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We may have a new Supreme Court justice before the end of the year, maybe even by fall, because I think the Supreme Court session ends, what, like midsummer, doesn't it?

Summer sometime.

So, right after that, apparently, Stephen Breyer is going to retire.

So,

looks like Democrats are going to have their shot.

We'll get into that and much more in 60 seconds.

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So, the big announcement yesterday was that Stephen Breyer is going to step down as Supreme Court Justice, which means there would be an opening at the end of the session.

And I think the session ends, you know, after they make all their pronouncements in the summer.

So,

could it be Kamala Harris?

No.

Some are speculating it might be that would get her out of the way, at least, of the administration, and they could try to find somebody who might help the administration and the administration's likability.

She's not helping.

And I think they know that, but I don't know that she goes to the Supreme Court.

Yeah, I would say that one does not.

This does not seem likely to me.

Didn't he say, though, he will appoint a woman and,

in fact, a black woman to the Supreme Court.

And that's how we know

right away that no one can make the argument that the best candidate will get this job because he's eliminated almost every person in the country.

Yes.

I mean, if you look

again,

a black woman may very well be the most qualified person for the job, but there's no way to argue that you went through a process where you could determine that.

And that's the problem here.

Think about how stunning that is.

You're talking about

the most important judgeships in this nation's history, and you just said,

I'm just going for essentially aesthetics.

Yes,

I'm going to base this decision on skin color and the way they look.

Yep.

Yep.

Gender and skin color are going to be my two first decisions.

It's crazy.

I'm the Supreme Court justice.

Not who the person is, not what their legal background is, just the fact that they are black and a woman.

I mean, it is crazy.

It's so

offensive.

And so anti-American, full, full stop.

You don't, it would have, it would be anti-American to say, I am going to select the best white male to be on the Supreme Court.

That would be anti-American.

It would be anti-American.

I mean, think about what it is, what it means to an Asian American right now.

No chance.

You're eliminated.

You're right.

If you're a Hispanic American, no chance.

You're eliminated.

If you're a black man, no chance.

You're eliminated.

What if you are one of the other 927 genders and are also black?

What if you happen to to be a white person, a white male that identifies as a black woman?

Well, I guess that one could maybe slide through.

But if you're non-binary, you have no chance.

Let me ask you this.

How many hermaphrodites currently serve on or have ever served on the U.S.

Supreme Court?

Just the one.

Just the one.

And that was...

No, I just want people to guess at who it is.

As of right now, I think the number is zero.

I think the number is zero.

So think about this, Pat.

African Americans make up 12% of the population.

You've eliminated 88% of the population with decision one.

Then, approximately half of African Americans are men.

So now you're down to 6% of the population.

Of course, in that 6% of the population, approximately one-third is too young, and approximately one-third is too old.

So, now you're down to 2% of the population.

And honestly, like,

That's just a wide range, but you've eliminated 98%

of the available candidates for this job.

Well, and then how many of those, how many of that 2% have been to law school?

Right.

How many of them are judges?

And they don't have to be, but I think the precedent is that that's who we appoint.

And you're supposed to be trained in the law, I guess, is the standard.

But that could mean a lot of different things.

But the bottom line is, even if you just take out, obviously in every population, all those things apply, right?

A lot of white males have not gone to law school, too.

But if you look at the population overall, you're eliminating at least 98% of the

legally available options to you, which means that even if, and it may very well be true, whoever they name is the best liberal justice to go to the Supreme Court, the most qualified, they can't possibly claim it because everyone else was already eliminated when they had, without any standard,

other than this color of their skin and what they have underneath their robe.

It's a complete, it's a,

we used to have this thing, Pat.

And

some may argue this isn't better, but I will argue that it is.

The old way we did these things

was behind closed doors, someone like Joe Biden will say, I want a black woman for this role.

And then we would fake it and we would act as if we considered everyone.

And at the end of the day, the most qualified person was a black woman.

Okay.

Now, again, may very well be the case.

I'm not saying it couldn't be, but

a person in politics would make a political decision based on some dumb, immutable characteristic, and we would all,

they would bring in, just like the NFL does right now, right?

The NFL, like if you want to pick

a coach,

you have to interview African-American candidates, right?

Now, even if you know exactly who you want to hire, you come in and you still have to hire African-American candidates.

I think that's, again, a bad idea because it's based, you're making decisions based on skin color.

Here with the Supreme Court, a politician may very well say, I would like to attract black voters.

And we know this from all of the post-election writing, that James Clyburn went to Joe Biden.

This is a true story.

Went to Joe Biden and said, if you want my endorsement, which we all know is the reason he's president of the United States, James Clyburn, getting him over the hump in South Carolina.

Because he had been beaten badly in the first two states and he was almost written off.

Almost written off.

If you want my endorsement, you will put a black woman on the Supreme Court.

And there are multiple reports that in the middle of a debate,

in a commercial break, James Clyburn went to Joe Biden and said, you need to announce this on stage.

And Joe Biden did.

That is how pathetic this is.

It is completely politics.

Now, and he's apparently locked in from that time till the actual nomination.

Yeah.

So, okay, so Clyburn puts political pressure on him to name a black woman.

He says he will.

He comes out.

He announces

that intention.

And the old way would be, you know, this would happen behind closed doors, right?

He would not say it on stage.

He would come out and he would go through a bunch of candidates.

He'd bring in some white candidates he knew he wasn't going to hire.

He'd bring in a Hispanic candidate that he knew he wasn't going to hire.

And then he would pick the black woman and say she was the most qualified.

And like we all know stuff like that happens, but at least there is a possibility of a claim that she was the most qualified.

You can't claim it with this process because you've eliminated all of the other candidates.

I mean, it's completely crazy.

If you started out at the beginning by saying, I want the most qualified candidate and

we already know that's a black woman.

That would be different, right?

Like, because then you've at least considered everybody, but what you found out was the best candidate is a black woman, and that's why I'm going to nominate a black woman.

Sure, like that would be a process, right?

Yeah.

If you named a specific person and said, like, I've really put a lot of thought into this, and this particular black woman is the best, most qualified candidate, that's who I'm going to put on the list of this.

And then, at least, it dissuades some of the

some of the concern we have about just basing something like this, this important, on the race of the person and the gender of the person.

Right.

You shouldn't make decisions based on the color of somebody's skin or their gender.

That used to be the thing.

And it's not that.

And I don't even know.

Frankly, I don't even know why we celebrate MLK Jr.

Day anymore because they've gone the opposite of everything he said,

every principle he laid down.

They are the exact opposite of it.

It's become a conservative holiday.

It's like it's like July 4th.

It's like July 4th.

There's only one side of the aisle that actually supports or that celebrates the history of this country.

And MLK Day is becoming the same.

I'm telling you, like, we are not that far away from people on the left tearing down statues of Martin Luther King.

We are not that far away from it.

They've already done it with Abraham Lincoln.

Yeah.

How far could we possibly be?

Not far at all.

They've done it with Ben Franklin.

In fact, wasn't one of the MLK Jr.

statues defaced?

I wouldn't be surprised.

Probably not.

I don't think it was on MLK Day, but it was a few months ago.

They actually spray painted and defaced it.

And you will see,

they might not know it, but the same groups that marched in Charlottesville will be doing the same stuff

that the left wants to do.

And look at the policies.

They're not that different.

You'll note the alt-right is pro-abortion.

The alt-right is pro-universal health care, among other policies that are very similar, because of course they are, right?

We don't need to go back into European history to find out what these groups tend to believe.

They tend to be socialists.

And by the way, when you look at the policies of people like Richard Spencer, you find all sorts of overlap, not with our philosophy of limited government.

You can't have limited government if you want to enforce racial quotas and all sorts of terrible racial identitarian policies.

You need a big government to do that.

You know, it's not said enough by us on the right that

the alt-right that's continually thrown in the face of conservatives in this country yeah and Trump supporters in this country it they are the antithesis of virtually everything we believe yeah like they they they're big government people I mean totally Robert is Spencer is it Robert Richard Richard Spencer

blew me away when he was talking about his

political ideology.

It's nothing like what we believe in.

Right.

I mean,

the way alt-right alt-right has been explained is an alternative version of the right.

In reality, what it is, is the alternative to the right.

Yes.

It's not part of the right.

It doesn't make any sense that it would be part of the right.

But, you know, these political lines aren't always drawn on policy, I know.

And

that's part of the reason why that sort of thing happens.

But still, it is a...

a way to vilify your average person who just wants lower taxes.

I mean, that's what this comes down to.

But with the Supreme Court, it's just an embarrassing,

you know, everything Joe Biden does is a giant embarrassment.

It's hard to not be embarrassed by this person.

He's just terrible at all of these things.

And again, like, I don't, it's not any better.

He's dangerously terrible.

Yeah, too.

He is.

Well, he may be launching us into multiple wars.

So that's even worse.

But we all understand these things happen behind the scenes.

They shouldn't happen, though.

And when he's doing it overtly like this, it is acknowledging, it's codifying this terrible

identity politics standard where we just pick people based on the color of their skin.

I mean, you could have done what Trump did, right?

Release a list of 20 Supreme Court justices.

On there are several people of color.

Probably you know who you're picking before you walk in day one, but at least it gives the

appearance to the public that it's not okay to pick on color of skin.

At the very least, you're sending the message that

you don't want to do that,

even if you do.

And Biden was like, I'm so desperate.

I'm just going to say it.

I mean, he was so desperate at that point in the campaign.

He just blurted it out.

We forget sometimes that he lost Iowa and New Hampshire badly.

And Nevada.

And Nevada.

Yeah, so there were three losses piling up, and he was being written off.

And then all of a sudden, the South Carolina comeback brought him right back into it.

I had people coming on Studos America telling me Bernie Sanders said won the nomination.

It was over.

Oh, Oh, wow.

And it wasn't over.

No.

Things turned around quite quickly.

I mean, and honestly, you'd say normally, thank God it wasn't Bernie Sanders, but what would you notice?

Would you notice a difference here?

No.

The only thing I think would be different is I don't think Bernie Sanders would say, I'm definitely picking a black woman to be the Supreme Court justice.

The spending levels would be similar.

Yeah.

And the loss of freedom would be similar.

Yeah.

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So, Stu, who do you, do you have any idea?

You have any, have they thrown, I haven't seen any names except Kamala Harris's thrown out there.

Yes, should we have any idea who they might be?

Should we play their response to the Kamala Harris thing?

Yeah.

Saki had, I think.

This is clip three, Jen Saki addressing questions about Kamala Harris going to the Supreme Court.

Hypothetically, theoretically, would someone who was an attorney general of a large state and who served with many key Senate votes be an attractive candidate to the president for an open Supreme Court seat?

I see what you did there, Peter.

But the president has every intention, as he said before, of running free re-election and for running for re-election with Vice President Harris on the ticket as his partner.

What baloney?

What a lie.

I mean, he might have every intention of running, but we know he's not going to.

You don't think he is?

I'm not as sold on that yet.

I mean, I can't.

He wants it too much.

He loves power.

He's disintegrating too quickly.

He is.

No, you're right.

And here.

What I keep thinking of when I think about Joe Biden's decision-making process here is, first of all, there's a bunch of squirrels squirrels running through the scene.

Maybe he's eating some chocolate ice cream

and then every once in a while some bright lights go off and he's looking in a different direction.

But when you think about Biden thinking about this, his entire life has built to this moment.

He ran in 1972 for the Senate when he was like just old enough to qualify, legitimately just old enough to qualify.

Then almost on his first opportunity, he ran for the presidency and floundered.

He ran again and again.

He's ran three times for president.

Finally, he wins the thing, and he gets in office.

And every dream he's had over the past year

has destroyed itself.

I mean, he has been a complete catastrophe since day one, walking into that building.

And even Democrats, many of them, know it and recognize it.

They know.

Admit it.

Why do you think Breyer's stepping down?

It's not because they think they're winning the Senate in 2022.

I'll tell you that.

The reason this is happening right now is because they know or are very convinced they're going to lose.

So all this is going on, and he, I think, wants to save this any way he can.

I think this has been his whole life's dream.

And the fact that it's falling apart in front of everyone's eyes,

it could be, he could be the type that just gives up and says, wow, I was a terrible president.

But man, what have we seen?

in his past that would make him have an honest look at

his own actions.

I mean, I've never seen him ever take responsibility for anything he's done.

Oh, he hasn't.

Not that I've seen.

He's been in public office for 50 years.

Yeah.

And we've seen no indication that he ever will acknowledge he's done anything wrong.

Yeah.

I mean,

what do we do with that information?

I think he wants this.

And it's going to be tough.

Even I do think he wants it.

It's just that the powers that be in the Democrat Party, the people behind the scenes,

I think they understand they've got a real problem here because

of the disintegration of his mind.

He seriously

has dementia or some form of cognitive decline, and everybody knows it.

It's not a surprise to anybody on either side of the aisle.

So I think there's a certain percentage of people in the Democrat Party that work behind the scenes that understand

they've got to do something

by 2024.

There's tons of people, but he's got to be convinced.

And I think only if he, if he were,

you could see a situation situation where his approval rating gets to 22% and

relevant.

Oh, yeah.

I mean,

we've already seen polls at 33.

Yeah.

We just saw another one the other day in the 30s.

39 was the lowest the Harris poll had gone so far.

You could see a situation where it gets to the low 20s, and they come to him and say, look, it's time for you to say there's a health problem and step down.

The problem, of course, with that is Kamala Harris is terrible.

Yes.

So,

you know, what are you going to do?

They have nowhere to go here.

And it's not good for us either because Kamala Harris would be terrible for us.

So

it's hard to know

what's going to happen here.

I think he keeps going as long as he can.

He'd be tough to unseat.

I mean, it's very difficult to knock off a sitting president in a primary.

And when you try it, usually the party loses.

I mean, look at, you know, Ted Kennedy, you know,

Pat Buchanan.

There's multiple examples of this, where when you have a feisty battle, usually that sitting president loses the next time.

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I am Patrick of Helena, son of Joseph.

And my friend here, who's always here, is Stu of

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I was born in Terrytown, New York.

Sketchy heritage.

Oh, okay.

You do know your father's name.

Yes, I was very aware of it.

It's the same name I actually have, though people

call me Stu for

God knows what reason.

Yeah.

And we do know the reason.

We just don't want to explain it for the four thousandth time.

That's true.

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All right.

So it's Pat and Stu for Glenn today.

He's back tomorrow.

And in the meantime, we have a Supreme Court issue.

Now, this isn't going to affect us yet, but in about six months, when the Supreme Court session is over, then apparently Stephen Breyer is going to step down as Supreme Court justice.

Now, that wasn't supposed to get out, I guess.

I don't know how it was leaked.

He's not happy about it.

Yeah, he's pretty pissed off about it because he wanted to, he didn't want to be a lame duck, you know, where everyone's just talking about him leaving.

And apparently, there's a leaking problem going on at the Supreme Court, considering someone else had leaked the whole fake mask controversy.

There's somebody telling reporters all sorts of nonsense.

And that wasn't true, though.

That was not true.

Yeah.

Wouldn't it be interesting if Breyer came out today and said, I'm not going anywhere.

What are you talking about?

Yeah.

I kind of hope that's how this plays out.

Although Although

at least right now, you know, with Biden in office and Stephen Breyer being the one to retire, you at least have a progressive being swapped with a progressive.

They're not changing out a conservative on the court.

It would remain a

6-3 court is what people call it.

John Roberts is not actually ⁇ it's really a 3-3-2 court.

Sure is.

Right?

3-3-2.

No, 3-3-2.

Well, no, because it's

a 4-3-2 is what I want to say.

So four conservatives, three liberals, and two in the middle.

That's really where we are right now.

I mean,

I hope that's not true with Kavanaugh, but I'm more and more nervous by the day on that, that Kavanaugh and Roberts are kind of in the middle.

Remember, this was a person hand-picked by Anthony Kennedy.

So this is not,

you know, this is not whom, you know, maybe even Trump would have picked in that situation, but Kennedy wasn't going to step down.

And at least the reporting is that he wasn't going to step down unless he got Kavanaugh as the pick.

So, and Kavanaugh, look,

has a very, has a conservative, generally speaking, conservative resume.

It wasn't the worst pick in the world, but I'm nervous about Kavanaugh for sure.

And we've seen some bad things recently on that particular front.

The replacement, really what you have right now is one of those years where it's like Michael Jordan is averaging 34 points a game and won the championship.

And

then you go on a sports talk show and they're like, hey, who's the MVP going to be?

We're going to to run down the candidates.

You got Michael Jordan.

He'd be leading the pack.

And then, you know, Dominique Wilkins had a good year.

You know, it's like that type of thing.

So right now it's Kentanji Brown Jackson is the overwhelming buzz to be the nominee.

Right now she's in the U.S.

Court of Appeals.

Yes.

And she was just approved by the Senate.

She actually got a few Republicans to vote for her.

That will, of course, be brought up.

It's the type of change.

She had bipartisan support.

I think she got 53 votes.

I mean, it's not overstayed.

They still stand or that.

But they will.

And someone like Susan Collins will, again, vote, I think, for her in a situation.

Mitt Romney, Mitt Brown.

Mitt Romney, maybe

Lindsey Graham is famously votes for all the judges.

So

there's a lot that could go on here.

There's a bunch of other people, but honestly, I think that's a good thing.

There are people that you probably haven't heard of.

Yeah.

I don't think there's a huge reason to go through the whole list.

Yeah.

But it's who they are anyway.

Katanji Brown Jackson is the name you're going to hear a lot over the next couple of weeks.

Like, I've never heard of Leandra Krueger, California Supreme Court justice.

She's probably the second one that's being second most talked about.

And then there's only one other person I've even heard a name thrown out other than Kamala Harris, of course.

But it's,

again, somebody, I don't know, a federal judge,

J.

Michelle Childs is the other one.

So who knows?

Like you said in the beginning, they narrowed the field down to such an extent that there are literally,

literally three people to choose from out of a country of 330 million.

It's so silly.

It's amazing.

It's really, it's honestly embarrassing.

I mean, we've gone the wrong direction here, guys.

When you're saying I'm going to pick somebody based on the color of their skin and you're doing it wrong, you're doing it wrong.

You're doing life wrong at that point.

You got to be able to, this is supposed to be merit-based.

The return of the meritocracy should be our goal here.

And it seems to be the opposite, Destroy the meritocracy.

But there's two important things I think that come out of this, Pat, when it comes to Republicans.

One, I think the audience will like.

One, they will not.

At least that's my suspicion.

One is

Stephen Breyer stepping down yesterday is an outward admission that the Democrats believe they're going to lose the Senate.

That is the Democrats telling you they know they are toast when it comes to the 2022 elections.

They know this is going to go poorly.

We have to get Breyer out of there right now because if we hold it and we get to 2023 and Stephen Breyer, God forbid, passes away or has a health problem or decides to step down, then you're in a situation where you need to replace him with Mitch McConnell running the show.

And they don't like when Mitch McConnell runs the show.

And I know a lot of people don't like Mitch McConnell on the conservative side because he's annoying at times, and that's true.

But

for all the credit that Donald Trump gets and deserves for the Supreme Court, you have to also give a lot of credit to Mitch McConnell, who held the line for the entire last year of the Obama administration and did not even give him a vote on Merrick Garland.

That was not Donald Trump.

He was not in office yet.

That was Mitch McConnell.

And that was awesome.

I mean, I would.

That validated the entire political life of Mitch McConnell because he is pretty worthless, frankly.

But that was.

That That turned into Neil Gorsuch.

It was courageous and surprising.

It was surprising.

I mean, I think I would have preferred them to just give a hearing to Neil Gorsuch or to Merrick Garland and then just vote him down.

But they shouldn't have given in just because, well, that guy happens to be president.

You should vote for who you believe.

Make the actual decision.

Is this person honoring the Constitution or not?

A lot of times that will break down.

on party lines, but it doesn't have to.

The bottom line is you need to make the decision for yourself whether you believe this person can do the job.

And as we're seeing with Merrick Garland in another role, it's quite clear he was not the guy.

So Trump winds up putting three Supreme Court justices in, but this is a situation where they saw what happened with Ruth Bader-Ginsburg.

She passes away.

They get Amy Coney Barrett out of the notorious ACB.

And that is whose shirt you're actually wearing.

I am wearing the notorious ACB.

If I wanted to have a notorious ACB t-shirt,

where would I be able to find one?

You would get one at stewdoesmerch.com.

That's where you'd get that.

But, you know,

that's a big change from Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the notorious ACB.

Well, it's the exact opposite politically.

Exact opposite.

So they don't want that to happen again.

They know that there is a great chance they're going to lose this election.

And that's why Breyer steps down because they know their toast.

They are just as aware as all of us are as to how bad Joe Biden is.

They know it just like we know it.

And that's not always the case.

They didn't know it with Barack Obama.

They thought Barack Obama was a good president.

You know, they thought he was doing a good job.

They know Joe Biden sucks.

They know it,

not just us.

The other part of this, which I think is interesting and

the typical conservative voter is not going to like, but, and this is a bit of speculation on my part, Pat, but I would like to hear your read on this.

My belief is,

you're not going to get a huge fight from Republicans on this nominee.

And I think, you you know, look, talk radio listeners are going to want a tough fight.

They're going to want

every single quill to be fired here.

And I think the answer to that is you're not going to get what you want.

I think the Republicans are going to look at this and say, number one,

it is

the first black woman, and they're not going to want to be seen as going crazy against her.

Because that would be racist.

That's a bad motivation, by the way.

And I do not support that motivation.

You should go after her because of her merits, not because of her skin color, just like we just discussed.

But I do think that will factor into a lot of Republicans' thought process.

Number two, they know they can't do anything about it.

Yeah, they can't win this fight.

They can't win this fight.

Joe Manchin is not going to, unless you find, I think the only way you stop a Katanji Brown Jackson from being confirmed by 50 Democrats is you catch her as an active, active, not former, but active serial killer.

If you were to find her in the middle of a murder and then you found out out it wasn't just one murder, I don't think one murder does it.

I think you have to find out she's murdered, say, 20, 30 people, maybe some of them children, and you catch her on video for not just one, but multiple of those murders.

Right.

Then at that point, you might get Joe Manchin to consider voting against her.

Here's the other thing that would doom her nomination.

If 10 years ago, she tweeted that

she believes that women are women and men are men.

Okay, well, that's obvious.

Okay, that's way over the line.

Yeah, obviously she's done.

Then you're losing the far left.

Joe Manchin might vote for her in that case.

So there's no chance the Democrats are going to turn this down.

Republicans are going to look at that and calculate, hey,

we don't want to go crazy on this because we can't do anything to stop it.

And that leads to the third and main reason why this is going to happen.

Okay.

They don't want to do to themselves what the Democrats did to themselves with Kavanaugh.

They want this to be more Gorsuch than Kavanaugh.

You will hear Ted Cruz pick apart her resume and say some critical things about her.

You will hear Mike Lee with an authentic and

perfectly reasonable constitutional takedown of her positions on the law.

You will see people go through her

former writings and highlight things that are truly offensive to us.

You'll get the pushback.

It's not like they're just going to let her go in.

But the bottom line is they are going to see this as we are in a situation as

the Democrats noted by having Breyer step down in the first place where we

are in

a perfect position to take not just the House, but the Senate.

And we can block further nominees.

If we go too hard on this, if we, let's say, accuse her falsely of rape,

that could backfire on us and turn this whole situation around.

And so I don't think you're going to get the sort of fire you want as

a

person who is on conservative Twitter and is on listening to talk radio.

I think you're going to get disappointed by this one.

You're going to get some pushback, but I will not be surprised.

She's going to be passionate.

No, their heart's not going to be in it.

And I think you're going to get Republican votes for her.

I think you're going to get, you know, if it's 53 is, I think, our starting point, and it could be 55, it could be more than 53.

I think this might be the type of thing where they, unless something really crazy comes out from her history, this is the type of thing where they're going to want to say, look, we worked with them.

We approved their nominee.

You'll get Susan Collins.

You also

Mitt Romney.

You'll get Lindsey Graham.

Maybe even Rand Paul because he thinks that's a president's right.

He does that a lot too.

Yeah.

You agree with that?

Unless, yes.

I agree wholeheartedly with all of that.

Unless he goes somebody, he goes with somebody that we don't know about, somebody who we haven't read about yet.

It's some extreme left-wing

communist.

Like some of the other nominees he's put out there.

Yeah.

I mean,

he's nominated some real left-wing people.

Like if he put his administration.

Let's say AOC.

He just nominates AOC.

Okay, yes, you'd have that fight.

Yes.

In fact, that one you might actually stop.

But Manchin hates AOC, so it's possible you might actually block that one.

By the way, that's not going to happen.

No.

As long as they stick to the

list that we keep seeing and Katanji Brown Jackson, she'll probably win.

And by the way,

you can make the real case that these are radicals.

There are several in there.

From our taste, we would definitely say they should not be on the Supreme Court.

That being said, the realities of the situation, I think if nothing changes, are that people like Mitch McConnell are going to put up, they're going to do what you hate.

They are going to say things that are critical of her, and in the end, probably vote against her in most cases, but she's going to pass through with a few Republican votes, and this is going to be more Gorsuch than it is Kavanaugh.

Now, I don't ever want the Republicans to do the Kavanaugh thing.

I mean, I use that as an example of a big fight.

I don't want them to manufacture false evidence and try to destroy the life of a person who did nothing wrong.

I'm not saying that, but there is that level of

fight

that we do see from Republicans against Democratic nominees, and I don't know that you're going to see it this time.

What if she once drove across country with a dog in a cage on the top of her car?

Would that end her?

She would straight the whole country?

Yeah.

Yeah.

She drove from, let's say, California to New York

with a dog in a cage on top of her car and

gave someone a haircut without a license.

Okay.

Well, then she should be in prison.

Immediately in prison.

Not even have a trial, frankly.

She just goes directly to prison.

I think that's enough for us.

I think that's enough

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news broke yesterday.

Stephen Breyer is going to be stepping down at the end of this Supreme Court session.

So who to replace him with?

Where are you going to go?

What are you going to do?

Will it be a big, big fight?

Stu doesn't think so.

I don't think so either.

I don't think it's going to be a really intense hearing when it happens.

Yeah, I mean, they went after Gorsuch.

Yeah.

They didn't just let him have a free ride, but there was not a ton of.

It's not going to be a bloodbath.

It was not what they did to Kavanaugh, right?

They did not go all out

and manufacture fake rape allegations against Gorsuch, which was a nice,

you know what, every once in a while we need to appreciate the left.

And, you know, sometimes they're just so bipartisan, they didn't fake a rape allegation this time.

Wow.

Really something.

Really nice

to do that you know they're so typically faking rape allegations that you think hey maybe this time they shouldn't fake a rape allegation and that time they didn't which was a wonderful memory

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I love the fact that an ultimatum was laid down for Spotify.

You got to make a choice here.

You got two artists on your site

and one of them has to go.

Tough call.

Tough call.

What do you do?

Well, you choose the other guy.

Neil Young.

I don't know if he thinks this is 1969 still, 1970.

Even then, I'm saying, okay, bye-bye.

Bye-bye, Neil.

Neil Young demands that

Spotify drop Joe Rogan.

First of all, you should be able to noodle this out.

They just signed a $100 million deal with Joe Rogan.

Think you're not going to win this fight.

But he told me, you can either have my music on your site or Joe Rogan.

You can't have both.

And they...

summarily dismissed his music.

They agreed.

You can't have both.

Yeah, right.

And we will not have you.

Darn it, we're going to miss.

Old man, look at my life.

I'm a lot like you were.

What are we going to do without that song?

What are we going to do without it?

Because

I have this opinion.

I don't know how mainstream it is.

But that Neil Young sucks.

Yes.

He's actually terrified.

Neil Young sucks.

What's the classic rock opinion of Neil Young?

Because I know Crosby

Nash.

Yeah, they like him as a songwriter and a singer.

Yeah, I don't know how you can like him as a singer.

It's like the Bob Dylan experience to me.

It's bad.

There's a lot of people who love Bob Dylan.

It's not my thing.

I don't get it.

I don't either.

The Neil Young thing falls into that category.

I really don't get me.

I've had relatives who love Neil Young, live and die with the guy, even though he's obviously no conservative.

And many of these people are conservatives, but still love the guy because he was like, you know, I don't know, speaking out against the man back in the day or something.

Sure was.

And that is a cold war guy.

Big,

you know, he was always bumping up against the government.

But now

I guess he's all in with the government, which is kind of interesting.

You know, you got this 60s protest singer, and that's really kind of what he was, what you kind of identify him with.

And

he was sort of counterculture, and now you're all about

this administration and everything they say.

Yeah, I remember back in

2006,

with Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, they sang the song, Let's Impeach the President.

And they were talking about George W.

Bush against the man, fighting back against the men.

Against the man.

Now, of course, the ironically named free speech tour that he was on at the time in 2006.

He's kind of giving that one up.

Is ironic, isn't it?

The free speech tour now turns into get Joe Rogan off of Spotify.

Oh, my God.

I mean, what a pathetic group of people.

You can't hear a different opinion.

You can't.

And you know what?

There's no way Neil Young is listening to this opinion.

He's not hearing Joe Rogan's opinion.

That's right.

He's heard that Joe Rogan has said certain things.

That's what he's doing.

He wants people to not be able to hear those things.

He doesn't want you or me or anyone in the audience to hear.

that Joe Rogan likes some other treatment for a virus.

Like, that's how pathetic this is.

And it worked for Joe Rogan, right?

So, how is it misinformation if he's just telling you, here's what worked for me?

I mean, it's hard to tell what works and what doesn't, especially with COVID when the overwhelming majority, especially Joe Rogan, who's a guy who's in pretty good shape, relatively young.

You know, doing absolutely nothing probably also works for Joe Rogan, right?

That's not something that the left a lot of times wants you to hear, but I mean, most people are open.

That's what I did.

That's what I did.

I did mostly nothing.

I took some vitamins and steroids.

That's what I took.

And you felt sick for a little while and then got better.

It was miserable for a couple of days, but I lived.

Exactly.

And everybody on the show got it.

You know, Keith got it.

He went with ivermectin.

Rob, producer Rob got it.

He went with ivermectin.

His wife got it.

She went up with, finally, in the end.

First, she started with the Merck pill, which didn't do anything for her but give her bad side effects.

And then she started on ivermectin.

That worked for her.

I mean, how many times do you have to anecdotally hear about it working for people before you say, ha, maybe we don't understand everything about this?

It's just, it's just, the bottom line is, and I keep coming back to this with the COVID thing, and we don't need to go deep into it, but it's like we have a lot of tools now that we didn't have two years ago.

This is not March 2020 anymore.

People have choices, and you might say that choice is dumb.

A lot of people think that ivermectin is a dumb choice for COVID.

A lot of people think that the vaccine is a dumb choice for COVID.

All right.

You know, we are are at least, Pat, six months away from anyone being persuaded on either side.

There has not been a single individual persuaded either way in six months.

Okay.

Or more.

Or more.

I mean, when you look at the vaccination data from in Trump counties and Biden counties, it's almost identical until May.

It's almost identical.

I mean, they rise at all the same paths and then they diverge and more blue counties

have higher vaccination rates.

Though, to be clear, it's not that dramatically different.

I mean, people make a big deal out of these differences.

About the majority of both parties have been vaccinated at this point.

You know, there is a split.

So, what?

Let people make their own decisions.

There are a lot of things out there.

If they believe it's ivermectin, you know what?

It's not your responsibility to micromanage their health.

You're not their dads.

Okay.

Let them make their own choices.

If you think,

as was stated in the New York Times recently, that the, that COVID for a vaccinated person is less dangerous, less dangerous than the flu.

Right now, this is not something in the future.

This is right now.

It doesn't matter if you as a conservative or you as maybe a COVID skeptic believe that statement.

The important thing is that they believe it.

They believe their sources are telling them.

A vaccinated person has less risk than the normal flu.

That is what their science tells them.

Who cares what your science tells you?

Who cares what the opinions of all these other people are?

The bottom line is: the only people who want restrictions are people on the left, and that's what they believe.

They don't act like they believe it, man.

I'll tell you that, but that is what their science tells them.

So, this is

over.

The point, the fact that Joe Rogan

talks to an audience of mainly younger people who are incredibly likely to have no problems with COVID anyway,

and tells them to take, let's just say it was a completely BS solution to this problem.

Let's say it's tree bark.

He was like, you know what?

You got to chew tree bark.

If you go out to your yard and you start biting on the nearest tree and pull off a good chunk of bark and you chew it up into little pieces and swallow it, that'll cure COVID.

Who cares?

If you're going to Joe Rogan for your health advice, that's the thing.

You know, he's not a doctor.

He's a guy trying to figure the world out.

And everybody who listens to him knows that.

They know he's just a guy talking on a podcast about his opinions.

And, you know, look.

Well, that doesn't mean I'm going to run out and do everything he said he did.

Yes.

Do you know, Joe,

one of the first interviews I heard about COVID was on Joe Rogan's show.

And it was with Michael Osterholm, who

was an advisor to Joe Biden.

Okay.

And he came out and said, hey, you know, this actually could be bad.

Like,

this one is not like some of these other ones that have come and gone.

This one we could have real problems with.

And he went through the whole situation.

And he said, In that interview, we should point out that it's not at all obvious we should close schools.

In that interview, it was in like January or February of 2020.

So, before any of this stuff even hit it, he hit us hit us here.

Yeah, he said, Schools,

that's probably not a wise choice.

But in addition to that, Joe Rogan during the interview asked him, asked a virologist

if one of the cures could be saunas.

What if you went into a sauna and breathed in the really hot air?

Would that kill COVID in your lungs?

That was one of his questions.

Now, but now that he said, no, that's not how the body works.

And Rogan was like, oh, okay, I just heard it online.

But that's Joe Rogan's approach.

Like, he's looking around, he's asking questions.

He doesn't, and there's nothing wrong with that.

There's nothing wrong with it.

It can be very entertaining.

It can be very informative.

A lot of people probably heard that same rumor at the same time and had it disproved on Joe Rogan's show.

Because he brought it up.

Because he brought it up and was willing to ask a question that some journalists might feel like, oh, this is a silly question.

He doesn't care.

He's a regular guy.

He reads something.

He wants to know more about it.

And he's not embarrassed to say, sometimes I don't have all the knowledge.

Right.

And instead of treating him as a really, you know, this will be an important thing.

Like, what's his face?

Sanjay Gupta went on his show and

on Rogan's show and talked to him for an hour.

And, you know, there were times in which he was, I would think, I thought was evasive to what Rogan was talking about.

But there were times he brought up things that maybe that audience hadn't heard and maybe it convinced some people

of different solutions.

The bottom line is just have the guts to go on and talk to the guy instead of silencing him.

If you think he's wrong, then go on the show and say that he's wrong or disprove him with some science.

And Joe Rogan himself has said he's not a COVID expert.

He's not a doctor.

In fact, he said, I'm an effing idiot who does a podcast.

He's not claiming to be a scientist.

So, you know, everybody listening doesn't just run out and do what Joe Rogan said.

You're madness.

As Joe Rogan would tell you, if you go out and listen to every piece of Joe Rogan's health advice, the band's talking about doing drugs like 80% of his shows.

It's not necessarily.

Elon Musk smoked pot on his show.

Does that mean every American listening is going to run out and buy pot and smoke it now?

No.

No.

No, it does not.

No, it does not.

There's this weird thing the left wants to do, silencing speech.

And it's not about them hearing it.

It's about others hearing it.

Because, God forbid, they might be convinced to an opinion that's different than what Neil Young believes.

And look at Neil Young.

Does he look like the picture of health to you?

Guy looks like he could keel over at any second.

But he's 117.

He's 117.

But when he was

40, he looked like he could also keel over at any second.

He's never looked like the picture of health.

So you shouldn't listen to Neil Young's advice, and you shouldn't listen to Joe Rogan's advice either, or mine, or yours, or

do your own research.

How many times has Glenn said it?

For, you know, 20 years, he's been saying, do your own research.

And I will say,

you might get the wrong answer if you do your own research sometimes.

That might happen.

But first of all, it will be your decision.

And second of all, you don't have to do this alone.

You have...

a doctor of your own.

Go to them and ask them what you should do.

You don't need to listen listen to Anthony Fauci, who might be an infectious disease expert, but has no idea what your individual situation is.

He doesn't even know who you are.

Go to your doctor.

Talk to your doctor.

That's a great way of handling these situations.

And Anthony Fauci hasn't actually had any patients for over 40 years.

Come on.

He doesn't treat people anymore.

That's not what he does.

It's not his role.

And so you shouldn't take specific, like, you know, he can say as a public health expert what he believes should be done.

And those suggestions can be processed by politicians who are supposed to be experts in political science and care about

their

constituents,

not just go blindly along with every expert that passes by.

That's not how this is supposed to work.

That's a different country.

That's a different alignment.

That's a technocracy.

That's a bunch of technocrats running the country.

There you go.

There you go.

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And while we're talking about who you listen to on any of these issues, you know, listen to every take if you want to, and then, you know, figure it out for yourself.

But if you're just a guy or a woman who thinks Anthony Fauci is the be-all and end-all, I mean, that guy has said everything possible on both sides of any of these arguments, essentially.

And he continues to, we continue to find out new things.

Fox reported this week that Fauci was told on January 27th, 2020, so two years ago, exactly to the day, that

his

NIAD,

NAIAID, NIAID department, It was the National Health Institute.

Had been directly funding the Wuhan lab through EcoHealth, a U.S.-based scientific nonprofit.

So, and that there was a good chance that the virus came from that lab.

He was told that two years ago.

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the virus originated in the lab.

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And then he changed back and said, well, maybe.

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Maybe he's back.

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So don't tell me Anthony Fauci has all the answers because he doesn't.

And

he shouldn't have the power that he has.

I mean, look, he's been in office for too long through too many presidents.

Should have been let go a long time ago.

But even beyond that, I think more importantly, you point out he said every single thing about every single issue at this point, which is basically true.

I mean, he's been back and forth on a bunch of this stuff.

From masks to,

you name it, masks, whether or not it originated at the Wuhan lab,

the kinds of treatments you should be using, the length of time this was going to take.

One of the big ones that doesn't get talked about enough is him saying, outwardly admitting later on that he lied about what herd immunity would be in this country.

I mean, that's an absolutely inexcusable thing that should have resulted in his immediate removal from this role.

He said it was going to be like, ah, 65 or 70% will give us herd immunity.

And then later on said, well, we knew people would be really, really upset with that and would not be able to, would think it was unattainable if it was a real 85%, which is what we really think it is.

Oh, my God.

And that's absolutely inexcusable from a public health official, especially the voice of the fight against COVID.

And at the very, very least, Pat, he has long outlived his relevance in the public role.

It's one thing if you wanted to say he's got a lot lot of knowledge and we want to keep him around for his advice behind the scenes, find someone else to go on television and talk about this stuff.

He's not convincing anybody.

As I said, it's been at least six months since anyone changed their mind on any of these issues, at least.

I mean, I think even longer on most of them.

And Fauci comes out and continues to go on mostly liberal television to say the same four things and say that Republicans are bad because they're not getting vaccinated at high enough rates.

And it convinces no liberals to get vaccinated, and it convinces no conservatives to get vaccinated.

It convinces no one of anything.

And he continues to just keep doing it as if it's helping.

What is it doing?

Whose mind is he changing at this point?

If you actually care about changing somebody's mind, you'd put someone they've never seen before out there who can at least attempt to navigate these waters with some sort of fresh face.

You know what?

I think we should name a black woman to the head of the National Institutes of Health.

Only a black woman can do this, Pat.

I want to eliminate all white men,

all white women, all Asians, all Hispanics, and all black men from consideration.

But we should put a black woman in the role.

I'm with you if it's a black trans woman.

Yes.

Then I'm with you.

In fact, I would like someone who was born a white male, but now is a black trans woman.

Okay.

That's what I would like, because that's the only way we can get true diversity.

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We've been talking about the Neil Young Spotify situation where I bet they really had to think long and hard.

Now it's either Neil Young or it's Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan.

I think it took that long.

I didn't take that long.

I do.

Oh, I don't think so.

You don't think it was that long?

I think it was more like, it's Joe Rogan.

I don't think they got through the full Neil.

But what we take for granted now is Spotify itself.

Incredible.

That is the most incredible thing

that 20 years ago, 15 years ago, really, you couldn't have imagined such a thing.

I guess it was just starting to be a thing with,

what was the initial.

Oh, Napster?

Napster.

My gosh.

Napster.

Napster was the thing.

And you could illegally dump it.

And then iTunes, Apple said, Hey, you know what?

Maybe we can make that legal and actually let people stream stuff.

And then it just exploded into Pandora and Spotify and, you know, a million different outlets.

But the ability to think of a song and think, wow, I haven't heard that in a long time.

And five seconds later, you're listening to it.

Yeah.

This happened to me last night where my wife just said a random word that reminded me of a band.

And then 10 seconds later, I was listening to that band that was, you know, totally obscure.

But I was trying to think about

how to explain to my kids what my younger life was like listening to music.

Oh, they totally can't relate to that.

Yeah, I remember I used to go, I used to drive around the state with my friends who were, who were, you know, we were largely fans of like the same bands, and we would go and like look for rare releases and like B-sides and remixes and like for you know overseas releases of albums that had an extra track.

Right.

And like you'd hunt these things down.

Like you're searching, you know,

you were in a river looking for gold back in the 1800s

and it was so difficult and you you'd you'd luck out and find you'd find one copy of it it would be like 38 you'd be like screw it get it anyway you know like you didn't care because you wanted to get your hands on this now they have everything they could ever want immediately a hundred different versions you know

we we miss how good things are in so many ways these days i think often because of the obvious and important bad things that are going on, we miss a lot of the good things.

Yeah, and it's changed things to the extent where there are certain things that just don't exist anymore, like calling 411

or,

you know, going to a music store or, you know, trying to find sheet music.

You don't need to do any of that.

And I wonder, we haven't worked in music radio for a really long time.

Do they even take requests anymore?

Does anybody make a request?

You don't need to.

I don't need to be listening to my favorite radio station and call them and say, hey would you please play the new song by olivia rodrigo you you go to spotify you're listening to olivia rodrigo immediately we should we should no you have called station i have called the latest mini

many times with that voice because you want them to think you're 14.

hey would you please play what's the name of this song where it's good for somebody or whatever

see the fact that you know that much is is already too much really it is it's too much knowledge about Olivia Rodrigo.

Are you the person I always hear blasting Olivia Rodrigo when you pull into the parking lot?

I thought so.

I thought so.

But it is amazing.

And look, there are always ups and downs for this.

If you owned a music store, you probably don't think this is as wonderful as many of the consumers do.

But it is incredible what you can get.

And you can...

with a few commercials get it for free.

I mean, you know, I subscribe to that.

I think, I think Spotify is the one I subscribe to.

And it's, you know, this is as much music as I could ever want,

always available.

Yeah.

It's incredible.

A similar thing has happened with movies at home.

Yep.

Anything we want.

Last week, we have a little tradition at my house where the kids come over and we do movie night, steak and movie night every Friday.

And we lost access to the internet.

I'm like, oh my gosh, what are we going to do?

We can't watch anything tonight.

I don't know what.

And

we've got a little room that has about 500 movies in it that are on DVD, but I forgot that that's even an option, a thing.

I mean, DVDs are pretty much archaic now.

Oh, you don't even

use them.

Yeah.

You can, I mean, there's just, it's too much of a hassle.

It's like, yeah.

Thinking about actually going in and putting, it's unbelievable how fast that stuff happens, too.

Really,

back in the day, you had the iPhone where you just type in the code and then it was the fingerprint.

And I remember thinking,

why the heck would I need to just do a fingerprint?

It's so, it's like, it's what, what is it, one second you're saving?

And within a week, it was irreplaceable in my life.

And then...

Wait, I have to type in four

numbers?

I can't do that.

It seemed completely insane within a week.

And then they came out with a face ID thing.

And I'm thinking to myself, wow, they're scanning my face, all this information they have.

Within a week, it was irreplaceable in my life.

I can't imagine putting my finger on the phone now.

It just seems insulting.

They shouldn't even ask you to do that.

No, don't ask me to do that.

Like every once in a while, I don't know.

I mean, I don't know the mechanics of it, but like

maybe you turn your phone off, and when you turn it back on, you have to type the code instead of the face ID one time.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

I want to burn Apple to the ground when it happens.

I think about trying to hire arsonists in China to burn their factories down every time they ask me to do it.

That's how insane you get.

You're thinking about a killings pre,

aren't you?

When

you should not have to do that.

It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

It's so, it's, it's just incredible how people take for granted are amazing.

Yeah.

And, you know, I mean, like,

even in times like this, where we've had, obviously, not only the battles that we often discuss on, you know, talk radio with the restrictions for COVID and all the terrible side effects they have had on our children and all of that, not to mention the actual health effects that have gone on and, you know, all the people who have suffered and lost loved ones and all the terrible things that have happened over the past couple of years.

You know, you go back and look at death rates from 10 or 20 years ago and we're still doing better than them.

I mean, we're doing worse than we were a couple of years ago, but still much better than we were doing in the 90s.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

We've, all this stuff is improving all the time and we always miss it.

You know, so that is an important thing.

I mean, we, we often talk about how

the example I think is the most pressing is, you know, since, you know, we were younger, and you you can go back to the 90s, for example, this show started,

let's see, I started working with Glenn back in 1998.

So that's a long time ago.

You go back, obviously, even further than that with Glenn.

And, you know, just since those times, in our lifetime, we have taken billions of people out of poverty.

Global capitalism spreading has saved billions of lives.

The number is so remarkable just in the difference in the last like about 20 years, the difference in the amount of children who die of hunger, right?

And malaria and various diseases around the globe, that number has gone down considerably.

The difference is something like 18,000 kids a day that used to die now live.

That's a staggering number.

Just our lifetime.

And if you ask people, has poverty gotten better or worse in your lifetime?

It's like 80% think it's gotten worse.

And the total opposite is true.

This has been, I mean,

I don't think it's even arguable.

It's the greatest accomplishment of humankind in the past thousand years, probably.

And it's still disparaged.

And it's still happening, too.

Yeah.

You know, but it's totally disparaged.

And we see nations around the world turning against capitalism, including our own.

And how remarkable is that?

Especially our own.

Yeah.

I mean, it's the most symbolic one, right?

The country that brought capitalism to the globe, proved that it's the best system, became the global superpower, now is hiring people who hate it.

Right.

And want to change it completely.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know.

The difference of

China moving a little bit into the world of capitalism and then now moving back the other way again.

I mean, that's notable, sure.

It's certainly notable for the Chinese people.

But it's not notable like the United States, who, you know, brought this system to the people, brought this system to humanity, and is now turning against it.

Which reminds me, since we're talking to Neil Young, we can go to the other side of the spectrum.

And somebody who talked about capitalism, a rock star that you would not expect to

sing the praises of capitalism, you remember what Bono said about capitalism a few years ago?

Imagine for a second this last global recession,

but without the economic growth of China and India.

Without the hundreds of millions of newly minted middle-class folks who now buy American and European goods.

Imagine that.

Think about the last five years.

Rockstar preaches capitalism.

Wow.

Sometimes I hear myself and I just can't believe it.

But I mean, that's a really cool thing, though, that he recognizes that.

And, you know, he's...

I don't think, certainly Bono's not a conservative.

Oh, no.

But he understands what capitalism has done for this planet.

And the hybrid even of capitalism in China has brought 400 million people out of poverty.

Yeah, it helped them for a while.

I mean, we have an author on, I think it's next week who's written a book.

He's a Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote a book.

I think it's called Red Carpet.

And it's basically about how China has influenced Hollywood and the other way around.

And we hear these stories where they edit things out.

There was a great one.

It actually happened today.

I don't have the text in front of me of it, but it was The End of Fight Club.

Have you heard this story?

Oh, I read a headline.

I didn't read the story.

It's amazing.

Basically, the end of fight club, if you've never seen the movie, is, you know,

the main characters of the movie.

Spoiler alert, by the way.

Spoiler alert.

They're standing there looking out the window, and they're, what we can only describe as a terrorist revolution, is underway.

They are getting, they're bombing the

financial buildings and watching all the buildings collapse into the ground.

That's how the...

It's a wonderfully uplifting movie.

And so that's basically the end of the movie.

In China, right before the buildings blow up, they cut it off and they just put on the screen, like,

I can't remember,

they're like,

thanks to Tyler's advice,

Tyler's tip, the police uncovered the plot and arrested all the people.

And they were put in jail and were eventually put into lunatic asylums and were released in 2012.

It's like, legitimate.

The end.

The end.

Not only are they editing scenes out of the movie, they're changing the plot to the exact opposite because they want to show that they won.

And so, anyway, this book is about the influence.

And one of the interesting things that China did with this capitalist expansion that wasn't never really capitalism by any means, but it was access to markets, is they came over, they dumped tons of money into places like Hollywood, learned how they did everything,

and then went back and just started their own film companies that are now making as much money as Hollywood is.

No longer is American culture dominant around the world, but now a lot of Chinese culture is dominant in many areas of the world.

And so they've totally changed that dynamic by basically coming over here and stealing our ideas and going back and replicating them.

This was obviously part of the plan for a long time, and President Xi has made things much, much worse.

But it's interesting to watch that play out because

it's going to have really long-lasting implications.

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Do you see this convoy in Canada?

This trucker convoy?

Because, you know, they're protesting the fact that they have to get vaccinated or they lose their jobs.

And it's really important.

I mean, the people in the trucks by themselves can infect thousands.

Right.

We know that

truck

from inside of truck to outside of truck passage of COVID-19 is the most common way.

It's where almost all of it happens.

Yeah, it's really common.

These truckers have spread this thing far and wide, and this is a nice way to stop it.

It's a trucker-borne disease.

That's my understanding of it from Anthony Fauci.

So what they've done is they're driving across the whole of Canada, east to west.

So

it's a long trip.

And they have created a convoy 300 miles long now.

300 miles long.

It seems like even more than a convoy.

Yeah.

That's incredible.

Now, 10,000 truckers from the U.S.

were supposed to join them, too, but they're having a hard time because a lot of them aren't vaccinated, so they can't get across the border.

Makes a lot of sense.

But here's what Justin Trudeau had to say about these truckers.

The

small fringe minority

of people who are on their way to Ottawa or who are holding unacceptable views that they're expressing Unacceptable views.

Unacceptable views.

Do not represent

the views of Canadians who have been there for each other, who know that following the science and stepping up to protect each other is the best way to continue to ensure our freedoms, our rights, our values as a country.

I mean, the way they're pitting, he's doing it, Biden's doing it.

You've got these world leaders who are just pitting one of their citizens against the other.

It's so weird, too, because they have to make for them to act as if this is a terrible fringe movement, they have to say they're small.

But if they were small, it wouldn't be anything really to worry about.

Yeah,

he wouldn't even be talking about it.

Right.

If it was small.

Now, 85%

of

adults in, is it 85% of,

I'm trying to look at the dynamic.

I think it might even be 85% of people in Canada are vaccinated.

85%.

Oh, my gosh.

85%?

Yeah, which is.

You're not going to get bigger than that.

I mean,

are you going to have a higher percentage than that?

We're at 70%.

I kind of doubt it.

We're at at 76, by the way.

So they're nine points ahead of us in vaccination rate or behind us, depending on how your view is on this particular issue.

But the point is, like, really, that's enough.

Leave us alone.

It's a small minority.

By the way, it's also at the number where, you know, they all said it was going to be herd immunity.

Right.

Add in the people who have natural immunity.

Like, this is just a dumb old argument that doesn't make any sense.

Remember, the Omicron variant came from Botswana.

It's got nothing to do with how many people we have vaccinated here.

Less than 10% of developing nations are vaccinated.

This is going to boil.

We're going to have variants like crazy coming in from all over the world for a long time.

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Still have a couple of more.

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We know by now that

there's going to be an opening in the Supreme Court, and it happens at the end of the session, which I think is summertime, and Stephen Breyer is stepping down.

So they're going to replace, obviously, a somewhat progressive or left-of-center justice with another left-of-center.

Just how extreme will that person be, I think, is

really kind of the question.

Quite?

Quite extreme?

Quite extreme or very, very extreme, I think are the options right now.

Do we go with a communist or just a socialist?

Yeah, I don't know.

This is not their time to try to pick a moderate either.

They're going to go for someone they believe is going to be alive for a long time.

Number one.

Well, number one requirement, as we know, African-American woman.

Because that's what Biden said he will nominate during the campaign.

Already said that outwardly, one of the most incredible moments, I think, in American history, totally underrated.

That we are now actively making decisions based on skin color and gender.

That is what the president of the United States is making this decision first and foremost, not based on legal qualifications, not even a feigned appearance of making the choice who is the most qualified.

This person, whoever this might be, may very well be the most qualified person in the country for this job, according to Democrats.

Obviously, I would...

I'm not going to like their policies most likely and their reading of the Constitution, but they might be the best liberal out there to take the court.

They cannot claim that, however, because they disregarded 98% of the population before picking.

Yeah, they've already narrowed it to a black female.

So as long as we're narrowing the field and we're basing it simply on appearance,

why not nominate Halle Berry to the Supreme Court?

Well, what is Halle Berry's.

And then you could also make an addendum there that all

new

Supreme Court justices from here on out must wear a bikini in public.

That's an interesting.

What if you were to do that?

Would it be, it'd be, of course, misogynist and sexist, but well, as you know, women do not wear bikinis to please men.

They don't even think about that.

It's just about them feeling good about themselves.

Right.

There's never a thought of how they look

good or bad.

You want a Supreme Court justice to feel good about herself.

Right.

You would want that.

You want them to feel empowered.

Yes.

And is a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court enough to do that?

No.

I don't think so.

I don't think think so.

So the bikini clause is interesting here.

So you would say any new justice has to wear a bikini.

Well, yeah, we're talking about appearance, right?

If it's a black woman, let's go for it.

Let's just do it.

And if we're talking appearance, let's do appearance.

I think this creates some pretty interesting dynamics in the Supreme Court selection.

Because first of all,

You would probably lean toward picking a more attractive Supreme Court justice and a younger one.

Yes.

Because you might think that things might not look as good later on in life.

Exactly.

But I will say this might encourage Supreme Court justices to retire early because maybe they're thinking, I don't want to be out there in a bikini this week.

I don't like the way I look anymore.

Or it may keep them working out into their 70s and 80s, which is also a good thing.

Good for their health.

Good for their health.

Right?

This is looking out for them.

This is just, if we're going to be left-wing about this, let's just go for it.

Full out just thinking about appearances.

Why?

Just appearance.

I like like it.

Just do it.

So,

because this is interesting, too.

Okay, so picture this scenario.

It's 2023.

Joe Biden is president.

And I know that might seem a little shaky for some people in 2023, but Joe Biden is president.

Mitch McConnell is the head of the Senate.

Now, Mitch McConnell is not going to approve

some

left-wing justice.

He's not going to want that to happen.

Republicans are going to vote that down if they can.

So what happens in those situations when you have multiple years, usually someone gets through, but the president has to try for someone more moderate.

Right.

Maybe in this situation, the president puts up an old fat guy

for

a Supreme Court justice.

Like a Jeffy type.

Right.

Like a Jeffy type.

Yeah.

So that the Republicans would be more likely to approve them because they would make the liberal justice not look so good in a bikini.

Now, I don't know if the guys have to, what a guy wears, a a speedo, I would assume.

Is that the how we're going to work this?

Uh-huh.

With this particular clause.

So you, so you think of Mitch McConnell, you're like, well, he's not going to approve a crazy liberal, but what if he reproves just someone who looks really bad in a speedo?

So now the Democrats are associated with this really overweight, wrinkly guy coming out there

talking about liberal policies, and that's associated with this awful Speedo situation.

Maybe the Republicans would go for that.

They might.

That's compromise just like if they think this thing through like they should, then they would go along with this.

Right.

Then they would.

And maybe like,

you know,

there's a, you'd think at least there's an opportunity

to make this more overt.

Let's make this a more crystal clear operation for the country to understand.

Right now, you're acting as if race shouldn't be important, but you're making it the most important thing.

Yeah.

You're acting as if gender shouldn't be important, but you're making it the most important thing.

You're clearly talking about the outside appearance of this person.

Let's just make it clear.

Whoever looks good in a bikini gets on.

Yes.

That is a much more sensible way of making these picks.

Much more sensible.

It doesn't matter what race they are.

It doesn't matter.

Or gender, frankly.

Yeah, you know,

you get some dude with.

Chris Pratt might look good in a Speedo.

I don't know.

I pictured Chris Pratt from, was it Parks and Wreck?

And

he was not in his best shape.

No, the passenger years.

not the Parks and Wreck.

Yeah, and he comes out there.

He's just like, he's just, he's just going for it.

And, you know, he beat funny.

He's been a Supreme Court nominee.

And

let's see where this goes.

Maybe this is really the way to go now.

And Democrats have finally

touched on something here that really works.

Let's just pick these justices based on their appearance.

I like it.

You'd say there's probably two sides here.

You have the attractive people who would look good in a bikini, who might get favored.

You have the people who would look terrible in a bikini who might be favored by the opposition party.

So you'd have an opportunity for everyone to get in, unlike you do now, when you only have the possibility of a black woman getting in.

And as we discussed earlier,

African Americans are about 12% of the population.

If half of them are black, you're at six, or women, they're at 6% of the population.

You figure about a third is too young and a third is too old.

So you're at 2% of the population.

You've narrowed, you've taken out 98% of the possibilities to make this pick.

Then you

have to narrow it a little bit further because they have to know the law.

Right?

Yes.

I mean, it's much simple.

Probably been to law school, probably a lawyer.

So you've taken basically everybody out.

Yeah.

You're less than 1% of the populace.

And we should be clear here, what it appears is that they have given...

They have actually taken out all of the population except Katanji Brown Jackson, who seems to be the pick.

We don't know that yet, but she seems to be be the overwhelming favorite for the pick.

She is currently on the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the D.C.

Circuit.

She was just recently approved, got a few Republican votes.

You know, we kind of went over this earlier, but I would not be surprised to see her sail through if that's the direction that they go in, because the Republicans are going to look at this and say, we can't really stop it anyway.

Let's not blow our election up by pulling a Kavanaugh.

It would be a little strange to accuse

Katanji Brown Jackson of a 40-year-old rape.

40-year-old rape.

Yeah.

I don't think they would go that direction, but they might be very tough on her in some circumstances.

I don't think these are the circumstances that's going to happen.

But the point is, though, at the very least, we can open this up to everyone if we just try to bikini club.

We can just stretch the field out a little bit here and find some other possibilities.

I don't know that people would go for this, but I will say this.

At least it's not racist,

which the current policy is.

When you eliminate, forget, you know what?

I know everyone's going to be like, oh, you just want white people to get.

I don't care what color the person is who gets in the Supreme Court.

Give me the most qualified.

But you know what?

Let's eliminate, just for the sake of argument, let's eliminate all white people.

What happens to a good qualified Hispanic nominee this week?

What happens to them?

They have no chance.

How about a good qualified Asian, Indian American?

They have.

Absolutely no chance.

How about a qualified Native American?

Nope.

Have absolutely no chance.

It has to be an African-American woman.

What about a qualified man?

No.

A black man?

Absolutely not.

No, they don't have a chance because Joe Biden decided to make the decision based on skin color and genitals.

That is where we are in the society.

He's overtly telling you he is making the decision based on race.

This close to Martin Luther King Day, what a freaking admission.

What an admission by the country to say, you know what, we've rejected the vision of Martin Luther King.

We don't want the most qualified person.

We want

a person who fits into these narrow set of qualifications based on immutable characteristics.

And what a disgrace.

The left has totally abandoned MLK and everything he stood for in his life.

Everything he preached, everything he fought for, you know, getting hosed down,

having dogs chase after, all of those things he suffered.

And

they just dismiss him now

because that's what they base everything on.

You are supposed to, according to the left, pay attention to skin color.

Yeah.

It's almost all you're saying.

If you tell them you're colorblind, that's a racist construct.

No.

You can't discriminate based on the color of their skin or the gender that they are unless you're discriminating the right way.

If you pick the right direction to discriminate, then it's totally fine.

And, you know, like.

Even if you got to the point, which I still think is wrong, by the way, you shouldn't make any choice based on skin color.

But if you made this statement and saying, look, we're going to look at everybody.

And if we find an equally qualified,

I don't know why you do this, but an equally qualified Hispanic and an equally qualified black woman, we're going to pick the black woman.

Now, I think that's a disgrace, frankly, that you should not be picking based on that.

But okay.

At least you'd be saying they're equally qualified.

In this scenario, you're saying we're not going to look at anyone.

God forbid, we might find someone who's more qualified and we might, maybe we should be picking them.

So we're going to eliminate them before we even start looking.

All the people who are out there who have different colored skin, all the people out there who happen to have male genitalia, we're going to get rid of all of those people so we don't even look at them because we might just find someone who's more qualified than Katanji, Brown, Jackson, or whoever else they wind up picking.

So we're going to limit it to only black women and then act as if we're doing some big favor.

Do you think, I mean, I don't know.

Maybe I'm wrong on this.

Maybe I'm disconnected.

It's certainly not the way I would want to be treated.

But do you think the average African American says, yeah, I don't want you considering any white people?

That's wrong.

It's unfair to consider a white person for a job.

I don't think black people think that way.

I don't think any Americans think that way, except for insane leftists.

And of course, that's who we have making these decisions.

That is who we have.

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Did you see that the Jetsons made some accurate predictions about the future?

No, I did not.

Me, George Jetson.

Yeah.

Remember, great cartoon?

Yeah, great cartoon.

His boy Elroy.

His boy Elroy.

I just really feel like they reached there.

They're like, we need something that's going to rhyme with Boy.

Right.

Elroy, which I don't know if there's a lot of people who named Elroy at the time.

And then the rest of it doesn't even rhyme.

Jane, his wife.

Daughter, Judy.

That goes nowhere.

Nowhere.

That goes nowhere.

And that's it.

Those are the entire lyrics to the song.

By the way, people don't even talk about this enough.

All the Jetsons.

White.

White.

Thank you.

All of them.

Thank you.

White with a dog.

Instead of a cat or a lizard.

And wasn't the dog white?

Or was the dog gray?

I can't remember.

I don't remember either.

All right, now I'm going to.

I have to look that up.

Do you remember the dog's name?

Astro?

Astro, yes.

Astro.

Yeah.

Astro is gray, by the way.

So they had a little diversity.

All right.

Well, they apparently made some chilling predictions about the future on this television show that only lasted a year.

I didn't know it only lasted a year.

1962 to 1963.

That was it.

No.

Well, and then they brought it back in the 80s for a while.

With new episodes?

Yeah.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

But the Jetsons did, in fact, get some things right.

Apparently,

They present a toy which looks uncannily like Atari's video game asteroids.

Well, I mean, that was a long time ago, so they made that prediction.

That happened much, much closer to the airing of the show.

Elroy plays similar-looking games on the Jetsons,

as well as owning a drone,

which turned out to be accurate.

The Jetsons household had a flat-screen TV, tablet computers, robot vacuums.

We got all that stuff.

Wow, yeah.

And, of course, their housekeeper, Rosie, was the the robot maid.

Jane had to go through a lot of trouble for that household necessity, but apparently only the best of families had the robot

housekeeper.

But that's not all.

Some of the other modern appliances include a voice-activated alarm clock, which we have, holograms, and a board version of Siri.

So Siri sounds a lot more interested when you talk to her than the Jetsons

voice did, but they still nailed that.

They have what looks like a 3D printing for homemade meals.

Let's see, what else did they, I mean, they got just a ton of things that seem to be

the whole family routinely makes Zoom calls.

And let's see, George's boss, Cosmo Spacely, remember how mean Cosmo was?

He was not

a nice guy.

But apparently, he relaxed on a tanning bed, which we also have.

And that would, apparently, I didn't know this.

Tanning beds weren't created until the 1970s.

I didn't know that either.

Did you know that?

I didn't know that.

That's interesting because I know the Simpsons get a lot of credit for making predictions, and they have made a lot of them.

They have.

This week was the famous Tom Hanks video.

Did you see that clip?

No.

So the Biden administration came out with this clip of Tom Hanks praising.

all the fight of the administration and all these wonderful things.

It was like, you know, the typical campaign type video.

And in the Simpsons movie,

Tom Hanks voices a video for the government, and he says the government has lost its credibility, so they're borrowing some of mine.

It's exactly what Joe Biden is doing right now.

And that is great.

He was making a video for the new Grand Canyon.

So where they blew up a city and left a giant hole in the ground for people to come visit because they needed a new Grand Canyon.

Yeah, that was a little different.

I don't think that's happened yet, though.

I wouldn't put it past this administration.

No, absolutely.

Frankly, it would be a less disastrous policy than what they did in Afghanistan.

Oof, that's for sure.

What did you say?

And what they may be doing in Ukraine, too.

I mean, are we going to send 8,000 troops to Ukraine?

They're already saying that they're going to be in at least the surrounding countries.

And

they've said so far that they're not going to actually send troops on the ground, but who knows?

Yeah.

Who knows with this administration?

Maybe talk about this a little bit.

This is a fascinating story because it doesn't seem like the Ukrainians are all that worried about this.

Like a lot of them are saying like, you know, yeah, we, we, we know the Russians.

We got it.

They mass on our border all the time.

They do it all the time.

We know what kind of troops they'd have to have there, and these are not the types of troops.

There's a lot of weird talk about that.

And then you see a lot of talk on the right.

I mean, Tucker Carlson sort of famously heading this up and being like, why are we so sure we're supposed to side with Ukraine anyway?

Which, again, I'm no Vladimir Putin fan, so

I have a position on that, but still, like, it's interesting that it's on the right where that conversation is going on.

Which is bizarre.

It's a, it's bizarre.

Strange times.

When did the right become friendly with Russia?

I mean, I think Tucker's argument, from what I can understand it, I haven't seen it all, but it seems to be more of like, we should be worrying about our own stuff than we should be, you know, pleased with Putin.

But still, it's interesting.

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Wow, it's Tom Hanks for the Biden Inaugural Committee.

One interesting part of that is he says the economy, it's not all the way back, but we're getting there.

All the way back to what?

All the way back to the guy you said was Hitler, right?

Like back to what?

There's an admission there, and I'm not saying Tom Hanks said Trump was Hitler, at least that I know of, but like the left and Biden was saying he was the worst guy in the world and the economy wasn't good then.

Now we're like, hey, we're almost getting back to those days.

And we created more jobs than the last 80 years.

Well, that's because we lost the most jobs in the last 80 years.

And now things are, I mean, at least businesses are open for the most part.

I don't know of any American cities that are actually locked down and you can't open your business anymore.

I don't think we're doing that.

Mostly not.

I mean, there are areas.

I mean, they're doing this to schools occasionally.

Flint, Michigan is now going to

do homeschool or homeschool with no end.

No like stated end, just like

forever homeschool, at least for as long as the pandemic lasts.

Wow.

Which is obviously disgraceful.

And there is, we should point this out, and this has nothing to do with Joe Biden.

Joe Biden has actually hurt this.

So I'm not giving him credit at all.

But we have come a long way from the darkest days of this pandemic, not because of Joe Biden, but because of the American people who have said, okay, we're done.

You know, we're done.

And also because of scientists and

people

all over

the medical industry who have come up with treatments and things like that that have improved the situation.

You know, I mentioned this often, but I was in Florida for New Year's last year,

New Year's Eve.

And

in Florida, and this is Ron DeSantis ran the state, you may be familiar with it.

Yeah.

In 2020 into 2021,

no places were

really doing indoor parties for New Year's.

They were doing outdoor parties.

There was mask requirements, not by the state, but by almost every individual business.

So everywhere you walked in, you were still wearing masks because that's what was required.

I went back down there this year and stayed in a hotel that not only was, you know, had restrictions, but wasn't even open.

In 2020 to 2021, they were just closed because of COVID.

It was a giant resort, and they were just closed.

They just turned it all off.

They were open this time.

The Super Bowl last year, think about this.

The Super Bowl last year in Ron DeSantis's Florida had 11,000 people.

That's it.

Max capacity was 11,000.

Outdoors.

In a stadium that held, what, 70 years?

70.

80.

Whatever it is in Tampa, 65,000, 70,000.

They have,

it was an outdoor stadium with a mask mandate, and it was one what they were actually enforcing.

Like at one point, you know, I took a sip of a drink and kept my mask down a little too long and actually got kind of like, hey, sir, put that mask back on, you know.

Now, that's in 2021.

It was monitoring the crowd at the Super Bowl.

It wasn't overbearing, but it was happening.

Like, you know, they actually did make you put the mask back on.

That's in 2021.

The next Super Bowl in 2022 is happening in California indoors at full capacity.

Now, I don't know what kind of restrictions they're having.

I don't know if there's a mask mandate.

I don't think, I don't know if there's a vaccine mandate.

I don't know what they've put on for restrictions.

It's not to say all of this stuff is gone, but even to just a year ago, it is quite different.

I mean, we really have come a long way.

And that's a lot.

It comes with people who believe they're protected by whatever treatment they favor, maybe have had the virus.

And I think Omicron at some level plays into this as well, where it feels like a lot harder to avoid.

And easier to survive.

Yep.

So the virus itself has helped this along because it's evolved into a kinder, gentler.

Yeah, kinder, gentler COVID.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's kind of COVID you want to hug.

But it's true.

I mean, I get it.

I mean, there are, there were miserable days having it because I just had it a couple of weeks ago.

And it, you know, it wasn't fun and it didn't feel mild for about three days.

But, you know, I survived it.

I didn't go.

I wasn't hospitalized.

I didn't take up ICU room.

So that's helped a lot too.

And people are just getting sick of it.

Yeah.

You know, we're two years down the road and we're like, okay, enough.

And now it's,

you know, Denmark, I think you mentioned in the UK.

Denmark has just taken away all pandemic restrictions, including mask band dates, are gone.

And in Great Britain, they're doing the same thing.

There's an interesting thing going on, Pat.

Oh, and we didn't even.

We got to get back to this, The Simpsons clip here.

Let's play that real quick.

This is this.

We mentioned the Tom Hanks video before we get into the other COVID stuff.

Here is

from the Simpsons movie with the mid-2000s, I think this thing came out.

Listen: Are you tired of the same old Grand Canyon?

Here we are, kids.

The Grand Canyon.

It's so old and boring.

I want a new one.

Now!

Hello, I'm Tom Hanks.

The U.S.

government has lost its credibility, so it's borrowing some of mine.

Tackle my hearing, Mr.

Hanks.

Sure, thanks, son.

Now, I'm pleased to tell you all about the new Grand Canyon.

Coming this weekend, it's east of Shelbyville and south of Capitol City.

That's where Springfield is.

It's nowhere near where anything is or ever was.

This is Tom Hanks saying, if you're going to pick a government to trust, why not this one?

Amazing.

And then without any irony, the Biden administration is doing the same thing.

Things are a catastrophe.

And they are borrowing Tom Hanks' credibility.

I mean, Tom Hanks, you know, going back to COVID for a second, when people talk about the beginning of COVID, they say usually three things, which is, you know, the NBA canceled their season,

you know, Donald Trump coming out 15 days to slow the spread, making that announcement, and Tom Hanks getting COVID.

Like, that's how important he is to our culture.

He was like the first celebrity to get that.

Because he and his wife were in Australia, right?

Yeah.

Doing a movie or something.

And it seemed like they were dead at the time.

I remember that happened.

I was like, holy crap, we're losing Tom Hanks, aren't we?

Did not happen.

We still have him.

No.

Thankfully.

But yeah, I mean,

there is an interesting thing, I think, happening

with the dynamics of the politics politics of COVID, which I think have been fascinating since the beginning.

I mean, a million different levels.

But

for most of the time, the people who are skeptical of COVID have argued for a future that was more optimistic, right?

You're skeptical of COVID.

You're saying it's not as big a deal, maybe.

You're saying,

you know, most people survive and we should open up the economy, right?

And that was against the left's view, which was it's really, really bad and we need to lock everybody down.

And the future, future, if we lock everybody down, we'll get past this and we can open things up.

But, you know, that didn't seem like it was ever going to be possible.

Lately, I've noticed this difference where the people who are skeptical of COVID almost seem like more of the pessimists,

where like there's this, you know, there's sort of this idea that like

we're going to see a really negative outcome from whatever, maybe the vaccines, for example.

People who don't like the vaccines are saying, okay, well,

the long-term effects of this is going to be really bad.

And we're going to have, COVID's going to get worse, and there's going to be more variants and terrible side effects of that.

And now the left is kind of saying, well, we got vaccinated and like we're done now.

We saw this with Bill Maher and Barry Weiss, this clip that kind of went viral over the past week, where their view is more of like what the conservatives were saying like a year or two ago.

But now it does seem like there's a decent section of those who are arguing against, you know, maybe the vaccines or maybe some of the new pills or, or, you know, looking around the world and finding a place where cases are spiking and saying, oh my gosh, it's going awry.

And almost arguing for

a darker vision of the COVID future than many, at least on the center left, are.

And I, you know, I don't want to encourage, I keep saying this quote because I think it's important.

that the New York Times is saying, for vaccinated people, this is less dangerous, less dangerous than the flu.

Remember, you used to get thrown off social media for saying that.

Yeah.

Right.

That's what the left is saying now.

I don't want to encourage them to think that things are worse than they are.

I don't want to convince them, hey, guys, actually things are terrible.

You should put your restrictions back on.

I don't see what the benefit of that is.

I'm a much more of the viewpoint of like, you should make your own choices, pick your own risk.

I'm not your dad.

I'm not your doctor.

I'm not even your dentist.

Go do whatever you want with your stupid health.

We go out and we do things that are unhealthy all the time.

I don't care if you want, you want, people are like, oh, don't, people are going out there and having horse dewormer.

I go, you can actually have horse dewormer for all I care.

I don't do whatever you want.

I don't care what you do.

That's your choice.

You do what you're with your life and your health, what you want to.

Maybe in consultation with the doctor.

You should be able to take it.

If you want to take ivermectin, you should be able to take.

If you want to eat nothing but dog food.

You should be able to do that.

Do it.

Yeah.

Now, it's going to probably have some bad consequences, but that's probably to you.

It's not a thing.

It's not that great.

yeah uh and i don't think it will cure covid no it won't but if it makes you feel good go ahead and do it although we have we tried it i recommend gravy train because at least it's you know sort of moist yeah i don't want that dry kibble stuff you put a little water on it right it turns into kind of healthy yeah a little bit of beef certified and then a little doggy driven wagon train comes through your your living room it's kind of cool yeah yeah no but i do think it is important as the left sort of wakes up and comes to our side that we don't try to convince them to go back back to the other side.

I don't know what the upside of that.

And I keep coming back to this because I keep talking to small business owners

who tell me, hey, I've been on this front the whole time.

I want things to be open.

I want freedom.

And I love that.

And I love that all my conservative friends have been coming into this restaurant since I reopened it in summer of 2020.

But here's the thing.

I still need liberals to come in too.

I have a 4% profit margin.

And when 50% of the country is not going out to eat, this business is really hard to run.

And you see this from people all over the country.

Like we are, this economy, we're all tied together.

And there are some people who can go out and have a targeted business to just conservatives.

There's plenty of those businesses.

We feature them often, and we love those companies.

But, you know, like

a lot of businesses need to sell things to liberals, too.

And if they're not going out to eat, if they're not going out to concert venues, if they're not doing these things,

it hurts a lot of conservatives, conservatives, too.

I want liberals to buy cookies.

I'll tell you that.

There you go.

I want them to go right to kexi.com and purchase delicious cookies.

Exactly.

Liberals and conservatives can all agree that they're the best cookies on this planet.

I would agree.

As a conservative, I can say that side is represented here.

And what's amazing is that...

Some of Europe is at probably not Texas, but some of Europe is ahead of even the United States of America in getting back to freedom, which bothers me a little bit.

I mean, Denmark, really, they're going to set the pace for us.

How did this not happen here first where all restrictions are just gone everywhere?

And their PM, their prime minister this week said, we say goodbye to the restrictions and welcome the life we knew before.

Wow.

How can we not be saying that?

It's so embarrassing.

Why is Joe Biden not saying

we're not going to eradicate this thing?

I think we've realized it's just not going to be eradicated.

There may have been a time where if we had, you know, who knows?

You know, SARS famously flamed out.

Right.

MERS flamed out.

And this may too, somewhere down the line.

Maybe it will sometimes.

It's not going to happen for a long time.

But in the meantime, let's get back to life.

And if you get it, you get it.

If you don't, you don't.

And we hope you don't.

And you do your best.

And you know what?

The medical profession will continue to improve their treatments.

Right.

You know, we will get to a place where this gets easier and easier to deal with.

It's already, again, easier than the flu, according to the New York freaking Times.

And you might say, well, I don't like X treatment or Y treatment, whatever.

The bottom line is the left does believe this stuff.

This is their information.

That's what they think is going on.

And we should encourage them to embrace that and say, hey, yeah, you're right.

That's why we shouldn't have any restrictions.

These are your words.

Yours.

Let's embrace all of that and get back to normal life.

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You know, we were talking about the Denmark thing where they're removing all restrictions.

That's despite the fact, by the way, that they still have 46,000 people on average per day being infected.

Yeah.

And they're still removing restrictions and going on with life, which is what we should be doing here and pretty much in Texas and Florida and probably a lot of Republican-run states.

That is happening.

The one thing I can't take, though, is it's usually made by some in-shape person, the argument of, well, why don't we just all get in shape?

Maybe we lost some weight, then this wouldn't happen.

You know what?

We're all fat.

Yeah.

We all know we shouldn't be fat.

Yeah.

And we still haven't been able to handle the situation for multiple decades.

What makes you think we're going to change now?

Like, we are all under the, this is a situation where we live every day and we have the choice between, you know, a double cheeseburger or if we're in really good shape, it might be like sex with supermodels, and we still choose the cheeseburger.

Oh, yeah.

Over and over and over again.

You think we're going to choose to get in shape because of a virus?

No.

No, we're not going to do that.

I think it's more likely you just get the vaccine and take your chances.

Yeah, or just take your chances.

Let's see, do I want to work out for a half an hour every day, six days a week?

No.

No.

No.

No, I don't.

No.

We also know that that would be a better answer, but you also, this is the United States of America you're talking about.

We're gonna remain fat.

This is the Glenn Back program.