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Welcome to the program.

It's myself and Pat Gray today in for Glenn Beck, who's on vacation.

Well, he was on vacation earlier this week.

He just still showed up and did the show.

He just acted like he was on vacation.

The effort percentage level is suboptimal.

Really?

Yeah.

Really?

You could just tell

his head in vacation mode a little bit.

I did an interview with him yesterday on Studios America, and he just, I don't even think he mentally showed up for it.

He was very funny, and he made some good points, but he was basically falling asleep in the middle of it.

Really?

That's kind of the.

I noticed a lot of yawning in the middle of his.

He just breaks out in full frontal yawn.

What, 80 times a morning?

Yesterday was probably a top five worst day ever, would you say, Sarah?

Probably one of the five worst days I've ever seen him.

He was just from the beginning of the show to the end of the show, every time he had to take a breath, it was like,

sometimes in the middle of sentences, it's crazy.

It really is.

I don't know anyone else like that.

I don't either.

I get tired too, but I don't yawn a thousand times a day.

I mean, no, especially while you're on the air.

I just bored the snot out of myself.

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We, there are just a ton of things happened yesterday.

They're fascinating.

Bill Cosby, Britney Spears.

Donald Rumsfeld died, very sad.

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He was the master of press conferences, though.

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Really surprising development yesterday.

All of a sudden, because I didn't know this was

in progress court-wise, Bill Cosby had his conviction overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and he left prison yesterday.

Yeah.

Bang, just like that.

He's out and free.

That was wild.

A lot of times you hear these cases get overturned and then they wind through the court for another six months.

Right.

Right.

Nope, been overturned, and that day he's leaving.

Yeah, you're free to go.

See ya.

Not even like the,

you know, you're under probation, nothing.

He's just home ready to.

Now, I don't know that he's going to leave the house all that much.

But I don't think.

I don't think he's quite as popular as he was

in the late 80s.

There's been a slight falloff from the Cosby show years.

I don't know if people have sensed that.

If you don't monitor the entertainment industry closely, you might not have sensed that.

But there's been a slight falloff in his popularity from the most popular and beloved figure in all of America to

the

rapist.

Yeah.

Serial rapist, really.

Yeah.

And that's not necessarily.

the move you want for your career.

Now, he's always maintained his innocence.

And that's why

he said during his prison sentence that he's probably going to serve the full 10 years because he's never going to admit what he did.

And that was part of the, apparently, part of the process to be released in three years instead of 10 was

admitted that he did it.

And he wasn't going to.

In fact, not only was he not going to admit to any wrongdoing whatsoever, he wouldn't attend their sexual predator class either.

He wouldn't do the therapy.

And he just flat out refused.

So he would have

not

conforming to the conditions of early release, he wouldn't have been released early.

Yeah, he would have been there for 10 years.

10 years.

Probably dies in prison.

Probably.

Probably dies in prison.

Now, it was a very strange day with that case, in that you don't expect a guy at that high-profile level to just be released and go home the same afternoon.

I mean, it was a very strange development.

But when you really look at this case,

and this has been true the entire time, It really was, in my view, a miscarriage of justice.

Really?

Yes.

And I know.

I didn't follow it that closely.

I think a lot of people did what

most people would do, which is to look at, okay, look, wait a minute.

He did what?

You get the quotes that you hear.

Yes, I got Kwaludes and I was drugging women or whatever.

He didn't quite say it that, but that's how it's portrayed every time.

And you look at

his fall from grace, the fact that that he's been beat up by everybody.

No one likes him anymore.

There's really no defenders of him.

Except Felicia,

which is she has been the lone defender of this guy.

In fact, she said, finally,

justice has been served or whatever she said yesterday.

She was the one person who tweeted something good about him.

Yes, that's true.

He does have that one defender.

She's the one, by the way,

who played his wife on the Cosby show.

Claire Huxtable, was it?

Yeah.

That's been a while.

It's been a while.

But so

stepping back for a second, did Bill Cosby do these things to these women?

I don't know.

I wasn't there.

Seems to be a lot of women who are accusing him.

Obviously, you can't just make it about that.

He definitely said some things in the

transcript of the trial for the civil case that would lead you to believe he was certainly not a good guy.

And maybe very well did some terrible things to the women.

So let's just assume for a second he did these things.

100% we know mentally that he did these things.

He still should not have gone to prison.

And here's the thing.

If you go back and look at how this progressed, basically, this woman accused Bill Cosby of these terrible things.

He said he didn't do it.

He denied it.

And they were going to bring him to criminal trial.

The prosecutor at the time.

or the DA at the time says, okay, I'm looking at the evidence here.

We have nothing except she's she's saying it, right?

She's saying it, and he's saying that it didn't happen.

No physical evidence.

This happens all the time in these types of cases.

This is why, by the way, if something, God forbid, something like this happens to you, go immediately to the authorities so they can get as much physical evidence as possible and circumstantial evidence as possible.

Because once you let a few years go by, it's impossible to look at these things unless you have the person admitting it.

And there were way more than a few years.

Right.

Yeah.

And in a lot of these cases, it was decades and decades and decades.

Yeah.

So

the DA says, okay, well, I'm looking at the evidence here.

There's no way we're going to get him convicted in a criminal suit.

There's no way.

Because he's just going to say Fifth Amendment right to not to not to not

have to testify.

And they're just going to throw it out of court.

So

their solution to that was to say, hey, you know, Bill,

what if

we give you immunity in this case in exchange for you to testify in the civil case, to give some answers to these questions.

So you'll be guaranteed you will not be convicted and go to prison if you give,

actually tell your story and answer these questions.

So he, they think about it.

You know, if, now, look, if you're totally innocent, do you just say, screw it, I'm going to court anyway?

Maybe, but you're taking a huge risk, right?

So in his telling of the story, he said, well, look,

I can get rid of the possibility of going to prison and the worst case is I'll have to go and I'll defend myself in this in this case and I might lose some money in a civil case right

so that happens they go through they wind up settling the civil case eventually he pays a few million dollars this testimony is sealed guaranteed to be sealed and guaranteed that he cannot be convicted of this crime and go to prison That DA leaves.

The new one comes in and says, you know what?

The thing is, when we made that deal, there wasn't this comedian that went viral about the case.

So let's reopen it and just forget all the stuff we told him before.

Instead, we'll just say, you know what?

We can use all of that testimony that had to be sealed.

And you know what?

You can be convicted for it.

Sorry.

And so they just redid it all, totally against what had been guaranteed to him this entire time.

It goes through the process.

He obviously, now they have the testimony of him saying the Kwaluds thing and all of these other things.

So he looks much, much worse than he would have looked initially.

They just tricked him and overturned their own promise.

That's crazy.

And that is absolutely not our legal system.

I'm sorry, like as bad as this guy may be, he may very well be a serial rapist.

But just like everyone else

in this country, you get rights

in the legal system and the government cannot continually screw you and tell you one thing and do the other.

Did he admit to all those things in the civil trial?

He didn't admit to them.

So he said things like, you know, I bought Kwalud.

Did you ever buy Kwaludes to be with women?

Yes.

Did you ever, what was your intent when you bought the Kwaludes?

Were you wanting to have sex with these women?

Yes.

Now, when they asked him, did you have sex with them without, you know, when they were asleep or against their will?

He says no.

So basically, again, I'm not saying I believe his case, but his Kwaludes just to relax him, get him in the mood.

Yeah,

his case was basically like, you know, in this, you know, whenever you're...

Average, that's all the Kwaludes are.

Take Kwaludes because no one uses Kwaludes anymore.

It's not even a thing.

Oh, it sounds like Louis.

You should ask Jeffy in here because he might be able to 60s or 70s.

But his point, this was his point.

The 60s and 70s, Quailudes were like wine.

Again, I'm not, again, I don't agree with his point.

But his point is like, basically, I bought a case of beer.

to drink with a woman, and then in my hopes, I was going to sleep with her.

That was kind of what his point was in these moments.

Of course, Kwalutes now are much more associated with drugging of women.

And that is, by the way, their accusation, that he was slipping the Kwalutes into drinks or whatever.

They would drink them and would not, they would fall asleep, and then he would have his way with them.

He completely denies that.

We don't know the truth here.

There's so many accusations.

It's easy to believe that it is true.

However,

they basically went to Bill Cosby and said, hey,

we're not going to pursue any prosecution.

You will have immunity in this case.

In exchange for that, you have to abandon your Fifth Amendment right to be able to not answer these questions.

Your constitutional right's gone because you cannot be convicted.

So you have to answer these questions.

And so they used that against him in the criminal trial?

Yeah, they brought all of the information they got from the civil trial and said, okay, now you can be convicted and we can use this information.

I mean, that is completely insane.

It's just not a lot of people are going to be sympathetic, though.

And that's true.

He clearly did something.

Yes.

In the eyes of the American people, he did something wrong.

And I think in a way,

this is a positive development for our legal system because we have decided as a country to start doing justice via social media, via documentary.

You know, like they came out with a documentary against this person.

We now know they're evil, and they never get to do anything in society again.

And when we have an actual legal system that's supposed to go through this stuff, and just because, like, it seems like people were like, well,

Bill Cosby, we all think he's bad.

He's really bad.

In fact, it looks like he did some really, really bad stuff.

And we don't like him.

And this is different than a normal person because we really

don't like him.

And he made us like him before, and so now we don't.

So we feel sort of burned.

We feel by the worst.

Yeah, we feel burned by that.

So we're just going to, you know, the whole legal system.

What if we don't do that for now and just instead focus on the fact that we really don't like him?

Yeah.

You know, like, what if we overturn all these rules and laws because Bill Cosby's really bad?

And look at all these tweets.

Have you seen the Hannibal comedy session on him?

It's really funny.

People, look at all the views on YouTube.

Maybe he should be convicted.

That's not justice.

It's not the way this system works.

And even when it benefits the worst people among us,

those rules still get to be applied.

And the other interesting aspect of this, he was admitting to all of this stuff

with his wife.

Into, with his wife hearing it all.

And supporting him.

What's sticking with him?

Supporting him.

The whole time.

She's still with him.

She's still with him.

What kind of weird arrangement did they have?

I don't know.

Because it was.

Oh, that's something.

There was never a point where he was like, I didn't cheat on my wife.

What are you talking about?

No.

I mean, there may have been a point, but that point is lost.

Not lately.

Yeah, not during the case and not during the trial and not during any interviews did he ever say, and she sat there right by him a few times in interviews and they talked about this stuff.

Really amazing.

And it's one of those things.

There's a million accusations.

It was a known secret in Hollywood for a long time.

There are people who, you know, I was talking to somebody who went to Temple recently, and he was like, you know, everybody, everybody, it was like a known secret around there.

Like, he would always be down, like, having his arms around the young girls.

It was just a thing, you know, and, but that's,

that's neither here nor there when you're talking about putting someone in prison.

Yeah.

Like, you can have all the beliefs you want about somebody, but you can't, you can't throw them in prison.

And I do feel like there's this thing that's happening in our society right now where we, if enough social media pressure exists, it's just okay

to break the rules to punish that person.

It's just okay, you know, sure, you might have, like, you might have

the right to be to not be in prison, but we, we don't like you.

It does seem to be almost the long and the short of it.

Like, there's a lot of accusations against you.

We have no evidence to put you in prison.

However, you should go to prison because look at all these freaking retweets.

That's not America.

Going to the First Amendment, Pat.

Everyone always says it.

The speech the First Amendment protects is the speech people hate because it's not everybody who says nice things to each other.

No one's trying to censor Hallmark greeting cards.

It's the stuff that you don't want to hear.

It's the stuff that's difficult to hear.

That's what it's there to protect.

It's supposed to be there to protect the worst people in society.

And I think that may very well be the case here.

But the fact that that still stands in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, because

they're not going to have fun at dinner parties here for a while after this one.

That's for sure.

People are not going to like it.

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So, Bill Cosby walking free today.

He's free as a bird, back with his lovely wife and his committed, loyal wife, apparently.

Very loyal.

I would say.

Very, very loyal.

I don't think if there's anything to question in this case, it is not her loyalty.

That's for sure.

The other thing that happened yesterday, celebrity-wise, was astounding as well with Britney Spears.

And her thing, her freedom, went the other way.

I am astounded that she wasn't set free from this conservatorship.

Her dad still has control over every aspect of her life, apparently, but now I think he shares control with some corporation because Brittany asked the judge that, okay, if you're going to at least keep this in place, can

they at least join this situation?

Because she doesn't, apparently there's not a good relationship there with her dad, and he's controlling every aspect of her.

She claims to all the way down to her dance moves, what dance moves she does.

Yeah.

Amazing.

And I don't understand how in the United States of America, with a 39-year-old adult, this is even possible.

How do you make a ruling like that?

Yeah, he's going to continue to control your life.

Sorry.

And they didn't even say sorry, actually.

So the only way this can happen is if you have dementia of some sort.

Clearly, she doesn't have dementia.

Or you're completely mentally ill to the point where you're a danger to yourself or others.

That doesn't seem to be the case either.

I mean, I know she's a little strange.

She's a little weird.

She's always been.

But

why would you completely lose your freedom over that?

If she's a danger to herself or others, she should be in a mental institution.

How do they continue to allow her dad to control her money?

I don't understand that.

How is that even possible?

With the things that she testified to and the support that she has with the American people, of course, I guess that didn't enter into it.

But

how do they rule against a 39-year-old adult who is a U.S.

citizen?

And nope, sorry, you can't be in control of your life.

I don't know how that happens.

Yeah, the social media pressure on this one was not enough.

Not even.

Not at all.

To take it into account.

Because that's certainly where everyone seems to be on this.

And I think they should be there.

Yeah,

we should talk about this a little bit.

I think you're probably right.

I mean, I don't, the idea that you can just overturn someone's life, I mean, you know, the imprisonment thing is a little bit of hyperbole.

Yeah.

She's, you know, a multi-millionaire in a very, very nice house and all of these things.

But there's, you know, by her telling, I mean, it does not seem to be something that should be allowed in in the United States of America.

And clearly, he's in control of her finances, and she's living a good life.

Yeah, she's got a nice house.

But that's a small part.

She's got nice things.

Yeah, I don't mean to say that that's the end-all-be-all of a human existence, though.

I mean, you get to do, you should have freedom.

You should have complete freedom over your life decisions.

Yeah, unless you're a criminal or unless you're so mentally incapacitated that we can't trust that to you because you'll hurt yourself or somebody else.

Well, that's not the case here.

She doesn't have Alzheimer's disease.

She doesn't have an early onset dementia.

So, how does this continue into 13 years now?

That's really something

I don't fully comprehend it.

Weird ruling, as far as I'm concerned.

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We're talking about Britney Spears.

Talk to the Bill Cosby situation, too, which is incredible.

He's now a free man.

Conviction overturned.

Can't be tried again.

So he's free now for the rest of his life.

Well, unless he rapes again or does something illegal again and gets caught for it.

But Britney Spears lost her bid to get out of her

conservatorship with her father yesterday.

And it just seems

bizarre to me that a 39-year-old woman can't run her own life if she's not a danger to herself or others.

And, you know, we were talking during the break.

Maybe she is, and we just haven't heard.

Maybe we just don't know all the facts.

That is the one thing that should cause a little bit of hesitation with this, because

if the situation is as it's been presented in the media,

it's absolute injustice, right?

If she's just, like, maybe she's got some issues.

Un-American.

But so many un-American things are happening right now.

It's like, oh, okay, well, here's another one.

I will say very well may be exactly what we think it is on the surface.

Maybe it is completely un-American and completely out of control.

It's very possible that's just the truth.

I mean, we have a background of information on this, right?

Where

the parent of a child star wants to take in their millions and is dedicated to basically ruining their life in that pursuit.

We certainly have plenty of evidence on that from other cases.

The only thing I would hesitate, and I don't know the laws in California per se, but I will say, you know, having to go through, you know, some stuff recently

regards to people, you know, with mental health issues and seeing people try to handle those issues,

it's not like you walk in.

to a courtroom and say, I'd like a conservatorship over that person.

Can I have one?

And they're like, oh, yeah, sure.

Here, here's the paperwork.

Like, this is like

it's not easy.

It's hard to get

conservatorship.

And so, the question is: like, people are like, Well, I can't believe that her dad would say she's forced to take an IUD and she has she's every one of her dance moves goes through her dad.

Stop for a second and think,

what if he didn't do that?

Just what if

everything she said was completely made up?

What if if every one of her claims

exists in her mind as reality, but is not reality?

That's what mental, severe mental health looks like.

Yeah.

And so we don't know, for example, you know, I'm just, this, I don't have information on this, but just throwing this out there.

Like, did Britney Spears try to commit suicide eight times?

I don't know.

We I'm not saying that the court does know it though.

And so they might be dealing with a a completely different set of information.

And like, I will say some of the claims, you know,

that she was making, I read her testimony where she made all these claims.

And they sounded familiar from other people I've heard going through these situations.

Like people who have gone through and said, you know, there's like a new accusation every day.

There's a new sort of like

thing you've never heard of.

And they're very often crazy scenarios that are shocking to hear.

But when you investigate them with someone dealing with severe mental health issues, a lot of times what you find out is they just

made it up.

You know, I mean, as crazy as it sounds, and it may not be Britney Spears, I'm not defending the dad.

I don't know enough about the situation.

I just think that when we look at it, we have to understand that these situations a lot of times are a lot more complicated.

Like I've seen, you know, cases where, you know, something will happen, a dramatic event will happen to a family member.

And, you know, someone dealing with mental health issues will hear about that event and then adopt it into their own life.

They'll all of a sudden start telling people it happened to them instead of the other family member.

Because it's just like the brain is just, you know, it's just not working.

It's just not working anymore.

And it's really sad and hard to deal with.

And if you think about yourself as a dad, if your daughter is going through something like this, you're going to do what you can to try to protect them.

Now,

given that it's Hollywood, given that we're millions of dollars on the line, given that she is seemingly coherent enough to come out and speak and

do some basic things, it does appear that change should be made in some way.

But I would just, you got to.

There's a reason I think you need to at least have hesitation to believe like this is the ultimate injustice open and shut case.

The court knows a lot more about this than any of us do.

And if she really has been a danger to herself, or if she's a, you know, if she's a person who is

incapable of sort of like landing in reality and that, you know, every time she has a dealing with someone else, she, she can't.

She can't keep track of what is real and what is not.

That's a basic thing we all need to have.

At times, it feels like when you listen to the media, you listen to the government, it doesn't feel like anybody has it anymore.

But like, you need to be able to say, hey, last week I went to Arby's and got a roast beef sandwich and a curly fries.

Like, all of us, when we would say that, we would know we were at that Arby's.

What if you weren't at the Arby's?

What if you never went and got the curly fries?

There are people who go through severe mental illness where they can't decipher the difference between what is real and what is not.

And to get a conservatorship over a celebrity with millions of dollars of legal backing behind them.

And millions of supporters.

Yeah.

That is very young, to get a conservatorship at all,

I would argue, at least from my understanding of it, it is incredibly difficult to do.

And when you look back to, when you remember what was going on in 2008 with her,

she was going through some things very public meltdown yeah she had some meltdowns and she shaved her head and stuff and but i mean you can shave

if you want to if that's all it is but she melted down yeah and i think there were bigger issues than shaving her head right and so uh that's how the conservative ship started in the first place so there were things going on she was doing weird things she was uh saying weird things she was acting erratically

and that's how she lost control of her her financial life.

Yes.

And the legal system should err on the side of freedom.

Right.

So if she's even close to being able to deal with anything in her life, even if she is a disaster, even if she's a person who's going to go out and take the second she's free, go to a casino with all of her money and bet it all and lose it all, even that, she should still be free.

Like that, that she should be able to do what she wants to do.

But

it may be more more significant than that.

And we should remember that everything that she said in her hearing should not be taken as truth.

You know,

it is really important that if she's at all capable of handling her life, she should be able to handle her life.

And even if she's incapable of it, you know, even if there's a lot of people

who I mean, there's people I know who are, you know, in this building who work here.

I mean, Jeffy should not be able allowed to handle his life.

How many times have we argued that he should not be able to be around his children?

Many times.

Us.

You're right.

Should not be allowed in the building.

Right.

Right.

You know, but I mean, no one's going to want a conservatorship for Jeffy.

Nobody's going to want it.

Nobody wants to try to untangle that mess.

No.

No.

No.

No, thank you.

But

not even Britney's dad.

No.

Intervene and make that one work out of him.

It's like the reverse bit, Brittany.

You get the conservatorship and suddenly you owe millions of dollars.

And you're like, how did this happen?

But, you know, so these legal system should always err on freedom.

So

likely,

probably this should change.

But there is, there should be at least consideration

to the alternative.

Yeah, I guess so, because it did seem like the judge was pretty solid in his ruling and pretty definitive that this needed to continue.

And then,

but somebody else joined in the, she wanted some some institution, some financial institution to be part of it.

And so now he's got to share that conservatorship with somebody else.

So maybe that'll make her life better.

I don't know.

But

it's going to continue for an indefinite amount of time.

I don't know how many times you can revisit that and try to overcome the conservatorship, conservatorship.

I don't know how many times you can revisit that.

I don't know either.

And, you know, look,

if it's that's the other thing that you could argue here is that let's just say it was a really bad situation.

Most people probably are unable to do what she's done here, right?

You can't, it's hard to come up with the legal, you don't have the resources to mount a legal challenge against it.

You also don't have the public support to go through something like that.

Nobody cares, right?

You just, you're just wasting away in conservatorship land.

But

she she has the resources to be able to challenge it in ways that other people wouldn't, right?

So maybe, you know, in this world where it actually was a good decision to put her in a conservatorship, if you accept that for a second, most people wouldn't be able to get out of it, where she might be able to get out of it because she has those resources.

So are the resources helping overturn a situation that was appropriate?

is the other way to look at it.

And again, I don't know, but it is one of those situations.

It does feel like in a similar way with the Cosby thing, where

social media documentaries, we do justice by documentary now.

The New York Times released a documentary that said Brittany had really unfair treatment of her when she was younger, and there's some convincing evidence to that.

So

we now kind of, everyone's on that side of things.

And we now kind of look at this and say, all right, well, that's the way it is.

Maybe it may not be the way it is.

Yeah.

It might not.

Yeah.

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It's amazing the things that are racist now.

In the last few months, we found out quite a few things are racist that you may not have known about, like highways.

Highways are racist.

Why is that?

Because I think less BIPOC people drive on them.

Is that?

Yeah,

and more BIPOC people get killed on them.

Oh, really?

Per capita.

Is that really the reason?

Yes.

Because I've heard that.

Well, these highways get built built in places that divide communities.

There's also that.

There's that thing that they try to do, which is not even true in most cases.

There's an accusation, I think it was against the Chicago mayor, that he did it intentionally.

Like he put a highway in to keep essentially

black people a long time ago?

Yeah, from a long time ago in the early 1900s.

And when you look at the actual facts of the case, it was planned before he was even mayor.

But like no one cares.

Who cares?

You say it anyway.

Yeah, you just say it anyway.

And that's what they've learned, really.

You just keep saying it until people believe it.

And people will believe it if you just keep saying it.

Even when others are saying that's a distinct lie.

Yeah.

It doesn't matter.

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And eventually people do believe it.

There was that time where, and I feel like it wasn't that long ago, where people would have this weird internal thing happen to them where they felt like they needed to answer it or justify it.

Right.

And that just goes.

That's gone.

It's gone now.

Completely gone.

It just keeps going.

You know what?

Yeah, we just, you know what?

We're the party that said we shouldn't defund the police.

That's us.

They're just doing that now.

Right.

They're acting as if the last year just didn't occur.

It just didn't happen.

Yeah, Democrats are able to pin this on Republicans now.

Okay, wait, no, no Republicans wanted to, I don't know of a single Republican who wanted to defund police.

Democrats were screaming about it all over the country.

No, no, we didn't.

What do you mean?

No, that's Republicans.

Those are Republicans who did that.

That very thin, very young, crazy person with the weird eyes from New York is actually a Republican.

No, I think that's AOC.

I think she's a Democrat, right?

Yeah.

They are able to deny it because they get the assistance of the media to help them further

those odd narratives that they pick.

It surprises me that it works, though.

I don't know how it works.

I know.

And I love this from Towson University now.

They recently hosted a virtual anti-racist pedagogy symposium.

I'm so sorry I missed this.

I try to go to all the pedagogy symposiums, and especially the anti-racist one.

I really wanted to attend, but couldn't.

But it criticized university writing curriculum and programs for being racist and perpetuating whiteness with proper grammar.

So, proper grammar now is also

racist.

There's such a strange thing in this anti-racist Ibram Kennedy white fragility type of

world where they just pick the things that are good about people and say that's white people.

You know, like that's those are white people things, like showing up on time.

It's just a white person thing.

It's like, wait a minute, being productive members of society.

Yeah.

That's a white person thing.

Legitimately, being polite.

Yeah.

They say is a white person thing.

And it's like, wait, that's just racism.

Like, David Duke said the same things 20 years ago.

And you're just like, yeah, you know what?

Duke was right.

That seems to be their argument.

Like, yes, you know what?

All those things that you like about society, people being polite to each other,

people being advanced on their merit is another one that they say is a white person.

Racist.

Is a part of the white culture.

People being, because it shouldn't be about your merit.

It should be a guess about your skin color.

Do you guys remember how this turned out last time we tried this?

Last time we were like, you know what?

We should make decisions based on skin color.

It didn't go well for anyone.

It went well, I mean, it went well for racists.

And by the way, racists are now here in the movement calling themselves the anti-racism movement.

That's what these people are.

They're racists.

It's clear.

It is quite clear.

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Oh, man.

This is one of those days that I'm glad we have a show because I would go insane without one.

Yeah.

We're going to talk about some climate situations coming up here in a few minutes.

Also,

I love the fact that

this first lady is treated like she is so classy and so beautiful and so wonderful and just got a vogue cover

when Melania Trump was completely ignored.

She's an actual beautiful supermodel who still looks like a supermodel and is one.

Never got on the cover of Vogue, or I don't think any other magazine.

Any other big fashion magazine.

I honestly think it's the most pure example of what they call Trump derangement syndrome.

Yeah, absolutely.

She's got nothing to do with these policies at all.

It's just association.

She's married to a guy.

They don't like his politics.

And so they don't don't like her.

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And they just basically act like she's not pretty.

It's insanity.

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And when it's brought up, hey, what about Melania Trump?

You know,

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We had this horrible tragedy in Miami with the the building collapse, with the condo collapse the other day.

And it's taken the lives of, you know, what is it, a dozen people so far that they've actually found, and then 149 missing still.

And it's just an awful, awful tragedy that just shouldn't happen in America.

But then you take that tragedy and you politicize it, which is what they're doing already.

The

energy secretary was on CNN, and she was being asked about whether or not this is a Gretchen, is it Gretchen Granholm?

I can't remember her first name.

It's not Jennifer Granholm.

Thank you.

So Jennifer Granholm is on talking about, and she's asked whether or not climate change had anything to do with it.

In terms of climate, you brought up what's happening, what we're seeing in the Pacific Northwest.

We've been talking a lot about what happened in Florida at the Surfside Condominium building that collapsed.

We don't know exactly what happened at this point.

But let's see.

But given what we know about the changing climate, given that we've seen an increase in these so-called extraordinary tides and the impact that that can have in areas like South Florida, do you think that climate could have played a role in that building's collapse?

Well, obviously, we don't know fully, but we do know that the seas are rising.

I mean, we know that we're losing inches and inches of beaches, not just in Florida, but all around.

Knocked over by a Sunni.

Michigan, where I'm from.

We've seen the loss of beaches because the waters are rising.

So

this is a phenomenon that will continue.

We'll have to wait to see what the analysis is for this building.

But the issue about resiliency and making sure we adapt to this changing climate, that's going to mean levees need to be built.

That means seawalls need to be built.

That means infrastructure needs to be built.

We need to make sure that we invest enough in clearing out the forests so we don't have these weather events.

We need to invest in hardening our transmission lines, maybe burying wires so that we can protect areas that are like tinderbox drives.

There's so much investment that we need to do to protect ourselves from climate change, but also to address it and mitigate it.

And hopefully, these influences

take this go on.

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Secretary of Campbell, what is the process of changing the money?

Are you blabbing about this?

Is that agonizing?

I will say, Pat, there are days that I just, I kind of just want to be a liberal.

You know, it's so much easier.

It is.

Life has to be fantastic for these people.

They come out and they say, well, look, every time there's a bad event, they say, look, we don't know for sure if it's climate change.

What we do know is that

everything that's bad in the world is climate change.

So we'll look at the details.

We'll look at the analysis later on.

We don't know yet, but we do know that every bad thing you'll ever hear about is about climate change.

And then when something happens that is the the opposite of what they predicted, they say, oh, that's not climate.

That's weather.

You're confusing.

You're not confused with weather.

That's the problem.

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Yes, obviously, it's been cooler than normal for the past year, but that's just

weather.

No big deal.

Don't even focus on that.

You got to talk about the trends.

Well, what about this one singular event that would agree with your trends?

Well, that's obviously climate change.

I mean, 116 degrees in Portland, Oregon.

That's clearly climate change.

Of course.

Clearly.

Clearly climate change.

They're going to happen more often.

It's 62 degrees right now in Portland.

That

isn't climate change, but it was two days ago.

Yes.

It was two days ago.

You have every single time something happens that's bad, it proves your point.

Yeah.

And every single time the opposite of that thing happening also proves your point.

This is the greatest thing in the world.

Sure is.

It's the ultimate scam.

They're right no matter what.

No matter what.

They've completely rigged the discussion so that whatever happens,

they're right.

And even when they're wrong, they're the ones that get to tell you that the previous position they had is no longer the science.

Right.

So they're going to be like, well, that's not the same thing.

But they weren't wrong.

They're not wrong now.

And they weren't really wrong then.

They're just more right now.

They're just more right now.

Like, you know, the example that a lot of people use, we've used it many times here on the air, is

the push in the 70s to say that global cooling was coming, that an ice age, another ice age was coming.

And if you ask the left about that now,

they'll say, well, look, that was just a couple of scientists.

It was not the mainstream position.

Look at the articles.

They don't,

they all say it was a mainstream position, that it was definitely happening.

It was only a question of how bad it was going to be and how fast it was going to come.

They were completely sure about it.

And their argument now is, well, you can't blame the scientists for that because that's just the journalists saying that in an incorrect way.

Well, that is who we're blaming, though.

Like, I'm not sitting here blaming climate scientists for how badly you cover the climate.

I'm blaming you.

I'm blaming the journalists for doing it.

They're the ones, and the media and

the politicians in this particular case are the ones furthering this nonsense, at least in this particular way.

And I mean, look, let me give you an example here,

Pat.

This comes back from 1995.

Newsbusters pointed this one out.

I hadn't, you know, there's so many hyperbolic complaints about the climate, you lose track of them over time, and you don't remember to look back at them.

This is a terrible, terrible

report about how bad the climate is going to be.

It's called Scientists Say Earth's Warming Could Set Off Wide Disruptions from September 18th, 1995.

So now we're not in the 70s now.

Okay.

We're in the 90s, in 1995.

They say that a continuing rise in global sea level, which is likely to amount to more than a foot and a half by the year 2100,

would inundate parts of many heavily populated river deltas and the cities on them, making them uninhabitable.

It would destroy many beaches around the world.

This is the most important phrase in this entire article.

At the most likely rate of rise, some experts say most of the beaches on the east coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years.

Now, you may recognize, if you're a mathematician, that 25 years from this article would be 2020.

Last year,

I happen to be completely sure there are still beaches on the east coast of the United States.

How do you know that?

I've been at them in 2021.

When, though, when?

2021, after the year they said they'd be gone.

Yeah, but what month in 2021 were you there?

Let's see.

It was a couple months ago.

Okay.

How old were you a couple of months ago?

Come on now.

Come on.

That was a long time ago.

I don't think I was even born a couple of months ago.

Really?

Really?

I'm going to go ahead and say just with visual sense that maybe I was born.

Yeah.

But I mean, just barely.

Barely.

Barely.

There was probably preschool

in that particular month.

And it's funny.

It's just ridiculous.

You look at this article.

This is in the paper of record.

This is

a peer-reviewed report about how bad the climate's going to be.

And it is presented in a way, it is not the worst case scenario that there would be no beaches on the east coast of the United States.

That's not the worst case scenario.

That is the most likely rate of rise.

The most likely scenario.

No beaches on the east coast.

And how many times did they say things like the west coast or the west side freeway?

Is that what it's called in New York?

You know, the one that we used all the time going into the city?

Yeah.

Was going to be completely submerged underwater by, was it 2000?

It was definitely before we worked there because I did a segment.

Definitely.

And I went down to that particular freeway, and it was still there, and people were driving on it.

Yeah.

And we have quote after quote after quote from this is from James Hansen, who is the lead NASA scientist that was testifying in front of Congress, telling us how bad global warming would be.

And of course, shockingly enough, they were totally wrong.

She mentions in here the Grand Holmes thing here, and she's a total global warming nut.

I mean, she is Al Gore, basically.

She's that far.

And what she mentions there is interesting because, of course, because she's a Democrat, she is in infrastructure pitch mode.

And what she's saying is, if this continues, we'll have to build sea walls.

Okay, let's just go down this road a little bit.

What the hell else would you do?

Right?

If the sea levels do rise,

you build sea walls.

It's not a particular, building a wall

is not a reason to shut down all industrial progress in our country.

When the realities hit you, what she's saying

in that little tiny chunk there is true.

When you have, which sometimes you do have, a changing environment, changing climate, what you do is adapt to that climate.

Well, they did that in 1900 in Galveston, Texas.

They sure did.

They raised the city 17 feet in 1900.

1900.

Yeah.

So, yeah, you adapt, you modify, you, if the conditions change, you got to change with them or move.

It's going to be one of the two.

Yeah, it's funny because if you read Michael Schellenberger's book, which is great, by the way.

I love it.

It's a really,

is it.

Apocalypse Never.

Apocalypse Never.

Thank you.

I knew it was a play on a movie title.

Apocalypse Never.

It's a great book.

And you go through it, and he explains, and Bjorn Lumborg has a great book out as well that

explains a similar thing as well, where

you'll hear these estimates that in like Bangladesh, you know, 100 million people will be displaced by climate change.

You're like, wow, that sounds really bad.

How do they come up with an estimate like that?

How do they do it?

And legitimately, how they do it is to say that the sea level will rise, let's say, a foot, they predict.

And what will happen is the people of bangladesh will literally do nothing about it they will sit here and every day and be like just watch it go up there's more water in the house today what she did now it just went up another four inches overnight correct what you would do about that i don't know why they have a they will do nothing to mitigate accent like that in bangladesh it's a very strange country you're describing i don't know why that the people from like uh you know uh probably not many agneses in bangladesh probably not probably not probably not there's only a few agneses but that Agnes is sitting here going, like, wow,

look at all that.

Now the water is up to the middle of the refrigerator.

What do we do now?

And it's like, okay, yes, we understand that there's poverty there and it's difficult.

But however, this is what you do.

There are multiple ways to mitigate a situation like that.

Things like sea walls,

things like

all sorts of

technology that can change

the way the water, the tides work, the way that you're protected from the tides.

All of these things have been in place in other countries around the world for decades and can be easily utilized in a situation like this.

And they talk about like people moving.

Well, that's another part of it.

Like worst case scenario, if you did nothing, what would people do?

Would they all just die?

They'd all just sit there and drown?

No, they move.

And like that would even, that's an extreme situation.

And of course, there's a million steps you take before that situation.

But that is not, it's just not real real life.

And so they take a thing like that and they say, what if the sea level rose and everyone in Bangladesh did nothing and the water just came up to their knees and then their chest and then their heads and they all drowned?

It could kill 100 million people.

Okay, I guess if they all just stood there.

But we are a society that is going to come up with amazing new technologies that we are doing every single day.

We've improved all of these technologies that can not only mitigate the situation, but also make

green energy better.

If you would allow, let's say, the ultimate green energy, which is nuclear power, to actually develop, all of these problems would have been solved a long time ago.

But you environmentalists stopped it.

So infuriating.

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We were talking a minute ago about James Hansen and his predictions about the Westside Highway being underwater, completely underwater.

And I believe it was by 2000, maybe even before that.

But it was certainly before we lived in New York in the 2000s.

I just read a headline a couple of weeks ago that concerned James Hansen from NASA.

And it said, James Hanson wishes he wasn't so right.

How do they say that?

How do you write that article about this guy?

He's never been right.

Are you kidding me?

None of these guys have been right.

And yet they act as though, and people treat them as though they've never gotten a single prediction wrong.

I know.

When he

did his testimony in front of Congress, where they intentionally turned the air conditioning off to make people look hot,

he actually came out and said, hey, I'm going to give you three scenarios of what could happen.

We could have my scenario where everything goes great and we turn off the emissions and we cut them and everything's great.

We could have a medium scenario or a really worst case scenario.

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They were lower.

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actual emissions were

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And he's like, I'm a genius.

What you should take from this is that I was right.

I don't understand it.

And you know what?

Part of that might be because

their whole premise for this may be completely wrong, that CO2 drives temperature, because sometimes that's true.

And as Al Gore has admitted,

sometimes the opposite is also true.

When he said this, I think this blows the whole premise.

Temperature goes up before the CO2.

Sometimes that has been true in the past.

The opposite has also been true.

I mean, he admitted

that sometimes temperature drives up CO2.

Sometimes CO2 drives up temperature.

Well then, doesn't that destroy your whole argument that CO2 is behind this and

it's the greenhouse gas that is killing the planet?

When it might be the fact that the temperature is going up and that's pushing up the CO2?

What?

That is an incredible.

The whole premise is ruined.

Right.

And then that's, there's not, they have not changed their mind on that.

I mean, that's still

the case.

But it's a great illustration as to they can have this both ways every time.

It doesn't matter if what they say is proven correct.

Just, you know, look, I mean,

they just get to go along with it.

Yeah.

They just continue to be able to take whatever position they want.

And no one goes back in the New York Times and say, wow, look at this dumb thing we wrote 25 years ago.

We should write a new article updating it and saying how wrong it was.

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Also, today is Bobby Bonilla Day in New York.

It is Bobby Bonilla Day.

My favorite day of the year.

July 1st.

July 1st is Bobby Bunilla Day if you don't know what Bobby Bonilla Day is it is a holiday that is celebrated in New York every year and I love this story because it's it's just it's very satisfying but he basically Bobby Bunilla was a very good baseball player you know all-star you know many times and he signed a very large contract with the New York Mets at the time

and as as his career sort of winded down They decided they were going to they didn't want to pay him all of the money they owed him, which is an understandable instinct.

I don't want to pay people the money I owe them either.

So the Mets thought, instead of paying

the

amount that they owed him, which is multiple millions of dollars, they said, what if we defer this money?

At the time, they wanted to pay, I think they owed him $5.9 million.

They didn't want to pay him $5.9 million.

They were in the midst of a championship run, they thought.

They wanted to go sign some free agents.

And what year was this?

Do you remember?

1999.

Yeah, I thought it was over 20 years ago.

Yeah.

So they said, instead of paying him the 5.9 million they owed him, they said, What if, Bobby, let's listen to this, just listen to us.

What if we don't pay you that

$5.9 million in one chunk?

And instead, we'll give you $1.193 million

every year

from now, 1999, till 2035.

Why would you make that deal?

Why would you make that deal?

It's a great deal.

So instead, we don't want to pay $5.9 million.

Right.

How about we pay you $30 million?

Yes.

Is essentially what they were saying.

Yep.

It would be $29.8 million instead of $5.9.

But they don't have to pay it.

They will pay him a little bit until 2035.

So you think about it from your banilla, you're like, wow, even if I screw up and I become the typical athlete that blows it all in a car wash or something, we're going to get a million dollars every year.

So I get a million dollars coming up the next year and I never have to worry about it ever again.

Great idea.

For them, why would they do it?

Well, there actually is

a reason they did it.

And it's actually something that everyone is somewhat familiar with.

But the truth is, at the time, the owners of the Mets were heavy investors in a fantastic fund.

run by a brilliant hedge fund manager named Bernie Madoff.

And they looked at the numbers and and they said.

He was a good friend of management, I believe.

Yes, he was.

And they looked at the numbers and they said, well, we're making 20, 30, 40% a year on this.

If we just keep the money with Madoff,

all of the money we're making off that investment will pay for Benia and we won't basically have to pay him any of this money.

We're going to wind up saving money by deferring the cash for all that time.

Now, you may have heard in the news that the Bernie Madoff situation did not turn out as expected.

Apparently, he was running a giant Ponzi scheme and he's now dead.

So it didn't turn out exactly.

We lost him.

We lost him.

We did lose him.

But today's the day he gets his check.

The check

of $1.19

million.

It was actually $1,193,248.20.

So essentially $1.2 million every year till 2035.

Yep.

And he still has

half of the time left, which is almost half the time of this situation continuing.

And since then, those owners don't even own the team anymore.

But one foresight on Bonilla's part to say.

Yeah, okay.

All right.

Instead of paying me $5 million, you pay me $30 million.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Sounds great.

Are you sure?

Ow, ow, ow.

Okay.

The other side of this, which is they did this multiple times, by the way.

It wasn't just Bonilla.

They did it with other players as well around this time because they were convinced

they were getting such great returns from this Madhoff guy that anything that they could defer would wind up being a good investment.

What's interesting, though, is it did allow them to bring in new

free agents and a pitcher in particular, which actually led him to the World Series that year.

So, in a way, it did kind of work.

But

that being said, it doesn't feel like that every July 1st, I think, for the Mets.

So, happy Bobby Benilla Day.

This is what we need, Pat.

We need

to go to Glenn and say, look, we will fill in for you every time you're out.

And you don't have to pay us anything now.

You just have to pay us

X amount of dollars.

I mean, it's already here, 1.19 million.

We'll just call it the same.

Why play with the numbers?

Yeah.

Every year

until, say, 2060.

Totally fair.

Totally fair.

Yeah.

I like it.

Something, and knowing Glenn's history with investments,

he probably would go along with it.

Let's try it when he gets back.

See how that works out.

I think it's worth a shot.

I like that.

I think it's worth a shot.

Have you been following the

NBA playoffs at all?

Nutsins is Jazz Lost.

No.

All right, yeah.

So, you know, I find it very difficult to get interested in them.

at this point.

Yeah.

Because the sport is

basically a Democratic Party operation that occasionally bounces a ball.

Right now, we're at the point where it's basically the socialist party plus three-pointers.

That's essentially where we are with it.

Or the,

you know, the new Black Panther Party plus

occasionally,

you know, there's a, there's a buzzer beater.

Like, it's not.

It's about it.

It really is like incredible.

It's a lot of stuff that you put in a Black Lives Matter sort of context.

The most extreme elements of Black Lives Matter.

Listen to the interviews of these guys after they get off the air or after they get off the court, and they sound like the most extreme Black Lives Matter person you could find.

And similar to the Black Lives Matter founders, they also own multiple houses.

So

it works well.

One of the things that has been entertaining to me is to watch

the breaking news about LeBron James, which is he's still not in the playoffs anymore.

He's still, they lost in the middle of the day.

First round.

First round exits, and they're not in the playoffs.

Nice.

Really sad to see.

I mean, those Lakers, they just seem like great guys, and it's sad to see.

But it's shocking that they didn't play as well with the actual best player on the team, Davis, who's actually better than LeBron James at this point.

But beyond all of that, I'm not exactly a LeBron fan, as you may know.

One of the things that they, LeBron James came out and said is we saw these injuries, and I predicted this.

LeBron predicted everything.

He's always right on everything.

He's right the fact that the Uyghurs, he shouldn't really comment on them because, I don't know, people might have their pocketbooks hurt.

So he's right on that.

Sure, it's a million people in prison, but let the Chinese people just continue to roll all over those people's lives on a daily basis and torture them

and re-educate them because you know what?

I need an extra few dollars out of China.

That particular stance despicable is totally fine apparently in our society but he came out and he said look i knew this was going to happen all these injuries are happening because we had a short break in between the seasons and now you know covet obviously the 2020 covet season went long so they didn't have the normal full off season as they were to come back And we've had some playoff injuries.

Giannis was hurt in the playoffs.

Trey Young was hurt in the playoffs.

Like, big players are out.

And he's using this as a like victory lap.

So, apparently, the theory here, Pat,

is that there was a short break in November of 2020.

The players came back, played a full season,

and then in the playoffs, they're getting hurt because of the short break in November.

So, the injuries just sat back a little bit, waited until June and July,

and now are just vindicating his idiocy.

That's the theory we're all supposed to accept now.

So they didn't get hurt in January or February.

They got hurt now

in June.

Yeah.

He's an idiot.

I mean, people like to complicate the LeBron James thing.

He's just an idiot.

It's not necessarily that he, I mean, he doesn't care one bit about the people whose lives are being destroyed in China.

Doesn't care a bit.

He cares about LeBron James solely.

So he doesn't care about those people in China at all.

But he also doesn't know anything about them.

It's not that he's made a decision and looked at all the evidence and decided to side with the socialists and the communists.

He's just an idiot.

And he doesn't know anything about any of these topics

at all.

That's why, of course, we did.

I mean, I don't know that I'm an unbiased observer here.

I do have for sale, don't be an idiot, don't be a LeBron t-shirts.

That is actually at don'tbe a LeBron.com.

And the reason why those exist is because LeBron is an idiot.

And the word idiot should be used as a synonym with the name LeBron when it's associated with LeBron James.

At least there's probably like a LeBron Johnson who's like, what the hell?

What kind of shirt is that?

I understand.

Might be a little offensive.

It's not about you, LeBron Johnson.

It's about LeBron James.

And I'm just so sick of these athletes who come out here all the time and preach to us about how smart they are and how just

their world would be if they were only in control of it.

Well, you're not in control of it.

I'm sorry to tell you about that.

The China situation is getting worse and worse every day, too, not just for the Uyghurs, but for the rest of the world.

Xi Jinping just gave this big

speech.

at

a celebration of their of communism, where he said only socialism can save China, and only socialism with Chinese characteristics can develop China.

We will never allow anyone to bully, oppress, or subjugate China.

He's trying to send a message to everybody else who's saying, hey, you know, maybe you do something about the Uyghurs in your country and stop putting them in concentration camps.

And so he's talking directly to the United States here when he says, anyone who dares to try to do that will have their heads bashed bloody against the great wall of steel forged by over 1.4 billion Chinese people.

So you got Xi Jinping now talking like he's Mao Zitong

back in the 70s again,

and Vladimir Putin kind of doing the same thing in Russia because they see the weak leadership we're stuck with right now.

And the situation in China is just getting worse and the NBA basketball players continue to ignore it.

And continue to it was the it was Nike, in fact, who just said this week that they are a company of China and for China.

Incredible.

Amazing.

I was listening to the Barry Weiss podcast.

She is a podcast now.

And I think it was her second episode, she interviewed Mark Cuban, the owner of the Mavs here in Dallas.

And,

you know, Mark Cuban, you like him or not, he's got billions of dollars and says whatever he feels like, right?

Like that's his shtick, right?

So he's coming out there, and every question she's asking him, he's answering confidently and, you know, like you'd expect Mark Cuban.

And then she comes to China and asks the questions that we would ask about China, like, hey, how the hell are you ignoring this, basically?

And all of a sudden, he's a different person.

He acted as if he, well, look, we just, I don't want to get involved in other countries and we just have to make sure that, and I don't want to say, by the way, that we're criticized.

And yes, it's wrong.

This might be wrong, but we should also, can we talk about anything else in the world?

It was really like awkward.

That's embarrassing.

He just changed.

It's embarrassing.

Why did they hold this power over us?

I don't understand it.

Money.

Just plain and simply, money.

That's their next big market.

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Sadly,

Pride Pride Month is

now over.

What?

Yeah, it's only a month long.

Can we still have Pride?

Yes.

I say you should.

And we should probably extend Pride Month throughout the year.

But what we can do is keep it in our hearts year-round.

Oh, we can.

Yeah, we can.

That's official?

Yeah.

Good.

IKEA for Pride Month

made some LGBTQQIA 2 Plus couches.

They made couches for transgender transgender people, pansexuals, non-binary, asexual, gender fluid,

and bisexual, and then one simply for progress.

And these couches all had different themes to them.

You know, it's weird.

All of my couches are asexual.

Are they?

Yeah.

You don't have sex on any of them?

Well,

I try to, and then those work out.

But I will say that.

The couch is too much information.

I'm not sure.

The couch itself has no sex reference at all.

None.

Seems to not be interested in sex whatsoever.

That's weird.

Yeah, never says anything about it.

Yeah, weird.

Well, the bisexuals are confused by their couch because, you know, they come in all these crazy colors and then they have some writings on them, some sayings.

And one of the sayings on the bisexual couch was, nobody believes you.

Wait, what?

What?

Where did that come from?

Gosh, I've missed him.

I've missed him.

Yeah.

I'd love to watch him again because it's been a while yeah you know since i've seen a a lot of uh he doesn't

as he did no which is you know of course any president would be in that situation but now that he's on social

yesterday he just he doesn't he just says things too he says yesterday he's like we built this wall it was an impenetrable wall it's been an impenetrable wall he's like we we we almost finished it you didn't almost finish it

what are you talking about uh you know he just.

Well, he finished about 4% of it or so.

That's almost finished.

Again, like, there's so much hyperbole with him.

Yeah.

It just built into his

character.

Like, you, you know, every you go back to the old

Selena Zito thing of you take him, you don't take him literally, but you take him seriously.

Like, what he's saying is, we did a good job on the border much better than Joe Biden, which is true.

It's totally true.

What he actually said about the border, if you break it down word by word,

maybe not as true.

But whatever.

I mean, again, do people miss him?

The answer to that is yes.

Oh, yes.

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Former President Trump speaking out again.

This is kind of interesting because in California, they have just

allocated $500 million to thin out their forests in lieu of the upcoming wildfire season.

Huh?

What do you mean you're going to thin out your forests?

Why would you do that?

Another suggestion from, you know, I mean, obviously others, but President Trump made that suggestion and they were, they thought it was so ridiculous when he was in office.

How stupid is that?

We don't need to thin out the forest.

That brush is just great kindling.

Yeah, that's kind of the point.

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Another fascinating situation is what's going on in New York City right now with with the mayoral race.

It's just so embarrassing.

I mean,

according to the Democrats,

at least during this last election cycle, there's nothing that can go wrong with voting.

Shut up.

There's no problem there.

There's no problem with the ballots.

There's no problem with the system.

And then what happens in New York in the very next election?

Problems with ballots.

These test ballots, what was it, 135,000 of them?

Unbelievable.

Left in the machine and counted?

Yeah.

Uh-oh.

And what I find to be fascinating about this is

they are trying to blame this on ranked choice voting when in reality, they're just a bunch of morons.

Like, ranked choice voting didn't make you put test ballots in the actual vote count.

That's not ranked choice voting's problem.

If you've never done ranked choice voting, if you don't have it in your area, basically it's the idea that you have, let's say, there's 10 candidates running for mayor.

Instead of just picking the one you want the best,

the one you want the most, you would pick and rank your top five.

So you'd say, okay, I want this one the most, but if I can't get them, I get this person, and you rank them one to five.

This is not brain surgery here.

This is pretty freaking easy, and anybody who can't handle it is a moron.

Enter New York City, who apparently is filled with a bunch of morons, at least in the Democratic Party, because they,

it really has nothing to do with the voting system.

It has to do with them screwing up.

But basically, the way they do it is you go in, you vote for your number one, and if, let's say, your number one is in last place,

well, then your votes go from your number one candidate.

They go to your second choice.

The concept here is interesting.

And I liked ranked choice.

I like ranked choice voting overall because it gives you a chance to vote.

I've never had the chance to do it.

It's really.

Have you had ranked choice?

I've never done it, but I've followed its progression throughout the country.

And it's been popping up.

Now,

some conservatives don't like it because the results sometimes don't work for you, right?

Like, are you but are we looking at it from the results or what the actual concept is?

And the concept, I think, is right, which is

basically if we do live in a center-right country as we claim to live in, I don't know if we still claim that, but if we do,

overall, this should be good for conservatives long term.

A lot of times

these voting changes occur, and everyone thinks they're going to be bad for their side, so they oppose them.

We saw this in Georgia, right?

The runoff voting in Georgia that was implemented and had been used in the Senate was implemented not by Republicans, but by Democrats who thought the reason they wanted to do it is because they thought they'd win every election until the end of time.

And now they've, with the exception of this most recent year, which was a bit of an outlier, they had lost every single one of the runoffs, every one of them.

They thought they were going to win them all, and they lost them all for a very long time.

So you can't look at how you think the result might come out.

The concept is, hey, I might like the libertarian, or maybe there's a candidate who is

even further to the right.

Maybe there's a nationalist candidate you like.

You get to put them number one, and there might be like a squishy Republican that you don't really like that running for the Republican Party.

What do you do in this situation?

In normal situations, you'd have to pick either the moderate squish that I don't like or the candidate I really do like, but I don't think is going to win.

This gives you the freedom to pick that person who you don't think is going to win, even though you think they're a better candidate, without feeling like you wasted your vote because your vote

will go to the better of the two main candidates at the end.

And in a center-right country, that probably works works out pretty well for Republicans at the end.

In theory, yeah.

In theory.

But regardless of whether it works out well for Republicans in the end,

it still, I think, is

a better

telling of what the people really want.

It's not people trying to come up with this calculated way to vote.

It's not people trying to figure out how, well, if I vote for him, am I taking my vote away from this person?

Like, you know, there's a lot of votes who went to Gary Johnson, for example, back when he was running for a libertarian against, say, the Trump-Clinton election.

You know, if people, if there was ranked choice voting, they could have put Gary Johnson one and Donald Trump two,

right?

So when Johnson was eliminated, those votes would go to Trump.

I mean, again, this is not brain surgery, but New York is trying to turn it into brain surgery.

And

they made the explanations incredibly dumb and complicated.

So no one in the city understands it.

And then now

the representatives and the election officials in the city have just screwed up.

Basically, they've taken fake votes and put them in with the real votes.

And they've admitted it now.

They screwed it up.

That's nothing to do with ranked choice voting.

That's just them being idiots.

And it was 135,000 of them.

Yes.

So it's a really significant number that changed the election.

Yeah.

Completely.

And it's, you know, and now we might not know who's going to win until mid-July,

which is, again, not the fault of ranked choice voting.

It's the fault of Democrats who came out and have made the argument for the past year that you should be able to send in absentee ballots weeks after the election is over.

Now, I don't understand

why

it is wrong to suggest that if you want to

send in an absentee ballot, You should maybe make sure the ballot arrives before the election.

That is not, again, not brain surgery.

You should be able to get a piece of mail to a location on time.

That is not hard, especially when it's something that's required every few years.

Is this really that difficult?

We all pay bills and they have to show up on time.

If it shows up three weeks late, the credit card company says we're fining you or we're giving you a fee.

Or whatever.

The American people are able to send in mail on time.

But because the Democratic Party has made this argument that it's essentially shutting down voters' rights and hurting minorities who apparently don't know how to use the mail or something.

Yeah, well, they can't get online either.

They can't get online.

They can't get the ballot.

They don't know how to send it in on time.

No.

They don't know where the DMV is, so they can't get ID.

They can't get ID, but we're the racists.

The Republicans, the conservatives are the racists when they're saying that about minorities.

How does this stuff work?

And so they made this big argument that the only way an election can be just is if we count ballots multiple weeks after the election occurs.

Okay,

well, now you've made that argument.

I mean, you made it

in states all across the country, so now you have to stick to it.

And that's why the election results won't be known until mid-July.

It's got nothing to do with ranked choice voting.

And the other option was, their old option was, they were going to have a whole new election in this situation.

So they would just take all the results that came in from this last set of ballots and then throw another election in a few weeks.

Like, that can't possibly be better.

One election is more than enough.

Just have the one.

So all of these people who are now running for their lives from the responsibility of putting 130,000 oopsie ballots inside the machine, those people now are going to come out and blame, I guess, ranked choice voting as if it's the fault of all the numbers.

It's pathetic.

It's so pathetic.

It's absolutely pathetic.

They're going to turn out to be like Israel doing four elections in two years because it can't get them right.

Yeah.

I will say you watch the rest of the world and you say, okay, well, you know, our system kind of sucks at times, but it's a hell of a lot better than what they're doing.

Yes.

I mean, Israel's like, yeah, I don't know.

Like, we can't tell who won.

Another election.

Everybody show up at the polls again in two weeks.

What?

What do you mean you can't put together a government?

What?

Wait.

So you're putting together a government every single time you have a vote on your prime minister?

That's really

stop doing that.

Yeah, that's just dumb.

Stop doing that.

That's dumb.

That's your problem.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It really is.

That whole parliamentary system is ridiculous.

It just seems to me that the person who's like the prime minister of your country shouldn't be telling you when elections are going to happen.

They're like, oh, this is a risky move.

She's calling for a new election.

Okay, but why?

Why don't you just schedule them in advance?

Why is the prime minister calling for one?

I really don't understand how anyone would like this system.

I don't either.

It's absolutely bizarre.

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Also,

President Trump went to the border.

And I think this is what prompted Kamala Harris's visit to the border late last week, is that President Trump was going to make it to the border.

And I guess he made it yesterday.

And so he met with

Texas Governor Abbott at the border.

And

here's what he had to say.

The real question is, do they really want open borders?

Or are they incompetent?

There's only two things.

You're either incompetent or for some reason you have a screw loose and you want to have open borders.

Now the problem with the open borders is that

countries are opening up their jails, they're opening up their prisons, you guys see this, and they're letting all their prisoners out.

Do you notice their prison populations are way down?

They do it very slowly because they don't want people to know this, but I know it.

And they're letting all of their murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and human traffickers out, and they're coming into the United States of America at a level like we've never seen.

They weren't coming in with us.

And in fact, one of the quick stories I tell is that when we first started, I said, get them out.

And

I said, really, more than anybody, I guess, to you, Mark, you and Tom, I said, get them the hell out.

The MS-13 gang members, who they say are the worst in the world, they certainly might very well be.

I see what they do with knives where they cut them up into small people.

They cut people up into small pieces because it's more painful than using a gun.

I said, get them out.

And Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador would not accept the people.

Under the Obama administration, they wouldn't take the people.

So the people came back to me just routinely, sir, I'm sorry, but they won't take them.

I said, who won't take them?

Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

They won't take the people back.

I said, oh.

Really?

Why?

They don't want them.

I said, okay.

How much money do we pay them?

Sir, we pay them $500 million a year what does that have to do with it sir i said a lot we're not paying them anymore and then i got a call the next day from the heads of the three countries we would love to take ms 13 back they are wonderful people we'd love to have them back where they belong

and why not why not you know if if they won't cooperate with taking their own citizens back uh when we're deporting them and we don't want their gang members here, why would you continue to give them the foreign aid that they seek every single year?

It's just brilliant.

It's just a good way to do business, as far as I'm concerned.

The media wants to sit back and criticize Trump, and the Democrats want to say he was doing this terrible job on the border.

We're seeing now what the alternative is, which is obviously much worse.

There's no argument here.

I mean, we can't even get the vice president to show up within a few hundred miles of it.

It's amazing.

I know I'm running this whole operation supposedly, but

you know what?

You know what?

I love the border town of Oklahoma City.

That sounds like a lot of fun.

Like, it's not, it's just like, it's so transparent that

the left has caused chaos on the border.

And

the exact opposite treatment has come to them from the media.

They said Trump was causing all this chaos.

And now they're saying that Biden is in the middle.

With few exceptions, I should say.

There are some exceptions to this, but basically they're accepting this.

It's not a crisis.

It's a challenge.

It's a challenge.

It's a border challenge.

Yeah.

You know,

it's like a Taco Bell eating competition.

It's a run-to-the-border challenge.

Who knows how it could turn out?

I ate six chalupas yesterday.

It's not the same.

Not exactly.

It's not the same.

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As you would expect,

with former President Trump at the border,

also CNN showed up and Jim Acosta, who's not getting nearly enough attention now because Trump's gone.

You know?

And nobody cares about Jim Acosta anymore.

Since January 20th, I don't think I've uttered the name Acosta.

I don't think I had either until today.

And the only reason I'm doing it today is because he's at the border with

Trump, hoping to get

his face and name out there again.

And so he's yelling at Trump about apologizing for January 6th.

Check this out.

Mr.

Trump, will you apologize about January 6th?

Okay.

You're going to apologize for January 6th?

What do you expect him to say?

Yeah, I do.

Yeah.

Yeah, because I really tried to incite that violence.

So let me go ahead and do that.

That would be notable.

That would be notable, wouldn't it?

He's just,

it's a desperate plea for attention again from this guy.

Nobody cares about Jim Acosta, with the exception of Jim Acosta.

Yeah, I don't.

And is he married?

If he's married, I don't think his wife even cares.

Oh, there's no way his wife cares.

No.

If he's he's married, his wife cares less than we do.

Yeah, for sure.

You know?

Yeah.

I mean, it's got to be.

Imagine a relationship with a guy who does his business like Jim Acosta does.

I mean, he just basically sat there for four years screaming questions that were not answered and then publicizing himself on the internet for doing it.

And now that Trump's gone, they've lost all of their fuel.

It really is interesting to watch this entire industry collapse since Donald Trump has left office.

The cable news industry basically is no more.

They've lost 70 and 80% of their audience.

They don't know what to talk about.

No, it really is.

It was a Trump-centric world for those four years with people that worked on CNN and MSNBC.

It's all they talked about.

It's all they cared about.

Every single story, no matter how disconnected to Donald Trump, was always made about Donald Trump.

Sure was.

Now, what do you say?

And like, it's funny because they all argued for him to be eliminated from social media.

Well, now they don't have his tweets to talk about.

They don't have.

I think they regret a lot of what they did to get rid of him.

I remember saying during

the campaign, be careful what you wish for, CNN, because this is what you've built your stupid ratings on.

And when he's gone, you're not going to have ratings anymore.

And they don't.

They don't at all.

I think they wanted him gone so badly that if you ask them, if you somehow found them with truth serum in a quiet room and they told you the truth, they would tell you the 80% drop in ratings is worth it.

Is worth it.

We wanted him out that badly.

But it is.

That's how much they hate him.

That's how much they hate him.

But that being said, it still is that consequential to their viewership.

No one is watching these shows anymore.

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Nobody cares about Jiva Costa anymore.

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The only notable things Chris Cuomo does are off the air.

Right?

Like he's either advising his brother on how to avoid Me Too charges or getting in arguments with people cycling by his house while he's got coronavirus.

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That's for sure.

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We're filling it for Glenn here for a few days as he's on vacation far away from here.

And he's missing out on some big things.

Like we were going to have a January 6th commission after all.

Bad.

Yay!

Far too exciting.

Yay!

Yeah, that'll be great, won't it?

Yeah, it's going to be really exciting.

Now, this one's done by the Democrats in Congress.

So it's not this, they were initially going for this special commission, a bipartisan variety.

That's not going to happen.

Republicans did not get on board with that.

And for good reason, in that it obviously was not an honest attempt to get the information needed.

I am of the

thought that there is information we can get from a commission looking into this if it was honest.

This one isn't going to be honest, but I would like to know.

There's certainly questions, like, why the hell was the security so bad at the Capitol?

Why was this possible?

I mean, think about this for a second.

Yeah, this was a, you know, there was a mob, a lot of people.

There were some people who were pretty bad in the mob, a lot of people who were just, you know, there for the speech and didn't do much of anything.

What if it was a foreign group of terrorists that decided to do this?

What if, yeah, and remember, this is an announced rally down the street where they knew it was a contentious time.

They knew that a lot of these people obviously believe what was going on in the capital was very bad.

And they didn't prepare for it really at all.

What would happen if like a foreign terrorist group did try to go in and kill a bunch of our representatives?

I don't know.

Like that's the type of

thing.

And like if we had an honest government and people who actually cared about the outcomes in these matters, you know, there would be reason to really look into this and get a report.

Why wasn't the National Guard out there in less than, what was it, four hours?

Why did that take four hours?

That's insanity.

So there are reasons to look at this.

It's just not going to happen with a a commission like this.

I mean, you look at the New York Times put out a documentary yesterday for about 40 minutes on January 6th.

And, of course, obviously, you know the Times is coming.

You know the story they're telling.

I don't need to tell you in advance what story they're telling.

It was the worst event in American history.

Worst event in American history.

Now,

so they don't spend any time on the people who were not violent.

There was, you know,

I don't know how many people were at that particular rally, but thousands and thousands and thousands of people.

We've talked to many of them who were there and didn't even know any of this occurred.

There weren't any nonviolent people there, were there?

Yeah, shockingly, there was.

You know, with all the, judging by all the piles of dead bodies, I wouldn't think there was a single nonviolent person.

I know.

It's shocking.

But a lot of people went to the Trump speech and went back to their cars.

Yeah.

Like, there's a lot of that, and they, of course, don't show any of that.

And there are people who went to the Capitol and didn't go into the building.

There were also people who went to the Capitol, did go in the building, but didn't break anything or steal anything or hurt anybody.

Now, we do, because all of that, what you just said is true, we do at times forget that there was a lot.

I mean, there were a lot of people who

did do bad things.

Yeah, it was an embarrassment.

Yeah, I mean, 150 police officers were injured.

And, like, they have legit ⁇ the Times does this thing very well.

If you go back and look at, for example, they did the exact same thing for the Las Vegas shooting.

And it's really a legitimately incredible thing to watch.

They have a zillion videos.

They kind of place them on a map so you know exactly where they happen.

Like this person was driving by this building.

You hear the shots going over their head.

You get views from, I mean, it really, when they do like actual journalism, you can get some value out of the New York Times occasionally.

This one is obviously much more partisan than the Las Vegas shooting was, but they do have.

a lot of video and there are legitimately bad people, you know, bashing police officers officers over the head with stuff that doesn't mean that they died but still like i'm never i don't give a crap about partisan nonsense when it comes to if you're a person that hits a police officer over the head with something screw you yeah you need to be you need to be punished yeah i've had officers in my family These people risk their lives for us every day.

The same way that I don't care what you think about the George Floyd case, Don't throw a brick at a police officer.

I will stand by that till the day I freaking die.

The same thing with January 6th.

If you had a Trump flag poll and were bashing police officers over the head with it, screw you.

Honestly,

it was not nothing.

That being said, what are they going to find in this report?

What are they going to do here?

You know, it's that, was it an insurrection, some calculated attempt to

actually take over the government?

Were there,

they have messages and they have a lot of people saying those types of things.

So it was not no one in the crowd.

It was not zero people in the crowd who were thinking that way.

There were some, but it was an overwhelming minority of, and almost all these people were unarmed.

How the hell did they think they were going to actually take control of the government?

Right?

Like, it was a riot.

The right way to say this is it was a riot.

It was unacceptable, but it was not what the Democrats are saying it was.

They are trying to make every grandmother who's in 300 miles of this thing and voted for Donald Trump into a criminal.

It's insane.

And

while

the events of the day

might lead you to say, hey, maybe we should be prepared for this next time and maybe we should take an honest view and look at how we can do that.

Because obviously, the way we're doing it now does not work.

That would be

something that a commission might,

a serious country with serious people and a serious government might look into and say, hey, here are the steps we should take next time.

Instead, they're just going to make this into a way to try to make January 6th into a date you remember like 9-11.

Right?

It was the worst thing that had ever happened to us.

And despite the fact that

the business of the government continued on the same day, also January 6th, kind of indicating maybe it wasn't, you know, Pearl Harbor or 9-11.

It was a bad day, but it was not what they're trying to make it out to be.

They want to make that out to be the only thing that's happened.

And I would be, I think that was a really legitimate request by Republicans who said, look, we'll do your bipartisan commission.

It's great.

But we're going to do it.

And we're also going to look at the violence that happened over the summer when billions of dollars of damage were done.

When way more people were killed.

Far more death occurred in those riots than the one that happened on January 6th.

Far bigger loss of property.

Yeah.

Much more damage.

Yeah.

Property.

People died all over the place.

And there were federal buildings.

that were attacked.

It was government stuff as well as just property as they try to demean someone's life's work

in their local business

of american cities actually taken over yeah by mobs yeah by mobs and they act as if that should be investigated too i would like to know what is the truth there what what you know what groups where did they get the money

legitimate what they were doing how about the money that was raised by you know one of the people uh serving in the administration who was tweeting out links to bail the criminals out of jail.

Huh.

Why was that?

Who would do that?

How was that set up?

Kamala Harris.

Who would set up Kamala Harris?

Who would do that?

Not Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris?

What?

Why would you say Kamala Harris?

Oh, she's laughing.

I can't believe it.

I would like to know that.

I think that's part of this, right?

It's part of political violence

in the same timeframe.

Totally reasonable to look into that.

Yeah, and instead,

they're...

Oh, how dare you?

Yeah.

They're seen as totally different events.

And you know what the real truth of this is, at least in large extent, I think.

The truth of the reason why they weren't prepared for January 6th is because they had seen 9 billion conservative leading rallies not go awry.

And they probably thought,

you know what?

Yep.

There's always people who were saying stuff like this.

You can always find somebody online who says, we need to take, that's our house.

Let's take back our house.

All right.

We've seen this a zillion times.

The bottom line is these rallies have occurred all over the country for a really long time.

And there's never been a problem like this.

And there's never been a problem like this.

So they probably thought they were going to be fine.

And in reality, you can't sit.

You have to be able to be prepared for these situations in the off chance they do occur.

But when the left marches, these things go awry all the time.

And so you need to prepare for everybody like you prepare for the left, I guess.

Yeah.

But there's no answers in a commission like this.

There's just not going to be any.

And, you know, they put Liz Cheney's going to be on the commission.

She's accepted the invitation from Pelosi.

I'm not going to win her any friends in the Republican Party, obviously.

They're saying they're going to strip her

committee assignments over it.

So, I mean, they're going to claim it's a bipartisan thing because Liz Cheney's on there.

And obviously, Liz Cheney has her mind made up on this one, and that's fine.

She has a right to her opinion.

But, you know, we can't act as if this is some bipartisan, fair commission.

It's not going to be.

It's just going to be a way to make January 6th into the only thing you're supposed to think about and the only thing you're supposed to vote on and the only thing that's supposed to influence you.

And obviously, that's not the right way to think about our country right now.

We've got a lot of problems going on.

And ongoing Trump-related riots at the Capitol are not one of them.

That's not something that's

just not going on.

You know, that was a one one-off event, I think, in our history.

Well, and they acted like it was going to happen again and again and again.

What was the next date that was supposed to be?

Was it March 4th?

Well, you had January 20th.

You had the actual inauguration.

You had one date in March.

That's right.

Then 4th or something, 6th or whatever.

And nothing ever happened.

And I don't think anything was ever being planned

because it never came off.

You know, a lot of this comes back to the way you get to retroactively look at things like social media.

You know, if something goes awry, yeah, you can go back and look at people who were talking tough.

Everybody talks tough online.

I'm tired of it, but that's what everybody does.

Yeah.

You know, everybody's saying all these things and everybody says they're going to, you know, look at the left.

You're telling me you can't, we, every time we look, we're able to find hundreds of people who say they're going to go burn down buildings and take over the government and, you know, assassinate public figures.

It's all over the internet.

So after something happens, you can retroactively go back and prove any case you want.

But in reality, these things are always out there in a society that values free speech.

And all you can do is try to prepare yourself in case something bad does happen.

You know, yes, you can always, I mean, think about if you went back to the days of like the 90s and there was real social media back then.

Like, what would Timothy McVay have on his Facebook page?

You'd be able to go back and say, this guy was saying this stuff on his Facebook page over and over again.

And, you know, we're in a different era.

You can always go back and find people who say bad things.

You know, and look, the people who did those things, particularly to the officers, should be,

you should go after them.

I have no problem with throwing the book at those people.

But, you know, what they're trying to do with this event is just,

it's kind of like left-wing fan fiction.

You know, they're just trying to make this into this thing that it isn't.

It was a day that we should know and we should make sure the people who are responsible for those bad things are prosecuted for them.

But let's be honest about it for a second here.

And there's no ability to do that in the media.

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Washington Post reporter has been accused of peddling some false information on DeSantis' female response.

That's because the media lies.

That's why.

We just read a

study.

a poll on how many people trust the media around the world.

Like, you know, in Finland, and I mean, 40, I think there was 49 countries.

And the

least trusted media in the world is here in the United States of America.

Good job, everybody,

we did it.

We're number

49.

Well, we're 40.

Well, if you were to be number one, we're number one.

We're number one for the least

distrust.

And it's because of stuff like this.

Washington Post reporter Hannah Dreyer has been accused of misleading people on DeSantis' response to the residential building collapse.

Now, she says it took him 24 hours, over 24 hours, to do anything about it.

Well,

as soon as he got the request from the mayor, he signed it in less than an hour.

Less than an hour.

Well,

24 hours, one hour.

Is there really that much of a difference?

Yeah, 23 hours.

23 hours difference.

Well, just 24 times the amount, though.

Yeah, no, it's pretty bad.

It's bad.

Because, you know, I think it was Charles C.W.

Cook who made this point, and it's a really good point, which is you are a journalist, and you go into this job as a journalist, and around you is a structure that's supposed to keep you essentially in line, right?

There's editors, there's people around there.

And what journalists have done, have just gone to social media where they get the credibility of being a journalist, but then don't have any of the controls around them.

So they just tweet things or whatever constantly with none of the trappings of editors or fact checkers, but they still get the sort of prestige of being from the Washington Post.

That is a bad system.

It really is.

It is a bad system.

It has not turned out well, frankly.

All right.

We'll be back again tomorrow for Glenn, and we'll have some fun on Friday.