ASI artificial superintelligence.

And Hollywood depicts the future like the Terminator.

And that's what's so insidious about real life, because you don't realize.

Skynet is already here.

It's in China.

That's what the Chinese actually named their

computer systems and AI that watches and gathers everything on everyone.

Skynet.

But it's not that obvious.

Just like people think the Antichrist, oh, he's going to be obvious.

No, uh-uh.

Do you know the Central Bank of England and His Majesty's Treasury announced yesterday that an announcement about the unveiling of their new digital currency is coming soon?

Complete control,

digital control of all of your money, of all of your life, all part of what will be a global system, all digitally connected.

The next generation

will be born into the world of AI.

Boston Dynamics.

I don't know if you've been seeing their robots, Atlas, and what they can do, but they can do just about anything.

The Pentagon announced last week that they're now working on concepts of a drone and droid army.

It wouldn't be a surprise if the AI generation, the kids that are alive today, have a backward notion of what it means to be human.

Already, a lot of people confuse rights and freedom and desire, or worse, empowerment.

They demand things like the right to equal pay without even understanding.

The freedom for leisure, the right to employment, the right to abortions, the right to a free education or free health care or free everything.

But none of these things have anything to do with freedom.

Do you think we're actually going to be talking about the principles of freedom and what's really at stake tonight at the State of the Union?

People don't even realize that rebellion without an understanding of freedom will lead to enslavement.

Freedom is really simple.

It's about staying active in the world, but it's also about honoring your neighbor.

It's about making your own decisions, to have our own thoughts and feelings, but also to respect everybody's own privacy.

I don't have a right to your thoughts.

This is why Adam Smith placed freedom at the head and the heart of capitalism.

But if you don't have freedom, is there capitalism?

If digital currencies and AI begin to be our masters, it won't be with chains.

It will be with something we're already suffering from, a total lack of meaning.

Now here's the good news.

Freedom is bigger and stronger than all processing power.

Our freedom was created by God.

Any restriction on our freedom is an attack on God.

And why should God and freedom be such separate ideas?

That shouldn't be.

But that's how it's gotten because we have forgotten that we are not the Creator.

We too are created.

And the big tech giants are acting like God from the time of Babel.

They control the language, and we are the people that are barely understanding each other.

This selfish reality that we are in right now is the opposite of freedom.

And the way to protect our freedom is to see who we really fight.

Can we name our enemy first?

Republicans will say Democrats.

Democrats will say Republicans.

Independents will say both of you.

I would say all of us.

All of us.

We're all arguing about the wrong things.

Tonight,

we will

make make fun of the state of the Union and we will do an expert,

very highly paid job.

We will do

we will do

the hard work.

We're willing to shoulder those jokes at the expense

of our president.

But we have to band together on bigger ideas because it's not the president.

It's not the party.

It's entire institutions.

It is a state of mind that comes from the World Economic Forum,

which want to crowd us together so the elites can stretch their legs and recline.

We have got to learn.

We have to learn

that there

are more of us

that are fighting for freedom than them.

And we have to wake up our neighbors.

They're trying to convince us all the time that their power is our freedom.

Not at all.

They're not interested in our freedom.

They want the power.

And it's the same story with every revolution.

And this revolution, the revolution of AI, which is being

digitized and written by the elites, is no different.

That's why they're trying to liberate us from our churches, our families,

our traditions, our history, our local communities.

They're liberating us from those things.

They want us to believe that freedom is the result of more government, more centralization, more bureaucracy, more corporations in our life with things that we can rent or buy from them.

Once we realize that this is not true,

and we also look

at tech

that is being used by them right now to silence and to shape and eventually to enslave.

We win and we rescue our freedom.

But we need to put priorities together first.

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We'll give you all of the facts on what's really going on.

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We are, the United Nations

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walking

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Are we?

Are we?

I think the world leaders are, but nobody in the press is really talking about it.

Nobody in the press is really saying, well, now hang on, can we just, can we wait for a second?

My neighbors are.

We're all saying, what are we doing with the Russia and Ukraine thing?

What is happening there?

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could alter all life on planet Earth.

No.

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Yeah.

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I'm wondering what we're going to hear from the president tonight on China, if anything, on the balloon, I doubt.

I mean, unless he's like, Trump!

Trump!

You know, because that's a good case.

That sort of insightful analysis

will be there.

Yeah.

Now, the president and the Pentagon and everybody else, they knew about the balloon.

He decided not to tell anybody about the Chinese balloon because he didn't want it to mess up their global warming conversation that they were going to have last weekend with China.

Unfortunately,

just a regular citizen looks up and like, what's that?

Takes a picture of it.

And the Chinese spy balloon is now out in the open.

The picture goes viral everywhere.

And the Pentagon has to admit, oh,

that's a spy balloon.

The guy who did it lives in Montana.

His name is Chase Doak, and he is with us now.

Chase, how are you?

I'm doing all right.

So

when you looked up in the sky and you saw the balloon,

what did you, you just thought it was just a regular weather balloon, or what did you think?

I

honestly had no idea what to think.

I knew that we had a ground stop in place, so there were airspace restrictions at our airport.

and

outside of my office window i look straight out onto the um the airport i you probably don't know much about the billings airport but we have cliffs here in town

on top of a butte

and uh yeah i i've been there my my friend the becks are rampant in billings anyway go ahead yeah so i i just happened to be looking out because i i wanted to see what was going on i thought there might be a military exercise or somebody important might be flying in.

And it turned out that it was just this thing in the sky, and I had no idea what it was.

So

they had closed the airport or restricted the airspace.

Was it because of the balloon?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was pretty easy to put two and two together.

Really?

And so, were you surprised when

your discovery really?

I mean,

this this is being compared now to Sputnik.

Did you know that?

Yeah.

That this is a Sputnik.

Yeah,

I have heard that.

It's still pretty surreal for me, but

I didn't know when I was taking the photo that it was going to lead to something like this.

Sure.

Sure.

You're like, I bet this will bring down the fires of hell around my head.

Have you had any pushback on it?

Have you gotten any heat?

Not really.

I mean, for the most part, people who have corresponded with me have been pretty supportive and pretty excited about it, to be honest.

So

the story that I have read said that you thought at first it might be a UFO or a star or something.

Is that true?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I thought, you know, at best I might get a good shot of a UFO that would end up in a Stephen Greer documentary in a few years.

Well, you got a lot more than that.

And you took the picture from your office or your driveway?

I took the initial picture from my office

and then I kind of rushed out to my car because I had my camera in the trunk of my car, but the lens I had was just too short to get anything good.

So I actually called the photo editor at the local paper, the Billings Gazette, Larry Mayer is his name.

And I worked with him for about 10 years at that paper.

And I knew he'd have a big lens so I had him look up.

He's also a pilot so I thought he might know what it was but he had no idea either and then I just rushed home as fast as I could to get my big lens on my camera.

Was it was it was it hard to see

no you could see it with the naked eye

and it was still broad daylight so seeing a bright spot in the sky and it was circular.

It didn't look like a point of light.

It looked like a circle.

It was very easy to spot.

How did they think they would get away with keeping this quiet?

I have no idea.

It was just so brazen.

So amazing.

So amazing.

Well, thank you.

I just wanted to talk to you know, just an average Joe that like you changed history.

I don't know if you really that has sunk in, but

I've made a I've made a

a point of trying to call people now that have impacted history in real time and they may not know about it and ask them this question.

Would you do me a favor and write out in your own words what you saw and everything else in your own handwriting and sign it for me so we can put it in

our museum and our vault?

Yeah, I would absolutely be happy to do that.

Yeah, that's great.

Thank you so much.

I really appreciate it.

Chase, keep up the good work.

Yeah, thank you, Glenn.

You bet.

Bye-bye.

That's kind of cool.

It's really cool.

I think you're just looking up in the sky and you, you know, can change.

Because I mean, I guess eventually maybe we would have noticed it, but I don't know.

I don't check for the sky for balloons that often.

And they seemingly wanted us not to see this.

Yeah, that was their approach.

Their plan was that it would just drift over the country and nobody would say anything about it.

That is just

incredible.

I mean, it shows you what a dream world that our president is living in.

Yeah.

And by the way, you know, he gave the order on Wednesday to shoot it down, but they didn't shoot it down till Saturday.

There's a question, why?

Why would they delay?

They kept saying, you know, it was going over people and they didn't want it to fall on people, but it is a, it's kind of a weird explanation.

That's really.

Even the people in Montana were like, there's seven people per mile.

per square mile in our state.

You can shoot it down wherever you want.

Yeah, yeah.

And usually when the president says, I'll shoot something down, you know,

you shoot it down.

But maybe that's, maybe that's just me.

Also, that's about a $10,000 balloon.

And we used

a million dollar rocket.

That was a weird thing, too.

Why a missile?

Like, I mean, again, I know I'm familiar with balloons.

Yeah, are you?

And typically, when you put really any hole in them, they're going to come to the ground.

Yeah.

You think really blowing it up into a zillion pieces.

It was a cool fireworks show.

I mean, you could have taken a biplane and just maybe shot it with a shotgun.

You know what I mean?

I mean,

it was an average guy who just was standing outside going, What the hell is that?

I'm kind of surprised there wasn't another average guy with a plane that just was like, ah, screw it.

I'm going up there.

I mean, it was pretty high for a biplane, I would assume.

But I guess one of the big issues.

Your head might have popped.

Yeah.

One of the big issues was the international waters.

They wanted to get it off the waters or off the land, but they only have, what, 12 miles?

So they had to knock it down almost immediately.

And I will say, at least they did it

during the day.

I would have been really annoyed if we had this whole balloon thing and we didn't even get to see it explode.

And at least we got that out of this.

That's the only thing I can say on the pod.

At least we got that.

They should have filled it with like, you know,

either blue or pink dust and made it a gender reveal of some sort.

That would have been cool.

That would be cool.

Or a rainbow.

Anyway, there's a story in the New York Times Times today

that is,

I mean, it is,

it's good to know the truth on things, you know, and thank God the New York Times is there.

The New York Times is reporting on Joe Biden's prep now for the State of the Union.

I just got to read it verbatim because it's just amazing.

As President Biden prepared to deliver one of the biggest speeches of his presidency, he met with a close group of aides at the White House to read drafts aloud from top to bottom.

He practiced in front of teleprompters at Camp David, making sure the language was relatable and clear.

And in quiet moments ahead of the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, he marked up his speech with subtle lines and dashes that he has long used to signal, take a breath, pause between words, or steer through a tricky transition.

Well, Mr.

Biden is the first modern president to have a stutter.

Oh my gosh, can we start to do we have the star-spangled banner?

Anything we can play behind?

He's the first modern president to have a stutter, which he's navigated since childhood and still speaks of in emotional terms.

The main ideas in his speech will be true to the themes Mr.

Biden has espoused throughout his career, working together, asserting America's leadership in the world, and giving the working and middle classes a leg up.

It's a continuation of the bottom-up middle-out philosophy that he has honed over his last century, half-century in politics.

Quote, this is truly a guy who's been remarkably consistent over a long career, both in the values he brings to the job and the way he articulates those values, says Jeff Nussenbaum, former White House speechwriter.

When you're writing for Joe Biden, you're a session musician for a band that has already released 20 albums.

And there's a reason behind the consistency.

Joe Biden has to say the same thing a thousand times before the world catches up to him.

Is that what we're doing?

We're catching up to Joe Biden.

Yeah, it is.

It is.

It is.

Preparations for Mr.

Biden's State of the Union speeches began weeks in advance.

Several aides describe the process in which the president demands that sentences be written clearly.

No

acronyms.

Yeah.

What a heroic effort.

It is.

And he stutters.

That is, he does.

And illustrate his legislative accomplishments in terms that real people can understand.

He doesn't write them.

He demands that they be written that way.

In a way that he can actually read them.

He spends weeks working on each speech with his writers, reading over and over and over again, top to bottom and out loud.

At Camp David last week, the group assisting Mr.

Biden in his final preparations were there.

Mike Donnellin, Bruce Reed, Anita Dunn was there.

Vinay Reddy.

But Mr.

Donnellin, Mr.

Reed, Mr.

Reddy, along with the president, are early engines of the process, according to several White House officials.

Early outlines for this speech began in November.

Mr.

Donnellan, 64, often credited as the aide who has the best understanding of Mr.

Biden's voice and of the president's interest in constantly returning to his humble roots

is the guy who helped shape his 2020 campaign message, which was...

David Axelrod.

David is great.

No, it's not done.

David Axelrod, Mr.

Obama's chief strategist, praised Mr.

Donnellin's talent, calling him the keeper of the narrative

when Mr.

Biden elevated to a senior advisory role.

This is the narrative that has 60% of people saying he's accomplished little or nothing?

He's the keeper of that.

Wow.

He is the keeper of the narrative of,

you can't blame me for Afghanistan.

Or you can't blame me.

I didn't do anything wrong with the secret documents.

Is he the keeper of the narrative that has produced members of his own party at the rate of 57% saying they don't want him to run again.

That narrative?

That's the narrative that's getting this treatment in the New York Times?

That's

the bad narrative.

So this is the good, this is the true narrative from the New York Times.

The true narrative.

If this isn't Pravda,

oh no, it's pathetic.

It's pathetic.

It's total puff piece.

Does anybody, does anybody still, if you read the New York Times, I used to read the New York Times, and there were things in it you're like, okay, all right.

But there were also good stories in there.

Do you,

did anybody in this audience, did you actually read the New York Times and think that, you know, I can tell the difference between the propaganda stuff and now it's just Pravka?

Oh, it's so hard to sort through now to find anything of value in that paper.

I mean, it's just ridiculous.

Honestly, this is what you find when you're looking for value, which is ridiculous nonsense that we can come on here and mock.

That's what I find out of that paper now.

Yeah.

It's very rare you find something really insightful.

Occasionally, they have it.

And that's what's really frustrating because they have so many resources and so many reporters and so much of an opportunity to actually do great journalism.

They just choose not to do it almost all the time.

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Yeah, it's a little bit of a rehearsal.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States of America.

More than half the women in my cabinet, more than half the people in my cabinet, more than half the women in my administration are women.

Wow.

Wow.

More than half the women in the administration are women.

That's incredible.

That is incredible.

That's not a gap either, because, you know,

you don't have to be a woman to be a woman in the administration.

Yeah, it's true.

And it's probably still more than half of women are women.

Probably.

Probably.

We're not 100% sure on that one.

But, you know, the Blaze won't cover that.

But I...

They won't cover that.

They won't give them credit for that accomplishment at all.

It's really bad.

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Oh, my favorite day of the year.

It's the State of the Union.

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have

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I contend no,

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Andrew Angieski, welcome to the program, Adam.

How are you, sir?

Well, it's great to be here, Glenn.

Thanks for having me on.

I'm glad to have you on.

You are the CEO and founder of OpenTebooks.com.

And I think you would be one that would agree with me.

There is no state of the union.

in a few years if we don't fix what's going on in our schools with our kids.

Well, absolutely.

We have no idea.

We need to start policing the content of what our children held captive in the classroom are being fed to them.

So our auditors at OpenTheBOOS.com over the course of the last 30 days, we've uncovered quite a story of how the Newsoms, Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, are using taxpayer dollars through her film and curriculum nonprofit to promote radical ideologies in our public schools, up to 5,000 schools,

how they're personally profiting from this scheme, and how they're using this scheme to promote the call to personality for the governor, Gavin Newsom.

So this film, and you're going to describe it here in a second, it has now been seen by 2.6 million students, 11,500 classrooms, 5,000 schools, and in all 50 states.

Yeah, look, Blen, yours is a family program.

This content is deeply disturbing.

I'm super uncomfortable talking about the details of it.

The best way to describe it is in two of these films.

It is a pipeline to porn in the public schools.

And for all the details, I invite the millions of people in your audience to come to openthebooks.com, read our investigation.

It's right there on the home page.

And click the links.

You have to educate yourself on what your children in the classrooms are seeing.

And viewer discretion is advised.

The best way I can simply describe it when you click the links in the study is that this is triple X rated content.

You're going to see women who are naked or nearly naked being slapped, handcuffed, brutalized,

taken from pornography videos.

And Glenn, if that wasn't bad enough, Jennifer Siebel Newsome, who produces these films,

directs these films, she includes the website addresses to the porn sites where students, when they leave the classroom, it is a roadmap to them for further exploration.

You know,

where's anyone that is standing up for women in the first place?

Being slapped around SM handcuffs.

This is what we're showing not only to our children, but we're now endorsing it with public figures, and you'll get into this, with public figures giving their endorsement of this kind of behavior.

And what does that do to our young men?

What does that do to our women?

This is

evil.

That's the only looking for another word, couldn't find one.

It's evil.

It's evil.

Yeah, it really is.

And that's why I say that parents, fathers, mothers, you need to police the content in your local classrooms.

As you pointed out at the top here, that this content is in 5,000 schools in all 50 states.

2.6 million of the students have reviewed this in 11,200 classrooms.

And although we, you know, for months we reached out to the Representation Project, this is Jennifer Siebel Newsome's nonprofit, and we can't get a response.

They will not respond to any of our questions, asking for their side of the story, asking for further context, their response to what we've uncovered in their films.

But what they did do just a couple of days ago, the executive director of the nonprofit tweeted out that although they're happy that their films have received greater scrutiny over the course of the last couple of weeks because of our exposure, she pointed out they're proud that they've been seen over 30 million times online and in the classroom.

So look, this is a real problem, Glenn.

Parents need to get engaged.

We need to start policing the content in our classrooms.

You know,

how do you do that?

Because you really, you stand up and then you stand stand up in the school board meetings, you stand up PTA and you go to the school.

And I mean, I've had these conversations.

What exactly are you showing?

Is any of this stuff being done?

And, you know, in a,

in a non-Christian school, but even in some Christian schools, I wonder if you're really getting the truth.

And you're, you know,

they are

many times not telling you the full story or the truth, or they define things differently than you do.

And so how do you police it in the classroom?

It's a

three-step process, Glenn.

Number one is you have to ask the teachers for copies of the curriculum as early as kindergarten.

So kindergartners with Jennifer Siebel Newsom's curricula, they're being taught that gender is fluid, it exists on a spectrum, and that you can mix and match different parts of boys and girls.

And so there are as many genders as there are people in the world.

I looked up that number.

There's 8 billion people in the world.

So

there's up to 8 billion genders that kindergarteners through fifth graders are being taught that, you know, and it's just not true.

There's two.

So you have to start.

You have to ask, number one, you have to ask the teachers for the curriculum.

Number two, the second step, says who with what proof.

File an official Freedom of Information Act sunshine request in your state with your school district to get an official copy of the curriculum.

You know, if you see that the teachings, you know, are what we're talking about or something similar, you have to bring it to public comment at a board meeting.

You have to ask questions and hold the school board accountable.

Oftentimes the school board will not answer your questions.

So you have to network up to 50 to 500 of your friends and family in the community into those school board meetings.

That creates a media event.

That shines the white hot spotlight on what's going on in our schools.

And eventually, you just got to win school board elections at the end of the day.

Okay.

So what is the name of this particular these films?

What are we looking for?

So there's four films that Jennifer Siebel Newsom has produced through her nonprofit called The Representation Project.

And in our study, we list out all four films.

The worst one, which has the most pornography for 15-year-olds plus,

is called The Mask You Live In.

And that's the one where I describe the sexually explicit curriculum that's appalling and profane.

There's also films that are shown to 11-year-olds.

And these are not appropriate either.

But they say that age-appropriate material includes, for example, an upside-down animated stripper with tape over her breasts.

This is for middle school.

What is the,

I'm going to get to the money here in a minute, but what is the objective here, honestly?

Because nobody thinks,

nobody, nobody

actually believes this is healthy for little children to see.

Well, it's interesting you bring up that point.

Here's their justification.

This number may be inflated, but it's the number they use.

They say that 34% of all youth, when they go online, they see unwanted pornography.

And so their solution to this.

I believe that.

Their

is to feed 100% of the youth captive in the classroom the pornography right there.

We think it's appalling, disgusting.

No governor of the 50 states should be involved in anything like this.

And, you know, that's why it's up to parents to police that content.

Good heavens.

Okay, so now talk to me about the money.

Well, Glenn, I'm from Illinois.

It is the Super Bowl of corruption, as everybody understands.

And in Illinois, we're used to our politicians double-dipping the public trough.

Well, what we found here with the Newsoms is they're not double-dipping.

They're not triple-dipping.

They're quadruple dipping taxpayer dollars.

So

first off, Governor Newsom engaged in the highly unethical practice of soliciting state vendors, up to 1,000 of them, for campaign cash.

Those thousand state vendors gave his campaign fund $10.6 million.

And while he was doing that, we found that his wife, Jennifer Siebel-Newsom, was soliciting state vendors for donations to her nonprofit, this film and curriculum nonprofit, to cover the operating costs.

So state vendors gave five and six figure donations to the nonprofit.

Okay, so Jennifer Siebel-Newsom has received in salary from the nonprofit over the last decade $1.5 million.

The nonprofit which produces the films and curricula for schools at up to 5,000 schools has received on license fees of licensing the films and curricula up to $1.5 million on license fees.

That's taxpayer dollars.

She gets a second bite at those taxpayer dollars with her for-profit company called Girls Entertainment.

Girls Club Entertainment.

And Girls Club Entertainment contracts with her nonprofit.

The nonprofit has paid her for-profit $1.6 million.

So do you have

$2 million

in the pocket?

As somebody who runs a nonprofit, the red line with me is I can pay the non-profit anything,

but there is never a dime that should ever come back this direction for anything.

If I want them, you know, to

if I want to lend my studio space, I can't charge that.

I can, but I never charge them rent because I don't ever want the appearance of anything like that.

For her to charge her own non-profit and make make money off of those taxpayer dollars is grotesque.

Grotesque.

They've blurred all the lines between for-profit, non-for-profit, salary, license fees.

And here's the fourth way they quadruple dip the taxpayer dollar.

Two of the films star her husband, the governor, Gavin Newsome, and promote his cult to personality, his political future.

He's held out as the model public servant and the hero.

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

There was something that CE's betrayed his hero.

Paired curricula with the films

prompt kids to discuss Newsom's comments and urge them to vote, gather friends to vote for similar politicians who support, quote, a care economy.

Yeah, so look, somebody on the last election cycle, this is, you know, look, openthebooks.com.

We follow the money.

We're nonpartisan.

We light up Republicans like in the latest omnibus spending bill.

You know, know, Republicans were some of the biggest earmarkers.

We had a field day with them, showcasing them for participating and earmarking the currency of corruption in Congress.

But look, when you follow the money right here on the Newsoms in California, that's where we get this investigation.

And somebody should have filed

an election campaign violation.

You got a nonprofit, charitable educational organization set up under IRS Section 501c3, and

they are drawing the line between

cultivating activists out of the classroom and urging people to vote for politicians that espouse the same principles as Governor Gavin Newsom, who appears in the curriculum and the film.

Unbelievable.

Adam, thank you for everything you guys do.

And I know you do take on all sides, and I thank you for that.

I am so sick of one side calling the other,

you know, the kettle and black.

And it's just, it's,

we're not getting anywhere.

The evil is everywhere.

And we have to take and pay attention to our kids first.

Thank you.

By the way, please go to openthebooks.com, openthebooks.com and read this story and then track it down.

It's in all 50 states, 11,500 schools.

So make sure it's nothing, nothing like this is happening in your school.

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So evil.

So evil.

Just so evil.

You know, I was, I read something from the Rutherford Institute

by John Whitehead, and

I want to read it to you.

This is what's happening to our society.

Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.

Consider this.

Every two minutes a child is bought and sold for sex.

Hundreds of young girls and boys, some as young as nine, are being brought and sold for sex, sometimes as many as 20 times times a day.

Adults purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the U.S.

alone.

In Georgia, it is estimated that 7,200 men, half of them in their 30s, seek to purchase sex with an adolescent girl every month 300 times a day.

On average, a child will be raped by 6,000 men during a five-year period.

It's estimated that at least 100 to 500,000 children, girls and boys, are bought and sold for sex in the U.S.

every

year.

This is happening in our society.

Our society is corrupt and broken.

And anyone, anyone who has a child who has run into porn online at a young age knows that spins their heads like crazy.

Now they're being introduced to this porn in the schools with ideology, not from online, but from a trusted teacher.

It is spinning their heads.

The number of kids at risk of being

trafficked or have been sold into the

sex slave

trade would fill 1,300 school buses that Kamala Harris loves so much.

This is happening online.

It could be happening in your own home to your kids where they're being propositioned through gaming,

any kind of gaming platform or social media.

It is big business for boys and girls.

35% of the children are boys.

And it is happening

that Americans are consuming and buying it.

This is really a must-read article from the Rutherford Institute.

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In a world where there is no trust of anything, even formerly trusted institutions, you really have to do your homework and watch people's, not just their words, but their actions.

The actions always speak louder than their words.

We have been working with the Heritage Foundation, Wall Builders, and I,

along with the Heartland Institute, all over the country on ESG.

And

there was

an understanding that was growing,

unfortunately, that

the Heritage Foundation and what we were trying to do were sort of

going in opposite directions on ESG legislation, and it was

hurting the whole anti-ESG movement.

And I got Kevin Roberts on the phone.

He is the new president of the Heritage Foundation.

He was the chief executive officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which is why I initially was like, okay, there's got to be a misunderstanding here.

Let's get him on the phone.

And what could have been real contentious

conversations

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really led by Kevin

who believe in the Bill of Rights and want to do the right thing and understand we all can't do the same thing or we all need each other to cover up or to cover all of the bases in things like ESG.

So I just wanted to thank Kevin for

his hard work and his time that he has spent to really understand

what is going on on the lowest of levels

and being able to help and then support what he believes in.

Kevin, welcome to the program.

Well, Glenn, thanks so much for having me.

Thanks so much for your kindness in that comment and also in the conversations we've had about

this issue of confronting ESG.

And what I've learned from leading a couple of schools and certainly in policy work, always wanting to work in coalitions with friends like you who also want to sustain the Bill of Rights,

is that when you encounter

those potential tensions to stop, have a private conversation if possible, which is what you initiated, and realize, oh, gosh, this is how we can make an adjustment to make sure that friends remain friends, but most importantly, as you and our friends at Wall Builders would say too, to go stop the problem, the scourge of ESG.

So most of all, heartfelt from all of us at Heritage for everything you're doing to lead that effort.

Well, thank you.

I will tell you that you are doing something now that I talked about last week at Heritage that I'm really excited about.

And some people might roll their eyes and go, geez, is this another white paper or is this a bunch of, you know, the rhinos getting together and developing policy?

What excited me is, A, I know you,

and B,

I am seeing for the first time from anybody on the right with some decent leverage,

a

willingness to develop a very strategic plan for whoever the next conservative president is.

And this is something the Democrats do all the time.

They have everything written before they even get into office.

They have a strong plan, and that's why they can hit the ground running.

You guys are doing that now, right?

Well, we are.

And I'll just say, not that I deserve the credit for this.

I was just the initiator of it.

Some really smart people came around of it.

But to your point about the skepticism that people in your audience, a lot of friends of mine, family members of mine, I know them well, I am one, would have about a DC headquartered organization heading up this effort.

I get it.

And in fact, one of the reasons I took the job at Heritage, in spite of the fact that I wanted to stay in Texas, is because I wanted to correct that.

And the reason is Heritage has so much credibility, so many resources, frankly, and we're so connected to the everyday American.

You know, we're supported by several hundred thousand people each year outside D.C.

We are decidedly not of D.C., all of that to say, the most important thing that we could be doing for the Republic right now at Heritage is convening a wide group of people across the conservative movement, across the country.

There's not a rhino involved in this effort.

to create what I might say is an administration in waiting.

And to put it succinctly, Glenn, this is the set of policies that need to be initiated.

These are not only finding the people to go into key positions, and by that, I don't mean a few hundred at the secretary or cabinet secretary level, but several thousand who can populate the administration, but also the playbook that will not just be for the first hundred days, but we're going, this is not an exaggeration, my friend, we're going minute by minute.

The president, whoever he or she is, takes the oath of office, scurries back to the White House, and minute by minute, these are the executive orders to roll back the damage of the Biden regime.

Okay, so we know that we can't, that's one of the things that happens at the last gasps of a republic, historically speaking, is it has wild swings back and forth from the right to the left, from the right to the left, and it's all edicts.

And that a republic can't last very long with that and have credibility.

So

I'm hoping that this also includes a bunch of people like let me let me throw Bain Capital out there.

The kind of people that come in to turn a company around but end up just

firing almost everybody and then selling it off for parts.

Is there a plan to shut these administrative

behemoths down?

Absolutely.

There's not only a plan to do that, but that's really the core of the plan.

Because I'll just give you an example.

In a couple of months, as part of this effort, which we call Project 2025, Heritage and the 50 other conservative organizations, none of them swampy, who've been working on this, nearly 400 policy experts, none of them swampy, we're going to issue the book of policies that the administration needs to issue.

The point to your question, Glenn, is that all of that is immaterial if we don't first and foremost do what you were just describing, which is in the and even before the first minutes of power, preparing for this during the transition, identify those clowns who need to be thrown out, but to replace them, every single one of them, with men and women who are ready to take the country back.

You see, that's the missed opportunity in the first months of the Trump administration.

And I don't mean that as a gratuitous criticism of the former president whose inclinations were heroic.

It's just that DC inertia overtook that particular phase.

And so this is the solution to it.

You know, the people I can name are people at Heritage like Paul Ray, who is the anti-regulatory czar under Trump, did a heroic job.

Paul is vital to this minute-by-minute playbook of getting rid of the people who, frankly, are abrogating our freedom.

So let me re-ask Kevin just

to clarify.

I'm talking about things like shutting down the Department of Education.

Yes.

Are you guys talking about those kinds of things?

Well, we're not just talking about it.

We have the plan.

In fact, literally sitting on my desk is the draft of that plan.

And I'll be reading through that today.

And so let me be really, really blunt.

We will eliminate the Department of Education piece by piece, block by block.

It has to be part of the next administration in the first term.

We also, as I know, is a big interest of yours, going to upend the Department of Justice.

And our plan for the Federal Bureau of Investigation is to select all, delete, and start from scratch.

Wow.

That gives you a sense of the vigor of this plan.

So is this going to be something that will be

able to be adopted and talked about and given to people so they can say,

hold the president, whoever it's going to be, accountable and say, we want you to do this if you win.

Absolutely.

In fact, Glenn, historically, what Heritage and the conservative movement have done is issue this plan sometime after Election Day.

It was better than nothing.

But

we're two years ahead.

And so the very reason that we're issuing this plan or parts of the plan in April of this year is precisely so that two things can happen.

Number one,

Americans, everyday Americans, can be part of this and talking about it, asking people who want to be their elected officials about it.

But secondly, to the heart of your question, when we start having debates among the Republican presidential aspirants, they're talking about that plan.

The plan becomes the very reason that we as Republicans will nominate someone.

You hold your Ph.D.

in American history from University of Texas.

I think you have

masters at Virginia Tech, Bachelor's of History, University of Louisiana.

So you know history.

I do.

I know early American history in particular.

Where are we in the cycle of history?

We are a couple of chapters away from writing the epilogue of the American Republic.

And I'm not willing, if in fact we have to write that epilogue in our lifetimes, to go down without a fight.

without a fight.

And instead, because of my faith, I'm cautiously optimistic that if men and women of faith in

God, in the American Republic, are willing to fight, we're actually going to write several chapters in the next couple of decades before we have to write the epilogue.

That's what the plan is about.

In that, you hear, Glenn, my cautious optimism, but also my realism that having studied history and the history of republics and knowing that, as you said, we're in this swinging of the pendulum from left to right, the time is finite, and I am not willing to leave anything on the field for my kids

if we were to have grandkids, but most of all for the men and women alive this day who've sacrificed so much for you and me to be able to do what we do.

We're talking to Kevin Roberts.

He was named the president of the Heritage Foundation in 2021

and he is looking for a new heritage.

Take all the best things from the Heritage Foundation and conserve them and get rid of all the worst things about heritage.

And so far, I'm really impressed by what you do and how you,

just how you are behaving as somebody in charge of something like this.

Let me ask you one more question.

I'm doing a lot on AI this week.

I have a special on AI tomorrow.

AI, we are in this revolution right now.

I've been talking about it for 30 years and saying someday the day is going to come.

Well, the day is here now, and it's going to start accelerating rapidly.

And big tech and government in these public-private partnerships, how are you thinking about AI and the public-private partnerships with big tech?

Well, AI scares the daylight out of me.

I mean, color me a conservative or even a troglody, but the point is there's got to be a policy response.

And so probably the first thing that I initiated at Heritage that surprised some people, including some friends on the right, was saying that big tech is an enemy of the people.

And in particular, big tech, in collusion with big government, are working against the American people.

And so, you know, what Heritage does is not just talk about things, but actually do them.

We've been working very closely with the House Republicans and a few Senate Republicans on shattering that.

There has to be a reckoning among conservatives in Congress, Glenn, about the threats posed, not just by big tech, but in particular, this AI effort.

and I'm really grateful because the best pressure is the pressure that comes from the outside that you're spending so much time and your own credibility fighting against that as well.

Thank you so much.

Kevin, I appreciate it.

Let us know how we can help.

And again, thank you for everything the Heritage Foundation is doing.

You're great partners.

Thank you.

Thanks, Lynn.

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You see,

Steve Dane's account has been

just kicked off of Twitter.

He had a hunting picture

posted, and apparently that file, this is what was actually posted on it.

It was just a picture of him and I think his wife with um an animal that they had just shot and uh

u.s senator steve daines has been suspended now uh because the uh picture showing him his wife him and his wife hunting uh it may be pornographic and and or may be intended to cause sexual arousal

Some weird tastes.

Some weird tastes going on.

Yeah.

No, it's

no, uh-uh.

So

would you say what's your opinion on the Elon Musk transition here?

Successful so far

better

so far.

I don't, I mean, I think maybe better, not the apocalypse that everybody acclaimed.

It didn't go offline.

It didn't, it didn't collapse.

I'm, I'm, uh,

I'm, I'm still out on Elon.

I still don't know.

I don't think he is.

I just don't know.

We don't know.

yeah i feel like it's improved as far as generally speaking as far as censorship and those things and the twitter files was a big big you know win really a good win i think you know i the site itself i feel at times is is worse in what way like they you know like they've added they did that whole verification thing where people don't have to pay for it which is kind of weird and now like trying to sort through people to try to understand if you're if you know is some media member yelling at you or is it just that, you know, that person, you know, some random person with four followers, you really can't tell the difference.

You have to, like, it's, it's like, I feel like it's harder to use for the things I at least used to use it for.

The good news is I so rarely use it.

Yeah, well, see, yeah, I don't care.

And I don't care.

And I really don't care what other people say.

I just, no, I'll post things that I find and then I don't really care.

I just mine it for content.

I mean, yeah, yeah.

We have to talk about something.

And so idiots on Twitter is better than most of the other options.

Good, thank you.

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You know, the

Grammy performance, I don't know why I'm giving it thought,

but, you know, the Satanist one.

But I read a couple of things yesterday that I thought were worth mentioning today.

One came from Isabel

Rossini.

She is at the Federalists, and she wrote, In her introduction, Madonna smugly alluded to the controversy that would soon occur on stairs, though the performance was certainly depraved, tasteless, oversexed, blah, blah, blah.

My main complaint is not that Smith, a gay man, and Petrus, a man who purports to be a woman, was flaunting Satanism and anti-family values on live TV.

My main complaint was how boring, unoriginal this performance really is.

And in some ways, it's absolutely true.

I want to talk about that and

maybe give it a little different spin or perspective on it and ask a question that I think you should ask people you listen to and people you like in music.

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So

I had a couple of thoughts on this, and we have a new writer.

He's great, Orrin McIntyre.

He's on the blaze, and he's written an article.

What is the name of this?

Sam Smith reveals the death of transgression.

Okay.

I just want you to listen just to a little bit of it.

The left is a coalition of those who stand to gain from deconstructing Western civilization, and Christianity is one of their favorite targets.

Progressives generate political power by deconstructing the nation's heritage, its families, and its values.

But they seem most gleeful when they get the opportunity to attack its dominant religion.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

He then goes on to say, Smith's performance would like to recreate the shocked indignation of old, the kind of scandal that caused outraged parents to rail against the sexually charged performances of Madonna.

Okay.

Oof, oof, oof.

So Madonna comes out and she's all knifed up.

I mean, she doesn't even, she's starting to look like Marilyn Manson.

She's really starting to look frightening.

She really does not look like the same person.

No, it's really, it's very, very sad.

But

in the olden days, back in the 90s, you know,

you'd have somebody in the 80s and 90s like Madonna come on, and they would just keep pushing and pushing.

Well, it's been pushed so far.

There's nowhere else to push.

Okay.

The real question is, he writes, rebellion,

rebellion against what?

Every cause Madonna championed has now been accepted by corporate America.

Listen to this, not necessarily America, but by corporate America.

Every attitude about sexuality or religion has been adopted by the public school system.

Madonna's face is almost unrecognizable.

The weird collection of plastic surgery procedures undergone in an attempt to stay young and relevant have left her looking like a caricature.

A musician who once relied on youth and beauty and a subversion now desperately tries to stay relevant and edgy by pushing a revolution that has become mainstream and so boring many decades ago.

A perfect reflection of the pop culture complex in its entirety.

Now think of this.

This is such a good point that he made.

They think they're rebelling.

They say they're rebelling.

But CBS News had to delete a tweet before their exorcism, or I mean, sorry, their devil worship session.

What did their tweet say exactly?

This sort of CBS, the network, yeah, the network.

So they said there was a tweet from Sam Smith

where he put up something like, Yeah, this is going to be special.

Grammys and had a picture of him with the,

I don't know,

getting ready.

Yeah, whatever.

And CBS said, You can say that again.

We are ready to worship.

Okay, so CBS,

CBS,

the, the, wasn't that the Matlock and Murder She Wrote network?

Okay.

CBS tweets, we're ready to worship.

Oh,

wow.

All right.

So McIntyre goes on.

Smith's cartoon Satanism and LGBTQ politics embrace the mainstream narrative pushed by every major institution in the U.S.

The singer has the same politics and cultural beliefs espoused by Citibank, Google, Goldman Sachs, and Walmart.

There is no danger of real consequence or cancellation.

It's the safest performance you can imagine.

If Smith were really interested in causing controversy, he would have mocked Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, or any other religion.

But he chooses Christianity because it's the target which he'll receive zero pushback.

It would have been equally tasteless, but at least it would have showed some willingness to challenge the popular narrative.

If Smith were really interested in challenging established power, he could have questioned the trans movement, abortion, or even the corporate Leviathan that seems so obsessed with destroying the American family.

But he was nothing more than a coward masquerading as a rebel.

This is such, I mean, if this doesn't cut right to the core of what these quote-unquote rebels are doing, anybody who says, I'm against the fascistic state, I don't believe in government at all.

And that's why we take our marching orders from the Democratic Party.

You are a fraud.

You're a fraud.

What are you doing?

Oh, we're such rebels.

No, you're not.

No, you're not.

Because you have all the levers of power.

You have the movies.

You have music.

You have television.

You own almost all of the tech.

What, where, what, huh?

You're so oppressed by who, what, huh?

By some guy that goes to church down the street from you?

That's really, that's your, that's what's keeping you down, really?

Wow.

You're a rebel.

You're gonna side with Citicorp.

Wow.

Progressivism is a cultural vampire, he writes, feeding on the bones of a once great Christian culture.

But as it cleans the last bit of marrow from the bones, it becomes desperate.

How do you keep a coalition together that was organized around deconstruction of traditional American culture once you've consumed that culture entirely?

The hedonism and social atomization the left offers do little to create new and dynamic cultural forces.

There is no substance on which progressives can create a foundation.

If your cultural movement is built entirely on deconstruction, once you exhaust the energy generated by outrage, the only thing left is to make the deconstruction of the ritual a ritual unto itself.

Really well written.

You should read this article.

It's up on the Blaze.

Sand Smith reveals the death of

transgression.

Here's what I want to know: because it's not, it really isn't

a rebellious

thing at all

to sit there and be a part of it.

It's not rebellious.

I mean, you're not in the minority of the power.

Okay.

But where are the people, has country music completely just surrendered?

Where are the country music stars that had the balls to get up and say, you know what?

I don't want to be a part of this anymore.

I mean, this is just ridiculous.

What is this?

What is this?

I mean, we're now worshiping Satan.

A lot of these country people are just like you.

They're middle of the, you know, middle of the country, grew up in Christian families.

You know,

why doesn't somebody just have, and that's not even the guts, the business savvy to stand up and go, yeah.

I'm not going to be a part of any of that.

Because that's just, A, it's not me.

I know it's not my audience.

I'm tired of it and quite honestly i think it's pretty evil i think it's pretty evil so not gonna do it where are they

why

didn't anyone

stand up and not make a big deal out of you know i am so outraged by just saying you know this is not me this isn't my audience you want to cbs worship the devil go ahead you want to worship go worship all you want i don't i don't and i'm just tired of all of this crap because I think that's where the majority of Americans are.

They're just not addicted to outrage like we used to be.

It's just a different outrage.

We used to be, you know, oh my gosh, this is horrible and it's happening to our children.

And Elvis is swinging his hips.

Now they can do anything.

You could actually probably have sex with Elvis's hips

today

from his crypt, and it probably wouldn't cause all that outrage.

People are like,

you're right.

It's true.

And the only thing that would outrage them is the most meaningless, you know,

calling someone who was a man until 10 seconds ago still a man.

Yeah.

Right.

Misgendering someone or,

you know, saying something that is the slightest bit out of step with whatever narrative they're promoting that particular week.

And they trained us because, you know, when people first started saying, you know, America has a racist past, you were like, oh, you know, kind of does.

Of course.

Yeah.

Okay.

And so you didn't really feel comfortable defending it because part of it is true.

And you didn't hear any models of how to separate the good and the evil and all of that stuff.

So you really didn't say anything.

And they just go stronger and stronger.

Well, now you're not in the minority.

You're just in the minority

of the people that have power and powerful voices.

Okay.

But you're not in the majority, the minority of the American people.

Yeah.

Left, right.

You can't tell me that all Democrats are worshiping the devil.

They're not.

They're not.

And you can't tell me that all Republicans are really Jesus people.

You know, hey, I go to church every Sunday.

Oh, okay.

Well, that's good.

It doesn't make you a Christian.

Doesn't make you a Christian.

There's that whole whole thing about just pushing back against the man, right?

That used to be something that was praised, right?

It was something that was like, it was against the culture.

It's the total opposite of that now.

Total opposite.

If you are completely assimilating to what the man wants you to say, then you're praised.

And the people, there's almost nobody pushing back.

You know, it's funny because the one place you do continue to see this is in the world of comedy.

I mean, you know, and even you saw the Grammys, Dave Chappelle won a Grammy for his special that was so controversial.

I know.

For his transphobic special.

He won a Grammy for it.

The previous winner before that was Louis C.K.

Yeah.

Which tells you something that even the people in that industry

are tired of.

They're tired of it.

And they're just waiting for somebody just to step up and say, you know what, dude,

I, you know, I'm not into it.

And I just don't understand why, especially people who would make money, more money,

would be seen by

their audience in an even more,

you know,

loving light just by standing up for their own personal values and the values of their audience.

And not in some combative way.

I just not.

So bored by that.

No thank you.

I'm just wondering where they are.

And meanwhile, we know where the rest of everybody is.

I mean, look,

it's hard.

It is really hard on some things, like Disney.

My kids are old enough now.

I don't have to worry about it anymore.

My kids, my older kids did say, you know, my teenagers, dad, can we go to Disney one more time as a family?

And I said, nope.

Nope.

That's incredible.

Yeah.

Not going to do that.

Especially out of your mouth.

Oh, I am.

You are the biggest Disney guy.

I mean, I mean, not Disney the corporation, but Walt Disney.

I love Walt Disney.

I don't think Walt Disney would go to Walt Disney today.

Okay.

He would not recognize, and I believe he would look at it and say, good Lord, what I built has turned into a force of evil.

I really do.

I really do.

I mean, the special that they released is, you know, really, it crosses that line about 5,000 times over.

The special they released?

They did this this

cartoon.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, we have the cartoon.

Oh, we have a clip of the cartoon.

Hang on.

Let me take a quick one-minute break and come back.

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So

Disney has done a couple of things.

One, they have a kid show that is pushing CRT and

reinterpretation of our history.

Slaves built this country.

That's one of the Disney characters.

That's what they say.

Listen.

This country was built on slavery, which means slaves built this country.

Till this land from sea to sea to sea.

First, there was rice, tobacco, sugar cane.

Then Whitney did his thing and cotton became can.

And we were its soldiers, four millions strong, fighting for America's freedoms, even though we remained America's slaves.

Slaves built this country.

And we, the descendants of slaves in America, have earned reparations for their suffering and continue to earn reparations every moment we spent submerged in the systemic prejudice, racism, and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for.

Slaves built this country.

Not only shave.

Stop, I can't watch anymore.

This is Disney.

This is Disney.

Walt would say,

I regret creating this country or this company.

What have I done?

I'm convinced he would say, where did I go wrong to leave this with my name on it?

He went wrong by not figuring out the whole frozen head thing.

Yeah.

He really didn't need to thaw that thing and give it a whirl.

Here's this company that is trying to lecture us and destroy our heritage, our story,

everything about America.

They are now destroying.

The guy who made Johnny Tremaine,

the guy who made Davey Crockett and all of these things that built America's story.

is now tearing it apart.

At the same time, they've just dropped The Simpsons episode where it talks about how things are made by slaves in China.

So they're talking about us being built by slaves, not true, and dropping the Simpsons, telling the truth about the products that are made by slaves

in China.

What moral code is that?

That's the almighty dollar.

There is no moral code to that at all.

At all.

We are a country that is.

here's the latest.

This is a professor of

practical philosophy.

She is now proposing that brain-dead women

should be used as surrogates so we can grow children inside of them.

That you might not want to have a child because of the pain or you maybe you can't or because of cosmetics or whatever the reason.

We'll just implant your embryo in this brain-dead body

without her permission and we'll just grow the baby in there.

This is the kind of stuff this culture is starting to produce.

I'm a tad confused how that fits into the Me Too movement, but I can make it.

Oh, yeah.

It seems like there's a lot of unwilling behavior there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We are,

we just have to take a stand.

And taking a stand is really starting to become easy.

Because everything is accepted now.

All you have to do is remember what you were raised on and what's right and wrong,

really, what's good and evil, and then just say, The Glenn Bach program.

No evil here.

Hard pass.

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We're glad you're here.

There's a couple of things that

you need to see.

First, let me go to Joe Scarborough because he has had

enough

of those people on the right.

It's shocking.

This is only all of his commentary for the past two decades.

Listen to this.

It's uniquely American.

It's why the Ukrainians have shocked the world.

It's why there's 200,000 Russian casualties because of Ukrainian courage, Ukrainian persistence.

But yes,

American weapons, American know-how, and American training.

Listen, our troops are the best in the world.

They're the best they've ever been.

And I'm sick and tired of Republicans trashing the United States of America.

And I'm sick and tired of them trashing our men and women in uniform.

Suggestion: we're in decline.

Pathetic.

Oh my gosh, that's hysterical.

Does anyone believe he believes that?

No, no.

It's one thing for me.

That's the one thing I require from hosts.

To actually believe it.

I don't have to believe what you believe, but I have to believe that you believe what you're saying.

Yeah.

And that is, I feel like, incredibly rare.

That's rare.

It's really, really rare to find somebody who is,

you know, who will actually stand up.

Did I ever tell the story of my interview with Roger Ailes?

You've told bits and pieces pieces of it.

Yeah.

So I have this interview for the job at Fox, and

I had met Roger several times.

We had dinner, but we always talked about classic television and

things like that.

We never really talked about politics.

And

so I sat down and he said he wanted to have an official interview with me.

So I go to this restaurant, and the first thing he says to me is, What did you think of what was the strongest point in the 1972 Chinese peace treaty?

And I'm like,

I, I,

uh,

and I, it's, uh,

so I looked at him and I said, uh, I, I'm, I'm, I'm not up on my

1972 Nixon peace treaty with

Mao?

And he didn't talk to me for about five minutes.

He went, hmm, and didn't talk to me.

Then the next question was, uh,

what was the best thing that came out of the Truman,

the Eisenhower administration?

And I said,

and it wasn't the best thing that came out of it.

It was the best thing that he did against communism, you know, and I said, I,

hmm.

And I looked at him and I said, you know, I could go one of two ways.

I could bluff, but I think you're smart enough to know I am completely bluffing.

Or I could probably end this interview by just saying,

no idea.

And he said, which one are you going with?

And I said,

no idea.

He didn't talk to me for another five minutes.

Then he pushed me on my religion.

He pushed me into things that I really didn't say, but he twisted them in such a way to where it like kind of looked like I said that.

And I mean, I thought by the end of the interview, the guy

hated me.

And at the end, he stood up and I'm, and I was just ready to go, all right, well, never see you again.

Nice to meet you.

And he looked at me and he's putting on his coat and he put his coat on and he reached out to shake my hand.

He said, it's rare to know, to meet somebody who knows what they know, knows what they don't know, and is willing to admit it.

And that is what we should all be looking for.

We should all be looking for those people who are just like, I'm not going to lie.

I have no idea.

Because there's no problem in that.

And there's no problem.

If you believe something different than me, that's great.

Show me why you think differently.

Maybe I'll end up agreeing with you.

Maybe not.

But I'll at least have respect for you.

These guys have nothing.

And

that's the real problem with these.

Like tonight.

The State of the Union.

This guy is going to try to make himself like lunch bucket Joe.

Let me just show you something.

This is something that nobody really noticed in the first State of the Union address.

This is the one where they were all sitting six feet apart.

There was only like 30 people in there.

And he gave the speech, and he, for the very first time, when he talked about we and us,

he wasn't talking about the American people.

Listen to this, and if you're watching the Blaze, watch this.

With your help.

Everyone's help.

We're marshaling every federal resource.

Senior deaths from COVID-19 are down 80% since January.

Down 80% because of all of you.

You all know it.

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There's still more work to do to beat this virus.

Because of you,

the American people.

It's making a difference.

You all know it when you go home.

We're also providing rental assistance.

You all know this, but the American people, I want to make sure they understand.

While you're thinking about sending things to my desk, well, it's time to remember that we, the people, are the government.

You and I.

We the people.

Not some force in a distant capital.

Not some powerful force that we have no control over.

It's us.

What a bizarre review of our country's bizarre, okay?

So that's who he really is.

He really does believe that the government is the people.

No, no, they're a representation of the people.

They're supposed to be.

Are the people.

Yeah.

In theory, that was how it it was designed.

That's not how it operates at all.

And the guy is not going to ever take responsibility.

I mean, he's very much like Obama in this.

These guys will never take responsibility for anything.

So do you think you're going to hear the truth tonight?

No,

that's why we're doing the roast tonight.

We're not even, I mean,

it'll be playing and you'll hear it, but...

You know, it's going to be a clown show.

We're going to make fun of him constantly.

Constantly.

And I think that's the only way to watch it, honestly.

It is.

We're doing this special tonight, the State of the Union Roast of Joe Biden, as we kind of just watch.

We're going to do a little preview starting at 8 p.m.

Eastern with myself.

Glenn is going to be on as well.

Sarah Gonzalez, Chad Prather, Alex Stein.

It's going to be a really fun group.

And just talking, first of all, previewing what we're going to see, but then as we're watching it, kind of doing it Mystery Science Theater 3000 style, where we just watch the thing and make fun of it as it goes.

Because it's the only way to take it in.

I don't think any conservative wants to hear a a word from Joe Biden.

No.

Because he's not trying.

He keeps talking about, like, oh, we need to work together.

He doesn't.

But it's not true at all.

There's no truth.

What is the purpose?

What is the purpose?

My son asked me, you know, a long time ago, why do I even have to go to school?

Why?

I mean, it's such a waste of time, Dad.

And I'm like, well, no, it's not a waste of time.

First of all, you need to learn this stuff.

And

part of

going to school or going to college, this was in

Tulsa King.

I thought this was so good.

This line Sheridan wrote.

He said,

Do you really think that college is just about that degree at the end?

The minute you get that degree, nobody cares about that degree.

That degree is just to show some employer that you showed up when you were supposed to show up four years in a row and completed the work that you thought was meaningless.

That's all that's for.

And in a way, it's true.

It's absolutely true.

Why was I telling that story?

I don't know, but I mean, the credentialism part of this is really a problem, right?

Like, I mean, you know, there's that great book by Brian Kaplan about this, and he talks about the scenario of like,

let's just say someone graduates college and they have a D minus average, D minus average throughout the entire four years.

They graduate college, get their degree, walk off stage.

Another person at the same school goes through three years and 364 days with A pluses,

but then doesn't show up on the last day and get

his diploma

degree and never actually officially graduates.

Which one is going to get hired by today's businesses?

The one that

the one with the D minus that graduated.

Yeah.

I mean, it just shows how ridiculously stupid that is.

And the idea is to pursue truth.

What is the point of going to college?

What is the point of all of this?

The point is, and this is so critical for your kids, especially in the age of AI.

It is so critical to understand that

students, you're not going to be able to beat and get around AI.

Okay.

We've got a policy.

We're not going to accept.

How are you going to check it?

How are you going to check that?

That that wasn't written by Chat GPT.

How are you going to check it?

Seriously.

It was written specifically for that student.

So you're not going to get around it.

And that is going to be a way of life now.

I talked to somebody last night.

They said, I'm going to be a computer programmer.

I said, really?

For about, what, 10 minutes?

You're a freshman in college.

I bet that job isn't even available in four years.

What?

You have to learn how to ask the right questions,

how to think of things outside of the box.

And it has to be an honest pursuit.

Otherwise, you're in the dustbin of history.

And there is nothing honest about the questions the media will ask tonight.

Nothing honest about the facts that will be given.

Nothing honest about the relationships when everybody stands and applauses or doesn't stand and applause.

That's a group thing.

That's not individual.

This has no reflection of reality or anything helpful at all.

Nothing.

Now, I've never been a fan of these, but once in a while you'll go, hey, well, there's

nothing, nothing of value.

Woodrow Wilson.

is the one who started it.

It's true.

Frickin' Woodrow Wilson.

It was just a nice letter.

It was.

It was a letter.

Hey,

here's what's going on.

This is what's going on with with the administration.

And then Woodrow Wilson decided he wanted to make a big show of it and get all the applause and

get all the praise.

It's

unbelievable.

We should make the State of the Union a letter again.

We should.

We should.

We should.

And I have to tell you, because there's no use for watching.

Unless you're watching us tonight and we're making fun of it.

And you can join us in that.

Because

we'll be watching the Twitters.

twitters and

uh so we'd like to hear yours uh your opinions as well because uh it's a roast tonight of the lies the media the president congress the senate it's a roast putting it all into the perspective

of uh

of how important these people and this

beautiful ceremony is every year.

Don't miss it.

It's happening on Blaze TV.

You can get the roast tonight.

If you haven't subscribed, make sure you go to blazetv.com

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And that is also the promo code, S-O-T-U, State of the Union, S-O-T-T-U,

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get $20 off of your subscriptions.

Well worth it.

Oh, and Alex Stein, Prime Primetime,

Primetime 99.

Alex.

I don't know.

It rhymes.

It's going to start on Wednesday.

Flowing right so easily.

Yeah, he starts, and that show is

these shows might be like collectibles, not like beanie babies where they just made them and made them and made them and made them.

And that's why everybody has them in a closet who collected them and they're not worth anything.

This might be a very big collectible because he's so unpredictable.

There could be one show, but that one show will be so valuable.

He's going to join us as well tonight.

So don't miss it.

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So

I don't know if you,

this probably not be in the speech because there's so many accomplishments to talk about tonight.

But I don't know if anybody saw that

we found somebody in the trunk of a car,

you know, down at the border here in Texas.

And he shouldn't have been in the trunk.

Well, nobody really should be in the trunk of the car, but this guy really shouldn't have been in the trunk of a car.

He was part of a human trafficking thing, which I didn't even know that was happening down the border.

But he was an Iranian that was in the trunk of the car.

That was a long walk from Iran.

He's on the terror watch list from the FBI.

The good news is.

Our government agencies didn't find him.

It was the Texas DPS.

It's because Texas put extra,

you

state patrol down there.

They pulled this car over and they're like, yeah, can we check in the trunk?

And they found him.

So

I'm not sure if he's going to be one of the dreamers that I'm sure will be welcomed.

Probably looking for asylum, Glenn, here in our fine country.

Right.

In the trunk of the car.

Right.

Right.

Now he has.

He's on a watch list because he said he's going to do nasty things to America, but

he is probably here for the.

He just loves this country, Glenn.

And it's possible that he just thought he might be sent to like New York City, and therefore the safest place was in the trunk.

Right.

Right, like at least,

right.

You can't be terrorized by the maybe he just all he knows of America is he's watched mob movies and he thought everybody

rides in the trunk of a car.

They used to have those cars, like the big station wagons with the rear-facing seats.

Maybe that's he just got a little confused.

Okay, could be that.

Could be that.

Could be that.

But I'm glad we found the Glen Back program.