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Welcome to the podcast.

Today, Glenn is sick, and so Jeffy was nice enough to step in.

He's, of course, a host of Chewing the Fat, the podcast that you can subscribe to right now on this very podcast platform.

And you need to do that, as a matter of fact.

It's a mandate from the federal government.

I had nothing to do with it, but you have to follow mandates.

I'm usually against mandates, but this one seems like it's okay.

Is that

okay?

Yeah, this is a must, man.

It's a must.

It's a must.

Check it out.

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

Also, Studos America is the show that I host every day, as well as

hanging out on this radio program with Glenn.

Today, it's us.

We're talking about the interview that Glenn is going to be doing with Donald Trump tonight.

He has a special interview that's airing tonight on Blaze TV at blazetv.com slash Glenn.

Promo code is Glenn to save yourself 10 bucks.

We also talk about the Omicron, Flumicron.

Flurona

virus that's out there right now and what the next couple weeks are going to look like.

And we go into the studies from the UK and South Africa with some hopeful stuff.

Also, we will talk about the midterms.

This has been on the horizon for a while.

Well, it's 2022, folks.

We're here.

Here.

So, we're going to go into the details as to what the history looks like for midterm elections and what the prospects for November look like as we get closer.

And tomorrow is January 6th.

The day

you almost died.

Yeah.

Prepare yourself for all the anniversary talking to avoid, get out of that by saying January 6th instead of 1-6.

But anytime that date is set,

it is

to date democracy almost done.

All right, we'll get into that as well today on the podcast.

You're listening to the best of the Balenbec program.

Welcome to January 6th Eve.

Have you put your January 6th tree up yet?

Because we've got a new national holiday in this country, at least for half of it, January 6th.

The left loves it, loves talking about it, thinks it's the most important thing since the Civil War.

It is the day democracy almost died.

No,

didn't die.

They finished everything up that same day.

It was a, look, I am not going to make any excuses for what happened on January 6th.

I think it sucked.

And the people who were beating police officers over the head with polls should be in prison.

I have no problem with that.

However, what the left has decided to do with this and turn it into this ridiculous national holiday of celebration where they get to say that they've never done anything wrong.

There's never been,

certainly they've never shot up a baseball field full of Republicans.

That's never occurred.

Ever.

Look, insane people in every movement exist.

And there were some people who went into the, even went into the Capitol that were just, you know, people who maybe made mistakes, maybe, you know, got caught up in a moment.

And then there were some people who were really bad there.

And we've seen some of that.

So you can see, look, hitting,

I don't care about politics when it comes to beating a police officer over the head.

I've had police officers in my family, and you think that's an appropriate action to take?

Screw you.

I have no sympathy for someone who's done that.

That being said, what the left has tried to do with this is what has been frustrating over the past week.

We'll have, I think the president is giving

the day the democracy almost died speech, and we're going to do, it's going to be, ugh.

Yeah.

And it's going to be, you can quote me on that.

It's interesting, too, the timing of Glenn's interview with Donald Trump and the release of it.

Now, this is something he recorded right before the holidays.

And he was in at Mar-a-Lago.

They did the interview.

And it was, you know,

a lot of interesting stuff.

And we've played a couple clips right before the holidays, but the interview comes out tonight, 9 p.m.

Eastern, blazetv.com slash Glenn.

If you go there

tonight, you'll see this.

And I want to just give you, I hate to, you don't want to ruin an interview by giving out too much information.

You don't want to, you don't want to give the end to a movie before people get to go see it.

Some people.

But I would want to do that.

Right.

Well, you do.

Glenn definitely does.

Glenn loves to ruin movies.

But let me give you this one little spoiler here.

He doesn't ask him about January 6th.

What?

And I know the media is going to get all fired up about that.

They're going to say

how they had the president of the United States on that's airing in the week of January 6th, and they didn't even ask about it.

No mention about the insurrectionists.

And that was a very intentional choice by Glenn

because he said this on the air before the interview even started.

He wants it to be about the future, not the past.

And we can go back and rehash every little scandal or back and forth that happened with the media during Trump's presidency.

We can do all that.

We can talk about, you know, it wouldn't have been crazy for him to ask about January 6th, but everyone is talking about that all the time.

And I believe the president, a former president, is going to be making some sort of statement as well about January 6th.

Yeah, I think he was, and he was supposed to, there was some event that he canceled, actually.

So I don't, I mean, obviously, he'll probably make a statement.

I'm sure.

He likes making them.

So

you may have, and you've heard Donald Trump talking about that a hundred times.

What about the issues that are facing us now?

You know, it's great.

It's a great little window for the left right now to be able to talk about something like January 6th because they don't have to talk about all the days that have occurred since January 20th, which is President Biden

running the country into the ground.

And, you know, it's hard.

We're going to get into the election stuff here in a little bit as well.

Kind of a little look ahead to the midterms.

It's hard to win midterm elections when you have a president who isn't incoherent.

Like when you have a good president, it's hard to win midterm elections for your party.

What has happened with Biden from everything from Afghanistan to the economy to inflation to I'm going to crush this virus, I'm going to end the virus.

Nobody with 220,000 deaths on their toll should be allowed to be president.

That's crazy.

Now he's got 420,000 deaths on his register

by that logic.

He shouldn't be president a couple of times, I guess, when it comes to.

Which I'm okay with, by the way.

This is a rule I'm willing to implement right now, at least.

So, all of this is adding up to a real disaster for them in the midterms.

And I was reminded that he also, just another thing that he promised that hasn't happened yet, is he promised to cure cancer.

And

I want that done.

I'm going to go ahead and demand that.

Is it cured yet?

Can we check?

Make a phone call.

It's funny you mentioned that.

I'm actually working on something related to that.

We have to get into maybe a little bit later.

But I want to make sure you know about this.

9 p.m.

Eastern, blazetv.com/slash Glenn, the January 6th distraction.

Glenn and former President Trump discuss overcoming America's real challenges, those things that we were talking about, inflation, the economy, how we're going forward, what is the correct message the American people need to hear right now.

It's all going to be on with Glenn and former President Trump tonight on Blaze TV.

So we were talking a little bit about the cron,

the Omicron, Omicron, and everything that is going on.

It seems like everybody on earth is sick right now.

Yes.

Glenn is out.

We don't think it's the Quran, but I don't know if he's been tested yet, and we're going to find him.

I guess we'll know that maybe soon.

But I know I've had relatives.

I've seen businesses closing.

And we hit a million cases in a day, which is an all-time high, not only for the United States, but in theory, the world.

Now, that is a ridiculous statistic.

Very misleading.

It's totally misleading because of, you know, like, look, India is not testing at the levels that would allow them to beat that record, right?

A place like India with so many more people, surely during their terrible Delta outbreak, had way more cases than that.

But, you know, officially, we know China as well.

Absolutely.

In the peak of it, China was still saying, yeah, well, we had one today.

Yeah.

Oh,

okay.

One case.

No problem.

One case.

So we know it's not a real record, and we know that number is obviously an undercount as well, as far as lots of people are now taking home tests and not reporting them.

You can get them.

Yeah, they're a little hard to get.

Yeah, but people are doing that more than they used to.

As well as there's a lot of asymptomatic cases that people don't even know they have.

And that's been something that's gone on since the beginning of the pandemic.

But officially, the statistic is the highest ever.

And it does seem like Omicron is living up to the billing as incredibly easy to pass.

Yes.

That does seem to be real.

We've had a lot of hype over these variants.

You know, if you remember, the Epsilon variant didn't do anything.

No, it did not.

Delta lived up to that hype a little bit in one way.

And Omicron is living up to the hype in this in this sort of outbreak right now.

I do expect over the next couple of weeks, we're going to have ridiculously high case totals.

We're going to have probably hospitalizations and deaths rise, but not nearly to the level.

If you look at the charts that are happening, New York was one of the first places where we saw an Omicron outbreak.

The line for cases is through the roof.

The line for hospitalizations is up slightly.

The lines for deaths, flat or down.

So that's

the hype on Omicron was it's really easy to pass and it's maybe a little bit less virulent, a little less awful than the previous variants.

That does seem to be holding up to be true, and that's a really good thing.

But that doesn't mean because the numbers are so high, we'll probably still see a rise here over the next few weeks.

They believe this whole thing should be over by the end of the month or at least the end of next month at the latest.

And they're talking about new variants now, but you know, again, these variants might fade out quickly.

And they're talking also about,

well, I called it Flumicron, but it's

Flumicron, but it's actually Flurona.

Flurona.

Yeah.

What is Flurona?

Flu plus coronavirus.

Getting it at the same time.

Or is it they've now like they're having a family?

It's a mixed family.

It is.

The flu.

They met at a bar, the coronavirus and the flu.

Hey, had a hookup.

You're looking pretty good over there.

Yeah.

Ooh, Rona, why don't you come on over this way?

And then we had flu.

Rona.

That's how it happens, boys and girls.

The birds and the bees in action.

So let me give you what we do know, at least the best, as close as we know for Omicron.

Now, this is, of course, we had earlier outbreaks in South Africa in the UK.

So there's been a lot of studies there.

Let me give you some of these quotes.

I would say all of this sounds like pretty good news overall.

That doesn't mean the next couple weeks might be rough, but

overall, this seems like good news to give you the summary.

An individual with Omicron is estimated to be between 31 and 45% less likely to attend AE, which is the British emergency room ER, compared to Delta, and 50 to 70% less likely to be admitted to the hospital.

So

good news.

Yes, absolutely.

When the reduced risk of hospitalization was combined with vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease, the vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization was estimated as, I'll give you all the different dose levels, 52% effective with one dose, 72% effective with two doses if it's recent, so two to 24 weeks old, right?

So it goes up to 72%.

If it's an older dose, like if you had it, you know, six months ago, it drops down to 52% effective if you've had the full

vaccine.

With where we're at now, the way that the vaccines are, you know, waning as 50% is still pretty good.

It's still something

if you're in a sixth to eight-month window.

Yeah.

And like, look, there's a lot of, there's some people who, you know, don't want the vaccine, didn't take the vaccine, and that should be your choice.

We've talked about how bad these mandates are over and over and over again.

The overwhelming population of the country, now we're we're at over 80 some odd percent, has had at least one dose of this vaccine.

So I think a lot of people, even if they think Fauci's annoying and Biden's annoying, may have already previously had the vaccine.

We know President Trump, who's on with Glenn tonight, has had the vaccine and he's been boosted.

And I thought we were over.

I thought we were done with the

pandemic of the unvaccinated, but I still trotting that out.

The president trotted it out the other day.

They're still trotting it out, which is like

by the way,

with the booster, it's 88%.

Oh, wow.

So 52% one dose, 72% with two doses that are recent, 52% with two doses that might have been in the past, and then 88% on the booster.

So that's what the UK study is showing.

South Africa showed pretty similar things.

These results are consistent with Omicron displacing the Delta variant.

We're already seeing Omicron being the

dominant variant here in the United States.

Because they were talking about many of the people that were still in the hospital were Delta.

Yeah.

You know, we're getting the big numbers increasing Omicron.

Yeah.

But the hospitalizations, while was being linked to Omicron, were still Delta.

Yeah, that does seem to be a lot of this.

And one of the questions was, it doesn't seem like a previous affection with the old school Wuhan strain or the beta virus or the

Delta,

any of those doesn't seem like it protected you against Omicron.

However, it looks like the reverse is true, which is really good.

If you get a mild Omicron infection, it seems to protect you against the other variants.

And that's what the South African study showed.

They said these results are consistent with Omicron displacing the Delta variant since it can elicit immunity, which neutralizes Delta, making reinfection with Delta less likely.

The team of scientists in Africa wrote, if Omicron displaces Delta and proves more mild than past variants, the incidence of COVID-19 severe disease would be reduced and the infection may shift to becoming less disruptive to individuals and society.

Now, look, we, I think, as people on the right, look at this and say, we got to live our lives.

We got to figure out how to get through this.

And, you know, you're going to have some risk and you can't eliminate all that risk.

You know, if you're a business owner, it's important to you that liberals also come back to your business, right?

You know, you would think that.

Yeah.

You definitely would think so.

They might be annoying while they're in your business, but you need their money.

So.

Yeah, that's funny.

The banks don't

did this come from a progressive right, no, they just want their money.

And if you're you're owning it, you own a bar,

you don't want it to be half-filled.

You want people to be in there, and so you need everybody out back in society.

So this is good, even if this lesson doesn't necessarily matter to you.

The study found, this is the South African study again, study found that the vaccine from Pfizer and Bientech provided just 33% protection against infection.

So it's not doing a great job anymore

as protecting you from infection.

It's doing something.

You know, 33% is compared to someone who's unvaccinated.

That's the double, that's two shots of the Pfizer.

Yes.

I mean, fully, fully vaccinated.

Fully vaccinated.

So you're getting some level of protection, though not great protection against the infection.

However,

the vaccine offers 70% protection in this study

being hospitalized with Omicron.

So if you put that together with the previous results, they're going to come out about the same because you got about 33% less chance of getting infected.

But if you get infected, you got about a 70% chance of going to the hospital.

The bottom line is, this is good.

Omicron is going to be rough over the next couple of weeks because it's so infectious and so many people are going to have it.

So a smaller percentage of a big number is still a big number.

But once this thing passes, it may give us the type of thing that we've talked about for a long time,

enough immunity to push off the severe disease and

enough of a positive change that we can get back to normalizing.

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Well,

Donald Trump, former president, and Melania Trump, the former first lady, got a terrible Christmas present this past December as Glenn Beck came to town.

And no one wants that to happen.

Thank you.

A terrible punishment for both Donald and Melania.

But they were very gracious hosts, and we're going to get into what it was like behind the scenes here in just a second.

But I want to give you this clip.

This is from the interview tonight.

It airs at 9 p.m.

Eastern on Blaze TV, blazetv.com slash Glenn, right after a brand new Stew Does America.

Don't miss it.

9 p.m.

Eastern is the interview.

It's going to be,

they go through really everything.

And Glenn was very specific about this interview and what he wanted to do with it.

You know, Donald Trump talks to a lot of people

and

he has

he's only done a couple of interviews with Glenn.

Glenn, I believe, interviewed him long before he was into politics back in the day.

Of course, Glenn has been doing radio since 1744.

So he's had an opportunity to do that.

But since he was president, obviously they didn't agree a lot early on in the presidency.

And

there weren't any interviews there.

We talked to Don Jr.

a bunch of times, but this was his second interview with Donald Trump since he's really entered back into politics.

We had him on the phone once, and they had talked behind the scenes several times over the years.

But this was really kind of an opportunity to look into the future.

Every interview that the mainstream media wants to do with Donald Trump is going to be about January 6th.

The day democracy almost died.

Thank you.

I like how you have the title built in.

This is what they want.

They want a national holiday.

Honestly, I feel, I don't even like calling it January 6th.

The day democracy almost died.

I don't like doing that because it gives them what they want.

They want it to be January 6th.

The day democracy almost died.

You want to call it the QAnon riots?

You want to come up with another name for it?

I'd much rather like

that a lot more than calling it the date because what they want it to be is September 11th, where everyone talks about it every year like it's this big morbid anniversary.

I don't think that's a great idea to call it January 6th.

The day democracy almost died.

The drama really is lost with the word almost, isn't it?

I mean, we were like, the day the plane almost hit the building.

It's near miss.

It's just not the same.

Okay, here is Donald Trump and Glenn Beck talking.

And

one of the questions Glenn did want to ask him about how we should go forward in the future is, what do you do with Anthony Fauci?

We know he's going to do 472 interviews per day.

We know that's going to occur.

But what else would you do with Anthony Fauci?

And what was the relationship like?

Here is Glenn talking to former President Trump.

I think when

this was coming out of China, it was perfectly reasonable to shut everything down because we didn't know.

They were welding people into their homes in China.

We had no idea, and they weren't being opened.

And by the way, they welded them in and they never opened them.

And that was the end of them.

Fauci,

I want to give everybody the benefit of the doubt in those early days.

We have done a ton of research.

I did one of the biggest chalkboards I think I've ever done.

They were using federal government money to do

Wuhan.

Yeah, and Wuhan.

I stopped it.

I was the one that stopped it.

You did, but I don't think Fauci cared about that.

Fauci's now claiming he's science.

Did you ever, did you ever,

would he still be working for you today?

No, not now, but he's a great promoter.

He's not a great doctor, but he's a great promoter.

But you have to understand, everything he wanted, I didn't do.

As an example, he wanted to keep it open to China.

He ultimately was wrong about that and admitted it and admitted that I saved tens of thousands of lives.

He wanted to keep it open.

I saw what was happening in Italy and France and Spain, and I closed it to Europe very early.

You know, in China, it was January I closed it.

And in Europe, it was shortly thereafter.

We saved thousands and thousands of lives.

He wanted to do that.

And then his big one of them all is

the masks are useless, they don't mean anything.

And then all of a sudden, he wants you to wear ten masks.

You know, wear as many as you can, put them all over, cover your ears, do everything.

So I didn't really do much of what he said.

And

he wasn't a big factor for me, in a sense because of that.

This is this is,

I mean, look, I miss him.

First of all, very funny.

I miss him.

Cover your ears with 10 masks.

I miss him.

Now, it's a little bit of a

maybe I'll show you a little bit of a different picture here.

Do we have the clip of Joe Biden talking about Google?

Because this is what a real president sounds like.

In the last two weeks, we've stood up federal testing sites all over the country.

We're adding more each and every day.

That's good to hear.

Google.

Google.

Quote, COVID, quote, test near me.

Go there.

Google.

Google.

Go there.

Google.

COVID test near me.

Google.

Where do I go?

To find the nearest site where you can get a test most often and free.

Yeah, but get them most often and free.

I mean.

I mean, you want to talk about,

wow, the confidence level is incredibly high.

So he's talking about Fauci, and I think it's interesting.

His answer on Fauci seems to basically be Fauci was liked by the media.

He had his value, but we didn't really listen to him behind the scenes.

So he gets into that a little bit more tonight.

He gets into talking about Russia, Vladimir Putin, inflation, all the big topics that you want to think about as we go into a midterm election.

Glenn talks to the president about and looks forward, not back, not talking about January 6th like everybody else is going to be democracy.

Now I'm not going to be able to hear that date

without your stupid subtitle.

We bring in Jason Buttrell, who was on this trip with Glenn.

He was in the room for much of the time.

He got on the plane.

He went to Mar-a-Lago, met everybody there.

It's got to be a wild experience to go to Mar-a-Lago and

after he's been president of the United States to meet Donald, Melania, the family.

What a bizarre experience.

It's not what you would think it would be.

It's not exactly what I thought it was going to be.

Like

if you think you would go go to like the Obama's, you know, house or whatever.

Unlike Martha's Vineyard.

Yeah, right.

Like, what would that be like?

You would think that it would just be a bunch of people, you know, sniffing their own farts and just telling each other how awesome they are, which I still think that's how it would be if you go to the Obama's.

You know, there'd be this air of I'm better than you or something like that.

And I feel like nobody's there, right?

It's just at the Obama's house, you've got Barack, you got Michelle, maybe a couple people, but like it's not a, there's not a ton of people around.

I feel like they're going to that place to isolate, basically.

That's not what Trump is doing.

No, not at all.

Not at all.

Like, I,

I kind of thought Mar-a-Lago was a hotel.

It's not a hotel.

I guess it's more like a club.

There's only like a handful of guest rooms there.

So it really is like, you know, President Trump's house slash office and a few influential people or friends will come by and there's members of the club or whatever.

But I mean, I remember straight off the bat, we went into this like a very like beautiful ballroom to do the interview in and we're setting up and and all of a sudden don jr just walks in the room and i'm like what like exactly it was like that he was like hey what's up guys no dude he didn't say dudes but that's kind of how it felt yeah yeah just walked in very casual just started you know like you know chewing the fat uh with with with all of us in there and i was it just from that i was like that's kind of surreal right i mean just the president's son who's also very very out in the open you know in the public sure just rolls in starts talking with everybody chilling and uh trump comes in to do the interview and it was kind of the same thing you know there was some secret you knew movements movements were happening because of the Secret Service.

But he just came in and started talking.

You know, it was like, whatever.

Very laid back.

Very laid back.

This is where he's most comfortable, right?

I mean, this is his environment.

It's not an act at all, which is like, you know, they teach you in political science in college, you know, about the, you know, you got to hook those hands, you know, and pretend like you're one of the.

He's literally like one of those guys,

albeit with a little bit more money than the rest of those guys.

A tad.

But a little bit.

But he is one of those guys.

It is.

It's interesting the way he's gotten gotten things done his whole life.

Yeah.

Being that guy.

Yeah.

He is the

least likely to relate to the everyman.

Like if you would predict who would be the least likely to understand how normal people live, it would be Donald Trump, right?

The guy, his dad was wealthy.

He grew up incredibly wealthy.

His entire brand was, I live a life that you don't live.

And that was really his brand throughout the 80s and 90s and going into The Apprentice.

And as the apprentice, in the apprentice, he's the boss.

He's telling people that they're fired all the time.

That's not normally a path to the presidency.

Yeah.

But he has, there's something about Donald Trump that relates to the case.

I mean, he's the guy that you would expect, you know, even though he's, you know, been sitting in his gold chair

up on the 116th floor, he's going to come down and stand in the mud and shake your hand and talk to you about the day.

Right.

I mean, he definitely has the golden chair.

You know, he has all the luxuries and all that stuff.

But the problem is, so he doesn't, he doesn't see you as lesser because because you're not also sitting in a golden chair.

And you think that, I mean, that's really the rise of him was just him listening.

And that's what we saw in that room before the interview.

He'll listen to you.

Like, I won't talk about the private conversations that we were having.

Of course.

But he was, you know, he would ask questions and he looked like he cared about your response to him.

He does.

And

if you look back at his presidency and the people that he would argue with was the press.

It wasn't the American people.

When he was out on the road, he listened to the American people.

As opposed to confront them.

As opposed to like a Joe Biden saying, I'll fight you for it.

Like a huge difference there.

Absolutely.

And the result was, you know, we finally had someone that talking about issues that people had, like the border.

Like no one even wanted to address the border.

I mean, he's probably not president if it wasn't for his strong stance on the border.

But he made it because he was talking to people.

He was listening.

The craziest thing, though, guys, was after the interview.

So we had heard this before that sometimes he'll invite people to come and eat dinner, you know, if they, if, you know, media comes and, you know, does an interview with him.

So he invited us all to stay there for dinner.

And I'm not talking about just Glenn, you know, or just his EP or whatever.

The crew and everybody.

He was like, hey, come on in, come, come eat.

And so he was like, hey, yeah, we're just going to, we're just walking up there now.

I think this happens every night there.

So

you get this feeling that this is, you're in his house, right?

Yeah.

And there is this like kind of courtyard in Mar-a-Lago.

It's, it's, you know, it's, it's open air.

It's always beautiful and, you know, temperature's nice out there.

But everyone goes, everyone's sitting there.

It's not a restaurant.

So like they don't flip the tables and then make room for somebody else after someone else eats.

Right.

It's set once.

You go there and eat and then you leave, right?

And like they don't prepare it for anyone else again.

But he like, so he goes out.

We sit at our table.

We look over to the left, like a table and a half away.

The former president of the United States, his wife, and a couple friends are just sitting right there.

Like within earshot.

You can hear everything they're saying.

I mean, literally like two, a table and a half away.

You look over, it was the most surreal thing ever, but that wasn't the most surreal thing.

So

yeah, it's literally, it was, it's so that if you ever get a chance to do this, it's literally like if you're at a large family gathering, right?

A large family gathering on Thanksgiving and dad or some, you know, grandpa sitting over there at the other table and he wants to get up and be like, oh, hey, I just thought of this thing.

I wanted to come tell you guys.

So he walks over to, you know, our, our table.

He was doing that all night.

Really?

He walked to to our table like twice.

He was like, hey guys, what's up?

Hey, I just thought of this one thing.

It was the most, and he, that's, if you are a people's president, that right there is the template.

It was like crazy cool.

And that's just how he is.

And he does that with people every night.

It's interesting.

Now, as a broadcaster, one of the things you want to do is relate to your audience and give them new, you know, information they can use.

So if you happen to ever be in the situation where you're dining with Donald and Melania Trump, you now know how to handle the situation thanks to Jason.

There you go.

You know, now you know.

I'm here for you.

That's right.

What it's like.

That's how you go.

We'll take a quick break, come back with more because I want to ask you a little bit more about where they went in this interview and the types of

things we're going to hear from the media this week, which are going to be excruciating.

The interview airs tonight.

It's blazetv.com/slash Glenn at 9 p.m.

Eastern, right after a brand new Stew Does America.

Yeah.

All right.

The best of the Glenn Beck program.

It's Stu of Studos America and Jeffy of Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher in for Glenn Beck today.

He's out sick.

He's got his interview tonight, blazetv.com slash Glenn.

It is Donald Trump and Glenn Beck at Mar-a-Lago.

Going to be very interesting.

There's a column in the Federalists today,

13 happenings in 2021 that I never would have believed five years ago.

It's funny because these things happen so fast.

A lot of times we miss them.

My first reaction would be only 13.

Only 13.

It's got to be more than that.

Let me give you this list.

Tell me if these are surprising to you, Jeffy.

Would you have been able to believe these five years ago?

Five years ago.

Not that long ago.

I mean, you're going back to 2017.

Okay.

Men as women.

This is the trend that would have most shocked my grandparents is transgenderism.

Men are now competing with women in in women's sports, being housed with women in prison.

I will say

that one does surprise me enough.

Now, we knew this stuff was coming in 2017, but the fact that half the country is saying, yeah, that guy should be in the women's swimming.

That's incredible.

Yes, it is.

And women's prison?

Like, how can you be putting it in?

I mean, that's a genius move.

Let's be honest.

If you're going to prison.

Really?

Yes.

Oh, my gosh.

You just say you're.

If you're going to prison yep i'm a woman gotta go there

i mean that's that's genius it's a lot better than what i've heard happens in the other side of the prison uh so

if you have the opportunity you know if you're going to prison and you're giving the opportunity of going to the men's prison or going to the women's prison sure there are some i guess you know that the argument is going to be well there's transgenderism and they belong there for sure okay

well okay yeah not not necessarily the women aren't necessarily okay with it, but I know what you're saying.

But

as a man that would be going to prison.

Why wouldn't you?

I mean, honestly, in all seriousness, why wouldn't you say it?

Correct.

Why wouldn't you say, you know what?

Yes, I'm a woman.

You got to put me in the women's side.

I belong over there.

Why wouldn't you say it?

I don't know.

You're already in prison.

No.

That's what I'm saying.

That's a genius move if they allow it.

And I will say this.

If you're in the right state, they basically cannot legally question it.

Right, because you've said it.

You've said it.

All you have to do to be a woman is say you're a woman.

Once you're on the women's side of the prison, I mean, I think, you know, a lot of people would go to the creepy elements of that, which, which there are many.

But also, you know, just to avoid

the horror show that is the men's side of the prison with fights and worse.

And I know that,

you know, look,

prison, whether it's men or

female, you know, prison ain't fun.

You can quote me on that.

Wow.

Prison ain't fun.

You're getting real

wisdom from Jeffy today.

All right, number two on this list of the 13 things that would surprise anyone five years ago.

Blocking puberty.

Parents now enabling young children to change genders with dangerous surgeries and puberty blockers.

It's hard to believe that parents would go along with this.

It is.

And

is it as prevalent as we think it is?

I mean,

if it's making this list,

but I don't think that it necessarily makes the list.

I don't know that we are.

It's not, look, it's not a super, super common thing that it's growing.

It's a big things that we never would have believed five years ago.

Yeah, okay.

I am surprised at how many Americans, even those on the left, that are willing to deny their own children's gender and allow them to do terrible things to themselves.

Yeah.

That is, that is surprising to me.

Now, it's not the majority, I don't think, of even the left, but it's a lot of people.

It's far too many.

Drafting women.

The United States narrowly avoided a draft for women, which was supported by many elected officials in even the Conservative Party.

I don't think that was ever going to happen, though, really, right?

And it didn't happen, so I guess we wouldn't.

That one, I don't know if I'd qualify, but that is.

I feel like it gets

every, you know, I don't know, every few years it gets brought up again.

Yeah, but it is growing, and it seems, and it is, it's very strange to hear an argument that the side that is pro-women is the side to get women shot in combat, to get them drafted against their will to go to war.

You know, look, chivalry is mostly dead, but I did think we had a little strain of it left.

But, you know, if we're, if we choose, hey, if you've, you know, if you decided that you're going to go to prison and you were a man when you were sentenced, but you've decided to go to a women's prison, you know, okay, maybe you can go in the army too.

Go ahead, dad, or you can go fight.

There you go.

Yeah.

How about not prosecuting crime is the next one on the list?

Is that a surprising trend?

I think that one is surprising as well.

And what's interesting about at least these first four

is I think there's a real movement against these things.

You know, there was the defund the police thing, but even Democratic cities are stepping up and saying, wait a minute, no, I don't want this.

They're already fighting back against that.

They've already decided, you know what?

No.

No.

Let's not do this.

This is not going to work.

We're seeing the results of it.

I don't want this.

You know,

liberals want to go to restaurants.

Everybody wants to be able to pull into a 7-Eleven and get their Slurpee and get their gas and go home.

And not get shot.

Thank you.

Right?

And

you're offending not only the conservatives who don't like these ideas generally, but you're going so far in such an insane way that you're hurting tons of moderates and even liberals.

How about massive illegal immigration?

Would you believe that five years ago?

I may have believed that one.

I mean, the Democrats have been trying to do that for a long time, and it was happening anyway, even under Trump.

I mean, we had massive amounts of people crossing the border.

Obviously, Trump was trying to do something about it, which is unlike some other presidents, but that's been going on for a long time and is continuing and getting worse.

The catastrophe sort of situations on the border

maybe are worse than you'd think.

But

the amount of people crossing it is not incredibly shocking to me.

How about widespread censorship?

I mean, if you would have said five years ago, the president of the United States will be banned from all social media.

No way that could be.

I would not have believed that.

I would not have either.

I still kind of don't, actually.

What are you talking about?

Because, you know, it's one thing to ban, you know, Alex Jones, right?

And Alex Jones, we argued against Alex Jones being banned, even though I don't agree with most of his, you know, his theories.

But like, we, we agree he shouldn't be silenced.

That's dumb.

But like

the social media companies have a real out with public figures.

they have an out from all responsibility because We should know what the president of the United States is thinking.

Absolutely.

We should know what the former president of the United States is thinking.

The country needs to know that, even if what he's saying is completely wrong and irresponsible and racist or worse, no matter what it is.

Like, I don't think

world leaders of any sort should be banned from these social media apps, including people like, you know, from Iran.

Because I wouldn't be able to do that.

I don't think they are.

And that's what's amazing.

They're not.

But the argument to me is not they should be banned too.

It should be people like the president, you know, congresswomen, all these people should not be.

I want to know what they're saying.

I want to know, shouldn't, why should that be hidden?

And, you know, honestly, like, one of the things that I think the left really misunderstood when they did the Trump thing was that

Trump caused a lot of problems for himself on Twitter.

Now, he also had a lot of positives, but a lot of it, even his most ardent supporters will say, oh, I love the guy, but I wish he'd stop doing that, right?

They've taken that away from him.

You know, all of the, whatever mistakes Trump may have made on Twitter over the past couple of years haven't occurred.

I know.

Which is interesting and probably really positive for Trump's re-election hopes.

It certainly is positive for people like me who see him talking to Glenn Beck and looking forward to his interview tonight with Glenn Beck on Blaze TV, thinking, I I miss him.

Man, do I miss him?

And I think there's tons of people in that same boat just saying, like, good.

I mean, look at Biden is like falling asleep in the middle of sentences.

At least Trump had energy.

A lot of people didn't like him, but

it's hard to argue that Joe Biden has done a good job here.

I don't even think the left is attempting it.

They're not sitting here going like, actually, this has been great.

They'll say, actually, you know what's worse?

Donald Trump.

They'll say that, but they won't even defend him, Biden, as doing a good job.

They can't.

I mean, they can't.

Number seven on this list of 13 happenings in 2021 that I would have never seen coming five years ago.

Parents labeled terrorists.

Parents were labeled domestic terrorists by the Biden Justice Department for showing up at school board meetings with complaints.

That's a pretty bad one.

That is a pretty bad one.

That's a pretty bad one.

That's been proven that their parents were labeled that.

And it's ugly.

President's mental abilities doubted.

President Biden.

How we've been doing that.

I will say.

We've been doing that.

Every president.

Yeah.

Really, every president that I can remember outside of Barack Obama and maybe Bill Clinton.

I mean, Democrats usually have a pass on this.

Maybe the proper wording of this is a Democrat's president's mental abilities doubted.

That's probably.

I mean,

they were worried about Reagan, right?

Reagan,

George W.

Bush.

Oh, the guys.

Every time he flubbed a speech, they would make a story for two weeks.

And people writing entire books about how dumb George Bush was because he'd flub a word.

What happened to that?

Well, usually a Democrat has a complete pass.

They're smart.

They're the intelligent one.

With Biden, they don't even argue that.

Well, I mean, they can't.

We could play an hour off the top of our head clips we'd have to just

ask for of Joe Biden screwing up.

Oh, my God.

You going,

no?

We started a montage during the election of like, let's just get all of his flubs and just keep stringing them together.

And it'll be funny because it'll get longer and longer.

We just gave up.

It got so long we couldn't even play it on the air.

It was like 12 minutes long of just Joe Biden screwing things up.

And eventually you just run out of time on the show.

Next up on this list, 13 happenings in 2021 that I never saw happening five years ago.

Asking athletes for advice.

I like this one a lot.

I don't know that I wouldn't have seen that coming five years ago because it was brewing, but it's much, much worse now.

And the way I would identify this is something like Colin Kaepernick or LeBron James.

And it's one of the reasons why

I know a lot of people in the audience have turned against sports, particularly last year, and boycotted them.

Of course, my team, Philadelphia Eagles, going to the playoffs, I cannot do such a thing.

They could all be members of ISIS and I would still watch them because I love them.

As a matter of fact, I think they are.

They are.

It's very possible.

However, what I will say is this is one of the reasons why I don't boycott sports because I don't go to idiot athletes for their opinions on politics.

I don't care what Colin Kaepernick says because Colin Kaepernick is a buffoon.

He's an idiot.

I've defined athletics and people's day-to-day lives so much, it's agonizing.

Yeah.

I mean, every, no matter who they are, you know,

George,

what's his name on the coach of the Spurs is always coming out.

Oh, yeah.

What's his face?

Yepopovich, Kerr, these coaches, they're buffoons.

I mean, look, they can have all sorts of ridiculous left-wing ideologies.

Coach your team.

Yeah.

But even if you come out every single day and say nonsensical, idiotic political opinions, the bottom line is I don't care about them and I don't have to listen to them.

And, you know, when there's one idiot taking a knee on a field next to 52 other players who aren't,

am I going to

boycott something that I enjoy and punish all those other players that aren't taking a knee?

Maybe they have their hand over their heart looking at the flag.

You got people up in the stands, you know, working the stands.

That's their job.

I'm not going to boycott those people because one moron takes a knee.

It just doesn't have enough influence over me.

So I like that one.

Anyway, that's a partial list, and you can check it out on the Federalist.