Best of the Program | Guests: Marlo Oaks & Erin Lee | 5/16/22

Charlie Sheen is an icon of decadence.

I lit the fuse and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

He's going the distance.

He was the highest paid TV star of all time.

When it started to change, it was quick.

He kept saying, No, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next week I'll be ready for the show.

Now, Charlie's sober.

He's gonna tell you the truth.

How do I present this with a class?

I think we're past that, Charlie.

We're past that, yeah.

Somebody call action.

Yeah, aka Charlie Sheen, only on Netflix, September 10th.

Hey, great show today.

We talk about ESG, we talk about the shooting and the insanity that is going on with the media, but we do more than just talk about it.

We show you the facts on what was happening in Buffalo,

what the actual manifesto says, what the media says, and how biased they really are.

Also, as I said, the ESG and

definitely not an endorsement for

the Congress, U.S.

Congress, and Brian Smith.

That's definitely, definitely not an endorsement because all my endorsements end in tears.

And so it's definitely not, but good heavens, it is a very important day tomorrow, all across the country for election.

We will have that tomorrow.

Here's the podcast today.

You're listening to

the best of the benefici program.

All right, so let me start.

Let me first say hello to Pat Gray, who is filling in this week for Stu, who is

off having some plastic surgery done.

And I'm glad he probably wouldn't want me to mention it, but

it's been quite disfiguring what has happened to him recently.

Yeah.

It's good to

have.

I'm glad he's taking care of it, though.

I am too.

We're trying to.

We tried not to say anything, tried really hard.

It took, what, we're five minutes into the show?

Seven.

No, I don't mean now.

I mean, you know, over the over the last 20 years to not talk about

disintegration.

Yeah, so

best of luck.

We have you in our thoughts.

Not our prayers, Stu, but we do have you in our thoughts in your ongoing extensive plastic surgery that you're doing.

If Biden,

this is from the Daily Beast.

If Biden and the Democrats still have to answer for defund the police and CRT, the GOP should answer for the racist violent theory that they've pushed.

Republicans in the conservative media ecosystem have to answer for the blood on their hands.

Either through innuendo or direct statements, they continue to promote the white supremacist great replacement theory, which has yet again radicalized a terrorist to commit violence against people of color, and they should be held accountable for their role in it.

Okay,

I would like to know, do you know anyone

who is upset that America will, what, by 2050 be less white and whites won't be in charge?

Not a single person.

I don't know a single person.

Have you ever heard a candidate for the Republican Party ever talk about that?

Nope.

Okay, I haven't either.

We've never talked about it ever.

We've never talked about it.

We've never on or off the air.

Correct.

It is not an issue with the GOP.

It may be the issue with some people,

and it is an issue online, but that's not a GOP theory.

That's a Nazi theory.

That's a racist theory.

That's a democratic Klan theory.

All right.

We are still learning more about Peyton Gendren.

This is is from the Daily Beast, the 18-year-old suspected terrorist who killed 10 people.

Suspected terrorist.

I mean, he surrendered at the scene.

Killed 10 people in a racially motivated attack in Buffalo.

However, it is clear from his alleged manifesto that the Great Replacement Theory, which is now a mainstream GOP talking point.

What?

No.

No.

It's a flat-out lie.

A complete lie.

A talking point?

Never.

I've never heard of it.

Continues to radicalize men

to commit violence.

Yet some Republican leaders and conservative pundits continue to promote this hate for the sake of votes, profit, and ratings.

Never mentioned, I don't know anyone in my industry that believes it and is promoting it.

By the way, for those who are like, you talk about the borders, that's not replacement theory.

That's chaos.

That's what that is.

Enough is enough until Republican leaders and conservative media stars.

I think they're talking about you, Pat.

Could be talking about Stu, but I don't want to bring him up because of that horrible, horrendous scar.

Anyway,

unless the conservative media stars explicitly renounce this white supremacist conspiracy theory, condemn it, and disassociate from its peddlers.

If they don't, it's fair to conclude they are entirely complicit with the message.

Stu, Pat,

do you renounce this white supremacist conspiracy?

Do you condemn it?

Yes.

Will you disassociate from all of its peddlers?

Completely, except that I never associated with them to begin with.

I know, and

I don't know who they are.

I mean, if you can point them out, let me know.

I don't know who they are.

Journalists and reporters must repeatedly hound Republican officials with follow-up questions.

Recall Democrats and President Joe Biden are still asking about defunding the police, even though it's not a mainstream

DNC position.

What?

This literally was a talking point.

It was literally,

people ran on that

platform

until it became unpopular.

Now all of a sudden, it's like, what?

We didn't say that.

Who said that?

I mean, this is crazy.

Or about critical race theory panic, even though it was revealed to be a bad faith Trojan horse created by right-wing activists to incite racial panic and anxiety.

Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh.

This is crazy.

Crazy.

Okay, so let's now go into the facts.

First of all,

replacement theory is not a mainstream Republican theory.

It is a racist theory.

If you are afraid of another race taking over

by 2050,

you might want to discuss that with some people.

And I don't mean people that think like you.

Maybe you should call us and discuss it with us

because you're wrong.

What matters is the country being taken over by people who don't understand the Constitution

and the way America was set up.

That's the problem.

Okay, last spring, as the end of the academic year approached at Susquehanna Valley High School outside of Binghamton, New York, students were asked for a school project about their plans after graduation.

The guy who was shooting the supermarket up over the weekend said he wanted to commit a murder suicide.

He claimed to be joking, but the state police were summoned to investigate.

They took him into custody under state mental health law.

He had a psychiatric evaluation in the hospital, but was released within a couple of days.

Two weeks later, he graduated, fell off investigators' radar.

He resurfaced over the weekend, 200 miles away in Buffalo, where authorities say he opened fire at a supermarket in a predominantly black area, killing 10 people, wounding three others, and the deadliest racist massacre in the United States history.

You know, the one thing that I guess, I guess you could say

is that social media is not paying attention and tracking everybody, and nor is the FBI.

Now, if you're brought in and you are threatening your students and murder, suicide, and you've published a 180-page manifesto,

Maybe we should look at that.

You know, maybe we should.

Maybe, you know, hey, a, we had a tip on this guy.

Oh, look at the manifesto.

But apparently that wasn't done, even though the state has red flag laws.

Hmm.

Another gun law that doesn't seem to do anything because they don't enforce it.

Huh.

So we read the manifesto or as much as we could read the manifesto because it has been taken offline and that is both a good thing and a bad thing.

It's a good thing because I don't want to spread the poison.

It's a bad thing because the media can lie about everything and you won't know.

So here's what we do have.

180 page manifesto was written

and they have been trying to

blame Fox News and everybody else.

It attacks the news networks, including Fox News.

Why?

For hiring Jews.

Now,

Pat, I know that's a Republican talking.

Can you tell me if you had to put one...

Well, let me do it in a positive way.

Which one of the two parties

would be the most likely to support Jews and Israel?

Republicans.

Republicans.

Why do you know that?

Because it is the Republicans who stand by Israel every single time.

It's the Republicans.

It was a Republican president who moved the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Well, that was just a dog whistle.

Is that what that was?

Yeah, that was just a dog whistle.

Others have tried to link the shooter to right-wing politics,

right-wing extremism.

But here's what the manifesto says: Quote, when I was 12, I was deep into communist ideology.

Huh.

Talk to anyone.

Sounds really Republican, doesn't it?

Very, well, it's a talking point.

Yeah.

Talk to anyone from my old high school and ask about me, and you'll hear that.

From age 15 to 18, however, I consistently move further to the right.

On the political compass, I fall in the mild, moderate, authoritarian left category.

Left.

Fascinating.

Yeah.

So he moved from the communist

just to the authoritarian category.

Okay.

So he's authoritarian left wing,

but he's a capitalist.

Oh, no.

He says,

I'm not a conservative because conservativism is corporatism in disguise and I want no part of that.

Oh, that sounds very Republican.

Very Republican.

He's not a conservative.

Well, it actually kind of does sound like Mitch McConnell, except it's not because of corporatism.

Conservatism is corporatism in disguise and I want no part of it.

Okay, so, huh?

He's not a conservative and he doesn't like corporatism,

but he's authoritarian.

Sounds to to me like the guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

He says,

let's see.

He also says that he was inspired by the New Zealand shooter,

which that guy was a conservative, wasn't he?

Wasn't he a conservative?

Oh, no.

No, no, he wasn't.

No.

Gosh, that's right.

And how do we know?

Oh, his manifesto.

Oh, that's right.

That's right.

By the way, he talks about...

now, why wouldn't we read a manifesto on the air?

You don't want to inspire anybody who's a little bit

more.

Yeah, you don't want their dreams to come true, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

He specifically says

that

there are...

New York strict gun laws, which is going to make it easier to carry out attacks

new yorkers are limited to 10 round magazines and the crazy gunman uh says that means that others don't have enough bullets uh to if they're armed citizens to actually fight back

hmm he then goes on to say his desired outcome from this rampage would be more gun control laws.

Ha!

Another really solidly Republican point.

Right.

And he says more gun laws because that would force white Americans to fight back in order to regain their rights.

Hmm.

Huh.

Heavily racist, authoritarian left.

And his goal was to get more gun laws.

Wow.

We've got just a crack media, don't we?

I mean, they are on it.

This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

We are, I'm thrilled, thrilled to have a real ESG warrior in the studio now.

Marlo Oakes, he is the Utah state treasurer and he gets it.

He is on our studio lot here meeting with other state leaders from all over the country, meeting with the Heartland Institute regarding ESG.

His name is Marlo Oakes.

Marlo, how are you, sir?

Great.

It's good to have you here.

Good to be here.

Thank you.

So

you are, your background is investments.

Yes.

Right.

And in 2008, your firm fared really quite well, did it not?

Yeah.

And that was why.

Well, it was different strategies that we had in place.

And really, what's interesting is we looked at the market indicators.

We had some indicators on market-based information around the housing market

and were able to avoid some investments.

And the housing market went up.

And this is important for people to understand.

The housing market went up.

It wasn't called this at the time, but it was social justice, was it not?

Correct.

Yeah.

Tell me, explain that.

So essentially,

the government decided that owning a home was a human right, right?

For everybody in the United States, everybody should own a home.

And so we are going to twist the arm of banks to provide more capital.

Correct.

And you can't open up new banks in other areas unless you provide more home loans for these people in this disadvantaged area.

That's right.

That's right.

And so all of this money floods into the housing market, creating all of these different securities, right?

And ultimately, it was too much capital.

Underwriting standards went down, right?

And what was the result?

It almost broke our entire system, right?

And so when we start messing with markets, we are creating huge problems.

The misallocation of capital, either too much capital or not enough capital, it creates problems.

And that is the key.

And I want you to know there's a new study out that shows that 50%, 50, 55% of the population is now aware of the Great Reset and ESG and have an opinion on it.

It is the least popular.

I mean, it's wildly unpopular with all three, but it's the least popular with independents, then with Democrats, and the trail is Republicans because they say, we're not going to get involved in the free market.

This is not.

the free market.

No, that's right.

And I'm really glad to hear those statistics because I've told people this transcends partisan politics.

If you care about the United States of America, you will be against ESG.

This is not free market capitalism because free market capitalism is allowing capital to go where it would naturally go.

In 2015, there were 59 oil and gas funds raised globally, $46.6 billion.

In 2021, there were 11 funds raised globally, $4.6 billion, a drop of over 90%.

And the reason is because ESG investors, we have a group of entities, financial entities that have signed on to different initiatives globally that are saying we have to reduce carbon emissions to net zero.

And with that goal, then they are now cutting off capital, refusing to give capital where it is most desperately needed in this economy, and that is in the oil and gas industry.

And that's a huge reason why we have inflation in gasoline prices.

This is where governments always screw up.

They always screw up.

They are saying we want to reduce to carbon zero.

So we're going to, we're, we're sending this out to the oil and gas industry.

Uh, and that message has gone through the banks and through investors.

We're not going to invest in you for finding any more oil and gas.

You're not the future, right?

And then the next in line there sees, oh, oil and gas is is not the future, so I've got to build electric cars.

But nobody's talking about

how fast this is happening and where we're going to get all of the electricity in the transition period.

Right.

And what are we transitioning to?

To.

You know, we say, okay, we've got to get off oil and gas.

Okay, that's fine and dandy, but

where are we going to get our power?

Yeah.

Right.

And electric vehicles don't power themselves.

No.

They have to get the power from somewhere, right?

If we would, I would be for, not ESG, but I would be for the switchover if it was cleaner.

If we were doing, let's say, combined with we're going to build new nuclear plants.

Yeah.

So we had enough power to do it.

Well, where is the market, right?

That's what we're getting away from, which is so dangerous, right?

Free market capitalism is essentially economic freedom.

It's the ability for you and I to make our own choices about what we buy and sell.

Okay, so you are trying to

get people to understand in Utah this is

extraordinarily dangerous for them.

Yes.

Why?

It bypasses our legislative processes, right?

So because the Great New Deal wasn't able to get through Congress, that didn't stop them.

They went through, they're going through ESG, through corporate America, which bypasses a legislative process

and run against the constitution absolutely it undermines the constitution and ESG is fundamentally coercion if you think about socially responsible investing that's the idea that I'm going to avoid certain industries because I don't want to participate in them that's fine that's your constitutional right

impact investing I'm a huge fan of impact investing that's where you are looking for a solution to a problem.

It's about funding innovation to find solutions to our biggest challenges.

ESG is neither of those things.

ESG has really hijacked the socially responsible investing idea.

And instead of just avoiding investing, we are now going to engage in companies and engage the market and try to change them to the view that we have, that we have to do it.

Including changing the board of directors.

Absolutely.

Which is so dangerous.

Yes.

So

you're on the E for energy for ESG

or ecology.

You're looking at the high rate of

gas prices going up, and you're tying it right to ESG because we're not investing in that.

That's right.

Yeah, because if you invest in that, then you may get shamed.

I mean, there's a cancel culture there, and it's incredibly dangerous.

So how does this hurt the investor who has their money in some mutual fund?

Let's start there.

How does that help?

Well, this this year, the best performing sector in the market has been oil and gas.

And you're out.

And you're not participating in it.

So you are,

by definition, over time, if you are excluding a sector or company or whatever it is, right, you are either

over a business cycle, you are either going to have higher volatility, lower returns, or a combination of both.

And this year is a perfect example of what happens when you don't invest in oil and gas because it is the best performing asset class.

Somebody has to look at these funds and see if they, because there's fiduciary responsibility.

Absolutely.

They can't just do this if it's not performing at least as well.

Right.

But I can't imagine how it is.

Now, the state, as I see this,

this is the way, you remember when, you know, the bathroom, the non-gender bathroom thing.

And what was it?

The Carolinas, Pat, do you remember?

North Carolina.

North Carolina.

And they boycotted the state and they said, we're not going to bring tours there, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

This is a way, if you don't go along, before it hits the average person and their choices personally, it's going to hit the states first.

And this is a way for the state to be completely shut off, correct?

Like Russia is shut off.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's potentially.

That's exactly right.

It is a way we are politicizing our capital markets to the point where we are no longer in control as a state

the level of or the rate that we can borrow money in the capital markets.

Utah has always had a triple A rating, and all three credit rating agencies have rated it triple A.

That's the highest credit in the world.

And I've said for months, that may not matter if we have some ESG score that says we aren't doing

we might be extracting too much oil or our gun laws are too lax, whatever it is, right?

S ⁇ P Global, which is a credit rating service, just said to all of the states, we're not just looking at your finances now, we're using ESG.

That's right.

So you may lose your AAA credit ratio status.

They kept it separate, right?

So they said, okay, you have your AAA,

but then they have an ESG score.

That's still problematic, even if we have a AAA credit rating, because you're calling out something else that investors can point to and say, oh, well, you shouldn't really lend to Utah at the best rates because look at their ESG score, right?

Forget the credit rating, right?

That's the only thing that's going to mean to states.

It means that you have lost your self-determination, your sovereignty, your ability to drive kind of your own destiny.

How?

Because if

S ⁇ P Global determines for some reason or the credit rating agencies determine that there is some risk out there, right, that's a social risk or an environmental risk,

and they point to that and give you a low score, then investors may hold back money, just like what they're doing with oil and gas.

And therefore, rates go up.

You have to borrow at a higher rate.

And all taxpayers in the state are hurt by that.

It hurts states and companies and individuals.

It's incredible how bad this is.

It is all-encompassing.

And really, I personally think it's evil, but it's genius.

I mean, it's well thought out and well-executed.

Yes.

And they are way down the road with it.

Yes.

So what are you doing in your state to stop it?

Well,

I'm doing a lot of education.

Number one.

Number one thing,

right around 50% don't know what it is.

Yeah.

And we've got to change that.

People have got to understand, and they've got to understand how this is different from free market capitalism, how it actually undermines and destroys free market capitalism, because it has nothing to do with free market capitalism.

In fact, it's the antithesis of free market capitalism.

And people have got to understand how this,

how it hurts their returns, their investment returns,

how it causes inflation.

We look at the 2008, 2009 financial crisis and what a disaster that was.

That's a result of the government getting involved in markets and trying to determine who can get capital and who can't.

That's what ESG is all about.

And that made houses less expensive, easier to get, where inflation here is you don't have the resources for the oil and gas.

So those resources

are falling behind where you're supposed to be.

And the supply is supply is far out.

So that's just causing supply and demand.

Exactly.

And another thing that's so insidious about this, if you think, if you're concerned about the environment, and who doesn't want clean air and clean water, right?

We all want that, right?

So in order to solve a problem, we need innovation.

And we've always relied on innovation in this country.

We have the best innovation record in the world.

In the world.

And if we go down the ESG hole, we will destroy innovation because it is a massive wealth transfer of regulation and lawsuits and other service providers like accountants that have to do all of the ESG scoring, right?

It's a huge transfer.

There's no wealth that has been generated by ESG.

No.

It's this reporting

that is being foisted on companies, public and private.

It is like across the economy.

Marlo Oakes, who is the Utah State Treasurer, who had a Wall Street Journal piece out recently, and he is now meeting with different states, different leaders here at our studio

complex over at the American Journey Experience.

He's meeting with the Heartland Institute regarding ESG.

Okay, so we were talking about how this is going to affect the average person.

Yeah, so we have a co-op power company.

The co-op, meaning there's five different cities in Utah and Nevada.

right that that have this co-op power company and recently the insurance broker was approached by the current insurance underwriter for automobile insurance of the fleet vehicles.

And they said, we are no longer going to underwrite the automobile business of the co-op.

And they said, well, why?

Because it is coal power,

coal-generated power.

Even though the cars aren't.

Yeah.

Right.

And so that's where we're going, right?

I mean,

I tell people this.

This is like putting economic sanctions, sanctions, American companies, against American companies.

You see this in war, right?

In war, you do economic sanctions against other countries.

Now we have American businesses doing it to American businesses.

It is crazy.

And of course it's going to filter down.

They have to control.

our behavior in order for us to get to the net zero.

I mean, it is insane.

I'm sorry because I'm so ignorant on this.

Wouldn't the Commerce Clause have something to do with this?

The government is supposed to make sure that commerce flows freely, and that's not what this is doing.

No, that's right.

In fact,

it is really substituting our pluralistic institutions.

And what I mean by that is the market is our most pluralistic institution because we have individual players, individual people that participate in the market, all with a different view about the future.

And we are trying to conform everybody's view to one, right?

To converge that view to one outcome.

That sounds good.

And that destroys the pluralistic system that we have and leads to centralized control.

So, Marlo, we've got about 90 seconds.

What can people do or how can

what can people do?

Well, number one is that we've got to get money out of the big institutions that are driving this, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard.

Those institutions have consolidated so much power and they've essentially essentially hijacked passive investing and made it active to drive this agenda.

So if your money is in one of those, you got to try to get it out.

Yes, yes.

And

that includes talking to your company.

If they have a retirement system at your company, you've got to tell them that you do not want your money politicized and that you've got to have your money

managed for a financial return.

Number two is if a business is doing something that you consider offensive, like politicizing things, right, you need to call the company.

Don't just stop doing business with them.

Call them and tell them why.

And conversely, if a business is not politicizing things and you appreciate that, then call them and tell them that you appreciate that.

The last thing you can do is actually buy a share of a company and show up to their annual meeting and start asking them tough questions about why they're doing certain things.

Excellent.

Carlo, thank you very much.

Thank you.

I really appreciate it.

Keep up the good work.

And if there's ever anything we can do to help,

the people need to know what it is, and we need strong leaders like you that will

put it through.

Well, thank you.

Thank you for your help and educating people:

the best of the Glen Bank program.

Okay,

let's meet this

poor mom, Erin Lee, full-time working mother of three.

Hi, Erin.

How are you?

Hi, Glenn.

I'm well.

Thanks for having me.

You bet.

You bet.

I read your story and I just

honestly, I am glad this isn't happening to my children because I don't think I have the restraint to be a decent human being if this was happening to my children.

Can you tell us exactly what happened?

Yeah, so last year my shy, vulnerable, barely 12-year-old daughter who had just moved to a new school at the height of COVID protocol was recruited by her art teacher and her homeroom teacher to attend art club after school.

So she texted us, we gave our permission for art club.

When she got there it was actually GSA or gender and sexuality awareness or alliance club.

And the teacher had invited in a completely unqualified outside presenter who did did unthinkable things with the children.

And I'll give you the Cliff Notes version.

She told them what you hear in here, keep in here.

She used flags to describe defining words, telling them that if they're not fully comfortable in their bodies, that means they're transgender.

And then she would hand out the flags and stickers and bracelets and other swag.

She told them that queer is a label for when they're still figuring out their sexuality.

She did the genderbred person, which explicitly asks kids who they're sexually attracted to.

So 11, 12, 13-year-olds with peers and adults in the room talking about their sexuality.

She handed out her personal contact information and invited them to connect on team chat platforms like WhatsApp and Discord, where she knows that parents are not monitoring the conversation.

And she told them that families might not be safe and it's okay to lie about where they are.

And in fact, the art teacher, as my daughter was leaving the room that day, pulled pulled her aside and said, remember, you don't have to tell your mom.

Okay, so

what happened?

You bring this up.

I've seen the emails.

What has happened?

So thank God, my daughter got in the car and I could see on her face when I picked her up that something was wrong.

And so we probed and we're really fortunate that she told us what happened.

We've seen all kinds of horror stories about teachers and presenters like this leading kids down this transgender path, you know, leading them into medical transition.

So we're lucky we caught it right when it happened.

Somehow remained calm enough to follow the appropriate channels.

I mean, we were livid.

We were confused.

We didn't even believe this was real at first.

So our first step was to contact the woman who gave her personal information to my child.

And her response was delusional.

It doubled down on everything that she did.

And so we demanded a sit-down with the principal, and he confirmed that this, in fact, happened in secret, that they always hold this meeting in secret because as a public school, they have to offer children a safe space.

So essentially a safe space from their families.

We took it to the school board.

They ignored my pleas for months.

When I finally got a sit-down with the board member, it turns out she's best friends with the woman who came into the classroom.

Oh my gosh.

Volunteers with her organization.

This woman has an organization called Skittles for kids 5 to 11 to talk about their sexuality and gender identity.

And our school board member volunteers with Skittles.

So we realize, and again, those FOIA emails showed that they immediately colluded.

When I objected to what happened, they immediately colluded with the school board to keep me quiet.

They referenced parents who find out as barriers that the school board has removed.

They talked about sending social services into my home because I didn't like what they did with my child.

This is really, this one is

so far,

I mean, all of it is over the line.

But when they actually suggest that maybe we need to do a well check on this child, basically internally saying, is there something that the school district can do to put this parent in their place?

Maybe they're being abused.

This child's being abused.

Or maybe because they are transgender, the parent doesn't want to admit it.

So we're going to send in a well check team.

That is a direct threat to you.

Absolutely.

And my daughter had never expressed gender dysphoria before.

She never expressed that she'd had any trouble at home.

They never spoke to me.

I never spoke to any of the people that did these things before they decided to talk about calling CPS.

I think they knew we were at our most vulnerable moment as a family that they caused.

And in the state of Colorado, if my child had said to CPS that I wasn't affirming her transgender identity, I firmly believe they would have removed her from the home.

Oh, Oh, yeah, they would have.

And the people knew this, right, when they suggested that CPS come to our home to remove our child.

And if our child is not under our care, then they have full control of her brain and her heart.

My gosh, Erin, can you believe you live in the United States of America?

You know,

Colorado is off the rails in particular, but this is happening everywhere.

I mean, this isn't just unique to California and Colorado.

This is happening in conservative states and conservative communities, This kind of secretive sexuality programming and vilifying parents, you know, assuming that parents are evil until proven innocent.

It's happening everywhere.

So where does it stand now?

Still has not been addressed.

Nothing has been

happened.

We got a lot of false promises from school administration, a lot of, you know, they showed empathy, and I realize now it was just gaslighting.

They realized the repercussions that could potentially happen and it's happening right now for them and they tried really hard to keep me quiet by making false promises.

But my FOIA requests and their actions show me that it was just gaslighting.

So do you have any other parents that are standing with you?

You know, it felt for a long time like I was alone on an island with this issue and I wanted to believe it was an isolated incident and the more we've looked into it, we realize just how deeply this agenda runs in our school district.

and obviously the school board is involved the teachers unions are involved at the local level at the state level

so we realize that that this is an issue that isn't going away the the teachers unions can you tell me about the involvement of the teachers unions

Yeah, well, they're just deeply involved with our school board, with our decisions.

The woman who is in the classroom, this outside presenter, is an employee of the county health department.

We have proof that she's had multiple meetings with the local school board president.

I'm sorry, school union president.

So we've just realized that they're all deeply entrenched with each other.

So what are you going to do now?

I know your child is out at a Christian school doing fine now, but what are you going to do?

Yes, and I have a second grader who remained in the school district for the rest of this year who will now be moving to a charter school that was founded on the principles of parental rights.

And it's really a pretty conservative school.

So we're lucky that we removed our children but parents need to get louder community members grandparents this we have to speak up especially at the school board level and let them know that what they're doing isn't okay demand curriculum transparency other parents need to get their kids out of this district it's not safe So I continue to sound the alarm because we tried every other avenue and it didn't work.

I mean, we contacted the police after this happened.

Had it been on a playground, that would have been my first call.

The only reason I remained calm is because it was with a trusted teacher in a closed setting, and I didn't fully understand everything that happened.

But the police indicated that because there was no exposure of body parts or physical touch, that there are no legal repercussions.

But our sheriff did tell me I need to get loud because just because it's not illegal doesn't mean it isn't wrong.

And other parents deserve the opportunity to protect their children like I couldn't.

I'll tell you, listening to your sheriff, sheriff, that sounds like a good sheriff.

What town are you in, or what district are you in?

So I'm in the Puder School District, which is Fort Collins, Colorado.

We live in a small suburb outside of Fort Collins, only about 10,000 people.

And isn't that generally conservative?

Yeah, it's conservative, right?

It is.

And so they target our area.

Some of those FOIA emails revealed that they realize this is a conservative community, and so they're going to target it and put as much programming in place as they can.

And they did.

The week after this happened, this same woman was in our boys and girls club with elementary age students.

Same thing.

Don't tell your parents.

And some parents found out and raised their concern.

Now she's in removed from boys and girls club, but she's in our libraries.

She's not.

So how can this be in a conservative community?

Nobody is standing up with you.

Well, now they are.

Okay, good.

It just has all been so secretive, and that's their intent.

And again, in those emails, you can see that they said, how we deal with this parent sets a precedent moving forward.

So they knew that, you know, they didn't want anyone to find out.

And as soon as I found out, they knew that there would be some serious repercussions.

And they tried very hard to keep me quiet.

But now that this has gained so much attention, there's a lot of people in the community who have spoken up and a lot of parents who have had this same thing happen.

I've had multiple families reach out and say, this same thing happened with the same teacher in that school.

What do we do?

So a lot of people just didn't know.

They didn't know to connect the dots.

That is an unsafe.

That's an unsafe teacher.

Who still teaches and who is still the GSA sponsor at that school?

I mean, how, I mean, because of the teachers' unions, you'll never get rid of them.

But, I mean, I am a big supporter of the arts, huge supporter of the arts.

I'm an artist myself.

And

my children's school really, you know, doesn't have, you know, the arts in their school.

It's an academic school, so they don't do the arts very well.

And I have to tell you, it bothers me, but I would never put my kid in that art class with an, I think that's an unsafe teacher.

When I can't,

when I can't go and meet with a teacher and know that I'm hearing the truth about what my child is doing, I got no time for you.

These people think, you know, like Joe Biden said, that these are their children while they're there.

No, they're not.

You work for me.

I don't work for you.

that's the assumption that these children belong to them and since this happened our school has hired three administrative staff a chief academic equity diversity inclusion officer

triple what a teacher makes they hired a dei coordinator and they hired an lgbtqia plus coordinator in a town

10 000

Well, for the school district, but her job description literally says coaching students, advancing LGBTQIA programming, and increasing gender support plan.

I have to tell you, we're talking to Erin Lee.

She's a full-time working mom of three and now has another full-time job of just trying to figure out what's happening in her school and school district.

I have to tell you,

these teachers' unions, if you are a teacher, and you are still paying your dues, and I, parents, start telling your teachers this:

if you are still paying dues to a teachers' union, you don't have to belong to,

you're part of the problem.

I don't care how great you are, how trusted you are.

I cannot trust you if you're still helping fund this kind of stuff.

Anyway, Aaron,

welcome back.

Yeah.

So

you were saying

this new

gender equity

consultant at the school is doing something that I don't think I've heard of.

What was it?

Gender support plans.

And they're secretive.

So I'm not shocked that you haven't heard of them, but everyone needs to be aware because they do these everywhere.

It's not just here in Colorado.

It's happening everywhere.

These gender support plans are essentially transition plans for children.

So written plans to transition their gender, and usually these happen in secret.

The gender support plans have verbiage for the educators to gauge parents' support, and if the support is low, they don't tell them.

And it's happening in our elementary schools here, and this person was hired to increase gender support plans, so secretly transitioning kids in our public schools.

This is evil.

This is just straight up evil.

It is.

I mean,

who do you think you are?

And to keep it secret, to keep it secret, that's the problem.

You want a transition plan?

Great.

Present it at the school board hearing.

Let the community see it.

You know, and then if you want to protect the kids,

you know, their identity while they're doing it,

how can you do that?

How can they transition and keep it from the kids at school?

They'll just keep it from the parents.

My gosh, this is evil.

Just evil.

Right.

And not just that, this LGBTQ coordinator and our director of student services and other school staff have directed all nurses in our district to, first of all, if a child comes to you for anything, ask their pronouns.

So if a kindergartner has a tummy ache, first question is: okay, what's your pronoun?

If I call home, what name do I call you?

But they've also been instructed to not tell parents if a child is suicidal, cutting, or

now we're currently getting suicide attempts from parents as well.

And what is the reason for that?

Because parents aren't safe.

Parents might not be safe.

So if we tell parents that this child is suicidal, it's going to make it worse.

Get your kids

out of schools.

Get them out of these schools.

Vote for people that will give school choice and the money will follow the children.

This has got to stop.

It's got to stop.

Aaron, you contact me anytime that you need some backup reinforcement.

You need people to know about something.

You call me anytime.

All right.

Thank you.

I will.

God bless you.

Thank you so much.

Aaron Lee

in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Where are you, parents?

Where are you, conservatives?

Are you standing up?

No, no, no, no.