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Target Walgreens making some drastic changes.

Due to an increase in theft in San Francisco, according to the California Retailers Association, three cities in California are among the top 10 in the country when it comes to organized retail crime.

Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento.

Already, they've been seeing the negative impact it's having in San Francisco with stores permanently shutting down or closing early because of theft at their stores.

Target has now acknowledged San Francisco is the only city in America where they've decided to close some stores early because of escalating retail crime.

People just come in and take stuff and leave.

It's not like they're breaking in in the middle of the night.

They're doing this during store hours, often in broad daylight.

If anyone, any company knows this, I don't know how Target couldn't be the one because they were the one that was told when their buildings were burning to the ground, it's just property.

And they're being completely cleaned out in city after city after city.

Yeah, you know, it's just property.

Don't worry about it.

And so now they're reallyft insurance.

Which by the way, use it.

I mean, as any small business owner will tell you,

that doesn't work out that way.

You don't get like 100% of your money back.

No.

That's not how that works.

Did you have your roof replaced recently after the hail?

I did not.

No, I did not.

I'm having mine replaced.

And

insurance comes in and says, yeah, I'll give you about half.

But what that's worth.

They don't say it's half, but it is about half of what it will actually cost.

That's great.

Yeah.

Plus my deductible so that worked out yeah the insurance thing it's not ideal so when you're telling these companies yeah just use your insurance

first of all you shouldn't be stealing stuff from them but we've gotten to the place where apparently that's okay uh for certain people to steal things from a store It's true.

And I think it's an organized thing at this point.

I'd love to hear if there's any small business owners who have gone through this if they own a retail facility.

I know someone who was in a store and watched this happen where here in the DFW area.

Yeah, and this is Texas.

Okay.

Yeah.

Where a group of four

people

came in to a store.

It was a makeup store with garbage bags and walked up to the counter where all the displays were and took their arms and cupped, you know, 50 to 60 like lip glosses and just shoveled them into the garbage bag and did it about 10 times each and then walked out of the store.

Oh my gosh.

With four garbage bags filled with makeup, thousands of dollars of makeup, and this stuff is freaking expensive.

Believe me,

about two-thirds of my salary goes to it.

So

were these people who are the greatest danger we face in America, white supremacists?

I don't know.

Is that what they were?

I will say that.

If they were white supremacists, they were really bad at it.

This particular group of ladies.

Don't tell me they were BIPOC.

Are they BIPOC people?

They were BIPOC.

Oh, boy.

They were BIPOC.

Oh, no.

This This particular group.

Black Indigenous People of Color.

Yes.

Now, it's interesting because you have to look at the incentives of such a situation.

By the way, 888727 Beck, if you happen to be a small business owner and have seen this happen,

because I would love to hear how you're dealing with it.

But, you know, the incentive of this situation is the employees of a corporate retail establishment don't want to get into an altercation.

They're trained to not get into an altercation.

They're trained to know, well, don't say, don't try to stop X, Y, and Z type of person because that's not, you know, there's guaranteed signs all over the store saying how much Black Lives Matter and how much, you know,

every dumb left-wing slogan is pasted all over every one of these stores.

And as we've seen, even with like Starbucks, Starbucks, what was the controversy?

They didn't allow someone to go to the bathroom and it it became a national story.

So if you try to stop someone, you tackle a woman with a garbage bag of makeup,

walking out the door.

They're not going to.

What happens in that situation?

You're on the news as the bad person.

You're on the news as the terrible person who didn't let this individual who...

Abscun with thousands of dollars worth of your material.

Your product.

What are you going to do?

You're going to step back.

You're just going to let it happen.

And they're going to walk out the door.

And if they do get caught, which they probably won't, probably

the charges will be dropped, right?

We've seen Antifa, they burn down cities and we have the vice president of the United States begging for money to bail them out.

So why would you possibly believe you're going to get in trouble over something like this?

And if they do get in trouble, what is it?

A fine?

A fine that is what, one tenth of one haul from one of these stores?

So you're seeing this all over the place.

There's a video that went viral last week or the week before.

A guy just walks in, fills his garbage bag with all sorts of stuff on his bike, and just rides his bike out the front door of the store.

Yeah.

There's no longer, you don't need to be Ocean's 11 anymore.

There's no, you don't need to have this incredibly intricate operation.

You walk in the front door, like every other customer, with a garbage bag on display.

You fill it with the material.

You walk out the front door the same way you came in.

You just ignore everyone telling you to stop.

It's

just tells you to stop.

It's not that hard.

No.

Oftentimes, people don't even tell you to stop they just yeah they just watch you go out the door and like look if you're an employee you're making you know 13 bucks an hour and you're thinking to myself i'm not going to get i'm not going to become an international story because i stopped a bipoc individual from uh from stealing something or a Hispanic individual or a white individual.

I'm sure this is happening with all sorts of colors.

I mean, it's just this particular story happened to be that.

And I would think it's a lot harder to justify to corporate that you did something in this situation the further down the oppression ladder you get.

Right.

We're seeing this in story after story after story.

Now, the oppressed, the formerly oppressed women, the formerly oppressed gays, the formerly oppressed,

if you're not, you know, 12 different intersectionality groups at the same time, you don't even show up on these charts anymore.

I mean, like, poor women, remember when women were oppressed, and now they're for a forgotten class completely.

Absolutely, yeah, yes, they are.

Uh, as indicated by the thing last week at the Wii Spa in Los Angeles, where the trans

woman goes into the bathroom and shows her uh

wiener to little girls.

And I am, I will say,

it's just the fact that you just said those two words next to each other.

Yeah.

It says a lot about our society.

It does, doesn't it?

She shows

Marta Wiener.

Right.

It's not funny to little girls.

And what's not funny is how you're identifying them as little girls without asking them what gender they are.

That's true.

So one person, one

person goes to the counter and complains about that to the spa

employees, and that person is the bad person.

Because how dare you say she can't show her wiener to people in the bathroom.

How dare you?

I mean,

it doesn't.

And so she's the bad guy, and

everybody defends the person showing

their genitalia in the bathroom to little girls.

It's like, okay, we don't care about defending or protecting little girls anymore or women for that matter.

We don't care about it.

Nope.

In fact,

if you ask about it or say anything about it, you're a hate monger.

Well, this is absolute insanity.

Over the weekend, a few people show up to protest

that going on,

calling it pedophilia, because it is.

And Antifa shows up.

and starts beating these people.

One of them got slashed with a knife in the arm.

Others were beaten to the ground.

This guy, this Asian guy, just standing there, and a woman runs up and kicks him where he lives.

And he responds by hitting her in the head with a water bottle.

He's the one who gets arrested.

And he's the one everybody's yelling and screaming about.

Because

you got these Antifa people that they're the aggressors.

And then if anybody...

you know, is aggressive back towards them.

Whoa, no, no, now they're the bad person.

Yes, that is how this works.

It is.

Then they do it really well.

They do it really well.

It's amazing to see our society react to this stuff.

Like, you know, targeted Walgreens are making decisions they believe are good for their bottom line, right?

And what they're doing is, we'd rather be closed.

There are 7-Elevens that are closing.

Yeah.

Now, the original meaning.

of 7-Eleven was seven days a week open 11 hours a day.

Right.

That is what it initially was.

Until 11 at at night?

I thought it was 11 hours.

Maybe it was till 11 at night.

It was something of that nature.

I thought it was 11 hours a day, which isn't all that impressive, frankly.

It's not.

No, maybe it was until 11 at night.

But there was, you know, and now it's obviously, but everywhere it's a 24-hour business.

Yeah.

And they're closing or at least closing, not allowing people inside because the theft is so prominent.

I mean, Target and Walgreens just closing their stores.

Closing them because they see it as more of a problem to remain open.

Yeah, the shoplifting is so bad they can't make money because of it because of the shoplifting.

So they got it, it might as well just close that outlet, which they did.

And normally what your answer is, I mean, look, if there are some levels where maybe you would close the store down, I guess.

I'm sure it's obviously happened before, but it's becoming more common because you really, the other way of handling this is adding security people, but the security people aren't allowed to do anything.

Yeah, this security guard says, his name is Kevin Greathouse, and he said that they're told not to physically engage with those who shoplift.

He said it's going to be lawsuits.

Obviously, they don't want ourselves or anybody else to get injured while we're out here attempting to make these apprehensions and leave it to law enforcement.

Carries with him a handgun, a taser, a pepper spray, but he's never used them.

On the other hand, he says people shoplifting have at times threatened him with a knife.

And he said, I don't have any intention of getting stabbed for $60 worth of stuff.

Well, okay, so you can hire security guards, but if you're going to tell them not to engage with anybody who steals, what good are they?

You're just wasting your money.

There's a video that, another video that went viral this weekend of a guy in New York in a

place we certainly walked by a million times when we lived in New York in one of these like Penn Station type hallways.

And like they're not pretty.

And usually on the side, there might be a homeless person sitting down.

So this guy,

he's sitting there.

He's mopping the floor.

And he's got his bucket there.

He's mopping the floor.

He turns around.

He's mopping the floor.

And you see it all happen.

As soon as he turns his back, he's mopping the floor.

The homeless guy gets up, walks over, turns around, sits down on the bucket, and starts taking a crap in the bucket.

Oh.

Now, this guy turns around with

his mop.

Oh, man.

And it's like, what the damn?

You know, swears quite a bit.

And goes up to the guy and goes, get out of there.

The guy is offended that he's tried to stop him in the middle of going to the bathroom in his cleaning bucket

and takes his mop and starts hitting him with a mop.

Yeah.

Now, there's tons of people all walking around there.

This is in the middle of a high-traffic area, and he's he

goes, he pushes right through it and gets go right, goes right back down, sits on the bucket

and goes for it in front of everybody.

And I mean, this is the state of our cities right now.

And I got news for you.

No Republicans running any of them.

Right.

You know, there's no Republicans running any of these cities, basically, at this point.

There's a couple, but there's very, very few.

And this is what has happened over and over and over again.

These cities are just turning into

apocalyptic scenarios.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

There's a new poll out that shows Governor Abbott with a 39, 38% lead over Matthew McConaughey.

Now, nobody even knows what Matthew McConaughey's policies are.

What's his agenda?

He hasn't even declared, are you a Democrat or a Republican?

Nobody knows.

Or an independent.

Or an independent.

Right.

Who knows?

Which is probably what he'd run as because,

you know, if you're anything but a left-wing kook Democrat, you can't declare that if you're in Hollywood, right?

So he'd probably have to say he's independent.

But

39-38, whereas McConaughey months ago was way ahead of

Abbott in a head-to-head competition, at least according to the polls.

Now,

there's another Republican who's probably not well-known outside of Dallas, and that's Don Huff Hines.

He's got a big card dealership empire here.

Abbott leads him 77 to 12.

So he's probably

not a real threat.

But

just entering the race

is

Colonel West.

Yeah, Alan West, who, former congressman, obviously been very active in conservative politics for a long time.

He's going to be running.

He was the chair of the Texas Republican Party.

For about 15 minutes.

Yep.

Not very long.

No.

But he's very well known and well respected, I think, in the conservative community.

And I think he's actually in a poll that they just conducted a little bit ahead of Governor Abbott.

Interesting.

Yeah, it is.

He's a threat for sure, I would think, to Abbott.

You know, of course, our own Chad Prather here from Blaze TV is running as well.

This is a crowded field.

And it's interesting because Abbott is not like.

Greg Abbott is a guy who,

if you're not from Texas, you might not have a huge

impression of Abbott.

It's interesting when I talk to people outside of Texas, what I hear typically is, oh, I wish we had a governor like yours who didn't lock down the whole time and has lifted all these mandates and all that.

It's the exact opposite of what I hear from people in Texas who are just angry at him for ever having the mandates.

Yes.

That's basically the way this breaks down.

And you talk to you, I was talking to Andrew Wilkow, also from Plays TV, our friend from up, he lives in New Jersey, I think.

Now, his impression of how good of a job Greg Abbott is doing is quite different than, I think, someone who's living in Texas.

They wouldn't let us out of our house for 14 months.

So

we would love to have anyone who would allow that.

I mean, you know,

everything closed down on basically, it was March 16th, March 15th or 16th was the day that Trump did the 15 days to

stop the spread speech.

And

that led to, of course,

another month

of slowing the spread.

So it turned into the end of April

where basically nationally, we were shut down for six weeks.

On May 1st, I went out to a restaurant down the street from this facility.

It was 25% capacity.

I don't even know if they hit 25% capacity at the restaurant I was at, but damn, I was at it.

I was there shoveling food down my gullet.

Isn't that where you contracted COVID as well?

Not till later.

I got at a restaurant in Texas much later, Pat.

You know, you bring up a sore, as a COVID-19 survivor,

you bring up a very sore subject there.

But yes, that

did happen.

It's not a terrible point by you, right?

But yes, it did happen, and it can happen.

I mean, it definitely is a risk.

But again, it was my choice to go out and shovel food down my gullet in the middle of a pandemic.

You know, it was my choice.

And having COVID-19 for you was a lot like not having COVID-19, right?

Yes.

It was asymptomatic.

You had no symptoms.

It was asymptomatic for me.

It was just basically staying home for 10 days,

which was not fun.

I didn't necessarily enjoy it.

We did have some fun family times, but when you really can't go out for any reason,

when you have it.

But still.

You know, you get through those times.

My point, though, with Abbott, though, is that it was, as compared to the nation, he was definitely on the leaning freedom side of the the transaction.

However, for Texas, you know, nothing but, you know, perfection will do in these situations.

And Abbott has had some problems.

I mean,

he's, you know, but.

Some people just got unreasonably pissed at him.

Like, really, like, just done with him.

I'm done with him forever.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, it's, it definitely was the, at least around.

And look, I work at the Blaze, which a bunch of people who are very conservative and very outspoken.

So I did hear maybe more than than the average Texan did.

I mean, you look at it, it's like they just did a poll on Greg Abbott's approval rating within the Republican Party.

He has a 77% approval rating among Republicans.

You should be able to win that way.

If you have a 77% approval, you should win.

It's amazing that he has this many challengers when you have a 77% approval rating.

Though he's got some challengers and some real ones.

Alan West is a real challenger.

Alan West is a real challenger.

Chad Brady's really popular, particularly in Texas.

You know,

Don Hufffein has a lot of money.

I don't know.

But again, it's a well-funded candidate.

It's a big challenge

to a person.

In the poll I just saw, Prather was actually ahead 42 to 35% over Allen West.

And then I think

Abbott was at 30 or somewhere in there.

He was actually in the lead as far as the Republicans are concerned.

It's interesting.

I don't know what's going to happen, but I I think these things are, we're in the middle of a cycle to take it out of Texas here for a second.

We're in the middle of a cycle where there's a

there's going to be a cycle here of

retribution essentially for what happened in the pandemic.

I think we're seeing that on the streets right now.

You know, we're seeing that from in political parties where If you didn't do what your base thinks is the right thing, you're going to be targeted and punished and

taken during these primaries and people are going to try to exploit it.

You know, it was like when we had a series of this, you know, after 2016, there were obviously the Republican Party was sort of split on people who really liked Trump and people who didn't like Trump.

And the people who spoke out against Trump had a lot of primary challenges from people who were very, very pro-Trump.

You know, we're seeing that now happen with anyone who voted for like the impeachment, for example, or people who spoke out like

obviously the most obvious one is Liz Cheney.

There's probably going to be 97 people, right?

It's Liz Cheney in the next primary because there's a dividing line there.

And I think the same thing is going to happen with COVID.

You know, there's a lot of people, some Republicans did not go as far on the freedom scale as many southern states did.

And it's also the reason why you're seeing people circle around Ron DeSantis as a guy who people liked because they liked what he did during that period.

It was a test, Pat, right?

It was a test of your principles.

You know, what do you do in a really difficult situation?

Do you still favor freedom?

Or is it only when you're running for office?

And many of these, even Republican governors, are finding out, like, oh, gosh, maybe I should have

been on the side of freedom.

Yeah.

Because even, look,

you're not, people tried to take that as like, well, if you're on the side of quote unquote freedom, you're trying to kill grandma.

And it's like, well, no.

When you're on the side of freedom, you're letting people make their own decisions.

And look, in a.

Including grandma.

And that also includes like how you're affecting others, right?

I mean, a pandemic is not just an isolated act.

We all know that.

That's the problem with the pandemic.

But people have the right to be able

to take the risks that they feel are necessary and also take the responsibilities of actions that not be

might not be so

thoughtful.

There's definitely more of those people too.

So I think this is going to be one of those dividing lines that lasts for a very long time.

And we're going to have

no choice but to deal with it, especially when it comes to financial matters, because our country has spent so much money.

And when I say spent money, what I mean is they printed it.

I mean,

it's like to say that they were spending money that existed before 2020 is sort of

a false way of looking at it.

I mean, we've just done everything that we were terrified of as conservatives all at once within an 18-month period.

And we still got three, four, five, six trillion dollars to go here.

They're going to spend more.

They're doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on this stuff.

And you just have to believe there is a point.

that

wherever

yeah oh yeah

and we don't even have to print it anymore.

That's the beauty of it.

We just digitize it.

That makes it even more fun to spend.

It is.

It's just a number.

Numbers on a screen.

That's all it is.

It's a number.

We don't even have to do the paper anymore.

So it's so easy to spend money now.

And nobody even bats an eye

at a billion dollars or $10 billion or $50 billion anymore.

That doesn't even phase people.

You don't even think, oh my gosh, we're going to spend 50 billion on that.

They don't care because

it doesn't even have an impact until you get to trillions now.

We've become so used to hearing the billion-dollar figure.

It used to be millions and hundreds of millions.

Then it was billions.

Now

you're not even phased unless you hear that we're going to spend a trillion dollars.

And even then, maybe not very much.

You're not.

worried about it.

And this is not, it wasn't that long ago that the word trillion was poison to even Democrats.

If you remember going through the post-2008 recovery period, Barack Obama gets elected.

He comes in.

Big conversation.

He wants to spend $787 billion

on, I think

that was the recovery one, the stimulus, right?

And then he wanted Obamacare.

They worked very hard to manipulate the numbers to keep it under $1 trillion.

And the final cost was in the $900 billions.

Now, of course, it wasn't actually in the 900 billions, but that's how they presented it.

And the media, of course, went along with it.

But they thought if it hit a trillion, the American people will revolt against it.

Now, the American people still sort of revolted against it, at least back then.

Now,

now they don't even care.

Now they don't even care.

Now it's part of our culture.

And as we said, as soon as this gets, it becomes something that is yours, something you are owed, it will never go away.

And that's where we are with Obamacare now, obviously.

But at that time,

they didn't think it was going to pass.

Remember, they had 60 votes and they were doing this.

They had 60 votes in the Senate and they were saying, we can't get it over a trillion dollars.

It will never get approved.

And now we're at the point where we're like, well, if we have 50 votes, we can pass a $5 trillion bill, right?

And in the American American Bill, yeah, of course you can.

You got 50 votes.

Yeah, sure.

Go ahead.

No problem.

And to help you, we'll take Republican responsibility for another trillion in infrastructure just to make your job a little easier.

Just to make so you can get that extra trillion, you don't have to make it a six-trillion-dollar bill, make it a five trillion-dollar bill.

We'll take the other trillion on with you, and it all happened so fast.

This is the best of the Glenbeck program.

ESPN having a little issue again.

ESPN is seemingly always having some issues lately.

But this one's kind of a non-issue to me.

I mean,

I don't.

Did she, did Rachel Nichols really do something really horrible?

Yes.

She did.

She did something

horrible.

She was horrible, Pat.

Okay, tell me about it because I was under the mistaken impression that it wasn't that big a deal.

Oh, my God.

What?

Yeah, I was.

You bastard.

Maybe I don't know the full story.

Apparently not.

Okay.

So Rachel Nichols is a broadcaster

on ESPN.

She's one of the main NBA

hosts of their, you know, their post-game show or whatever, pre-game show.

Dinner many, many times.

Yep.

Very well known.

She apparently had an issue where she left on her microphone.

You cannot do this in today's society.

Cannot.

And had a private conversation, oddly, with one of like LeBron James's advisors.

I would have never guessed he had an advisor the way he acts.

I mean, I would have totally assumed he was a bad advisor.

Yes, whatever.

It's a very strange one.

Maybe LeBron ignores everything his advisor advises.

Maybe.

That's possible.

I will say his comments in here are pretty freaking interesting, too, as a side story

in this conversation.

So

basically, Rachel Nichols wants to be the lead

anchor of the NBA coverage and realizes after her very long resume and lots of success and very well known, realizes she's not getting the gig for the 2020 NBA Finals.

Now, why would that happen?

I don't know.

She seems to be highly qualified.

She seems to be well-liked by everybody.

I've never heard, you know,

you hear bad, occasionally you'll hear from sports fans.

They don't particularly like female announcers as much.

They seem to like her.

Beth What's her face is a really good example of that?

Beth What's her face?

Beth What's her face who does play-by-play college football from time to time?

Have you not watched coverage?

I don't remember that by Beth What's her face?

She's not your favorite.

Oh, my.

No, not my favorite.

And that's been a standard complaint from guys over the years, right?

I mean, we can admit that that's been something that other guys, not us, have done.

Beth What's her face is fine.

No, she's perfectly fine.

But Rachel Nichols has always been

one of the anchors that I thought has been highly well-respected.

Sage Steele is another one on ESPN that I think

really like.

I never heard a bad word about her.

Female announcers can do great jobs and

whatever.

So what's interesting here is she's off camera.

She realizes she's losing this gig.

She's losing this gig to Maria Taylor.

Now, Maria Taylor is a woman as well, an African-American woman.

Now,

think about you in this situation for a second.

If you're Rachel Nichols, you've just lost your big prime-time gig, right?

You're pissed off about it.

Now, people at times in those private conversations might say stuff that, you know, like they don't necessarily have evidence of, but they're, you know, expressing frustration.

And especially if, like she says it is, it's in your contract that you're going to have that gig.

Right.

This is her.

And you'd especially be upset about it.

Yeah.

So here's what she says in a private conversation.

She says, I wish Maria Taylor all the success in the world.

She covers football.

She covers basketball.

If you need to give her more things to do because you're feeling pressure about your crappy longtime record on diversity, which by the way, I know personally from the female side of it, like go for it.

Just find it somewhere else.

You're not going to find it from me or taking my thing away.

End quote.

Uh-oh.

This has been,

this is the type of thing at ESPN that it gets turned into an international incident.

Now, what's fascinating about this is someone, we don't know who,

who

could it be?

I don't know.

I don't have evidence.

as to who it was, but I will say someone held on to this recording for like a year

and has now somehow gotten it to the New York Times right around the moment Maria Taylor is renegotiating her contract with ESPN.

Now, look, who could it be?

It could be anyone in the whole world.

It's like the guy in the Netflix series, I think you should leave with Tim Robinson.

Tim Robinson's dressed up as a hot dog in a hot dog costume after a hot dog car crashes into a clothing store.

And they're all looking around, who did this and the guy in the hot dog costume is saying i don't know who could it be it could be any of us

it's you in the hot dog costume you were driving the hot dog car now we don't have any evidence that she was driving the hot dog car in this particular situation but it could be could be let's give us some scenarios could be one of someone who's uh aligned with her Could be someone random.

Could be someone who just really cared about racial justice, Pat.

Could be someone with just a hardcore belief in racial justice.

Very well known

who it could be.

But it's interesting that it's coming up, particularly at this time,

when apparently the belief is that ESPN has offered Maria Taylor multiple millions of dollars, but she wants multiple millions of dollars more.

She wants something like $8 million a year.

Wow.

At least

that's the reporting going on right now.

I want that too.

I want it too.

I want that too.

Can I just state that now?

I want that too.

I want $8 million a year.

What I find to be completely fascinating about this story, and first of all, it falls right in to the Pat Gray sweet spot of liberals eating their own.

Because if you notice the comments from Rachel Nichols, she's not saying it's unfair to give someone a job they don't necessarily deserve because of their physical characteristics.

She's saying that's fine.

They should just take away other people's jobs instead of hers.

Right.

And she's also saying that she

she was on this bandwagon already on the female side of it.

So she's actually seemingly for

people being promoted because of their physical characteristics.

Yep.

Because she believes there's been some injustice against those people.

Right.

So she's not against.

She wouldn't say like, I think.

I don't think she would summarize her position as, I think the best person should get the job no matter what their, what their skin color or gender.

Right.

And that's not what she's saying.

No, she's saying women should get diversity hires.

Maybe even

she's saying that ESPN has a bad record on diversity and they should be promoting black women to these roles.

Just don't take my gig.

I want that money, not her.

Give me the money.

Give me the job.

She can take some white guy's job is basically what she's saying.

And does ESPN have a bad record on diversity?

Because

there are approximately three white men who work at ESPN now, I think, at this point.

I mean, I'll look.

I don't care.

I really don't care.

I don't either.

But if you're going to say they have a problem with diversity, there's women and BIPOCs everywhere on the network.

Yeah.

There's, like you said, maybe three white people left.

Is that too many?

Yeah.

I mean, look at our own Jason Woodlock, who works here

at Blaze TV now, just started.

By the way, his show is starting up.

I don't know if it started yet.

It's coming soon.

He's got a podcast coming out and everything.

He's a great host.

When he was at ESPN, they started, what was it, the Undefeated?

It was basically supposed to cover the racial, the intersection of race and sports.

And Jason was one of the people who started it.

And if you know Jason and his views on race and sports and that intersection, they are not approved.

Not ESPN approved.

By ESPN anymore.

That's for sure.

And so he's certainly no longer there.

And they took it in a totally different direction, which was essentially if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran a sports publication, right?

Like that's what it is now.

Which is so weird because the average sports fan is not there.

Yeah, and the average sports fan is not going to the site either.

It's more of a political move now

than something that could have been really interesting.

If you look back at some of Jason's work when he was there, I mean, some of it's fantastic.

He's always great, Jason, but I mean, like, it's it's fantastic.

So, what I find to be fascinating about this story, though, though, is

let's just play game theory here for a second, Pat.

How would you win in this scenario?

Okay.

How would you win?

We know that Rachel Nichols is in trouble.

Why?

Because she said they were promoting Maria Taylor to this job because she's a black woman, right?

They're trying to just solve these diversity problems.

So they've promoted a black woman into this role, right?

Yep.

What's fascinating about that is that this is specifically the request from the left that you promote people because they are black women, right?

Back in the day,

the position of everybody was hire the best person for the job.

Don't notice their skin color.

You shouldn't be noticing their skin color, okay?

The new request is the opposite of that.

It's you must notice their skin color.

You should give people who are, let's say, African American, a leg up,

whether they are the best person for the job or not.

You have to give a black person the job, right?

We saw this with the Lynn Manuel Miranda movie that came out recently in the Heights, I think it was called, where they got in trouble because they hired almost exclusively Hispanic actors, but not dark-skinned Hispanic actors or not dark-skinned enough.

So it wasn't about that the actors and the singers and the dancers did a bad job or they weren't the most qualified is that they didn't have dark enough skin to to please the woke crowd so what rachel nichols is saying and getting in trouble for

and accusing espn of doing is the exact thing the woke people are requiring

so how could you possibly win in this situation if you say they only put this black woman in this role because because she's black, you're bad.

However, the woke left is also saying you must put this black woman in this role because she's black.

They're saying the both sides of the issue, it's impossible to win,

first of all.

Second of all, you shouldn't even be trying to win because it's

anti-American to, and I think completely wrong.

to make decisions based on skin color.

It's a thing I've had for a while.

I've had this weird inkling throughout my entire life that you should make approximately, exactly zero decisions in your entire life based on skin color that's kind of my philosophy where are you getting that kind of nonsense

there was a couple people who brought it up who else would have felt like that yeah i know that's ridiculous it's an outlier of a position to take it is now it is now who wants it you know uh mlk is not welcome in the movement anymore yeah someone's you know there's this book anti-racist baby that we've talked about a few times from Ibram X.

Kendi.

And it's basically a way to indoctrinate people into this,

babies, literally babies, into this hardcore left-wing woke ideology, you know, critical race theory.

It's all involved in this, even though it's occasionally denied.

And someone asked someone that I know, hey, like, you know, why don't you, you know, they posted something negative about anti-racist baby.

And they were like, well, why, why don't you like, why don't you, what's wrong with being an anti-racist?

It's like, well, I prefer the way MLK went about it.

That's, that's the problem here.

I prefer the way MLK thought about it.

And I, what, what is, what we have now is this idea that we should discriminate against certain groups to try to even some score done by their ancient relatives.

Like, that's what I call nuts.

Yep.

And wrong.

And, you know, I'm not going to teach my kids that.

I'm not going to teach babies that.

I think that's the wrong thing to teach them.

And it's amazing to see ESPN try to figure out how to navigate this situation because one is saying you should be woke for women.

The other person is saying you should be woke for black women.

And ESPN should be saying, hey, put the best host on the air.

Who's the best host?

Put them on the air.

And they can't even do that.

Can't do it anymore.

Incredible.