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with Adam Schiff asking the questions in Washington, D.C.

about January 6th.

We also give you a warning on something that happened today with

Simone Biles that I think is worth hearing.

That's all coming up on today's podcast.

You're listening to

the best of the Blenbeck program.

We have the owner of GNLE's drive-through.

This is

a business up in Illinois that's been in business for a long time.

Terry Trobani,

Trobiani, is the owner of it, and he's just been cited for flying the American flag.

The city doesn't like the fact that he has

flags out front, and he's not going to stop flying the American flag.

Terry, welcome to the program.

Good morning, Glenn.

Glad to be here.

Yeah, thank you.

So what exactly is going on in your town?

They told you to take down your flag and your blue line flag, right?

Why?

Well, it's very interesting.

Well, very interesting.

We've been fighting.

I'm not going to get into the past history, but the city has restrictions on temporary flags, banners, A-frames, feather banners.

They don't want any kind of signage blowing in front of your property, which, you know, for a small business, that's actually what you need to promote your business.

So what happened on the 4th of July weekend was I had an a-frame sign out saying that here's the name of the restaurant uh we have drive-through carry out dine in our phone number and behind that i had a row of american flags it was a fourth of july weekend so at the same time we were we were requesting a variance on our a-frame well the village went in and obviously denied it five to nothing and because they don't want anything so i left the american flags out because according to their ordinance The American flag is ornamental and as long as you're flying the flags during a national or federal holiday, ornamentation should be permitted.

So I left the flags out.

Well, the day after the 4th of July, they walk in, the village administrator walks in, and he says, you know, you might be violating the flag code with the flags.

I said, well, why would I be doing that?

I read the flag code pretty much in compliance.

No, he handed me a brochure, and I could quickly just two sentences.

He said, you might be violating these two areas.

The flags

should be displayed only on permanent flagpoles or staff specifically constructed for flag display.

And secondly, flagpoles should be within 15 feet of the curb.

And I said, okay, well, I read that.

I'm not in violation.

He said, well, maybe you should read them again.

I said, I'm pretty intelligent.

Those are one sentences.

I interpreted them.

I'm not in violation.

Well, the next morning, the police officer walked in, handed me two tickets, and said the flags need to come out of the ground.

I asked for an explanation.

No one gave me an explanation.

Read the brochure that the village administrator brought in.

I said, okay, we're going through this again.

I can read.

Apparently, what's happened here is, and I could not...

immediately decipher it from the letter that they gave me, but apparently what's happened is that the Village of Prairie Grove has classified the American flag as a sign and have taken away the symbol of the American flag.

So as a sign, it falls under their temporary sign ordinance, which prohibits any flying or any positioning of any signs on your property.

So now this includes the American flag.

And what they did also in this pamphlet, which again, I wasn't looking for, but I kind of interpreted later, is the only way that I could fly an American flag on my property is if I put it on a permanent 20 to 30 foot flagpole, which they have to permit.

So what they're doing is they're denying me my rights under the U.S.

flag code and my civil rights acts and being able to fly the American flag any way I want.

I should be able to wake up in the morning and say, oh, I'm really having a great day.

I'm going to stick a flag in my front lawn.

Nope, I can't do that.

I have to put concrete in the floor and build a permanent flagpole.

So now the village is dancing.

They're saying, well, we...

We love the American flag.

We never said we can't fly the flag.

And my questions back to them were, well, since all this has been going on, no one's come back to me and say, well, maybe we misinterpreted something.

Let's put it in the ground.

No one's gone there.

What they've done is they gave me two tickets, which I called the village to pay.

And the lawyer informed me that they're not going to accept my $200 unless I sign a letter that says I have violated the sign ordinance.

And then I sign a subsequent letter, which says, I will never ever in the future, I guess as long as I live.

When did that policy come in?

You're given a ticket.

Now you have to do something that Mao had the Chinese

dissidents do?

I mean, you now have to...

I guess, I mean, I didn't finish on the subsequent letter, but I need to sign that letter.

It says I will not ever violate a sign ordinance.

And I said, well, the sign ordinance that you interpret?

Like, why would I sign that?

So I said, you know what?

Draw that letter up.

I'm inquisitive.

Sign the letter up.

I'd like to see the verbiage on it.

No, we're not going to do that.

You need to agree on the phone now, immediately, to agree to the letter with our attorney, and then we will take the time to put the letter together so you can sign it.

Well,

a few expletives later, I told him what to do with the letter.

So,

where does this stand now?

I mean, I don't understand.

It's a little small town, right?

1,904 people.

Yeah.

So, is it just all crazy

lefties that look at the flag and say, that's just a Republican sign.

Or what is going on?

I didn't think so.

I know you've done your homework.

This is McHenry County.

McHenry County is one of the reddest states in Illinois.

I mean, we are Trumpers.

He won by 7,000 votes out here.

But there are people who go, and I think the case is that they appear to be independents, and we know where that goes.

So we know

what side they're on.

I mean, I was on a Dana Perino show yesterday, and she caught a whim of my blue flag, and she made a comment.

And I've had these two flags up.

Now they're accusing me that, oh, you're putting the American flag up to draw attention to your business.

And my response to that was, well, when I built this development, and when I built this building, on day one, when I opened the doors, I put the American flag on one pole.

I put a blue line and red light flag on the other pole.

And I have been flying.

I have been working this business from day one with the American flag flying outside my establishment.

And apparently, in July of 2021, I'm now really only doing that to draw business into my business, which is ridiculous.

They're dancing.

I think they know where they've gone.

They don't care.

Yesterday,

an attorney and a police officer came into my restaurant and tried to tell me that we called to settle the case, and they were there to work on settling with me.

And I

just told the police officer, please ask the order out of my business.

We never called you.

I'm being represented by an attorney.

Tell your attorney if he doesn't know that that you get another attorney.

So please take them out of here, walk out, or don't ever talk to me again.

And since then, my lawyer has sent them a letter explaining that.

So

they don't want any signage, and this is not pertaining to our discussion specifically, but they don't want any signage on the road.

I can't put an open sign, a sign that says, you know, carry out, dine in, drive through.

COVID was tough.

You know, we're in the restaurant business.

COVID was was tough on us.

We succeeded.

We made it through.

And we cut a lot of things.

We never cut an employee.

We paid all our employees.

I didn't take a paycheck for a year to keep our employees online because it was that important to me to keep things going.

And

you fight for a year and you beat a pandemic.

And then you've got this little municipality

with five trustees and a president who just have no respect for small business.

And right now, what I see is they have no respect for the Republic and the United States going after me with a flag.

I think it's terrible.

The direction that government in all levels have taken us to this point is despicable.

Glenn, I have 25 to 30 phone calls a day from all over the United States.

Army vets,

you name it, people calling me saying, you stick to your guns.

Do not let them overrun you.

This is the American flag.

You fly it proud.

You fly it high.

I don't even know these people, and I'm getting calls all day.

It's disruptive to my business because we run a restaurant, but I love it.

I mean, I'm feeding on it.

Like, I can't believe

there's all these people coming out of the woodwork to defend this flag.

And it's really nice to see that happening on a daily basis.

Terry, I appreciate it.

We'll watch your story.

Tell me

when is the next date of something that's supposed to happen?

You go into court or do you have any idea?

I have a court date.

I do.

I have a court date.

I was given a court date with the tickets.

The court date is August 25th at 1:30.

They're holding it at the village hall.

They're not even bringing it to municipal court.

I have to actually go into kangaroo court where they hire a judiciary lawyer who they're going to pay to be a judge.

And I said, this is going to be fair.

You know, I don't even know what I'm walking into.

I have two tickets.

I just want to pay him and go away.

So I don't even know what I'm going to court for.

I mean, are they going to reprimand me?

Maybe they're going to feather and tire me.

I don't know.

Maybe it's going to be later.

We'll check back with you after the court hearing.

Thanks, Terry.

Appreciate it.

Okay.

Bye-bye.

Appreciate your time.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

Josh Rogan is with us.

He's the author of Chaos Under Heaven and a columnist with the Washington Post.

Now, I'm not going to hold that against him,

but

he has been on this Ren Paul Fauci debate, and I'm not hearing anybody telling the truth in the mainstream media.

Josh is trying to change all that.

Hello, Josh.

How are you?

Hey, Glenn, great to be back with you.

Thank you.

So

how is this not an open and shut case with Dr.

Fauci?

Well, you know, we've spent a year and a half placing Anthony Fauci on this pedestal and venerating him as a deity.

And so when he gets into the five-minute shouting match with Rand Paul, it's very easy for everyone to just write the story that Fauci got vanquished by Rand Paul without actually listening to what these two men were saying and seeing which one makes the most sense.

And just follow the issue of what Anthony Fauci has been doing in terms of throwing cold water on the lab league theory and avoiding congressional oversight of the NIH's relationships with these Wuhan labs, then you can understand why people like Rand Paul and lots of other people, including lots of scientists, think Fauci is playing a double game here, that he's using his authority and his popularity and his ability to have the Democratic Party in Congress come to his defense every time he gets into one of these scuffles to distract us from the real issue.

And the real issue is that the NIH, not just the NIH, and USAID and the Pentagon and all of these other U.S.

agencies were doing work funneling American taxpayer money and know-how to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

And now that the pandemic broke out on the doorstep of the lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology has told us all to go pound sand.

And how can that be?

And why were we doing all of this collaboration?

And do you still want to do this collaboration with a bunch of Chinese labs that won't even let us into the lab when the crisis breaks out?

And you don't even have to believe that the lab leak theory is true to understand that people like like Anthony Fauci, who were the head of this collaboration, who promoted this collaboration, whether you call it gain of function or you don't call it gain of function, that's kind of a word game.

We can get into that if you want to.

But the bottom line is that's a red herring because Fauci was in charge of overseeing this collaboration and he failed in that fiduciary responsibility.

It's obvious because now when we're trying to get into the lab to investigate the greatest pandemic in human history, they won't even open the lab to us.

So what are we, schmucks?

We're putting a, we want to give them more money when they tell us we can't even go into the lab to do the investigation.

That's what Anthony Fauci is arguing for, and that seems crazy to me.

Josh, can we go into the word games here being played with gain of function for a minute?

Because it does appear to, I think, the average person looking at this that Anthony Fauci is just playing semantics here.

He's, I mean, the documents literally say gain of function on them, and he's trying to make this argument that it's obvious it is not gain of function.

How do we navigate

this path?

Right, sure.

So, you know, again, I think it is a word game, but it's worth parsing out because it's confusing to everyone.

You know, what we know is that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was doing work to modify bat coronaviruses in ways that made them more transmissible and more dangerous to human beings, okay?

And that's what they published.

That's what they admitted to.

That's not even in dispute.

Now, to Rand Paul and to me and to you, if you're gaining the function of a virus, well, how could that not be gain of function?

And what Fauci's game here is, is that he's pointing to a specific definition that the NIH uses to determine whether or not they should submit this gain of function research to their own review body.

In other words, is it risky enough to warrant another level of review?

But what's funny about that, I mean, not ha-ha funny, but kind of ironic funny, is that that definition was written by the NIH and Anthony Fauci.

In other words, he crafted a definition

to exclude all of the research that he was in charge of.

And so then he he built an oversight mechanism and then never used it.

They built an entire oversight mechanism, a review board after the Obama administration paused the gain of function research because it's risky because lab accidents happen all the time.

And they turned it back on, and Anthony Fauci was instrumental in turning it back on inside the government during the Trump administration when the Trump officials weren't paying attention.

And then he wrote the definition and designed the oversight system so it was never used.

And then when the bad coronavirus pandemic breaks out on the doorstep of the bat coronavirus lab and everyone's like hey anthony fauci can we take a look at your documents and by the way he says no we i won't even give my documents over and then by the way do you think now that it was perhaps you should have reviewed this risky research whether you so he's you could make in other words you could you can't it's going to be tough to prosecute anthony fauci for lying because in his mind he's telling the truth but the point is that he's bragging about a loophole that he created he built a loophole into the system, then he walked through the loophole, and then he uses it to defend himself.

And that is probably a good defense against perjury, but it's not a good defense against, hey, why were you doing all this risky research with all these Chinese laughs that tell us to go pound sand when there's a pandemic there?

It's like having a cheating husband and having the cheating husband design what cheating is.

And he says, well, massage parlors aren't cheating, right?

Like, well, okay, I mean, but you designed the rules

that amount to cheating, so of course you're not going to break them.

Right.

Or it's like I always like to say it's like

having

Robert Kardashian judge OJ.

Okay.

It doesn't mean that Robert Kardashian is not like a great lawyer, but he's got a conflict of interest because he's friends with OJ.

Okay.

And that's what I'm getting to here is that Anthony Fauci, by the way, if you read the New York Times yesterday, is preparing to ask Congress for billions of dollars more to expand risky virus research to every kind of virus there is, influenza, you name it.

okay?

That's his project.

That's his end game.

He gave an interview in the New York Times where he said, the pandemic shows we have to spend billions, billions more digging out viruses all over the world, taking them back to labs.

Now, you know, on CNN, on Sunday, Jake Tapper asked Anthony Fauci, do you still think it's a good idea to do business with these Wuhan labs that we can't even get into?

And he said, don't worry, we've always been safe.

We'll continue to be safe.

In essence, he's saying, trust me.

Okay.

And that doesn't, when you know this, Glenn, when a public official says, trust me,

that's when you know something's fishy.

That's when you know you have to install some oversight.

So my point is that we can't have a system where the doctors and scientists oversee the doctors and scientists because they don't understand national security, and they definitely don't understand what's going on in China now, which is the big, bigger scope of my book, which is that, yeah.

No, go ahead.

Finish your thought.

Which is that, you know,

these scientists in China may be very nice people, but they're not in control.

They live in a totalitarian dictatorship that's becoming more aggressive and more repressive, and that means us harm.

And that if you understand China, you understand that they're not doing open science anymore and that they've taken all of our money and know-how and built another part of the lab where they've worked with the Chinese military to do whatever they want to do with those viruses outside of our purview.

That's what the Trump administration revealed.

That's what the Biden administration has confirmed as that U.S.

intelligence shows.

They took us, okay?

They took all of our help and then they built the other part of the lab to build something that was aimed at us.

That's what military bio-research is.

We have a program, they have a program.

Now, the question is, going forward, do we want to continue to fund and build their military bio-research program?

Is that a good idea, especially when they won't even let us into the city that the pandemic broke out into?

That seems crazy to me, but that's what Fauci is explicitly advocating for.

So, how did we miss the fact that the guy who's running this lab is a former, I think, general,

at least in the Communist Party Army,

and his job was bioweapons.

You know,

what happened was for the first year of this pandemic, and Glenn, I know you know this well, we couldn't even talk about the Wuhan labs.

You were called racist or conspiracy theorists for even uttering the word Wuhan lab.

And I know this because I got attacked all the time, and many people

like me.

And the problem, of course, was that the reason that was considered a conspiracy

theory was because the friends of the lab, including Peter Dashak at the EcoHealth Alliance and lots of other friends of Anthony Fauci, you know, put out a bunch of scientific papers saying the lab was totally impossible and you're a racist conspiracy theorist if you mentioned the lab.

So that's why for a year we couldn't even have a rational conversation.

We still can't have a rational conversation in a Senate hearing about how we got into this mess, about how the pandemic that killed 400 million people and 630,000 Americans started, which is crucial information, by the way, for preventing the next one.

In other words, if we don't figure out how this started, how are we going to prevent the next one?

Do you want to do this every year?

So the fact that in Wuhan they have a bio

weapons program, bio-research program with the military is not really a shocking thing to say, after all, because of course they do, because we have one, they have one.

That's what you do.

If you're a big country, you have a bioweapons research program.

But the fact that that was also may have been linked to or they may have taken our know-how from our

government-funded projects, that's a big problem.

That's a big scary thing to think about.

It has implications for the entire industry of scientific collaboration, and that's Anthony Fauci's industry.

He's the head of that, a part of that industry.

So lots of big, powerful interests here are getting upset just by the idea of getting to the truth of this.

And that's not even talking about the Chinese government cover-up.

They're covering up the lab.

There's a reason they're covering up the lab.

They don't want people to look through their bioweapons program.

Why would they want that?

You know, so they've got a real problem here, too.

So it's very easy for the Biden administration to just do a 90-day 90-day intelligence review and then come out and say, well, we couldn't figure it out.

Well, you know, let's all go on with our days.

But that's a very dangerous path to go down.

That's what Anthony Fauci would like us to do.

He'd like us to say, oh, that's his new line.

Oh, well, I don't know what's going on in China, but, you know, we're never going to find out.

So what are you going to do?

But that's the problem, is that we don't know what's going on in China.

Why where is he funding these labs if we can't know what's going on inside them?

That seems to me to be the biggest, the easiest thing we can solve, whether the lab leak theory is true or not.

Any justice going to be done on Fauci?

Is anyone going to follow up on this?

Will he be held accountable for anything?

Well, here's the thing.

Right now, we have several congressional investigations trying to get the document, not just again from Fauci, but from U.S.

aid.

Why won't Anthony Blinken hand over the documents, Samantha Power, Francis Collins at the NIH?

There are Pentagon documents about tens of millions of dollars that the Pentagon, the U.S.

Pentagon, gave to the EcoHealth Alliance that went to these Wuhan labs.

We need all of that stuff.

Well, the reason it's not happening is because no Democrats are on board.

If you had one of those things,

why would the Pentagon want to fund that if it wasn't gain of research or gain of function?

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency gave millions of dollars to the EcoHealth Alliance, and some of that went to the Wuhan labs.

They were trying to,

you know, cooperate with China's bio-research program, which is now looks kind of crazy.

Now it looks kind of, they didn't know that at the time.

Now we know that.

So the question is, what are we going to do going forward?

And how can we even know what to do

if those documents all remain secret?

So we need at least one Democratic committee chairman to threaten to use the subpoena power to get those documents that are in the hands of the U.S.

government.

It's our stuff.

They need to release our intelligence.

We don't need the Chinese Communist Party to give us permission to investigate.

You wouldn't ask OJ for permission to investigate OJ, would you?

No, you would just use your powers and influence to do the investigation, whether the defendant likes it or not.

The Chinese government is not going to like it.

And Democrats don't want to risk upsetting the U.S.-China relationship.

But I say, if you don't risk upsetting the delicate sensibilities of the Chinese Communist Party to figure out the death of 630,000 Americans, what would you risk it for?

What could be more important?

What could be more crucial to our national security and our public health?

Talking to Josh Rogan, his book, Chaos Under Heaven, Trump G, and the battle for the 21st century.

And Josh, I want to focus on the last part here for a second.

You look at China and what's happened over the past just few years where they're cracking down on capitalists.

Businessmen are disappearing.

They're cracking down on crypto and removing that from the country.

Obviously expanding the Uyghurs and all the problems there.

The issues with Hong Kong and the way that that has changed.

It just strikes me as there is a massive change in the way this country is dealing with the world over just the past few years.

We've always thought of China as a threat and there's problems there.

We've never agreed with them on human rights and all these things.

Is am I correct to detect a real change, though, in momentum and direction over the past couple of years?

Absolutely.

I like to refer to it as the great leap backward.

You know, it's clear that Xi Jinping, in his first couple of years, when he came in in 2013, set about consolidating power, purging all of his rivals under a false corruption, anti-corruption plan, shutting down freedoms, building concentration camps.

And once he had all that in place, he turned his focus to the the rest of the world.

And that's a big part of the book, is how the Chinese Communist Party has expanded its interference and influence in free and open societies, especially ours, how they've sought to influence our schools and our markets and our tech companies and our sports and our Hollywood movies and how all the various institutions of U.S.

society have been slow to react to that reality.

But they're waking up to it now as the pandemic ravages the whole world and we see what China as a world power really looks like.

And I think that awakening is happening in other countries as they're getting blackmailed about for Chinese vaccines or told that their companies can't do business in China unless they ignore the genocide or ignore the crackdown in Hong Kong.

And yet here in America, our Justice Department is dismissing

all of the Chinese military spies that were

in our institutions.

We're just

dismissing the charges, not continuing with an investigation and setting them free.

I mean, yeah, I think the

Biden administration is torrent, right?

There are some people who want to continue the Trump policy of standing up to the Chinese Communist Party, and there are some people who think that targeting Chinese researchers was racist or wrong.

But the fact is that if you're a Chinese researcher who hid their affiliation with the Chinese military, you've broken U.S.

law and you deserve to be prosecuted full stop.

And what the suspicion is, is that they did that in advance of Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman's visit to Beijing yesterday, where she traveled all the way, not to Beijing, to Taijin, where she traveled all the way to China, only to have the Chinese Communist Party officials tell her to go screw herself, and she had to travel all the way back with nothing.

What they did was they humiliated the U.S.

government by pretending that they were going to have an open dialogue and then just spreading a bunch of their propaganda.

And what that shows us is that Xi Jinping sees this not as China rising, but as China risen.

And the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more totalitarian, more fascist, more nationalistic, more aggressive, more repressive.

It's all going in one direction.

And it's really, really dangerous.

Now, that doesn't mean that we have to go to war right now.

It means we have to avoid the war by confronting these problems before they get worse.

And that's what the challenge is going forward.

And that's not a partisan challenge.

That's for all Americans and really all people around the world.

Thank you so much,

Josh Josh Rogan from Washington Post.

Thank you for being on with us.

We will probably have you on early and often about China as they have risen,

and I think we're already with ones and zeros at war with them.

This is the best of the Glenbeck program.

I've got a big charity weekend coming up.

On Friday, I'm going to be Friday morning broadcasting from St.

George, one of the most beautiful towns you've ever seen.

Quick conservatives flock to St.

George, buy a place in St.

George, because all of these California people are going to move in and they're going to destroy this great little town.

Anyway,

I'm going to be there

not saying things like that.

On Friday to encourage people to rise up.

Last year, Operation Underground Railroad had a campaign to to rise up for children and stand against sex slaves and trafficking, human trafficking, and just slaves in general.

I don't know.

I think it's something we can all do.

Everybody is

wanting to get out in the streets.

This is one thing that we can all agree on.

So rise up this Friday.

You can go to Operation Underground Railroad and find out more details.

But I'm going to be there in St.

George in the morning with them all day, with Tim Ballard.

I think Lewis Howes is going to be there as well.

And then at night, we'll be flying into

Salt Lake to Thanksgiving Point at Electric Park, and they've got a big concert going on.

And I don't know why they invited me to that.

I mean, I can't imagine a big concert and then me coming out and going, Hey, everybody, let me tell you a story.

I don't think that's going to go well.

When you want to have fun, you always invite Glenn.

You always invite me.

Yeah, that's no, but you have said as soon as I leave, the parties get good.

Yeah, because people sort of save up the fun they would have had at the party when you're there, and then they double it on the back end, right?

So, yeah, it can get crazy.

So, it's going to get crazy after I leave.

It's going to get crazy, which should be about six minutes after you're off stage.

Thank you very much.

Uh, you can get your tickets at ourrescue.org/slash rise up.

We'll see you there.

Then, on Saturday, uh, I am having uh my uh my my art show and

gallery sale.

Now, I want you to know that everything that I sell on Saturday, all of it is going to Hunter Biden's blow.

Well, no, I didn't think.

No,

I wasn't thinking about that.

No, I didn't.

Oh, no.

Sorry.

Preservation of American history through Mercury One.

Much better cause than the cocaine for a day.

Than the cocaine for a day.

Right.

And if he doesn't have a hooker, you know, if I can't afford

it.

You get to the point where you're Hunter Biden.

Just drugs?

Where are the hookers along with the drugs?

There's just no.

And where's the cash from China?

Right.

I need to be bathing in cash from China while doing blow off a hooker's belly.

That's how it works.

That's a Friday night.

And that's more like a Tuesday night for Hunter.

Friday gets a lot crazier.

That's a Tuesday night.

What's a Thursday night like?

Okay, I don't want to go into that.

That gets like bad.

The cocaine and hookers is actually more like a Tuesday brunch

for Hunter at this point.

And that's why you need to sell paintings for $500,000.

Yours will be a little cheaper than that.

A little cheaper.

A little cheaper, but not cheap.

Again, I'm not saying that this would happen, but

anybody who buys my painting might, you know, might have the opportunity to...

To meet my dad.

Now, my dad has been dead for, I don't know,

almost 10 years now.

Yeah.

So it's going to be kind kind of a grisly thing to meet him.

But if that's what gets you to buy a painting, I'm fine.

It's all the money's going to charity.

These are great, though, by the way.

You can see them on your Instagram page, right?

I mean,

I do, I will say, every time I go to your Instagram page and you're showing off your art, I think to myself,

is he actually talented at something?

How did this happen?

I don't understand how it occurred.

It's crazy, isn't it?

They're really great.

I don't know how you, I feel like, is it possible?

Well, you suffered through the years and years and years of just bad art.

No, just bad art.

You've always been pretty talented in that realm, though.

You've improved.

I mean, even

it's amazing what lessons will do.

Yeah.

You struggle your whole life and you're like, I don't have any idea what I'm doing.

And

when I finally hired this

teacher, she said, you haven't even tried watching YouTube?

And I'm like, no.

No.

She's like, you know, you can learn a lot of this on YouTube.

And I'm like, shut up.

You're wasting money.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Teach.

Don't talk through the process through.

Don't mock me and ridicule me,

which she still does for about 10 minutes before we start.

And usually afterwards, she's like, well, that went well.

She's actually,

she's been, she's unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

A good teacher

can accelerate anything.

Oh, certainly.

This is why every wife back in the day used to say, why don't you ask for for directions?

You know,

I think that's

what we did.

Ladies, we invented GPS.

That's what we did.

Okay.

We put satellites in space so we didn't have to stop at a gas station.

Yeah.

As we look at

the one woman who is in the actual studio, poor Sarah.

Every time we say something about a woman, she's just the representative.

Sorry, Sarah.

We're just yelling at her through the glass.

Yeah, now let me tell you.

Now let me tell you about Nancy Pelosi

and Lynn Cheney.

We hold you responsible.

By the way, did you hear about the guy that the New York doctor

who met this wonderful woman?

He's young, he's handsome,

you know, he's got a lot of money.

He's very successful, New York City.

He meets this woman.

She's a former Miss Connecticut, USA.

And she had gone to school.

I don't remember where she went to school, but she went to school.

She was

majoring in chemistry.

And so she had her chemistry.

I don't know what the hell.

I mean, I don't know what you do with that.

What do you do?

Is that like a mixologist?

I think this is how Breaking Bad started.

I think so, too.

This is how it ends up.

Well, it kind of ends that way.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

She didn't go to college.

She didn't even graduate from high school.

She was Miss Connecticut, USA, but that's it.

In fact, she was a hooker and still is a hooker.

And they got married, and she said, I'm just working on

an app right now with some people, and it causes me to have to go places, and I'm going to be doing stuff.

And because she all of a sudden had like 500 grand in her bank account.

I'm just working on, you know, this algorithm.

I'm working a lot.

Apparently, i mean i don't know what the rates are these days but that seems like a lot of uh a lot of uh yeah well

she had a couple of sugar daddies that were kind of like taking care of her ah you know what i mean okay and uh so uh he found out

and the guy says i want to file for a divorce i mean what's up with that he doesn't support a working woman

This is this is the sort of sexism that goes on in this country.

Amen, brother.

Can you imagine finding that out about your wife?

No, no, no, that would be very bad.

That would be, I feel like, disruptive to your home life.

That's what I would, that's how I would describe it.

It might be, yeah, it might be.

It might be also the time you go, wow, glad we didn't have children.

You know, what a mom she would make.

What a mom she would make.

Working hard for the kids.

Yes.

You know, I only do this

so you can have a better life.

You make mommy do this.

You make you.

Mommy does this because you cry.

You didn't clean up your room.

Look what mommy had to do.

That's what I tell my kids now.

Yeah, dad's an alcoholic only because you cried when you were little.

Right.

That's the seed of it.

You don't understand?

You don't understand.

I've gone through all of the steps.

And I got to, I think I got to step number three.

And I'm like, it's the kids and they're crying all the time that's that's making me drink and so i stopped the rest because i got it i got it it was the kids that made me drink right and once you find the cause of it you're able to deal with it a lot better right and you can you can handle your alcoholic so she i don't know if she has to what she's going to do to handle her her hookerism uh that she apparently is addicted to but uh

apparently this doctor is not going back with her

it's called it's being judgmental you don't want women in the workforce and this is the sexism that's ruined our country.

So she's a sex worker and a secret sex worker.

What?

He's a doctor.

They both see people naked.

Yes.

Yes, they do.

Yes, they do.

Both work with bodily fluids.

Pretty much the same gig.

I don't know what you're complaining about, Doc.