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Stu, I think today's podcast was riveting from start to finish.

Not a second was wasted.

Well, the, I would disagree, the 4,218th second I thought was trash.

But other than that, it was great.

It was really good.

Great program today.

Gets a little deep into the COVID philosophy of where we are, what's really coming with Omicron.

Also, we talk about the upcoming year and compare

this to the red wave that we saw with the tea party.

Are they the same, or is this one different?

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Big story of the day to you.

I love the fact that it's finally happening.

There's a law professor at the University of Miami who is proposing proposing some much needed changes to the U.S.

Constitution.

Okay,

which as you know is so outdated, old and outdated

and just irrelevant.

Irrelevant.

Yes.

Rights have changed.

So much.

And so have people.

Right.

And the founders couldn't have foreseen any of that.

No.

So

I think this is great.

You know, it's like.

What's he proposing?

She.

She, she.

She is proposing.

Marianne Franks, Franks, law professor at University of Miami,

proposing a couple of changes to the First Amendment, which should read, every person has the right to freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly, and petition of the government for redress of grievances, consistent with the rights of others to do the same, and

subject to responsibility for abuses.

All conflicts of such rights shall be resolved in accordance with the principle of equality and dignity of all persons.

Amen.

Finally, somebody said.

Finally.

Finally.

Finally.

Under this oppressive Constitution, as currently written, you couldn't say that.

You couldn't.

No, you could not.

Right.

Then in the Second Amendment.

What a surprise.

The Second Amendment.

Yeah.

The Second Amendment,

the

gun

situation has been eliminated.

And instead, we're going to talk about

protecting reproductive health.

Oh.

Yeah.

Wait, well, that's what the founders intended.

Yes.

If they would have seen this society.

Exactly.

So the way it's changed.

Amending the Second Amendment to be not the Second Amendment.

Yes.

It's going to be about abortion now.

Okay.

All people have the right to bodily autonomy consistent with the right of other people to do the same,

including the right to defend themselves against unlawful force and the right of self-determination in reproductive matters.

Okay.

Thank you.

Good.

Good.

So we can kill our babies,

but we can't stop somebody from killing us.

Right.

Okay.

All right.

I got that.

That is really

good.

It's important.

And, you know, it's like Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.

You shouldn't look to the U.S.

Constitution if you're writing a new one.

And that's what kind of this is all about.

She suggested that we go with much more recent documents like Canada's.

Canada's not having a problem at all.

Not a problem.

No, no.

No.

Iceland just redid theirs

on Twitter.

Twitter.

That's why there's all kinds of LOLs in their constitution.

It is an emoji-based constitution.

I like that.

I like that.

I like that.

I like that.

And with the emojis, you kind of understand better what the original intent was.

Because if you see a smiley face, you know they're happy about it.

Correct.

Right.

Or the crying.

Like they're crying, laughing.

That means they don't want that thing in there.

This is a joke clause.

May I change the subject to

Betty White?

Betty White.

That is a change.

That is a change.

That was pretty drastic.

Well, she was old, dusty, and irrelevant.

You know what I mean?

Change was about to come, and it was way overdue.

Way overdue.

Betty White, I don't know about anybody else, but when she died, we started watching the Golden Girls.

And I haven't seen the Golden Girls since they were on originally.

You know what I mean?

Once in a while, I'd catch a rerun, but not really.

Sure.

Just turning it on and hearing this

brought back so many, it was weird.

I said to Tanya,

are you like, does this affect you, this theme?

And she's like, yeah, I can't exactly describe it, but it feels like home.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, it's great.

Oh, it's so amazing.

And I watched it and

that was funny television.

It was, it holds up.

Funny, it does.

It does.

It holds up.

Funny television.

I was never a fan of it

back in the day, but

were you?

Did you?

I was.

Yeah, I was.

I used to like it too.

I watched the reruns, I remember.

I mean,

it was just to scream.

Yeah, she was, her, her role was dumb, right?

She was dumb.

She was the dits, essentially, of the group.

Right.

And then you got to.

Her B.

Arthur and Estelle Getty.

I wasn't a fan of

what's her name, the other one.

Rue McClanahan.

Yeah, Rue McCanah.

I wasn't a fan of that character, but I.

She was the one that was always having sex with everybody?

Everybody.

Yeah, everybody.

Everybody.

I saw a quote from Betty White.

She said, my answer to anything under the sun, like, what would you have not done in the business that you've always wanted to do?

And she said, Robert Redford.

She was really funny.

She was a serious.

She was a delight.

I mean, you can't can't not like Betty White.

Yeah.

That's one of those rare things that I think unites everybody.

And

she was one of those celebrities.

I have no idea what her political background was.

No idea.

I don't care.

No idea.

That went away.

They stopped caring about appealing to all of the country.

There is this thing, too, that happened with her where

you just can't pre-plan a 100th birthday party.

You just shouldn't do it.

It's not a good idea.

Sad.

You certainly shouldn't announce it months months in advance.

And in the article, they said she was in good health.

Yeah.

I mean, you know.

And then like two days later, she's gone.

99 years old.

And I mean, it can go fast.

It can happen.

I went to a movie this weekend.

This is like three or four days, seemingly.

A couple of days, it seemed after she wound up dying.

And they were still running the commercial for her.

Join Betty White for her 100th birthday party.

It's like, I don't know.

Oh, no.

People.

that's not good.

I guess they were doing a fathom event, which is one of these in-theater events.

And, you know, I assume it's all maybe adjusted.

It's got to be kind of sad.

Yeah.

Maybe they'll use it as a memorial or something.

But

I don't think we're going to be joining her, unfortunately, on that one.

No, if you bought tickets for that,

it might turn out to be kind of a different kind of mood.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A little different vibe there.

Maybe.

You know, she said that she said exactly the same thing my father said.

I'm still a teenager in my mind.

That's what I say all the time.

Me too.

Seriously, I'm the teen in my head.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's not until you see yourself in the mirror that you're like, holy crap, I'm not 18 on the outside.

Right.

Right.

It's weird, isn't it?

Yeah.

And you, you,

it's, it plays such a game with you because.

Especially as you start to get to the top of the food chain, you know, as

the people who always were at the big person's table and you were at the little kitty's table and now you find yourself you know closer and closer to the end of the table as the patriarch you're like oh my god i'm next

i mean it's weird it is very weird i mean you notice it from everything from you know the table for sure but also bending down to pick something up

i was on instagram i don't know a while ago and i i was going through and you know they start serving you ads for i guess things that they think you want and they were serving me ads for shoes you don't have to bend down to tie.

And I was like, this is insulting.

Click, click, click.

I bought two pairs.

They're fantastic.

I don't have to bend down ever.

They slip right on and they just hug the back of your ankles.

They're awesome.

What are they?

Are you wearing one now?

Yeah, actually, I don't think I am.

It reminds me of one of the first episodes that we watched of Golden Girls.

She meets a

foot doctor, and

Betty White says, Have you ever met Dr.

Scholz?

Oh, yeah, that's pretty good.

It doesn't look like an old person's shoe.

No, it doesn't look like an old shoe.

But this is an old person telling you that.

That's a good point.

But they're fantastic.

Kizzik, I think they're called.

Yeah.

And I love them.

I am looking for shoes like that.

And they're on it.

You too.

And you put them on and they just slip right on.

They slip right off.

They're perfect for your ports.

Have you tried the new sneakers that have the the little thing on the back, the tab on the back that you just hold on?

The shoestrings don't do anything?

No.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I usually wear them every day, and today I'm not wearing them.

They're fantastic.

They're fantastic.

You just hold on to the back of them.

You put them in, they slip right on.

You don't have to tie your shoes.

We are the lazy people in the history.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, God.

Because those aren't made for old people.

That's a new fashion thing, I think.

Right.

That's how I think of it, too.

That's how I convince myself of getting old as well.

Sure.

Because, you know, like it just comes to a point of what year is this?

Do I really need to bend down to pick things up?

They should rise to me.

Everything should just come up to the level that makes me comfortable.

Right.

This is America.

It's 2022.

We were supposed to have flying cars.

I can remember shoes.

I have that.

I shouldn't be tired of being able to share.

When we hit 2020, or no, sorry, 2020, the year 2000.

I remember thinking, the year 2000 was a joke.

Growing up, it was like, oh, it'll happen in the year 2000.

It was an absolute joke.

Then I remember

2001

and thinking how much change will come by 2020.

And me going, will I still be alive in 2020?

You know what I mean?

Now that

we're on our way to 2030.

Yeah, I mean, I remember all, you have all these like things you've been talking about for as long as I've known you.

By 2030, X, Y, and Z is going going to happen.

It's like right around the corner.

It is.

Like all those changes, and you see a lot of them happening.

I mean, the automatic driving car was a big one, I remember.

And, you know, it's the job losses.

Have you seen the job losses of what's coming?

Now, you know, regular reporters are starting to talk about job losses.

Because of robots?

Yeah, or AI just being so good that it will take, and I want to talk about this later this week, but it's really important that you understand

what is coming and you understand for your children because going to college right now for some of these degrees is ridiculous.

It's ridiculous.

By the time they get out of college, for instance, accounting, by the time they go through college, if they're going for four years,

we're in the last few years of that.

I mean, somebody's going to have to oversee it, but you're not going to have

accountants like we have.

That's a dead-end job an accountant yes why ai will be able to do all of it

ai will be able to to balance all the books make sure everything's ai is going to be taking any of those little menial

you're saying more like on the not an accountant that makes all sorts of important decisions though and that are that have the nuance of human life right right and so there will be somebody so there's still jobs there'll still be jobs but they are different and they and fewer

much much much much less the thing that you have to focus on is your emotional uh quotient the the thing that ai won't be able to reproduce is connecting with the individual for instance doctors Doctors are not going to be the source of information.

They're not going to be the ones that say, you've got cancer.

Actually, they will be the ones saying to you, you've got cancer, but they will not be the ones diagnosing.

They'll just take, you'll go in, they'll take all of it, they'll feed it into the machine.

The AI will diagnose, tell you exactly what to do, give you all the information, but you don't want a machine doing it because it won't have any personal skills.

So the doctor is just a go-between between the AI and the patient saying, listen, I want to break this to you.

Wow.

That's instead of doing that, you need like adorable little children.

Like, they'll be like, you have cancer, daddy.

You know what I mean?

It just sounds better coming from a cute kid.

You don't want some weird doctor telling you something.

It's like a horror movie, really?

Yeah, yeah, no, girl,

cancer, daddy.

That's not creepy.

It's crazy.

Well, when you do it, you're not a kid.

Wow, that sounds like something from a horror film.

This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

All right, we have Bethany Mandel on,

and I want her to tell the story.

Hi, Bethany.

How are you?

I'm good.

I'm good, Glenn.

How are you?

I'm great.

It's good to have you on.

I saw your text or your Facebook post last night.

I don't remember what it was, about nine o'clock at night.

And you have done the Heroes of Liberty.

It's a book series.

And you've published them.

You're an independent publisher.

And apparently you were labeled disruptive content by Facebook and you were permanently suspended as of yesterday by Facebook

yeah so leading up to the to the sort of mad dash of Christmas shopping we had we had received a message from Facebook saying

you have to clean up your app you have to post better ads or we're going to suspend your account And we replied and said,

What exactly are we in violation of?

We don't understand.

And then they replied and said,

this is your final notice.

You're in violation and your account has been permanently suspended.

And so that meant a few things.

We couldn't post ads anymore, which was a massive source of revenue.

And we put a lot of our marketing budget, I would say the vast majority of our budget, into those ads.

But also, we had spent a lot of money and time cultivating a community on Facebook and Instagram so that we could tell people about our books and they wouldn't let us access to those accounts and so they appeared like they were still active but we weren't able to access them.

So there was just no there was no recourse.

There was no human being that we could talk to.

We know that a human actually shut us down but there was no there's no way for us to talk to them to sort of appeal in any way.

And like it felt like we were hostages.

You know, we're paying them thousands of dollars and there's nothing you can do.

And so so we made us think about it, and it became a story on Fox News, on Fox Business.

And then at that point, was when they contacted not us, but several members of Congress and told them that we were reinstated.

They've never actually contacted us or told us.

And I mean, it really does feel like we're hostages because we got a call from, you know, government representatives saying we can go free and the jail cell is open.

That's crazy.

We were never told that.

So the disruptive content.

Tell me about your content.

So it's super wholesome and really like, we're not even political.

We're very patriotic and packed with American values.

The pictures in our books are stunning, and we have a lot of those pictures in our ads.

And, you know, all we're doing is trying to sort of teach children about

heroes that we consider heroes.

Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, and Amy Coney Barrett are the three first books.

And we had a lot of comments on those on those ads saying heroes of fascism and I want to burn these books, especially Amy Barrett and Ronald Reagan was a war criminal.

And we think that those people reported our content.

And that report got to a woke Facebook employee who agreed with them.

They agreed that Ronald Reagan is a war criminal.

And so they shut us down.

You know, this is what I told Mark Zuckerberg.

He said, maybe,

well, others said, maybe we should have

quotas where you hire a certain number of conservatives.

I don't think that's a good idea.

I hate quotas.

However, the solution has been you just have to get out of a bubble.

You do have to hire people that don't all think in lockstep because that would never happen in a company where you had that debate, a healthy debate, going on inside, where people would say,

Ronald Reagan was a fascist, and we're going to listen to the person who just said we should burn these books.

Come on.

It's extremely authoritarian.

And

this is the left now.

It's authoritarian, and they're book burners.

They're against the First Amendment.

It's everything against what we built our country on.

And this is so much of why we wanted to do these books for kids because we don't want our kids to turn out like these people.

And, you know, it's happening in our schools, and this is sort of our way of changing the narrative that kids are hearing about our country and about morals and values at home, you know, this 15 minutes before bedtime.

So these books are aimed at what age?

It's around 6 to 12.

I have five children who span those ages, and my four-year-old definitely gets something out of it.

My eight-year-old loves them.

And I've heard from folks that their young teenagers like them too.

But I think the sweet spot is between ages six to twelve.

Okay.

And how do you get them?

Heroesofliberty.com.

And if people want to use a promo code, we activated Blaze for your listeners.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Heroesofliberty.com.

Use the promo code Blaze.

Well,

I can't wish you enough luck.

What are your next titles that are coming out?

Yeah, so we're doing John Wayne coming out in February, and we're going to have a subscription sort of service so that

people can use that.

And also Alexander Hamilton and

Margaret Thatcher.

And we're sort of trying to do the subscription so that we're not indebted to big tech and sort of on the hook to

be at their mercy so we can just send books directly to people without having to market every single month and pray that

they don't cut us off again because we don't know.

They've never told us if we are on thin ice or not.

I have to just tell you from experience,

you really cannot build your business around Facebook.

You cannot do it.

I mean, they built an app for people like

me.

And I think I was one of the first people to have it, the creator app.

Do you remember this, Stu?

And

the algorithm would change so my content would be pushed out faster.

And we built a large audience on Facebook.

And I really have very little connection to my Facebook audience now.

People that signed up and want to follow me,

they're not getting

my posts.

So you cannot build your business on Facebook because they will come and shut you down.

And they don't really mind.

If this wouldn't have gotten to Congress, they wouldn't have cared.

Yep.

That's exactly right.

And, you know, we know that because when we were told, well first of all we were never told but when it became known that we were released from facebook jail they didn't tell us they told several members of congress and they told britt hume at fox news and mary catherine hamm at cnn they replied to their tweets and then they contacted members of congress and they they have our contact information we've paid them tens of thousands of dollars they could reach out to us but they didn't and it's because they cared more about the the narrative and about the optics than they cared about actually doing right by their customers Yeah, they didn't change their belief that you were,

what do they call you, a disruptor?

Disruptive content, but I like disruptor better.

Yeah, you are a disruptor and a disruptor of

the left and what they're doing.

And

more power to you.

Bethany, thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

Thank you so much, Ben.

I really appreciate it.

You bet.

This

is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

All right, we have Jason Whitlock on with us.

Hi, Jason.

How are you?

Glenn, how are you?

Happy Tuesday.

Hey, thank you very much.

I don't remember what episode it was that I watched, but I was on vacation and I was staying away from the news, but I thought I'll watch Jason Whitlock because it's kind of news, but, you know, it's more spiritual and everything else.

You've got a great show, Jason.

Really great show.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

I enjoyed the opportunity to fill in for you a couple weeks ago.

Wait a minute.

They let you fill in for me?

Yeah, they did.

Holy cow.

We'll just let anybody off the street now.

Jason, I wanted to talk to you about Aaron Rodgers.

There's a couple of things.

He was, if I'm not mistaken, a hero of the left for a while because didn't he leave Christianity?

I think so.

And, you know, I think he went to school at Cal Berkeley, you know, and so they loved him on the left.

He was, you know,

he fit part of the left narrative, but now I think he's starting to go the other way.

I don't know if you saw this last night, Glenn, but he was on the ESPN Monday Night Football broadcast, and the book Atlas Shrugged was behind him.

I think he pointed to it and made reference to it.

Oh, my gosh, not Atlas Shrugged.

Oh, my gosh, that's such a controversial book.

I mean, hasn't everyone read Atlas Shrugged?

Well, Aaron Rodgers has, and I think think it may explain what's going on with him.

So what is going on with him?

Oh, I think the same thing that's going on with everybody, you know, the great reset is actually a great awakening and for smart people.

And people are just starting to wake up, and the vaccine mandates and just all the other lies that are being forced down our throat are making people start to question themselves and question the beliefs they had just adopted because that's what everybody thought.

But the vaccine deal, and I didn't understand this initially a year ago, but it's so personal and it affects everybody.

And so it's similar to the military draft

because anybody, any man could be drafted at some point.

And if you remember Muhammad Ali, because he got drafted, and it affected him personally, he then was forced to take a bold stand and people that agreed with Ali jumped behind him and blah, blah, blah.

That's what I think is happening with Aaron Rodgers.

He's been forced, because of these vaccine mandates, he's been forced to take a bold stand, and people who have had nobody speak for them with a large platform in the mainstream popular culture.

He's kind of been forced to be that guy, and he's starting to, I think, enjoy being in that position and embrace that position.

And

he's turned into my favorite NFL player because of it.

I will tell you that I think we're seeing

heroes, and I want to be careful on this.

We're seeing people of real courage stand up.

You know, Colin Kaepernick acts, you know, and the press makes it seem like he's so courageous.

It's not courageous to stand up and say the things that everybody in power believes.

You know, and you're questioning the little guy, not the big guys, that's not courage.

It might be what you believe, but it's not courageous.

Courage comes from saying the things that could very possibly destroy you or your career.

And

that's the position some of these guys are taking.

And we're seeing more and more of them, which is, and they're not necessarily the people I would agree with.

I don't have to agree with you to say that's a courageous move.

Well, Colin Kaepernick really didn't risk any wealth or real scorn because just like you said, he's taking on the police.

The police are actually working class people doing what they're told by politicians, lawmakers, the government.

And so he's not taking a stand against the real power, lawmakers, and the government.

He's taking on the middleman who's just doing what they're told to do and and there's just no real risk all what because the thing that athletes and popular figures are most concerned about how are they perceived in social media and this Cowan Kaepernick stance has enhanced his brand in social media which seems to be the most important currency public figures have whereas Aaron Rodgers is receiving a lot of scorn over social media.

He's certainly defined what the globalist and what the government and everybody else wants.

Everybody else wants you to take the jab, but don't question it.

Everybody else did it, so you need to do it.

There's real risk in what Aaron Rodgers is doing.

And

even though he was forced, and there have been other athletes, the NBA player Kyrie Irving, who wasn't forced.

I mean, he just took the stance, I'm not taking a vaccine.

They basically have booted him out of the NBA.

He's now coming back in because of this Omicron thing.

And then there was Cole Beasley, a wide receiver for the Bills, who's been kind of outspoken.

But to see someone of Aaron Rodgers' success level, importance to the NFL, he's basically defying his league and popular groupthink opinion by taking a stance that he did.

And I think it is pretty courageous.

When he says, if science can't be questioned, it's not science.

I think we are finally getting to a point to where the principles are so clear.

We're not arguing about policies, really.

We're arguing about principles.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

You make, as a government, you make us run ads, pharmaceutical companies, run ads, where at least 20% of the 60 seconds is disclaimers on all of the things that are not going to happen to you, but could.

And on this, we can't even talk about the things that might happen to you?

That doesn't make sense.

It's illogical, and that's where I think this journey that Aaron Rodgers is on is going to return him to his faith.

Because anytime you start seeking truth,

what you're really seeking is God.

And he may not know that.

right now, but he's going to get there.

And so I am proud and just want to be supportive of him.

And,

you know, look, he won't be perfect.

None of us are.

He may, you know, say some things I disagree with.

But as long as he keeps seeking truth and then responds to that truth by stating truth, I'm going to support the guy.

Yeah.

How is your attitude?

I know right before we spoke,

I think on your show, before the holidays, and you were a little depressed.

My attitude is better because I'm starting to think the great reset is actually causing a great awakening.

And I do think it's because of this vaccine and just how illogical our approach has been, how

it's just shaking and waking people up.

And it has me a tiny bit optimistic that the actual right side is going to win.

And I don't even mean that in a political sense.

No, I know.

I'm just saying people that love freedom

are actually going to win.

Yeah.

I agree with you.

Jason, thank you so much.

God bless.

Thank you.

God bless.

Go ahead.

You bet.

Bye-bye.

No, no, no, no.