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Stu, you're a food scientist.
I am.
Always been a food scientist.
You love snacks as much as I do.
Correct.
You are the one, actually, your wife is the one that turned me on to Built Bar, turned you on to Built Bar.
Then my wife turned me on to Built Bar.
And my job is to turn everybody else on to Built Bar.
It is delicious.
My wife, Stu's wife, does she eat as healthy and everything else?
Oh, yeah,
she's healthy, which, you know, her endorsement of Built Bar is not necessarily important.
And it led, well, it's important.
So it starts out with her saying it's good.
And that is, you know, she eats healthy.
So what does that mean to us?
Exactly.
Thank you for that.
Nothing.
Nothing.
She recommends it to your wife, who eats healthy.
What does that mean?
What does it mean?
Nothing.
Nothing.
It's not until your endorsement.
Thank you.
That's the important one.
You are a food scientist and you are not even as important.
No, you're the important one here.
You're the important one here.
Look, I know snacks, okay?
I know candy.
I know candy bars and built is a candy bar i want you to go to built.com built.com it's healthy it's low in calorie blah blah blah it's a candy bar built.com use the promo code beck15 15 off beck15 15 off now built.com
oh where do we start you know what i
I'm going on vacation next week.
Christmas is right around the corner.
I mean, can we start?
Do we have
a new holiday song, don't we?
Yeah.
All right, go ahead.
Let's just start with some holiday cheer here.
Everywhere you go.
From the door and Chavez to Ocasio Cortez,
Pelosi, come along, senile Joe.
What is beginning to look alike?
Like Venezuela.
Soon
we'll all be flogged.
At dinner you'll need to bring your favorite seasoning for the roasted
dog.
Well, there's a mountain of debt and a criminal threat.
It is such a socialist treat.
A band of marauders have captured our daughters and amputated my feet.
The reindeer have been murdered and the elves have all been beat.
It's beginning to look aloud like Rena's well.
Oh,
the kids have frowns.
The tree is red and green.
It is splattered with blood and spleen.
And Santa Claus is not coming to town.
It's beginning to look a lot like Renell's well.
Soon we'll lose our soul.
But the thing that will make us cry is the painful way we die,
as our heads all
roll.
Oh well, the temperature's higher from all of the fires, and rampant is the disease.
There's some execution and much destitution, and I am covered by pleas.
And have you ever noticed that the water smells like cheese?
It's beginning to look a lot like Venezuela.
Breaking
for some food.
But the thing that won't make us flee is the worthless currency,
holy crap, worse
food.
It's beginning to look a lot like Venezuela.
We're Venezuela,
caused by
Feldya.
It's beginning to look a lot like Venezuela.
If you'd like a copy of that song, you can find it right now online.
Yeah, go to the Studios America podcast page.
You can click subscribe and share it with whoever you want for free.
You know, it's that kind of year.
It's kind of funny,
but not
because it's completely true.
It is completely true.
You know, I, you know, I said, what was it?
10 years ago.
You're not going to, you're going to come to a time when you won't recognize your country.
I want to play a song we did maybe
four or five years ago for Christmas.
It was a PC Christmas album we did.
Here is one cut from it.
I want you to listen to this.
Oh, come
all you people,
joyful, and chumphant.
Oh, come
you,
oh, come
you
to Los
Angeles.
Come
and behold
this young person,
born a kid
of parents.
Oh, come,
let us look at him or her.
Oh, come, let us look at him or her.
Oh, come, let us look at him or her,
Christ,
the average kid of earthly parents.
Okay,
we did that
when we thought we were at the maximum craziness of political correctness.
Right.
That song is now, as written there, politically incorrect.
Yeah.
Come see him or her.
Right.
Where are the other 92 genders?
The other genders.
Yeah.
And born of earthly parents.
I don't know if you can say parents.
That's right.
They've eliminated.
Yeah, that's
birthing people.
Right.
Right.
Birthing people.
Birthing people.
So we can't even recognize our country from where it was absurd just a few years ago.
But now let me play something real.
This is,
I like this.
This is the NIH director.
Dr.
Francis Collins.
Now, if you don't, if you're not watching the Blaze, you're missing out because this is a guy who looks to be about 60 years old
with a guitar like a hippie.
Here he is singing his super, super classic, Somewhere Past the Pandemic.
This is serious and real.
Somewhere past the pandemic.
When we're free,
there's a
life I remember
full of activity.
Somewhere past the pandemic,
masks will come off.
No
more
need for a nose swab
every
time
we cough
as we are gathered here today,
COVID's toll has hit and sent us realing.
But partners like the ones right here will help to make the pathway clear to find it true healing
somewhere
past the pandemic,
life
will
resume.
We'll all complain about the traffic, forgetting how we hated
Zoom.
Oh,
this is in a government-sponsored town hall.
So, HHS employees, we're all forced to watch this.
If you ever think your meetings at work are worthless wastes of time, just play that.
This is on your tax dollar dime.
And
they all took some time to watch that.
And I love the lyrics, somewhere past the pandemic where we all will be free.
Really?
Because...
All the things you're doing now make sure that we won't be free after the pandemic.
And by the way, speaking of that, here is Joe Biden
yesterday talking about freedom, cut eight.
And so everybody talks about freedom and not to
have a shot or have a test.
Well, guess what?
So how about patriotism?
How about making sure that you're vaccinated so you do not spread the disease to anybody else?
Yes.
What about that?
What about that?
What's the big deal?
What's the big deal, Stu?
What is the big deal?
What about patriotism?
Hmm.
Doesn't seem like you should care about your personal individual freedoms.
You should only care about what Joe Biden wants you to do, apparently.
Thank you.
Which is amazing.
This demeaning, and we heard Arnold Schwarzenegger do it earlier, and this demeaning of the idea of personal freedom is an interesting path to take here in this moment.
I don't know what you, what do you mean?
I think you could appeal to someone and say, look,
hey, you know, if this was your opinion, you're coming from the government, you want to encourage people to get vaccinated, you could say, hey, look, you know,
you know, please consider this because it's not only about you being sick, but you might affect someone else who is much more vulnerable than you.
And we appreciate your consideration, right?
Like there's a, there's a way to appeal that way.
This idea that they're going down the road of, look, what are you, oh, stop with your freedom.
Come on, really,
individual rights.
Come on.
That seems to be their pitch.
Now, no one who wanted to actually get someone to take the vaccine would come up with that pitch.
It's the worst possible idea to go down that road, but that's the road they keep going down as if that's going to succeed.
It might succeed.
with their friends on Twitter and with their friends in the
parties that they have without masks behind closed doors.
Maybe that sort of thing gets a great reaction in those rooms.
But obviously it doesn't in real life with the people you supposedly want to attract.
You know,
let me ask you a question.
When you have the non-vaccined now barred from movie theaters, concerts, exhibitions,
anything in the public, you have vaccine cards issued.
You have students that are not vaccined, not allowed to go to college.
You have the non-vaccined not allowed to travel abroad.
You have people banned from restaurants, swimming pools, parks.
When you,
you know, when you have the basic human rights
violated,
does that bother you at all?
Or is this part of the vaccine?
No, it definitely bothers me.
It does bothers you?
It does.
Yeah, why is that, Stuart?
Why is that?
Well, I mean, as you know, you can look over my, you're looking at, you know exactly where I'm going.
I know where you're going with this, and that's why.
But I do think it's a very bad idea, yes.
As I, you know, oppose the mandates, as I know you have, the entire time.
Right, yeah.
1935, the Nuremberg laws deny Jews basic civil rights.
How did we know that?
1935 to 36, you're no longer to vote.
You lose benefit payments.
to Jewish families.
If you were a Jew, you were banned from parks, restaurants, and swimming pools.
You were no longer to use optical equipment, bicycles, typewriters, or records.
You were restricted from travel abroad.
Jewish students were removed from German schools.
Identity cards were issued to Jews.
You were excluded from cinema, theater, concerts, exhibition, beaches, holiday resorts.
I mean, I guess I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
You probably don't want to go down this.
Ah, freedom.
What's the big deal?
How about patriotism?
You know, that's weird because that's exactly what
whatever his name was that was in charge of Germany said too.
This is for the good of all Germany.
Where's your patriotism?
And look,
it's interesting that the left will say, of course, obviously this is a terrible thing you should bring up and you should be banned from all social media for bringing it up.
What's interesting about it is why they say that, right?
There are two reasons.
One, obviously, this does not need to be said to this audience because they're smart, but obviously, we are not at Nazi Germany levels of oppression.
We just don't like the road that this sends us down.
We're not saying we're at the end of the road, which equals Nazi Germany.
I will, you know, whether, you know, you are not vaccinated, you can, you will have flown all over the country, you have visited all sorts of events.
What you're saying here is
an end of a road that we do not want to take one step down.
What I'm saying is
there's two roads.
One is brightly lit.
One is really nice and clean and leads to a very nice, clean city that we've all been to before and we like.
Then there's another one that's very, very dark.
It's not well lit.
We've not traveled down this road for a very, very long time.
And once you start walking down that road, it is harder and harder to get back to the brightly lit road.
And at the end of that road, there's something really spooky.
What do you say?
We get off of the dark, spooky, broken down road that we know lead.
This is the same thing they said in Venezuela.
This is going to lead, we said it, this is going to lead to starvation.
This is going to lead to executions of people who don't agree.
This is going to lead to Cuba.
That's ridiculous.
This is going to be the greatest utopia of all time.
Well, they were on the dark road.
You wouldn't get off the dark road.
Now, Venezuela is not Nazi Germany.
That's kind of in a special class all by itself.
Well, no, sorry.
Nazi Germany, Russia, and China.
Wait a minute.
What do all three of those things have in common?
That's right.
Socialism.
Oh, I completely forgot.
They all have in common socialism.
Get off the road.
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Stu, can I ask you a question?
Our inflation is at 6.9% now, right?
It's not 69%.
It's not 69%.
You're right.
These are the things that are in
the basket of goods.
Yes.
Fruits and vegetables are up 4%.
Milk 4.6.
Clothing up 5%.
Food 6.1.
Electricity 6.5.
Jewelry 6.7%.
Domestic services.
I don't even know what those are.
10.2.
New cars, 11.1%.
Furniture and bedding, 11.8.
Meat, poultry, poultry and fish 13 hotels 25.5 percent that's and that one's remarkable considering the last couple of years right used vehicles 31.4 percent and gas 58.1
how are we only at 6.9
I mean is that all everything that's in the basket of goods I don't know I don't know the largest consumer price jumps between uh November 2020 and 21st.
This is
the.
Is that all of them, essentially?
Or is that just a sampling, essentially?
The only thing I would think of, because I think your point here is that you look at all those, most of them are well over 6%.
Why?
Is it only 6%?
Is that kind of what you're asking?
Yeah.
I mean, the only thing, you know, just looking at that
off the top of my head, a lot of the ones at the bottom are
real.
you know, major portions of a family's budget.
Right.
Right.
Where like a new car you might not even buy, right?
Correct.
So,
but still, it's it's but camera should overrun all of that.
I mean, gas is everybody, and that's 58% increase.
Incredible.
60% increase since this clown got into office.
60%.
I think I've heard you make the point that they don't factor in fuel in an appropriate way.
Yes.
In some of these calculations.
Yes.
So
I don't know.
I mean, wherever it is, it's still high.
Even if it's not 6.9%
and it is even lower, it's still way above what we're used to.
And it looks to be, for many people, a lot higher than that.
And I love meat, poultry, and fish.
I eat meat.
I hate chicken and I hate fish.
13.1 when meat is up 25%.
You're going to be surprised to hear that chicken is meat.
No, it's not.
It's really not.
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This is the Glenn Beck program.
We welcome Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed to our broadcast.
Hello, Pat.
Hello, Glenn.
How are you?
I got a little song for you.
How do you do?
All right.
So
we're past the pandemic.
No.
We're ever free.
Was that awful?
That was the worst.
That was awful.
The worst.
From a government agency.
I'm tired of the dancing, you know, the little dancing
syringes.
Yeah.
The awful Jimmy Fallon.
The Fallon thing, yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
Stop with the propaganda.
It's embarrassing.
It is.
It is embarrassing.
It's embarrassing.
Propaganda.
And I mean, you're the U.S.
government.
Can you not do better than this?
Really?
No, they can't.
I mean, every day we come in and do better than that.
You can't do better than this.
No, they cannot.
With a government budget.
No.
You can spend a trillion dollars on this entertainment.
No, they're not going to do it.
They're not.
It's interesting, too, that that attitude is there.
There's a story in the Atlantic yesterday.
They're getting all sorts of cancellations over it, where the guy basically makes the the argument, where I live, no one cares about COVID.
Yep.
And he goes through the whole argument, and it's very similar to the life that we live here in Texas, which is, yes, people.
I mean, that was in the Atlantic.
In the Atlantic, which is why they're getting all the cancellations.
Oh, good.
Oh, my God.
Good.
They shouldn't worry about it.
They should do what they do.
Yes, they should.
Now, they have shown a very long record of not just doing what they do.
I mean,
they've folded multiple times.
Anytime someone breaks it.
And they will again, I'm sure.
Probably.
Well, the only ones that are going to survive are the ones that just don't fold.
Yeah.
You know, the ones that just don't care.
They'll say, somebody didn't vet this article and it came from a conservative journalist.
Ask Kevin Williamson how this works.
That's what they did to him.
They hired him and then fired him for nothing.
A tweet he had made multiple years earlier.
But this is typical of
these places.
They do this all the time.
But the article, which basically, if you haven't read it, it was a column saying, you know, like, we just, I've flown a bunch of times.
I've gone to parties.
I went to weddings weddings in the summer of 2020.
You know, we don't, we don't connect with this world portrayed in the media where everyone's terrified of COVID all the time.
You know, look, there are concerns, of course, that people have, particularly if you're vulnerable, but most people are just moving past it in a lot of these areas.
You look...
Texas is one of them.
Texas is certainly one of them.
Florida is another of many.
I mean, almost every red state at this point is pretty similar.
And you saw even the governor of Colorado, who is a Democrat yesterday.
Declared it over.
Yeah, he's like, this is over.
If you want to get a vaccine, go get it.
If you don't want it, don't get it.
Well, I think that's happening, though.
I mean,
did you see what was happening in San Francisco with the mayor of San Francisco?
Yeah, this is incredible.
She said the reign of criminals ends now.
Wait, in San Francisco, you're not enjoying this?
I thought you loved that.
I thought it was great.
We want to open up the gates and let all the prisoners come out.
And it hasn't worked out well for San Francisco.
I don't know if you've noticed that.
I planted that tree, but the fruit is not tasty.
It seems to be.
Certainly, attitude here.
Yeah.
She said it's time, the reign of criminals who are destroying our city.
It is time for it to come to an end.
And it comes to an end when we take the steps to more aggressive, to be more aggressive with the law enforcement.
You think?
More aggressive with the changes in our policies and less tolerant of all the BS, she actually says the word that has destroyed our city.
It's interesting that she's
actually
admitting it.
Because it's clear to everybody else, especially in the red states, that San Francisco has gone to hell.
But now she's basically admitting it and saying, yeah, we let it go to hell.
Well, yeah, that's your Democrat policies.
Those are the policies that you've been proclaiming
that were great up until now.
What do you think the cause of this is?
Is it political pressure?
Is it she's really recognized this and is horrified?
Is she just trying to scam more, you know, more years
out of of
her job as mayor?
What's she doing?
I don't know.
I mean,
if she
I mean, if she is doing this because
she's taking a stand against wokeness,
then that screams
volumes of information to the rest of America.
Same thing in New York with Eric Adams coming in and doing the same type of thing.
Right.
If wokeness is that dead that you can have this mayor say these things and
actually go up in approval rating,
wokeness is dead.
It is dead.
Because it is kind of a woke thing to say the robberies, the smash and grab stuff isn't so bad.
I mean, it is.
It's really not that bad.
That's coming from woke.
Yes.
It's just property.
And now she is.
Not accepting of that.
And she's not accepting of the going to the bathroom in the streets or any of it.
All of a sudden she doesn't want the poopies all over.
It's a totally natural occurrence.
I don't know what her problem is.
We all have to poop.
Everybody poops.
Everybody.
There's a book about that.
It's interesting.
We had Michael Schellenberger on about his book, San Francisco, a few months ago when it came out.
And it's about San Francisco, obviously.
And he basically...
makes this case that they need to be more aggressive with law enforcement and stop letting drug dealers and drug addicts do drugs in the street and go to the bathroom in the street and camp out in the street and all those things that are completely obvious, you'd think, to most people.
And he said yesterday, look, look, there's a lot to wait for here to see if she actually does these things, but this is a real step in the right direction.
Because a lot of it was what he mentioned in his book, right?
A lot of what she's saying now.
Seems like they basically read the book and are taking some of the
which would be great if that actually happened.
And she didn't tiptoe around it, as Pat said.
She used the language.
I mean, she was.
She did.
She's pissed.
Yeah, she's pissed.
It sounds sounded.
Yeah.
By the way, we have Rick DeSantis on tonight.
Is he Ron's brother is coming on?
That's incredible.
What an honor that this family member of the governor of Florida is coming on your show.
And a lot of people would think you'd go for Ron.
Right.
Yeah, but I know.
No, he doesn't go for the obvious guy.
You go to the bottom.
Everybody has brothers.
I have Ron on.
I have Rick.
It's unbelievable.
Why do I, because I always think it's Rick DeSantis, and I know it's not.
But who is it that that sounds like?
Or who do we know?
My thought is you might be conflating Rick Scott, who is the senator from Florida and former governor, with Ron DeSantis who is the equal to the family.
Which is not, and they are very different
from each other.
Yeah, no, Rick Scott, you know, has done a lot of good things as well.
Right.
Ron DeSantis is kind of the guy who.
Rick's not the one saying, let's take all the illegal immigrants that Biden sent in
and send them up to Martha's Vineyard.
I will help pay for that.
Me too.
I'll help pay for that.
I will absolutely contribute to that.
If he can't get the budget through with that, we're raising that money.
Yeah.
Because I just, oh, I'd love to be, I'd love to see that.
Love to see that.
What are they going to say?
It is so easy for them to dismiss the border as if it's nothing until they have the border problem in their own state.
And when that happens in Delaware and Martha's Vineyard, he's like he said, the border will be secure the next day.
That's absolutely right.
Once they understand what it's all about and what it feels like, love it.
They would be for shutting down the border.
Absolutely love it.
And how would they say they don't want these people living there?
Like, how do they're the ones saying they're hateful for not welcoming them?
It's Ron DeSantis.
It's hateful for moving them.
Why?
You are saying that Ron DeSantis treats these people poorly.
So why wouldn't it be better if you bring him to your area where you're not going to be able to do that?
You treat him really well.
Yeah, I mean, this is a bar.
Where they can live at Joe Biden's house.
Yeah, he's got room.
It's great.
It's great.
Let me play that.
Let me play this scene.
This is from, I don't think there's really a spoiler here,
but this is from
Yellowstone.
It's the last piece of a speech given by the Kevin Costner character.
I want you to listen to this and tell me you wouldn't love to hear this from a politician.
Listen.
You don't see it on your way to work in the fields or on the mountain, but there's a war being waged against our way of life.
They'll tell you all the reasons why our way of life is bad for this country,
bad for our future,
how it's immoral that you live here,
work here, grow their food here.
They will tell it so much you might even start to believe it yourself.
Question what you do and who you are.
They'll tell you that the land's only hope is for them to be its steward.
The ugly truth is they want the land.
And if they get it, it will never look like our land again.
That is progress in today's terms.
So if it's progress you seek,
do not vote for me.
I am the opposite of progress.
I'm the wall that it bashes against, and I will not be the one who breaks.
I love that.
that's awesome i love that i'm the opposite of progress and i guarantee you montanans would respond respond well to that oh yeah
i think a lot of americans would if this is if if if any politician if rick or ron decided to give a speech and he said if your idea of progress is open borders if your idea of progress is people crapping in the streets if your idea of progress is separating white children and black children so they no longer can play together and you want separate playgrounds well then i'm the opposite of progress i'm the i'm the wall that progress comes up against i i would vote for that guy in a heartbeat you could tell why people like that show too oh yeah i mean that is that that's how that show i have not watched it but that makes it watch it it's fantastic it's really it's rough i don't know what what network i know it's on paramount but it's on some it's on peacock isn't it well it's on it's on a little bit of everything it's on a little bit of everything now you can find it uh i thought it was paramount but is it paramount it is a paramount plus but it is also i think older episodes are on peacock it's okay it's pretty much everywhere now
um but it it originates you know usa or one of these uh networks i think was the one that originally put it on but it is huge you have the stats of of premier uh premiere week right this is interesting
because they had i think the initial uh airing of season three is it yeah their premiere was 15 million people now that's a huge number for today 15 million 15 million today gigantic yeah yeah and that was i think without streaming which i don't that's why i was football gets those kinds of numbers now yeah yeah i don't know where i i don't i don't watch it so i don't know where it airs but um everyone i know where watches it on a streaming network i watch it streaming anyway uh but the the show succession which is very highly talked about in the media and media circles, which is a show that I do watch.
And it is,
I watch that because I lived it.
Yeah.
I mean, it's thinly disguised Murdoch
and Fox News.
Yeah, and it's very
over the top.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's way over the top.
It's very well done, but it's also
family.
It's very harsh.
Very harsh.
Yeah.
However, that one had 3 million people watch it.
I think that includes streaming.
Wow.
So that's a show that gets a lot of talk in the media.
And it shows how out of step the media is.
The show they all flock to is
about them.
The show that everybody is flocking to in the in the real America is really about them.
It's about the people who are struggling every day just trying to make it and this battle that's going on between an old way of life and a new way of life and by the way
i may be alone but i was if somebody had to die last season why could it not have been casey's wife i
hate her
i assume it's a character on the show i hope me okay it's a character on the show and is it always me she's a whiny
university professor
Somebody should have gone.
It's not right that they didn't kill somebody off in that family, and she should have been the one.
By the way, I don't know why I didn't understand this.
It's so easy to understand.
The current season of Yellowstone airs on the Paramount Network app and website and is not on Paramount Plus.
Seasons one through three, obviously, are on Peacock.
You can watch Yellowstone on Fubo TV, Philo, or Sling.
What?
So obviously, I know where I'm going to be able to do it.
Can I tell you something very clearly through 15 million people.
I sat down on the premiere night to watch it, and Tanya and I didn't, we couldn't find it.
We subscribed to Paramount, and then it wasn't on Paramount because we did Paramount Plus.
We couldn't find the damn thing.
Wow.
Bizarre.
Yes.
Bizarre.
It's really weird.
And it is worth finding.
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We're just talking about the spin-offs of Yellowstone that are coming.
1886 is being filmed right here in Fort Worth.
You know, they dug up the streets and they made Fort Worth look like it did in 1886.
Did they film it?
Oh, yeah.
It's amazing.
It's amazing what's going on.
Yeah.
That's incredible.
What they do with these movies to some of these areas
is really insane.
So when does the show, I know everyone out there is like, I watch the show, shut up, and I stop asking these dumb questions.
But like, is it an
old time machine?
Is it current times?
It's current.
Current times.
It's current times, and it is the most politically incorrect family you will ever see.
They're not always good guys.
You know, they take care of business.
And when that means taking care of business,
if that means, you know, shoot the guy in the head and go over state lines and dump his body off a cliff, that's what it means.
Right.
That is politically incorrect.
Yeah, that's politically.
That's one way to do it.
But it is just this family that will not give up their way of life.
They've owned this ranch through generations, 1886.
That's why the spin-off is coming, 1886.
And it takes place in 1886.
And it's about his great-great-grandfather that started the ranch.
Okay.
But the Costner character is in real time today.
And
it is, you know, the people in New York and the
press should watch Yellowstone.
You want to understand America?
Watch Yellowstone.
It's a lot closer than most of the crap coming out of television from the big cities.
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Is anyone else really falling deeply in love with Elon Musk?
I mean, I know, I know that we don't agree on an awful lot, but this guy is just non-stop afraid, which I love.
Yesterday, Elon Musk, no, non-stop, no, no, no, non-stop unafraid.
Thank you.
I was going to say that's not something I usually would see you praising.
Right, non-stop unafraid when it comes to really
any subject.
Yesterday, he got into a Twitter war with Elizabeth Warren, and to say there were no survivors on Elizabeth Warren's side, I think is safe.
I think that's that's safe to say.
We'll tell you about that.
And more importantly,
does that indicate that the conservative point of view is winning?
I want to explain a thought on that.
It's the answer is yes and no.
And both of them, I think, are good.
But we'll share that in 60 seconds.
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So Elon Musk, yesterday, he was named Times,
Time magazine's 21
person of the year.
So Elizabeth Warren tweets, let's change the rig tax code so the person of the year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.
Musk followed up saying, stop projecting.
You remind me of when I was a kid and my friend's angry mom would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason.
In another.
That is her profile.
It is.
It is.
She's angry.
She's always angry in that voice.
Yeah, I know.
I mean, this is why, of course, she didn't even come close to winning the primary.
I think she did better than Kamalo.
Oh, well,
that's not a standard, though, is it?
Is that really the standard you're shooting for?
In another tweet, he said, oh, please don't call the manager on me, Senator Karen.
I love this.
And I love this guy because he just
says out loud what a lot of people think.
And he is a guy who I have real problems with at times because now he's saying, you know, no subsidies should be available.
Well, after he got his subsidy.
So is he kicking the door behind him to stop everybody else?
Or has he really had a change of heart?
Hopefully he's really had a change of heart.
But I don't know.
But
here's what I want to talk to you about.
I'm not sure
if the people that we have
quote unquote coming over to our side
have actually really changed
other than
They realize their side is really dangerous now.
So in other words, are they like Republicans that joined the Tea Party that realized, I got to be out of this Republican Party because
they don't stand for anything.
And we realized that.
And while we torch the Republican Party, many of us will still vote for the Republican Party.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
So I'm not sure if these guys
have had a real awakening to our argument, or they're now seeing the people they've been standing in the room with, and they're like, I don't want to be with these people.
This is crazy.
And so they've revealed themselves as the true, more libertarian liberal that they always have been.
Yeah, I see what you're saying.
You see what I mean?
Yeah, I think that's, I mean, the Overton window is
back
in effect here.
We talked about this with Bob Costas the other day, who
he had this call with Jim Garrity,
who had criticized him for some of his monologues about guns and the Washington Redskins team name and said he was, you know, as we did as well, that he was, Bob Costas seems like a crazy liberal.
And Costas called up and said, hey, I'm not that guy.
I'm not far left.
And just the fact that he would want to disagree.
with being outed as someone who is far left indicates he probably isn't far left.
Because the AOC never comes up and says, no, I'm really not socialist.
That's not what these people do anymore.
That's an old era of
liberal.
And what's weird is they are now separating themselves.
They were the ones who would have said, Glenn Beck's crazy, saying that everybody's a Marxist.
You know, we're not Marxist when, you know, Newsweek magazine ran the headline,
we're all Marx socialist now.
And they were the ones that would jump on the bandwagon defending the people who were on the Democratic side that were truly Marxist.
Now,
did they just not believe that?
Or have they had
an awakening to Marxism?
Were they always part of this kind of Marxist soup and they've just backed up and said, okay, this is not going to work here?
Or were they just truly a blind liberal that just thought the party is the party and we're not Marxists.
Yeah, maybe they thought it was just overblown.
Republicans were saying these things and they're not true.
And to be fair, there were a lot more on the left side that weren't Marxist.
I mean, Joe Biden used to very much sound like a normal Democrat.
If you go back to the 90s, you can go back to the 90s.
We were talking about this with San Francisco a little earlier when it comes to crime.
There's a version of Joe Biden that could do very well.
in this country today.
The 1990s.
That's the version that people voted, thought they were voting for.
They thought they were voting for.
And that's why he got elected.
And you go back to 1994, he's got the crime bill.
He's trying to hold people accountable for criminal actions.
Now he's saying that was racist, and I apologize for it when that sort of action is needed most, as we're seeing in San Francisco now.
So I think it's come a long way.
You know, Elon Musk, I don't know exactly where he comes from on the subsidies sort of thing.
He's now saying he doesn't want them for
anybody, which I love.
I mean, that's what I believe as well.
However, obviously his company was built on them.
I mean, Tesla was built on this company.
That's why I wonder, is he kicking the door closed for everybody else?
I don't think so.
I don't think that's him.
You know, maybe he just
didn't emphasize it a lot back then, or maybe he just liked the idea that he could get his company started.
I don't know.
But you left out, I think, the most important part of this exchange with Elizabeth Warren when he points out he will pay more taxes than any American in U.S.
history this year.
Now, this is Elizabeth Elizabeth Warren is so dumb that she's actually criticizing a person for not paying taxes who's paying the most taxes of anyone in history.
Has there ever been a bigger miss of a tweet than Elizabeth Warren's?
Think about it.
Seriously, Elizabeth.
I'm saying that he's paying more taxes
than anyone in history.
He's paying more than anyone in history, and she said he paid nothing.
There's literally no way to miss more than she missed.
George Washington never died because he is Satan.
I died.
I guess.
That's questionable.
You know, you could still question, maybe.
We can't quantify that.
We can quantify the Elon Musk situation.
And he, of course, followed it up with, don't spend it all at once.
Oh, wait, you did already.
That's so great.
That is true.
So great.
Now, so the question is.
People are waking up, but what are they waking up to?
Are they waking up and saying, conservatives are right?
Or are they just waking up to the things things that we've always had in common?
Where conservatives, the people like us, have said, guys, we didn't change.
You changed.
You changed.
The Democratic Party is no longer fighting for what you say you believe in.
They're not fighting for the Bill of Rights.
They are fighting for socialism and communism and a fundamental transformation of America.
Well,
I hope that they are waking up, up especially to the Democratic Party thing.
Because do you remember it was racist to say anyone was a Marxist.
It was crazy to say somebody in the Democratic Party is a communist.
Well, tell me what you think of this story.
Senator Richard Blumenthal from Connecticut, one of the worst people in the world, spoke at an awards ceremony over the weekend hosted by a Communist Party affiliate whose leaders use the event to recruit potential members into the Communist Party.
Now, he's one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, which let's put that aside because actually it's his wife.
I just love a man who never really even created wealth but is living off of his wife.
It's so beautiful.
Blumenthal appeared, even as Democratic leaders have downplayed allegations that many in the party support socialist or communist policies.
So they are still saying, no, we don't support that.
But then how do you explain Blumenthal
going and speaking at the Communist Party event?
Blumenthal was introduced at the event by Lisa Bergman, a Communist Party member who blamed corporations for the imperialism that exists in our world that is undermining the labor and environment movement.
She also had, there was another communist MC, Ben McManus, issued invitations at the ceremony to join the Communist Party.
And I quote: If you're not already part of the Communist Party, we invite you to participate and contribute and join.
There's more and more people talking about socialism in this country as it becomes more and more clear that capitalism is not going to work for our future.
So tell me what's happening there.
Democrats, explain this.
Can you imagine if somebody said, I am definitely not part of the Klan,
but then you're invited to speak at a Klan
awards ceremony and you speak.
And when you're speaking, everybody's like, and by the way, make sure you join the Klan on the way out.
How would you explain that?
Because I think that would be unexplainable.
I think anybody who did that, it would be pretty hard to say, oh yeah, he's not Klan-friendly.
No way.
No way.
How is it that the Democrats don't care that they are now having Dick Blumenthal,
a guy who's not known
in the media circles as the radical?
He's kind of the law enforcement kind of guy.
I just want to make sure that everything is running and really buttoned up.
I'm certainly not a communist.
Really?
Then why are you speaking at the Communist Party awards ceremony?
We have to wake our friends and family up.
And this is why I've been saying for a while, our unum has always been the Bill of Rights.
When Biden says freedom, and we're just talking about you having to get a vaccine, what's the big deal?
The big deal is the government doesn't have the right to tell me what to put into my body.
That's the big deal.
You don't have a right, so stop trying to do it.
You don't have a right to force companies to make me do it.
You don't have the right to do it.
Today is the day that
the founders enshrined the Bill of Rights.
They were very important.
They still are.
And those were the things that brought us together.
Not our policies, not who we voted for, not things that we have to tax or not tax.
It was the Bill of Rights.
And when you have leaders of the Democratic Party speaking at the Communist Party annual awards,
you don't have people who believe in the Bill of of rights
you have people who are working with or standing with people who are undermining the bill of rights
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So,
Stu, help me out on this.
You remember the most admired man thing.
It comes out every year, right?
Yes.
Okay.
The most admired men for 2021.
Number one, Barack Obama.
Thank God.
Number two, Bill Gates.
Okay.
Number three, Zi Zingping.
Number four, Cristiano Ronaldo.
The soccer player.
Number five, Jackie Chan.
Number six,
Jackie Chan.
Number six,
Jackie Chan.
The actor?
The actor.
Jackie Chan.
I mean, he seems like a nice guy.
I'll stop dwelling on Jackie Chan.
Number six, Elon Musk.
Number seven,
Prime Minister Modi from
India, right?
Number nine, Vladimir Putin.
We skip number eight.
What was eight?
Was it eight Modi?
Modi.
Yeah.
Number ten, Jack Ma.
Jack Putin.
Okay.
Jack Ma.
Okay.
Now, what do you notice about that list?
There's an international flavor to it, I would say.
There is an international flavor to it.
It seems like a lot of leaders of the largest countries are on the list.
And do you want to be on a list that features Bill Gates, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin?
Because I really.
I mean, unless it's a wealth list.
Yeah.
I don't think all three of those I'd like to be on a list.
So now who's not on this list?
You.
Yes.
You are not on this list.
Now you've been on this list in the past.
Okay, hang on just a second.
Who's not on this list?
Well, I don't know, the president of the United States.
Yeah, usually you'd think.
He's usually number one, usually always the top three.
Now, a former president of the United States is number one.
Yes, Barack Obama.
At number 13 is Donald Trump.
So
where is
our dear beloved leader?
He's at number 20.
Wow.
Joe Biden.
That's really low.
I've never seen that before.
He's number 20.
Now, I would say, I mean, this is a weird list because, you know, I had to look up some of these people.
I'm like, the soccer players, I'm like, who the hell is that?
Okay.
And it's hard to believe.
This is the list from 2009.
Number one, Barack Obama.
Number two, George W.
Bush.
Number three, Nelson Mandela.
Number four, Glenn Beck.
Number five, Pope Benedict.
Six, Billy Graham.
Seven, Bill Gates.
Eight, John McCain, George H.W.
Bush.
10, Tyde, Bill Clinton, and Tiger Woods.
Now,
that's insane.
But what do you notice about
all of those names?
With an exception of Nelson Mandela and Pope Benedict, they're all American-centric.
There is not an international flavor to that.
Correct.
Correct.
Isn't that interesting how now,
suddenly,
we are also international.
Now, is that changing the methodology in any way?
Is there.
This one is being put out by yougov.co.uk.
So this is being labeled as the
man of the year, the men of the year.
And they're giving us these top 10, which Vladimir Putin and Zi Jingping at number three should set you off, should say, you know, I don't really trust this list.
And I think this list is being pushed out because you just don't want Donald Trump in the top 10, especially if you just take the American-centric people in, the people that Americans would know, including Jackie Chan, that would put Donald Trump at number seven.
And I believe Biden either at 10 or 11.
So Biden wouldn't make it.
It's incredible.
It's crazy.
It shows a massive problem Biden has going forward, too, which is not only does you have the right, you have the right that's just obviously does not agree with him, you have the middle who is noticing how terrible he is, and you have the left who has no passion for him.
So there's just nothing there.
He's a giant zilch of a president, and he continues to make things much, much worse.
So I don't know.
I don't know.
It's going to be difficult for him if he does decide to run again.
By the way, Kamala Harris is number 11 on the most admired women.
Nine points ahead of her boss.
That's how bad things are.
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Yesterday, I told you a little bit about Facebook, something that people are not paying attention to.
They should.
Facebook is in a court battle with John Stossel.
I have his attorney on with us at the top of next hour, so just about 25 minutes away.
But
they have, John Stossel has sued because of a fact-check from Facebook that he says defamed him
because they said that his facts were false.
And John says,
No, I've been in the fact-checking business, you know, most of my life, and I know the difference between fact and false, and this isn't false.
Well, he fought this, and in court now, Facebook has issued something
in their defense.
They say opinions are not subject to defamation claims, while false assertions of fact can be subject to defamation.
So they're saying fact-check articles, this is a quote, fact-check articles are not the labels affixed through Facebook platform.
The labels themselves are
neither false nor defamatory.
To the contrary, they constitute protected opinion.
Now, the way I read that is
fact-check
doesn't have to be based in facts.
They can, if they have an opinion that says, no, that's not right, then
they can claim that our facts are wrong, trumped by their opinion, which is the case we have been making the whole time.
Where is the line for your opinion and facts?
Because we know what the facts are.
You can then go in and say, we disagree, but who are you to say we disagree on our opinion?
We're arguing facts.
As John points out,
they can pretty much do what they want on their website.
However, it's a terrible way of doing business, especially for somebody who claims they want to be the source of the public square conversation.
They don't seem to act that way.
And
Twitter is doing something today where they are penalizing users who claim vaccinated people can spread COVID-19.
Now,
every study, every study from the literal beginning has said that
if you are vaccinated, you have a chance, a lower chance, but a chance of spreading COVID-19.
There's never been a study that has said it's going to prevent every single case of spread.
It's never occurred.
So how are they...
And they're saying that if you say, hey, you know what?
I think
you can spread it if you are vaccinated, which is true by literally every scientific report, including the scientists who work at Pfizer.
Okay?
That doesn't mean that they're terrible and and they're the worst thing in the world.
It doesn't mean anything like that, but it does mean that, of course, some facts
are the facts.
You know, this is from the CDC website.
If you are fully vaccinated and become infected with a Delta variant, you can spread the virus to others.
Infections happen only in a small proportion of people who are fully vaccinated, even with a delta variant, as compared to people who are not vaccinated.
But that does say, both of those things say you can get it and you can spread it.
It can happen.
So, and it seems to be even worse when it comes to Omicron.
If that thing catches on here, which it looks like it may.
So,
to punish the, like, you are punishing people for saying things that are on the CDC website.
Hurry while they last on the website.
Pointer.org has just fact-checked my recent COVID special.
More specifically, the question, does the government co-own the vaccine, the COVID-19 vaccine?
They also questioned my question on whether the government may have ulterior motives in mandating the vaccine.
And here's their fact check.
Is it true the government, and it should be, co-owns the vaccine, but is it true the government owns the vaccine, as Beck said?
In short, no.
Okay, in short, no.
How about we look at the long form then?
I mean, why add in short?
It's a yes or no question.
Well, this is a topic that requires a short explanation.
I guess I would personally say no, as the COVID origin story and the vaccine origin story are the biggest topics in the world right now.
It's not even close, but it kind of seems like this fact check agrees because they follow up in their little in-short no remark with this little tidbit.
And I quote, but...
As the New York Times reported November 9th, there is a long-brewing disagreement between Moderna and the National Institute of Health over who developed a crucial part of the COVID-19 vaccine known as the mRNA sequence.
And that could have implications for ownership of important patents related to the vaccine.
So in other words, no,
no, they don't co-own it.
No.
In fact, to prove it, there's a court battle right now going on between the government and Moderna, and they're battling out in court to see who owns it or not.
Well, wait a minute.
I showed you the document with the signature and said, what's this all about?
Did you know?
Did you know that they co-owned?
Did you know this was happening?
Don't you think?
Because if they're getting money or anyone in the NIH is getting money, we should know about it because that might, you know, be an ulterior motive.
And by the way, we had conversations before this special even aired off the air.
Yes.
Talking about all of the points they bring up here and making sure that we included the nuance that existed.
And then they, instead of fact-checking the special, they didn't fact-check the special.
They fact-checked TikTok.
They fact-checked what part of the special went viral on TikTok, which is pretty frustrating.
I don't know how we're supposed to control that.
Yeah.
Pointer also points this out: quote: A lot of money is at stake, as well as a big say in the distribution of vaccines worldwide.
If the NIH scientists were named as inventors on the sequence patent, that would enable the government to collect royalties on the patent and to license it as it sees fit, including, some have noted, to other vaccine manufacturers besides Moderna.
The result could have long-term consequences for global vaccine access.
Well, now maybe it's just me, but but a lot of money is
at stake.
Kind of sounds like maybe we should look for arterior motives.
It's interesting how they point out royalties to be paid to the government because if you go down to page 125 on the agreement that we showed you between Moderna and the government, you'll find an interesting appendix called Royalties Appendix.
Now, if there's no co-ownership, why is there a royalties appendix?
It says, if any vaccine is produced based off their collaborative research, then Moderna would owe the government an initial sum 60 days after the signing of this agreement, October 2019, and then every year annually.
If you scroll down to page 127, the government instructs how those royalties would be paid.
Now, why would Moderna be paying the federal government?
In fact, there's even an account number on page 127 that shows that the money should be directed to the Federal Reserve Bank.
I don't know.
That kind of sounds like money is changing hands or could change hands if they co-owned this, if they developed it and they said, no, we developed this all by ourselves, then no money changes hands.
No, we have a co-ownership and we gave you the mRNA
mechanics, and you added this, so we're partners on it.
That's what it says.
How is Pointer doing this?
They found also no suspicion at all that Dr.
Barrick was included in the collaboration between Moderna and the NIH.
Not even a little suspect that the government and Moderna were working on a coronavirus mRNA vaccine and that they were sending research back and forth with the man Barrick who was working with Dr.
Xi and Wuhan on coronavirus.
There's no interest in that.
This is the same Wuhan where the pandemic began.
It's not worthy of a question, I guess.
And by the way, I have questions.
We all should have questions.
The facts are this.
The government and Moderna have been collaborating on a coronavirus vaccine since 2015.
The contract specifically states co-ownership of vaccine candidates and on page 24, all data and material produced along the way.
Royalties have been negotiated.
Royalties are in the contract.
Dr.
Barrick, the man who had been working on coronavirus research with Dr.
Xi, was included.
And now there's a dispute between the government and Moderna on who owns what.
That's the fact, Pointer.
But don't worry, nothing to see here.
Pointer's got it.
They're smarter than you.
You know,
it's just the government trying to mandate a vaccine that they're currently fighting on how much of it they were involved with inventing.
And then the contract that states in black and white the royalties that should be paid to the federal bank.
If anything is produced, based off of their collaboration.
Nothing to see here.
There's no ulterior motive.
There's no co-ownership at all.
So what the hell does this even mean?
That's why I'm asking.
There is no precedent for this.
And if the government or government employees are going to benefit even a little off of a federal policy that contributes to that benefit, we should be asking these questions.
That's what the media used to do.
That's what Pointer
says their whole mission is.
I fact check Pointer.
They're liars.
They are liars specifically here.
They're liars.
Fact check that opinion, Pointer.
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I have Ron DeSantis on tonight.
He is probably the second most hated leader in America, according to the left.
And why do people
hate him?
Because the media told you to,
I think.
I think, yeah.
Very few politicians receive constant scrutiny that the Florida government, Ron DeSantis, has endured over the last couple of years.
Elected governor in 2018, relative unknown, and three years later, thanks to the way he handled the pandemic in Florida, he's now a household name, who is mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2024.
It's meteoric.
A rise for a politician doesn't happen like this.
For a Republican, it can mean really only one thing, and that is he drives the left out of his mind.
So we're going to talk to him tonight.
The Fulawa, Ron DeSantis, live one-on-one tonight on my Wednesday night special.
You don't want to miss it.
I don't think I've ever done...
Have we done?
We had a bond before.
I think it was a very short interview as well.
Yeah, I can't remember, honestly.
You know, it's interesting because you look at the, you mentioned the meteoric rise.
If you go back, 2018, he's running for governor.
He's a congressman, but like, you know, and we knew that may have been when we talked to him.
We knew when he was a congressman.
But he, um, he is running for governor of Florida.
He's the underdog in the race going in.
He wins by 0.4%.
People think that
he barely squeaked that out against a guy who then got caught with all sorts of weird drug and sex things going on, Andrew Gillum, who was the rising star at the time,
whose entire career blew up.
So the day before that election, Ron DeSantis looks like he's going to lose and not even be governor of Florida.
Here we are, three years years later, and outside of Donald Trump, if he chooses to run again, is the most mentioned favorite for the Republican nomination.
Yeah, if Donald Trump were, I mean, and I'm not saying that he is going to run, but I think he's going to run.
Yeah.
If Trump is not in it, I think DeSantis will be the guy.
I mean, as long as he just keeps doing what he's doing, he's just so strong on every issue, one after another, after another.
He's done a good job.
He's done a great job.
And he got a lot of criticism when he was running
for reasons that I don't think connected with who he actually is.
He doesn't seem to be, they tried to paint him as this like crazy, like, I don't know, Steve Bannon running for governor.
You know what I mean?
Like, you know, and again, like a lot of people, you know, Steve Bannon is who he is, but like he's not a guy who you necessarily nominate to run for governor.
He's Trump without Twitter.
Yeah,
in some ways, I think he is.
You know, some people, you know, he doesn't have a lot of those moments where he doesn't, you know, he's not, he's not bashing Mika Brzezinski for her face surgery.
Correct.
Like he doesn't have those moments.
Correct.
But he likes fighting with the media.
A lot of the things that people like about Trump, he does pretty well.
And also, he's done a good job running the state.
I think, you know, of course, anyone looks good to what we have in the White House at those moments.
I mean, he does like to troll.
I mean, he did do a vaccine press conference in Brandon.
In Brandon.
In front of Brandon Motors.
So, you know, he does have that side to him.
Yeah, he does.
He's probably the only one that I've seen that can get away with it besides Donald Trump.
It's going to be a fascinating interview.
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It is fascinating to me how
facts, as Ben Shapiro says, facts don't care about your opinions or your feelings.
Well, now
we are taking feelings and opinions and elevating them over facts.
This is exactly what fact check organizations do according to Facebook in a court of law.
John Stossel is suing Facebook.
Facebook just responded and said, you can't sue us for this because these are protected opinions.
Wait a minute, I thought we were talking about facts.
We have one of his attorneys on to explain this and explore this in 60 seconds.
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Nationally recognized civil rights lawyer
named as one of the best lawyers under 40 in 2007.
She is the founder and chief executive officer for the Center for American Liberty.
We welcome Harmeet Dillon to the program.
Hi, Harmeet.
Yes.
Hi.
Thanks for having me.
So
I can't wrap my arms around this crazy Facebook defense
that their fact checks are protected opinions.
And so we can't push back on them
while they say we're liars.
How's that work?
Well, I don't think it works.
You know, we've seen this phenomenon now for several years.
I've seen it with various clients of my firm where they're respected journalists or writers, and they put up material on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on other platforms.
YouTube is another.
And, you know, these companies have been sued many times.
I've sued various of these companies many times on different theories.
And because of a law called Communications and Decency Act, Section 230, these companies have basically been allowed a government protection from the type of defamation that you or I would be liable for if we said false things about people in other forums.
And so in this case, as many of your viewers may know, when you're reading an article and maybe an article you like and you go to share it, or even without going to share it,
a label pops up that warns you that
this article that you're reading and you're about to share is false, partly false,
fake news basically, and then sometimes even getting into some details as to what's false about it.
And that's what happened here with John Stossel, who's a respected journalist with decades of experience.
And he's creating independent content now.
And on his Facebook page, he posted a couple of videos about two different climate change topics.
And one was about the forest fires that have consumed California over recent years and in 2020 and what caused them.
And he was interviewing experts on forest fires.
And then in the other one, he's talking about a variety of claims by
climate activists about
everything being caused by climate change, you know, hurricanes, fires, you name it.
And so how these companies try to get around them being called to famers, Facebook and these other big companies, is they hire, and I imagine my air quotes here, they hire independent fact checkers who are really activists themselves, of course.
They let loose the hounds of independent fact checkers on helpless users of these platforms who are not allowed to fight back, and they rip them to shreds as if it's some kind of a blood sport.
And there's no appeal process.
And so, you know, this climate change group that was tasked with reviewing this one is some French outfit, very biased.
A review of their reviews of people's posts shows that in the case of authors who are perceived as conservative, they routinely rate them as false or mostly false.
Lacking context is another nice one that they like to to use.
But in this case, you know, they really got it wrong here.
Factually wrong.
You know, they attributed to John a statement that he didn't make, namely that he said that climate played no role in forest fires.
And in fact, he actually said that climate very well may play a role in fires, but it certainly doesn't explain California's fires.
And there are other explanations that have to do with
government behavior and choices.
And then in the other one, similarly,
they basically smear him with
misleading, lacking context, partially false, contains factual inaccuracies.
So that's the label on the more general video.
Now, if you're a journalist who's devoted his whole career to getting it right and elucidating the truth to the public, labeling somebody's post as partly false, contains factual inaccuracies, is is devastating.
It would be like telling the world, affixing a label to lawsuits that I filed, that they're, you know, that they're sanctioned, that they've been sanctioned when they haven't.
Well,
honestly, it is like instead of taking the all the news fit to print and changing the subtitle of the New York Times to contains factual inaccuracies.
Right.
Or lacking context.
Lacking context.
Yeah, you would, the New York Times would never become the New York Times if that had to be printed on the front page of every newspaper.
And it's true about the New York Times.
It's true about the New York Times.
And, you know, so
now these guys are playing a shell game.
So we sued them.
But we didn't just sue them.
We wrote them letters first, the French, you know,
climate change outfits.
And we, and Facebook now meta,
and they changed their name in the middle of this case.
And
they wrote back saying, oh, no, no, this is infotainment, basically.
This is our opinion.
It isn't fact-checking at all.
Although it says fact-checkers and fact-checking on it.
And we didn't buy it.
I mean, this was devastating to John.
It drove his viewership down hugely.
And for social media writers,
that's revenue.
That's credibility.
That's your professional reputation.
That's
what you're labeled maliciously with in Wikipedia when you die.
Purveyor of false video
climate.
So it that's a stench that doesn't wash off and there's no place to wash it off.
So he sued as a last resort over this issue and Facebook responded,
you know, this is just this is this isn't this is just our opinion.
This isn't this isn't meant to be fact.
You aren't meant to take it literally when we say fact checkers.
So it's it's kind of an Orwellian, almost ridiculous situation but so where does this go from black and white where does this go from here
well there'll be an argument in front of the judge um interestingly our case has bounced around so far amongst two judges uh the second judge just got appointed to the just got you know nominated and confirmed to the ninth circuit last week so we're probably going to be awaiting hearing in front of a third judge uh to see you know what happens with this case and and look
Facebook has, oh sorry, Meta has overwhelming resources and they just brush these claims aside.
And I've dealt with their quote-unquote fact checkers before.
And Glenn,
your listeners may not know what this industry of fact checkers is.
They're, again, air quotes, nonprofits.
They usually employ washed up or, you know, sort of journalists who don't want to work that hard anymore or activists or both.
Some from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, I've dealt with some very esteemed former journalists who now work for these outfits.
And all day long, their job is, you know, slap false labels on as many of your enemies and opponents at people who disagree with you as possible, laugh quietly, and go out for a cocktail.
That's the deal.
And it's not right.
And if you or I did this and called a journalist's work false, partly false,
you know, lacking context, that would be harmful and you or I could get sued.
So the same should be true of Facebook.
And Communications Decency Act, Section 230, is not, as these big tech companies repeatedly claim, a license to lie, smear, defame, and devastate users.
But that's exactly what
it does over and over and over again.
We have had fact checks from these same people.
We've had fact checks where they claimed that something we said was false because it comes from
a study that on page 435
made another claim that we weren't making that was proven false.
Right.
But because
the part that wasn't false was also in that same study with something that was,
we were fact checked as wrong.
And it's like, wait, right.
And when you look at the label, I'm just reading from it, from our complaint,
the label, big, big box, missing context.
And then it says, from independent fact checkers, and then there's another little label, fact check,
science, climate change, et cetera.
And then it says about this notice.
Independent fact checkers say this information is missing context and could mislead people.
And then it says, learn more about how Facebook works with independent fact checkers to stop the spread of false information.
So it goes on to say this is false.
So I mean I don't know how much more clear you can be.
So claiming it's now,
it's news to me.
And by the way, they're asking every user of Facebook to somehow guess that their fact check is simply
their opinion commentary.
Right.
And on top of it, they not only label you with that, but they also then, the algorithm shoves you down.
And on top of that, now I've noticed some of them are not even letting you share the story.
It won't, it, you can't, you, you, it's there.
It'll say it's false.
But if you try to share the story because you disagree with their opinion, you can't even share the story.
I mean,
it's a gulag system
at Facebook.
What can the average person do?
Well,
you know, the average person can
follow this lawsuit, talk about it, mock Facebook.
I don't know.
And, you know, we have to eventually, hopefully, find some platforms that don't lie, defame, steal our information, and play games.
But ultimately, Glenn, the only remedy for this,
for the citizens, for the users of social media around the world, is
our members of Congress and our President, when they are right-thinking people, need to change Communications Decency Act, Section 230, to make it clear that it is no longer appropriate for these companies to use its protections as a complete carte blanche for doing whatever they want.
There have to be some norms and some rules.
There should be a user's bill of rights.
There needs to be an appeals process for this.
And these companies have to face some form of liability because so far, court after court after court has let them out scot-free.
And frankly, even conservative think tanks, and I'm using those air quotes again, and conservative nonprofits and conservative lawmakers have all bought the big tech lobbyist propaganda that these types of quote-unquote protections for these trillion-dollar corporations are necessary to ensure free speech.
No, they aren't.
They're no more necessary to ensure free speech than a taking away defamation liability is necessary for you or I or the New York Times to stop defaming people.
It is, in fact, that liability that reins people in from going too far.
So we all know the difference between a fact check and an opinion, and nobody's suing over an opinion here.
They're suing over a false accusation of lying in an article.
Exactly right.
Thank you so much, Harmee Dillon.
We'll be watching this and our best to John Stossel and everybody on your team.
Thank you.
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That's the thing.
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You know, Stu, we were talking earlier today on the podcast about how
San Francisco, the mayor of San Francisco, is coming out and saying, this is going to end.
We have got to have more financing for the police.
We're going in the other direction because this is the wrong direction.
And it was pretty amazing.
She was angry about it.
And
whether that's real or just posturing, I don't know, but time will tell.
But more and more people are starting to get a little angry at things.
I want to play a cut,
cut 11.
This is a guy going off on Make-A-Wish.
Listen to this.
I can't believe you f ⁇ ing people.
I can't believe that these things are actually happening to our f ⁇ ing country I got a text a message from a friend of mine here on Staten Island his four-year-old kid his ill four-year-old kid
was refused by the make-a-wish foundation for his wish because he's not vaccinated at four years old
you
people succumb to this bull
with this 99.7%
survival rate
bull
virus.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
The make-a-wish.
Let me tell you something, Make-A-Wish Foundation.
You're going to wish that you never made this decision.
Come this week, after this weekend, I got to do.
Next week, we're going to do something for this kid, okay?
And we're going to let the Make-A-Wish Foundation wish that they never made this decision.
I want this guy on the air.
I want to find out how we can help.
Not live.
He sounds like Andrew Dice Clay, doesn't he?
Yeah, when he said, I'm from Staten Island, I'm like, oh, really?
Really?
That's a stunner.
Oh, I want to see if we can help.
But this, I'm playing this because I don't know if you saw Salvation Army is really hurting.
They are really, really hurting on their toy drives and everything else this year.
Is that a true story, though?
I mean, you're not hurting.
You're not eligible to be vaccinated at four years old.
You can't get it if you want it.
Yeah, I don't know.
I've moved on to Salvation Army.
Salvation Army, they're having a hard time because they were becoming politically correct and woke.
And they said that all of their donors
need to be reminded to be woke and all of this crap.
And people are turning their backs on Salvation Army.
I'm telling you, this is going to start killing these companies.
Just start killing them.
And some of them have started to turn around.
The ones who were for the vaccine are now starting to go, well, maybe we won't vaccinate all our employees.
Maybe.
Well, they're seeing, you know, they're going to lose people and make it difficult for their companies to operate, including their healthcare facilities, Job Brief.
So I don't know how that helps the COVID situation if we have hospitals without employees.
Yeah, if you're one of these woke companies, I think the tide is turning.
And
especially if you're Make-A-Wish.
Holy cow.
Holy cow.
Next week.
He's got stuff to do this week.
Yeah, this week.
Next week.
Next week.
Yes.
I got some things I got to take care of this week.
You know what I mean?
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All right.
You know, this program has won so many awards for its art and architectural discussions.
Very true.
And many of our papers that we have had published in some of the most important artistic and architectural digests.
And journals.
You were named the 100th most important person in the world of art.
And that's true.
True dat.
That is.
True dat.
That is actually a fact.
You should look that one up.
Anyway, so I just wanted to remind those who might be straggling in here and you missed
our latest eight-part series on the architecture
and some of the greatest homes ever built.
But we wanted to continue now our conversation about Notre Dame.
Now, Stu,
as a complete and total snob,
don't you think that Notre Dame,
it was a little old and dusty?
You're right.
Yes.
This old timey thing.
I mean, how do we remix it to make it better?
Well, how about taking it and building it into something else entirely?
I mean, it doesn't seem like that would be the way I would go.
Well, let me ask you this again, as an art lover, art historian, architectural design maven, really, that you are.
Thank you very much.
Yes.
If, let's say, there was an earthquake in Egypt and the pyramids went away,
I would say, let's rebuild them, but this time as a square.
Yeah, that would be a strange choice.
Wait, wait, I'm not done.
And then inside, we put stores.
So you're building a mall?
You can call it that.
I like to call it a square
with stores inside.
And we reimagine the pyramids.
I don't think Notre Dame needs to be reimagined.
You don't think so?
No.
Yeah.
I'm going to go with a full-fledged no.
They are adding mood lighting in contemporary artworks.
There are going to be 2,000 movable objects that will be rearranged so that visitors, you know, will
have more space because the redesign wants to foster a dialogue between the old and the new.
What's that sound like to you, Stu?
Bullcrap?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
I hate to be
too artsy.
Yeah.
You know, I get sometimes we jump a little too far ahead of the audience down these deep architectural roads.
But I think bullcrap.
I think this is something that everybody can go bullcrap on.
Yeah.
So
they've got 100 public figures now, including art historians, heritage and architectural experts, intellectuals, artists, and writers.
And these people, because they are not progressive thinkers,
they're all saying, don't do this.
Why don't you just rebuild it?
Because it was one of the most important buildings,
you know, of all time.
And it was pretty spectacular the way it was.
But those people don't know what they're talking about.
Yeah, it doesn't
seem, it doesn't seem like
a sensible view, a sensible view.
Have you followed, this is a little bit off topic, but it is tied to our deep architectural understanding
of the world.
Yes.
Have you followed the Hudson Yards situation in New York City?
Oh, you mean the vase?
The what?
The vase.
The vase?
Oh, that's what it's called, the vase.
I thought it was the vessel.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
You're right.
The vessel.
So, Hudson Yards is a new development.
By the way, the cost of Hudson Yards, $25 billion.
$25 billion.
Just the $25 billion, though.
That's not just the vessel.
No, that's the entire
complex.
So the vessel.
The vessel is
a
bizarre art sort of display, I guess you could call it.
It is a
160-some-odd, 154, it is 154 interconnecting flights of stairs.
Now, you might think, I don't like one flight of stairs.
I don't like stairs at all.
And if this is to get me to look at art, I guess I'll never see art.
Right.
How do you take art and say, you know what could make this better?
Making it into a whole bunch of staircases.
I mean,
that is like, no one should go see that.
That's just, we don't want anyone here.
We don't want anyone here.
This land used to be occupied by humans.
We put the vessel there.
No humans are around anymore.
Yeah, that's kind of what, well, it's kind of one of the things that's going on right now.
So they built this thing.
By the way, Vessel, the bunch of stairs that we're talking about, cost $200 million.
$200 million for a bunch of stairs.
And by the way, we should point out don't lead to anything.
That's the thing about Vessel, is that it doesn't, it's not like you're taking stairs to get to a store.
Does it?
You're just walking on stairs.
And there's no real art to see.
The stairs are the art.
The stairs are the art.
The stairs are the art.
That's the way I think of stairs often.
Art.
That's art.
I'm not going to use it.
I'm not going to walk on that.
That's a beautiful piece of art right there.
Now,
they do say they're pretty great views when you get to the top, which is 16 stories of stairs.
16 stories in New York.
That's crazy because you can see over
the buildings.
Not even the one you're seeing.
You're looking right into an office.
Right.
It's beautiful.
So they built this thing, and actually it's been really tragic because people, and I don't know if this has to do with walking up lots of stairs, but people get to the top and then jump off.
And so they had three suicides.
The thing opened in 2019 and they had three suicides.
So eventually they closed
the display and refurbished it so they people couldn't jump off
and reopened it.
And then someone else jumped off off somehow.
And it was like a kid.
It was a really tragic, terrible freaking story.
So this is becoming like a suicide spot.
Yes.
And it is suicide.
It's not people falling off.
No, it's not people falling off.
It's people jumping off.
And it's not just for humor's sake.
It's not people getting up and going, there is nothing to this.
And now I've got to walk all the way down.
Right.
It's not that easy.
It's not an aversion to stairs that we know of.
Although, how do we know?
I'd get halfway up and go, you know,
it's faster.
It's faster.
Right.
I wouldn't be stunned if it was someone in our type of.
Have you been to the Guggenheim?
No.
You have to walk up.
Now it's ramps, so that makes it a little better.
But you have to walk up.
And by the time you get up to the top, you're like, this is all crap.
This is just all crap.
Why am I doing this?
Why am I doing it?
That's why they put it at the top because you don't know it's crap till you get there.
Yes, but then you have to go down.
Right.
So they've now closed this thing.
And they don't think,
they think they may never open it again.
It's a $200 million
staircase.
Vessel, yes.
Vessel.
That goes nowhere.
That goes nowhere except apparently giving people options to kill themselves.
So now they're going to have to close it completely.
So may I say, and this is not for humor, this is more philosophical.
If we could switch gears from our deep, our deep, deep discussion of art and architecture right to philosophy, That is a monument
to
America today.
Stairs that go nowhere
except to suicide.
That is pretty much what we're dealing with in our society.
Things that don't make any sense at all, and our kids are killing themselves.
Congratulations.
It seems like the path we are on.
That is a vessel of wokeness.
That's what that should be called.
Vessel of wokeness.
When do they decide if they're going to open it up again?
They don't know yet.
It closed in July, so it's been closed for a while.
But this thing's just sitting there
costing money in the middle of a $25 billion complex.
And it's now just known as a suicide hub.
And suicide researchers say that that's a real thing.
You know, like the Golden Gate Bridge isn't necessarily the greatest place in the world to commit suicide if if that's what you're going to do.
It's just that once people start doing it, it becomes a thing among people who might commit suicide.
Would you want to
landmarks to do these things?
Would you want any, would you want your
business or your house or whatever it is surrounding this thing that they've built?
Would you want anything to do?
It's like having a, have you ever heard a murder house, you know, where somebody was violently murdered?
I don't want to buy that house.
This one had several people and it's sitting right there by your front door or your window.
Oh,
no thanks.
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Stu, do you remember the woman that we had on, I think it was two weeks ago, the Interchain Wine and Coffee Bistro, and she opened it up during the pandemic, and they fined her all kinds of things.
She face up to two years in jail.
Yeah, yeah.
Her court appearance happened, and she was sentenced to jail
90 days in jail.
90 days.
Incredible.
And the judge.
lectured her.
You've got to understand this law applies to you.
You were a public risk because you kept kept your business open.
No, no, she wasn't.
This was the second closing.
She closed it the first time, the second closing.
And I think this is going to happen more and more.
There's got to be more and more pushback because they're starting to come back with these closings and the mask mandates and everything else.
And I think America's done with it.
They're at that.
We're at that point, too, where it's true.
You know, if we all march together, they can't stop all of us.
You're seeing this all over the country.
A lot of these.
A lot of these states are just giving up.
We saw this from sort of from Colorado yesterday, a Democratic governor coming out and saying, look, you know, you want to, at this point,
you want to get vaccinated, get vaccinated.
If you don't, you don't.
It's on you.
Like, okay,
that's a reasonable position for a government to take.
Look, we came up with these treatments.
We think they work.
If you don't think they do, then you take the risk by not taking them.
And by the way, the same thing goes for people who do take them.
You take the risk.
And if you think they're a good idea, whatever risk is associated, you go analyze the results.
You deal with your own life.
We're not your daughter.
We're not your doctor.
We're not your dad.
Just you go and assess the risk in your own life.
He said, quote, Everybody has had more than enough opportunity to get vaccinated.
Hopefully, it's been at your pharmacy, your grocery store, a bus near you, or a big event.
At this point, if you haven't been vaccinated, it's really your own darn fault.
The emergency is over.
You know, public health officials don't get to tell people what to wear.
It's not their job.
Masks is not something that you require.
You don't tell people what to wear.
You don't tell people to wear a jacket when they go out in winter and force them to wear it.
If they get frostbite, it's their own damn damn fault.
If you haven't been vaccinated, that's your choice.
I respect it.
But it's your fault when you're in the hospital with COVID.
I would also say that if you're in the hospital with COVID and you got the vaccine, like the 70% of people that are in the hospital, that's also your own damn fault.
I mean, it's just.
It's not, I mean, look,
we've lost the plot here a little bit.
It's not your fault if you get freaking COVID.
No,
yeah, it's China's fault, really.
Yeah, it's China's fault.
The Chinese government is the main person to blame
if you get COVID.
And even that's, you know, that's at this point old news, right?
We all know that.
It's spread all over the place.
You can't, you can't.
People who have taken all sorts of precautions, including getting vaccinated, including staying in, including
wearing masks, they're getting it too.
You know, this is not something you punish your...
Getting a respiratory disease is not something you punish
other people for.
Let people alone.
Just leave people alone.
Unless you like it's something egregious, right?
If someone who has active COVID and symptoms and just says, I don't care, I'm going to that
folks home.
Those are the people who gave people AIDS intentionally.
It's happened, right?
And they went to jail.
Yeah, you should avoid that activity.
But we have to understand that's the, we can't be blaming other people for our respiratory illnesses.
Tonight, I'm sitting down with Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, tonight, 9 p.m.
Eastern, a full hour with Ron DeSantis.
I'm excited.
I have not spent very much time with him in the past, and I'm a fan.
Watching him from Texas, I'm a fan.
Wish he was the governor of Texas, quite honestly.
He's acting like a Texan.
But he's doing a great job.
Will he run for president?
Does he and Trump get along?
What does this look like?
And I want to really talk to him about all of his new policies.
He just passed another one or just introduced another one yesterday on wokeism.
Yeah, on CRT, the idea, kind of based on the Texas law, the Texas abortion law, where like citizens could theoretically sue
schools, I guess, if
they are teaching CRT.
Obviously, I want CRT out of the schools very badly.
I am concerned a bit of the structure of law, even as it applies to abortion.
It doesn't seem like the type of thing that is a sensible way of running a legal system where you just, instead of having the
law enforcement enforce a law, you have citizens suing each other constantly over things that they don't like.
Now, we know Gavin Newsom's already saying he's going to do something on the Second Amendment based on this.
We'll see.
I think less likely than, or more likely than something like the Second Amendment, which is obviously in the Constitution, you know, things like buying an SUV, right?
Like how, that's not a constitutional right.
And left-wing governments are going to use this in all sorts of ways we're not comfortable with.
I just,
you know,
I think we got to find a fan of it since it came out here in Texas, and I think it could spiral out of control.
Yeah.
And And that's not a good thing.
Ron DeSantis tonight, 9 p.m.
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I got a good interview on my show tonight too, Studos America.
I'm going to be talking to Glenn Beck.
Oof.
That never works out well.
No, I've noticed that.
He always makes you look like an idiot.
Now, that I have not noticed.
Yeah.
It's bad.
He doesn't seem to
want to appear.
I don't know why you have him on every week because he seems to hate you.
I love the we get messages all the time.
Like, I can't believe Glenn is treating you that way.
It's like, Didn't you get that we're in on it?
Like, we
last week I walked off his show.
I walked off right in the middle of it.
That's true.
You know, I had another thing to do.
A bigger name came up.
Which I thought was odd until
anyway.
Until it made the show much better.
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