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this nancy pelosi thing is really scary isn't it really scary you see uh ran paul

uh ran paul's response let's see if i can find it here he responded like an adult

he did um

but he also made a point with it did you yeah um yeah he said he so basically

He said about the so Nancy Pelosi's husband was assaulted in their home.

We don't have any of the details on it yet, but everyone's just kind of saying the same thing that you should say, which is, hey, God, that's terrible and should not happen to anybody, no matter what, you know, whether you agree with them or not.

He writes, no one deserves to be assaulted.

Unlike Nancy Pelosi's daughter, who celebrated my assault, I condemn this attack and wish Mr.

Pelosi a speedy recovery.

And he links to the tweet where Nancy Pelosi's daughter said Rand Paul's neighbor, who assaulted him, was right for assaulting him.

which was eventually actually one of the very few examples of pre-Elon Musk Twitter censorship against the left.

They actually deleted that tweet because it was someone endorsing an assault.

Yeah, really, really bad.

And this is a threat to our democracy.

Things like this,

if, I mean,

I hate to even say this, but I hope it was just some crackhead that was just whacked out of their mind.

But how does somebody as rich as the Pelosis, and as high profile as the Pelosis, not have security at their house?

How does that happen?

Certainly not sufficient security if they have any.

Not at all.

Anyway,

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hello sunshine how are you very good you sound tired been working hard

I have a Tallulah bankhead thing going.

That's called

Spending a Lot of Time on the Road and Talking A lot of People.

Yeah.

Thank you for that, by the way.

You're the Washington Examiner National Political Reporter.

You are also a columnist for the New York Post and the co-author of The Great Revolt, which explained what happened in 2016.

You get it because you actually talk to people.

You wrote an amazing article that has just come out, the painful story on how John Fetterman arrived at Tuesday night's humiliation.

I read it on the air

just last hour.

I want to get to that, but I first want to get your reaction on

what are people saying?

What are the voters saying?

What's really happening on the ground there?

Well, you know, it's a funny story.

I drove all the way out to the debate from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg.

I got there, realized that the only people I would be watching the debate with was other reporters and I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to learn anything here.

Drove all the way back halfway across the state and stopped in a bar and

just sat back and observed people watching the debate.

And I think the most

powerful thing about watching those reactions was the watching the realization on their faces that they had no idea that

John Setterman was in this bad of a condition.

Well, they understood because he would do a rally here and there, spoke a couple times.

They understood there was somewhat of a problem, but they thought it was speech related as opposed to cognitively related.

And when he was put in a position where he had to answer questions and provided all the tools available to him and he still struggled.

They now realized nobody has been telling them this.

I mean, I have.

Dasha Burns has, but that's about it.

All the other reporters have just omitted that this is an issue.

And so as they were talking among each other,

they were really frustrated and angry at my profession for not being d demonstrating exactly what the problem is and being honest about what they've seen over the past couple months, but also really mad at other Democrats like Senator Bob Casey, who has stood on the dais with him in about a half a dozen events, maybe more,

and talked about how terrific shape he's in.

And he even had the audacity to go on national news after the debate and said, he did a terrific job.

Then you add that with the Philadelphia Inquirer saying that he won the debate, the CNN saying he won the debate.

And

you add all that together, and there's this sort of invisible and quiet thing going on with voters saying, y'all are gaslighting us, and we're tired of it.

So is it going to change the way people, we are so set in our camps now

that

I wonder if anything anything would change anybody's mind.

Yeah, absolutely.

Will this change their mind?

I saw it.

I saw it happening in real time.

Look, one of the things that was so important about the book, The Great Revolt, it was that it was understood this coalition and this conservative populist coalition that formed long before

Donald Trump ever stepped on the stage and remained intact.

You look at Pennsylvania in 2020.

So what happened?

Joe Biden won.

Joe Biden won barely.

What people did not talk about was that there was a significant red wave down ballot in the congressional races, in the statewide row office races, in the state House, in the state Senate.

That coalition remained

together.

Once again, proving that this was not about Trump, but it was about their lives, their communities, and how they are impacted.

And I think that remains to be the underlying

or the story that is consistently missed

in reporting.

And I'll give you an example of that.

The other day, did you see the Kentucky coal miner who came to went to the basketball to watch this?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

By the way, that's something I see all the time.

To me, that was like, yeah, I mean, that's what people do.

But, you know, everyone was like, oh, my God.

But it ran, that image started to

be shared across social media at the exact same time that the Washington Post wrote a story that said why rural Americans are so angry and resentful and why they're voting Republican.

And I thought, this is the perfect example, these two moments together, of how

my profession does not understand the very people that they're covering.

That coal miner was not angry and resentful that he had to go to the game like that.

He was appreciative that he had a job to go to and the ability to leave that job and go sit in a basketball game.

Yeah.

So, so you bring up in your, so wait a minute, before I go on to this, the polls show that Oz is now up two to three points.

I would, in normal times, I would have expected that to be six, seven, eight.

But who knows?

What are you thinking about?

Is Fetterman going to win?

Is there going to be enough space between them?

Look,

here's the challenge for Federman.

And by the way, I would say it's been a challenge.

I've been reporting this since mid-September.

Dr.

Oz, who I was incredibly skeptical of

in the beginning when he first announced he was running, has actually proved and matured as a very good candidate.

Someone who goes into those places, as I call

the middle of somewheres, and

talks to the voters that nobody thinks about.

And he listened to them.

I have logged on thousands of miles on the back roads with Oz, watched him in rural areas, watched him in

majority, minority areas, just listening to voters, where, by the way, no other reporter would be.

So he's not there to get a photo off.

No one's there.

I'm there.

And he's actually doing it because he wants to understand what the issues are.

So that was a long way of telling you that I have always thought that John Fetterman was losing voters, incrementally losing them.

Remember, he was up 12 percentage points.

But he also has no ability to gain voters.

And it's not just based on

his his illness.

You know, I've been doing, I don't know if anybody's reading it, but I've been reporting that

as mayor, the whole sort of elevated story that you saw in the Rolling Stone and The Atlantic and the New York Times, these glossy, beautiful pieces about how he saved this borough in southwestern Pennsylvania.

I've been covering him since 2005.

He didn't save that town.

He was barely ever there.

He didn't attend the events.

He really had very little power to begin with.

Crime went up.

Population declined.

And the heart and soul of that town, the hospital, where there was the only sit-down restaurant for people to go to in the cafeteria, was

torn down.

I hope people go to SelenaZeo.com and read the reporting that I've been doing.

I know I'm not on social media,

but that reporting has been

there for months.

I saw the story on that when it came out.

And how do the people of the town feel when they're hearing, hey, he saved our town?

Well, that was the beauty of that story.

That wasn't me telling everyone that.

That was them saying that.

They talked about how their town didn't get better.

They talked about no jobs coming in.

They talked about the people that have fled to get get out of there because there's no hope and there's no opportunity.

And they talked about it always being just about him and never about them.

And they talked about him going after one of their neighbors,

a young black man who was jogging and he put a shotgun to his chest and kept him there because he thought he was some sort of

because he thought,

yeah, and by the way, that young man's life has been destroyed.

That young man's life has been destroyed, and he has never been apologized to.

Or the kind that he went up to a local bar, a nightclub, owned, by the way, by a black entrepreneur and changed the wording on the signs at 2 o'clock in the morning, and a camera caught it

saying that it was closed and not opened because he deemed it unworthy to be opened in the town.

These are the stories that people of Braddock will tell you.

Not the stories, not me saying this.

This is them saying this.

That's why I think that reporting is so important, let alone that he didn't pay his taxes in the poorest school district, in one of the poorest school districts in the state.

He didn't pay the school tax.

And, you know,

it frustrated me every time all these glossy stories were put out there, you know, with him standing in front of a steel mill.

At the same time, his parents were paying for his education i mean paying for his family's lifestyle it's you know it's amazing to me he reminds me of in in many ways karl marx karl marx was a horrible human being that never paid a dime of his own way uh he he practically bankrupt his parents he lived off his parents and then his family for his whole life never really accomplished anything

oh my gosh that's That's astounding.

I can't even imagine not wanting to have purpose in your life in that way, other than the purpose of power, which is what I believe that this has always been about.

Okay, so we're talking to Selenazito.

Selenazito.com is her web address, but she writes for the New York Post and also the Washington Examiner.

When in 2016, when you nailed what was happening, you were the only one that the media went, how how did she get this so right?

And you wrote a book about it.

You went to work for CNN as a contributor there.

And I know you, Celine.

I know

you probably walked in at first hoping that people will actually listen and get it.

And then they didn't.

And thus they're down the toilet even more.

Why are they not looking?

Why are they not exposing things like Fetterman?

are they afraid

or are they afraid of being ostracized by their own

their own group or is it is it that they just won't do it because they're on the bandwagon

so it's I have an entire chapter about this in my book and I think that it's probably the one that people should really really read

it's called a culture craving respect and the problem with my profession is the same problem that you see in corporate America, in major news organizations, but also in institutions and governments, but also even in

sports organizations, in that the people in the boardrooms

are all come from the same, they all live in the same super zip codes.

What do I mean by super zip codes?

The wealthiest counties in the country.

They all went to the same great schools.

Now, they may have come from Iowa, but they left that far behind once they got to DC or New York.

And so, what happens is when they go to whether it is write a story or do a commercial or make a boneheaded decision like the NFL did and

let Colin Kaeperdick do whatever he wanted, despite having a contract that said you cannot do this, is because they don't, they are so disconnected from the people who read their stories who buy their tickets who sit in their seats that is the larger problem right that's where the problem begins it began at the same time where more companies kept buying up smaller companies so there's less co local connection to the people who buy your products

but also local news organizations target started to shudder

and and so people had to gravitate to buying their items and or reading their news from places that don't know them.

They don't know anyone that sits in a pew every Sunday.

They don't know anyone that says a prayer before dinner.

They don't know anyone that owns a gun.

They don't know anybody else who used a gun.

And so

because of that, when they plop into a place,

they seem like a freak show.

They look at the paper and say, y'all are a freak show.

I have one minute.

I have one minute.

The reporter that her job was threatened, I mean, she was just beat up by everybody from NBC.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And she folded.

Was that a message?

Did everybody who was covering this know clearly how bad Fetterman was?

Yes, they did.

I'm still, I

watched them watch the same things I'd seen.

They knew.

They always knew.

Sasha Burns is a very good reporter, and I will sing her praises forever because she has kept on that story and she continues to keep on the story.

I would keep an eye on her.

And I think it's interesting that it's a young woman and a 63-year-old grandma that only have the nerve to write this stuff.

Okay, one last question: 10 seconds.

Veteran going to win or Oz?

What?

I think it ends up being Oz.

I hope you're right this time.

Thank you so much, Selena.

God bless.

and we'll follow your reporting.

Selenazeto.com.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

I love Michael Malice.

He is the host of the podcast, You're Welcome.

And

he's, this is what it says on my sheet here from my producers.

A comedian attempts to convince Glenn to endorse John Fetterman.

Go at it, Michael.

And I know you're doing this just because you think Fetterman in office would be fun.

No, that's not correct.

That's not correct.

And I also want to point out something else.

I had a correction issued from Vice magazine, which had said, correction in a previous article, Michael Malis was identified as a comedian.

Right.

So I am not going to be.

I don't find you funny at all, Michael.

Well, that's why I'm on this show.

where humor goes to die and common sense.

All right, all right, all right.

So

why are you going to try to convince me to vote for John Fetterman?

I don't think, I'm not going to convince you to vote for him because you're not in Pennsylvania, but I will convince you that it's a good thing that he defeats Dr.

Oz and for a couple of reasons.

Would you agree with me that it is a superior situation for America that we went Obama, Obama, Trump than if we had gone Obama, Romney, Romney in the elections?

Yes.

So if you went back in time to 2012 and you told yourself, Glenn, quit now, you're going to be a mess in 10 years.

But other than that, you should prefer, and get rid of Stuke because he's out of control, but you should prefer that Obama take this election because it's going to work out in the long term.

You would have thought you were crazy, but that would have been the correct result, right?

Okay, so wait, wait, wait, wait.

Wait, am I?

No, no, no, no.

I'm leading the, you're on the road, sir.

No, I, could I

speak?

Yeah, it's yeah, go ahead.

All right.

Um, I stopped, I stopped

trying to figure out uh long-term strategies after Trump because I realized, you know what, it's got it, it'll, it'll all work out for the best.

Just do the next right thing.

And you'll never convince me that the next right thing is to have John Fetterman in.

I can convince you very easily, and this is why, because the only power the Republican base has over the Republican Party is to refuse to put rhinos into Congress.

That is their only power.

We saw it in 2016 where establishment candidate after establishment candidate was the stop Trump candidate.

We're seeing it now in 2022 where Mitch McConnell is pulling money from New Hampshire when Bolditch has a chance against Maggie Hassen if it's a wave election.

And he's putting into whatever North or South Carolina, which is definitely going to go to Republican, because Mitch McConnell wants that vote that's going to be more loyal to him than towards the MAGA wing and to the American people.

So if you are going, hold on, let me just finish.

If you're going to take losses somewhere or other, it's better to have that loss be a Democrat who can't even talk than, let's suppose, a Barack Obama who's charismatic or Nancy Pelosi who is a good parliamentarian.

Okay, except I don't think he would serve out his full term and that would put his wife in the.

That's fine, but the point is, Oz Woods.

Right, right.

No, let me say one more sentence.

If you're on the debate stage saying that your goal is to work with the Democrats and your goal is to tighten up background checks, you know perfectly well how this person is going to govern.

But this is this is wait, but your point being that the anti-Trump candidates, right, were the establishment people, but

this is Trump's pick.

This is Trump's guy.

Trump endorsed Romney twice.

Trump only cares if someone returns his calls.

Oh, silence, exactly.

You have nothing to say.

I don't know.

I have a lot of people who are.

John Servant in office would be very, very bad.

That's what I would say.

Very bad.

Would be very bad.

Why do you want a competent Democrat?

You want someone who's good at being a Democrat?

No.

No.

No.

If we have to have an incumbent Democrat, one that is terrible, in some ways, would be preferable because maybe they'd be easier to beat.

This is also a strategy that's been attempted by the Democrats multiple times, and it has not worked out particularly well.

We have Joe Biden on the same strategy.

I don't want another incompetent person in the.

Would you rather have Obama in the White House right now than Joe Biden?

No.

Oh, interesting.

It's hard to think about that.

Isn't it a good thing Diane Feinstein, according to the New York Post, was told three times by Chuck Schumer that she has to retire, and she agreed three times, and three times she forgot about their conversation?

Isn't that a good thing?

Yes, it is.

It is.

Isn't it a good thing when the Democratic Party is regarded as a laughing stock as Jon Stewart made the Bush administration for eight years instead of some organization that people can look up to and admire?

Look, Michael, Michael, Michael, listen to me.

Listen to me.

These are all good things if it's not a good night on election night or a bad election day on the next morning, having you on saying these things will go, you know what?

You're right.

It is a good thing that Betterman is in there.

I feel feel good.

You're right.

Save that.

Save that.

Because I need that.

Is there any situation where you would prefer that the Democratic candidate win over the Republican candidate?

I think this, and this is speaking for myself here, I usually am incredibly, I hate partisanship.

This particular election, I'm more partisan than normal because I want there to be an ability to stop what they they are doing.

The fact is like Dr.

Oz, as I've stated a thousand times, is not the candidate that I want as a Republican senator.

However, these votes matter and the fact that we may have Supreme Court justices that they're going to be able to push through and things of that nature, I think are really important.

So control of the Senate matters to me.

If we can get up to 54, 55 senators, then you're looking at a potential filibuster-proof majority in 2024.

So I do think there are reasons for this, yes.

So despite you just saying you're not a partisan, you're saying the only, just to be clear, the only times you're comfortable with a Democrat taking a seat is if there's 60 Republicans?

No, no, no.

I'm comfortable with a Democrat.

Like if Joe Lieberman decided to run, I'd be like, you know, okay, he's pretty good.

Is he?

Joe Lieberman.

He voted for Obamacare.

Just because he criticized the Democrats.

You're happy with Joe Lieberman?

No,

that's the older Joe Lieberman.

He was good on some things.

He was good on some things.

I at least agreed with him

at times, and he did have his own mind.

I'm going to say why Fetterman is good on some things.

Okay.

And you're not going to disagree with me.

The only time there's an effective anti-war coalition in Congress is when you have a Republican president, and that's when the Democrats become anti-war.

In every other circumstance, both parties are tripping over themselves to support imperialism and the war state.

And that's one thing Fetterman would be good for.

I don't think I suck on everything.

I think

we have Democrats in office now.

They're all throwing how many billions of dollars.

Like I said, if you had a Republican president, that's the only time there's an anti-war coalition in Congress.

But that's the Republican presidents have led many, many wars right now.

Right.

And the only time they have opposition is with the left wing of the Democrats.

Yeah, but having opposition, but the war still happens isn't a positive.

No, I know, but what he's saying, no, no, no.

But what he's saying is if we had, and I don't think the same would be true with Donald Trump, and I think this is changing.

I think there are a lot of conservatives are actually changing

where they're like, what?

Can we learn our lesson here?

This doesn't work.

Get out of these.

You're not learning your lesson because you keep voting in rhinos.

And Oz is the king of that.

He had his show for 10 years.

He had never stood up for conservative principles on his show once.

He's Oprah Winfrey's puppet, and Oprah Winfrey single-handedly got Barack Obama the nomination.

It would be nice if I'm surprised Oprah Winfrey has not come out and helped Dr.

Oz at all.

It wouldn't help.

Well, she supports Pennsylvania.

It would help with Pennsylvania.

Otherwise, she won't be black.

What's that?

She has to support Biden or else she wouldn't be black.

That's true.

You're right.

You're right.

I always forget that you're not really black, Claus.

It's in the Constitution if I'm so

sick.

Let me ask you this.

What were your thoughts when you watched him?

Because

it wasn't funny at all.

It was really sad, but it made me also angry to watch the video.

It was extremely funny because he opened up the debate by saying, hello, good night.

And this shaved chewbacca that they,

but his wife blocked me because she's like, oh, John Fetterman said, I don't remember the Statue of Liberty.

I said, he doesn't remember anything, you sadistic witch.

It is despicable.

It is despicable that his family and his team put a broomstick up his bum and put him in front of that mic when any other candidate could have served that purpose because they're not really voting for Federman.

You're voting for a Democratic vote, right?

Like, you don't really need the staff will run

the Senate office.

So even if he can't even talk, it doesn't really matter.

We saw that with Storm Thurman toward the end when he was literally 100 years old.

Yeah,

you're seeing that with what's your name?

You're just talking about in California.

Yeah, you're seeing the same thing.

That is the biggest

threat to democracy.

They keep saying, oh, there's a a threat to democracy.

They don't actually care about deliberation.

They only want people in there.

They'll take them brain damaged, you know, on a stretcher, almost dead.

They, Stu just said he will support the Republican in any circumstances.

That's not what I said at all.

What I said was, I'm not a partisan, which, by the way, true, I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat.

I voted third party all the time.

My point is only in this election, what I'm rooting for, not necessarily what I'm voting for, what I'm rooting for is an end.

Freaking the end of Democratic control of the Senate.

This should not be a controversial viewpoint on this particular program.

It's not hang on just a sec.

I am with him on this because we are at the end of the republic.

And I know that makes some people happy.

It doesn't make me happy.

I'd like to, before we burn it down, I'd like to see, can we get it on the track enough and find

an Elon Musk that will come in and go, Yeah, we're firing all you people.

I am just shocked that we got Stu to admit on air that he's a member of Andrew Yang's Forward Party.

This is where you're an anarchist,

but here we are.

This is where you're an anarchist.

You come up and you just stir it all up and then you leave.

This is why John Fetterman's wise wife blocked you.

By the way, real quick, what do you think the changes are going to mean?

Anything substantial with Twitter?

Yes, I think that for a long time, corporate journalists and academic professors who are I, you know, refer to as members of the enemy class, they were taking loss after loss after loss on Twitter because for the first time they had accountability.

They're not in their offices where they kind of protect it against criticism.

And now without having that shield in front of them, they're really going to have a come to Jesus moment with their depravity and malfeasance.

And it's going to be absolutely glorious to watch them throw tantrums for the next couple of years.

So does on Monday, he said,

some changes are going into effect, the first changes.

Babylon B, Donald Trump, who's back?

I hope Trump waits until after the midterms because this is just going to give the Democrats an issue and distraction from inflation and abortion and all this unspending.

So we can worry about Trump on November 9th.

I really hope he has that presence of mind to keep his mouth shut just for another two weeks.

Michael Malice, thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Always a pleasure, guys.

Both veterans.

Host of

he's such a jerk.

He is such a jerk.

He just loves to stir it up.

He's going to be on the coverage, and I'm like.

Oh, it's going to be fun.

Yeah.

I'm like, we're not going to get any real work done because he's just going to play contrarian just to get us all going.

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It's already been a rough day.

Wouldn't you say?

It's been an adventure.

A roller adventure ride of a show.

Already.

Already.

Well, today's unorthodox, too.

It's an honor and a privilege, but then you got a gala going on here.

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You got 10 different people running in and out with chairs, Superman outfits.

I mean, it's nuts at Blaze right now.

We told them that they had to wear the Superman outfit to be able to bring the chairs in.

That makes sense.

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So Alex is the host of Conspiracy Castle.

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I just did something with you on television last week, and I played some of the clips of you where you go in, and you'll go into city council meetings, and I don't know how you pull this off with a straight face for as long as you do because they're absurd.

What you're saying is absurd, and everybody just acts like it's not.

Well, I mean, we live in an absurd world.

So people, you know, are having trouble deciphering what is real and what is fake and you know my comedic hero is Andy Kaufman so really I'm just kind of a hack I'm just you know basically mixing absurdity and reality and in the culture we live in today you can't tell what is real you can't you can't uh so you were just up at a uh campus you were going to um give a talk with uh what's his name gavin mckinnes yeah gavin mckinnis and they actually spat on you literally literally and it was a pretty this this girl she'd been practicing that was uh that was not a first-time spitter.

Can we play the video here?

I just want to say you guys

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Let's go, baby!

Unfortunately!

I am insane, yes.

My name is the footy that's being a ass here.

Why is there any big footy last

here?

You should have been a born.

I should have been avoided.

This is so hard.

Dangerous.

This is the future of our country.

These are the brightest bulbs.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my gosh.

She had a lot of spit.

Yeah.

So she's got to get you an audio person.

Yeah, that's that's

the audio.

Well, no, no, no, it was crazy like that.

It It was just the mic was a little too close to my mouth.

But yes, we did realize that.

We know what costs the question is.

All right, you guys controlled me.

I'm the troll.

No trolling me.

The mic was not perfect.

I was in a war zone.

If you're like, if I'm in Kabul, Afghanistan, I'm sorry if the audio is not perfect, Stu.

I apologize.

Okay, so you were at Penn State,

and they wanted you not to be at Penn State.

They don't understand freedom of speech at all.

Are you going to do anything about it?

I mean, not the spitter.

I mean, the spitter is just.

No, she's a young kid.

I mean, I'm not going to go after her.

That would be punching down.

But no, I am going to file a civil rights lawsuit against Penn State University because they said they had a lot of kickback Glenn before the event saying, oh, it should be shut down.

It should be shut down.

And the university administrator said, oh, well, we're going to go on with it.

We believe in free speech.

We're state universities.

They're publicly funded.

They have federal money.

So they're held to a different standard than these private colleges.

Once they shut it down, you know, that made them liable to a lawsuit.

But this is the problem.

When you're in that group, Glenn, you're a fascist.

You're a fascist.

I said, well, define a fascist for me.

And I think Benito Mussolini defined fascism as the merger of corporation and state.

I'm anti-establishment.

I don't want corporation and state together at all.

But these kids do.

So it's all projection.

It's Sololinsky's Rules for Radicals where you accuse the enemy of doing what you're actually doing.

And this is a clear-cut example of these kids being confused and not even knowing.

It's like the dog that chases the car.

Once it catches up to the bumper, it doesn't know what to do with it.

So this is the future.

And we used to say, yeah, we'll wait until they get into the real world.

That's over.

They are in the real world now.

And we're the ones having to change.

I saw a poll recently about freedom of speech, and everybody says they're for freedom of speech, but there's a good now, I believe, majority of people under 40 that are saying, yeah, but I mean, some free speech should put you in jail.

Yeah, which is ridiculous.

And if you look at on Twitter right now, now with Elon Musk taking it over and giving us the impression that we're going to have free speech, people are going nuts.

They're so excited.

But then the people on the left, Glenn, are melting down.

And that's where I'm like, why are these people, these blue check marks, afraid of letting human beings say however they feel?

And that's the problem is they don't want you to be able to say how you actually feel.

Well, so today is going to be interesting, the next few weeks, really on Twitter, because I just have this great urge just to go Iver Iver Mechn is the best oh yeah um and you know people will push the boundaries of free speech which you know there there has to be responsibility with every right there's responsibility let's not do that that's not necessarily good for society well my favorite is a guy or excuse me woman rachel levine and rachel levine who was born dick levine and if you say rachel levine is a man on twitter you can get kicked off twitter as a matter of fact babylon b that's why their account got suspended for just saying basically a fact.

I mean, Rachel Levine, although she's one of the most beautiful administrators we've ever had, she's a man.

That's a dude, baby, as Austin Power said.

I don't know if that's how he said it, but if you say that.

That's a man.

That's a man, man.

That's it.

You're sharper than me, Glenn.

But I'm just saying, it's just, you can't even point out the elephant in the room.

So when you say the ivermectin, you say the sudden adult death syndrome, you say any of that type of stuff.

On Twitter, you're subject to removal.

Although that ends today, in theory.

Yeah, well, Elon Musk said,

Elon Musk said, the bird is free.

At 11 o'clock, he tweeted last night, the bird has been freed.

Well, you know, and I take it back to the midterms, too.

It's like, you know, now that they give us the impression that we have free speech, oftentimes I think they can even censor us more.

It's like we see potentially we're going to have a red wave in the coming up election, but because of all the legislation that the Biden administration and Biden administration has put in for the past two years, we can't even get in office and change everything.

So that will all lay on the laps of conservatives.

So when the economy crashes and everything goes to crap, they're going to say, well, you guys had all the control.

You guys did it all.

You know, this is all a Republican conservative problem.

I said this a couple of weeks ago.

You watch.

They've been denying that we're in a recession.

They've been denying that there's any kind of problems.

Jobs are fine.

We've all been saying, no, they're not.

This is going to get worse from here.

Now, Biden is already setting up.

I'm telling you, if you give the Congress and the Senate to the Republicans,

it's going to get worse.

Yeah.

And you look at our economy.

I mean, the idea that anybody can buy a single-family home, people can't.

I mean, people can't afford the groceries.

People can't afford, you know, to fill up the gas tank.

So, you know, people are struggling right now and they're asking for help, but all they can do is give an 80 more billion dollars to Ukraine.

I mean, it's just absurd that these people, they don't want to help us.

I think everything they're doing is a controlled demolition of the American system, especially the idea that why are they taking us off energy independence?

The oil and gas industry can lift up this entire world.

We could basically supply just here in Texas.

Why are we not doing that?

Why are we not taking advantage of the things that would make our country, which was the most powerful country in the world?

I don't know if that's the case any longer.

How old are you?

35.

35 years old.

I was just sobering up when I was 35.

Well, you know, do you say that, Glenn?

That changed my life.

I quit drinking when I was 31, and that was the biggest change in my life.

And everybody out there, I'm not trying to be a, you know,

negative Nancy.

I know everybody wants to have their fun, but alcohol and drugs is a lifestyle that will only make you more depressed and it will only ruin your life.

Destroy it.

Just destroy it.

And once you can take a step back, because you can't see it, you know, you can't see the force for the big tree in front of your face.

If you're out there and you're struggling, take a break, take a month off, take a couple of weeks off.

But, you know, in society with the fentanyl and the drug crisis, everybody has a problem they want to medicate.

So I think, sadly, the drug problem is only going to get worse.

I was reading Ryan Holiday's new book, which is about discipline.

And one of the things he talks about, because he doesn't drink at all, and he talks about how...

The best way to make a decision as to whether you should continue a habit that's questionable to you is to think about it as if it came out today and you knew everything about it, would you still make the decision?

Like, if alcohol was released in stores tomorrow for the first time, with all the information that we already know about it, would you start drinking tomorrow?

Yes.

Yeah.

Margaritas are much, dude.

Everybody wants to have a margarita peanut coffee.

Yes, I would.

No, but I guess that's a really wise way of looking at that because, you know, most of these things, they become like drinking is cultural, right?

Like, I, you know, I drink certainly a little bit more than you guys at this point, but not a lot.

You know, I'm not, but a social drinker.

I'll have a drink or two if we go out to dinner or whatever.

And often you go out and it just feels like, all right, everyone else is ordering a drink.

I should order a drink.

And that's just dumb cultural pressure.

Penn Gillette said the same thing.

You know, he just came to that point where he was like, you know what, I don't care anymore.

I'm not going to be embarrassed about not ordering a drink.

Oh,

I think you guys are on the other side of this where maybe you've had a, Glenn certainly, I don't know, you know, Alex is as well, but like, you had a real problem with this.

It was ruining your life.

It was destroying your life.

In fact, I mean, look at what it made you today.

So you had that and you came on the other side and you said, hey, all right, like now I can look at this and see how absurd these things were because you went through that pain.

Most people don't go through that pain.

I never had any, never had any negative consequences from drinking other than a couple of bad headaches and a vomit or two.

So like you get, but you realize it's just a dumb decision overall.

It doesn't improve your life.

It doesn't make, it doesn't give you any long-term prospects of growth per se.

It's just something we do because it's culturally there.

If I would have bought stock in Jack Daniels or Makersmark, I would have made a lot of money.

Buy stock in it all you want.

I'm convinced.

I'm convinced.

Just me alone drove that company.

Well, to your point, Stu, and I always say this, you know, and I stole this from Charles Barkley in the 80s.

I'm not a role model, so I don't want to give anybody necessarily advice.

The first piece of advice I will give everybody, as I say that, do not worry about the opinions of others.

That's what we try to do.

Nobody cares.

Even your person that's probably, you know, they say, you know, what is your biggest fan is a stranger and your biggest, you know, enemy is probably somebody real close to you.

So worrying about the opinions of strangers, just be yourself.

You know, I saw an interview with Larry King right before he passed away, and they said, what is some advice for future broadcasters?

And he said, kid, just be yourself.

And I think that, you know, you could extrapolate that for everybody.

Just be yourself.

That doesn't mean be a jerk or, you know, be an ale, but just be yourself and be unapologetically yourself.

And I will tell you that,

especially with drinking, I don't know if you were like this, but you didn't really have a problem with it.

Not necessarily drinking.

When I stopped drinking, misery loves company.

Nobody likes

your good friends.

I lost most of them, and I ended up with stew.

This is not a commercial sobriety.

Most of your friends, they like you the way you are.

And when you say, hey, I'm cleaning up, but you do whatever you want.

It doesn't bother me.

I'm just making this choice for me.

A lot of my friends,

they weren't for it.

It's a scarlet letter for whatever reason because you're not on the same level.

You're not the one getting intoxicated.

It's weird.

Yeah, it's really, really strange.

So, where are you going from here?

What's the next?

Well, I'm headed to Florida, but I got another speaking engagement in the spring at University of Tennessee under the same group, Uncensored America.

So, we'll see.

I'm sure the, you know, I'm sure the college kids will be out in full force with their pitchforks.

But at the same time, Glenn, you know, people say, oh, it's so scary.

It's really not that scary.

Getting people yelling at you,

I love it.

You know, I love confrontation.

So for me, it's like, if I could do this every weekend, Glenn, I'm ready to get on the plane.

Let's go.

Primetime 99.

Let's yell and scream in my face.

Only because, you know, you look at all those kids, you see every single one of them.

You're like, oh, those kids are insane.

Well, the only person more insane than those kids was me, primetime 99, Alex Hines.

So did you watch the Fetterman debate?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it was embarrassing.

The only person that liked the debate more than any conservative is Dr.

Oz.

I mean,

he's a real champion.

I think that took great restraint from Oz because Fetterman was a jerk from the get-go.

He's not only having a hard time processing things,

the one thing, he's a lot like my grandfather,

my dad's father, who was a jerk in real life.

And then when he had a stroke, he was just mean.

And I kind of got that from Fetterman, too.

I think he's kind of a mean guy.

Oh, for sure.

And his wife, Jersey Giselle, she's not very likable either.

But, you know, what I've noticed on Twitter now with all the blue check marks, they're saying if you tease Federman, they're saying, oh, you cannot make fun of him.

You're an ableist.

You're an ableist for making fun of him.

And that we need more stroke victims

in politics.

It's just, you know, there's a big elephant in the room.

And if we point to the elephant, you're racist or you're bigoted.

What does it tell you about the Democrats?

That

they already have Feinstein.

They have Nancy Pelosi, who is, you know, arguably

not

reincarnated.

You have Joe Biden and now Fetterman.

I mean, they say they believe in the individual and democracy.

I don't think so.

I think they would line up a whole bunch of zombies if they would just vote the way everybody told them to vote.

Well, that's obvious.

Did you see the runway footage of Chuck Schumer talking to Joe Biden?

And he said you could, you know, hear him wording that the debate didn't hurt us that much.

These people do not care about these actually candidates.

I mean, if they would, they would put the best candidate forward.

But the fact that John Fetterman is, you know, one of the most important Senate seats in Pennsylvania and he is their best choice, that's just kind of a shocking, sad realization that Lurch is going to be running the country.

I mean, come on.

I really think he looks

like Frankenstein from Young Frankenstein.

I really, if Gene Wilder was around, maybe somebody can do this just, you know, with Photoshop, but I'd like to see Fetterman dressed in the tuxedo on stage

doing putting on the writs

from the movie Young Frankenstein.

Don't you remember?

Putting on the writs.

You don't remember?

Somebody look it up.

It is John Fetterman.

And Glenn, one of the movies that was shot here was Adam's Family Values, which is a great movie.

And he looks like a character out of Adam's Family Values.

I mean, he literally looks like.

He's definitely got a lurch situation going on.

Yeah, I mean.

I mean, the guy, his tie wasn't.

I mean,

how do you even consider a guy who lived until what?

He was 40 or 50 in his parents' basement.

Well, and I brought up this was too.

How did he even become the lieutenant governor?

How did that even

become mayor?

In the town that he was mayor, they lost 40% of their population.

Their population went down to 1,700 people.

So, I mean, the guy is, and it's similar to Beto Arour.

I mean, these people, they can lose elections and somehow they fail upwards.

It's insane.

I love him.

He's always talking about gun violence and all the things he did.

Dr.

Oz never did anything to stop gun violence.

You were a mayor of a city of 1,700 people.

How much?

I've lived in a small town growing up that was like 10 times that size.

Like, there's no gun violence there.

How much gun violence was there in this territory?

Well, I know that there was a black man running through his neighborhood.

I know that.

He didn't have a gun, but Fetterman did and held him at gunpoint.

He stopped doing that.

That's true.

He did stop that one time.

Well, and speaking of gun violence, I think if Paul Pelosi might have had a gun, his situation would have been a little better in San Francisco.

Either him or somebody around him.

I mean, like, that is a terrifying situation.

We don't know anything about who did it.

We all know what's happening on Twitter where every Republican that has ever been born is already being blamed for it.

So congratulations, everyone.

I apologize.

Yeah, but like, in reality, like,

how is there not more protection on Nancy Pelosi's home?

That's absolutely inexcusable.

Of course, there should be.

It only takes one idiot.

Right?

It only takes one person.

Even if she was not famous, she's very, very wealthy.

You should have some security there And these are to protect yourself.

These are the same people that said January 6th is worse than 9-11.

So, I mean, come on.

If you're going to protect yourself, if they believe that, she would

if they believed that, then she would be protected as if her house was Fort Knox.

Alex Stein, thank you.

Thank you.

Always a pleasure.

It's an honor and a pleasure.

It's good to have you here.

And you'll be joining us on election night.

Yes, sir.

I'll be there.

And we got some bits, some wild stuff coming.

So make sure to tune in, guys, because we're going to be going insane for the Ukraine.

It'll be great.