Ep 152 | Why a Comic Legend Chose His Country over Career | Rob Schneider | The Glenn Beck Podcast

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Today's guest has undoubtedly made you laugh at some point.

You may have even quoted some of his catchphrases over the years.

He spent a few seasons on Saturday Night Live, back when it was still doing comedy, you know, the golden era, along with Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Janine Garofilo, Chris Rock, Phil Hartman, David Spade, Mike Myers, Dennis Miller.

Some of his characters,

he's played a gigolo, a Martian, a dinosaur, a prince, a guru, a donkey rider, a sensitive nudist, a delivery guy, creepy Elvis, a crime-fighting animal, a surf ninja, a petty criminal who morphs into Rachel McAdams, and a copy machine guy who loves to give people nicknames.

He started along with Jean-Claude Van Damme in a movie about counterfeit fashion.

Seinfeld, he was the guy who might have been faking a hearing problem.

Repo man, he mocked Stallone's ignorance about toilet paper.

In Waterboy, he turned four simple words, you can do it, into an iconic punchline.

He is a core member of Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions.

He has been the main character in sitcoms on CBS and in Netflix.

In 2020, Netflix released a stand-up special, Asian Mama, Mexican Kids.

His latest movie, Daddy Daughter Trip, comes to theaters at the end of September.

Holy cow, he's also on the road all the time.

Maybe the most impressive thing that he has done is to tell the world he's not a woke leftist.

He is awake.

Please welcome Rob Schneider.

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Welcome, L.

King's dad.

It finally happened.

Yeah.

The last time I had a famous dad who was having a famous daughter on the show, I was at CNN, and it was

Billy Ray Cyrus.

And I said to him,

Are you sure?

I mean, and he said, oh, my daughter had the gospel drilled into her, and she's got good family views.

There's no way she's going to be be twerking in 18 months.

It's not possible.

This girl's, she's from Nashville.

She's not going to be corrupted by Hollywood.

Cut to.

Now, your daughter, though, is 31 and.

Yeah, she's doing good.

And I'm happy for her.

She just, you know, I was wondering, I said, why would she want it?

But she was a stage rat.

She was around all those movies.

I put her in Deuce Bigelow.

I didn't even have to give her notes.

She just knew it.

And I said, either actress, but

I think the music business is more supportive.

And I do think you can get out of it.

And I think country music is more loyal fans.

She's drifted there.

She had a hit,

number one hit with Miranda Lambert and Drunk, which is, you know, as her dad, you know.

Mike, your daughter has a number one song.

Yeah.

What's it called?

Drunk?

How?

Good then.

She's not twerking yet, is she?

My daughter is

ever since she was little, I've called her Lucy because she's Lucille Ball.

She's just hysterical.

And

she wants to act and everything else.

I've done everything I can.

I don't want to hold her back.

I've done everything I can to like

reconsider.

Well, the rejection of it, it's like, you know, especially if you've gone through it.

But the weird thing about it, and she's so talented,

and she really pushed it.

Ellie, I'm so proud of her.

But the thing about it, it's like the people most susceptible to the pitfalls of show business are the ones most attracted to it.

And so

when you think about like, I mean, after a while, you've been around for enough people, like, they're gone now, you know, like, you know, like Prince, I remember like when he died a few years ago, and

that's about the average for the entertainer, 57.

Because that's how, that's how tough it is.

You're 58.

Yeah, so I've just made it.

I'm like, really, I'm just like kind of hanging in there.

On borrowed time.

Yeah, but that's the average.

I mean, that's an old statistic, but I think that's pretty much the average if you add it together.

I guess that's that's including the rock bands and the drummers who explode.

Are you

and

why is that, do you think?

I do think, I think it's the pressure.

I think it's the travel.

I think it's the drugs.

And

it has those, like I said, like I remember the first day I ever heard about Chris Farley, who's gone now.

I can't believe he's been gone over 20-something years now.

The first time I heard about him was from Bob Odenkirk.

Bob Odenkirk was a writer.

He was brilliant.

Yeah, he was a writer on SNL.

And he said to me, and I remember because I was, you know, when I was first in SNL, he said, there's a new guy coming.

And I was just kind of freaked out that I was on the floor, you know?

And then behind him was like, he had an office looking at the Empire State Building.

So when he was talking to me, I went like, he's got an office.

He's the Empire State Building.

He has an office in the Empire.

I'm just a kid from, you know, from a beach town.

And he said, oh, there's a new guy they're hiring next year.

Really funny at a second city.

His name's Chris Farley.

He's not going to live long, but he's really, really funny.

Is that really how they said that?

He said it that coldly.

It

put a chill in me.

And you know what, though?

And it's like, that wasn't very nice.

But then he was right.

He knew that this guy had some proclivity.

Did Chris know it?

I don't think that was part of the danger was

For people, they think if they survive a,

you know, one of those those things where they bring you back.

And like, it's one of the things when Nirvana was on, like on the Thursday night,

the lead singer,

Kirk Cobain.

He had to go to the hospital and he was like, you know, recessed, whatever things they had to do.

And then he did a show that Saturday.

And I remember being on stage with him going like, ooh, there's something off, you know, about it.

And like, just a darkness, you know.

And a tired or fatigue that I just never seen with a young person.

And Chris, like, towards the, you know, they, he just didn't think he could die.

And that's, that's the danger.

And the thing about Chris,

a sweetheart, even when he was high, you know, sometimes the real beast comes up.

Somebody was a drunk and a mean drunk.

He was a sweet, super nice guy, but I think he thought it was like a joke.

And one of the things that, like, you know, I didn't show up at a party one time because I knew he was going to be there and he was still using.

And like, I did want, if you show up, you're tacitly approving of it.

And

he was doing the movie and it really made me angry at at the time with the,

you know, Brillsting Gray, which is managed with that.

They were still making money off of him when they knew he had a problem, you know.

And but at the same time, he wanted to work, so, you know, I've become less angry.

But also, like, Columbia, Sonya Columbia was making a picture with him, knowing that he had a, you know, was a drug addict and should be in therapy.

I think that's the hard part.

I remember when they trademarked my name and all of a sudden I felt like a product.

All of a sudden, I was like, oh my god I'm I'm I'm no longer a human being I'm a product and that's I think part of the problem with

especially when I was working with you know Fox and and everything you don't exist you know you don't really exist you are

something that they use to just push out in front well that's the problem with

mainstream media as it moves through.

I mean, Noam Shomsky, who

agree with a a lot of stuff some stuff I don't but like he described it in the manufacture of consent really well

as

a wrecking machine a wrecking ball that is just destroying and destroying things and moving on and it never goes back to check the destruction and that it leaves behind and I do think that like you know it's human beings and the way that

you know it's happening again with social media and the people that can be just swept under the rug just destroyed and people who whose, it's just a new way of,

it's a new, you know, what I call it,

it's a new religion.

It is this woke-ism thing.

It really is.

It does fit into it.

And there's so many tacits to it.

And it's coming from the left.

And it is a Marcuseian religion that is happening.

And it is, if, and just like any religion, or just like what it was when,

extremists, whether it was in the Spanish Inquisition, there's going to be heretics.

And these heretics need to get burned.

And now it's the stake of social media.

And I've been one of those.

And you've been one of those.

But wait a minute, wait, wait.

You just quoted Noam Chomsky.

Yes.

So where is our nexus?

First of all, what the hell are you thinking being on this program?

You have to listen.

You have to listen to people.

And like, I agree with, like, first of all, Noam Chomsky talking about American foreign policy.

It doesn't matter if you're a Democrat

or a Republican.

It's the the same crap.

You have the same Republicans who you would think would not go, would think, not want to put $40 billion

into a war in the Ukraine.

And they put more

than $60 billion now.

And it's like, we should be putting that here.

We could be putting that and putting that, you know, whether it's protecting schools, like that Maya Flores says

we could be doing, and I know it's up to the states to do, but for their own.

But

the fact of the matter is,

Ukraine, as Obama said, is not a national priority.

It is not a national

security issue.

Yeah, it's not our narrative.

What Ukraine had a chance to be was Sweden.

And if they really would have given a shit about, if they wouldn't, you know, just this warmongering and money-making thing, they could have turned in

Ukraine into Switzerland.

It could have been the tech Switzerland, the breadbasket, and also a tech wonderland.

And it could have done, and they should have been riding the middle, not being forced.

And it was NATO, and it was the United States foreign policy, another misguided foreign policy, pushing Ukraine to the edge.

And for anybody who goes like, yes, but they deserve to have freedom, I go, okay.

If you want to put missiles facing toward on the border of Ukraine facing toward Russia, I said, it's just very simple.

You just tell people, let's have China putting missiles in Tijuana facing towards California.

That's going to stay, those missiles are going to stay there for about 36 seconds before they get wiped out.

And so you have to, you know, you got to respect

Russia's sovereignty.

And you also have to know that like Russia is not the enemy.

Russia isn't.

They just aren't.

And that shit's got to stop.

It really does.

Russia's got the GDP of Texas.

roughly.

And so they don't have the money to do it.

And we have more in common with Russia than

uncommon.

We have our differences.

The enemy is China.

China wants to destroy any semblance of freedom in the world.

That is the enemy, and that is something we need to focus on.

And it is, and it should be, treasonous to sell schools,

farmland in the United States.

What are we thinking?

That is lunacy, and that is dangerous.

And

I really,

I hope that we'll have

a leader very soon who will

understand that.

Understand that.

It's terrifying what we're doing.

I was just talking to Vivek Ramashwami.

Do you know who he is?

Vivek Ramashwami.

He is

a guy who's been in tech and pharmaceuticals and Wall Street, and he just started an anti-ESG

index going right after BlackRock.

But

instead of tearing them down, he's just saying, move your, any investment you have in energy, American energy, move it over here.

Because our shareholders are saying, drill, do what's right for your company, not for some global entity that is trying to control things.

Well,

the sad facts are green energy, I would love it to work.

Me too.

I would think if green energy was the answer, it would be, I mean, I would celebrate it and it would be fantastic.

And, you know, there's a really interesting documentary called, and another name that would not come up here much, Michael Moore.

He's the executive producer of this movie called Planet of the Humans.

And it exposes, and it's by these liberals who just, and God bless these.

People who really believe it should be pissed at all of this stuff.

It's anger.

But the thing about it, it's like,

I would love it to work, but it does not work.

And it is sickening, and

it is really an abomination.

Because what it really is, is it not only doesn't work, it's making the situation worse.

So here's what happens, and how it's affecting

the middle class in America and the poor.

And in many ways, first of all, there are these, there's about 300 of them in the United States.

And the only reason that these green energy plants, these green, you know, is because they're getting 11%.

They're getting 11% from the government.

That's the only reason they can be profitable.

They don't burn hot enough.

So what they have to do is use

trees.

So what do they do?

And they got to use trees

to burn the.

So it's worse than coal.

So because what they, here's what the thing about it, because they, to get the trees, they can't just put the trees in the furnace.

Right.

They got to chop it up.

And what do they use to chop it up?

Petrol in these wood chippers.

And they chop it up in small pieces.

And the the petrol that they're using, of course, is you know, what are they complaining about?

Diesel.

And then it doesn't burn hot enough.

So, Glenn, what they have to put on top of the wood chips is what?

Tires.

Can you believe it?

So they have to chop the tires up.

So they got to use more petrol to chop the tires up.

So the tires into little tiny balls and they chop it up into there using petrol and then they're burning tires.

And then these plants pollute burning tires.

So it's like, it's like a little piece of, it's like India's air around those places.

And

this

is ignored, is ignored by the liberal intelligent city.

At the same time, actual clean energy, natural gas, and nuclear energy, completely ignored, completely ignored.

I mean, I really truly, here's the problem with the global warming thing.

I can read a thermometer.

Yeah.

Okay.

I think it's arrogant to think we could control the weather, but it's not arrogant to think that we could affect the planet deeply and possibly that changes.

Yes, well, that's exactly right.

I'm so glad you brought that up because there's a difference between global warming.

And first of all, the idea that the liberals, I'm sorry that, because they're the ones propagating this, is that, and first of all, as you know, like 40 years ago, they were talking about a new ice age.

I know, global cooling.

Global cooling.

But what happens is it isn't this thing where you can just look and go, oh, look at this, it's going up.

No, it's like weather is just, and the planet and the cycles and tens of thousands of years, not just 100 years.

It's up and down.

And so you have some, and so if, if we are affecting things, it's going to be, there's going to be spikes and there will be, you know, maybe more intense, shorter winters and maybe

longer, hot summers, whatever.

In some places will be drought, some places will be flood.

But you just can't go off of and say, this is for sure.

There are an effect that affects people and i am very very much into this like i do think that like i do agree that like overfishing is a real problem but you're not but overfishing is different than taking

having um

washington oregon idaho take five dams down hydroelectric dams well that's yeah that's a little because yeah because of the salmon can't swim upstream well you're gonna have to make choices you're gonna have have to choose, and I'm always going to choose people.

I'm always going to choose peoples.

You have to, I mean, that's the one thing, going back to, like, I know Noam Shomsky, he said, the most important thing is the human condition.

He's right about that.

How do we increase the human condition?

Yeah.

This is what you said, Malthusian, earlier.

You're right.

This whole thing is anti-human.

At least that's the way I feel.

It is.

It crushes the human spirit.

It's a godless ideology of crushing the human spirit.

And it's just another way to just sex up, sexy up communism and say, well, look at that.

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You left.

Were you officially a Democrat?

Yes, I was.

I mean, why wouldn't you be?

And all the good-looking girls that Denver supermodels, they don't know.

They don't read anything, but they're Democrats.

I want to be in that room.

All the cool parties.

The Vanity Fair Party.

It's liberals.

Well, I want to get in there.

Then you have to wake up.

You have to.

I say this, and I said this 10 years ago, or nine years ago, I said, I didn't leave the Democratic Party.

They left me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because it's not about, I mean, who, I mean, the traditional liberal values, and I will say it about conservatism.

Conservatism.

is basically what adopting what was radical 100 years ago.

And now here we are.

We're for women's rights.

Women's rights are under threat by who?

By these liberal intelligentsi, not even using one of using the word woman anymore.

So you have this very weird thing.

I was trying to come up with something for you that seems smart.

And, you know, he does read.

He's thinking.

He brings it.

He brought it today on Glenn Beck.

You saw him.

You saw him, didn't you?

And I was trying to think: is there something like, you know, and I said, you have like the Snopes trial, which is the 1920s, like William Jennings, Brian guy, and Christianity, you know,

and creationism.

And then you had the brilliant attorney,

I didn't bring it together.

Charles

wasn't there.

We know.

And then you have the evolution.

And then like the whole point of

the play, Inherit the Wind, is like, well, we showed those.

creationisms, didn't we?

But this was the common sense.

These people are so stuck in their ways now.

They just can't open their eyes to like, there's another way.

And maybe there's another way that God decided to create things.

And they just refuse, you know, the people are like, well, dinosaur bones were planted by the devil.

Those guys.

Well, no, no, maybe God had a different plan.

But what happens now is you have the atheists are now on that side where they're totally closed off

and won't.

Look.

The left has become everything

they used to stand against.

You know what I mean?

Everything.

They are.

It's like the left is like standing back to back with what they used to mock

and the way that

what they used to believe.

And now it's become, if you fight against it, it's heretical.

I mean, even like Maya Flores, who's this, you know, lovely Republican who finally won in this part of Texas, which is, I had never heard of that part of Texas.

Texas is so huge.

It is big.

And it's like, there's a part of Texas.

I didn't even know there was a congressman down there.

I still thought that was part of Mexico.

And so did Mexico.

And there's nothing but Mexicans there, and they still think it's mostly part of Mexico.

So this part, what always voted Democratic, finally voted after 154 years, voted for this lovely

Republican.

And she's got nothing but crap.

That's the thing about it.

It's like, I think the Republican Party, at the end of the day,

it's just, they don't have that, I mean, overall, that innate nastiness.

There's just like, why would you attack this woman?

She's a woman.

She's Hispanic.

Is she not fitting to that umbrella at all?

It's like, it's like to me, it's that same attack on like Ayan Hersey Ali.

And it's like, Ayan Hersey Ali, he came out of Somalia, genital mutilation, was at a young age forced to be in these forced women.

Everything you

love America for.

She escaped, you know, caught herself,

was it Swedish?

Then became a member of Parliament.

Parliament and hired herself.

She did this, and then like had her best friend murdered.

And

I was there around that same time in Holland, making a movie, which was a very silly movie.

Deuce Bigelow, too, but it has nothing to do with this.

But she had her friend, Theo Van Gogh, great director,

murdered in the street.

And his kids found out in school that he was murdered.

And that was their 9-11, believe it or not.

And she had to get out of there.

And she is attacked as

Islamophobe.

It's like, hey, she's got reasons.

She's got reasons to not like Islam.

You know, she's got it.

And so you have like, and I never forget it, like these white women getting up and walking out of her speech.

It's like, hey, this is craziness.

This is now no longer about ideas.

This is a religion.

And where they're like, well, they just won't.

won't open to anything.

And an openness, faith is an openness to the truth.

And they're faithless.

And they really are.

And that's a real problem that we have to, we can't not, you know, and I'm my problem with the, you know, the Republicans is you got to head, you got to face this head on.

Otherwise you're not going to win.

Otherwise you're you're going to continue to have this degradation of Western culture and American culture

specifically and the degradation of freedom.

You have to name your enemy and we are not doing that.

And our enemy is Marxism and woke ism and all of the isms.

You have to just, you just get under that wokeism and you go, act fine.

It's communism.

Look at that.

It's right there.

It's right there.

Look at that.

I just scratched the surface.

And then

I got to go back.

2013, you're a Democrat.

Okay, 2012.

Were you the kind of Democrat, like, because when I was on Fox, I wouldn't have guessed you would have been a fan.

So were you.

I was.

I was, but I was also cagey.

Because you would also say things that made sense.

So as a liberal,

I'll go like, hey, this guy's in it.

Well, I agree with that.

That's how you get.

That's how you get liberals who are open-minded.

And that's why you get an Elon Musk.

That's why Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle.

It's like at a certain point, the liberals got away and go, well, this is lunacy.

Yes.

Otherwise, you're just closed-minded.

Then you're part of the mob.

That's what happened.

I was listening to you, and I go, well.

That seems a bit...

Well, that's right.

What are these right again?

Well, that makes sense.

Didn't you hear that?

And people are, no, this guy.

Because you get labeled.

And And then when you're labeled,

and then you get like, and then it's, it's.

I've always said,

I don't understand people who, you know, hate a race or anything else.

Get to know the individuals.

You'll hate them for legitimate reasons.

You know what I mean?

But when you blanket somebody and you pigeonhole people,

that happens.

All the time.

And the weird thing is, is because it is cyclical, you know, like, you know, if you go back to like the moral majority in the 1980s, which is like,

which also was interested in censorship, and they didn't, and they censored that Larry Flint thing, which was this, you know, there was a thing in one of his very vulgar magazines where it was, I think it was,

who was the moral majority's name?

I'm sorry.

Come on now.

Yeah, Liberty University.

Yes, come on.

Married.

My 50s.

I was drinking at Nick and Sam's last night.

Come on.

I know his son.

Moral majority.

Help.

Help.

Camera.

Who knows?

So, anyway, so it was basically, it was a picture of him.

It was

his mother in an outhouse having, you know.

Yeah, yeah.

And so...

intercourse, whatever.

And so that was Jerry Farwell.

Yeah.

So

he sued.

Yes.

And it went all the way to the Supreme Court.

And the Supreme Court ruled correctly that even something obscene and with absolutely no taste still is protected by the First Amendment.

And that was a

correct ruling because you have to, even something absolutely tasteless, even something horrendous, you have to, that freedom of speech is tantamount.

Yes.

Even something you disagree with.

And that is the key to it.

Even something I hate.

The only ones that need protection are the ones that people will hate.

Exactly.

I'm nobody's trying to ban things that everybody agrees with.

You know what I mean?

So you have to, and that's the thing about free speech is the big one.

And that's the thing that like America has its problems.

It has its problems.

I don't think it has its race problems as my mother who's Filipino and came over to this country said she said in 1953 when I came to the country it was it was we had a race problem in the, but we don't have anymore.

And I said, well, she would know.

She would know.

She sees it.

She was a school teacher for 30 years.

So you have,

and now, so the most important thing, like the bellwether of freedom in the world is our freedom of speech.

That is under attack, and that is something we have to fight for.

I have to fight.

If I hate what you're saying, I can't stand it.

I will fight, and I will fight for your right to say it.

That cannot be.

And that's what's happening.

Like, even like Maya Flores tweeted something to me back about 87,000 IRS agents.

We should hire 87,000 people to protect schools.

And I know the states are supposed to be in charge of the schools.

But it's the sentiment.

It's a tweet.

It's out there.

It's like, why are we hiring any?

And then, you know, there's only 400 billionaires.

Unless they're going like 3,000 each going after them, they're coming after us.

Yeah.

Luckily, we have good accountants.

For the most people.

I don't think they're coming after us.

I think they're coming after the average business owner.

Who just barely survived.

Barely survived.

Just barely.

And just trying to work and does not need to be spending.

They need to be spending time getting their business back.

They don't need to be spending time going over receipts with some new a-hole who's got a gun and very well-armed, by the way, and new ammunition that we can't get.

Have you seen the training video?

Oh, yeah.

The only good thing is that they'll kill each other before they get out.

They knew they were coming in.

They're trying to censor that, but it's true.

You can't censor something true.

But that's the thing.

They want to.

Because

what it is, it's they know it's true.

They know it's BS.

They know it's crap.

And yet

they just don't want to acknowledge it, that this is really happening.

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That's sad.

So do you think this is...

So yeah, I had to become a Republican.

I had to.

Wait, so you're a Republican?

I'm a Republican.

Yeah.

No, I was libertarian this.

No, I'm a Republican now.

Libertarian, I'm mostly for libertarian values.

But I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.

I want to be like, I want the Republican Party to,

you know, face this head up.

Yeah, we need it.

You know, that's why, like, DeSantis, you know, I really am a big fan of DeSantis, and I've seen him.

He barely won.

And it was because of he really got a little bit of help from,

I'll say his name, maybe I shouldn't, but Bill Heavener, who's a guy who owns Full Sale University, great guy.

And he, Bill,

he's a good guy.

Bill gave

Bill Heavener gave DeSantis the jet for the last two weeks of his campaign to fly and go.

Because DeSantis doesn't come from money.

Nixon didn't come for money.

The last progressive president we had, really, Nixon.

You wouldn't put Obama in that category?

No, I wouldn't.

Just straight Marxism?

Yeah, I would go leftist, but I go progressive.

I mean, like, progressive, like, progressive is not necessarily a negative thing.

You have to go, like, I mean, Nixon put in Title IX.

He put in the environmental protection system.

He's going to go off the gold standard.

Yes, that's a mistake.

But Nixon also, you know,

ran on stopping the war in Vietnam.

And they're like, you know, twice.

How about that?

Right.

That's pretty darn good.

I would say that Nixon, you know, also wanted to put in a universal health,

you know?

And then who went against them?

Kennedy.

Edward Kennedy.

Unbelievable.

Yeah.

So that's like, and then I, you know, you say.

I think there are progressive.

I am

probably one of the leaders of the anti-progressive movement only because of

the birth of the progressive movement.

Well, yeah, well, it's not really progressive.

It's in the early 20th century.

That's

copying him.

It's in name only because it's not really progress if you can't call a woman a woman anymore.

Right.

That's a misogynistic attack on women.

But I do think you can.

What's happening also is that they're ruining the language.

The word progressive doesn't mean progressive anymore.

It takes people like you who knows what it's what they're using and what they're hiding behind

to use this.

Like liberal used to be

it was more of a libertarian.

It was the social media.

Well, that's what these free speaks.

You do what you want to do with your life and get out of my life.

Get the government away from me and let me have my business and

women's rights, gay rights.

I mean, then I'm all for it.

But what happened was, and this is something that, like, you know,

I'm from San Francisco.

I remember with the first elected gay official, Harvey Milk.

And it was like, this, you know, that was at that time, that's progress.

But then what happened is

my theory is that the gays won.

You have, you know, I'm all for the

gay marriage.

And I was like, if you want to be just as miserable as me, go for it.

Get in there.

Join the party.

The party ends pretty quick.

And I said, but fine.

And if the gay adoption, I said, okay, these women want to adopt a baby.

They're gay.

They should be allowed to.

It shouldn't be discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation.

Jesus said those who are not against us are with us.

And so we have to go through.

And as a society, I think that worked.

But then what happened was, in my professional comedian's opinion,

they left the door open, Glenn,

after they left to go live their lives in the freest country in the history of the world and enjoy this incredible freedom, this unique experience in the history of humanity, this bastion, this incredible moment of just a couple hundred years here.

And really.

It's a flash.

It is.

It is an incredible flash point that is hopefully not a light that's diminishing.

They went to go leave and live their life and, you know.

And they left the door open.

Well, they left the machine running.

The machine running.

And it kept going.

And the crazy people got in there.

And that's where, like, you can't use men can get pregnant, men can have babies.

And then women define women.

Yeah.

Woman is like, you know.

And when you, like,

when you think about that, like, I mean, everybody knows what a woman is.

And so why are we lying?

Why are we making?

And I tell this to people, the audiences, I say to these, everybody knows what a woman is.

A woman.

is someone who gets mad at you for something you did five years ago.

A woman doesn't tell you.

Yeah.

Just holds that grudge.

A woman is someone who uses her tires as curb finders.

You know, you drive with your wife, you honey, the curb.

But I say it as a joke, but it's also, it's like, you know, people are astounded by the fact that, like, you know, Governor Whitmer used, we refused to use the word woman, and she used the word childbearers.

And then the New York Times called it people who menstruate.

And for some of you older ladies, people who used to menstruate.

It's like, what?

What do we?

And

I said, what if this really catches on?

You know, the next time you go to like the Nordstroms and you're like, yeah, I'm looking for some shoes for my wife.

Am I in the right place?

I mean, is this the shoe department for the people who menstruate?

These shoes look a little big.

These shoes like this are for the people with outside vaginas, the sausage hangers, you know.

So what are we going to call men now?

So it's a lunacy.

It's lunacy and it's a culture under attack.

It's Western civilization under attack.

So do you feel, first of all, I don't know how you survive.

Isn't the Adam Sandler mafia that you guys are called?

You know, I don't know if you know that.

I haven't made a movie with him in years.

How did you survive?

How do I survive?

That's very interesting.

I've read your feed.

You're not shy.

No, I mean, well, thank you.

I don't know how.

It's only because of the audiences that come and see me do stand-up.

You know, that's the only way to do it.

And also, you know, I did make a little bit of money back in the day.

I didn't buy a big studio in Tango.

But I

thank you for that.

Yeah.

But I

also, I think people now,

I think there's enough people

because Hollywood doesn't seem to want to represent people between

there is an America between Los Angeles and New York.

And you know what?

I'm sorry, that also counts.

It does.

The people in Missouri get to decide for themselves what they want to do.

And you can try to misrepresent a Supreme Court decision, which basically gave the states back what should have been.

You had like, if you want to say

it's a racist decision and that, like, you know, you know,

that Thomas is the white face

of supremacy.

This is a lunacy.

Well, nine white guys

gave the decision in 73, the Roe Wade.

And so it was a flawed decision.

If you just look at it on its face, it's been flawed.

And it it was only...

It was flawed because

it wasn't part of the Constitution.

But

when you see what the New York Times had as its editorial on Sunday,

get rid of the Constitution.

They're no longer saying we're misinterpreting it.

They're saying it's wrong and should be disposed of.

These are guys who...

have a plumbing problem in their house, and

instead of calling a plumber, they burn the house down.

That's what they want to do.

They won't fix the problem, or they won't address it, or they won't debate, they won't use the art of dissuading, they will use the art of demonizing and destruction.

That's why they know that they're wrong.

When you use term, and you think they do know, yes.

Otherwise, why would they change the terminology?

Why would you use a euphemism to describe abortion?

As like, if you're going to call it terminating a pregnancy, then do it.

If you're going to say, you know, what the Democrats have said for so long, which is like rare,

safe infrequent rare it's it's a safe legal legal race rare safe and legal yeah and the rare is the last one and now they didn't even want to call it terminating a pregnancy they just call it good health care

and it's like you know what if you're using a euphemism you must know there's something wrong there and that's the way i really feel about it so i i did feel like i i think you're you're dealing with um there's a base and you have to call it what it is lies

There's a base of lies in this liberal intelligentsia and the liberal rhetoric that, you know,

it is trying to, and I don't think it's all, you know,

I don't think like every liberal has a, has a heart that's

that's bad.

I can't think.

I think they just whipped up into this froth of BS liberal intelligentsia and this ideology that warps people.

Yeah, I think we have we've entered a time to where we have our backs up so much that we cannot break away from our sides.

That is wildly dangerous.

It is wildly dangerous.

You used to have people who would go across the aisle,

but now you have

a fear of if you even attempt to, that there's this, you're going to get this flack.

And so we're...

Because it's no longer about the individual.

It's about the machine.

It really is about the machine.

You know, you could vote for a Republican, but is the machine going to chew him up and spit him out?

Well, it's true because what you have,

interestingly, I think

the way I'm interpreting what you're saying is you have parts of government that are captured.

I don't say that lightly, and I didn't want to say that.

We have agencies like the CDC.

And now, unfortunately, the FBI.

And by the way, for people...

Who thinks crazy?

When people who think like the FBI is like, you know, I don't say that lightly.

And I don't, I think the FBI has, you know, historically behaved badly.

I mean, if you talk, if you just, I just read the letter the other day, just to remind myself, because I was trying to go, what is similar to what's happening in the FBI?

There was a letter that they sent to Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

to get him to kill himself.

And

that's the FBI.

I don't think I've read that letter.

Yeah, well, it's a real letter, and now it's unredacted, and you can read it.

And it's just,

you know,

I mean, remember, I remember talking to Warren Hutcherson, who's a terrific writer, and he was on Saturday Night Live at the same time, and he with me.

And

he told me, and I had to look it up.

He said, like, at the last meetings of the Black Panthers, there was 11 members, and like nine of them were FBI agents.

Sounds familiar.

Sounds very familiar.

If you really read in the Governor Whitmer and the kidnapping thing,

it's just, you know, are we spending our tax dollars to take these people who are marginalized already, who are depressed and looking for work and this and thing,

and not living the American dream, but still Americans who love their country.

And we're trying to get them to commit a crime so we can ensnare them.

Is that what our law enforcement?

at the highest level of our government should be doing?

It's truly frightening.

I mean,

I've never been one who's just been all rah rah America I know that we've made huge mistakes

I know I've been on the wrong side of things I was for you know the war in Iraq what a stupid idea that was yeah I did get caught up into that myself yeah and you just so we change but I've never

And maybe I was stupid for it, but I never thought that the system entirely is corrupt.

And now I feel like,

you know, if it

have you turned it off and turned it back on or not, you know what I mean?

We need to reset to factory settings because it just seems so corrupted.

Well, you have the definition of

fascism.

Yes.

You have it.

You go like, well, what's fascism again?

You go, let me look it up.

Okay, it's where corporate interests and the government get together and they go,

so when the Biden administration is telling Facebook what they could

say,

isn't that?

Yeah.

Isn't this against this technical, the technical definition of

our constitutional First Amendment?

There's a reason why the first one is free speech, protecting speech, and why the government should not be involved in it.

Because all our other ones rely on it.

Stem from that.

Stem from that.

They all rely on it.

And so

you have this.

I called it a creep earlier.

And I really think it is a wave.

It is like a blob that is just going and going.

You have the CDC, which is obviously, and I've known about this for years, and that was one of the reasons that I had to get out of

that Democratic Party stranglehold, because I saw that it was no longer protecting the rights of the individual, that parental rights.

They had no problem squashing it.

I was there in California.

And this is about

vaccines, which was the original kicking out of show business before I became Republican.

It was like, wait a minute, you know, let's look, can we look in it?

Like, we have 54, according to the health and human services, and I'm a stat nerd, as you can probably tell.

54, according to our own government statistics, 54% of our children, United States children, and this is an older statistic now, 54%

have suffer chronic illness.

54%.

That that

is not the biggest news story.

And I'm talking about ADHD.

I'm talking about chronic illness.

I'm talking about allergies, peanut allergies.

I'm talking about, you know,

autism.

These are over half our children.

That that is not the biggest story every day on the news is willful ignorance on behalf of our, of what is being, what is still called journalism, which isn't journalism.

And it is a sign of our captured regulatory agencies.

It is unbelievable.

And so when I started to dig into it and see it, you know, and see how,

you know,

how it's pure profit for,

so when this, when this pandemic came up, okay, this is just another pure profit for them.

And it's like, hey, how about this?

I'm going to make a product.

I'm not going to pay for it.

The taxpayers are going to pay for it.

We're going to make billions of dollars.

And they have to take it.

They get fired.

And the best part is they can't sue us because we have complete liability protection.

Can I get in that business?

Can I please?

I want my money in there.

I mean, it's like it's, it's, we have to question this lunacy.

We have to.

And then finally, the CDC admits this last week, thank you, that it's all BS and it's like 17% protection, which is like, ah, I don't believe that either.

Even four boosters.

I tell my audience, I said last night here, I was performing this thing.

I said, I was in Mexico and I got COVID because I was surrounded by everybody who was vaccinated.

So, of course, that's how you get COVID.

Right.

So, you have to, I mean,

at the end of the day, and it's pretty simple.

It's like, there's no drug, no drug ever made that's 100% safe 100% of the time for 100% of the people.

Where there is risk, there has to be choice, or you don't have freedom, you have tyranny.

It's pretty basic.

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I wrote down a list this morning for a monologue I'm working on about how

I fear a return to the dark ages

because this is a religion.

Oh, yeah.

There is an Inquisition, you know what I mean?

Yes.

And things have been so discredited.

Science is discrediting itself every day.

What they're doing to girls

at school age

with this transgenderism is so dangerous.

Well, you know, you have to just

call it out, and we have to not be afraid.

No, I know.

We have to say there's 4,000% increase.

And this is an English statistic because they're in some ways.

They are.

They're freer with their statistics than they are.

Not their society, but with their, they're still, you can get arrested for a meme over there if you're a comedian.

True.

You know, if it's somebody was, you know, hurt by it.

And so a 4,000% increase in trans.

This is a social contagion.

It is.

We have to call it what it is.

And we're going to have to like, look,

kids are confused.

There's a reason why 14-year-olds aren't allowed to drive or own a gun or,

you know, start working in the workforce because they can't make these, they're not capable.

Their brains haven't formed, they haven't formed until 25.

Maybe even, maybe think even longer now.

Yeah.

How can we let them decide to mutilate their bodies?

And who are these evil people that are committing this?

This is a crime against humanity.

It is.

And it is an outgrowth on this ideology that is just spreading out and spreading out and spreading out.

And who knows what the next level is going to be?

We have to.

Well,

Canada just came out with euthanasia for teenagers.

They already had euthanasia, but if you have a chronic illness, chronic depression, you can now be euthanized.

That is, I didn't heard about that.

It just came out.

Well, I heard that they did that for their veterans

who they don't, I guess they don't want to pay for them anymore or something.

This is getting expensive.

Just tell them we'll put them out.

We'll put them out.

I think you have to get back to, and I do think where

if we go back to a darker period.

Well, hang on.

Think of this.

Science completely discredited.

Oh, yeah.

Government, anything being completely discredited.

Law enforcement discredited.

Education discredited.

What happened?

You're talking about the foundational

collapse.

You get to a place to where the people say, I don't want to hear any of that crap from you.

I will tell you what this is.

It is, again, the creep.

And the thing about rights.

And I remember, like, just as a,

you know,

I call myself a mild historian because I'm interested in it.

I want to know how.

So in 1984, I went to Berlin, which is West Berlin at the time.

And I went to the Reichstag building.

And Schneider is my name.

And I was interested.

I said, how did this happen?

Can I just go there and read?

So I just spent...

I spent two days there at the Reichstag building.

And I said, let me just read.

How did the German people, the most educated, the more PhDs in the 20th century, was in Nazi Germany than anywhere else?

When I tell that to people, they get angry because they're like, I have a PhD.

What are you talking about?

No,

your degree doesn't mean you are prevented from committing evil

atrocities.

Sometimes overeducation is you become an idiot on common.

You become indoctrinated into a system.

You know, that's why like, you know, people that they hire at the New York Times, they're indoctrinated.

They go, I'm not indoctrinated because you don't even realize you're indoctrinated because they went out, never hired you unless you were and went to the educational system, Ivy League School of Indoctrination.

So now you're there.

You don't even realize it.

So I read the laws that were enacted after

the National Socialists took over in 1933, 1934.

And they just, they didn't take them all over in one night.

They took one at a time, and this one, then this one.

We're going to marginalize these people and we're going to, and we'll kill these people.

And it was like there was a euthanasia thing that they did with the mentally handicapped.

And people got angry about that.

Interestingly, according to Hitler's Willing Executioners book by Daniel, I forget his last name.

He said the reason why they put the death camps in Poland was because the Nazis wanted to put the Jews and exterminate them in a place where they hated Jews even more than in Germany, Poland.

So, and it took hundreds of thousands of people to make that work and to just kind of go along with the system.

And there's a really interesting book called

The Sociopath Next Door.

And it talks about, it's really interesting from a psychological, from a psychiatrist's point of view and the historical background.

It's about 60% of people that just go with everything.

4% sociopathic, according to the book.

And so you have...

The makings here in our country of another genocide.

Everything's there except for the mass murder because all of the censorship and all the other stuff is under attack.

What I'm hoping for, because I believe in this country and I love this country and I feel like I have to speak up because at a certain point, Glenn, you have to put

country,

God,

and family above career and above the Almighty dollar.

And I have done that and you have done that.

Are you willing to lose it all for what you believe?

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Because if we don't have it, then we have nothing.

I don't care about my career anymore.

I care about my children's,

the country that they're going to live in.

And my hope is this.

My hope is a beautiful story

from a chaplain in England.

When the American Flyers came over in the early days of World War II, when the American Flyers came over after, this is like the dog days, 1942, late 42, when like their friends were getting blown out of the sky.

They would go over on the bombers and half would come back, two-thirds would come back, you know, but they were dying.

And there was one particularly awful

week, two weeks, where there was a very high percentage of these pilots were getting blown out of the sky and getting killed.

And

they went to the

prison, they went to the to the uh to the Air Force chaplain and they the pilot said

Why

said, Our friends are dying.

Why should we do this?

Why should we get up tomorrow and fly?

They do this at like literally 4:45.

It's supposed to leave at 5:30.

Why should we do this?

Tell us why.

They didn't say they weren't going to do it.

So tell us why we should do this.

Our friends are dying.

Tell us.

And the chaplain was really, you know, woke up and said,

well,

humanity has come out of it.

has come out of the dark ages.

We've come out of where people

get burned at the stake.

People believe and go along with this.

And there's a darkness that we have come out of into a more enlightened period, a more freer period.

And he said, this is a step back into those darkness and into the darkest parts of humanity.

And we need to stand up for that now.

And that requires this.

So they all flew.

We are

there again.

Yeah, and it requires a new set of flyers.

Why did that affect you so much?

Well,

I do feel the sacrifice

that's required.

And Hike, we have to make it.

And we got to do it

because we were lucky, man.

We grew up in that boom time of American, like 1947, Jackie Robinson.

And I consider that like, you know, that when the inclusive part of America.

And then 54, you know,

you know, Brown v.

Board of Education.

And then you have like my dad, 1954.

He just, after Brown v.

Education, he said, I'm going to, I'm going to, and my dad was in real estate son, I'm going to rent to black people.

And he said, this is wrong.

This is, this is not moral.

And I grew up with that guy, you know, and I grew up with like, you know, my mother was an educator.

And,

you know, when also half her family were killed during the Japanese occupation.

So I grew up with that.

So I was very aware of like,

and so

that morally shaped me.

And so

it does make me think like, we were so lucky the 70s.

Come on.

I know.

How great was that?

I thought about this a lot.

We're the same age.

And

I think about it a lot, that my kids won't have the opportunity to see

America at the height and at the...

at our best, even though we had all kinds of problems.

But we still had freedom in a different way than they'll ever understand.

And, you know, when I left New York, I didn't realize it until later.

I think, you know, I was at the top,

and you're close to at the very top at the close to the end of that era of New York.

You know what I mean?

Oh, yeah.

And now that

New York's

Times Square.

Crazy, right?

Yeah.

And that era is over, and

people won't experience the things that we kind of took for granted in some ways.

You know, there is a,

I'm hopeful that freedom, because we've had, you know, America has survived.

And, you know, like for people who think this is a Civil War, it's not.

No, it's not.

It's not a Civil War.

I mean, if you talk about the brutality and the 600,000 people that died in

the Civil War and the

high percentage of that,

of the population at that time, and in horrible ways.

I just picked up, I was just in Gettysburg

over the weekend and I bought for our history vault

three diaries of a guy who was just a regular guy, infantrymen on the north, and he just documented his day-to-day.

And one of his entries is about coming up to a fence where the Confederates had beheaded Union soldiers, stuck their heads on the pikes, and then cut off their genitals and put it in their mouth.

And I thought

that's an American doing that to another American.

And that only happens when you're trained to hate the other side.

That is

what happens.

And the road, I mean, I hate to say this, but like

we're heading towards that road.

Because on that road, we can still turn around.

When we are,

when you stop communicating when you stop using dissuasion when you stop using debate to find the better ideas

the road that you're going down is

brutality

and no longer civilization because you're that's not civilized anymore there's no you know you can

i That's why I say, and it's true,

I don't hate my enemies.

I don't have enemies.

I have people I disagree with.

And I have, these are Americans.

And I am not going to go down that road of yelling, of demonizing.

I mean, I found myself the other day, like

the guy from Pfizer, and I went like, he just got COVID.

And then he admitted it doesn't really work.

And I'm like,

and I said, you effing A.

And I was like, what am I doing?

Yeah.

But like, it's hard.

It's hard not to.

And it's like, that's the thing about this.

You tweet.

It's out.

It's out.

Can I take it back?

No, it's forever.

But I have faith.

I have faith.

faith, and I have faith in God.

And I take this.

And

my faith in God has increased dramatically

once you have children.

And once

you get older and wiser, and you realize the wisdom of God and everything.

And I take solace in what Father Rippberger told me.

And he was very lovely to give me an audience with him.

Terrific Catholic priest.

And Catholicism is the, you know.

You know, I did the born-again Christian thing.

My dad was a Jew.

My mom was a Catholic.

They gave up their religions for each other, like the old Bill Maher joke.

You know, when I go to confession, I bring my attorney.

Father, this is Mr.

Cohen of me answering all the questions.

But the Catholicism is the closest to the actual word of Jesus and the fact that it was, you know, it went from the Aramaic to the Greek to the Latin.

And Father Ripperger said to me, because he was talking about the rise in evil in the world right now, and it is.

You have to think like the Nazi Germany, whatever demons or whatever release of the,

something's going on like that that time.

And I think, but he said a beautiful thing, and I want your listeners to know that.

I want you to know that also.

He said a beautiful thing.

He said, look, Jesus already won.

This is just a mop-up mission.

So have faith.

And faith, and I, and I, and I,

to my liberal friends, and you know, the few that I still have,

faith is just an openness.

It's the difference between belief.

Belief is that fundamentalism.

Belief, come from the word Anglo, leaf, is a willfulness.

It's like, I want the world to be this way, and this is the right way.

It's just,

no,

it's got to fit into that.

And that is the opposite.

It precludes the possibility of faith.

Faith is simply an openness to the truth.

And I would just ask my liberal friends to be open to the truth and to know that, like, what to take a small child, a young girl, and a young boy, and think that there's anything, that they were given the wrong body.

I said, Jesus, say that.

Say that to Jesus.

Say that to God.

God, you made a wrong body?

I don't think he's going to answer.

Yeah, I did.

He's going to know I'd made every, they're all perfect in their own way.

I think we have to come from a place of love.

We have to come from a place of God.

And it's like,

that's the only way we can heal.

And that's what, I mean, at my best, I'm going to try to do that.

At my worst, I'm going to get wrapped up and angry, you know, because I'm a human being too.

And I'm passionate about it, as you can tell.

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He made people sign.

If you wanted to march with him, you had to follow a certain pattern of life.

It wasn't just just like, I'm going to show up and I'll be there at 8 o'clock and I'll check in.

And the first one was meditate on the teachings of Jesus.

And all of it was

pray for reconciliation and not a win.

He had the right answer.

He had the right answer.

And I'm afraid that there are so many people, in a country of 350 million,

you know, there's lots of opinions out there, and some of them are crazy.

And some of those opinions are running to, we got to stop them.

And that is not, that'll only make things much worse.

It will lead to bloodshed.

We have to love our enemy.

And we have to.

And we have to realize that we have more in common than we have different.

But there's less money in that for tech companies,

for artificial intelligence and the tech companies.

They want to rile you up and see, like, these 3% of these people are really radical.

But what about the 97% that probably aren't, you know?

And like, the liberals say, those 40%, you know, Bill Maher,

40% of the Republican Party.

I'm sorry.

Where is that statistic?

Let's break it down.

I remember statistics.

In statistics, you can find any statistic that you want and support it if you eliminate these other statistics.

But getting back to Dr.

King, I mean, one of the things is I travel around this country and try to perform and, you know, not indoctrinate people like some comedy shows seem to be doing these days.

Not Saturday Night Live.

I mean, I hate to crap on my old show.

I hate to crap on my old show.

But when I saw

when Hillary Clinton lost, which is understandable.

She's not exactly the most logical person in the room.

And then when Kate McKinnon went out there on Saturday Night Live in the cold opening, and I was like, she started dressed as Hillary Clinton, and she starts playing hallelujah.

And I said, I literally prayed to, please have a joke at the end.

Don't do this.

Please don't go down there.

And there was no joke at the end.

And I went, it's over.

It's over.

He's not going to come back.

And I said, it really is the end of.

It's gone.

You can take the comedy.

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the comedy routines.

You can take the comedic indoctrination process happening with each of the late-night hosts, and you can exchange them with each other.

That's how you know that's not interesting anymore.

Because

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It's just all indoctrination by comedic imposition.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but

you used to work

in Saturday Night Life when a conservative and a liberal could work side by side and you'd hit both sides.

Yeah.

Well, that was the whole point.

We always leaned more left because we were more liberal because that's where all the girls were.

Let's be honest.

That was the whole reason I got in the show business.

I realized, hey, look, I'm five foot five, barely.

I'm Filipino.

I look kind of weird and whatever.

And I said, I get to have to do something to get these beautiful girls because this ain't working.

And so you get wrapped up into this.

And I guess I am a liberal.

But we lean that way.

But we also called it when it was necessary to be called.

I thought.

There's no way that you would have hit Barack Obama and Joe Biden as hard

as at least Joe Biden because there was tons of funny things about Joe Biden.

There wasn't.

They stayed away from it.

And truthfully, they just like,

you know, and Lauren Michaels will say this, and, you know, he'll say,

the liberals, they're just, they're more sensitive.

They can't take jokes, the Democrats.

And it's true.

But like, I will say, they were still doing great stuff.

The real genius of Saturday Night Live is Jim Downey, the head writer.

And he wrote this, and he's also a conservative.

He wrote a great bit, like the great, the last great political bit, was

during when Obama and Hillary in the primaries and the press and how the press were deferential to Obama.

And he wrote this really funny thing.

He said, Hillary, so according to

Syria and

what's happening in Libya, and do you think that

going against Assad and then also supporting

Hamas's, what the creep of Hamas coming in in Lebanon?

And do you think that the process would be...

And he has very complicated.

And they said, so, Senator Obama, who's your favorite basketball team?

And I said, well, that's brilliant.

And that's really funny because that's the kind of the press.

The press was so.

And so, and that's funny.

And I think at the end of the day, like all entertainers, including me when I'm going out performing, and I talk about all this stuff.

But my job is to entertain.

Funny is coming back, though.

I think so.

I mean, I've been ostracized from show business, you can probably tell.

Like, you're here.

At no point in anyone's life has been, you know, I'm going up.

I'm going up.

I'm on the Glenn Beck podcast.

Yes.

Well, thank you for.

This is really the last box to check from.

Thank you for having me.

It's the apps.

There's so many other apps.

Bill Maher had me on his show the other day, which is, you know, he has the, he suffers from the Trump derangement syndrome.

Right.

But he's, he's also a libertarian.

He now, we have more in common that we don't.

We sat down and talked for an hour and a half and realized all of my commonalities.

And he was grateful that I'm outspoken about these things.

And I appreciate it.

But we're here to entertain and we got to entertain but if you can entertain and enlighten and also I mean you can use both I mean that's the thing about George Carlin I think George Carlin would be all over this oh yeah and and I don't think I'm you know it's not well that you know you can't say what the dead would speak of but if you look at his you know his history of calling bullshit bullshit yeah he'd be all over this Lenny Bruce I don't oh yeah I don't understand how comedians

don't see that comedians

are always the way there's the great ones that are calling it.

They'd be like Dave Chappelle, who's as liberal as you can be.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he's calling it the lunacy.

But I think that's relatively new.

And when he started, everybody was like, oh, God, he's done.

Oh, yeah, right, yeah.

Well, somebody tried to stab him the other day.

He was very funny, though.

He said, like, somebody tried to stab me with a gun that identified as a knife.

He's brilliant.

I don't agree with all the politics of it, but he's brilliant.

And it's like, I want to go down that road and things.

And you were talking about Dr.

King.

And I like,

sometimes when I'm traveling around, like I was in Atlanta, and I went to

the

Civil Rights Museum, and I was just walking through there.

And

I saw there was an old TV playing newsreels, and the local reporter in Atlanta was interviewing Dr.

King.

And he says, anything surprised you?

What surprised you the most about the civil rights movement?

And I went, I got to hear this.

And he said, well, the most surprising of the most was the,

he said something to the effect of, was the large amounts, the incredible amount of people, good people,

who did nothing.

And I was like, whoa,

that strikes me.

That's always the case.

A large amount of good people who did nothing.

And that's what we're dealing with in this final, like whether it's the people who just go along, like in the pandemic, and just, we'll lock us up.

We'll lock up perfectly healthy people and quarantine them, even even though that's never been done before and there's no science behind it.

We'll just do it.

Okay.

What?

And so you have this authoritarian totalitarianism out of like Governor Newsom in California, which is like, he just doesn't care.

He just, you know, it's just a,

it's just they love the power.

They love getting up talking every morning.

They love ruining small businesses.

They don't have a problem with it because he's never worked a day in his life.

Yeah.

So they don't know how hard it is to work and be, to be, you know, paint houses houses and to open a business every day, like the small amount of percentage after you're done dealing with taxes and the state taxes and the permits and all this stuff and you still, and your employees and that taxes and health care and all this stuff, and you got to have a little bit left over for yourself.

They don't care about that.

They don't know what it's like.

They don't.

So that is really like,

that's why I said,

China fornia.

That's not racist.

China is a one-party system.

California is a broken one-party system.

And I say a very crude joke about it.

I stand up back.

Can I say something?

Yeah, yeah.

Is it okay?

I say, this is very crude, but it's a nightclub.

There's a theater.

People pay money.

Sure, sure.

I give a warning now.

John Cleese, who's very liberal.

We get along more than

we disagree.

He's very liberal.

But I said, John, I had like 10 walkouts last night for people.

You should give a warning before your show.

So

I do.

So this is the warning.

Just so you know.

I give a warning when I say that.

And I'll give it in John Cleese.

I'll try to do John Cleese's.

For those of you who

find themselves in their own ideological echo chamber, and if ideas separate than their own may cause their own emotional collapse, this may be a time to pretend you forgot something in your huge fucking truck and go out and have a good cry and be the pussy that you know you are in your heart.

That's the warning I give before every show.

And then I talk about California because I got the the heck out.

I couldn't deal with it, you know?

And

so I tell people, it's like California, this is crude, and I apologize.

California is like a beautiful woman

who used to blow you, but hasn't blown you in a long time, but she's still spending all your money.

She won't let anybody else blow it.

And now she's got homeless people in her panties.

And so anyway, so that's very crude, but

it sets the tone for what they're getting

from in the show.

But it's less

dangerous than

your

Biden old yeller comparison.

Yeah.

Well, that I got really angry people on that.

People got very angry in me when I said, you know, I said, Biden, I said, Biden, and I tell people, the audience, I set him up, I go like, listen, I don't know if you've noticed, maybe I'm crazy here, but I think Biden's not all there anymore.

And people just fall out laughing, you know.

And I said, and I've been like, if Biden was a dog, you'd put him down.

You just, you wouldn't.

You'd have to.

It's like, you know, you take him outside at sunset, try to make it nice for him.

You go, Fido, just beat it with a five-iron or other.

Fido, take a look at that beetle.

Whack, and then it's over.

And people get very upset about it.

I have to tell you, I heard that joke, and I was...

I was very concerned about your animals.

It worries me that you would put one down with a five-iron.

Well, again, you know,

five iron, by the way, five iron is a very funny, a very funny term.

You can squeeze that in at any time.

And it's, you know, the thing about what's sad for me is that, like, because I really, I try to appeal to liberals,

you know, because I don't want to lose a potential audience.

I want more money.

I want more people.

And so, but I do feel like if I can get to them in a way where it's not antagonistic and I'm not attacking them,

and sometimes like when when I say the Biden joke, they just get up and leave.

Yeah, yeah.

And, but I say, hang in there.

I say, I wish, hang in there.

That's the one regret that I have.

I wish I would have been

more aware.

I really thought that you're the first person that has ever said, I was a Democrat and I'd watch you and I'd go, well, that's right.

That was kind of what I thought.

I thought, if I could make it funny

and I could make it all entertaining, somebody in the press and somebody on the left would go, at least that can't be true.

Oh, crap, it is.

But it didn't matter.

It didn't matter.

It didn't matter.

It's not about the truth.

It's about fitting what truth they can get into the box that supports their ideological bent.

And that is a...

historically dangerous position to take.

It just is.

I mean, if you take a look at whether it's the Democrats in war or Republicans, you just like, you know, when you look at Robert McNamara trying to squeeze the numbers just so they can say, well, we killed more people than we lost.

And then realize that all that was a lie.

When our government lies to its people, they know they're committing evil.

And our government is lying to its people again.

And

it's going to take a stronger leader to come in.

And I hope it's DeSantis.

I mean, I think he seems to be a strong leader who goes against the i mean it was really him who went up who stopped the the lockdowns the pandemic it was really he is the driving force and it's not he's not it's not comedians when you're saying it when you're saying it's not comedian

but i think comedians play a role i don't think they play a big role because i would say this you know john klee said this the other day you know he said they talked about peter cooks you know it's like the he said you never heard like the those cabaret performers in berlin like thankfully for us we're able to stop those damn nazis from invading Poland.

It wasn't for our jokes and our dancing and our lewd shows.

We were able to put a stop to those Nazis.

But I'm sorry I interrupted.

Thankfully we didn't.

All of us were formers in those dark, sexy nightclubs.

It was

when you said a strong leader, I think the left here is strongman.

And they're already saying that, you know, Ron DeSantis is worse than Donald Trump.

Oh, yeah, I love him.

I mean, everybody is worse than whatever the last guy was.

But he's doing it constitutionally, and he's doing it legislatively.

He's not dictating and writing, you know.

He's not shooting from the hip.

No.

He is.

And he's not mean about things.

You know?

But he's not.

I like about it because he's fearless.

Yeah.

But he doesn't ever come off

with any attack or anything where you can go,

that was unhinged.

You never hear unhinged because he is very hinged.

He is like, you know,

he is ready to come and be the next Reagan.

Have you?

I think so too.

I hope so.

Have you met Donald Trump?

Yes, several times.

Okay.

I was with Donald Trump and Alec Baldwin, and we were all getting along wonderfully.

I don't know what happened.

2014.

Everybody seemed to not hate Donald Trump.

He didn't seem to be a gigantic racist at that time.

He is,

I think he has some of the best timing.

He's funny.

He is hysterical.

He's funny.

And you have to give it up.

It's like after four years, half the country really missed a good time.

You missed some killer tweets.

You, Twitter, you screwed up.

Oh, he was.

We had some good tweets coming.

But the thing about it, and you know, when Angela Merkel of Germany,

the leader of Germany, says, you guys are going too far censoring a president, the leader in the country.

That's uncharted territory.

That is a step toward totalitarianism.

I mean, the

and that, you know, the jokes going around about the, you know, they better have found some real illegal criminality in Mar-a-Lago, like, you know, Hillary's 30 phones.

Those are the jokes that are out there.

You know, it's everywhere.

But, you know, that's a bridge too far.

And I think you you have to,

the real heroes of our republic were the ones who walked away from power.

You know, when Nixon in 1960 was told by his advisors that, you know, they cheated in Chicago.

We can fight this.

And he said, no, the peaceful transfer of power is more important than an individual.

That's important, you know, and also when Al Gore backed off it, you know, and when President,

when George Washington was offered

to be king,

and he walked away from power, that was the greatest thing he ever did.

Greatest thing any leader of any real country ever did.

Yeah.

I can't let you leave without, I just heard you on the podcast with Dana Carvey and David Spade.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah, it was really good.

Very, very funny.

Thank you.

I just

tell the story of the first time you had a role, and it was, it could have been, I think you wrote it for somebody else, but you had to play the role.

And it's, oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Can you tell that story?

Oh, yeah.

Well, they said, you know, I said, because you see the difference between people getting on Saturday Night Live.

They started getting movies and dating supermodels.

And I was like, you know, everything, like everything you dream of as a young boy, you know, and it's like, and so it was, and I said, well, how do I get on the,

how do I get on the.

Right, because you were just a writer.

Just a writer.

And that's all they thought of you as.

Yeah, Lauren said, right.

And I said, can I perform?

And, you know, Lauren was like, well, you know, Chevy started as a writer, and things went pretty well for Chevy.

He said, all right, I'll do it.

And so they said, well, write something you could.

They said, how do I get on here?

And he said, well, if you can come up with something you could perform better than anybody else, we'll let you do it.

And so I remember like, because at that point they had so many performers on there.

I remember like it seemed like the beginning scroll was like, and and Adam Sandler and Dana Garvey and Sarah and Al Franken for some reason.

He's still around.

And this, and it seemed like that was the longest part of the show.

You went from the scrawl of the cast to the news, basically.

And so I remember one time they had a half of a half an office.

In other words, there's an office and it was so many people, they divided it.

And then the heating and cooling vent was in mine.

So I was either freezing or boiling.

And I have claustrophobia because I have older brothers who put me in sleeping bags in closets as they go.

I'm always like, I can't stand.

And so I said, well, let me just go out in the writer's room and I can breathe.

And I noticed everybody walking back and forth to go eat, to go to the bathroom, or do whatever they got to do.

And I noticed you couldn't be as excited the fifth, sixth, seventh time as you see Kevin kneeling, you know?

And I thought, what if it was a guy just as excited?

Kevin, all right, Kevin, get in the bathroom, Kevin Ader, Kevin.

And he came up and started playing with me like, well, yeah, well, Rob, what would you have to say?

Kevin, all right.

Just the guy who's too happy to be there.

And then I said, well, I got to come up with like a reason for people to interact with him because nobody's going to be.

And I said, well, I'll put them next to the copy machine.

And I said, they'll come in to make copies.

Nobody makes copies anymore.

You just scan it.

So his life will be over.

And it was one of those things that caught on.

It made me famous.

Time magazine put it in there.

It was just because everybody's looking for something fun to do in their office.

When did you know

I'm part of the culture?

Interesting, like after I did it the second time, I went into the Sunday morning where you're really hungover.

Because it's the hundred-hour week, you're hungover from lack of sleep, you know.

But you're in your 20s, that's why they hire people in their 20s and suck their youth out and they're right, throw them away like last week's newspaper.

And I was in one of the mini marts there on the street, and I was just getting milk.

And when I used to be, before I realized I was a lactose intolerant, I'm getting milk and getting some whatever.

And I hear somebody, and they're going, Steve-O, Steven Ador, Steve Arama.

And he didn't even know I was there.

So I said, if it's happening here with strangers, don't know him, then it's happening everywhere.

So funny.

And I had 11 radio interviews the next day.

Really?

And I said, I never had an inner radio interview.

How many episodes had you done that character?

The second one.

Wow.

Yeah.

It was like innovative.

That's when people watched Saturday Night Live.

That's when we had millions of people.

Yeah.

And it was both sides.

Yeah.

You know,

it wasn't like

a

what I call it was

it's

it's not interesting.

They just do it for it's a choir of your own clapping people.

And like it's just any, it's not, it's not as interesting.

And like to me, it's more interesting is go against the, all the, all the great comedians went against what the mob was doing, but go against it, you know, like Dick Gregory was a friend of mine.

And like he was the real, the Jackie Robinson of comedy.

He was before Lenny Bruce.

And he passed away a couple of years ago.

Andre Gaines, they did did a very nice, I was a producer on the

documentary, which is on Showtime.

And,

you know, Dick was, he said, you know,

because at a certain point in Hollywood, I was able to like hire people to do stuff.

And I went, like, I remember my dad loving Dick Gregory.

I went to go see him at the Hungry Eye with

my mom.

You know, who she's Filipino.

She didn't understand one jokes.

She goes,

what does it mean?

Marvin, what does it mean, Marvin?

I don't understand.

What is this?

And then,

what is the South?

What is the South he's talking about?

And so I was able to hire him to be in a movie, The Hot Chick, you know.

And then his son told me, he said, not everybody wanted him to be on that movie.

But he said, you know, he's a comedian.

He wants to do jokes.

He came in.

He was great.

He played the bathroom attendant and he nailed it.

And we had fun in there.

And I said, and at the time, still very, very liberal.

And I said, Dick, it's not getting better.

How is it getting better?

And at that time, there was this horrendous crime that happened in Houston where this African-American was like dragged behind a pickup truck.

And then I said, how is that getting better?

And he said to me, it's getting better.

I said, how is that better?

You heard about it, didn't you?

Before, you never heard about it.

Now the police have to do something about it.

That's an improvement.

That's a guy who has historical look at this.

And he said, one of my favorite jokes he ever said was Dick Reger.

He said, like, you know, after protesting with Martin Luther King Jr.,

After marching with Martin Luther King Jr., to finally get in to eat in a diner with white people, by the time I got in to eat, they didn't have anything I wanted.

Come on.

I mean, isn't that just manna from heaven?

It brings everybody together.

Beautiful.

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Best advice you ever got from a comedian on comedy.

Jay Leno.

I remember 19, in the early 80s, I had a manager and I was starting to get, you know, doing stand-up when I was young because my dad had comedy albums.

You know, we didn't have music albums.

He listened to comedy.

That's why I said, you know, the way to get my dad's attention, make him laugh, you know.

He was a busy man, workaholic, you know.

Lovely guy, but he was gone all the time, working, and he loved it.

And so I wanted his attention, you know.

I remember he used to give us gifts, and I remember I'm trying to break that habit, but

I always got the gift, and I go, that's not what I want.

I want your time.

I never expressed that to him, but I just like, I felt it, and I feel that with my kids now, the same mistakes I'm making.

So,

but I was, I said, you're going to pick up Jay Leno, and this is before there was, you know, a cloud, an iCloud where you can look up in global positioning.

You had a Thomas guide.

You're going to drive him to the place.

You know San Francisco, like the back of your hand, you know.

And I did.

So I picked him up with a sign, Mr.

Leno, and he was doing one at that time.

He was on the Letterman Show doing,

what's your beef, Jay?

Let me tell you my beef.

You know, the thing, I did, I mean,

and

so, and I drove him to the radio, and I drove him to the theater, and he said, hey, you know a good Chinese restaurant?

And I said, I know the best Chinese restaurant, Mr.

Leno.

And it was the place I used to drive by when I was a boy.

My dad would go, that's where the politicians and the rich people go.

And that restaurant, it's really good.

But this one's just as good.

It's for us.

And it's just as good.

It's not that fancy.

We're not fancy.

And so I always admired my dad for that.

But I took him to the fancy one.

Because I said, you know.

And he said, you come out and eat with me.

I want to eat by myself.

You want to eat by myself or whatever.

And so he ordered the food.

So you're a comedian?

You know, I figured out if I'm driving or something.

I said, yes, Mr.

Leno.

How much time you got?

And I said, I got about eight minutes.

Eight minutes.

I'm glad to hear that.

Most comedians ask, how much time you got?

I got two hours.

I got two hours of comedy material.

And I said, who wants to hear two hours of comedy material?

You had to have five minutes of kills every time everywhere.

Oh, you got nothing.

That's the thing.

You got to get five minutes.

All you need is 20 minutes to become a star.

All you need is 20 minutes to become a star.

Five minutes of kills.

You don't have that.

You don't have nothing.

I spent the next eight months working on just those five minutes.

And then a year after that, I got on Letterman doing that five minutes.

And then he told me, which is true, you don't get, they get those nuggets of information.

It's like, I literally, like, this is like a tattoo you should put on your body.

And like, 20 minutes is all you need to become a star.

And it was, at that time, like Chris Rock, David Spade, and Adam Sandler and myself, we had like 20 killer minutes.

I don't know if we had an hour.

Maybe Rock did.

But that was really good advice.

And, you know, write what you know.

That was.

It's true.

Because like, I used to walk into a comedy club and I see 30 other comedians at the time.

It was a comedy boom.

Because that's when Robin Williams was

famous.

And there was money in it.

It's like, this guy's making movies.

He got a TV show.

Organization.

So I got to do it.

And I would walk into a place and it'd be kind of like,

you know,

frightening, thinking, like, well, there's 30 comedians.

How am I going to make it?

And they're not.

What's going to be the difference?

And I said, well, I'm going to have to work harder.

And if they're talking about anything that's similar to me, I'm going to throw it out.

And even if, even if it kills, and I'm going to talk about my mother, I'm going to talk about my father, my car, me.

So it's very personable.

And that's how I made it.

You know, I'm just going to, and working, just hitting those clubs 100 times to where like you don't break.

Right.

I mean, I remember I remember walking off stage one time and I bombed one time.

And I said, I felt like

the physical manifestation of humiliation,

you have to get rid of your ego.

Yeah.

And you have to build it back from a place of reality.

And I felt like when you're eating it on stage, it's like the manifestation is your ears melting off your face.

And you have to like say, okay, I can't let it get to me like that.

And you get steely so that, you know, when it ain't going good, you just hammer through.

But that takes hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of performances to get that.

I used to carry it around.

I'd do a show, radio show,

and it wasn't good.

And I would just be,

it would just drive me out of my mind.

And I couldn't wait to get back on the air to do it right.

Right.

Is that how you felt or was it more because it's so bad?

I still feel that way.

I was like, beautiful?

Oh yeah, I still feel the way.

I mean I have audiences that just are happy that I come out.

Sometimes they come out and they just stand up just because they've seen all the movies or whatever.

Or they follow me on Twitter and realize I'm a freedom fighter on social.

I'm a freedom fighter.

I'm out there tweeting because I believe in freedom.

And

I haven't been canceled completely yet, obviously.

And so,

you know, but I do feel sometimes there's a difference.

And I will just tell you that what happens, that's a perfectly normal, and that's a good thing.

Because if you you don't care, if you don't beat yourself up, it's a less potential to be great.

And I remember one time, someone who beat themselves up way more than me.

I said, you know, one of these talks, I do try to learn things and ask questions, not always, but if I'm in a town, what's in that town?

Let me go check it out.

Is there a museum?

Let me know.

I'll go wake up and get yourself to do it.

And if I'm performing with somebody, or like it was some, I don't even remember the show, but it was like one of those late night shows.

And I was with this beautiful violinist.

I forget her name.

I'm so sorry.

And she's like one of the greatest violinists in America.

And I said, how many times do you perform a year?

She says, 250.

Oh, my gosh.

And I said, how many times of the 250

do you really feel on?

And guess what number she said?

10,

2, 2.

And I said, wow.

Most of your year, you're disappointed in yourself.

And I'm like, my God, I can't live that way.

I got to have fun with this.

And I said, I can't beat myself up like that.

And you still kind of do, but like, it's.

It's funny.

It does change.

And I think it's just

years and years and years of doing it.

And it's a combination of.

You're giving yourself.

Yeah.

It's a combination of don't take it so seriously.

And I don't really give a crap anymore.

What can they do to me now?

I'm divorced.

I've got nothing.

No,

what can they do?

It's all right.

And I do feel that sense.

Like, you know, thankfully, I could sell out comedy clubs and theaters.

And I did make make a movie that I got called Daddy Daughter Trip that's coming out soon.

We're opening it in Arizona first.

And I literally, like, some of the people that I've made a lot of money for

didn't take the movie.

And I know it's a good movie for them.

And I get it.

It's a business, and you can't take it personally.

Why didn't they take it?

I think it's because I'm a conservative.

I know it is.

And I know it's because I don't, I went against the tide of this,

you know,

the tide of this intelligentsia saying do whatever the government says is really interesting.

How does Hollywood miss the fact that we're living the McCarthy era all over again?

Because Hollywood is always going to be susceptible to the blacklisting and the alienating of people because it's an elitist system.

It's the most elitist business in the world.

Because I remember hanging out with one of my friends' co-stars, she's an English actress.

She said, I've already worked with four Academy Award-winning directors and producers.

So it's kind of elitism, an elitism, an elitism, an elitism, and this other scale.

It's the most elitist business in the world, Hollywood.

You know, like the fact that they didn't kick out Will Smith at the Oscars was just an abomination.

But they were so afraid of anybody saying that they're racist, they're like, I said, maybe we should kick out Bradley Cooper because he's white and he hugged him.

Let's kick out Bradley Cooper.

I mean, they're kind of lunacy.

Lunacy.

And then, because I think what it comes down to is most actors are coming from a place of, please hire me.

Please.

And so they're so afraid that they won't be be hired, giving anybody a reason to not hire them that you can't be.

And I've been told, don't be controversial, you know, because I tweeted a thing and they said, you know, Rob, we're trying to sell a TV show and you're trying to do that.

And it was my manager at the time.

He said, like, because I tweeted, I said, California would vote for a bowl of shit if it had a D next to it.

I'll vote for that.

Let's go shit.

You know, and I tweeted that.

And it just, it was one of those things.

It's just like viral.

You never realize it's a joke.

I said the next thing, and I was like, what?

That's stopping me from getting work.

Wow.

But you have to, but Hollywood is always going to have that susceptibility to,

you know,

James MacArthur.

I think the, you know, the blacklist.

I think he was one of the actors that never worked again.

He was a great actor in the 50s, you know.

And

I think that was his name.

I could be wrong.

But there's that potential is always going to be there in Hollywood because you're just trying to, what's the most popular thing?

What do we need to do?

How do we continue to keep our jobs?

and and i used to real i realized something when i was at the studio system

first time i got fired at disney i was depressed when i got kicked off the lot at sony i was i was like relieved but i realized this these people don't want to make the best movies that they can make the funniest movies they don't operate from that and i put it it's in my book be coming up hopefully next year

they don't operate that way i thought they would they operate from what will delay my inevitable firing the longest

and that's how they operate because they all know they're going to get fired.

So if I put my name with everybody else's name on this $200 million Goliath and that goes down, well, the whole studio goes down.

But if I take a risk on this little comedy and it doesn't work, well, I'll be exposed.

I remember one guy just wouldn't push a button on this one movie at Fox.

He just wouldn't go ahead.

And I would like, well, because he's worried about getting fired.

That's why.

He doesn't want to put his net.

He doesn't want to get above the firing line.

And if you do, you know, you and I have put our head above the firing line.

It's ugly.

You know, it's that society.

But it is what people,

where they are.

That's what they're looking for.

I think so.

I do too.

I want to think so.

Yeah.

I want to think so.

I want to think that there's the good amount of people who didn't step up

during the civil rights movement for a lot of it.

Eventually, I think most of the people did.

And you see the betterment of society for it.

And I think for the people who like agreed to lock down, even though there was nothing wrong with them, and there was no such thing as asymptomatic spread and all that crap that they,

I think,

you know,

I'm hopeful that the next time that the government tries this, because they're not done,

I hope that these people will wake up and realize how important that First Amendment is, how important that Second Amendment is, how important that third amendment is, even the fourth

and the fifth.

And you realize that like you cannot burn down the house and destroy our Constitution, stack our court because you didn't win.

That's not how you play this game.

This is much for people who don't put country, God, and family first.

God, country, family.

God, family, country.

You have to.

We have to.

That's the only way we're going to survive that.

And we have to make sure that our leaders coming up, that we can protect them and that we can support these people who believe in that.

And I am still bullish on this country.

I love it.

And I'll do everything I can in my power.

And

if I never work again as an actor, but I can talk to people wherever I can, talk to you and just come from a place, like you said, a place of wanting to unify people, coming from a place not attacking, coming from a place of love, but also going to call people when I think that they're destructive to the foundational principles of our great country.

We have to do that at the expense of whatever they take away from me.

It's been a great conversation.

Well, thank you.

I think we should turn the cameras on at this point.

I think we're ready to go.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you.

It's a real honor.

Well, thank you.

The honor's mine.

Thank you.

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